#this post is about jack garland

[auras-moonstone]

hiiiii!!! there aren’t enough jack imagines, so could you do and actress!reader x jack? just a cute fluff bc jack is suck a lover boy 💗 thanks!!!

happy birthday — jack champion

word count: 1,216

pairing: jack champion x fem!reader

summary: y/n surprises her boyfriend, jack, on his 19th birthday party.

warnings: none, just fluff!

author's note: i meant to post this yesterday bc of jack's bd, but i wasn't able to finish it :( by the way, hope we get the mandatory pic with the 19 balloons.

JACK HAD ALWAYS LOVED CELEBRATING HIS BIRTHDAY, but this year his excitement had been on another level because there was a special someone he was looking forward to celebrate it with--his girlfriend of almost a year, Y/N. So, imagine how disappointed he was when she informed him she wasn't going to make it.

"Are you sure you can't do anything about it?" Jack asked hopeful as he facetimed his girlfriend, who was away in another country filming a movie.

"I'm sorry, love. I wish I could go, but you know how shootings are, I can't just bail." she pursed her lips at the disappointed expression painted on Jack's face.

Jack tried to put on his most convincing smile and nodded. "Yeah, I know. It's not your fault, I just miss you."

"Me, too, J. So much." she swallowed the lump that began forming on her throat. Seeing his puppy brown eyes turn glossy was heartbreaking, and the weight of the guilt was crushing her. "Maybe we can facetime when you blow the candles?"

"Of course, babe." he smiled weakly. "I'm sorry for being like this. I know you don't have a choice, and I hate seeing how the guilt is eating you. I promise I'm not mad, and I know that if you could, you would be taking the first flight back home to me. I love you."

"You're allowed to feel sad, J. Don't apologize." Y/N checked the time and let out a curse. It was almost 1AM, and she was going to be late. "Sorry, babe, I've got to go. Have fun, okay? I love you. Happy birthday."

When they hung up, Y/N grabbed her suitcase and left the place she had been staying at while she filmed the movie. Once she arrived to the airport and did the check-in, she texted Jack's mom.

hii, i'm about to board the plane! how's jack?

not going to lie, he's crushed but he'll love the surprise, don't worry❤️

i hate lying to him :( but you're right. i'll see you in a couple of hours!

JACK’S FRIENDS DRAGGED HIM OUT OF THE HOUSE FOR A WALK AS HIS FAMILY SET EVERYTHING FOR THE BIRTHDAY PARTY. For someone who loved his birthday, he was looking gloomy and not thrilled at all to go on with the party. His friends were tempted to spoil the surprise, just to get the sad frown off Jack’s face, but they knew that his blue mood was going to go away in a couple of minutes.

“Man, you’re going to spend so much birthdays together. And even though Y/N’s not here physically, she’s still going to make sure she’ll be there celebrating with you, even if it's through a phone.” one of his friend bumped him in the shoulder.

“No, I know. It’s not just because it’s my birthday, it’s because I haven’t seen her in a while and I was hoping this could be the excuse we needed to see each other.” his gaze was focused on the broken cobblestones.

“We get it, we do. But you know better than any of us how the industry works.”

He did. He really understood that the situation was beyond Y/N’s hands. She couldn’t abandon set just because her boyfriend was celebrating his birthday. But still, it didn’t make him miss her any less.

When Jack and his friends entered his house again, his mood lifted up a little. Even though his special girl wasn't there, his family and friends came to spend his day with him and that warmed his heart.

“This looks amazing! Thank you.” he said in a cheerful voice as he looked around. The living room was decorated with colourful balloons and confetti thrown on ground. Glued to the wall, there were garlands that read ‘Happy Birthday’ and golden balloons with the number 1 and 9. “I’m going to take a picture for Y/N/N.”

“There’s one more surprise.” his mother exclaimed excited.

Jack frowned but before he could say anything, two hands were covering his eyes from behind him. The tall boy stiffened, he couldn’t see the person but their scent was one he knew all too well. His heart threatened to leap out of his chest as the voice whispered in his ear, “Surprise, birthday boy”

He turned around and quickly lifted her up in his arms, crushing her into a tight hug. “You’re here!” he exclaimed in shock. Y/N gave him a 'I'm right here' smile and then laughed.

“Of course I’m here! I was never going to miss my boyfriend’s birthday.” she said against his neck.

“It never even crossed my mind that you might have been lying.” he laughed in disbelief.

“Well, I hope not. I act for a living, remember?” Y/N said teasingly. Her heart almost exploded at the way Jack was looking at her—sparkling eyes clouded by adoration.

“I’m so happy you’re here.” Jack showed her the smile she adored and had missed so much. He didn't care that his family's eyes were on them, he grabbed the sides of her face and pulled her into a kiss. “Did you always know you were coming or was it recent?”

“Babe, I would’ve never missed your birthday. I told the directors I was coming here weeks ago. We made sure to film the majority of my scenes so that these days they could focus on the ones I wasn’t in.” she explained.

“That’s why you have been so exhausted the past days, you were working your ass off so that you would be able to come and see me?” Jack swore he was about to cry at the revelation.

“And I would do it again.” she said in a confident tone. The way Jack’s face lit up when he saw her? She would do anything to keep him looking at her that way. “Anyways, enough about my very romantic gesture.” she joked. “Let’s celebrate your birthday.”

IT WAS ALMOST ELEVEN WHEN Y/N AND JACK WERE FINALLY SETTLED INTO THE BED. The girl was trying her best not to fall asleep, while the boy had energy to spare. He was just too happy that tiredness didn’t creep into his body. He was still on cloud nine from his amazing day.

“Thank you for being here. I had the best birthday ever.” Jack smiled widely, resting his head on her shoulder.

“I’m glad, love.” she said with eyes closed as she started playing with his hair, making him sigh contently. “By the way, I’m sorry for making you feel sad when I told you I wouldn’t make it. I hate lying to you and seeing you disappointed was heart wrenching, and I’m truly sorry.”

“Don’t apologize, babe. Your intentions were good. Besides, it was totally worth it.” Jack assured her. “I get to end my day with you, and tomorrow I’ll wake up next to you. I’m living my best life.”

Y/N smiled at his sweet words and bent her head down to press a kiss to his nose. “I love you so much.”

He raised his head and press a kiss to her soft lips. “But I love you more."

"Mmm no, this month I win the battle." she laughed.

Jack grinned like a love-sick puppy, still not believing what she had done for him. "True."

[unabashed-lover-of-fictional-men]

Dean Winchester and You Christmas Headcanons

Just something I was thinking about a couple days ago and felt the need to post it. It’s not beta’d or anything so as always all mistakes are mine and are probably numerous.

Dividers from @saradika-graphics

• Dean Winchester remembered Christmas as a kid and it was always a fond memory, well until things went sideways and there were no more “happy” Christmases.

• He and Sammy spent most of them as kids getting nothing except talks on how to kill various monsters or Dean would have to watch his baby brother while his dad was on a hunt.

• Dean always tried to get something for Sammy to open so it felt like Christmas, but he always felt bad that his childhood was ruined.

• As an adult Dean was more focused on hunting and saving people than holidays, he still tried to get Sammy something and it was easier now since he could pick him up an obscure lore book and he was golden.

That all changed when Dean met you, and ironically it was right around the holidays 

• You came into his life (also a hunter and certified badass in Dean’s book) and changed his whole idea of the holidays.

• The first holiday Dean was shocked when he and Sam came back from a hunt and the entire bunker was decorated, a tree complete with ornaments, garland anywhere and everywhere. There wasn’t a spot that didn’t have some sort of Christmas decoration.

• Dean enjoyed that you baked constantly, always making cookies, cakes and bars. Yeah he may be a pie man but he was known to steal a plate or two of cookies.

• As Christmas came closer he noticed wrapped boxes under the tree, many with his name on it but just as many for Sammy. He also counted a fair number for Castiel and Jack. Hell even Jodi had some along with Donna and Claire.

• Christmas Day came around Dean watched you make breakfast for him and Sammy with a happy almost giddy look on your face as you waited patiently for them.

•Dean allowed himself to be pulled into the library where the present pile seemed to have grown, frowning he sighed looking at you “You know sweetheart we aren’t big on Christmas” You just shrugged and said “Well you should be you deserve to celebrate like everyone else, you deserve the best”

• Dean watched you talk to Sammy and suddenly Castiel and Jack were there along with Donna, Jodi and Claire. Hell (pun not intended but it works) Crowley even showed up.

• He was even more shocked when you handed him a rather large bundle of presents, he felt ashamed that he had hardly gotten you  anything and now he was regretting not doing more.

• Handing you your gift Dean felt he had to say something “I hope you like this sweetheart, uh I wasn’t sure what to get  you”

• He watched you smile and open the gift, your eyes lighting up and he let out a grunt as you slammed into him hugging him tightly.

• Dean hadn’t been hugged for such a long time he had almost forgotten what it felt like, eventually he hugged you back.

• Looking at the  gifts you got him he started opening them,his smile widening with each one. He was shocked you had remembered things he had told you about months ago

• Dean smiled and quickly realized that Christmas was becoming one of his favorite holidays and it was thanks to you.

[mewsingsbynataliek]

NSR Halloween DLC ideas, just in time for Spooky Night!

The soundtrack for the Halloween DLC would feature instruments associated with the holiday being incorporated into the songs, such as pipe organ and theremin.

The Bosses

DJ Subatomic Supernova

DJSS is a scarecrow, wearing a straw hat, flannel shirt, and denim overalls (cut-off, of course!).

For the battlefield, the background of the Planetarium is a deep orange. The planets he uses to attack are replaced with pumpkins, and the asteroids are replaced by a swarm of crows.

Sayu

Sayu is a cute ghost girl. (I felt it would be fitting since she’s a floaty character.) She's slightly translucent and sports a ghostly wisp-like tail rather than her regular mermaid tail. Her colour palette features off-whites and faded pastels, making her look more etherial.

Sayu wears a tattered white Victorian/Lolita-style dress, lacy cuffs around her wrists and a little bow on her head.

For Phase 2, her dress becomes poofier and more elaborate as small ribbons resembling tentacles appear around her waist. Her trident is completely white.

Phase 3 has her go full-on ghost bride. Her dress has a huge multi-tiered skirt, her hair is adorned with a long veil, and her tentacle ribbons have grown to full length. Her deep-sea mode has her face turn glowing green with solid black eyes, making her resemble a spookfish, while her “tentacles” feature flickering lights similar to a bioluminescent jellyfish.

Her final form is basically your stereotypical bedsheet ghost shape with her legs sticking out the bottom.

Sayu’s team are dressed in dark wizard-like robes, and each of them are wearing masks like the ones worn by Lock, Shock, and Barrel from The Nightmare Before Christmas. 

For the battlefield, the “landscape” is dotted with jack-o-lanterns, tombstones, and dead trees. The background is changed to a seafoam green color, with wispy little ghosts flying about.

Yinu and Mother 

Yinu is dressed as a cute little witch. Her hair is in pigtails similar to her Christmas skin, and her witch hat is adorned with fall leaves and little jack-o-lanterns.

Mother, meanwhile, is a spooky Halloween tree with spiders. Her dress is a dark wood colour with translucent, ragged-edged sleeves, and she wears a thorny hairband and spiderweb earrings.

The ends of her “hair” have been dyed the same colour as her dress, and she wears both black lipstick and black nail polish.

When she grows bigger, her branches begin to sprout large thorns, which end up making her cage form look more like a spiderweb. (There are even little fake spiders sitting on top of it!)

For the battlefield, the stage is decorated to evoke a bountiful harvest, with pumpkins, hay bales, bundles of wheat, stalks of corn, apple trees, cornucopias, and garlands of leaves.

Both the gate and the giant piano hammers are adorned with thorny branches and autumn leaves.

1010 

1010 are pirate ghosts. (As a fun gag, Blue could wear two eyepatches instead of his sunglasses!)

Meanwhile, Neon J is their ghostly captain, complete with a captain’s hat, a sword at his belt, a fake parrot on his shoulder, and – once again – a fake beard attached to his screen head.

For the battlefield, the flying limousine is decked out to look like a pirate ship, with a mast, a crow’s nest, and a tattered sail.

(I felt 1010 as pirates would be fitting since they're a navy-themed boyband and Neon J was a captain in the navy.)

Eve 

Eve is dressed as Medusa.

Her dark green dress has a scaly pattern, and she accessories with a lot of gold, including spiralling gold sandals and a golden diadem crown.

Her hair has been dyed, shaped, and styled to look like several little writhing serpents.

Her backpiece is composed of even more snakes in gold and teal which wrap around her upper torso and spread out behind her like a peacock’s tail.

Eve’s pupils even become snake-like starting at Phase 2!

For the battlefield, Eve’s gallery has been transformed into an Ancient Greek temple, but with a postmodern/vapourwave twist. Stylized Greco-Roman columns with snakes wrapped around them line the walls, and an ancient looking gold chandelier hangs from the ceiling. The left side would be eggplant purple while the right side would be cerulean blue.

If the player gets hit by the eye lasers from Eve’s giant statue, they’ll actually turn to stone and be frozen in place for a short time.

For Phase 2, on Mayday’s side, the snakes wrapped around the columns have grown larger and are now looming over Mayday, their faces twisted into angry snarls (representing Eve’s derisiveness and hostility towards May).

Meanwhile, Zuke’s side features floating fragments of ruined columns (representing how lost and incomplete Eve felt after Zuke left her). 

Phase 3 is where it really starts to get trippy. Both rooms feature ruined columns and floating shards, along with giant brightly colored snakes slithering all over the background.

The shards in Zuke’s side reflect images of faces screaming in anguish, while the shards on Mayday’s side have limbs protruding from them- one shard has three legs protruding from them in reference to a trinacia. (Look up what a trinacia is to understand the reference!)

Tatiana

Tatiana is a vampire.

She wears black and red robes with bat wing-edged sleeves and a wide collar. Her earrings are coffin shaped, and she has small, pointed fangs that can be seen when she opens her mouth.

At the beginning of her battle, she starts throwing flaming bats.

For the battlefield, Tatiana's office/battle arena is made to feel like a vampire’s castle tower.

The whole room is lit with a deep red glow, and the tall windows that feature the NSR murals are topped with pointed arches, giving them a Gothic look.

You can even see some glass bottles filled with (ahem) red liquid on Tatiana’s desk.

Meanwhile, the Goolings' stage outside is decorated with jack-o-lanterns and hanging skeletons.

DK West

DK West is dressed as Frankenstein FrankenWest!

His look consists of neck bolts, stitch markings, and a dark ragged recolour of his original outfit.

His bull shadow puppet has matching neck bolts, which even emit shadowy electricity when it appears during the battle.

Bunk Bed Junction

Mayday

Mayday is dressed as an imp, wearing a bright red dress with black sleeves and waistcoat, black wings, red horns, and a red tail.

Her guitar is deep purple and splattered with glowing orange paint. It emits a wolf howl when she powers it up for the Showstopper.

Zuke 

Zuke is a werewolf. Ragged clothes with fake fur poking out, extra fur attached to his forearms (don’t ask how got it on there), pointed ears, a bushy tail, pointed fangs, his nose has been painted. Pretty simple.

His drumsticks are splattered with glowing green paint and tipped with tiny light-up pumpkins.

The Other NPCs

Ellie has little bat wings attached to her back and wears a springy bat antenna headband.

And last but not least, 

Kliff . . . is just wearing a pair of Groucho Marx glasses. Yup. That's it.

Let me know what you all think. I’d love to hear some feedback. Thanks for reading! Happy Halloween!

[crippleprophet]

hey, i don't want to put you out or anything, i was just wondering if like off the top of your head if you knew any disability studies articles/books/whatever that center (or even just feature) tic/involuntary movement disorders?

so the answer to this was pretty much no but i spent a bit of time poking around and turned up this 2023 undergraduate honors thesis (link) by a student with tourette’s which seems like a solid starting point for going down the citation rabbit hole!

that piece is “The Embodied Performance of Tics and Tourette Syndrome in the Academic Environment” by Benjamin Allen; i’m only ~1/4th through rn but they argue for a continuum of ticcing + criticize the diagnostic system so i’m comfortable reccing it on that front! the (non-medical) tic-related works cited there are:

Buckser, Andrew. “Before Your Very Eyes: Illness, Agency, and the Management of Tourette Syndrome.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, 2008, pp. 167-192.

Buckser, Andrew. “The Empty Gesture: Tourette Syndrome and the Semantic Dimension of Illness.” Ethnology, vol. 45, no. 4, 2006, pp. 255- 24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20456601.

Curtis-Wendlandt, Lisa. “Time and the Tic Disorder Triad.” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, vol 27, no. 2, 2020, pp. 183-199.

Curtis-Wendlandt, Lisa, and Jack Reynolds. “Why Tourette syndrome research needs philosophical phenomenology.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, vol. 20, no. 4, 2021, pp. 573-600.

Miller, James. “The Voice in Tourette Syndrome.” New Literary History, vol. 32 no. 3, 2001, pp. 519-536. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/nlh.2001.0039.

Trubody, Ben. “Ticced off: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of The Experience of Tourette’s Syndrome.” Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, vol. 25, no. 2, 2014.

i also searched a handful of disability studies journals for a variety of keywords (movement disorder, tic, tourette’s, involuntary movement, chorea, huntington’s) but didn’t turn up much unfortunately, so all but the first of this next list include someone with tics and/or involuntary movements rather than being about moving involuntarily.

haven’t read these so i can’t speak to the politics / quality (although i’ll make a post if i’m able to read more) but here’s what seemed potentially relevant! also if anything is paywalled please don’t give T&F your money lol, try SciHub or if you can’t find something i can ask around for somebody with institutional access!

Cultural Differences in Reactions to Tics and Tic Severity (2021)

Using virtual reality to implement disability studies’ advocacy principles: uncovering the perspectives of people with disability (2023)

I had every right to be there: discriminatory acts towards young people with disabilities on public transport (2020)

From comedy targets to comedy-makers: disability and comedy in live performance (2015)

From the Case Files: Reconstructing a history of involuntary sterilisation (2010)

i also want to mention “Movements of the Uncontrollable Body Part Two” by Bronwyn Valentine (2019), a creative writing piece about her experiences of embodiment + ableism with spina bifida that i first read pretty soon after it was published & went looking for after developing my movement disorder a year ago because it was so impactful. @fndportal also has some incredibly vital work.

also if you haven’t already read Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s Staring: Why We Look, it’s not specifically about involuntary movements but definitely a core text for theorizing any visibilized disability.

i hope some of that is helpful!! if anybody checks any of these out i’d love to hear your thoughts/critiques! all the best to you & i hope these offer some resonance with + understanding of your experiences 💓💓

[thatchronicfeeling]

It has come to my attention that it's Period Drama Appreciation Week 2023. I love period dramas and grew up watching them. They have been a formative part of my life and I'm now too disabled to watch video. Even gifs are too difficult for my brain to process. It is also Bi Visibility Week and I'm posting this on Bisexual Visibility Day. Since I can't safely post a pile of gifs, here is a list celebrating actors/characters/moments from period dramas that have been significant to my bisexuality. [Yes, this is a big list. I am missing out on watching and re-watching A Lot of awesome period dramas and I hate it. This list is helping me reclaim a bit of joy. Also I've probably forgotten some favourites and may update this.]

Lori Petty in A League of Their Own

Jodhi May in any period drama

Mary Wickes in any period drama

Freddy Honeychurch in A Room with a View

Anne Hathaway playing cricket in that rust-coloured dress in Becoming Jane

Esther Summerson (disabled heroine!) & Allan Woodcourt in Bleak House

the freshly-painted yellow cabin door swinging shut with the names 'Calam & Katie' painted on it in Calamity Jane

the sequence where Doris Day sings 'Secret Love' in Calamity Jane

Michelle in Derry Girls (and James too, a wee bit)

George Eliot & Lenore in Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party

the moment where Emma and Mr Knightley start dancing together and it feels like you're inside the music in Emma

Polly Waker's haircut in The Enchanted April

Matthias Schoenaerts in Far From the Madding Crowd

Idgie & Ruth in Fried Green Tomatoes

Suranne Jones in Gentleman Jack

recognising Marian Lister as a bisexual who hasn't realised it yet in Gentleman Jack

Mary Agnes McNue in Godless

Bel & Freddie in The Hour

June Allyson leaping over a hedge (or is it a fence?) as Jo March in Little Women

the Patricia Rozema adaptation of Mansfield Park

the whole sequence where Judy Garland strides onto the neighbours' porch to sock The Boy Next Door in the jaw in Meet Me in St Louis

Katie the cook in Meet Me in St Louis

the moment where Benedick braces his arm against a doorframe in a desperate panic to stop Beatrice from going to eat Claudio's heart in the marketplace in Much Ado About Nothing

Denzel Washington in Much Ado About Nothing

Mr Thornton's hands (ok, and also his face) in North & South

tomboy Doris Day in On Moonlight Bay

Valentine in Parade's End

all of Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Papi in Pose

Lizzy Bennet declaring that she would never marry someone she did not love in Pride & Prejudice

Mr Darcy diving into a pond in Pride & Prejudice

both Angel and Joanne in Rent (the 2008 broadway version)

Martha the maid in The Secret Garden

Lelia Walker in Self-Made

swashbuckling Margaret Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility

the dance sequences in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

the whole Thomas Kent situation in Shakespeare in Love

Maria (when she is not a nun) in The Sound of Music

Kitty Butler onstage in Tipping the Velvet

Annie and Janette and Jacques and Linh in Treme

Audra McDonald and Anne Hathaway and Raúl Esparza in that promotional photo for Twelfth Night

Julie Andrews and her male co-star singing a version of 'Home on the Range' with the line 'and the deer and the antelope are gay' in Victor/Victoria

Justine Waddell in Wives & Daughters

[mask131]

Green spring: The Green Man

THE GREEN MAN

Category: British folklore, European arts and Neopagan customs

The Green Man is a very unique entity. A folkloric being without a folklore, a pagan spirit without a religion, an iconic face that is… literally that. An iconic face. An icon. An image. A motif. A portrait. A face.

In 1939, Lady Raglan (wife of Fitzroy Richard Sommerset, Baron Raglan) published an article in “The Folklore Journal” called “The Green Man in Church Architecture”. In this article, Lady Raglan drew attention towards a phenomenon of English architecture that was called then “the foliate head”, but that she renamed “The Green Man”, and this appellation stuck to this day.

What is a “Green Man”? A Green Man is usually a face (rarely a full body) carved onto a building – well, not just any building, onto the most important buildings of an English city. So, in first place churches and cathedrals, second place the pubs. These faces are also called “foliate masks” because the specificity of a Green Man face is that it is a human face interconnected or “made” with plants elements. A Green Man face ranges from a human face peering out of a thick foliage, to an optical illusion where a carved foliage is shaped like a human face, passing by men faces with leaves instead of hair, beard or mustache. These faces were carved everywhere in medieval and Renaissance Europe, and while most of them are found in England, which seemingly took a strong liking to them, Green Men are found in lesser number in churches and cemeteries of other European countries, such as France or Germany. Architecture and art experts have identified three main types of “foliate heads”. First is the “Foliage Head”, a human head covered in leaves ; second is the “Disgorging Head”, a man head vomiting foliage and branches ; third is the “Bloodsucker Head”, a male face with vines and plants coming out of all of its orifices (ears, nose, mouth…). The presence of the Green Man in Renaissance architecture was put to a stop with the Reformation (those protestants didn’t like things that seemed too pagan), before starting anew in the 19th century with the neo-Gothic and Victorian architectures (and at this point the fashion spread to other countries connected to England, such as the United-States or Australia).

So… The Green Man is an established architectural tradition. A weird face people had the habit to carve in churches and pubs. Alright… But who is the Green Man? That’s the big question. Lady Raglan put forth a bold theory that became massively spread: she wrote that the “Green Man” was the same entity known by the names of “Jack-in-the-Green, Robin Hood, the King of May, the Garland King – the central figure to the European May Day celebrations”. Now, this affirmation has led up to a LOT of debate, and I will talk about the Green Man’s connection to the May Day celebrations later in this post, but Lady Raglan theory held that the Green Man was a pre-Christian deity of life and nature.

And this is pretty much the consensus of everybody. The Green Man used to be a pagan symbol that survived and was reused in a Christianized world. Mind you, there are many Christian theories and interpretations of the Green Man – after all, he appears a lot in Christian structures like cathedrals or cemeteries; and the Green Man was even used to illustrate and ornate Bibles! Some claim it is a symbol of the sins of the flesh consuming the sinner, others will prefer interpreting it as the Holy Spirit breathing life into the world, some even claim it is a visual metaphor of Jesus… But these theories clearly don’t hold much power, especially when you consider how old and widespread the Green Man figure is: the oldest Green Man depictions aren’t actually European, but from the Middle and Far-East. 11th century Green Men in Jerusalem, 8th century Green Man in Rajasthan, and the oldest Green Men ever found were in Lebanon and Iraq, and dated from the 2nd century. This all led to the theory that the “Green Man” maybe originated as a symbol in Asia Minor, before being brought over to Europe – there is also a whole theory in Islamic Sufism of the Green Man being a warped form of the esoteric figure known as Khidr, the Green One, but that’s a whole other talk…

So, the pagan roots of the Green Man cannot be denied. A lot of candidates and theories for the Green Man’s real identity were proposed, some reasonable, some stretched, some really far fetched. Odin, Mimir, Lud, Freyr were all brought to the table, but a clear focus was given to ancient deities of vegetation who were said to have symbolically died and resurrected, such as Osiris or Attis. This is because the Green Man symbol seems to be strongly connected to the topics of life, fertility, growth/regrowth and rebirth. The most reasonable and England-centric theories evoke mostly two direct origins of the Green Man – Celtic and Roman. On the Celtic route, there is always the Cernunnos theory, because some Green Man are depicted with antlers, or with tiny animal faces replacing the leaves covering or being disgorged by the face – which, coupled with the face being that of a mature, often bearded man, all bring back the idea people have of the deity Cernunnos. The other aspect rather has an approach tying the Green Man to the Roman heritage of England, pointing out similar male, leaf-covered deities and figures of nature – Bacchus, Sylvanus, Vertumnus… Especially telling is a “Green Man” of the Romanized England times found carved in the ruins of a villa, but whose vegetation was identified as seaweed and was thought to have represented Neptune, the Roman god of the waters.

Overall, a lot of theories, a lot of discussions, a lot of potential candidates behind this face… And another debated and mysterious topic is the reason this vegetation mask was used in the first place in buildings as religious and sacred as churches out of all things. (The presence of the Green Man in pubs isn’t much problematic – “The Green Man” being a recurring symbol and a typical name of English pubs). One side argues that the Green Man figure was demonized and devilized by the Christians, and probably used in a similar way to the gargoyles in the religious architecture – another grotesque figure supposed to repel evil spirits while frightening people away from badness. The other side rather invokes the full adoption of the pagan figure into the Christian customs, evoking other cases of the old pagan religion becoming part of the culture of Christian Britain (Samhain becoming All Saints/All Souls Day, or the goddess Brigid becoming Saint Brigit). One theory will have you claim that the stonemasons and carpenters secretly kept alive a pagan tradition or believed in an old superstition tied to the Green Man, and secretly carved the head on their most important works in hope of some fertility reward, but given how well-known the Green Man is the “secret” wasn’t apparently well kept, if it existed in the first place. A more reasonable theory rather takes a strong interest in the idea of the Green Man as a symbol tied to death, since in cemeteries and on graves we have a lot of skeletons wrapped in ivy, or with plants sprouting from their eye sockets, making them a more morbid version of the Green Man face – in this theory the idea of a head wrapped or disgorging plants would either be a memento mori about decay (plants growing out of a corpse’s rot) or a hopeful illustrations of rebirth (life formed out of the dead).

So many possibilities, so little answers… But modern consensus generally agrees that the Green Man figure is now a sort of spirit of nature, a personification of vegetation, or the symbol of mankind and nature united in a perfect balance.

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Lady Raglan’s affirmations of how the Green Man is “Jack-in-the-Green, and Robin Hood, and the May King/Garland King of May Day celebrations” should be taken with caution, because Lady Raglan never hid the fact that she was heavily influenced by the famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) book “The Golden Bough”, one of the first big books about comparative religion and finding the archetypes common in European mythologies – but that is as much renowned for its brand new approach to the topic as it was for setting up a lot of artificial interpretations and fake trends. So yes, caution here. But despite that, Lady Raglan was onto something… The figure of the Green Man seems to have had many different incarnations or “cousins” in English culture – the most commonly invoked being Robin Hood (a man dressed in green, living in the forests with or sometimes within the trees, and who was as much a mascot of pubs as the Green Man) or the British Father Christmas (dressed in green too, and crowned with ivy, yew and holly). Most notorious of these “cultural doubles” is however Jack-in-the-Green, a tradition of May Day celebrations in England where a man wears over their upper body a pyramidal or conical wicker structure covered in leaves and foliage, with only their face peeking out of the leaves (if it is out at all, as many Jack in the Green have their face hidden by the foliage). This character, also called Jack o’ Green, traditionally walks alongside the musicians of May Day celebrations, and was believed by Lady Raglan to be another incarnation of the same pre-Christian deity the Green Man corresponded to. Unfortunately this has been proven wrong, as the Jack o Green tradition is proven to have started out in the 18th century and not have existed before that – but Lady Raglan’s theory became so famous that upon the Jack o Green revival (the tradition had died out by the early 20th century, but starting with the 70s, various revivalist groups and neo-pagans decided to bring back the Jack-in-the-Green in May Day celebrations), the figure often became depicted as identical to the Green Man (for example having actors dressed up as Robin Hood and Maid Marian escort the Jack-in-the-Green, or having other actors play the role of “Bogies”, the Jack o Green’s acolytes, as green-skinned men dressed in clothes of foliage).

Beyond these specific figures, there are records of a tradition of “green man” and “green men” strongly present in England – from the expression “green man” being used to denote savage inhabitants of the wild or the people of the old countryside, to actual “green men”, men dressed in leaves and holding clubs, appearing in festivities and parades – there is a set of interesting articles about the history of the Green Man and its existence in English culture here (https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2021/01/introducing-the-green-man/) and here (https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2021/02/what-was-the-green-man/). And this tradition also dwells into the literary domain, as another “cousin” of the Green Man is the Green Knight from the famous Arthurian romance “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (the Arthurian world was another place where the old paganism coexisted alongside Christianity) – E. K. Chambers wrote several decades before Lady Raglan made her article, about how the literary Green Knight was very likely a manifestation of the “green man of the peasantry, who dies and lives again” (see “The Mediaeval Stage”)…

If we jump into modern times, the Green Man was HEAVILY adopted by neo-pagan movements. Many like to make him the male equivalent of a Gaia/Mother Earth figure, but the most famous neopagan interpretation of the Green Man depicts him as a duo, the Holly King and Oak King, vegetation-entities who are supposedly in a constant battle and who, by killing or replacing each other, causes the seasonal turns of summer and winter. The Holly King is the ruler of the evergreens whose strength peaks at midwinter, while the Oak King is the ruler of the bright and hot season whose strength peaks at midsummer. While the Holly King and Oak King theory was suggested in “The Golden Bough” Lady Raglan used to recreate her own Green Man figure (in it there were talks of a divine king whose death was tied to the growth and renewal of nature, and of a battle between summer and winter tied to May Day customs), the Holly King and Oak King tradition was formed by Robert Graves in his famous (or infamous) book “The White Goddess”, a… let’s say poetic and abstract comparative mythology book recreating an entire artificial pantheon of archetypes based on mostly Celtic and Greek myths. It is in the very same book that the modern idea of the “Triple Goddess” was actually born. And so Robert Graves identified his own Holly and Oak Kings as a set of numerous duos from various legends: Lugh and Balor from Irish myths, Sir Balin and his brother Balan from Arthurian texts, Gwyn ap Nudd and Gwythyr ap Greidwal from the Welsh otherworld, Gawain against the Green Knight, the Welsh hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes and his nemesis Gronw Pebr… and even the Biblical duo of Jesus and John the Baptist.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Certain segment of the population givin off these weird vibes right about now [The Daily Don]

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

June 11, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JUN 12, 2023

All weekend, Trump supporters have flooded media channels with accusations that President Joe Biden has weaponized the Department of Justice to use as a political cudgel against former president Trump, whom they characterize as the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. 

On Thursday the Department of Justice indicted Trump on 37 counts of hanging onto classified national security documents, deliberately hiding those documents from his lawyers and the government after a subpoena, lying about them, and showing them to people without security clearances and without any need to know about them. 

Trump and his loyalists insist the indictment makes the United States a “banana republic,” by which they appear to mean a country with a corrupt ruling elite that uses the machinery of government against political opponents (though the historical meaning of that term actually is much more complicated). Sometimes in the same breath they call for arresting members of the Biden administration in retaliation; on the Fox News Channel on Friday, personality Greg Gutfield added First Lady Jill Biden as a potential target after Jesse Watters called for arresting “all of them, [former House speaker Nancy] Pelosi, too.”

There are a number of problems with their characterization of what is going on.

First of all, Biden’s Department of Justice has operated as it is supposed to: independently. While Trump apparently tried to use the department for his own political ends—we learned just last month, for example, that the Department of Justice kept an investigation of the Clinton Foundation open for almost Trump’s entire term, although prosecutors thought the rumors about the foundation were bogus from the start—Biden has gone out of his way to emphasize that he will not interfere with the Justice Department. 

To underline that independence, after Trump announced his candidacy for president last November—an early announcement many thought was an attempt to avoid criminal prosecution—Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the two federal investigations that touched on the former president, thus deliberately moving those investigations outside the department. The special counsel is Jack Smith, and those investigations are the one into the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and the documents case currently in the news.

Still, the indictment came not from Smith, but from a federal grand jury of ordinary American citizens in Florida who reviewed evidence and determined that there was probable cause to believe that Trump committed crimes and should be tried for them. Trump’s defenders are trying to blur this reality by saying it was Biden who charged Trump, when it was really the members of a grand jury. 

Trump supporters’ evidence for Biden’s corruption is that the Justice Department has indicted neither President Biden nor former secretary of state Hillary Clinton for what they claim are similar offenses. (It hasn’t charged Republican former vice president Mike Pence, either, but they are not talking about that.) The crucial difference in all three of those cases is that Biden, Clinton, and Pence did not try to hide the documents found in their possession and they cooperated fully with the Department of Justice to return them. (In addition, in Clinton’s case, most of the 110 emails that contained classified information did not bear classified markings.)

As Devlin Barrett of the Washington Post notes, Trump was not charged for illegally keeping any of the 197 documents he returned. He was charged only for ones he kept, lied about, showed to other people, and hid.

Republicans who are trying to pick up Trump’s voters, including Florida governor Ron DeSantis, are not defending Trump but are instead trying to argue that the Democrats are discriminating against Trump. “Is there a different standard for a Democrat secretary of state versus a former Republican president?” DeSantis asked. 

That line of reasoning is swaying Republican primary voters, 88% of whom, according to a CBS News poll, say the indictment was politically motivated, although 24% of them agree that the loose handling of the documents was a national security risk. Trump and key supporters are playing to that base, using thinly veiled calls for violence. Meanwhile, Republicans who are likely hoping this will sink Trump are either dodging questions about the issue or, like Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, remaining steadfastly silent.

But for all the focus on the politics of this moment and the apparent attempt to rally the Republican base to violence, this is a legal case. Trump is accused of serious crimes that endangered—and likely continue to endanger—our national security, which means the safety of every American.

His alleged criminal activity endangers the operations of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (in charge of imagery, maps, and intelligence concerning them), the National Reconnaissance Office (in charge of space-based surveillance and reconnaissance), the Department of Energy (nuclear weapons), and the Department of State and Bureau of Intelligence and Research. 

It is notable that the two Republican presidential candidates who have served as U.S. attorneys—Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson—have both spoken out against Trump over it. So has Trump’s former attorney general William Barr, who told Shannon Bream of the Fox News Channel today: “I think the counts under the Espionage Act, that he willfully retained those documents, are solid counts… I do think we have to wait and see what the defense says, and what proves to be true, but I do think that…if even half of it is true, then he’s toast. I mean, it’s a very detailed indictment, and it’s very, very damning.” 

Trump is reportedly having trouble finding lawyers to represent him in this matter, with Marc Caputo of The Messenger reporting today that one federal criminal defense lawyer he contacted in the Southern District of Florida said: “The problem is none of us want to work for the guy…. He’s a nightmare client.”

While committed Republican partisans seem to believe Trump is a victim, according to the CBS News poll, 38% of likely Republican primary voters do, in fact, believe Trump endangered our security—and national security, after all, is the primary job of the president.

Smith said on Friday that the department would seek a “speedy trial,” and if that indeed happens, the American people will hear Trump’s own lawyers and aides—for all the witnesses are his own hand-picked team members—testify under oath about Trump’s behavior. Under similar conditions, the testimony of Trump’s people before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol effectively countered Trump’s propaganda. That Republican leaders see Trump as vulnerable is evidenced by how many candidates are already in the presidential race. 

The question is how much damage the fight for control will do to the Republican Party, especially in light of the fact that Smith’s other investigation, the one into the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, has not yet been concluded. There is reason to suspect those congress members involved in that effort might have been spooked by just how thorough the investigation of the documents case turned out to be. 

Guided by President Biden, the Democrats are refusing to comment on the indictment, likely in part to undermine the argument that it is about politics and also because they recognize that many Americans are just tired of drama.

Overall, though, they seem determined to redirect people’s attention to the reality that the Biden administration and the Democrats are actually governing according to the principles of a democracy. Frustrating as this tactic is to partisans, scholars who study how to restore democratic norms in a faltering democracy suggest that emphasizing those norms is crucial.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[yourdailyqueer]

I'm trying to teach a friend about trans history in hopes he'll better understanding me (a mutual goal).

He's specifically skeptical about trans peoples existence throughout history.

Do you have some records of trans folks from before this century?

I think he'd benefit from something bite-sized like your posts.. which I love by the way!!

I havn't even touched the surface of trans/nonbinary/intersex people in history. It's only in the last 100 years that modern medicine has made it available so that successful surgery has been possible. I've read lots of examples of people hiding what their birth name/assigned gender is/was so they could be in the army as a man etc. Then kept that presentation until their death.

Also think about it. Before the turn of the century, technology wasn't available for information/gossip to be passed on further than local towns etc. The only people who had the means to take pictures or travel far were the rich/nobility.

Check out the following people. All have posts on Wikipedia:

Elagabalus (Heliogabalus) - 204 AD

Katherina Hetzeldorfer - Mid 1400's?

Eleno de Céspedes - Born 1545

Chevalier d'Eon - Born 1728

James Barry - Born 1789

Mary Jones - Born 1803

Andreas Bruce - Born 1808

Joseph Lobdell - Born 1829

Edward De Lacy Evans - Born 1830

Abel Barbin - Born 1838

Murray Hall - Born 1841

Albert Cashier - Born 1843

Joe Monahan - Born 1850

Charles Winslow Hall - Born 1860

Jack Bee Garland - Born 1869

Dina Alma de Paradeda - Born 1871

Jennie June - Born 1874

Piotr Włast - Born 1876

Ralph Kerwineo - Born 1876

Karl M. Baer - Born 1885

Amelio Robles Ávila - Born 1889

There may be more but I don't have time to go through all 160 pages of people tagged "LGBT History".

[mrfippstuff]

Opera Omnia Burst Themes 2/?

With Opera Omnia shutting down, I decided to make a few posts about one of my favorite parts of the game: The Burst Weapons. Not because they were a powerful, much sought after weapon tier that gave big numbers with massive benefits, but because I have a love for Final Fantasy music, and what BTs I wanted was strongly dependent on what song would play when used.

These posts are meant to be more for the sake of archiving what there had been more than anything else, but at the very least I am going to list a large number of great FF songs.

The first listings will be the songs that we had gotten during the game's lifetime.

Final Fantasy XI Shantotto: Iron Colossus Prishe: A Realm of Emptiness Arciela V Aloulin: Arciela's Theme Iroha: Dance of the Tengu Selh'teus: Dusk and Dawn Kam'lanaut: Tough Battle #2 Eald'narche: Belief

Final Fantasy XII Vaan: Flash of Steel Penelo: Penelo's Theme Balthier: Giving Chase Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca: Boss Battle Reks: Boss Battle (Zodiac Age) Vayne Curudas Solidor: The Battle for Freedom Gabranth: Life and Death

Final Fantasy XIII Lightning: Blinded by Light Hope Estheim: Hope's Theme Snow Villiers: Savior of Souls Cid Raines: Desperate Struggle Jihl Nabaat: Test of L'cie Serah Farron: Paradigm Shift Noel Kriess: The Last Hunter Caius Ballad: The Unseen Abyss

Final Fantasy XIV Y'shtola Rhul: Ominous Prognosticks Yda Hext: Defender of the Realm Papalymo Totolymo: Another Brick

Final Fantasy XV Noctis Lucis Caelum: APOCALYPSIS NOCTIS Ignis Scientia: Omnis Lacrima Gladiolus Amicitia: Clash on the Big Bridge (Episode Gladiolus) Lunafreya Nox Fleuret: Advent of the Apocalypse Cor Leonis: The Trials of the Shield Iris Amicitia: Up for the Challenge Ardyn Izunia: Magna Insomnia Aranea Highwind: Invidia

Tactics Ramza Beoulve: Antipyretic Agrias Oaks: Battle on the Bridge

Type-0 Ace: We Have Arrived Deuce: War: The Quiet Bloodbath Cater: War: Howl of the Dreadnaught Queen: The Heart Boils Rem Tokimiya: Rem Tokimiya Machina Kunagiri: Servant of the Crystal Kurasame Susaya: War: Breaking Through

Crystal Chronicles Ciaran: United, Heaven-sent Sherlotta: The Creation of the Origin Yuri: Final Decisive Battle Layle: This is The End For You! Keiss: Narrow Escape Jegran: This is The End For You!

World of Final Fantasy Lann & Reynn: World of Battle Enna Kros: Mega World of Battle

Stranger of Paradise Jack Garland: Jack's Theme Neon: Battle: The Fiend of Fire-Motif from Mt Gulg Astos: Battle: The Suffering of Fools

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[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A US attorney is reviewing a handful of classified documents found at President Joe Biden's former office in Washington, CBS News reported Monday.

In a statement, Richard Sauber, the special counsel to President Biden, said the White House was cooperating with the National Archives and Records Administration and the Justice Department on the matter.

"The documents were discovered when the president's personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC," Sauber said.

Biden held a position at the center, run by the University of Pennsylvania, from 2017 to 2019.

The documents "were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives," Sauber said, adding that they were immediately handed over to the record-keeping agency.

The Washington Post on Monday evening reported roughly 10 documents were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy & Global Engagement, citing a person familiar with the investigation. The Office of the General Counsel notified the archives upon the discovery, and the agency quickly took control of the records, Sauber told the outlet.

The documents were found shortly before Attorney General Merrick Garland named the former federal prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel in mid-November to oversee two investigations related to former President Donald Trump.

Trump immediately pounced on the story.

"When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House?" he posted on his social-media network.

Bradley P. Moss, a national security lawyer, told Insider that this looked like a routine matter with no allegation of criminal wrongdoing. He contrasted what we know about the case with that being built against Trump, who held boxes of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort even after their return had been demanded by the National Archives.

"Biden's team did exactly what you're supposed to do," Moss said. "When you find improperly stored classified documents, you immediately notify the government — and you turn it over immediately."

Classified documents are routinely misplaced, and this looks to be a routine investigation, perhaps motivated in part by a desire from the Justice Department to show it's impartial, Moss said. The nature of the investigation would change if the US attorney in charge of reviewing the documents, John Lausch, a Trump appointee, uncovered any evidence that Biden or his staff misled the National Archives.

"The reason Donald Trump is in criminal jeopardy right now isn't just because of the documents being improperly stored. It was the obstruction," Moss said. "That is why it has gotten to the point it has, where we're looking at the real possibility of a criminal indictment."

[m34gs]

how do you think kalim and idia would spend halloween together?

Hello! Thank you for this ask, I'm very excited to answer!!

As I've mentioned in my horror movie post for Housewardens (based on the ask from @kimium; link here), I think Idia would really like horror movies (which is based on his R Halloween costume card vignette), but I feel like Kalim would not really enjoy all things horror and creepy. He'd like the more fun, light-horror aspects of Halloween. That being said, I think they can find middle ground to enjoy the holiday together!

Decorations are a Must. Kalim may not want the spookiest decorations, but he loves parties and themes. He'd choose some of the cute-looking ghost and witch window-clings, there'd be garlands of bats, Halloween themed plates and napkins, goblets shaped to look like skulls, and, of course, jack-o-lanterns which they carved together! Their pumpkins are displayed proudly, front and center, even if Idia is a little shy about sharing his. It's ok, because Kalim encourages him that it's really good!

For costumes, they spend weeks working together to make a couple's costume. Idia models it after one of his favourite anime. Kalim may not know the show's title, but he's watched a bit of it with Idia and he had fun watching his boyfriend enjoy it so much. He also thinks a couple costume is a great way to make sure everyone can see he's dating Idia. I think Kalim would be really into doing couple activities because 1. he loves spending time with Idia, and 2. he loves showing everyone how much he loves his partner! Also, he finds it fun to make the costume; I think Kalim would enjoy crafts like that. Idia is a stickler for details, but I think Kalim gets him to also let loose a little and remember that everything doesn't have to be 100% perfect. Knowing Idia's perfectionism when it comes to cosplay and his love of anime, he's definitely the one that keeps them on-track so the costumes are actually ready for Halloween...lol :)

When it comes to snacks and candies...well, I think Jamil and Ortho have now put in place a rule that Idia and Kalim *cannot* go to the grocery store unsupervised. The pantry was full with nothing but candy, the closet had bags upon bags of chips and popcorn. Jamil found skull-shaped chocolates in the freezer. Ortho discovered Idia sleeping curled up in a ball on his bed because Idia's bed was full of bags upon bags of sour candies. And they weren't planning on sharing with anyone. Idia and Kalim bought all those snacks entirely in preparation for Halloween Date Night so they could eat them all while watching movies together. They both got the scolding of a lifetime and then received a rationed portion of treats they were allowed to have for Halloween. I guess it's 'the couple that gets in trouble together stays together'?...lol. Not an ounce of impulse control between the two of them when it comes to the snacks haha.

When they finally get to have their Halloween date, I do believe they would spend it watching cheesy, not-overly-scary, Halloween movies and munching on snacks. They're definitely cuddling on the couch (Idia made sure they chose costumes that would allow for this) and they're laughing at the movie together. They marathon so many movies that they fall asleep on the couch like that, and there's spilled popcorn on the floor and half-drunk cans of pop on the coffee table and empty chocolate wrappers scattered about like confetti...

So, yeah, that's how I think the two of them would spend Halloween! Hope you enjoyed my answer 💜 Thank you so much for the ask, and feel free to ask if you want more details or have any questions!

[beardedmrbean]

The 21-year-old arrested in connection with the leaked documents probe has been charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and willful retention of classified documents, which collectively carry a maximum of 15 years in prison.

Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air Force National Guard, made his initial appearance before a federal magistrate in Boston on Friday morning.

Teixeira walked into court in a beige smock and pants with a black T-shirt underneath. He entered in handcuffs, which were removed before he sat at the defense table with his attorney. Teixeira appeared to briefly scan the crowd while in his seat.

Three people sat on a bench in the front row reserved for relatives of the defendant.

As Teixeira was re-handcuffed and led from court, someone in the front row called out, "Love you, Jack." The 21-year-old responded, "Love you, too, dad."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nadine Pellegrini sought pretrial detention, which was granted pending the outcome of a hearing on Wednesday.

Teixeira was taken into custody in Massachusetts on Thursday "in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information," Attorney General Merrick Garland announced.

Media reports have described the U.S. intelligence documents -- which seem to contain top-secret information about the Ukraine war and other parts of the world -- as being shared among a small group of users on Discord before getting wider notice.

MORE: Discord admins describe 'hyperactive kid' who they say helped spread images of classified docs

The criminal complaint alleges Teixeira "improperly and unlawfully retained and transmitted national defense information to people not authorized to receive it."

On Monday, the FBI interviewed an unidentified member of the Discord chatroom where Teixeira allegedly posted classified documents, according to the charging documents. That individual provided the FBI with information that the alleged leaker went by "Jack," appeared to live in Massachusetts and had claimed he was a member of the Air National Guard. He also said he'd chatted with him on video and that the suspect was "a white male who was clean-cut in appearance and between 20 and 30 years old," according to the charging documents.

While Discord is not mentioned by name, the complaint indicates the platform helped the FBI by providing the credentials behind the account associated with the leak.

According to the complaint, Teixeira accessed a government document on Feb. 23 and posted it the following day. It’s the disclosure of that document that forms the basis of the initial charges.

[witchesoz]

The dark side of the Wizard of Oz (MGM)

The 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” is remembered as a beautiful, colorful and magical story – and yet its production and behind-the-scenes was filled with pain and suffering. This whole movie was so complicated and troublesome to create that some even thought of calling it “cursed”… Here are some of the “dark sides” of the MGM movie:

# The actor we have for the Tin Man in the current movie was a second choice. Or rather a third choice… You see, originally the actor for the Tin Man was Ray Bolger. But Ray Bolger had a childhood hero – Fred Stone. And Fred Stone was renowned and famous for having played on stage the Scarecrow in the original Wizard of Oz musical (I talked about it before, it was the Wizard of Oz play that Baum oversaw and that was created as a complement to the original book). So Ray Bolger, wanting to emulate the star he admired so much, actually managed to swap his place with the original actor for the Scarecrow – Buddy Ebsen, who got the role of the Tin Woodman. However the actor of the Tin Woodman in the movie is Jack Haley. What happened? Well… You see, the original Tin Woodman makeup was MUCH shinier, truly sparking. It was because the makeup was created out of aluminum powder. What the makeup department clearly hadn’t planned was that with each breath he took, Ebsen would INHALE aluminum particle, that slowly lined up and filled his lungs until, in his own words, he tried to breath and found out he couldn’t do it. Ebsen nearly asphyxiated to death. Hopefully he survived, but he still suffered massive respiratory issues that stuck with him for the rest of his life, and of course he refused to work on this “damn movie” anymore. Jack Haley, his successor, benefited from a much less toxic makeup made out of aluminum paste – but his costume wasn’t much more comfortable, since he couldn’t sit down or bend easily (after all, it was a rigid metal-imitating costume). If he wanted to rest, he had to use a reclining ironing board. He apparently constantly remembered the movie as an “awful experience” due to everything that happened there, and insists that he had no fun playing his role (though he apparently didn’t had anything against the movie itself, it just wasn’t a good memory for him).

# The script for the movie was written times and times again, and while three writers are credited for the final product, there was actually much more authors behind the scenes. These three were just the ones that the studio worked the most with/the ones that stayed around for the longest time ; and the piling up different scripts deserves a whole post on its own. And similarly, the movie kept changing directors: in fact, there was five different directors for this piece. Number one, Norman Taurog who oversaw the casting and the constructions of the sets, but left. Number two, Richard Thorpe, who oversaw the initial shooting of the movie, but was fired due to his footage looking REALLY bad (he notably wanted Judy Garland to put on a “baby-like” makeup to make Dorothy young looker, which looked ridiculous). Third, George Cukor, who came just a few days to help save the mess and put back everything together, before leaving for his actual big project, “Gone with the Wind”. Fourth, Victor Fleming, who oversaw most of the shooting of the movie – but ultimately had to leave as the movie was almost finished, ironically to replace George Cukor on “Gone with the Wind”. The missing scenes (which were the Kansas sequences) were shot under the fifth and last director, King Vidor – but in the final product, only Victor Fleming was credited since he had done the most work out of the five.

# Beyond the “Tin Man” incident, questions of makeup and costumes also greatly bothered Ray Bolger (the Scarecrow) and Bert Lahr (the Cowardly Lion). The Cowardly Lion’s facial prosthetics forced its actor to undergo a liquid diet, since he could eat with a straw – if he ate a solid meal, the makeup was ruined and he had to redo it all over again. Bert Lahr’s lion costume was very heavy (90 lbs) and very hot, which under the studio lights was a big problem. It was basically a sauna in there, and to avoid the actor going into a heat stroke, the crew prepared two lion costumes – Lahr acted in one until it became fully drenched in his sweat and too hot for him to continue, then he removed the costume and put on the second one to continue acting, while the sweat-filled one was dried out in front of a fan so he could repeat the “costume switch” process later. (Lahr himself also had to stand in front of a fan, out of costume, between each shot, to dry himself). As for the “scarecrow mask” of Ray Bolger, it was a rubber thing that prevented his face from getting both air and moisture, and as a result when he removed it, he tended to find his skin cracking (or even bleeding in some cases). And when he was done shooting, he realized that the mask had imprinted a pattern on his ACTUAL face, and these lines took one whole year to fade.

# The big incident everybody knows about by now is how Margaret Hamilton, the actress for the Wicked Witch of the West, got badly burned. As it turns out, having a witch-character playing with fire isn’t a good idea when your pyrotechnics are unstable. The reason that the Witch’s leaving Munchkinland through teleportation seems a bit fake (you see the smoke appearing out of the ground too early, and you can see the witch being lowered by a hatch beneath) was because this was a rehearsal take – when it came time to shot the actual scene, the lowering-platform got stuck somehow, and Margaret Hamilton took the giant burst of flames right in the face. The fact her green makeup included COPPER in it (which was also why she wouldn’t eat while the makeup was on) made her burns even worse – she had to stay in the hospital for weeks to heal up, and afterward she refused to do any scenes involving fire, despite the crew making a specifically fireproof costume for her. And it was apparently a good decision, as when her body-double did some of the missing “fiery scenes”, she too got badly burned out of faulty pyrotechnics. And even after finishing the movie, Hamilton had to wait for months until finally the greenish color left by her makeup disappeared from her skin…

# Fascinatingly, Margaret Hamilton came to regret her role as the Wicked Witch of the West after the release of the movie. She did enjoy playing the part and had fought for it – but she was also a kind woman who loved children and worked as a school teacher between her acting times, and she came to dislike how she had helped to scare so many children across the world, as well as her part in creating a true bogeyman of the early 20th century. This “half-rejection” is most notably seen in Margaret Hamilton’s appearance in “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood”, where she explained clearly how the Wicked Witch was a make-belief character and that children didn’t need to be afraid of her, the actress behind the mask.

# Judy Garland had a long story of misfortunes and sadness – her life was one tragedy of heartbreaks, abuse, body dysmorphia, drugs and suicidal thoughts. And many point out her experience on “The Wizard of Oz” as the start of this dark path she walked onto… Mostly because of how badly it went for her. You will find lots of tales and claims about sexual harassment or abuse of Judy Garland on the set by various actors – but these tend to be, at best false, at worst unproven. To be fair there is a lot of real-life incidents on the set that got exaggerated through gossips and talks: for example you might have heard that Judy Garland was physically abused by Victor Fleming, the director, and as a proof someone will say that she got slapped in the face by him for ruining a take. Well, it is a real incident that got out of text: during the introduction scene of the Cowardly Lion, Judy Garland got caught in a hysterical laughing fit. She tried to hide it at first (in the scene you can see Garland covering her face to hide the fact she is laughing), but soon couldn’t contain it. To snap her out of it, Victor Fleming slapped her, but since she continued giggling he sent her to her dressing room to have her calm down – and afterward, he felt ashamed of himself enough that he ordered crewmembers to punch him in the face for how stupid he was, but Judy refused to slap him back and just kissed him (note that Judy Garland apparently had a big crush on him at the time, so that explains a lot of things). Another story you might have heard was how the studios forced Judy Garland to constantly watch out of her weight and forced her through a terrible diet of “only coffee, chicken soup and cigarettes” to have her keep her petite figure, and that this terrible “diet” was the start of Judy Garland’s lifelong body dysmorphia. This is an exaggerated account of what truly happened – Judy Garland did not smoke at the time, so the cigarette part is false, and she never had any food restriction whatsoever, so the strict liquid diet was also invented… But due to being a sixteen year old girl playing a younger character, she was asked to keep her weight to a minimum to avoid having too mature curves show up – and this was done by rather a strict set of exercising (regular natation and hiking séances, and regular games of tennis and badminton). Plus also binding very tightly her chest to avoid her breast to show up and keep her “youthful” look. In general Judy Garland’s filming experience was painful physically – for example the ruby slippers hurt her feet so much she couldn’t wear them for too long, and in shots where her feet were off screen she wore more comfortable boots or just walked with socks on (when Dorothy and Scarecrow back up from the apple-tree, you can glimpse the socks on her feet without the ruby slippers).  And while the abuse stories might have been exaggerated and invented afterward (especially since most of them come from third-parties or came out after Garland’s death), one thing that is certain sit that Garland actually felt apparently increasingly lonely on the set, as she didn’t made any friends among her cast members (most notably the actors playing Dorothy’s companion apparently didn’t get along very well with her, due to them not liking much Garland’s perceived attempt at “upstaging” them and stealing the spotlight, and so never truly included her in their social group). With perhaps the exception of Margaret Hamilton, who apparently was the only one of the actors of the movie who actually was genuinely nice and cared for Garland.

# Speaking of how these “abuse stories” of Judy Garland have to be taken with a grain of salt, let’s look at common one: the idea that Judy Garland was sexually harassed or even abused by the actors playing the Munchkins. This idea actually came due to the memoir published after Garland’s death by one of her ex-husbands, Sidney Luft (he was husband number 3, I think she had five in total?). He claimed that she had been sexually harassed by the Munchkin actors… But again, as I point it is Luft’s testimony, published after Garland’s death – and the reason why Garland divorced Luft? She claimed he was abusing her… When talking about the Munchkin actors, Garland herself had some things to say yes, but no real “sexual harassment” stories. She did say that the Munchkins actors were actually drunks who partied and drank all night long, overall a quite rowdy bunch – and she did report that one of the Munchkins actors asked her out, despite him being in his forties. But Luft’s claim seems to have been mixed up with the testimony of one of the producers of the movie, Mervyn LeRoy, who talked of “sex orgies” that the Munchkins actors organized and that ultimately the police had to be involved in the hotel they stayed at… But this whole accusation of chaotic sexuality has been countered by the testimonies of Munchkin actors themselves (notably some of those who were just teens at the time of filming), and they explained that these tales were actually greatly exaggerated accounts of the bad actions of a handful of them – more specifically a group of young men from Germany that had the bad habit of drinking beer at every meal and wanted to use their time on the movie to meet girls, even if the girls “didn’t want” to meet them. But this just caused a “little trouble” according to these counter-testimonies, and there was certainly no “orgy of depraved dwarfs” as some might have reported.

Overall it is a very dark and complicated topic to talk about what abuse Garland might have received during the movie, notably because tend to confuse things together for the sake of sensationalism. Did Garland’s drug addiction started out with this movie because the studio gave her “pep pills” to keep her thin and energetic, or is it a lie and did it start earlier due to her own mother giving him these energy drugs? Was she truly sexually harassed on the set of the movie, or is it just a confusion with other sexual harassments Garland received outside of the movie by big heads of the MGM studios? I obviously can’t answer those questions with my limited knowledge of it all… But one should know that these questions exist and have to be answered.

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wait what are some of your controversial nhl options? like unpopular opinion—what players do you not like? mine are:

mat barzal-gives me an EXTREME ICK

austin matthews-i feel like we all know why. ick.

andrei svechnikov-idk what it is abt this man but i feel like one day we’re all gonna find out that he’s like a murderer or something there’s just SOMETGIMG OFF

connor mcdavid-idc how fucking good he is. he’s an ipad kid. a grown toddler. ew

cole caulfield-idk, again just a weird feeling from him

i’ve got some even more controversial ones but i don’t wanna cause a ruckus unless you wanna hear them 👀🫢

YES SEND MORE I LOVE THIS

i completely agree with all of yours lol i feel like i’ve talked about my biggest ones a few times on here so people know but here’s my list of players i don’t like lol:

my main ones are cole, auston matthews, and brady tkachuk

jack hughes (75% of the time)

absolutely despise shane wright (idk if this is unpopular but i feel like it is)

y’all already know i’m iffy on kj (also moyle even tho he’s not nhl but i’ll throw him in there cause that’s controversial)

william nylander is icky

odp is so yucky now i’m sorry i can’t w him

DYLAN COZENS IS HOT AND IF U DONT AGREE THEN GET OUT

don’t like conor garland and i don’t understand why canucks tiktok is obsessed w him🤨

brock boeser.. meh

everyone on the canes and rangers that ppl on here love.. i don’t get the appeal

philly is so irrelevant i forget they’re an actual team and they have no cute players..

i didn’t like nick suzuki for the longest time and i would like for formally apologize for that because i love him now and i used to hate on him💔

i can’t think of any more but there’s TONS like i remember a while ago i posted a whole ass list of players i hate lol i should try and find it

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