#wendy coho

[lockandkeyhyena]

mother and son. still need a last name for them :/

[ovalcastle]

tomorrow- wake up, coffee, text Wendy, toast & egg, walk to coho preserve with Tuesday. Come home & shower. Fold laundry & listen to audible book. Call mom, figure out what I should wear to the wedding. Call tess! Make dinner- more beans? Text Ava back and email outlook inn. Clear inbox.

[amandaklwrites]

November TBR

Hello again! I know we still have a week left of October, but I wanted to get started on listing my November TBR for 2020! Some of these I might start around Halloween, depending on how quickly I get through other books I have to read! So here’s to a fun November, as I'm excited for the weather to get colder and darker, and having lots of tea and books. 

(These are in no particular reading order, by the way). 

1. Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco 

2. Night Shine by Tessa Gratton 

3. Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas 

4. Piransei by Susanna Clarke 

5. The Bear and Nightingale by Katherine Arden

6. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

7. The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden 

8. The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow 

9. The Mirror Broken Wish by Julie C. Dao 

10. Jim Henson’s Labyrinth (Novelization) 

11. The Night Jar by Deborah Hewitt 

12. A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe 

13. The Resurrectionist of Caligo by Wendy Trimboli and Alicia Zaloga 

It’s quite a hefty load I wish to read! And there might be more that I read on the side, or read as rereads. But I'll post stuff about my reading adventures as I get through them. 

I hope everyone has a good rest of their October and November. Happy Halloween and I hope you have a good Thanksgiving next month! 

Happy reading! 

[fishing-exposed]

@markkyuasa: Coastal salmon catch June 22-28: Ilwaco, 0.36 fish per rod; Westport, 0.08; and Sekiu (Area 4 off Neah Bay), 0.42. “Limits here and there in Ilwaco and Sekiu,” said Wendy Beeghley with WDFW. “I wouldn’t call it red hot, but there are coho around for sure.” @TheOutdoorLine @WDFW https://t.co/praKtKKiyt

[mendingheartsgifts]

8 arts picks: ‘Pinkalicious: The Musical,’ Portland Youth Philharmonic concert, inclusive dance performance

Welcome to Best Bets, a weekly column in which The Oregonian’s arts desk highlights selected theater, classical music and dance performances and visual arts events. Here are our picks for May 5-11.

"Pinkalicious: The Musical"

Oregon Children’s Theatre last presented this show, adapted from a popular children’s book series about a girl who eats so many pink cupcakes that she turns pink, in 2012. Now it’s time for a new generation of grade schoolers to enjoy the sweet singing and dancing and easy-to-digest story. Come early for a pre-show activity and stay afterward to meet the cast. 2 and 5 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 6-June 4, Newmark Theatre, 1111 S.W. Broadway. $14-$32, octc.org or 503-228-9571.

Institute for Contemporary Performance Fest

Catch a rising playwright from Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’s Institute for Contemporary Performance, whose annual festival features four stage pieces that have been in development since last summer. "Mary’s Room" explores what it means to be human; "SALT" examines King Lear’s daughter Cordelia, the loyal one; "Wake & See" focuses on insomnia; and "like nobody’s watching" dissects movies about survival-in-isolation stories. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, May 5-6, 2 p.m. Sunday, May 7, CoHo Theater, 2257 N.W. Raleigh St. $5, cohoproductions.org or icperformance.org/festival or 503-22-2646.

Portland Youth Philharmonic

The nation’s oldest youth orchestra wraps up its 93rd season with a couple of notable performances. Composer Debra Kaye presents the world premiere of her tone poem "Ikarus Among the Stars," commissioned in memory of Benjamin Yaphet Klatchko, an orchestra musician who died in 2015. Cellist Annie Zhang, winner of the orchestra’s 2016-17 concerto competition, performs Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor. Also on the program is Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. 4 p.m. Sunday, May 7, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 S.W. Broadway. Tickets start at $5 for students, $19 for seniors, $26 for adults, portlandyouthphil.org or 503-223-5939.

"Vivaldi’s World"

The Portland Baroque Orchestra closes its season with a bow to Antonio Vivaldi ("The Four Seasons") and two of his contemporaries in a program featuring a half-dozen concertos for string instruments. Italian composers Giovanni Mossi and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi share the spotlight. 3 p.m. Sunday, May 7, Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 S.E. Woodstock Blvd. Tickets start at $29, pbo.org or 503-222-6000.

Inclusive Arts Vibe Dance Company

"Dance gives me confidence to be myself and enjoy the things in life that matter to me," Arrow Bless says in a news release for the Inclusive Arts Vibe Dance Company, which creates opportunities for teens and young adults with and without disabilities to dance together. Bless and other company dancers will present five new pieces in their fifth annual performance, "Chickens and Cheese Pizza." 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, May 5, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 6, 2 p.m. Sunday, May 7, New Expressive Works, 810 S.E. Belmont St. $15 (Friday morning performance is free), dacphome.org.

"Monsters!"

Dancers and circus artists share the stage in this story about two young sisters whose shared bedroom goes bump in the night. Expect "colorful and fuzzy costumes, a tangible and wild soundtrack, hilarious dances, and thrilling aerial routines," says the press release from Prismagic. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 10, 17 and 24, Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. $20-$25, prismagic.org or curiouscomedy.org.

White Box

White Box, the University of Oregon’s 1,500-square-foot art gallery in Portland, closes July 1. Despite years of tripping over a shoestring budget, it made an impact; former Oregonian art critic D.K. Row wrote in 2010, "White Box embraces a level of seriousness and experimentation that makes it a welcome addition to the local institutional ecology." White Box bids farewell with the exhibit "Functionally United," featuring artists such as Intisar Abioto, Pat Boas, MK Guth, Sean Healy, James Lavadour, Elizabeth Malaska, Wendy Red Star and Storm Tharp, plus many more. Opening reception, 6 p.m. Friday, May 5; on view, noon-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, May 4-27, 70 N.W. Couch St. Free, whitebox.uoregon.edu or 503-412-3689.

Sumaya Agha

From January 2013 to July 2016, Sumaya Agha, a Portland-based photographer, spent time with Syrian refugees in Jordan and Eastern Europe. Some the images she made are now part of the exhibit "Akbaduna," which she calls "an exhibition of moments in the lives of Syrian refugee children." These are not images of pain, per se; instead they’re portraits, glimpses of kids just trying to be kids despite the world around them. Noon-6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday through May 13, Also Known As…. 7440 N. Lombard St. Free, akapdx.com or 503-307-5869.

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[lockandkeyhyena]

wendy doodles!!

[lockandkeyhyena]

character concepts.

[lockandkeyhyena]

experimenting with a different hairstyle for wendy

[lockandkeyhyena]

Snowball and Wendy. Is this anything

they try to kiss and wendy pokes snowball in the eye

[lockandkeyhyena]

Hi! Just wanted to say you're a huge inspiration of mine, I absolutely love the way you deconstruct/dissect complicated (and often uncomfortable) concepts/topics, if that makes sense,, and I'm especially invested in the development of your Hell story :3

Intersectionality has always been fascinating to me, and I really appreciate your portrayal of both male and female abusers.

That being said, I would be really interested in hearing your answers to a couple of questions, if you don't mind:

Will Anne be presented as a "redeemable" (as in "able to improve herself") character, similarly to her son?

Would you consider her a "worse" person than Alvin? Or rather, will she be presented as a "worse" person than Alvin in the story? tbh (to an extent) can actions like this even have a measure of better-worse? im not certain

Will Anne have a backstory? If so, will it be "sad", similar to Alvin's?

What was Alvin's father like?

And on a much lighter note, I would love to hear some fun facts about Wendy :3 wonderful amazing fish lady

Sorry if i phrased any of this poorly aaaa

thank you sooo much that means a lot!! this story is very important to me, it’s one i’ve wanted to tell for a while.

answers to your questions!

all characters have the possibility to be redeemed in my mind, that’s generally the whole idea of the story. however, the thing is that characters need to *want* to be redeemed and anne is a character who fundamentally will never see what she did as wrong, at least in the context of this story. i’m certain you could manufacture circumstances to redeem her (i’m of the mindset that everyone can better themselves given enough time) but for the context of alvin’s story, she simply doesn’t view herself as in any way in the wrong, and thus can never change.

when it comes to csa or sa in general i’m extremely cautious as labelling anything as ‘worse’ or ‘better’. such actions are so monstrously inhumane that it’s hard to view them in any way as comparable, especially considering the effect they have on real people. i think that’s a question i would leave up to the audience. all i’ll leave you with is that anne abused alvin while he was younger than ethan, so if age is something you take into account in regards to abuse being ‘worse’ or ‘better’ that might be relevant.

i haven’t decided if anne will have a backstory yet! we’re viewing her solely through alvin’s perspective and she comes across as something not human to him. not *monstrous*, per say but moreso *alien* and *incomprehensible*. that being said she likely does have a ‘sad’ backstory given the themes of the cycle of abuse present in the story.

alvin’s father was your stereotypical stoic sixties-era dad. very emotionally absent and distant.

wendy!! wendy my love wendy my life. she’s simon’s mother and pretty much acts as an adopted parent for ethan after the abuse comes to light. she’s a single mother and excels at it. she does have a bad case of ‘cool mum syndrome’ in that she’s the sort of parent to go ‘okay you can smoke weed but only in the house because i’d rather you do it here than somewhere unsafe’ and have nicknames for all your friends. she’s pretty young and got pregnant when she was nineteen but genuinely loves being a mum even though it’s exhausting.

[lockandkeyhyena]

you mentioned liking sockeye as a last name for simon and wendy coho maybe it could be a nickname for simon?

ooh definitely keeping that as an idea! ty anon

[lockandkeyhyena]

for Wendy & Simon's names have you considered making their last name another species of salmon? (ie. Coho, Tsumen, Silverbrite, Huchen, Ranwa, ect.)

ooh that IS very tempting, thank you anon!!