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[fictionadventurer]

The fun part of digging into history from multiple different sources is that you start to piece together information about people across different eras, until history starts to feel like a massive crossover event involving surprise guest stars.

For example:

The book about Lincoln's Cabinet presents William Seward as the expected Republican candidate for the 1860 election. As they discuss his backstory I'm like, "Oh, he's Seward the anti-slavery New York Whig who influenced Zachary Taylor." And then they mention Seward becomes Lincoln's Secretary of State.

And I'm like

Wait a minute...

SEWARD'S FOLLY???

HE'S BEEN THE ALASKA MAN THIS WHOLE TIME???

An emergency trip to Wikipedia confirmed that he was. Which feels much stranger than it probably should, but in high school, all the Alaska stuff was presented as completely separate from the Civil War, so it's taken me a long time to put the pieces together. Still kind of fun to make connections like that, though.

[nikethestatue]

It's funny to me that people are so offended by Feyre becoming a High Lady. As if it's such an abnormal, nepo, parasitic thing. She is too young! Too immature! Too this and too that.

First of all, yes, to all. And second of all, no, to everything.

Feyre married a King (essentially). She would naturally become a queen. At the very least, a Queen Consort. Think Queen Camilla. It's not a nepo thing (if anything, Cassian and Az are nepo brothers)--it's just how the title is shared between a husband and wife.

But, you may say, she is just a Lady! She is not a High Lady.

She is too young!

Well. Queen Isabella, who became the Queen of England, married King Richard II of England when she was 8 years old and he was 22 years her senior. "Young', when it comes to royal marriages, is in the eyes of the beholder. (For the record, don't worry, the marriage wasn't consummated.)

But let's talk about something a bit more recent. The fine gentlemen who became the Found Fathers of the US were mostly in their early 20s. Early. Like 21.

Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776: James Monroe, 18 Aaron Burr, 20 Alexander Hamilton, 21 James Madison, 25 Thomas Jefferson, 33 John Adams, 40 Paul Revere, 41 George Washington, 44.

We tend to think of them as old guys, but they were basically college Freshmen and Sophomores.

Therefore, Feyre, technically, falls right in line with not just 'fantasy' books where everyone is 17, but also, history.

Feyre, also, has abundant powers, the likes of which no one has. Yes, she is learning 'on the job' but it doesn't mean that she can't do the job? Hey, I am not personally a fan, but if you look at all the huge tech companies that we all know now, those who found them and ran them were all in their early 20s. Mostly, all met in college. Frankly, their reach is way bigger than the Night Court's.

I know people hate Feyre and think she isn't ready for anything, but no one takes into consideration how short a period ACOTAR to ACOWAR is. A year? That's it.

Also, maybe, politically, Rhys is not too keen on leaving his Court to Keir, or Amren, should he die. Maybe, Feyre IS the best choice.

[moontrinemars]

Dhruva as Dhanishtha: The First Fortune is a Red Herring

To me, it seems Dhanishtha is simultaneously over-hyped and under-valued... It's generally diluted to the fame, wealth, fortune, etc. it's associated with, as if it has no depth and no meaning beyond that. It's associated with the Ashta Vasus for a reason! The life of Dhruva is a good example. It is not necessarily work or labor that brings bounty to Dhruva, but his reclaiming renunciation after experiencing scorn and neglect, at a very young age. His humility as a boy, in sacrificing his birthright for the sake of determining his purpose, and his prostration to the divine after his being denied love and status, these qualities are what leads to his being crowned king as a child, yes, but that's not the actual point of the story. His true reward is being gifted with intrinsic knowledge of/the voice to sing the hymns of Vishnu, and to reach Druvapada, becoming one with the cosmos, out of reach of true destruction even at its most powerful.

Obviously, this is a story about an unusually holy figure, the brightest and healthiest form of Dhanishtha, so we don't expect all natives to reach these spiritual heights, but putting aside the ending for a moment, to look at the beginning and middle, we see depth rarely mentioned when looking into Dhanishtha.

Dhruva is born into privilege, but explicitly made to understand that he is unworthy of this privilege. Thus, he has to retreat from the source of his privilege, he has to fast, he has to devote himself to something higher than his desire for love, comfort, security. Only after giving up, disowning the fortune of a prince, does Vishnu offer him the true, great fortune of the holy figure elevated and eventually deified, a boy-king and a god.

This speaks to a theme I've seen repeatedly in Dhanishtha natives. Princess Diana was born into a nobility which afforded her the role of wife and mother to future kings, but she had to forgo that role, the security of it, to become the woman sanctified in popular culture to this day. The problem with those lost famous Dhanishtha figures like Diana and Marilyn Monroe and Yoko Ono — and this is particularly true for women — is when their fame or hunger for fame becomes so intense that they no longer have the option of withdrawing, of renunciation. Who with Dhanishtha placements had this result? Well, Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, Yoko Ono... and Bob Marley, Sharon Tate, James Dean, Paris Hilton, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Bieber, Kristen Stewart, Mary Queen of Scots, Elvis Presley, Whitney Houston, Ariana Grande, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jimi Hendrix, Aaliyah, Shia LaBeouf... all of these figures had Dhanishtha placements, and have had their lives, reputations, and properties over-publicized. (This is not a comment on whether any of the listed figures are good or bad people, btw.)

This isn't to say that Dhanishtha is more tragic than another nakshatra, but that an underexplored aspect of Dhanishtha is the need for absense, rest periods, and periodic fasting, whether literal or metaphorical. The sense of rhythm that Dhanishtha is famous for, it isn't just about knowing when to hit, it's about knowing when and how long to wait before you do. That's what rhythm is — not just the beats themselves, but the spaces in between. That's why the happiest and most consistently successful Dhanishtha natives are the ones who don't allow the pressure of the public, those around them, or duties that are attached to supposed fortunes they've received, to overload their plate until they're hitting out of sync, or simply have to stop all together. Whether fast or slow, these natives need discipline in setting and keeping pace.

The depth to Dhanishtha is that, as with all Dharma-motivated nakshatras, its natives yearn for purpose and meaning — but on a distinctly cosmic scale. They're told and feel that they've been blessed, but to what end? They spend their whole lives trying to figure it out, because it simply isn't enough to have potential, they also have to use it to whatever end makes them matter. It depends on their other placements how this internal struggle manifests, but throughout their lives, yearning for significance permeates everything they feel and do.

And this yearning can propell them to ignore their greatest asset: their sense of timing.

Underdeveloped Dhanishtha natives will use their blessing however they are told to, in the form that's convenient to those around them. They never leave the palace; they stay prince forever, and thus never grow enough to even be a particularly good prince. Natives who do develop somewhat will leave the palace, but they may return after an insufficient amount of time, expecting that their experience of fasting, of loss or struggle, in and of itself, will be enough to enlighten them. Dhanishtha at its truest and most enlightened form will not only fast until they understand hunger, not only fast until they can SEE 'god' — they will fast until they MEET 'god', until Vishnu returns their voice to them, and reserves a place for them in the heavens.

[s1aywalker]

꒰ა ♱ ໒꒱ a cross on her bedroom wall, from grace she will fall. ꨄ

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[grazi-your-rockette-queen]

☮️ masterlist ☮️ ❤️=smut 🤍=fluff ❤️‍🩹=angst

-metallica (current and past members)

kirk hammett

dating load era kirk headcannons 🤍

face sitting ft. labret piercing ❤️

load era kirk nsfw headcannons ❤️

kirk calling you a good girl ❤️

dilf kirk nsfw headcannons ❤️

sweet but psycho (meeting kirk at a party) ❤️

helping kirk with vampire makeup 🤍

james hetfield

tba era james headcannons 🤍❤️

jason newsted

dating jason headcannons 🤍❤️

dave mustaine

dave fingering you after a long day ❤️

dave nsfw headcannons ❤️

soft sex with dilf dave ❤️

dave distracts you from the storm ❤️

size kink dave ❤️

dave eating you out ft. hand holding ❤️

dave x pregnant wife reader 🤍

dilf dave nsfw headcannons ❤️

favorite positions headcannons ❤️

dave giving you a massage & sex ❤️

dave manhandling you/size kink ❤️

dave with hair pulling kink ❤️

daddy kink dave ❤️

-Guns N’ roses (appetite for destruction lineup)

duff mckagan

daddy kink duff ❤️

-Hanoi Rocks (original lineup)

sami yaffa

sami nsfw alphabet ❤️

sami x tall reader 🤍

sami aftercare headcannons 🤍❤️

sami x famous!reader meet at a party 🤍

sami x pregnant reader 🤍

sami/nasty x oblivious!reader headcannons 🤍

girl dad sami 🤍

michael monroe

michael steals your clothes 🤍

michael nsfw headcannons ❤️

doing each others makeup 🤍

-grazie

[librawritesstuff]

Here in America review from The Guardian via Yahoo

(Yahoo link doesn’t work and Guardian paywall)

Here in America: A small London theatre punches above its weight

Real-life political clashes have proved fine dramatic fodder for Britain’s leading playwrights in recent years. Peter Morgan’s 2006 play Frost/Nixon was based on the interviews the former president gave following the Watergate scandal, while in 2021 James Graham’s Best of Enemies dramatised the televised political debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr.

Veteran political dramatist David Edgar now turns to the falling-out between playwright Arthur Miller and director Elia Kazan amid the febrile anti-communist mood of 1950s America. When Kazan was subpoenaed and called upon to “name names” by the House Un-American Activities Committee or risk being blacklisted from Hollywood, his decision to inform left Miller disgusted. Kazan had previously directed Death of a Salesman to great acclaim and, as Here in America posits, the pair had been like “brothers”. They didn’t speak for 10 years.

It’s certainly a fascinating and fertile subject matter: this feud between two greats of theatre and film had great artistic consequences. Miller was inspired to write The Crucible about the Salem witch-trials – a clear allegory for McCarthyism and the effects of wrongful accusation – while Kazan’s 1954 film On the Waterfront, where Marlon Brando’s dockworker stands up to a corrupt union by informing, won eight Oscars. Meanwhile, Marilyn Monroe, who both men were involved with, was a central figure during all of this. Miller used his engagement to Monroe as political capital when he himself was hauled in front of the HUAC – a speech that is reenacted compellingly here.

Edgar, who has written more than 60 plays since 1970, has managed to cram all this history – albeit with some not very subtle exposition – into a nifty 80-minute four-hander comprising Michael Aloni’s Art, Shaun Evans’s Gadg (Kazan), Faye Castelow’s Day (Kazan’s wife) and Jasmine Blackborow’s Miss Bauer (Monroe). Imagining the showdown between the two men at Kazan’s house in 1952, Edgar asks questions about betrayal, a theme that plagued Miller throughout his works. Both men had already betrayed their wives through infidelity. Should Kazan stay loyal to communists who had previously betrayed him? Will Miller betray Kazan by publicly denouncing him as a traitor?

Evans’s Gadg seems hesitant about the decision he has to make but withers under pressure from his more opinionated and assertive wife, physically leaning on her for support before he gives testimony to the HUAC. When Art relays his intentions with The Crucible, Day fierily argues with him while Gadg can only look on dumbstruck. And when Art himself has moments of doubt, Blackborow’s Marilyn is there to rally him. “The man I want to be with is the man who tells the truth,” she says.

As for Marilyn, Blackborow deliberately gives us a sketch of the woman, as versions of how Art and Gadg saw her at that time. Similarly to the “flashbacks” in Death of a Salesman, she appears as a memory or as an imagined presence interjecting in the conversation. With Gadg – with whom she had a sexual relationship – she is more sultry, pulling him between her legs and grabbing his face. With Art, she is a thrilling whirlwind but also vulnerable and bashful, gazing up at him with gooey-eyed admiration.

Here, then, is another example of the Orange Tree punching above its weight. The minimal staging devices largely seem sophisticated, with blocks seamlessly shifting the scene from a park bench to a living room to a courtroom. Black leaves litter the stage and the stars of the American flag light up the floor during the hearings. “I had this thought,” Art explains about the Salem witch trials, “that if we came to understand what happened then, then we might start to understand what’s happening in the here and now.” From the banning of books in schools to the links between McCarthy and Trump, the comparisons Edgar invites us to make with the state of modern-day America are all too clear.

The push and pull between the four actors, almost like they’re in a dance, is captivating to watch. The intimate 180-seat Orange Tree space proves the perfect setting for these non-verbal dynamics to play out: a glance of admonishment here, and a raised eyebrow of disbelief there convey meaning beyond the words and breathe life into speeches that might otherwise feel overly dense and stuffy.

[paintbrushnebula]

How would you have fixed/ wrote tangled the series if you were the executive producer/ creator?

How would you have fixed/ wrote tangled the series if you were the executive producer/ creator?

Hoooboiiii good question!! Haha because like, I’m actually kinda prepared to answer this, because I’ve thought about what I would’ve liked out of a Tangled sequel and, tsk I gotta tell you it’s very VERY different from the series XD 

However even though the series isn’t my idea of a Tangled sequel, if I was at this moment granted a wish that would allow me to magically alter the series as a whole, retroactively, I wouldn’t remove anything that the series introduced, because I like a lot it. I like Varian, I like Lance, I like Adira, I like Bruce Campbell, I like all o’ dem fools. Oh and the bangin’ SONGS YELL HEAH! Good food ^^. I also think the Sundrop and Moonstone stuff, the Demanitus stuff, even the Zhan Tiri stuff all sound cool on paper. Queen for a Day was pretty unforgettable for me so I’m not itching to change that in any major way. I honestly wouldn’t want to change the whole series in any major ways. Just, y’know, fix what’s there. Improve the flaws. Develop the underused characters and backstories. Make Eugene’s story mean something and matter. Make Quirin’s note mean something and matter. Add more moms for crying out loud. Explore Rapunzel’s trauma and actually SHOW us her recovery iIn full detail. 

Oh wait. Actually I WOULD make a dramatic change: Arianna is the focal parent NOT Frederic. That’s literally going hand-in-hand with “write Rapunzel’s recovery better.” She needs to see what a good mother looks like. 

OH KRIFF ONE MORE THING XD yeah Cass being Gothel’s daughter is SOO OUT XD 

Moonsandra can stay but she’s gotta have better motives and an actual set goal or smth Jesus

The Zhan Tiri disciples song a villain song. Heck, Zhan Tiri gets a villain song. OOOF could you imagine Zhan Tiri getting a song in the same vein as “In the Dark of the Night” from Anastasia??? That’d be so cool, oh jeez. 

Also I’d have the broadway stars be casted a little more creatively, like, I love what they did with Eden Espinosa, Jeremy Jordan, and James Monroe Iglehart, but I wish they went even harder with it. Gavin Creel being casted as that disciple (I dont remember his name) is exactly what I mean. Get Andre De Shields as someone! How about Susan Egan? Ooooh please could we get Aaron Tveit in there somewhere? Sigh, in my dreams I guess. 

Oh, and make sure they actually get to sing ^_^

One last major change would be to make Eugene’s mom live alongside Edmund. Literally I dont get the big issue media has with doing the “estranged parent” trope and restricting it to one parent (who is usually the father). Like what is it with Hollywood and writing BOTH parents? What’s wrong with a seasoned older husband and wife reuniting with their son, becoming key supporting characters in the story? 

I like Edmund too much to get rid of him, so. Why not have two cakes? 

Oh btw Eugene’s mom would be Susan Egan. No debate. 

Also I’d have the score be directed a little differently. Have actual leitmotifs that aren’t using music from the songs (as much as I like when that happens). Give Rapunzel and Eugene a “love theme” that also gets used for any time any other character is growing as a person or going through changes, like some type of “dream” theme that represents that character having and pursuing a want or goal. Then when Cass or Varian become evil, you twist that “dream” leitmotif to sound sinister because their “new dream” is something dark and twisted. Then you take that and incorporate it into their themes to make villain themes. Could you imagine if Varian and Cass had leitmotifs used when they were good, then when they betray Rapunzel, those leitmotifs are musically altered to sound sinister??? 

WOof, sorry, this was ramble-y and has poor grammar/sentences. I hope this is all readable XD

[blueyluey05]

Spectacular SheZow Characters: 2

Boxter James Hamdon: Boxter is Gai(Damien) and Kelly's dad and the alternative version of Boxer Hamdon. He is a Police officer with a slight grudge against SheZow, this is due to him and the other officers of Megadale are underappreciated by the citizens while SheZow gets all the credit, he also hates how the new SheZow does "her" job as sometimes "her" actions lead to people getting hurt. Aside from his jealousy, Boxter is a great father and husband and tries his hardest to look after his family.

Droosha Leela Hamdon: Droosha is Gai(Damien) and Kelly's Mum and the alternative version of Droosha Hamdon. Droosha was encouraged at a young age to be an artist by her aunt Agnes, she is a lover of music and a bit of a pacifist, though that doesn't mean she can't stand up for herself and her family. Droosha is a great mother and wife who is always ready to give people some helpful advice.

(Great aunt) Agnes Lynne Monroe/SheZow: Agnes is Droosha's aunt/ Gai and Kelly's great aunt and is the alternate version of Aunt Agnes. Before Gai because SheZow, Agnes took the role of the heroine, she also is responsible for writing the comic series based on her adventures. Unfortunately, Agnes passed away from a mysterious illness when she was 64 and gave her house and cat Lyla to her Niece.

Lyla the Cat: Lyla is a Calico cat that previously owned by Agnes in the AU. She was given to Droosha and the family along with the house to look after. Lyla is quite aware that her previous owner was SheZow, in fact, Lyla used to hang out in the She-Lair whenever Agnes was working. She still hangs out in the lair with the kids and Sheila sometimes though it isn't as common as she used to when Agnes was alive.

SheZow/characters belong to Obie Scott Wade

[Spectacular SheZow is a FANMADE series that takes place in an alternate universe. It follows the same concept as the original series but with a few differences in it's own story.]

[⚫❌PLEASE DO NOT STEAL/TRACE OR REPOST (Without my permission) MY ARTWORK ❌⚫]

[andnowanowl]

How Much Money Did Slaveholding Founding Fathers Pay for Enslaved People?

"Between 1638 and 1775, the average price paid for slaves in the Thirteen Colonies ranged from 16.5 (£16.50 in 1775 = £3,388.80 in 2024 = $4,372.33 in 2024) to 44.08 (£44.08 in 1775 = £9,053.24 in 2024 = $11,680.77 in 2024) sterling for slaves from Britain's colonies in the Americas, and between 1.87 (£1.87 in 1775 = £384.06 in 2024 = $495.53 in 2024) and 17.43 pounds (£17.43 in 1775 = £3,579.81 in 2024 = $4,618.78 in 2024) for slaves transported from West Africa." (source)

Disclaimer: this is to get a general idea of the amount of money these stains on history had to throw around, not to say for sure what they spent to force people to work for them.

Benjamin Franklin - enslaved 7 "named" enslaved persons during his lifetime (possibility for more).

7 x $4372.33 = $30,606.31 (modern price for a "cheap" enslaved person from American colonies)

7 × $485.53 = $3,468.71 (modern price for a "cheap" enslaved person transported)

Thomas Jefferson - enslaved 600 people over the course of his life. Unsure if Martha's inheritance of 135 enslaved persons were counted in this.

600 x $4,372.33 = $2,623,398.00

600 x $495.53 = $297,318.00

George Washington - enslaved at least 123 people, with his wife, Martha, enslaving 153 people in their household.

123 x $4,372.33 = $537,796.59

123 x $495.53 = $60,950.19

James Monroe and James Madison - enslaved "several dozen" people, let's say they each 'owned' 36 enslaved people.

36 x $4,372.33 = $157,403.88

36 x $495.53 = $17,839.08

Imagine having that much money and using it to have people in bondage.

[scotianostra]

Benjamin Bell was born in Dumfries on 6th September 1749, the eldest surviving child in a family of 15 children.

His family owned Blacket House in Middlebie Parish (Dumfriesshire), which Bell was later to sell to fund the education of himself and his family. He became an apprentice to a surgeon in Dumfries, before moving to Edinburgh in 1766 to study medicine at the University there under the tutelage of Alexander Monro, Joseph Black and John Hope.

He went on to visit London and Paris shortly after becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. After two years, he returned and worked in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for 29 years and grew wealthy from private practice. Towards the end of the 18th Century, he published several important medical works.

Bell suffered an accident which ended his medical career and took up farming at Liberton. He bought the lands of Newington in 1803 and was responsible for the development of the area. building Newington House for himself just before his death. Although this house was demolished in 1966, the streets around where it lay include Blacket Avenue and Middleby Street named after the Dumfriesshire localities of Bell's youth.

Bell's son, George, commissioned architect James Gillespie Grahamto prepare plans for housing and the subdivision of the land into plots.

Benjamin Bell is considered by many to have been the first Scottish scientific surgeon. This reputation was based largely on his influential textbook A System of Surgery. He can be regarded as a 'scientific' surgeon because of his rational thought processes which are apparent in his treatises, particularly his Treatise on Gonorrhoea virulenta and Lues venerea (1793).[13] Another treatise, The Theory and Management of Ulcers, was first published in 1778 and is still considered one of the classics of 18th-century physiology.

Bell was the great-grandfather of another surgeon Dr Joseph Bell who inspired Arthur Conan Doyle.

Benjamin Bell died at Newington House on 5th April 1806 and iis buried with other family members, including his wife Grizzel Hamilton, in the south-east corner of Canongate Churchyard in Edinburgh.

[memorable-epocha]

Facts about James Madison Vol. 1

(Because I’m bored and everyone should be enlightened with some James Madison)

James Madison walked with a small spring in his step, considerably to make himself appear slightly taller than he was

Because of the soggy and mushy climates surrounding William and Mary College in Williamsburg, James Madison instead went to the College of New Jersey (Princeton) for his health

James Madison, along with Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, created the Republican Party (also known as the Democratic Republican Party or Jeffersonian Republican Party) in 1792

James Madison’s wife Dolley Payne was gifted a pet parrot named Polly— who was notorious for being aggressive towards humans (thus biting Madison’s finger in front of guests during one occasion)

James Madison personally knew Aaron Burr and Philip Freneau ever since they were all in college

James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, reported by a girl walking down the street, could once be seen playing with a neighbor’s pet monkey

James Madison had a long-lasting five decade friendship with Thomas Jefferson

James Madison would eventually have a fall-out with not only Alexander Hamilton, but also George Washington over the belief of federal government and a national bank by the early 1790’s

While Thomas Jefferson in France, he and James Madison would enjoy measuring animals, comparing them to their counterparts (North American animals compared to their similar species in Europe), and telling each other of their findings

James Madison, while he was in college, would last on a five-hour sleep schedule due to studying until he collapsed from a breakdown (this made him stay at the college for an extra year to restore his weakened health)

James Madison had never been good with marital relationships (being allegedly rejected by Freneau’s sister Mary and dumped by Kitty Floyd in the 1780s), but eventually married the 26 year-old widow Dolley Payne in 1794

James Madison was a MASSIVE fan of ice cream, along with his wife Dolley, whose favorite flavor was oyster

[chantalstacys]

Books that feel like old hollywood movies?

my faves!

♡ ex-wife by ursula parrott

♡ rules of civility by amor towels

♡ miss pettigrew lives for a day by winifred watson

♡ auntie mame by patrick dennis

♡ gigi by colette

♡ the lady of the camellias by alexandre dumas fils

♡ gentlemen prefer blondes by anita loos

♡ breakfast at tiffany’s by truman capote

♡ rebecca by daphne du maurier

nonfiction!

♡ lana: the lady, the legend, the truth by lana turner

♡ marilyn monroe private and undisclosed & the girl: marilyn monroe, the seven year itch and the birth of an unlikely feminist both by michelle morgan

♡ dream lovers by dodd darin

♡ rita hayworth: the time, the place and the woman by john kobal

♡ audrey hepburn, an elegant spirit by sean hepburn ferrer (more of a coffee table book, but it’s great!)

♡ audrey at home by luca dotti (it’s just a must-have)

♡ myrna loy: being and becoming by james kotsilibas-davis & myrna loy

♡ evenings with cary grant by nancy nelson

♡ ava: my story by ava gardner

[docgold13]

isn't there like a backstory with the actress who played Calendar Girl also being an advocate against agism in Hollywood

Yes.  Sela Ward provided the voice for Page Monroe.  Ward is a well established actress best known for a television show called Sisters.  She also played Harrison Ford’s doomed wife in the movie version of The Fugitive.  

As the story goes, she was considered for a role in the James Bond movie Golden Eye, but lost the role because she was deemed too old… despite being nearly ten years junior to the film’s star, Pierce Brosnan.  The experience left quite a mark on Ward, who would go on to develop and produced a documentary called ‘The Changing Face of Beauty.’  The film focuses on American obsession with youth and how this has an especially negative effect on women, their self-esteem and psychological wellbeing.

   

The Mean Seasons episode of The New Batman Adventures also focused on how models and actresses can come to feel disposable once they reach a certain age.  Considering the similarity of themes between Mean Seasons and The Changing Face of Beauty, having Ward voice Monroe seems a particularly apt casting decision.  

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I’m taking a break on making the fairytale art to draw what Queen Rose’s parents look like. Here’s the prince of the Platinum Trolls, Prince Bastion and his pop troll wife, Jasmine.

As the second born child and the only prince in his family, Bastion is expected to inherit the throne. He is fascinated by the six troll tribes that his parents ruled over and he wanted to try and help them but it was forbidden because of the dangers that is happening outside their kingdom. After the death of the king, Bastion disappeared and his mother, Queen Celestia became the sole ruler because his older sister and his younger sisters refused the crown. Bastion was exploring the troll kingdom for months until he found the troll tree, where the pop trolls live. There, he fell in love with a pop troll named Jasmine and they got married. Upon encountering a Bergen nearby, Bastion knew what is going to happen in the troll tree so he told Jasmine about his encounter and they knew that her tribe would be attacked by the same creature so Bastion and Jasmine sneaked went back to his home kingdom and placed the egg in the castle doorstep, where his mother found it and cared for until Rose hatched.

They had Linden’s egg a year after laying Rose’s egg but they kept a distance from the Troll Tree until the Bergens caught the pop trolls. The couple were able to keep in touch by secretly delivering plans and letters to the pop trolls, which helped them escape from Bergen Town. The couple settled down in Pop Village with their son and had twin daughters, Aurora and Twilight. Even though their three younger children are traveling all over the world, they have time to spend with their parents. Bastion and Jasmine longed to see their eldest child again but they have to wait until the time is right.

In the human au, Brandon Madrigal and Jasmine Madrigal née Valiente are frequently traveling because of their jobs, which result in Linden, Aurora, and Twilight going to different schools. They left Rose with Celestia as a baby because even though they love her, they can’t juggle with taking care of her while traveling and doing their jobs.

My VC for Prince Bastion is James Monroe Inglehart while Jasmine’s vc is Nicole Scherzinger.

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James Dougherty...

Dougherty with then wife Marilyn Monroe(He is best known as the first husband of actress Marilyn Monroe.)

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Reading List

to be updated constantly

Articles:

"Why Women Online Can’t Stop Reading Fairy Porn" by C.T. Jones for Rolling Stone

"They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars." by Brett Murphy for ProPublica

"‘I Think My Husband Is Trashing My Novel on Goodreads!’" by Emily Gould for The Cut

"Woman in Retrograde" by Isabel Cristo for The Cut

"The unwanted Spanish soccer kiss is textbook male chauvinism. Don’t excuse it" by Moira Donegan for the Guardian

"I Started the Media Men List" by Moira Donegan for The Cut

"What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers" by Jordana Rosenfeld for The Nation

"The Key Detail Missing From the Narrative About O.J. and Race" by Joel Anderson for Slate

"The Coiled Ferocity of Zendaya" by Matt Zoller Seitz for Vulture

"OJ Simpson died the comfortable death in old age that Nicole Brown should have had" by Moira Donegan for The Guardian

"Norm Macdonald Was the Hater O.J. Simpson Could Never Outrun" by Miles Klee for Rolling Stone

"Trans Stylists and Makeup Artists Are Reshaping Red Carpet Looks. Will They Get the Credit They’re Due?" by James Factora

"The ‘perfect Aryan’ child used in Nazi propaganda was actually Jewish" by Terrence McCoy for The Washington Post

"There Are Too Many Books; Or, Publishing Shouldn’t Be All About Quantity" by Maris Kreizman for Literary Hub

"An O.J. Juror on What The People v. O.J. Simpson Got Right and Wrong" by Ashley Reese for Vulture

"Super Cute Please Like" by Nicole Lipman for N + 1 Magazine

Essays:

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxanne Gay

Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba

"On Chappell Roan and Gen Z Pop" by Miranda Reinert

"In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson" by Andrea Dworkin

"My Gender Is Dyke" by Alexandria Juarez for Autostraddle

"Columnists and Their Lives of Quiet Desperation" by Hamilton Nolan

Nonfiction:

Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women by Lyz Lenz

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams

Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson

Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education by Joshua Hunt

What it Feels Like for a Girl by Paris Lees

Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam

The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird by Dan Schreiber

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Fiction:

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Just as You Are by Camille Kellogg

Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia

The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist by Ceinwen Langley

Family Meal by Bryan Washington

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

Blackouts by Justin Torres

We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer

The Faithless by C.L. Clark

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Institute by Stephen King

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin

Snuff by Terry Pratchett

Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len