#;;musing: jennifer

[malusrecord]

@sirenum

—Kim Addonizio

[florencebirdsong]

Can we talk about the way the coven is still with Agatha when she fights Rio?!? The protective/banishing circle, the water in the moonlight healing spell, “when she calls you a coward, hit the deck”, and of course Billy coming in himself. They really were a true coven

[jackhelps]

House M.D – “Humpty Dumpty”, Season Two.

[kaitlinamberxo]

“People are gonna tell you who you are your whole life. You just gotta punch back and say, "No, this is who I am". You want people to look at you differently? Make them!”

kaitlin's 100 favorite female muses — 73/100: Emma Swan

[shadowdaddiesonly]

[lethargicmarigold]

when im bored i draw jennifer walters when im not bored i draw jennifer walters i just be drawing jennifer walters

a redraw of one of my jen drawings from 2021 💚

[smartsmears]

Obvious things that didn't happen by the end of Lower Decks and whether that was a good or bad thing:

Section 31 episode: Good. In fact I'll go further and say William Boimler should have been Starfleet Intelligence.

Time Travel episode: Bad. I know McMahan says he's anti time travel story but it feels weird having Lower Decks end being the only show without a time travel plot, unless you count Crisis Point.

Mariner and Freeman on the Enterprise: Bad. giving them a more firm placement would have been very nice for the lore of both shows and is so heavily implied as to may as well be true anyways.

Marinler: Good. Shipping is fine but I personally like that their relationship is a deeper one that doesn't have to be defined by explicit romance.

Tendiford: Neutral, in that really their dynamic probably wouldn't change, and this was always more explicitly romantic anyways.

Appearance from Picard: Bad. McMahan disagrees but I think the show could have pulled it off actually. He says that Picard couldn't be true to himself with the tone of the show but I'm rewatching Brooklyn Nine Nine and realising he couldnt be more wrong.

NCC-1701-E Captain: Bad. On a related note, the finale focusing on the Lower Decks cast is good, but showing the Enterprise-E but not who pilots it was a big miss.

Mariner's Love Life outside of Jennifer: Neutral. No reappearance from Captain Ramsey, or Petra Aberdeen? Missed opportunity but at the same time it's not that kind of show, which is why I'm happy that relationship stuff didnt take over the show with the main 4. Plus, the Jennifer progression and conclusion was nice.

Mariner and T'Lyn didnt have a big sloppy kiss and then they date with their natural chemistry that is far above T'Lyn's chemistry with the rest of the cast. Seriously they'd be so good together and I enjoy the headcanon and while I'm not the biggest shipper I am SO ride or die on this one: Bad, obviously

[aparticularbandit]

Thinking about the hallucinations that the coven members saw and coming down on two interpretations:

1) This was the most traumatic event of their life.

OR

2) This was a threatened loss (or in Lilia's case, perhaps a true loss) of the person most important to them.

Sharon and Alice are our two main ballparks for this (while Jennifer gives us another angle).

Sharon's vision was reliving the scene in WandaVision where her husband was choking and she couldn't do anything but plead with Wanda to do something. We know, as WandaVision viewers, that Mr. Davis did not die then, but we also know from the current series that he has since passed away. This scene for Sharon was traumatic, but that trauma was intrinsically tied to losing her husband - the most important person in her life.

Alice's vision involved her mother and (as far as we know) didn't involve any loss of life (except her grandmother, but that is not the focus of the vision) but DID involve the threat to her mother's life, as described by her mother. Given context clues from her conversation with Teen, we can safely assume that this was just prior to her mother forcing her to get her tattoo. We know that Alice's mom is the most important person in her life (which is building on the themes of family and especially mother-child relationships that the series seems to have as its main theme (we know from casting that Evanora should show up later, so they're going full in on this - not the point)) - and while this is not a physical loss of her mother, I think for Alice this specific moment marks when her mother as she knew her was lost to her. Because that's when she inherited that magic. That's when she became something different. Clearly this would have been a traumatic moment at the time, but I'm not sure it feels like one as seen in the show.

We do not know enough about Lilia to know exactly what was going on here in terms of who that person (or people) was to her, but if they're all dead, I would definitely call that a traumatic event and loss of life - for at least one person who I would say is clearly important to her, given she followed them.

Jennifer is our anomaly.

With every other coven member, the threat is not to them personally, but to a loved one, and this, for me, is why I give two interpretations. The idea that they are reliving their most traumatic event is kinder to Jennifer, because an attempted murder by drowning is definitely significantly traumatic (and explains why she jumped into the oven so quickly - been there, done that, not about to do it again).

But the other interpretation is more interesting to me, because if it's threat to the person most valuable to them, then that says the most valuable person to Jennifer is herself.

(Regarding Agatha, this reinforces either that Nicholas is the person most important to her (and continues the idea that her desire for the Darkhold superseded her love for him) OR that losing Nicholas was the most traumatic event in her life. I feel like we been knew on these; it's what this says about Jennifer that was most intriguing to me.)

[painofhumanity]

OPEN STARTER ;; Jennifer Kale

"Now that I've got my magic back, I'm thinking about getting back into the real craft. Obviously, I'd still keep Kale Kare going, because it makes me a fortune, but now. . . Now I can use that to fund the thing that I actually loved: helping people. Hell, I might even go back to being a midwife."

[dustedmagazine]

Throwing Muses — Moonlight Concessions (Fire)

Photo by Orrin Anderson

The voice is the first touchstone, a roughened alto that curls like a cat into a song’s corners, purring sometimes, hissing and spitting in others. Kristen Hersh coos and yowls in a way that is harsh but also sweet, and the sound of her voice has been a constant across a decades long career. It’s the way in, but also a metaphor for the rest of her aesthetic, which is bracing and unsentimental but also full of warm welcome. It’s a concoction of strident, string-straining guitar strums, jubiliant rhythms and the grounding thump of bass. Here on her 11th album as Throwing Muses, Hersh is reassuringly familiar, but not afraid to take risks.

Kristen Hersh makes records under multiple guises, as a solo artist and with her loudest, rowdiest project 50 Foot Wave. But Throwing Muses is her first and longest running project, begun at the dawn of the 1980s with her half-sister and Belly proprietor Tanya Donnelly and continued sporadically, and largely without Donnelly, ever since. Like many musicians of her era, Hersh had a brush with major label success and recoiled from it, learning, over time, to make music to please herself. For Moonlight Concessions, the burr-voiced singer reconvenes a well-worn-in ensemble, David Narcizo her drummer since the get go and bassist Bernard George who’s been with her since 1995’s University. To this she adds a transforming element, Pete Harvey on cello, who is new to the band but an essential player. He saws away with rhythmic abandon on “Libretto” and coaxes the long, emotion-riddled throbs on more tranquil “Theremini.”

These cuts aren’t as blaring as the ones Hersh saves for 50 Foot Wave, but they’re not exactly campfire songs either. “South Coast” bristles with percussive energy, the guitar crashing through the mix and a tambourine jangling with euphoric transport. “Life is so damn long,” Hersh snarls with both toughness and heart, celebrating survival and resilience with a sideways grin.

The songs where Harvey shines are among the album’s best. “Theremini” drifts dreamily, Hersh just over a whisper in cryptic verses about tequila and mercy and the absence of rules, but there’s weight in the searching, keening strains of cello. It reminds you that Hersh has always collaborated happily with chamber orchestra instruments, going back at least to the gorgeous “Your Ghost” from the Hips and Makers album. But Harvey’s cello can also take on more aggressive coloring, as in the twitchy, propulsive (but still acoustic) “Libretto.” Here is stirs up the music from the bottom, coloring it with whorls of silty earthiness as Hersh’s guitar and voice dance on top.

This isn’t an in-your-face grabber of an album. Indeed while I liked it immediately, it took a long time to settle on favorite tracks; there are no obvious bangers. Still settle in, and it’s like having coffee with an old friend, familiar but occasionally surprising, kind but full of raucous humor and very, very real.

Jennifer Kelly  

[crithaus]

Vax bc Liam cannot methinks help being extremely gay all the time, is the one to bring up elaina most often in far more humanizing terms which is par for the course because he brings her up so often

And vex doesn't much besides responding to Vax or the iconic "do you think this is what mother saw before she died?" and I got to wonder how often she just sits there at this tavern or that stump on her watch especially early on thinking about her and how proud or not Eli'd be of her. Like obviously Vex doesn't like herself at the beginning, she's greedy and mean and callous and had killed innocent people and is selfish and everyone but Vax expects that of her and they don't really care, but at the end of the day she's not just effortlessly good all the time like keyleth, who doesn't even have the decency to struggle at being good and kind and flush with likeable traits,

That's what syldor had wanted of her ofc, what she failed to bring him, so naturally he wishes she was a spot he could just bleach out, so then what would elaina think after all that hard work and sacrifice and the hope she'd had for the better life she and Vax would have with their father, if she knew vex had not only not lived up to anyone's expectations but had done worse

oh I bet it eats her up thinking about the possibility that elaina would be so deeply disappointed ohhh

[florencebirdsong]

Obviously Agatha doesn’t want to die, she’s been fighting to survive since she was very young. But I still think it’s amusing to assume that when Jen is talking about the poison and says that it leads to death, Agatha tries to break the glass because she doesn’t want to see her ex so badly she loses it

[jackhelps]

House M.D – “Daddy's Boy”, Season Two.

[inevitablemoment]

"I Will Be There" from The Count of Monte Cristo 🤝 "Only A Matter of Time (Reprise" from Back to the Future: The Musical

Distant romance duets about getting back to the one you love

[ironman-tonystark]

Ever since Bruce went to visit his cousin he's been eating Cheetos with chopsticks. Gotta say; it's pretty cute.

[tyin-cherry-knots]

i’ve never lied on my letterbox's but i think i’m gonna have to because jennifer’s body (x2) but i’m a cheerleader (x2) and D.E.B.S. (x1) in one night is ridiculous