#11 volunteers

[andy-clutterbuck]

3x02 | Sick

[pampanope]

How would the shadow group react if Graves got hurt? Like almost died hurt?

(Goin down the asks lalala)

Tw: a bit of blood in first three pages; Graves got hurt pretty badly but nothing too graphic

Prior to this, I hc Graves never having been hospitalized for that long. His Shadows hate seeing him so still and quiet.

[lopeirce]

Cruel Intentions (1999)

[pvrrhadve]

society if small local thrift stores that have nice stuff at good prices were open even just one evening a week. or perhaps even normal afternoon hours

[spockandawe]

I forgot to post the last few paintings! I have also been experimenting with watercolors, because I've never been a person to git gud at a single craft when I could be mediocre at ten million 😂 (stay tuned for my impending adventures in straw marquetry and lampshade covering) (neither of those are jokes).

For watercolor, like with acrylics, I dove in pretty big, with the aim of having things for my parents' new house by mother's day. So I was very much aiming for foolproof projects! I had two very tall, very skinny frames (12x36) that i got from the clearance section, thinking I would buy 36 inch watercolor paper, only to learn that no such thing was in the stores near me. So for that, i went abstract and layered, using spacers from the papercrafts i never followed through on to give it some dimensionality that doesn't photograph well. And then i looked up tutorial videos for loose watercolor flowers. Very much a learning process, and I was painting right up until noon of mother's day, but I had fun and mom was delighted! Now it's time to back down and do real studies and learn the fundamentals, haha

[everlarking-always]

The way Peeta clearly believes Katniss fussing over him in Catching Fire is because she thinks he can’t take care of himself when it’s actually because he’s her special little guy and she doesn’t want to be without him and thinks he deserves the best in life THEY’RE SO !!!!

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Uniformed members of the Women’s Volunteer Defense organizations pass the reviewing stand at 67th Street, April 11, 1942. It was New York’s first all-women parade since the days of the First World War. The parade, in which about 15,000 marched, was held to stimulate the enrollment of 10,000 volunteer nurses’ aides.

Photo: Robert Wands for the AP

[loser-user-noaccuser]

Seeing how people fangirl over F1 drivers is so fucking funny to me bc like those are my dads friends

[ohheyitsjustbear]

Had a good day at my shop today so used the business account to order the murder of crows tarot :3

[sweetpapercroissant]

can someone just eat him already

[createacamillahect]

camilla hect patting your head and laughing softly as you air your devastating attraction to the man with beautiful gray eyes at the office you're volunteering with temporarily. she says she thinks her boyfriend might know him.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[sbnkalny]

Please stop making super coherent posts every three months, please try not to use instead of water being thrown over presenters and guests, Tiswas had taken the Throne of Wayrest, he does not intend to find out who i am?

[remembertheplunge]

Striking the set

On the back of a drawing  of a man on a couch that I “painted”in 1986, I wrote the following;

Over “Striking the Set” November 19, 2086: a reaction to the first weekend Hand to Hand, The Aids Plague hits.

_________________

I later felt this was a picture of Daryl Speicher in his last days here. It was a good likeness painted before I met him. He, of course, was not a couch person. But he did die 2/3/1987.

He was my first match.

11/29/1987 a day of reflection—

________________________________________

June 27, 1987

This is actually a painting of Glen Miller. His beauty so overwhelmed me. His tragic truth so shocked me, and later, his courage in death’s parlor so inspired me.

His mother called today “Glen passed away at 7 or so last night."

The angel of energy visits the couch. The final curtain descends. 

Of the four men on the couch that November day, Glenn is the first to go.

John Hickman died 10/25/1987

Al Adami died July 3, 1987

Joel,still alive and doing very well. Still with life energy.

God Bless them always.

End of entry

Note:

I have had this painting which I entitled “striking the Set” hanging for over 30 years. I took it down today to relocate it, and realized that I had written notes about it on the back of the painting. 

Those notes are included above.

I lived in Sacramento, California from about may of 1986 to August 1987.

While there, I applied to work in an Aids support group called Hand to Hand. I had to be interviewed prior to acceptance. Al Adami interviewed me. I later learned that Al had Aids. I was shocked as the first person I knew who had it. During the training for Hand to Hand, a Doctor who ran the training named Elizabeth and Al did a dying scene for we 15 or so trainees. Elizabeth helped Al “die”.Powerful experience. As Hand to Hand volunteers, we would help people with Aids through their illness and death. 

I am including a photo of the “Striking the Set” painting and what I wrote on the back in the next blog post.

I had been in three plays in 1985-1986. When a play ends, the stage set is dismantled and taken away. This is called “striking the set”.I borrowed  the term for my painting, since Aids in 1986-1987 usually meant striking the set of a life.

Glen Miller’s tragic truth was that  at maybe age 30, he had Aids and was dying. John Hickman and Al Adami were also about my age then, early 30’s.

Glen Miller wanted to live to see his June birthday in 1987.

A group of we Hand to Hand volunteers went to his house. We brought champagne and cake. We sat around his bed once floor and laughed and talked. Glen drank some champagne, ate some cake and seemed to be happy.

As I was arriving at his house someone from in side was playing the song “Michael Row Your Boat Ashore” by the Highwaymen. When I hear that song now, I think of that haunting moment.

[parallelunivrses]

hmmmm kinda wanna rewatch all of spn………… haven’t done a full rewatch since season 10 was airing I think……… is this a terrible idea….. yes. will that stop me though………

[dreamedfyre-a]

au where he.laena does want to go to battle after jae.haerys' death though..