#Acton University

[notadelcielo-blog]

Incidencia - 10

– El Instituto Patmos agradece a la Oficina de Libertad Religiosa Internacional del Departamento de Estado de USA por incluir a Cuba en su Reporte sobre Libertad Religiosa Internacional.   – Celebrada reunión de líderes religiosos en la sede del Ministerio Viento Recio, en las Tunas.   – Participa Rosa María Payá , líder de la plataforma ciudadana Cuba Decide, entre los representantes de la…

[naetaesarya]

Why do people in this fandom think the ending of the story is supposed to be miserable and nihilistic? Why do they think it’s supposed to be such a terrible ending? Then again… in the books hope and unity are always a consistent theme while the show just made everything gritty and dark and “everyone will always be torn apart”

Well, everyone in the show will be torn apart unless you're Sansa Stark 🫠

I think the feeling that the ending of ASOIAF will be miserable and nihilistic comes from the tone of the series, which is quite dark and miserable. It's not a straight good vs. evil or light vs. dark. Instead, it contains many shades of grey and the morality isn't really clear cut in many situations. Additionally, it's not a happy series. That said, there are moments of levity, love, and light amongst the massive pits of darkness though and GRRM has promised a bittersweet ending:

I think you need to have some hope… we all yearn for happy endings in a sense. Myself, I’m attracted to the bittersweet ending. People ask me how Game of Thrones is gonna end, and I’m not gonna tell them… but I always say to expect something bittersweet in the end. You can’t just fulfill a quest and then pretend life is perfect.

GRRM for Time, 2015

I think that's reflective of what GRRM says when it comes to his heroes:

With great power comes great responsibility, Stan Lee once wrote. Spidey's credo articulates the basic premise of every superhero universe, including ours. But Lord Acton wrote that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The tension between those two truths is where the drama comes in. My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.

Source

We may not succeed, we may fail at some things, we may be imperfect, but the important thing is that we've tried... and when it comes to the future, we do need to have hope or otherwise, it's difficult to justify continuing to go forward.

Now, that does bring me to something I saw recently in the fandom regarding bittersweet and I've sadly seen it before... ----------

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"She" being Dany of course. No, I highly doubt GRRM means that the "bitter" of "bittersweet" will all be down to shit happening to Dany and to Dany alone (being sexually deceived, used, and exploited before she is murdered by Jon who, apparently, gets to "have his cake and eat it too") while the "sweet" will come from all the good happening to Starks. Convenient. Since when does GRRM write like that? Rewards blatantly villainous actions with no consequences?

It is for the characters to experience and question these emotions, not the readers? That's... literally how and where the story takes place.

Yikes. But that's what I think, that's where I think people believe the bitter ending comes from -- the dark tone the series generally has. I think GRRM is striving to mirror people and situations in real life or how he sees/imagines real life. Hope is an important factor.

[drrutherford]

❖ Timeline ❖

April 16th 1984 — Born to Natan & Mikaela Weiss, of Israeli and Irish origin, respectively. Both parents are doctors, living in Yeovil (Somerset) UK, and raise their son with warmth and stability in a happy home.

1990 — Parents die in a car crash when he’s 6 years old. Grief-stricken and unable to cope, his aunt abandons him in a London orphanage where he meets wee lil Damon (@damon-rutherford​), who’s only 4. Takes him under his wing, and a few months later they get adopted by Andrew and Cerys Rutherford. 

 1994 — Cerys falls ill and dies, the boys ( aged 10 & 8) are broken-hearted. Lara (@lararutherford​), who’d been adopted before that, is still too baby to remember much of it. Andrew uproots the family (+ Adriana @amaroadriana who’s basically a foster sister at this point + her mother, who continues on as the family’s nanny) to Porto Velho in America. Connie (@constance-rutherford) enters the picture shortly (contentiously so) thereafter, and Yvonne (@yvonne-rutherford) is born. 

 1997/8 — Aged 13/14, discovers the truth about Andrew’s line of work. Fractures his relationship with his father and Johnathan (@johnathan-parsons​), who was something of an uncle figure to him. Partially motivated by this event, partially by his dislike of PV, he sets his sights on Med School in Oxford, to get as far away from his father, and follow in the footsteps of his biological parents before him. 

2002 — Graduates highschool at 18, accepted into Oxford University’s School of Medicine, moves back to England. 

2002-2008 — Med school days, these years give rise to Team Posh, giving rise to his long-standing friendships with people like Spencer @spencerberkeley​, Harrison (☠️), and Cassandra @cassandra-acton​​, among others. Also meets his first steady girlfriend, before moving on to Diana (@diana-sehgal), and then Mila (@milaxkorshunova) during these years no more dates bc fuck that i’m confused.

2009 — Some time after graduating med school, he (aged 25) heads to the US to start his long-ass surgical residency. This is followed by an amicable, mutual decision to split with then-girlfriend, Mila, due to the pressures of being long-distance, and some meddling by her v. Russian father.

2011 — On one of many sporadic visits back to the UK, Damon introduces him to publicly adored British actress Katherine Mayfair, and a whirlwind romance ensues, devotedly followed by the press.

2014 — Marries Katherine (aged 30), partway through residency, prompting a transfer back to England to complete his surgical training in London. Despite indulging a hidden drug habit, Katherine promises to stay clean.

2017 — After three years’ worth of a struggling marriage and multiple lies, the dam finally breaks when he finds out that Katherine’s still using drugs while pregnant with their child. This is the same year as he completes his surgical residency and becomes a fully licensed neurosurgeon/consultant (aged 33).

2018 — As soon as his son is born (June 6), Gideon (aged 34) files for divorce. Katherine punishes him in the worst way possible for this decision, and paints him as a cheating scumbag to the media to cover up her own infidelities and continued drug use. This poisons the public’s opinion against him and a bitter custody battle ensues. Easily the worst year of his life, the results of which have lingered through the ensuing years.

Some time in between idk bear w me ok — Befriends his apartment neighbour, Elene Dadiani. The lines blur between friendship and something more, but before it can flourish she’s gunned down outside the apartment one horrible night. The event scars him and puts him off the prospect of romance for a few more years. Also there are many attacks on his family in between and mob life is pervasive as shit and the Ruthas are constant drama rip, but y’all know this already

2024 (Present day) — Gid is 39 going on 40, and still goin’ thru it. Felix is 5 going on 6, and goin’ thru it somewhat less. He is currently in a bid to launch another appeal against his ex for full custody of their child.

[an-architect-of-words]

Hello

Its abt tsh

Uk somewhere in the book julian character is explained thorugh the eyes of his peers

With one liking him and another finding him cold

Yeah i am not able to find that chapter

I am revisiting the book and i really wanna read that part.

Is it the part near the end where Richard explains that George Orwell didn’t like Julian?

That section was so interesting to me due to the fact Orwell is real and has lots of his own work, so there’s much to unpack. Orwell’s writing is so thoughtful about seeing through lies and appeals to pathos. For example, Animal Farm critiques the Soviet leaders who say things that sound inspiring, but then proceed to be just like the capitalists they hate then way worse. Orwell also has an interesting review of Mein Kampf that analyses Hitler and fascism and discusses why people began to follow him and other demagogues despite their obvious evil. This, I think, kind of ties into TSH which is about people not recognizing immorality when they see it because there are bells and whistles and appeals to base human emotions attached. It makes sense that Orwell, who is known for brushing off how people present and getting at the truth would take issue with Julian.

I do not know much about Harold Acton. He was another writer. I’m not sure why he would like Julian, because I haven’t read his work. I suspect he can be romantic about things. A brief google search tells me he was a huge advocate for universities and had a classical art collection at his villa, La Pietra, that he let New York University use. My guess is he was fond of Julian due to their shared love of culture and education, and he failed to notice Julian’s coldness.

[lboogie1906]

Janice Bryant Howroyd (September 1, 1952) is an entrepreneur, businesswoman, and author. She is the founder and chief executive officer of The ActOne Group, the largest privately held, minority-woman-owned personnel company founded in the US. She is the first African American woman to build and own a billion-dollar company.

She was born in Tarboro, North Carolina, the fourth of 11 children in her family. She was one of the first African American students to participate in the desegregation of her town’s high school.

She moved to Los Angeles and worked as a temporary secretary for her brother-in-law, Tom Noonan, at Billboard magazine. Noonan introduced her to business executives, celebrities, travel, and workplace diversity.

With an approximate budget of $1,000, she continued to focus on employment services and launched her company, The ACT 1 Group, in 1978, with Tom Noonan as her first client. ActOne Group companies include AppleOne, All’s Well, AT-Tech, ACT-1 Personnel Services, Agile-1, ACT-1Govt, A-Check Global, which provides personnel and recruiting services to different industries, and DSSI, which provides document management services.

She is an ambassador of the Department of Energy’s Minorities in Energy Initiative, and a board member of numerous organizations including the United States Department of Labor’s Workforce Initiative Board, Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, WeConnect, National Utilities Diversity Council, Harvard Women’s Leadership Board, California Science Center, Los Angeles Urban League and a member of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Services and Finance Industries of the U.S. Trade Representative and the United States Department of Commerce. She serves on the Board of Trustees for North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

She received a key presidential appointment by President Barack Obama as a member of the President’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs. She joined the Diversity Committee of the FCC.

She has served on the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Board of Directors as an officer and Treasurer. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[fettesans]

Top, photograph by Mariko Mori, Love Hotel, 1994. Via. Bottom, photograph by Aapo Huhta, from the series and publication Block, shot in New York between 2014 and 2015. Via.

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To understand why erotic novels engendered such outrage, we need to get our heads around Victorian sexuality. Male readers: imagine thinking of your body as a physiological economy with a finite amount of resources to “spend” (the most commonly used word for ejaculation in this era). Imagine being taught that every youthful sexual indulgence is an unmitigated evil which wastes your vital force and stunts your physical growth and mental development. Any kind of incontinence is dangerous, you believe, but none more so than masturbation, which will lead to jaundiced skin, eruptions of acne, a slouching gait, clammy palm, leaden eye, and the inability to look anyone in the eye. The fate of a compulsive masturbator is to become a drivelling idiot or insufferable hypochondriac. Even within the presumed safety of marriage, you will have to walk a tightrope between abstemiousness and gratification — have no sex and you’ll be ruined, but have too much and you’ll melt into a goo of despondency as the symptoms of “spermatorrhoea” (an umbrella term for diseases caused by a loss of semen) take hold, leading to heart disease and death.

It’s even worse for women. Female readers, imagine thinking of yourself as a sexless baby-producing machine, almost entirely devoid of any erotic desire and actually incapable of it during pregnancy when your baby will suck away your vital force from within. You will surrender to your husband’s desires only occasionally. Like men, you believe that sex serves a practical purpose — the population of the earth — but beyond that it is profoundly dangerous. Continence is the key. Your sex life is likely to be a sore and bitter trial.

These ideas, so farcical and objectionable to twenty-first-century eyes, are lifted — sometimes word for word — from Dr William Acton’s Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs (1857), no radical polemic but mainstream medical opinion. Anyone deviating one iota from his worthy advice (memorably described by historian Steven Marcus in The Other Victorians [1966] as “part fantasy, part nightmare, part hallucination”) is either indifferent to their health or just plain low. It is only after we get our head around Dr Acton’s alien sexual precepts that we can begin to understand the hysterical tone that united police, press, and politicians in lambasting pornography. For Victorian pornography was not just a foil to Dr Acton’s belief system but its antithesis, presenting as it does a world of sexual riches where women are game for anything and men are “limitlessly endowed with that universal fluid currency which can be spent without loss”, as Marcus puts it. Even Ashbee calls pornographic works “poisons” in the preface to his bibliography, warning that they must be distinctly labelled and “confined to those who understand their potency”. They are also, of course, an incentive to dreaded masturbation. That is why men like William Dugdale had to be destroyed in hard-labour camps.

Matthew Green, from The Secret History of Holywell Street Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade, for The Public Domain Review, June 29, 2016. (This is such a great read)

[aestheticvoyage2024]

Day 100: Tuesday April 9, 2024 - "Western Actons"

Before my Grandpa even told me that he'd named his cowboy statue Jake, I'd hoped he'd gift it to me someday, when his time in Arizona was done. The fact that it was named Jake basically sealed the deal. My name has been literally on it. And so I had lots of time to think about where he'd sit, on our back patio, knowing that someday might come someday soon. And then someday was today. We brought the ole cowboy to the Finca and sat it down keeping an eye out on the back gate - looking out at the Universe in the same direction as me from my seat. Before we left the house in Apache Junction, I was sure to grab the painting on the wall too, knowing that Grandma had written my name on the back so many years ago when she was in that phase. Leaving the note right where its at, in her handwriting saying that "Jake would like this" I hung it in my office, right there on the same walls as her clock she gave me, and next to her great grandson. A special beautiful painting that hung in their Arizona house for years, now hangs in my Arizona house. A touch of the Arizona Actons handed down. Special artifacts. I hugged Grandpa and thanked him several times for the gifts and promised to take very good care of them. They are a part of our house now.

Song: Dustin Kensrue - Western Skies

Quote: “I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?” ~Jack Kerouac

[dogandcatcomics]

#repost @bevactonillustration Bev Acton (Manchester, United Kingdom). I am a fan of the representation of felines in the creative universe of this collage artist. Thanks to @februllage for the tip.

[aestheticvoyage2023]

Day 360: Tuesday December 26, 2023 - "Huckleberry Appreciation"

This post contributed by Audrie:

Our Huckle-Buckle-Berry-Good-Boy

It was a few years ago (maybe 2019) when I really started to think about and maifest the concept of actualizing a new four legged friend into our lives.  Afterall, it had been a really spectacular run as a duo and then a trio; from 2009 it was just me and the cheese-dog, then in 2014 Jake joined our duo to make our family.  And so went our tro status quo for more than 6 years.  And with the 2019 practice house in the old pueblo, and the 2020 pandemic pressure that caused us to leap into home ownership and baby making mode almost simultaneously, my maternal instincts were on high alert looking forward to and calling out the universe gods to send us our next four legged family member.  And lowe and behold, in September of 2020 our huckle-boy fell into our lap.  We would have to wait a couple months to pick him up and bring him home with a close early life shave with puppy parvo, but thankfully to a loving and lovely foster family we had our berry boy on his way home to us around halloween.  Havarti, we think, was thrilled at first, but then concerned when he learned that this sweet red hound we brought home and tagged was not a visitor but a permanent sibling brought here with loving intention to stay.  The two of them got along as one would expect an old steady seasoned grandpa and a young energetic whipper-snap to.  One had all the patience and one had all the play.  Thinking back on these two, it's not all that different than thinking about the way the puzzle pieces between William and his Great Grandpa Acton fit together instantly.  They just go. In a flow that nobody could have ever predicted and somehow made perfect sense.  

We lost our best good Cheese-Boy this past summer, and in so, Huckleberry lost his brother, his mentor, his papa-dog, and his every day play, snuggle, meal, lounge, cuddle mate.  The loss for us with Havarti was immense, and to think about the loss from Huckleberry's perspective feels immeasurable.  Havarti was his world.  His mentor. His model. 

We saw major changes with Huck as soon as Havarti passed.  Our trazodone doped anxious animal mellowed too with the loss of Havarti's heartbeat.  So we stopped drugging him on the daily.  Huckleberry seemed to process Havarti's passing so much like any human would grieve the loss of a sibling, friend, mentor, family member.  And as the months and life have begrudgingly moved on without our best cheesy boy, we have also been witness to the best good boy Huckleberry has been that we never fully expected him to become.  

We already knew he was good and patient and trustworthy with William, but once Havarti passed, we saw extra caution come into his play and movement around our toddling boy -- And extra patience and calm presence held down by his more relaxed body and energy through the days and the weeks and the months that passed after Havart's passing.  

And as we have moved through the fall and into the holiday winter months here at the finca, inching the days closer and closer to the stocking stuffers and the package unwraps around our strange human seasonal traditions, we have been able to just sit back in awe of our Huckle-nuckle-good-berry-boy, and see him truly come into himself.  At about age 3.5 now, shedding his puppyness and stepping powerfully into his Humancompanionness, he has caused pause many a moment through our bustling Christmas season to honor, acknowledge and praise this new best-good-boy of the house.  And as hard as it is to say we have another best good dog in our life, with the utmost respect to the most wonderful predecessor before him, we see more and more of Havarti's slow patient wise being and compassion come out of our wild Huckleberry as the months move on; we see more stretchy legs and lazy dog couch days that make us think about the good life Huckleberry has had, has learned, and has ahead of him as William's best bud and furry compadre.  

We have caught ourselves in awe of this sweet rescue pup, that happened into our lives, made a home in our hearts, and laps, with giggles, and kisses, and head hugs, and good boy snuggles.  And I have to pinch myself sometimes at the beauty of the best good boys that surround me in my home.  Huckleberry following in those very big puppy shoes, filling them up, far better than any expectation we could have set.      

Song: Elton John - Step Into Christmas

Quote: "We were together, I forget the rest." ~ Walt Whitman

[omniversecomicsguide]

ACTON JOURNALISM vol.1: GREAT NEWS!

Kate Kelly faces impossible scenarios from invading aliens to other-dimensional kidnappers in this Oni series from Skillman, Felvidéki & Gusmao. Very much in the vein of old school Jimmy Olsen stories, Action Journalism features a series of stand-alone but interconnected tales, as well as as some bonus features from Ramón Pérez, Erica Henderson & more! An entertaining ride that’ll leave you smiling!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5

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“From sci-fi to fantasy, superheros to spys, no genre is safe from Action Journalism’s ace reporter Kate Kelly as she traverses the universe in search of the ultimate scoop.

Action Journalism’s favorite intrepid reporter, Kate Kelly, is New Arcadia’s most trusted source for hard-hitting news. Always on the hunt for the next exclusive scoop, Kate and her trusty team infiltrate alien fleets, mad-scientist conventions, and fantasy kingdoms, all in search of the biggest stories the universe has to offer. But excitement seems to follow Kate everywhere as she keeps winding up in the middle of the story, risking it all to save the day!

Action Journalism collects the fast-paced, genre-hopping series by Eric Skillman, Miklós Felvidéki, and Marianne Gusmão, as well as short stories with art by Ramón Pérez, Max Sarin, Erica Henderson, Jorge Coelho and Dave Baker!”

Collects Action Journalism 1-5

120 pages, paperback

Oni Press, 2023

[abyssalzones]

🍕🍀🎹 FOR ANYONE (everyone) IN EV YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT!!!!! id love to hear abt them all but do so only if youre in an infodumping mood don't force yerself <:)

Yasha you of all people should know that I am Always in an info-dumping mood. VERY LONG POST UNDER THE READ MORE

🍕 - What is their favorite food?

ROSE CUBBAGE: I'm fairly certain I've answered this before (feel free to dig through my OC tag to find a series of other asks that I went into depth with a little while ago) but I think Rose would love any type of food that is a sweet/savory combination. Foliaverds don't have strong "sweet" flavor receptors, being hyper-carnivorous, but the sugars you'd see in fruit do get across to their palette more or less. See this dialogue from the outline of a chapter:

DOMINO: Domino is extremely picky about her food, something unusual for her species- who are usually content as filter-feeders, snacking on whatever bacteria and small animals (or even bits of dead animals- they aren't picky) make themselves at home in the caverns of Yxin, either colonizing the rocks or floating aimlessly through the densely-chemically-populated air- but she has an odd taste for salts. Odd, because that stuff is considered pretty acidic and foul to most moeboids. Keep an eye on her or else you'll lose track of your table salt.

VENUS: As with most Ikarians, Venus's diet consists mainly of insects. However, he normally has a very subdued appetite due to... multiple things. Their samefoods mostly consist of cold (or just not hot) things that don't have a very strong smell: frozen crickets, protein chips, dried fruit, and (expensively) tenjarian-tempered yogurt that's supposed to be digestible for every species, but most think it tastes... awful. Venus loves it, for some reason.

GILLS KVN: Herbal tea and pain pills. Well- that'd be the answer early on, anyway. He starts eating more regularly with time and feeling a little more comfortable actually getting out of his lab to visit the kitchen, and as per usual for his species, mostly favors raw seafood. He prefers animals with shells, though, since overly-mushy textures bother him immensely. As for his favorite favorite, I think he'd enjoy a bowl of south Kaaleran noodles (thin, dried parasitic eels native to Kaalera's coasts, cleaned and fermented with starch. Add steamed veggies, whatever eggs you have on hand, and plenty of spices), which is notoriously too hot for most species to handle.

SPARKPLUG: I elaborated on this a little before, similar to Rose, but I think Sparks is partial to sweets! Sweet for his species, anyway. He loves the kinds of tangy, metallic preserved pastries native to his home planet, recipes carried down and altered by his family for generations, across planets. I'm lazy so I'm just going to steal what I already wrote:

Pie is a universal concept.

NORA ACTON: Peanut butter + banana + bacon sandwich. Simple, very filling. I like to think she only realized this after moving out and trying to figure out how to feed herself in her academy days.

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?

Going to give you a catch-all answer for this to start with: the conceit of the comic, and subsequently most of the crew, was that it was originally a cast of Starbound OCs! That obviously has changed, but it's still in their roots. As for specifics...

-Rose was sort of her own thing, a position of leader and captain that needed to be filled- and she only really came into her own later in terms of development, inspired by characters like Alyx Vance or Ellen Ripley in particular- and my own personal experiences, actually. I think in a lot of ways Rose is closest to me.

-Venus's inspiration is weirdly difficult to pin. Taako from TAZ, maybe? A little bit of the Rito from when I played BOTW? He's kind of his own character, really.

-Gills, however, was definitely strongly inspired by Ford Pines. I feel like it's a little obvious sometimes. Then, a little later, characters like Spock, or Kim Kitsuragi.

-Sparkplug... draw your own conclusions based on the information above, particularly his dynamic with Gills. His arc, however, was also strongly influenced by my own ongoing struggles with chronic fatigue.

-Domino is inspired by a whole host of fictional characters, ranging from Lupin to Max from sam & max to Shiraishi from golden kamuy, but the most important part is that she was originally an OC created by my friend Addy, who I've known since the comic was in its baby stages. That part of who she is is extremely important to her core as a character.

-Nora is kind of like... a fusion of Sam Raimi era Peter Parker and inspector Zenigata from Lupin III. But british. and butch.

🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?

ROSE CUBBAGE: Worrying. Creating collages, actually, but those mostly consist of future plans and secret obsessive corkboards. She used to enjoy biking, and still has her bike from when she was an older teenager sitting around on the station, despite not using it much.

DOMINO: Stealing things to create "art" in her room. I think she'd love to branch out and create more multi-media type stuff, but she's mostly motivated by boredom.

VENUS: Between you and me, I think they write fanfic. Something he would no doubt label as extremely cringe and keep very close to his chest, but fun to kick back and knock out a couple hundred words on every once in a while. They mostly tinker with robotics, though that's less of a hobby and more the main thing he does around the station, so it can get a little boring. I think they could put effort into making video games if they really felt up to it, but they struggle with seeing the point in it. Creative passion projects are embarrassing, after all- from his perspective.

GILLS KVN: Aside from reading, I'm not so sure Gills has any hobbies to begin with. He spends most of his time working on projects in the lab, which while he might consider it fun, it's still ultimately work. I think he would really benefit from taking up something like terrariums or aquariums, maybe some casual gardening. That, and cooking- which is really another form of chemistry, if you think about it.

SPARKPLUG: Another damn workaholic. However, Sparks enjoys music as a hobby immensely, and is rarely far from a stringed instrument, such as his retractable banjo. When the joints in his hands get tired or locked up, I think he'd enjoy getting outside and doing a little nature-watching. Does that count as a hobby? It does now.

NORA ACTON: Nora is definitely the most visually artistic of the crew, something that she's never considered for a career but definitely enjoys as a hobby. She mostly does environmental art, studying things from nature and her surroundings- a fun practice for someone with such a photographic memory. Similarly, I think she loves using her camera, even if it's mostly something she picked up for work.

[bkandtheunderstanding]

The latest music video published by us was for "A New Chapter, featuring the beautiful vocals of Courtney Alyse Bishop, an old collaborator of BK’s from his time performing as BK Helton. This version of "A New Chapter," co-written with AHNTY in 2017 at Mudslide Coffee in Fort Worth, Texas, appears on Basal Keystones. The shooting for this music video actually began before the filming of the "Naylor-Irby | Game-Love" music video in the spring/summer of 2021 but sat for a year, waiting to be completed. BK had several different young women say they would play parts for this music video, one is a Twitter celebrity in fact, only to leave BK hanging, and so many friends who promised to be there for shooting at Arcadia Coffee did not show up. BK was quite discouraged and let down, but he garnered more of an appreciation for the few who did show up, including both of BK’s friends named Kevin and Rocky, who ended up having to play the main character of the music video against her own desires. BK did not release a single for this music video nor did he heavily promote it, as it isn’t the video it was intended to be, but he is still happy to have created something out of a failed video shoot that is still pleasing to the eyes and fitting for the song, the album, and time in his life. "A New Chapter" is a song about graduating from one chapter of life and beginning another. Footage was shot at Tarleton State University in Stepehenville, on highway 377 in Bluff Dale, Lake Granbury, Granbury, Acton, Arcadia Coffee of Fort Worth, and near Multnomah Falls, Oregon.

[crater-1218]

is this a hate crime?

context the above is a screenshot of the Halloween episode of the Disney Channel original show ANT Farm, the main premise of the show is that students with Advance Natural Talents get put into a high school program to help nurture said talents and the Halloween Specials are traditionally called MutANT Farm and take place in an alternate universe where the Advance Naturally Talented ANTs are Mutants or Monsters with the character above Fletcher Quimby being a naturally gifted painter he is a vampire in the MutANT Farm world. what’s interesting about this episode is that it opens up the Multverse to the Disney Channel Live Acton Universe and when i say that i mean it, Disney Channel had dabbled in “What If…”s before and has established other things such as magic, other worlds, time travel, ghosts, possession, etc but MutANT Farm is the first time we see multiversal travel in the episode MutANT Farm 3.0 where the cast of the MutANT Farm universe enters the main or prime universe. another thing to note is that this universe is presumably the same multiverse as Marvel since the characters Jessie Prescott and Emma, Luke, Ravi, and Zuri Ross from the show Jessie all exist on Earth-12041 the same one as Drake Bell’s Spider-man but it has been confirmed that the Jessie cast from Ultimate Spider-man is not the same as the Jessie show. also this does bring up the question if the MutANT Farm mutants are traditional Marvel Mutants, i don’t know much about X-men but i can only assume so but for some reason their mutations are horror monsters in this reality for some reason

[une-sanz-pluis]

The legal records of Oldcastle's trial drew on the chivalric model of treason but to a large extent this was subsumed by judicial constructions of treason as a crime against the people and nation of England. As with the Percys, the understanding of treason as a personal betrayal was represented by fears that corrupt homosocial affinities had subverted natural masculine bonds between political subjects and the king. In the indictment arising from a commission of oyer and terminer of 10 January 1414, Oldcastle, the lollard chaplain Walter Blake and Sir John Acton were charged with planning a Privatim insurgerent to advance their nephando propositio. The term 'private insurgency' distinguished this as unsanctioned aggression and pre-empted any defence that Oldcastle's actions were a legitimate performance of dififidatio. The term privatim, when linked to the term nephando, suggested that Oldcastle and his followers had formed a secret confederacy against the king. As discussed earlier, nephando invoked the most extreme form of perverse male attachment, the sin of sodomy, which was characteristically referred to in late medieval theological tracts and legal texts as nephandum peccatum or 'unspeakable sin'. Canon and civil law connected sodomy to lèse-majesté and heresy in a triumvirate of hidden crimes that were rooted in unnatural deviance. Invoking a universally understood legal and intellectual framework in which gender inversion signalled wilful rebellion against divinely-ordained natural order, the traitor, the heretic and the sodomite all stood as existential threats to the integrity of the masculine body politic. Echoing the gendered rhetoric of nephandum in the Oldcastle indictment, the idea of unnatural bonds also surfaced in the April 1414 statute, which targeted 'those belonging to the heretical sect called lollardy as well as others of their confederacy'. The discursive link between lollardy as a sect and the forming of dangerous confederacies deliberately seeded the idea that the problem was not lone malcontents but a well-organised cabal. For the Lancastrian regime, it must have seemed that in Oldcastles betrayal and rebellion, their deepest forebodings about perverse homosocial affinities had been fully realised.

E. Amanda McVitty, Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture (The Boydell Press 2020)

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Poland's 'Heart of the Garden' Crowned Tree of the Year

— By Maddie Molloy | BBC News Climate & Science

The Heart of the Garden is Thought to be 200 Years Old

A Polish tree nicknamed Heart of the Garden, pictured above, has won the 2024 European Tree of the Year contest. The monumental common beech tree grows in an old park in the University of Wroclaw's botanical garden. It's the third Polish tree in a row to win. The contest celebrates our relationship with nature by showcasing beautiful and unique trees from across the continent.

Here are some other notable entries.

Taking second place is the Weeping Beech of Bayeux in Normandy. Spreading over 40m wide, the city has provided structural support to keep it standing.

In third place is the 1,000-year-old Olive Tree of Luras in Sardinia, Italy. Estimated to be between 3,000 and 4,000 Years Old, it's one of the oldest specimens of Wild Olive on the Island.

The curiously curated common camellia from Portugal was a strong runner-up. It stands out for centuries of careful shaping.

The UK's entry, Wrexham's sweet chestnut in Acton Park, came in tenth place. Thought to be almost 500 years old, this giant tree has weathered many storms and survived being pillaged for firewood in 1940s post-war Britain.

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