#Charles White eagle

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Altered States | Episode 416

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Altered States | Episode 416

In this very special anniversary episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, Jim reflects on the first time he saw Ken Russell’s classic 1980 Sci-Fi film “Altered States,” written by Paddy Chayefsky and starring William Hurt, Blair Brown, Charles Haid, Bob Balaban, Thaao Penghlis, Dori Brenner, Charles White eagle, Drew Barrymore, Megan Jeffers, Jack Murdock, John Larroquette, and George Gaynes. Russell’s surrealistic look at a man’s obsession with finding answers to the meaning of life developed a large cult following during the last 40+ years. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

[nthflower]

I was so happy there was a reverend Swanson mission and Dutch came and ruined it.

[rmsqueenmaryonthisday]

American Eagle

On July 7, 1938, Colonel Hubert Julian, an American aviator known as “The Black Eagle” set sail for England on the RMS Queen Mary. After an unsuccessful attempt at a transatlantic flight in 1924 left him in the hospital, the Trinidad-born Julian tried again five years later. This time, two years after Lindbergh, he made it, gaining attention for aviation and recognition for himself as an expert…

[verdemoun]

charthur in canon context is just so devastating. imagine being charles, after years alone in the wilderness, trying to learn how to engage with people, let alone a group of people, for the first time in decades, and meeting arthur. arthur, who is massive, with an uncanny dead-eyed stare, and gets treated like a dumb workhorse.

but the second they meet arthur is respectfully enamored. charles, who likes people more when they're not talking blah blah, finds himself absolutely rambling the second they're alone because arthur listens and immediately accepts things charles tells him at face value. arthur, who had only learned about how much bison meant to native people hours ago, kills a poacher not (only) because charles encouraged it but because he genuinely believed that the poacher deserved to die

arthur, who has the self-awareness to know they're not good people, and thinks of himself as the lowest of low, tells charles with utmost sincerity that charles is one of the best people he knows. arthur, who throws himself into a firefight to protect a german man he hadn't even really wanted to rescue at the start. arthur, who wants to show off how much he's been using the tracking skills charles taught him. charles being sent out to find arthur because mr 'i'm a bad man' has been missing for three weeks and he's in the swamps up to his waist in mud looking for flowers because a dude he's met twice before asked him nicely. he's forgotten to eat for four days but his white horse is still brushed so spectacularly clean that charles saw her first.

charles catching himself hugging onto arthur a little too long when arthur arrives in lakay. he'll figure out what that feeling is later. charles, constantly torn between encouraging arthur to rest as he starts to get sick and needing him because he knows arthur's smart, he knows arthur thinks what dutch is doing with the wapiti people is wrong. charles realizing arthur trusts him so completely he admits he's dying, and rides quietly listening to the morbid assurance that at least he knows how much time he has left to live a better life like it's exactly what he needed to hear

then having to be the one to say no when arthur offers to stay and help too after the death of eagle flies. because it doesn't make sense. arthur's sick and the wapiti people are already vulnerable. because he knows arthur, and arthur wouldn't be able to live with himself for whatever time he has left if he doesn't try to save as many of the gang, his family, as he can. realizing he doesn't want to be saying no, like the word suddenly burns his in throat and chokes him. because he loves him. holding arthur one last time, knowing better than to hope it isn't the last time he sees him. realizing he loves him in the same second he realizes it's goodbye.

then getting to see him, hold him, one last time, as he carries his corpse to a pretty hillside where arthur would have wanted to be.

[skylarsblue]

I want Arthur to have a Disney Princess kind of bond with animals. I don’t care it’s unrealistic. I want to see the gang’s jaws drop when they find several wild deer napping by Arthur on a tree, some random stable-boy in awe as he calms the most stubborn horse they have. In the middle of talking to Sadie, a whole ass Eagle lands on his shoulder. He wakes up after staying in a hotel and finds and random stray kitten in his boots.

Charles: What the fuck are you doing?

Arthur, eyes closed against a tree: Sleepin’ by a dog.

Charles: A dog??

Arthur: Yeah?

Charles: *staring at a whole wolf with its head in Arthur’s lap, asleep* …..dear lord-

Listen, if this game can have a time traveler and giants in its story, it can have Arthur as an animal princess. Snow White type shit,

[ed-recoverry]

List of free audiobooks on YouTube for anyone interested

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Alice in Wonderland

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H P Lovecraft

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Village by Caroline Mitchell

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (fuck JKR)

Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Upside Down by Danielle Steel

The Fiancée by Kate White

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Theif

Accidentally Married by Victoria E. Lieske

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

The Collector (book one) by Nora Roberts

The Lies I Told by Mary Burton

Dead Man’s Mirror by Agatha Christie

The Hobbit

The Taken Ones by Jess Lourey

The Good Neighbour by R J Parker

The Island House by Elana Johnson

Desperation by Stephan King

The Healing Summer by Heather B. Moore

The Last Affair by Margot Hunt

To Be Claimed by Willow Winter

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Inn by James Patterson

Wonder by R J Palacio

Faking It With The Billionaire by Willow Fox

The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

The Janson Directive by Robert Ludlum

The Catcher in the Rye

The Lottery Winner by Mary Higgins Clark

Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean

Death of a Nurse by M C Beaton

Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Frozen Betrayal by Clive Cussler

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Line of Fire by R J Patterson

Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen

The Remnant by Tim LaHaye

The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins

The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie

Payment in Kind by J A Jance

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida

The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Marriage of Anything but Convenience by Victorine E. Lieske

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Inheritance Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

The Kama Sutra by Mallanaga Vatsyayana

The Wisdom of Father Brown by G K Chesterton

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Robin Hood by J Walker McSpadden

The Poor Traveller by Charles Dickens

Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 by Sarah Raymond Herndon

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Atomic Habits by James Clear

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Man After Man

Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Charlotte’s Web

Midsummer Mysteries by Agatha Christie

Out of Silent Planet by C S Lewis

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton

The Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harai

Hamlet by Shakespeare

[afeelgoodblog]

The Best News of Last Week - June 13, 2023

1. U.S. judge blocks Florida ban on care for trans minors in narrow ruling, says ‘gender identity is real’

A federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, ruling Tuesday that the state has no rational basis for denying patients treatment.

Transgender medical treatment for minors is increasingly under attack in many states and has been subject to restrictions or outright bans. But it has been available in the United States for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations.

2. Eagle Who Thought Rock Was an Egg Finally Gets to Be a Dad

A week after their introduction the cage where the little eaglet was put, was removed so the two could interact more closely. When they were given food, a whole fish for Murphy and bite-sized pieces for his young charge, rather than each eating their separate dish, Murphy took his portion and ripped it up to feed to the baby.

3. Little penguins to reclaim Tasmanian car park as city-based population thrives

Not far from the centre of Tasmania's fourth largest city, a colony of the world's smallest penguins has been thriving, and their habitat is about to expand into an existing car park.

The bright lights and loud noises of Burnie have not been a deterrent for hundreds of penguins who set up home on the foreshore in the north-west Tasmanian city.

4. Latest population survey yields good news for endangered vaquita porpoise

The resilient little vaquita marina appears determined to survive the illegal fishing that has brought it dangerously close to extinction, according to the latest population survey. Despite an estimated annual decline of 45% in 2018, the endangered porpoise appears to be holding steady over the last five years, according to a report published Wednesday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

5. 'Extinct' butterfly species reappears in UK

The species, previously described as extinct in Britain for nearly 100 years, has suddenly appeared in countryside on the edge of London. Small numbers of black-veined whites have been spotted flying in fields and hedgerows in south-east London. First listed as a British species during the reign of King Charles II, they officially became extinct in Britain in 1925.

This month they have mysteriously appeared among their favourite habitat: hawthorn and blackthorn trees on the edge of London, where I and other naturalists watched them flitting between hedgerows.

6. Colombian is a hero in Peru: he rescued 25 puppies that were about to die in a fire

During a structural fire that occurred in a residential area of ​​Lima in Peru, a young Colombian became a hero. The Colombian, identified as Sebastián Arias, climbed onto the roof where the puppies were and threw them towards the community, that was waiting for them with sheets and mattresses. "I love them, dogs fascinate me," said the young man.

7. World-first trial for pediatric brain cancer

Researchers in Australia are conducting a world-first clinical trial for children diagnosed with ependymoma, a rare and devastating brain cancer. The trial aims to test a new drug called Deflexifol, which combines chemotherapy drugs 5-FU and leucovorin, offering potentially less toxic and more effective treatment compared to current options.

Ependymoma is the third most common brain tumor in children, and current treatments often lead to relapses, with a high fatality rate for those affected. The trial, led by researcher David Ziegler at the Kids Cancer Centre, has received support from the Kids with Cancer Foundation and the Cancer Institute NSW. The goal is to find a cure for every child diagnosed with ependymoma.

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[mutant-distraction]

Charles Hu

White-tailed Eagle

[thearcanecat]

Hatchetfield headcanons?

Let’s see…

Holloway has lots of scars from living for centuries and hides them with the jacket. These include:

Lightning scars

Wiggly: sucker/tentacle marks

Pokey: cracks

Blinky: eye like circular pattern. Red vein squiggles at end.

Tinky: hoof print

Nibbly: bite marks

Her accent gets stronger when she’s mad. Same for Duke, but you rarely hear it.

Original name was Holly-May Logan.

The strange carving it’s mentioned she has in Killer Track, is a part of Pokey’s mask.

Ryan Reynolds is the person running against Solomon for mayor. He’s pushing the problematic pooch story because it shows how horrible the town has gotten under Solomon’s rule. You’d think the disappearance of his wife right before he got elected would be a bigger deal, but no, time for our daily Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel segment!

The Obnoxious Teen is actually different versions of Pete after an encounter with the Bastard Box. He now lives in a never ending hell of minimum wage jobs.

Grace’s birthday is September 9th, buy a priest a beer day.

The Honey Queen sacrifice takes place on the summer solstice at midnight.

Description of the tree that grew from Willabella: Gnarled roots extend from a bulbous center. No leaves hang from its crown of branches. It is not natural. Nothing grows near it, except the apples that grow for its branches, never ripe and always rotten. A hollow in the center is swarming with spiders whose web spans across it. Several scars are evident from where the Hatchetmen, once they realized their mistake, tried to cut it down. From its branches hand charms of protection and containment that replace old ones of worship. It grows behind the old Waylon Hall, over the sight of Willabella’s execution. Like the Hall, many rumors swirl around it and foolish children often dare each other to touch the bark.

The Blade of Truth that MacNamara uses on the Sniggles is one of multiple PEIP has constructed. With help from Holloway, they were able to harness the White’s energy into physical form. Each Blade requires a secret to be whispered into it as it forms, one no one has ever heard before. If someone tells a lie while holding the Blade, it shatters.

The Foster family are descended from Willabella and a Hatchetman with the last name Forester. Willabella had no love for him and only got pregnant to delay her execution.

The Stockworth family vacations in Hatchetfield because they have connections with the Church of the Starry children. Lucy is not aware if this.

Charles Coven was part of PEIP and went by Carlo at the time.

PEIP has ID numbers based on the Stith Thompson’s Motif Index of Folk-Literature. Basically a collection of a bunch of different motifs in folklore.

Wilbur: D1310.10.1. Magic apple gives supernatural knowledge.

Holloway (Holliway this identity): G220.0.1. "Black" and "white" witches. Malevolent and benevolent.

John: B147.2.1.2. Eagle as omen of victory.

Xander: J1291.2. Theological questions answered by propounding simple questions in science.

Douglas Keane Sr. was an informant for PEIP. Basically, PEIP goes around to various people in professions where the supernatural may be encountered (law enforcement, medical, park rangers etc.) and gives them a little presentation with very vague language about if they seen anything unnatural, or out if the ordinary, to give their office a call. Since Hatchetfield is such a hotspot, Douglas knows a lot more about the supernatural than most informants do and is on first name basis with several PEIP agents. (This is heavily based off a book called The Rook by Daniel O’Malley.)

[adarkrainbow]

I just noticed that the common list of fairytales for "Rapunzel's evolution" is actually incomplete.

If you searched a bit about this story, you will know that it goes like this: the "Rapunzel" fairytale type is, of course, best known through the titular "Rapunzel" story told by the brothers Grimm, in the 19th century. When looking for a previous occurence of the fairytale, people usually brought forward its Italian equivalent in the Pentamerone: Basile's "Petrosinella" (Parsley), early 17th century. And recently, people have added a third story in-between the two, from the late 17th century, the French "Persinette" from mademoiselle de La Force "Les Contes des Contes", because it has been proven that the Grimm's story was influenced by a German translation/adaptation of the French fairytale, that the Grimms mistook for a genuine German story.

This list, Petrosinella-Persinette-Rapunzel is indeed, correct, as it reflects the "three big eras" of fairytales in Europe, and it presents three pretty direct variations of a same story... However the list is incomplete. Because they forgot about madame d'Aulnoy.

While yes, mademoiselle de La Force's story IS the one that directly influenced the Grimms' Rapunzel, mademoiselle de La Force stayed a somehow "secondary" author of fairy tales in France, who never had the lasting impact or fame of authors like Charles Perrault... or madame d'Aulnoy. The Perrault d'Aulnoy duo was still going very strongly by the 19th century (see the Sleeping Beauty ballet). And did madame d'Aulnoy write a Rapunzel variation? Well yes she did!

(I should say a "Maiden in the Tower" variation, because talking of a "Rapunzel variation" is an anachronism, but you know...)

In fact, d'Aulnoy's "Rapunzel" is one of her most famous stories: The White Cat. Everybody focuses on the first part of the fairytale, which is one of the most famous rendition of "The Animal Bride" fairytale type (402), but the entire second part of the story is a "Maiden in the Tower" tale with echoes to Rapunzel. A princess sold when she is born because her mother wanted to eat the fruits of an orchard belonging to fairies... The girl being raised in a doorless tower by an old, malevolent fairy she calls "Mommy"... A prince behaving as a hopeless suitor at the bottom of her tower... But with its own unique variations typical of a d'Aulnoy tale. No long hair: the fairy "mother" goes through the window on a dragon's back, and the girl must escape by secretely building a rope-ladder. The prince and the princess speak using a parrot messenger (heck, her parrot and dog pet somehow manage to perform the wedding ceremony between her and the prince in secret?). The fairies send a venomous dragon to destroy everything in the king's realm when he refuses to give up his newborn daughter ; the princess in the tower must avoid a horrible wedding to a dwarf magician with eagle's claws for feet, no bones in his legs and birds' nests in his beard...

So don't forget madame d'Aulnoy. She did Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, even sort-of variations of Sleeping Beauty, and she also did a Rapunzel!

[the-magiarcheologist]

Theios Aner, or Ancient Magic in Antiquity

Sometimes I get really curious about the sources the writers for HL used to get inspiration for Hogwarts Legacy and Ancient Magic.

For instance, I was doing some research into magical practice in ancient civilisations to see if we can find traces of some of the very first known wizards for the HP universe and I stumbled upon about a group of people in ancient Greece called ‘theios aner’ (θεῖος ἀνήρ) which is translated to ‘divine men’. The definition for these theios aner given by Wikipedia is:

Person connected to the gods, which grants them the ability to perform miracles and supernatural events.

And, think about it!, if we just replace "the gods" in that sentence with "ancient magic" we get a description that fits our MC and the abilities they get from their strange connection to AM. So I started to wonder: are the theios aner some of the very first known ancient magic wielders?

One of the earliest exemple of one of these ‘divine men’ is Pythagoras of Samos, born 570 BCE. Many miracles have been attributed to him, including:

Being seen in two different cities (Metapontum in Italy and Tauromenium in Sicily) on the same day, conversing with friends

Having tamed a savage bear by the power of his voice alone and converting it to vegetarianism

Stopping an ox from eating beans

A white eagle coming down onto his shoulder so Pythagoras could pet it

Biting a venomous snake to death

The river Caicasus calling to him "Hail, Pythagoras!" as he was passing over it with some friends

Having a thigh made of gold

Predicting that a dead man would be found on a ship entering the harbour

(Some sources for this: 1, 2)

What struck when reading this list of ‘miracles’ is that, if we try to explain each of these by a magical discipline we know from the Wizarding World we get:

Time-travel (being present in two cities at the same time)

Care of Magical Creatures or, generally, an ability to communicate with animals (taming the bear, the ox and the eagle)

Divination (predicting the dead man)

Transfiguration (thigh made of gold and probably also biting a venomous snake to death by using self-transfiguration to change his mouth to something able to kill the snake and be immune to the venom)

(The only one difficult to explain is the one about the river calling ‘Hi!’ to him 😂. Although if we stretch it, it could also be some advanced transfiguration that changes the river into something capable of speech.)

And if we consider these 4 disciplines, we realise that they correspond exactly to the specialised skills of the four Keepers: Niamh Fitzgerald being a time-traveler (I explained here why I think that!), San Bakar teaching Care of Magical Creatures and his trial being about taming a magical creature, Percival Rackham being a seer and Charles Rookwood teaching transfiguration.

Cue the famous meme!

I’ve always found Bakar’s ability and his trial to be very random after the sophisticated dungeons we had to go through for the other Keepers, but if we consider that the writers of HL took inspiration from the the ancient theois aner as the originals wielders of Ancient Magic and that the 4 disciplines highlighted are at the core of the abilities granted to a wizard by Ancient Magic, then suddenly his trial makes sense!

[And, if you would allow me a completely crazy tangent here!, I just realized that the only 3 ‘special abilities’ we know of in the Wizarding world, i.e. Metamorphmagi, true Seers and Parselmouths, just happen to correspond to 3 of the 4 Ancient Magic disciplines! And for the metamorphmagi and parselmouths, it’s not just any type of transfiguration ability or ability to care for animals, it’s specifically self-transfiguration and an ability to talk to animals, which are exactly what Pythagoras was known to be able to do! Is that a coincidence?🤯😵 Could we imagine that over time some of the ‘Ancient Magic abilities’ got passed down into the blood of ‘regular’ wizards to become rare inheritable traits? The exception here being time-travel since we don’t know of anyone having a natural ability to time-travel. But time-travel could be an exception since I don’t think Niamh Fitzgerald herself is able to time-travel, she still uses an old version of a time-turner that she wears around her neck, but maybe she has a special ability that makes her immune to the effects of time-travel (we see these ageing effects with Prof Hecat)? And since in 1899 time-travel becomes heavily restricted, anyone having special time-travel abilities would not even know it! Anyway, food for though! And now back to our regularly scheduled programming!]

And the parallels don’t stop there! I’m basing myself here mostly on the Wikipedia page for Magic in the Greco-Roman world since I haven’t had time to do extensive research on the lives each of the other known theois aner. But the amount of parallels between the game and the Wikipedia article is still interesting if we try to find possible sources of inspiration for the HL writers who may have read the same article.

Empedocles was also considered one of the theios aner and he followed Pythagoras' philosophy. Here’s what the Wikipedia article says about him:

Empedocles (c. 490 – c. 430 BCE) too has ascribed to him marvelous powers associated with later magicians: that is, he is able to heal the sick, rejuvenate the old, influence the weather and summon the dead. […] It is important to note that after Empedocles, the scale of magical gifts in exceptional individuals shrinks in the literature, becoming specialized. Individuals might have the gift of healing, or the gift of prophecy, but are not usually credited with a wide range of supernatural powers as are magoi like Orpheus, Pythagoras and Empedocles.

And does that not remind you of someone? Someone who wanted to heal the sick and after whose death the practice of Ancient Magic was significantly changed to become much more restricted, with very few even knowing what Ancient Magic even is?

I don’t know if I’m the only one but the story of Pythagoras and Empedocles (as it is presented in the wikipedia article at least) reminds me of Isidora and the Keepers. Some ‘dark magic’ practices are attributed to Empedocles (summoning the dead), like the ‘dark magic’ practices of Isidora who siphons emotions out of people, and after their death some aspect of the practice of Ancient Magic is lost, with either Ancient Magic wielders (or theios aner) becoming way less powerful or the Keepers locking Ancient Magic away permanently.

If we accept that the ancient theios aner have indeed been used as inspiration for the Ancient Magic wielders, it could be a sort of ‘history repeating itself’ scenario where at several points of history some theios aner abused their tremendous power to do some things considered unnatural or dangerous (summoning the dead, taking away people’s pain) and when that happened other theios aner (perhaps organised into a secret Society for Ancient Magic?) stepped in and placed regulations and restrictions on the use of Ancient Magic, such as dividing the foundational ‘Ancient Magic Powers’ (i.e. time-travel, divination, transfiguration and a connection to animals) among four different Ancient Magic users and not permitting anyone to wield all four together, or, in the Keepers’ time, hiding Ancient Magic away altogether and not permitting anyone to learn it anymore.

[honey-minded-hivemind]

⚔Wouldn't You Like🏛 AU, The Gods of Genosha, Krakoa, and the Human Kingdoms:

Charles Xavier/Cerebro: one of the kings of the gods, is the god of the mind and learning, can control minds, influence thoughts, heal inner pain, cause hallucinations, and puppeteer others; has a moving throne of metal and stardust; sometimes wears a helmet with an X on it; is married to Erik/Magneto, the other king of the gods; his symbols include: twined branches, mourning doves, ravens, and peridots, jades, and emeralds...

Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto: the other king of the gods, is the god of metals and justice, can control any metal, make anything from metal, is immune to certain powers, can manipulate iron in the blood, and uses metal to summon or throw lightning; has a helm of metal, a cape of silver, and usually his face is unseen; is married to Charles/Cerebro, one of the kings of the gods; his symbols include: shields, helmets, crossed spears, eagles, and titanium, iron, and silver...

Ororo Munroe/Storm: is the goddess of all weather as well as motherhood, can summon any kind of storm (snow, sand, thunder, etc.), can control lightning and the winds, can make the sun shine or make it rain; has a cape/cloak of clouds, hair of mists, and fastenings of gold; her symbols include: clouds, raindrops, lightning bolts, cranes, and blue/yellow topaz, aquamarine, and diamond

Raven Darkholme/Mystique: goddess of trickery, deceit, and secrets, can turn into any person or animal, is able to spy in any form, and is the wife of the minor goddess Destiny, who sees the future; appears naked, but is always blue, wears a belt and loincloth of white or black silk, sometimes a top of white or black; her symbols include: blue snakes, blue moons and stars, tragedy/comedy masks, and sapphires and garnets...

Logan Howlett/Wolverine: god of the wilderness and protection, as well as small woodland predators (ex. wolverines, badgers, foxes, wolves, coyotes, etc.), can go into a berserker mode, has six sharp, gleaming claws of poisonous metal, can take on an army of hundreds of soldiers, can bring out the protective side of others, can make a person become like an animal; wears a jacket or coat of brown leather, and pants or a loincloth of faded blue or black; is the brother of the older (and dual) god of nature and the wild, Victor/Sabretooth; his symbols include crossed claws or swords, badgers and wolverines, and howlite, hawk's eye, and jasper

Victor Creed/Sabretooth: dual god of nature and the hunt, as well as large predators (ex. smilodons, tigers, lions, bears, etc.), can fall into berserker mode, lives by his instincts, can drive men into insane rage/bloodlust, can destroy an entire kingdom barehanded, is also a god of protection; is the older brother of Logan/Wolverine, the autumn side of nature to his winter; wears large furred coats and jackets, or loincloth of golden or brown; his symbols include: tigers, lions, fanged skulls, curved, clawed footprints, and tiger's eye, amber, and gold + pyrite...

Hank McCoy/Beast: god of science, teaching, medicine, and literature, possess great strength of body and mind, knows the secrets of medicine, has scrolls and stone tablets of ancient texts, has taught medicine and shared written language with kingdoms past, and is both a lover and a fighter; is fluffy and dark blue/indigo, has little need for cloths, but will wear dark blue/black pants or cloths; his symbols include: gorillas, lions, scrolls, quills, medicinal herbs, and labradorite, obsidian, and turquoise...

Kevin Sydney/Morph: deity of cunning, mirth and merriment, comedy and tragedy, and change, can take any form and any power, can cause madness, is a master trickster, tends to help down-on-their-luck mortals; is a good friend of Logan/Wolverine; wears a cloth/toga, can be naked or covered in a jacket or clothes, usually in shades of brown, yellow, or blue; their symbols include: chameleons, vipers, butterflies/moths, caterpillars, masks, and opals, color-changing sapphires/garnets, and pearls

(They all had once trained and given a gift/blessing (a mutation) to Reader, but after The Fight, they rarely speak of them... no one can ever speak ill of Reader in their presence or where they can hear, lest they earn the wrath of any of them... they try to be better mentors (read: parents) to the new demigods...)

[phasewashere]

susan grimshaw wears victorian goth. karen wears like. trailer park trash fashion and i mean that in the highest regard. sean dresses like a cliché stoner. john,javier, and eagle flies (paytahs also there) are the emo unholy trinity. abigail dresses like its the early 2000s jean skirt and all. charles is a hoodie sweats and too many layers of clothing king. arthur dresses like hes on brokeback mountain. dutch dresses like he plays golf regularly (he doesn't). hosea dresses like the gayest theatre kid you can conceive. bill wear strictly camo cus he thinks it makes him look tough. it doesnt. reverend swanson just. dresses like a protestant preacher. uncles got that karm fit with the really questionable graphic tee and sports cap. lenny wears 90s preppy style but not. white 90s preppy style. prince of bel aire. to me. 90s sitcom fashion. marybeth wears strictly vintage and frequents any yard sale and flea market. tilly wears hand-me-downs but she makes them look cool and sows patches n shit onto them. like. the cool patched shit you find at thrift shops. kieran just wears the ideal dysphoria/depression fit. strauss is a proud old man clothing wearer. he still dresses like its 1950. pearson just dresses like a 1980s dad with his many patterned sweaters and khaki shorts. trelawny only dresses in the most disgustin gaudy eyebleed fashion known to man. and his bath robes are extravagant and layered. micah dresses like eminem but he looks so fucking cringe and stupid. his ankle moniter doesnt help either. molly exists solely in cozy wear and flowey skirts. and platform heels. sadie wears exclusively mens clothing but also like 70s mens work wear and also always dresses like shes on brokeback mountain. like the butch she is.

[tiredfinch]

also here's marauders music taste hcs (period accurate), but some characters aren't included bc I'm not super deep in fandom so I don't . know/think anything abt them.

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james- I think he'd be a big fan of all the music of the now and maybe 10 ish years earlier. lots of sixties duwopy pop-rock like the beatles, the zombies and the turtles but also more contemporary stuff; Fleetwood Mac, Wings, the Pretty Things, Frank Zappa, the Eagles, Queen and Bowie (not glam, disco. so like thin white Duke era- not that he'd mind glam bowie I just think he'd prefer disco bowie)! also I think like Ambrosia and other 70s pop he'd dig.. but I think he would be totally in love with Fleetwood Mac, especially their album Mystery to Me- because it would remind him of lily. I think he, along with alice, would get lily more into fleetwood mac.

lily - I think she'd really prefer 50s rock and jazz .. blues and soul too, though I don't think she'd mind later rock. she just seems very buddy holly/chet baker/frank sinatra/ray charles/ella fitzgerald/nina simone, I also think she'd really like otis redding but he's 60s lol, oh and I think she would've LOVED the monkees when she wad younger and would think theyre brilliant.

sirius - glam glam glam and then also punk from the late 70s-81.. also goth+post punk music (ie. the cure, echo and the bunnymen, the smiths, siouxsie and the banshees, depeche mode, joy division ect ect) but I always think of goth as sort of a mid-late 80s thing so I don't think he'd have really been exposed to alot of goth bands because he was. in jail... but I think David Bowie, T. Rex, Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground, and then like Television, Patti Smith, the Clash, Iggy Pop, the Stooges. yk.. but also a lot of what James listens to as well!:3 bc they r bff! also I think remus and sirius share great love for queen :)

remus! - folk! and art rock! I think he'd like a lot of the glam sirius listens to and I think he'd be a very big velvet underground fan. as for folk, I think Bob Dylan, Vashti Bunyan, Donovan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Janis Ian, Simon and Garfunkle, GEORGE HARRISON!! - that sort of vibe.. also also think he'd share folky stuff with lily and she would rather enjoy it !

peter - I don't think he really listens to music tbh, not in the way where he'd have favourites. just whatever is on the radio/the records his friends play!

alice - I think she lovessssss female artists and makes a point to listen to them. Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Janis Ian, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Kate Bush, Aretha Franklin, very varied but very girl, because I think Alice is a big fan of women doing things idk. bisexual moment 4 her. I think her and lily would also both share a really great love of Stevie Nicks and be like fanatics of hers.

frank - I think bro LOVES reggae idk. Bob Marley fan. culture/jimmy cliff/the gladiators. I also think he'd like a lot of "dad rock" bands, led zeppelin/steely dan/the eagles/the who/the kinks.. yar naur. he's a man❤️🙂‍↕️

severus - classical music snob, probably inherited from his mom. loathes rock n roll idk. seems like THAT SORT OF GUY..

regulus - lots of classical and jazz, but not in the way severus is like pretentious, I mean coming from a muscianship standpoint. I think he'd especially love miles davis jazz wise and beethoven+liszt classical music wise (ie. I think he'd have a great love for romantic music, even though beethoven isn't usually considered romantic- just LISTEN to moonlight sonata, it is DRIPPING with the emotion of romantic music).

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I also have a list of music artists I think would be witches/wizards in the wizardings world, so I might post that soon:)

[littleguypumpkinsheep]

Thinking about Arthur Morgan. And his mindset. And how. Genuinely wonderful of a man he was for his time.

Challenges and mocks Micah for his idiotic views and comments

Directly states that you can’t continue to have an old system of thinking in the new day and age

Believes women should be allowed to vote

Donates to women’s suffrage causes

Visits and helps with women’s suffrage protests

Doesn't outwardly comment on something if he finds it odd and respects it anyway

Frees enslaved Mexican hostages from a random business in Saint Denis

Helps a black man get his wagon back because he was angry on his behalf

The entire thing was Rain Falls and Eagle Flies.

Challenges and mocks random civilians with idiotic views

Killing the racist and white supremacist preacher in Saint Denis without lowering honor

Helps save Tilly

Takes Sadie out to get clothes she feels more comfortable in + respects and fears her

Doesn't ridicule the circus performer wearing women’s clothes

Gets kissed by a man he isn’t in to and just replies with “Do not… ever do that again.” Before immediately continuing to help him

Helps a prostitute hide the body of a man who assaulted her (I fucked this mission up because I was incompetent but)

Helps Charles kill and track down the men who were killing bison without using the animals’ bodies

Respectful of women working in typically “male” jobs

Probably more I’m forgetting

[mosertone]

Every year on December 29th, we remember those who were massacred by the U.S. 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee in 1890:

THOSE WHO CROSSED OVER THAT DAY:

Afraid Of Bear

Afraid Of Nothing Bear (Bear Fool)

Afraid Of Tomahawk

Appears Twice

Ashes

Baby girl

Baby, Wet Feet (White Foot)

Bad (Bear) Woman’s son

Bad Braves

Bad Owner Without Rope

Bad Owner Without Rope’ wife

Bad Spotted Eagle (Cree)

Bad Spotted Eagle’s wife

Bad Wound

Bad Wound’s son

Badger

Bear Comes And Lies

Bear Don’t Run

Bear Lays Down

Bear Parts (Cuts) Body

Bear Parts (Cuts) Body’s son

Bear Sheds His Hair (Shedding Bear)

Bear Skin Vest

Bear Skin Vest’s wife

Bear Skin Vest’s daughter

Bear That Shoots

Bear That Shoots’ mother

Bear With Small Body

Bear With Small Body’s wife

Bear Woman

Benefactress

Chief Big Foot (Spotted Elk)

Big Foot’s wife (Small Tail)

Big Foot’s daughter (White Horse Woman)

Big Skirt (Shirt)

Big (Loud) Voice Thunder

Big Voice Thunder’s wife

Big Voice Thunder’ child

Bird Wings

Bird’s Belly

Black Flutes

Black Fox (Coyote)

Black Hawk

Black Hair’s wife

Black Shield's little girl

Brings White

Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow’s wife

Brown Beaver

Brown Hoops

Brown Turtle

Brown Woman

Buckskin Breech Clout

Cast Away And Run

Cedar Horse

Charge At Them

Chief Boy

Chief Woman

Close To Home, Louis

Clown Woman

Comes Out Rattling

Cottonwood

Courage Bear

Courage Bear’s wife

Courage Bear, George

Crazy Bear

Dewey Beard’s wife (Wears Eagle/White Face)

Dewey Beard’s son (Thomas Beard)

Drops Blood’s wife

Eagle Body

Elk Creek

Elk Creek’s wife

Fat Courage Bear

Feather Enemy

Ghost Horse

Good Bear’s wife

Good Boy

Grease Leg Bone

Grey Hand

Grey In Eyes

Handsome

Happens

Hard To Kill’s mother

Has A Dog

Has Scarlet

Has The Bell

Hat

Hawk Flying

He Crow

He Eagle

He Eagle’s wife

He Eagle, Edward

Head Woman

Heart Of Timber

Her Eagle Body

Her Good Cloud

Her Scarlet Blanket

High Hawk’s wife

High Hawk’s son

High Hawk’s daughter

Horned Cloud, William

Horned Cloud, Sherman

Important Man

Iron American’s wife

Iron Eyes (Big Foot's brother)

Iron Eyes’ wife

Iron Eyes, Albert

Kills

Kills Assiniboine

Kills Crow Indian

Kills First

Kills In Bush

Kills Seneca

Kills Tin Cup

Kills Who Stand In Timber

Wife of Kills Who Stand In Timber

Kyle, Charles

Lap’s wife

Last Running

Last Talking

Leg

Light Hair

Liking

Little baby

Little Body Bear

Little Body Bear’s wife

Little Body Bear’s son

Little Body Bear’s daughter

Little Boy’s son

Little Elk

Little Elk’s wife

Little girl

Living Bear

Lodge Napkin

Lodge Skin

Log

Wife of Log

Lone Child

Long Bull

Mrs. Long Bull

Long Medicine

Mad

Makes Presents

Medicine Lake Girl

Medicine Woman’s son

Medicine Woman’s son (2)

Medicine Woman’s daughter

Mercy To Others

Mule's Daughter

Not Afraid Of Lodge

Not Go In Among

Old Good Bear

Old Man Yellow Bull

Old Man Yellow Bull’

One Feather

Pass Water In Horn

Pawnee Killer

Peaked

Picket Horse

Plain Voice

Pretty Bear

Pretty Bold Eagle

Pretty Enemy

Pretty Hawk

Pretty Hawk’s wife

Pretty Hawk’s baby

Pretty Hair

Pretty Voice Elk

Pretty Woman

Produce

Rattles

Rattling Leaf

Really Woman

Really Woman’s Son

Red Buffalo (Red White Cow)

Red Eagle

Red Ears Horse

Red Ears Horse’s sister

Red Fish

Red Fish’s wife

Red (Scarlet) Horn

Red Juniper

Red Other Woman

Red Shell

Red Shirt Girl

Red Water Woman

Roots Its Hole

Rousing Squirrel

Rousing Squirrel’s mother

Running In Lodge

Running Standing Hairs

Running Standing Hairs’ wife

Running Standing Hairs’ daughter

Runs After

Runs Behind (Last Running)

Runs Off With Horses

Runs On’ sister

Sacred Face

Sacred In Appearance

Scabbard Knife

Scabbard Knife’s wife

Scares The Bear

Scares The Bear’s grandson

Scares The Bear’s grandson (2)

Scarlet Calf

Scarlet Calf’s son

Scarlet Calf’s son (2)

Scarlet Coat

Scarlet Otter

Scarlet Smoke

Scarlet White Buffalo

Scatters Them

Shakes The Bird

Shaving Bear

Shaving Bear’s child

Shaving Bear’s child (2)

Shaving Bear’s child (3)

Shaving Bear’s child (4)

Shedding Bear

Shedding Bear’s mother-in-law

She Bear

Shoot At Accurately

Shoot At Accurately’s son

Shoots Straight

Shoots The Bear

Shoots The Bear’s wife

Shoots The Bear, George

Shoots (With) The Hawk Feather

Shoots (With) The Hawk Feather’s mother

Shoots The Right

Shoots The White

Short Hair (Close Haired) Bear

Short Hair Bear’s child

Short Hair Bear’s child (2)

Short Hair Bear’s child (3)

Shot In Hand

Singing Bull

Singing Bull’s wife

Singing Bull’s son

Slippery Hide

Small Bodied Bear

Spotted (Speckled) Chief

Spotted Elk

Spotted Elk’s wife

Spotted Elk’s son

Spotted Elk’ son (2)

Spotted Elk’s son (3)

Spotted Thunder

Starts The Horse

Strike Scatter

Stone Hammer’s wife

Strong Fox

Strong Fox’s wife

Sun In The Pupil

Sun In The Pupil’s wife

Swift Bird

Swift Bird’s wife

Takes Away Enemy

Takes Away The Bow

The Ring

Thunder

Thunder Hawk Woman

To Laugh

Trotter

Trouble

Trouble In Front

Trouble In Front’s mother-in-law

Trouble In Love’s wife

Twin Woman

Unintentionally Brave

Up To His Waist

Up To His Waist’s wife

Used For Brother

Walking Bull

Walking Bull’s wife

Walks Red

War In His

Water Snake

Wears Calfskin Robe

Weasel

Weasel Bear

Weasel Bear, Louise

Whip

Whirlwind Bear

Whirlwind Hawk

Whirlwind Hawk’s wife

Whirlwind Hawk’s daughter

Whirlwind Hawk’s daughter (2)

Whirlwind Hawk’s daughter (3)

Whirlwind Hawk’s son

Whirlwind Hawk’s son (2)

White

White American

White Beaver Woman

White Bull

White Day

White Face Sun

White Feather

White Hat

White Man

White Mule

White Wolf

White Woman

Wind

Wing

Wing’s son

Winter

Without Robe

Wolf Eagle

Wolf Ears, Edward

Wolf Skin Necklace

Wood Shade

Wood Shade’s wife

Wounded Hand

Wounded In Winter

Yellow Bird Woman

Yellow Buffalo Calf’s wife

Yellow Robe

Young Afraid Of Bear

Young Bear

Young Good Bear

THE WOUNDED (partial list)

Afraid Of Enemy

Brown Eyes

Bear Gone

Bad (Bear) Woman

Bear Lays Down’s wife

Billy Woman

Dewey Beard (Iron Hail)

He Crow’s wife

Help Them (Helps Them Up)

Her Black Horses

Holy Woman

Kills Close To Lodge, Bertha

Kills White Man’s wife

Little Bull

Little Finger, John

Looking Elk

Looking Elk, Lydia

Put Away Moccasins

Run As Though His Hair Fussed

Runs Around Lodge

Sack Woman

Scaring Hawk

Walking Buffalo

White Cowboy’s son

Yellow Eyes

THE SURVIVORS

Afraid Of Hawk, Richard

Afraid Of Left Hand

Animal

Audacious Bear

Back Bone

Bad Boy

Bad Hand

Bear Cuts Body’s wife

Bear Don’t Run’s wife

Bear Runs In The Woods

Bear Sheds His Hair’s wife

Bear Woman’s daughter

Bear Woman, Edith

Big Boy’s son

Bird Shaker (Brown Bull)

Birds Afraid Of Him

Black Bugle

Black Crow

Blue Horse

Bone

Brings Yellow

Brown Hair

Brown Sinew

Chases And Kills

Cub Bear

Enemy

Farms At The River

Good Horse’s wife

Good Scarlet Horn

Good (Pretty) Spotted Horse

Good White Cow

Grey

Grey Hand’s wife

Grey Hand’s son (George Randall)

Grey Owl Woman

Hair Pipe

Hand

Hard To Kill (Young Bear)

Hawk Bear (Eagle Hawk Bear)

Hawk Feather (Shoots The Hawk Feather)

Hawk Woman

He Crow, Jackson

He Eagle

Helper, Simon

Her Black Horses’s daughter

Her Brown Faced Dog

Her Cedar

Her Eagle

Her Elk Tooth

Her First

Her Neck

Her Room

Her Shawl

Her War Bonnet

In Front

Kill Her White Horse

Killed His Choice

Killed The Bear

Killed The Bear’s wife

Kills Against

Kills First, Leon

Kills First, Mary

Kills In The Middle

Kills One Hundred

Kills Two

Kills White Man

King Boy’s son

Knife, Nellie

Knocked In The Head

Kyle, Charles’ wife

Kyle, Charles’ child

Light Hair Girl

Little Bear

Little Body Bear’s son

Little Cloud

Little Cloud’s wife

Little Eyed Woman

Little Water

Little Water’s wife

Little Warrior

Little Wound

Liver Gall

Lives In Iron

Lives Reckless

Living Bull’s son

Living Bull, Helena

Long Bull

Long Bull, Helen

Long Feather

Long Holy

Long Woman

Lost Bird

Makes Him Mad

Not Stingy

Picks And Kill

Pipe On Head, James

Pretty Shield

Pretty Shield’s wife

Quit On Him

Red Belly

Red Fingernail Woman

Red Fish, James

Red Horn Bear

Red Stone

Rough Feather

Running Hawk, George

Runs After It

Runs Fast

Runs On

Sacred Blanket

Scarlet Rotation

Scarlet Tipi Top

Scout

Scout Tent

Sees The Bear

Sees The Elk

Seventeen, Patrick

Shawl Over Head

Shell Necklace

She Wears Eagle

Shoot The Bear (I Shot The Bear)

Shoots Straight’s wife

Shoots Straight’s child

Shot Him Off

Short Hair Bear’s wife

Shows His Cloud

Sinew Belly

Sits Poor, Frank

Sits Straight (Good Thunder)

Smokes Walking

Snow Over Her

Sole Of Foot

Spotted Bear, John

Spotted Eagle

Stands Looking’s wife

Stands Up For Him

Tattooed

The Brown

The Hawk

The Voice

Touches The Ground

Trouble In Front (Bear Sheds His Hair)

Two Arrows (Male Eagle)

Two Lance

Unties Shoestring

Walks With Circle

Warrior

Wears Calfskin Robe’s wife

Wears Fur Coat

Wears Yellow Robe

Whip

White Cow Comes Out

White Eagle

White Face Woman

White Hair

White Hawk’s son

White Horse

White Lance (Horn Cloud)

White Woman Hand

Wild Man

Wind In Guts

Young Big Foot

Yellow Horse

Sources: “The Wounded Knee Interviews of Eli S. Ricker” and “Big Foot’s Followers at Wounded Knee” in Nebraska History Quarterly (lists may be incomplete)

Medals of Honor (the United States’ highest military honor) awarded to selected perpetrators of the massacre. These awards have never been rescinded.

• Sergeant William Austin, cavalry, directed fire at Indians in ravine at Wounded Knee;

• Private Mosheim Feaster, cavalry, extraordinary gallantry at Wounded Knee;

• Private Mathew Hamilton, cavalry, bravery in action at Wounded Knee;

• Private Joshua Hartzog, artillery, rescuing commanding officer who was wounded and carried him out of range of hostile guns at Wounded Knee;

• Private Marvin Hillock, cavalry, distinguished bravery at Wounded Knee;

• Sergeant Bernhard Jetter, cavalry, distinguished bravery at Wounded Knee for "killing an Indian who was in the act of killing a wounded man of B Troop."

• Sergeant George Loyd, cavalry, bravery, especially after having been severely wounded through the lung at Wounded Knee;

• Sergeant Albert McMillain, cavalry, while engaged with Indians concealed in a ravine, he assisted the men on the skirmish line, directed their fire, encouraged them by example, and used every effort to dislodge the enemy at Wounded Knee;

• Private Thomas Sullivan, cavalry, conspicuous bravery in action against Indians concealed in a ravine at Wounded Knee;

• First Sergeant Jacob Trautman, cavalry, killed a hostile Indian at close quarters, and, although entitled to retirement from service, remained to close of the campaign at Wounded Knee;

• Sergeant James Ward, cavalry, continued to fight after being severely wounded at Wounded Knee;

• Corporal William Wilson, cavalry, bravery in Sioux Campaign, 1890;

• Private Hermann Ziegner, cavalry, conspicuous bravery at Wounded Knee; • Musician John Clancy, artillery, twice voluntarily rescued wounded comrades under fire of the enemy; • Lieutenant Ernest Garlington, cavalry, distinguished gallantry; • First Lieutenant John Chowning Gresham, cavalry, voluntarily led a party into a ravine to dislodge Sioux Indians concealed therein. He was wounded during this action. • Second Lieutenant Harry Hawthorne, artillery, distinguished conduct in battle with hostile Indians; • Private George Hobday, cavalry, conspicuous and gallant conduct in battle; • First Sergeant Frederick Toy, cavalry, bravery; • Corporal Paul Weinert, artillery, taking the place of his commanding officer who had fallen severely wounded, he gallantly served his piece, after each fire advancing it to a better position

NEVER FORGET!!!!!