#Connie Walker

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Funny Haha meme I did of my ocs, well, at least the ones that can own a cellphone or already do. Some are in pj-oct and some are just debuting here.

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[walrusmagazine]

Read the March/April 2024 issue of The Walrus now at thewalrus.ca!

Photography by Jordana Bermúdez (jordanabtp.com)

[cantquitu]

Podcast recommendation: I never do this, but I recommend listening to anything by Connie Walker. She's a journalist from the Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan, working originally with CBC and now Gimlet Media. Her podcasts focus on Indigenous stories.

I've listened to everything I can find of hers over the past few years. The stories she chooses to illuminate, and how she blends investigative reporting with a personal perspective, make for really gripping and moving podcasts. So when she won a Pulitzer and a Peabody last week, I felt personally invested and proud!

She won for Stolen: Surviving St Michael's, about the abuse suffered by her family and generations of Indigenous children in Canada's residential schools at the hands of the Catholic Church in collusion with the Canadian government.

As an Irish person, the horror of the residential schools is depressingly familiar, but coupled with the racism and cultural genocide suffered by Indigenous kids in Canada, it's almost too much to bear. That's what's so amazing about this podcast - despite the unbearable subject matter, you feel you have to listen, and there's hope there.

Anyway, this is a random post but I felt so glad to hear that Connie Walker's work and her family's story is being recognised!

[iamidentical]

Four out of five of the last Oblate principals from St Michael's are accused sexual abusers. They were at the school between 1939 and 1972 [...] take the year 1963 as an example. Anthony Duhaime was principal, and there were four other priests at the school who reported to him, and all of them were accused of sexual abuse. If these claims are true, every single priest at St Michael's was sexually abusing children—and every single priest was getting away with it.

[...]

We found 15 staff members, 13 nuns and 17 Oblate priests accused of sexual abuse at St Michael's. Against these 45 adults, we counted 219 allegations, which means the majority of these alleged abusers had more than one allegation against them. And in many cases, the allegations did not refer to a single incident, but abuse that continued over weeks, months or even years.

-Connie Walker, Surviving St Michael's, Episode 7

This podcast collated allegations of abuse that the reporters were able to pull out of court documents filed by survivors of one Canadian residential school. It can be easy for people unaffected by residential schools to underestimate the scale of abuse that happened at these institutions; even the numbers here are, as Walker later says, an undercount.

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The Vampire Diaries/The Originals, True Blood, Supernatural, The Walking Dead, Supernatural, Stranger Things, Lab Rats, Euphoria, Teen Titans, Cobra Kai, Teen Wolf, That 70s show, Amerian Horror Story, The Umbrella Academy, Steven Universe, Miraculous Ladybug,

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Twilight, Jennifer's Body, MCU, Harry Potter, Scream Franchise, Heathers, Descendants, Halloween, Chucky, House of Wax, American Psycho, Lost Boys, Ginger Snaps, Carrie, Interview with a Vampire, Challengers, and IT

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Tokyo Revengers, Diabolik Lovers, Saiki K, JJK, MHA, AOT, Death Note, Kakeguri, Hunter x Hunter, Ouran High School, Vampire Knight, Tokyo Ghoul, Servamp, Blood Lad, Hellsing and more that I can’t think of the name

Games

The Last of Us, The Walking Dead Game, The Quarry, and Resident of Evil Games

Bands

Motley Cure and Guns and Roses

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

rainbow magic books should never have a “grown-up” adaptation it would be too chaotic

[agmagazinescans]

Together We Sail, by Connie Porter

American Girl Magazine, March/April 1996

[Ko-Fi Donations]

[in-pleasant-company]

Connie Porter on Addy

[shakespearefreak]

Question specifically for Black American Girl fans

Now that I have my childhood Addy back, I want to start including her in my doll stories, but I’m concerned about writing dialogue for her, specifically her dialect. Ideally I’d like to write book-accurate dialogue, but I worry that as a White person, trying to mimic the style of speech in the books may end up sounding overdone and disrespectful. But I also know that the historical Black dialect was something that Connie Porter felt strongly about and argued for (“When you have a group that has been marginalized, you marginalize them even more by thinking they have to talk in a certain way”). I want to respectfully represent Porter’s work, the Black community in general, and the character of Addy herself. What would you recommend? Should I go for a book-accurate dialect (which I'd obviously try my best to be careful writing, and dial back if someone told me to), or have her talk closer to the way I myself talk?

Thank you in advance for your time and effort if you choose to answer this (and no pressure if you'd rather not)! 😊

[angelasscribbles]

The Crown and the Shield Chapter 7: All Fall Down

Series: The Crown and the Shield

Fandom: The Royal Romance

Pairings: Constantine x Jackson

Word Count: 740

Rating: MA

Warnings for this chapter: Gun violence, blood, death

My other stuff: Master List.

The king of Cordonia approached the podium to thunderous applause. The negotiations had been successful. He was one press conference away from the end of this trip, and the beginning of a new life.

He was nervous, but excited, to confess his love for the head of his King’s Guard to his wife. Jack was right, Eleanor was nothing like Helena. She hadn’t married him for the crown but for their shared love of Leo. She was kind and loving and there was no way she would abandon her child the way his first wife had abandoned hers.

He would tell her about himself and Jackson and she would understand, like Bianca had. He could be more freely himself, Jack could be a bigger part of his life. Everything was going to work out. He just had to get through his part of the press conference.

The peace accords had gone far better than expected and he was confident about the future. He shot a discreet glance at Jackson as he took his place at the podium and cleared his throat.

His parents and his wife were seated on the stage behind him, along with the heads of state of all the attendee nations. Rivala, Auvernall, Monterisso, and Vallenheim. All of them hereditary monarchies. All of them targets of the anti-monarchy terrorist group The Liberation Core.

“I’d like to start by thanking the Spanish government for hosting this summit,” Constantine turned his head to nod politely at the king of Spain. He smiled broadly as he opened his mouth to compliment the culture, the cuisine, and the hospitality they had been shown.

The words never made it to his lips.

Gunshots shattered the bright June morning. Screams erupted from the audience, from the stage, and from the security teams as people scattered and dove for cover.

The crowd that had gathered for the historic announcement descended into complete chaos as panicked people trampled each other in an effort to escape.

The government officials and their families that had been seated on the stage seconds before were being drug from the area by their security teams or already lying on the stage floor, bleeding.

Security team members stumbled and slid through the wetness that now covered the floor as multiple people lay dead or dying.

Seconds stretched out like an eternity as Constantine turned his head wildly trying to find the source of the gunfire. Before he could react, a body hit his full force, tackling him to the ground.

There was a loud ringing in his ears, the gunshots and the screaming sounded dim and far away as darkness clouded the edges of his vision. He blinked rapidly trying to clear his senses as every survival instinct he possessed screamed at him to stay conscious.

He turned his head to the left and felt bile rise in his throat. The king of Auvernall lay mere feet away from him, unseeing eyes fixed and empty, his queen next to him gasping for air as her lifeblood ran out of a gaping hole in her chest.

His eyes swept the stage in horror searching for his own parents. The ground was covered in blood. Bodies lay everywhere. He spotted Eleanor being pulled from the stage by the head of her security detail, hands clutching at her stomach as blood soaked the fabric of her dress.

“No!” The scream tore from his throat as he began to struggle to get free. He had to get to her, to all of them. Why couldn’t he move?

His attention shifted to the body that lay motionless on top of him. Time suddenly sped up again as he gazed up into the face of the man who had shoved him out of the line of fire. The man who wasn’t moving. The man who was bleeding out on top of him.

Hot, sticky blood covered them both, but Constantine wasn’t bleeding.  

“Jack! Jack!” Terror clawed at his insides, panic washing over him as tears and snot smeared his face, “Wake up! Wake up!”

Then he was being pulled off the stage by another member of the King’s Guard as he fought with every ounce of strength he possessed to get back to the man he loved.

Three more guards joined the first and he lost the battle. He was pulled away from the danger as his lover lay in a puddle of blood, limp and unmoving.

[mymanreedus]

[ahatintime-oc-competition]

Round Two

Ozzy Walker ( @meepdrawartgood ) VS Connie ( @sleepyumbra )

Read about Ozzy Walker here

Read about Connie here

[walrusmagazine]

How Connie Walker Got Us Listening

The Pulitzer Prize–winning podcaster is changing journalism as we know it

True crime podcasts typically aim to solve a mystery by finding an ending, by uncovering new evidence or pointing a finger at the likely killer, like a campfire story meant to thrill and frighten. Indigenous stories, too, are often reduced to their tragic endings: a brutal death, a haunting absence. But Walker goes in the other direction, by showing who a person was before they became a statistic, emphasizing the complexity and humanity of her subjects while avoiding the genre’s tendency to sensationalize the most lurid details of their deaths. And she reaches back even farther, to show how their life and death were shaped by the complex legacy of colonialism that ripples across generations.

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Photography by Jordana Bermúdez (jordanabtp.com)

[thecoffeeloverbutterfly90]

Here's my fancast for some cool fantasy story, I written (in my mind, currently...)

[Part 1 of 2 of the introduction]

Vincent Regan & Polly Walker as the King & Queen of the Two Kingdom (joined by marriage, of course.)

Fionnula Flanaghan as Rue

Joely Richardson as Gwynna, the "High Witch"

Jessica Brown Findlay as Dara

Miranda Richardson as Merea

Russell Crowe & Connie Nielsen as the King & Queen of the Kingdom of The Highest Mountain

Toby Stephens as the King of Thousand Towers

Jane Horrocks as Rhea

Charlotte Rampling as the High Chief of the Nuns of the Institute of Fire Island

Charles Dance as The Archer King.

Part I of the introduction, finished.

Second part, coming soon.

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Monty Python members as Starkids

(Literally my two personality traits)

Connie Booth- Meredith Stepien

Graham Chapman- Joe Walker

John Cleese- Joey Richter

Carol Cleveland- Lauren Lopez

Terry Gilliam- Jeff Blim

Eric Idle- Darren Criss

Neil Innes- AJ Holmes

Terry Jones- Brian Rosenthal

Michael Palin- Jon Matteson

[conniesmlb]

This week in baseball, Connie edition

June 1

~ Ronald Acuña Jr. is out for the season. Poor guy. ☹️

~ Jake Cronenworth achieved his 500th career hit.

~ Blake Treinen got his first save since 2021.

~ Jorge "I play for the worst team" Lopez tossed his glove into the stands after getting ejected. He's been DFA'd.

~ A hundred career home runs for Will Smith!

~ Matt Carpenter hit his first home run of the season.

~ Pete Alonso hurt his finger Wednesday, but was able to pinch hit for Brett Baty late in Thursday's game and did a great job, scoring a run. J.D. Martinez also hit a home run in the 8th inning of that same game. I love those guys.

~ Jose Siri had a two-homer game on Thursday vs. the A's.

~ Shohei Ohtani stole his 100th base!

~ Seiya Suzuki hit a grand slam.

~ So did Christian Walker.

~ And J.P. Crawford. It was a day for grand slams, I guess.

If I missed anything, feel free to let me know.