#Ebony Armstrong

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

TRANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE 2024 - November 20

Say their names:

NOVEMBER 2023

Savannah Williams

Bernardo Panteleon

Pepper Mychel Peterson

Mariah Ruby Rachel Williams

F. L. “Bubba” Copeland

Lola Laperla Ebony McDaniels

Shandon Floyd

Tiesha McFarland

Kejuan Richardson

Amiri Jean Reid

Mya Finch

Travis Stimeling

DECEMBER 2023

Demita Jo Armstrong

Onteris Owens-Campbell

Jesse Viviano White

Star Possum

Jermaine Golden

Meghan Riley Lewis

Zoey Flye

Madison Montana

Care Hansen

Amber Minor

Ashlei Jasmine Colgate-Edwards

Fleetwood Mars Mozee

Shelby “Lexus” Riddick-Walker

Kimbella Blackshear

Easley Jeffcoat

Tripp Schultz

JANUARY 2024

Lady Fabian Sanchez

James Moen

Dana Randolph “Desiree A. DeMornay”

Quin Joy

Sasha Williams

Jennell Jaquays

Sarina Mihailoff

Sasha Washington-Cohen “Sasha Fierce”

Guelila “Gigi” Iyob

Videl Lombardo

Savannah Rose Rivers Amore

Kathy “Otter” Ottersten

Robin Valentina

Forrest Douglas Buckley

Giselle Stone

Tristan Michael Bustos “Tristyn St. Clair”

Kitty Monroe

FEBRUARY 2024

Natalia Skye

Teddy Reese Curran

Erick Krouse

Noah Jackson Chase

Ellie Walsh

Nex Benedict

Emma “África” Parrilla García

Blakely Hanson

Righteous TK “Chevy” Hill

Ashton Myles Clatterbuck

Madison Nicole Spann “Madison St. Claire”

Cecilia Gentili

MARCH 2024

Diamond Cherish Brigman

Elliot Ganiel

Fae Morganna Barbone

Aurelia A. Legassey

Alex Franco

Meraxes Medina

Ty Geissinger “Ty Holiday”

APRIL 2024

Andrea Doria Dos Passos “Maggie”

Yella Clark

Allister Matthews

Tiffany Azalea Monceaux

Tara Fable

Randy Dudley

River Neveah Goddard

Tee “Ace” Arnold

George A. Schappell

Starr Brown

Robbi Mecus

Basil Brown

MAY 2024

Tayy Dior Thomas

Kita Bee

Kamryn “Cantrell” Smith

Jazlynn Johnson

Daelicious O’hare Mizani

Darri C. Moore

Niomi Jenkins

Michelle Henry

Saanti Bonét Valentino

JUNE 2024

Pauly Likens

M. Tapia

Lynn Conway

Liara Kaylee Tsai

JULY 2024

Dylan Gurley

Griffin Shaun Sivret

Kenji Zemonta Spurgeon

Ev Smith

Shannon Boswell

Levi Castillo

Lily Autumn Rose

Monique Brooks

AUGUST 2024

Noelle Woolley

Indiana Grayson

Vanity Williams

Tai’Vion Lathan

Jhzara “Femmie” Williams

Baxter Zachary Hawk

SEPTEMBER 2024

Kassim Omar

Liam Johns

Mahdia Lynn

Cass Trystero

Chilli Pepper

Barbie Iceland “Redd China”

OCTOBER 2024

Honee Daniels

Serenity Birdsong

Adela Vázquez

San Coleman

Zeta Muirgen Seraph Haber

Despite our best efforts, the names on our list are only those who had the privilege of recognition, the fortune of discovery, or the extraordinary courage to leave indelible proof of their true selves for us to mourn. So many unknown and uncounted people remain that even years from now we will learn the names of people in our community who died this year without the recognition they deserved.

https://www.transremembrance.org/domestic-list

[cemeterygrace]

remembering my trans ancestors and those we’ve lost on this trans day of remembrance. they are all so loved by us, and unique in their own ways. fly high and know that you are beloved. for those not on this list, you are known and remembered.

rest in peace and in freedom.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

NOVEMBER 2023

Savannah Williams

Bernardo Panteleon

Pepper Mychel Peterson

Mariah Ruby Rachel Williams

F. L. “Bubba” Copeland

Lola Laperla Ebony McDaniels

Shandon Floyd

Tiesha McFarland

Kejuan Richardson

Amiri Jean Reid

Mya Finch

Travis Stimeling

DECEMBER 2023

Demita Jo Armstrong

Onteris Owens-Campbell

Jesse Viviano White

Star Possum

Jermaine Golden

Meghan Riley Lewis

Zoey Flye

Madison Montana

Care Hansen

Amber Minor

Ashlei Jasmine Colgate-Edwards

Fleetwood Mars Mozee

Shelby “Lexus” Riddick-Walker

Kimbella Blackshear

Easley Jeffcoat

Tripp Schultz

JANUARY 2024

Lady Fabian Sanchez

James Moen

Dana Randolph “Desiree A. DeMornay”

Quin Joy

Sasha Williams

Jennell Jaquays

Sarina Mihailoff

Sasha Washington-Cohen “Sasha Fierce”

Guelila “Gigi” Iyob

Videl Lombardo

Savannah Rose Rivers Amore

Kathy “Otter” Ottersten

Robin Valentina

Forrest Douglas Buckley

Giselle Stone

Tristan Michael Bustos “Tristyn St. Clair”

Kitty Monroe

FEBRUARY 2024

Natalia Skye

Teddy Reese Curran

Erick Krouse

Noah Jackson Chase

Ellie Walsh

Nex Benedict

Emma “África” Parrilla García

Blakely Hanson

Righteous TK “Chevy” Hill

Ashton Myles Clatterbuck

Madison Nicole Spann “Madison St. Claire”

Cecilia Gentili

MARCH 2024

Diamond Cherish Brigman

Elliot Ganiel

Fae Morganna Barbone

Aurelia A. Legassey

Alex Franco

Meraxes Medina

Ty Geissinger “Ty Holiday”

APRIL 2024

Andrea Doria Dos Passos “Maggie”

Yella Clark

Allister Matthews

Tiffany Azalea Monceaux

Tara Fable

Randy Dudley

River Neveah Goddard

Tee “Ace” Arnold

George A. Schappell

Starr Brown

Robbi Mecus

Basil Brown

MAY 2024

Tayy Dior Thomas

Kita Bee

Kamryn “Cantrell” Smith

Jazlynn Johnson

Daelicious O’hare Mizani

Darri C. Moore

Niomi Jenkins

Michelle Henry

Saanti Bonét Valentino

JUNE 2024

Pauly Likens

M. Tapia

Lynn Conway

Liara Kaylee Tsai

JULY 2024

Dylan Gurley

Griffin Shaun Sivret

Kenji Zemonta Spurgeon

Ev Smith

Shannon Boswell

Levi Castillo

Lily Autumn Rose

Monique Brooks

AUGUST 2024

Noelle Woolley

Indiana Grayson

Vanity Williams

Tai’Vion Lathan

Jhzara “Femmie” Williams

Baxter Zachary Hawk

SEPTEMBER 2024

Kassim Omar

Liam Johns

Mahdia Lynn

Cass Trystero

Chilli Pepper

Barbie Iceland “Redd China”

OCTOBER 2024

Honee Daniels

Serenity Birdsong

Adela Vázquez

San Coleman

Zeta Muirgen Seraph Haber

[shamelesstragedyenjoyer]

Here's my understanding of Cassandra Cain's style as a tween according to Shadows of a Batgirl (2019). I admire this storyline for offering a thoughtful glimpse into her years as a runaway. It addresses a longstanding curiosity within the fandom about how she navigated the streets of Gotham from ages 8 to 18. Sarah Kunh's response was both reassuring and heartwarming. Along with Nicole Goux, they presented a very refreshing, male gaze-free portrayal of a character who's often been subjected to both orientalism and misogyny since her 1999 inception.

Cassandra's wardrobe, primarily sourced from the Lost & Found at the library she squats, tells an interesting story. From items belonging to the elderly restaurant owner who took her in to forgotten garments left behind by it's clients, her outfits reflect a mix of eclectic patterns and floral motifs. Mismatched socks, fragmented jewelry, irrelevant pins; she possesses a childlike perception of clothing as just items that spark joy and interest which you can wear on your body. Under her father's tutelage, she was frequently adorned in sleek, ebony garments reminiscent of the classic ninja aesthetic, a theme that actually endures within her costume as an adult. However, her shift towards embracing lively, unrestrictive clothes serves as a symbol of her quest to reclaim her sense of self. This transition not only represents personal growth but also stands as a testament to her journey towards emancipation and independence.

She gets how sharing clothes can be a way of showing affection. A love langage, if you will. Her transition from being dressed by others to dressing herself, and choosing to wear similar items as the elderly lady who helped her, rather than conforming to what she sees people in the streets wearing, vividly illustrates this understanding.

As she grows up and is incorporated into the Batfamilly, you can see who she's hanging out with the most at any given moment depending on what she wears and what she listens to. Slightly form fitting turtle necks, high rise office trousers, Prada loafers and Louis Armstrong records blasting on repeat ? She's on a mission with Bruce. Probably overseas where they spend so much time huddled together they practically function as a tandem. One breathes in the other breathes out, siamese twins that aren’t attached.

Leather jackets reeking of cheap cologne, tight jeans, loose morals, khôl stained waterline, knee high socks; she's with Jason Todd, out on a crossover mission. She pretends to read a classic novel, just like him, but the whole time her book's upside down.

Mostly it's oversized basketball tee-shirts, strawberry shampoo smelling scrunchies, Tupac playing on the radio and haphazard liner because, she's Steph's before she's anyone elses.

On missions outside of the country when she's not Orphan nor Cassandra but something in between, perhaps her truest self, it does gravitate towards black and grunge, the way you’d expect Orphan to be out of costume. Only then is she true to her upbringing, to who she'd be without her family.

[xxbl00ds0akeds3raxx]

Hello Fifi :3!! Do you write fanfics? If so, do you have any tips and tricks to write good ones? Also!! I fucking love my immortal so much <3 if you could wear any outfit Ebony wore, which one would it be?

HAIII!!! :D I DO WRITE FANFICZ !! Umm my advice iz 2 have fun w/ it!!! ppl r stupid online & might say that umm it sux or watever but as long as u R making sumthin u like it doesnt matter !! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I LUV MY IMMORTAL XD TBH i have a lot of clothez that R similar to herz already!! likeee i have a corset, black leather dress, fishnets, black combat boots, mini skirts n stuffs,,, but a lot of her outfits umm dont exist ROFL likeee when she said she had a marilyn manson towel umm or her billie joe armstrong boots HAHAHA

But ya idk how to choose onneee.... i think i would wear a lot of the outfits Ebony wore xD

[mylittlesecrethaven]

Trollhunters Voice Actors Cause Why Not: Pt 2

I'm only doing six VAs per post so that I don't go insane making these.

(sorry for the bad pic)

Amy Landecker

Who voices Barbara Lake in TrollHunters, Dr. Emilia in Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts, and the Lactaid Cow in the Lactaid commercials.

(I guess these are all gonna be this small)

Clancy Brown

Who voices Gunmar in TrollHunters, Yakone in The Legend of Korra, several characters in the 2012 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mr. Krabs in several SpongeBob shows, movies, games, and commercials, and more.

Matthew Waterson

Who voices Draal in TrollHunters, several characters in DOTA: Dragon's Blood, several characters in Hogwarts Legacy, and plenty of voices in other games such as The Last of Us Part II, Red Dead Redemption II, and more.

Victor Raider Wexler

Who voices Vendel in TrollHunters and a few characters in Rugrats.

Steven Yuen

Who voices Steve Palchuk in TrollHunters, Mark Grayson in Invicible, Keith in Voltron: Legendary Defender, Wan in The Legend of Korra, Bo in The Star, and several characters in Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters.

Cole Sane

Who voices Eli Pepperjack in TrollHunters, Ebony in Leo the Lion, and a few characters in Batman: The Telltale Series.

I'll get the rest done later. I swear.

[mergingonthefreeway]

Greenpeace - Don't Stop from Samona Olanipekun on Vimeo.

This is no ordinary cover: Don’t Stop is a contemporary fable about being young in the world today. The song is a call to action for people worried about their future and the state of the planet, and a rallying cry for those who dream of a better tomorrow. Together we can stand up to the fossil fuel industry. Add your name now: act.gp/3qIN8o6

Production Company: Lammas Park @lammas_park_productions

Director - Samona Olanipekun @samona_o Exec Producers - Steve McQueen, Bona Orakwue @bonaclara7, Anna Smith Tenser @smithspanna Producer - George Telfer @gtelfs

Production Manager - Chanel Parkinson @chanellyonthetelly PA - Hannah Lockwood @hanlockwood Cast Coordinator - Beth Rubery @beth.rubery Production Runner - Tom Gimlette @tomgimlette

Researcher - Shireen Bahmanizad @shireen_bahmanizad Researcher - Conall O’Brien @conallobrien Bidding Producer - Nat Baring @natanatics Lammas Park Head of Operations - Nicholas Horne Lammas Park Production Assistant - Umashni Puvanendran

1st AD - Gabriel O’Donohue @_gabriel.odonohue_

Movement Director - Liara Barussi @liarabarussi Casting Director - Coralie Rose @coralie_blamo_rose

DOP - Annika Summerson @annisummerson Steadicam / Camera Op - Jonathan Tyler @jonotyler Focus Puller A Cam - Kate Mollins @kate__mo_ Focus Puller B Cam - Sam Ebrahim Riley @samrileyac Clapper / Loader - Sonia Rogriguez Camera Trainee - Lucas Murray Reynolds Grip - Warwick Drucker

Video Playback - Robbie Ross @rsvp.london DIT - Ben Grady @colour.grady Sound Recordist - Anthony Leung @anthonyleungsound

Gaffer - Salvador Lopez-Gomez @glofilmlighting Best Boy - Jamie Hitchens @jamiehitchens Desk Op - Noah Furrer Electricians - Charlie Lodge, Lee Madigan, Nathan Rubins Rigger - Steve Daly @steve_daly

Production Designer - Jade Adeyemi @adeyumyum Prop Buyer - Martha Howe @martha.howe, Matty Mancy @matty.mancey Led Art Assistant - Lea Otovic @leaotovic Art Dept Assistant - Isabelle Bryan, Nana-yaw Mensah @nyk_mensah, Lucia Barsegian @luciabarsegian, Daisy Alexander, Fenella Evans @fen.art_, Sofia Karavis @sofiakara

Construction by Cous De La @cousdela

SFX Supervisor - Neil Gawthrop SFX Technicians - Miguel Ferreira, Jonathan Long SFX by Machine Shop @machineshopsfx

Costume Designer - Verity May Lane @veritymaylane Costume Assistants - Amy Thompson @a_thompson, Johanna Yohannes, Ellie Rimmer @ellie_r1

Make Up Designer - Maya Man @mayamanartist Make Up Assistants - Chelsea Murphy @sculptedbychelsea, Nic Marilyn @nicmarilyn Hair Designer - Kreszend Sackey @kreszendsackey Hair Assistant - Viviane Melo @vivianemelomua

Medic - Verity Stacy

Editor - Jack Williams @__jackwilliams_ Edit House - The Assembly Rooms @the_assembly_rooms Edit Producer - Phoebe Armstrong-Beaver Sound Designer - Jack Sedgwick @snappajack Audio Post - King Lear @kinglearlondon Audio Producer - Suzy McGregor Colourist - George Kyriacou @georgekcolourist Post - Black Kite Studios @blackkitestudios VFX - Mark Stannard Colour Producer - Holly Tidwell @holly_tidwell, Jade Denne @jadedenne

Camera - Panavision @panavisionofficial Lighting - Panalux @panaluxworld Studio - Dukes Island Studios Insurance - Dan Woods at Media Insurance Brokers Accountancy - Robert Okonski & Emmanuel Lindsay at Clay GBP

Casting Assistants - Laura Meredith Additional Casting - Lauren Patterson @ Jukebox Collective Agency

CAST:

Speech Givers: Kyle Osbourne Lili Chin

Tomorrow’s Warriors: Kyle Osborne, Emily Tran, Cassius Cobbson, Shanise, David, Tami Lisa Smith

Waiters & Kitchen Staff Cameron Berryman, Izaebella Cresci, Christopher Mbaki, Jinessa Meggi, Ebony Aboagye, Oliver Manley, Kade Turner, Geddy Stringer

Party Guests: Graham Collier, Anja Kick, Philippa Casares, Noreen Goodwin, Benji Ming, Catherine Cornwall, Huma Mohyuddin, Ellie Madden, Albert Graver, Rainier Manzano, Ruby Gascoyne, Sharifa Butterfly, Haseeb ‘Chilly’ Hearn, Duran Abdullah, Mikael Rivieri, Patrick Gabco, Ellie Harlulow, Rogerio Ghesti, Katerina Bragin, Michael Ahfong, Kesiena Banye, Beverly Connel, Jeanette Maskell, Peter Wilkinson

and Featuring: Will Poulter, Fraser T Smith and Avelino

MUSIC

Written by: Christine McVie / Universal Music Publishing Group Produced by: Fraser T Smith / 70Hz Original Rap verses: Avelino Music Supervision and Consultancy: Ed Bailie and Seb Whyte / Leland Music Music Marketing: Olivia Hobbs and Clare Wright / Blackstar Agency Performed by: Future Utopia X Avelino X Tomorrow's Warriors With thanks to: House Gospel Choir, Benjamin Kwasi Burrell, Janine Irons, Fish Krish, Gabriel Starkey, Patricia Pascal

AGENCY

Creative Agency: Mother London Creative Director: James Sellick @jamessellickauthor Creative: Scott Anderson @scottanders44 Title Design: Ben McNaughton Head of Production: Anna Murray @annasedgwick Producers: Tommy Frankau @tommyfrankau, Nic Akinnibosun, Joseph Ogunmokun Epilogue: Written by Scroobius Pip in collaboration with Greenpeace, performed by Lilli Chin Special Featured Performance: Will Poulter

[a-graveyard-hated-by-the-moon]

Ok so I know that one of the things that we mock about My Immortal is the unnecessarily detailed descriptions of Ebony Dark’ness’s outfits and personal items, usually all containing some type of pop culture reference (the boots with pictures of Billie Joe Armstrong on them always get me).

However. It’s not like this isn’t a well-established literary practice, particularly amongst the decadents. I mean, Huysman’s Against Nature is literally just a catalogue of all the cool stuff Des Esseintes owns described with agonizing meticulousness, including a number of custom bound works of fiction that probably only exist in the realm of the author’s wishful imagination. (Much like the boots with the pictures of Billie Joe Armstrong on them). 

In other words I think that Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde would have lost their shit over My Immortal.

[aroaceaunt]

Transgender Day of Remembrance

NOVEMBER 2023

Savannah Williams

Bernardo Panteleon

Pepper Mychel Peterson

Mariah Ruby Rachel Williams

F. L. “Bubba” Copeland

Lola Laperla Ebony McDaniels

Shandon Floyd

Tiesha McFarland

Kejuan Richardson

Amiri Jean Reid

Mya Finch

Travis Stimeling

DECEMBER 2023

Demita Jo Armstrong

Onteris Owens-Campbell

Jesse Viviano White

Star Possum

Jermaine Golden

Meghan Riley Lewis

Zoey Flye

Madison Montana

Care Hansen

Amber Minor

Ashlei Jasmine Colgate-Edwards

Fleetwood Mars Mozee

Shelby “Lexus” Riddick-Walker

Kimbella Blackshear

Easley Jeffcoat

Tripp Schultz

JANUARY 2024

Lady Fabian Sanchez

James Moen

Dana Randolph “Desiree A. DeMornay”

Quin Joy

Sasha Williams

Jennell Jaquays

Sarina Mihailoff

Sasha Washington-Cohen “Sasha Fierce”

Guelila “Gigi” Iyob

Videl Lombardo

Savannah Rose Rivers Amore

Kathy “Otter” Ottersten

Robin Valentina

Forrest Douglas Buckley

Giselle Stone

Tristan Michael Bustos “Tristyn St. Clair”

Kitty Monroe

FEBRUARY 2024

Natalia Skye

Teddy Reese Curran

Erick Krouse

Noah Jackson Chase

Ellie Walsh

Nex Benedict

Emma “África” Parrilla García

Blakely Hanson

Righteous TK “Chevy” Hill

Ashton Myles Clatterbuck

Madison Nicole Spann “Madison St. Claire”

Cecilia Gentili

MARCH 2024

Diamond Cherish Brigma

Elliot Ganiel

Fae Morganna Barbone

Aurelia A. Legassey

Alex Franco

Meraxes Medina

Ty Geissinger “Ty Holiday”

APRIL 2024

Andrea Doria Dos Passos “Maggie

Yella Clark

Allister Matthews

Tiffany Azalea Monceaux

Tara Fable

Randy Dudley

River Neveah Goddard

Tee “Ace” Arnold

George A. Schappell

Starr Brown

Robbi Mecus

Basil Brown

MAY 2024

Tayy Dior Thomas

Kita Bee

Kamryn “Cantrell” Smith

Jazlynn Johnson

Daelicious O’hare Mizani

Darri C. Moore

Niomi Jenkins

Michelle Henry

Saanti Bonét Valentino

JUNE 2024

Pauly Likens

M. Tapia

Lynn Conway

Liara Kaylee Tsai

JULY 2024

Dylan Gurley

Griffin Shaun Sivret

Kenji Zemonta Spurgeon

Ev Smith

Shannon Boswell

Levi Castillo

Lily Autumn Rose

Monique Brooks

AUGUST 2024

Noelle Woolley

Indiana Grayson

Vanity Williams

Tai’Vion Lathan

Jhzara “Femmie” Williams

Baxter Zachary Hawk

SEPTEMBER 2024

Kassim Omar

Liam Johns

Mahdia Lynn

Cass Trystero

Chilli Pepper

Barbie Iceland “Redd China”

OCTOBER 2024

Honee Daniels

Serenity Birdsong

Adela Vázquez

San Coleman

Zeta Muirgen Seraph Haber

[ebonynightclubblog]

Cedric Bixler-Zavala Slams Linkin Park’s Emily Armstrong Over Alleged Danny Masterson Support

[Ebony Nightclub] Rolling Stone Music News: “Do your fans know about your friend Danny Masterson? Your rapist friend,” Mars Volta musician wrote highlighting her ties to Scientology http://dlvr.it/TCwJVX

[thegospelhighways2020]

Good morning this morning we are going to use for an subject about Suicide And those who Lost their lives through it through Bullying they been through hard times in their lives #makaylalynnbrewster and I can name a few that been Bullied And took their life #gabriellagreen #moabjörk #rosalieavila #ashawntydavis #aubreighwyatt #amandatodd #phoebeprince #seminahalliwell #cayleemastin Caylee Marie Mastin, #katelyndavis Katelyn Nicole Davis, #rinapalenkova #adrianakuch #ashleylovelace #rebeccasedwick #carolineflack #avicii #clayadler #sydneyaiello Jennifer Lynn “Jenn” Albrewczynski, Albert C Abbott, Mareesa E. Abrahamson, Katelyn Nicole “Dolly” Davis, Jennifer Marie Andrade, Arlyn Maria Beal,Myranda Michelle Becton,Darla Ann Blanton,Shannon Nicole Brinkley,Kristina Arielle Calco,Dorothy May Paull McAdam,Tabatha Gayle “Tabby” Anderson,Lindsay “My sister” Armstrong,Kathleen Angela Rose Beardy,Teresa Marie “Terry” Cutshaw,PVT Tony Paul “Dynamite” Duran,Felicia Alma Garcia,Brittany Nicole Palumbo,Ashley Anne Pease,Caitlyn Mackenzie Rhynes,Patulla Ebony “Patti” Rohrbaugh,Jasmine Marie Sanchez,Tiffany Lane “T” Williams,Madalyn Hope “Maddie” Yates, Aloisia Baca, Leelah Alcorn, Jenny Lee Aurness, Sarah/Nati, Jessica Marie Laney, Chris Benoit, Amy Elizabeth Morley, Jana Marie Nance, Paige Marie Nilson, Terry Lynn Nelson, those names that I mentioned Lost Their lives and we're all praying for Them in heaven Bullying needs to stop I remembered where one Friday night I was told to stfu but I didn't get over it but in times I heard some evil people say go kys or bad hateful things hatred and Bullying ain't getting you to Heaven it ain't getting you nowhere so Bullying needs to end it needs to stop Bad Gun Violence can stop Bad Kidnappings can stop as well go to Church and get rid of the evil sins Jesus will help you out we wanna thank you for tuning in this morning and may God continue to bless you

[skynetgilesbie]

Chapter 31.

AN: I said, shut the fuck up, you queefs! Stop calling Ebony a Mary Sue, okay? You don't even know what's going to happen, okay? So fuck you! Thanks to my BFF Raven for the help!

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"I always knew you were on Voldemort's side, you son of a bitch (Buffy rocks!)." Sirius said to Snape.

"No, I'm not. I was teaching them something!" Snape claimed.

"Oh, fucking yeah?" I took out some black Voldemort serum from my pocket and gave it to Severus. He drank it angrily. Then Lucius took out a tape recorder and started playing it while he cursed Snape. Professor Sinister and Lucius made us leave with them while Snape revealed his secrets. Lucius took Vampire and Draco to the nurse after thanking me a million times. Professor Trelawney took me to a dark room. Now I was going to go back in time to seduce Voldemort. Moving posters of MCR and Nirvana were all over the place. Hermione, Darkness, and Willow came too. Bloody Mary gave me a black bag from Tom Riddle's store.

"What's in the bag?" I asked Professor Trelawney.

"You will see," she said. I opened the bag. Inside was a sexy, tight, low-cut black leather gothic dress. It had red corset stuff and a slit up the leg. I put it on. My friends helped me put on black fishnets and black pointy boots that Willow had chosen. Willow and Darkness helped me put on black eyeliner and blood-red lipstick.

"You look fucking kawaii, bitch," Bloody Mary said.

"Thanks," I said.

"Okay, now you're going to go back in time," said Professor Sinister. "You will have to do it in a few sessions." She gave me a black gun. I strapped it onto my fishnets, just like in Resident Evil. Then she gave me a black time-turner. "After an hour, use the time-turner to come back here," Professor Trelawney said. Then she and Bloody Mary put a Pensieve in front of me. Everyone gathered in front of it.

"Good luck!" everyone shouted. Darkness and Willow gave me Death's Touch sin. Then... I jumped sexily into the Pensieve.

Suddenly, I was in front of the school. In front of me was one of the sexiest goth guys I had ever seen. He had long black hair, kinda like Mikey Way, only black. He had green eyes like Billie Joe Armstrong and pale white skin. He was wearing a black ripped-up suit with Vans. It was... Tom Bombadil!

[trekthecyborgwizard]

This technique has been passed down the Armstrong family line for generations!

[greengay]

what r ur favorite journalists descriptions of billie

WELL OBVIOUSLY MY HEADER, FIRST OF ALL LOL

the singer, usually an adorable pop-punk chipmunk

this one is pretty cute

[text: Black. Everything is black about 32-year-old Billie Joe Armstrong today. A black pork-pie hat and black leather jacket rest beside him on the sofa. His eyebrows and short, wavy hair are dyed jet black, and his outfit—skinny tie, short-sleeved dress shirt, jeans and tennis shoes—is the inkiest of ebony as well. “But my socks are striped in red and black,” he cracks, pointing to his ankles. His grin quickly fades into set-jawed determination.]

[text: In conversation, Armstrong is friendly, but also a little reserved, taking long pauses between answers about his process. “I don’t want to sound like a baboon,” he says, stopping himself at one point. Cool, his bandmate and friend of three decades, once described him as “gifted and tormented. Billie’s brain is like 18 tape recorders playing simultaneously in a circle. Then he tries to have a conversation … and he’ll be looking you in the eye going, ‘Huh?’ ”

“Fuck him!” Armstrong says now, with a laugh, after hearing that quote. “What does he know?” But Armstrong admits that he’s not quite sure how his brain works when it comes to songwriting. As many songs as he’s written, he still gets anxious when he hasn’t written one in a while. “You feel like, ‘Oh, my God, am I ever going to write another song again?’ Then, all of a sudden, something pops up and you go from feeling like a loser to king of the world.”]

[text: Billie Joe Armstrong is not a tidy man. It’s late in the band’s never-ending tour, an entire season since Woodstock, and Armstrong is holed up in Los Angeles for a three-night stand. He is standing in the doorway of his hotel room – a landfill of dirty laundry and the occasional empty – talking excitedly. He is small and appears even younger than you would expect – more like a character out of Oliver Twist than like a 6-year veteran of the rock circuit. As he speaks, his eyes continually grow wider.]

[text: His hair is recently dyed jet black and he brushes it forward over his forehead, almost Beatles style. The reason is that, after another recent photo shoot, he saw his picture – all shaggy peroxide blonde mane with dark roots underneath – and decided he looked a mess.]

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How Race Prevented Dorothy Dandridge from Being a Star By Susan King

Dorothy Dandridge was the first Black movie star. “She was our queen,” once said African American actress Nichelle Nichols (of Star Trek fame). Dandridge also made history with her full-blooded performance as the femme fatale in Otto Preminger’s 1954 CARMEN JONES. She became the first Black woman to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and the first to grace the cover of Life magazine.

Her achievements were during a decade before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and her nomination would mark five decades before a Black actress, Halle Berry, would win in that category. Berry also won an Emmy for her performance as the Dandridge in HBO’s Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999).

By the time Dandridge landed her role in CARMEN JONES, she had already paid her dues tenfold. She knew how difficult it was to be gifted, young, Black and beautiful in Hollywood. “CARMEN JONES was the best break I ever had,” said Dandridge, who tragically died at the age of 42 in 1965. “But no producer ever knocked on my door. There just aren’t as many parts or a Black actress. If I were white, I could capture the world.”

She was a child singer along with her older sister Vivian as part of The Wonder Children. Her mother, actress Ruby Dandridge, was the ultimate stage mother and so was her companion Geneva Williams, who oversaw their career. She was strict and allegedly was abusive. With family friend Etta Jones, Dorothy and Vivian became The Dandridge Sisters. They came to Hollywood around the time she was four. “I was one of those musical kids you hear about, with parts in pictures like the Marx Brothers’ A Day at the Races (‘37),” Dandridge said.

The Dandridge Sisters performed in Europe, the famed Cotton Club and appeared on Broadway in 1939 with Louis Armstrong in the short-lived Swingin’ the Dream. They also sang with African American band leader Jimmie Lunceford. And besides appearing in A DAY AT THE RACES, they were a specialty act in such movies and shorts as Snow Gets in Your Eyes (‘38), in which they perform “Harlem Yodel” and “Rhythm Rascals.”

Even as a teenager, you can’t keep your eyes off of Dandridge. She had the indescribable “It” factor. And after she went out on her own, she continued to dazzle in short musical films known as “soundies” that were produced for video jukeboxes of the era. She also had tiny roles, often uncredited, in movies, including David O. Selznick’s popular World War II film SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (‘44). Perhaps her most notable performance at this time was in the Sonja Henie musical ice-skating comedy SUN VALLEY SERENADE (‘41) in which she performs “Chattanooga Choo Choo” in a slinky black ensemble with the tap-dancing duo Harold and Fayard Nicholas.

“No film fan has ever forgotten her as a dream girl with the brothers,” said African American film historian Donald Bogle in his book Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers.

She was all of 19 when she married Harold Nicholas, whom she had first met while performing at the Cotton Club. Their only child Harolyn was born in 1943. Nicholas had gone off to play golf the day Dandridge went into labor and he took the car keys, so she was delayed getting to the hospital to deliver the baby. Harolyn was born brain damaged and was never able to speak or even recognize Dandridge.

Dandridge believed the reason she was born mentally disabled was because of the delay in delivery. Dandridge would be haunted by guilt the rest of her life. She provided expensive care for her daughter, but when her finances became grim, Harolyn became a ward of the state. According to the TCM.com overview of BRIGHT ROAD (‘53), in which Dandridge portrays a dedicated young schoolteacher, seeing “healthy African-American children playing on the set proved too much for her, and she fled to her dressing room.”

Dandridge had always wanted to be a dramatic actress and attended the progressive Actors’ Lab in Los Angeles, becoming one of the school’s first Black students. Marilyn Monroe was also one of the students and became great friends with Dandridge. It would be considered a communist organization in the early 1950s with several members being blacklisted and the theater soon closed.

She also worked with noted coach and composer/arranger Phil Moore to develop a nightclub act, which Dandridge performed internationally to great acclaim. Under Moore’s guidance, Dandridge went from the young vivacious singer to a sultry, sexy chanteuse. Time magazine wrote about a nightclub appearance where she “came wriggling out of the wings like a caterpillar on a hot rock.” And according to a 1997 New York Times piece by Janet Maslin, when Dandridge headlined the Mocambo nightclub in L.A. in 1953, the cigarette girls actually sold copies of Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.

“I think it was really the heartache over my child and the failure of my marriage that forced me to make a success out of my career,” Dandridge explained in 1954. “I had to keep busy. I threw myself into my work. It’s a wonderful therapy. You don’t have time to feel sorry for yourself.”

She landed roles in three low-budget films including TARZAN’S PERIL (‘51). Dandridge is the best thing about the adventure as Melmendi, the young, beautiful and feisty Queen of Ashuba, who is kidnapped and rescued by Tarzan. Bogle notes that Lex Barker’s Tarzan shows a lot more interest in Melmendi than he does in Jane (Virginia Huston). “Here were suggestions of an interracial romance that the studio didn’t explore.” But audiences were titillated. Ebony magazine put her on the cover with the banner: “Hollywood’s Newest Glamour Queen.’’

She would appear in a few more roles, including THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS (‘51) and BRIGHT ROAD opposite Harry Belafonte, who would star with her the following year in CARMEN JONES. The operetta gave her high visibility but few additional film roles. Also, she had fallen in love with Preminger, who didn’t give her the best career advice. They would work together one more time in the film adaptation of PORGY AND BESS (‘59), for which Dandridge was nominated for a Golden Globe.

“But sadly, her decline came soon after her triumph,” notes Bogle in Brown Sugar. “She realized she was a token figure within the movie colony, her position not much different than Lena Horne’s in the ‘40s. There was no great follow-up of roles to sustain her fame. Three years passed before she appeared in another film.” Dandridge once said of racial prejudice: “It is such a waste. It makes you loggy and half-alive. If it gives you nothing.”

Dandridge was drinking heavily and taking antidepressants by the late 1950s. In fact, when Dandridge married a second time in 1959, to the man who was not only abusive but would leave her broke, she was so drugged that she fell asleep at the reception. “Dandridge’s last years were lonely and sad as she struggled to find work,” said Bogle.

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Card Table, Charles-Honoré Lannuier, 1815, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Trained as a cabinet-maker in Paris, Charles-Honoré Lannuier arrived in New York in 1803 at the age of twenty-four. His older brother was already well established as the owner of a successful confectionary shop on Broadway and from there the young furniture maker first advertised his services to all potential clients who desired furniture in the “latest French fashion.” Early-nineteenth-century America was much enamored with French taste, and Lannuier successfully catered to his upscale clientele, tempering his designs to suit their preference even while he retained a distinctive French flair. One of a group of similar card tables, this example shares many of their decorative and design elements, including a winged caryatid central support, a Lannuier trademark. Gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field; Pauline Armstrong Endowment Size: 74.9 × 91.1 × 45.1 cm (29 1/8 × 35 7/8 × 17 3/4 in.) Medium: Mahogany with rosewood veneer, giltwood, brass and ebony inlay, ormolu

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/135533/