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justmoreocs-writing · 2 years ago

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My Harry Potter: Next Generation OCs are: Celine Newton; Belinda ‘Linda’ Woodward; Evelyn ‘Eve’ Munro; Faye Taylor; Isa McKenna; Dante ‘Danny’ Cunningham; Liam Wells; Nikoli ‘Niki; Holland; Josh Desilva

Celine Newton is the perspective character for the story. Her parents died in the Battle of Hogwarts and her paternal grandparents looked after her – they were Muggles, and her maternal grandparents had cut ties with her mother after she married a Muggleborn.

When she was four years old, her grandparents died and she was taken in by her maternal aunt simply because the Pureblood side of her family wondered if perhaps they couldn’t use her for something. Celine hated it, and ran away not long after having moved in with her aunt and her aunt’s boyfriend. Celine ended up Diagon Alley and sat outside Weasleys Wizard Wheezes where she met George. There was something about her that endeared her to him; however, her aunt came to collect her and Celine had to return home – even if she stated that she wanted to stay with him.

Over time, Celine managed to spend more time with George and his family – growing to see them as a surrogate family – and tried to spend as little time as possible at home. In their eyes, Celine is pretty much a Weasley; she’s like an older sister to Fred and Roxanne. She’s also best friends with Teddy Lupin – who she met while at a Weasley-Potter family party.

Celine is a bit of a prankster with a good heart – she only targets people that are mean to other, or who she knows will take everything in good humour. She’s on the Gryffindor House Quidditch team as a Beater. Celine has a large group of friends at school but while they know there is darkness in her past, the truth of who exactly her family are is something she’s cagey about. There are some in the school who know her heritage, and are more than willing to hold the truth of this over her head.

Celine isn’t specifically in a ship, but there are some flirtatious moments between her and Dante Cunningham.

Belinda ‘Linda’ Woodward is the youngest of five (one sister is the eldest, then two brothers, then a sister, then Linda), but she grew up feeling kind of alone. Her parents are Half-Bloods who tried to help rebuilding the Wizarding World, even though they were raising their family. Her eldest sister helped to bring up the younger ones. It’s possibly because of how much was going on in their house that Linda started pulling pranks to get attention – positive or negative, she doesn’t really mind which – but through that she learnt how much she enjoys making people laugh. Linda is a chatterbox and enjoys being the centre of attention.

Linda is well known in the school, and will pretty much speak to everybody. She has a close-knit group of friends – her dormmates and some of the boys they know through Celine’s links to Teddy are included in this – but is happy to chat with almost everyone. She’s one of the friendliest Ravenclaws in the school. There are a few people that she doesn’t get along with, but usually because they have done something she thinks is wrong previously.

Linda is a lesbian and finds herself falling for a girl in another dormitory. She did have a crush on Eve early on, but realised nothing would happen; she’s glad that the crush didn’t ruin their chances of friendship because she doesn’t know what she’d do without Eve around sometimes.

Evelyn ‘Eve’ Munro is an only child and the only grandchild on one side of her family; for that reason she was a little spoilt, something she actually grew to resent. Her family appear to have played the long, if dangerous, game of not picking a definitive side, and instead being on the outskirts during the Wizarding Wars. She grew up catching the odd bit of Muggle life, and that was how she fell in love with music. When she was nine she saved up pocket money, converted it to Muggle money, and bought herself a violin and song book. She taught herself, despite the confusion of her family. Her greatest ambition is to become a musician, though not many people know that about her. The only reason she didn’t buy a magical instrument was because she wanted something with a history that wasn’t shrouded in magic.

Eve gets on with her dormmates, but does get a little infuriated with Celine, Linda and Faye sometimes. She is also the Slytherin prefect in their year. She is fiercely protective of her friends, and a little scary to any who would want to cross them. She knows the boys in passing though, and tends to speak with other people outside of this little clique – mainly those who have the same academic focus as her, and desire for doing more.

She’s never really thought about relationships and things, so wouldn’t know where to begin with talking about attraction. That doesn’t mean she can’t appreciate good looks or personality, it’s just never really been her thing either way.

Faye Taylor was brought up by her maternal grandparents following the death of her parents in a car accident. She lived in a small village where she was always the youngest (by a long way) person there. She loved all things magical, and found herself getting lost in those worlds. While she has never been diagnosed with ADHD, there is the strong possibility that she has it to some degree - her school reports were always full of teachers saying she needed to focus more. Only her year 3 teacher ever tried to do something to help her cope, but they were unable to get any plans in place because there were others who needed to be prioritised and they had found ways to help Faye cope to some degree. When she got her Hogwarts letter her grandparents were stunned, but they were happy for her in a way because it meant her biggest dreams had come true.

Faye is close to her dormmates but always worries that she will annoy them; she is grateful for Celine who lets her ramble as much as she wants. She is on the Hufflepuff Quidditch team as a Chaser, meaning she is close to Liam. She gets on with the other boys, and is reasonably close to others in her house, including younger years.

She has a crush on Liam and has done for a while; she is pansexual.

Isa McKenna grew up by the sea and adored it - especially when she and her older brother would go surfing in the freezing cold water. She is very close to her family, her mother is a Half-Blood and her father a Muggle; and her brother also went to Hogwarts. While she was excited to learn more about magic she was worried about missing the sea, thus she spent time at the Black Lake. She is an avid reader, and even more inclined to do research than read fiction sometimes. She loves the outdoors and hates it when people insist on being cooped up inside.

She is very close to the girls in her dormitory, however they don’t really have a lot in common. She butts heads with Linda a lot due to how contrasting they are. She is relatively shy, and it tends to be Eve who helps her with social things. She is reasonably close to the boys, but has her own little friendship group too where she spends a lot of time. She becomes the head girl during their seventh year, much to the excitement of her friends (Celine jokes that it means they can get away with more, much to Isa’s horror).

Isa is heterosexual but tends to be too shy to flirt with people. Nik flirts with her, but then he flirts with everyone. She had a crush on a boy in her brother’s year, but didn’t say anything while he was at Hogwarts. Luckily, Malachai ‘Mal’ Clearview works in Hogsmeade.

Dante ‘Danny’ Cunningham is the only child of Pureblood parents who love him dearly. He is also close to his extended family, with some of his uncles being well known within the Wizarding community for potions (both good and bad ones). He grew up in Spain but his parents, especially his father, wanted him to go to Hogwarts because of its reputation. They moved to England a short while after his tenth birthday. He doesn’t like it as much as home but is making the most of it. His Dad used to take him on business trips when he was younger, meaning he mixed with some of the other prestigious Wizarding families.

When he arrived at Hogwarts he knew some people, and there were a few scared of his family. To some, he is Slytherin royalty, and therefore those with ties to the darker side of magic - in all houses - try to get him on side. Celine was one of the first people to reach out to him, along with Teddy, and they have been friends ever since. Dante is also close to the other boys in his dormitory, even if he scares the final member of their room.

Dante has trouble opening up to people, always being on his guard, but there is the occasional flirting between him and Celine Newton He is heterosexual, but is always worried about making a move, or reciprocating to flirting, due to how many people might just be trying to use him.

Liam wells is a Muggleborn who grew up as the middle sibling of two sisters. He loved spending time with his family - though, he and his older sister had blazing rows occasionally. He is in fact the only one in his immediate family that’s magical. He also went to a lot of sports games with his dad and uncle growing up, and was on most sports teams.

Liam gets on well with the boys in his dorm, enjoying the fact he and Teddy are two Hufflepuffs. He gets on well with the girls too, especially Faye. He has, on occasion, helped Isa with hairstyles, making sure he looks them up in the holidays for her. As soon as he was allowed to try out for the Quidditch team, Liam did and joined as a Beater.

He is a bit of a romantic, not that people think that of him. He is demiromantic and has a massive crush on Faye but is scared to ruin things with her by doing anything about it.

Nikoli ‘Niki’ Holland is the only child of a Half-Blood mother and Pureblood father. His paternal Wizarding family actually sided with Voldemort, and Nikoli is always trying to make up for this because it doesn’t sit right with him - even when his family tell him stories of the grandeur of the Dark Lord. They themselves are trying to make people forget they were on that side, but in private they discuss it. His mum brought him up as his father couldn’t cope in the Muggle world (he tried because he truly did love his wife and child, and he also didn’t agree with everything his family did) and abandoned them when Nikoli was six. When he was accepted into Hogwarts he was nervous to leave his mum but also excited to go there.

Nikoli is close to his dormmates, even if there are occasional contentions between him and Dante sometimes. Occasionally he will spend time with his Gryffindor Housemates, but Nikoli is a very sociable person and tends to move around different groups of people in general. He gets on well with the girls and enjoys pranking people with Celine, Linda and Teddy.

He is bisexual and will flirt with pretty much anyone. In the beginning he had a crush on Teddy but it faded pretty quickly. He does have a crush on Toby Wood though, who is a year below him.

Josh Desilva is the only child of Muggleborns who went to Ilvermorny but moved to Wales after graduating. His parents were in hiding for some of the Wizarding War because of their blood status, but tried their best to help Muggles and other Muggleborns in the surrounding area. Josh grew up in Wales, and has only visited America a handful of times to meet his family over there.

From a young age, Josh experienced gender dysmorphia, and while his parents helped him as best they could with it, it wasn’t until he started Hogwarts and found people that were more accepting of him than those in the little village he’d grown up in, that Josh gained confidence with his identity. His friends were supportive during his transition, and it was Teddy’s dormitory that ensured there was room for Josh with them.

Josh is a Ravenclaw and is possibly the most anxious out of the friendship group, constantly trying to make sure the others don’t get into too much trouble. He’s a Prefect for their year group as well, which occasionally puts him into difficult situations with the pranks he knows they are planning.

#Repost #Made By Me #Answered Questions #Harry Potter: Next Generation OCs #Not Just Another Weasley #Celine Newton #Belinda Woodward #Evelyn Munro #Faye Taylor #Isa McKenna #Dante Cunningham #Liam Wells #Nikoli Holland #Josh Desilva #Linda Woodward #Eve Munro #Niki Holland

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communistkenobi · 4 months ago

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could you expand / share reading materials on "gender is a structure that mediates access to personhood"? i feel like that's an important point that i don't fully grasp. especially because it is my understanding that until relatively recently even white, bourgeois, cis-heterosexual, perisex etc women were also denied personhood, but were already gendered as women, right?

thanks in advance!

I’m so sorry you sent me this ask like three months ago and I’m only getting around to it now lol

This is going to be a long post. I will be talking a lot about citizenship and rights in this post. I’ll include citations, but two overarching texts I will be engaging with a lot are Unequal Freedom (2004) by Evelyn Nakano Glenn and The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1989) by Gøsta Esping-Andersen.

This is also not meant to be a comprehensive answer to your question. I am much less familiar with migration & refugee scholarship, which is obviously deeply engaged with the concept of citizenship as an apparatus for granting rights. I’m flagging this because my answer has a particular focus that is not generalisable. Everything I say is not “the answer” to your question, but an answer informed by specific domains of scholarship.

First, I think a good place to start is that when we talk about ‘personhood’ as a status that a human being can or cannot possess, we are often talking about a status that is realisable through citizenship. ‘Personhood’ is itself a legal term, and we can see this in how stateless people (i.e. people with no citizenship) are treated - because rights are granted by and administered through states, being without state citizenship means you are unable to realise any set of rights, and therefore, you are rendered as a non-person. The UN has two separate conventions on the rights of stateless people for example, as being stateless is necessarily an international issue. I think this approach helps makes sense of why “human rights” is a popular framing in discussions of how to remediate inequality (e.g. “trans rights are human rights”). The “human” part of that equation is only realised through the attainment of “rights,” i.e., through citizenship. Citizenship = personhood can also be seen when people invoke “second class citizens” as an articulation of legal, political, and societal discrimination - i.e., groups of people who have less/no access to rights compared to other groups within a state. Systems of classed citizenship often emerge from regimes of settler colonialism, slavery, and apartheid (Glenn discusses this in her book).

The basic Marxist intervention in this discussion is that this class system still exists even in places that have abolished slavery, abolished apartheid, and/or gone through formal decolonisation, because state law under capitalism is fundamentally unjust. Marx calls law the “mystification of power” (I believe he says this in The German Ideology? I'm rusty on my Marx readings lol) - he argues that law is a bourgeois system of justice that caters to the wealthy and powerful and disenfranchises the poor and marginal, but appears as neutral and fair through a liberal “theater” (Marx’s term from The 18th Brumaire) of equality and democracy, mystifying its actual effects and purpose (The Red Demiurge (2015) by Scott Newton is a book about Soviet legal history that goes into some of this. His focus is on the evolution of the Bolshevik relationship to law as the USSR developed and encountered quite literally new legal problems that emerged as a result of the formation of a socialist state). This is also part of the Marxist critique of nationalism - if state citizenship is what grants access to rights, and citizenship is classed (through your relationship to production, through white supremacy, through patriarchy, through colonial status, through religious status, through etc), then equality does not legally exist, that all equality is bourgeois equality, i.e., not universal, not equal.

Gøsta Esping-Andersen provides a really helpful theory of thinking about citizenship rights within a capitalist state (his book only focuses on Western imperial core states, so just flagging that lol). He begins by arguing that:

all markets are regulated by the state, there is no actual “free” or anarcho-capitalist market,

because of this necessary regulatory function provided by the state, the commodity of wage-labour (i.e., the process of selling your labour-power as a “good” or commodity on a market in exchange for money in the form of wages) is likewise always regulated to some degree, and so finally,

welfare should be understood as the regulatory system of the commodity of wage-labour.

This regulatory apparatus is what grants people “social citizenship rights” - sick leave, pensions, disability and unemployment insurance, welfare payments, food stamps, tax bracket placements, childcare, healthcare, education, housing, so on and so on. Within this framework, Esping-Andersen demonstrates that various welfare regimes produce different citizenship classes - Canada, Australia and the US, for example, explicitly reproduce an impoverished “welfare class” through a marginal, means-tested welfare regime that only provides benefits to the very poorest. Various European countries by contrast tend to have what he calls a “corporatist” welfare regime that often grants different social citizenship rights based on which occupation you have, which he argues emerged from feudal and pre-capitalist religious (esp. Catholic) social forms of organisation.

ANYWAY, the purpose of doing all that set-up is to contextualise how we arrive at the question of gender. Feminists make the basic point that citizenship is also classed by gender - in Unequal Freedom, Glenn talks about this in the US, where white women were legally treated as extensions of their husbands and had no access to property rights, voting rights, and so on. Black women, in contrast, were treated sexually as women by slaveholders (i.e., raped and abused) but denied any and all personhood on the basis of their slave status. Citizenship in the US was historically based first on your ability to hold property (reserved for white bourgeois men), and then on your ability to “freely sell” your labour-power on the market - white women were denied citizenship on this basis because they were consigned to managing what was defined as the “private realm,” i.e., the realm that houses free labourers (white men). This public/private distinction emerges through capitalist markets and the commodity of wage-labour, which produces a sharp distinction where productive labour takes place “out there” (paid for in wages by the capitalist class) and reproductive labour takes place “in here” (i.e., labour that is not paid for in wages* by the capitalist class and forms the social basis of reproducing the public labour pool).

*for white women. see below

As Glenn argues, this public/private distinction in the US is fundamentally racialised. We can see this difference in the emergence of the suffragette movement, where white women appeal to their whiteness (i.e., free labour status) as the rationale for being granted the right to vote. Black women were disqualified from this movement, and did not benefit from white women’s demands for equal citizenship on the basis of them providing all this unpaid reproductive labour to their white husbands, as Black and other racialised women often provided domestic housekeeping labour for white women (unpaid during slavery and for indentured servants, for wages after its abolition). This leaves Black women without a private realm, subjecting them to a “purely public” arena that is uniquely difficult to organise for unionisation and/or improve working conditions (Deborah King talks about this further in Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness (1988)).

Trans-feminism explicates this further - coercive sex assignment at birth classes people on the basis of reproductive capacity. “Females” are impregnated, “males” do the impregnating. This particular system of sex assignment is deeply tied to colonial population management concerns, where measuring the labour capacity of colonised subjects was a matter of managing white wealth (as well as making sure “there weren’t too many of them” compared to white people in colonies - this was especially a major white anxiety after the Haitian Revolution at the turn of the 19th century, the largest slave revolt in history. See Settlers by J Sakai). You can read Maria Lugones’ papers The Coloniality of Gender (2016) and Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System (2007), Alex Adamson's (2022) paper Beyond the Coloniality of Gender, and Guirkinger & Villar's (2022) paper Pro-birth policies, missions, and fertility for some introductory reading.

(Note: patriarchal gender hierarchies predate and exist outside of European colonial domination - it is a popular white queer talking point that Europe invented gender, that indigenous peoples actually all had epic radically equal genderfuck systems that were destroyed by Europe, and this is a very patronising and racist historical generalisation that I want to avoid making. Third World/Global South feminism is a necessary corrective to this - an arena of scholarship I am sadly not well versed in. Sylvia Wynter is the only scholar I’ve engaged with on this topic, which again, is a very limited slice. I welcome reading recommendations in this area).

While sex assignment is coercive for everyone, it is a particular problem for trans people, who are accused of impersonation and ID fraud if our sex markets conflict with our gender presentation, or we don’t “look like” our sex marker to cis people. Because you need a government ID to do basically anything - getting a job, applying for an apartment, getting a driver’s license, going to school, buying a phone plan, being on unemployment, applying for disability, filing an insurance claim, doing your taxes, opening a bank account, getting married, going to the hospital, buying lottery tickets at the corner store, etc - and sex markers appear on basically all government ID in many countries, trans people are systematically denied a whole range of citizenship rights (and thus personhood) on the basis of this sex assignment. Trans people are not merely treated as the wrong gender, they are ungendered, and by this process, rendered ineligible for personhood. Like just as an example, gay marriage is a luxury to trans people, as gay marriage is based on the state recognising both you and your partner’s gender in the first place. (See Heath Fogg Davis’ paper Sex-Classification Policies as Transgender Discrimination (2014) for example. Butler also talks about this on a more fundamental level in Bodies That Matter (1993), and Stryker & Sullivan also discuss this in The Queen's Body, the King's Member (2009)).

This is likewise the impetus behind anti-trans bathroom bills and sports bans - citizenship guarantees, among other things, a right to public space, and these bans are meant to deprive transgender people access to those spaces. These bans should be understood as a way of circumventing the much more difficult process of revoking the citizenship of trans people outright by using a component of citizenship (sex assignment at birth) to impoverish the quality of citizenship that trans people have access to. This is why bans on medical transition are not actually just about medical oppression, but the oppression of trans peoples’ abilities to live in society in general. An instructive parallel is abortion bans for pregnant people, who, in addition to facing medical oppression and violence by being denied healthcare, are likewise systemically marginalised through being forced into the role of “mother” (again we see how cissexualism reduces people to reproductive capacity), economically marginalising them by reducing their capacity to earn a wage, tying them to partners/spouses that now have greater economic and social leverage over them (and thus have greater capacity to assault, rape, and murder them), depriving them of the choice of alternative life paths, and so on.

It’s generally much more difficult to get the state to sign off on unilaterally oppressing a group of citizens by depriving them of citizenship completely, so attacking a group through more narrow and particular policies like healthcare or the use of public space (with the ultimate goal of depriving them of their rights in general) is often much easier and more productive. See Beauchamp's 2019 book Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and US Surveillance Practices, who talks about this in the context of anti-trans bathroom bills in chapter 3. This is also a common thread in disability scholarship, as disabled people are likewise denied much of the same citizenship rights through similar logics - the book Absent Citizens (2009) by Michal J Prince talks about this in the Canadian context. To give an example he uses in the book, in Canada, accessible voting stations were only federally mandated in I believe the 90s, meaning that disabled people were practically disenfranchised until about 30 years ago in Canada, even though there were no laws explicitly banning disabled people from voting.

As a result, any barriers put in place by the state to change your legal name and sex marker should be understood as a comprehensive denial of personhood, not only because we as trans people want our IDs to reflect who we are, but because those barriers make it difficult to do literally anything in civil society. This the basis behind the cry of “trans rights are human rights” - taking away our healthcare rights also fundamentally denies us equal citizenship (and thus personhood), because healthcare is where we get all those little permission slips from doctors and psychologists to change our name and gender marker in the first place. This is of course not remotely the same as being made stateless (trans refugees are placed in a particularly harrowing and violent legal black hole, for example) - I as a white trans person living in the imperial core still benefit from a massive range of material, political and social privileges not afforded to many others, but my transness positions me at a deficit relative to cis people who have the same state citizenship as I do. As I hope I've made clear, it's not a binary case of either having or not having citizenship, but that citizenship is classed, and the quality of your citizenship is heavily dependent on a whole range of social, political, legal, economic, and historical factors that are all largely out of your control.

So not only is gender a barrier to citizenship, it mediates access to realising the full range of personhood within a regime of state citizenship. Trans people are not the only group effected by this, as I described above, but trans people are a group that makes obvious the arbitrary, coercive, and unequal nature of sex assignment through its connection to state citizenship.

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dairymistress05 · 8 months ago

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Sometimes I love the internet!!!

If not for the online recording, I would never have been able to watch Luke Newton in The Shape of Things.

He was amazing! He has such talent!

I was actually blown away. Such a poignant, thought provoking piece and the characters were amazing. Luke as Adam however, was spectacular. He nailed it.

For the first 3/4 of the play I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t like Evelyn at all and then the final scene came. She started her speech and I was like “oh there it is, you’ve got to be joking! No!”

Ahhhh sooo good!

Just Wow!

#the shape of things #luke newton #bridgerton

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doomed2repeat · 28 days ago

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❤️Luke Newton’s On-Screen Love Interests ❤️

The Lodge (2016-2017) Ben and Skye, played by Sophie Simnett

The Lodge (2016-2017) Ben and Danielle, played by Bethan Wright

Youth in Bed (2019) Ethan and Mei, played by Shun Yin

Bridgerton (2020) Colin and Marina, played by Ruby Barker

The Shape of Things (2023) Adam and Evelyn, played by Amber Anderson

The Shape of Things (2023) Adam and Jenny, played by Carla Harrison-Hodge

Bridgerton (2024) Colin and Penelope, played by Nicola Coughlan

White Mars (202?) Leo and Sammie, played by Lucy Hale (tentative. They might not be love interests)

Viana: The Legend of the Golden Hearts (2026) Thomas and Ana, voiced by Daniela Melchior

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endgamelukola · 5 months ago

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thoughts on the shape of things (2023)

But first, a quote from Luke Newton's Vanity Fair interview (2024)

When discussing the ways art imitated life, Newton resists the urge to navel-gaze. “There are always weird things that kind of seep in, and I hate that it does, because it sounds just a bit lame,” he says with a sheepish smile. “It just sounds like an actor-y thing to say, but he came back with a sense of confidence and swagger, and I started to feel more confident in myself.”

“The flip side of that,” he says, “is that I then did a play immediately afterwards”—Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things in London—“and played a really insecure, nerdy library guard. Immediately, that started trickling into my day-to-day life, and I was tripping over things and being awkward when I saw friends. And I was like, ‘God, what’s going on?’ So I need to learn to get better at the detachment there. But it’s also what I love about the job.”

TSOT spoilers below:

In The Shape of Things, Luke Newton plays Adam, a library guard who struggles with his confidence and self-image. One evening, while working a shift at the museum, he meets Evelyn, whom he asks out and with whom he enters a relationship. Evelyn's influence in Adam's life sees him alter his appearance and the way he approaches the world, only with the revelation at the end that Evelyn manipulated Adam for her senior thesis project.

As she explains her thesis project to a crowd of attendees, with Adam in the audience, Evelyn says:

"This was a simple matter of 'Can I instill X amount of change in this creature using only manipulation as my palette knife?' I made sure that nothing was ever forced during our sessions or 'sittings' together. [...] the illusion of 'dating' was imperative and that his free will was always at the forefront of each decision. I coaxed. I made suggestions. I created the illusion of interest and desire, but I never said, 'You must do this.'"

"I found that with the right coaxing of my materials, [...] I was able to hone the inside of my sculpture as well as the surface. I found myself suddenly creating strong moral ambiguity where I had detected the slightest traces before, often...in direct proportion to the amount of external change. This means, as my subject became handsome and firmer and more confident, his actions became more and more questionable. [...] He also started to deceive his friends and myself with greater abandon during this period whilst showing increased interest in other women. Indeed, he had relations with his best friend's fiance and continues to harbor details about the incident from us to this day. Moreover, he was willing to give up those friends when asked, walk away without any further explanation, leading me to an assumption of further wrongdoing with the young woman in question. And, as stated earlier, these universal corrections culminated in an offer of marriage to me. [...] He has then, as I see it, been utterly and totally refashioned as a person. And yet, open any fashion magazine, turn on any television, and the world will you tell you that he's only gotten more interesting, more desirable, more normal. In a word, better.

He is a living, breathing example of our obsession with the surface of things, the shape of them."

Aside from the obvious Biblical allegory going on in the play that I'm still personally chewing on, I think there's a lot to be said here about the Lukola fandom, its percentage of female members, and their perception of Luke Newton as a person offscreen and outside of the Bridgerton sphere.

There's some really interesting parallels here to the way female fans critique Luke for his actions after altering his appearance, as if, with a slimmer body and higher profile, he's suddenly gaining attention of women they don't want to see him with and that makes him a bad guy. But is he, really? Since none of us truly know Luke as an individual, the projection of who the fandom thinks Luke is is a look inside the female mind, in my opinion.

It's all just really fascinating to me.

#luke newton #the shape of things

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korzuan · 17 days ago

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The Skeleton Keys: A Mystery

New header cover for my tumblr account. Created on Procreate.

The Skeleton Keys (C) Korzuan

#skeleton keys #Kira gela #jacen Brantley #evelyn knight #theo newton #Melinda nulam #orc #werewolf #elf #mysteries #oc artist #oc artwork #fantasy art #fantasy #oc #korzuan art #korzuan

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fibula-rasa · 3 months ago

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The Seventh Victim (1943)

[letterboxd | imdb]

Director: Mark Robson

Cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraca

Performers: Jean Brooks, Ben Bard, Evelyn Brent, Mary Newton

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ambrossart · 14 days ago

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Very random ask but what do you think the main casts favourite movie would be?

Okay, I had a lot of help from @misszura on this one because it was pretty tough. So we did a little brainstorming and this is what we came up with.

Evelyn

Generally, Evelyn tends to prefer movies that are on the more wholesome side.

Her favorite genres include fantasy, adventure, romance, and maybe some of the more light-hearted horror movies like Gremlins. Scary, but not too scary.

The Wizard of Oz is a favorite of hers, also The Goonies, The Princess Bride, Labyrinth, The NeverEnding Story, Beetlejuice, Willow, Willy Wonka.

She likes her movies to have a little whimsy to them.

Michael J. Fox is one of her celebrity crushes (along with Jason Bateman), so she definitely likes Teen Wolf and Back to the Future

Grease is another favorite of hers. As mentioned in the story, she enjoys Olivia Newton-John’s music, and I could see her really identifying with Sandy’s character as well as her relationship with Danny.

I mean, "Hopelessly Devoted to You" might as well be the theme of Evelyn’s life, right?

Hannah-Beth forced her to watch Dirty Dancing during a sleepover, and Evelyn was surprised by how much she enjoyed it. Add Patrick Swayze to her list of celebrity crushes.

Lastly, since she spends a lot of time with kids, Evelyn watches a lot of animated movies as well.

The Land Before Time makes her bawl like a baby every time she watches it.

Henry

Henry’s not big into movies.

He doesn’t have a ton of free time to just sit around, so I feel like most of his favorite movies are going to be ones he’s watched with Belch.

And I wouldn’t even say he has “favorites” honestly

So he’ll watch a lot of action movies, your classics: Mad Max, Die Hard, The Terminator, First Blood, Predator, Commando.

Horror movies also appeal to him.

Henry enjoys watching weak people suffer and die at the hands of some great, unstoppable force.

So your classic slashers: Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street.

He also enjoys Evil Dead and Hellraiser

But again, his level of engagement and enjoyment is going to be a lot lower than everyone else’s.

He has a hard time completely escaping into movies.

Patrick

Patrick’s another one who doesn’t feel any kind of special attachment to movies.

They’re all the same to him. He may as well be watching TV static.

He enjoys horror movies, though, but only when he’s watching them with other people. He finds their terrified reactions extremely fascinating and entertaining.

This concept could apply to any genre, I suppose, but horror tends to elicit the most intense response from people—girls, especially.

That being said, there are certain movies that stand out in his memory.

He was really looking forward to Cannibal Holocaust because of all the controversy surrounding it: the snuff film allegations, animal cruelty, etc.

It was a bit of a letdown.

Patrick was very disappointed to learn that nobody actually died while filming it. He was hoping it was a real snuff film. Those are a lot of fun.

As we know, Patrick likes dystopian literature, so A Clockwork Orange was right up his alley. He also enjoyed the book.

Otherwise, Patrick mostly just watches a bunch of weird (and illegal) shit.

Vic

Vic’s one of those people who tends to criticize every movie he watches.

Would I call him a snob? A little bit

Growing up, he ruined a lot of Evelyn’s favorite movies by exposing all the plot holes, continuity mistakes, and factual errors.

It got to the point where Evelyn almost stopped watching movies with him entirely.

Almost.

If given the choice, young Evelyn would have gladly had all her movies ruined if it meant spending time with Victor.

But anyway...

If Vic had to pick a favorite genre, it would probably be science fiction, movies like Blade Runner, Alien, Dune.

He doesn’t like to advertise these interests, so if anyone asked, he’d probably just say action or horror and be done with it.

Sci-fi is for nerds and geeks, after all.

Belch

Belch probably has the most diverse movie tastes of everyone

That boy will watch anything, truly anything.

As mentioned in Henry’s section, he loves all the classic 80s action movies, especially the ones starring Schwarzenegger, Stalone, or Segal, but he also enjoys a good comedy: movies like Police Academy and Animal House, Stripes, Blues Brothers.

A lover of baseball, Belch has watched The Bad News Bears many times, especially when he was younger.

This Is Spinal Tap is another favorite of his. Christie actually introduced him to that one.

Horror movies? They’re not his personal cup of tea, but they’re fun to watch with a group or on a date (especially on a date)

When he’s with Christie, he usually lets her pick the movie, so he watches a lot of John Hughes movies. Belch doesn’t mind.

He just likes movies in general.

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