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[1995lahaine]

i actually don’t know how im ever going to get over not shagging this girl yall help

[tallpiscesgirl]

Guinness Mooncakes: A Collaboration Between The Beer Factory & Guinness Malaysia

The Mid-Autumn festival is just around the corner, and that only means one thing – it’s time for delectable mooncakes! This year, The Beer Factory (TBF) has once again partnered with Malaysia’s favorite stout, Guinness, to create the limited-edition Guinness Snowskin Mooncakes. Continue reading Untitled

[cxndiedvi0lets]

Ur a fucking incel wawawawaa 😇 ur not that good looking, the only thing thats cooking is the money she lost of your mom's lawsuit of forcing your father to take custody of you. I bet she ain't even your real mom cause there's no way you look human, AREA 51 wants their subject back cause I'm pretty sure your momma is an underpaid lab scientist thats why she failed to raise you.

Cause you're just another cheap clone that's being observed, and tumblr is a zoo observing animals like you who clearly has a defect because they couldn't put their hands off their willy and their head is just thinking "breed, breed, breed" because your head already knows you're doomed into not making a whole generation.

Not only do you lack the skills, lack the physical attributes, lack the talents, lack the intellect. Guess what? Phone's ringing. Guinness book of records called your mom for World's biggest disappointment.

You ain't carrying your family's bloodline, they're carrying you, a disappointment.

Your parents had provided for you, and you couldn't even contribute a single cell of common sense, and they wasted their money on your education? Whats that? The condom factory wanted to apologise as your birth certificate as a personal apology letter.

The only reason you have a passport so early is because your parents are hoping to send you away as soon as possible, and they hoped NASA would finally make a ship that could send you back to uranus, because it seems your head is all the way up there.

I bet that tuition would have paid your parents' dreams off, but instead, they had to deal with these nightmares, and the only reason you won in your mama's vagina was the natural selection to make 99.9% of dumber people to feel better and make their excuse that there are "worse" people out there.

I bet your math and ethic teachers always use you as a board example. That's why you're so unforgettable that you need to be studied because you're begging to be reproduced. I bet pop-eye- is jealous because of your comically large jacking off hand that you don't need spinach. Why don't we ALL work in our bed and become gym bed wonkers instead so we can aspire to have asymmetrical figure, why don't we put it as a trend to remind us of OUR hero.

Why don't we have a game dedicated to them and replace guitar hero with wonk hero. Batman is so jealous of your reputation you became his next arch nemesis the fucking Jonkler. You don't even need to fall into that acid, but it seems your mom's stomach acid already started several deformities on you, starting from your head.

You even make beetlejuice jealous because it doesn't take someone to call you three times on how pathetically you easily come. Im pretty you'd love to ride pinnochio, but it gets longer when he lies about how good it feels to be with you.

[librarycards]

Hi!

If you are doing book recs, I was wondering if you had any for sci-fi that deals with sociology, archeology, anthropology - mostly those kinds of sciences. Ursula Le Guin's work is my favorite example of this, so do you know anything similar to The Left Hand of Darkness?

Or, if not, do you have any recs for nature/climate sci-fi, such as The Southern Reach trilogy? Thank you so much!

hello! i'm always open to book recs, thanks for the message :)

first, for sf + social sciences:

Renee Gladman, Event Factory - an epistemological crisis is an ontological one. mischief and other weirdness ensues.

Ted Chiang - honestly all of his work, but here's Stories of Your Life and Others

Jeff VanderMeer, City of Saints and Madmen (there's...a lot to unpack here, but I think you'll like it)

Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Chambers is what would happen is UKLG and Octavia Butler had glorious gay sex.

China Miéville, The City and the City. This, and Embassytown, are literary research questions and tongue-twisters.

Connie Willis, Doomsday Book - a lighthearted take on the themes you mention.

now, for cli-fi. know that I have read literal thousands of books over the course of my life atp, and have never found something that made me feel the way Annihilation made me feel. ever.

so, here's some cli-fi, but if you're looking for Southern Reach, you may be due for a re-read (or are waiting, like me, for the fourth entry to actually come out!!! which it is !!!)

Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu, Where We Go When All We Were is Gone

C. Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

There's also more VanderMeer to explore! I'm currently reading and loving Dead Astronauts. I also loved Veniss Underground.

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Tomiko Itooka: The World’s Oldest Person at 116 Age

Tomiko Itooka, a 116-year-old Japanese woman has been officially recognized as the world's oldest living person following the passing of 117-year-old Maria Branyas Morera. https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1825979850886086722

Also Read: Research Links Red Meat Consumption with Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Tomiko Itooka was born on May 23, 1908 in Osaka, Japan. This was the same year that the Eiffel Tower transmitted its first radio message and when the Wright Brothers made their public flights in Europe and America. Raised in Osaka, Itooka grew up alongside her siblings and attended both elementary and high school in the city. At the age of 20, she married and eventually had four children. Tomiko Itooka worked as a manager in her husband’s textile factory, which was located in South Korea during World War II. This role would have required responsibility during such a period. Tomiko Itooka’s husband passed away in 1979. During World War II, Tomiko managed the office of her husband’s textile factory. This responsibility showcased her ability to go through one of the challenging periods in modern history. The war had effects on her and her family, but her resilience helped them to recover in the post-war era. Tomiko’s love for physical activities, particularly mountain climbing is one of the extraordinary aspects of her life. She scaled Japan’s 3,067-meter Mount Ontake twice. She climbed the mountain in sneakers instead of hiking boots. Even into her 70s, Tomiko continued her passion for climbing. Her dedication to staying active extended beyond mountain climbing, she completed the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage twice in her 80s. This involves visiting 33 Buddhist temples across the Kansai region. At 100 years old, Tomiko Itooka continued to defy expectations by walking up the lengthy stone steps of Ashiya Shrine without the aid of a cane. This ability to remain physically active at such an advanced age is considered one of the factors contributing to her longevity. Tomiko Itooka’s extraordinary life gained international recognition when she was named the world’s oldest living person at the age of 116. This title came following the death of Spain’s Maria Branyas Morera, who passed away at the age of 117. The Gerontology Research Group known for validating the ages of supercentenarians confirmed her birthdate and age, placing her at the top of their World Supercentenarian Rankings List. https://twitter.com/ThePopFlop/status/1825869923064619506 Also Read: The Hidden Dangers of Stealthy Saturated Fats and Sugars Since 2019 Tomiko Itooka has resided in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture. Despite her advanced age she remains mentally sharp and communicates clearly, though she has become hard of hearing. Every morning, Tomiko Itooka starts her day with a popular yogurt-flavored drink called Calpis. Her favorite food is bananas, which she enjoys regularly. This simple diet combined with her active lifestyle may have contributed to her longevity. Tomiko Itooka celebrated her 116th birthday three months before being recognized as the world’s oldest person. The celebration included receiving flowers, a cake and a card from the city’s mayor. At the age of 100, Itooka demonstrated her enduring physical strength and independence by walking up the lengthy stone steps of the Ashiya Shrine without the aid of a walking stick. This feat underscores her physical vitality and determination to remain active well into her centenarian years. Itooka reached the milestone age of 110 in May 2018 she earned the title of supercentenarian. The Gerontology Research Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to researching human longevity. Following the death of Maria Branyas Morera at the age of 117, Tomiko Itooka has been officially declared the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records. While Tomiko Itooka is the current oldest living person, she joins a list of supercentenarians who have been recognized by Guinness World Records. The previous titleholder, Maria Branyas Morera lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, two world wars and the Spanish Civil War. The oldest verified person in history, Jeanne Louise Calment of France lived to be 122 years and 164 days old, passing away in 1997. https://twitter.com/shanghaidaily/status/1826074107492127115 Also Read: Cholera Outbreak in Sudan has Killed At Least 22 People

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Meet Tomiko Itooka: The world’s oldest person at 116Born in the same year that saw the Wright Brothers’ initial public flights, Tomiko Itooka has a life as remarkable as her age. AL Jazeera: At 116, Japanese woman set to be named world’s oldest person | Health News | Al JazeeraWe use cookies and other tracking technologies to deliver and personalize content and ads, enable features, measure site performance, and enable social media sharing. You can choose to customize your preferences.Learn more about our Cookie Policy. USA Today:

Japanese woman, 116, set to take title of oldest person the worldTomiko Itooka, 116, is now the oldest person in the world, Guinness World Records says, following the death of a woman who was 117. She loves bananas. AP News: A Japanese woman who loves bananas is now the world’s oldest personTomiko Itooka is now the world’s oldest living person at age 116. Guinness World Records confirmed the Japanese woman’s status Thursday, following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas. The Straits Times:

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[queenlua]

i rewatched schindler's list last night (extremely scattered random thoughts)

* the main motif that jumped out to me this time was that of paperwork

which makes sense, right. the list. in the title. is in fact a piece of paperwork

but (1) the last time i watched this i was like 15 and a dummy, and (2) i guess paperwork's been on the brain lately ever since i saw brandon taylor calling for a comeback of the "paperwork movie" and i was like so true bestie

the paperwork thing isn't the movie's primary preoccupation. it wasn't trying to make a specific statement about The Inhumanity Of Machines And Bureaucracy as far as i could tell (even though that'd be an easy angle for something like this to take), but even so. the endless lines with some harried typist at the end of it, the shots of ppl checking every coat pocket for their work papers, Itzhak's goofy-ass typing technique as he's making that list of names, the paperwork error that sends the train of women not to his factory but to Auchwitz, etc...

but there's a missing middle in there, right, with some honest examination of these typewriters and databases and keyboards and emails and files as part of the air we breathe now. (i think the automated-job-assignment-system in Le Guin's The Dispossessed and the City of Mind in Le Guin's Always Coming Home are both her kind-of-inchoate-but-deeply-felt AHHHHH reactions to bureaucratization and the internet, respectively—a lot of scifi from that era reads like that, nervous but not really sure what to say yet.) like, Schindler's List was not wanting to examine that angle overmuch, but because it's not so front-and-center preoccupied with the papers in-and-of-themselves it probably comes away with stronger imagery/riffing on the idea than it would have otherwise

when taylor was talking about paperwork movies he was talking about stuff like legal thrillers, romcoms, stuff like Air, and so on. things where bureaucratic competence is the way to win. and there's no shortage of midcentury stuff where The Bureaucratization Is The Horror, the act of putting anything on a paper or in a database is the itself the thing to be feared

but it'd be interesting to see a film that did take that front-and-center. (probably one exists! i don't watch very many movies.) i guess the closest thing to what i'm thinking of is Red Plenty, which is a novel about a lot of things, but one of those threads is definitely Egghead Soviet Math Nerds Doing Paperwork, & yeah it's so so so good. I Am Once Again Asking You To Read Red Plenty

* the other new thing that jumped out at me, this time around, was just how bad at business Schindler was lol. this went over my head as a kid, because the guy is always dressed fantastic and slots so easily into the Charming Business Magnate Archetype, and also because as a kid i hadn't spent enough time around Charming Business Magnates to realize how often they are full of shit... but yeah, the movie makes it super clear upfront that this is essentially a Wall Street Bets guy who has identified exactly one weird arbitrage opportunity ("hire slave labor") and is good at calling in favors from the other nazis he parties with and that's it. utterly unsurprising he failed at every single other business he ever tried. reading the details of Actual Oskar Schindler's life makes him seem both better and worse than how he's portrayed in the film, and it would've been really interesting to see all those angles explored, even if i get why Speilberg opted to sand down those edges and i'll concede he was probably right to do so for the thing he wanted to make

anyway yeah. that's a film

[sangria-and-guinness-shenanigans]

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | Dublin, Ireland

In an anticlimactic end to our trip, here on our last day I’m too sick to do anything. I was supposed to fly from here to DC and spend a long weekend with my friends there, but now I’m going straight to Philly, so it’s one disappointment on top of the other. I had a fever last night but I think I’ve kicked it, but I still feel generally crappy. With the help of our mom, we got a hotel room near our hostel and it is NICE!! I spent the day dozing in a comfy hotel bed and watching panel shows on TV, very “home sick from school” vibes.

This is the only photo I have from today. Anna took it when we got to the hotel because she said I looked “like a street urchin in Oliver.”

Anna took a tour of Kilmainham Gaol and the Guinness factory today so I’ve asked her to write a guest post about that!

[keepthemacramesecret]

in dublin like yea yea guinness factory is cool but did you know the northern corner of the st james gate brewery was originally the manders brewery/bakery? gpo?? weve all seen it. anyway the mcdonalds next door used to be a bank where Harry Manders lived and worked 🐇

[malcolmreeds]

books i read in 2024!

so i got back into reading in 2023 after almost a decade of not doing it (thanks uni for killing the passion lol) and so last year i decided to make a list of all the books i read! here they all are in order followed with my thoughts (*=reread)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Fight Club* - Chuck Palahniuk Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk The Harpy - Megan Hunter A Voyage for Madmen - Peter Nichols Moby Dick - Herman Malville The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Flatland - Edwin A Abbott The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K Le Guin Frozen in Time - Owen Beattie & John Geiger Superheavy - Kit Chapman This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone Affinity* - Sarah Waters A Room With a View - E.M Forster The House at Riverton - Kate Morton The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger Tell Me I'm Worthless - Alison Rumfitt Crow Moon - Suzy Aspley South: The Endurance Expedition - Ernest Shackleton The Hunger - Alma Katsu

as you can see i read some Absolute Bangers this year. there were only two books that werent for me and that was 'tell me im worthless' and 'this is how you lose the time war'. while it sounded interesting and there were some parts i really liked, the writing style of the former just really wasn't for me and the amount of sexual violence was not something i was expecting so that threw me off as well (there was a tw at the beginning so obvi no fault to the author there! i just personally wasnt expecting it to be the main plot of the book). the main qualm i had with it though is that there were no likeable characters, which is just not something for me as i like someone to root for when reading. i like a bit of escapism when reading but i dont mind heavy subject matter but oof the whole thing was a proper downer lol, just not for me personally!

for the latter it was So Hyped Up for ages so i decided to read it but all the way through the book i couldn't help but think that the two characters had fallen in love without ever meeting each other and in fact had only glanced at each other once across a battlefield. i know its probably not the point but i just couldnt help thinking about that and it just made the whole romance seem a bit silly to me? idk maybe that just the aro in me lol

2024 also marked the first time in my life id ever read non-fiction and besties i am absolutely HOOKED. read some really interesting true stories and have some more lined up for next year. i always thought it wasnt something i was interested in but i couldnt be more wrong, and being real life stories i think the perils and heartbreak hit me harder than fiction bc i Know that this really happened to someone.

anyway, choosing book of the year was Difficult but in the end i knew i could really only come to one conclusion. honourable mentions to 'pride and prejudice' and 'rebecca' - both completely changed me as a person, with the ending to 'rebecca' coming like a punch to the gut which i Still think about to this day.

however - i must give book of the year 2024 to 'a voyage for madmen' by peter nichols. as well as it being the first non-fiction book i had ever read, this book got me into boats and maritime expeditions and its now my number one interest! im not an emotional girlie but i cried my gd eyes out toward the end at the fate of one of the men, just absolutely harrowing to find out one of the men you followed through the entire book and rooted for through thick and thin ended his life not long after, hurts even more bc he was a real life person with real thoughts and feelings and desires and all that. got to thank this book to being my gateway to start reading about other boat journeys and now im Obsessed with doomed polar expeditions, particularly the franklin expedition of 1885, thanks peter nichols! 10/10 recommend!

there will definitely be more boat books in 2025 - i got apsley cherry-garrards biography of the terra nova expedition for christmas and am hoping to read that next! im also really interested in reading about the crew of the belgica in 'madhouse at the end of the earth'. im hoping to read 'house of leaves' this year as ive wanted to read it ever since i heard about it way back in the late 2000s but it was out of print, then a few years ago my sis+sil got me it for christmas! hope i find some absolute bangers this year!

[roobylavender]

omg i always find the discussion on kishimoto and shounen writers re: writing romance and female characters really interesting bc it's so true that wider fandom refuses to engage with heroines even at the level of male characters who have the same amount of screentime/development, even more so if they occupy any sort of love interest role because they're "in the way" of m/m pairings - but i also wonder how much of this discussion has turned into "if you don't ship this (shoddily-written) heterosexual pairing you are doing a disservice to X female character" with the poor excuse that shounen series supposedly """don't focus""" on romance anyway (if that's truly the case, why does the author bother introducing it as a last-minute element by suddenly marrying off half the cast?) like if romance is going to be a genre introduced to the manga (and if any and every interaction between the two characters who end up as married in the final chapter is to be taken as romantic, then romance is indeed going to be counted as one of the story's genres), surely it needs to be taken seriously and held to the same standard as the action and fantasy world-building genres of a manga...

also not to out myself as a grandma but personally this new idea i sometimes see on reddit or twitter that "shounen authors aren't 'allowed'(?) to develop their romances properly or focus on romantic subplots" honestly disgusts me as a certified 80s manga enjoyer lmao because it's such an insult to decades of prior shounen manga that did in fact take the time to write romance well and thus didn't end up with canon pairings anywhere near as controversial as, say, the ones in nardo or bleach... like it just goes to show how little people know about the genre to be making super broad and baseless statements like that. it's got the same energy as when people read 2010s DC comics and think they've gotten the best the genre has to offer even though 1) they haven't even skimmed the surface of the material 2) modern stories are written terribly compared to their predecessors

LIKE people cite that ursula k le guin quote about H/P to talk about how it's like incredibly derivative, practically factory-generated fantasy but imo it doesn't quite hold true because H/P isn't fundamentally a fantasy story but rather a boarding school one with fantastical elements - but that quote does absolutely hold true for naruto and its role within the shounen genre because every element of it is ripped off from its betters (i.e. slam dunk, HxH, etc) yet people praised it as if it was completely original and the pinnacle of shounen... and yet despite it all, broader fan consensus still found the female characters and their romances in both the series examples i listed (that kishi clearly plagiarized from) more agreeable than the canon ones in naruto 🙈

somewhat tangential to this but i feel like what makes this phenomenon (as in the one you talk about in the last paragraph) prevalent within mainstream shounen manga specifically is the way that manga publication works to begin with. like although magazines are generally reflective of genre categorizations they need not always be so (eg clamp which has published typically shoujo content in typically shounen magazines and vice versa) and usually your serialization in a magazine happens because you applied to it through a competition. and you applied through that competition for that magazine because you were enamored with the mangaka already employed by the magazine. the wsj hierarchy is essentially a long form example of this in that many of its mangaka were either fanboys of their predecessors on the magazine and thus decided to apply to it or they were lucky enough to work as assistants to those mangaka and then spring off into their own work once they had found the footing to do so. the derivative nature of the various series in the magazine is practically manufactured! and it's a wonky sort of survival of the fittest scheme in that the successor mangakas get to pick and choose what elements that were key to their admiration they incorporate into their own work. that's how i think you get to works like naruto and bleach. i don't think it's outright plagiarism but more.. fanboy antics distilled into fanfiction that subsequently goes through an editorial process to prepare it for original publication. the twilight turned masters of the universe turned fifty shades of grey phenomenon if you will. how you fare after that then depends on your own additional input. i feel like although kishi definitely modeled some character and relationship dynamics on those of his predecessors what attracted people to his story was his world (which is ironic because it's more than arguable that his world is underdeveloped in various places) and how that world contextualized those already familiar dynamics. that's why even though the naruto-sasuke rivalry was admittedly modeled off of the yusuke-hiei one there was still a significant difference in overarching function between the two relative to their place within each series

as for the commentary on romance specifically i definitely agree with you that there's no excuse for romance writing to be taken less seriously merely because something is published in a shounen magazine lol. and frankly with respect to naruto specifically i always find this excuse to be very confusing because at least with sasusaku the writing is very intentional.. a lot of people seem to skirt over their development with respect to each other because it's convenient to ignore and that always frustrates me because kishi is more than due his fair share of criticism for any number of things but it's silly to criticize him for the absence of something when there is precisely.. no absence. i think a lot of people mistake subtlety for absence if anything. the moments when sasuke deliberates on his weakness and inability to save sakura and how that should render him worthless in her eyes are largely unimportant to naruto's readership so they either act like they never happen or they conveniently isolate sasuke's explosive reactions to that worthlessness without allowing other people to view the context that birthed them. that scene in part one where he shoves the apples away from her is one i see spread sooo often but no one ever includes the thoughts running through sasuke's head right before it happens

i do think kishi can generally be criticized for not making romance more of a focal point of his narrative because love in all of its forms is so important to that narrative and sasusaku's example in particular is quite revolutionary with respect to the world the characters occupy (as is naruhina's i would say). but i also feel like it's premature of people to say that they lack development. they only really lack development with respect to that final chapter which most people acknowledge is a corny fast-forward future written for the sake of wrapping things up in a bow. where they end up by the end of chapter 699 is pretty well predicated by the extent of their journey and people only really dislike it because where they're willing to look beyond the violence between naruto and sasuke they're not willing to do the same for sakura and sasuke. admittedly i'm biased but i do think it's one of those rare situations where people are doing a disservice to sakura if they don't even try to read into the intents behind her relationship with sasuke. i don't think people have to like it by any means but i wish there was more good faith engagement with it because there is certainly plenty to criticize about kishi but i don't think most people actually even get at what's worth criticizing because they're too busy making up excuses for him even though those excuses are supposedly supposed to be criticism loljfkldsjgdf

[thefiresontheheight]

I swear to GOD I feel like the only person in the world who has read and despised the Monk and Robot novellas. Which was weird cause I loved The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit is easily in my top twelve novels ever so I know Becky Chambers can write. It’s just so fucking twee. Everyone fully agrees with solarpunk kinda sort anarcho-syndicalism-but-we-don’t-use-scary-labels-or-talk-politics and there’s literally no fucking mention of HOW they arrived at such universal consensus. Or how society manages to coordinate so fully across an entire planet/moon. Or how the transition from post-peak oil capitalism to uhhh hopepunk post scarcity happened IMMEDIATELY after all automation simply walked out of the factories! Everyone uses pebbles instead of fiat currency and it’s totally different! No one goes to half the planet because humanity and wilderness are not things that can be mixed! It’s The Dispossessed with none of Le Guin’s self reflection.

And, like, those would be dumb worldbuilding but probably forgivable if they had amazing plots. But the plots is just wandering around talking about worldbuilding! There’s nothing else TOO focus on. And worst of all the marketing and talk about it, even that quote with the images of cats that gets reblogged a whole lot on tumblr.com, is absolutely bathing in the whole “hope in fiction is praxis/the world is stressful and we all need a break” ethos I hate. I just wanna be a hater and a grouch and I’m way too cynical to go along with it.

[kaixhuening]

irish fish and chips at a traditional pub and the guinness factory tour. could i be any more of a tourist?

[fffartonceaweek]

Sean McTiernan's SF podcast (is great) :

SFUltra is a show about a guy who hated science fiction until 2022 convincing himself he actually loves it, one book at a time. It is going pretty well so far. It gets published every two weeks.

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[librarycards]

Book rec ask….Very interested in your fiction recs.

Borne - Jeff Vandermeer This Thing Between Us - Gus Moreno Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Embassytown - China Miéville Comemadre - Roque Larraquy

I didn't highlight it very much in the list, but I also really like sci-fi, particularly Ann Leckie and Ursula K. Le Guin :) This is so fun, appreciate you!

awesome list! fun fact - i use "embassytown" as one of a few litmus tests to see how weird/opaque of a book someone can actually handle. you've passed the test. here are some:

Jesi Bender, Kinderkrankenhaus

Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath

Jay Besemer, The Ways of the Monster

NM Esc, Last Week's Weather Forecast Made Me Nervous

Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

Renee Gladman, Event Factory

also: obligatory "you may like my book" link. alas, we are in Promo Mode.

enjoy!

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Joseph Mawle

Joseph Mawle Movies and TV Shows, Wiki, Biography, Wife, Height, Age and Net Worth

Joseph Mawle is a well-known English actor who has appeared in both film and television. This article will go into the interesting world of Joseph Mawle, from early years through his incredible career and personal life.Joseph Mawle Wiki / Biography

Joseph Mawle was born on 21st March 1974 in Oxford, England. He is most known for his performances in the tv series Game of Thrones as Benjen Stark, the film Ripper Street as Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine, the film Birdsong as Firebrace, the film The Passion as Jesus Christ, the film The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Adar, and the film Troy: Fall of a City as Odysseus.

Early Life

His upbringing was distinctive because he was raised on a farm just outside Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, in a Victorian manor house. He comes from a Warwickshire family with a long history of farming spanning nine generations. His father, Richard, is still a farmer, and his mother was a teacher.

Joseph went to the Croft prep school on the outskirts of Stratford-upon-Avon when he was younger. His severe dyslexia was discovered during his school years and from the time he was 13 to the time he was 16, he attended a boarding school for students with exceptional needs. His journey to becoming an actor officially began with this encounter.

However, Joseph Mawle’s fate was different. He had labyrinthitis at the age of 16, which left him with a persistent tinnitus and a 70% hearing loss in the upper register. Despite these obstacles, Joseph was serious about pursuing his dream of performing.

He convinced the director of the neighborhood college in Stratford-upon-Avon to grant him permission to pursue a BTEC in performing arts while holding down a number of jobs, including those of a fitness trainer and dishwasher.

Joseph began acting around this time, appearing in shows with the Box Clever Theatre Company and mounting his own version of “Solo Hamlet.” He eventually received a scholarship to attend the esteemed Bristol Old Vic Theatre School as a result of his perseverance.

Career Beginnings

In 2002, Joseph Mawle received his diploma from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He made an appearance in Guinness tv commercials that same year. Joseph started his acting career despite not having an agent when he graduated from theatre school and worked as an assistant in a special needs school.

His breakthrough came in 2003 when he took on the role of Troilus in a Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory production of “Troilus and Cressida“. His performances in other plays, such as “Hamlet” at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton and “Antony and Cleopatra” at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 2005, further enhanced his reputation.

But it was his performance in the 2006 television movie “Soundproof” that made him famous. The lead actor in this movie had to be deaf, and Joseph’s performance received favorable reviews. He was nominated for the RTS Breakthrough on Screen Award.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, illustrated by E.H. Shepard

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, illustrated by Garth Williams

Matilda by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson

I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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