#Helene Meadowlark

[cherry-blxssxm-chaos]

I am being extremely normal about this fictional family of science cats I've made up in my head

I don't think I've mentioned yet, Aelios had a wife! and, uh, will be getting a husband in the future

oh, and more family portraits but this time as their Pokémon forms

[gavotte-paradisio]

Welcome to my blog

I might split this into separate posts once I become more proficient in tumblr but here goes:

Hi. I'm Lily. Please don't be the bad kind of weirdo in my comments and reblogs. Please feel free to be the good kind of weirdo. I am. I think most of us here are.

Featured character of the month: Teen!Gabi Grassette (My Miraculous Ladybug au)

OC of the week: Félix Ortega (Nonfandom oc)

Fandoms I'm having brainrot for: Hatchetfield, Yaelokre/Meadowlark, Sanders Sides

Characters I'm having brainrot for: Pokotho, Coda'al (OC), Wiggog Y'Rath, Eddie Chiplucky (Hatchetfield), Literally the entire Lark and all the Harkers (Yaelokre/Meadowlark), Janus (Sanders Sides)

Fandoms I'll roleplay as and characters I'll roleplay from them:

Ever After High: Bianca Hearts (oc), Flori (oc), Lavendre Setsorciere D'Lilas (oc), Seth Setsorciere D'Lilas (oc), Amelia Volpe (oc), Belladonna Turm (oc), Amanda Leaford (oc), Sandra Fireball (oc), Catarino Gatto (oc), Ulysses Fierce (oc), Porter L'duc (oc)

D&D (due to the nature of the game they're all ocs): Celia, Aquamarine, Kaiden Windriver, Aelar Holimion, G'eldonia Salein, Megan Wren, Rowan Goldleaf, Tre (with the poofy hair), Jamira, Cassian Liadon, De-See Akachissa, Lamina, Ysabeaux Borges, Eliana Dawsama, Cruz Alkibrit, Worth Chaval

Undertale: Undyne, Mettaton

Delta Rune: Kris, Ralsei, Lancer

Doki Doki Literature Club: Monika

Pokemon Go: Blanche

Sanders Sides: All sides in interps of canon, plus: Leon Schneider (au of Logan) Ramses XII (au of Roman), Lycanthrope! Patton Sanders (au), Valentin Stadler (au of Virgil), Fae/Iguana! Roman Sanders (au), Fae/Gecko!Patton De Cartier (au), Fae/Box Turtle! Virgil Hemshade (au), Fae/Boa Constrictor! Prince Logan De Serpens (au) Fae/King Cobra! King Janus De Serpens, Tomezinho (au of Thomas), Seu Logan (au), Emilia! Roman (au), Tio Patton (au), Tio Virgil (au), Cobrinha (au of Janus), Saci! Remus (au), Emilie, Viscount of Picanosa (au of Dr. Picani), Tom Kirk (au of Thomas), L'gn Spock (au of Logan), Kirumi Uhura (au of Roman), Lev Chekov (au of Patton), Virgil McCoy (au), Naomi Sulu (au of Janus), Remus Scott (au), Elliot Walker (oc), Ava Watershed (oc), Verity (oc), Celeste (oc), Agatha (oc), Persephone (oc), Jane (oc)

Dance Central: Dare, Oblio

Just Dance: The Traveler, Mihaly, Jack Rose

Good Omens: Aziraphale, Crowley, Anathema Device, Beelzebub, Sercon (au of Aziraphale), Raphael (au of Crowley), Bee Moschella (au of Beelzebub), Seth Devall (au of Satan), Gabe Vanderskye (au of Gabriel), Tony MacAleister (au of Crowley), 'El Villalba (au of Muriel), Zed Vega (au of Aziraphale)

Encanto: Isabela, Dolores, Mirabel

SIX! The Musical: Aragon, Parr

Umbrella Academy (Netflix show, I haven't read the comics): Klaus, Ben, Viktor

Miraculous Ladybug: Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Adrien Agreste, Gabriel Agreste, Teen! Gabi Grassete (au), Teen! Emilie Graham De Vanily (au), Teen! Nathalie Sancouer (au), Baynard Travers (oc), Carlotta Contreras (oc), Luis Contreras (oc)

Descendants: Willamine Sanderson (oc), Jesse Hook (oc), Bianca-Rose of Hearts (oc), Mary-Gwen (oc)

Avatarverse (ATLA/TLOK/COTA): Aang, Zuko, Kyoshi, Akane (oc), Huilang (oc), Lee (oc)

The Sims 4: Caleb Vatore, Lilith Vatore, Morgyn Ember, L. Faba, Simeon Silversweater

CATS! (The musical): Munkustrap, Rum Tum Tugger, Mr. Mistoffelees

The Summoner: Fletcher Wulf/Raleigh

MCU: Loki, Thor

Random books I read for class in high school: Prince Prospero (Masque of the Red Death) Red Death (Masque of the Red Death), Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) Reverend Hale (The Crucible), Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Banquo (Macbeth), Tiresias (Greek Mythology/Oedipus Rex), Creature/Adam (Frankenstein), Algernon Moncrieff (The Importance of Being Earnest)

Monster High: Scarlett Death (OC), Luano Lobi (OC), Coda'al (OC)

Nonfandom ocs and stuff from my wips: Blaise Mirren, Laura Vasquez, Joan Doe/Guo Xian, Crocus Carvidge, Andrew Anure, Calliope Rookwood, Felix Ortega, Saoirse, Makiese, Helene, Cato Caelius Cicerinus, Fujisaki Kei, Raven, Robin, Wren, The Knights of the Fungal Order

Synpaths:

Primary Synpaths: Janus (Sanders Sides), Roman (Sanders Sides), Logan (Sanders Sides), Aaron Burr (Hamilton), Jaskier (The Witcher (the Netflix show because I haven't read the books or played the games and I hear he's different), Algernon Moncrieff (The Importance Of Being Earnest)

Secondary Synpaths: Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender (the cartoon)), Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender (the cartoon)), Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter (no I don't support she-who-I-won't-bother-to-name)), Belle (Beauty and the Beast (the 1991 Disney cartoon)), Michele Santana (3%), Juliana Crain (The Man in the High Castle(the Amazon Prime show, I haven't read the book)), Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) Reverend Hale (The Crucible), Isabela Madrigal (Encanto), Kris Dreemurr (delta rune)

I'm on the fence about these: Avatar Kyoshi (Chronicles of the Avatar), Lancer (delta rune), Emily Ostergaard (Women Playing Hamlet), Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit (I haven't read Lord of the Rings)), Hannah Foster (Hatchetfield)

Please feel free to comment, message, or AMA if anything I listed sounds interesting to you!

[aefward]

Earrings, Meadowlark.

Photography by David Luraschi, Styling by Helen Broadfoot, Art direction by Phil Buckingham, Fashion assistant: Annie Hertikova, Hair by Conrad Dornan at Frank Reps, Make-up by Holly Silius at Frank Reps, Nails by Demi Truong at Star Touch Agency, Set design by James Lear at The Wall Group, Production by Rachael Evans, Anarchy Films Inc., Maddie Varnedoe, Giorgio Tsintoukidis-Dirkx.

[newsiepedia]

Character Profile: Medda

Real Name: Medda Larkin/ Larkson

Nickname and Meaning: The Swedish Meadowlark (stage name)

Age: Unsure. However, Medda is old enough to securely own her own theater, and young enough to play a flirtatious and lively character on stage. I would put her in her late 20s to mid 30s.

Gender: Medda is always played by a woman.

Family: Unsure. We know for certain that she doesn’t have a husband, as her title is “Miss” and not Ms or Mrs. (Newsies Live script, page 18) However, in the film, she does mention having “some other guy”. (Newsies Film script, page 84)

Medda…:

Is not actually rich. When Medda asks Jack to paint another backdrop, she mentions that “things have been going so well I can actually pay”, implying that she didn’t have enough money to spare to give Jack a fair wage for his time. (Newsies Live script, page 19)

Is selfless, especially when it comes to artists. Jack regularly comes to Medda’s theatre to paint backdrops for the theatre, where she supplies him with the things he needs to work. (Newsies Live script, page 19) However, in order to get good at painting, Jack would have had to make many bad or mediocre paintings as practice. Medda would have had to let Jack use her supplies for free in order for him to get that good.

Is maternal. Medda always makes a point to be nice to the newsies, letting them stay overnight in the theatre, (Newsies Live script, page 19) giving them candy, (Newsies Film script, page 28), encouraging them when they’re scared, (Newsies Live script, page 63) and treating them like her own children. (Newsies Film script, page 83) In turn, the newsies love her like their mother (except for Race, who hits on her.) (Newsies Film script, pages 82, 83, 84)

Is optimistic. Medda knows that life is tough for the newsies. She knows that many of them are orphans or cast out by their families, many of them will always be poor, and some of them might never escape homelessness, but no matter what, she reminds them that better times will come if they just wait for them (and in the mean time, they can always come to her for comfort). (Newsies Film script, page 84)

Is beyond tough. Medda will break the law by harboring fugitives (Newsies Live script, page 18) and verbally assaulting police officers (Newsies Film script, page 90) if she thinks it will keep one of her many newsie children safe. She brings Jack’s drawings of the Refuge right to the governor after Crutchie is arrested- (Newsies Live script, page 74) and that’s not even mentioning that she is a woman, and runs a whole theatre mostly by herself! (Newsies Film script, page 27)

Headcanon Fuel:

What did Medda do before she ran the theatre?

Why does Medda care for the newsies so much?

How did Medda get the money to start up the theatre?

Actors and Physical Appearance:

Helen Anker

Capathia Jenkins

Angela Grovey

Aisha de Haas

Ann-Margret

Medda is a curvy woman with big, curly hair and a penchant for pink. She is typically portrayed with darker skin. Although her stage name is the Swedish Meadowlark, she probably isn’t a Swede, as her accent is completely fake. (Newsies Film script, page 27)

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Mosley? Meadowlark? Peterson?: Stapleton neighborhood will vote on list of replacement names

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Colorado News

A Denver neighborhood will vote on a list of nine names to replace its current association with a former mayor known for his Ku Klux Klan connection.

The available options are detailed on the site run by the neighborhood organization, Stapleton United Neighbors.

The neighborhood was named for former Denver Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton and was built beginning in 2001 on the site of the former Stapleton International Airport.

Stapleton served as mayor for a total of 20 years between 1923 and 1947 and was a member of the KKK.

More than 65% of voting property owners opted to retain the Stapleton name in a referendum last summer. However, the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, and ensuing unrest in Denver and across the country, renewed discussion of a name change for the neighborhood.

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Potential new neighborhood names include Mosley, to honor John Mosley, a Tuskegee airman during World War II, and his wife, Edna, a civil rights activist; Meadowlark, for a species of bird native to the area with ties to indigenous history; and Peterson, in memory of Helen Peterson, who advocated for civil rights for American Indians and was tasked with reorganizing the National Congress of American Indians at the request of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Owners and renters of Stapleton property can vote until Saturday. That recommendation will be followed by a vote by a community board of directors. Brookfield Properties Development, the community’s master developer, and the city and county of Denver need to approve a name change.

Former gubernatorial candidate and state treasurer Walker Stapleton, the great-grandson of the former mayor, said in June he supported a name change if it “brings more equity, fairness and opportunity” for Denver residents and Colorado residents of color.

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Competitiveness and Determination in Super Lawyers Selectees

In May, Super Lawyers Magazine highlighted four top attorneys with compelling back stories. From stopping a robbery to scoring 28 points on Michael Jordan, the stories surrounding these lawyers provide plenty of conversation starters. Access each issue to read about the legal prowess and determination it takes to become the top five percent and 2.5 percent of attorneys in a region.

2018 Virginia and West Virginia Super Lawyers Magazine

Now in his 60s, Reeves Mahoney, a founding partner at Mahoney Nashatka Richmond in Virginia Beach, stays fit by running five miles every morning. While Mahoney credits his father-a WWII surgeon awarded the prestigious Croix de Guerre for heroic deeds at the Battle of the Bulge-with instilling in him a tireless work ethic, it's his mother he points to for making him curious and culturally aware.

Mary Watkins Reeves wrote daytime serials for radio during the 1930s and '40s (she wrote for the popular The Romance of Helen Trent) and then soap operas for CBS in the '50s. She had her son tutored in Latin and ancient Greek. She took him on regular trips from their home in Long Island to Manhattan's museums, galleries and bookstores.

That erudite training helps him as a man of many talents who is a top-rated family law attorney.

"Whenever I asked her what a word was," Mahoney says, "she would say, 'Look it up and you'll never forget.' The only dictionary that we had was the Oxford English Dictionary, which had those wafer-thin, onion-skin pages. I had to wash my hands before I could put them on the sacred OED. She would say, 'That word is a derivation of what Latin word? Where did that come from in Greek?', and sometimes you would take words all the way back to their Phoenician roots. Every word became a journey."

"Reeves is one of those Renaissance people that is well-read and thinks deeply," says former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. "He's always looking for a way to make the practice of law better and desires a comprehensive strategy to serve his clients better."

The curiosity instilled in Mahoney helped him become one of the best trial lawyers and family law attorneys in Virginia.

Read the entire feature story to learn about his work in domestic abuse cases, divorce cases and how he once thwarted a robbery attempt in 1975.

2018 Southwest Super Lawyers Magazine

Karl Tilleman holds the Olympic record for the most three-point baskets made in a single game, making 10 of 16 shots from beyond the arc and scoring 21 points in a row for Canada against Spain.

In fact, Tilleman was so successful for the Canadian national team that Michael Jordan, yes that Jordan, was tasked with guarding him.

On the wall of his office at Steptoe & Johnson in downtown Phoenix, Tilleman keeps a framed photo of himself and Michael Jordan facing off against each other in the 1984 Olympics.

"He guarded me in the semifinals, and whenever he would come after me, he would kick me toe-to-toe," Tilleman says. "Not in a rude way, but he would just literally slam his toe into my foot, and then he'd slap me on the leg, as if to say, 'Come on! Let's go!'"

But it's his work as an attorney which has garnered him as successful a career in court as he had on the court.

As a seasoned trial lawyer and class action litigator, he has litigated antitrust, IP, RICO, insurance and environmental cases while representing clients like AIG, USC, Western Union and the Harlem Globetrotters.

"I love litigation; it does feel a lot like athletics to me," he says. "There's a little bit of a chase; there's the competition part in taking an adversarial position. I enjoy the personal relations, particularly in jury trials; working with people. Plus, it's not hard emotionally on me, because I feel-no matter the outcome-that's the way life works out."

Take a look at the feature article to learn more about Tilleman, including cross-examining Meadowlark Lemon, and the time he was a law clerk to both Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice Clarence Thomas.

2018 Pennsylvania and Delaware Super Lawyers Magazine

Patti Dodge is a baseball fan and loves the Pittsburg Pirates. And it's a good thing, because her corner office at Meyer, Unkovic & Scott is a short walk to their home field, PNC Park.

Sometimes, when she's thinking about which way to proceed in a mediation, or while making notes on an opening statement in trial, Dodge gets up from her desk, grabs one of the baseballs scattered around her office and idly tosses it up and down as she thinks.

She's had Pirates season tickets for almost 30 years, and her office is a shrine to the power the hometown team has to own, and break, a fan's heart. There are bobblehead dolls, and a framed photograph of the crowd and field at the 2013 Wild Card game, an altogether too brief resurgence for the Pirates.

Dodge, a commercial trial lawyer, took her first job at Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott in 1981. She loves trying cases before a jury, and she's established a reputation among peers for her composure and preparation. Last year, she won the Academy of Trial Lawyers' Joseph F. Weis Jr. Distinguished Service Award, which honored her entire career.

Russ Ober first worked with her at Rose, Schmidt, Hasley & DiSalle, and now works with her at Meyer, where he also litigates.

"Her style is truly calm and non-confrontational. But it's like surgery. Before you know it, she has opened you up."

Her low-key unflappability is especially effective when applied to those used to giving orders without being questioned: CEOs and CFOs of large corporations. "I guess they get faked out by this calm woman who literally kills them," he says.

Learn more about Dodge's journey to becoming an attorney, which included three years as a probation officer for Allegheny County.

2018 Florida Super Lawyers Magazine

Save what can be salvaged and, whenever possible, build something better and longer lasting. An apt description for how Harley Riedel approaches his bankruptcy practice.

In fact, the Tampa attorney has made quite the career of keeping bankrupt companies in the game.

"I think all of us feel good about taking a case that has hundreds of employees if you're going to save jobs," says Riedel, co-managing shareholder at bankruptcy firm Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Postler, where he represents mostly debtors. "If the company fails, there are going to be 100 people without paychecks, without the ability to put food on the table, without the ability to make mortgage payments."

Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Riedel moved to Tampa when he was two. His dad, a third-generation dairy farmer, had contracted polio, and doctors suggested he seek warmth and water. He brought his entrepreneurial spirit with him, buying a small chain of a dozen Li'l General convenience stores.

Those who know Riedel say his Midwest nice-guy persona is real.

Fellow Tampa bankruptcy lawyer Robert Soriano has dealt with Riedel, almost always as an adversary, for more than 30 years.

"I mean, if he's put to the wall, he'll litigate and litigate well," Soriano says. "But he's almost always a consensus-builder. A deal-doer. Always a gentleman. Always well-prepared. And you know, most importantly, you can trust what he says."

So nice is Riedel that, in addition to his heavy caseload, he devotes many hours to pro bono work. He also helps a lot of people in his regular line of work.

"I say, only half joking, that we on the debtor's side, we're doing God's work. We're saving jobs. And, you know, we [also] represent creditors, and their job is to get paid so their stockholders can get paid," says Riedel. "But it's not as much fun to put a company out of business as it is to save it."

Find out what else makes Riedel tick in the cover story of the 2018 Florida Super Lawyers Magazine.

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