#Irish Photo Archives

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1964 – Death of novelist Maurice Walsh, author of the original story of The Quiet Man.

Maurice Walsh was born in Ballydonoghue, near Listowel, Co Kerry, and is best known for the short story The Quiet Man which was later made into an Oscar-winning movie directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. He was one of Ireland’s best-selling authors in the 1930s. John Walsh’s main interests were books and horses and he himself did little about the farm, preferring to…

[ippilifasil]

[mauesartetc]

FREE PALESTINE MASTERPOST

Trying to keep this blog more art- and creativity-focused in general, so I'll be removing the Gaza-related reblogs that are about a month old. But I'll use this post as a permanent archive that will update periodically (some of this information will grow dated as the situation develops, but I think it's important to keep a record of just how fiercely opposed people were to Israel's actions from this moment forward). We should all continue to raise our voices about this, and refuse to support politicians who enable genocide. Remember, they work for us, not the other way around. Keep going.

October 2023

-Donation links

-Social media links

-US congress ceasefire script

-Decolonizepalestine.com (information, mythbusting)

-More donation links

-Ways to pressure politicians for a ceasefire

-HUGE resource list

-"Is there anything I can do to help Palestinians besides call my representatives and beg them to stop killing people?"

-"We are isolated now"

-Palestine and landback

-210 PAGES of dead people's names.

-Bail money for Palestine Action

-Article list

-US action items

-Boycott info

-Grand Central Station shut down by protestors

-Message to white American citizens

-UK ceasefire petition

-How YOU can help Palestine (regularly updated!)

-"Please try amidst all this fury and grief to still have faith in the common people." (+donation links)

-Reminder about protest etiquette and privacy

-Prints for Palestine

-"We have no communication with the outside world. They are using their military might to harm us. We have no power but the power of God, no one but God. Please, pray for us." (spoken over mosque speakers)

-DAILY donate button + more donation links

-"Doesn't Israel have a right to exist too?"

-Script for US Congress calls

-Queerness under apartheid

-Sudan is also at war

-Hundreds of thousands of protestors in London

-Half a million.

-Tips for folks with phone anxiety

-This comic got real

-European and Canadian ceasefire scripts

-"The people of Gaza see the protests. That is reason enough to come even if nothing else." WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU. WE ARE HERE.

November 2023

-More genocides than just Palestine

-How to buy e-sims to circumvent Gaza's internet blackout

-"Occupying territories is illegal. Resistance to occupying forces is legal."

-MASSIVE resource list

-"For decades now the media has told us Muslim men are savages, terrorists, wife beaters and everything in between. I want you to challenge this trope the next time you see it in the media. Let these photos serve as a reminder."

-"Don't stop talking about the Palestinian genocide. IT'S WORKING."

-UN resignation letter

-Israel won't allow Irish or Brazilian citizens to leave Gaza

-"Palestine must never be forgotten. Promise me that." (from the documentary "Children of Shatila")

-Gifs of pro-Palestine rallies around the world

-Support Palestine's last kufiya factory

-Protestors flood the streets in Washington DC

-Explanation of why calling representatives is a numbers game

-FREE ebooks on the history of this conflict

-Petition to screen films by Palestinian directors

-Call to boycott Gal Godot's work

-Indigenous activists block weapons shipment to Israel

-If you're attending a protest, DON'T TELL YOUR GOVERNMENT SHIT. Y'know, friendly advice.

-Links to support Palestine Action and Palestine Legal. Get in the way.

-Parallels between Israel and the surveillance tactics used by NYC mayor Eric Adams

-Don't spiral into doomerism. Persevere.

-Want a different strategy to contact your representatives? Try faxing them!

-Florida rep Michelle Salzman calls for the death of all Palestinians

-"The phone doesn't stop" :)

-Indian trade unions call on the government to scrap deals with Israel

-An overview of Israel's human rights violations, and two major political groups that have exacerbated Zionism in the US

-Israeli man explains why he's protesting

-"Whoever stays until the end will tell the story. We did what we could. Remember us."

-US House of Representatives votes to send billions of dollars worth of weapons to Israel

-Canadian email campaign and petitions

-"Canada's First Nation standing with Palestine"

-"Freedom is infectious as it is just and no one is free until they ALL are."

-Israeli forces invade al-Shia hospital

-Leaked list of weapons the US has sent to Israel

-Only 32% of Americans believe the US should support Israel

-Cop City action demonstrates how to protest effectively

-Refugee grandmother "doesn't have to imagine a multicultural and integrated Palestine- she remembers it".

-Protestors block the Bay Bridge in San Francisco (plus bail fund)

-Israeli forces attack schools in northern Gaza. SCHOOLS.

-Journalist shares an update from an Indonesian hospital and pleads for others to spread it around as it "may be the last video we are able to send"

-Scottish Parliament votes overwhelmingly to demand a ceasefire

-Sobering texts from a friend providing humanitarian aid in Gaza. "They have been distributing guns to the civilian settlers and allowing them into the West Bank to terrorize people" "We have been given option to leave. None took it"

-"the absolute bare minimum in this situation is 1) a complete ceasefire and immediate humanitarian aid in Gaza, 2) complete halt of all military foreign aid to the Israeli government, 3) the Israeli government being prosecuted for its war crimes in the International Criminal Court, and 4) land back and reparations for the Palestinian people. free Palestine means free Palestine, not just temporarily stop carpet bombing Palestine."

-"It's important that you keep posting and speaking about the ongoing genocide. This 5 day agreement isn't the end of things."

-Boosting the incredible, FREE daily donate button again

-Protests at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

-"REMINDER THAT ANTISEMITES AREN'T WELCOME HERE AND WON'T BE TOLERATED"

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon jour, bonne semaine à tous ☕️ 📰

"The Irish Time" sur O'Connell Street, Dublin 🇮🇪 Irlande 1963

Photo Irish Archives

[amjustanobserver]

What is happening?

Myiy updating after four years

The Science Guild updating after SIX years

We have new photos of our Irish Queen Kashy McGraaa

Alycia Debnam-Carey posted new videos

Like...

What did we do to deserve all of this?

Everyone, keep doing what you are doing right now.

[menonlywrestling]

From the archive.

London 1967.

'Gypsy' Joe O'Connor Jr poses for a photograph with his Irish grandfather, a heavyweight champ in his day and who also wrestled under the name Gypsy Joe.

This photo was taken before Sexy Joe Jr had his first match outside the UK, in Saudi Arabia, along with some other UK and Irish Pro Wrestlers, who faced off against local talent.

Joe was badly beaten by his opponent.

His opponent (below) had multiple opportunities to pin Joe, however he was keen to make an example out of him in front of the home crowd and local dignitaries, so he would pull him up by the hair before the three count, and at one point spat in his face when he had Joe tied up in the ropes, adding to the humiliation.

The ref turned a blind eye to the closed fist punches, hair pulling and eye gouging.

The audience enjoyed seeing the foreigner suffer.

[princess-of-the-glitter-realm]

The Irish Dukes, 1950s

members of the 'Irish Dukes', wearing jackets with the gang's name on the back, sit around a table smoking and playing cards, New York City, New York, circa 1955. The Irish Dukes, based around 139th Street and Willis Avenue in South Bronx, were a gang in the 1950s. (Photo by Graphic House/Archive Photos)

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue June 1959

Jane Fonda in a gray linen dress trimmed in white. By Harmay, of Irish linen. Trifari earrings. Small beige straw handbag by Koret. White Gloves, Wear-Right.

Jane Fonda dans une robe en lin gris bordée de blanc. Par Harmay, de lin irlandais. Boucles d'oreilles Trifari. Petit sac à main en paille beige par Koret. Gants blancs, Wear-Right. Photo Irving Penn

vogue archive

[chthonicophanim]

Intírmatemasc

[PT: Intírmatemasc]

A masculine- or butch-in-nature gender related to intimacy, love, and domesticity in a stereotypically masculine way (such as car maintenance, repairing stuff around the house, building furniture, etc).

This may relate to queering stereotypical gender roles, feeling gender euphoria when fixing, maintaining, or building things with/for your partner(s), sharing affection while fixing/maintaining/building things (such as sharing kisses, holding hands, being hugged, etc), or anything else that the user feels fits.

{Intír from Intíre meaning domestic in Irish, mate from the word intimate, -masc as a suffix denoting the relationship to masculinity}

Posyarnratix

[PT: Posyarnratix]

A gender related to rats, playing with yarn or wool, mischief, being purposefully obtuse or confusing, and riddles, as well as one’s own autism.

This may be related to stimming with yarn or by knitting, enjoying confusing others, the vagueness and language used in riddles, puzzles, the ‘rabiosexual’ movement, the Batman villain The Riddler, punk or grunge aesthetics and values, etc, but not necessarily!

[EXCLUSIVE TO PEOPLE WITH AUTISM, TRANSID AND ANTI-SELF DIAGNOSIS FUCKERS GO AWAY]

Campsonglovic

[PT: Campsonglovic]

A gender related to the intimacy and love (platonic or otherwise) shared in gathering around a campfire with a group and singing together and sharing stories. The love shared between a group of campers, and how that intimacy is shared through song or stories.

May be related to camping in general, warmth, campfires, camp songs, spooky campfire stories, storytelling in general, friendship, platonic love, etc, but not necessarily.

Snakevenwarmic

[PT: Snakevenwarmic]

A gender related to snakes, warmth, warm clothes, and afternoons.

This may also be related to the idea of a snake wearing a scarf or hat for warmth, the fact that snakes are cold blooded and need and outside heat to warm them, heat bulbs that are used in snake vivariums, cozycore, sunsets, etc, but not necessarily.

{ Photo ID help?: @liom-archive @radiomogai @mogaidescribed }

DNI: bigots, radinclus, radexclus, pro-endo, if you’re going to try and argue with me on any of these points, if you demonise mental illness, pro-transid (eg; transabled, transage, transrace, etc), proshippers/anti-anti, MAPS/NOMAPS/necro/zoo DNI (full DNI in pinned)

[talkinfanfic]

Episode 306 - Talkin’ U2, Bono, and Bedge with Tory from the Retro Fanfic Retrospective Podcast!

Sara welcomes the great and wonderful Tory, best known for their reliably insightful analysis of fanfiction on the Retro Fanfic Retrospective podcast (found wherever you get your podcasts!) Tory shares their lifelong love affair with the legendary band U2, and their knowledge of the band’s history and music. Tory also digs into the amazing feat of how the band’s joyful, sublime chemistry seeps into the very music they produce, sustaining fruitful artistry for nearly fifty years. 

Other topics include: Irish history, and the Christianity of U2, along with comparisons with Oasis. We also talk Bedge and RPF! And we dig into a mini-RFR discussion of likeamadonna’s Bono/Edge fanfiction within a fanfiction, “Fictitious Characters”.

🎧 Find Talkin' Fanfic on your favorite podcast app such as Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Or stream Episode 306 here!

Show notes below the cut 🧡

Contact and Credits:

Intro Theme: Kyle Laurin "Oasis Supersonic Theme" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)

Clip used - Noel Gallagher on The Late Late Show | RTÉ One 

Outro clip - “Beautiful Day” by U2, from the album ‘All That You Can't Leave Behind’ - pulled from Youtube licensed via UMG (on behalf of Universal-Island Records Ltd. ℗ An Island Records recording; ℗ 2000 Island Records Limited

Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com 

Instagram: @talkinfanfic

Email: talkinfanfic@gmail.com 

Time caps:

00:00 - Introduction

06:03 - Start of episode

16:02 - Tory’s music background

24:25 - U2 in bloom right now!

35:06 - A little Irish history 

45:19 - The Troubles, a climate for the formation of U2

56:03 - U2’s Bigness, America, and ‘What is Bono??’ 

01:02:45 - Bono’s useful celebrity, vs individualism of Oasis. Or, “do-gooders” vs “do-badders”

01:08:22 - Bono the Energizer Bunny, and U2 in Vegas

01:13:07 - The other members of U2 (Larry, The Edge, and Adam)

01:20:35 - Christianity and U2

01:31:45 - Religion, U2 vs. Oasis

01:34:50 - Religious imagery in the Achtung Baby-era, and Bono’s ‘characters’

01:41:42 - U2 fanfiction and RPF fandom

01:51:20 - “Fictitious Characters”, by likeamadonna

02:02:26 - Fitting Ali into the Bono/Edge

02:07:20 - Start of Rapid Fire! (which lasts nearly an hour, lol)

02:12:27 - Tory’s Top 5 U2 Tracks

Episode References

U2 Fanfiction.com (Tory mentions they used to read fanfiction from this now defunct archive; link via Wayback Machine) 

The Retro Fanfic Retrospective podcast (Podbean, you can also search for it on Spotify or Apple Podcasts)

Link - Band bio, from threechordsandthetruth.net great U2 overview and biography

U2: The Origins Of The Biggest Band Of The Early 2000s a decent youtube documentary on U2

A live performance of ‘Until The End Of The World’ from ‘Achtung Baby’, filmed during the US leg of the Zoo TV tour in 1992. Kiss for the camera at 2m34s <3 

"One" - U2 Music Video (Anton Corbijn Version) feat. Bob Hewson, and U2 in drag! 

Bono interview with NPR Podcasts -  at 14m46 Bono starts speaking about the concept of ‘Surrender’. “Shut up and listen…is kinda where I’m at.”

Noel Gallagher on The Late Late Show | RTÉ One  - “Who puts the batteries in that guy??” 

Youtube Clip - Noel Gallagher, on U2 (for NME) 

 “Electrical Storm” - U2 Music Video directed by Anton Corbijn (starring Larry!)

Photo via Pinterest - Liam and Bono kissing. According to Bono, Liam had a guitar pick in his mouth and dared Bono to try and retrieve it in front of paparazzi. The photo was printed in a 2002 issue of Rolling Stone.  

Reprint of article - “When Oasis Hit the Road with U2” The Daily Telegraph, June 26, 1997

Bono’s ‘characters’ - Here is MacPhisto making a phone call to a taxi to take him home. This was in Syndey, Australia during the 1993 Zoo TV Tour.

Retro Fanfic Retrospective - Special Episode - Fanfiction Hypothesis The RFR crew discuss…what is and what is not fanfiction? (Spotify link) 

Fic discussion - "Fictitious Characters" by likeamadonna (Ao3 link)  

Bono and The Edge - NPR Tiny Desk Concert (2023) Bono asks Edge to “do an Edge thing!”  

Bono and The Edge - BBC Radio 2 Piano Room (2023) Bono and the Edge vibing together through a string-laden performance of classic U2 songs. Bono serenading the Edge during “Vertigo” around 7m30s, lots of fond looks. 

Fic mentioned - The Scientist or: How Edge Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bono by spacemonkey 

Tory’s Top 5 U2 Tracks (slightly deeper cuts, in no particular order): Red Hill Mining Town , Bad, Lemon, Every Breaking Wave, and Stay (Faraway, So Close!)  

“Ordinary Love” acoustic version, U2 on Jimmy Fallon (2014) with Roots. One of Sara’s favorite U2 live vids ever!! 

Tory is listening to - Leith Ross, an indie-rock Canadian singer-songwriter. Here’s a song from their Youtube channel.

Bandcamp - Her Dilemma the bass player that played for Leith Ross during the set Tory watched. “Mathy”, a bit like Slint!

[fionabrennanartisttours]

The first Pride protest/parade took place on the 27th of June 1974, when a tiny group protested the existence of old Victorian legislation that criminalised any form of intimacy between men. There were only 10 brave protesters who picketed the British Embassy and the Department of Justice. One member was David Norris, a great hero of the story of Queer Ireland.

This year in 2024 we celebrate 50 years of Pride in Ireland! Happy Pride yall!

Image Credit: Gay Pride Day Protest outside the Department of Justice. Photo by Gareth Miller courtesy Irish Queer Archive/National Library of Ireland.

[juniper-divination-and-witchery]

Laethanta na Bó Riabhaí / The Days of the Brindled Cow

Photo of a cow with a brindle coat from uisneach.ie

The Days of the Brindled Cow is an Irish folktale that explains the often unpredictable weather at the turn of March into April. It's also sometimes called the riabhóg (meaning streaked, striped, or brindled) days or the borrowed/borrowing days.

From Duchas.ie

The "Borrowing Days" are the first three days of April. The weather during these three days is cold and often colder than March itself. On this account it is said that March has borrowed these three days from April to kill the Old Cow.

The old story says that when the Old Cow was let out to graze she kicked up her heels and ran through the field with joy because March was out.

But March borrowed three days from April and killed the Old Cow.

These three days are called thus, The "Borrowing Days".

Read more stories on the Duchas.ie archive

Listen to BlindBoy tell a version of this story

[meetmyothersouls]

The Ghost of You

Chapter 4

Moodboard by: @imnotoverlyobsessive

Warnings: haunted house, not proofread

“Ah, yes. I’ve seen him before. Timothee Chalamet was his name. Famous local painter. Handsome lad, wasn’t he?” a local historian with a name tag that read Edith Helms said. She had a light Irish accent and smelled like antiques and moth balls, which seemed like a perfect fit for this job. “Not in person of course, but we have several archived photos of him and his wife when they moved here to New York in the late 1800s.” 

Edith got up from her spinning office chair and walked slowly through the building. She waved back at you, signaling you to follow. 

“He was married?” You asked. You thought back to the paintings in the attic, not remembering any paintings of anyone else other than the one that looked like you. Chills covered your entire body at the thought of the painting sitting in the attic for 140 years. A painting that looked just like you down to your freckles on your face and the shape of your nose. It didn’t seem possible. 

“Oh yes.” Edith said, as she entered a room filled with filing cabinets. She stopped at one and pulled open a long drawer. She grabbed a pair of white gloves from the pouch of her fanny back and delicately dug through the files. “Here we are,” she said. 

She pulled out a rather hefty file with “T. Chalamet” written on the tab. You shuddered. 

“He and Gertrude were married for several years.” 

Edith pulled out an old photo. Black and white with similar yellowing edges to the photo you found. Timothee stood next to Gertrude, his arm around her in front of the very house you lived in. 

“Here you go dear,” Edith said, pulling out a second pair of gloves for you. You slid them on and took the photo into your hands. Timothee looked about the same as he did in your photo. He was standing in this one, He stood about a foot and a half taller than Gertrude and was very lean. He wore a similar suit, only this one looked to dark. Gertrude wore a dark colored floor length skirt that poofed out around her and stopped midway up her torso where a white blouse began. It went up her neck much like a how a turtleneck would, and her sleeves were baggy and gathered at her wrists. She had a pinched nose and wide smile on her face She looked happy...almost too happy. But most of all, she looked nothing like you. You looked back over at Timothee, who wasn’t smiling at all. “We’ve dated this photo to about 1880, right after Mayfield Manor was completed.” Edith shook her head and clicked her tongue. “It is quite a shame they only lived together for two years.”

“What do you mean?”

“Gertrude remarried and moved to Spain according to our records.”

“And Timothee?”

“No one knows. He disappeared in 1882. Poor man was married to a Mayfield. Lord, she probably drove him mad. Mayfield’s were known for being a very unpleasant bunch. Difficult to please and hard to get along with.” 

You came there with questions but only felt like you gained a million more. You were about to ask what she meant when she handed you back your photo of Timothee.

“I’ve not seen this particular photo you came in with though. If the date on there is correct...this may be the last photograph taken of him. Let us know when you’d like to sell, and we’d be glad to buy it off of you for our records.” Edith patted your shoulder and began to walk off. “Feel free to look through his file, just close the drawer up when you’re finished and bring me the key, deary.” 

You waited until Edith’s footsteps faded into silence before digging into his file. For some reason it felt like something you needed to do in private. One by one, you pulled out old photos, sketches and drawings all signed T. Chalamet in the bottom right corner. You found several documents containing signatures and information regarding paints he’d sold. You flipped through them all until you landed on one that stood out from the rest. It had the same paper, brownish and wrinkling with age. He’d sold it to a man named Ralph Beechman, the same man who bought all of his other paintings, but what was different about this sale was Timothee’s signature, which on every document before this one was signed as “T. Chalamet”. This document contained a quick, sloppy and full “Timothee Chalamet.” 

You looked back up at the details. The title of this painting was Her and it was sold in 1882. In the top right corner, you noticed a stamp in dark ink. 

“Transferred to the Poughkeepsie local art museum in 2015″

You looked over your shoulder and quickly snapped a picture of the document with your phone and made a mental note to visit the museum later on in the week. You closed up the drawer and locked it with the key Edith left. 

“Thank you so much, Edith. I appreciate it!” You said as dropping off the key at the front desk. 

“Oh no problem at all dear,” she responded in her lilting accent. “If I may ask you a question before you leave?” 

“Of course.”

She stood and you walked back to her desk. She had a look in her eyes that you couldn’t quite place. 

“I’ve just been thinking about it since you mentioned it. Did you said you found that photograph in your attic?”

“Yeah. It was in the attic in a small painters bag,” you said, careful to leave out any details about ghosts. 

“Huh,” Edith said. “Quite curious.” 

“What do you mean?” 

“Several historians have gone into Mayfield Manor over the years. As well as detectives and investigators. You know, attempting to find out what happened to Timothee.” 

“Right,” you said, unable to tell where this was going. 

“No one has ever been able to get into that attic.”

You tried hard not to shudder as chills peppered your skin. 

“R-really? Was it locked?”

“More than that. It was sealed shut...and you were just able to get in?”

You were silent, and for a moment you wanted to tell her everything that happened, but to save yourself from looking like a person who has gone clinically insane, you swallowed hard and just said, “yeah, I was just able to get in, no issues at all.” 

Edith stared at you with an arched eyebrow and for a moment you thought she was going to call you on your bullshit. You gave her a nervous smile and adjusted your old cross-body bag on your shoulder. When she sat back down you relaxed. 

“Sounds like someone wanted you to see what was up there.”

                                   🖌 🖌 🖌

You spent the day walking around town, not sure if you wanted to spend the majority of the day in your obviously haunted house. Edith’s words stuck with you, and you thought about them as you sipped your overpriced coffee and window shopped. 

It was dark out when you arrived home. You walked, just so it could take longer. You wanted time to think. Time to figure out if buying this house was a mistake and time to remember that it doesn’t matter if it was a mistake you couldn’t afford to leave now. You shoved your old key into the door and before you had the chance to turn it the door opened on its own. Not violently like it would have before, but gently and almost cautiously. Even so it was creepy as fuck.

“Shit.”

To your surprise, no new paintings stood on isles. No messages written on the walls or windows or floors. The house stood the same way you left it and even though the door opening on its own was...startling, you relaxed a little at the lack of messages. 

“What no surprises today? You running out of ideas to freak me the fuck out?” You joked. 

You plopped yourself down onto your old sofa you picked up at the thrift store and grabbed your laptop. You’d gotten WIFI installed since you moved in, but still couldn’t afford a TV, so your laptop was your next best thing. After scrolling through Netflix and finding nothing to your liking, you decide to google Timothee Chalamet 1882 and pull up a word document to take some notes just incase you found anything interesting. At first there’s nothing too noteworthy. A Wikipedia page that didn’t give you any more information than you found out from the historian. A small online gallery of some paintings that you had already seen. You scrolled down to go to page two when your word document took over the screen. 

“Shitty computer.”

You closed it down only for it to pop back up. 

“What the fu-”

You froze as words began to form on your screen. Words that you were not typing. 

Freak you out?

You let out a shaky breath and a small yelp and toss your computer across the sofa. You stretched your leg and shut it with your foot. You half expect the laptop to open on its own, so when it doesn’t you let out a sigh of relief. You sunk into the sofa and ran your hands down your face, groaning loudly.

Your laptop creeped open, the light from the screen drawing your attention to it. You watched from the other side of the sofa as words began to appear across the screen. You could see the keys push in as if someone was directly in front of it typing. You waited until the words stop to took the computer back into your hands.

Don’t be scared.

You let out an exasperated laugh and read the message out loud.

“Don’t be scared? My house is fucking haunted and a ghost is typing on my computer.”

The cursor blinked at you on the screen. Mocking you as you waited for the ghost to say something.

What is your name?

“Oh my god,” you couldn’t help but laugh. “I can’t fucking believe this. This literally fucking paranormal instant messaging. Okay. Okay. My name is y/n. God this is so weird. What’s your name?”

The cursor blinks five times before a response appears.

T. Chalamet

A heavy knock sounded at your front door, startling you into shutting your computer. You made your way to the doors, unsure of who could be visiting you.

“Who is it?”

“It’s Greg! I brought some pizza and a movie. Thought maybe you’d wanna hang out!”

Typically, you didn’t ike uninvited guests, but you’d enjoy the company of something other than a ghost. You undid the locks and your hand grasped the old brass knob, but it didn’t budge. You couldn’t twist it or pull open the door that opened it’s self a few hours ago. You shook the door pulling on the knob with both hands.

“You good in there, y/n? What’s going on?”

You pressed a foot against the door and shook it again. Nothing.

“I’m good. I just—fuck—I can’t get this door open,” you

Apparently someone else doesn’t like uninvited guests either.

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01: What's Haunting You? (Irish Fae, British Humanoids) Photodump

Welcome to the photo dump for our first ever installment of a series we’re calling “What’s Haunting You?”, a Miniature Haunting brought to you by Let’s Get Haunted. On each Friday of this Spooky Season, Nat and Aly will be bringing you short, scary, non-fiction stories as told by the folks who experienced them firsthand. On this week’s episode: An Irish woman named Katrina goes on a walk in a forest and gets tricked by the fae. Then, a British man named Karl encounters a humanoid in his childhood home. Come join us on this trip through the LGH archives as we dare to answer the question, “What’s haunting you?”

Image 01: Well, What’s Haunting You? Image 02: Our first story comes from Katrina, who took a walk through the woods and ended up with more than she bargained for. Since Katrina had no images to provide us, enjoy instead this beautiful illustration by Arthur Rackham entitled “Forest Spirits” Image 03: Our second story comes from Karl, who encountered something otherworldly in his childhood home. Karl very kindly sent us some digital recreations he made of the humanoid he encountered. Two images created by Karl of the humanoid he saw. Image 04: Drawing by Karl of what the material the suit was made out of looked like. Image 05: Drawing by Karl of what the being’s hand and foot looked like Image 06: Drawing by Karl - side view of the humanoid. Image 07: Karl’s childhood home where he saw the creature Image 08: Although Karl’s family has long since moved out of the house and he doesn’t know the new owners personally, out of curiosity he checked out the address and realized it’s now an AirBNB! Any British haunties brave enough to spend the night in the attic?

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RJ’s notes Part 77 by Shanbear16

A visit to the James O. Rigney, Jr. archives

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A few weeks ago I was visiting family in Myrtle Beach for the first time. I figured since we were only a few hours away from Charleston I would take a trip down there to visit the College of Charleston’s James Oliver Rigney, Jr. archives. I’ve been a massive WoT fan since around 1998 and was active in online fan communities for a while. Visiting the archives was sort of like a bucket list thing for me. Unfortunately, they didn’t allow any photos (I think that restriction drops sometime in the 2030s). However, they did have a great display put up in honor of the TV show so I was able to take pictures of that. I was also able to take notes! I know there have been a couple of other fans who have posted about what they found in the archives, but I’m hoping I found a couple of things that haven’t been mentioned yet. I’m just going to kind of bullet list some things others might find interesting. Things in quotes are as they were written in the files.

In the plot summary circa 1984-1989 Egwene is spelled “Eguene”

Speaking of different names, Rand was originally Rhys al’Thor The Dragon Reborn, The Hammer

There were a lot of notes and prophecies from Le Morte D’Arthur (which is Sir Thomas Malory’s 15th century telling of the King Arthur story) including a note about “sangreal” being an alternate name for The Holy Grail.

There were a bunch of notes on Arthurian lore in general

There were also notes from The White Goddess (a book by Robert Graves published in 1948 that draws a lot on Irish and Welsh mythology. As far as I can tell Graves tries to connect poetry and mythology together somehow. I’m not sure as I’m unfamiliar with this book). Jordan made a specific note of the name Kadsuane from the book.

Also from the outline: “If the power wielder who first finds al’Thor is at some point made into a crone by the Powers of Sa’khan, she will be a perfect precursor for the hag in the Maiden-Nymph-Hag trio. al’Thor would be the means of her rescue, but not in the same book in which the disaster strikes her.” I found this really interesting because it highlights where Jordan initially wanted this story to go

He also had a note to himself asking if the number of ages should be 7 (“as in so many legends and the bible”) or 9 which would be “a number of magical properties.”

The outline also names “Nyneve Bayal” and “Thom Merilyn”

In his original description of Emond’s Field he noted that the stones from the quarry near the town were used more than 1,000 years before. Also, the ancient city that existed was not noted as Manetheran but as “Etheran”

In the original outline I couldn’t find any mention of Mat or Perrin.

The original name for angreal was “Cris”

Ogier was initially spelled “ogyr.” Speaking of Ogyr, they were initially shorter than men. They were primarily lumbermen and miners.

Lews Therin Telamon? Nah, he was originally called Jaran Telamon!

In Jordan’s notes on books 2-6 the story was originally going to go in a totally different place. Rand was going to be shipwrecked on the coast of “a blight” and he wanders. He becomes Morgase’s lover for a time (!!!!). This is what makes Galad bitter. Rand was to be taken prisoner by “the Queen of the land where he was raised, Elyn’s mother. She wants to kill him but Elyn convinces her not to." Rand is instead blinded by hot irons and turned loose to wander as a beggar. There was a note that he would regain his sight later.

Sea Folk= “oriental/Polynesian” people in appearance

Stone of Tear was originally “Stone of Stair”

“Parts of the Arthurian Legend will be blended with Norse myth, Greek myth, and others.”

From the Memory of Light outline: a reminder to himself that “Dragon is one with the land,” “eclipse should be a central scene in the Last Battle,” and a reference to the Karaethon Cycle told by Thom in The Great Hunt chapter 26 to Rand.

Egwene was to become pregnant!

I can’t remember if this was in the book or not. Mat was to go to Tar Valon. Egwene summons Siuan. Siuan retrieves the Horn of Valere from a secret hiding spot in the study and gives it to Mat.

Aludra’s cannon was originally 3 miles long. RJ made a note that this might possibly be excessive. I personally found that note to be hilarious.

A continuity note from the 1980s says bonding is sex specific (note from me: I think he means gender here?). Men can bond women and women can only bond men. Sooooo clearly this is something that changed!

Warder weapon skill and tracking ability is not given via bonding - this is a skill the warder inherently has.

Jordan considered the name Garad Winden Marsan for Artur Hawkwing.

Here’s another one about the Ogier - there were to be tales that Ogier possess boots that allow one of them to cover ten leagues at a stride in the ways. “Jarad Farstrider (of the story)” supposedly stole (or came in possession of ) a pair of these boots.

Parry Coomb was going to be the closest village to Emond’s Field.

The following may be the absolute best thing I read in Jordan’s notes. I loved it so much I wrote the whole thing word for word:

“How many traditional fantasy elements do we have? If so, under what conditions, and in what manifestations? Giants? Elves? Dwarves? Trolls? Ogres? (no fucking unicorns, that’s for damned sure!) Dragons? Beasts of mystery and magic? Sentient animals? Sentient plants? Spirits? Gods?

No Gods

No spirits

No dragons

Beasts of mystery? Certainly, creatures of and creations of the Power

Trolls:Trollocs

Ogres:Ogyr

Giants: The Green Man might qualify. Others? Most likely not"

I went through stacks and stacks of world building notes (an example of this is a list of what each nation calls The Dark One). I also came across a stack of papers about 4 inches tall of questions for Maria Simons (continuity editor and research assistant for Team Jordan) with a few answers that she provided.

So that’s everything I took notes on! It was really neat seeing his world building and original ideas for the series. Every now and then I saw a personal note in there including a note about taking Harriet’s car to the mechanic!

I will say the librarians and staff in Special Collections were lovely (even if they had to talk me down from 45 boxes I asked to be pulled down to 20). I’m a librarian who has had some training in archives which I mentioned when I made my appointment, but nothing I looked at required special handling so I think if anyone is interested in visiting they need only make an appointment!