#Jack London pdf

[odraziduse]

Jack London, To Build A Fire

[thetreetopinn]

Sources for Somerton's Plagiarism from Hbomberguy's Video (as much as I could get)

I went back through Harry's video, focused entirely on the sources James Somerton pulled from in the hopes of creating as much of a comprehensive list as I could--though my Google-Fu is not very strong. I did however find something I thought was forever lost and that made me very happy--specifically the magazine Midlands Zone containing the column by Steven Spinks that Harry poignantly used as an illustration of gay erasure... while Somerton uses it to sound like HE is waxing remorseful about the very subject.

This is not a complete list, I'm sure. For one thing, I was only able to attempt to pull sources that Harry himself mentioned in the video. Surely there's so very much more out there. I expect there to be a great deal more internet archeology to unearth just how much writing and culture Somerton has stolen like he's the British Museum of Natural History but for gay people.

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Harry's list of mentioned youtubers:

Alexander Avila - https://www.youtube.com/@alexander_avila Matt Baume - https://www.youtube.com/@MattBaume Khadija Mbowe - https://www.youtube.com/@KhadijaMbowe Lady Emily - https://www.youtube.com/@LadyEmilyPresents Shanspeare - https://www.youtube.com/@Shanspeare RickiHirsch - https://www.youtube.com/@RickiHirsch VerilyBitchie - https://www.youtube.com/@verilybitchie

Harry created a convenient playlist of videos by these and other people he wants to bring to everyone's attention.

Please give them your support.

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Midlands Zone Magazine - Column by Steven Spinks

After a great deal of searching, I found an archive of the "Midlands Zone" magazine, where you can read through past issues dating all the way back to February 2014. I have also found the issue from which Somerton took Spinks' poignant discussion of gay erasure: Overall archive Specific Issue - Pages 16-17

It will not allow you to download it, but you can read it exactly as it appeared in print form.

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My best effort to find the exact book or article Somerton lifted from to be able to get attention to the original writers

Tinker Bells and Evil Queens By Sean Griffin

The Celluloid Closet By Vito Russo Wikipedia article about the book Wikipedia article about the documentary My weak google-fu could not find where you can access the book or documentary. Check your local municipal or university library for book or documentary, or if you know a good source for one or both, please reblog with it added

Camp and the Gay Sensibility By Jack Babuscio

The Groundbreaking Queerness of Disney's Mulan By Jes Tom Personal site with links to social media accounts

Why Rebel Without a Cause was a milestone for gay rights By Peter Howell

Why "The Craft" is still the best Halloween coming out movie By Andrew Park

Opinion: From facehuggers to phallic tails, is 'Alien' one of the queerest films ever? By Dani Leever

Women and Queerness in Horror: Jennifer's Body By Zoe Fortier

[Pride 2019] We Have Such Sights to Show You: Hellraiser and the Spectrum of Queerness By Alejandra Gonzalez

Revealing the Hellbound Heart of Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' By Colin Arason

Queering James Cameron's Aliens (1986) By Bart Bishop

Demeter and Persephone in space: transformation, femininity, and myth in the 'Alien' films By David Greven

Fears of a millennial masculinity: Scream's queer killers By David Greven (Scholarly site, unable to access original work, offers a way to request a full copy of the text in PDF)

Queer Subtext in Stephen King's It - Part 1: 'Reddie' Character Analysis By Rachel Brands Rachel is the very unfortunate lady who found out she was being stolen from because she supported Somerton through Patreon and saw one of his videos early with her writing--lacking any form of citation or credit

How 'It: Chapter Two' Leaves Richie Tozier Behind By Joelle Monique

When Horror Becomes Strength: Queer Armor in Stephen King's 'IT' By Alex London

Why Queer People Love Witchcraft By Amanda Kohr

'The Favourite' Queers The Past And The Present By Giorgi Plys-Garzotto

(Wuko) Crush (Mako x Wu) By MoonFlower on YouTube

5 Terrible Movies With Awesome Hidden Meanings By J.F. Sargent

The Radicalization of Sexuality: The Queer Casae of Jeffrey Dahmer By Ian Barnard

Netflix's 'Dahmer' backlash highlights ethical issues in the platform's obsession with true crime By Shivani Dubey

The Possible Disturbing Dissonance Between Hajime Isayama's Beliefs and Attack on Titan's Themes Original Article by "Seldom Musings" (Author has made all posts not related to Attack On Titan private and has retired from the blog)

Everyone Loves Attack on Titan. So Why Does Everyone Hate Attack on Titan? By Gita Jackson

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The following people are otherwise named in the video. There are no direct citations of articles or books by them in said video. I am unable to guarantee that I have identified the correct individual.

Darren Elliott-Smith Michaela Barton David Church Claire Sisco King Amanda Howell Jessica Roy

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Telos announced and cancelled a film likely based on this book: The Final Girl Support Group - By Grady Hendrix

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I refrained from including certain sources.

First off only focusing on Somerton's work.

Secondly not including anything that might be visible enough to not require amplifying their voice (I cannot speak for all of those I have found links to, but journalism is frequently a thankless job).

Thirdly any source that is of a nature that is antithetical to the very existence of the queer community, such as the right-leaning source that didn't make it into Somerton's video, but Harry was able to identify as a source he had considered using.

If you feel I have missed a mentioned source--or you know of a source from material that was not covered in Harry's video--please do not hesitate to reblog with added details.

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Please share this information far and wide, and please add to it if you find more material that can be positively identified and linked to the creator/writer.

[aliesafenlock]

Found a programme for the London production of Rebecca das Musical on ebay, so I got it scanned in case someone would like to see. All 30 pages are attached below. It doesn't have a lot of photos, but it has full cast and song lists which I haven't seen anywhere else. Feel free to inbox me for a PDF copy that's easier to read. Enjoy!

Ich/I - Lauren Jones

Maxim de Winter - Richard Carson

Mrs. Danvers - Kara Lane

Mrs. van Hopper - Shirley Jameson

Beatrice - Sarah Harlington

Giles - Neil Moors

Frank Crawley - Piers Bate

Clarice - Emily Apps

Frith - Nigel-Joseph Francis

Jack Favell - Alex James-Ward

Ben - David Breeds

Colonel Julyan - Nicholas Lumley

Ensemble: Melanie Bright (u/s Mrs. Danvers), Rosie Glossop, Gail Mackinnon, James Mateo-Salt, Scott McClure, Tarisha Rommick, Elliot Swann

Directed by Alejandro Bonatto

Conducted by Robert Scott

Choreography by Ron Howell

[faggotfungus]

Drag King Judith "Jack" Halberstam in London (1997) [PDF]

[drmaqazi]

THE JEWISH TERRORISM AND GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS IN THE OCCUPIED HOLY LAND SINCE 1948 and STILL CONTINUING TODAY BY KILLING HELPLESS AND INNOCENT CHILDREN, WOMEN, AND OLD PEOPLE, GOD FORBID, AMEN.

  “If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably allow that.  Jewish life has an infinite value.”

Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, quoted in  Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Prof. Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, London: Pluto Press, 2004, p. 62

See also Chapter 2 in the earlier 1999 edition, available online for free: 

http://www.ipk-bonn.de/downloads/Jewish_Fundamentalism_in_Israel.pdf https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR3w3YPUwAAswq8.png:large   Rabbis, Assemblyman, & Mayors Arrested For Harvesting Illegal Organs!

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Israel admits it harvested organs of dead Palestinians

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  More on organ harvesting here.   September 11, 2009, Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv publishes Torat Ha’Melech, “King’s Torah” The Complete Guide to Killing Non-Jews  by Roi Sharon An English translation is here:

http://didiremez.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/settler-rabbi-publishes-the-complete-guide-to-killing-non-jews/ http://coteret.com/2009/11/09/settler-rabbi-publishes-the-complete-guide-to-killing-non-jews/   Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira and his “King’s Torah” Guide to Killing Non-Jews funded by the Israeli government  

  September 25, 2009, The Goldstone Report

http://tinyurl.com/ydbgh7k http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-12-48.pdf   November 2, 2009, Settlements are fertile ground for Jewish terror by Gideon Levy, Haaretz Correspondent. “…[serial killer Yaakov “Jack” ] Teitel had an organized, all-embracing worldview: Death to Arabs, homosexuals, Christians, leftists, and Messianic Jews….”

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125294.html   November 24, 2009, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro publishes book funded by the Israeli government endorsing the killing of children and infants

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126890.html

Who Is Funding the Rabbi Who Endorses Killing Gentile Babies? Rightists rush to place ‘Jewish terrorists’ on fringe, but Yesh Din has found out some interesting facts by Akiva Eldar 17.11.2009 02:40 Updated: 3:01 PM

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128767.html   December 12, 2009, “Death to Christians”: Hebrew graffiti next to Upper Room in Jerusalem, the Cenacle

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=17106&size=A   “Death to Christians”

  December 14, 2009, Russian cathedral in Jerusalem vandalized http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=6737   December 16, 2009, “We killed Jesus” and “Christians out”, extremists write. Urinating on the door has become an almost daily event at the Cenacle, sacred site of the Last Supper

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=17130   December 27, 2009, Before Christmas Israelis steal sacred Mary’s Gate from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

http://palestinecry.blogspot.com/2009/12/special-palestine-cry-blog-articles-why.html   December 30, 2009, Christian convert repeatedly attacked in Jerusalem, police do nothing

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/11624325/   December 30, 2009, Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them by Amiram Barkat

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=487412&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Yhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fe8_1258413314

[olumsuzsozler]

Kadın Derleyen Öztürk Aydın Pdf

Ön Söz: Kadın, erkeği kılıçsız zapteder ve ipsiz bağlar. Lev Tolstoy Hayvanlar dünyada kendileri için bulunurlar. İnsanlar için var olmamışlardır; siyahların beyazlar için, kadınların erkekler için var olmadığı gibi. Alice Walker

Yedek: https://www.scribd.com/document/696201800/Kad%C4%B1n-Derleyen-Ozturk-Ayd%C4%B1n

Son Söz: Dişisine kötü davranan tek hayvan insanoğludur. Jack London Kadınlar asla bir din icat etmemiştir; onlar bu çılgınlıkla lekelenmemişlerdir ve ahlakçı değillerdir. George Edward Moore

[emunenen]

The Sea Wolf by Jack London [pdf]

[mhansenmajortwo2022]

RESEARCH: AREVA REPORT BY JACK KY TAN

This report was made in response to the question: "What does an anti-racist institution look like?" “Systems are not created through resolving the differences, but by manifesting and holding differences together as multiple entangled truths.  What underpins the whole conversation about racism and anti-racism is the function and failure of language. As categories, names and labels evolve, the use and misuse around words reveal a cynicism about language and a widening of the semiotic gap between form and meaning in words. Language becomes both the vehicle and the barrier. “ Link to report https://iniva.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/AREVA-Report-Jan-2023-CVAN-London-iniva-Jack-Ky-Tan-1.pdf

I thought it was very interesting that the response to the questions that were discussed among them, the report sums it up in a poet style. I think this is very effective and yet it is still simple the use of less words creates a deeper understanding of the issues discussed. I would like to adapt this technique for this project. 

[notmekani]

Jack London - Bir Kuzey Macerası PDF indir

Jack London – Bir Kuzey Macerası PDF indir

Bir Kuzey Macerası isimli ve Yazarı Jack London olan kitabın pdf dosyasını paylaşma amacımız kitabın tanıtımını yapmaktır. Kitabın tanıtım halini buradan kontrol ederek kesinlikle orjinalini alıp daha iyi bir sonuca varmış olursunuz. Kitap olarak çözmenin PDF olarak çözmekten daha verimli olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Paylaşımda bulunduğumuz Bir Kuzey Macerası bu kitabın orjinalinin tanıtılması…

[ekitapstore]

Jack London – Kızıl Veba

Jack London Kızıl Veba hastalığın uygar toplumu nasıl yok ettiğini anlatıyor. Kitabın baş karakteri Profesör Smith yani Granser, salgından sonra oluşan ilkel yaşamı görmüş son kişi. 2070’li yıllarda, artık son zamanlarını yaşayan Granser torunlarına her ne kadar uygar toplumu anlatsa da hiç görmedikleri medeniyet onlara anlamsız geliyor ve dünya kendini tekrar ediyor.

2000’lerin çeyreğinde, başlarda önemsenmeyen bir hastalık ölümlere sebep olurken, kısa bir süre sonra olayın nasıl şekilleneceğini kimseler öngöremiyor. Bedenlerindeki kızarmalarla kendini gösteren salgın bir anda bambaşka bir seyre bürünüyor ve önüne gelen ne varsa kasıp kavuruyor. Bu esnada, başlarda itidal varmış gibi görünse de kendini tecrit ile kurtarabilen pek az insana rağmen kalanlar sokaklara dökülüyor ve bir yağma düzeninin ilk izleri görünmeye başlıyor.

Olayların son şahidi olan profesör Smith, kendi gibi 400 kadar insanla bir üniversiteye sığınıyor ancak onlardan da geriye sadece kendisi kalıyor. Bir medeniyetin çöküşüne, bir kıyamete şahit oluyoruz bütün ürkütücülüğüyle. Kızıl Ölüm’ün gelmesiyle birlikte dünya mutlak ve geri dönüşsüz olarak dağılıyor paramparça oluyor.

Geride kalan bir avuç insan, yıkılan bir medeniyet, değişen yaşam koşulları; ilkelleşen toplum, dil, sosyal alışkanlıklar .. Smith ya da torunlarının onu çağırış şekliyle Granser, tek başınalığından sonra kendi gibi bir başkalarının da olacağına dair inancını korumaya çalışarak arayışa koyuluyor.

“Toprağıyla, deniziyle, göğüyle bütün gezegene hâkim olan, kendisini tanrı yerine koyan bizler.”

“İnsan eskiden beri metafizik bir kavram olarak mutlak adalete inanır ama anlaşılan o ki evrende adalet diye bir şey yoktur.”

Kaynak: https://www.e-kitapstore.com/jack-london-kizil-veba

[calamitys-child]

Please drop the erotic horror quotations

Anon I am (as platonically as you'd like) smooching you on the lips SO I'm a bit knackered and a bit tipsy so I am giving more broad sources than specific exact quotes but I HIGHLY recommend all of this and I should be able to get you a pdf of all of them if searching Google scholar does not work for whatever reason :D xx

For the eroticism of Horror as a genre you want Gender, Genre, and Excess by Linda Williams (1991) as a primer, and after that to start you off (because it always comes back to her work) my favourite pieces include Like and Lycanthropy (Stafford, 2020, in New Queer Horrror ed. Elliot-Smith), Is the Rectum a Grave? (Bersani, 1987), Masculinity as Spectacle (Neale, 1983). You will also enjoy watching An American Werewolf in London!!!

From my dissertation - "if, as Bersani asserts, sex is any sufficiently intense stimulation (p217), then [werewolf] transformation is not only sexual, but is sex itself; that is, the distortion and transgressive transformation of a lycanthropic body is a fantastical equivalent reflection of the transgender human body."

You may also enjoy Harry M. Benshoff, Susan Stryker, and Jack Halberstam for expressly queer takes on these concepts!

Eroticism in horror always circles back to Williams' work tbh, it's about being invited expressly to look at a body and experience a visceral, physical, and often transgressive response about it and it is VERY good

[cspf-theory]

Jack the Ripper: A Statistical and Typological Analysis

Introduction

Jack the Ripper was an uncaught British serial killer who operated in London from August of 1888 to November of the same year. He has five canonical victims, all of which were prostitutes. The confirmed victims include Mary Ann Nichols (31st of August), Annie Chapman (8th of September), Elizabeth Stride (30th of September), Catherine Eddowes (30th of September) and Mary Jane Kelly (9th of November).

Typology of Jack the Ripper

Serial killers can usually be organized into six typologies each with their own unique incentive, ideas, thoughts and methods of killing. The varieties of these types are the organized killer and disorganized killer and the main types are the visionary killer, the mission-oriented killer, the hedonistic killer (thrill, lust and comfort) and the power-oriented killer.

Though the killing of prostitutes may suggest a mission-oriented motive, the letters loosely suggest a thrill variety hedonistic killer (he gained obvious enjoyment of taunting of the police and the "Dear Boss" letter had a generally jovial or humorous attitude) and crime scene characteristics match the lust variety (controlled crime scene, overkill, specific victim and body mutilation after death).

The organized vs. disorganized concept is another system of criminal typology that uses crime scene analysis. Using this system we can use conjecture to determine certain personality traits (organized killers might have a higher IQ, for example). I’ll use this rating system to figure out his orientation on the O/U scale:

-Victim known: 0

-Stranger targeted: 1

-Poisoned: 0

-Chaotic scene: 0

-Controlled scene: 1

-Weapon planned: 1

-Weapon left: 0

-Body transported: 0

-Act focused: 1

The answers to this checklist suggest an organized typology by a minor amount. Though the closeness of results his organization and calmness during the course the crime suggests the result is accurate.

For personality factors we can use the OCEAN model:

-Openness: Moderate to high. Somewhat open and creative. He named himself and was one of the first serial killers to send letters. -Consciousness: Unknown. Likely moderate to low. He was organized during the course of the murders. -Extraversion: Unknown. Likely low. Considering the statistical likelihood of feelings of loneliness he'd likely have low social adequacy and social introversion. -Agreeableness: Low. Uncooperative and hostile. Partakes in crime behavior, taunting police and murder. -Neuroticism: Mid to low. Calm and unemotional. Was able to calmly avoid police and surgically remove body parts of victims precisely without anxious slip-ups.

An extra cluster will be included in the next section not discussed here. Specifically statistical analysis of prostitute homocides.

Speculation, Comparisons to Other Killers, Statistical Traits

We know that the Zodiac Killer could be profiled into both the visionary and hedonistic category based off motivation. However, what could possibly be the cause for these behaviors and what could be gleaned from these classifications?

From statistical analysis of prostitute murderers and the earlier typological analysis it's most likely he had these traits :

1. Poor academic record. [Statistics]

2. Average to high intelligence. [Statistics]

3. Highly lost in thought or a daydreamer. [Statistics]

4. Unsteady employment and holds low-level jobs. Though he was most likely employed at the time of the murders due to most of his killings taking place on weekends or holidays. [Statistics & Conjecture]

5. Chronic feelings of isolation or loneliness. [Statistics]

6. Was in his early thirties. This indicates a most likely correct witness description of Jack. [Statistics]

7. Even if he had poor academic performance he was most likely educated considering the use of a paragraph indent and correct spelling in the "Dear Boss" letter. This supports the idea has had parents with stable work. [Conjecture]

8. Has a controlled mood in general or during the crime. [Typology]

9. Follows the crime in news media. [Typology]

10. Parent's work was generally stable. [Typology]

11. If he was a lust killer he most likely gained sexual gratification from murder, killed strangers, planned the murders and was highly organized. [Typology]

12. If he was a thrill killer he likely enjoyed of the thrill of killing itself, killed strangers, created processes for murder and was highly organized. [Typology]

13. Uncooperative, calm affect, introverted, moderately hardworking/organized and somewhat creative. [OCEAN]

Outro

Even over one-hundred and thirty-three years later Jack the Ripper is still one of the most discussed Serial Killers in history. The shadowy moustached figure stalking the misty streets of London's name will most likely always be Jack, however, even now we can possibly still shed some light on who was behind the name Sources:

https://www.casebook.org/ripper_letters/

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/198117.pdf

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/jack-the-ripper

https://www.casebook.org/victims/

https://europepmc.org/article/med/30544084

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307819660_The_Traits_and_the_Thrill_of_Serial_Killers

https://www.marshall.edu/forensics/files/Baber_Seminar2014_ODcsp.pdf

(Note: I am not a psychologist, just interested in criminology)

[americaneldritch]

Hey, so, great news, someone finally uploaded every issue of Pamela Colman Smith’s Green Sheaf magazine to archive.org. 

It’s all available for free in high resolution, and I did some tasteful chopping and stitching to put together a single PDF with all of the content from every issue. 

The Green Sheaf has never been reprinted, so, I went ahead and made some physical copies as well (it’s kind of expensive, sorry, but it’s full color and it looks nice).  

The illustrations in this post are by Pamela Colman Smith, Cecil Frank, and AE, in that order. Didn’t know AE was an illustrator? Me neither! Every page of this book is good. 

You can read my full introduction to the book after the break. 

Pamela Colman Smith (known to her friends as “Pixie”) secured her place in the history of Western esoterica in 1909, after she was commissioned to illustrate a new tarot deck by the author and mystic A.E. Waite. The illustrations were instantly iconic upon release, and their popularity was greatly bolstered by Waite’s failure to copyright the work in the United States. The cards, henceforth in the public domain, were widely circulated in new decks, in books, on merchandise, album covers, and so on and so forth - unlikely fuel for the American consumerist behemoth. Over a century and change, the Waite-Rider Tarot’s visual style has been firmly cemented in popular culture as a stock aesthetic of the esoteric and occult.

In The Green Sheaf (1903 - 1904), we can see some of the artistic foundations of those cards being developed. Ancient archetypes processed by modern symbolists; forms and figures plucked from folklore and myth, rendered in bold lines and flat colors. As editor, Pixie commissioned work from her various social circles in London; she drew on previous connections from A Broad Sheet (another arts magazine, co-edited with Jack Butler Yeats), as well as the Lyceum Theatre Group, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, literary celebrities from the Irish & Celtic Revivals, and gay rights activists from the secret Order of the Chaeronea.  

As she developed her magazine, Pixie regularly gathered her friends for weekly salons at her studio in Chelsea; Arthur Ransom, a contemporary English writer, described one of these nights in a chapter of his book of essays, Bohemia in London (1907).

“She welcomed us with the oddest shriek,” Ransome recalls of meeting Pixie for the first time, in 1901. “It was the oddest, most uncanny little shriek, half laugh, half exclamation. It made me very shy. It was obviously an affection, and yet seemed just the right manner of welcome from the strange little creature, ‘god daughter of a witch and sister to a fairy’ who uttered it.”

In a ‘mad room out of a fairy tale,’ with its walls covered in drawings and paintings from around the world, and curated with such fanciful artifacts and baubles as to ‘have the effect of a well designed curiosity shop,’ Ransome was treated to an evening of poetry, storytelling, and song. Pixie and her friends performed for one another amid the smoke of cigarettes and thick incense; the cocktail of the evening was the ‘opal hush,’ an amethystine blend of lemonade and red claret. A visitors’ book was kept, signed by the attendees with caricatures and rhymes, the pages ‘used as a tournament field’ of jest between friends.

After this introduction to the studio, Ransome made a point to return each week to Pixie’s parties. “Always we were merry. The evening was never wasted. There I heard poetry read as if the ghost of some old minstrel had descended on the reader, and shown how the words should be chanted aloud.”

The spirit of Pixie’s salon was distilled, like an alchemist’s solution, into The Green Sheaf. It ran for 13 hand-colored issues. Included in its pages were not just contemporary voices, but fragments from the Gothic-Romance-era masters such as William Blake, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and John Keats. The magazine made themes of dreaming, spirituality, and a longing for a world to which we can never return.

In contrast to the popularity of her Tarot designs, Pixie’s Sheaf fell immediately into obscurity; prior to this volume, it has never been collected or republished. With that grievous error corrected, it is my pleasure to present to you, thunderously and without mercy, the complete Green Sheaf.

May it be enshrined in crystal, evermore.Aladdin Collar,

Founder, the American Eldritch Society for the Preservation of Hearsay and Rumor

[im-the-punk-who]

Hey, I was wondering if you have a book rec

!!

Okay so in full disclosure, I have a really hard time reading books. My brain sometime around six years ago just decided that wasn't its style anymore, so I don't read a TON. A lot of these aren’t going to be recent releases. However, here are a bunch of books I would absolutely recommend checking out! I tried to include a variety of genres but I have uh.....five bookshelves in my apartment so if you're looking for more of a certain genre let me know!

Theatre:

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

These are my two favorite plays - they're both absurdist, humorous, and have some fun things to say. They’re both by old white guys but like....I love both Tom Stoppard and Samuel Beckett DEEPLY and they have all of my love and respect.

Non-Fiction/Educational:

Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum - this is considered a 'classic' on the psychology of racism, and was particularly helpful for me as a white person in arming myself against 'reverse racism' thoughts and in dissembling my own prejudices. This is mostly a rec for other white folks, but Tatum also addresses 'having the courage to sit at the black table' as a way of claiming your own identity outside of the stereotypes the dominant society expects of you.

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown - Okay listen I just really REALLY love Brene Brown, she is a therapist most famous for her TED talk about Vulnerability and this is just...listen I really like to read this book when I am sad and feel like shit because it makes me feel strong. I reread this book at least once a year.

Imagined Communities by Benendict Anderson - This is an absolutely fascinating read on the rise of nationalism. It’s a bit dry and wordy, but the ideas and use of history as propaganda, spinning the story of a nation to pit it against or on the same side as other nations, and the ways in which these tactics shaped cultural history is just!!!! Amazing.

Gay New York by George Chauncey - This is just one of the most informative and interesting reads of queer history in New York that I’ve ever come across. It’s one of the ‘must reads’ of queer history and has so many interesting tidbits that I have to recommend it. It’s a bit old(published in 1994) but I still find it relevant and interesting to read.

Personal Fiction/Autobiographical Fiction

White Girls by Hilton Als - I went to a reading of this book when it first came out. It was so much fun and so eye-opening for me as a baby queer in NYC that I bought the book there. I wanna be really clear that Als does not pull punches and a lot of people don’t quite like it, but I love Als’ style of writing. The stories and essays in this book are amazing and funny and heartbreaking and informative of queer experience - particularly black queer experience - that I always feel like...honored? to experience through writing? This is one of those ‘you’re gonna suffer but you’re gonna be happy about it’ reads - it can be hard to face because of how very hard the pills are to swallow but like....gosh I just love this book and it’s interesting and hilarious and great.

Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins  - this is my tin hat favorite. It hits....ugh. This is one of those books that came out and like every government agency freaked the fuck out over it. It’s an interesting look into the quote-unquote dark underbelly of capitalism; how and why countries manipulate each other through economic policies. Super interesting read with a nice style of prose.

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs Okay so full disclosure I have not finished reading this, but I’m far enough through to rec it. This book chronicles the author’s attempt to read the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica from front to back, and it is just as kooky and hilarious as it sounds. I am very incredibly and deeply offended this author stole both my schtick and my initials, thereby preventing me from doing this exact thing. I read through the phone book in its entirety when I was three. I had it in me. Anyway, this is basically the author just listing weird interesting facts he’s read about and connecting them to his daily life, but it’s a fun read, and you learn a lot of totally useless facts, which is absolutely my jam.

When Skatboards Will Be Free by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh - HI I LOVE THIS BOOK. I’ve read it maybe three times over. It’s so fun and interesting. You may notice that a lot of the books I rec are very absurdist in their humor, and this is no exception. This book is full of the dry wit and just weird goddamn shit you could only expect from the child of a revolution that never came. You want to read a book about someone who Went Through Shit? Read this book. It’s funny and heartbreaking and just. AHHHH. Seriously I cannot recommend this enough.

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosch - FIGHT ME ON THIS. I love this book.....so much. Yes it’s technically a comic book but the stories are so INTERESTING and hilarious and full of exactly the dry absurdist humor I eat the fuck up. Also! Allie Brosch recently released a sequel of sorts called Solutions and Other Problems that I recommend without even reading it.

Poetry

Pansy by Andrea Gibson - IF YOU ARE NOT READING THE POETRY OF ANDREA GIBSON WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING WITH YOUR LIFE. I cried seven times reading this book. There are only like 14 poems. Please please read this to break your own queer heart :)

Bloodsport by Yves Olade - This is a tiny book full of absolutely devastating poetry. Most of it has to do with the grief of relationships, but like....gosh I love all of Olade’s stuff. (Also!! This is available as a pay-what-you-wish pdf!!)

Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón - This book focuses a lot on the author’s experiences of loss, and knowing that loss is going to happen. I’m completely devastated every time I read this.

Science Fiction/Fantasy

The Bartimeaus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud - So what if I am a dumb millennial I love this series. It’s another dry and deadpan humor, with weird additions and Stroud’s use of footnotes to absolutely crack me the fuck up means I gotta rec this. I just gotta. Four(I think?) books following the deeply unlikeable Nathaniel and his Djinn Bartimaeus, who just wants to eat humans and have a deeply enjoyable enemies to lovers plotline with his arch rival.

The Magic's Price Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey - Okay I know I’ve recced this before. I will rec it again. This was the very first series I ever read that featured a gay protagonist and I was. Devastated? Reformed? I latched onto Vanyel Ashkevron and I am never letting this depressed emo boy go. Try me, I bite. Seriously, this book was released in the 80s and yet it is still relevant, I still cry - god i LOVE this series SO MUCH. And, MERCEDES LACKEY actually invented unbury your gays, sorry I make the rule on that one. :) Also there are magic talking horses??????? Seriously please read this series I love it so much.

Fire Bringer & The Sight by David Clement-Davies - This is another series that was absolutely formative in my baby lexicon. These are books about magical animals and their inner societal workings and both books address the ideas of good, evil, darkness, compassion and good will, and destiny. I am obsessed with these books, they are some of the most interesting of the genre I’ve read, and so incredibly intricately written. LOVE these books.

Vampire Earth Series by E. E. Knight - The Witcher before it was cool. Sort of but like...there are schools of Cat, Bear, etc and it has COOL VAMPIRES I LOVE THSI SERIES. Basically, earth has been taken over by a race of alien ‘Vampires’ and follows a human involved in the resistance. The writing in this series is...wow. It’s so intricate and interesting and involved. I own the whole series because I love it so much, including the after-series hardback novels. I’m so messy and I love it.

Kindred by Octavia Butler - You know how people are like ‘YOU SHOULD READ OCTAVIA BUTLER!!’ ? You should absolutely do that. This novel is mindblowing and interesting and the pace and narrative are so so so interesting. Heartbreaking, god, horrific. Butler is an amazing writer and this novel, while my personal favorite, is not by any means the only of her books I would recommend. STORIES. STORIES!!!!!!!

Fiction

The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel: A Novel by Magdalena Zyzak - This book is so fucking good. It’s imaginative, funny, intelligent....it’s honestly one of the best fiction novels I’ve ever read. Again, dry, absurdist humor, this book sort of reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s style of writing.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London - This is a classic, a true classic. The social commentary of this book is so so good, London’s style flows and, personally, as a dog and animal expert, the anthropomorphisation of Buck and his fellow animals is just so well done. I love this book, it’s quite an easy read, and I reread it at least once a year.

Rolling the R's by R. Zamora Linmark - Okay. Okay okay!!!!!! I gotta take a deep breath about this one. This book is. Yuh. This is a bit younger leaning than the other fictions, focusing almost entirely on high school level characters, however the experiences and commentary is just so so good. Focusing on a diverse group of characters growing up in Hawaii in the 1970′s, this book addresses the intersectionalities of gender, sexuality, race, immigration, education, and how we define who we are. I’m obsessed.

A Separate Peace by John Knowles - A heartbreaking novel about war, innocence, adolescence, and how we hide from our truths. It’s...so good, this book hurts me a LOT okay. The prose is phenomenal, the story is poignant, and it feels like I’m ripping my own heart out with a fishhook every time I finish it.

The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan - This is one of those books I half recommend because it’s so good, and half because of the deep wealth of knowledge it presents the reader. The author’s use of her own culture is just....goddddddddd. Intricate and interesting and so delicately included in the narrative that you can feel the love the author has for it. It’s a long read and it took me almost a month to get through reading every day, but god. It’s so soft and amazingly written I both wanted to read it all at once and take my time with it. This is another one that deals with the duality of humanity and how we connect with one another. Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!

P.S. Your Cat Is Dead by James Kirkwood Jr. - I love this book I love this book I LOVE THIS BOOK. It’s fucking hilarious, entertaining, I literally laughed out loud at every single chapter. Hilarious and poignant and surprisingly deep, this book literally follows the journey of a man in which literally everything that could go wrong does. It’s fucking hilarious.

I hope that helped and gave you some new books!!! <3

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Do you have an estimate on when the zine will arrive and be sent out?

I’m so glad you’re as excited as we are to receive the zine. We’ve really been champing at the bit to get them to our studio too!

Shipping times are still uncertain: for our production copy, we were quoted a full week’s wait for arrival, and it took about a week and a half to make its way here. We had tracking for that and for the first print run, and for the production copy, the shipping didn’t actually update with movement until about an hour from its delivery. 

Our full production run comes out to 152 lbs of books, so that may delay it further. Additionally, although our printer is based out of Quebec, all shipments route through a shipping centre in London, Ontario, and Ontario is dealing with very strict lockdown procedures right now. We anticipate that’s going to be the lengthiest delay. 

The day we receive the books, both Jack and I will be taking off from work and spending the full day packing envelopes and printing shipping labels. Unless otherwise requested, everything will be going through letter post, which has a shipping time comparable to the tracked packages, but is at a much more affordable rate. Jack has a business account with the Canada Post, and we can do a bulk order drop-off at our local distro. If it will take another day to get the packages out, we’ll take another day to do it. Canada Post doesn’t move mail over the weekend, so it’s more expedient to take time off and ensure they get their start on a week-day.

We’ll be taking pictures of the arrival, the sorting, the packing, and the final packets for transparency’s sake.

Thank you so much for asking! If you’ve already purchased a copy, you should also have the PDF version free of charge to enjoy the contents while you wait. :)

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Additional Readings for the Eager...and or, those with the Saga-Fever!

As we dig into the wonderfully fantastic saga that is Eyrbyggja Saga, I wanted to give readers the opportunity to look at discussions in Old Norse Scholarship that have buzzed with the themes and topics brought up by this saga! Politics, Gender, Magic, Law, the Restless Undead, Religion-Belief, and the construction of a saga itself! Below this cut you’ll find a regularly updated haphazard Bibliography separated into sections. 

Those entries with an * (asterisk) present are free and accessible online–I will be happy to send you a pdf of every other article/chapter if I have it, just DM me the particular article you want at @cousinnick and I will do my best to send it to you. If you have any suggestions to add to the list, I’d be happy to look into them! 

Old Norse Read-Along Bibliography: Eyrbyggja Saga

Íslendingasögur/Icelandic Family Sagas:

Andersson Theodore M. The Icelandic Family Saga: An Analytic Reading. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1967.

Andersson Theodore M. The Displacement of the Heroic Ideal in the Family Sagas. Speculum 45, 575—93, 1970.

Byock, Jesse. Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power. Berkeley, 1988.

Hastrup, Kirsten. “Defining a Society: The Icelandic Free State Between Two Worlds.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 56, no. 3, 1984, pp. 235–255.

Jonas Kristjansson. Eddas and Sagas: Iceland’s Medieval literature, trans. Peter Foote. Reykjavik: Hið Íslenska Bókmenntafélag, 1988.

Ian Miller, William. Emotions and the Sagas in Palsson, Gisli 9th ed. From Sagas to Society. Engield Lock: Hisarlik, 1992.

O’Donoghue, Heather. Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction. Blackwell, 2004.

Vesteinn Olason. Dialogues with the Viking Age trans. Andrew Wawn. Reykjavik: Heimskringla, 1998.  

Vesteinn Olason. The Icelandic Saga as a Kind of Literature with Special Reference to its representation of Reality, in Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays for MCR, ed. Quinn et al. Brepols, 2007.

Eyrbyggja Saga:

Chadwick, N. K. “Norse Ghosts (A Study in the Draugr and the Haugbúi).” Folklore 57.2 (1946): 50-65.

Kanerva, Kirsi. The Role of the Dead in Medieval Iceland: A Case Study of Eyrbyggja Saga. (2011).*

Sayers, William.  “The Alien and the Alienated as Unquiet Dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders.” Monster Theory: Reading Culture. ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Draugar/Revenants/Restless Undead:

Ármann Jakobsson. “Vampires and Watchmen: Categorizing the Mediaeval Icelandic Undead.”  Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2011, Vol. 110.3., pp. 281-300.*

Ármann Jakobsson. The Troll inside You: Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North. Earth, Milky Way: Punctum Books, 2017.*

Ármann, Jakobsson. “The Fearless Vampire Killers: A Note about the Icelandic Draugr and Demonic Contamination in Grettis Saga.” Folklore, 2009, Vol. 120, no. 3, pp. 307-316.*

Ármann, Jakobsson. “The Taxonomy of the Non-Existent: Some Medieval Icelandic Concepts of the Paranormal.” Fabula, 2013, vol. 54, pp. 199-213. *

Ármann Jakobsson. “The Trollish Acts of Þorgrímr the Witch: The Meanings of Troll and Ergi in Medieval Iceland”. Saga-Book, 2008, Vol. 32, pp. 39-68.*

Chadwick, N. K. “Norse Ghosts (A Study in the Draugr and the Haugbúi).” Folklore 57.2 (1946): 50-65.

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Monster Theory: Reading Culture. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1996. Ebook Central.

Glauser, Jürg. „Supernatural Beings. 2. Draugr and Aptganga.“ In Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclepedia, Edited Phillip Pulsiano, pg. 623. New York: Garland, 1997.

Hartnell, Jack. Life and Death in the Middle Ages: Medieval Bodies. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 2018.

Kanerva, Kirsi. The Role of the Dead in Medieval Iceland: A Case Study of Eyrbyggja Saga. 2011.*

Kanerva, Kirsi. “Having No Power to Return? Suicide and Posthumous Restlessness in Medieval Iceland.” Thantos, 2015, Vol. 4, pp. 57-79.*

Kanerva, Kirsi. “Restless Dead or Peaceful Cadavers? Preparations for Death and Afterlife in Medieval Iceland.” Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe. ed. Anu Lahtinen and Mia Korpiola, Leiden: Brill, 2018.*

Kanerva, Kirsi & Koski, Kaarina. “Beings of Many Kinds—Introduction for the Theme Issue ‘Undead’”. Thantos, 2019, Vol. 8, pp. 3-28.*

Laurin, Dan. The Everlasting Dead: Similarities Between The Holy Saint and the Horrifying Draugr. Scandia, 2020. N. 3.*

Merkelbach, Rebecca. Monsters in Society: Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland. Kalamazoo, MI, 2019. The Northern Medieval World.

Sanders, Karin. Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination. Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago, 2009.

Sayers, William. “The Alien and the Alienated as Unquiet Dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders.” Monster Theory: Reading Culture. ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Gender and Sexuality:

Ármann Jakobsson. “Óðin as Mother; the Old Norse Deviant Patriarch.” Arkiv För Nordisk Filologi 126 (2011): 5-16.*

Clover, Carol. “The Politics of Scarcity: Notes on the Sex Ratio in Early Scandinavia.” Scandinavian Studies 60.2 (1988): 147-188.

Clover, Carol J. “Regardless of Sex: Men, Women, and Power in Early Northern Europe.” Speculum 68.2 (1993): 363-87.

Jesch, Judith. Women in the Viking Age. Woodbridge: Boydell P, 1991.

Jochens, Jenny. Old Norse Images of Women. Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania v, 1996.

Jóhanna Katrin Friðriksdóttir, ‘Women’s weapons a re-evaluation of magic in the Islendingasogur.’ Scandinavian Studies 81.4 (2009): pp. 409-28.

Laurin, Dan. But, What About the Men? Male Ritual Practices in the Icelandic Sagas. Kyngervi, 2020.*

Price, Neil. The Archaeology of Seiðr: Circumpolar Traditions in Viking Pre-Christian Religion. Brathair 4 (2), 2004: 109-126.*

Raffield, Ben, Neil Price, and Mark Collard. “Polygyny, Concubinage, and the Social Lives of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia.” Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 13 (2017): 165-209.

Ström, Folke. Níđ, Ergi and Old Norse Moral Attitudes. London: Published for the College by the Viking Society for Northern Research, 1974. Print. The Dorothea Coke Memorial Lecture in Northern Studies; 1973.

Wallenstein, Frederik, The Burning of Rǫgnvaldr réttilbeini, (Nordic Academic Press, 2013).*  

Politics and Law:

Jesse Byock. Feud in the Icelandic Society. (Berkeley 1982).

Firth, Hugh. “Coercion, Vengeance, Feud and Accommodation: Homicide in Medieval Iceland.” Early Medieval Europe 20.2 (2012): 139-75.

Miller Ian. William. Choosing the Avenger: Some Aspects of the Bloodfued in Medieval Iceland and England, Law and History Review 1, 159-204.

Miller Ian. William. Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.

Miller, William Ian. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland. Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago, 2005.

Fantasy:

Hume, Kathryn. Fantasy and Mimesis : Responses to Reality in Western Literature. London: Methuen, 1984.

Larrington, Carolyne. “The Psychology of Emotion and Study of the Medieval Period.” Early Medieval Europe, 2001, Vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 251-256.

Mundal, Else. The Treatment of the Supernatural and the Fantastic in Different Saga Genres. (2006)

Ross, Margaret. “Realism and the Fantastic in the Old Icelandic Sagas.” Scandinavian Studies 74.4 (2002): 443-54.

Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve U, 1973. Print. A Volume in the CWRU Press Translations.

Mythology/Vikings:

Clunies Ross, Margaret. Prolonged Echoes : Old Norse Myths in Medieval Northern Society. Odense: Odense UP, 1994. Print. Viking Collection. v. 7, V.10.

Hayward, John. The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings. London: Penguin, 1995.

Jesch, Judith. The Viking Diaspora. New York: Routledge, 2015.

Jones, Gwyn. A History of the Vikings. (OUP: 1968 rev. 1984)

Lindow, John. Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Price, Neil S. The Viking Way : Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (2002).

Sawyer, Peter. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings. (OUP, 1997)

Williams, Gareth, Peter Pentz, and Matthias Wemhoff. Vikings : Life and Legend. London, 2014.

Magic in Icelandic Family Sagas:

Ármann Jakobsson. ‘The Trollish Acts of Þorgrímr the Witch: The Meanings of troll and ergi in Medieval Iceland. Saga-Book of the Viking Society 32 (2008): 39-68.*

Davidson, H. R. Ellis. ‘Hostile Magic in the Icelandic Sagas’ in The Witch Figure, rd. Venetia Newall. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. 20-41.

Dillmann, Francois-Xavier. Les magiciens dans l'Islande ancienne. Uppsala: Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien for svensk folkkultur, 2006.

Gísli Palsson. “The Name of the Witch: Sagas, Sorcery and Social Context.” Social Approaches to Viking Studies, ed. Ross Samson. Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 1991. 157-68.

Heide, Eldar. Spinning Seiðr. Old Norse Religion in long-Term Perspectives: Orgins, Changes and Interactions. (2006 Lund: Nordic Academic)

Jochens, Jenny. The Prophetess/Sorceress in Old Norse Images of Women. (1996)

Jolly, Karen. Definitions of Magic in Witchcraft an Magic in Europe: The Middle Ages. (2002)

Kieckhefer, Richard. Definitions of Magic in Magic in the Middle Ages. (1989)

Laurin, Dan. But, What About the Men? Male Ritual Practices in the Icelandic Sagas. Kyngervi, 2020.*

Lindow, John. ‘Supernatural Others and Ethnic Others: A Millennium of World View’ Scandinavian Studies 67.1 (1995): 8-31

Meylan, Nicolas. Magic and Discourse of Magic in the Old Norse Sagas of the Apostles in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. (2011)

Miller, William Ian. ‘Dreams, Prophecy and Sorcery: Blaming the Secret Offender in Medieval Iceland’ Scandinavian Studies 58.2 (1986): 101-23

Mitchell, Stephen. Skirnismal and Nordic Charm Magic. (Turnhout: Brepols 2007)

Mitchell, Stephen. ‘Magic as Acquired Art and the Ethnographic Value of the Sagas’, Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society. Ed. Margaret Clunies Ross. Odense: UP Southern Denmark, 2003. 132-52. (attached).

Mitchell A. Stephen. Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages. (2011)

Morris, Katherine. Sorceress or Witch? The Image of Gender in Medieval Iceland and Northern Europe. (1991).

Price, Neil. The Archaeology of Seiðr: Circumpolar Traditions in Viking Pre-Christian Religion. Brathair 4 (2), 2004: 109-126.*

Raudvere, Catharina. Trolldomr in Early Medieval Scandinavia’, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Middle Ages. London: Athlone v, 2002. 75-171.

Steven, Justice. Did the Middle Ages Believe in their Miracles? (2008)

Ward, Benedicta. Miracles and the Medieval Mind: Theory, Record and Event 1000—1215. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.