#James Riley Appreciation Week 2024

[lanihaluki]

day 1 of james riley appreciation week | prom🕺🪩

me when I’m like 3 months late to posting this😔 gonna do a few more prompts that I’ll post soon!!

[justarandomidiot1]

James Riley Appreciation Week!

Free Day!

happy pride month!

based on this and this

[athespaceace]

James Riley Appreciation Week 2024

Day 7

🌟Free Day! 🌟

Sketches of Ria based on this post by @lanihaluki

Happy Pride ig

[rosa-lilisrandomness]

James Riley Appreciation Week 2024

Day 7: FREE DAY! I based this drawing on a dream I had where Bethany and May were best friends! (now that I think about it, it wasn't a crazy dream! I think they would be friends if they met)

[theloniousbach]

ALMOST LIVESTREAM: HERLIN RILEY with Stacy Dillard, Dave Torkanowsky, and Max Moran, JAZZ ST LOUIS, 4 APRIL 2024

This one wasn’t on the subscription list, but I am glad to have had the Thursday night livestream as a taste of the New Orleans party that was in town this week. HERLIN RILEY is part of the proteges of Ellis Marsalis that includes his sons, Jazz St Louis President Victor Goines, and pianist Dave Torkanowsky. The band had a groove going when Riley came onstage with a second line going with just a tambourine and Mardi Gras Indian chants. It was Twelve’s It, an Ellis Marsalis tune which went from the funk to a lyrical middle section and back to the funk with every member of the band getting a chance to shine.

Stacy Dillard is a Small’s regular whom I see with others and rarely in his own right. But he’s a fine player with sufficient fire and groove to serve this tradition. Dave Torkanowsky had moments of subtlety and lyricism to go with the power and percussiveness he was signed up to provide. Max Moran is a big presence on bass. HERLIN RILEY is charismatic and, at the risk of faint praise, perfectly capable. He was not an astonishing magician, but somehow there’s a thickness to the NOLA rhythms that sneak up on you. You have to be perfectly capable to pull off that deceptive trick which Riley most certainly was.

There were two James Black tunes, New Arrival in the second slot and Whistle Stop to close (with Victor Goines). Black was a role model for Riley as a drummer/composer/bandleader. He stayed at home, it would appear, so he is not widely enough known. He probably won’t be—or he’ll be in with similar figures like Ralph Peterson and James Williams as musicians’ musicians, but like them have made important contributions. There were three Riley compositions, also winning, varied, and challenging. Riley too may well be one of those craftspeople who importantly uphold a tradition. He put on a fine fine show but I don’t regret not being in the room even though it was quite a party. They encored with Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing, a bit of a single entendre tune, by Danny Barker, a banjoist who had a church brass band in the late 1960s/1970s in which Riley and his pals learned some basics.

The homestretch of the set got interesting as Riley’s Touched for his mother whom he cared for as she was dying was poignant; Bicycleta by a Cuban settled in NOLA had that open major chord Keith Jarrett groove with an obvious Latin tinge; and Ivan Lenz’s ballad Love Dance proved decisively, as this whole stretch made the case, that they could all play delicately.

New Orleans remains perhaps THE important jazz city even if New York is the center of its gravity. I need to remember that and appreciate this reminder.

[justarandomidiot1]

James Riley Appreciation Week!

Stargazing / Picnic

I would like to know if May was ever homesick while she was in the fairytale world honestly. I wonder if looking at the night sky also felt wrong, if maybe she couldn't find any familiar constellations.

[justarandomidiot1]

*speaking to like 3 other people and a paperclip* hello, James Riley fandom!!

Usually my friends and I plan this for end of May/early June, but it was decided to do this later this year for reasons, and these are the prompts that were chosen!! These prompts apply to all of James’ books, and feel free to interpret them however you wish!!

Prompts for the week under the cut for better reading if needed.

James Riley Appreciation Week 2024

June 23 – June 29

Sunday: Escape Room / Prom

Monday: Theater / Beach

Tuesday: Party / Swap

Wednesday: Family / Angst

Thursday: Stargazing / Picnic

Friday: Fruit / AU

Saturday: Free day!!

[justarandomidiot1]

James Riley Appreciation Week!

Theater / Beach

You know, I didn't mean to take this prompt and turn it into symbolism. Enjoy the blue curtains! (They're actually yellow in here but I like using that Tumblr phrase lol)

[athespaceace]

James Riley Appreciation Week 2024

Day 5

Picnic ✅️ / Stargazing ✅️

May and Jack stargazing

[athespaceace]

James Riley Appreciation Week 2024

Day 6

Fruit ✅️ / AU ❎️

Gwen/Earthgirl at a fruit garden!

[justarandomidiot1]

James Riley Appreciation Week!

Fruit / AU

Mob Psycho Au for Half Upon a Time/Once Upon Another Time trilogies! Explanations and rambles under the cut

Jill as Reigen and Jin as Mob because Jill is just as resourceful and cunning as Reigen and would definitely be a conwoman lol. Jin is nothing like Mob tho (except for the whole "power of god inside an adolescent boy" thing they both have going on lol) but the Mob and Reigen dynamic is how I see the Jill and Jin dynamic

The Spark as Dimple just bc of how The Spark was like when Jin had absorbed it in the first book and kept telling him he should use his powers for himself and destroy everyone. Also i did not mean to make it look like a cockatiel LSDKFJLSKDFJ

Lena as Tsubomi bc I see them both as aroace (tho that's only canon for Lena lol) and also Lena is also like Tsubomi where she's confident in who she is and doesn't like to conform to others around her. also because Jin canonically has a crush on her like Mob does with Tsubomi lol

Shefin as Teru because honestly he acts like he's the most important person in the world but I thought it'd be hilarious to keep him at his canon height in the books of 6 inches tall. He tries to kick Jin's ass as if Jin couldn't just beat him by stepping on him lmao

May as Shou and Eudora/The Evil Queen as Toichirou bc evil older family member who tries to take over the world with army of followers she managed to get on her side. However because May is Shou while Jill is Reigen, i literally have no idea where to put Jack in this AU lmao

[athespaceace]

James Riley Appreciation Week 2024

Day 3

Swap ✅️ / Party ❎️

For swap, I chose first (for some) meetings for my fave time travel parallel couples!

Kowen at Stonhenge and Fyrus at the time prison

[justarandomidiot1]

James Riley Appreciation Week!

Party / Swap

Ever think about how Bethany probably has never had another party since her fourth birthday party?

[athespaceace]

James Riley Appreciation Week 2024

Day 1

Prom ✅️ / Escape Room ✅️

Story Thieves kids in an escape room as a prom after party!

[justarandomidiot1]

James Riley Appreciation Week!

Escape Room / Prom

I've wanted to draw Ria dancing together in prom fits for forever and I finally got the chance to!! They deserve to just be regular kids after everything in the books.

[rosa-lilisrandomness]

James Riley Appreciation Week 2024

Day 5: I chose stargazing! I tried drawing the Sanderson siblings bonding by looking at the stars!