#Julia Shapiro

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for April 9, 2022; #303.

Still Corners: “The Trip”

Jeanines: “You Were Mine”

Peel Dream Magazine: “Up And Up”

Long Beard: “Sweetheart”

Crumb: “M.R.”

Shower Curtain: “All That U Do”

Corey Flood: “Down The Hill”

Fawns Of Love: “Horoscope”

Gentle Heat: “In Between”

Julia Shapiro: “Shape”

Citrus Clouds: “Whoa”

Young Prisms: “Feel Fine”

Dummy: “Slacker Mask”

Soft Blue Shimmer: “Coca-Cola Abyss”

Deeper In: “Sicayda”

Trillion: “Sure”

Chrome Waves: “Aspiring Death”

Poppy Jean Crawford: “Same Old Tricks”

Criminal World: “Mox Jet”

Youngest: “Slow Fade”

Slow Crush: “Hush”

Kestrels: “Octavio”

Nadja: “Starres”

Gemma Ray: “Acta Non Verba”

Wand: “Airplane”

Mr. Elevator: “Brobdingag”

Shoegaze, alternative, dream-pop, and jangle.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

from jenashtep (video seems likely the moment being rehearsed here)

[blapeh]

robbie shaprio from victorious this random guys pfp on youtube looks just like him

[karmaphone]

girls after being awake for 24 hours and getting struck with the urge to Paint

[milliondollarbaby87]

Pillow Talk (1959) Review

Jan Morrow an interior decorator must share a telephone line with playboy Brad Allen, and that creates a lot of tension when he then pretends to be a Texan to date her without her knowledge of his true identity. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Pillow Talk (1959) Review

[shipwreckedcomedy]

Come in, and get to know us better, man! 👻

Shipwrecked Comedy proudly presents: How to be a Ghost

Jacob Marley learns what it takes to make it in the afterlife.

Written & Created by Sean Persaud & Sinead Persaud Directed by William J. Stribling

CAST Jacob Marley - Sean Persaud Christmas Past - Mary Kate Wiles Christmas Present - Sinéad Persaud Christmas Yet to Come - Parissa Koo Narrator - Sammy Paul

Assistant Director: Nick Dugan Production Assistant: Matthew Pinkney

Executive Producers: Michael Walsh, Jane Leach Produced by: Sean Persaud, Sinead Persaud, Mary Kate Wiles

Director of Photography: Devin Hassan First Assistant Camera: Nic Palermo

Production Designer: J.P. Gagen Costume Designer: Morgan Gannes Hair and Makeup Artist: Hayley Orozco Choreography: Lauren Lopez

Edited by: Raymond Fraser

Original Music by: Dylan Glatthorn Original Lyrics by: Dylan Glatthorn, Sean Persaud, and Sinead Persaud Production Sound Mixer: Will Kioultzopoulos Re-Recording Mixer: Noah Hunt Audio Song Recorded at Noah Hunt Audio Song Mixed by Dylan Glatthorn

Special Thanks - Tom DeTrinis & the IAMA Theatre Company, Hugo's Tacos, American Black Market, Brent Madison, Brian Henderson, Matt Amys

Made possible by: Katie Adamczyk, Julia Arnold, Heather Attewell, Michael Baker, Anna Beale, Carrie Bouwman, Kaci Burrow, John Callender, Miles Collier, Janel Christensen, Kelsey Fink, Madi Flesch, Bernadette Kovacs, Alicia Lomas-Gross, Avalee Long, Erin Hawley, Mary Lyszczarz, Jill May, Desiree McLaughlin, Halle Merrick, Sharon Messmore, William Miller, Meghan Morris, Kelly O'Neil, Lisel Perrine, Viivi Pyykkö, Halsea Root, Rodger Samuel, Emily Scheerer, Deborah Shapiro, Lindsey Stewart, Rebecca Stockman, Emma Tulip, Annie Vaccaro, Abigail Vanderhoff, Justin Waterman, Kylie Wells, Christina Wentz, Cassie Wojcik

[canonically47]

my contribution to the TDI fandom: last names

you've heard of gen 1 last names, now get ready for gen 4 last names!

Hezekias ‘Zee’ Abara. abara means spirit and i think it's a name that fits zee a lot

Damien Calvin. 'calvin', as inspired by melvin calvin, an american biochemist

Ripper Marchetti. in italian, marchetti means warlike, and i like to think ripper has some italian heritage!

Bowie Finley. finley = fair-haired hero, and hasn't our fair-haired boy proven to be a knight in shining armour, rescuing raj from tapioca pudding sharks and giving his very best until the finale?

Raj Bhatti

Wayne Curran (Curran = hero. our little guy is badass c'mon!!! also this was of irish descent i think? i can see it)

Chase Cooper. while researching names, for chase, i looked up 'youtuber last names'. one thing led to another, and i discovered some buddy of that annoying ass loser ben shapiro, whose last name was cooper. considering i hate chase (and i love double initials), i thought this would be fitting!

Caleb Campbell. shares his name with a model. no need to go into more detail.

Axel Ectorius (Ectorius = hero in latin. don't tell me you can't see it. also very close to victorious, which i wished for her to be this season *sad emoji*)

Julia Amana. amana means trust, faithful, which is a very ironic name for julia to have, so therefore, a must-have

Mary-Kate ‘MK’ Nghiem. nghiem = stern, strict, rigorous; similarly to julia, MK is not at all what her name represents, so, funny

Nichelle LaDonna (canon name not much to say here)

Emma Baker (both because baker is a simple name to me and i see emma as just a simple girl (just like me fr) and because i could totally see her as a baker)

Priya Chanda (Chanda = of the moon)

Millie Nisim. nisim, as in, miracles, because millie, unprepared and under pressure, still made it to the finale... and because her voice actress also voiced zoey, and both millie and zoey were, coincidentally, the third contestant in their respective debut season

Lauren ‘Scary Girl’ Graves (do i need to explain this?)

[byneddiedingo]

State and Main (David Mamet, 2000)

Cast: William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Rebecca Pidgeon, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Paymer, Clark Gregg, Julia Stiles, Charles Durning, Patti LuPone. Screenplay: David Mamet. Cinematography: Oliver Stapleton. Production design: Gemma Jackson. Film editing: Barbara Tulliver. Music: Theodore Shapiro.  

[with-a-martyr-complex]

With A Martyr Complex: Reading List 2024

Adapted from the annual list from @balioc​, a list of books (primarily audiobooks) consumed this year. This list excludes several podcasts, but includes dramatizations and college lecture series from The Great Courses, which I consume like a somewhat normal person this time around, but normally I'm a weirdo about them.

Myth in Human History by Grant L. Voth, from The Great Courses

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Augustine: Philosopher and Saint by Phillip Cary, from The Great Courses

The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Democracy and Its Alternatives by Ethan Hollander, from The Great Courses

Sex in the Middle Ages by Usman T. Malik, from The Great Courses

The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik

The Fellowship of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of The King by J.R.R. Tolkien

Tibet: History, Culture, Religion by Constance Kassor, from The Great Courses

Maoism: A Global History, by Julia Lovell

The Three-Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

Doppleganger: A Trip Into The Mirror World by Naomi Klein

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen

Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial?...and Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-Box at the Vatican Observatory by Guy Consolmagno SJ and Paul Meuller SJ

Death's End by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

Other Minds: The Octopus, THe Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Ugaritic Texts: Ba'al Cycle, translated by the Scriptural Research Institute

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett

Propaganda and Persuasion by Dannagal G. Young, from The Great Courses

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

War in the Modern World by David R. Stone

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer

The Unbroken by C. L. Clark

Norse Mythology by Jackson Crawford, from The Great Courses

She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted The Heartland and Crushed The Soul of Corporate America--and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

God against the Gods: The History of Monotheism and Polytheism by Robert Garland, from The Great Courses

Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee

A Desolation Called Peace by Akrady Martine

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, translated by John Addington Symonds

The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Broke Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

Anything For A Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in US Presidential Campaigns by Joseph Cummins

The Wicked and The Willing by Lianyu Tan

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

America after the Cold War: The First 30 Years by Patrick N. Allitt, from The Great Courses

The Aldo Moro Affaire by Jacopo Pezzan and Giacomo Brunoro, translated by a robot who could have done a better job quite frankly

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok

The Shadow of The Torturer by Gene Wolf

Economics, 3rd Edition by Timothy Taylor

The Poetic Edda, translated by Jackson Crawford

Evgenii Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Mary Hobson (alternately titled Eugene Onegin)

Incomplete books: The Dragon: Fear and Power, Pilgermann, What Makes This Book So Great, Midnight's Children, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Heaven and Hell, Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed, The Last Emperor of Mexico, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, Emperor of Japan

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Great Courses consumed: 7

Non-Great Courses Nonfiction consumed: 19

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Works consumed by women: 14 or 15 (C.L. Clarke uses both they and she pronouns, counting is hard)

Works consumed by men: 35 or 36

Works consumed by men and women: 1

Works that can plausibly be considered of real relevance to foreign policy (including appropriate histories): 10

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With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, fiction division: Perfume: The Story of A Murderer

>>>> Honorable mention: The Dark Forest, Lud-in-the Mist, The Lord of The Rings, Ninefox Gambit, The Shadow of the Torturer, She Who Became The Sun, The Broken Sword, The Wicked and The Willing, All Systems Red

With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

>>>> Honorable mention: War in the Modern World, Norse Mythology, The Man Who Broke Capitalism, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Economics, When The Clock Broke

>>>> Great Courses Division: Tibet: History, Culture, Religion

The Annual “An Essential Work of Surpassing Beauty that Isn’t Fair to Compare To Everything Else” Award: Evgenii Onegin

>>>> Honorable mention: The Gambler

The “Reading This Book Will Give You Great Insight Into The Way I See The World” Award: The Gambler

>>>> Honorable mention: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

Yes, okay? It IS Good After All and I was wrong to be a Hater: The Lord of The Rings

Best "Lesbian War Crimes" Book: Ninefox Gambit

Best Lesbian: Ma Xiuying (She Who Became The Sun)

Best War Crime: Mutually Assured Destruction by Antimatter Bullets (Death's End)

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This year I got a bit better at reading non-audiobooks, thought not as much as I had hoped, but I feel as though if I were putting more time into it the divide could be overcome. However, I also read far fewer audiobooks this year, in part due to that same promotion at work, in part due to The Election, in part due to falling into bad habits. An easy goal for next year is just working on getting out of that habit. I did manage to hit my target at the end, at least.

I took up the intellectual project of reading "Lesbian War Crimes" Science Fiction/Fantasy books, which had a pretty dramatic effect on the layout of my books for the year. Suffice to say, picking up a contemporary genre is not as Good For Me as reading from wide sources which include international literature and The Classics. Some were real hits though.

My own creative output was not as large as I wanted but it was consistently of relatively high quality and originality, which I think was good. My attempt at a novel failed out of the gate, but I can take a stab at another one in the new year.

Goals for next year: learn some econ, more literary fiction, get a novel down

[protoslacker]

Judy Heumann was the first person I called when, in 1987, I reported my first story on disability rights. Judy, who contracted polio when she was 18 months old, gave me the quote that perfectly summed up that little-known civil rights movement. "Disability only becomes a tragedy when society fails to provide the things we need to lead our lives — job opportunities or barrier-free buildings, for example," she said. "It is not a tragedy to me that I'm living in a wheelchair." That idea seemed so unexpected and strange that my editors at a newsmagazine decided not to publish my story.

Joseph Shapiro quoting Judy Heumann in a beautiful obituary at NPR. Activist Judy Heumann led a reimagining of what it means to be disabled

Julia Métraux  tweeted:

May Judith Heumann's memory be a blessing.

And let's make it the norm that disabled advocates are able to become disabled elders.

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

Judy Heuman Disability Rights Activist

[jartita-me-teneis]

El día de su millonaria boda, Julia Roberts abandonó a Kiefer Sutherland en el altar y voló a Irlanda con su mejor amigo Jason Patric, escandalizando a sus compañeros de viaje.

El Daily Mail de Londres lo describió como "prácticamente hacer el amor" en el aire. Nadie lo esperaba.

Julia se iba a casar con Sutherland en junio de 1991, según People "iba a ser la boda de fantasía de la década". Las cuatro damas de honor -la maquilladora Lucienne Zammit, las agentes de Julia, Elaine Goldsmith y Risa Shapiro, y la actriz Deborah Porter- ya habían recogido sus zapatos Manolo Blahnik, de 425 dólares, teñidos de verde mar para que hicieran juego con los vestidos". La despampanante novia ya había terminado de vestirse con su vestido de 8,000 dólares.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

from brooke shapiro

14th Annual Joe Iconis Christmas Extravaganza! Getting to do this insane show with a group of the most talented people I know is always a highlight of my year. Until next time! Xoxo, Poinsettia 🐿️🎄

[goosemixtapes]

max's november 2023 reads

so many online articles this month. which is maybe why i feel like i'm making 0 progress on my hard copy books. in december i'll need to reprioritize, it seems. i also wrote next to nothing this month, which probably explains why i read so many online articles.

fiction

Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, books 5-6

the latter half of Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin (again)

Shakespeare's Richard III (again, + i started Linda Charnes' Notorious Identity)

Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods by Suzanne Collins (review)

Gregor and the Marks of Secret by Suzanne Collins (review)

Vergil's Georgics, book 3

i continue to chug away at asoiaf #3 but god knows it is neverending

nonfiction

Getting Involved and Staying Regulated by Devon Price (↳ on finding your place in the fight for palestinian liberation)

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin (↳ on the patriarchal domination of the war narrative, and our other options)

The Cool Kid's Philosopher by Nathan J. Robinson (↳ on Ben Shapiro)

Propaganda 101: How To Defend A Massacre by Nathan J. Robinson (↳ on biased reporting, using the I/P conflict as an example, though this is from 2018 rather than recent)

A Guide For High School Students On How To Avoid Propaganda by Nathan J. Robinson (↳ what the title says; i found it useful despite not being in high school anymore)

the latter half of Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price (review)

What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? by Clare Dederer (↳ found this one rather disappointing. i like the start, but the gender takes feel lukewarm and imo there's not enough emphasis on the structural vs. individual. this is a nice counterpoint)

Physical Destruction in Whole or in Part by Saree Makdisi (↳ "What we’re witnessing in Gaza, in other words, is not self-defense; it is an opportunistic offensive. It is not a “war,” the word used mendaciously and misleadingly by most of the mainstream Western press; it is a campaign of genocidal violence.")

the first chapter of Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

the first two chapters of The Great White Bard: How To Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper

a close read of my MFA statement of purpose by Brandon Taylor (↳ on goals, responsibilities, and fictions)

On Mental Hospitals by Ozy Brennan (↳ this is pretty short but very worth it)

How An Algorithm Feels From Inside by Eliezer Yudkowsky (↳ on the psychology of the tree-falls-in-a-forest question)

Scrupulosity Sequence #3: Load-Bearing Things by Ozy Brennan (↳ posts i am clinging to with my fingernails)

Why Are AMAB Trans People Denied The Closet? by Julia Serano (↳ on "gendered socialization" and closeted transfemininity)

Trans Masc Misogyny and the Red Six of Spades by Jude Ellison S. Doyle (↳ "No-one is ever actually a man. Everyone is always in the act of proving they’re a man, first by dominating women and children, then by dominating other men, establishing higher and higher rungs of man-ness until at the end, presumably, the one Real Man in existence gets to be in charge of everyone and everything else.")

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved By America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies by Spenser Ackerman (↳ clicked for the title, stayed for the comprehensive and vicious takedown of kissinger's crimes)

[dear-indies]

hello! i was wondering if ya'll possibly had some fc suggestions for Abigail Blyg from The Quarry? I'm not entirely sure if i'd like to use Ariel Winter for her or not. any help would be appreciated!

Maia Mitchell (1993) - has younger roles - has spoken up for Palestine!

Saoirse Ronan (1994) - vibes in Ladybug (2017).

Lily Sullivan (1994) - vibes in Romper Stomper (2018).

Sammi Hanratty (1995) - vibes in Timeline (2019).

Lola Petticrew (1995) - is non-binary (they/them) -vibes in Dating Amber (2020) - joined Queer Artists for Palestine!

Emma Mackey (1996) - vibes in Sex Education.

Kassius Nelson (1997) Black British - in Dead Boy Detectives.

Piper Curda (1997) Korean / White - is aspec - vibes in Legacies (2022) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Alva Bratt (1998)

Julia Dalavia (1998) Brazilian.

Brianne Tju (1998) Chinese / Indonesian.

Ariela Barer (1998) Mexican, Ashkenazi Jewish - uses she/they - did make a post saying that she’s non-binary but deleted so if anybody knows more information please let me know - has spoken up for Palestine!

Megan Suri (1999) Punjabi Indian - vibes in Pokerface.

Beabadoobee (2000) Ilonggo Filipino / White - has spoken up for Palestine!

Ruby Cruz (2000) - is queer.

Odessa A'zion (2000) part Ashkenazi Jewish - has spoken up for Palestine!

Ayumi Roux (2001) Japanese / White.

Jenna Ortega (2002) Mexican and Puerto Rican.

Milly Shapiro (2002) - is a lesbian and has cleidocranial dysostosis.

Emma Myers (2002)

Iris Apatow (2002) half Ashkenazi Jewish - has spoken up for Palestine!

Hope this helps, anon!

[bosesmikas]

Full Name: Melanie Denise Puckett

Nicknames: Mel (by everyone), Mommy (by Julia), My sister in law, trickster (by Cat), Sam’s real twin (by Freddie)

Gender: Female

Birthday: April 17, 1994

Age: 29

Occupation:

Education: Ridgeway Junior High School (graduated)

Residence: Los Angeles (currently), Vermont (formerly)

Hair Color: Blonde

Eye Color: Blue

Family: Pam Puckett (mother), Sam Puckett (twin sister), Cat Valentine (sister in law), Unnamed father, Unnamed grandfather, Unnamed great-grandfather, J'Maw-maw (grandmother), Frank (uncle), Buzz (uncle), Morris (uncle), Billy (uncle), Carmine (uncle), Chaz (uncle), Maggie (aunt), Judy (aunt), Greg Patillo (cousin), Garth (cousin), Tanya (cousin), Annie (cousin), Dominic (cousin), Julia Puckett (daughter)

Friends: Carly Shay, Spencer Shay, Freddie Benson, Sam Puckett (Sometimes), Cat Valentine

Romances: Frankini Valentine (husband), Freddie Benson (kissed, former crush)

Pets: Frothy (3-legged cat), Fluffles (former pet rabbit), Shelly (former baby chick), Huevo (former baby chick), Omelet (former baby chick), Benedict (former baby chick), Yoko (former baby chick), Poachy (former baby chick), Gaga (mother’s pet horse)

Enemies: Robbie Shapiro

First Appearance: iTwins (OG), #Twinfection (Sam and Cat), TBD

Last Appearance: iTwins (OG), #Twinfection (Sam and Cat), TBD

[o-the-mts]

Song of the Week: "My My Orca Card" by Who Is She?

Who is She? – “My My Orca Card” Who Is She? is a supergroup of Seattle artists Bree McKenna of Tacocat, Robin Edwards AKA Lisa Prank, and Julia Shapiro of Chastity Belt.  I haven’t heard of any of these artists/groups individually, but I am intrigued.  The song is based on Le Tigre’s “My Metrocard” and is suitably named after a transit pass used in the Puget Sound region of Washington. …