#KAREN MCNEIL

[younes-ben-amara]

جمعية "دارجه" تتكَلَّم وتخَمّم تُونسِي وتكتِب بالتُونسِي لكنها عاجزة عن كتابة "بايو" تويتر بالتُونسِي! 🇹🇳

[mushroomobsessed-kindadepressed]

Since we have a similar book taste do u have any mystery books I should check out soon?

oh yeah totally! so i know you like AGGGTM so here are some other books:

One of us is Lying by Karen M. McManus (tbh any book by her), No Escape by Gretchen McNeil, We Were Liars by E. Lockhart, Five Survive by Holly Jackson

that’s all i can think of right now, i’ll get back to you if i remember more.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Rara Avis

Moda in volo alle Uccelliere Farnesiane

a cura di Sofia Gnoli 

testi di Emanuele Coccia, Karen Van Godtsenhoven, Peter McNeil, Natsumi Nonaka e Simona Segre-Reinach

Marsilio Arte, Venezia 2024, 129 pagine, 17x24cm, ISBN 9791254632086

euro 24,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Di magia e metamorfosi parlano gli abiti e gli accessori protagonisti della mostra Rara Avis. Moda in volo alle Uccelliere Farnesiane, dedicata all’arcana corrispondenza che lega la moda al mondo ornitologico. In occasione dell’esposizione visitabile dal 24 aprile al 21 luglio 2024 alle Uccelliere Farnesiane sul Palatino, Marsilio Arte pubblica il catalogo Rara Avis. Moda in volo alle Uccelliere Farnesiane a cura di Sofia Gnoli, studiosa di moda e curatrice della mostra. Grazie alle ricche illustrazioni e ai testi di Emanuele Coccia, Karen Van Godtsenhoven, Peter McNeil, Natsumi Nonaka e Simona Segre-Reinach, il volume accompagna il lettore alla scoperta di una vera e propria ornitologia della couture, in un creativo e fantasioso dialogo tra mondo umano e mondo animale.

Inquietanti o benevoli, comunque metaforici, gli uccelli fanno parte del lessico delle apparenze sin dall’antichità. Pappagalli, aquile, struzzi e pavoni hanno periodicamente incantato cavalieri e regine, principesse e muse del gusto. Attraverso le stupefacenti creazioni di celebri e innovativi designer, da Dior a Gucci, da Jean-Paul Gaultier a Thierry Mugler, da Chanel a Schiaparelli, come una contemporanea Wunderkammer Rara Avis. Moda in volo alle Uccelliere Farnesiane racconta un percorso suggestivo che si snoda tra abiti-uccello visionari ed eccentrici e accessori piumati.

Apre il volume il contributo Rara Avis. Moda in volo alle Uccelliere Farnesiane della curatrice Gnoli, in cui un excursus storico sul rapporto tra moda e mondo ornitologico fa da spunto per un approfondito racconto della mostra e del percorso espositivo. La storica dell’arte Natsumi Nonaka in Le Uccelliere Farnesiane sul Palatino a Roma analizza questi due padiglioni gemelli che sorgono sul colle romano, ripercorrendone la storia e gli utilizzi. Livree da sogno. L’abito come luogo di metamorfosi è il saggio del filosofo Emanuele Coccia, una riflessione storico-antropologica sul rapporto tra moda, metamorfosi e mondo ornitologico. Karen Van Godtsenhoven firma Donne alate, moda e femminismo, testo in cui l’autrice indaga sull’immagine metaforica della donna-uccello come riflesso del fluttuante status del femminile nella società per le sue associazioni con purezza, sessualità, vizio, fragilità, morte, rinascita e immortalità. Segue il contributo Leggera come una piuma: la moda tra desiderio e disgusto dello studioso Peter McNeil, in cui viene affrontata la funzione sociale e culturale delle piume nel promuovere idee sull’abbigliamento e sul corpo umano. Volare alto. Verso un’industria più etica e responsabile è il testo di Simona Segre-Reinach che descrive la il progresso e le conquiste raggiunte nel campo della protezione degli animali impiegati nella moda, dagli uccelli a quelli da pelliccia. Completa il catalogo l’elenco delle opere in mostra.

10/05/24

[thegrapeandthefig]

Ancient Athenian wedding resources

I was so tired and done with the post last night (missed it? click to read) that I completely forgot to add the bibliography. So here it is, in a different post.

Bibliography for the post:

Hersch, Karen Klaiber, ed. A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Oakley, John Howard, and Rebecca H. Sinos. "The wedding in ancient Athens." Wisconsin Studies in Classics; University of Wisconsin, 1993

Rehm, Rush. Marriage to death: the conflation of wedding and funeral rituals in Greek tragedy. Princeton University Press, 1994.

Margariti, Katia. "The Greek Wedding outside Athens and Sparta: The Evidence from Ancient Texts." Les Études Classiques 85.4 (2018).

Recommended reading for the stuff I couldn't fit in:

Hague, Rebecca H. "Ancient Greek wedding songs: the tradition of praise." Journal of Folklore Research (1983): 131-143.

Abulashvili, Medea. "The Mystical Plot of Greek Wedding Songs." PHASIS 12 (2009): 7-13.

McNeil, Lynda. "Bridal cloths, cover-ups, and kharis: the ‘carpet scene’in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon." Greece & Rome 52.1 (2005): 1-17.

[mhsnetflixblog]

Midnight Horror School (Netflix Jr.) Character Voices

English

Ampoo - Christina Kelly

Anto - April Winchell

Æon - Kelly Sheridan

Bri - Laura Post

Borocca - Rebecca Soler

Chaps - Candi Milo

Dabble - Sarah Taylor

Docky - John Tartaglia

Enton - Tom Kenny

Fonton - Richard Steven Horvitz

Friedi - Fryda Wolff

Furanzo - Maria Petrano

Genie - Simon Hill

Hikky - Madeleine Martin

Inky - Leslie Carrara-Rudolph

Juno - Tabitha S. Germain

Kabo - Hope Marie Segoine

Kami - Cree Summer

Karen - Kira Gelineau

Liddy - Andrea Libman

Magnero - Andrew Sabiston

Noisy - Grey DeLisle

Nonny - Michelle Marie

Onpoo - Abigail Gordon

Œther - Dee Bradley Baker

Oozee - Lizzie Freeman

Piranin - Scott Menville

Quicky - Corinne Orr

Ringring - Michael Kovach

Rosso - Kelsey Painter

Shiro - Tara Strong

Spimon - Annick Obonsawin

Tubee - Pamela Adlon

Usop - Lance Henriksen

Vincent - Vincent Martella

Watt - Jo Wyatt

Mr. X - Jeremy Shada

Yumyum - Katt Williams

Zobie - Donovan Patton

Zuzu - Carla Delaney

Mr. Salaman - Ian McDougall

Mr. Tigerl - KJ Schrock

Ms. Peginand - Julie Sype

Ms. Unirex - Leah Ostry

Mr. Komoika - Shannon Lynch

Lure - Cory Doran

Johnny Crow - Patrick Warburton

Vending Machines - Patrick Seitz, Laura Bailey

Mr. Showtime - Christian Bale

Mr. Book Deposit Machine - Don Brown

Old Owl Sage - Jason Jones

Owl Sage Apprentice - Mariette Sluyter

Principal Kocho - James Hong

Eddy - Meesha Contreras

Vice-Principal Esme & Osma - Samantha Bee & Helen King

Casey - Vegas J Jenkins

Ra - Teala Dunn

Wendell - Brett Bauer

Winifred - Carol Ann Day

Monty Carlo - Joey Mazzarino

Bashful - Roger Rhodes

Pumu - Scott McNeil

Quasar - Lenore Zann

Edgar - Meesha Contreras

Smooch - Patton Oswalt

Kwazii - Veronique Barnard

Dr. Ongo - Park Shin Yong

Bello the Bus Driver - Dave Pettit

Coco the Jinn - Travis Willingham

Motherboard - Kimberly Brooks

Siobhan - Estela Echevarria

Izzy - Winter Murdock

AJ - Bommie Catherine Han

Eli - Sarah Bock

Fiona - Dahlia Lynn

Fred - Nitzan Sitzer

KC - Hope Marie Segoine

Mona - Meghan Strange

Roy - Finn Phoenix

Rudy - Yantzi Michael David (credited as Mike Yantzi)

Tee - Bommie Catherine Han

Zane - Sharon Youngmee Kwon

Japanese

Ampoo - Chiyako Shibahara

Anto - Ai Maeda

Æon - Ai Kayano

Bri - Kumiko Yokote

Borocca - Junji Majima

Chaps - Hisayo Mochizuki

Dabble - Ken Morita

Docky - Takeshi Kusao

Enton - Tarusuke Shingaki

Fonton - Kenji Nojima

Friedi - Azusa Enoki

Furanzo - Miyuki Sawashiro

Genie - Ryuuzou Ishino

Hikky - Hiromi Ohtsuda

Inky - Tomoe Hanba

Juno - Ayumi Kida

Kabo - Etsuko Kozakura

Kami - Nakamura Maiden

Karen - Kaori Yamamoto

Liddy - Etsuko Kozakura

Magnero - Setsuji Satoh

Noisy - Tomoe Hanba

Nonny - Yutaka Nakano

Onpoo - Sakiko Tamagawa

Œther - Kenjiro Tsuda

Oozee - Ayano Yamamoto

Piranin - Eriko Nakayama

Quicky - Takeshi Kusao

Ringring - Yuna Taira

Rosso - Eriko Nakayama

Shiro - Isla Summerhaze

Spimon - Etsuko Kozakura

Tubee - Chiyako Shibahara

Usop - Kosuke Okano

Vincent - Kosuke Okano

Watt - Sakiko Tamagawa

Mr. X - Ayumi Kida

Yumyum - Ryusei Nakao

Zobie - Yusuke Numata

Zuzu - Etsuko Kozakura

Mr. Salaman - Sukekiyo Kameyama

Mr. Tigerl - Kenji Nomura

Ms. Peginand - Hiroko Oohashi

Ms. Unirex - Hiroko Oohashi

Mr. Komoika - Kenji Nomura

Lure - Yuichi Nagashima

Johnny Crow - Kosuke Okano

Vending Machines - Cho, Sukekiyo Kameyama

Mr. Showtime - Kenji Nomura

Mr. Book Deposit Machine - Kenji Nomura

Old Owl Sage - Hiroshi Iwasaki

Owl Sage Apprentice - Yuko Sanpei

Kocho-sensei - Tomomichi Nishimura

Eddy - Kenji Nomura

Esme-sensei & Osma-sensei - Cho & Hisayo Mochizuki

Casey - Kenji Nomura

Bello the Bus Driver - Chafurin

Ongo-isha - Mayumi Tanaka

Coco the Jinn - Kenji Nomura

Ra - Chiyako Shibahara

Wendell - Kosuke Okano

Winifred - Hiromi Ohtsuda

Bashful - Setsuji Satoh

Monty Carlo - Tomoaki Maeno

Motherboard - Atsuko Tanaka

Pumu - Ayumu Murasa

Quasar - Misato Fukuen

Edgar - Kenji Nomura

Smooch - Tomoaki Maeno

Kwazii - Reina Ueda

Siobhan - Nanako Ishizuka

Izzy - Yuna Saito

AJ - Karen Miyama

Eli - Chinami Yoshioka

Fiona - Maika Pu

Fred - Botchiboromaru

KC - NOA

Mona - Ai Kayano

Roy - Isla Summerhaze

Rudy - Yu Fukaya

Tee - Kaori Yamamoto

Zane - Yuna Taira

[ariel-seagull-wings]

LAZY SUNDAY REVIEW: DOCTOR DETROIT (1983)

@thealmightyemprex​ @amalthea9​ @spengnitzed​ @bixiebeet​ @themousefromfantasyland​ @the-blue-fairie​

In this comedy, Clifford Skridlow (Dan Aykroyd) is a Comparative Literature Professor and Medieval Literature Scholar who, during a morning making jogging, passes by the limo of the rich pimp Smooth Walker (Howard Hesseman), who is acompanied by the prostitutes who work for him, Karen Blittstein (Fran Drescher), Monica McNeil (Donna Dixon), Jasmine Wu (Lydia Lei) and Thelma Cleland (Lynn Whitfield).

Smooth Walker has a huge financial debt to Mom (Kate Murtagh), the crime boss of Chicago. Not intending to pay it, he invents the story that he got a new partner known as “Doctor Detroit”, and after coincidentally finding the meek scholar again in an indian restaurant, he tricks Clifford Skridlow into enjoy an agitated night with drinking and drugs, and manipulates him to enter his business, without really explaining what it really is.

The next day, Smooth Walker takes a plane and runs away to Samoa with his money, leaving the four woman who worked for him on their own. The ladies make contact with Clifford to help them not be taken by Mom.

After finally learning that the ladies are sex workers and that the business Smooth Walker left for him meant exploiting prostitution, Clifford, wanting to emulate the heroic knights that he reads about in Medieval Literature, decides to take the guise of Doctor Detroit as a way to protect the four ladies, with the help of Diavolo (T.K. Carter), the former driver of Smooth Walker who is aspiring to become a rich and famous actor.

You may be asking how did I heard of this movie and got curious to check it out?

Well, I was watching an episode of the talk show hosted by Fran Drescher on Youtube, where she interviewed both Dan Aykroyd and his wife Donna Dixon, who are both her professional colleagues and personal friends. During the interview, she told about working with them in the movie and how it was during filming that he introduced Dan and Donna, helping their romance to start.

Intrigued by this story of matchmaking in the backstages, and by the title of the movie, I decided to check out the plot summary on TV Tropes. When I learned of this mix of eighties sex comedy, action and chivalric romance, I tought “This is such a weird mix, I have to check this out to see if its real”.

It is, and I never had so much fun watching a silly movie as I had watching this. There are some elements that are dated (like when Smooth Walker offers to pay dinner for Clifford, the main character starts asking almost in panic if he is gay and trying to seduce him), but overall, I went expecting absurd and over the top scenarios, and I was not disapointed.

The colorfull costumes are a marvel to look at, the soundtrack, with songs by big names like DEVO and James Brown, makes you want to party, Dan Aykroyd gives a great performance as the nerd who wants to be a noble knight in cynical modern times, T K Carter is very charismatic as the street smart Diavolo, Fran Drescher, Donna Dixon, Lydia Lei and Lynn Whitfield (in the first of two movies where she played a simpathetic sex worker, the second being the 1985 western Silverado) are pretty wholesome and energetic in their performances as the four ladies that the hero wants to protect (and finds atractive), and is interesting that while there is innuendo, there is no actual sex scene with them, Kate Murtagh brings gravitas as the intimidating villain Mom, and there is the great contrast between George Furth as the pompous and money obsessed Arthur Skridlow and Nan Margaret as the free spirited, light hearted and loving Margaret Skridlow, Clifford’s parents.

If you want to just relax and enjoy some laughs, while apreciating a great pop soundtrack and the colorfull aesthetics of eighties movie fashion, this campy comedy is perfect for a lazy sunday.

[linguistlist-blog]

TOC: Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics Vol. 2, No. 2 (2024)

Issue now available at: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/arabic/2/2 Front matter Makkan Arabic in the digital age: A sociolinguistic analysis of the representation of fricative, stop, and sibilant variation in WhatsApp text messages Hanadi Abdulaziz Azhari, Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez, and Elif Fidan Acar I’m writing in Tunisian: Orthography and identity in written Tunisian Arabic Karen McNeil Supralocalization of linguistic innovations in Egypt: Evidence from Minya Arabic Saudi Sadiq Inve http://dlvr.it/TDsRB3

[jxrm]

book log - 2022

his last wife by gia pere

a very merry bromance by lyssa kay adams

behind the messages by ella-may williams

the wife upstairs by rachel hawkins

pride, prejudice, & turkish delight by k.c. mccormick ciftci

the long way to a small, angry planet by becky chambers

honeymoon for one by rachel bowdier

let it snow by beth moran

resting scrooge face by meghan quinn

window shopping by tessa bailey

the family upstairs by lisa jewell

poster girl by veronica roth

x by sue grafton

queen bee by nina manning

the vibrant years by sonali dev

untamed by glennon doyle

book lovers by emily henry

the zookeeper's wife by diane ackerman

daisy darker by alice feeney

mating in captivity by esther perel

miss meteor by tehlor kay mejia

carrie soto is back by taylor jenkins reid

a good girl's guide to murder by holly jackson

the lesbiana's guide to catholic school by sonora reyes

fat chance, charlie vega by crystal maldonado

lakelore by anne-marie mclemore

you love me by caroline kepnes

happiness for beginners by katherine center

not my daughter by barbara delinsky

last tang standing by lauren ho

no filter and other lies by crystal maldonado

the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires by grady hendrix

does my body offend you? by mayra cuevas

i'm the girl by courtney summers

the expatriates by janice y.k. lee

emily, gone by bette lee crosby

after hours on milagro street by angelina m. lopez

i'm glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy

my best friend's exorcism by grady hendrix

#murderfunding by gretchen mcneil

looking for jane by heather marshall

midwife murders by james patterson

final cut by s.j. watson

darling rose gold by stephanie wrobel

all the pretty people by barbara freethy

when i was you by minka kent

been there, married that by gigi levangie

malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid

covery story by susan rigetti

the paris apartment by lucy foley

stiletto sisterhood by fallon demornay

her perfect secret by t.j. brearton

take a chance on me by beth moran

the watcher girl by minka kent

no conscience by phil m. williams

reminders of him by colleen hoover

her last move by john marrs

we were dreamers by simu liu

the book of cold cases by simone st. james

all i stole from you by ava bellows

violeta by isabel allende

once of us is next - karen m. mcmanus

just the way you are by beth moran

the latecomer by jean hanff jorelitz

klara and the sun by kazuo ishiguro

the sorority murder by allison brennan

one italian summer by rebecca serle

what lies between us by john marrs

the maid by nita prose

sex and vanity by kevin kwan

funny you should ask by elissa sussman

the seven day switch by kelly harms

three perfect liars by heidi perks

everything must go by camille pagan

no ex before marriage by portia macintosh

the other mother by carol goodman

california girls by susan mallery

one little secret by cate holahan

apples never fall by liane moriarty

the promise by teresa driscoll

ghost boy by martin pistorius

close to you by ana jolene

oona out of order by margarita montimore

the stepson by jane renshaw

all adults here by emma straub

his & hers by alice feeney

mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia

anatomy by dana schwartz

the resting place by camilla sten

will by will smith

good me, bad me by ali land

while we were dating by jasmine guillory

the lion's den by katherine st. john

when we left cuba by chanel cleeton

left neglected by lisa genova

the suspect by fiona barton

park avenue summer by renee rosen

group therapy by b.b. easton

the half sister by sandie jones

shipped by angie hockman

when we were sisters by emilie richards

the chain by adrian mckintu

not a happy family by shari lapena

clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo

if the shoe fits by julie murphy

the girlfriend by michelle frances

let me hear a rhyme by tiffany d. jackson

death by dumpling by vivien chien

yoga pant nation by laurie gelman

the cousins by karen m. mcmanus

in a holidaze by christina lauren

people we meet on vacation by emily henry

the candy house by jennifer egan

you've been volunteered by laurie gelman

broken by jenny lawson

you can't be serious by kal penn

the final girl support group by grady hendrix

home before dark by riley sager

one of us is lying by kate m. mcmanus

the vanishing half by brit bennett

the cross and the switchblade by david wilkerson

the henna wars by adiba jaigridar

the fashion orphans by randy susan meyers

the good girl by mary kubica

the comeback by ella berman

the magician's nephew by c.s. lewis

the bright lands by john fram

[thingsthatmademe]

Taking the Scraps

Content warning for transphobia, old words we used, and violence/murder.

Frank Ironwine was part of a four-issue comic book series from Avatar Press entitled Apparat Singles Group and ran from November through December of 2004. Avatar was, and is, an independent publisher that appeared to have relationships with several authors who'd made their names at DC and Marvel and they published works with a much darker tone and subject matter -- sometimes in an artful way, sometimes in an exploitative way.

Apparat's bit is that each issue is a single episode in a nominal imaginary series. They're genre exercises -- detective story, science fiction story, pulp vigilante, etc. The series was written by the now notorious Warren Ellis. Ellis will probably come up again -- a large impetus for my original, pre-transition, vision of this website was my desire to reevaluate my relationship with Ellis's work and career where its energy intersected with my own. I say energy because I have zero connection to the actual players in that situation (but generally hope that everyone gets the closure and justice they need and deserve).

The artist on the book is the fabulous Carla Speed McNeil whose long-running aboriginal science fiction series Finder will almost certainly come up again.

Plot Synopsis: Frank Ironwine is a detective in the model of Sherlock Holes or Gregory House -- an eccentric, rude, hyper-observant genius detective who knows all and solves all. We meet Frank on the day his new partner, Karen De Grout, is fishing him out of a dumpster. They set off to solve today's murder.

The case? Gary Eigler's been found dead in his apartment. The first suspect, Alison (his wife), is quickly ruled out as she was shot two hours ago by a woman named Janie Guthrie. Through a compassionate interrogation, Frank determines that Janie believed her husband, Phil, was having an affair with Janie. She confesses to taking one of her husband's guns with the intention of using it to scare Janie off and that the confrontation got emotional, the gun accidentally went off, and Janie was dead. Janie says nothing of Gary, and Frank's partner Karen is frustrated by what seems to be Frank's credulousness.

Frank continues his scolding and belittling of his partner as they travel to Phil's residence, giving her New York City history lessons along the way. They arrive at Phil's apartment and inform him of what his wife's done. Then Frank proceeds to, via a recounting of his keen observations and transphobic conjecture, let Phil know he knows that Phil is trans and killed his secret boyfriend Gary when Gary wouldn't leave his wife. Frank's taunts eventually lead Phil to pull a gun, narrowly miss both cops at point-blank range, and then flee down the fire escape. Just as Phil leaves the alley Frank punches them in their face, arrests them, and has a quip for his exhausted partner who chased Phil down the escape.

So -- a grim detective story dripping with negative tropes and transphobia. We have both the trans woman as the murderer and, thanks to this history lesson from Frank, the trans woman as the murder victim.

We also have Frank's odd double standard -- Jane's reckless manslaughter of Janie is met with compassion. Phil's reckless killing of Gary is treated with cruelty and violence. Then the standard Ellis trope of the rude super genius who knows all and expects his female partners to keep up with the verbal abuse he dishes out constantly.

So pretty shitty by 2023 eyes -- but what's really messed up is in 2004 this could feel like representation.

First, there's the mention of a murdered trans woman -- Amanda Milan. As a story device this serves to clue us in that Frank Knows Things™ about the city and its history, knows about trans people, and lets the observant reader get to the conclusion before Karen does.

Amanda Milan was a real woman. Murdered in New York City in 2000 by two men, Dwayne McCuller and Eugene Celestine who were abated by a third, David Anderson. Her death was noticed because it happened right before pride in New York City, and trans activists made it their business to make sure the world knew about this murder. The primary antagonist, Dwayne McCuller, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 17 and a half years -- which means he's free today, (assuming the broken carceral system didn't grind him to dust).

The mention of this detail from Frank and his framing of it -- mostly because she was a transexual and she didn't give a shit what anyone thought about it -- can be read as sympathetic. This then-four-year-old bit of grim trans history promoted in a straight and cis space like Avatar comics could make the work (with a dollop of compartmentalizing) feel friendly and sympathetic to trans women.

You could even, if you had the self-reliance brain worms that so many of us in gen-x had, view Amanda's death as noble and tragic because she was out and Phil as ignoble because they were closeted and letting their feeling for one man screw up their life.

With a little extra compartmentalization, you could read the work and think "Oh -- people are trying to be trans out there".

It's very telling to me that I remembered this comic as Frank solving the murder of a trans woman and not discovering that a trans woman was the murderer and menacing them until they snapped. When there's so little representation of people who look like you you tend to take whatever scraps you get and construct a patchwork identity for yourself.

[allthingsdarkanddirty]

Melanie Moreland has revealed the cover for An Unexpected Chance!

Releasing March 9, 2023

Simon Fletcher is a busy single dad. Between bringing up his daughter and moving cross-country to start a new life, he's focused on making a fresh start for them. Amy McNeil isn't in his plans. But the pretty, wild, and free woman who has caught his eye is so different from his cold, removed ex-wife, he can't help himself. He's drawn to her. Her warmth. Her light. When he discovers she is everything he wants, everything he needs—and more—how will he handle this unexpected second chance at love? Is he ready to grab happiness and run with it? Or will he simply run away?

Cover Designer: Karen Hulseman Feed Your Dreams Designs

Preorder on Amazon!

Goodreads: http://bit.ly/3R7dWHN

[bookeverlasting]

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞! 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟗, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 Simon Fletcher is a busy single dad. Between bringing up his daughter and moving cross-country to start a new life, he's focused on making a fresh start for them. Amy McNeil isn't in his plans. But the pretty, wild, and free woman who has caught his eye is so different from his cold, removed ex-wife, he can't help himself. He's drawn to her. Her warmth. Her light. When he discovers she is everything he wants, everything he needs—and more—how will he handle this unexpected second chance at love? Is he ready to grab happiness and run with it? Or will he simply run away? Cover Designer: Karen Hulseman Feed Your Dreams Designs Preorder on Amazon! https://geni.us/AnUnexpectedChance Goodreads: http://bit.ly/3R7dWHN #singledadromance #melaniemoreland #InstaSpark #ASweeterRomance #StillSpicyRomance #ContemporaryRomance #StartingOver #Friendstolovers #Instalove #SmallTownRomance #SingleParentRomance https://www.instagram.com/p/Cof8VmVrlSH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Le talismanique Anthony Gordon est de retour parmi les sous-marins.🥁 Présentation de vos 11 Reds pour affronter Everton dans le #FACup! 👏#MUFC–Manchester United (@ManUtd) 6 janvier 2023 Le Blues de ce soir à affronter @Homme Utd en FA Cup. 👊#EFC 🔵 @EmiratesFACup pic.twitter.com/3uV71rEjZu—Everton (@Everton) 6 janvier 2023 Mis à jour à 14h29 HNEil y a 34 mois14h00 HNEErik ten Hag exhorte à la patience face au retour de Jadon Sancho alors que des obstacles subsistentLire la suiteil y a 34 mois14h00 HNEPréambuleDe quoi s'agit-il alors? Manchester United contre Everton est-il un début fulgurant pour le troisième tour de la FA Cup, un inconvénient intempestif, une chance pour Frank Lampard de sauver son emploi ou autre chose ?Même si les deux équipes subissent une sécheresse de trophées désagréable – six ans pour United, 28 pour Everton – il semble que leur plus grande priorité soit la Premier League. United veut terminer dans le top quatre et se qualifier pour la Ligue des champions ; Everton veut terminer en dehors des trois derniers et ne pas se qualifier pour le championnat.Rien ne parle d'ambition limitée comme huit changements non forcés, donc les nouvelles de l'équipe - attendues d'une seconde à l'autre - devraient nous dire à quel point ce match est important pour les deux managers.Démarrer 20h.Mis à jour à 14h28 HNELes sujetsFA CupManchester UnitedEvertonRéutiliser ce contenu

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Miled Faiza and Karen McNeil, 'On the Merits of Tunisian Literature'

Miled Faiza and Karen McNeil, ‘On the Merits of Tunisian Literature’

By Tugrul Mende This month, Europa Editions published Shukri Makhbout’s The Italian in Miled Faiza and Karen McNeil’s English translation. This novel won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) back in 2015; six years later, English reader has a chance to glimpse Makhbout’s literary world and to read one of the rare Tunisian novels translated to English. How did you get in touch with…

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Reblogging to add the biblography so it will be visible in the notes:

Bibliography for the post:

Hersch, Karen Klaiber, ed. A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Oakley, John Howard, and Rebecca H. Sinos. "The wedding in ancient Athens." Wisconsin Studies in Classics; University of Wisconsin, 1993

Rehm, Rush. Marriage to death: the conflation of wedding and funeral rituals in Greek tragedy. Princeton University Press, 1994.

Margariti, Katia. "The Greek Wedding outside Athens and Sparta: The Evidence from Ancient Texts." Les Études Classiques 85.4 (2018).

Recommended reading for the stuff I couldn't fit in:

Hague, Rebecca H. "Ancient Greek wedding songs: the tradition of praise." Journal of Folklore Research (1983): 131-143.

Abulashvili, Medea. "The Mystical Plot of Greek Wedding Songs." PHASIS 12 (2009): 7-13.

McNeil, Lynda. "Bridal cloths, cover-ups, and kharis: the ‘carpet scene’in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon." Greece & Rome 52.1 (2005): 1-17.

Dissecting ancient Greek wedding customs (or “How to adapt the clusterfuck they are into something somewhat doable for the 21st century”)

This post is going to be a bit different. I could stick to writing about the customs we know of from a purely historical perspective, and while it would be informative, it wouldn’t reflect what I’ve actually been up to. Some of you might already know, but I’m getting married, so I approached this topic with the intent of seeing what I could do (and get away with).

So this post is going to be more about method and the practical challenges that come with doing the groundwork of adapting very old (and often outdated) traditions in a way that makes sense for our modern times.

I do have some disclaimers to make before I get started:

Most (if not all) of the literature around ancient Greek marriage is hetero-normative. However, this does NOT mean that marriage rites shouldn’t be adapted for queer marriages or that queer marriages can’t be done within Hellenic paganism. It’s our job as reconstructionists and revivalists to rework and adapt to our needs.

Similarly, this post is bound to mention or detail cult practices that are no longer in line with our modern sensibilities. I also want to make it clear that this post is not a tutorial. I’m not saying how things should be done, I’m only exposing elements that I consider reworkable and propose suggestions so that it can help others make their own research and decisions, with the level of historicity that they deem fit.

While the wedding customs from fifth century BC Athens are decently known, the ones from other cities and regions of Greece are much more obscure outside of anecdotal and fragmentary details (with the exception of Sparta). For this reason, the Athenian example is what I’ll be using as foundation. If you reconstruct practices from other areas of the Greek World, you might find something valuable in this article: The Greek Wedding Outside of Athens and Sparta: The Evidence from Ancient Texts by Katia Margariti.

Basic/simplified structure

The typical Athenian wedding would spread over three days, and be marked by several steps, some of which are listed below. Note that the order of these steps is not precisely known and might have been flexible:

Pre-wedding:

Decorating: korythale at the door, decoration of the nuptial bedroom

The Proteleia

Filling of the loutrophoros

Wedding day

Nuptial bath

Adornment of the bride

Wedding Feast

Hymenaios

Anakalypteria

Nymphagogia

Katachysmata

Day after

Epaulia

Gamelia

Final sacrifices

Some of these steps included specific customs and traditions, not all of which are reconstructible for various reasons.

Decorations

The korythale: the korythale was a sprig, usually from an olive tree (or laurel), which was placed at the groom’s door (and perhaps the bride’s too). The word in interpreted as deriving from “koros” and “thallein”, which would translate “youth-blossom”.

The korythale is very reminiscent of the eiresione, which was a similar kind of branch of laurel used during the Thargelia and/or the Pyanepsia that had apotropaic purposes. Athenian weddings included a procession from the bride’s home to the groom’s house, so the presence of the korythale at the doors would indicate that a wedding was taking place involving the decorated homes.

While I haven’t seen any one make this interpretation, I would still be tempted to argue that decorating the thresholds of houses has a similar protective and luck-bringing purpose than the eiresione, which was also hung above the door of Athenian houses.

The thalamos (nuptial bedroom): While there is no doubt the houses were properly decorated for the occasion, we have mention of special care given to the nuptial bedroom.

It’s important to understand that the procession from the bride’s house to the groom’s went up to the bedroom door, it was generally an important location and its preparation is seen represented on ancient pottery. Euripides mentions the adornment of the bed with fine fabrics, while Theocritus mentions the smell of myrrh (sacred to Aphrodite). There is also evidence that, in the Imperial period, the practice of hanging curtains to create a canopy above the bed was adopted, very likely from Egypt.

When it comes to adapting this today, it is pretty straightforward and there is plenty of room for personalization. The korythale could be challenging depending on how easily available olive or laurel are in your area. I would also argue that the custom could be more loosely adapted so that instead of being at the houses’ doors, it could take the form of a floral arrangement at the door of whatever venue you are using.

Proteleia

In short, the proteleia refers to sacrifices and offerings that would be made to various gods before the wedding. The exact timing of these is more or less unknown, but we have reasons to believe they could be done a day or a few days before the wedding, and perhaps also on the day of the wedding. These offerings were made independently by each family.

It is in this context that the offering of a lock of hair and of childhood items is best known for brides. The recipients of the offerings are varied: In Athens the most mentioned are the Nymphs and Artemis, but various sacrifices to Aphrodite, Hera, Athena and Zeus were also performed. In other parts of Greece, pre-nuptial customs often included sacrifices to local heroines. Plutarch, in the 2nd century AD (and therefore way after the focus of this post) mentions the main five nuptial deities to be Zeus Teleios, Hera Teleia, Aphrodite, Peitho and Artemis.

Today, I believe the exact choice of who to offer to and what to offer very much comes down to personal preferences and circumstances. While we assume that both families made prenuptial sacrifices, we know very little of the groom’s side of things, since the focus was on the bride, and the rite of passage aspect was not present for the groom in Ancient times. This is a gap that leaves room for modern innovation eg. including Apollon to either replace or accompany Artemis or choosing a group of deities that is more couple-centric rather than family-centric.

Personally, I have settled on Aphrodite, Hera and Artemis and have integrated a Spartan custom that includes the mother of the bride in the sacrifice to Aphrodite. Hera Teleia will receive a lock of my current hair, while Artemis will receive a lock of hair from my first haircut as a child (that my mother has kept all these years), alongside some other trinkets. The groom will honour Zeus Teleios in a passive way. And I will honour the Nymphs through the the rite I will explain next.

Nuptial baths

Both bride and groom had a ritual bath before the wedding. Its purpose was of cleansing and purificatory nature, and is consistent with other water-based pre-sacrifice purifications. What made the bride and groom's baths distinctive was their preparation. The bath water used to be drawn at a specific spring or river. At Athens, the water for bridal baths came from the Enneakrounos, the fountain house for the spring Kallirrhoe, but each city had its dedicated source. The water was carried in a special vase named the loutrophoros (bathcarrier) and the act of fetching the water and bringing it back to the homes constituted a procession. The loutrophoros was often given as offering to the altar of the Nymphs after the wedding. It was an important symbol of marriage, to the point that, if a woman died before being married, she would often be buried with a loutrophoros.

This will be more or less difficult to adapt depending on circumstances and environment, but the logic of a purifying bath (or shower even) can be kept (though I would discourage bathing in water you are not sure of the cleanliness of). The idea of having a specific vessel can also be kept. Personally, I plan to have a special vessel for some type of purified water, and while I may not bathe in it, I plan to sprinkle it and/or wash my hands with it.

Adornment of the bride (and groom)

Traditionally, the bride would have a nympheutria (which we could equate as a bridesmaid, but seems to have often been a female relative) charged of helping the bride get ready. I won’t get into the details of the clothing we know about, mostly because there seems to be a lot of variation, and because I consider this to be a very personal choice. However, we can note that both groom and bride were adorned with a wreath or a garland of plants that were considered to have powers appropriate for the occasion (sesame, mint, plants that were generally considered fertile or aphrodisiac). Perfume is also something attested for both bride and groom, especially the scent of myrrh. The bride would wear a crown, the stephane, which could be made out of metal or be vegetal (the stephane is now the object of its own crowning ceremony in Greek Orthodox weddings). The bride’s shoes were also particular for the event, and named nymphides. The bride’s veil was placed above the crown.

Hymenaios and Feast

I am grouping these two since they are linked. The feast was more or less the peak of the wedding ceremony and lively with music and dances, as Plutarch indicates (Moralia, [Quaest. conv.] 666f-67a):

But a wedding feast is given away by the loud cries of the Hymenaios and the torch and the pipes, things that Homer says are admired and watched even by women who stand at their doors.

The hymenaios was a sung hymn in honour of the couple and the wedding, and there were other songs that were specifically sung at weddings. However the hymenaios wasn’t only for the feast, these songs would be sung also during the processions. The hymenaios also had the purpose of ritually blessing the couple, a ritual that bore the name of makarismos.

As for the feast, it was obviously abundant with food and the prenuptial sacrifices provided the meat that would be served. There is otherwise very little difference with what a modern wedding feast would be like: food, drink, music and dance around which gathered friends and relatives of the couple. Like today, the wedding cake(s) was an important part of the celebration. It was called sesame and consisted of sesame seeds, ground and mixed with honey and formed into cakes to be shared with the guests.

Anakalypteria

Note that there is a bit of a debate around this step, which is the unveiling of the bride. Some believe the bride kept her face veiled until this part of the wedding, where her face would be uncovered for the groom to see. Others interpret this step the other way around, where the bride is then veiled as a result of being now married. The timing of the unveiling is also up for the debate. It might have been during the feast (at nightfall), or after once the couple was escorted to the bridal chamber. There doesn’t seem to be a clear consensus.

The concept of unveiling the bride is otherwise something that isn’t unknown to us as a modern audience. As with everything else, how to interpret and modernize it is up to personal preference.

Nymphagogia and Katachysmata

The nymphagogia aka the act of “leading the bride to her new home” took place at night, likely after the feast. It is at this point that the groom ritually led the bride to his home by taking her by the wrist in a ritual gesture known as χεῖρ’ ἐπὶ καρπῷ (cheir’ epi karpo). The relatives and friends of the couple formed a festive procession that accompanied them to their new home accompanied by music and songs. The mother of the bride led the procession carrying lit torches, while the groom’s mother awaited for the new couple in their home, also bearing lit torches.

Once there, the rite of the katachysmata would happen. The couple would be sat near the hearth and the guests would pour dried fruits, figs and nuts over the bride and groom as a way to incorporate them into the household and bless the union with prosperity and fertility. As part of this rite, the bride ate a fruit (either an apple, quince or pomegranate). It is only after this step that the couple would be escorted to the bridal chamber.

These two rites are tricky to adapt in a modern context because of how location-specific they are (and that’s not even taking into account the implications of having family escort you to your bedroom etc). My take would be that the katachysmata is not too far off from the custom of throwing rice/flowers at the couple after the ceremony, and could probably be incorporated as such. The torches could also be replaced by any source of light placed in a meaningful location, depending on the where the wedding is being held. The nymphagogia could also do with an update, the easiest of which could simply be holding hands while leaving the wedding ceremony.

The day after (Epaulia, Gamelia & sacrifice)

The epaulia refers to wedding gifts to the couple, which would be given the day following the ceremony. At this point, it is implied that the couple has consummated their marriage and are officially newly-weds. Pausanias informs us that the term “epaulia” (also?) refers to the gifts brought by the bride’s father in particular and included the dowry.

After the epaulia, the bride's incorporation into her husband's house was complete. This might have been when the groom held a feast for his phratria (aka direct family), as a way to conclude the wedding.

As for final sacrifices, the bride herself may have marked the end of her wedding by dedicating her loutrophoros at the sanctuary of Nymphe, south of the Acropolis.

The epaulia could be adapted, in modern terms, with having a registry. Should someone choose to have a specific vessel linked to the ritual bath today, it could very well be kept, dedicated to the Nymphs and used as a small shrine. Considering how symbolic the object is, there is also room for it to become a piece of family heirloom.

Final words

This is really only a small summary of what a wedding could have looked like, sprinkled with a few ideas of how to manage the gaps, discrepancies and limitations. As I said in my introductions, there are details I haven’t mentioned. Some of the customs detailed here have clear modern counterparts, but others don’t. I’d like to conclude by addressing these.

First, the ancient Greek (Athenian) wedding is completely devoid of priestly participation. It was entirely planned, organized and led by the two families. Religious responsibilities were entirely self-managed. I find this point important to remember because it makes it much more accessible than if modern Hellenic pagans had to seek out an external authority.

Some of you might have noticed the absence of wedding vows, at least in a formal form like the one we are used to in our modern days (derived from Christian and Jewish traditions), this is not an oversight, there simply were none that we know of. As a sidenote, I would also advise against turning a wedding vow into a formal oath. I’m still debating on what to do myself, but I’m leaning towards a religiously non-binding vow that won’t curse me should things go wrong.

Adapting the structures and rites of the ancient wedding to today’s framework of ceremony will naturally lead to changing the order of things, on top of sacrificing elements for the sake of simplicity, practicality, personal preferences and, very likely, visibility. Unless you’re lucky enough to do a private elopement, chances are that relatives and friends might be there, and not all might know or even approve of your faith. I hope this post shows that there can be ways to include traditional religious elements that will go unnoticed to the untrained eye, like I hope it showed that the private nature of the ancient Greek wedding rites is a significant advantage for modernization.

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From World Literature Today:

Two Poemsby Lamia Makaddem

translated by Miled Faiza and Karen McNeil

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Tiptoeing through the “Preception” guest cast

Ava McCoy as Jordyn Rountree McCoy appeared as a parishioner in an episode of God Friended Me.

Karina Logue as LAPD Detective Ellen Whiting Det. Whiting was last seen in "Pro Se" in season ten.

Max Deacon as Navy Lieutenant Daniel Walsh Deacon played Joel in Casualty, Calvin McCoy in Hatfields & McCoys and was Billy Novak in The Collection.  In season 16's "She" episode, Deacon played Ben Ramsey on NCIS.

Nolan North as Navy Commander Oscar Northcutt Successful voice actor, working in Star Wars, DC and Marvel animated series as well as Rick & Morty, Family Guy, Star Trek: Lower Decks and American Dad.  Also provides voices for video games.  Played Chris Ramsey in Port Charles, Jerry Lansing in Con Man and Peter Hastings in Pretty Little Liars.

Guest roles include Six Feet Under, She Spies, Malcolm in the Middle, CSI: Miami, Dirty Sexy Money and Rizzoli & Isles.  Played and ER Inter in JAG's "Hard Time" episode in season nine and Officer Lou Gotti in NCIS's "Faking It" episode in season four,

Christy St. John as Navy Petty Officer Andrea Bishop Played Zoe in Duels and Karen in In the Cut.

Wendy Gazelle as Gwendolyn Archer Guest roles include The Cosby Show, Crime Story, Brooklyn Bridge, The Single Guy, The Pretender, The Visitor, Nothing Sacred, LA Doctors, Get Real, Snoops, ER, The X-Files, The Practice, For the People, CSI, House, Grey's Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, Boston Legal and Eastwick.

Preshous Jordan as Lea Anderson Appeared in a short film.

Luke Barnett as Jake Hanson Appeared in a number of short films.  Worked on "Funny or Die" and has written several or produced projects.

Outside of his trailer. 

Ian Stanley as LAPD Officer McNeil Was 1st Sgt Melvin Gunther in A Grunt's Life and appeared in episodes of Numb3rs, The Bold and The Beautiful, American Crime Story, Lethal Weapon, Wisdom of the Crowd, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Betrayed, Checkpoint Charlie and Station 19.

Benjamin Franczuszki as LAPD Officer Dubrons Guest roles in Glee, Doubt and Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television.

Liliana Monique Ruiz as Melody First credit.

Written by: Faythallegrea Claude.  This is Faythallegrea Claude's first episode.  She has been a writer with the program for all of season 13.

Directed by: Benny Boom directed "Ghost Gun", "767", "Fool Me Twice", "Pro Se", "Hail Mary" and "Groundwork".  Welcome to season 13.

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