#Laura Lane Land

[fictionadventurer]

It seems that with Free Land, Rose Wilder Lane wrote a bestselling book where the character heavily based on her father (from a wealthy farming family) gets engaged to a girl from his own social class before coming out west, then meets a character heavily based on her mother (who he meets in the same way Almanzo first met Laura) that he has a romantic connection with that he is never able to act on, because he marries the other girl. I get that Rose's bread-and-butter was remixing history into interesting narratives, but writing a "what if my parents never got married and had a tragic never-fulfilled passion" story is a special kind of weird.

[korcariqueen]

A Second Shot ~ Logan Howlett x Fem! Reader

Content - Worst! Wolverine needs to take a break from the chaos of the apartment and goes to find a bar. Lucky for him he walks in to the one you work at.

A/N - Thank you so much for the love already. All the likes, comments and reposts have been so encouraging. I'm gonna go ahead with writing a full series. Like I said before this will be more adult 18+. Ya know sex, violence, swearing. All the good stuff 😂 stay tuned ❤️❤️❤️

Hi 👋 this is my first fic. Please comment if you like or have improvements. I have an idea to make this in to a full series that would be more 🌶 adult. Let me know if any of you are interested in reading that. Warning: Slight swearing

Logan needed to get out of the apartment. Wade and Peter had started to brainstorm the rebirth of X-Force 2.0, which Wade promised would be at least 40% less lethal than its predecessor. And for unknown reasons the ‘brainstorming’ included multiple whiteboards and creating a practice plane to ‘stick the landing unlike last time’. The ensuing DIY project caused Laura to barge out of her room, screaming at Wade about the noise. The merc with the mouth then thought it was wise to make a ‘menies’ joke. Not surprisingly Laura launched herself on the man, claws out.

I’m too sober for this.

That was enough for Logan to grab his leather jacket and head for the door. Logan walked down the busy New York streets. It was late September, the night was chilly with light rain splattering on the sidewalk. Logan was surprised by how lively the streets were for the time of night, before remembering it was a Friday. He wondered how long it had been since he was sober enough to remember the day of the week. He continued down the street, silently taking in the bustle. Taxi drivers were hitting the horns like they were paid by the noise. Young couples were making out in darkened alleys, lost in their own world. Logan smirked to himself. God when was the last time he did that? He shook the urge to wander down memory lane. He passed a few bars, neon lights flickering invitingly. He peered in. Bachelorette party. Could be fun but he just wanted a quiet drink tonight. Another. Karaoke night. Logan winced at the off tune, drunken singing. Heightened hearing had its downsides. Every bar and pub seemed packed with drunken revellers, ready to enjoy their night and invite the weekend with a killer hangover.

Logan was ready to give up and head back, knowing full well that Wade and Laura had probably destroyed the apartment, when he glanced across the street. A small bar, tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the street. ‘Sammy’s Bar’, adorned the sign above the door. Logan focused his hearing. There was definitely people in there but it sounded quiet enough. He crossed the road and walked down a few steps to the wooden door, before pushing it open. 

He stepped inside, the smell of hard liquor wafted in the air. The place was a decent size, something you wouldn’t be able to tell from the street. The space was dimly lit, a few old looking sconces dotted the far left wall above booth seating. A few people sat there, engrossed in hushed, alcohol soaked conversations. Small round table seating were dotted around the open middle section of the bar, their patrons loudly arguing over politics as the few ancient looking chandeliers above swayed slightly with the roar of traffic outside. On the far right stood the solid wood bar with a few high stools lining it, with a couple of people sitting watching a boxing match on the TV in the right corner. The bar had a few beer taps, the usual stuff and a few European beers. Logan rolled his eyes before catching the well stocked liquor on the wall. This will have to do. Logan walked to a vacant stool by the bar, next to a greying older man nursing his drinking and quietly reading a book. Shrugging off his jacket and lightly shaking off the droplets of rain that clung still to it. 

“Be there in sec.” called a voice from one of the tables. Logan grunted in response as he sat at the bar. He propped his forearms on the worn wood, interlocking his fingers. Bar must’ve been here a while judging by the wear of the wood. His eyes began to trace the scratched names on the surface. “Josh was here”, “For a good time call Chloe” “Kenny hearts Lisa”. He heard the hurried footsteps of the bartender rounding the bar to stand in front of him.

“So what can I getcha?,” came the cheerful voice. 

Logan lifted his head, “A double of..” His voice caught in his throat as his eyes widened slightly. You stood there with a bright smile adoring your face, head slightly cocked to the side. You looked to be in your late 20s, early 30s if he had to guess.Your hair was up in a high ponytail and you wore a black t-shirt that hugged your figure. Logan glimpsed your slightly loose jeans. Comfortable for working in a bar. 

“Ahem” Logan cleared his throat. “A double of Jamesons, neat. Thanks.”

“No problem. Coming right up.” You flashed him another stunning smile.

Oh fuck.

You pulled out a small step to help you grab the whiskey from the shelf. Your t-shirt riding up slightly showing off the small of your back and waist. Logan wondered what it would feel like to grip your waist as he- 

“Pipe down old man” Logan mentally scolded himself. You hoped for the step stool, whiskey in hand and began to pour his drink. You chatted with the, what he assumed to be, regulars sitting beside him; laughing and commenting on the match they were watching. 

God, even your laugh was beautiful.

“There you are”, you said as you placed Logan’s drink in front of him.

“Thanks.” He managed to muster without his voice cracking like a kid whose balls hadn’t dropped. He took a slow sip, letting the warming amber liquid melt his day’s stress away. 

“So I haven’t seen you around. We don’t get many new faces here.” You offered idle chat as you cleaned the bar around you.

“Urm no. Not been here before.” Logan offered in response.

“New in the neighbourhood?”

“Yeah you could say that” You have no idea.

“Well, welcome to our neck of the woods. Umm?” you asked.

“Logan. Thanks. Sammy?”

“Oh no.” You laughed, placing your hand on your chest. “ No Sammy’s my boss and owner of this fine establishment. I’m [Y/N]” you offered your hand to shake. Logan took it, his giant hands enveloping yours. He could have sworn he heard your breath hitch slightly at the contact and feel your heartbeat a little faster. You quickly retract your hand, Logan smirking slightly at your sudden awkwardness.

“Well Logan I’m happy you found us.”

“Yeah, most of the places ‘round here got too many people. Way too loud.” Logan said as he took another sip of his drink.

“Yeah. That’s why most of the old timers like it here…” Your hand flew to your open mouth as you realised what you had said. “I mean not you obviously.” you stuttered as you tried to recover your accidental insult. “I mean like the older guys like a quieter ambience you know like Leonard is always complaining about how those places you can’t hear yourself think” You are tripping on your words as your brain goes into overdrive. “Not saying you have the same issues as a 65 year old man!” Logan couldn’t help but laugh at your attempts to salvage your blunder. 

“I’m older than I look, darlin,” he says with a coy smile, glass still hovering at his lips.

“What? No you can’t be much older than me. Definitely under forty!” you stuttered out, still frazzled.

Logan's smile spread into a toothy grin. He was enjoying how flustered you were. 

“Hey [Y/N]! Another one when you’re done flirting with the new guy.” A man on the far side of the bar shouted, holding his empty pint glass.

“Shut up Leonard!” you yelled back. The man, Leonard, laughed in response. “Well I think I’ve embarrassed myself enough. I’ll leave you to your drink, Logan.” You gave a quick embarrassed smile as you hurried off to see to the other patrons. 

Logan let out a small laugh as could hear you scolding the man he presumed was Leonard. 

“What the hell is wrong with you?”

“Oh come on I’ve never seen you get all jittery before. Besides, you looked like you were drowning out there. What the hell did you even say to him” 

“Nothing! Just drop it or I’ll tell Martha you were here last Thursday when you were ‘working late at the office’.” you snapped back, glaring at the man. Leonard put his hands up in surrender, quietly conceding. 

[Y/N] quickly glanced over at Logan to see if witnessed the exchange. Logan kindly dropped his head, pretending to be fascinated by his glass. You let out a small relieved sigh, before leaving the bar to clear some tables. Logan lifted his head back up, making eye contact with Leonard across the bar. The man gave him a wide smile, lifting up his glass in a silent cheers, clearly enjoying how flustered he made their favourite bartender. Logan mirrored the action with his whiskey glass before taking another sip. 

The old man in the stool next to Logan began to stand up, closing his book and placing a few dollars on the to pay his tab. Grabbing his coat, he called out to you, “I’m off now [Y/N].” 

You turned, smiling at the man, “Okay Kenny. You take care. Bring Lisa next time, I miss her.” 

“I will. Night” The rest of the bar called out their goodbyes to the man as he finished putting on his coat. He began to walk past Logan before he stopped. Logan shifted slightly in his seat toward the man.

In a hushed tone “She works here most nights.” He flashed Logan a knowing smile and wink before donning his flat cap and walking out the bar. 

Logan couldn’t help but laugh and shake his head. Yeah this will definitely need to be a regular spot, especially if it means being served by a certain beautiful bartender. 

[spudbestdog]

Redesign of Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman, a symbol for truth, justice, and a better tomorrow, born on a dying world his parents sent across the ocean of stars until he landed in Smallville, Kansas and found by kind couple Johnathan and Martha Kent, he would be raised to be a kind sweet boy and would move to thr big city Metropolis walking for the Daily Planet and would meet his future wife Lois lane. Together, they would start a family with their children, Jon Kent, Laura Kent, Jane Kent, Carol Kent, and their adopted children Connor Kent, Mia Kent, Christopher Kent, Otho-Ra, Osul-Ra.

He is based on 'Superman' from Dc Comics.

First Appearing in Action Comics #1 (1939)

Tell me what you think of him.

[6rookie-writer0110]

Master List number - 62

Headcanons for Doreen, Kamala, and Nadia van Dyne & S/O

headcanons for Emma Frost, Laura Kinney, Illyana Rasputin, and Kitty Pryde

Headcanons Laura Kinney, Emma Frost, and Jubilee jealous

How about: the next chapter - Maude Apatow x Male Reader (SMUT)

Greed - Bellatrix Lestrange x Male Reader (SMUT)

headcanon where being the son of Clark Kent and Lois lane

headcanon R is the adopted son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane ((Like Attack On Titan)

headcanon of Hope Mikaelson & male!reader and is part of the Legends (DC's Legends of Tomorrow)

Hope Mikaelson smut alphabet pls. (Male reader tribrid)

Hope Mikealson x male!reader where his a full-on tribrid and is part of the Legends and has a pet land Shark called Jeff

Ocean Hearts - Hope Mikaelson x Male Reader

Don't tell the Massiah we are in love - Hope Mikaelson x Male Reader/Tribrid

It's always been like this - Male Reader x Cleo Sertori (SMUT)

Never Alone - Buffy Summers x Male Reader (SMUT)

Yandere! Wednesday Addams Would Include...

Being a vampire & Dating Wednesday Addams would include...

[indiphyr]

Every sapphic movie, show or book I like:

(* = favorites)

Movies:

Bend It Like Beckham (lesbian/trans coded)

Black Swan

*Bodies Bodies Bodies

*Booksmart

Bottoms

Braid

But I'm A Cheerleader

Dating Amber

*Death Becomes Her (sapphic coded)

D.E.B.S

Do Revenge

*Everything Everywhere All At Once

Fear Street

Fucking Åmål

*Ginger Snaps (sapphic/queer coded)

Hearts Beat Loud

Heart Shot

*Jennifer's Body

Joy Ride (I think one of the MCs is sapphic?)

Kajillionaire

May

My Days Of Mercy

*My First Summer

Nope (Sapphic sister I think?)

Pariah

Polite Society (either a lesbian or aroace mc)

Princess Cyd

Rafiki

Rye Lane (Sapphic coded MC)

Saint Maud

Saving Face

Set It Off

*Shiva Baby

*Sissy

Sweetheart

Unpregnant

The Fallout

The Half Of It

The Handmaiden

The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls In Love

*The Miseducation Of Cameron Post

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Shows:

*A League Of Their Own

Adventure Time

*A Kind Of Spark (Keedie is not hetero)

*Anne With An E (sapphic coded)

American Horror Story

*Arcane

Betty

Black Cake

Derry Girls

Degrassi

Druck (seasons 5&6)

Everything Now

Everything Sucks (problematic actor age gap)

Everything's Gonna Be Okay

Faking It

First Kill

Gap: The Series

Genera+ion

Gentleman Jack

*Good Omens

Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies

*Hacks

*Heartbreak High

Heartstopper

I Am Not Okay With This

Killing Eve

Little Fires Everywhere

Lucifer

Minx

Motherland Fort Salem

One Day At A Time

Our Flag Means Death

*Paper Girls

*Peacemaker

Ratched

Sex Education

She-Ra

Stranger Things

*Such Brave Girls

Swarm

Teenage Bounty Hunters

*The Boys + Gen V

The Formal (tiktok/youtube series)

*The Good Place

The Haunting Of Bly Manor

The Last Of Us

The Legend Of Korra

*The Owl House

*The Power

*The Sex Lives Of College Girls

The White Lotus

*The Wilds

Upload

Vida

Warrior Nun

We Are Lady Parts

*What We Do In The Shadows

While The Men Are Away

Wo der Egg Priority

Xo, Kitty

*Yellowjackets

Books:

Ace Of Spades

*A Dowry Of Blood

Afterlove

Black Cake

*Black Girl, Call Home

Burn Down, Rise Up

Cinderella Is Dead

Clap When You Land

Crier's War

Dear Medusa

Girls Of Paper And Fire

Hani And Ishu's Guide To Fake Dating

*Her Body And Other Parties

Honey Girl

House Of Hunger

If You Still Recognise Me

It Goes Like This

In The Dream House

In The Ravenous Dark

I Who Have Never Known Men

You're Not Supposed To Die Tonight

*Keedie + A Kind Of Spark

Last Night At The Telegraph Club

*Legendborn (Sapphic SC)

Loveless (Sapphic SCs)

Music From Another World

Nothing Burns As Bright As Her

Not My Problem

Our Wives Under The Sea

Parachutes (Sapphic SC)

Perfect On Paper

Radio Silence

Rise To The Sun

She Gets The Girl

She Drives Me Crazy

*She Who Became The Sun

Siren Queen

The Chosen And The Beautiful

The Falling In Love Montage

The Girls I've Been

The Henna Wars

The Jasmine Throne

*The Kyoshi Novels

*The Locked Tomb Series

*The Mirror Season

The Nature Of Witches

*The Priory Of The Orange Tree

The River Has Teeth

*The Unbroken

These Witches Don't Burn

Graphic Novels:

*Are You Listening

Hi-Fi Club

Jook Joint

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

*On A Sunbeam

*Paper Girls

*Spinning

The Avant-Guards

*The Tea Dragon Society

[smash-64]

2024 Game of the Year Countdown #13: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Sony PS Vita, 2015

Keeping with the trend of replaying games, I went back to the beginning of the Cold Steel arc of the Trails franchise. I’ve had my eye on this replay for a while, if for no other reason than I really enjoy origin stories. Seeing all of Class VII come together for the first time, with full knowledge of what lies in the futures for each and every character, I knew it was going to be fun to see all the little hints and foreshadows that Falcom dropped early on.

Wow, did I forget how SLOW this arc starts out. The Vita version lacks a turbo mode, which definitely doesn’t help the pacing, and I found myself stuck on the corners of various polygons throughout the early part of my replay. Doors and fences were especially annoying, and I don’t seem to remember other games in the series stopping momentum and movement so thoroughly when I bumped into things.

Specifically regarding the Vita version, I was surprised to hear bit-crushed voice lines. There aren’t really that many voiced lines in the original release, and while this was a PS3 game that they crammed onto a Vita card, it still left me wondering if my headphones were on the fritz! Strangely, the music is just as crystal clear as you’d expect. Weird.

I’ve said before that CS1 has a ton of replay value, and I’m still right. There’s something deeply nostalgic about seeing Class VII grow from the start again. It’s almost weird to see how some of them act before they’ve developed into the characters they’ll become later on. And there’s something special about obtaining that Domination quartz for the first time again, and giving it straight to Laura S. Arseid so she can unleash Gehenna.

The music in this game is phenomenal and really sets itself apart from what we had in Sky and Crossbell before it. Almost all the location tracks are great, the dungeon tracks bring a sense of wonder and mystery, and the battle tracks pump up the energy. After School Hours, Skies of a Strange Land, Investigation, Refreshing Morning, Path of Spirits, Don’t Be Defeated by a Friend, Tie a Link of ARCUS, Land of Blue Skies, Legram, Castle of the Saint…these are all fantastic tracks from one of the best soundtracks in the series. So many bangers.

The slow pace of the game does rear its head a bit in the middle of the game, specifically when you visit the capital city of Heimdallr. It straight up drags, probably in no small part due to how the city is supposed to be very large and there are many different neighborhoods we have to visit. Each of them is a separate location that needs to be loaded, and often we have quests that take us to multiple areas before we can complete it. The story does pick up toward the end of the chapter, but I definitely enjoyed it the least in my replay.

As this was a replay, I fully expected the terrible final battle of this game. Some fans truly enjoy the new type of combat that enters the picture for the rest of the Cold Steel series, but I do not. I find it to be severely limiting as far as options go, and really boring when it comes to the actual combat. The final fight of this game is our introduction to this new combat and I hate it. It actually kind of ruins the end of the game, which is supposed to be a huge climax and cliffhanger. Instead, I just want it to be over, and am frustrated to know that I’ll have to put up with it for another three games. Do they make it the focus? By no means, but it’s still a fairly big part of the games, which is disappointing to me.

Trails of Cold Steel is a decent second-choice starting point to the Trails franchise, and while the Vita version that I played suffers from some performance and loading issues, the PC and PS4 releases are more optimized. But, portability is of primary concern to me, so I stuck with my original version. It was a fun trip down nostalgia lane, as far as character backstories go, and I’m looking forward to replaying Cold Steel II next year.

[itsmemateinnit]

Whitechapel series 3 press pack

WHITECHAPEL GOES TO SERIES

6x1 hour 3x2 part stories

Whitechapel, written by Ben Court and Caroline Ip, is produced by Carnival Films for ITV 1 and stars Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton.  Other cast members include Ben Bishop, Claire Rushbrook, Sam Stockman and new team member Hannah Walters who plays DC Megan Riley. 

Producer, David Boulter (He Kills Coppers) says; "Whitechapel is back, bigger and bolder than before.  Gruesome present day investigations summon the ghosts of the past, screaming and restless.  Chandler’s team must decipher their historic relevance, but history can be unreliable: convincing and confusing in equal measure. These new Whitechapel stories are dark, compelling and full of surprises."

Chandler and his new unit are still based in Whitechapel nick but as before feel slightly removed from the prosaic and mundane day to day, run of the mill policing.  They have rescued a huge crime archive, a vast but chaotic collection of files and papers beneath the incident room.  Buchan begins eagerly sorting this treasure trove of primary sources.  When a new case lands on the team’s desk and the race is on to find the killer, Miles is cynical about Buchan’s value to the team, but Chandler is convinced that history holds clues.  This is where the nightmares of the past help solve the horrors of the present. 

Whitechapel remains a dark and scary place, laden with villainy and foreboding.  The series will take us through three hundred years of history, peeling back the layers of the East End.  There will be Gothic shadows, cobblestones and ancient hostelries, fear in the Huguenot weaving houses of Wilkes Street, and terrifying discoveries in the dark corners and rooftops around Brick Lane. With tinges of black comedy the series is heady, visceral and terrifying.  In Whitechapel, history isn’t dead, it’s deadly.

Executive Producer, Sally Woodward Gentle says: “I am delighted we are getting the chance to tell brand new Whitechapel stories but this time as a series.  The East End of London is steeped in history, secrets and gore and we now have the opportunity to take Chandler, Miles and Buchan to places darker still.  If you thought the Ripper and Krays were scary, just wait.”

Laura Mackie, Director of Drama, ITV says: “Whitechapel is a striking and distinctive crime drama that has struck a real chord with the ITV 1 audience. The longer run will allow us to tell an even richer range of stories from the Whitechapel area”

[theultimatefan]

‘Smallville’ Standouts Rosenbaum, Durance, Vandervoort Plus Esposito, Coleman Added To Fan Expo Cleveland Lineup

Three beloved stars from the hugely popular series “Smallville,” Michael Rosenbaum, Erica Durance, and Laura Vandervoort, are among six additions to the FAN EXPO Cleveland lineup, convention organizers announced today. Also committing to the celebrity roster for the annual extravaganza, March 21-23, 2025, at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland, are Giancarlo Esposito (“The Mandalorian”), Jenna Coleman (“Doctor Who”) and Aidan Scott (“One Piece”).

The three “Smallville” stars join Tom Welling in the reunion of the hit series that ran from 2001-2011 on The WB then The CW networks. Rosenbaum starred in the role of “Lex Luthor” on "Smallville" and most recently as the character “Buddy Dobbs” on the TV Land series "Impastor." He is also known for voicing “Wally West / The Flash” on the popular animated series "Justice League" and "Justice League Unlimited."

Best known for her role as “Lois Lane” in "Smallville,” Durance followed up her successful seven-year run on the DC series with an even bigger project -- the lead on the five-year run of the NBC and CTV drama "Saving Hope," which she also produced. She is now a regular on the popular holiday TV movie circuit.

The versatile Vandervoort, for whom “Supergirl” on “Smallville” and “Lisa” on “V” are the most popular roles, also had a three-year run as the headliner on the werewolf drama “Bitten” and has had a variety of other acting and voice acting roles, including spots on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Sullivan’s Crossing” and numerous holiday TV movies.

The prolific veteran film, television and stage actor, director and producer Esposito, in addition to his role as “Moff Gideon” on the Disney+ series “The Mandalorian,” is well known by television audiences for his iconic portrayal of drug kingpin “Gus Fring” in AMC’s critically acclaimed award-winning series “Breaking Bad.” Some of Esposito’s most memorable performances can be seen in films such as Rabbit Hole, The Usual Suspects, Smoke, The Last Holiday and Spike Lee’s films Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, School Daze and Malcolm X.

Coleman, who played “Clara Oswald,” the occasional "travelling assistant" to the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC series “Doctor Who,” is also familiar to Marvel comics fans as Bucky’s girlfriend in the hit film Captain America: The First Avenger. She had the title role in British TV series “Victoria” and a supporting spot on the feature film Me Before You and has since had lead roles in Klokkenluider, “Wilderness” and “The Sandman.”

Scott stars as “Helmeppo” in the current Netflix adventure series “One Piece.” He appeared in the title role of the History Channel mini-series “Theodore Roosevelt” after portraying deputy clerk “James Matheny” in the network’s “Abraham Lincoln” mini-series.

The six are added to a promising early FAN EXPO Cleveland lineup that already includes Welling, Jared Padalecki (“Supernatural”), Grant Gustin (“The Flash”), “Daredevil” standout Charlie Cox and legendary director Eli Roth (Thanksgiving, Cabin Fever) announced last month.

FAN EXPO Cleveland features the biggest and best in pop culture: movies, TV, music, artists, writers, exhibitors, and cosplay, with three full days of themed programming to satisfy every fandom.

Adult, Youth, and Child Single-Day Tickets, Three-Day Passes, Family passes, and Ultimate and VIP Packages for FAN EXPO Cleveland are available now at www.fanexpocleveland.com. Advance pricing is available until March 6. More guest news will be released in the following weeks, including line-up reveals for additional headline celebrities, comic creator guests, voice actors, and cosplayers.

Cleveland is the sixth event on the 2025 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.

[variousqueerthings]

finished the originals, so now gonna (re)start the 2019 version, which i remember barely any of.

initial thoughts:

the new intro is kinda meh and also spells a bit of a change in how queer media of this kind is often presented (that is, going from a somewhat mysterious, witty little piece to a Very Sincere Cutesy Colourful bland thing)

the camera starting on anna as she's literally being interviewed about how san fransisco has changed is a great actual intro though

laura linney scrolling through her phone to land on a picture of absolute tiny baby paul gross makes me feel nostalgic for a time i never existed in. and then it cuts to 2019 paul gross and 😳😳😳 dude

elliot page playing one of their final female roles is fascinating, especially considering how many trans people are in this show, i do wonder where he was in his journey at this point (and also shawna... you are coming out post-this-story). it happens every time i watch an elliot page Thing, just mentally writing in a transition storyline in the future

some of the dialogue is a bit. We Are Giving Good Queer Dialogue. but im forgiving it, it's the style of the age and there's other stuff that really does work

the fact that it was strongly hinted at the end of last season that michael's boyfriend was going to die of AIDS-related complications and we know he's not around anymore at this point is... ouch. even though charlie barnett playing his younger bf now is very very cute

yknow, im not sure how i feel about the way the 2019 one has a lot of "everyone in the community gathered around anna madrigal and barbary lane as the great connector of queer people everywhere," not because i don't enjoy the circle of People widening and i do enjoy her being the centre of attention, but actually the original stories seemed to be a lot smaller in scale, and i don't think they were ever like... community organiser type characters (except for, ironically considering how we meet him in s1, brian). and in fact often quite selfish (which is interesting). which ofc could have changed in later stories, potentially in the 80s. but yeah, it feels a little less personal as an opener, lots of people don't really seem connected

mary ann started out a disaster in s1 and has literally never been anything else ever since. forever trapped between normie existence (which she hates but craves the stability of) and the life offered her at barbary lane (not actually very instinctive for her to embrace at all, but ohhh how it keeps taking her back every time she returns)

HE WAS SO SMOL IN SEASON ONE 😭😭😭AND NOW SHE'S SHOCKED THAT HE'S VERY VERY HOT

they're cute

and they're disasters

[ausetkmt]

quindaro - Google Search

Quindaro, Kansas – A Free-State Black Town

Western University in Quindaro, Kansas.

Quindaro, Kansas, an old historic town of Wyandotte County, was situated on the south bank of the Missouri River. Though the town is extinct today, it has a rich history, and there is still a Quindaro neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas today.

Missouri River near Kansas City, Kansas by Laura Ziegler/KCUR

A settlement was established on the Quindaro Bend of the river in about 1850 because it was located across from Missouri, a slave state. At that time, it was a stop along the Underground Railroad. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, a western branch of the Underground Railroad was developed in Kansas that linked Quindaro to the Lane Trail and provided a new route of escape for slaves from Missouri.

Early residents, who were known as “Seekers of Freedom” because of their escaped slave status, included the families of Turner, Banks, Marshall, Grigsby, Harris, Endicott, Barnett, Duncan, Creek, Graves, Murray, and Sanders.

The old Quindaro Cemetery, established in 1853, is the oldest in the state.

Abolitionists developed the town after the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854 to create a free state port of entry into Kansas Territory. As the only free-state river port in Kansas, six steamboats a day were soon landing there.

Nancy Quindaro Brown Guthrie

At that time, the land was part of an area that the Wyandot Indians had purchased from the Delaware tribe. When the Wyandot tribe disbanded, the land was divided among tribal members who wished to remain in the area and become U.S. citizens. Among these people were Abelard Guthrie and his wife, Nancy Quindaro Brown Guthrie, for whom the town was named. Mrs. Guthrie was a Wyandot lady of royal blood whose father was chief of the Canadian Wyandot.

The townsite at that time was located six miles above Kansas City, Kansas (then called Wyandotte.)

In 1856, the pro-slavery river port towns of Atchison, Leavenworth, and Delaware City were practically closed to Free State settlers, and several fugitives from these settlements were assisted down the river to safety by Mr. Guthrie, who owned much of the land in the vicinity. It was during these years, before Kansas was established as a free state, that the underground railroad was so important. By this time, pro-slavery factions were establishing blockades on the Missouri River to prevent Free State supporters from accessing supplies and reinforcements as well as blocking their travel.

Tensions between pro and anti-slavery groups caused several instances of armed violence and death in the Missouri-Kansas Territory border region that increased the urgency of the abolitionist cause and the need to establish a Free State river port. In September of 1856, Charles Robinson and Samuel Simpson, two men formerly associated with the New England Emigrant Aid Company, approached Abelard Guthrie about the prospect of starting a Free State town on the Missouri River.

Abelard Guthrie

In the fall of 1856, the Quindaro Town Company was formed by an alliance of Wyandot Indians and Free-State supporters.  The site on Quindaro Bend was at a point six miles above the mouth of the Kansas River, where a fine natural rock ledge stood, and the river ran along the bank six to twelve feet deep, making a convenient landing. Plenty of wood and rock were at hand for building purposes, and fertile land was adjacent.

In December 1856, the town was surveyed by P.H. Woodward and platted by Owen A. Bassett. The northern boundary of the town coincided with the Missouri River, upon which a wharf facilitated steamboat landings.

Two commercial thoroughfares, named Levee and Main Streets, ran perpendicular to the river and the town’s primary commercial thoroughfare, named Kanzas Avenue, which now aligns with the present-day 27th Street. The Quindaro Townsite plat included Quindaro Park, one of the first public parks in Kansas.

Quindaro, Kansas Plat Map 1856

The sale of lots and the construction of buildings in Quindaro began in January 1857. By the end of the month, an 8×10 foot temporary office for the Quindaro Town Company, the townsite’s first building, was completed. The first business in Quindaro, the W.J. McCown Store, opened in March on Main Street near the town’s steamboat landing. The establishment of the Quindaro Steam Saw Mill Company in April on Levee Street dramatically increased the pace of building in the new town. Owned by Otis Webb and A.J. Rowell, the mill was the largest of its kind in Kansas Territory.

By April 1, three or four buildings were completed, including the five-story Quindaro House, the second-largest hotel in the territory. The hotel, operated by Philip T. Colby and Charles S. Parker, located at 1-3-5 Kanzas Avenue, also featured the Johnson and Veale Merchants store on the first floor as well as the Quindaro Post Office, established that May.

“There is a farm here for everyone who will come and take possession, a soil whose richness is unsurpassed in the country, a climate unequaled, and a population who are brave, generous,  and hospitable. So come on where there is room enough and to spare.” — Hillsdale, Michigan Standard, March 17, 1857

Word-of-mouth that the Quindaro steamboat landing was the best point of entry into Kansas for Free State settlers only served to attract more people to the town. The Quindaro wharf on the Missouri River was completed by May of 1857, reportedly facilitating 36 steamboat landings in one week.

Carriage-Wagon Shop in Quindaro, Kansas.

That same month, a large group of men began to grade the ground near the levee and Kanzas Avenue, which was the main street running south from the river. This commercial corridor was developed in a manner that provided easy access to the town’s wharf and riverfront, facilitating the import and export of goods. Rows of warehouses, predominantly used for storage, lined Levee Street near the wharf, while commercial businesses were located along Main Street, concentrated at the intersection of Main Street and Kanzas Avenue and continuing south along Kanzas Avenue for a block and a half to Sixth Street.

Construction of a road from Quindaro to Lawrence began almost immediately. By May, Alfred Robinson had built a livery stable and established a stagecoach line that charged $3.00 for the six-hour coach trip to Lawrence. Another road traveled south from Kanzas Avenue to the town of Wyandotte (this road eventually became present-day Quindaro Boulevard.) A third road led south to the Shawnee Reserve and linked Quindaro with the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails.

Jacob Zehntner and Henry Steiner built this brewery at 45 N Street, on the west side of Quindaro Creek, in 1857 by Kathy Alexander.

Ebenezer O. Zane’s Wyandotte House Hotel was located across Kanzas Avenue from the Quindaro House Hotel. The J.P. Upson Building was located at 7 Kanzas Avenue, south of the Quindaro House Hotel, and contained the office of the town’s weekly newspaper.

Jacob Zehntner and Henry Steiner built a brewery at 45 N Street, on the west side of Quindaro Creek, in 1857. The main brewery building was a two-story brick and stone structure with a taproom, vaulted beer cellar, and living quarters. Today, its ruins are the only visible remains above ground of the Old Quindaro townsite.

On May 3, a schoolhouse was opened, which also served as a church on Sunday.

The first newspaper, the Chin-do-wan (a Wyandot word meaning leader), owned by Edmund Babb and John M. Walden, appeared on May 13, 1857, and at once began to advertise the new town. John Walden was also a missionary to the freedmen, was involved in the Underground Railroad, and later became a bishop in the Methodist Church. The associate editor of the abolitionist newspaper was Clarina Nichols, who was involved in the temperance, abolition, and suffrage movements in the 19th century. A friend of Susan B. Anthony and a fellow crusader for the rights of women and children, she was also an important Conductor and Station Master of the Underground Railroad. Nichols reported that many slaves took the underground railroad at Quindaro, and she left a letter telling about a time when a Freedom Seeker named Caroline was brought to her home. She hid her in an empty cistern overnight and then sent her on the road North as soon as it was safe.

Clarina Irene Howard Nichols

“My cistern – every brick of it rebuilt in the chimney of my late Wyandotte home – played its part in the drama of freedom. One beautiful evening late in October ’61, as twilight was fading from the bluff, a hurried message came to me from our neighbor – Fielding Johnson – ‘You must hide Caroline. Fourteen slave hunters are camped on the Park – her master among them.’ … Into this cistern Caroline was lowered with comforters, pillow, and chair. A washtub over the trap with the usual appliances of a washroom standing around, completing the hiding.”

— Clarina Nichols

The first issue of the newspaper reported that trees had been removed from several acres of the townsite and that 30-40 houses had been built and occupied, and that 16 business houses were in the process of erection. By August, the first brick house was under construction on “P” street, the bricks having been burned on the townsite, and soon a brickyard was established.

One of the earliest problems of the new town was to gain recognition by the steamboats. These crafts were Missouri-owned and operated, and their officers refused to stop at Quindaro or even denied that such a place existed. Later, they actively sought to get passengers to pass up Quindaro to land at Leavenworth or Wyandot, both of which were pro-slavery towns.

Steamboat on the Missouri River

A threat to start a Free-State steamboat line from Alton, Illinois, to Kansas, broke up this racket as the pro-slavery boatmen didn’t want such competition.

The Quindaro post office opened on May 14, 1857. Professional men came in, and real estate agents did a good business. F. Johnson and George Veale opened a general merchandise store and were followed by other firms in the same line. Simpson, Macaulay & Smith, forwarding and commission merchants, also opened a store. Charles B. Ellis, a civil engineer and surveyor, opened an office, and Quindaro was soon believed to become one of the largest towns on the river.

Thaddeus Hyatt brought the 100-foot Lightfoot Ferry to Quindaro and completed a few trips to Lawrence via the Kansas River before transitioning service to the Missouri River, which was more navigable. The 100-foot Otis Webb Ferry was also put into operation, offering daily trips between Quindaro and Parkville, Missouri, located two miles up the Missouri River, and occasional trips to the towns of Wyandotte (Kansas City) or Leavenworth.

Temperance Movement

Quindaro was a temperance town, the lots having been deeded with the stipulation that liquor dealers should not occupy them. However, some groggeries crept in, and by June 1857, the women petitioned, and the men acted to clean them out. This induced many emigrants, especially women, to prefer Quindaro to other towns.

Dr. George E. Budington advertised as a physician; Ireland & McCorkle were carpenters and joiners; Fred Klaus, a stone cutter and mason, had a quarry a short distance from town; A. C. Strock & Co. operated a drug store, and Dr. J. B. Welborn had an office in the same building; William Shepherd and D. D. Henry established a hardware store. Mr.  Robinson, Gray, Johnson, Webb, and others were rushing around for subscriptions to build the Quindaro, Parkville & Burlington Railroad to obtain a connection with the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad. By fall, the Methodist Church was built.

Quindaro’s residents also worked to create social institutions and hold cultural events, including a Quindaro Literary Association and a Quindaro Library Association, outfitted with over 200 books. The Literary Association published a journal edited by Clarina Nichols called The Cradle of Progress and held meetings and public lectures in a residence at 62 P Street, a house that would later be called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and was associated with Underground Railroad activity.

Underground Railroad in Kansas

Through the end of 1857, Quindaro had rapidly developed into a booming pioneer river port town, with stores, hotels, churches, and residences constructed across the steep landscape to support its growing population. The lower townsite near the river was the commercial core, and most residences were higher on the bluff at the upper townsite.

In these early years, Quindaro became an important station on the Underground Railroad, with slaves escaping from Platte County, crossing the river in small boats, and making secret runs of the Parkville-Quindaro Ferry. The runaways hid with local farmers before traveling to Nebraska for freedom.

Quindaro, a Wyandot word translated to “In union there is strength,” fit the town well as there was no end of public confidence in the future of the town that was expected to rival Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchison, and Wyandotte (Kansas City.)

At the time that the city charter was first approved in January 1858, Quindaro had a population of 800 and boasted 100 buildings, many of which were built of stone and brick that were of a substantial, metropolitan appearance. Businesses included two hotels, a hardware store, three dry goods stores, four groceries, a clothing store, two drug stores, two meat markets, two blacksmiths, a wagon shop, six boot and shoe shops, and a livery stable. There were also four doctors, three lawyers, two surveyors, and several carpenters and builders, as well as two churches and a schoolhouse.

Chin-do-wan Newspaper, 1857

The Chin-do-wan kept up its trumpeting and was bought by V. J. Lane, G. W. Veale, and Alfred Gray, who also published the Kansas Tribune in the fall and winter of 1858-59. The publication was continued for the benefit of the town company until 1861 when it was removed to Olathe.

Quindaro was thought to have reached a peak population of as many as 1,200 people. But Kansas City, Atchison, and Leavenworth were rapidly becoming centers of population and trade, and as they were the natural gateways of the territory, Quindaro began to decline.

The 1860 federal census recorded a population of 689, with a majority (92%) of residents being white, 4% black or “mulatto”, and 4% American Indian. The Census does not indicate whether the black residents were escaped slaves or freedmen. The most common occupation was “farmer,” followed by “laborer.” At the same time, the rest of the males of working age held positions that supported the town, such as hotel keepers, masons, engineers, carpenters, merchants, tinsmiths, bricklayers, and blacksmiths. A lease in 1860 established the right-of-way for the Missouri Pacific Railroad through Quindaro parallel to the Missouri River. The railroad company built the tunnel overpass that crosses 27th Street near the Missouri River.

In the next year, business houses moved to the more prosperous settlements, and the population gradually dwindled.

Underground Railroad by Charles T. Webber, 1893.

When Kansas was established as a free state in January 1861, there was less need for the port, and the growth slowed in the commercial district. At the same time, the economy in Kansas was also suffering from over-speculation. Then, with the opening of the Civil War in April, the town was abandoned by most of the inhabitants. The young men enlisted, and many of their families moved to other communities for safety.

The ferry from Parkville to Quindaro was reputed to be transporting runaway slaves across the river at night when pro-slavery forces sank it in 1861. In January 1862, a man named George Washington escaped from slavery near Parkville, Missouri by crossing the frozen Missouri River on foot. He made it to Quindaro by following pieces of cloth tied to trees by an Underground Railroad “conductor.” Washington then joined the 1st Regiment Kansas Colored Volunteers to fight for the Union in the Civil War.

Cavalry Training in the Civil War

For the dying town, matters were made worse when, from January 20 to March 12, 1862, the Ninth Kansas Volunteer Infantry under Colonel Alson C. Davis, was quartered in the empty business buildings of Quindaro as the troops underwent a reorganization to become the Second Kansas Cavalry. Unfortunately, officer control of the soldiers was slack, and the troops literally destroyed the commercial and residential buildings, tearing up everything movable for firewood and leaving shells where prominent buildings and houses once stood. Once the soldiers were gone, weather, fires, and theft finished them off in the next years.

The town’s charter was revoked by the Kansas State legislature in 1862, and the Quindaro Town Company was dissolved. However, several African Americans remained in the dead town, and Presbyterian minister Eben Blachly started classes in his home for the children of former slaves the same year.

Fugitive Slave

Though Quinidaro as a town was finished, its role as a major stop on the Underground Railroad had already been cast, and its story was far from over. During the Civil War, a number of African-American families escaped from slavery in the surrounding states and established their homes in “Old Quindaro.”

After the Union won the Civil War and the slaves were emancipated, many of them were drawn toward Quindaro because of its anti-slavery history. They settled on the mostly abandoned townsite occupying the empty buildings, particularly in the valley around Quindaro Creek. Newcomers to the area lived and farmed near the town in an area that came to be known as “Happy Hollow” to the west of Quindaro. Individuals and families farmed their own land or worked for the remaining white population. During this time, there was no center of commerce nor organized social, political, or economic structure, and most of the buildings were residential.

For a while, Quindaro served as an outfitting post for freight wagon trains. However, as railroad commerce surpassed river transportation, Quindaro’s steamboat landing languished, and the town’s economic prospects ceased.

By 1865, there were 429 African Americans living in the townsite, and a group of Quindaro citizens, with Reverend Blachly at the lead, opened the Quindaro Freedman’s School (later Western University), the first black school west of the Mississippi River and the only one ever to operate in the state of Kansas. The school was officially chartered in 1867 and was supported through donations, with only two teachers throughout its existence, Eben and Jane Blachly.

The private school operated under the Presbyterian Church and initially utilized available space in existing buildings. The school may have briefly operated from the Steiner and Zehntner Quindaro Brewery, although it occupied a former commercial building on Kanzas Avenue by 1870.

Later-arriving African-American residents settled in the upper town on the bluff. Difficulties in reaching the interior from below the bluff hampered commerce, and changes after the war reduced the need for the port.

By 1870, only a few original buildings and the Missouri Pacific Railroad station were still used. A map of the time showed a few businesses and residences in Quindaro, including Cyrus Taylor’s wagon manufacturing shop, W.J. Heaffaker’s dry goods and variety store, the D.R. Emmons & Company grocery store, a chair factory at the northwest corner of M and 8th streets, and the farms of Alfred Gray, E.D. Brown, and Thomas McIntyre. Also shown were the town’s white and black schools, the Methodist and Congregational churches, and Freedmen’s University housed within former commercial buildings at 34-40 Kanzas Avenue.

Charles Henry Langston

After being abandoned, the early lower commercial townsite became overgrown, with some areas covered by earth falling from the bluffs. A visitor in 1873 found the town’s former commercial district abandoned, writing, “One store with a granite front and iron posts stood as good as new and various other buildings were in good preservation, but empty.”

In the 1870s, property owners in the area donated land from the heart of the townsite to the school, and buildings were erected. In 1872, the Kansas State Legislature established the “Colored Normal School,” a teachers’ college, within Freedman’s University, as a way to create a self-sustaining educational institution and promote education throughout the area. At that time, Charles Henry Langston, a leading black abolitionist, activist, educator, and politician in Ohio and Kansas, became the principal.

The University struggled initially due to the inability of students to pay, which was common among contemporary African-American schools, and the lack of funding from the state, whose coffers were greatly depleted by widespread agricultural losses in 1873.

Exodusters En Route to Kansas, Harper’s Weekly 1879

Though the enrollment was beginning to surge, the college struggled to survive in the troubled mid-1870s, and in 1879, the school’s trustees took out a mortgage on part of the property in an attempt to keep the school open. Reverend Eben Blachly ran the school until his death in 1877, at which time the school became inactive for a short period.

When the last Federal troops left the southern states in 1877, Reconstruction gave way to renewed racial oppression and rumors of the re-institution of slavery. Fearful for their lives, many African Americans began to flee the south for Kansas in 1879 and 1880 because of the state’s fame as a Free-State and the land of the abolitionist John Brown. These people were called Exodusters. Many of them settled in Quindaro, generating renewed interest in Freedman’s University for a brief period of time, beginning in 1879. In 1881, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, under the direction of local community leader and elected official Corrvine Patterson, assumed control of the institution and converted it to a vocational/college preparatory institution.

Ward and Parks Halls at Western University in Quindaro, Kansas, 1925

The school’s educational model was Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which stressed vocational and industrial training for African Americans. However, it would be ten years before the school began to truly operate as a university with an all-black board of trustees and staff.

In 1891, the college was moved from the valley to Ward Hall, which was erected near 27th and Sewell. The church also supported other colleges, and since the Freedmen’s University was its most western institution, the school’s name was changed at that time to Western University.

This new building, Ward Hall, replaced an older former commercial building on Kanzas Avenue. Despite the new facilities, however, enrollment hovered around 12 students for the next four years.

Reverend William Tecumseh Vernon

In the meantime, many former slaves continued to gather in Quindaro to escape from “Jim Crow” laws and establish a better way of life. Several of these people gained employment at some of the local packing and slaughterhouses. By the late 19th century, Quindaro had become mostly African-American.

The arrival of a young new president, Reverend William Tecumseh Vernon, in 1896, revitalized the Western University in the early 20th century. At just 25 years old, Reverend Vernon worked political connections to restore state funding to Western University and to attain a $10,000 appropriation from the Kansas Legislature to spend on a new building and operating expenses. The new building, Stanley Hall, housed the newly formed State Industrial Department. With more state funds, the University soon expanded by building an annex to Stanley Hall, two stock barns, a power plant and reservoir, a girls’ trade building, a boys’ trade building, a girls’ dormitory, and Park Hall, an addition that doubled the size of Ward Hall.

Eva Jessye, a graduate of Western University, made contributions as a singer, actress, choral director, author, and poet.

By 1904, Western University had added architectural and mechanical drawing, carpentry, cabinet-making, printing, wood-turning, business (stenography and typing), dressmaking, tailoring, music, and agriculture programs. It also provided curricula such as theology, classical studies, college preparatory classes, and teacher training. The school became known for its outstanding music program and was said to have been “the best black musical training center in the Midwest.”

Enrollment increased accordingly, and by 1906, the college had 200 students in attendance. That year, Reverend Vernon, who served as president of the school, married Emily Jane Embry, an instructor of Latin and mathematics at Western University. Later that year, Vernon was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as Register of the United States Treasury, the nation’s highest governmental post ever occupied by an African American at that time.

Western University buildings in Quindaro, Kansas, in 1920.

The early 20th-century success of Western University reinforced the shift of Quindaro’s economic center from its original location at the north end of Kanzas Avenue at the bottom of the bluff south to the top of the bluff. In the meantime, the lower commercial townsite was abandoned and became overgrown.

Quindaro’s post office closed in October 1909 as Leavenworth and Kansas City had become major population and economic centers. However, the town soon began to pick up, and general stores, mercantile establishments, and drug stores were opened, and churches and schools were again started, and Quindaro awoke to a ghost of its former life. By 1910, Quindaro was called home to about 500 people, and Western University had a flourishing campus with many fine buildings.

Though Western University is gone today, the John Brown Statue still stands at 27th and Sewell in Kansas City, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander.

In 1911, a statue of abolitionist John Brown was prominently placed on the Western University grounds. The statue was a statement of pride in the area’s association with John Brown and his cause.

At about that same time, former Western University president Bishop William Tecumseh Vernon returned to Quindaro briefly after rejecting a second appointment in the later years of the Taft administration in 1911. By the next year, Vernon was serving as the President of Campbell College in Jackson, Mississippi

At some point, the grade school that had been called the Colored School of Quindaro took on the name of “Vernon School” after the former president of Western University.*

In 1915, Western University became affiliated with the Douglass Hospital when it moved near the college campus. This hospital had been originally chartered in 1899 after four black men, including two doctors, a minister, and a lawyer, had become affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1905. At that time, blacks were only able to seek medical care in segregated and inadequate wards of the Kansas City General Hospital. Douglass Hospital was also a training facility and educated students in Western University’s nursing program.

The Quindaro post office was reopened in September 1921.

In the 1920s, Western University reached its peak when 400-500 students a year attended the school. However, circumstances began to interfere with the school’s mission.

Old Vernon School, Quindaro, Kansas, with Professor King at upper right, 1935.

In 1924, the Vernon School received a new principal. William Franklin King, who had a lifelong teaching career in various towns of Missouri and Kansas, took the position and relocated to Quindaro along with his wife, Mary Hobbs King. Popularly known as “Professor King,” the principal was not only known for his fine educational and administration skills, but he worked hard to ensure that students received a good education and, according to one prior student, “stood for no foolishness.” Professor King would continue to maintain the principal position for the next 12 years until he accepted a position as the principal of the Walker School in South Park, Kansas. He passed away in January 1937 at the Douglass Hospital at the age of 69.

Ward Hall at Western University, Quindaro, Kansas.

In 1924, a severe fire devastated Ward Hall, destroying most of the school’s dormitories. Unfortunately, the African Methodist Episcopal Church did not have the money to replace the facilities. Western University officials also began to quarrel with the church over administrative issues, further complicated by accounting and financial problems in the late 1920s. Afterward, student enrollment continuously dropped, and by 1931, only 182 students were enrolled at Western University.

In the 1930s, construction of a pipeline corridor through the Quindaro townsite damaged or destroyed the remains of Quindaro’s historic storage warehouses along Levee Street and the commercial structures at the intersection of Main Street and Kanzas Avenue.

The Great Depression reduced available financial support for the university at a time when it was facing increasing competition to attract students. The state legislature began to lose confidence in the management of the institution and debated revoking its financial support and accreditation. The African Methodist Episcopal Church withdrew support in 1933, which also negatively impacted enrollment and monetary contributions.

Vernon School in Quindaro, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander.

In 1933, Reverend William Vernon returned to Quindaro to accept an appointment from Governor Alfred Landon as superintendent of the State Industrial Department at Western University. During this time, he also used political clout to help get the funding to build a new Vernon School on the same site as the old Vernon School, which had become overcrowded and dilapidated.

Soon, a new school was under construction by members of the Works Progress Administration to serve the area’s African-American children for grades 1st-8th. While the new building was in the works, students attended classes in the basement of the Methodist Church, which still stands at 3428 N. 29th Street.

The new Vernon School opened in 1936, with Professor William Franklin King serving as the first principal. He continued to serve that first year until he accepted another position elsewhere. The Vernon School was a haven of education for African-American students prior to school integration, which occurred in 1944.

In 1937, the Douglass Hospital moved to  3700 North 27th Street, on the campus of Western University.

In 1938, Reverend Vernon retired from Western University. He died six years later, on July 25, 1944.

After the United States entered World War II in 1941, the draft further diminished enrollment at Western University. The six women of the 1943 high school class were the final graduates of the college. After 78 years of providing a four-year education to African-American students, the school was officially closed in 1944 and was legally dissolved in 1948.

Douglass Hospital in Grant Hall Western University in Quindaro, Kansas.

In 1945, Douglass Hospital renovated the old Western University Grant Hall as a medical facility.

In 1949, an article in the Kansas City Times observed that the Steiner and Zehntner brewery was “virtually the only remaining structure” in Quindaro, stating, “all other buildings are lost from sight and are overgrown with trees and brush.”

Quindaro’s post office closed for good in March 1954.

The Vernon School closed in 1971 after Urban Renewal wiped out most of the homes of children in the area. Today, the Vernon School is on the National Register of Historic Places and is home to the Quindaro Underground Railroad Museum. Here, visitors can see displays, artifacts, and maps of the cooperative efforts of the Native Americans, whites, and free blacks who worked together on the Underground Railroad. The museum also displays information regarding the discovery and exploration of the Quindaro Ruins.

Douglass Hospital occupied the former Western University site for more than 30 years before closing in 1978. Unfortunately, during those years, the hospital demolished the buildings associated with the university and replaced them with two new buildings designed as elderly housing or nursing homes. The closure of the hospital brought an end to more than 120 years of Quindaro’s existence.

Some of these “newer” hospital buildings still stand deteriorating today, but unfortunately, nothing but cornerstones of some early buildings still exist. Some buildings were lost to fire and others to demolition as sites were redeveloped. The last structures remaining were three faculty houses, which were demolished near the end of the 20th century.

The site of Western University and later the Douglass Hospital today, courtesy of Google Maps.

In the late 1980s,  a company wanted to build a landfill in the area but encountered an obstacle under the Kansas Antiquities Commission Act, which required that an archeological investigation be conducted. Over a two-year period, a cistern, three wells, and the foundations of 22 residential and commercial buildings were discovered in the 1850s town.

Public outcry over the proposed landfill caused the company to withdraw its interest in the project, and the excavated artifacts were given over to the Kansas Historical Society.

A view from the Quindaro overlook of the old townsite showing Kanzas Avenue and the Missouri River by Kathy Alexander.

The 70.5-acre Quindaro Townsite is now a National Commemorative Site and an archaeological district. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 2002.

In present-day terms, Quindaro was bounded on the north by the Missouri River, on the east by 18th Street, on the south by Brown Avenue, and on the west by 42nd Street. During Quindaro’s boom days, the Missouri River was west of the present location. Kanzas Avenue is now 27th Street. The ruins of Quindaro now belong to the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the City of Kansas City, Kansas. There is a stone platform overlooking the ruins.

Today, Old Quindaro is a living neighborhood that is part of Kansas City, Kansas.

The statue of John Brown, erected in 1911, still stands at 27th and Sewell with a marker that explains the history of Western University. Across the street is the Quindaro Underground Railroad Museum in the old Vernon School. To the north, at 3700 N. 27th Street, are the remaining deteriorating buildings of the old nursing home, and at the end of the street, at a dead-end, is the Quindaro Ruins Overlook. A dirt path extends from the overlook stairs, following the alignment of Kansas Avenue. This path veers west, leading to the cemetery at the northwest before continuing south along what some former residents referred to as “Happy Hollow Road,” now recognized as 31st Street Terrace.

Visitors may also visit the two Quindaro Cemeteries. One is located at 38th and Parallel and has become a part of the Mount Hope Cemetery. The second Quindaro Cemetery is located at 34th and Sewell Avenue.

Old Quindaro Museum in Kansas City, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander.

The Old Quindaro Museum at 3432 N 29th Street, which has long preserved the overall importance of the African-American Community of Quindaro, appears to be closed as of this writing.

© Kathy Alexander/Legends of Kansas, updated October 2023.

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Lift Off ---Dombresky -58

Ohh LALA --Sasha GiGi, Idris Elba -44

Young & Foolish --Loud Luxury, Charlieonafriday -50

Strangers --Kenya Grace -40

Good Morning --Timmy Trumpet, Alie Farben, YOU -30

The Tower --Future Islands -48

Nevada --Vicetone, Cuzi Zuehisdorff -46

Fire --Alan Walker, YUQI, JVKE, (G)I-DLE -54

Summertime Friends --The Chainsmokers -133

Sweet Venom --ENHYPEN -57

Save My Love --Destiny Rogers -52

Tension --Kylie Minogue -53

<>Twisted --Laura Davidson -last on @#105 1.18.24

Body Moving --Eliza Rose, Calvin Harris -55

Cutting Loose --Disco Lines, J. Worra, Anabel Englund -27

No Reason --The Chemical Brothers (Chris Lake remix) -31

Rhythm Machine --Westend, Max Styler -32

One Last Dance --Imanbek, Ali Gatie -51

Fall Again --HAYLA -56

Heat Rising --Pete Tong, Jem Cooke, Jules Buckley -59

Run Free (Countdown) --Tiesto, R3HAB -60

Do You Feel It --VAMERO, Cyril M Mougleta -75

ADHD -Mae Stephens -71

Get Dirty --Return of the Jaded, Tommie Sunshine -61

Living In A Haze --Milky Chance -62

Triumph ---Bishop Briggs -68 [starts vocals]

Good For You --Dimitri Vegas, Chapter & Verse, Goodboys -87

Forever (Stay Like This)-- Armin Van Buuren -78

I Don't Remember --Walker & Royce, VNSSA -84

Dance Is The Answer --Dubdogs, RUBACK, Ticon, Raja Ram -74

High And I Like It --It's Murph, Eyalyn -103

Jaguar --Yaeger -65

Dizzy --Sick Individuals, LOUI LANE -66

Lullaby --Britti -67

Lie To Me -Jubel KIDDO -70

Sorry Ain't Enough --Michael Gerow -69

Missing You --Frank Walker, Nate Smith -83

I Got Time --Brittney Spencer -72

***Slide Out --Life On Planets -(new)

What Do You Do For A Living? I Do My Best --Iamnotshane -105

Lead Me On --FLETCHER -117

Everybody Knows I'm High --SHAED -107

No Man's Land --Marshmello, Venbee -76

Afterglow --Klangkarussell, GIVVEN -110

Alive --K-391 -111

***Follow You --Return Of the Jaded, MELLY OHH -(new)

One By One --Robin Schulz, Topic, Oaks -79

Waking Up --Felix Jaehn, Leony -77

Lonely Nights ---Papa Beats -112

Mas Que Nada --Oliver Heldens, Ian Asher, Sergio Mendez -73

Deep In Your Love --ALOK, Bebe Rexha -80

J Christ --Lil Nas X -81

Face To Face --Knnzie -82

Murder On The Dancefloor --Sophie Ellis-Bextor -85

Biggest Regret--Gorgon City, Bbyafricka -86

Dreaming ---Marshmello, Pink, Sting -86

Mirrors --Caravan Palace -90

Rebel --TVXQ -94

***Taking It Back--DJ MINX -(new)

No Strings ---X Ambassadors -100

Free Falling ---James Arthur -116

***Purple Irises --Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton -(new)

***Come Right Back ---Morgan Page -(new)

Run ---ATB, Nu Aspect, Orem -91

Stop The Time --Zombic -93

Yard Sale --Alex Warren -95

Pull You Closer --Sistek, Sadie Rose Van -96

Drums ---James Hype, Kim Petras -97

Years --Just Us -98

Who I Am --Alan Walker, Putri Ariani, Peder Elias -99

Burnin' -Rinzen, Shallou -108

When I Wake Up --Lucas & Steve, Skinny Days -109

Maktub ---Gary Clark Jr. -118

The Thief --Future Islands -120

Beats For The Underground ---Mau P -121

Pick Me --Alec Benjamin -122

***Checking In -- for KIng & Country, Lee Brice -(new)

Superhero --AUDIEN -114

ME-- Steve Angello -102

***Loneliness ---Pet Shop Boys (Radio edit) - (new)

One Night/All Night --Justice, Tame Impala -115

Heart Pure --Grigore -130

***Give Me ---Will Clarke, BURNS -(new)

***Low Again ---Bakermat -(new)

Daydream --Will Swinton -127

***Lonely Dancers --Conan Gray - (new)

Untouchable --ITZY -101

Give It To Me --Lucky Luke -104

Alibi --Ella Henderson, Rudimental -106

Can't Get Enough --Jennifer Lopez -113 >>>

Lighthouse --Calum Scott -119 >>>

When We Die (Can We Still Get High) --Yungblood, Lil Yachy -123 >>>

Us --Steve Aoki f/ ERNEST -124 >>>

Hungover --John Summit, Mathame, Camden Cox -125 >>>

Overdrive ---Ofenbach, Norma Jean Marine -126 >>>

Disco En Egypte --Bon Entendeur -128 >>>

Falling Behind --Sultan + Shepard -129 >>>

***Take A Moment --ATB, David Frank - (new)

***All Of You --Mees Salome, ALLKNIGHT - (new) >>>

***Somethings Gonna Workout ---Jai Piccone, 1tbsp - (new)

***Pictures Of You --Anyma -(new)

***Never Be Lonely ---Jax Jones, Zoe Wees -(new)

***I'm One Of the Rest --TALK -(new)

<>You Can Have It ---Kungs, Victor Flash -[last on @#117 2.4.24] >>>

<> re-entry on chart / *** new on chart / >>>off chart next week

18 NEW on the Chart this week... #027 Weight Of The World #029 Mr. Useless #085 Slide Out #092 Follow You #105 Takin It Back #108 Purple Irises #109 Come Right Back #123 Checking In #126 Loneliness #129 Give Me #120 Low Again #132 Lonely Dancers [ #144 Take A Moment [2.2.24] #145 All Of You #146 Somethings Gonna Workout #147 Pictures Of You #148 Never Be Lonely #149 I'm One Of The Rest

[anyavamps]

Music I listened to in SEPTEMBER:

Eyes Wide Open in the Dark by Tears for the Dying Bloom Decay by Darkswoon Human Contract by Left for pleasure Twice Dark by Twice Dark Dark Fields by Endelos The Vigilant Sower by Motuvius Rex Lord of the Flies by Nosferatu Foundation and Divergence by Vague Lanes Subterranean Guilt By Lizard Skin Morpho by Bridal Veil Politiestaat?! By Raderkraft Laura b/w Isolation by Yama Uba Antagonista by Polyverso Diary of a Lost by The Beauty of Gemina Social Station by Social Station Into the Fire by Hallowed Hearts For to Have Time is to Have Wings by Candelabra Nothing Lasts Forever by Devoted Sinners Barren Land by Long Night Wireworks by Wireworks Metta World Peace by Soft Kill Five Hexes by Gallows Eve Love at First Bite by Suzi Sabotage Sorrows by In a Darkened Room Bleak Moments by Dancing Plague Noir by Paradox Obscur Non Specific Ghost Stories by Rome Burns Bound by Naked Skies by Lathe of Heaven Banished in Place by Forsaken Garden Unshroud our Eyes by Vision of the Void

[tonin-terets]

Channel 4 Idents from Optical Arts on Vimeo.

Optical Arts worked with 4creative and Art Practice to direct and create five new idents for Channel 4, following their new masterbrand launch.

The idents consist of 25 unique looping scenes, designed to reflect what life is like in the UK today – through the eyes of 17 creatives, artists, and filmmakers. Each scene was developed from an open brief which invited each creator to interpret one of five themes: Identity (who we are), The Land (where we live), System (what controls us), Release (how we escape) and Love (all that really matters), with the idents being divided up into 5 sets of 5 films, each with its own distinct style and voice.

Our work is included alongside that of a diverse range of hugely talented directors, creating a unique and ambitious project, portraying a snapshot of Britain today.

Two of our scenes highlight some of the dark realities that technical advancement brings - widespread digital observation, and machine control. Whilst the other two address more human themes - the effect of serotonin on the brain and the experience of a broken heart.

We are thrilled to see our work within these idents as part of this epic and memorable project. Channel 4 have made some of the most iconic idents in TV history, and we are delighted to play a small part in continuing that legacy with this work.

Optical Arts directed and created 4 scenes: Shattering Room, Chemicals, Robotic Fulfilment Centre and Digital Tracking. Dinner Party was directed by Dan Tobin Smith, the studio’s founder.

Credits

Executive Creative Director: Lynsey Atkin Creative Directors: Mike Skrgatic, Daniel Wolfe, Lynsey Atkin, Bafic Directors: Saman Aminzadeh, Optical Arts, Bafic, Mike Battcock, Will Dohrn, Daniel Eatock, Mike Skrgatic and James Allen, Verity May Lane, Maria Lax, The Line, Louis McCourt, Justyna Obasi, Elliott Power, The Romantix, Dan Tobin Smith, Daniel Wolfe Voiceover: John Joseph Holt OPTICAL ARTS & DAN TOBIN SMITH Founder / Creative Director: Dan Tobin Smith EP / Studio Director: Hannah May Creative Directors: Fabrice Le Nezet, Martin Pryor, Joe Jackson 1st AD: Rob Blishen Moco: Simone Tartaglia & Dennis Henry SFX: David Plewis for Asylum CG team: Nicolas Damour, Flora Macleod Creative Assistant: Minna Griffiths Technical Assistant: Elliott Lowe & Jack Lovell Production Assistant: Stephanie Skarbek ART PRACTICE X LOVESONG Creative Director (Art Practice): Mike Skrgatic Creative Director (Love Song): Daniel Wolfe EP: James Guy Producer: Bonnie Anthony Production Manager: Julia Guignabel Production Assistant: Katie Reid Directors of Photography: Daniel Landin, Eponine Momenceau Moco: Simone Tartaglia & Tomi Keeling 1st AD: Rob Blishen Production Designer: Arthur De Borman Casting Directors: Kharmel Cochrane, Claire Catterson, Found Casting, Belinda Norcliffe TIME BASED ARTS Producer: Chris Aliano 2D Supervisors: Stephen Grasso, Leo Weston, Miguel Wratten CG Supervisors: Mike Battcock, Sam Osborne, Nick Smalley 2D Team: Manolo Perez, Jamie Crofts, Olivia O’Neil, Lucy Lawrence, Valeria Scalamandre, Eleonora Laddago, Bernie Varela, Chris Fraser, Dan Cowley, Tom Robinson CG Team: Ben Cantor, Nigel Timms, Bethan Williams, Ian Baird, Jordan Coles, Maxime Ponsart, Joe Ibbett, Teodora Retegan, Quentin Corker-Marin, Stephen Ross Grading: Max Ferguson Hook, Simone Grattarola STRING & TINS Audio Post Production: String and Tins Sound Supervisor: Will Cohen Sound Design: Lawrence Kendrick, Culum Simpson, Jim Stewart, Kaspar Broyd, Adam Smyth, Joe Wilkinson, Adam Hare, Will Cohen, Mike Bamford Music Composers: Will Cohen, Culum Simpson, Adam Smyth, Jim Stewart, Kaspar Broyd, Miink, Cal Swingler, J. Caesar, Matthew Watson, Daniel Freeman, Anthony Moore Music Supervisors: Laura-Leigh Smith and Mike Bamford Producers: Laura-Leigh Smith and Rachel Hough

[lookdem]

Well, I haven't introduced them here yet, but these are the inhabitants of my AU: "a new beginning"

Land

Lizzie Lane

Mei Brand

Shiori Nozomi

Kyoko Michiru

Meredyth Winter

Zoe and Damian Rogers (Share stage/chapter)

Daisy Anderson

Zoel Lewis

Matthew Lewis

Alexander

Laura Martínez del rosario

their stage codenames are still in process~

[druidx]

Name Meaning Tag Game

This tag game was shamelessly stolen from olibavee. I'm going to grab a few OCs from across a range of universes.

Rules: Search and post the meaning of your OCs’ names (if you made their name up or they go by a nickname, post an explanation of how it came to you)! Bonus if you can find something for their last name too

Alexis Dalliance (FF/Titan)

"Alexis" is from the Greek name Ἄλεξις (Alexis), meaning "helper" or "defender". Apparently, this can also mean "defender of man".

"Dalliance" has no meaning as a surname, but I like to think 'Lex's mother took it for herself to show the twicelings she was an adventurer.

Asuka Rackell (The MOW Files)

"Asuka" is from the Japanese 明日 (asu) meaning "tomorrow" and 香 (ka) meaning "fragrance", or from 飛 (asu) meaning "to fly" and 鳥 (ka) meaning "bird". I prefer the latter meaning for this character.

"Rackell" has no meaning as a surname. Sadly, how I came up with this surname has been lost to time.

Elowyn O’Toreguarde (FF/Titan)

“Elowyn” or “Elowin” means “Elm” in Cornish. In French folklore, the elm is the judge or arbiter of the woods, which suits Elo’s personality.

"O’Toreguarde" is just "Of Toreguarde", aka the city she lives in, as she lost her surname when her first home was destroyed.

Farren Breakwood (FF/Titan)

"Farren" was something I made up by tacking an F on "Darren", but the internet variously thinks it means "Iron-grey colour", a diminutive form of Ferdinand ("journey ready"), "adventurous", "the land", "pilferer or ferret", or "handsome servant". For this character, "handsome ferret" works best :D

"Breakwood" has no meaning, but perhaps his distant ancestors were lumberjacks...

Gurn Tepper (The MOW Files)

"Gurn" does not exist as a name, and I do not recall how I came up with it -.-' Wikipedia suggests that to gurn is "to snarl as a dog; to look savage; to distort the countenance", so that's now what it means.

"Tepper" apparently means to be a "tavern owner", or a "wine or beer merchant".

Kathryn Scott (The Cryptid Series)

"Kathryn" (and its variant spellings) has a huge list of potential meanings. I like "each of the two" for this character.

"Scott" is quite simply "a person from Scotland"

Kellandra Rhiannon Lorinda Rue (TES: Oblivion)

"Kellandra" does not exist as a real name, though variant spellings on the internet give the meaning as "a light" or "peace-loving". This was created waaay back in my school days when I realised I needed "K'Rin" (the MC in Tusomov) to be a diminutive for something.

"Rhiannon", is apparently from the Celtic *Rīgantonā, meaning "great queen". In the original story, it was spelt Rinonn, which may have been my corruption of "Rhiannon", based on the Fleetwood Mac song.

"Lorinda" is a variant of "Laura", meaning "laurel".

"Rue" is apparently from a French word, "ruelle", meaning "lane or alley".

Sophie Aderyn Griffiths (nee Williams) (TES: Oblivion)

"Sophie" is a variant spelling, and apparently means "wisdom".

"Aderyn" is literally translated from Welsh as "bird".

"Griffiths" means "son of Gruffudd" (and "Gruffudd" means "strong prince" which I had no idea about and is hilarious in the context of the character)

"Williams" apparently means "son of William" (and "William" means "will helmet")

This was a fun exercise. Some of these names were chosen for the meanings, others because they fit the shape of the character - so the meanings of those have been a surprise!

Tagging: @strosmkai-rum @spacetimewraithwrites @wildswrites @tetrodotoxincs @odysseywritings @ayzrules @morganwriteblr @my-writblr @bexminx @writingingraves @dreamwishing @aalinaaaaaa @wardenoftheabyss

[mattelektras]

toughts on the new horror anthology marvel announced? also toughts on elektra and horror themes in general?

i’m a horror gal thru n thru so remember that you asked for this

marvel have rly good fodder for horror comics but they just never fuckin use it. when dc was doing dceased i talked about all the different subgenres marvel could be doing in the halloween season!!!! and i will do it again!!

daredevil would be perfect for found footage kind of horror like. hell’s kitchen residents piecing together their own footage of matt vs whatever cloverfield type of shite is going on

identity horror w spiderman and his clones

historical horror w elektra in like. ancient japan w the hand. or just straight up demon shit in modern day.

tech horror in wakanda

cosmic horror w the guardians considering they spend half their time in the skull of a celestial. or they used to. idk what mcu lite guardians are doing nowadays.

high school drama turned horror w the xmen……. prom or whatever and then celebratory vacation to this fucked up island that’s kind of alive but jean also has to choose between her 15 suitors at the same time as dealing w mr sinister’s fucked up cabin in the woods experiment!!!!!

classic monster horror w elsa bloodstone

more daredevil because your girl plays favourites, zombie horror w all his dead friends and girlfriends.

revenge horror with elektra after her dad dies. or after matt dies. kill him for some extra flavour

psychological horror w moon knight if they PROMISE not to be weird about mental health. OR something a la the descent. where he goes somewhere to find something out about the bird god living in his brain and it gets a little fucked up

some more xmen w survival horror in the savage land. a sentinel type thing but more like mr predator from predator hunts them all down

slasher horror w the various wolverines. laura n akihiro have to deal w their father in one of his stab stab beserker episodes

genre savvy horror w the runaways and young avengers

purge type shit w the punisher. i’m sure he will bring up his dead family

cultist lovecraftian horror w wanda. dr strange, voodoo, dr doom etc can come too. NOT like budget horror Welcome 2 My Twizted Mind wendy in the mcu.

home invasion horror w the xmen or in avengers manor/tower wherever those bitches are living right now but when only the avengers i like are home

blade just. literally doing his normal shit

i could genuinely go on for days. the potential is right there but all marvel ever does is like. oooh everyone’s a zombie and the genre has no connection to the characters that are it it or waaaa x character kills the marvel universe waaaa. it’s BORING. this is a company run by boring bitches. elektra is RIGHT THERE and every year i say please may i have a halloween variant at the very least, company that i have never said anything mean about. and every year they say NO shut the fuck up to me PERSONALLY!!! they mail that shit to my house in a big fuck you red envelope. and at this point i would rather they didn’t bother if they’re not gonna at least TRY. horror one shots are just one of the things dc just does Better

as for elektra and horror, i’ve made my stance on the potential relationship there pretty clear. like. she could do it all. she could be the final girl, she could be the dies first and comes back slightly fucked up in the sequel, she could be the villain, she could be pre death, she could be post death etc etc. there are SO MANY THINGS abt her that fit such a wide scope of horror tropes. one of my favourite movies ever is all the boys love mandy lane and she could DO THAT!!!! the innocent in the beginning, victim of circumstance (college, pre death, young adult elektra) to actually no fuck all of you, refuses to be manipulated by the people, mostly men, around her, turns out to be the killer. the audition is another. let her torture the shit out of stick or bullseye when they think they can use her. she already has so many aspects of horror stories in her own, she’s been covered in blood so many times and for what!!!!!! we’re not doing anything with it!!! she’s a KILLERRRR and in a horror au, everyone can die!!! it’s prime territory!!

and women in horror is such a fuckin goldmine too. like especially women who have been through shit and to see what happens when they’re forced into certain situations. as well as women who HAVENT been through shit and just wanna go apeshit one time. there’s a reason why so much horror focuses on women and that’s because they’re usually made by men who want to see some women suffer but that’s changed so much since and like yeah. there are a still a good few that are like ok we get it you want to see a woman get tortured. but there’s so much more substance to it. or there could be???? it’s a women’s power fantasy like iron man is a men’s power fantasy and i will not be elaborating. brad from ohio wants to be rich and for girls to like him. i want to kill people with an axe in a life or death situation. we are not the same.

tl;dr. it’s the genre she deserves after being a character that’s revolved around the men in her life since the dawn of time, and after the man who created her is one of the slimiest motherfuckers ever to leave his primordial soup. she could ENCOMPASS the genre for marvel but no one listens to me