#Laura Ng

[panicinthestudio]

Further reading:

HKFP: Defence slams prosecution for shifting ground as sedition trial against Hong Kong outlet Stand News nears end, June 28, 2023

HKFP: Verdict in sedition trial against Hong Kong outlet Stand News set for October, almost a year after trial began, June 29, 2023

[benimadimsanat]

[lirpatanarts]

Since this is 126th Independence Day or Araw ng Kalayaan here in the Philippines, I drew the PreCures (including the birb boi) in traditional Filipino attires.

Sora Harewataru (Hirogaru Sky! PreCure)

Laura La Mer (Tropical-Rouge! PreCure)

Setsuna Higashi (Fresh PreCure!)

Ako Shirabe (Suite PreCure)

Tsubasa Yuunagi (Hirogaru Sky! PreCure)

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (August 27th, 2024)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Releases:

The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal by Ambika Vohra

Sunderworld, Vol. 1 by Ransom Riggs

Don't Let it Break Your Heart by Maggie Horne

Come Out, Come Out by Natalie C. Parker

Libertad by Bessie Flores Zaldivar

Bridge Across the Sky by Freeman Ng

Sync by Ellen Hopkins

Love is in the Hair by Gemma Cary

Our Shouts Echo by Jade Adia

Jupiter Rising by Gary D. Schmidt

Practical Rules for Cursed Witches by Kayla Cottingham

With Love, Echo Park by Laura Taylor Namey

Full Shift by Jennifer Dugan & Kristen Seaton

Twin Flames by Olivia Abtahi

One House Left by Vincent Ralph

Mysterious Ways by Wendy Wunder

Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay

The Dreamers by Ryan Elizabeth Penske

Anomaly by Emma Lord

New Sequels:

The New Camelot (Emry Merlin #3) by Robyn Schneider

Fyrebirds (Nightbirds #2) by Kate J. Armstrong

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Happy reading!

[mangocheesecakes]

me saying a little prayer before pressing send on my donation asks: please don't be a zionist, please don't be a terf or a racist or a bigot in general, and please please have even just £5 to spare. amen 🙏. ok send.

[meatmasochist]

[prepping] [for my evening] [🔪] [🩸] [🩹]

[thischarmingamy]

My Year In Books

Stats from GoodReads Here’s what my year in books looked like. Follow me on GoodReads for details and reviews. You may note that at least three of the books feature disabled lead characters. Some of my favorites (not necessarily released in 2023) are: 10. Cut Loose! by Ali Stroker and Stacy Davidowitz (The sequel to The Chance to Fly) 9. What Kind of Motber by Clay McLeod Chapman 8. Tombs by…

[animatedshortoftheday]

Natalie (2014) [4 min] by Arthur H. Lee, Ben Szabo, Claudia Tanjung, Halley Roache, Kaitlin Sutherland, Laura Horobin, Leslie Pulsifer, Maja Delic, Maria Nhuyen, Raymond Lefebvre, Sam Lloyd, Valerie Ng and Yeri Sa | Canada

[persephonethewanderer]

give us gothic literature recs!!!!

here you go anon!

FICTION:

wuthering heights, emily brontë

jane eyre, charlotte brontë

the bloody chamber, angela carter

mathilda, mary shelley

we have always lived in the castle, shirley jackson

the yellow wallpaper, charlotte perkins gilman

rebecca, daphne du maurier

carmilla, sheridan le fanu

dracula, bram stoker

frankenstein, mary shelley

the mill on the floss, george eliot

the orphan's tale, catherynne m. valente

the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

my cousin rachel, daphne du maurier

the double, fyodor dostoyevsky

the grey woman, elizabeth gaskell

beloved, toni morrison

the fall of the house of usher, edgar allan poe

wise blood, flannery o'connor

white is for witching, helen oyeyemi

wide sargasso sea, jean rhys

our wives under the sea, julia armfield

valerie and her week of wonders, vítězslav nezval

salome, oscar wilde

deathless, catherynne m. valente

piranesi, susanne clarke

picnic at hanging rock, joan lindsay

NON FICTION:

decadent daughters and monstrous mothers: angela carter and european gothic, rebecca munford

the contested castle: gothic novels and the subversion of domestic ideology, kate ferguson ellis

gothic incest: gender, sexuality and transgression, jenny diplacidi

our vampires, ourselves, nina auerbach

the madwoman in the attic, sandra gilbert and susan gubar

a new companion to the gothic, david punter

daughters of the house: modes of the gothic in victorian fiction, alison milbank

women and the gothic, avril horner and sue zlosnik

fairy tale & gothic horror, laura hubner

female gothic histories, diana wallace

women and domestic space in contemporary gothic narratives, andrew hock soon ng

gothic and gender, donna heiland

perils of the night: a feminist study of 19th century gothic, eugenia c. delamotte

the female gothic: new directions, diana wallace and andrew smith

[argyrocratie]

November 28, 2024

The Hong Kong government finally issued its verdict to the 47 members of the pro-democracy camp who have been detained for over three years—a long-awaited trial punctuated by multiple delays. The 47 were arrested in 2021 for organizing an unofficial primary to field pro-democracy candidates, so that the movement could consolidate candidates to maximize their chances of victory in the city’s Legislative Council elections in 2020. The strategy was intended as a legal way to continue Hong Kong’s democratic struggle, in light of the increasing repression of political dissent with the passage of the National Security Law (NSL) in 2020, which concluded a fiery, nearly-year-long mass movement between 2019 and 2020. 

Benny Tai, a key pro-democracy figure who also organized open mass assemblies that led to the Umbrella Movement in 2013, received the highest sentence—10 years, shortened from 15, as Tai pleaded guilty. Those charged come from a variety of ideological backgrounds, reflecting the political pluralism of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. Some are the most visible figures of the city’s labor movements and the progressive left. “Long Hair,” Leung Kwok-hung, the city’s most prominent left-wing and Marxist activist, received one of the highest sentences among those not considered as one of the primary’s official organizers. Leung has been a longtime participant in militant struggles since the 1970s, organizing actions against the British colonial regime as a member of the Revolutionary Marxist League and later, April Fifth Action; and as a convenor of the League of Social Democrats (LSD), demonstrating against multiple US-backed imperialist wars from Iraq to Gaza, neoliberal globalization, and other local progressive causes.

(...)

The recent (revival of and) passage of Article 23 further reinforces these legal ambiguities to enable this unprecedented state of repression. For one, the article strengthens the state’s prosecution of “seditious” acts, identified as “the intent to endanger national security.” Even before the trial of the 47, the state has shown great willingness to capitalize on the vagueness of such wording to indict people for what it considers national security crimes. In 2022, two people were arrested for committing “acts with seditious intention”—posting messages on social media that “promote feelings of ill-will and enmity between different classes of the population of Hong Kong.” Apparently, simply naming social antagonisms between classes in one of the world’s most hyper-capitalist and unequal cities, in other words, counts as “sedition.”

(...)

What these examples and this trial’s verdict show is that the Hong Kong government has abandoned any remaining semblance of democratic norms—even as the rule of law has never really existed in the first place. Even before the passage of the NSL[national security law], unelected professional business sectors composed nearly half of the city’s legislature (a colonial-era system pro-Beijing forces lobbied to retain in the final years of British rule), while the government in Beijing reserves the final right to interpret any laws or legal decisions in Hong Kong. Many of the laws used against opposition figures and protestors are also ones directly inherited from the colonial era: for example, prosecutor Laura Ng directly cited an 1868 British law used to quell Irish rebellions to justify her verdict of the pro-democracy media outlet Stand News as “seditious” in 2022. In the first comprehensive study of the NSL, legal scholar Han Zhu describes these laws as “an unprecedented experiment,” and “a bizarre mixture of elements from socialist civil law, Hong Kong common law, and British colonial law.” The NSL’s improvisatory nature demonstrates that legality only serves now as a poorly assembled set of fictions that barely mask the state’s naked rule by totalitarian force. 

(...)

However constrained Tai’s political horizon is, some of his organizing solutions inadvertently opened avenues for the everyday masses to participate in collective self-activity and democratic deliberation. Acknowledging this allows us to understand why the state gave the heaviest penalty to the proponent of such a toothless and moderate tactic. The state was not really threatened by what such candidates may do in the legislature if they win—but by the potential resurgence of a militant, possibly revolutionary, mass movement that organizes beyond the chambers of LegCo, which it had only just contained by force. In 2020, the primary turned out 600,000 voters, making it the most-participated one in the whole history of Hong Kong. This renewal of energy after months of uncertainty and fear wrought by growing repression and the early stages of the pandemic threatened to revive the mass movement anew.

Tai and others’ political repression shows that mass movements that expose and challenge the hypocrisies of sham legality, rather than confinement within participation in legalistic or electoral politics, threaten the ruling power. In this vein, the most effective avenue for international solidarity is not appealing to the sham “democratic” institutions of the West, which have been eager to co-opt critiques of China for their own imperialist designs. And so, in this particular conjuncture, we must contextualize our critique of China’s further crackdown on Hong Kong activists in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces. Not merely gestural, it is a forceful recognition of the United States’ shameless hypocrisy that sees State Department officials condemning the kangaroo courts of Hong Kong while supplying an endless stream of arms and defensive technologies and vociferously shielding Israel from any legal consequence for its war crimes. 

...

[ttt-ral-info]

抵抗と灯火 - Resistance And Lamplight - vol.3 "Dear Palestine... Vibrations of Solidarity"

抵抗と灯火 - Resistance And Lamplight - vol.3 "Dear Palestine... Vibrations of Solidarity"

2024.6.9 SUN at 高田馬場JETROBOT

📍Address📍 東京都新宿区西早稲田3-28-1 RICOSビルB1F

Open 13:00 / Start 13:30

ADV ¥2,000- DOOR ¥2,400- ＋ 1drink ¥600-

Artists : MKRDTSB / Peace ∈ CaF2 / hirano taichi / ネコダ珈琲 ＋ おしゃべりタイム（適宜）

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「抵抗と灯火」はあらゆる権力、理不尽、腐敗に抵抗してゆくプロジェクトです。第3回は、第1回、第2回に続き、一市民として、“あいするパレスチナへ連帯するバイブス”を持ち寄る空間を作ります。

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🎤出演アーティスト🎤

MKRDTSB（み から でた さび / Bedroom-music） 音楽家・写真家・文筆家。抵抗と灯火主催。この星に生まれて以来、深い枯れた井戸の底に踞っている。2023年12月、井戸からパレスチナがつながる。この星のさまざまな問題が可視化される。希死念慮を抱える傍ら、死ぬまで生きると決めた。自らの存在があらゆる権力・理不尽・腐敗に抵抗を示す。

Peace ∈ CaF2（ぴーす かふつ / ラッパー） 昼は底辺の財政学徒、夜は曲作るマイメン達と。 自分の人生とこの社会にようやく向き合う気になった、 元マセガキの、今はイキった若者。 「俺が社会を変えられなくても、俺に刺激を受けた奴が社会を変える。」 (2Pac, 1994)

hirano taichi（ひらの たいち / シンガーソングライター） 大阪府出身。2010年に上京し、翌2011年に東京で東日本大震災に遭う。反原発のデモなどを行う。2018年、自ら監督、制作し、3.11以降の路上の行動をまとめたドキュメンタリー「TwitNoNukes Presents STANDARD」を発表。その際に音楽制作を行ったことをきっかけに、2019年6月より音楽活動を開始。自身で作詞・作曲・編曲・歌唱を行うシンガーソングライターとして活動する。ライブ活動を続ける傍ら、2020年1月、楽曲「お金で寝る身体」を発表。以降音源を散発的に発表。2023年1stアルバム「via」を発表。

ネコダ珈琲（ねこだこーひー / coffee color eyed soul） 2014年からピアノ弾き語りをしている。主にLaura Nyro Todd Rundgren XTC を愛す。NoHate NoFake。だれもころすな。

おしゃべりタイム イベントの合間、終演後は随時お客さん同士でおしゃべりをしたいひとはしてください。わたしたちはあいするパレスチナへ連帯するバイブスを持ち寄る者たちです。出演者もスタッフもおしゃべりしたいです。わたしたち、あなたとおしゃべりしたいです（もちろん強制ではありません）。インターネットとハッシュタグが得意なひとは「#FreePalestine」、「#アパルトヘイトに抗する文化」、「#artforpalestinechallenge」、「#抵抗と灯火」などをつけて、シェアをしてください。「わたしたちはここにいる」ということを、パレスチナに届くまでいっしょに伝えてください。

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食べものの持ち込みはOKですが、飲みものの持ち込みはNGです（※会場内で持ち込みした飲みものを飲むことはご遠慮ください）。会場/高田馬場JETROBOTはソフトドリンク・アルコールともに幅広いラインナップでわたしたちを迎えてくれます。会場でお買い求めください！ライブハウスに敬意を払うバイブスも持ってきてね〜＋直近で札幌へ行ってきたMKRDTSBからおみやげあります

イベント当日、「抵抗と灯火」チームで写真・動画の撮影を行います。お客さまのお顔を完全に映さないことは難しいことをご了承ください。

全出演者が写真・動画撮影OKです！随時SNSなどへぶち上げてシェアしてください。ハッシュタグ【#抵抗と灯火】や【@TTT_ral_info】のメンションをつけていただくと、こちら側で見つけやすいため、ご協力いただけるとうれしいですが必須ではありません。 →写真や画像を投稿していただくときには、ALT（代替テキスト）をつけて投稿を！

体調不良などでご来場が難しくなった場合、キャンセル料は一切かかりませんので、「抵抗と灯火」までご連絡をください。

テイクフリー・物販コーナーにてパレスチナ連帯パッチ、ZINEなどを取り扱う予定です。よろしくおねがいします。

途中から来てもOK、途中で帰ってもOK！

出演者はみんなプロパレスタイン（親パレスチナ）のひとびとです。来てくださる方もプロパレスタインのひとびとです。 6/9はパレスチナへ連帯するバイブスを持つ、四者四様の抵抗する音楽のイベントを予定しています。前回まで行っていたオープンマイクは今回はないですが、そのぶんおしゃべりしていただける時間を多く設けました。おしゃべりしたいひとは安心しておしゃべりしてください。わたしたち、あなたと話したいです。 ご来場と拡散をお待ちしています。

それまでに停戦。今すぐ停戦。

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FREE FREE PALESTINE!!

FREE FREE FREE PALESTINE!!!

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〈更新履歴〉 ・2024/05/21：各種SNSにアナウンスしていた内容を取りまとめてアップしました（チラシ入稿後のピースさんのプロフィールに誤植があります…（謝罪しましたが謝っても謝り切れねえ…）、本記事から最新のプロフィール文に更新しています）。 ・2024/06/02：タイムテーブルを更新しました。

[burned-lariat]

Trina/Taby couldn't get developed scenes with her father Taggert/Real because of designated fave Curtis. Where are all the scenes of Trina and Taggert coming to terms with the news of the fake paternity switch? What about Taggert and pet Curtis' scenes? The writers literally erased Taggert hoping Curtis would prosper, and used Trina and Portia to do it. The Ashfords have no anchor without Taggert.

Next, Trina couldn’t get developed scenes with her own man Spencer/NAC because of designated fave Ezceme. After seeing all the attention and comparisons to Luke & Laura Sprina received, the writers shut sh*t down and spent the next months using NAC as a prop for Ecmse. The poor man is a Cassadine but couldn't have his own place. Even his death was used as a prop for the fave. The way the writers wrote Spencer's funeral and made a point of keeping the Ashfords and Cassaadines separate spoke volumes.

Third, Trina couldn't even get to mourn her man in peace because of ongoing designated fave Joss, who's supposed to be the second coming of her mama. She stomps around screaming and shouting and whining and sex!ng while Trina is there for support. The way Trina's pain and loss immediately pivoted to Joss' drama with her mob boyfriend spoke volumes.

Yeah, it's been pretty clear that the former writers resent that their faves are not the majority's faves and thus take it out on the audience via erasure. Here's hoping the new regime doesn't do that shit.

[kavalyera]

5,6,49 for the VTM ask meme! -meowkavian

I have like severall,,,, but yk what I’m gonna use this for my newest silly guy

5. Who is their sire?

— Florante’s sire is a man named Juan Salvador Bautista. He worked as a police officer, and Juan was his Chief.

6. What was their relationship to their sire? Were they close in any way or mere strangers?

— Florante and Juan were close, best buddies. Juan served as his best man at his wedding when he married Laura (his wife and Juan’s cousin)

49. Detail your OC’s backstory!

— Born in Manila, Philippines as “Jose Constantino Evangelista” (yes I’m always going all out with names if they’re Filipino sue me😔), Florante was a promising young man. He served the church due to his mother being in the choir and befriended a girl named Laura alongside her cousin, Juan. The three became best friends over the course of the years, doing whatever Filipino kids did—hang around in the slums, walk across highways for fun, making fun of politicians for their shit haircut, all that stuff! ^^

Eventually, Florante proposed to Laura, promising to keep her safe and fulfill all her wishes. He had a nickname for her “perla ng buhay ko” (pearl of my life), leading to them moving to Cebu where Laura was a teacher and Florante was a police officer. Laura eventually gave birth to two twin daughters <3

That happiness changed when someone from Laura’s past, barged in, and killed her while he was on duty. Florante’s life grew silent, and dark. He tried to move past it, past all the mourning, but no. Later, this man came in to finish the job and well, lucky for him, Florante was reborn with a new found thirst for revenge. He renamed himself as Florante, because Laura loved the book as it included her name and was one of her only possessions that he had left of her.

And this is definitely not because I watched the Crow before I made him for my chronicle nuh uh

[mangocheesecakes]

You will forever be known as the scammer that you are Laura, know that. I hope lahat ng kakilala mo makita kung anong pinag-gagagawa mo ditong letse ka.

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

Hugo: Miles I have holes in my pockets and no one useful on speed dial. I'm built for hiding in libraries.

Miles: I'm not gonna lie to the police so you can ponce around in a f{}ck{}ng cape for the rest of your life!

Sam Reid, once again, bringing us a messy disaster lgbt+ as Hugo in The Riot Club.

The Riot Club was adapted from a play called Posh, whivh was created by the playwright, Laura Wade.

[bookclub4m]

Episode 200 - Library Fiction

It’s episode 200, which means it’s (finally) time for us to discuss Library Fiction! We talk about the stereotypes and tropes of library fiction, unacknowledged work of library workers,and more. Plus: we talk way more about our actual jobs than we usually do.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges 

The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence

Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore by Paula Guran (below are direct links to many of the stories from this collection)

In the House of the Seven Librarians by Ellen Klages

In Libres by Elizabeth Bear

Those Who Watch by Ruthanna Emrys

Paper Cuts Scissors by Holly Black

Summer Reading by Ken Liu

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

With Tales in Their Teeth, From the Mountain They Came by A.C. Wise

The Librarian’s Dilemma by E. Saxey

The Green Book by Amal El-Mohtar

A Woman's Best Friend by Robert Reed

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu

The Sigma Structure Symphony by Gregory Benford

The Fort Moxie Branch by Jack McDevitt

The Last Librarian: Or a Short Account of the End of the World by Edoardo Albert

How Can I Help You by Laura Sims

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor 

Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen

Other Media We Mentioned

The Library of Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

The Empty Crown by Rosemary Edghill 

Meghan meant The Abortion by Richard Brautigan (not Trout Fishing in America)

The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

Bookhunter by Jason Shiga

Unshelved by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes

Library Comic by Gene Ambaum and Willow Payne

Welcome to Night Vale

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Abbott Elementary

Pounded In The Butt By My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly But In Reality Is Just A Natural Part Of The Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides by Chuck Tingle

My Librarian Is A Beautiful Lesbian Ice Cream Cone And She Tastes Amazing by Chuck Tingle

Party Girl

Public Enemy - Fight the Power

Fictional Librarians

50 Fictional Librarians, Ranked

Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Barbara Gordon (DC Comics)

The Librarian (Discworld)

Lucien (The Sandman)

Evelyn Carnahan (The Mummy)

Marian Paroo (The Music Man)

Librarians (Welcome to Night Vale)

“While their description is never fully given, minor details of their physical characteristics have been described:”

yellow, gnarled teeth

sharp claws and pincers

Wings

Tentacles

thousands of spiny legs

rattles (that make noise when they move)

thoraxes

Links, Articles, and Things

Two-Fisted Library Stories zines

North Boulder Library is ready to open (there’s a slide in image 6!)

15 Librarian & Library Fiction by POC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts

Cora's Kitchen by Kimberly Garrett Brown

The Next Best Fling by Gabriella Gamez 

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu

The Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana

The Plotters by Kim Un-Su

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

Bookhunter by Jason Shiga

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 1st we’ll be getting ready for spooky season with the Weird West! (That’s Supernatural Horror Westerns)

Then on Tuesday, October 15th it’s time for our “We All Read the Same Book” episode as we discuss A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher.