#Mill town

[timmurleyart]

The pressure of the shadow. ❄️🤎🤍💙🎨

[totto70]

A sunny Good Friday walk around the pond in the old mill town/company town/bruksort of Hälleforsnäs. Founded 1659 and closed down in 1997. 338 years of industry history.

[pintsizeddeepthoughts]

My Top 10 Books of the Year

Mill Town, Kerri Arsenault

Part memoir, part expose of the paper industry in Rumford, Maine, you could spend weeks mulling this onion of a book without reading the center

Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather

Pastoral and meandering, in this classic nothing happens and everything happens. It’s a story about small kindnesses (and big kindnesses) that add up to a life well lived.

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante

The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante

A two for one deal here as these are the back half of Ferrante’s masterful Neapolitan Quartet. The entire time you’re in awe of a genius at work.

Matrix, Lauren Groff

Literary and willfully subversive. Set in a medieval French abbey, it offers a glimpse of a world that could have been if only there’d existed a woman with the heroine’s force of will.

The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow

The more well versed in history you are, the better this blend of historical fiction and fantasy is. It’s still a helluva fun ride even if you’re aren’t well versed.

Galatea, Madeline Miller

A feminist retelling of the Pygmalion myth from my favorite working author as I eagerly await her next novel (foot tapping).

Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng

What happens when two women with incompatible world views collide in a suburban Ohio? I think the title says it all.

The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead

Again the more you know your history the better this novel is. Regardless, if it doesn’t make you angry on at least six different levels there’s something wrong with you.

The Lobster Coast, Colin Woodward

The history of Maine as told through its most visible export, written in a lively style and grounded in well researched chapters? Yes, please!

[unstablequeerbitch]

I live in the Appalachian mts. I use to live in a mill town. Now I live in a dead coal mine town. There is a reason why we had the coal mine wars. There’s a reason for Blair Mountain. There is a reason why we made unions. There is a reason why Redneck was twisted into be derogatory.

Learn your fucking history people.

[darksideofthemoonbot]

"Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly." —Naota Nandaba

[loudlylovingreview]

Baron Wormser: The System

   Back in the day, I used to ascribe every woe to what I called “The System.” The woes were plentiful: war, the military-industrial complex that made the wars possible, racism, economic inequality, the global misery wrought by colonialism, the heavy hand of patriarchy, along with discrimination on various fronts. Since then I can add technological advents that have stirred the unhappy pot even…

[lamour-est-la-force]

Me: Once Upon a Time season 1 is so cozy and comforting :)

ouat s1: government corruption, a woman almost having to give her baby away against her will, a mine collapsing with a child inside, a girl locked in a mental hospital, arson, homeless children needing to steal to survive, said homeless children almost getting separated in the foster care system, infidelity, drugging and kidnapping, attempted muder, actual murder, a murder trial that has nothing to do with the real actual murder, a man slowly and painfully turning into wood, etc.

[yellowbugifs]

143/365 days of regina mills

[blluespirit]

i wish that there was more time between the day of black sun and sozin's comet bc zuko's official desertion from the fire nation would have the most insane ripple effects (and it would be nice to see the gaang interacting a bit more than we got but hey i'll take what i can get)

zuko's desertion would have been essentially impossible for the fire nation to bury since it was such a big deal that he returned at all. so i imagine the smear campaign against zuko would have been craaazy. i think it would have been interesting for the gaang to try and deal with that when navigating the FN. zuko would be very recognisable i think at this point, and it would have made staying hidden much harder. would they still have chosen ember island? maybe the kids didn't recognise zuko and azula during The Beach , but with the prince of the fire nation committing treason would there be more wanted posters? would there be more talk around the island? would zuko have to remain hidden while the rest go out and get food?

i wonder if zuko deserting and very meaningly committing his loyalty to the avatar influenced other soldiers in the FN to also desert? or would it have had the opposite effect and made people feel more patriotic since zuko was banished, returned under the guise of having killed the avatar, and then left when aang announced his survival to world during the failed invasion?

SPEAKING OF THAT!! the rumours around this would be INSANE. we know what really happened, but the public don't. did zuko and the avatar plan this so that there would be an inside man during the invasion and then zuko used that chaos to escape? what really happened in ba sing se if zuko didn't kill aang, but azula thought that he did? (again: we, the audience know the truth, but the general public don't). if zuko and the avatar where working together... for how long? was iroh involved somehow since he also disappeared the same time that zuko did? did iroh get captured on purpose to be close to zuko to possibly help him if needed? did zuko break iroh out of jail or did one of the guards or was iroh alone? you could spiral on this as just an average person in the avatar world for years like. if youtube existed in atla imagine the video essays breaking down all the conspiracies

its a kids show so obviously Nothing Bad Happened BUT in the Boiling Rock, zuko getting found out as not only an imposter (already, a very bad situation), a traitor (extremely bad), AND the traitorous (ex) prince of the fire nation (devastatingly terrible) would have been... incredibly dangerous for zuko. in zuko and iroh's original wanted poster, the official translation says “Permission is granted to kill them on sight” and this was before zuko has gone right ahead and committed Treason On Purpose. the warden is not going to be nice. when the warden visits zuko in his cell he literally tells him "If these criminals found out who you are, the traitor prince who let his nation down, why they'd tear you to shreds." the boiling rock would be hell trying to survive. it also puts a lot more weight on zuko refusing to leave sokka in their first escape attempt. also ozai obviously knew that he has his son was in prison bc he... broke in to the prison bc azula was there but then zuko manages to escape with sokka (another imposter) and suki and hakoda (POWs) and chit sang (a prisoner) and two of azula's trusted friends end up in prison for treason as well i just. that is literally insane for the average person to hear about. again, THE CONSPIRACIES!!

when zuko eventually does take the throne there's a lot of conjecture around what zuko did while he was banished and moreso, what he did the second time he left, this time voluntarily. i think zuko's loyalty would be questioned a lot; by other world leaders who are understandably wary about the fire nation and its motivations, but also by its own people - some who believe that zuko is a traitor to his country and is trying to sabotage it since he helped end the war.

idk these are all just me rambling but it would been so interesting to explore the implications of zuko leaving the fire nation and how that would have impacted the gaang and how they interacted with others in their travels. there are so many fic where zuko joins the gaang early, but neither myself with the aus that I have written, nor many that ive read have explored this very much or at all.

[timmurleyart]

Happy Groundhog Day to all the groundhogs. ❄️🤎🤍💙🎨

[dinneratgrannys]

And I’ve conquered realms in less time.

[kottkrig]

I think about the canon size of places in WoW sometimes... Lordaeron City mostly, and comparing it to the movie's version of Stormwind

Imagining a massive fantasy capital city at this scale but it's dark and gloomy and has THOUSANDS of undead people as its citizens just walking around trying to rebuild their weird dead lives (plus a whole secondary Undercity flooded in its sewers)

[gemsofgreece]

Ios, Greece by n.galanos on Instagram.

[geryone]

Important to me & to no one else but my new apartment is a 15 minute walk from the library ❤️

[foolsocracy]

Now having watched Frankenstein (1931) I find this really interesting. I didn't really expect the writers themselves to have watched the film; I assumed they saw it was a horror film released in Pete's time and included it with the bonus that the audience would know the story because its Frankenstein. It really aligns with the themes of spider noir though, so I'm second guessing myself.

I read Frankenstein a while back so I'm not as familiar with it as I once was, but I'd say its generous to say the movie is based off of the original novel. It hits some of the points but it really is different. I mean, in the film its Henry Frankenstein, not even Victor.

In the film, the monster is played almost-infantile. He reaches out towards light as if he could grab it. He plays with a little girl by a lake, throwing in flowers to watch them float like boats. When he kills her, it's an accident. How could he have known that she wouldn't float along with the flowers? Its Frankenstein and his assistant who are portrayed as monstrous. They lock him in the dark for three days. The intimidate him with fire and whips and fists.

Despite this, its Frankenstein who gets the 'good end,' while the monster is left to burn alive, pinned inside a wooden mill set alight by the townspeople.

Pete could have gotten nightmares from a number of scenes. Although I wouldn't personally say this is a scary film, there are definitely unnerving parts. There was also a different standard in 1931 for what was scary in film, plus Pete was already living a hard life at such a young age when he saw it.

Based on the panels themselves it is clear that Pete was scared of the monster itself (which is fair, the make up and costuming wanted him to be frightening). "I expected him to tell me there's no such thing as monsters," because no one in real life is a resurrected, looming... once-man-now-creature. (Just you wait, Peter). It's a more juvenile read of the film but Pete is a kid. Ben though, is a veteran, a socialist, has been around the block. He has the sense to analyze the film and interpret it differently. It is the men who find themselves with a capacity for senseless cruelty that are the monsters. That is exactly what the noir comics are about.

I really like that it's clear that Uncle Ben knows what Peter is about to learn. It also shows how much Pete has changed, just within the 1-2 years since he'd seen Frankenstein.