#Muriel Shaw

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"If there was anything to be noticed, I believe that you, the connoisseur of human nature, you would have noticed it."

Sir Charles and Poirot pay a visit to Miss Wills at the theatre.

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YEEES OMG I LOVE MURIEL

David is literally the closest in personality to the large muscley bean of the arcana.

-Tsundere vibes

-Big scary man turned soft around their partner

-Hates social interaction

-Still has a soft spot for friends/family

-Inanna. Just. Inanna.

David may not have a very tragic past but he is still SO SIMILAR to Muri.

I was thinking about my favorite visual novel and remembered this scene… whatever you do don’t imagine it as david with his and angel’s baby the first time they shift

[companion-showdown]

Who is the best member of UNIT*?

*or its derivatives

SEMIFINALS

Martha Jones vs Liz Shaw

Jo Grant vs The Brigadier

QUARTERFINALS

Martha Jones vs Benton

Liz Shaw vs Kate Stewart

Winifred Bambera vs Jo Grant

Mel Bush vs The Brigadier

previous rounds under the cut

ROUND 3

Martha Jones vs Other Osgood

Benton vs Osgood

Liz Shaw vs Erisa Magambo

Shirley Anne Bingham vs Kate Stewart

The Doctor vs Winifred Bambera

Harry Sullivan vs Jo Grant

Mel Bush vs Mike Yates

Iris Wildthyme vs The Brigadier

ROUND 2

Martha Jones vs Hamlet Macbeth

Other Osgood vs Ron Winters

Benton vs Inspector Drake

Captain Scarlet vs Osgood

Liz Shaw vs Tony Clare

Erisa Magambo vs Jane Fonda!Iris Wildthyme

Shirley Anne Bingham vs Roz Forrester

June Turner vs Kate Stewart

The Doctor vs Abby McPhail

Malcolm Taylor vs Winifred Bambera

Harry Sullivan vs CCPC

Anthony Sinclair vs Jo Grant

Mel Bush vs Jacqui McGee

Ross Bimmocombe-Wood vs Mike Yates

Chris Cwej vs Emily Chaudhry

Adrienne Kramer vs The Brigadier

ROUND 1 (Group Stage)

The Brigadier, Benton, Yates, Liz, Jo, Harry, Mel, The Doctor, Martha, Kate, and an Osgood will automatically proceed to the head-to-head rounds

Group 1

Winifred Bambera

Tom Osgood

Carol Bell

Erisa Magambo

Malcolm Taylor

Group 2

Other Osgood

Other Other Osgood

Shirley Anne Bingham

The Vlinx

Group 3

Joel

Anthony Sinclair

Kathleen Bregman

Abby McPhail

Ron Winters

Tony Clare

Group 4

Jane Fonda!Iris Wildthyme

Captain Scarlet

Captain Black

Adrienne Kramer

Muriel Frost

Hamlet Macbeth

Group 5

Sam Bishop

Josh Carter

Jacqui McGee

Ross Brimmicombe-Wood

Chris Cwej

Roz Forrester

Group 6

June Turner

Inspector Drake

Inspector Thorne

CCPC

Emily Chaudhry

Robert Dalton

Links to previous tournaments

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Parallels

Genre: Superhero, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Spy, Mystery

Synopsis: A group of ordinary people who live mundane lives all wake up together in a dreamworld/other dimension where they have superhuman abilities. This other reality is parallel to theirs, just with scifi/fantasy elements thrown in that are typical of a superhero universe. Part of the mystery is finding out how they are all brought to this other reality, and why they were “chosen” to connect as dreamers/heroes, but it becomes more difficult since the dream picks up where it left off if they go unconscious in the Superhero Reality/Mundane Reality, which leads to realities blurring.

I haven’t really explored The Mundane Reality parts all that much yet, so this is mostly the superhero aspects that I’ve been developing/posting 😅

Tags: #parallels comic project | #parallels

Knightsbridge Hollow*

Genre: A mix of mystery, comedy, fantasy, spy, and slight horror

Setting: 1961-62, British Countryside

Synopsis: Set in the Parallels universe, immortals John and Muriel Traxton move to the little English village of Knightsbridge Hollow after a disastrous attempt at living in the city outside of the pocket dimension they had been calling home since their marriage. Muriel wants to attempt a “normal” life, and John is just going along with it because he loves his wife and wants to support this endeavor. This, however, comes to bite them when it turns out that Knightsbridge is a magnet for all sorts of mana-infused people and creatures…and it seems like all of the creatures are working under someone who has it out for Muriel…

*Current comic project I’m working on | you can follow the blog for more updates too

Tags: #knightsbridge hollow

Sci Fi WIP Universe (it has a name but you have to find out on Patreon hehe)

Genre: Sci Fi

Setting: Thousands of years in the future, after humanity has colonized the known galaxy

Synopsis: I have three stories (so far) in this universe, all at different points in time!

Main Story - The one that I hope to write in the future that serves as the introduction to the universe these stories are set to take place in. Thrust into the seat of power after her father was assassinated, Empress Ariadne Fenway II has to contend with a planet of people who have been under the heel of the Fenway Dynasty for far too long and are ready to revolt as she tries to enact reforms to help make reparations. Ultimately she is forced to flee when a charismatic member from the Priest Sect who calls himself “The Demagogue” joins forces with a rival noble house on the planet and enacts a coup.

Tags: #untitled sci fi wip | #untitled sci fi story

Assassin Story - Follows two genetically-engineered assassins–Taran and Renata–as they navigate their new lives after breaking away from their masters and deciding to do things on their own terms. They have to come to rely on each other to avoid bounty hunters and other mercenaries sent after them, oh, and the Death Squad the Assassin Makers send to liquidate their AWOL assets. Set a century or two prior to the Main Story.

Tags: #assassin story

Shadow Sector - Takes place about a hundred years after the Main Story. The setting is on a massive research station in what has become known as “The Shadow Sector,” following a widower, Shaw, and his three girls as isolationist genetically-engineered human societies start reintegrating back into the Imperium. This includes Representative deGrav'aine being sent to the Station as part of an exchange program for the GEs and Baseline humans to trade their knowledge. Unknown to the Imperium at large, there are some GEs and Baselines who are opposed to the commingling of races, and will do anything they can to put a stop to it, even perhaps starting a war.

Tags: #shadow sector

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A post from Muriel Fahrion, AKA outta thin air studios, who has been illustrating and designing strawberry shortcake, care bears, and similar cartoon since the 1980s.

The first image is a pencil drawing of a young and happy indigenous woman doing a shawl dance, her Shaw and her braids swinging as she moves. She is surrounded by four bunnies also doing shawl dances.

Transcript of the second and third images, which are all text:

STRAWBERRY MOON SHAWL DANCE

I am preparing for INDIG POPX IN OKC. STRAWBERRY MOON first made her appearance last year. It was a limited edition drawing of 75. I only have two left. I just completed this drawing last night. My drawings of STRAWBERRY MOON, are done in collaboration with Kristin Gentry, who is Choctaw who works putting the INDIGI POPX together. Kristin gives me great background information and approves my drawing as I go along. The rabbits. (Chukfi is rabbit in Choctaw) our dancing in shawls as well as there is a tradition for children during the Rabbit moon. This will be my 2024 limited edition for XΡΟ. Like all my limited addition prints, it will be hand signed and numbered. It will include a backstory any that do not get sold out, will be offered on outtathinairstudio.com

FYI: as soon as I put foot on Oklahoma in 1995 I began my education on indigenous peoples and tribes of Oklahoma. #Grateful.

For this drawing I had to do more research beforehand. It was my idea to do the shawl dance because I've seen it in person and it mesmerizing. But I found a few photos that captured the movement of the shawl and how it is actually held. And Low and behold I found out that the number 4 is an important number in the Choctaw tribe. I do have 4. The little baby bunny I added without even knowing. Her mat will be silver to represent the moon with a red liner to echo the strawberries.

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Stories Masterpost

Parallels

Genre: Superhero, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Spy, Mystery

Synopsis: A group of ordinary people who live mundane lives all wake up together in a dreamworld/other dimension where they have superhuman abilities. This other reality is parallel to theirs, just with scifi/fantasy elements thrown in that are typical of a superhero universe. Part of the mystery is finding out how they are all brought to this other reality, and why they were “chosen” to connect as dreamers/heroes, but it becomes more difficult since the dream picks up where it left off if they go unconscious in the Superhero Reality/Mundane Reality, which leads to realities blurring.

I haven't really explored The Mundane Reality parts all that much yet, so this is mostly the superhero aspects that I've been developing/posting 😅

Tags: #parallels comic project | #parallels

Knightsbridge Hollow*

Genre: A mix of mystery, comedy, fantasy, spy, and slight horror

Setting: 1961-62, British Countryside

Synopsis: Set in the Parallels universe, immortals John and Muriel Traxton move to the little English village of Knightsbridge Hollow after a disastrous attempt at living in the city outside of the pocket dimension they had been calling home since their marriage. Muriel wants to attempt a "normal" life, and John is just going along with it because he loves his wife and wants to support this endeavor. This, however, comes to bite them when it turns out that Knightsbridge is a magnet for all sorts of mana-infused people and creatures...and it seems like all of the creatures are working under someone who has it out for Muriel...

*Current comic project I'm working on | you can follow the blog for more updates too

Tags: #knightsbridge hollow

Sci Fi WIP Universe (it has a name but you have to find out on Patreon hehe)

Genre: Sci Fi

Setting: Thousands of years in the future, after humanity has colonized the known galaxy

Synopsis: I have three stories (so far) in this universe, all at different points in time!

Main Story - The one that I hope to write in the future that serves as the introduction to the universe these stories are set to take place in. Thrust into the seat of power after her father was assassinated, Empress Ariadne Fenway II has to contend with a planet of people who have been under the heel of the Fenway Dynasty for far too long and are ready to revolt as she tries to enact reforms to help make reparations. Ultimately she is forced to flee when a charismatic member from the Priest Sect who calls himself “The Demagogue” joins forces with a rival noble house on the planet and enacts a coup.

Tags: #untitled sci fi wip | #untitled sci fi story

Assassin Story - Follows two genetically-engineered assassins--Taran and Renata--as they navigate their new lives after breaking away from their masters and deciding to do things on their own terms. They have to come to rely on each other to avoid bounty hunters and other mercenaries sent after them, oh, and the Death Squad the Assassin Makers send to liquidate their AWOL assets. Set a century or two prior to the Main Story.

Tags: #assassin story

Shadow Sector - Takes place about a hundred years after the Main Story. The setting is on a massive research station in what has become known as "The Shadow Sector," following a widower, Shaw, and his three girls as isolationist genetically-engineered human societies start reintegrating back into the Imperium. This includes Representative deGrav'aine being sent to the Station as part of an exchange program for the GEs and Baseline humans to trade their knowledge. Unknown to the Imperium at large, there are some GEs and Baselines who are opposed to the commingling of races, and will do anything they can to put a stop to it, even perhaps starting a war.

Tags: #shadow sector

Okay. That's it. THERE YOU GO

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Addicted to your softness

Summary

Crowley overhears a conversation between Maggie and Nina and learns from them how Shaw spoke to his angel.

Notes

If you look at that scene when Shax mocks Aziraphale's love of food, his softness, look at Aziraphale's face and you'll be heartbroken like me.

On Ao3

Rating G -  1562 words

At Aziraphale's request, Crowley was on his way to pick up a classical music record that the angel had ordered from Maggie. As he walked through the door of the record store, Crowley realized that Maggie wasn't there and was about to call out to her when he heard a voice.

"Nina, I assure you, I'm fine."

Crowley was torn between leaving and staying to tell his angel some gossip.

"But as for this demon, I no longer know their name -"

"Shax."

Shax? Why were they talking about Shax?

"Yes, Shax, what they said to you was extremely hurtful. And I don't want you to think that..."

Maggie's voice interrupted her, "Nina, everything you told me was stuff I've heard before. But I know who I am and what I'm worth. What hurts me more is what they said to Mr. Fell."

"He said you could call him Aziraphale."

They talked about his Aziraphale?

"Yes, Aziraphale. I think he seemed more affected by what they said to him than I was."

Crowley couldn't stand it any longer and joined them in the back room, "What did Shax say to him?"

Both women gasped and Maggie hesitated.

Crowley insisted, "Tell me everything."

Maggie replied quietly, "I don't remember the exact words, but they insisted he was soft, mocked the fact that he liked to eat so much, and asked if they should get him some sushi, and Mr. - Aziraphale looked almost sad for a moment.

That bitch, Crowley thought, feeling anger well up inside him on behalf of Aziraphale.

"Hey, you're not going to pull that lightning trick again, are you?"

Nina's voice snapped him out of his spiral and he shook his head. The coffee shop owner then asked him gently, "Do you need any coffee, like 6 shots of espresso?"

Crowley shook his head, "No, on the other hand, I want six of your biggest Eccles Cakes, if you've got any left."

Nina nodded, kissed Maggie on the cheek, and said to Crowley, "Come on, I'll give you this."

As they walked to the coffee shop, Nina asked him, "Are you going to be okay?"

Crowley replied, "Yeah... no... I hate the idea of him... anyway, let's just say his last employer never really treated him right, even though he never did anything wrong, so..."

Nina nodded, "I know, even if Maggie and I aren't, weren't, well, anyway, when that old witch talked to her like that, if it hadn't been a demon, I don't know if I could have held back. So I can only imagine now that you and he..."

"Yeah." Crowley replied simply as they reached the coffee shop. Nina quickly disappeared behind the counter and returned with a plate of Eccles cakes, which she handed to Crowley, saying, "This is on me. Take good care of him."

Crowley nodded and stomped out of the coffee shop, heading straight for the bookshop.

As he entered, he spotted Aziraphale standing in front of one of the shelves and called to him, "Angel, may I tempt you to a little snack?" 

As the Angel turned, he showed him the plate of cakes, pleased to see his eyes brighten as he nodded eagerly.

Crowley asked, "Isn't Muriel here?"

Aziraphale shook his head as he followed, "No, while studying the books they came across a compendium of the city's monuments and expressed a desire to explore the city."

"Oh, very well," Crowley replied, placing the plate of cakes on the small table, "Sit down and I'll bring you a cup of tea."

"Oh, you're an angel, thank you."

Crowley turned and replied with a cheeky smile, "No, angel, that's you."

He heard the angel chuckle as he entered the small kitchen to prepare the tea. 

A few moments later, he returned to Aziraphale with the tea and sat down next to him after placing the cup in front of him.

He handed the plate to Aziraphale, who greedily grabbed the cake and lifted it to his mouth.

Crowley couldn't help but smile at the various sounds of pleasure the angel made as he tasted the cake.

"What's the matter?" the angel asked, looking confused as he finished the first cake.

Crowley shook his head, "Nothing's wrong," then handed him the plate.

Aziraphale picked up another cake and asked with a smile, "Are you afraid I'm not eating enough?"

Crowley replied, "Nothing of the sort, angel, I just want you to eat what you feel like."

Having just bitten into the cake, Aziraphale smiled back, "That's sweet of you, but also a little strange."

I want you to forget what that idiot said to you.

"Crowley, my dear, I find you a little weird. Not that I dislike your attentions, but I have a strange feeling. Is something wrong?"

Crowley shook his head and replied, "No, nothing, eat."

The angel frowned and said in a falsely scolding tone, "Crowley...no lies between us. I sense there's something on your mind. I may often be oblivious, but I can see that you're upset about something."

Crowley sighed and replied, "I just heard from Maggie what Shax said to you that night.

Aziraphale looked puzzled at first, then Crowley caught the moment when the demon's words came back to his mind and immediately saw the angel's expression as he shrugged and said softly, "It's nothing I haven't heard before, at least Hell and Heaven are connected on this."

Confused, Crowley asked, "What do you mean?"

Aziraphale explained, "It's nothing much, Gabriel used to chastise me too for eating human food and that it made me soft." He unconsciously ran his hand over his stomach, but Crowley saw it and grabbed it, saying, "You know that's crap, don't you?"

"Well..." Aziraphale breathed, looking away, "for two people to be talking about it, there must be something to it."

Crowley grabbed his chin and turned his head toward him, saying in a firm voice, "I'm telling you, it's crap. It's coming from two people who are incapable of enjoying life -even if that's no longer true for his former royal smugness. You know, watching you eat is one of my favorite things, Angel?"

The angel shook his head gently, "How could it be?"

He gently ran his thumb over the angel's lips and replied, "When you eat, you look absolutely delighted, you're the picture of bliss, and I don't see the angel anymore, I only see you, Aziraphale. You don't hold back, and it's like seeing you fly on your own wings, if you'll allow me the metaphor. Forget what they told you, both of them. Don't be ashamed of who you are. Yes, you're soft, but so what?"

Crowley wrapped his arms around Aziraphale's waist and pressed his cheek against his stomach before continuing, "I like that softness, and I wouldn't have you any other way. And besides, it's all mine now."

He felt the angel laugh softly against him, then felt his hands settle into his hair, forcing him to lift his head.

Aziraphale leaned toward him and said softly, his voice trembling slightly, "Thank you..."

"Thank you for what, Angel?"

The angel replied softly, "For always telling me what I need to hear. Always."

On the wall, after telling the demon how he had given away his flaming sword, Aziraphale worried, "I hope I didn't do the wrong thing.

The demon looked at him, smiled, and said gently, "Oh, you're an angel. I don't think you can do the wrong thing."

********

Aziraphale said in a desperate voice, "I lied. To thwart the will of God."

Crawley nodded and replied in a gentle tone, "Yes, you did, but... I won't tell anyone," then turning to him, he added, " Are you?"

Aziraphale didn't answer, so the demon continued, "No. Then nothing has to change, does it?"

Aziraphale sat down on the bench and asked, lost, "But what am I?"

Crawley replied comfortingly, "You're just an angel who goes along with Heaven as far as he can.”

Crowley straightened and, cupping the Angel's face in his hands, replied gently, "Angel, I've never told you anything but the truth, nothing more. Just as I'm telling you today. I want to keep seeing you enjoy what you love. I want to keep seeing your eyes light up when you see a dessert that should be banned for its sugar content. I want to keep hearing you marvel because you've just discovered a new restaurant. Because that's who you are, and that's who I love."

When he heard Aziraphale gasp, Crowley realized what he had just said and didn't regret it, knowing it was the perfect moment. He leaned in to kiss the angel, but Aziraphale shook his head and pushed him a little, "W-Wait, Crowley!"

Crowley replied, "Don't even bother asking me if I'm sure, because..."

"I love you too, you idiot!"

"Oh..."

They stared at each other in silence for a few seconds before bursting out laughing. Only they could have this kind of declaration of love, chaotic and messy, but so them in the end.

When they had calmed down, Aziraphale repeated more softly, "I love you."

Crowley didn't answer, closing the distance and pressing his lips to the angel's in a kiss that celebrated a love that had been sown many millennia ago, that had taken time to grow and was finally blossoming into the light.

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Still not beta'd

Still not my native language

Still hoping you'll enjoy this story  🥰

Still thanking you for bearing with me 😝

Ineffable Growing Love series : here (After season 2)

Ineffable Husbands masterlist : here (Before season 2)

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Helen McKenzie Sinclair (1892-1985) pintora británica.

Nació en Durban, Natal. Fue la sexta de los nueve hijos de John Sinclair y su esposa Heloïse Emilie (de soltera Reddie), de ascendencia escocesa y oriunda de Caithness.

La mudanza a Sudáfrica se debió a la salud de John Sinclair (posiblemente tenía tuberculosis, de la que también iba a sufrir Helen). John Sinclair era comerciante de carbón de profesión y parece haber sido un artista aficionado por inclinación, por lo que Helen bien pudo haber heredado parte de su talento artístico de él. En cualquier caso, mostró talento artístico a una edad temprana y, cuando tenía solo 16 años, expuso algunos bocetos en Durban que atrajeron tanta atención que recibió patrocinio para ir a estudiar a Inglaterra, inicialmente durante tres años.

A su llegada a Londres en 1908, sola y con tan solo 16 años, parece que fue al King's College para estudiar con Byam Shaw; más tarde a Cope's (presumiblemente la escuela de arte de South Kensington fundada por Arthur Stockdale Cope); y después ingresó en las escuelas de la Royal Academy. Los registros de las escuelas (el plural se utiliza por razones puramente históricas) muestran que su fecha de ingreso fue el 27 de julio de 1909, y que estuvo registrada como estudiante de pintura allí hasta julio de 1914, cinco años en total.

Durante este período expuso tres veces en The Walker Gallery, Liverpool y entre 1912 y 1917 expuso no menos de ocho veces en la Royal Academy. Pero su exposición más importante, en la que expuso no menos de 47 obras , fue en marzo de 1914 en las Walker's Galleries, New Bond Street, Londres.

En realidad, se trataba de una exposición conjunta con su compañera artista y amiga, Evelyn Muriel Young, que había comenzado su curso de estudios en las escuelas de la Royal Academy exactamente al mismo tiempo que Helen.

En algún momento, también Evelyn dibujó un retrato de Helen, aquí reproducido.

Helen disfrutaba de la vida social del Londres de antes de la guerra, pero en realidad nunca fue lo que hoy llamaríamos “una fiestera”. No le gustaba especialmente el alcohol, prefería las actividades académicas a la mera socialización por sí misma y no disfrutaba del juego ni de las cartas.

Compartía casa con otros estudiantes de arte. En cuanto a ganar algo de dinero, además de exponer su obra en galerías, sabemos que Helen pintó varios retratos por encargo. Además, en 1913, aceptó un trabajo en la Austin Motor Company, diseñando un anuncio de éxito para ellos

y también diseñando algunas letras mayúsculas decorativas para adornar los artículos de su revista, The Austin Advocate.

Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, por supuesto, el arte bien pudo haber quedado en un segundo plano, ya que, como muchas otras mujeres, fue a trabajar a una fábrica de municiones en Londres.

Helen no parece haber exhibido ninguna pintura después de 1917, y no está claro qué trabajo hizo después de eso. Sin embargo, parece haber seguido dibujando y pintando retratos por encargo, ya que hay un retrato a lápiz hecho por ella, de una modelo llamada Monica Sanctuary, fechado en 1922.

También sabemos que ilustró un libro infantil.

En 1923, en Londres, Helen se casó con Leo Frank Goodwin, un profesor de ingeniería química que, habiendo vivido en Canadá desde 1910, sirvió en el ejército canadiense en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Se mudaron a Kingston, Ontario, Canadá, en agosto de ese mismo año.

Tras haber ido a Canadá tuvo a su única hija, Heloïse Joan, en 1924, y el arte parece haber quedado en segundo plano, aunque ella siguió pintando algún que otro paisaje y documentando el crecimiento de su hija.

También hizo otros retratos.

Su marido murió durante unas vacaciones en Nueva Escocia. Algún tiempo después, Helen abandonó Canadá. Su hija, Heloïse, había emigrado de Canadá a Inglaterra para casarse.

Los propios movimientos de Helen después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial no están claros, durante un tiempo alternó entre Inglaterra y Sudáfrica, con visitas ocasionales a cualquier lugar donde su hija y su yerno estuvieran destinados.

Pasó una breve estancia con ellos (y con su primer nieto, Nigel) en Malta en torno a 1949, y fue allí donde pintó este paisaje.

De nuevo, en 1953, de camino a Sudáfrica, se quedó con su hija y su familia, que ya estaban de vuelta en Inglaterra. Fue allí donde hizo bocetos de cada uno de sus nietos.

Salió de Londres con destino a Ciudad del Cabo. Pasó algún tiempo allí pero la violencia del apartheid le resultó intolerable y en la década de 1950, regresó a Inglaterra para quedarse.

Durante su estancia en Cambridge, sus manos se volvieron artríticas y su vista empezó a fallar.

En 1979 su hija murió y su yerno se volvió a casar, y ella ingresó en una residencia de ancianos en Cambridge, donde permaneció hasta su muerte, poco antes de cumplir 94 años.

Le ponemos cara.

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Carmen Jones is a Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet and lyrics and a book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre and opened on Broadway on December 2, 1943. Conceptually, it is Bizet’s opera Carmen updated to a WWII-era African-American setting. Bizet’s opera was, in turn, based on the 1846 novella by Prosper Mérimée. The Broadway musical was produced by Billy Rose, using an all-Black cast, and directed by Hassard Short. Robert Shaw prepared the choral portions of the show.

The original Broadway production starred Muriel Smith in the title role. The original Broadway cast members were nearly all new to the stage; Kennedy and Muir write that on the first day of rehearsal, only one member had ever been on a stage before.

The 1954 film was adapted by Hammerstein and Harry Kleiner. It was directed by Otto Preminger and starred Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte.

The musical has been revived in London, running for a season in 1991 at London’s Old Vic and most recently in London’s Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in 2007.

In 2018, it was revived off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company under the direction of John Doyle and Anika Noni Rose in the title role. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Rangers + their parents

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Here’s The Review Of Power Rangers Beast Morphers Episode

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List of books I read this year

Crush by Richard Silken

The Essential Brendan Kennelly by Brendan Kennelly

Upstream by Mary Oliver

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Brontë

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Poems of Octavio Paz by Octavio Paz

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by H.D. Lawrence

The Year of the Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Marianela by Benito Pérez Galdós

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Collected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh

In the Woods by Tana French

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W.B. Yeats

De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

Pygmalion by George Bernand Shaw

Parallax by Sinéad Morrisey

When All Is Said by Anne Griffin

In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland

Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé

On Palestine by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé

House of Many Ways by Dianne Wynne Jones

Spells: New and Selected Poems by Annie Finch

A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

The Vanishing Half by Bret Bennett

Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser

Metamorphoses by Ovid

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin

Howards End by E.M. Forster

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

Salomé by Oscar Wilde

La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils

A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates

Horseradish by Lemony Snicket

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Night Shift by Stephen King

Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison

The Entity by Frank De Felitta

The Complete Grims' Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Roses of May by Dot Hutchison

First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson

Dream Work by Mary Oliver

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Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes  founder of first modern birth control clinic, was born in Edinburgh on October 15th 1880.

At first, Stopes was home-schooled, but from 1892 to 1894 she attended St George’s School for Girls in Edinburgh, her studies  Her studies of paleobiology took her to universities in London, England and Munich, Germany, then returning to England, she became the first female member of the science faculty at the University of Manchester.  She was a very well-educated woman; she was a woman who advocated for eugenics and the women’s rights movements.

Marie Stopes was a palaeobotanist who became the United Kingdom’s greatest advocate for birth control after the 1918 publication of her book Married Love. Trained in biology and geology, she had her doctorate by the time she was 24 years old, when she became Manchester University’s first female lecturer in science. 

Marie studied and did field work in Japan and Canada, but after the annulment of her first marriage, she set out to educate women on sex in marriage. The book Married Love was a controversial bestseller (banned in the United States); she followed it with Wise Parenthood that same year. 

She and her second husband opened a clinic in London in 1921 to provide birth control and health care — but not abortions — to married women. After 1935, Stopes stopped publishing scientific articles and focused on her fame as an author and advocate for birth control. 

It wasn’t all good for Stopes in some ways was a flawed character, she was known to be a crazed fan of eugenics, in favor of sterilizing “inferior” members of society, a certain 20th century dictator and war mongered had the same idea in his nazi doctrination.According to one source  "Marie was an elitist, an idealist, interested in creating a society in which only the best and beautiful should survive”  Stopes's enthusiasm for eugenics and race improvement was in line with many intellectuals and public figures of the time.

Marie Stopes International was founded nearly 20 years after her death and provides contraception and abortion services around the world to this day.

Stopes was even remembered in a playground rhyme:

Jeanie, Jeanie, full of hopes, Read a book by Marie Stopes, But, to judge from her condition, She must have read the wrong edition.

Stopes was acquainted with many literary figures of the day. She had long-standing correspondences with George Bernard Shaw and Aylmer Maude, and argued with H. G. Wells. Noël Coward wrote a poem about her, and she edited Lord Alfred Douglas' letters. She unsuccessfully petitioned Neville Chamberlain to arrange for Douglas to receive a civil list pension; the petition was signed by Arthur Quiller-Couch, John Gielgud, Evelyn Waugh and Virginia Woolf, among others.[70] The general secretary of the Poetry Society, Muriel Spark, had an altercation with Stopes; according to Mark Bostridge, Spark "found herself lamenting that Stopes's mother had not been better informed on [birth control]

Stopes died on 2nd October 1958, aged 77, from breast cancer at her home in Dorking, Surrey.

[companion-showdown]

Who is the best member of UNIT? Nomination Day

the rules are:

must be a member of UNIT, a precursor to UNIT, or a succesor of UNIT

must be emplyed by the relevant organisation (eg Sarah-Jane doesn't count just because she's around UNIT a lot). Some exceptions may be made if for example the relevant organisation doesn't emply anyone, but the character must be as close to an official member as its possible to be

No nominees that are spoilers for series 14, meaning their working for UNIT must be pre-The Giggle

Please bare in mind when you are nominating that I am hoping to keep the number of nominations under 64 to run this as a mini-tournament. This is not a hard rule so if nominations do exceed 64 its not a big deal, just something I'd like everyone to bare in mind

Nominees

at the moment these are just the ones who'll obviously be nominated, nobody has actually nominated them except, I guess, me

The Brigadier

The Doctor

Sergeant Benton

Mike Yates

Liz Shaw

Jo Grant

Harry Sullivan

Martha Jones

Kate Stewart

Petronella Osgood

Mel Bush

actual nominations

Erisa Magambo

Malcolm Taylor

Abby McPhail

Joel

Anthony Sinclair

Ron Winters

Tony Clare

Other Petronella Osgood, + the other other one to replace the other one (zygon/human)

Jane Fonda!Iris Wildthyme

Captain Scarlet (SPECTRUM)

Captain Black (SPECTRUM)

Kathleen (UNISYC)

Adrienne Kramer

Winifred Bambera

Shirley Anne Bingham

Tom Osgood

Muriel Frost

Hamlet Macbeth

Sam Bishop

Josh Carter

Jacqui McGee

Ross Brimmicombe-Wood

The Vlinx

Corporal Bell

Chris Cwej

Roz Forrester

June Turner

Inspector Drake

Inspector Thorn

CCPC

Emily Chaudry

Robert Dalton

Nominations will be open for at least 24 hours (until 29/05, 20:00 BST (GMT/UTC+1))

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hello! im germ and i own this multifandom blog.

im mainly a writer but i like drawing and editing things too ☺️

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i do not tolerate: racism, pedoph!lia, death threats/r@pe threats/r@pe jokes (they were never funny and never will be) (will write dub-con but nothing else!), su!c!de baiting, threats of s*lf h*rm/sh baiting, homophobia/transphobia/anti-lgbt, abuse giving people shit for their religion, posting hate for a fandom i write in: i.e i write for slashers sometimes and ik people think we condone their actions even tho we don't + they're fictional soo chill.

i'm uncomfortable with some kinks such as:

feet, scat!!!, ageplay (fucking gross), snuff, heavy bondage, extreme bdsm, spanking/cropping, slave/owner (more maybe added idk)

(fandoms and stories below cut)

• ENA - joel g:

ena, moony

• DBD:

surv: feng min, yui kimura, jake park, elódie rakoto, quentin smith, felix richter, yun-jin lee, cheryl mason, leon s. kennedy, steve harrington (more may be added)

killer: danny johnson (ghostface), demogorgon (pls don't judge me 😭), michael myers (shape), sally smithson (nurse), anna (huntress), rin yamaoka (spirit aka best girl who deserved so much better), f.j.s.j (legion - seperate ownly), adiris (plague), caleb quinn (deathslinger), talbot grimes (blight), charlotte deshay (twins), ji-woon hak (trickster) (more may be added)

• CAMP CAMP:

max, nikki, neil, nerris, harrison, preston, sasha, erin, jasper (aged up only!), david, gwen, daniel

• GENSHIN IMPACT:

kaeya, amber, venti, albedo, diluc, childe, razor (more may be added)

(more may be added)

requests closed atm!

• FANTASTIC MR FOX:

(human versions/animal!reader only i don't do animal/human (ironic isn't it bc i write for demo-))

ash, kris, agnes (aged up), mr fox aka red bc he canonically doesn't have a first name (aka dilf 😩), stan weasel, felicity fox, franklin bean (please his voice is perfect)

• CREEPYPASTA(s):

jeff, ben, toby, tim/masky, brian/hoodie, helen/bloody painter, jane 😍, eyeless jack, laughing jack, isaac grossman, sally (PLATONICALLY), (more may be added)

• THE ARCANA:

asra, julian, portia, nadi 💜, muriel, lucio, valdemar, vulgora, volta, vlastomil, valerius

• MIRACULOUS LADYBUG:

adrien, chat noir, luka, nathaniel, chloe, alya, marinette, alix, félix, kagami

• THE WALTEN FILES:

brian stells, sophie walten (fem only), jack walten, felix kranken

• FNAF:

william afton (fnaf series), michael afton/schmidt (fnaf series), jeremy fitzgerald (fnaf series)

• FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE:

cloud strife <3, biggs, jessie, reno, leslie kyle <3

• BLACK OPS ZOMBIES:

edward richtofen, tank dempsey, nikolai belinski, takeo masaki, marlton johnson, abigail “misty” briarton, michael “finn” o’leary, albert “weasel” arlington, billy handsome, sal deluca, scarlett rhodes, bruno delacroix, diego necalli, stanton shaw

STORIES:

rises the moon // leon kennedy x reader

chapters:

1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15