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The Unconventional Jingle: Exploring the Charms of Indie Rock Holiday Songs
The holiday season is traditionally accompanied by the familiar sounds of sleigh bells, cheerful choirs, and iconic tunes from well-established artists. However, for those with an inclination towards alternative and independent music, the indie rock genre offers a refreshing twist to the festive soundtrack. No November 21st, Tom Gilliam and I celebrated our 13th annual YTAA Indie Holiday show. We…
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#Bad Religion#Best Coast#Calexico#Darling West#Dayton Music Scene#Debra Devi#Dolph Chaney#Escape Velocity#Fitz and The Tantrums#Fountains of Wayne#Heartless Bastards#Heather Redman#Joey Ramone#Librarians With Hickeys#music#Music Video#My Morning Jacket#Olivia Frances#The Decemberists#The Killers#The Pogues#The Popravinas#The Ramones#The Surfajettes#Tom Gilliam#Trey Stone and The Ringers#Van Plating#Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative#YTAA Indie Holiday
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"Brutalist Plants"
Reinforced hillside, Aogashima, Tokyo, Japan. Photo © Yasushi Okano,
Bucharest, Romania. Photo © Bogdan Anghel,
Casa Alférez, Cañada De Alferes, Mexico. Architect Ludwig Godefroy. Photo © Rory Gardiner,
Monumento a Azeredo Perdigão by Pedro Cabrita Reis,
Casa de Vidro, São Paulo, Brazil. Architect Lina Bo Bardi. Photo © Celeste Asfour,
Artwork and photo by Karsten Födinger in La Vallée, Basse-Normandie, France,
Jurong Bird Park, Jurong, Singapore. Architect John Yealland and J. Toovey. Photo © James Wong
Courtesy: Olivia Broome (Hoxton Mini Press)
#art#design#architecture#photography#nature#green#brutalism#plants#olivia broome#iconic#building#installation#landscaping#tokyo#japan#aogashima#romania#mexico#ludwig godefroy#pedro cabrita reis#france#artwork#jurong bird park#singapore#hoxton mini press
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Olivia Cooke as Lou Sound of Metal (2019) dir. Darius Marder
#women move to france. get a bob and dye their bleached eyebrows back. its sad#olivia cooke#sound of metal#darius marder#*#*film#*gif#filmedit#movieedit#ocookeedit
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Happy 45th Birthday, Anna Torv! ✨ (June 7th 1979)
#Anna Torv#is a unicorn AND a chameleon#i hope she's having a good one ♥#ngl i made a few more gifs including SLM and some of her much earlier roles#but the quality was terrible so 2008 onward it was#also putting this in my queue to publish after midnight here in France xD#it'll have been her bday for a few hours in Australia#fringe#secret city#mindhunter#the newsreader#the daughter#force of nature#olivia dunham#harriet dunkley#wendy carr#helen norville#tess servopoulos#gifs*
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TEAM GREEN AT THE BLACK CARPET FOR 'HOUSE OF THE DRAGON' S2 PREMIERE IN PARIS.
#house of the dragon#hotd#hotd s2#tv shows#team green#aemond targaryen#ewan mitchell#aemond one eye#aegon ii targaryen#king aegon ii targaryen#tom glynn carney#phia saban#queen helaena targaryen#helaena the dreamer#helaena targaryen#matthew needham#larys strong#otto hightower#rhys ifans#olivia cooke#queen alicent hightower#alicent hightower#fabien frankel#ser criston cole#hotd cast#hotd s2 premiere#paris france
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Let's talk books. Sorted in threes by vibes.
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I Support Women's Wrongs (murder, slaughter and body horror galore).
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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Django Wexler - A woman from Earth is dropped into a magical realm, meant to save the Kingdom from the FoRCes of DaRKneSSss... except, unfortunately that might have been a thousand years worth of time loops ago, so it's rather time to lose one's temper and decide to become the Dark Lord herself.
Main character -> basically Deadpool (measured in sanity, humor and levels of bisexual horniness)).
Someone You Can Build a Nest In ⭐⭐⭐⭐ by John Wiswell - Shesheshen, a shapechanging monster who's rudely interrupted during her hibernation by hunters. Manages to to eat one of them, unfortunately she also gets shot by an arrow and falls off a cliff. On the bright side she meets a lovely human woman she might end up falling in love with so much... she'll want to build a nest in her (it's possible there's some Cultural Differences that need to be worked through).
Hench ⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Natalie Zina Walschots - Anna's latest temp job for a villain (because even supervillains need office help) ends with her carelessly injured by a superhero, laid off and with injured mobility for the foreseeable future (because human bodies don't see much difference between getting hit by a truck and getting moved out of way by someone able to pick up a truck). Angry, disillusioned, and looking for some vengeful payback she starts compiling the statistics of exactly how much suffering gets left behind the heroes and in quick order finds a new job working for one of the worst supervillains in the neighborhood.
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Extremely Competent Women Show Up to Fix Everyone's Shit (with a whallop of romance which was actually sweet instead of irritating)
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The Witchwood Knot ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Olivia Atwater - Winifred Hall was invited to the Witchwood Manor under the pretense of being the governess for a very bratty kid, but when said boy suddenly turns into a very quiet and perfectly bland boy overnight it's very obvious her charge has been stolen by faeries (and it might have something to do with the actual reason she's there). Rescue however is complicated by some factors, one, there being something terribly dark and wrong about the house (normal houses don't have screaming faces in the walls), another, the faerie man posing as the manor's butler who would very much like to make her run screaming the way so many servants had before her (unfortunately for him, she's not even half as scared of him as she is the eyes of the father of her charge).
This one's about dealing with past trauma, and otherworldly terrors paling in comparison to mundane monsters, set in a very beautiful and dark and shiver-inducing Victorian time world where the Fair Folk are very real.
(Same world as her Regency Faerie Tales trilogy that Started with Half a Soul but it's not necessary to read that one first to enjoy this one)
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Charlie N. Holmberg - Merritt Fernsby inherits a house only to be immediately taken hostage by what turns out to be a very stubborn and opinionated magical house. Hulda Larkin of the Boston Institute for the Keeping of Enchanted Rooms goes there to facilitate the relationship between the house and its new owner.
It's supposed to be a very simple job. Unfortunately there's a third POV character in this book (no, not the Whimbrel House, though I adore that house and *insert here the Rosa Diaz gif about her new puppy and how she would kill everyone in this room and then herself if anything were to happen to that dog*). Anyway, they're a bit... uhhh... let's go with Bad News.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Heather Fawcett - As one might expect from the title, Emily (a Cambridge scholar) wants to write the first ever encyclopedia of faeries. And she's brilliant enough to do it, what she's terrible at is people (*insert autistic character alert here*).
Someone else might then say it's lucky that a fellow scholar with a far easier time at charming people has stuck his toes in her reaserch trip into the Hidden Ones... that person however doesn't understand how irritating, frustrating and maddening her academic rival Wendell Bambleby actually is.
What follows is a story filled with winter snows, some terrible fae, some adorable fae, some not-very-secret fae, the goodest of good dogs, and lots and lots of squabbling. It's the best.
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Dark and Impactful Stories about Children Who Decide on Their Own Paths
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A Skinful of Shadows ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Frances Hardinge - Kate, an orphan and the illegitimate daughter of some stuffy (and evil) aristocrats runs away because being a bastard doesn't mean she didn't inherit the family magic that allows her to get possessed by the dead.
A dead bear ghost is one thing, a Get Out situation is something else entirely.
A Sorceress Comes to Call ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by T. Kingfisher - Cordelia isn't allowed friends or the privacy of closed doors, and whenever she's done something she shouldn't - a category too unpredictable to guard against - she's not allowed power over her own body.
Because her mother is an evil sorceress (think Regina and Cora... except somehow even worse). An evil sorceress that has found herself a Squire to lure into a marriage.
Hester is an old maid living with her brother, a Squire (well look at them coincidences), when said brother acquires a woman clearly set on his fortune. The plan is only to save her brother, except Hester can't help noticing how the woman's daughter keeps flinching in her mother's presence.
In The Lives of Puppets ⭐⭐⭐⭐ by TJ Klune - A family can be an android inventor, his human son (*homoromantic asexual alert*), a sadistic nurse droid, and a very emotional roomba.
And it can be a very happy family. Until one uncovers and wakes up an android that shares a very Skynet past with one's father, said father gets kidnapped, and one has to go on a journey to get him back.
(A book I like to call Sci-fi Reverse Pinocchio)
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Unraveling an Unjust System (and a hero that - on a scale from occasionally to constantly - hears a disembodied voice directly in their heads okay the connection between these three is a bit of a stretch but they're all great books so shut up)
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Hell for Hire ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Rachel Aaron - 5000 years ago Gilgamesh conquered the heavens, enslaved the demons and made it so that the only road to magic humanity had access, was through him.
Now, however a mercenary team made up of free demons gets hired by a Blackwood witch to protect him (and his familiar, the talking cat named Boston) while he puts down roots (literally) inside the new forest grove he's about to start so that he can stand up against the warlocks after him.
The witch quickly becomes the best client Bex and her crew have ever had (after all, warlocks under the rule of the Eternal King Gilgamesh are slavers of their kind, they are delighted at the chance to kill some).
Vespertine ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Margaret Rogerson - In a world where the veil between the living and the dead has been kinda broken Artemisia (*another autistic character alert*) is training to be a Gray Sister (magic nun).
Until her convent gets attacked by possessed soldiers and she has no choice but to pick up a Saint's Relic containing a malevolent revenant to protect it.
Problem. Only a Vespertine is supposed to do it. Another problem. The only one "alive" who can teach her to be a Vespertine is the revenant. Another another problem. The revenant cannot be trusted and if she loses control to it, the death toll will be counted in cities.
Terminal Alliance ⭐⭐⭐⭐¾ by Jim C. Hines - Post Zombie Apocalypse, where some aliens showed up, sort of cured the zombies and took the (mostly) cured zombies into their military.
Which leads us to Marion Adamopoulos, also known as Mops, the Leutenant in charge of Shipboard Hygene and Sanitation of the Earth Mercenary Corps Ship Pufferfish.
Right up until a bioweapon turns the entire crew except her crew back into zombies. Congratulations, she's the captain now.
(Space Janitors save the universe story).
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#book recs#fantasy books#science fiction books#book rec#how to become the dark lord and die trying#someone you can build a nest in#hench#the witchwood knot#keeper of enchanted rooms#emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries#a skinful of shadows#a sorceress comes to call#in the lives of puppets#hell for hire#vespertine#terminal alliance#django wexler#john wiswell#natalie zina walschots#olivia atwater#charlie n holmberg#heather fawcett#frances hardinge#t kingfisher#tj klune#rachel aaron#margaret rogerson#jim c hines#terapsina rambles#terapsina's book rambles
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She's coming for you, coming for me She's nothing but trouble She's walking like me, talking like me She's my body double
— She by Winona Oak
#lacey french#golden lace#rumbelle#rumbelle au#does it make sense? has anyone else already done something with this song?#like it's cursed storybrooke lacey au or something#idk this is very experimental to me x)#also i was too lazy to go through frances o'connor's filmography when the haunting of hill house was right there#(olivia even has a blue shirt similar to lacey's but it's (obviously) not obvious here)#and the scene from the submarine kid finally came in handy x) (it's also not very obvious but it makes me happy anyway x))#my things#not only mice but also gifs#my rumbelle things
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and if you think that this love poem is about, I promise you, it is.
#words#literature#poem#quotes#spilled thoughts#writers on tumble#poetry#spilled ink#aesthetic#marvel#what if#loki#captain america#travel#architecture#europe#france#riverdale#olivia rodrigo#titans#art#minecraft#illustration#wlw#mcu#dream smp#dark academia#cottagecore#black lives matter#blacklivesmatter
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Olivia Smart and Tim Dieck's Elvis free dance costumes at the 2023 Finlandia Trophy, 2023 Grand Prix de France, 2024 Worlds and 2023 Skate America.
(Sources: Wilma Alberti and fsphoto_syo)
#Olivia Smart#Tim Dieck#Smart Dieck#Figure skating#Elvis#Elvis Presley#Austin Butler#Ice dance#Spain#2023–2024#2023 Grand Prix de France#2023 Finlandia Trophy#2023 Skate America#2024 Worlds
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Favourite quote from a book/song/movie. Maybe all three?
you have no idea how much thinking this took. i’ve gone with quotes that occupy the most headspace.
book —
— the lonely city, olivia laing
movie —
— frances ha.
song —
“and it’s this life that we’ve created / inundated with the fated thought of you” — fair, the amazing devil
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I made a collage ♡
#is it perfect? no probably not!#but it's my first day doing these#edwige feuillère#olivia 1951#l'aigle à deux têtes#sodome et gomorrhe#vintage#collage#la dame aux camélias#the lady of the camellias#paris#france#aesthetic#coquette#dreamy#stage#film#classic film#theatre#théâtre#mine#dark feminine#dark academia#light academia#vibe goals#insp#jean cocteau#jean marais#edwige feuillere#fashion
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#tumblr polls#michelle yeoh#jessica chastain#frances mcdormand#renee zellweger#olivia colman#emma stone#brie larson#julianne moore#cate blanchett#jennifer lawrence#meryl streep#oscars#academy awards#best actress#actresses#academy award winner#oscar winner#award shows#movie stuff#film stuff#award winning
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Third Person (2013)
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Ace Week 2024: Ace Group representation (2008-2024)
My first video was too long so my phone split it in 2.
I talk about my own experiences with going to an ace group in Finland and then get to the media parts. I mention:
Shortland Street Asexuality storyline 21-23(YouTube)
The Olivia Experiment (2012/2014)
BoJack Horseman season 4 (2017)
Koisenu Futari episode 6 (2022)
Skam France season 12, episode 9 (2023)
Honorable mentions to Aces Wild by Amanda DeWitt and The Romantic Agenda by Claire Kann
Part 2 finishes KN
Kaapin Nurkista (2022) by Eve Lumerto
Dear Wendy (2024) by Ann Zhao
#Youtube#ace week#ace group#ace representation#shortland street#the olivia experiment#bojack horseman#koisenu futari#skam france#kaapin nurkista#dear wendy#nocticola art#my videos#finland
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#fringe#olivia dunham#charlie Frances#astrid farnsworth#peter bishop#walter bishop#phillip boyles#Lincoln lee#one of the best sci-fi shows to ever exist
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TEAM GREEN speaking French.
#house of the dragon#hotd#hotd s2#tv shows#team green#aemond targaryen#ewan mitchell#aemond one eye#olivia cooke#queen alicent hightower#alicent hightower#otto hightower#rhys ifans#larys strong#matthew needham#phia saban#queen helaena targaryen#helaena targaryen#helaena the dreamer#video#hotd s2 premiere#hotd s2 promo#actors#hotd cast#paris france
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