#Petrie Creek

[lewinblue]

Sunny my love I was gonna send this in earlier but I didn't want it to be so sudden (lol). I promised I'd send in more Salem's Lot headcannons and here they are.

-Mark Petrie and his gang of neighborhood goonies love to run wild all over the lot. They're literally the goonies and will refer to themselves as such and so won't their teachers. One of their antics that made you especially proud was when they tee-peed Richie Bodden's house after he was picking on a new kid at school. Ben gave Mark $20 for his allowance that week because Richie and his two hoodlum buddies broke the living room window with a rock (Parkins let the stupid bully absolutely HAVE IT when he walked out the door that morning).

-Which then led to the little goonies inciting the great neighborhood rock war two weeks after school started. Mark came home with his glasses broken but the rest of the coven didn't bat an eyelash.

-Mike Ryerson's wife, Lucy, is from Tennessee and oh the duality of this woman. On the one hand she is definitely a well brought up southern girl but she is not afraid to stake a bloodsucker when the need arises. Her grandma was the head of a coven that consisted mainly of Irish, Black, Cherokee and Muskogee-Creek members in its early days and they all passed their knowledge down to Lucy.

-Hank Peters and Royal Snow are the MASTERS at booby traps. These two idjits will hide in the trees while Nolly Gardiner lures whatever creature is bound for it into the trap and it never fails.

-You guys always get the super advanced copies of Ben's books and you and the whole house cannot stop reading them for the life of you. He loves to write about you guys, but especially you and him.

-You and Ben once went to the drive-in on date night to go and see a reshowing of Young Frankenstein and you were both making out so hard that you ended up recreating Madeline Kahn's operatic orgasm not once, but twice (the other was at home on a super chilly night). Mrs. Curless was being extra nosey when everyone was on the porch for breakfast the next day and Randy suddenly blurted out that "Daddy made mommy sing last night!". Father Callahan spit his coffee out right over the porch rail and it went all over Mrs. Curless who immediately turned and walked away.

-You guys have snuck off so many times especially on a hunt and come back covered in hickeys. Ben's always guilty of having hickeys on his chest and when he couldn't button his shirt back up quick enough everybody just rolled their eyes and laughed.

-He especially loves it when he's writing and you come over to kiss his cheek but your hand dips into his button down to play with his tit. He always has to choke back a moan when your fingertips gently brush against his nip because he has no idea who's gonna walk through the door.

-You guys adopted a stray cat that Father Callahan had been feeding for about a week. He was a black cat with a little white mark on the top of his head and Randy named him "Oreo." Turns out Oreo also had a mate and lo and behold, when you guys woke up, there was a litter of kittens in their basket.

-Oreo loves to curl himself in Ben's lap when he writes but Ben gets a little freaked out when Oreo starts making biscuits on his thighs because the cat is super close to his junk. You laughed when you heard him yell "Darlin! The cat's dangerously close to my schwantz again!"

There’s a chill in the air and I’m counting down the days for the movie to be released. It’s like I’m running a marathon and these headcannons are Gatorade to keep me going.

I’m now picturing everyone having a little boo club with ben’s books and he doesn’t know and walking in on it one day. He looks surprised and a little embarrassed but no one has any shame

[beantothemax]

Trousseau fic‼️‼️‼️‼️ accidentally became more of a Harvey fic while I wrote it but oh well‼️‼️ also this one is super long, I write all these inbox fics in my notes app and they're usually 2-5 pages but this one was 7 full pages‼️‼️ that's so much‼️‼️

Claude half pushed, half threw Trousseau out of the room. The apothecary fell to the floor, staying there for several seconds as he lacked the strength to stand.

When he finally stood, the world spun and his vision blurred. Bruises littering his arms made it impossible to even hold onto something for support.

Petrichor happened to pass him in the hallway, rushing to his side to help him. She always said she would remain neutral in the internal conflicts of the Moonshade order, but it was clear she favored Trousseau.

She lead him to Harvey's office, knocking on the door.

"Your pet project got hurt pretty bad, he-" she didn't get to finish her (hurtful) sentence before Harvey tore the door open.

His eyes fell on the apothecary, quickly scooping him into his arms, "thanks for the help, Petri."

She merely nodded before walking off.

Harvey shut the door behind him, setting Trousseau down on his armchair before searching the cabinets for anything that could help. One cabinet had a bottle of water and cloths. They weren't perfect, but they'd work.

He knelt beside Trousseau and dabbed the damp cloth on his wounds. The apothecary hissed at the stinging sensation, thought it clear he was in more than a bit of pain.

"He hit my head so many times. It hurts so much," Trousseau muttered.

Bruises littered his face and temple. One eye was so swollen that it was difficult to see out of it.

Claude had harmed Trousseau countless times before, but not like this. He was cruel, but he understood the severity of a concussion and refused to touch Trousseau's head. But now...

"I'll take care of him," Harvey said coldly.

"Don't kill him, Arcanette would be upset," Trousseau replied.

"I don't care what she thinks, you're more important than Vide."

Trousseau wanted to tell him not to, to remember to keep himself safe, but he was in far too much pain to argue.

With his limited knowledge of healing magic, Harvey cast a numbing spell on him, before picking him up.

"I'll hide you from Claude, so you can recover. I have a lot of work to do so if I can't check on you, then Ori or Petri will," he said.

The Moonshade order had a handful of bases around Solistia, though Lostseed was their main one. Trousseau couldn't stay in any of them, lest they wanted Claude to find him again.

There was no base in Montwise, but it wasn't safe either. Claude knew Harvey lived there, and Oboro's unhealthy habits made him frequent the arena. It was far too risky.

The last place he could think of was Conning Creek. Only him and Petrichor visited regularly, and even those visits were infrequent. Petrichor only visited to see Cateracta, and a dear friend of Harvey lived there.

Over the few days it took them to get there, Trousseau had recovered enough to stand. He tightly held Harvey's arm and leaned on him.

Harvey hesitated, but knocked on the door. There was no one else in the world who would be as willing to help him.

"Ah Harvey, it's nice to see you," Rita smiled, "and you brought a friend, is he a scholar from your conferences?"

"I suppose you could say that. Is Osvald home? I need to see him," Harvey asked hurriedly.

"Of course, he's in his study," she smiled.

Harvey thanked her as she shut the door. Him and Trousseau walked the last few meters to the decorated cave Osvald loved so dearly.

"Osvald? It's me, Harvey," the scholar said as he entered.

Osvald looked up from his paper just in time to see Harvey descend the final few steps, with the exhausted and injured Trousseau in tow.

"Who's this?" he asked.

Harvey sat Trousseau down on the stairs before approaching Osvald.

"His name is Trousseau," Harvey started, "I've gotten myself mixed up in a horrible mess, I just need you to help my friend recover for a week or two while I get some stuff sorted out."

Naturally, that explanation wasn't enough for Osvald's chronically curious mind. Harvey groaned internally at the idea of answering all of Osvald's, sometimes scarily specific, questions.

"What kind of mess? Is it anything I can help with?" he asked.

"I- it's a long explanation," Harvey said.

Osvald thought a while, but sighed.

"We have space in the attic and spare bedding, so he can stay there. Rita can help him settle in, then you're telling me everything about this mess."

Harvey nearly hugged him and cried with relief, but he'd learned how to keep his composure.

"Thanks, Osvald. I-I really can't explain how much this means to me," he said.

Osvald smiled, "of course, anything for a dear friend."

gonna need Claude to stand in this large X I’ve painted onto the ground here. don’t mind the rope I’m holding.

SERIOUSLY WHAT TBE FUCK. WHAT RHE FUCK. HATE HIM. HATE HIM SO MUCH. god Harvey better ‘take care’ of claude and it better involve at least one gun

osvald asking no questions (at first at least) about taking trousseau in is very sweet though. yet another parental figure to add to the list (two, including rita!)

also let harvey and osvald hug. they both need one I think.

you never fail to deliver the Emotions pie this certianly hurt…

[scotianostra]

While the days of the Empire gave us many Scots that are vilified not all sought to exploit or terrorise the Indigenous people.

Explorer, grazier and friend of Aboriginals, Tom Petrie was born in  Edinburgh January 31st 1831.

Thomas Petrie arrived with his parents at Sydney in the Stirling Castle in October 1831 and moved with them to Moreton Bay in 1837. his father, Andrew, e was one of the Scottish mechanics brought to Sydney in 1831 by John Dunmore Lang as the nucleus of a new force of free workers

Educated by a convict clerk, he was allowed to mix freely with Aboriginal children. He learnt to speak the Brisbane tribal dialect (Turrabul) and was encouraged to share in all their activities. At 14 he was taken on the triennial walkabout to the feast at the Bunya Range. Accepted by the Aboriginals as a friend, he was in constant demand as a messenger or companion for exploration expeditions.

During journeys with his father he gathered a knowledge of surveying and bushcraft and an intimate acquaintance with the Brisbane district and its settlers. Petrie married Elizabeth Campbell in 1859 and shortly after the marriage, Petrie sought the advice of a local Aboriginal elder named Dalaipi for a good place to start a cattle station. Dalaipi’s son, Dal-ngang showed him their ancestral land at Mandin (North Pine River) and offered it to Petrie. Dal-ngang expressed indignation when told this land had already been acquired by the Griffens as part of the Whiteside station. Petrie, after consulting with Mrs Griffen bought a ten square mile section of the property in the Pine Creek district and named it Murrumba, an Aboriginal word meaning “good place”. Aboriginals helped him to clear his land and build his farm buildings.

When the Douglas ministry opened Queensland`s first Aboriginal reserve on Bribie Island in 1877, Petrie became its chief adviser and overseer. The experiment was terminated next year by Palmer largely because Petrie`s report on Aboriginal attitudes and activities was not encouraging. He played little part in politics but was a foundation member of both the Caboolture and Redcliffe divisional boards and for years returning officer for Moreton electorate. 

Thomas Petrie died on August 26th 1910, the same year the name of the North Pine district was changed to Petrie in his honour and the next year a free-stone monument was erected in the township.

While Thomas Petrie may have only spent his very early years in Scotland, I would think the ethos instilled in him by his parents no doubt put him in good stead for the good man he became. 

[that-pipette-girl]

My life forever changed when I saw Euglena under the microscope for the first time in high school. Never in my life have I found microbes to be beautiful, but they are. They are.

In that same year, my science teacher cracked open a partially incubated chicken egg, and I got to see the spidery dark red blood vessels branching out of the beating heart tissue in the center of the yolk. To see it beating against all odds, despite it being literally forced out of its shell, was like seeing god.

Just last fall semester, I filled a 50 mL falcon tube with water from a creek on my college campus and grew a bacterial culture from it on a petri dish. A beautiful magenta colony of Serratia grew on the plate, which I then isolated into its own petri dish. I watched in awe as the smooth, translucent surface of hardened LB broth turned overnight into a reddish field of Serratia, brutally isolating and starving any foreign bacterial colonies in its path. The Bacillus Subtilis and Staphylococcus epidermidis were no match for the bright menace.

When running protein samples through polyacrylamide gels, I would watch as the indigo line of samples crept slowly downwards, sometimes turning up into a grin when the buffer was too low. When the run was completed, the gel would be cracked open from its plastic case and submerged in Coomassie blue dye, staining my gloves a deep indigo color. There was always a sense of mystery in the staining process, seeing what protein bands will appear once the staining and destaining process is complete.

Science is intensely beautiful at times. I certainly believe so as a biochemist.

forever kill the idea in your head that scientists approach their fields coldly and don't see the joy in it because when my teacher who's a microbiologist showed me an image of a staphylococcus she told me "isn't it so beautiful?" and i can't stop thinking about it everytime i look at bacteria

[hartshorn-and-isinglass]

I'm not even sure anymore if my bigger beef is with Harnoncourt himself or the translator but I just want to take a shot of Knob Creek every time I have to read the word "beautiful" in this fucking book even though I suspect I'd be dead by the end.

Maestro, my dude. I find dead ravens beautiful. I find Streptomyces coelicolor cultured in a petri dish to be beautiful. I listen to a lot of really weird music which I also find beautiful and I have NO. IDEA. how to calibrate to your definition of 'beauty' when you say that the impulse towards 'beauty' stands in the way of uncovering the deeper meaning in a work.

[dabbamallangyirren]

Aboriginal Culture and Tourism in Lismore, NSW

The northern NSW town has a proud rural tradition which began in forestry and graduated to dairy, and now includes macadamias, boutique coffee and medicinal herb plantations. Its subtropical climate provides hot, languid summers and mild winters with plenty of rainfall.

Michele Laurie, an Aboriginal trauma specialist of Gumbaynggirr and Yaegl heritage, is working to support her community after the floods at a healing hub. It is small steps but it is making a difference. To know more about Aboriginal Lismore, visit the Dabba Mallangyirren website or call 0403856995.

Bora Ring is a cultural site and sacred ground that was used for ceremonial purposes by Aboriginal people. Located in the town of Kipper Creek, Queensland, the ring was used for initiation ceremonies. The earliest good aerial photo of the area was taken in 1956. While the bora ring has been cultivated since then, Armchair Histories reports that a closer look may reveal remnants of the ring.

Judith Wright’s poem “Bora Ring” laments the disappearance of Aboriginal culture in the aftermath of European settlement. She explains how the story of indigenous people now seems like an episode from an alien tale. She also describes how the grass and apple-gum trees murmur with a broken chant.

The bora ring was declared a heritage site in 1913 and protected against attempts to divide it into housing allotments. It remains a place of spiritual significance for the local aboriginal community. Sadly, the bora ring is now covered by a modern circular traffic construction in Petrie.

The cosmopolitan culture of Lismore and Nimbin and surrounding villages has spawned imaginative dining alternatives from wood fired pizza to contemporary Asian, organic and vegetarian. Local produce includes avocados, tropical and stone fruit, pecans, boutique coffee, bush foods and herbs and organic vegetables – all well suited to the subtropical climate.

The Koori Mail is a fortnightly national indigenous newspaper published since May 1991 and distributed Australia-wide. According to McNair Ingenuity Research its readership is 100,000 each issue. It is 100 per cent Aboriginal owned and controlled, its shareholders being the Bundjalung Tribal Society (Lismore), Bunjum Co-operative (Ballina/Cabbage Tree Island), Buyinbin Co-operative (Casino), Kurrachee Co-operative (Coraki) and Nungera Co-operative (Maclean).

Aboriginal culture is often a mystery to many Australians. The Koori Mail newspaper is one way of making it a little more accessible. Their educational resources, which include fictional stories, quizzes and crosswords are fun to use and help build foundational knowledge about aboriginal Australia.

There are more actors, artisans, buskers, dancers, film-makers, musicians and painters in Lismore per capita than any other town in Australia. Their work is on display at weekend markets, galleries and cafes across the region.

Lismore is Country to the Widjabul people of the Bundjalung nation, a living culture that has continuous connection to place. The Wilsons River and its surrounding lands are sacred to the Widjabul, who view it as an old friend providing them with a source of water and food.

Explore the history and culture of Lismore with our Heritage Walk. Featuring architectural icons like the Gothic Revival chapel and 1840’s woodshed, as well as churches such as St Andrew’s Anglican Church and St Carthage’s Cathedral, you will get to know the city better as you walk along its historic streets. The Historical Society’s collections were nationally accredited in 2013 and the museum regularly refreshes its exhibitions and publications. It also hosts regular talks on heritage topics.

A new generation of tourists are looking to explore and experience indigenous culture. This is reflected in the inclusion of GunnaWannaBe in Tourism Australia’s National Aboriginal Product Manual, which is an endorsement of the quality of the experiences offered and will help to attract more visitors to Lismore and the Northern Rivers region.

The site of the Lismore Showground is an important ceremonial meeting place, or wandarahn, for the local Bundjalung people and many tribes from across the region. A book launched in 2013 called Banyam/Baigham Wandarahn: Reconnecting to the Showground explains this significance, with research conducted by Rob Garbutt from SCU. To know more about Aboriginal Lismore, visit the Dabba Mallangyirren website or call 0403856995.

As well as being a culturally important region, the city and its surrounding villages are renowned for their food and lifestyle. A strong centre for all things organic, the area produces avocados, bananas, macadamias and tropical fruits, as well as coffee and herbs. A cosmopolitan culture and a ready acceptance of new ideas means that the city is also home to a wide range of creative businesses, including restaurants and cafes, artisan producers and musicians.

[johnandtracyslittleones]

Haven Box: Microscopic Life

This topic felt refreshing after so many weeks of insects and small mammals.

Story & Poetry

We received one book for each age group this week - a picture book about microbiology and a kid friendly biography of Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch scientist who is known as thr Father of Microbiology due to his work with microscopes. Jamie loves a good biography, so he enjoyed reading through that one. Both books were informative and enjoyable.

Nature & Science

They sent us a mini microscope for Kira’s age group and a magnifying glass for Jamie’s age group. For the science experiment this week we explored looking at a variety of objects with both tools. We explored salt, sugar, water, grass, hair, skin, citrus peel, a cross section of a cranberry, the arm of the sofa…all the things.

Mystery Maker

The instructor went into some detail about how microscopes work, and then they played an Up Close Guessing Game. They figure out the majority of the zoomed in images (a lot were fruit, and they really know their fruit.). The trickiest was a sponge and the bubbles on a cup of coffee.

Nature Play

No creek this week. Jamie had a bit of snot and we didn’t want to spread germs. 😕

Art & Handwork

Shrinky dink cells! They traced the cells with all the organelles inside, colored it with pencils, and then watched in awe as it shrunk down significantly.

While they traced the plant cell I explained the function of each organelle. I could tell this was all new information for them and definitely a new field of study. I also enjoyed busting out terms like Endoplasmic Reticulum. Good times for all.

Art appreciation included images of tiny things magnified (the snowflake won favorite by a landslide.). Music appreciation finally wrapped up Carnival of the Animals, which we had moved on from ages ago.

Forest to Table

I didn’t have enough cranberries to make the muffin recipe…but I did have some extra pie dough. So I invented Pie Dough Petri Dishes! Inspired by the illustrations in our book this week…

…we made circles of pie dough and painted them with food coloring. Then we added microbes to our Petri dishes in the form of sugar, coconut flakes and chocolate chips.

Weird, but tasty and fun. (And then John bought us extra cranberries and I made the muffins anyway. Turns out they hated them and they went direct to compost. Should have followed my instincts on that one…)

Nature Notebooking

We skipped this week. It looked like a dust mite zoomed in, which felt too similar to last week’s spider. We had other things to do!

[bitfactorygallery]

Join us tomorrow for the Opening Reception of the Spring Awakening Exhibition featuring artwork by members of the Cherry Creek Art Gallery

Featured Artists:

Nea Brown

Mary Dunn

Aga Elliott

Carm Fogt

Marion Kahn

Beth Lindsay

Jeannie Paty

Linda Petrie Bunch

Mariah Raymond

Bev Ruiz

Paul Valdez

Betsy Johnson Welty

#BitfactoryGallery #SpringAwakening #GroupExhibition #CherryCreekArtGallery #ArtDistrictOnSantaFe

[likerealpeopledo-on-ao3]

27 and/or 30 for the ao3 wrapped thingy?

Thanks for the ask!

27. What do I listen to while I'm writing?

The answer to this is terribly uneventful because I don't listen to anything while I'm writing. I feel like my ideal writing conditions are soundless chilly room with soft light, ha. Where did the days go where I could write with one child on my lap and another one dumping crackers on the carpet?

I do make playlists of songs that I feel like fit a fic thematically that I will listen to while I drive or clean (I picked up the crackers a long time, ago, I promise). For Such Great Heights, my playlist was super long (like the fic) but it had some gems like: Stratford-on-Guy by Liz Phair, At My Most Beautiful and Nightswimming by REM, What a Good Boy by Barenaked Ladies, Slow Love by Miner, Black, Blue by the Avett Brothers, Pictures on a Wall by Ira Wolf, Departures by Grace Petrie, and obviously, the ubiquitous Ed Sheeran.

30. Biggest surprise while writing?

How hard it continues to be! Shouldn't it be easier by now? Also how much I love writing original characters to play in the Schitt's Creek world. This may be related to not having new canon to play with, but I loved writing Sam, Patrick's cousin.

[paceypeternathanslawyer]

Another Top 10 Female TV Characters (In no particular order)

I posted something like this before but I added some favorite characters and I had to get my feelings down in writing :) You can read my other post, but in summation, the characters I mentioned before were: El Hopper, Anne Shirley, Lorelai Gilmore, Annie Edison, Joyce Byers, Paris Geller, Lois Lane, Jess Day, Midge Maisel, and Millie Helper.

Joey Potter (Dawson’s Creek):

Joey is one of the best characters in Dawson’s Creek. In my opinion the show should have been called “Joey’s Creek” :) She was a far more interesting character than Dawson. I haven’t finished the show yet so I don’t have too much to say about her, but from what i’ve heard she finally achieves her dreams and ends the series in a happy place, which makes me happy. What I do know is that Joey is extremely driven, creative, and smart. She’s also a character who has been through so much and has made it to the other side to be a very strong and kind person. 

Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls):

Alexis doesn’t get enough love for her portrayal of Rory. You gotta figure that this was Alexis’ first role ever and she was able to show a lot of emotion in this part, while also being extremely adept at the comedy as well. Rory had her ups and downs but i’ve always been a Rory defender. She’s not perfect, but I also would say that makes her a well rounded character. She’s smart, kind, and an amazing friend. 

Robin Buckley (Stranger Things):

Robin was such an important and fun addition to Stranger Things. She immediately brought such a new and dynamic atmosphere to the show. She’s a genuis... I mean, she fucking cracked a professional Russian code in a day. She’s hilarious and Maya is a tremendous actress. How she can go into a really serious and emotional scene and then go straight into a hilarious scene where she’s high with Steve is just simply amazing.

Veronica Mars (Veronica Mars):

Veronica Mars is my favorite character in the original  3 seasons of Veronica Mars. She’s talented, badass, and snarky/really funny. Veronica is a character who could benefit from therapy, but she’s very stubborn and in the 4th season seems to be adverse to the idea of going to therapy. She has been through more than any high schooler should go through. Even before the events of the 1st season. Her parents divorce, she is raped at a high school party, her best friend is murdered, her father, who was the sheriff at the time, accused her boyfriend’s father of killing her friend/her boyfriend’s sister. Because of that event, her and her boyfriend broke up and she lost her group of friends. Hopefully you followed with that last one cause it’s pretty complicated lol. And that’s just the events before the 1st season. Despite that or possibly because of that, Veronica has become a very strong and tenacious girl with a strong love of justice. She is also a loyal friend. 

Jeannie Nelson (I Dream Of Jeannie):

Jeannie is so sweet and loyal. She is my favorite character in I Dream Of Jeannie. There is truly never a dull moment with Jeannie around. She’s brings the crazy into any situation and I mean that in the best way possible. No, but seriously she is such a positive and sweet character until you cross her and then as a magical genie you will wish you had never been born ;) Also what fun Barbara must have had playing that character, not only because of all the crazy situations she got to play, but also Jeannie had the best wardrobe ever!

Laura Petrie (The Dick Van Dyke Show):

Laura was such a unique TV character for the time. In the early days of Television there were usually two types of women characters. You had the June Cleaver, stay at home, always dressed immaculately in a dress and apron, always there for some sage advice for her children type of character. And then you had the nagging wife/magnet for trouble like Lucy Ricardo. I don’t want to do too much of a disservice to Lucy cause she is a very beloved TV character and in some ways was very ahead of her time. Yet Laura was very different than those two types of characters. She was supremely real in every way. She wore pants a lot, she had breakdowns because at times being a stay at home mom was difficult and thankless, she talked like a real person would not like a June Cleaver or a Donna Stone. She was funny, talented. At one point, Sally was taking a leave of absence from Rob’s TV show that he was a head writer for and Laura asked to help out in any way. Rob agreed for her to be a typist for them, to at least fill some of the void of Sally’s absence. During that time, Laura actually comes up with some jokes and helps with the writing of the show as well.  She was a dancer, she is proficient in self defense. She was truly an amazing character and so unique for an early 1960s TV show.

Olivia Dunham (Fringe):

Anna was an actress who took me completely by surprise. The first few episodes of Fringe, I didn’t feel like she was such an amazing actress, yet as the show went on, Anna really showed herself to be an Emmy worthy actor. She got to play so many different versions of this character as well. She played the original Olivia and then we meet Olivia from an alternate universe and there are some big ways and some subtle ways that those two versions of Olivia are different. There’s a character named William Bell and he is played by Leonard Nimoy. For a stretch of like three episodes, Olivia gets inhabited by William Bell. So it’s Anna Torv doing a hilarious and really well done impression of Leonard Nimoy/his character in Fringe, her mannerisms are so funny in those episodes!! Yes, this show probably sounds crazy.... it is but in the best possible way, everyone should go watch it :) I remember when I became endeared to her character. It was when I saw her interact with her niece, Ella. It showed such a soft and real side of her. She’s a protector, she’s badass, she’s an incredible mother, wife, sister, friend, and aunt.

Astrid Farnsworth (Fringe):

Astrid is such a fun character in Fringe. She’s very endearing and real and funny. I’m sad that during the run of the show, we didn’t get to see more of her, but all that we did get was so much fun. The lab scenes are some of my favorites. The dynamic of Astrid, Walter, and Peter is just the best! Also the alternate universe Astrid is the purest and sweetest angel and must be protected at all costs :)

Sookie St James (Gilmore Girls):

The character of Sookie was really important in my opinion she is a beautiful plus size woman where her size did not define her, she was not the butt of the joke. She is a well respected chef, a loving mother, friend, and wife. When people think of Melissa McCarthy, they don’t typically first think of this role, but in my opinion it’s the best role of her career. She’s very funny in this part, but it’s a different and more low key kind of comedy than some people are used to seeing her in. BTW Drunk Sookie is iconic!! LOL

Lane Kim (Gilmore Girls):

Another character in Gilmore Girls that is underappreciated. She an incredibly talented drummer and she largely taught herself to play the drums. I can’t remember if the music store owner ever taught her but I feel like didn’t. I think she just let her use the display drums until Lane could buy them. Lane is funny and cool and a supportive friend. All the actors in Gilmore Girls were great at the dramatic bits as well, and Keiko was no different, some of those scenes between Lane and Mrs Kim really broke my heart which is credit to Emily and Keiko’s acting ability.

[javitrulovesims]

Later that day i went to speak with Dr. Petrie, i tell him that i need to check the files of the Mayfair case, there are more efectives cases to treat a woman in that condition. 

Dr. Petrie: - I Rememeber when i used to have your age, young ambition, that kind of ambition that let me believe that i could heal any patient. I wanted to reason with the paranoids, to return the schizophrenics to reality and to awaken the catatonics. In my long years on the field of psychiatry I have learned that sometimes you need to surrender with some people. There is not always a cure for diseases of the mind.

Dr. Larry: - But Dr Petrie, medical technology have changed so much...

Dr.P: - Son, just give her this injection every day. You can not do anything else. We simply try to avoid as much as possible a nervous breakdown. Do you understand?

[bitchfitch]

YouTube keeps trying to recommend videos where people with way too much money in areas without enough enforcement of environmental protection laws build fuck off massive ponds and creeks to stock with non native species... while you can see natural water sources in shot and which they call out as being their source of water for the project.

Like, Here's the thing. In ground stocked ponds being legal in General is not a good idea bc you can't trust the average person to give a shit about their local waterways and not build too close to one. There's So many areas fucking Ravaged by pond fish that escaped during a flood or which had New And Fun pathogens introduced to the water by the absolute petri dish your average in ground pond becomes just from the runoff

but to do that on a multi thousand gallon scale Right next to delicate native waterways is such obvious careless disregard for your area that it Has to be bordering on being an act of eco terrorism.

[aliveandfullofjoy]

Hi friends! Yesterday I shared my ten favorite new-to-me movies of 2021. Just for kicks, as a bonus, here are ten(ish) performances that I saw for the first time last year that I found especially moving! No extensive writing because I’m a little pressed for time, but please as always consider this a personal endorsement of these performances. I’ll also include ways to watch them (as of this current writing: January 18, 2022).

So! Ten(ish) new-to-me film performances that I found moving in 2021, in alphabetical order!

01. Eddie Bracken, Hail the Conquering Hero (dir. Preston Sturges, 1944) I watched two very similar Preston Sturges films in 2021, and I fell in love with both of them - this one and The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek - and while Bracken is the male lead of both, he competes with his equally funny costars in that film. Not so here: this one is all Bracken all the time. He makes an absolute meal of this film, a ridiculous wartime farce that feels almost like a more self-aware Dear Evan Hansen. By far the funniest performance I saw last year. (Hail the Conquering Hero is available to rent online and can be viewed at this link.)

02. Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Sidney Poitier, and Diana Sands, A Raisin in the Sun (dir. Daniel Petrie, 1961) I may be cheating a bit by including four performances in one slot, but the Raisin quartet share so many scenes together that I think it works. The rest of the cast is great too (including Ivan Dixon and Louis Gossett, Jr.), but it’s these four who have the film’s most memorable and moving moments. They share so many scenes and they’re all tremendous: McNeil as Lena the matriarch, Sands as the radical Beneatha, Dee as Ruth, and the recently departed Poitier as Walter. This is a beautifully rendered adaptation of a landmark play, and these four give unforgettable performances. (A Raisin in the Sun is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel.)

03. Alex Descas, 35 Shots of Rum (dir. Claire Denis, 2008) Such deep, sad eyes on Alex Descas. I wrote about how much I loved 35 Shots of Rum on my top ten films post, so I’ll keep this brief, but Descas absolutely owns his long stretches of silence more than many other actors could. His chemistry with his onscreen daughter Mati Diop is palpable in its bittersweet, frustrating complexity. A beautifully understated performance. (35 Shots of Rum is currently streaming on MUBI.)

04. Barbara Loden, Wanda (dir. Barbara Loden, 1970) Calling Wanda a landmark film almost feels like an understatement. With it, Barbara Loden became the first woman in cinema history to direct, produce, write, and star in a film. Even without Wanda, Loden is a fascinating figure in her own right, as a Tony-winning character actor who died far too young of breast cancer, but it's her staggering directorial debut that will probably prove to be her most enduring work. Her direction is astonishing, feeling like a predecessor to A Woman Under the Influence and Mikey and Nicky, but her performance is the heart of the film. She's onscreen for almost every minute of the film's runtime, and she's utterly mesmerizing in her soft-spoken desperation. It's remarkably unaffected work, and undoubtedly one of the finest leading actress performances of the decade. (Wanda is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel.)

05. Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria (dir. Federico Fellini, 1957) Sweet Charity, the Broadway musical adaptation of Nights of Cabiria, has some great moments, but I tend to struggle with the ending. After spending all this time watching this woman suffer at the hands of everyone she knows, how could she possibly resolve to move forward, smiling? It always leaves me more gutted than moved. Turns out the source material got it right the first time. Through Cabiria's tears and smiling face, there is no doubt that she'll be okay. Giulietta Masina’s performance is one that defies description. She embodies all of Cabiria’s heartache and dashed dreams and somehow, even in the face of her most crushing blow yet, she finds hope. It’s a magical, phenomenal performance. (Nights of Cabiria is currently streaming on MUBI.)

06. Walter Matthau, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (dir. Joseph Sargent, 1974) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three was one of the great surprises of my film-viewing life last year. I knew it existed but I was floored by how great it was: Sargent’s taut direction, Peter Stone’s masterful script, a huge cast of great actors gleefully digging into their roles, the delicious grime of 1970s New York City, the music... it’s all great. Walter Matthau, perhaps at his sleepiest and droopiest, is the bone-dry stoneface at the film’s center. He walks the tonal tightrope perfectly, and he’s responsible for the final shot in the film, one of the absolute best I’ve ever seen. Everything about this movie is great, but he’s the MVP. (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is available to rent online.)

07. Madhabi Mukherjee, The Big City (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1963) Madhabi Mukherjee is the heart of The Big City. This is another film I wrote about at more length on my top ten films post, but her performance is the reason why the film works as well as it does. She beautifully and honestly realizes Arati’s journey from shy housewife to a profoundly skilled worker and the various shades of confidence and conflict that comes with that. Just breathtaking. (The Big City is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel and HBO Max.)

08. Rosaura Revueltas, Salt of the Earth (dir. Herbert J. Biberman, 1954) Made in the shadow of the Hollywood Blacklist, Salt of the Earth feels like something that almost shouldn't exist. Written, directed, and produced by men who were blacklisted, the film is so unapologetically leftist that it’s not hard to imagine a hypothetical campaign from conservative McCarthyists to destroy the film. The vast majority of the actors are non-professionals, but the film's key role of Esperanza is given to the great Mexican actress Rosaura Revueltas. Esperanza is the emotional center of Salt of the Earth and Revueltas delivers one magnificent performance in bringing her to life: her journey from reserved housewife to radicalized unionist is thrilling and deeply moving. Revueltas was also blacklisted from working in Hollywood, but it's impossible to imagine her getting a role half as good as this in the racist studio system at all. It’s a tremendous performance. (Salt of the Earth is currently streaming on Prime Video and can be viewed at this link.)

09. Gena Rowlands, A Woman Under the Influence (dir. John Cassavetes, 1974) If Gena Rowlands never made another film, she would still be a titan of acting for her performance as Mabel in A Woman Under the Influence. She's legendary, and rightfully so: her Mabel emerges as an unflinchingly authentic human being, a whole bunch of nervy contradictions bundled together into one woman stuck in a marriage with an emotionally stunted husband who doesn't fully understand her. Watching her relationship with Peter Falk in all its tumultuous episodes is an exercise in strength. That the film was so brilliantly directed by her real-life husband Cassavetes only makes it that much more special. (A Woman Under the Influence is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel and HBO Max.)

10. Hideko Takamine, Twenty-Four Eyes (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954) I can't believe I hadn't seen any of Kinoshita's other films up to this point, but Twenty-Four Eyes seems like a great place to start. Anchored onto a devastating performance from the great Takamine, the film follows roughly two decades in the life of a woman who works as a schoolteacher during the rise and fall of Japanese nationalism. An unambiguously anti-war film released less than a decade after the end of World War II, the emotional climax hits like a ton of bricks, and Takamine’s performance is a huge reason why. It’s an unabashedly sentimental film, but thanks to the sensitive filmmaking and Takamine’s complex performance, it thoroughly earns the audience’s tears. (Twenty-Four Eyes is available to rent online and can be viewed at this link.)

Honorable mentions, in alphabetical order: Lucille Ball in Dance, Girl, Dance (dir. Dorothy Arzner, 1940), Jeannie Berlin in The Heartbreak Kid (dir. Elaine May, 1972), Roscoe Lee Browne in Uptight (dir. Jules Dassin, 1968), Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones (dir. Otto Preminger, 1954), Mati Diop in 35 Shots of Rum (dir. Claire Denis, 2008), Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (dir. Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez, 1999), America Ferrera in Real Women Have Curves (dir. Patricia Cardoso, 2002), Jane Fonda in Barbarella (dir. Roger Vadim, 1968), Dolores Gray in It’s Always Fair Weather (dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1955), Dan Hedaya in Blood Simple (dir. Joel Coen, 1984), Judy Holliday in It Should Happen to You (dir. George Cukor, 1954), Boris Karloff in The Body Snatcher (dir. Robert Wise, 1945), Burt Lancaster in Sweet Smell of Success (dir. Alexander Mackendrick, 1957), Ida Lupino in The Bigamist (dir. Ida Lupino, 1953), Marcello Mastroianni in Big Deal on Madonna Street (dir. Mario Monicelli, 1958), Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail (dir. Hal Ashby, 1973), Edmond O’Brien in The Bigamist (dir. Ida Lupino, 1953), Stig Olin in To Joy (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1950), Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer (dir. Tony Richardson, 1960), Peter in Funeral Parade of Roses (dir. Toshio Matsumoto, 1969), Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2 (dir. Patricia Birch, 1982), Parker Posey in Josie and the Pussycats (dir. Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont, 2001), Pete Postlethwaite in Distant Voices, Still Lives (dir. Terence Davies, 1988), Edward G. Robinson in The Sea Wolf (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1941), Renato Salvatori in Rocco and His Brothers (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1960), Sylvia Sidney in Fury (dir. Fritz Lang, 1936), Nicholas Smith in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (dir. Nick Park & Steve Box), Jean-Louis Trintignant in Three Colors: Red (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994), Orson Welles in Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles, 1958), Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (dir. Elia Kazan, 1961), Wu Nien-jen in Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang, 2000), and Zhang Ziyi in 2046 (dir. Wong Kar-wai, 2004).

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My second post about Australia today marks the birth of Thomas Petrie on January  31st 1831 in Edinburgh.

Thomas Petrie arrived with his parents at Sydney on the passenger ship Stirling Castle in October 1831 and moved with them to Moreton Bay in 1837. Educated by a convict clerk, he was allowed to mix freely with Aboriginal children. He learnt to speak the Brisbane tribal dialect (Turrabul) and was encouraged to share in all their activities. At 14 he was taken on the triennial walkabout to the feast at the Bunya Range. Accepted by the Aboriginals as a friend, he was in constant demand as a messenger or companion for exploration expeditions.

During journeys with his father he gathered a knowledge of surveying and bushcraft and an intimate acquaintance with the Brisbane district and its settlers. Petrie married Elizabeth Campbell in 1859 and shortly after the marriage, Petrie sought the advice of a local Aboriginal elder named Dalaipi for a good place to start a cattle station. Dalaipi’s son, Dal-ngang showed him their ancestral land at Mandin (North Pine River) and offered it to Petrie. Dal-ngang expressed indignation when told this land had already been acquired by the Griffens as part of the Whiteside station. Petrie, after consulting with Mrs Griffen bought a ten square mile section of the property in the Pine Creek district and named it Murrumba, an Aboriginal word meaning “good place”. Aboriginals helped him to clear his land and build his farm buildings.

When the Douglas ministry opened Queensland`s first Aboriginal reserve on Bribie Island in 1877, Petrie became its chief adviser and overseer. The experiment was terminated next year by Palmer largely because Petrie`s report on Aboriginal attitudes and activities was not encouraging. He played little part in politics but was a foundation member of both the Caboolture and Redcliffe divisional boards and for years returning officer for Moreton electorate. Thomas Petrie died on August 26, 1910, the same year the name of the North Pine district was changed to Petrie in his honour and the next year a free-stone monument was erected in the township.

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>Be me, Bio >In the lab (garage) again >Just got back from incinerating a failed experiment in the 55-gallon steel drum in the front yard >Crank up some Bush on the radio >BackOnMyNefariousShit.gif >Check notes >Proceed to next experiment >Slap on my gloves, goggles, and respirator >Get all the components onto the workbench >Rack of sterile test tubes >Petri Dish >Large Erlenmeyer flask >Chalk >Pipettes, scale, spoons, wax paper, clean rags, hot plate, etc. >Beaker of Darkest Dungeon (25M concentration) >Bottle of powdered Cosmic Horror >Matching dropper bottles of distilled Yuri and Yaoi extracts >Flask of Artistic Liberty >Jar of Fluff >Pre-measured packets of Tragedy >Half a dropper bottle of adrenochrome (Not for the experiment - Bios can have a little adrenochrome, as a treat) >Ready supplies of Lewd Sauce and Anime Juice on tap >Draw the symbol on the workbench in chalk >Place the large flask in the circle >Start measuring out the components >50ml. Darkest Dungeon base >Stir in 10g. of extra Cosmic Horror until dissolved >Solution darkens and bubbles ominously >Double-check my stoichiometry >YeahIt'sSupposedToDoThat.wav >Add two drops of distilled Yaoi >Add six drops of distilled Yuri >Resist the urge to add any more Yuri extract because this shit isn't cheap and only gets marked down in June >Swirl the solution by hand >Stopped bubbling >Consult the grimoire >Pull off respirator and recite the incantation >Magic circle glows yellow >Accentuate the correct syllables at the end of the spell >Circle glows white >Energy arcs through the flask at the center of the circle before dissipating >A precipitate has formed in the solution >Put grimoire away and replace respirator >Put the Artistic Liberty flask on the hot plate to warm up >Tweezer out two wads of Fluff from the jar and drop them into the flask >Dissolve like cotton candy >Measure out 10ml. of Lewd Sauce and carefully pipette it down the inner side of the container to avoid upsetting the precipitate >Liquid components quickly separate along the bottom of the flask >Pour 15ml. of warm Artistic Liberty into a beaker >Dissolve three packets of Tragedy in the beaker >Add into flask >Swirl gently >Components emulsify and blend homogenously >Precipitate still floating on top >Warm up the incubator >Carefully isolate and extract the precipitate with a very long cotton swab >Smear into prepared petri dish >Place into incubator to "cook" for a few days >Extract additional samples of the solution >Place into test tubes >Loosely cover, label and slide rack of test tubes into incubator >Make a note to check for additional precipitates in a few days >Clean up the workstation >Dispose of the remaining solution in the creek >TurnTheFriggin'FrogsGay.wav >Wash my hands >Set an alarm on my phone to check on the next fanfic cultures in a few days >Put a few drops of adrenochrome under my tongue >Head off for Poker Night with 5 other Bios >Remember that I blew my last $500 on adrenochrome >FuckItBringTheBottle.png >Half a $500 bottle of drugs is worth $250 in chips

ah shit bio in the lab (garage), time to make the Darkest Dungeon Juice

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Join us Friday 4/21 for the Opening Reception of the Spring Awakening Exhibition featuring artwork by members of the Cherry Creek Art Gallery

Featured Artists:

Nea Brown

Mary Dunn

Aga Elliott

Carm Fogt

Marion Kahn

Beth Lindsay

Jeannie Paty

Linda Petrie Bunch

Mariah Raymond

Bev Ruiz

Paul Valdez

Betsy Johnson Welty

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