#Rachel Parker

[huariqueje]

Beauty Sleep - Rachel Parker

American , b. ?

Watercolour on paper , 10 x 12 in.

[gracefireheart]

Some more Gravity Falls stuff, ft. young-ish Stanley, Waddles, and Rachel and Ryan [Parker] as Dipper and Mabel [Pines] :)

[fireflysparks]

The Parker House: Part 6

The second main floor of the Parker house is where most of the Parker kids live. The first room we get to see is Jenny's, who's right next to Rachel.

Jenny turned to me, blue eyes bright with excitement. “Come see my room before dinner!”

I followed her up the stairs to a wide hallway, which went in both directions. Jenny opened the door to an almost completely pink room. It was like walking into Barbie’s dream house.

She had shelves filled with books and pretty little ballerina and faerie statues. The pink desk displayed an overflowing jewelry box, a built-in mirror, and a tablet with shiny little rhinestones all along the sides. Pictures and posters signed by real pop stars hung on the walls. And here and there, wherever there was space, were so many of the fancy collectable dolls that I gushed over in stores but never was able to get.

Jenny glanced out the window again, then walked over to the door. “Well, you should meet Rachel.”

We went out into the hallway and to the next room over. Jenny knocked, and the door opened. Standing inside was the prettiest girl I had ever seen. She had long blonde hair and blue eyes, like her mother and sister, but she had an almost overpowering aura of elegance and beauty around her.

“Oh, hello.” She gave me a dazzling smile. “I’m Rachel.”

“Um, hi.” I was struck with nerves. It felt like I was meeting Barbie in person.

~ Magic Inc. Book One

[boricuacherry-blog]

Comanche warriors had for centuries taken female captives, of all and any race, and fathered children by them who were raised as Comanches. The kidnapping of a blue-eyed, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker in 1836 would mark the start of the white man's forty-year war with the Comanches, in which Quanah Parker [Cynthia's half-breed son] would become a key figure.

The only borderland where white civilization met hostile Plains Indians was in Texas. Oklahoma was pure Indian territory, where beaten tribes were forcibly relocated, often right on top of warlike plains tribes. The Parkers' land was like the tip of a blunt finger of Anglo civilization jutting out into the last stronghold of untamed Indians in America. In 1836 it was a very dangerous place. There had been recent Comanche raids in the area: a caravan of settlers had been attacked and two women kidnapped; a month later a family had been attacked on the Guadalupe River; two men killed and a woman and her two children taken captive. She had somehow escaped, and later wandered battered, bleeding, and nearly naked into a camp full of astonished Rangers in the middle of the night. As it was, the Parkers were easy prey. They were too new to the western frontier. When a large band of Indians rode up to the fort at ten o'clock in the morning, seventeen-year-old Rachel Parker guessed incorrectly, and perhaps wistfully, that they were "Tawakonis, Caddoes, Keechis, Wacos," and other sedentary bands of central Texas - but they soon realized they had made a disastrous error in leaving themselves so exposed. Had they fully understood whom they were confronting - mostly Comanches, but also some Kiowas, their frequent running mates [and the only other tribe that hunted on horseback] - they might have anticipated the horrors that were about to descend on them.

What happened next is one of the most famous events in the history of the American frontier, as the start of the longest and most brutal of all the wars between Americans and a single Indian tribe.

[Warning: edited descriptions of disturbing violence]

Rachel Parker and her sister watched in horror as the Indians surrounded her uncle and impaled him on their lances, and then [tortured], while probably still alive. This all happened very quickly. Rachel, attempting to run with her fourteen-month old son, was soon caught, and she would write, "a large sulky Indian picked up a hoe and knocked me down." She fainted, and when she came to was being dragged by her long red hair, bleeding profusely from her head wound. Meanwhile three of her relatives were stripped naked and scalped, while her granny was [sexually assaulted] and left for dead, although she would miraculously survive. Two women and three children were taken captive. Two of those children would become household names on the western frontier. The logic of Comanche raids was straightforward: All the men were killed, and any men who were captured alive were tortured to death as a matter of course, some more slowly than others; the captive women were gang-raped. Some were killed, some were tortured. But a portion of them, particularly if they were young, would be spared. Babies were invariably killed, while preadolescents were often adopted by Comanches or other tribes, or sold and ransomed back to the whites for horses, weapons, or food.

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

[alixandra-multifandom-version]

Writing fanfiction isn't enough anymore I need that character to kiss me breathless

[kosherwitchy]

I love you black annabeth I love you Jewish Spiderman I love you Desi rapunzel I love you black Ariel I love you Hispanic snow white I love you black captain America I love you seeing yourself represented in your favorite characters

[cheddar-cheese-enthusiast]

anyways i love you rachel zegler and bella ramsey and halle bailey and avantika and nico parker and francesca amewudah-rivers and leah sava jeffries and every other non-man in hollywood who gets a disproportionate amount of hate for no reason

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[likeafantasy]

25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (05/25) ↳ the family stone (2005)

[wwprice1]

10 great Marvel covers for August!

[huariqueje]

Jarousse , Tortoiseshell Cat  - Rachel Parker

American , b. ?

Watercolour on paper , 13 x 18 in.

[gracefireheart]

It them Parker twins- aka Ryan and Rachel- but as youngins

+ just a tiiiny bit of angst :]

[fireflysparks]

Rachel Parker

Rachel Parker is Jane's magic teacher and Chaz and Jenny's sister. She's very smart and disciplined. Reserved, but not unconfident. A total Ravenclaw. One of her dreams is to be named valedictorian.

Rachel mostly teaches Jane about magical history. She likes teaching word for word from the old history books in her father's collection, but Jane prefers it when Rachel explains history in her own words. Rachel also shares Jane's Element of Air, which makes her the natural choice for teaching Jane how to float objects, and eventually, how to fly.

Like many Airs, Rachel has a talent for singing. But unlike her sister, Rachel doesn't have ambitions for fame. She wants to dedicate her life to a noble cause.

Rachel also has a secret, which she asks Jane to keep. So, she's by no means the perfect mentor. But she is dedicated and caring. And Jane likes to think of her as an older sister. Or maybe, even a friend.

[forsapphics]

Rachel & Luce's first meeting

IMAGINE ME & YOU (2005) — directed by Ol Parker

[vertigoartgore]

2005's Marvel Knights: Spider-Man Vol.1 #12 (turning 20 today, feel old yet ?) cover by artists/couple Terry and Rachel Dodson.

[fireflysparks]

If I wanted to introduce you to my heart and soul made into sims...

Jane Roberts never fit in. After years of teasing from her classmates, all she wanted was to blend in and be normal. But on Jane’s first day of fourth grade, her life changes completely when the new girl, Jenny, brings with her arrival the secret of magic. Jane goes into training, where she learns the ins and outs of magic and its great history. But not even magic can top the feeling Jane gets when she meets Chaz Parker, Jenny’s older brother. She’s head-over-heels and wants to be with Chaz forever, but a nine year age difference makes Jane wonder if he’d ever look at her that way. Between learning magic and falling in love, Jane’s year is bound to be anything but normal.

I can't believe it's been such a long time since I first made my Magic Inc. characters as sims. These sims actually helped helped my first artist with the Magic Inc. cover.

Guys, I finally made the Parker family from my (eventually) upcoming book, Magic Inc. And the little Jane Roberts, my main character.