#Sharon Briggs

[meademasbae]

It's the 10th anniversary of Carmilla next year wtaf

[stuff-diary]

Wicked

Movies watched in 2025

Wicked (2024, USA)

Director: Jon M. Chu

Writers: Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox (based on the musical by Stephen Schwartz & Winnie Holzman and the novel by Gregory Maguire)

Mini-review:

Few things give me the high of a super hyped-up movie that actually delivers: Wicked is just as great as everyone keeps saying. Tbh, I went in knowing next to nothing, cause this particular musical never made it to my country, afaik. I'm obviously acquainted with The Wizard of Oz, but that's about it. And what I found here was almost three hours of pure magic and unforgettable songs. The entire cast smashes it out of the park in every way: acting, singing and dancing. The sets are absolutely stunning, too; it's arguably the best production design I've seen recently. However, I do think the cinematography and lighting leave much to be desired; at points it looks like a run-of-the-mill Marvel movie. But still, everything else is exceptional enough for that detail not to bring the film down at all. I'll definitely be looking forward to part two!

[ronancelovemail]

carmilla girlies where are you

[chriscdcase95]

Happy ten year anniversary to Carmilla: The Series. It feels like I just blinked when I saw the trailer a decade ago, and I decided to celebrate by linking the entirety of season one here!

[petalsbleedingbeak666]

Summer break is near and I think I should rewatch Carmilla

Not ready for the angst but I love the angst. My little gay heart is to be wasted and tattered.

[canadachronicles]

See, even though I knew it was coming (and that I know what comes next), Carmilla and Laura breaking up still hurt! Happy Halloween, friends!

[glossamerfaerie]

My confidence level does waver sometimes, but not for the endgame ships. It wavers for which book (Elucien or Gwynriel) will be next.

My real-life friends ask me how I’m so confident and… idk. I’ve been reading adult PNR/fantasy romance since 2010. Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Anne Bishop, Grace Draven, Patricia Briggs, Sharon Shinn, Jacqueline Carey, Juliet Marillier… you name it, I’ve read it.

I’ve never been wrong about a future ship or outcome of a love triangle. Never. Even when something has taken years to resolve, I’ve never wavered. I don’t think I’m particularly intelligent; I’ve just been “trained” (so to speak) on how foreshadowing works. Sequel bait is a beautiful, long-honored tradition in romance, even for so-called “love-triangle” books (tbh I barely think the ACOTAR situation counts as one. It’s a half-assed rebound that doesn’t even get off the ground).

So, yeah. Believe and ship what you want; I’ve happily shipped many non-canon pairings while acknowledging that it’ll never be canon. But all my spidey senses are telling me that Gwynriel are mates and endgame. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I can only point to my years of reading experience. Believe it or don’t.

[thinkthislineismostlyfillerposts]

Whenever I read a book I like to cast the characters in my head as they are introduced. I wonder if everyone does this. I usually used actors or people I know well how they speak. Anyways I wanted to show you what my cast for the Alexandria Bellefleur series looks like.

Darcy- Katherine Barrel

Elle- Elise Bauman

Brendon- Matt O’Connor

Annie- Annie Briggs

Brendon and Darcy’s mom-Jane Krakowski

Margott- Sharon Belle

Olivia- Renee Rapp

[savage-radio-3way-fm]

Episode 029 - St. Patricks Day aka Punk from Ireland and Northern Ireland

Fun Things - Savage!

Green River - Swallow My Pride Blood Circus - Two Way Street Murder City Devils - Broken Glass

Plain Wrap - Punk Rock Mass Media - Das Jazz Naked Lady Wrestlers - Accidents

Clutch - The Elephant Riders Hellacopters - Geekstreak Hellacopters - Cold Night For Alligators (Roky Erickson) Hellacopters - Get Ready (Smokey Robinson)

Batpiss - Nothing Convict Class - Conspiracy Theory

Nashville Pussy - Nutbush City Limits (Ike & Tina Turner) Motorhead - I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care) Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?

The Detonators - Cruisin' Ex Producers - Behind The Door Pretty Boy Floyd & The Gems - Sharon

Rudi - Time To Be Proud Ruefrex - The Perfect Crime Ruefrex - One By One Boomtown Rats - Looking After No. 1

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks Virgin Prunes - Twenty Tens The Radiators From Space - Television Screen Duggie Briggs Band - Poison Ivy

Spider - Dancin' In The Street Androids - Bondage In Belfast Lenny & The Lawbreakers - Me And Bobby McGhee (Kris Kristofferson)

Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device Stiff Little Fingers - Barbed Wire Love Stiff Little Fingers - 78 rpm Stiff Little Fingers - Wasted Life (Live)

Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster

[eddys-plot-shop]

Sharon Tate + Trixie Franklin (Call The Midwife)

Name: Christine "Christa" Caldwell

Myers Briggs Type: ESFJ

Occupation: Secretary

Quote: "Coincidence is a funny thing, isn’t it? It makes you think that there's no such thing as coincidences at all."

Fic Title: Call On Me

Plot Summary: Christa's pregnant sister, Julie, is a recovering alcoholic and Christa has been key in helping her stay sober. She drives her to meetings, where she first lays eyes on Trixie Franklin walking in, and then out again when she returns to pick Julie up. She offers a wave and a smile and Christa thinks that’s it. She may see her again in passing, but that might be the only real interaction they have. Imagine her surprise when she runs into Trixie again at the clinic, just making sure that Julie and the baby are properly seen to.

[mild-lunacy]

I think I view romance as a sort of crutch, perhaps, in terms of things I'd like to read. I really like the *idea* of friendship-based stories rather than romantic narratives, and yet I have some weird PTSD-like avoidance of them. This probably is a product of my over-familiarity with fandom and particularly the frustration of the source material. I'm afraid that somehow friendship wouldn't be enough, even though this is unlikely for me. Half the time I actually find the stupider/more immature parts of romance (jealousy, misunderstandings, love triangles, imbalance with the physical attraction, etc) more frustrating than friendship by far. I mean, one main reason I stick to genre romance is that there's little time to spend on those plot lines. I actually prefer extraneous sex scenes to extra scenes about romantic anxiety and misunderstandings. Not to say I don't like well done romantic tension, 'cause I do.

Mostly thinking of this as I found a new sci fi/fantasy author, Rachel Neumeier, and I'm thinking about reading the series starting with Tuyo. It's one of those super-close male friendship fantasy epics that I both adore and avoid like it's kryptonite. It also gets old *always* seeing men and women interact romantically. I actually try to avoid this even in romances-- I like where the female main character is only secondarily 'a woman', as opposed to whatever else she does or wants to do.

I have a lot of the personality preferences of the readers who *never* read romance, except that I constantly do. One of the things I look for that resolves this sort of dynamic is that in a genre/romance *series*, by book 2-3, the couple is usually already together and the focus is on their partnership and meeting new obstacles and their friends and family. Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs-- urban fantasy books in general-- are well established in doing this.

So I've read pure urban fantasy as well as genre romance-adventures but I've been avoiding pure science fiction. In part because it's more often written by male writers who focus on plot to the exclusion of characterization. On top of that, I like a certain kind of character/culture centric story, even if it's focused primarily on plot. Women tend to write that kind of story even with science fiction (eg, some old Ursula K LeGuin or Lois Bujold and Sharon Lee/Miller or Catherine Asaro, and recently I've found Rachel Neumeier and Dorothy Grant).

Anyway, so while I dip my toe periodically in non-romantic fantasy and particularly sci fi by women, I've still been avoiding genre stories (by women) that are about male friendship. There's no good reason for this, rationally, particularly when I only like family stories when they're in the background of an individual's life (though I love that background, and I love Ilona Andrews, Seanan McGuire and Nalini Singh partly for that reason). Without a focus on primarily family dynamics, without friendship what else is there? And this is how I get to settling on romance. I just like books about 1-2 people *primarily*. Even 3 protagonists is really pushing it if they're dominant.

So I'm wondering if I did read Tuyo, would it be a beginning of something? Or would I never get over my fandom trauma. That would be sad.

[anglosaxonpersonalnames]

Osburg

Osburg is an Anglo-Saxon feminine name composed of os (god) and burg (fort).

Variants:

Osberga [Sharon Turner 1807 The History of the Anglo-Saxons, 2nd edition, 1: 184].

Osburg [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 3].

Osburh [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 372].

Osburga [Maria Boehler 1930 Die altenglischen Frauennamen, page 104].

Ōsburg [Keith Briggs 2021 An index to personal names in English place-names, page 212].

Ōsburh [Keith Briggs 2021 An index to personal names in English place-names, page 212].

Note:

Forms ending with -a are Latinizations.

Prototheme:

Os = god [Elisabeth Okasha 2011 Women’s Names in Old English, page 65].

Deuterotheme:

burg = fort, city [Henry Sweet 1886 The Oldest English Texts, page 553].

Usage:

“Reverentissimis Christi virginibus omnique devotae germanitatis affectu venerandis et non solum corporalis pudicitiae praeconio celebrandis, quod plurimorum est, verum etiam spiritalis castimoniae gratia glorificandis, quod paucorum est, Hildilithae, regularis disciplinae et monasticae conversationis magistrae, simulque Iustinae ac Cuthburgae nec non Osburgae, contribulibus necessitudinum nexibus conglutinatae, Aldgithae ac Scolasticae, Hidburgae et Berngithae, Eulaliae ac Teclae, rumore sanctitatis concorditer Ecclesiam ornantibus, Aldhelmus, segnis Christi Crucicola et supplex Ecclesiae bernaculus, optabilem perpetuae prosperitatis salutem” (“To the most reverend virgins of Christ, to be venerated in every sensation of devout kinship, and to be celebrated not only for the praiseworthy quality of physical chastity (which belongs to many) but especially to be glorified for the grace of spiritual chastity (which belongs to few): to Hildelith, teacher of the discipline of the rule and of monastic life; likewise to Justina and Cuthburh and also Osburh (joined closely in associative bonds of relationships); to Aldgith and Scolastica, Hidburh and Berngith, Eulalia and Tecla, in unity ornamenting the Church with a reputation of sanctity: Aldhelm, sluggish servant of the Cross of Christ and humble slave of the Church, sends his desire for their perpetual well-being”) [Emily Thornbury 2023 Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies, pages 174-175].

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.18

Beer Birthdays

Samuel Whitbread II (1764)

Jamie Emmerson (1963)

Jeff Alworth (1967)

Chris Cohen (1974)

Jeff Moakler (1985)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Jacob Bronowski; mathematician, historian, physicist, poet (1908)

Cary Grant; actor (1904)

A.A. Milne; writer, "Winnie the Pooh" (1842)

Peter Mark Roget; lexicographer, "Roget's Thesaurus" (1779)

Robert Anton Wilson; science fiction writer (1932)

Famous Birthdays

Dave Attell; comedian (1965)

Dave Bautista; wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor (1969)

David Bellamy; English botanist (1933)

John Boorman; film director (1933)

Raymond Briggs; cartoonist, "The Snowman" (1934)

Randolph Bromery; geologist (1926)

Kevin Costner; actor (1955)

Jonathan Davis; singer-songwriter (1971)

Henry Austin Dobson; English poet and author (1840)

Ray Dolby; inventor (1933)

C. M. Eddy Jr.; author (1896)

Curt Flood; baseball player (1938)

Paul Freeman; English actor (1943)

Bobby Goldsboro; pop singer (1941)

Jorge Guillén; Spanish poet (1893)

Oliver Hardy; actor, comedian (1892)

Jane Horrocks; actor (1964)

Danny Kaye; actor (1913)

Sharon Mitchell; porn star (156)

Baron de Montesquieu; French philosopher (1689)

Peter Moon; Australian comedian and actor (1953)

Yoichiro Nambu; Japanese-American physicist (1921)

Joanna Newsom; pop musician (1982)

Sylvia Panhurst; English suffragist (1882)

Julius Peppers; Carolina Panthers DE (1980)

Hargus "Pig" Robbins; session keyboard and piano player (1938)

David Ruffin; pop singer (1941)

Mark Rylance; English actor, director, and playwright (1960)

Louis Claude de Saint-Martin; French mystic and philosopher (1743)

Arno Schmidt; German author (1914)

Jason Segel; actor (1980)

Thomas Sopworth; British aviation pioneer (1888)

Jon Stallworthy; English poet (1935)

Vassilis Tsitsanis; Greek bouzouki player (1915)

Thomas A. Watson; assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (1854)

Daniel Webster; politician, writer (1782)

Charlie Wilson; businessman and politician (1943)

Vitomil Zupan; Slovene author, poet, and playwright (1914)

[eitmonline]

EITM Playlist 12/16/24

The Sound Of Music - Do-Re-Mi | 6:05

Pixies - Velouria | 6:24

Pixies - Alec Eiffel | 6:29

U2 - Luckiest Man In The World | 7:04

Cage The Elephant - Metaverse | 7:35

Declan McKenna - Champagne | 7:52

Gigi Perez - Sailor Song | 7:56

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Call Me (Whatever You Like) | 8:24

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Afterlife | 8:59

Fame On Fire, SiM - Chains (The Tower) | 9:27

Tremonti - Just Too Much | 9:45

Linkin Park - Two Faced | 9:50

Wage War - BLUR | 10:18

Bishop Briggs - Paint It, Black | 10:49

[sporadiceagleheart]

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