#Tea Bendix

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Tumblr, you need to read this book. I'm only a third of the way in but it's SOOO good. It's about four high school boys who have been friends since childhood. Jack is gay, and Charlie keeps picking on him for it, but Charlie is also doing sexual things with Ant (our narrator). Ant has feelings for Charlie but doesn't like how he treats Jack and is trying to figure out this whole mess and what it means about him as a person.

The text of the book is being censored by an outside force, and the boys are aware of it and seemingly aware that they're in a book:

So it's also about censorship, both from authority figures, as well as censoring oneself to fit who you think you are (or are supposed to be).

Oh! AND it has these beautiful pencil-and-digital illustrations by Tea Bendix that are sketchy, smudgy, additive and subtractive, cut and pasted, and very dynamic. They emphasize the unfinished nature of the MCs, their personalities in flux.

This is the best book I've read so far this year, and I can't wait to see where it's going!

[slaughter-books]

Day 28: JOMPBPC: This Month's Favourite

I loved reading this book this month! ❤️

[bunnyreading]

Different for Boys by Patrick Ness

Even though I'm drifting away from YA books now, Patrick Ness is one of those authors I always want to pick up.

This is an interesting little novella about toxic internalised homophobia and male relationships. It also has beautiful little illustrations by Tea Bendix that compliment the writing so well.

I would say that the story itself is very simplistic. You don't learn a lot about the characters, and it's focused on one event. This definitely feels like it's meant for kids who maybe aren't so into reading just yet. It's brief, has beautiful illustrations, and I think serves as a good introduction book for people.

⭐️⭐️⭐️

[walkerbooksya]

Cover reveal! Different for Boys by Patrick Ness, illustrated by Tea Bendix.

Ant Stevenson has many questions, like when did he stop being a virgin? Are there degrees of virginity? And is it different for boys? Especially for boys who like boys?

Originally published in the Losing It anthology edited by Keith Gray, this is a revised and fully illustrated 104 page book.

[sixohsixoheightfourtwo]

who likes comPLETEly wild 1940s technicolor noir films?? is that you?? Please in that case watch DESERT FURY, a totally bonkers 1947 melodrama set somewhere in nevada. The Nitrate Diva posted about it on twitter, saying it “must be seen to be believed” and I simply Cannot turn down such a recommendation.

in Desert Fury: the world’s oldest 19 yr old student Paula (Lizabeth Scott, who’s sort of lauren bacall-like) comes home to the desert town of ‘chuckawalla’ where her mother Fritzi (Mary Astor) runs casinos (and i think also brothels??). Meanwhile racketeer EDDIE BENDIX (budget clark gable john hodiak) and his ‘pal’ johnny (wendell corey) blow into town .... and Paula, for some reason, Falls In Luv or something with him. It’s based on a story by Ramona Stewart written for the glossy womens’ magazines when she was still in college. so you KNOW it’s gonna be OTT idfic.

On a formal level the actual best things about this are probably the Cinnamon Tography — glorious technicolor etc, actual location shooting in arizona, luridly bright — and the miklos rozsa score. Also Edith Head’s costumes: Lizabeth Scott gets approximately 9000 high-glam outfit changes; the film is clearly designed as a star vehicle for her.

on an INFORMAL level.... it is an amazingly weird ride.  Eddie turns out to be an old boyfriend of her mother Fritzi. Fritzi’s treatment of her daughter veers towards queasily pseudo-incestuous — calling Paula ‘baby’ all the time (UGH!), insisting Paula calls her by her first name, because ‘mother’ is ‘cold’ and not ‘companionable’. Burt Lancaster is ... also here, hating every second he’s in this film as Paula’s dumbass rodeo-champ-turned-cop love interest. (this was literally the second film he shot, he apparently thought it was total crap but had to do it as he was under contract. his best scenes tbh are with Mary Astor)  

Oh and Paula mysteriously resembles Eddie’s DEAD WIFE .... which is why he’s interested in her. And his wife died under Suspicious Circumstances. And people keep slapping each other in the face.

But also — eddie bendix and his pal johnny ryan .... are Gay. OK no, eddie is bisexual. Any time they’re in a scene together they’re framed together, presented as a duo. sometimes they are shirtless drinking tea together. they have lived and worked together for years and years. How did they meet? according to eddie.... johnny picked him up at 2am in times square: 

It was in the automat off Times Square about two o’clock in the morning on a Saturday. I was broke. He had a couple of dollars. We got to talking. He ended up paying for my ham and eggs… I went home with him that night… We were together from then on.

hello? hello??

ok so there’s a line about how there was a spare room at his mother’s boardinghouse or w/ever but it feels v much thrown in to appease censors. 

Paula and Eddie start their affair and there are some great scenes where johnny is initially apparently NOT threatened by eddie having a girlfriend... and then realises what’s up and tries to separate them. the tone is v much — I’m really just paraphrasing his dialogue here — johnny’s been with him for 15 years, he’s outlasted other women, women don’t want to know the Real Eddie, unlike johnny. johnny keeps calling eddie ‘good-looking’. It’s the 1940s and J and E are the Bad Guys ... so no spoilers but it doesn’t end well for them, altho Johnny is the most sympathetic character in this film and you can fight me about it. But for about 75 minutes you get so caught up in trying to figure out how this film has a functional gay couple that you forget the Hays Code exists.

There’s a clip on youtube of Eddie Muller (a critic who specialises in noir) introducing a screening of Desert Fury — he calls it “the gayest movie I have ever seen coming out of Hollywood in the 1940s . . . the relationship between John Hodiak and Wendell Corey in this film is sort of not to be believed”. He also has them at #2 on his list of “Film Noir’s Top 10 (Maybe) Gay Couples” (first is John Dall and Farley Granger in Rope — and they really WERE gay).

anyway there u have it. quarantimes film rec: DESERT FURY, 1947. I watched it on a second-hand spanish-language DVD because there’s no UK release. It's on dvd/bluray in the US. u can probably also find it thru... other channels idk I didn’t look

[thatbluenote]

Start of that fic about Amy Bendix, Disaster Babysitter for the Liebermans’ kids

Unwashed hair. Stale fast food. Nicotine gum and nips poured into Arizona tea. Every greyhound bus smelled the same.

Amy Bendix slid further down in her bus seat and covered her mouth and nose with the sleeve of her sweatshirt, desperate to inhale the sticky-sweet chemical perfume hidden there instead. A spritz of Sweet Like Candy by Ariana Grande from the CVS two rest stops ago was hardly enough to chase away the smell, but it would have to do.

Her seatmate was a very sweet and very deaf and very tired abuela who had to be 70 years old at least, and whose snores spread a vague fog of breath mints across the space between them. Small mercies.

It had been a long, ugly day of travel, and Port Authority was still twelve miserable hours ahead of her.

What’s worse, she thought to herself, being on this god-awful bus or getting off of it and facing Frank?

Frank had sent her to Florida. Frank had set her up a nice, safe place to land. Frank didn’t yet know that she’d fucked it all up.

[ao3feed-jaytim]

Dusk Falls

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2CuasZP

by bewaretheboojum

Ten years ago, Tim was kidnapped by Henry Bendix. Tim, Apollo and Midnighter eventually escaped Bendix together, but not before Bendix inflicted a few "improvements" on Tim. After joining Stormwatch, Tim becomes 'Dusk', fighting alongside Apollo and Midnighter. But lately, he's been feeling a little restless...

Shortly after Tim was kidnapped, Jason was attacked by the Joker, he just barely survived. The road to recovery was long and arduous. After a big fight with Bruce, Jason sets out on his own and becomes Revenant. They hadn't spoken for more than a year until an unexpected weapons shipment to Gotham suddenly necessitates their cooperation.

Words: 7127, Chapters: 1/4, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Dusk and Revenant

Fandoms: Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Stormwatch (Comics)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Midnighter, Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne, OSS - Original Space Ship

Relationships: Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Apollo/Midnighter

Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Cussing, peppermint tea, Alfred being sweet, Bruce throwing things, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Tim and Jason are like mid-twenties

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2CuasZP

[ao3feed-timdrake]

Dusk Falls

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2CuasZP

by bewaretheboojum

Ten years ago, Tim was kidnapped by Henry Bendix. Tim, Apollo and Midnighter eventually escaped Bendix together, but not before Bendix inflicted a few "improvements" on Tim. After joining Stormwatch, Tim becomes 'Dusk', fighting alongside Apollo and Midnighter. But lately, he's been feeling a little restless...

Shortly after Tim was kidnapped, Jason was attacked by the Joker, he just barely survived. The road to recovery was long and arduous. After a big fight with Bruce, Jason sets out on his own and becomes Revenant. They hadn't spoken for more than a year until an unexpected weapons shipment to Gotham suddenly necessitates their cooperation.

Words: 7127, Chapters: 1/4, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Dusk and Revenant

Fandoms: Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Stormwatch (Comics)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Midnighter, Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne, OSS - Original Space Ship

Relationships: Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Apollo/Midnighter

Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Cussing, peppermint tea, Alfred being sweet, Bruce throwing things, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Tim and Jason are like mid-twenties

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2CuasZP

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(FIX) Cuba Street Research - Heritage Buildings/Histories

People who have owned/run shops for a long time https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/nz-earthquake/86700629/miracle-on-cuba-st-how-wellingtons-most-earthquakeprone-street-dodged-a-bullet

(former) Queen's Picture Theatre - 1916 - 181 Cuba Street

first movie theatre, closed in 1955 then used a billiard saloon, grocer, wholesale furniture outlet & musical instrument store

Commercial building & cottage - 1870 - 282 Cuba Street

one of the oldest buildings, carpenter gothic style. associated with Tonks family. Also used as a health centre for Prostitutes Collective and youth centre for the Jewish community

(former) National Bank Te Are Building - 1917 - 192-194 Cuba Street

in 1996 it was converted into the Logan Brown restaurant with an apartment on the second floor

Shop - 1896 - 274 Cuba Street

1 room shop built for Kate Tonks. used as a bookmakers shop from 1889 - 1955. In 1946-1955 it was used as a butchers shop

(former) People's Palace Hotel - 1907 - 207-219 Cuba Street

Commercial building - 1913 - 141-143 Cuba Street

in the 1860s it was occupied by a grocer, in 1877-1913 it was occupied by various ironmongers, 1920s-1950s it was the Union Clothing Company Ltd. Mann's Shoe Store occupied it until the 1960s then in the early 70s the ground floor was converted into a kitchen and it housed various takeaway shops. it is now scopa

(former) Hallenstein Brothers building - 1920 - 132 Cuba Street

Bendix Hallenstein immigrated from Germany in 1863, he opened the first store in Dunedin and the first Wellington store in 1877 on Lambtom Quay, Cuba Street in 1910

Berry Building - 1900 - 145-149 Cuba Street

built as a photographic studio and workshop for William Berry

Edilson's Building - 1928 - 173 Cuba Street Alexandra Building - 1905 - 175-179 Cuba Street

shops on the bottom, apartments on top

L T Watkins Building - 1904 - 176 Cuba Street Maguire's Building - 1900 - 168-174 Cuba Street

apartments, fishmonger, watchmakers, jeweller, tailor, tea merchant, tea rooms and grocer.

Commercial building - 1908 - 134 Cuba Street

pastry cooks, butchers, restaurants, now is Hunters & Collectors

(former) Nees Hardware building - 1900 - 119-121 Cuba Street

shops on the ground floors, workshops behind and on the second floor

Bristol Hotel - 1909 - 127-133 Cuba Street

classical street facade. originally was 2 shops and a large warehouse on the first floor, the rest was separated in hotel bedrooms and bathrooms.

Farmers Department Store - 1914 - 94-102 Cuba Street

built for Christopher Smith, a draper, had established his business by 1890. by 1970 farmers was the largest department store in NZ

Barber's buildings - 1910 - 123-125 Cuba Street

built for Barber & Co as a dye works.

Commercial Building - 1902 - 118 Cuba Street (former) Gear Meat Co. Building - 1896 - 130 Cuba Street shop/dwelling - 1900 - 270-272 Cuba Street Commercial building - 1907 - 297-301 Cuba Street Lampard Flats - 1936 - 284 Cuba Street Thistle Hall - 1907 - 293-295 Cuba Street (former) Downes building - 1901 - 201 Cuba Street Morgan's buildings - 1922 - 197-199 Cuba Street Commercial building - 1896 - 221-225 Cuba Street Commercial building - 1908 - 241-243 Cuba Street Shop/ Dwelling - 1901 - 288 Cuba Street Commercial building - 1920 - 104 Cuba Street (former) Te Are House - 1886 - 82-92 Cuba Street Arco House - 1908 - 45-47 Cuba Street Commercial Building - 1903 - 41-43 Cuba Street Apartment Building - 1932 - 251-255 Cuba Street Postal Box - 1897-1910 (former) the vic private hotel - 1935 - 154-156 Cuba Street (former) George & George Building - 1991 - 161-163 Cuba Street Wellington Working men's club - 1904-1908 - 101-117 Cuba Street House - 1885-1886 - 280 Cuba Street Commercial building - 1906-1907 - 276-278 Cuba Street (former) Patrick's Buildings - 1904 - 191 Cuba Street Commercial building - 1922 - 216 Cuba Street Show & Dwelling - 1896-1897 - 149 Cuba Street Kennedy building - 1905 - 33 Cuba Street Columbia Private hotel - 1908 - 30-38 Cuba Street T.G. Macarathy trust building - 1897-1904 - 58-60 Cuba Street (former) James Smith Ltd Department store - 1907 -49-65 Cuba Street shop/dwelling - 1889-1890 - 290 cuba street

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Dusk Falls

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2CuasZP

by bewaretheboojum

Ten years ago, Tim was kidnapped by Henry Bendix. Tim, Apollo and Midnighter eventually escaped Bendix together, but not before Bendix inflicted a few "improvements" on Tim. After joining Stormwatch, Tim becomes 'Dusk', fighting alongside Apollo and Midnighter. But lately, he's been feeling a little restless...

Shortly after Tim was kidnapped, Jason was attacked by the Joker, he just barely survived. The road to recovery was long and arduous. After a big fight with Bruce, Jason sets out on his own and becomes Revenant. They hadn't spoken for more than a year until an unexpected weapons shipment to Gotham suddenly necessitates their cooperation.

Words: 7127, Chapters: 1/4, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Dusk and Revenant

Fandoms: Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Stormwatch (Comics)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Midnighter, Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne, OSS - Original Space Ship

Relationships: Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Apollo/Midnighter

Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Cussing, peppermint tea, Alfred being sweet, Bruce throwing things, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Tim and Jason are like mid-twenties

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2CuasZP