#The Amery Legacy

[woseysims]

Meet Amerie

Named after one of my fave artists, Amerie (she/they) is a foodie, impulsive, awkward, an introvert, and a child of nature. Their aspiration is “Country Caretaker” and is currently unemployed. She lives in Henford-on-Badgley, after living in San Myshuno for most of their life. Amerie decided to move into their Aunt's country home to take a break from the fast-paced energy of the city.

Very excited to start my first legacy challenge and to see all the mess this sim gets into! Posting their home soon.

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[mademoisellefantasy]

" There has never been another Steve Rogers,has there? " | Captain Ameri...

Actually, this is soooo trueee!!!!!

As much as I like Sam Wilson as a character, it just wasn't the right decision for Marvel to replace Captain America. Maybe it makes sense in the comics where, because the storylines literally continue over decades, passing on the mantle of certain characters to others is narratively helpful and refreshing.

But in the MCU, it feels totally wrong. The whole point of Captain America being Steve and vice versa is that NO ONE ELSE had the moral integrity and strength of Steve Rogers. That's the reason he was chosen and no one else, no matter how great of a character they might be on their own right, could ever feel in his role.

Kinda how no one else is as brilliant, eccentric, and self-sacrificial as Tony Stark, thus no one but him can be Iron Man. I think that Steve and Tony were kinda supposed to be mirrors of each other, the one the heart and the other the brain of the Avengers. And so both should be irreplaceable.

I also think that it would have been much more honorable for Sam to accept that his old friend left a legacy behind that shouldn't be changed or affected by anyone (including himself), and go make his own arc focus on the future of America, symbolized by him AS THE FALCON.

In previous movies, because Steve (and Bucky, tbh) was always the main focus, we never got to see the full potential, backstory, motivations, etc. of the Falcon, just vague mentions. He was just a loyal friend and sidekick to Steve.

Imagine if the Falcon FINALLY had an arc that didn't center Steve Rogers, imagine if he was allowed to keep his core hero identity but also evolve in it. It would have been SO MUCH BETTER.

Additionally, I think that most of that passing on the mantle stuff, is just pandering to minorities, which in of itself isn't bad AT ALL, but they were SO LAZY about it in TFATWS.... Seriously, the script was mostly trash (apart from the more intimate Bucky and Sam interactions and Zemo's storyline), and it didn't allow Sam, the AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN THE WHOLE SERIES IS ABOUT!!!! to actually evolve in his own right and be a truly good protagonist.

Anyways, after TFATWS it became apparent to me that Marvel is no longer interested in good storytelling, character development, and representation. So, at least for me, Captain America in the MCU will forever only be Steve Rogers.

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Rest in peace Those Who died deserves this honor of their names that's why this is Thursday edit April 18th to remember the legacy of the Angels that died Jesus healed them and they went on to heaven home in the sky

Rebecca Jeanne Riley, Sally Ann Chesebro, Jane Eilish Preston January 3, 2017 - October 3, 2020, Calla Adelaide Andrus, Gabrielle Renae “Gabby” Barrett, Lauren Victoria “Tori” Windsor Whetzel, Gabrielly “Gabi” Magalhães de Souza, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Terence Pinder the 18 year old that was shot and killed in 1800 block of Hicks Street, Star Hobson, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Elizabeth Shelley, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Charlotte Bacon, Charlotte Louise Dunn, Emily Grace Jones, Ava Jordan Wood, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Emilie Parker, Jackie Cazares, Makenna Lee Elrod, Eliahna Torres, Nevaeh Bravo, Layla Salazar, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, Jailah Nicole Silguero, Bianca Devins, Catherine Violet Hubbard, Taylor Jean Moore, Destiny Norton, Destiny Riekeberg, JonBenèt Ramsey, Kelly Ann Fleming, Judith and Maria Barsi, Heather Michele O'Rourke, Lucille Ricksen, Indie Rose Armstrong, Rachel Joy Scott, Skylar Annette "Sky " Neese, Tristyn Bailey, Olivia Dahl, Lily Rose Diaz, Riley Faith Steep, Rylie Nicholls, Ava Martin White, James Bulger, Amerie Jo Garza, Maite Rodriguez, Alexandria Rubio, Joan of Arc, Jimmy the Crow, Dickey Betts, Kinsleigh Welty, Gracie Perry Watson, Inez Clarke Briggs, Annie Kerr Aiken, Grace Budd, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Happy Birthday Isabella Nardoni, Bella Claire Callaway, Calla Adelaide Woods, Rose Pizem, Riley Ann Sawyers, Riley Ann Fox, Anne and Margot Frank, Shan'ann, Bella&CeCe, Lallie Charles, Isobel Elsom, Jordan Rosales, Jeremiah, Ava Cole Nichols, Pauline Adelaar and Peter Fuchs, Anna D. Crnkovic, Irmgard Christine Winter, Olga Chardymova, Eliza Adalynn Moore, Lois Janes, Louis XVII, Sarah Payne, Alicia Lynn Clark, Mercedes Losoya, Norah Lee Howard, Sandra Cantu, Jessica Lunsford, Sierra Lynn Newbold, Samantha Bree Runnion, Samantha Davis, Dr. Jeremy and Avielle Richman, Beatriz Mota, Danielle Van Dam, Baby LeRoy, Shirley Temple and more kids

[h0urglcss-the-madman]

I’m so normal about my OC Jonathan you guys.

I’m so normal about Jonathan Amery, runaway prince.

Im so normal about Jonathan Sylios Amery, crown prince of the kingdom of Writhia, son to Dietrich Amery and the late Adelaide O’Conner, brother to Travis and Callum Amery, runaway prince who no one has seen or heard from in years when all along he has been living in the small thief town of Sylcras only a short distance away from the kingdom, hidden in the woods.

Im so normal about the Amery family and how fucked up their family dynamic is. About how Jonathan’s only crime was being born to a woman who did not love the king, Travis’s only purpose in life is to please others, Callum can only sit and watch as people assume he is innocent and pure and unable to feel anger or guilt or sadness because he is young. About how Dietrich cares not for his deceased wife who did not love him, who died at his own hands; he cares not for the son she birthed when he started to act too much like her and showed promise not of being a king but of being a rebel, a filthy rebel who would not submit to his will even by force or by punishment. King Dietrich cares for his middle and youngest as long as they behave, as they don’t become stains on the family legacy as their grandfather had been.

I’m so normal about how in every AU, Jonathan never makes it out unscathed. Scars both mental and physical plague him. He cannot cry nor cannot explain his reasons for why he would. He cannot sleep, cannot look at himself without wondering what his purpose in life is but to destroy himself and everyone around him when he inevitably lets his guard drop and lets them see the disaster he’s become, and not the wild party boy he wants them to see.

I’m so normal about how there’s AU’s where Jonathan does not make it out. Where he’s recaptured. Where he has no chance to escape in the first place and is instead left chained up in a basement somewhere, broken and waiting for a rescue that will never come until he realizes that maybe, just maybe, everyone is right and he’s the epitome of evil.

I’m so normal about my ocs guys <3

[misfitwashere]

November 29, 2024 

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

NOV 30

In 2008, Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law an act making the day after Thanksgiving National Native American Heritage Day.

About a month ago, on Friday, October 25, President Joe Biden became the first president to visit Indian Country in ten years when he traveled to the Gila River Indian Community in Maricopa County, Arizona, near Phoenix. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland traveled with him. The trip was designed to highlight the investments the Biden-Harris administration has made in Tribal Nations.

At a press gaggle on Air Force One on the way to Arizona, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre noted that under Biden, Tribal Nations have seen the largest direct federal investment in history: $32 billion from the American Rescue Plan and $13 billion through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to build roads and bridges, bring clean water and sanitation, and build high-speed Internet in Tribal communities.

Jean-Pierre added that First Lady Jill Biden has also championed Native communities, visiting them ten times to highlight investments in youth mental health, the revitalization of Native languages, and to improve access to cancer screening and cancer care in Native communities.

Secretary Haaland, herself a member of the Pueblo of Laguna, agreed that the Biden-Harris administration has brought “transformational change” to Native communities: “electricity on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona for homes that have never had electricity; protecting cultural resources, like salmon, which Pacific Northwest Tribes have depended on for thousands of years; new transportation infrastructure for the Mescalero Apache Nation in New Mexico that will provide a safer travel route and boost their economic development, their local economy; addressing toxic legacy pollution and abandoned oil and gas infrastructure that pollutes our air and water for the Osage Nation in Oklahoma; providing clean drinking water for Fort Peck in Montana.”

“Tribal leaders are experiencing a new era,” Haaland added. “They’re at the table. They’re being consulted.”

When Biden spoke at the Gila Crossing Community School, he said he was there “to right a wrong, to chart a new path toward a better future for us all.” As president of the United States, Biden formally apologized to the Native peoples—Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, Native Alaskans—for the U.S. government policy that forced Native children into federal Indian boarding schools.

The apology comes after the release of an Interior Department study, The Federal Boarding School Initiative, that Secretary Haaland directed the department to undertake in 2021. According to Assistant Secretary of the Interior Bryan Newland, a citizen and former president of the Bay Mills Indian Community (Ojibwe), the initiative was “a comprehensive effort to recognize the troubled legacy of Federal Indian boarding school policies with the goal of addressing their intergenerational impact and to shed light on the traumas of the past.”

The initiative set out to identify federal Indian boarding schools and sites, to identify the children who attended those schools and to identify their Tribal identities, to find marked and unmarked burial sites of the remains of Indian children near school facilities, and to incorporate the viewpoints of those who attended federal Indian boarding schools and their descendants into the story of those schools.

The report looked at the Indian education system from 1819 to 1969 as a whole, bringing together federal funding for religious schools in the early 1800s with later explicitly federal schools and their public school successors during and after the 1930s. But historians generally focus on the period from 1879 to the 1930s as the boarding school era.

In 1879, the government opened the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a boarding school for American Indian children in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, explicitly designed to separate children from their families and their culture and to train them for menial jobs.

The boarding school era was the brainchild of Army officer Richard Henry Pratt, a Civil War veteran who, in the years after the war, commanded the 10th United States Cavalry, a Black regiment stationed in the American West whose members Indigenous Americans nicknamed the “Buffalo Soldiers.” Pratt fought in the campaigns on the Plains from 1868 through 1875, when he was assigned to oversee 72 Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho, and Caddo prisoners of war at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida (now known as the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument).

Many Indigenous prisoners at Fort Marion, taken from the dry Plains to the hot and humid coast of Florida where they were imprisoned in a cramped stone fort, quickly sickened and died. Pratt worked to upgrade conditions and to assimilate prisoners into U.S. systems by teaching them English, U.S. culture, Christianity, and how the American economy worked. He cut their hair, dressed them in military-type uniforms, and urged them to make art for sale to local tourists—it’s from here we get the world-famous collection of ledger art by the artists of Fort Marion—but focused on turning the former warriors and their families into menial workers.

After the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 and the subsequent pursuit and surrender of leading Lakota bands throughout that year and the next, leading to the murder of Crazy Horse in 1877, popular opinion ran heavily toward simply corralling Indigenous Americans on reservations and waiting either for their assimilation or extermination. At the same time, with what seemed to be the end of the most serious of the Plains Wars, Army officers like Pratt had reason to worry that the downsizing of the U.S. Army would mean the end of their careers.

Indigenous survivors of Fort Marion returned home to see that the American government had no real plans for a thriving American Indian populace. There was little infrastructure to link them to the rest of the country to sell their art, and Indian agents rejected tribal members for jobs in favor of white cronies.

But Pratt considered his experiment at Fort Marion a great success, and he came to believe he could make his system work even more thoroughly by using a loophole in the treaties between Plains Tribes and the U.S. government to force Indigenous Americans to assimilate as children. He planned, he said, to “Kill the Indian and save the man.”

Treaties between Plains Indian Tribes and the government required the U.S. government to educate American Indian children—something their parents cared deeply about—but the treaties didn’t actually specify where the schools would be. So Pratt convinced the U.S. Army and officials at the Interior Department to give him the use of the Carlisle Barracks to open an industrial school, designed to teach American Indian children the skills necessary to be servants and menial workers.

In summer 1879, Pratt traveled to western reservations of the Lakotas and Dakotas, primarily, to gather up 82 children to begin his experiment in annihilating their culture from their minds. He forbade the practice of any aspect of Indigenous culture—language, religion, custom, clothing—and forced children to change their names, use English, practice Christianity, and wear clothing that mirrored that of Euro-American children.

Crowded together, many children died of disease; bereft of their family and culture, many died of heartache. Some found their newfound language and lessons tolerable, others ran away. For the next fifty years, the Carlisle model was the central model of government education for Indigenous children, with tens of thousands of children educated according to its methods.

In the 1920s the Institute for Government Research, later renamed the Brookings Institution, commissioned a study funded by the Rockefeller Institute—to make sure it would not reflect government bias—to investigate conditions among Indigenous Americans.

In 1928 that study, called the Meriam Report, condemned the conditions under which American Indians lived. It also emphasized the “deplorable health conditions” at the boarding schools, condemned the schools’ inappropriate focus on menial skills, and asserted that “[t]he most fundamental need in Indian education is a change in point of view.” In 1934 the Indian Reorganization Act reversed the policy of trying to eradicate Tribal cultures through boarding children away from their families, and introduced the teaching of Indian history and culture in federal schools.

But the boarding schools remain a central part of the experience of American Indians since the establishment of the U.S. government in North America, and the Federal Boarding School Initiative recommended that “[t]he U.S. Government should issue a formal acknowledgment of its role in adopting a national policy of forced assimilation of Indian children, and carrying out this policy through the removal and confinement of Indian children from their families and Indian Tribes and the Native Hawaiian Community and placement in the Federal Indian boarding school system.”

It continued: "The United States should accompany this acknowledgment with a formal apology to the individuals, families, and Indian Tribes that were harmed by U.S. policy."

On October 25, 2024, President Joe Biden delivered that apology.

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Auntie's Cottage

With the older furniture of their aunt's cottage, Amerie is starting to feel a bit more grounded in their surroundings. The darker wood adds to the cozy feeling and makes Amerie excited for her fresh start.

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Not you misunderstanding the social bullshit at play here. Beyoncé has a nasty habit of using an insidious PR machine to backhandedly smudge her way onto other black women’s arts and aesthetics, while she acts like a dumb, goody two shoes, knowing that black people are always the happiest to laugh at one another when they see each other hurt by this type of discarding and lack of genuine appreciation and acknowledgment when we all contribute to a collective culture that not a single one of us has any right to position ourselves as some pseudo sort of statehood of. Especially when you are adamantly fixed on shoving extremely denatured, piss poor, derivative versions of the hard work studied and expertly crafted work and excellence that is already solidified within the space. That is a joke. With that said, if you’re cultural value has sank that low that you’re only options are to play crabs in a barrels with your black female peers, sabotaging the, behind the scenes, stealing their singles and aesthetics at face value rather than collaborating with them and sharing wisdoms to actually enrich, explore, innovate, excel, and progress as an individual artist and collective genre with dignity, truth, humility, honor, and a general love for music and not some vapid, archaic obviously light skinned jealous obsession with fame… You wouldn’t feel the desperate need to defend Taylor Swift’s feelings when she is crying because Kanye told the truth. You are too happy to acknowledge and console the feelings of white peers and too thirsty to invoke anger in your black female colleagues to make yourself feel superior in a space too many more superior women have already left their mark.

Beyoncé is and has been for decades fighting very hard for pop cultural power with the understanding that being the top “black female artist”, in addition to being lighter skinned would be enough to satiate an industry full of white men who largely still considered her an urban act ala Ashanti, Brandy, Monica, Aaliyah, Amerie, Faith Evans, Mary J. Blige, SWV, Xscape, etc…. And focused on acts with world wide appeal like Britney, Madonna, and Christina, Pink, Adele — she got a bit more confused when Shakira and JLO hit the scene — in A LOT of ways she found herself stuck, not knowing how to navigate her coveted.light skinned but almost white passing blackness in a new, soft-ethnic market….in comes - BDAY.

In my honest opinion, France and its plethora of classical fine art institutions, organic record keeping, cultural pride and social respect for art is always the safe haven for the black female artist fighting to leave behind a solid, respectable, posthumous legacy of fine art that will be honored , revered, cherished, preserved, referenced in the most dignified ways. It is something to think about as an artist in this digital era of DSP fodder. Making silly algorithmic music for quick gain could possibly result in being buried amongst data. “Break My Soul” is 100% a song that could bring up an ‘Error 404 File Not Found’ 500 years from now if anyone cares or even remembers to search for it. “Show Me Love” is eternal. You will be able to search and find it for AT LEAST the next 200m years of music tech. “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston has at the very least a 100bn year shelf life. I’d reckon “212” will have a 400m year posthumous shelf life. Beyoncé has yet to create a song or project that anyone will want to hear more than maybe 70 years after she is gone. Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas” will outlive us all. Beyoncé needs to get serious about her legacy.

-Azealia Banks via IG

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Jess Watches // Fri 12 Jan // Day 112 Synopses & Favourite Scenes & Poll

The Resident (with mum) 2x22 Broker and Broker

Nic becomes infuriated when Alec suggests she meet with an organ broker in hopes of saving Jessie's life, but after her other ideas fail, she brings the idea to Conrad. Meanwhile, Devon and Irving help Mina piece together details from her night out.

Mina wearing a suit had me thinking thoughts. The relief that nothing bad happened to her while drunk. Unless bro-ing hard with Grayson counts as bad. It definitely did for Mina lol. And Nic made the toughest call but I think ultimately the right one. What did Conrad offer Bell to get Jessie on the transplant list? Also, Sam Huntington at the end with the promise to support the hospital in monthly installments had me cackling.

Frasier (with mum) 5x16 Beware of Greeks

Frasier discovers that the Crane men are not invited to a family wedding because of a grudge Frasier's intense Greek aunt has held against him ever since he gave her son, Nikos, some advice she didn't like.

Patti LuPone was projecting like she was on a theatre stage while I would've preferred to hear more of Martin gossiping to Daphne about his family.

Heartbreak High 1x04 Rack Off

A piece of locker room gossip tests Amerie's new romance. At the drug-fueled Mardi Gras Slay Ball, things escalate when Malakai faces off with a cop.

This ep was written by an Aboriginal actor and writer, Meyne Wyatt. Which is probably why Malakai getting racially profiled and beaten by the cop felt very real and not sensationalized just for the drama. Unfortunately the cop being a p.o.s. was to be expected, but what happened after with Dusty and Harper was also disappointing. They took advantage of him.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters 1x10 Beyond Logic (Season Finale)

Shaw and May search for Cate and make a startling discovery. Kentaro struggles with his loss.

Keiko Miura, the woman that you are. I'm Lee, gently cupping her face, amazed that she's still alive. I'm also Cate and May in the background, holding on to each other as Keiko and Lee reunite after all these days/years. The Titan fight at the end was epic! Seriously, what is this show's budget? Super hyped at what s2 could have in store. Especially with the return of a dangerously delectable Dominique Tipper.

[thegospelhighways2020]

Good Morning My Saints This morning today's Lesson is Preach about Actress #kailiaposey she wanted to continue her career in the entertainment industry, and pursue her dreams of becoming a commercial pilot imma share a scripture from the website Kailia Posey, the 16-year-old star of "Toddlers & Tiaras," died by suicide, her family said in a statement Wednesday.

“Although she was an accomplished teenager with a bright future ahead of her, unfortunately in one impetuous moment, she made the rash decision to end her earthly life,” the family said in a statement posted on Facebook Wednesday. And all the way through the end she would have made it for more times and more years focus on legacy what is legacy? It's like remembering someone who passed away and Honoring them and Supporting them okay and Thanksgiving wasn't like oh hey imma just post this and go no I'm coming here to post this and I ain't leaving here until I pray I wanna Pray for her we all want to pray for her just like you all want to continue praying for your Angel or loss loved ones pray for Missing Children while Y'all celebrating Thanksgiving we're down at the Church Praying ya'll know what get your turkey ready because it's praying time I don't know how many times we're praying but we're praying Nobody can't tell you oh your not going to church or your not going to pray tell them Yes I can and I will I will pray for Kailia Posey I will pray for Moa Bjork I will pray for Saffie Rose Roussos I will pray for JonBenèt Ramsey I will pray for Rachel Joy Scott I will pray for Amerie Jo Garza Makenna Lee Elrod Tess Marie Mata Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez Eliahna Cruz Torres Jailah Nicole Silguero Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares Alexandria Aniyah Rubio Maite Yuleana Rodriguez Daniel Barden Emilie Parker Charlotte Louise Dunn Sophie Quayle Sophie North I will pray for those Israel victims or Children and people who went Missing and went back home yes I will pray for Heather O'rourke I will pray for Judith Barsi and Maria I will pray for Those Missing Children We pray we're all praying if someone asks you what are you doing say I'm praying for those lost and Died out we're praying ya'll I will never stop praying