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expressandadmirable · 7 years ago

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Synchronicity

Aviva froze in her tracks. Of all the things she had expected to see nestled among the newly constructed buildings and stalls covering the labyrinth of boardwalks that was Crescent Lake, this particular tent had not been one of them. She was so convinced she’d hallucinated that she actually rubbed her eyes and looked again. It had been an excruciatingly exhausting few days and it would not have surprised her to discover her mind playing tricks. Yet there it stood, sun-faded and drab, blessedly familiar amongst the strangeness. She set off toward it, her pace increasing with each step; by the time she threw open the tent flap, she was nearly at a run.

“Mae!”

It was just the same as she remembered: richly patterned rug covering the wooden planks beneath, a pile of pillows at the centre with a cut-glass lamp hanging above, altar standing at attention in one corner, the air heavy with ink and incense. An otherworldly oasis amid the bustle of the village outside. But the person who jumped and turned to greet her was not Mae.

“Oh!” Aviva stopped short of throwing her arms around the figure. “I’m sorry. I thought--”

“No no,” the woman replied even as she shied away from the almost-hug, her dark eyes wide and startled. “It's alright. You're, ah, you're not wrong, this is Mae’s tent. You found it!” She wiggled her fingers in awkward celebration. She was petite even for an Elf, almost childlike, her slight figure hidden by an oversized blue shawl. Her scalp, shaved clean but for a dark mop of hair at the crown, was a mural of intricate black linework extending in elegant tendrils down her neck and disappearing into the collar of her tunic. “Are you a client?” she asked, then paused, squinting for a moment until realisation struck. “Wait, are you... You’re Lux! The Hero of Light!”

“Aviva,” the Tiefling responded without thinking, starting at how easily her given name rose to her lips. Halei, Elerian and Cid all used it, but she had not realised how reaccustomed she had become to hearing it -- and how much she had missed it. “I’m a client and a friend. Is Mae here?”

The Elf’s expression fell. “No. Not right now. She’s…” She trailed off, a brief internal debate playing across her face, then she sighed, her slender shoulders sagging. “In truth, I haven't seen her in some time. She just disappeared one day. Left everything set up--” she waved a hand at the tent around her, “--and vanished, about a year ago.” She looked up at Aviva, trying her best not to seem hopeful. “Have you seen her? In your travels?”

Aviva shook her head, a quiet sadness creeping into her heart. “No. But I have a feeling I know where she is.”

“You do?” The Elf cocked her head, long ears twitching. “You… don’t sound happy to say that.”

“No,” Aviva answered honestly, “I’m not. But if it helps, I don’t think any harm has come to her.” She offered a small smile. “I think she’s okay.”

The Elf folded her arms as if against a chill, her gaze dropping from Aviva to the altar in the corner. “She was Called, wasn’t she?”

Aviva opened her mouth, then closed it again, unable to hide her shock. “Yeah,” she said finally. “I think she was.” She chewed her lip. “How do you know about the Calling?”

“She told me.” The Elf sat heavily on a large cushion, gesturing for Aviva to join her on the pile of pillows. “She’d been having weird dreams for awhile. She said she could feel something… tugging at her, whispering in the back of her mind. She started to get irritable, snapping at me and at clients, and started to draw this round six-spoked sigil in her sketches--”

“What did you do with those sketches?” Aviva leaned toward the smaller woman, her voice suddenly deadly serious. “Do you still have them?”

“I-- I burnt them, after she left.” The Elf looked nervous. “They were making me uncomfortable. They felt… I dunno, wrong. Is that bad?”

Taking a deep breath, Aviva softened. “No. That was probably the best thing you could have done. The forces of Chaos are doing everything they can to tear the world apart, sowing fear and madness wherever they touch. Anything you can do to combat that, even something as seemingly insignificant as burning their sigil, helps.”

“Well, that’s why we’re all here, right?” The corner of the Elf’s mouth quirked into a lopsided smile. “To do what we can to help you on your quest.”

Aviva huffed, her eyes following the patterns on the rug at her feet. “Yeah.” Their quest. Their grand bloody destiny. Everyone in Crescent Lake, putting themselves in danger to help her merry band. “I’m sorry Mae’s not here,” she murmured. “Truly. Are you two…?”

The Elf frowned in curious confusion, then shook her head with a chuckle. “No, nothing like that. I’m her apprentice-- ah, was,” she corrected herself sadly. Then she held out her hand. “I’m Aesuithiel. Mae always called me Su.”

With a smile, Aviva shook her hand. “That’s a beautiful name.” She paused, tracing the root of a familiar word. “Means ‘birdlike’, yeah?”

“You speak Elvish!” Su sounded impressed.

“Surprisingly useful language,” Aviva grinned. She glanced around the tent as an idea began to form in her mind. “Are you set up to work?”

Su spread her arms wide. “Yes, absolutely. Are you interested in something? I’m not as fast as Mae, so it will take a bit longer and probably hurt a bit more, but it would be an honour to tattoo a Hero of Light.”

Aviva shook her head quickly. “Please, no. I don’t want to be a Hero of Light today. It’s fucking exhausting.” She smiled softly. “I want something for me. I need something for me.” A wave of anxiety stopped her words. She looked at Su, watching her with the same gentle focus she always saw in Mae, and she exhaled slowly. “The past few days have been… really hard. I mean, we knew they’d be trying, but… not like this, not for me. I feel like I’ve been torn open. These wounds are so deep and so old that I can’t remember a time they weren’t there, but they’re open all the way to the surface now and they’re bleeding and raw and I can’t stop screaming. But I need to heal. I’ve been burned to cinders and I need to rise from those ashes. If I want to take care of the people I love, I need to take care of myself. So I need something that will remind me of that.”

“From the ashes,” Su murmured, nodding to herself. “I think that’s where we can begin. Where were you thinking?”

“Here.” Aviva spread a palm against her chest. “I have a small piece here--” she pressed her fingers into her sternum, “--but the space above is entirely open.”

“I can work with that. Do you pray?”

“Yeah.”

Su tilted her head toward the altar. “Why don’t you take a few minutes while I start to get something sketched out? Meditate, take a nap; do what feels right for the time being.”

With a nod, Aviva rose from the pillows and stepped around them to kneel in front of the low table, taking in the mingled scents of incense and dried herbs. She would do whatever was needed to protect those dearest to her heart, but first she needed to ensure she could include herself among that number. The small statue of a nondescript deity greeted her impassively, and for the first time, she took in its smooth expression and neutral posture. “I never did ask,” she said, peering over her shoulder at Su, “who is this idol supposed to be?”

Opening her sketchbook, the Elf smiled. “Whoever you need it to be.”

* * *

“Hey, friend. Welcome back.”

Conscious but deeply disoriented, Aviva sat up and rubbed her eyes. Incense and ink and dappled light. Mae’s tent. “Was I asleep?”

Su nodded. “For a little while. How are you feeling?”

“Ready.” Aviva stretched, cracked her back and turned to face the Elf, still seated on her cushion. “How’s it coming?”

“Perfect timing, actually; I’m just about… done.” Holding her pencil between her teeth, Su turned the sketchbook around and held it up for Aviva to see.

Aviva stared at the drawing for a long time, turning it over in her mind, one hand moving to her chest; when she spoke again, she found her mouth had gone dry. “Yeah.”

“Okay.” Su removed the pencil from her mouth and set it on the low table beside her, followed by the sketchbook. “Let’s get you set up. Remove your top, please.” Aviva did as instructed, unbuckling her belt and slipping her kurta over her head, and Su smiled as the creeping vines, swirling music and other inked designs revealed themselves on her arms. She peered at the runes adorning the Tiefling’s sternum. “‘The sacred from the profane.’ That’s a powerful charm.”

“You speak Infernal?” It was Aviva’s turn to be impressed.

“Mae,” Su answered simply. “Do you need to cover up?”

Aviva snorted. “Funny story. I had kidnapper-assassins come after me while my dajyr and I were sleeping in a tavern in Pravoka; in their attempt to save us, the entire rest of our crew ended up seeing us stark naked and covered in blood. Very little fazes me when it comes to skin anymore.”

Su barked a surprised laugh. “I’m fascinated by how blithely you mention kidnapper-assassins. Is that all in a day’s work for you now?”

“Ah… Something like that, yeah.” An embarrassed flush crept across Aviva’s cheeks; she had forgotten such outlandish stories were not common conversation.

“Lie back, then. Let me know if you get cold and I’ll grab you a blanket.” Su fussed with the pillows for a time, tucking them into place to ensure Aviva was as comfortable as possible. Retrieving a small pot of paint and a thin brush from the table, Su brushed the outline of the drawing onto Aviva’s skin, laying out the curves and edges, ensuring symmetry. Once she had finished, she reached under the table and produced a hand mirror. “Placement alright?”

Aviva smiled at her reflection in the glass. “Very.” She still looked tired, as if she hadn’t slept a full night in days, but the despair in the lines of her face had been replaced by something else: determination. She passed the mirror back to Su and spread her hands on her stomach. “Let’s do this.”

With a nod, Su launched into her pre-session spiel. They both knew Aviva was perfectly aware of what was in store, but it was standard for her craft. Tattoos are permanent modifications to the body, she recited with a somewhat wry expression, and cannot be removed by any means short of magic. Inside the tent was a safe space, the modifications a type of transformative ritual, and Aviva’s only responsibilities were to relax, breathe, and listen to her body’s needs. Su would be there to guide her verbally if she wanted it, and to work in quiet if she did not. If she required a break at any point, for water or a snack or to process something that had been drawn to the surface, she needed only to indicate and they would pause. Aviva nodded her confirmation, oddly comforted by the familiarity of the words, if not the voice repeating them. There was no turning back now.

Su dipped her needle in the pot of ink and tapped away the excess. Aviva breathed.

Her heart pounded. Her skin burned. Her mind descended, the pain in her chest reaching its fingers through the darkness into every part of her. It touched the tightening in her lungs, the paralysing fear of death and loss that gnawed at her in nightmares and dreamscapes. It touched the twisting in her stomach, the searing guilt for so often taking her mother's love for granted, the one person who always loved her and now sat in bondage. It touched the tension in her arms, the desperate need to cling to those she loved, to guard their tiny flickering flames against the hurricane of hate and fear that defined her existence. It touched the pressure in her ribcage, where Jaxa’s twisted, monstrous version of love threatened to seep like poison into the cracks in her bones. It touched the disquiet in her legs, that longed for the days she felt wild and free even once she had realised that that freedom came at the cost of truly connecting with anyone. It touched the bitterness in her throat, the hate she bore herself for being a walking open wound, always crying, always needy, for wishing to be the protector and instead becoming the protected…

“Stop,” she whispered.

Instantly, the needle halted and Su’s hands withdrew from her chest. “What do you need?”

Aviva gritted her teeth, brow furrowing above closed eyes. “I don’t want to cry again.”

“Why not?”

“It’s all I’ve been doing for days.” She fought for a measured breath. “I just keep crying and it feels like it’ll never stop. I’m tired of crying.”

“Sometimes it’s what your soul needs,” Su prompted gently.

“It feels weak.”

“You know it’s not.” Tentatively, Su took Aviva’s hand. “You know it’s not.”

“...I know.”

Clinging to the Elf’s little fingers, Aviva covered her eyes with her free hand and sobbed.

* * *

By the time her weeping had eased, she was shivering. She knew her body was not cold, merely experiencing the aftereffects of the receding emotional tide, but she acknowledged the validity of the sensation and accepted the offered blanket with a grateful nod. When she was ready, Su resumed her work. They stopped twice more as waves of tears broke against her shores, but they were smaller now, easier. She accepted that she needed to cry, and she let the ripples come.

Eventually, as her consciousness returned more fully to the present, they began to speak as friends. Su had grown up in Aelfheim, she learned, moving from one poor neighbourhood to another as her parents searched for work. She had always felt a connection to the gods and for a time had considered entering the priesthood, but found hedge magic had always appealed to her more than robes and churches -- much to her father’s disappointment, she noted with a purse of her lips. For years she worked as a street artist drawing portraits for tourists, but getting her first tattoo led her down the path of the body as canvas. She had met Mae at a festival a few summers prior and struck up a conversation about the intricate designs on her tail; the rest, she said, was history.

“It’s over.” Setting down her needle and dipping her cleaning cloth in its bowl of herbal tincture, Su smiled. “You made it through.”

With a heavy groan, Aviva pushed herself up to sitting, letting the blanket fall into her lap. “I feel like I’ve been to the underworld and back.”

“In some ways, you have.” Su pressed the cloth to the fresh ink, carefully wiping away the excess. “Do you need water or a snack?”

“No, thank you. What time is it?”

Su hummed and turned on her cushion to peek beneath a corner of the tent’s window covering. “Early evening?”

“Oh. Oh.” Aviva’s brows rose, then she huffed a soft laugh. “I don’t think I told anyone where I went. I just sort of left on a wander. Reliving my misspent youth, evidently.”

“Will your friends be worried?”

“Nah.” Aviva waved a dismissive hand. “They trust me to take care of myself.” She froze mid-gesture and silently repeated her statement. “...Huh.”

Hiding a knowing smirk, Su slid the mirror from beneath the table. “Your journey, friend. Have a look.”

Aviva’s breath caught in her throat. She had approved the sketch, had watched the image form upside-down on her skin, but seeing it in full flight was something entirely new: a phoenix, constructed of notes and staves and delicate filigree, its body a treble clef, its wings stretching to her collarbones. Su had turned the runes on her sternum into one of the bird’s tails, as if the talisman had always meant to become a part of something larger. It was exquisite, the blackwork somehow vibrant and alive, ringed in the smoky grey outline of its flames. Silently, she nodded.

Reaching beneath Aviva’s arms, Su began to wrap her torso in long strips of clean bandage, rattling off her physical and spiritual aftercare instructions. She helped the Tiefling wriggle back into her kurta and advised her to wear looser clothing for the next few days. Aviva bobbed her head along with Su’s list and refused her offered discount, tipping generously to make up the difference. Finally, she rose, rolling out the stiffness in her spine. “I needed this. You have no idea how much I needed this. Thank you.”

Su flushed, her professional demeanour melting back into the shy, restive Elf Aviva had met just a few hours ago. “You needed this, but I think I needed to be the one to give it to you. So thank you for that.” She paused, and after a moment, she took Aviva’s larger hand in both of hers. “I can tell you don’t often feel like a hero. Whatever you’ve got going on inside of you won’t let you see yourself as special. But you are. I can tell that just from an afternoon working with you. Your spirit is good. Your best is good. You are good. Chaos is going to try and tell you otherwise, but… fuck ‘em. Be the light in the darkness that guides us home, even those we’re worried are lost. They’ll follow you. Be a hero.”

For a long time, Aviva said nothing, stunned into silence by sincerity of the Elf’s words. Then she grinned. “Do you want to get something to eat? I don’t know about you, but I’m suddenly starving.” She softened into a smile and squeezed Su’s hands. “And I’ll never be so rich as to turn away a friend.”

Su considered, then returned the smile. “Yeah. I’d like that.”

(Su was loosely based on my dear friend K, of @glitchinthesystemspiderbyte. She is a very good human and wears absurdly long ear tips when we LARP. The names Mae and Su are stolen from one of @stufflaalikes‘ long form writing projects. Credit where credit is due.)

#Dungeons and Dragons #Original Characters #Canon #Aviva Lux #Title: Rising Appalachia

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natalieironside · 4 years ago

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LEAD AND ROSES is now up for pre-order! Wow!

(cover art by the amazing @soul-hammer)

Hey there, space cadets! I, award-winning speculative fiction author Natalie H. Ironside, am releasing another thing. Following the success of my cool and very good post-nuclear wasteland adventure transbian romance novel The Last Girl Scout, which some readers have described as "not that bad," I'm putting out a short story collection!

If you enjoy dystopian gunslinger adventure, American Gothic horror, and g*rls who k*ss and h*ld h*nds, if you think "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. meets Inglorious Basterds" sounds like a fun comp title, but you looked at my very neat and fun novel The Last Girl Scout and said "that fucking thing is 600 pages long and idk if I'm ready for that kind of a commitment," then this is the book for you.

Lead and Roses contains four short stories and one novella that further explore the irradiated wasteland of the 23rd century, framing the events of The Last Girl Scout. Whether you're a fan of TLGS who wants to visit their old friends again, or you've just stumbled across this post and are looking for something new, you'll love Lead and Roses.

Paperback copies will be available on July 1st. But, right now (right now!), the ebook is up for pre-order! You can:

Pre-order on Amazon

Pre-order on Gumroad!

(And don't 5get that pre-orders count towards release-day sales figures, so if you really wanna help out a struggling gay lady and an independent author then pre-ordering is a super great way to do that thank you ilu it's only $3)

Good hunting, stalkers.

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The past lies like a nightmare over the world.

Following up her debut novel, The Last Girl Scout, award-winning author Natalie H. Ironside presents a new collection of tales exploring the irradiated post-apocalypse of the 23rd century and the worlds we’ve built up from the ashes. Spanning genres including queer slice-of-life, military adventure, and horror, the five tales in this collection are sure to have something fun for all lovers of the post-apocalypse, whether they’re fans of The Last Girl Scout or just fans of the genre.

This collection includes:

Stories: Two women stand on the edge of oblivion and dare to believe in a future.

The Last American: A red star is rising over southern Appalachia, and one man has the courage to remain true to God and embody the spirit of Old America against the godless communist hordes. It goes about as well for him as you’d expect.

The White Goddess: A group of scientists set out to explore the wasteland and come face-to-face with the pernicious refusal of the past to die.

Werewolf: A boy who became a stormtrooper chasing dreams of heroism discovers that being a man of action doesn’t quite live up to expectations.

That’s a Christmas to Me: A woman struggling with her faith, her identity, and her dark and troubled past finds some small shred of redemption and learns an important lesson about motorcycle safety. (Originally published as a Patreon exclusive for the 2020 winter holiday season)

#bookposting #tlgs #lead and roses

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ageofxail · 2 years ago

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I am a multi-muse! I’m simply lacking in time management skills to actually get all of my graphics and whatnot update since mushing all of my muses into one blog on top of Noel’s old one.

My URL is an attempt to be Clever and cover many bases at once. Each muse comes with a “pun” of sorts that can play into the main url. Nicholas, Noel, and Daniel are the primary muses, with the others available upon request.

Age of Sail ;; Noel Thomas Mercer - Modern England. (1648-Present).

Born in the middle of the seventeenth century he, was born into the latest era in which a peasant boy could hope to ascend to a gentleman’s title – with the only route of option being that of becoming an officer in the Royal Navy. While born a human, the lack of one of England’s representatives tolled on the Kingdom and required a new one step into Nicholas’ place. Having proven himself to be what constitutes an ideal Englishman - loyal, gritty, fiercely devoted to his King and Country - Noel was granted the life of an Immortal. And he complains about every moment of it.

Age of (chain) Mail ;; Sir Nicholas William Grey - Medieval England/Plantagenet England (1048-1514)

Born in the late 10th century, he came to represent the Kingdom of England under the guidance of the royal family Plantagenet. He served as a personal, immortal bodyguard and advisor to the Kings of England throughout the medieval era until the aftermath of the War of the Roses & the rise of Tudor England left him so disconnected from his kingdom that he could no longer serve. Some say he still haunts the Tower of London to this day, but modern sightings are incredibly rare.

Age of Rail ;; Daniel Aleksander King Hill Fitzroy - Manhattan/New York/The United States of America (1627-Present)

Born and soon orphaned in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in the early days of its conception, adopted into the British Empire, he learned and grew with the fledgling colony and developed a right love of the ideas of equality and fairness. He was loyal to the crown and fought desperately to keep order within the colony, to stamp out the Rebellion. However, the will of the People won out, and Daniel found himself growing ever prouder of his People as time went by. America itself went through many tests in its time, questioning what was right and what was fair, the struggle of embodying an entire nation is not an easy task, but the weight has fallen upon his shoulders.

Non-primary muses, in order from most to least developed.

Gabriel Emmanuel Hill, The American Southwest/Deseret/Utah. (Daniel’s son!) Bradley Marion Walker-Rhodes, Appalachia/Tennessee. Rhydian “Rhys” Eurig Mathonwy, Wales Jonàs Immanuel Federer, Switzerland. Noah Jack Martin, Australia. (Noel’s son!) Ferdinand Muyskens, Belgium Thore Taubel, Brandenburg Thiel Joachim Semjezaheit, Prussia Santiago Tercero del Oroitz, Spain. MacKenzie James Hudson, Canada Richard Adlerstahn, Austria Johannes Becker, Steiermark Matthias Andersen, Denmark Special case: Milovar Menowen, Latveria. (Fictional country in Marvel Comics. I’m very undecided if I want to actually have him here???) Please note that my personifications are NOT the Hetalia character - and in most cases (particularly notable with Daniel!) they have almost nothing in common with their Hetalia canon counterpart. My muses are intended to co-exist with Hetalia muses, NOT replace them! Noel is of lower rank than Arthur, but still a representative of England, likewise for Daniel to Alfred. All of my muses have highly specific origins and if needed for comfort, they can pass as representatives of “lower” rungs on the ladder, ie Daniel a representative of New York, Noel is Northern England/Working Class, Noah is Queensland, etc.

#i followed a couple new people so have a new pinned post to look at #flying false colours ;; ooc

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fringe-news-network-james-parker · 3 years ago

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Sexy Sex Ed Inc.’s Ability to Make Waves Among American Conservatives

March 10, 2022

James Parker

Fringe News Network (Dallas, TX)

The nonprofit’s official name is Sexy Sex Ed Inc. The entity was setup on October 16, 2020[1]. Three people have officer’s status with the organization: Tanya Turner, Shaylan Clark and Emily Baldridge[2].

The address tied to the nonprofits website and the State comptrollers website is 420 East Main St. Hazard, Kentucky 41701. The owner of this building is the Foundation For Appalachian Kentucky, Inc. The chairman for this organization is Joel Brashear. The vice chairman is Kathy Atkins. The secretary is Alison F. Davis. The following people are directors for the nonprofit: Danny Maggard, Keith Gabbard, Maria Braman, Josh Howard, Janet Smith, Crissy Fiscus, Ellen Williams and Sandi Curd. The foundational articles for Hazaard-Perry County Community Ministries Endowment, Inc, which became Foundation For Appalachian Kentucky, Inc., point this organization in a much different direction then where it finds itself today. The foundational articles for Hazaard-Perry County Community Ministries Endowment, Inc, which became Foundation For Appalachian Kentucky, Inc.

The Facebook account tied to Sexy Sex Ed Inc. is very liberal and open-minded. Shaylan Clark can be seen holding a sign stating Bans Off Our Bodies. Additionally, pro abortion is openly accepted by the masses that support the nonprofit’s core value. [3] Tanya Turner poses on the Facebook account with a horse whip in her hand and a book titled “Pleasure Activism” in the other.[4] Concerns with the age threshold of teaching minors about BDSM, masturbation and other sex while using drugs is raising a lot of eyes.

Tanya Turner - Tanya is a femme, fat, queer, magical pleasure worker, educator, & artist. She was raised in rural Kentucky by a host of witchy women alongside sisters and cousins. A coven-like mountain matriarchy, if you will, on Stoney Fork. Her craft tools are candles, crystals, oils, plants, music, sex toys, tarot, the moon, and instincts of a triple water sign (Cancer Sun - Scorpio Moon & Rising). In 2012, Tanya started this Appalachian sex ed collect called Sexy Sex Ed and co-founded the party podcast known as Trillbillies in 2017. With over a decade of rural organizing practice toward healing, abolition, & liberation, she fantasizes about a whole other world. Tanya lives high on a Kentucky mountaintop with lots of plants, a steamy hot tub, and several furry familiars You can join her coven at patreon.com/HaintT.[5]

Many questions are rising regarding the need to introduce the topic of masturbation to toddlers. In the video Turner explains that when her nephews were able to talk, she starting to talk with them about masturbation.[6] She does state that the ability to explore one’s body does need to be in a consensual way. Some are asking if this is a self admission to grooming.

Caitlin Cummings – Caitlin Cummings is a 23 year old radical queer mountain woman that grew up in the hollers of Vicco, KY. She grew up always hearing about the injustices of the world and wanting to do things to help. She is currently working on a degree in Human Services where she plans to expand her sex ed work to help people understand the with proper sex ed and body love, you can heal in a lot of different ways, as she has herself. She’s worked with All Access EKY through Appalshop making media to raise awareness about reproductive Healthcare issues in Appalachia. Caitlin has volunteered with different organizations through her college life including WMMT’s Girls Rock Camp in Whitesburg, KY which is a camp made to empower girls, gender non-conforming, and trans youth with music, self-expression, and self-love, as well as The Cottage, a child abuse advocacy center that handles cases of child abuse in ages one to seventeen years old. She’s also volunteered with The New Opportunity School for Women which is a program out of Berea, KY that helps women in Appalachia with educational, financial and personal circumstance in their life. Caitlin loves her plants, social justice and good food.[7]

Larah Helayne – Larah Helayne is an eighteen year old musician, songwriter, and activist, based in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Growing up in the Appalachian foothills, Larah’s life and work have been greatly impacted by the magnificence of the mountains. Their songs and activism reflect both the beauty and struggles of living in Eastern Kentucky, while weaving in the story of her own wild and wonderful life. Larah places great value and focus on the rich musical heritage of her home, especially in regards to banjo, dance calling, and protest songs. As a young, nonbinary queer in Appalachia, Larah strives to use their songs, voice, and life to fight for human rights and systematic change in the region, through music, community, organizing, and nonprofit work. Larah founded their school’s first Gender Sexuality Alliance, “Open Light,” which now has over 45 members. They are proud alumni and intern of Girls Rock Whitesburg, and a member of the Family Folk Week Steering committee at Hindman Settlement School. Larah is a sex educator with Sexy Sex Ed, and spends time co-facilitating sex education workshops for fellow Appalachian youth.[8]

Kirstyn Ooten – Kirstyn is a young, fat, differently-abled, queer community organizer and college student from southern West Virginia. She works as a VISTA in Charleston, and works with kids! She has always dreamt of a space where fat folks are appreciated, normalized, and safe, so she created it. Kirstyn led West Virginia’s first Body Positive Party in 2019, and that has led her into a world of fighting for inclusivity for people like her. She has also worked with Planned Parenthood to secure period products for students across southern WV. Although Kirstyn has take a step back in the last 6 months to focus on health, she is back and better than ever! She uses the same techniques from the Sexy Sex Ed platform in her daily job, and is very passionate about sexuality education. Kirstyn loves all things plants and body love![9]

The next steps for this group are yet to be determined. Will conservatives rise enough questions regarding the group to cause an investigation to take place? These are just a few of the questions that are going through the minds of many people who are asking their selves if Sexy Sex Ed Inc. crossed the line.

[1] https://web.sos.ky.gov/corpscans/02/1117102-09-99999-20201016-ART-8163908-PU.PDF

[2] https://web.sos.ky.gov/corpscans/02/1117102-09-99999-20210818-ARP-8528391-PU.pdf

[3] https://www.facebook.com/Sexy-Sex-Ed-100848237978317/photos/pcb.729287775134357/729287695134365

[4] https://www.facebook.com/Sexy-Sex-Ed-100848237978317/photos/175846160478524

[5] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1501225322401787904/photo/1

[6] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1501238851360096258

[7] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1501225322401787904/photo/2

[8] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1501225322401787904/photo/3

[9] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1501225322401787904/photo/4

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callunavulgari · 4 years ago

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Scrapbook 2021 | Part II

For anyone that’s new to this, this is how I keep track of all of the things I enjoy and/or create throughout the year. I have literally been doing this since I had a livejournal. I think the first one was 2011? Maybe? In which case, woohoo, ten years of scrapbooking!

It’s a nice little snippet of my life and helps to organize my brain.

A reminder:

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Goals are: read 80 books (as of today, i am at 31 books, which sounds not great but goodreads assures me that it’s only 1 book behind schedule), finish five video games (at two at the moment... mostly because I keep dragging my feet on actually finishing P5R), write more than 20 fics (at... 6) or something larger than 20k (negative), and write either an original short story or start a novel (i have started plotting for the novel? does that count?)

Past Years

MOVIES

May

Mortal Kombat

(SW: The Phantom Menace)

(SW: Attack of the Clones)

(SW: Revenge of the Sith)

(SW: Rogue One)

(SW: A New Hope)

SW: Clone Wars

Enola

Wonder Woman 1984

Dark Phoenix

(Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring)

June

(Princess Mononoke)

Sailor Moon: Eternal

In The Heights

Wish Dragon

July

Luca

(Thor: Ragnarok)

(Doctor Strange)

(Guardians of the Galaxy)

Black Widow

Space Jam 2 Electric Boogaloo

August

The Green Knight

Godzilla vs Kong

(Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

BOOKS

May

These Violent Delights | Chloe Gong [Fin]

The Midnight Library | Matt Haig [Fin]

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within | Becky Chambers [Fin]

Unconquerable Sun | Kate Elliott

People We Meet On Vacation | Emily Henry [Fin]

The Soulmate Equation | Christina Lauren [Fin]

June

Unconquerable Sun | Kate Elliott [Fin]

September Love | Lang Leav [Fin]

One Last Stop | Casey McQuiston [Fin]

The Chosen and the Beautiful | Nghi Vo [Fin]

Lumberjanes, volume 2 | Noelle Stevenson [Fin]

For the Wolf | Hannah Whitten [Fin]

The Sandman | Neil Gaiman [Fin]

Mister Impossible | Maggie Stiefvater

July

Mister Impossible | Maggie Stiefvater [Fin]

TAZ: The Crystal Kingdom | The Mcelroys [Fin]

She Who Became the Sun | Shelley Parker-Chan

A Psalm for the Wild-Built | Becky Chambers

The Universe of Us | Lang Leav

August

She Who Became the Sun | Shelley Parker-Chan [Fin]

A Psalm for the Wild-Built | Becky Chambers

The Universe of Us | Lang Leav [Fin]

Lumberjanes, volume 3 | Noelle Stevenson [Fin]

Lumberjanes, volume 4 | Noelle Stevenson [Fin]

PODCASTS

May

The Penumbra Podcast, s3-END

June

The Magnus Archive - Fear Winners 1 & 2

July

Gods of Appalachia, Eps 1-6

(Wolf 359)

Janus Descending

August

(Wolf 359)

Mabel

(Zero Hours, ep 7)

Time:Bombs

TV SHOWS BY SEASON

May

Watcher Entertainment, Are You Scared?

Castlevania, s3, s4 [Fin]

Word of Honor [Fin]

Buzzfeed: Kelsey in Control?

Demon Slayer, s1

June

Demon Slayer, s1 [Fin]

Kim’s Convenience, s4

Leverage, s5 [Fin]

Watcher: Too Many Spirits, s3

Loki, s1

Lucifer, s2, s3, s4

Trese, s1

(Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime, s3, s6?)

(Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural, s1)

Sweet Tooth, s1

Love, Death & Robots

July

Loki, s1 [Fin]

Watcher: Too Many Spirits, s3 [Fin]

Watcher: Dish Granted, s3

Shark Week

Lucifer, s5

Masters of the Universe: Revelation

August

The Owl House, s2

Watcher: Dish Granted, s3

Watcher Weekly+

Buzzfeed: Ruining History

Star Trek Discovery, s1, s2, s3

What If..., s1

VIDEO GAMES

May

Monster Hunter Rise, 12 hours

Mass Effect 1: Legendary Edition, 25 hours

Pokemon Go

June

Mass Effect 1: Legendary Edition, ? hours

Pokemon Go

Animal Crossing: New Horizons, ??? Hours

Persona 5 Royal, ??? hours

July

Persona 5 Royal, 167 hours

Pokemon Go

August

Persona 5 Royal, 167 hours

Pokemon Go

Ori and the Blind Forest [Fin]

DELIGHTFUL FIC

May

The word is help. by spqr | Star Wars | Din/Luke | 9k | In a flash, Fett has his blaster out and pointed at Luke’s head. “You’re right,” he says. “Turnabout’s fair play. So maybe I oughta shoot you.”

Don’t be afraid. by spqr | Star Wars | Obi-Wan/Anakin | 12k | “Padawan Kenobi,” Yoda says, after a moment. “Complete your training, Master Skywalker will.”

who carried the hill by spqr | Star Wars | Din/Luke | 22k | Din’s about to head up the ramp onto the newly-repaired Razor Crest when a string pulls taut around his heart and yanks him into the sky.

Tapestry by spqr | Star Wars | Obi-Wan/Anakin | 8k | In March, Obi-Wan drags Anakin to another faculty party, where Anakin gets all sorts of wrong ideas about Quinlan Vos and decides to fellate Obi-Wan in a coat closet about it.

wonderterror by peradi | Star Wars | Leia/Han/Luke | 6k | Anakin Skywalker is the son of the Force.He’s half human and half something monumental.What does that make his children?

Xen Gardens by denimwrapped | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan & Shane | 1k | Shane Madej saves the day.A strange man comes to congratulate him.

A Series of Better Decisions by SassySnowperson | Star Wars | Padme/Obi-Wan/Anakin | 9k | "Kill him. Kill him now!" Chancellor Palpatine hissed, as Anakin held the two blades against Dooku's neck. "No," Anakin said. "It's not the Jedi way."

Futurus (-a -um) by cadesama | Star Wars | Padme/Anakin/Obi-Wan | 60k | Cracked hyperdrive? No problem. Just hold it together with the Force. Time travel? Well. That could be a bigger problem.

Comfort in Wartime by Rosbridge | Star Wars | Padme/Obi-Wan/Anakin | 4k | Obi-Wan is exhausted, drunk, and just about out of fucks to give.

spark me up, i'm a firework (i'll burst into light) by coffeeinallcaps | FATWS | Bucky/Sam | 7k | "You know how the super-soldier serum makes everything, well, super? I guess you could say that's what happened to my sex drive."

Thaw by spqr | Star Wars | Din/Luke | 6k | That’s what hope does to you, Luke remembers now. It lingers at the back of your mind, whispering maybe, maybe, so that knowing a plan is stupid isn’t enough to keep you from trying it.

Christ in Repose by spqr | Din/Luke | 8k | More on this story as it develops. Subscribe to HNN’s JEDI WATCH newsletter for instant updates on Jedi sightings throughout the galaxy.

Insufferable by perkynurples | Word of Honor | Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu | 3k | Wen Kexing asks a question. Zhou Zishu only hesitates to answer for a little while.

parasitic, parasocial by brawlite | The Untamed | Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen/Xue Yang | 45k | Xue Yang stumbles upon the channel of Fuxue, a popular videogame streamer, and immediately becomes completely and utterly obsessed with him. Unfortunately, Fuxue has a boyfriend -- but that's fine: Xue Yang loves a challenge.

Aaron Burr has Hamilton's RSI and he isn't pleased about it. by DragonBandit | Hamilton | Hamilton/Aaron Burr | 3k | Aaron knows 2 things about his soulmate: The first is that they're angry about everything. The second is that they need to fucking sleep.

dinluke lawyer au by spqr | Star Wars | Din/Luke | 31k | At 1:18 a.m., just when Luke is starting to think he might’ve gotten away with something, Biggs Darklighter shows up on the other side of his desk and says, “I can’t believe you called in sick to get shotgun married to a Mando.”

like, comment, subscribe by DeHeerKonijn, Roselightfairy | Lord of the Rings | Gimli/Legolas | 90k+ | Legolas meets Gimli for lunch - unfortunately, he meets someone else, too.

a jackal; a thief by brawlite | Word of Honor | Wen Kexing/Ye Baiyi | 11k | This is not the first time Wen Kexing’s body has been poisoned like this.

you're the trouble that i always find by sundiscus | Word of Honor | Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu | 27k | “Do you know him?” Jin Wang asks.The ringing in Zhou Zishu's ears gets louder. “No, Wangye,” he says.At Zhou Zishu’s voice, the prisoner freezes.

vampire!wwx threadfic by sundiscus | The Untamed | Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji | ??? words | in which vampires exist in a modern cultivation au, lwj is investigating a string of strange deaths, and wwx is a vampire he can’t seem to kill.

Velle by DeHeerKonijn, Roselightfairy | LotR | Gimli/Legolas | 29k | Velle (Latin): to want.

June

May All My Wounds Be Mortal by hansbekhart | Word of Honor | Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu | 10k | Peeled out of his many robes, Wen Kexing’s body reveals itself to be mostly leg. He strips eagerly, grinning up at Zhou Zishu as if this is another joke between them. See? Wen Kexing’s body seems to say, I have no secrets from you.

drop by brawlite | The Untamed | Song Lan/Xue Yang | 4k | Xue Yang has had this dream before.

Splenda by Tierfal | FMA | Ed/Roy | 19k | WIP | A sugar daddy AU that barely even qualifies as a sugar daddy AU, because these two can't do anything right.

From the Ashes by blacktofade | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Shane/Ryan | 3k | “This doesn’t need to leave this room,” Ryan had said that first time. “Casual is my middle name.”

Whale Songs by denimwrapped | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane | 2k | It could be humming, he thinks. Some distant angelic humming. What it’s humming about, he’d have to find out the hard way. All he can hear in his mind’s ear is come closer. There’s so much more in the depths than you’ve ever known.

A Good Bargain by Neery | Word of Honor | Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu | 11k | The Window of Heaven captures the Ghost Valley's master. Zhou Zishu is put in charge of interrogating him.

So Why Not Crack Your Skull When the Mind Swells by greenteafiend | The Untamed | Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian | 13k | Or, Wei Wuxian is cursed to feel terrible pain when he and Lan Wangji aren’t touching.

the agony and the irony by arostine | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane | 44k | WIP | Ryan has a lot on his plate right now. He’s one of three members of his species employed at BuzzFeed, and the only male omega, and his boss keeps asking him to do videos about being an iterant ‘to educate the humans,’ when what he really wants to do is videos about ghosts.

the rest of your life by bestliars | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane/Sara | 30k | MYSTERY DISAPPEARANCE IN THE MIDWEST! The year is 2034. Successful video producer Ryan Bergara uproots his whole life to take care of his friend’s children.

sit in my circle and hold my hand by soda_coded | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane | 14k | Ryan and Shane work for the metaphysical department of the LAPD, fool around and get cursed.

Idle Hands (Do the Devil's Work) by ma_malice | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane | 4k | In which the only upside to being a demon stuck in a seasonal Chicago snowstorm is the ability to abandon your body and possess your boyfriend in LA.

Shell Game by Giddygeek | The Magicians | Quentin/Eliot | 20k | Or, Quentin can’t believe he never thought to ask if there was a magical time in Fillory when people swapped bodies with the last person they slept with.

Contention by hollybennett123 | Word of Honor | Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu/Ye Baiyi | 3k | The Zhou Zishu of ten minutes ago, who first agreed to the whole thing — the evening’s conversation and general bickering over drinks taking an unexpectedly filthy turn — had been thinking only about the imminent pounding on offer and not, well, everything else that might come with it.

Necrocafé by etothey | Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon/Harrow | 2k | Harrowhark Nonagesimus isn't sure which confounds her more: the new boxes of bones she is to animate, or the hot redheaded courier who brings the boxes.

simple man by spqr | Loki | Loki/Mobius, Loki/Loki | 6k | “Tell you what,” says Mobius, shortly after the Timekeepers have sentenced Loki to death, “why don’t I take care of this?”

(Un)disclosed desires by Springandastorm | Loki | Loki/Mobius | "That's not how I see you at all, Loki." Mobius said, unexpectedly earnest. "We all play roles sometimes."

sources of light by brawlite | Word of Honor | Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu | 3k | Zhou Zishu makes a difficult choice in order to save Wen Kexing's life. The morning after is not an easy one.

warm company, cold nights by janonny | Word of Honor | Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu | 23k | He gave Zhou Zishu a lingering look from beneath his lashes. “Your virtuous wife will accompany you of course.”

July

the potential of broken things by icarusinflight | Harry Potter | Drarry | 11k | "Can you feel that? Some things want to be what they once were. The original spell is still there, and it wants to work again. All it takes is a little push and then"—Draco clicks his fingers of his free hand—"snap, everything will go back into place."

little beast by brawlite | The Untamed | Song Lan/Xue Yang | 7k | Payback's a bitch.

you, undeniable you by returnsandreturns | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Jake/Amy | 1k | “Are you sure you’re okay with this?” Jake asks, for the fourth time. “Because we can just ditch that thing, toss it out a window, do it missionary like the founding fathers intended.”

Car Talk by drunkbedelia | Loki | Mobius/Loki | 1k | ‘When I pruned myself, I thought I might be able to find Loki,' Sylvie said.

one too many by sarcasticfishes | Watcher | Ryan/Shane | 1k | “Stay here,” Ryan says, just casual enough, “I’ll drive you home tomorrow.”

Tencent and Chill by quoth_the_ravenclaw | The Untamed | Nie Huaisang/Nie Mingjue | 2k | “Da-ge,” Huaisang whines, all for show, as much a performance as the actors on screen. He wiggles his toes. “My feet are so sore, you worked me too hard.”

The House at the End of the World by Hopetohell | Loki | Loki/Mobius/Sylvie | 1k | What will they do, now that they can do anything?

moderate the middle by ElisAttack | Loki | Loki/Mobius/Sylvie | 9k | People only smiled with their eyes when it was real. Unless they were a Loki. No matter the differences between the variants, their tricky grins were a constant as much as they were indiscernible.

Lost and Sound by snack_size | Loki | Loki/Thor/Sylvie | 5k | “Sylvie, did you help my brother defeat the Time Police?”

push the button (and let me know) by dinosuns | Loki | Loki/Mobius | 5k | “How about this?” hands folded on the table, he watches Loki intently. “If you tell me why, I’ll answer.”

We're (not) all villains here by sir_not_appearing_in_this_archive | Loki | Loki/Mobius/Sylvie | 19k | WIP | Alone and friendless (once again), Loki has to find a way to set things right, or at least right enough he can comfortably sneak off into the sunset, which starts with one thing: saving Mobius's lost memories.

what remains by dinosuns | Loki | Loki/Mobius | “You’re no analyst.” Mobius sounds stunned. They are not aligned, they are not in tandem. But there are wistful glimmers of what is now agonisingly out of reach.

worth a shot by thereyoflight | Loki | Loki/Sylvie | 2k | When Loki and Sylvie are moments away from being cornered on the train in Lamentis, they resort to desperate measures.

Bug Problems by xorabbit | Marvel | Grandmaster/Loki | 7k | Loki ends up on Sakaar, of course, with just that many more schemes to scheme. However, the Grandmaster is not altogether too terrible--a bit of fine luck, for once--and perhaps it's all right to have a better-natured fling while one works out what's next.

our way, no takebacks by dinosuns | Loki | Loki/Mobius | 20k | "Nice speech," Sylvie drawls, but the sarcasm doesn't land.

August

Vennen min by spqr | Loki | Loki/Mobius | 12k | The day they let Mobius out of the infirmary, Loki gets assigned to a new handler. This, Mobius is pretty sure, is where the trouble starts.

new terms by dinosuns | Loki | President Loki/Mobius | 21k | For the first time in his life, Loki triumphs. How fitting then, for the end to swiftly barge in unannounced.

Icarus by Waako | Loki | Loki/Mobius | 5k | When Mobius got pruned, he expected two different outcomes. Either eternal peace or eternal emptiness. He certainly didn’t expect a grey sky, ruins of old buildings looming over him, and a Loki variant watching him like he was a piece of fresh meat.

Stress Relief by spqr | Loki | Loki/Mobius | 3.5k | “Let me read you something,” Loki says. He rifles through the pages, clears his throat, and Mobius puts a hand over his eyes because he knows what’s coming before Loki even reads the first word—“Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō—“

just like the weather by sarcasticfishes | BFU | Shane/Ryan/Sara | 6k | “Y’know,” Ryan shrugs. “Friends have kids together sometimes. Like if a same-sex couple has a friend surrogate for them. Or sometimes people just co-parent.”

Woodash and iron and leather by iffervescent | The Witcher | 9k | Jaskier is the only person Geralt's ever been around who doesn't smell of fear

Food of Love by tanktrilby | The Witcher | Geralt/Jaskier | 22k | I brought a dead princess back to life through the power of song is the kind of thing that would have got an eyebrow raise even from the stone-faced Geralt of Rivia, so it's a good thing he and Geralt will probably never see each other again.

If The Morning Light Sets In by nagia | Castlevania | Sypha/Trevor/Alucard | 45k | Save the Belmonts, save the world.

halfway by ivelostmyspectacles | Castlevania | Sypha/Alucard/Trevor | 12k | Vampire attacks are happening again. Unprovoked, strange, humans and vampires dying alike. A disease. Alucard assures them that he isn't susceptible.

lonely lonely heart by spqr | Loki | Loki/Mobius | 7k | Mobius looks down at the paperwork, gets a sort of flustered farmboy look on his face, looks back up at Loki and says, “You offered to give a cop fellatio in the middle of Central Park.”

Bedrest by Lise | The Untamed | Xiao Xingchen& Xue Yang | 3k | Xiao Xingchen's newest patient is causing him problems. He just won't stay put.

DELIGHTFUL FANVIDS

May

Jesper Fahey | 99 Problems

Jesper Fahey | OLD TOWN ROAD

Kaz & Inej | I Can't Pretend

human | kaz brekker

bucky barnes || humble

The Mandalorian || Warriors

The Mandalorian | I'll See You Again

Hope is the light.

►Zhou Zishu & Wen Kexing | Beautiful mess

Kaz & Inej | I Can't Pretend

versailles at night | alina & the darkling

look what you made me do | the darkling

Bucky Barnes | Rasputin

Obi-Wan || dirty work

Blood in the water [the Witcher]

MARVEL || Astronaut in the Ocean

Enola Holmes || Unstoppable

Shadow & Bone || Fire Meets Fate

Mo Dao Zu Shi Season 3 AMV/Trailer - Teeth

Kylo Ren | STAR WARS

June

MARVEL || Rasputin

MARVEL || Astronaut in the Ocean

i dont enjoy hurting people | Loki [1x01]

loki laufeyson • unsteady [⚠ 1x01]

MARVEL || Levitating

Shadow & Bone | Paint It Black

Glitter & Gold | Jesper Fahey

Shadow and Bone | Levitating

wen kexing ✘ zhou zishu | put your lips on mine

Erik Lensherr - Magneto

The Crows || Circus

The Crows | Thrift Shop (Shadow & Bone)

Zemo & Bucky — RASPUTIN [tfatws]

Cruella | Feeling good

Percy Jackson || Watch Me

THE KILLING KIND || The Magnus Archives Animatic

LOKI || Glorious Purpose

The Darkling | Black Heretic

Sam x Bucky || Handclap [HUMOR]

Loki || Lovely

Doctor Strange || Dystopia

Loki & Sylvie || I’m not your friend

Loki || Hate Me

MARVEL || River

Loki & Bucky || Paint It Black

Wanda Maximoff || The Scarlet Witch (WandaVision)

Play With Fire || MARVEL || Loki Doctor Strange Scarlet Witch

MARVEL || Warriors

Loki || God of Mischief || You Do You

(Marvel) Loki | You Will Never Be A God

Marvel's Horror Cinematic Universe

community gardens || the magnus archives PMV

July

Thor || Rise

Loki & Sylvie - Demons in my head [ep.3]

//HUMANS// THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES

Loki | Lost

A Quiet Place

Loki & Sylvie || Strange Birds

Loki & Sylvie "I won't let you down" | (+1x05)

♚ Loki & Sylvie | If You Love Me (1x04)

Loki & Sylvie | If our love is wrong [Loki +1x04]

Loki and Mobius | Hold On [Loki +1x05]

loki laufeyson • in the end [+ 1x04]

Loki and Sylvie || Feeling Good

Marvel || Black Widow - Counting Stars || Natasha Romanoff

Cruella || Little Wicked

MARVEL || This is My Time || Shang-Chi Trailer Music

Sylvie | Unstoppable (Loki +1x03)

Loki and Sylvie (Lady Loki) || Play With Fire

Wanda and Vision || Dancing With Your Ghost

Wanda Maximoff and Loki || You Should See Me In A Crown

Loki and his Variants ⚔ King of Space [ep.5]

Loki & Sylvie ❤ This world is slowing down [ep.5]

Sylvie || Confident (+1x04)

•Loki x Sylvie ⱠΞⴼ King and Queens•

Loki - In The End | Marvel

Loki & Sylvie ❤ Out of Control [ep.4]

Loki & Mobius | Dynasty [LOKI/+1x04]

Loki & Sylvie ❤ Love War [ep.6]

(Marvel) Loki | Glorious Purpose

(MARVEL) Loki | Chaos

Loki | In The End [+1X06]

Loki x Sylvie | Another Love

Loki & Sylvie | Arcade [ Loki +1x06]

MARVEL || The Assembled Universe (c/w ASTrix UI)

August

Natasha & Yelena || Do It Like A Dude

Black Widow || Smells Like Teen Spirit

MARVEL || Uptown Funk

MARVEL || 1 in a Million

MARVEL/DC || Dies Irae

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness TRAILER #1

MARVEL || Loki

DELIGHTFUL MUSIC

May

The Wild One - Suzi Quatro

What’s So Funny ‘Bout - Sharon Van Etten

Levitating - Dua Lipa

The Underground - Meg Myers

You Won’t Find Me - Narrow Skies

Elixir of Life - Leah

Salt and the Sea - The Lumineers

ERROR - Niki, Kradness

Runaway - AURORA

Butterfly Water - Pastelle

Close to the Sun - Porcelain Pill

Selkie-boy - The Lost Words

Good Riddance - Annapantsu

Die Anywhere Else - Julia Henderson

Heat Waves - Glass Animals

Down - St Vincent

Word of Honor OST

Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Shy Away - Twenty One Pilots

Follow You - Imagine Dragons

I’m Not That Girl - Kerry Ellis

Meant to be Yours - Ryan McCartan

Ex Wives - Six

Euphoria - BTS

Walls - Cher

96,000 - In the Heights

Sun Goes Down - Lil Nas X

Enough For You - Olivia Rodrigo

Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo

Ziti E Buoni - Maneskin

Shum - Go_A

Loco Loco - Hurricane

Space Ghost Coast to Coast - Glass Animals

The Horror and the Wild (whole album - The Amazing Devil

Chant - Hadestown

Titans - Major Lazer, Sia

Bones - Galantis

Golden Dandelions - Barns Courtney

Le Nozze di Figaro - Hybrid

Save Your Tears - The Weeknd

Psycho - Post Malone

Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Close to Me - Ellie Goulding

And So It Went - The Pretty Reckless

help herself - bbno$

Fire For You - Cannons

Twist the Knife - Chromatics

He Said She Said - Chvrches

Face Down - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Campus - Vampire Weekend

Your Power - Billie Eilish

Reach - Eternal Eclipse

1 Last Cigarette - The Band Camino

Insertion - Hans Zimmer

from the edge - fictionjunction

The Devil Is a Gentleman - Merci Raines

Meet Me In The Woods - Amarante

Fire - Saint Mesa

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Saint Mesa

Appetite - Casey Edwards

All Things Devour - aeseaes

Throne - Saint Mesa

Witchcraft - Vian Izak

June

The Shrine / An Argument - Fleet Foxes

It’s Tricky - Run

Darjeeling - Barrie

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings - Father John Misty

Picture Me Better - Weyes Blood

Loch Lomond - Mackenzi Tolk

Punta - Matzzy

Touch It Clean - DJ Raulito

Oh No - Kreepa

Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land - Marina

Sofia - Askjell

The Boy - Shannon & the Clams

First Steps - Lena Raine

The Power of Balance Rearranged - Rush Garcia

And So My Heart Became a Void - Ursine Vulpine

Paper Mache - Iris Lune

Catch Me If You Can - Desert Belle

Darkroom Double - Moon & Pollution

Serotonin - girl in red

In the Air Tonight - Natalie Taylor

When Your Heart Is a Stranger - Friends In Paris

Moon Effect - Sailor Moon Eternal OST

In A Black Out - Hamilton Leithauser

Forever - CHVRCHES

Way Less Sad - AJR

Helter Skelter - Detention

The Devil You Know - X Ambassadors

TVA - Natalie Holt

Honeybee-The Head and the Heart

Home All Summer - Anthony Ramos

In the Shadows - Amy Stroup

My Way - Lucifer Cast

In the Air Tonight - Jon Howard

The Beast - Old Caltone

The Beast - Delta Rae

Freak Like Me - Adina Howard

Only the Good Die Young - Billy Joel

Winds of Change - Scorpions

good 4 u - Olivia Rodrigo

If I Could See The World - Patsy Cline

Ends of the Earth - Lord Huron

The Killing Kind - Marianas Trench

Bones - Wens

Kiss Me More - Doja Cat

How Not to Drown - CHVRCHES

July

Dark Moon - Bonnie Guitar

Free Smiles - Tia Ray

Sundown Blues - Joanna Levine

Citta Vuoto - Mina

If You Love Me - Brenda Lee

Very Full - Tom Hiddleston

Loki Green Theme - Natalie Holt

Wrecked - Imagine Dragons

The Wolves - Cyrus Reynolds

Cure For Me - Aurora

Theory of Light - Eternal Eclipse

Fate of the Clockmaker - Eternal Eclipse

Potential Breakup Son - Aly and AJ

transparent soul - travis barker

My Love Will Never DSie - AG, Claire Wyndham

Happy Together - King Princess

Atomise - Temple

Darkside - Oshins

Someone to Watch Over Me - Lucifer Cast

This is Ours - Peter Sivo

Love and War - Fleurie

Take Me To Church - MILCK

Devil I Know - Allie X

East of Eden - Zella Day

Shadow Preachers - Zella Day

Losing My Religion - BELLSAINT

Hard to Kill - Beth Crowley

Dark Side - Blind Channel

Tanz Mit Mir - Faun

My Jolly Sailor Bold - Ashley Serena

Stuttering - Fefe Dobson

August

Monsters and Fairies - Savannah

Chosen - SVRCINA

IAN HA 3BYK - GO A

Freya - Verdandi

Sick on Seventh Strett - Sarah and the Safe Word

Tarah - Sae Sae Norris

Suspicion - Sherwood Roberts

Fjorgyn - Osi and the Jupiter

Fight to Make It Up - Takenobu

The Edge of Dawn - Rozen

Innocence - Cannon Diviision

A Stray Child - .Hack//Sign

The Kiss - Luigi Rubino

Any Kind of Dead Person - Ghost Quartet

The Great Unknown - Dominique Gilbert

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Saint Mesa

over the rainbow - misterwives

Fireflies - Cullen Vance

My mother Told Me - Nati Dreddd

Athetosis - Crywolf

Major Tom - Shiny Toy Guns

Novacaine - 10 Years

Right Here Right Now - Jesus Jones

NDA - Billie Eilish

Trouble’s Coming - Royal Blood

Completing the Circle - Gareth Coker

There’ll Always Be Another Monster - Brian D’Oliveira

POSTED FIC

May

take my hand and i'll drown you with me | Star Wars | Rey & Ben Solo | 2,157 words | “You brought this upon yourself,” the creature told her, its voice serene.

June

keeping me restless and whole | Loki | Loki/Mobius | 1,584 words | Mobius was very young when he encountered his first Loki.

July

feed me lies until i'm dead | Loki | Thor/Loki | 3,476 words | “Don’t you think we should talk about it?” Thor asks.

the ghost of us can linger here | Loki | Loki/Mobius/Sylvie | 4,432 words | “So, how do you crazy kids want to do this?” Mobius asks them in a stage whisper, mouth twitching. At her back, Loki laughs, burying the sound against the curve of her neck.

there's a whisper in my bones | Loki | Loki/Mobius/Sylvie | 2,794 words | “All right,” she says. “Fine. Let’s make things more interesting. Take off your clothes.”

east of eden | Loki | Loki/Mobius/Sylvie | 2,202 words | “How long have you been fucking him?” Mobius asks, stroking his fingers against the place where leather meets skin.

Triptych in C Minor | Loki | Loki/Mobius/Sylvie | 1,647 words | Pt 1 | There is a house at the end of time, past the last storm, pushed up against the very edge of the unknown. It is a castle, a manor, a fortress - all depending on who inhabits it. But one thing that it never is, is a home.

August

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WIPS | UNPUBLISHED | ORIGINAL

May

2k of Reylo mermay fic

June

N/A

July

1k+ of Xue Yang being a slut for Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen

300 words of vampire Song Lan

7k of Green Knight AU

August

10k of Green Knight AU

1.5k of hair dye shenanigans

FANMIXES/GRAPHICS

May

yearning: a playlist for the heart

June

the chosen and the beautiful: a mix for jordan baker

July

kings & queens of the ruckus: a mix for loki and sylvie

August

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#heather says what #heather writes #scrapbook #2021

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route22ny · 5 years ago

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“The moral crisis of poverty amid vast wealth is inseparable from the injustice of systemic racism, ecological devastation, and our militarized war economy.” by Rev. Dr. William Barber II, March 30, 2020. (complete text below)

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The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet millions of American families have had to set up crowdfunding sites to try to raise money for their loved ones’ medical bills. Millions more can buy unleaded gasoline for their car, but they can’t get unleaded water in their homes. Almost half of America’s workers—whether in Appalachia or Alabama, California or Carolina—work for less than a living wage. And as school buildings in poor communities crumble for lack of investment, America’s billionaires are paying a lower tax rate than the poorest half of households.

This moral crisis is coming to a head as the coronavirus pandemic lays bare America’s deep injustices. While the virus itself does not discriminate, it is the poor and disenfranchised who will experience the most suffering and death. They’re the ones who are least likely to have health care or paid sick leave, and the most likely to lose work hours. And though children appear less vulnerable to the virus than adults, America’s nearly forty million poor and low-income children are at serious risk of losing access to food, shelter, education, and housing in the economic fallout from the pandemic.

The underlying disease, in other words, is poverty, which was killing nearly 700 of us every day in the world’s wealthiest country, long before anyone had heard of COVID-19.

The moral crisis of poverty amid vast wealth is inseparable from the injustice of systemic racism, ecological devastation, and our militarized war economy. It is only a minority rule sustained by voter suppression and gerrymandering that subverts the will of the people. To redeem the soul of America—and survive a pandemic—we must have a moral fusion movement that cuts across race, gender, class, and cultural divides.

The United States has always been a nation at odds with its professed aspirations of equality and justice for all—from the genocide of original inhabitants to slavery to military aggression abroad. But there have been periods in our history when courageous social movements have made significant advances. We must learn from those who’ve gone before us as we strive to build a movement that can tackle today’s injustices—and help all of us survive.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, African Americans who had just escaped slavery joined with white allies to form coalitions that won control of nearly every southern legislature. These Reconstruction-era political alliances enacted new constitutions that advanced moral agendas, including, for the first time, the right to public education.

During the Great Depression, farmers, workers, veterans, and others rose up to demand bold government action to ease the pain of the economic crisis on ordinary Americans. This led to New Deal policies, programs, and public works projects that we still benefit from today, such as Social Security and basic labor protections.

Pushed by these movements, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt even called in 1944 for an economic bill of rights, declaring: “We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.”

During what I like to call the “Second Reconstruction” over the following decades, a coalition of blacks and progressive whites began dismantling the racist Jim Crow laws and won key legislative victories, including the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act.

With each period of advancement has come a formidable backlash. This is how we find ourselves today, in the year 2020, with levels of economic inequality as severe as during the original Gilded Age a century ago. Since the Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby decision, Americans have had fewer voting rights protections than we did fifty-five years ago, while thanks to the earlier Citizens United ruling, corporations can invest unlimited sums of money to influence elections.

In response to fair tax reforms, the wealthy have used their economic clout to slash their IRS bills, cutting the top marginal income tax rate from more than 90 percent in the 1950s to 37 percent today. In response to the hard-fought wins of the labor movement, corporate lobbyists have rammed through one anti-worker law after another, slashing the share of U.S. workers protected by unions nearly in half, from 20.1 percent in 1983 to just 10.5 percent in 2018.

Decades after Depression-era reforms, Wall Street fought successfully to deregulate the financial system, paving the way for the 2008 financial crash that caused millions to lose their homes and livelihoods. And the ultra-rich and big corporations have also managed to dominate our campaign finance system, making it easier for them to buy off politicians who commit to rigging the rules against the poor and the environment, and to suppress voting rights, making it harder for the poor to fight back.

Our military budgets continue to rise, now grabbing more than fifty-three cents of every discretionary federal dollar to pay for wars abroad and pushing our ability to pay for health care for all, for a Green New Deal, for jobs and education, and infrastructure, further and further away.

In short, the official measure of poverty doesn’t begin to touch the depth and breadth of economic hardship in the world’s wealthiest nation, where 40 percent of us can’t afford a $400 emergency.

The wars that those military budgets fund continue to escalate. They don’t make us safer, and they’ve led to the deaths of thousands of poor people in Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, and beyond, as well as the displacement of millions of refugees, the destruction of water sources, and the contamination of the environments of whole countries.

The only ones who benefit are the millionaire CEOs of military companies, who are getting richer every year on the more than $350 billion—half the military budget—that goes directly to their corporations. In the meantime 23,000 low-ranking troops earn so little that they and their families qualify for food stamps.

Key to these rollbacks: controlling the narrative about who is poor in America and the world. It is in the interest of the greedy and the powerful to perpetuate myths of deservedness—that they deserve their wealth and power because they are smarter and work harder, while the poor deserve to be poor because they are lazy and intellectually inferior.

It’s also in their interest to perpetuate the myth that the poverty problem has largely been solved and so we needn’t worry about the rich getting richer—even while our real social safety net is full of gaping holes. This myth has been reinforced by our deeply flawed official measurements of poverty and economic hardship.

The way the U.S. government counts who is poor and who is not, frankly, is a sixty-year-old mess that doesn’t tell us what we need to know. It’s an inflation-adjusted measure of the cost of a basket of food in 1955 relative to household income, adjusted for family size—and it’s still the way we measure poverty today.

But this measure doesn’t account for the costs of housing, child care, or health care, much less twenty-first-century needs like internet access or cell phone service. It doesn’t even track the impacts of anti- poverty programs like Medicaid or the earned income tax credit, obscuring the role they play in reducing poverty.

In a report with the Institute for Policy Studies, the Poor People’s Campaign found that nearly 140 million Americans were poor or low-income—including more than a third of white people, 40 percent of Asian people, approximately 60 percent each of indigenous people and black people, and 64 percent of Latinx people. LGBTQ people are also disproportionately affected.

Further, the very condition of being poor in the United States has been criminalized through a system of racial profiling, cash bail, the myth of the Reagan-era “Welfare Queen,” arrests for things such as laying one’s head on a park bench, passing out food to unsheltered people, and extraordinary fines and fees for misdemeanors such as failing to use a turn signal, and simply walking while black or trans.

We are a nation crying out for security, equity, and justice. We need racial equity. We need good jobs. We need quality public education. We need a strong social safety net. We need health care to be understood as a human right for all of us. We need security for people living with disabilities. We need to be a nation that opens our hearts and neighborhoods to immigrants. We need safe and healthy environments where our children can thrive instead of struggling to survive.

With the coronavirus pandemic bringing our country’s equally urgent poverty crisis into stark relief, we cannot simply wait for change. It must come now.

America is an imperfect nation, but we have made important advancements against interconnected injustices in the past.

We can do it again, and we know how. Now is the time to fight for the heart and soul of this democracy.

***

Rev. Dr. William Barber II is a co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival.

Read more by Rev. Dr. William Barber II

Source: https://progressive.org/magazine/real-epidemic-poverty-barber/

Note: the title of this article, and the purpose of this post, is not meant to diminish the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic in any way.

#poverty in america #rigged economy #covid19 #rev dr william barber II

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fallout-fallen-knight · 5 years ago

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Meet: the Silver Canary!

Before the war, Martin Goldberg was a West Virginia vigilante going by the moniker of the Silver Canary - defender of good, light against the darkness. Although he originally fought the typical low-lifes and alleyway thugs, he soon turned his righteous gaze to the problems that plagued the working class - corrupt bosses (that is to say, all of them), strike breakers, heartless corporations, and the automation that threatened to replace every job in West Virginia. He took his name from the idiomatic canary in the coal mines that dotted his home state - in the fight against evil, the Silver Canary was on the front lines and would be the first to fall when things got too bad to go on.

Tales of his exploits eventually reached the writers of Hubris Comics, who attempted to spread the Silver Canary’s story to the people of Boston and beyond, changing his name to the Silver Shroud to protect his identity. However; propaganda laws forced the writers to defang his ideals and adventures - his fight against automated workers and strike breakers, for example, was turned into a pulpy fight against the Mechanist and his army of robots.

As his last act of defiance, Goldberg broke into Vault Tec University and altered many of the future residents of Vault 76 from wealthy executives who could buy the title of “America’s best and brightest” to certain locals who he hoped would embody this concept - including, ultimately, himself.

25 years later, Goldberg emerged from Vault 76 into a ruined Appalachia. One fraught with dangers to overcome before rebuilding. One that, some day soon, may need the Silver Canary to rise again.

#fallout 76 #reclaimer #reclaimer oc #the silver canary and coal black #the canary rises #falloutfun

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tonightinthewasteland · 6 years ago

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(Almost) all my Fallout OCs

because I can

Casey Lee Loomis

Location: Appalachia, Vault 76, Forest Region

Age: 35

Casey is outgoing, hyperactive, a social butterfly and sexual liberated little minx. He entered Vault 76 with his parents at the age of 10. (Rumor had it that Casey had his way paid but Casey passed the examinations fairly and properly) However, he never performed exceptionally in the vault career programs and was remained childish in personality in the close-knit village environment. Life was comfortable in the vault and the outside it seemed a million years away. Romantically, he had multiple partners. Bordem, a perpetual need for attention, and raging hormones had him starting his exploration at 15 with the vaults library intern and he experimented from then thereon. He married the head physician, Robert Covington, at 29. They separated at Robert’s request one month before Reclamation Day and left Casey stunned and hurt.

The Vault doors opened in late October, Casey left alone and met Nate Cortez mid-November by sheer accident. Being his first human interaction outside the Vault, Casey sticks to this half-feral man like Wonderglue and regales him with cheerful word vomit day and night. One way or another, they spend the rest of their lives together. They rejoin the Brotherhood in the west and eventually abandon it for a life similar to what they had in Appalachia. Casey leaves behind his two children and their mother.

Canonically, Casey kills Robert early 2103 out of unexplored hurt and rage then conceals the crime in the nearby river.

Senior Scribe Grise

Location: Commonwealth, Prydwen, Citadel

Age: 38 (yikes)

Grise is a cryptic, zealous, and eclectically perverse snake of a man whose sees both his existence and eventual death as plights of a martyr. He is a direct descendant of Casey Lee Loomis but, as with the entirety of his family line, has disowned his name. Grise is the last in a long line of scribes with little over 150 years of generational dedication to the cause. He has no children or spouse.

He’d always been an outspoken fundamentalist and loyal Maxson-line supporter, earning him the chance to join the transport party that escorted the young Maxson to the highly-respected Lyons. At the Citadel, he faded int the background of a well-established hierarchy, slowly making a name for himself by fair means, waiting all the while the day the young Maxson might take control.

His slow descent into madness began after Squire Maxson’s encounter with the Deathclaw. Feeding off the buzz over this seemingly impossible victory, he discreetly shared his views on the dynamic purity of the Maxson line and its necessity for a successful future. Under the cover of back-door think tanks turned sermons and coded radio chatter, the Cult of Maxson grew. Grise did not directly influence any political maneuvers but cultivated a volatile environment.

His views of Arthur Maxson had gone from respected prince to indomitable diety, unable to see Arthur Maxson’s true moral code and regards the Elder’s distaste for him as a test of loyalty and passion.

Anita Stallworth

Location: Appalachia, The Mire, Cranberry Bog, Watoga

Age: 39

Anita is confident, sharp-witted, hard-boiled by necessity, and hungry for control of her future. She was born in Maryland but moved with her family to West Virginia while she was still young. Appalachia was an up and coming area that attracted her family with its scenic landscape and lively political circle. The bombs dropped when she was fourteen and home alone. Her father was away on “business” and her mother was having spa treatments done at Whitesprings. Neither one was heard from again.

While ransacking her mansion, members of the Free States found, took her in and raised her into young adulthood at Harpers Ferry. Despite her dispel of them, she grew to respect their tenacity but hated the isolationist life. She left them for an exhaustive journey to investigate Whitesprings for info about her mother and found the place clean and empty. After that, she spent a decade wandering in and out of Appalachia, mostly sticking to the Mire and Cranberry Bog, assisting the various groups for a quick cap and never committing to any one creed. She worked as a hired gun at Fort Defiance until orders got too expensive for their taste.

Out to find the next bigger and better thing that might give her the edge, She finds her way into the Enclave after Robert(who is supposed to be dead but I can have AUs okay) has already established his position and quickly rises past him in rank to General. She remains in power with Enclave.

Robert Covington

Location: Appalachia, Vault 76, Enclave Bunker, transient

Age: 47

Robert is cold, analytical, immensely reserved about his predilections, and cares more for prestige and security than anything. He entered the vault at 21, not entirely finished with medical school but flash trained at the last minute by VTU for the role of Physician in Vault 76. His parents: Mother being an investment broker and father a steel mogel with a military contract, did not make the cut for entry. Leaving them behind, and their constant pressure for acceptance, was a small relief to Robert.

In the vault, he was private and kept to himself in downtime. Interacting briefly with others only at social events and holidays. An occasional drink and rare sweet were his small pleasures, along with old westerns and jazz music. Casey and he met by way of a routine eye exam with Casey complaining of poor vision. Casey’s impulsive energy, bold speech, and flash-bulb eyes attracted and excited him. Going against his limited morals and instead of recommending Casey’s to another doctor, he forged records to reflect necessary medical treatment to allow for extended private time and constant access to his patient, much to Casey’s enjoyment. At the peak of their secret affairs, he placed Casey on a homebound quarantine with access restricted only to himself. The Overseer caught wind of the quarantine by word of mouth and demanded an explanation as to why the quarantine was not reported. When she seemed unconvinced by his excuses and suspicious “records”, he attested that Casey and himself were in love and feared they’d be judged too harshly for their relationship. She believed him only after speaking with Casey directly but, only barely so.

To keep up appearances, Robert remained with Casey as a husband for six years until a month before Reclamation Day, considering Casey a liability to his survival in the wasteland. Canonically, he is killed by Casey within a year. Nonconically, he joins the Enclave after failing to be a successful wasteland doctor with Nate as a hired bodyguard and becomes Anita Stallworths personal chew toy.

Horace Beaufort

Age: 58

Horace is an ex-resident of vault 51. How he managed to escape the vault continues to be a matter of discussion and debate. I speculate that his role in the vault was to stir the pot or take advantage of chaos. He killed several of his fellow vault dwellers before leaving the said vault.

His prewar life was not glamorous. He enlisted young and was dishonorably discharged for fighting a fellow soldier in a bar. He called it “working out their differences” and they called it misconduct. The whole thing became a monkey he let sit on his back his whole life and refused to come back from. He saw pockets of brief jail time for more public disturbances and drunken disorderly, “dabbled” in drugs and tried his hand at married life. He has two adult children he barely knows and an ex-wife that hates his guts.

A post-vault world led him into an equally unglamorous attempt at raider life. He fell in with the Gourmands for a brief period as a “hunter”. He abandoned them all as the gangs began feuding. Somewhere in there, he met his best friend, Duke. @avaleon

He now lives in the forest region in an old shack selling old armor and eating anyone that happens to come around when he is hungry. Did I forget to mention he is a cannibal?

Milo Orson

Location: Commonwealth, Spectacle Island

Age: 36

Milo is career-minded (Elder Maxson’s favorite flavor of solider), a dry-humored freelance mercenary turned passionate Knight. His hobbies include killing undesirables on and off the clock and building secluded settlements for R&R.

While Paladin Danse had tank-like capabilities, Milo was more stealthy and the two complemented each other’s styles to make for a powerhouse two-man team. Sharing similar past times, the men enjoy each others company outside the battlefield at Milo’s personally designed Spectacle Island settlement for fishing, sparring, reading, and in-depth discussions. Milo designed and built a top floor suite for the Elder in the Airport, complete with its own shooting range and full bathroom. The Elder politely refused the gift and repurposed it for storage.

Despite his odd and indirect advances, Milo was the mastermind and main supporter of a black-body-suited shadow squad that gained Elder Maxson’s approval. Unofficially consisting of Paladin Danse, Knight-Commander Alton, Elder Maxson himself, and Senior Scribe Grise, this squad was loosely inspired by and created to emulate the disbanded Lyons Pride. The mission remained constant: eliminating hostiles seemingly overnight when no other squad would prevail. The shadow squad was titled Purity Control.

Senior Scribe Grise was forcibly removed from the squad after being caught taking night watches on missions just to stare at the Elder while he slept.

Vance Ainsley Alton

Location: Commonwealth, Citadel, Prydwen

Age: 38

Vance A. Alton is fiercely loyal, gentle in all things but war, cautiously private and confident in his skills as a soldier. He is a second generation Brother that has three constant loves: his Elder, his parents, and jogging.

Full bio here.

Jacob or “Jay”

Location: Commonwealth, Prydwen, Sanctuary

Jacob is somewhere between a blown fuse and a Furby with dying batteries that cheerfully declares your impending death from the closet you tried to suffocate it in. He is immensely charismatic and flawlessly disarming with the best of intentions. Until you have something he wants, of course.

After surviving the end of the world to wake up childless, spouseless, and alone, he became numb to consequence and moral choice. Joyfully, he played all factions against each other, bringing them together at the Battle of Bunker Hill at the cost of lives, intelligence, valuable resources, and relationships. He was commanded to choose his loyalties and he chose the Brotherhood for it’s unapologetic adherence to its duty to humanity. He attempted to continue relations with the Minutemen and lost their respect after participating in the killing of innocents in the attack on the Institute. He became Elder Maxson’s first Sentinal and drinks with Proctor Teagan in his downtime. As a side project, he oversaw the creation a tavern just outside the airport with the Brotherhood reaping benefits from the small economy that surrounds it.

��Jelly”

Location: Commonwealth, The Castle

Jelly is known only as thus and was previously married to Jacob. She is trusting and fair in her judgments and has a strong sense of justice for both the human and nonhuman. She survives the cryogenics unbeknownst to Jacob and joins the Minutemen after the fall of the Institute and the Brotherhood assumes control of the Commonwealth. Provoked to rage and hurt by their narrow-minded views, she attacks the Prydwen single-handedly, separate of any faction or companion. She massacres the entirety of the ship, sparing only children, and takes the Captain’s hat and Elder’ s Jacket as trophies. She is appointed the new general of the Minutemen and wears her trophies boldly as proof of her conquest. She finds new love and comfort with Preston and long-lasting friendship in Curie and MacCready.

#fallout oc #fallout ocs #fallout 4 #fallout 76 #my new vegas kids aren't here sorry

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930club · 6 years ago

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GET FAMILIAR: Weeks of July 22 and July 29, 2019

COMING SOON: Tyler Childers

Release Title: Country Squire (LP)

Release Date: Friday, August 2, 2019

What To Expect: 28-year-old Kentucky native Tyler Childers has been masterfully blending elements of bluegrass, country, and folk music together for nearly a decade now. He grew up in a blue-collar town located in the heart of coal country, and he began writing his own music at the age of 13 after singing in the church throughout his early years. He experienced massive commercial success in 2017 with his breakthrough album, Purgatory, which was produced by the legendary Sturgill Simpson and released under Amoeba Music on the Hickman Holler label.

Following the release of Purgatory, Rolling Stone even went so far as to dub him “the 21st Century Voice of Appalachia,” and the rising star has even bigger plans in store for 2019 with the release of his next full-length album titled Country Squire. He’s put out two singles from the record so far, “House Fire” and “All Your’n,” and both tracks show a more refined side to the traditionally raw nature of Childers’ voice. He has also delivered visuals for each of the two songs and the themes of the videos seem to be loosely connected, perhaps hinting that the album will possess a cohesive theme of its own. Whatever the case may be, one thing is for certain, - Childers is primed to build upon his status as the new King of Bluegrass when Country Squire comes out Friday, August 2nd.

Don’t miss Tyler Childers at The Anthem on December 13th, snag your tickets now!

WEBSITE ● TWITTER ● FACEBOOK ● MUSIC

LOCAL LEGENDS: YBN Cordae

Release Title: The Lost Boy (LP)

Release Date: Friday, July 26, 2019

What To Expect: For the past 12 months, YBN Cordae has been the undisputed hardest working MC from the DMV. He’s scored cosigns from the likes of Dr. Dre, H.E.R., and Logic as well as snagging a Chance The Rapper feature on “Bad Idea,” the nostalgia-inducing lead single from his upcoming project, The Lost Boy. After joining the emerging “internet rap clique” YBN collective in early 2018, Cordae blew onto the scene with his poignant remix of Eminem’s classic “My Name Is” and the somewhat controversial “Old n****s,” a song that was made in response to J. Cole’s “1985 - Intro to ‘The Fall Off’” and one that comments on the older generations’ perceived lack of respect for the young rappers trying to make a name for themselves in the modern era of hip-hop.

The Lost Boy will serve as Cordae’s first solo full-length effort (he and the rest of the YBN crew dropped YBN: The Mixtape back in late 2018) and the album’s first offerings have been nothing short of fantastic. The aforementioned “Bad Idea” is great in its own right, but true hip-hop heads should give the album’s other single, “Have Mercy,” a spin ASAP if they want to see Cordae’s songwriting talents and masterful wordplay on full display. The young Marylander uses the song’s chorus to ponder aloud:

“I don't know where I'm goin' (Huh) But I hope I'm on the right path Life'll hit you with a light jab Mike Tyson, strike back”

They’re potent lyrics that grapple with some of the more pressing issues facing a young star trying to make his own way in the world, and it utilizes a patented Cordae metaphor to help make it digestible and relatable for the listener. Amazingly, the PG County product is still less than three years removed from his days of roaming the halls of Westlake High School in Suitland, but that hasn’t slowed him down from becoming one of the most prolific pound-for-pound lyricists in the game at the moment. Cordae and the YBN boys are slowly becoming a force to be reckoned with the likes of which we haven’t seen from a rap collective in some time.

WEBSITE ● TWITTER ● FACEBOOK ● MUSIC

WILD CARD: Burna Boy

Release Title: African Giant (LP)

Release Date: Friday, July 26, 2019

What To Expect: Before one can fully understand the enigma that is Burna Boy, one must understand the subtle distinction between Afrobeat and Afrobeats. Afrobeat is the “sound of brass and percussion blending big-band bravado with traditional Nigerian yoruba, highlife, jazz and funk” (HuffPost) that was pioneered in Lagos, Nigeria by the legendary musician Fela Kuti. The modern “Afrobeats is both the evolution and in many ways antithesis of its prefixed forebear. Having slowly emerged over the past several years, it exists in diametrical opposition to all Kuti and his movement stood for, a mutated spawn in flat cap and British accent.” Now, enter Burna Boy, the Nigerian native at the forefront of the Afro-Fusion revolution currently sweeping the globe. He’s directly connected to the original sounds of the movement (his maternal grandfather actually managed the great Fela Kuti), and he’s acutely aware of the influential nature of his music and the staying power it holds with listeners. When asked by Billboard about his thoughts on the surging popularity of the Afrobeats genre, he claims, “everything started from Africa, and so music started from Africa. It’s all going to come back to its roots eventually. When you hear our music, it resonates in the soul.”

“Most Americans don’t even understand what I’m saying in my records, but they pick up on the vibe, the vibration,” says Burna in the same interview. Put simply, whether it be mellowed-out tunes like his smash-hit “Ye” or spirited bops like “Pull Up,” the lead single from his upcoming project, African Giant, he makes music that you feel. Burna and his team, which is lead by his mother and manager Bose Ogulu, were looking to capitalize on his current virality by announcing that African Giant would be dropping a mere two weeks before its release date. It’s a risk that most artists wouldn’t be willing to take, but what’s the point of drawing out a rollout when “there are more eyes on me,” as Burna coyly told Billboard. Be on the lookout for the project when it drops this Friday, July 26th, and don’t sleep on Burna as he continues to dominate the global charts.

WEBSITE ● TWITTER ● FACEBOOK ● MUSIC

- Matt Singer

#Get Familiar #Matt Singer #Tyler Childers #Country Squire #Upcoming Shows #The Anthem #YBN Cordae #YBN #The Lost Boy #Burna Boy #African Giant

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asiantheatre · 7 years ago

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Under the list are all the confirmed, announced shows in the 2018-2019 season featuring Asian writers, actors, designers, directors, etc in New York, London, and International. Listed are the dates for first previews, the theater it’s performed in, and a summary of the show.

This list isn’t 100% comprehensive and will be updated as time goes on. If we missed a show, please let us know!

Make sure to tune in and give these shows your love!

BROADWAY (source)

Straight White Men

Until September 9, Hayes Theater

“It’s Christmas Eve, and Ed has gathered his three adult sons to celebrate with matching pajamas, trash-talking, and Chinese takeout. But when a question they can’t answer interrupts their holiday cheer, they are forced to confront their own identities. Obie Award-winning playwright Young Jean Lee takes a hilariously ruthless look at the classic American father-son drama. This is one white Christmas like you’ve never seen before.”

Getting the Band Back Together

August 19, 2018; Belasco Theatre

“The musical comedy follows 40-year-old out-of-work banker Mitch who moves back in with his mother and decides to reunite his old high school band, Juggernaut.”

King Kong

October 2018

This show reimagines the famous movie King Kong into a story about fame, greed, and manipulation within the original framework of a young actress and film maker finding their way to Skull Island, the home of a 2000 pound monkey.

Tootsie

March 29, 2019; Marriott Marquis

“Based on the film, Tootsie tells the story of a talented but difficult actor who struggles to find work until an audacious, desperate stunt lands him the role of a lifetime.”

Hadestown

Walter Kerr; March 22, 2019

Info in the west end section

Be More Chill

Lyceum Theater; February 13, 2019

Info in the offbway section

Chicago

July 1–14; Ambassador Theatre

Japanese star Ryoko Yonekura will make a limited run engagement as Roxie Hart before transferring over to Japan for the national tour.

OFF BROADWAY (source / 2)

Be More Chill

August 9, 2018; Pershing Square Signature Center

Based on Ned Vizzini’s novel, the show tells the story of an average teenager who takes a pill purported to make people more—you guessed it—chill.

Henry VI

August 21, 2018 - NAATCO

“Shakespeare’s Henry VI is the story of a great nation’s decent into barbarism and cruelty. It is a study of how the experience of a problematic foreign war erodes civil discourse at home, and how that erosion allows political self-interests to take hold and send a country hurtling into civil war.”

Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future

September 25, 2018; Ars Nova

“250 years from now, constructed humans are built in black market labs, Mars is a forced labor camp and underground outlaws are brewing rebellion. You might not remember how Beaux Weathers and her band of “illegal intelligences” fought for the right to exist, but Rags Parkland does. Back on Earth for the first time in 10 years, Rags plays the music that carried us to where we are today. But on this planet, the more things change, the more we stay the same.”

India Pale Ale

October 2, 2018; Manhattan Theatre Club

“In a small Wisconsin town, a tight-knit Punjabi community gathers to celebrate the wedding of a traditional family’s only son, just as their strong-willed daughter announces her plans to move away and open a bar. As they come together for feasts filled with singing and dancing, one generation’s cherished customs clash with another’s modern-day aspirations, and ghosts and pirates from the family’s past linger in everyone’s thoughts – until one sudden event changes everything.”

Wild Goose Dreams

October 30, 2018; The Public Theatre

“Minsung is a “goose father,” a South Korean man whose wife and daughter have moved to America for a better life. Deeply lonely, he escapes onto the internet and meets Nanhee, a young defector forced to leave her family behind in North Korea. Amidst the endless noise of the modern world, where likes and shares have taken the place of love and touch, Minsung and Nanhee try their best to be real for each other. But after a lifetime of division and separation, is connection possible?“

The Resistable Rise or Arturo Ui

October 30- December 22, 2018; Classic Stage Company

The political allegory shows a Depression-era Chicago mobster, who, with the help of his henchmen, manipulates and murders his way to totalitarian rule of the cauliflower trade. The play uses a vaudevillian portrayal of American mafia culture to parallel events that brought the Third Reich to power.

A Chorus Line

November 14, 2018; New York City Center

“A Chorus Line, the 2018 New York City Center Annual Gala Presentation, is a joyous celebration of dance and musical theater—two art forms that City Center has been bringing to New York audiences for 75 years. In 1975, the stories of seventeen Broadway dancers were brought to life when A Chorus Line opened Off-Broadway. The musical was born of workshop sessions with actual Broadway dancers (eight of whom appeared in the original cast) who laid bare their personal stories and the challenges they faced in pursuit of their dreams.“

The Prisoner

November 24, 2018; Theatre for a New Audience/Polonsky Shakespeare Center

“The Prisoner examines the complexities of crime, justice, and compassion in a breathtaking new international production. A man sits alone outside a prison. Who is he, and what is he doing there? Is he free, or is he the prisoner?“

Noura

November 27, 2018; Playwrights Horizons

Noura and her husband have a successful life in New York, and, eight years after having fled their home in Iraq, they’ve finally gained citizen status—which Noura, as an Iraqi Christian, is celebrating by planning the perfect Christmas dinner. But when the arrival of a visitor stirs up long-buried memories, Noura and her husband are forced to confront the cost of their choices, and retrace the past they left behind.

Flower Drum Song’s 60th Anniversary Gala

December 2, 2018 - NAAP

The gala will begin at 5:30 PM with cocktails, followed by a 6:30 PM dinner (a traditional eight-course Chinese banquet). Throughout the evening will be entertainment informed by the history of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song.

Nassim

December 10, 2018; New York City Center

In his latest work, Nassim Soleimanpour explores the power of language to unite us in these uncertain times. No rehearsals. A different guest actor at every performance. A sealed envelope. Oh, and some surprises.

Blue Ridge

December 12, 2018; Atlantic Theater Company

“A progressive high-school teacher with a rage problem retaliates against her unscrupulous boss and is sentenced to six months at a church-sponsored halfway house, where she attends to everyone's recovery but her own. Set in Southern Appalachia, Blue Ridge is a pitch-dark comedy about heartbreak, hell-raising and healing.“

Merrily We Roll Along

January 12, 2019; Roundabout Theatre

Roundabout’s company in residence, Fiasco Theater, reimagines its next Stephen Sondheim creation. With Fiasco’s one-of-a-kind imagination, this audacious musical about a trio of showbiz friends who fall apart and come together over 20 years emerges as newly personal and passionate.

Superhero

January 31, 2019; Second Stage Theatre

Before we can save the world, we have to save each other. From the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of Next to Normal and the Tony Award-winning writer of Red comes a deeply human new musical about a fractured family, the mysterious stranger in apartment 4-B, and the unexpected hero who just might save the day.

Anne of Green Gables: Part 1

The Royal Family Performing Arts Space; January 24-February 11

An adaptation of the book with the same title.

God Said This

Cherry Lane Theater; January 29-February 15

God Said This paints a portrait of five Kentuckians facing mortality in very different ways. With her mom undergoing chemotherapy, Hiro returns home, struggling to let go of the demons she inherited. Sophie, her born-again Christian sister, confronts her faith while tackling inevitable adversity. James, their recovering alcoholic father, wants to repair his fractured relationship with his daughters. And, John, an old classmate and thirty-something single dad, worries about leaving a lasting legacy for his only son.

Alice By Heart

MCC Theater; January 30-March 30

The show, by Waitress scribe Jessie Nelson and Spring Awakening duo Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, adapts Lewis Carroll’s famed fantasy into a London-set tale against the backdrop of World War II, as Alice and her friend Alfred journey down a rabbit hole to find love, loss, and the courage to move forward despite harsh circumstances.

REGIONAL / US TOURS (source)

Man of God

January 31 - February 24, 2019; East West Players

A hidden discovery in a hotel bathroom changes the lives of four Korean Christian girls on a mission trip to Thailand. Samantha is hurt that someone she trusted could betray her. Jen is worried about how this might affect her college applications. Kyung-Hwa thinks everyone should adjust their expectations. Mimi’s out for blood. Amid the neon lights and go go bars in Bangkok, the girls plot revenge in this funny, feminist thriller.

Mamma Mia

May 9 - June 9, 2019; East West Players

On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother’s past back to the Greek island they last visited 20 years ago. The storytelling magic of ABBA’s timeless hits sets the scene for this infectious tale of love and frolicking fun, creating an unforgettable musical experience that will leave you dancing in the aisles!

Tours - Dates are subject to region

Aladdin

Hamilton

Miss Saigon

Hello Dolly

Falsettos

Lea Salonga’s Human Heart Tour

Rent

TV special live on Fox tells the story of the AIDS epidemic in New York City

WEST END/LONDON (source)

The King and I

Until September 29, 2018

Set in 1860s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna, a British schoolteacher whom the modernist King, in an imperialistic world, brings to Siam to teach his many wives and children.

Love’s Labor’s Lost

August 23, 2018; Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

“Self-denial is in fashion at the court of Navarre where the young king and three of his courtiers solemnly forswear all pleasures in favour of serious study. But when the Princess of France and her entourage arrive, it isn’t long before the all-male ‘academe’ have broken every one of their self-imposed rules. Shakespeare’s boisterous send-up of all those who try to turn their back on life is a dazzling parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright’s arsenal, from excruciating cross-purposes and impersonations to drunkenness and bust-ups. It’s a banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes and grotesque coinages“

Dance Nation

August 27, 2018; Almeida Theatre

“Somewhere in America, a revolution is coming. An army of competitive dancers is ready to take over the world, one routine at a time. With a pre-teen battle for power and perfection raging on and off stage, Dance Nation is a ferocious exploration of youth, ambition and self-discovery.“

The Humans

August 30, 2018; Hampstead Theatre

“Hampstead Theatre is proud to present the Broadway production of The Humans by Stephen Karam, the winner of four 2016 Tony Awards including Best Play. Three generations of the Blake family have assembled for Thanksgiving in Brigid and Richard’s ramshackle pre-war apartment in Lower Manhattan. Whilst the event may have a slightly improvised air, the family is determined to make the best of its time together. As they attempt to focus on the traditional festivities, fears of the past and pressures of the future seep into the reunion and the precariousness of their position becomes increasingly evident.”

The Village

September 7, 2018; Theatre Royal Stratford East

“The Village transports the Lope de Vega’s Spanish play, Fuenteovejuna to contemporary India. It’s a powerful story of community and solidarity, and the lengths a person will go to protect themselves from tyranny. In Jyoti’s village, life is simple. People work and sing while living off the land. And finding a partner is far from her mind. She’d much prefer a delicious meal. Things are happy until the Inspector and his men come back to town. But when the tyrannical Inspector has his eye on Jyoti and he commits unspeakable acts against the village, everyone is pushed to breaking point. Will Jyoti dare turn him down despite what it may mean for her village?”

White Teeth

October 26, 2018; Kiln Theatre

“Rosie Jones, the Iqbal twins, their parents, their grandparents, Mad Mary and an avalanche of other characters who make up the everyday chaos of Kilburn High Road come together in an extraordinary revelry of NW6. An epic comedy with music and dance, this theatrical rollercoaster takes us on a fast-paced journey through history, different cultures and chance encounters. Zadie Smith’s breakthrough novel is adapted for stage by acclaimed playwright Stephen Sharkey and directed by Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham in a major world premiere.”

Hadestown

November 2, 2018; National Theater

“In the warmth of summertime, songwriter Orpheus and his muse Eurydice are living it up and falling in love. But as winter approaches, reality sets in: these young dreamers can’t survive on songs alone. Tempted by the promise of plenty, Eurydice is lured to the depths of industrial Hadestown. On a quest to save her, Orpheus journeys to the underworld where their trust is put to a final test.”

INTERNATIONAL

Philippines

Side Show - August 31, 2018

M. Butterfly - September 13, 2018

A Doll’s House Part 2 - September 15, 2018

Waitress - November 2018

Angels in America Spring 2019

Beautiful: the Carole King Musical Spring 2019

Korea

Matilda - September 8, 2018

The Greatest Showman - August 7, 2018

Bridges of Madison County - August 11, 2018

Jungle Book - closing August 26, 2018

Singapore

Peter and the Star Catcher - September 28, 2018

Other Local Shows

Japan

Fiddler on the Roof - December 16, 2018

Something Rotten - December 31, 2018

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG - May 16, 2018

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 - January 5, 2019

Chicago - Osaka (August 1-4 at the Orix Theater) and in Tokyo (August 7-18 at the Tokyu Theatre Orb).

Full list of shows in Japan (translated)

Other Local Shows

China

Rent - August 30, 2018

Les Mis - September 27, 2018

Hamlet - November 28, 2018

Chicago - December 20, 2018

Other Local Shows

Canada

Come From Away (until June 30, 2019)

Next to Normal Toronto (April 26-May 19)

Dear Evan Hansen

New Zealand

If/Then - November 29-December 8, 2018

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