#Virginia Robertson

[kei-cha]

夜更かしジニーちゃん

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Luminous Witches scans

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Virginia Robertson // Luminous Witches

F:Nex (1/7) by FuRyu

[magicalgirloftheday]

✧・ﾟ:*Today’s magical girl of the afternoon is: Virginia Robertson/Ginny from Luminous Witches!✧・ﾟ:*

[lascitasdelashoras]

Evan Robertson

[lunarcovehq]

POPPY REED (REBECCA RITTENHOUSE) IS LOOKING FOR...

Connection: Younger Sister

Suggested Name: First name UTP, but last name would be Reed. They should have a nature based name like their other siblings - Poppy, Linden Jasmine (Who is their half sibling

Age Range: 29-34

Species: Witch or newly turned vampire/werewolf

Suggested FCs: UTP; We would prefer a blonde fc and some suggestions are Elizabeth Lail, Brianne Howey, Grace Van Patten, Virginia Gardner, Margot Robbie, Halston Sage, Jenny Boyd, Britt Robertson, Olivia Holt, Lily James, Josephine Langford, Madelyn Cline

Connection Description:

The twins were 6 they were taken away from Boston and memory wiped by their mother to forget Silas. They also had their last names changed to their mother’s surname. Your character would have been a baby/toddler still so most likely wouldn’t be subjected to as strong or any memory wiping at all.

They have a half sibling named Jasmine Chamberlain, that they were unaware of until 3 years ago when she came to town and told them of her existence.

Alyssa Reed remarried quickly to Miles Hale who would be their step dad as they grew up. Likely it was possible that they were close to Miles, since they would be the youngest and didn’t have a father figure already in their life.

Your character would always be have been treated as the baby of the family by the twins and their parents. They would be the one constantly protected and sheltered from the darkness of the world around them.

After the twins went away when they turned eighteen they were probably put even more on a lockdown by Miles and Alyssa and weren’t allowed to leave Lunar Cove. Wanting to prevent the family image from further being tarnished/losing another child.

When Miles and Yasmin (the former supreme) both died in 2022. Alyssa shaped your character up to be the next supreme even though they never wanted it. Thankfully they failed out of the trial pretty quickly, which cause discourse with Alyssa. Especially when Poppy later became Supreme.

In June 2023, Poppy was murdered by Kyle Kane. It caused an uproar in the coven which all present members (and non coven members) voted that she be brought back. Jasmine brought Poppy back, but as a result for bringing a her back Alyssa Reed died in her place.

Your character would also be aware Silas Chamberlain is their father since he was in town during December 2023, and he was turned into a werewolf by Nico Castillo. The family is still unsure where he is now, but they know someone like Silas doesn’t just die.

Please be sure to contact the player before applying:

Kourtney is available for DMs on @moonglowmagic !!

[ravenkings]

Bernie is wrong. He has always been wrong and is still wrong. The flaw in his theory is what he deems the “wealthy elite” versus what everyday Americans consider them to be. Voters don’t see all billionaires as the elites. They see college-educated liberals on the coasts, some of whom are billionaires, as elites.

Bernie-style populism didn’t land because billionaires figured out long ago they could undermine it by being socially right-wing, and the working class would forgive their wealth and privilege. That’s why this same demographic is willing to make it rain for grifters like Joel Osteen and Pat Robertson. That’s why they worship the wealthiest man on the planet like a God and consider him some real-life Tony Stark. People dismissed Donald Trump as a shameless attention-hungry New York oligarch until he called Mexicans rapists. Then he shot up to the top of the GOP primary polls. The working class didn’t think much of Elon Musk until he said “pronouns suck.” Then he became their hero. A scion of working-class Pennsylvania lost his US Senate seat last week to a hedge fund manager from Connecticut. West Virginia elected their richest man to the Senate after electing him governor – as a Democrat and later a Republican. Ohio tossed out their longtime Democratic senator, known for his strong support of labor rights, for – literally, no joke – a used-car salesman.

You can’t tell me the working class in America thinks being a billionaire alone is what makes one a “wealthy elite.” There are significant factors at play here Bernie is either oblivious to or purposely ignorant of.

In college, a professor once told me that Communism never succeeded in the United States because we are too religious and proud as a country. Religion, traditions, and culture were never widely discredited the way they were in Europe and Asia, where the clergy and nobility kept the bourgeoisie in figurative chains for centuries. The relative ease of social mobility made America unique compared to its Western counterparts. Historically, American progressivism has been focused on expanding social mobility – initially limited to only white men – to identity groups who had been denied it at the start: blacks, women, and immigrants. We have done it, with various amounts of success. While it may seem counterintuitive, Americans pride themselves in being the nation that pioneered the idea that wealth and status can be achieved through ingenuity and hard work and not just based on a lucky roll of the genetic dice, as it was in the Old World. It doesn’t mean we don’t have generational wealth in our country; we do, but since it isn’t the sole way to achieve wealth and power, we don’t care nearly as much about destroying all of it. Further, we will happily endorse it if the oligarchs and the aristocrats vow to promote and protect the social values we care about and the social hierarchy that benefits us.

It’s one of the reasons I believe Bernie could never beat Trump. If you ask working-class people what they want: an anti-immigrant, anti-intellectual billionaire or a Vermont socialist backed by kids from Harvard and UC Berkeley who hate our traditions and customs, the working class will always back the billionaire.

–Nick Rafter, "Bernie Sanders Can Take a Seat"

[companionofthetimelords]

BG3 Actor Convention list from November through December 2024 and Beyond

Listed in Character Alphabetical Order and by convention start date. I apologize for any errors and will try to update as time goes on.

Astarion - Neil Newbon

Nov 1st 2024 Heroes Comic Con – Stockholm (2024) in Stockholm Sweden

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 22nd 2024 Milan Games Week in Milan Italy

Nov 29th 2024 Fan Expo San Francisco in San Francisco California USA

Dec 12th 2024 Anime Weekend Atlanta in Atlanta Georgia USA

Dec 20th 2024 Holiday Matsuri in Orlando Florida USA

Mar 6th 2025 Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle Washington USA

April 11th 2025 C2E2 in Chicago Illinois USA

Apr 25th 2025 LVL UP EXPO in Las Vegas Nevada USA

Dark Urge - Neil Roberts

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

Jan 18th 2025 MegaConLive Dublin in Dublin Ireland

The Emperor - Scott Joseph

Gale - Tim Downie

Nov 14th 2024 Sasnakcity The Gathering in Kansas City Missouri USA

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Apr 4th 2025 Game On Expo (2025) in Phoenix Arizona USA

Gortash - Jason Isaacs

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Mar 8th 2025 Lexington Comic & Toy Con in Lexington Kentucky USA

Mar 27th 2025 GalaxyCon Richmond 2025 in Richmond Virginia USA

Halsin - Dave Jones

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

Jaheira - Tracy Wiles

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Jan 18th 2025 MegaConLive Dublin in Dublin Ireland

Karlach - Samantha Béart

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

Apr 4th 2025 Game On Expo (2025) in Phoenix Arizona USA

Apr 25th 2025 LVL UP EXPO in Las Vegas Nevada USA

Lae'zel - Devora Wilde

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 22nd 2024 Milan Games Week in Milan Italy

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Dec 12th 2024 Anime Weekend Atlanta in Atlanta Georgia USA

Dec 20th 2024 Holiday Matsuri in Orlando Florida USA

Mar 6th 2025 Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle Washington USA

April 11th 2025 C2E2 in Chicago Illinois USA

Apr 25th 2025 LVL UP EXPO in Las Vegas Nevada USA

Minsc - Matthew Mercer

Nov 23rd 2024 Heroes Dutch Comic Con 2024 in Utrecht Netherlands

Dec 6th 2024 PAX Unplugged Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA

April 11th 2025 C2E2 in Chicago Illinois USA

Oct 9th 2025 NYCC in New York New York USA

Minthara - Emma Gregory

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

Mizora - Tamaryn Payne

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Feb 15th 2025 Capital Sci-Fi Con in Edinburgh Scotland UK

Narrator - Amelia Tyler

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Orin - Maggie Robertson

Nov 2nd 2024 Collect-a-Con Houston in Houston Texas

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

Raphael - Andrew Wincott

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

Jan 18th 2025 MegaConLive Dublin in Dublin Ireland

Rolan - George Taylor

Scratch - Shaun Mendum

Shadowheart - Jennifer English

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 22nd 2024 Milan Games Week in Milan Italy

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Dec 12th 2024 Anime Weekend Atlanta in Atlanta Georgia USA

Dec 20th 2024 Holiday Matsuri in Orlando Florida USA

Mar 6th 2025 Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle Washington USA

April 11th 2025 C2E2 in Chicago Illinois USA

Apr 25th 2025 LVL UP EXPO in Las Vegas Nevada USA

Wyll - Theo Solomon

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Dec 12th 2024 Anime Weekend Atlanta in Atlanta Georgia USA

Dec 20th 2024 Holiday Matsuri in Orlando Florida USA

[campgender]

“The S Word” – on the performance of Christian patriarchy & the word no one says

from The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities by Kate Bowler (2019)

transcript under the cut

The apportionment of power between husband and wife was not simply a private matter, either. In the 1970s and 1980s, submission had become something akin to dogma as conservative Christianity reacted to economic and social challenges that had pulled many wives out of the house and into paid employment. Over half of the readership of Today’s Christian Woman, to take a sample of an evangelical readership, had entered the workforce. In this new dispensation, it had become increasingly difficult to assume what women’s work was—she might work longer hours or earn more than he did. He may have heeded the call to assume more of the housework.

Those church leaders uneasy about such a situation began to emphasize that there was a natural order to things—in families, in churches, and in nations—and that God had ordained the superiority of men and a life of submission for women. Defenses of the Christian patriarchy were everywhere, from bestsellers like Larry Christenson’s The Christian Family, seminars like Bill Gothard’s, parachurch ministries like Focus on the Family, and entire movements, like the Shepherding controversy (see Chapter One).

The ambiguity around what constituted modern women’s work created great shows of deference from conservative Christian women who were beginning to be offered other choices. Books like Being #1 at Being #2 encouraged women to accept their husbands’ place as number one (“Do you find yourself in the role of supporting cast rather than the star?”). However, submission was as much a performance as it was a teaching, something to be seen and believed.

A 1968 how-to manual for Christian wifedom offers clues about how such submission was meant to be performed. Submission, the author contended, was like a divine drama with God playing the part of producer, husband playing the part of Jesus, and wife playing the part of the church. A wife’s “script” is submission, but it is not treated as an established fact but an ongoing series of gestures. She puts out the nice china for him with a little comment about how “I’ve been asking the Lord to help me be a better wife.” Her “hearty and joyous” lovemaking demonstrates “the quality of her submission” in the most powerful manner. The wife is even given a script and props for his enthronement as she “voluntarily dethrones her will to make him her lord,” a coronation ceremony that requires that she cut out a paper crown for him.

The most vocal defenders of submission understood that subservience must be enacted. Dorothy Patterson regularly made mention of the fact that, despite her own onerous teaching and speaking schedule, she was Paige’s enthusiastic helpmeet. “I enjoy teaching, I enjoy traveling, I enjoy speaking to women, but I don’t enjoy anything as much as being the wife of Paige Patterson,” she happily told one reporter, while also mentioning her willingness to iron their pillowcases and sixteen of Paige’s shirts before turning to her own work. “I had an appointment at 10 a.m. and a speaking engagement that night, so I started at 6:30 a.m.,” she said. “I just couldn’t go another day without having all those shirts in order.”

Though both had doctoral degrees in theology, he takes his rightful place and she takes hers. Likewise, the cover of the evangelical women’s book A Woman’s Privilege shows a housewife with a cape draped over her apron using a scepter as a scrub brush. The message is clear: she is still royalty at the kitchen sink.

Submission was always much easier to see than to defend. A photograph series in Upon This Rock, a tribute to Anne and John Gimenez’s Virginia megachurch, shows its entirely unremarkable body language. The caption reads: “Pat Robertson interviewing the Gimenezes.” The illustration shows a sunny day and Pat Robertson and John Gimenez are turned toward each other, chatting into their respective microphones. A step behind her husband, Anne clasps her empty hands in front of her, smiling though no one is looking at her.

Talking about submission was a complicated act, for it was difficult for men to discuss without reinforcing their reputations as dominating and primary beneficiaries of this teaching. So, for the most part, submission was played out with the lightest touch. The most popular defenders of the doctrine of submission were usually women, who could put audiences’ minds at ease that their husbands exercise benevolent leadership rather than a cold dictatorship. “Woman is the feminine of man. We are not only created to be man’s helper, but also his complement,” wrote cowgirl Dale Evans Rogers of her co-star and husband.

In fact, the stronger the public teaching against women in ministry, the stronger the woman on the stage had to be. Take, for instance, the opening of the Art of Homemaking conference, where President Paige Patterson’s quip comparing his wife’s obedience to a dog. Audiences would have flinched if Dorothy Patterson were not a steel magnolia herself, who, in closing that evening, flatly told her husband to sit down so someone else—someone who knows what they are doing—could make the announcements.

Her books were careful studies in how to submit to your husband but, in public, they seemed to relish their parts in this Punch and Judy show. The famous couple was almost expected to fight or tease or put each other in their place in a culture preoccupied so much with talk of power, dominance, and submission.

If a famous pastor was married to a shrinking violet, the pageantry of respect around her only increased. Take, for instance, the bombastic Jerry Falwell, primary architect of the Religious Right, whose rhetorical fireballs were lobbed at almost every target—single parenthood, homosexuality, divorce, abortion, drugs, public schools, secular politicians, and even fellow televangelists. His wife, Macel, was rarely seen on stage, preferring the privacy of family life, and so much had to be said about her as a formidable woman.

“My wife and I have been married twenty-eight years. . . . And I want to tell you in twenty-eight years we’ve had some knock-down and drag-outs. [Laughter] I’ve lost every one of them. [Laughter] I tell you, men, the best thing you can do is quickly raise your hands and unconditionally surrender because you’re gonna lose.”

It was a hard doctrine disguised as a joke, a playful show of weakness by men and strength by women. The role reversal—his submission, her dominance—was meant to calm fears about men lording their power over their wives. It was a twinkle in the eye that told the audience, it’s okay.

When asked in a rare interview whether she was “the power behind the Jerry Falwell throne,” she demurred, “a lot of people say that I do fit that role.” In truth, legitimating the inequality between men and women—while allowing both parties to be heroes—was the most difficult aspect of these public partnerships. Ministries longed to strike that note celebrated in the tagline of one California megachurch’s women’s ministry: “Confident heart. Surrendered soul.”

Over time, the doctrine of submission took two different paths as megaministry proliferated and diversified. White evangelicalism, for the most part, softened in its public stance on the subject. David Platt, a young star of the Southern Baptist denomination and president of their mission board, was the embodiment of the undemanding patriarch with his boy-next-door image, calling female audiences “sisters” in a soft, imploring tone and making goofy jokes about how ineptly he courted his wife.

Evangelicalism was still a standard image bearer of Christian families but submission was less discussed than occasionally alluded to. When Beth Moore, the most famous Southern Baptist evangelist, spoke to ten thousand women in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2016, she devoted only a minute to the denomination’s teachings on the matter by saying: “Some women think they can do anything in the church,” a sentiment that was initially met by cheers until the audiences collectively realized that she was beginning a critique and fell silent. “I’m not looking to take a man’s place . . . I’m just looking for my place,” she continued, and audiences warmed the silence with applause.

“Women don’t talk a lot about the s-word anymore,” another megachurch wife told me.

“What’s the s-word?” I asked.

“It’s the word no one says. Submission.”

Black churches, on the other hand, largely adhered to a rich pageantry of submission, particularly when it came to the First Lady. The most deference in women’s biographies in the four hundred largest churches in the countries fell to African American women of almost all theological persuasions (ranging from historic black denominations to non-denominational and pentecostal churches).

A First Lady was not simply a woman but an icon in three respects. She was dutiful wife, first and foremost. Second, she was the church’s paragon of womanhood. And, lastly, she was an ambassador to the community. In this last respect, the role departed significantly from white women of similar denominational stripes. White women would not be called on to serve on the board of a city council’s literacy initiative, for instance, but, rather, she might write a book called The Princess Within. As we shall see throughout the book, black women had to be both a public symbol of the church and the family with a stronger performance of submission.

The presentation of all wives, however, could be so deeply respectful that it masked the intensity of the massive family-run industries that surrounded them and of which they were often a part.

[thesuburbanerd]

The man who described Scotland as a “dark land, overrun by homosexuals,” blamed 9/11 on lesbians, went into business with war criminals, blamed Hurricane Katrina on abortion, and blamed the earthquake in Haiti on a pact its founders made with the devil, has died.

A lot of the political, religious right in America has its origins in guys like Robertson and Jerry Falwell. I think you could draw a straight line from them to the idolatry around Trump.

[lesbian-books]

Lesbian Historical Fiction

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Victorian England, 1860s. A con artist hires a London pickpocket to help him obtain the fortune of a naïve heiress.

Beyond the Screen Door by Julia Diana Robertson

Washington, USA, 1945. Two best friends grow up together and start to fall in love. One of them can see ghosts, but this is not a scary book.

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

Uruguay, 1977. During the military dictatorship, homosexual people were persecuted, imprisoned, and tortured. Five women (three lesbians and two bisexuals) manage to find each other and cultivate a friendship that will last for decades.

Club Storyville by Riley LaShea

Virginia, USA, 1944. A girl raised to be a “proper lady” falls in love with a nurse who comes to care for her sick grandmother.

Belladonna by Anbara Salam

Italy, 1950s. An insecure teenage girl develops a toxic obsession with her beautiful and popular best friend. As the girls graduate high school and attend an art school, their relationship becomes complicated by sexual lust and secrecy.

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

Virginia, USA, 1959. Sarah is one of the first black students to attend her previously all-white high school. She becomes acquainted with a white student named Linda, whose father is a major opponent of desegregation.

Shaken to the Core by Jae

California, USA, 1906. Giuliana, a working class Sicilian immigrant woman, goes to work as a maid for a rich American family. The daughter of the family, Kate, is expected to marry a rich man and have children, but Kate wants to be financially independent and be with a woman. This book is set in the time period of the real life 1906 San Francisco earthquake, one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, which killed over 3000 people and destroyed most of the city.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malina Lo

California, USA, 1950s. A Chinese-American girl has a lesbian awakening, makes friends with another lesbian at her school, and discovers the vibrant nightlife in lesbian bars.

Matrix by Lauren Groff

England, 1150s. A young French woman named Marie is forced to go to an English convent to become the new prioress. The nuns are living in hunger and squalor when Marie arrives, and when she takes charge she transforms the fate of the convent and the lives of the nuns into something better and more successful than they could have imagined.

Click “Keep reading” for content warnings. Minor spoilers ahead.

Content warnings for Fingersmith: abuse, including child abuse

Content warnings for Beyond the Screen Door: child abuse, domestic violence

Content warnings for Cantoras: abuse, child sexual abuse, corrective rape, marital rape, suicide

Content warnings for Lies We Tell Ourselves: racist abuse. Additional note: This book does not hold back from depicting the racism and homophobia of the time. It has also been criticised for its portrayal of an oppressed person falling in love with their oppressor, and rightfully so because that aspect could have been done better, but at the same time I don’t think that lesbian relationships in books have to always be written as flawlessly healthy and morally pure, just as hetero relationships often are not. If Linda had abandoned all her racist beliefs immediately and rededicated her goals to supporting black civil rights, then the book would have been criticised for being too unrealistic, imo.

[brostateexam]

Have you heard the good news?

Happy Pride!

[eugenedebs1920]

How did America end up in this position is a thought that rents space in my mind at a large cost. For the better part of the twentieth century we were the good guys, the envy of the world. We were the freest, most educated, healthiest, strongest, wealthiest, most virtuous nation on the globe. Have we partaken in atrocities, interjected ourselves where we didn’t belong, flexed a little too hard? Yes. Yet we always course corrected and navigated towards a more honorable lane moving forward.

The Warren court, as Chief Justice Earl Warren’s Supreme Court would be named, labeled on the right as the most liberal court in American history. As I’ve stated in previous writings, the word, liberal, means, willing to accept or respect, opinions or behaviors different from one’s own: open minded. Therefore it comes as no insult or travesty to throw that accusation around. This court is responsible for major course corrections in this country. Many of the every day liberties we may not even be aware of are made possible by the Warren court.

Chief Justice Earl Warren and his court are responsible for decisions such as, Brown v The Board of Education, desegregating public schools. The court also saw other landmark decisions in Griswold v Connecticut, which dubbed interference to married couples to access contraception unconstitutional, the Loving v Virginia ruling that stated interracial marriages were protected under the equal protection and due process clauses of the fourteenth amendment. There’s Engel v Vitale which rules it unconstitutional to impose prayer or religious studies in public schools. Mapps v Ohio, as well as Miranda v Arizona, two major cases on civil liberties in regards to law enforcement, evidence and legal searches (ie Miranda rights, you have the right to remain silent….) The Warren court is also responsible for landmark voting and civil rights decisions like, Baker v Carr, Reynolds v Sims and Westberry v Sanders, declaring that districts had to be drawn without disenfranchising voters of color directly. Several rulings on free speech covered by the first amendment such as New York Times Co. v Sullivan protecting the press from defamation lawsuits, Yates v United States, protecting even racially charged hate speech unless it posed a “clear and present danger”, there’s also Roth V United States and Jacobellis v Ohio which rules that even what could be construed as obscene material was protected under the first amendment. It also ruled in Trop v Dulles it unconstitutional to revoke citizenship as punishment for a crime, and Robertson v California that ruled drug addiction was a disease and therefore unconstitutional to incarcerate or punish someone for being an addict.

There’s many more Consequential cases that came out of the Warren court beyond this as well. Although the above listed were huge steps towards racial justice, free speech, voting rights, first amendment rights for the press and publicist, citizens rights with law enforcement agencies, and first amendment rights on freedom of religion and public imposition.

Newton’s third law of motion states that every action will have an equal and opposite reaction. The same can be held true with Americas social order.

When studying American history it becomes apparent that when progress is made in social, racial, societal, gender, lifestyle preferences, and labor justice and protections, a backlash is to follow. Examples being, abolishment of slavery, civil war, Civil Rights Act, racial upheaval, election of first black president, rise of MAGA, same goes with the Warren court. Although not as one may suspect.

The Chief justice that succeeded Warren was Warren E Burger, nominated by Richard Nixon would continue many of the liberal leaning rulings as the Warren court. The Burger court would rule in favor of women’s rights in Roe v Wade, would rule against Nixon in, Nixon v United States, and ruled in favor of separation of powers in, Immigration and naturalization service v Chadha. Burger would also reside over some questionable decisions as well though.

The conservative pushback from these two decades was immense, yet covert. It was ruthless, yet slow moving. With groups like the Federalist Society, and Heritage Foundation, people like Jerry Falwel and Roger Ailes, the conservative retaliation moved at a slow but steady pace for retribution.

I could, and may, write a novel on the revenge of the right after the free love and equal rights movements of the 60’s and 70’s but I’ll get to the point.

What we are dealing with when it comes to Donald Trump and the MAGA extremism is a retaliation stemming from the electing of the nations first person of color as president of the United States of America. I promise you every single MAGA politician and citizen will deny this. Yet, unlike the MAGA approach, there’s a plethora of data and evidence to support this claim.

From day one after Obama’s inauguration it was clear that the establishment was opposed to the thought of being led by a colored person. Reptilian alien, turtle variant Mitch McConnell, when asked what his priorities were in the congress that followed Obama’s inauguration was “to make sure he’s a one term president” then chuckled in a gargled unnatural amphibious manner. Not, ‘work with the new president to better my constituents and America in general’ not ‘find compromise and draft bipartisan solutions to problems’ but, “to make sure he’s a one term president”.

The there was the whole bitherism thing in which Trump, although an unwanted and moronic voice in the Republican Party at time, was very much a part of its message. How could a handsome, articulate, highly educated hard working black man with that name be born in this country? The whole concept was racist to its core.

There was the rise of the Tea Party, which is simply MAGA before Trump, whose members and leaders brazenly used slogans like, A village in Kenya is missing its idiot; deport Obama and (I hate writing this) Congress=Slave owner; taxpayer=n**gar as well as Imam Obama wants to ban pork:don’t let him steal your meat. This blatant racism was not condemned by Republican leadership. In its silent compliance to the backwards thinking of race discrimination was embolden.

Trump was very much involved in this race baiting all throughout Obama’s two terms. With his birtherism claims, his talent for incognito racial slurs, and his denigration of anything put forward by the administration.

Trump and MAGA are a natural reaction to an action. A reaction many of us had the presumption of its demise as times moved on and old bigots passed on.

Me personally, I was born in the early 80’s, a white guy, but through reading and research I can imagine that this feeling of shame when seeing this racism, a want to fix it and move past the hatred and ignorance, feeling useless against it, seeing the rift of bigotry and the decency of Americans widening, it must have some similarities to being in a position like mine, open minded but not the target of discrimination personally, during the civil rights movement of the 60’s. Wanting to assist but knowing it’s not necessarily your fight. Calling out the ignorance and hate but with disheartening ineffectuality.

Much like the civil rights movement of the 60’s we can find solace in the fact that we’re on the right side of history. That the numbers who do believe in equality and disavow hate are disproportionately on the equality side. That generations who held the concept of white superiority are shaking the mortal coil yearly. That our generation was raised without the prejudice of a, separate but equal, Jim Crow, normalization.

We can also find comfort that, for now, if we can end this MAGA affront, with this election, with this presidential candidate, it greatly demoralizes and discredits the whole entitlement they poses. No more Nazis occupying the streets of Nashville without hoods, openly spreading racist hate, no more marches chanting, Jews will not replace us, you will not replace us, no more presidents having dinners with known leaders of the KKK David Duke, no more presidents telling white supremacy groups like the proud boys to “stand back and stand by” on nationally broadcasted television, no more white Christian nationalists attempting to overthrow our government like on Jan 6th 2021.

The end is near my open minded pro-democracy friends. This is a major battle against these forces of old and evil, it it will not be the last. We must continue to stand up for equality. We must continue to call out bigotry. We must lead by example in our honesty and morality, and we must never take the pressure off till we succeed and racism is pushed back to far corners and condemned as the putrid thinking that it is.☮️🇺🇸

[roosterarts]

Battle of Gettysburg - Day 2

July 2

4:30 PM

The Texas Brigade Attacks Devil's Den

The artillery bombardment has just ended. The attack was about to begin. As they waited, their division commander road by them and, in a loud voice, said: "Fix bayonets, my brave Texans! Forward and take those heights!" With that, the Texas Brigade cheered and prepared to launch their attack.

On July 2 General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, found himself facing an enemy dug in a strong position. The Union Army of the Potomac were occupying the high ground and Lee wanted to dislodge them. Despite complaints from his trusted officer, Lieutenant General James Longstreet, who wanted to march the army away to a place where the Union would be attacking them instead of the other way around, Lee decided to plan for an attack.

His plan was a two-pronged attack. Up on the north, against the Union's right flank, the Confederate Second Corps was to attack Culp's Hill. However, this was to only be a diversionary attack, as the main assault would come further south. Targeted against the Union's left flank, the Confederate First Corps was to strike the Union forces at Cemetery Ridge, where the Confederates believed the Union left flank was.

However, they were wrong. In reality, the Union left flank extended further south from Cemetery Ridge. Occupying positions from Cemetery Ridge down to the base of the Little Round Top Hills, the Union III Corps held their ground. If the Confederates went through with their original plan, the Confederate First Corps' right flank would have been enfiladed by fire from III Corps as they moved against Cemetery Ridge.

But nothing went according to plan that day.

Having difficulty navigating through unfamiliar terrain, while also trying to remain undetected, the Confederate First Corps didn't get into position until 3:15 in the afternoon. But by that time, the Union positions had changed.

Major General Daniel Sickles, commander of the Union III Corps, saw some high ground in front of his corps. Fearing that Confederate forces would place artillery there to shell his positions, and remembering a similar incident that occured to him a few months ago during the Battle of Chancellorsville, Sickles decided to take it.

At 2:00 in the afternoon, despite being told by General Meade to hold his ground, Sickles advanced his corps and occupied pieces of terrain that are now known as the Peach Orchard, the Wheatfield, and Devil's Den. However, despite now holding higher ground, Sickles' move is often considered as a blunder. By moving forward and ahead of the main line of defense, Sickles not only created a gap between his corps and the neighboring II Corps, which was on their right flank at Cemetery Ridge, but he also exposed the Union left, leaving it open to attack.

Such an attack came at 4:00 in the afternoon, when Confederate forces, who have adjusted to the new tactical situation and deployed appropriately, began bombarding III Corps' positions with artillery fire. For thirty minutes the men of III Corps were subjected to an intense bombardment. Then, at 4:30 in the afternoon the Confederates attacked.

Stepping up first, General Hood's Division divided into two assaulting forces. Brigadier General Robertson's Texas Brigade was to attack Devil's Den, while Law's Alabama Birgade was to head for the Round Top Hills. However, due to the terrible rocky terrain, the two assaulting forces got mixed up. Some Texan Regiments from Robertson's Brigade ended up heading towards the Round Top Hills, while some Alabama Regiments from Law's Brigade went to Devil's Den. Despite this, the regiments heading for Devil's Den struck the Union line hard.

More rocky and confined terrain awaited the Confederates at Devil's Den. Despite this, they pushed on and engaged Ward's Union Brigade that defended the position. The fight was tough and intense, but eventually the Texans and Alabamians managed to push out the Union troops from Devil's Den.

However, the capture of Devil's Den could not be fully exploited, as General Hood was injured and taken out of action early in the fight, while his division's scattered brigades were too far from one another to coordinate further assaults.

At 5:10 in the evening, as one portion of Hood's Division secure Devil's Den, the other half was fighting an intense and difficult battle at Little Round Top.

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Featuring Kayla from @techbro-arts and @duran301 as members of the 1st Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment, as they fight their way through the boulders at Devil's Den. Kayla is a color-bearer and is carrying a flag that I don't think I'm allowed to post here, even for historical purposes. So, for anyone who wants to see the full image, message me on Discord.

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mw?

there's a ton of mw faces that we'd love to see here ! i put it under a read more since it's a large list. but bring us whoever you've got the muse for, ofc !

taylor zakhar perez, nicholas galitzine, noah lalonde, danny griffin, jonathan daviss, drew starkey, darren barnett, elias kacavas, emilio sakraya, evan mock, eli brown, glen powell, zane phillips, john boyega, jordan gonzalez, austin butler, henry zaga, felix mellard, thomas weatherall, miles teller, sam claflin, penn badgely, chace crawford, lewis tan, lucas bravo, kit harrington, joseph morgan, josh segarra, harry shum jr, chris pine, ryan gosling, alex saxon, theo james, andrew garfield, gregg sulkin, ben levin, adam brody, logan lerman, pedro pascal, tom holland, mason gooding, lucien laviscount, ryan gosling, rege jean page, froy guiterrez, tanner buchanan, xolo mariduena, robert scott wilson, carson boatman, ross lynch, algee smith, cody christian, adam dimarco, alex fitzalan, daniel ezra, anthony keyvan, keith powers, keiynan lonsdale, joseph quinn, aramis knight, antonio cipriano, derek luh, leo howard, leo woodall, brandon perea, dacre montgomery, diego tinoco, mena massoud, maxence danet-fauxel, lorenzo zurzolo, michael cimino, paul mescal, callum turner, d'pharoh woon-a-tai, jordah fisher, josh heuston,l alex meraz, kiowa gordon, tom glynn carney, avan jogia, dylan minnette, josh hutcherson, assad zaman, gabriel basso, ross butler, robert buckley, james lafferty, david casteneda, brandon soo hoo, grifflin gluck, grant gustin, dylan wang, asa germann, alejandro spietzer, colin ford, alex landi, alfred enoch, aria shahghasemi, anthony turpel, cha eunwoo, aj saudin, danny ramirez, david iacono, chris briney, sabrina carpenter, ayo edibiri, madison bailey, samantha logan, kim doyeon, nichola coughlan, madison davenport, indiana evans, india eisley, lyrica okano, virginia gardner, liana liberato, kiersey clemons, lindsey morgan, liv hewson, emma d'arcy, victoria pedretti, logan browning, lola tung, louriza tronco, lorenza izzo, lovie simone, luca hollestelle, hunter schafer, zion moreno, taylor russell, laura harrier, lana condor, lauren tsai, anna sawai, jane de leon, kylie bunbury, kathryn bernardo, chienna filomeno, phoebe dynevor, simone ashley, maitreyi ramakrishnan, courtney eaton, nicole maines, jessica alexander, peyton alex smith, ella purnell, sophie neilsse, dev patel, rahul kohli, natalia dyer, danielle campbell, ella balinska, bailey bass, jessica sula, emma mackey, mia goth, melissa barerra, alva bratt, kiana lede, kiana madiera, olivia scott welch, kiernan shipka, meg donnelly, camila mendes, brianne tju, maddie hasson, dianna agron, emilija baranac, danielle rose russell, kaylee kaneshiro, isabella gomez, jenny boyd, lulu antarisksa, josephine langford, lizeth selene, marina ruy barbosa, kaya scodelario, katherine mcnamara, chloe rose robertson, kathryn newton, kristine froseth, pat chayanit, davika hoorne, mint ranchrawee, rabia soyturk, hande ercel, aslihan malbora, melisa pamuk, katie stevens, meghann fahy, merrit patterson, adelaide kane, alexxis lemire, adria arjona, amanda arcuri, sadie soverall, sara waisglass, chelsea clark, blu hunt, antonia gentry, brianne howey, bianca santos, bianca lawson, phoebe tonkin, shelley hennig, bruna marquezine, brittany o'grady, crystal reed, charithra chandran, jessie mei li, halston sage, carlson young, willa fitzgerald, halle bailey, chloe bridges, chloe bailey, margot robbie, anne hathaway, lisa yamada, raven bowens, olivia rose keegan, camryn grimes, gideon aldon, tiera skovbye, amy adams, jane levy, angela bassett, anya taylor joy, anya chalotra, ashleigh murray, lucy hale, troian bellisario, sophia bush, bethany joy lenz, shantel vansanten, hilarie burton, shay mitchell, sasha pieterse, janel parrish, malia pyles, bailee madison, chandler kinney, jordan alexander, zaria simone, auli'i cravalho, bebe wood, angourie rice, renee rapp, ashley moore, ashley park, aisha dee, alisha boe, elizabeth lail, alia bhatt, reina hardesty, victoria justice, liz gillies, bahar sahin, amber midthunder, gemma chan, madchen amick, marisol nichols, madison mclaughlin, malese jow, maris racal, maya hawke, jessica chastain, ana de armas, angela sarafyan, and anna lambe !

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482. Seventeen Magazine, March 1996

(see also: 1994, 1995)

Two things that are sightly upsetting: 1. I barely remember looking through this issue when I was 12. 2. I had to pay $30 for this issue off eBay.

Unfortunately, the Tendrecils line from Lancome is discontinued. Doesn't stop me from misreading it as "tendrils" though.

Does Kate know what magazine she's reading. This was Seventeen in 1995/1996, not 'Teen. 'Teen was the girly magazine back then. I don't know about Y/M, never read that one.

Those Hush Puppies the girl in blue is wearing.

South Coast Today [archive]

A similar green pair with laces seemed to be everywhere in my magazines for a brief time in 1996. I never saw anybody wearing 'em though. Never saw them at Kinney. I don't see 'em on eBay either, Joel sold 6,000 pairs at his store in 1995, wherearethey. 1

'Y'all know Cover Girl still makes this?!

Remember this beautiful "great" packaging Maybelline had. If I had money to throw around to collect old makeup, this would definitely be in the collection.

The fuzzy trim dress was a classic prom dress (or, at least the teen magazines made it seem that way) for the mid to late 90s.

Anna's dress is #1. I love the short sequin Hawaiian print dress. That is 1996.

There's those black and white dresses again! The Chanteuse girls will kick all of our butts.

I saw a lot more of these pastel dresses in my 1997 issues, which sadly yes, I'm trying to find on eBay right now. No luck.

If I was allowed to have makeup back then, you better believe I would have worn this look at school the next day.

I honestly had no clue that self tanner was a thing yet, or maybe just a thing that was sold at like, Saks in the glass case.

Slick straight hair. That was the thing. I had hair down to my waist back then so suffice to say I was not sporting this look

I used to get my Sanrio stuff from the My Doll and Toy Shoppe in downtown Hampton, Virginia. If you said the name of the store quick, it almost sounded like "MIDOL toy shop".

Every time I would see this ad for Kaepa shoes, naive 12 year old me thought "oh my god is that girl going to burn her school down?"

I had that lava lamp keychain and the 8 ball! I used to get them from either Claire's or Spencers. I had a Cracker Jack keychain too around this time that will just randomly show up in my dreams.

Did people really have scanners to scan in their handwriting back then? I imagine they were a small fortune back then. I tried doing some research on this software, but nothing came up.

Mickey was still stuck in 1995.

Oh, these were SO GOOD in the waining days of the low fat craze.

I remember when the Backstreet Boys got real big when I was in high school, I thought back to the ad and wondered "wait, haven't they been around for a while?" In 1996, they didn't even have an album in the U.S. yet.

"our internet address is.."

Some of these look more like pageant dresses.

I adore all the short dresses in this issue.

Is this a freshman dance? They look like freshmen.

Sharon Stone is a not-g0ing-to-prom icon.

Man, what happened to Finesse? It's like once 2000 hit, it became bottom shelf stuff.

There's always one dress that makes me sad in the prom issues, and I think it's this one. It looks so ... mature.

School Zone time, real pics of real kids from a school in Las Vegas:

The shiny, silky shirts!

These are the only two things I remember from this issue when I was 12: MaryBeth's amazing outfit--I wanted it so bad--and Jennaia's cat shirt.

A baby Tobey Maguire.

Baby Eliza Dushku. Did anybody else other than me think it was totally the norm for a guy to want to wear a bright tuxedo like this to prom?

I wish my scanner app on my phone got a better picture of this amazing Betsey Johnson dress Kathleen Robertson is wearing.

ok, a lot going on here on page 230.

-When I was attending Mary Baldwin College, there was this really cheezy store downtown that sold mostly cutesy poo gag gifts. Very cringe store. I'm sure if that store existed in 1996, they would have sold PMS Crunch.

-We're still in the waining days of the low fat craze here, so here are some "healthy" chips. Garden of Eatin' is still around! I think Guiltless Gourmet went out of business?

-I want to see photos and or footage of the Creamette Pasta Party at Tavern on the Green. All I I found was a blip on the New York Times:

On Saturday, about 17,000 carbo-loaders at the annual pre-marathon pasta party at Tavern on the Green will dig into five dishes created by New Yorkers, one from each borough. The dishes were the winners in a contest sponsored by Creamette pasta. The judges included as many weathermen (Storm Field and Mr. G) and sportswriters (David Kaplan of The Daily News) as food experts (Patrick Clark, Bob Lape and Robin Leach).

The meals, which will be served from 4:30 to 8:30 P.M., are free to runners in the New York City Marathon, which will be held on Sunday. The dishes are: baked ziti and vegetables by Martha Katzeff of the Bronx, rigatoni with beef and cheese by Mike Boyd of Brooklyn, spinach-rotini toss by Barbara Shields of Staten Island, creamy macaroni and basil salad by Karin Mackin of Queens and sweet nutmeg kugel by Diane Girer of Manhattan. All the recipes are by runners. 2

Remember when these Y-Necklaces were popular for about a minute?

1.Parnes, Francine . “Old Dog Trots Out in Trendy Places.” New Bedford Standard-Times, December 25, 1995. https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/1995/12/26/old-dog-trots-out-in/50652285007/. 2.Fabricant, Florence. “Food Notes.” The New York Times, November 8, 1995, sec. Home & Garden. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/08/garden/food-notes-021709.html.