#Willie Kessel

[henk-heijmans]

Misery in Borinage, Belgium, 1933 - by Willy Kessels (1898 - 1974), Belgian

[gacougnol]

Willy KESSELS (1898-1974)

Étude de nu, allongée

Bruxelles, vers 1932.

[theaskew]

Willy Kessels (Belgian, 1898–1974), Spiralling Coil, 1930s. Gelatin silver print, 29.0 x 22.6 cm | 11 7/16 x 8 7/8 in. (Source: The Met, New York)

[sesiondemadrugada]

Willy Kessels.

[atna2-34-75]

Willy Kessels

Autoportrait dans la lumière

1931

[sergeifyodorov]

please disregard if this isn't for you, and my apologies if that's the case, but if not. hello! i would like your opinion on what would be in the leafs' (or other hockey players if you wish!) scent profiles in the omegaverse

first couple lines of that scared me WHEW ok ok. im not like. an a/b/o Guy as in. like. it's not entirely my thing but ive been known to dabble occasionally if the going's good. that to say i'm taking "scent profile" to mean like. a) what "designation" they have (a/b/o) and b) what like their Smells are. if that's not the commonly accepted meaning of the terms that's ok but it Is the question i am answering

am34: to me in my beautiful world am34 is an omega BUT not in a standard way... he's transgender but re: a/b/o designation not gender. like a/b/o is essentially just a second sex class (there exist in the a/b/o universe 6 "sexes" (not accounting for intersex people in the normal way/intersex people in the a/b/o way): alpha male, alpha female, beta male, beta female, omega male, omega female) and auston is transitioning/has transitioned from alpha to omega. in my mind this works basically the exact same way transitioning does irl, but with different hormones, because obviously a/b/o hormones are diff from m/f hormones!) anyway he would smell similar but different pre- and post-transition: sharp, hot and chemical, like jet fuel and citric acid. eating grapefruit at the airport. it gets sweeter as his transition goes on. lemon slushy by a construction site. they're putting tar on the sidewalk.

mitch marner: mitchy's alpha thru and thru... the leafs uncles do Nawt enjoy this because why isn't he using his ALPHA VIBES to intimidate the other goaltender into sucking... ah well. anywhay... mitch smells animal. sticking your face into a cat. wet dog. wool. locker room, but how you imagine the locker room in gay porn fantasy smells. a little bit of light petrichor when things are getting Really weird.

william nilliam: ALSO alpha. when the leafs drafted am34 ppl were suddenly Weird about this realization there were 3 alphas on the team... were they gonna fight? for a while there was really only the one alpha (phil kessel) and now all of a sudden the big three prospects were all alphas. there was concern! they should trade the little swedish brat! and then auston transitioned and the core was balanced (2 alphas, 2 omegas, and morgan <3) and everyone was like. ok. okay. mitchy and willy (and auston pretransition) were all fun and cool with it they WERE. it's harder now that am34's an omega and they have to regularly resist challenging each other over him but it's all fun and good! they're friends! anyways william nilliam smells like open sky. the wind off the water. wild grasses and night air. ozone.

john tavares: jt has been bonded to his alpha wife since his isles days and understandably as a result he smells Super bonded, but also like leather and rubber and polyester. blue jeans. ironic for mr kombucha man but what can you do

matthew knies: OMEGA !!! two arizona omegas wrow! sidenote for the readers in this a/b/o world a's and o's aren't like. A huge section of the population but they also don't entirely tend to get filtered out of or into the nhl... alphas exist in the nhl at similar or higher rates to the genpop, and omegas at similar or slightly lower rates. if alphas and omegas are each 10-15% of the population (combined 20-30%) that means that there's usually ~4-6 alphas + omegas combined on any given nhl team, give or take a few because percentages don't usually work that way. leafs have 5 alphas (mitch, willy, max, benny, dewar) and 3 omegas (am34, jt, kniesy). kniesy is one of those handful of people who is randomly like super educated about a/b/o biology etc etc. like dude paid attention in sex ed class??? i guess??? he smells a little bit like cheap tequila and a Lot bit like breakfast food, scrambled eggs and that very specific diner toast smell and those maple breakfast sausages. don't forget your orange juice!!

max domi: max is an alpha, like his father. and he smells alpha like his father, salted caramel and bitter coffee and sour apple.

connor dewar: pine tar and unscented soap and smoke and a bloody steak. a lot of people don't always clock him as alpha because he doesn't have the often like. strong or dominant scents of a typical alpha, but he's just a Nervous Guy. get the right omega around him and you WILL be able to tell he's an alpha lol

simon benoit: also coffee like max, but much less of a cheap cup made by someone trying to stay awake and much more of a seven-dollar latte made by someone with a nose ring. a bowl of ramen noodles with the highest spice level they'd let you pick. spring onion. farmer's market in a big city with food you've never seen before.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Song of the Day - “Willow Weep For Me” Today marks the 70th anniversary of the recording of this beauty of a standard by Billie Holiday- September 3rd, 1954. Billie was backed by Willie Smith on sax, Harry Edison on trumpet, Bobby Tucker on piano, Red Calendar on bass, Chico Hamilton on drums, and Barney Kessel on guitar. This was Billie’s last album on Clef Records before it would be absorbed into Verve Records. This album was released in 1956 in conjunction with Billie’s ghost-written memoir of the same title… This title would also become the title of the biographical movie about Billie, with Diana Ross, which was made in 1972. This song,“Willow Weep For Me”, both music and lyrics, was written in 1932 by Ann Ronell. Ronell was one of the very first accepted female songwriters in both Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley. She wrote movie scores as well as a Broadway musical. She worked for George Gershwin and dedicated this song to him, which oddly was off-putting to the publishers she pitched it to, for some reason. It was apparently frowned upon to do that. So, due to that, and also to the melody’s kinda complex construction, the song was rejected repeatedly before finally being accepted. It became a standard of the era, and was Ann Ronell’s greatest gift and moment. The song was covered by dozens of great artists - from Sinatra to Nina Simone to the Coasters to Chad and Jeremy, to Oscar Peterson to Sam Cooke, to Steve Miller to Dexter Gordon, to Vince Guaraldi, to Red Garland… But this version can have a good case made to be the best… The melancholy waltz is made for Billie’s voice. What a precious gift this one is.

[Mary Elaine LeBey]

[locke-writes]

Team Bio - Boston Bruins

First Season: 1924-1925

Rink Name: TD Garden/The Garden (Boston, Massachusetts)

Previous Team Name(s): None

Conference/Division: Eastern Conference, Atlantic Division

Stanley Cup Wins: 6 (First: 1928-1929, Last: 2010-2011)

Team Colors: Black, Gold

Player Info Below:

Current Important Players:

Hampus Lindholm (Defense)

Brad Marchand (Left Wing)

Patrick Maroon (Left Wing)

David Pastrnak (Right Wing)

Kevin Shattenkirk (Defense)

Jeremy Swayman (Goalie)

Charlie McAvoy (Defense)

Former Players:

Eddie Johnston (Goalie)

Tuukka Rask (Goalie)

Ace Bailey (Left Wing)

Ray Borque (Defense)

Don Cherry (Defense)

Ted Donato (Left Wing)

Percy Galbraith (Left Wing)

Dougie Hamilton (Defense)

Brent Hughes (Left Wing)

Ondrej Kase (Right Wing)

Chris Kelly (Left Wing)

Phil Kessel (Right Wing)

Cam Neely (Right Wing)

Willie O’Ree (Winger)

Bobby Orr (Defense)

Bill Quackenbush (Defense)

Tagging: @heliads

[visual-sandwich]

Belgian painter Rachel Baes, photographed by Willy Kessels.

Rachel Baes was a model for René Magritte's painting titled "Sheherazade"

[sassthatsarcasm]

Things to be happy about

- Willy point streak alive

- Johnny T tied with Phil The Goat Kessel in all time points

- Preserve our no shutout record

[formal-leatherjacket]

3, 6, 11, 12! For the book asks :)

hi!! <333

3. What were your top five books of the year?

Ok, in order of when I read them during the year

Excellent Women - Barbara Pym

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (The adaptations - the 2005 film especially but also `the 1995 miniseries - have been a comfort rewatch for years so it's fun to go back and reread the original and see which details do/don't get included)

The Shortest Way to Hades - Sarah Caudwell (This is #2 of a 4 book mystery series, I read all of them this year but this is my favorite)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

Corrupting Dr. Nice - John Kessel (I recommended this to my cousin only after she watches The Lady Eve since it's the plot of The Lady Eve but with time travel, which I found totally delightful but I have no idea how it stands on its own)

6. Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

I keep lapsing my hold on Chip War in Libby lol. I also had a fun idea to read all 6 of Shirley Jackson's books, but i just managed 3 this year

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Pride and Prejudice was the oldest book I read this year, but I've been keeping an eye out for Corrupting Dr. Nice since last year and I found it serendipitously during my local used bookstore's sale so they both count for this

12. Any books that disappointed you?

I tried to reinforce my DNF policy more strictly this year, so of the books I dropped I was particularly sad about Crosstalk by Connie Willis because I've always loved To Say Nothing of the Dog and wanted to try something else of her's that was lighter in tone than the others in that series. Crosstalk on paper sounded great (a screwball time travel comedy again) but in execution it was extremely rough (boomereque ~social media these days~ with 1940s characterizations that make no damn sense now). If someone has read it and lets me know it redeems itself I'll try again but as it stands, big oof

I mainly read mysteries/thrillers this year, so of the books I read to the finish line, Death in Fancy Dress and The Midnight Feast were pretty mediocre imo

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.24

Beer Birthdays

Peter LaFrance (1951)

Paul Davis (1967)

Michael Simmons (1969)

Jay Wilson (1972)

Five Favorite Birthdays

F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer (1896)

Jim Henson; puppeteer, entertainer (1936)

Alan P. Herbert; English writer, poet (1890)

Blind Lemon Jefferson; blues guitarist, singer (1893)

John Marshall; U.S. Supreme Court chief justice (1755)

Famous Birthdays

Barbara Allbut; pop singer (1940)

Tommy Armour; golfer (1894)

Elizabeth Blackadder; Scottish painter (1931)

John Brunner; English-Scottish author (1934)

John Carter; jazz woodwind player (1929)

Ham Fisher; cartoonist (1900)

F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer (1896)

Jack Gaughan; illustrator (1930)

"Mean" Joe Greene; Pittsburgh steelers DT (1946)

Phil Hartman; comedian (1948)

Herb Jeffries; singer (1913)

Katja Kassin; German porn star (1979)

John Kessel; author, poet, and playwright (1950)

Anastasia Knight; adult actress (1999)

Józef Krupiński; Polish poet & author (1930)

Sheila MacRae; actor, comedian (1924)

Franklin Clarence Mars; candymaker (1883)

Gerry Marsden; rock singer (1942)

Sabrine Maui; adult actress (1980)

Linda Eastman McCartney; photographer (1942)

Sheila MacRae; English-American actress, singer (1921)

John McKay; television sportscaster (1921)

John Moffatt; English actor & playwright (1922)

Stephen Mueller; painter (1947)

Eloise Mumford; actress (1986)

Yves Navarre; French author (1940)

Fats Navarro; jazz trumpeter (1923)

Bernard Nevill; English painter (1934)

Anthony Newley; actor (1931)

Njål Ølnes; Norwegian saxophonist & composer (1965)

C��sar Pedroso; Cuban pianist & songwriter (1946)

Ben Platt; actor, singer (1993)

Grigori Potemkin; Russian politician (1739)

Jean Servais; Belgian-French actor (1910)

Robert Lewis Taylor; author (1912)

Mel Taylor; drummer (1934)

Carson Van Osten; comics creator (1945)

Nia Vardalos; Canadian-American actress (1962)

Victoria Vetri; 1968 Playmate of the Year (1944)

Horace Walpole; English writer (1717)

Megan Ward; actress (1969)

Steve Whitmire; current voice of Kermit the Frog (1959)

Chick Willis; singer & guitarist (1934)

[wjameskessel]

[theaskew]

Willy Kessels (Belgian 1898-1974), Untitled Nude, 1943. 

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My League Favs pt. 2

[henk-heijmans]

The Borinage, Belgium, 1933 - by Willy Kessels (1898 - 1974), Belgian