#adelaide writers' week

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In footage of his virtual appearance at Adelaide Writers’ Week that was shared on the Israellycool blog, El-Kurd suggested he uses the loaded term to describe Israel because of the weight it carries in terms of shaping public opinion and admitted he is “less concerned with the accuracy of the word”:

I think what the word itself as a word — I’m not even talking about the legal definition of the word ‘apartheid’; I’m not talking about about the crime against humanity — but the negative word that is ‘apartheid’ and the negative connotation it carries in the psyche of the public. I think it’s capable, and it has been, engineering and establishing a cultural shift in the way people approach and talk about Palestine.

But I’m less concerned with the accuracy of the word. You know, me and my friends have these arguments about like, ‘it’s settler colonialism,’ ‘it’s apartheid,’ ‘it’s police brutality,’ ‘it’s ethnic cleansing, ‘it’s this, it’s that.’ I don’t care. As long as there is a conversation happening in which the villain is portrayed clearly, I think that’s good.”

The admission, which was made in front of a packed audience at the Australian arts festival, confirmed what many of us have long suspected: pro-Palestinian “activists” like El-Kurd do not care one iota about the truth when it comes to Israel — they are happy to spread demonstrable lies if doing so furthers their twisted anti-Israel agenda.

[nevermoorsource]

Here's the full recording of Jessica Townsend at Adelaide Writers' Week on 3/3/24! [Transcript]

[cataclysmic-writer]

A reintroduction to writeblr

Callista Van Allen is a professional speechwriter near Washington, D.C. Between her personal and professional life, she's been writing for more than a decade. Van Allen writes short stories and novels spanning various genres, and her short stories have been published by Adelaide Literary Magazine, HauntedMTL, and Bright Flash Literary Review.

Outside of writing, Van Allen practices martial arts and watches professional wrestling. Foxes are her good luck symbol, as one appeared the night of her first publication acceptance. Van Allen, age 24, can be found on Tumblr (@cataclysmic-writer) and Twitter (@CallistaVA).

Current Novels

Katastrophie (drafting) "You prayed for angels to punish me because the devil would be too nice."

An adult sports romance set in a professional wrestling company, Katastrophie explores themes of faith, family, and the price of ambition through the lens of an unreliable narrator.

Join the tag list or explore the WIP tag.

The Imperial Con (Ready to query) “I died first, didn’t I, Anastasia?” He asked. “I died first, and you’ll die last.”

A young-adult steampunk alt-history that combines the Russian Revolution and the European Theater of WWII. A hidden Princess Anastasia weighs the personal consequences of revealing her identity against the rising death toll of brutal dictatorships—domestic and foreign.

AKA: A family can be a hidden princess, a criminal mechanic, a disgraced Russian countess, a hotheaded American pilot, and a British code breaker.

Check out the WIP tag or ask to be added to the tag list.

Short Stories

I have 20+ short stories in various stages of development, not counting the three published ones mentioned in the intro. Genres include, but are not limited to, horror, urban fantasy, and period pieces.

My publication announcement taglist provides updates on story status. Ask to be added. You can also request tags by WIP title, or by WIP genre. Ex: You can request tags for any/all of my horror short stories.

In addition to the traditionally published pieces, I have some short works on Tumblr:

How to Survive a War The Brightest Star

Additional Blog Navigation

My advice Weekly Goal/Accountability for those interested in my plans each week.

Tagging convention

All of my WIPs are tagged as wip: (WIP name), ie wip: Katastrophie or wip: The Imperial Con. Individual characters are similarly tagged as OC: (Name), like OC: Kas or OC: Sophie.

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Newly Added Fics

Aug 10 - 16, 2024  

🎭 Angst  |  🦚 Angsty Fluff  |  🛸 AU  |  ☁ Fluff  |  ♥ NSFW  |  📚 Series  |  📷 Edit  |  📱 TextFic  |  Ⓜ Mature

Ethan x F!MC

A Night at the Opera - @coffeeheartaddict2 ♥

It is their first date night after getting engaged and they attend the Opera and the opera that is playing is the one that they saw when they first went to the Opera together. [Public Places]

I Thee Wed... - @liaromancewriter ☁

Ethan and Cassie are ready to say, ‘I do,’ but they forget one important step. [Wedding]

The Next Chapter - @liaromancewriter 🦚

Ethan looks back at the man he was through the lens of his apartment. [Ethan POV]

Multiple Pairings

Mono~poly - @jerzwriter 📚

[extended: wip] What happens when something that was supposed to be just fun turns into something real? Ethan Ramsey x MC, Tobias Carrick x MC

CH 5: Beautiful Days

Rafael x F!MC

Going To Visit Daddy - @rafasgirl23415 📸

Casey takes Isabelle to visit Raf’s grave like she promised.

Home Sweet Home - @rafasgirl23415 📸

After a few days in hospital recovering, Casey is discharged and finally brings Isabelle home.

My Precious Miracle - @rafasgirl23415 📸

Casey struggles to comprehend how close she came to losing Isabelle.

Please Keep Our Girl Safe - @rafasgirl23415 📸

Casey can’t sleep due to flashbacks from the nightmare she had during the last weeks of her pregnancy.

Sienna x M!OC

Ready To Go Home - @rafasgirl23415 📸

Sienna is finally discharged five days after her caesarean & takes Ava & Rafa home to meet their big sister.

Tobias x F!MC

A Favor - @tveitertotwrites 📱

,When Adelaide finds out Landry moved next door to her and they share a wall, she has an idea.

Searching - @alj4890 🎭

Rewriting Book 1's Chapter Four but with Tobias as the attending instead of Ethan. [1.4]

To Love & Protect - @jerzwriter ☁

The chemical attack was over six months ago, and Casey is trying to adjust to her new normal with her new boyfriend at her side.

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SUBMIT OPEN HEART FICS & WRITERS HERE

[mermaidsirennikita]

Have you read HR with the hero or heroine wearing glasses?

Yeah for sure!

Never Seduce a Duke by Vivienne Lorret--I think this one actually has a little poem about how the duke wears glasses lol.

Married by Morning by Lisa Kleypas--Catherine Marks wears glasses and Leo naturally wants to fuck her constantly. In Tempt Me at Twilight there's a moment when he fantasizes about her spread out naked and wearing her glasses after he's railed her. Then of course it goes "he decided to bother her" because it's them.

Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas--Sara wears glasses, and Derek Craven steals them because he's a freak like that.

(Also.... I need people to get reading comprehension because while I don't expect everyone to love this book, I recently brought this moment of as an example of how Derek is clearly stuck on Sara and doesn't understand the feeling and takes the glasses because he's obsessed and wants something of hers... And someone goes "I just thought he did that to be a tool". Jesus Christ people. Read between the lines, I fucking beg. Again, you don't have to like him, but for the sake of writers please try to understand subtlety and nuance lol.)

Lord of Darkness by Elizabeth Hoyt. Godric wears glasses, and also wears a sleeping outfit that sounds like he's Ebeneezer Scrooge.

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean. Pippa wears glasses and is a general scientist type. I think Adelaide may wear glasses at points in Heartbreaker as well?

The Truth About Cads and Dukes by Elisa Braden. I'm not 10000% certain, but I think Jane wears glasses. Either way, dude, Harrison is ready to bend her over a table at any given moment.

A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare. I can't remember if Minerva wears glasses or is just a massive nerd, but I think she does wear them.

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian. I think Kit wears glasses.

[brookston]

Holidays 11.6

Holidays

All the Good Things Wrapped Up in One Day

Arbor Day (Republic of Congo, Samoa)

Bank Workers’ Day (Argentina)

Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, Tajikistan)

Electric Razor Day

Fala Day

Fill Our Staplers Day

Finnish Swedish Heritage Day

Flag Day (Chad, Finland)

Global Refill Day

Green March Day (Morocco, Western Sahara)

Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)

Hydrogen Bomb First Test Day

International Day For Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War & Armed Conflict (UN)

International End Gossip Day

International Tracksuit Day

Legalization Day (Cannabis)

Malaria Day in the Americas

Marching Band Day

Marijuana Recreational Legalization Day (Colorado, Washington)

Marooned Without a Compass Day

Measure Up Day

National Basketball Day (a.k.a. Play Basketball Day)

National I Read Canadian Day (Canada)

National Ladies Learning Code Day (Canada)

National Michele Day

National Report Home Health Care Fraud Day

National Stacey Abrams Day

National Team Manager Day

Obama Day (Kenya)

Pine Nut Day (French Republic)

Recreational Cannabis Legalization Day (Colorado)

Saxophone Day

Scotchtoberfest (The Simpsons)

Skirret Day (French Republic)

Stranger Things Day

Tazaungdaing (Myanmar)

United Americas Day

World Cee-C Day (Nigeria)

World Lets Stop Shouting Awareness Day

World Materials Day

World Paper Free Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Do Tater Tots Ever Grow Up? Day

Global Donut Day

National Nachos Day (a.k.a. I Love Nachos Day)

Peanut Butter Lovers Day

Independence & Related Days

Constitution Day (Tajikistan)

Cycoldia (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Day of the First Shout For Independence (El Salvador)

Mexico (Independence Declared; 1813)

Polish Republic (Declared; 1918)

1st Wednesday in November

Eat Smart Day [1st Wednesday]

Hump Day [Every Wednesday]

International Pathology Day [1st Wednesday]

International Stress Awareness Day [1st Wednesday]

Men’s World Day [1st Wednesday]

National Advent Calendar Day [1st Wednesday]

National Eating Healthy Day [1st Wednesday]

National Holiday Calendar Day [1st Wednesday]

National Stress Awareness Day (UK) [1st Wednesday]

Take Our Kids to Work Day (Canada) [1st Wednesday]

Wacky Wednesday [Every Wednesday]

Website Wednesday [Every Wednesday]

Wheat Beer Wednesday [1st Wednesday of Each Month]

Wilderness Wednesday [1st Wednesday of Each Month]

Wobbly Wednesday [1st Wednesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning November 6 (1st Full Week of November)

None Known

Festivals Beginning November 6, 2024

Dublin Book Festival (Dublin, Ireland) [thru 11.10]

Hawai'i Food & Wine Festival (Oahu, Hawaii) [thru 11.10]

Jazz Fest Sarajevo (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) [thru 11.9]

Stockholm International Film Festival (Stockholm, Sweden) [thru 11.17]

Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival (Napa Valley, California) [thru 11.8]

Feast Days

Adelaide of Italy (Christian; Saint)

Albert Camus (Writerism)

Alois Senefelder (Artology)

Barlaam of Khutyn (Christian; Saint)

Birth of the Bab (Baha'i) [1 Muharram]

Birth of Tiamat (Ancient Egyptian mother of gods, goddess of primeval chaos)

Burroughs Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Cosimo de Medici the Elder (Positivist; Saint)

Dabucuri uiga, (Initiation Rites of the Young Men; to Jurupari, South American Guarani/Tupi God)

Demetrian (Christian; Saint)

Dodo Grieving Day (Pastafarian)

Feast of All Saints of Ireland (Ireland)

Festival of Total Submission

Herne’s Day II: Predator (Pagan)

Illtud (a.k.a. Illtyd or Iltntus; Christian; Saint)

Illitud’s Bell (Celtic Book of Days)

Learn a New Swear Word Day (Pastafarian)

Leonard of Noblac (Christian; Saint) [Coopers] *

Los Posadas (Latin America) [until 12.24]

Lucy Jones (Muppetism)

Melaine of Rennes (Christian; Saint)

Misa de Gallo begins (Rooster’s Mass; Philippines) [until 12.24]

Stephanie Vozzo (Artology)

Tiamat the Dragon Mother Day (Everyday Wicca)

Winds of Change Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Winnoc (Christian; Saint)

Wish-Granting Championships (Fairies; Shamanism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [33 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s National Day to Lose Money on Horses.)

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [26 of 30]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [51 of 60]

Premieres

All Along the Watchtower, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1967)

And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie (Mystery Novel; 1939) [29]

Behind Blue Eyes, by The Who (Song; 1971)

The Boondocks (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Chew Chew Baby or Stick to Your Gums (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 175; 1962)

A Cowboy Needs a Horse (Disney Cartoon; 1956)

Cry Freedom (Film; 1987)

Elizabeth (Film; 1998)

The Flea Circus (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1954)

Forget-Me-Net, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S2, Eps. 31 & 32; 1965)

Foxtrot, by Genesis (Album; 1972)

Go Down Mooses or The Fall Guy (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 70; 1960)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Film; 2005) [#4]

Head (Film; 1968)

Hiding Out (Film; 1987)

Hold What You’ve Got, by Joe Tex (Song; 1964)

Ickle Meets Pickle (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

Jersey Boys (Broadway Musical; 2005)

John Wesley Harding, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1967)

Justify My Love, by Madonna (Album; 1990)

Kitty Caddy (Phantasies Cartoon; 1947)

Less Than Zero (Film; 1987)

Little Good Beep (WB LT Cartoon; 2000)

The Little Match Girl (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1937)

Little Red Walking Hood (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Made in Heaven, by Queen (Album; 1995)

Meet the Press (TV Series; 1947)

The Missing Mountain or Peek-a-Boo Peak (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 69; 1960)

The Moon Fell in the River, by Guy Lombardo (Song; 1940)

Paper Doll, by The Mills Brothers (Song; 1943)

Passenger 57 (Film; 1992)

Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., by The Monks (Album; 1967)

Precious (Film; 2009)

Rain of Terror or The Desperate Showers (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 176; 1962)

The Robot Spy (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #8; 1964)

Secrets of Life (Short Documentary Film; 1956)

Ski-Napper (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1964)

Sky Trooper (Disney Cartoon; 1942)

Spectre (UK Film; 2015) [James Bond #24]

Spotlight (Film; 2015)

Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Symphony; 1936)

Time Bandits (Film; 1981)

24 (TV Series; 2001)

The Universe in a Nutshell, by Stephen Hawking (Book; 2001)

The Unpopular Mechanic (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, by P.D. James (Novel; 1972)

When We Were Very Young, by A.A.Milne (Children’s Book; 1924)

Wintertime Dreams, recorded by Woody Herman (Song; 1936)

Woody’s Kook-Out (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1961)

Your Friend the Rat (Pixar Cartoon; 2007)

The Zoo (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1933)

Today’s Name Days

Christina, Leonhard, Rudolf (Austria)

Leonard, Melanija, Sever, Vedran (Croatia)

Liběna (Czech Republic)

Leonhardus (Denmark)

Aadi, Aado, Aadu, Ado, Adolf (Estonia)

Mimosa (Finland)

Bertille, Léonard (France)

Christine, Leonhard, Nina (Germany)

Leonardo (Greece)

Lénárd (Hungary)

Leonardo (Italy)

Leo, Leonards, Leonhards, Leons, Linards (Latvia)

Ašmantas, Leonardas, Vygaudė (Lithuania)

Lennart, Leonard (Norway)

Feliks, Leonard, Trzebowit, Ziemowit (Poland)

Pavel (Romania)

Renáta (Slovakia)

Alejandro, Leonardo, Severo (Spain)

Adolf, Gustav (Sweden)

Mac, Mack, Mackenzie, Makenzie, Mckenzie (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 311 of 2024; 55 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of Week 45 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 11 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 6 (Jia-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 5 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 4 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 11 Wood; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 24 October 2024

Moon: 24%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 3 Frederic (12th Month) [Guicciardini / Philippe de Comines]

Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 45 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of November

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 14 of 30)

[amtrak12]

Alrighty, let's go with "🍦 ⇢ name three good things about a character you hate" then, and also "🕯️ ⇢ on a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why is that?" because that was a really interesting ask! And, to round it out: 🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

YESSSSS these are good ones! Thank you so much!!

(from the Writers Truth & Dare Ask Game)

I have pictures for the good things about a character I hate, so I'm going to save the Show & Tell for the end. I don't want my other answers to get lost in the crowd :P

▪ On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? Why is that?

I LOVE EDITING!!! These days at least. I never really hated it in the past... but I also rarely got far enough in the writing process to reach the editing stage 😬

Because see, I used to try and combine the drafting and editing processes into one. It's taken me FAR TOO LONG to finally grasp that writing is done through layers. You can't write third draft content and quality the first time around. You just can't! And understanding the layers and having a full year (plus) under my belt of witnessing the editing process in motion has really made me fall in love with it.

And on the flip side, it's also made me love drafting more! Or at the very least made it less stressful for me because I don't have to worry about missing information or wording or capturing the emotions accurately. I can just dump the information from my brain and spend the next two weeks cleaning it up. It's great! 10/10 big fan of editing! 😄

▪ Share a headcanon for one of your favorite ships or pairings

Hmmmm......... I'm trying desperately to think of headcanons for my past ships that Tumblr cares about, but it's only Lucifer in my head right now.

My Warehouse 13 opinions and feelings haven't changed in the last decade which means my headcanons haven't either. This is a problem if I was ever going to go back and write canon fix-its like I did with Doctor Who because I still don't know how to solve the puzzle of Helena. What do we do with her after the S3 finale? What's the long-term plan for her? I can see Regent for her, like many have suggested, but that's never been my favorite option. A field agent again? Maybe, but can she ever really heal still working for the warehouse in that capacity? I'm not sure. But we can't remove her from the warehouse altogether (at least if you're a Bering and Wells shipper) because Myka's not leaving ever. She's going to take over as head agent one day when Artie (very reluctantly but also a little proudly) becomes the first agent -- possibly ever! -- to retire from the warehouse alive.

So then what do we do with Helena????

I still don't have an answer to that. The best one I have is the same one I thought of ten years ago which is to make HG the resident inventor eccentric who only goes out into the field when she's absolutely needed. Think Claudia in S1, except staying in is by choice and not mandated by Artie for being too young and inexperienced.

But I also really like HG mentoring kids. As much as Instinct otherwise sucks, I did really, really love her with Adelaide so idk what future fits her best ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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AND NOW FOR THE SHOW AND TELL!!!!!! Which is 100% about the TV show Lucifer and I won't apologize for that because no other show has a character I hate more.

▪ Three Good Things about Cain from Lucifer (TV) Despite Me Hating His Guts

First of all, who is Cain from Lucifer (TV)?

IT'S THIS BITCH RIGHT HERE!!! And no I don't hate his guts because he's the villain of S3. I HATE HIM BECAUSE HE'S BORING AS THE VILLAIN! Like yeah yeah yeah, the guy invented murder. BUT HIS BIGGEST CRIME IS BEING BORING!!!!

He also canonically dated (and was even engaged to) Chloe for all of four episodes total (maybe?) and it was PURE TORTUROUS HELL, but I attribute that crime to the writers more than Cain. IDEK what the fuck they were trying to do with that storyline but I want to fight them in a Denny's parking lot over it. With knives.

And now that we've established why I hate him so much, here's some good things about Cain.

1. He has a rock collection

I am not being snarky in the slightest when I say that I absolutely ADORE that he canonically has a giant ass rock collection. And when I say giant ass rock collection, I do not mean that piddly sample you can see in the screencap above. I mean, every flat surface in his house is covered in rocks. You walk into his kitchen? His counters are probably rocks. They're everywhere! But they're also nicely displayed??? He has stands for some of them to better show them off! He probably has a whole system surrounding which rocks get grouped together. And given how much he moves around since he's a cursed immortal being, he has to pack all of these fucking rocks up, move to the new place, and then re-set them all up again. THAT'S HYSTERICAL TO ME! What a fucking fixation to give him! They should've fully committed and leaned into this bit instead of just barely slipping it into this one episode.

Also 1000% fact, the rock he used to kill his brother is in that collection somewhere. I don't know which one it is or where he keeps it. But it is DEFINITELY there!

Anyway Cain's rock collection: 12/10 A++ no criticism from me XD

2. This Caincore tumblr post

I just reblogged it yesterday too. LOOK! Does it have anything to do with the tv show Lucifer? Technically, no. Is it hilarious though? Absolutely yes! Also it says Cain's name so that makes it the second best thing about Cain 😜 😂

And finally....

3. He has the hottest mother in the history of humanity

EVE!!!!!!! 😍 My beloved!! 😍 Definitely hands down one of the best things I can say about Cain? HIS MOTHER IS GORGEOUS!! *swoons*

Her son can't do anything right, but Eve? Oh Eve can do no wrong 💜💜💜 (Yes, that includes dating Lucifer and then accidentally-definitely-on-purpose starting a demon mutiny when he dumps her. LET MY GIRL HAVE FEELINGS OKAY! Geez!)

And that's all three good things I can say about Cain in the TV show Lucifer. The only other thing I could possibly say is he's dead, but I'm not sure that's in the spirit of the question LOL

[arwainian]

The F@tT Fic Marathon: 141-160

Despite having two essays due next week, and generally much more going on my life right now than I did last week, I'm starting to get into a rhythm of roughly 10 fics read per day! several marked-unfinished fics in this batch, notably including like THREE collections of snippets from authors that have plenty of completed fics elsewhere in the tag. I'd honestly recommend skimming through those collections to see if there's anything of interest to you, as there are some nice bits in there, but otherwise here are the stand outs:

my knives and my heart up my sleeves by Yellow - this hit a good sweet spot of pre-canon samsam being in love and messy and also casually terrifying via godly power. I enjoyed it, so check it out!

it's a bit funny to me that this project keeps getting me to share and recommend smutty/explicit fic but- well. that's how it is sometimes

as the hours draw down by shipyrds - hella focused with both hella/adaire and hella/adelaide

where we last left off by placentalmammal (biglizard) - fascinated by the background implied by this one, amusing and hot

walk all over you by mercutioes - btw shout out to mercutioes to writing 20% of the fics from this set! most of it is smutty so this is an appropriate rec to celebrate and shout out a specific author

(if you've been paying attention to reocurring authors we've got a pretty healthy set of regular fatt writers by the latter half of 2017, and I think I've recommended at least one thing from most of them by now)

words read: 58,302 (442,726 total)

works remaining: 1,745

next reading list:

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 12.16

Holidays

Abscondment Day (South Africa)

APS Martyrs Day (Pakistan)

Barbie and Barney Backlash Day

Battle of the Bulge Day

Beethoven Day

Boston Tea Party Day

Day of Reconciliation (f.k.a. Day of the Vow; South African Afrikaners)

Flag Day (Nepal)

Jane Austen Day

Los Posadas begins (a.k.a. Posadas Navidenas; Mexico, Latin America)

Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society Day

Mel Gibson Day (South Carolina)

Ministry of Emergency Situations Workers’ Day (Azerbaijam)

National Day (Bahrain)

National Nullification Day

National Sports Day (Thailand)

Nirbhaya Anniversary Day (India)

One Day At A Time Day

O Sapientia (Anglicanism)

Peter Rabbit Day

Pokemon Incident Day

Posadas Navidenas begins (Mexico)

Research Day (Iran)

Reconciliation Day (South Africa)

Simbang Gabi begins (Philippines)

Stupid Toy Day

Three-Tier System Day

Victory Day (a.k.a. Bijoy Dibosh; Bangladesh)

Victory Day (a.k.a. Vijay Diwas; India)

Wan Kila Haeng Chat (National Sports Day; Thailand)

World Digital Marketing Day

Yuletide Lad #5 arrives (Pottaskefill or Pot-Scraper; Iceland)

Zionism Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat What You Want Day [also 5.11]

National Chocolate Covered Anything Day

National Green Chili Day

Pinot Meunier Day

St. Klippenstein Day (Allagash) [Varies]

Independence & Related Days

Bahrain (from UK, 1971; cerebration day only)

Constitution Day (Bangladesh)

Kazakhstan (from USSR, 1991)

Secundomia (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Transvaal (South African Republic declared; 1856)

3rd Monday in December

Christmas Lunch Gift Exchange Day [3rd Monday]

Design Wall Monday [3rd Monday]

Free Shipping Day [3rd Monday] (Also 12.14)

Manic Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meatball Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meditation Monday [Every Monday]

Monday Musings [Every Monday]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

Weekly Holidays beginning December 16 (3rd Full Week of December)

None Known

Festivals Beginning December 16, 2024

Posadas (Mexico) [until 12.24]

Feast Days

Ado, Archbishop of Vienne (Christian; Saint)

Adelaide of Italy (Christian; Saint)

Alice, Empress of Germany (Christian; Saint)

Antonio de La Gándara (Artology)

Arthur C. Clarke (Writerism)

Beethoven Day (Pastafarian)

Carista (Day of Peace in the Family; Pagan)

Crispin Glover Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Day of Athena, Kista, Matt, Minerva, the Shekinah and Sophia (Pagan)

Edward Ruscha (Artology)

Eusebius of Vercelli (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Sapientia (Ancient Roman personification of wisdom & knowledge)

Festival of the Little Heat (Celebrating Bes, Ancient Egyptian Protector of the Home)

Haggai (Christian; Saint)

Hans Bol (Artology)

Jane Austen (Writerism)

Listen Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Marie Hall Ets (Artology)

Martin the Turkey (Muppetism)

Newton (Positivist; Saint)

Nicolas Sidjakov (Artology)

Noël Coward (Writerism)

Philip K. Dick Day (Writerism; Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Posadas (Mexico; Everyday Wicca) [until 12.24]

Quentin Blake (Artology)

Ralph Adams Cram, Richard Upjohn and John La Farge (Episcopal Church USA)

Remedios Varo (Artology)

Sophia (a.k.a. Sapinetia; Celtic Goddess of Wisdom)

Soyal (Hopi Peoples)

Steve Mattsson (Artology)

Teinma Laegda (Decoding by Means of Verse; Celtic Book of Days)

Wassily Kandinsky (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [68 of 71]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [31 of 32]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Avatar: The Way of Water (Film; 2022)

Battle of the Bulge (Film; 1965)

Bottoms Up, by Brantley Gilbert (Song; 2013)

Candleshoe (Film; 1977)

Chiller Dillers (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1968)

Christmas Comes to Pac-Land (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1982)

Colour Blind, by Catherine Cookson (Novel; 1953)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Film; 1988)

Doctor Jazz, recorded by Jelly Roll Morton (Song; 1926)

Doomsday, featuring Gandy Goose (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)

Dumb and Dumber (Film; 1994)

Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas (WB Animated TV Special; 2014)

The Film Fan (WB LT Cartoon; 1939)

Hello, Dolly! (Film; 1969)

Hey Joe, by Jimi Hendrix (Song; 1966)

Hoodwinked (Animated Film; 2005)

Immortal Beloved (Film; 1994)

Joyeux Noel (Film; 2005)

La La Land (Film; 2016)

Love Story (Film; 1970)

Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mama (Animated Film; 1978)

The Magicians (TV Series; 2015)

A Man for All Hunting Seasons (George of the Jungle Cartoon; 1967) [#15]

The Merry Dwarfs (Disney Cartoon; 1929)

Mickey’s Christmas Carol (Disney Cartoon; 1983)

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Film; 2011)

The Muscle (Super Chicken Cartoon; 1967) [#15]

The OA (TV Series; 2016)

A Pair of Greenbacks (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1969)

Papillon (Film; 1973)

Pink Press (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Pink U.F.O. (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Playtime (Jacques Tati French Film; 1967)

The Producers (Musical Film; 2005)

The Quest, by Nelson DeMille (Novel; 1975)

Rabbit of Seville (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)

Rain Man (Film; 1988)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Film; 2016)

Saturday Night Fever (Film; 1977)

Screwball Football (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

The Seven Crystal Balls, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1948) [Tintin #13]

Silkwood (Film; 1983)

Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)

The Small One (Disney Cartoon; 1978)

Snarf: Butterfly Follies (WB ThunderCats Cartoon; 2011)

Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, by César Franck (Sonata; 1886)

Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, “The Wagner Symphony,” by Anton Bruckner (Symphony; 1877)

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "New World Symphony," by Antonín Dvořák (Symphony; 1893)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Children’s Book; 1901)

These Boots Are Made for Walking’, by Nancy Sinatra (Song; 1965)

To Be or Not to Be (Film; 1983)

Toy Tinkers (Disney Cartoon; 1949)

200 Motels, by Frank Zappa (Music Film; 1971)

Unplugged, by Nirvana, airs on MTV (TV Concert; 1993)

The Wacky Weed (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1946)

Today’s Name Days

Adelheid, Elke, Heidi (Austria)

Adela, Hagaj, Sebastijan (Croatia)

Albína (Czech Republic)

Lazarus (Denmark)

Aade, Aale, Adeele, Adelheid, Aliide, Ethel, Haide, Liide, Teele (Estonia)

Aada, Adele, Auli, Aulikki (Finland)

Alice (France)

Adelheid, Elke, Heidi (Germany)

Modestos, Theofano (Greece)

Aletta, Etelka (Hungary)

Albina (Italy)

Alvīne (Latvia)

Albina, Alina, Audronė, Vygaudas (Lithuania)

Oddbjørg, Oddbjørn (Norway)

Adelajda, Ado, Albina, Alina, Ananiasz, Bean, Zdzisława (Poland)

Agheu (Romania)

Albína (Slovakia)

Adela, Adelaida (Spain)

Assar (Sweden)

Addie, Addy, Adela, Adelaide, Adele, Adeline, Adella, Adelle, Alena, Alina, Aline, Della (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 351 of 2024; 15 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of Week 51 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 23 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Bing-Zi), Day 16 (Jia-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 15 Kislev 5785

Islamic: 14 Jumada II 1446

J Cal: 21 Black; Sevenday [21 of 30]

Julian: 3 December 2024

Moon: 97%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 15 Bichat (13th Month) [Scheele / Bergmann]

Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 85 of 90)

Week: 3rd Full Week of December

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 25 of 30)

[dan0069]

[jkjmkkchljc]

Toshiro Blaceh

Dance. 🩰

[aeirua]

Biography

In 2015 I was awarded first place in the prose section for the Young Writers Award held by SAETA. I wrote a piece called "My Old Friend" which you can read here.

I graduated from St Aloysius College in 2020 with an interest in fashion, photography, writing and art. I also excelled in Stage 1 and 2 French, and even got to participate in an exchange program in 2018 where I spent 7 weeks in Paris!

In 2022-2023 I began studying a Diploma of Graphic Design at Torrens University, however I only completed two semesters due to a change of interest in career pathways. I decided I wanted to pursue writing instead of digital design, which leads me to the Bachelor of Creative Industries at UniSA.

Since graduating high school I have been working all over the 'hospo' industry in Adelaide, with my humble beginnings working the drive-through at McDonald's West Terrace, watching families grow at Local Crowd (a quaint suburban cafe just outside of the city), curating skincare routines for my friends as a Summer host at MECCA, slinging cocktails at 1000 Island (a tiki-cocktail bar), to now pouring wines from all over the world at Alt. (a wine bar in Hyde Park).

[motherartistsmakingart]

Hey MAMArtist* KELLY CERVANTES!

What are the ages of your child(ren), and where do you live?

Jackson, 11 + Adelaide, would be 8yo but passed away in 2019 days before her fourth birthday + Anessa, 4. We live in Maplewood, NJ.

How do you describe your art practice?

I am an writer and public speaker. I write shorter blog pieces and have published a book. I also speak at events and for various companies across the country.

Who is your artistic crush?

Author, Christie Tate (Group and BFF). She is a brilliant writer who tells it exactly as it is - I've never read such honest and real writing before finding her books. She also happens to be an incredibly generous person who helped me along the way without ever having met me. Bonus - she is also a mom!

What is a superpower Mother+Artists have?

Well, you can always rely on a mother to sh*t done, and that applies to her work as an artist as well. But perhaps even more powerful is our empathy. Never underestimate a mother+artist's ability to love and understand another human's trial and then turn that into relatable art for all to experience and learn from.

You have something exciting coming up! PLEASE SAY MORE ABOUT IT! I just published my first book, Normal Broken: The Grief Companion For When It's Time To Heal But You're Not Sure You Want To, and it is a USA Today bestseller! Following the death of my daughter Adelaide from a neurodegenerative disease just days before her fourth birthday, I felt irrevocably shattered by the loss. I was broken. Through connecting with others and myself through writing I learned that not only is grief not linear, but we all grieve differently. It took me years to want to heal, which was the impetus for writing Normal Broken, because every other grief book I picked up assumed I wanted to heal and I didn't. I thought grief meant letting go of my daughter, or moving on without her. What I would eventually learn is that healing actually meant remembering and moving forward with her. That I would never be the person I was again before she died and that's OK. I would always be broken, but that I could learn to be Normal Broken.

How did motherhood directly, indirectly, oppositionally or integrally influence this project? Having lost my daughter (and a pregnancy at 21 weeks), this book is integrally tied to being a mother. However, it was important to me to write a book that was accessible to people grieving all kinds of loss: be it a physical person, parent, spouse, friend - or grieving a dream, job, or person who is very much alive but no longer in our lives. Grief is grief is grief. Comparing our trials and losses serves no one. So yes, I lost my child and this book wouldn't exist without my daughter - without me being a mother - but that doesn't make my loss greater or less than anyone else's. 

What are you currently reading or listening to that is giving you thoughts, feelings and reactions?

I am currently reading Meghan Riordan Jarvis' End of The Hour, which is a stunningly beautiful memoir, and I am listening to Grief is Love by Marisa Renee Lee, which is exposing me to the ways culture and race can impact the way we grieve. So... lots of grief books, but mostly memoirs because I love learning as much as I can about the human experience.

Any message for Mother+Artists reading this?

I read something recently that spoke to how women often think that if they are able to accomplish something then it must have been easy. GIVE YOURSELF CREDIT FOR ALL YOU DO! Surviving as an artist is not easy, motherhood certainly isn't easy - combine the two of them and we should all be celebrating every achievement, no matter the perceived size, along the way. Take a dance break, pop the bubbly, announce it on social media, whatever you need to do to acknowledge and celebrate you! Because whatever it is you've done, it definitely wasn't easy.

BEST LINKS to find you and your work!

www.kellycervantes.com IG and Facebook: @kellygc411 Normal Broken is available everywhere books are sold! 

Photo credits: Top Row: Author photo by Justin Patterson Bottom Row: Kelly & Adelaide, photo by Jennifer Loomis; Book cover, Benbella Publishing

*Each month The MAMAs features a Mother+Artist and their work in the world. Thank you Kelly!

[brookston]

Holidays 12.16

Holidays

Abscondment Day (South Africa)

APS Martyrs Day (Pakistan)

Barbie and Barney Backlash Day

Battle of the Bulge Day

Beethoven Day

Boston Tea Party Day

Day of Reconciliation (f.k.a. Day of the Vow; South African Afrikaners)

Flag Day (Nepal)

Jane Austen Day

Los Posadas begins (a.k.a. Posadas Navidenas; Mexico, Latin America)

Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society Day

Mel Gibson Day (South Carolina)

Ministry of Emergency Situations Workers’ Day (Azerbaijam)

National Day (Bahrain)

National Nullification Day

National Sports Day (Thailand)

Nirbhaya Anniversary Day (India)

One Day At A Time Day

O Sapientia (Anglicanism)

Peter Rabbit Day

Pokemon Incident Day

Posadas Navidenas begins (Mexico)

Research Day (Iran)

Reconciliation Day (South Africa)

Simbang Gabi begins (Philippines)

Stupid Toy Day

Three-Tier System Day

Victory Day (a.k.a. Bijoy Dibosh; Bangladesh)

Victory Day (a.k.a. Vijay Diwas; India)

Wan Kila Haeng Chat (National Sports Day; Thailand)

World Digital Marketing Day

Yuletide Lad #5 arrives (Pottaskefill or Pot-Scraper; Iceland)

Zionism Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat What You Want Day [also 5.11]

National Chocolate Covered Anything Day

National Green Chili Day

Pinot Meunier Day

St. Klippenstein Day (Allagash) [Varies]

Independence & Related Days

Bahrain (from UK, 1971; cerebration day only)

Constitution Day (Bangladesh)

Kazakhstan (from USSR, 1991)

Secundomia (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Transvaal (South African Republic declared; 1856)

3rd Monday in December

Christmas Lunch Gift Exchange Day [3rd Monday]

Design Wall Monday [3rd Monday]

Free Shipping Day [3rd Monday] (Also 12.14)

Manic Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meatball Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meditation Monday [Every Monday]

Monday Musings [Every Monday]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

Weekly Holidays beginning December 16 (3rd Full Week of December)

None Known

Festivals Beginning December 16, 2024

Posadas (Mexico) [until 12.24]

Feast Days

Ado, Archbishop of Vienne (Christian; Saint)

Adelaide of Italy (Christian; Saint)

Alice, Empress of Germany (Christian; Saint)

Antonio de La Gándara (Artology)

Arthur C. Clarke (Writerism)

Beethoven Day (Pastafarian)

Carista (Day of Peace in the Family; Pagan)

Crispin Glover Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Day of Athena, Kista, Matt, Minerva, the Shekinah and Sophia (Pagan)

Edward Ruscha (Artology)

Eusebius of Vercelli (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Sapientia (Ancient Roman personification of wisdom & knowledge)

Festival of the Little Heat (Celebrating Bes, Ancient Egyptian Protector of the Home)

Haggai (Christian; Saint)

Hans Bol (Artology)

Jane Austen (Writerism)

Listen Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Marie Hall Ets (Artology)

Martin the Turkey (Muppetism)

Newton (Positivist; Saint)

Nicolas Sidjakov (Artology)

Noël Coward (Writerism)

Philip K. Dick Day (Writerism; Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Posadas (Mexico; Everyday Wicca) [until 12.24]

Quentin Blake (Artology)

Ralph Adams Cram, Richard Upjohn and John La Farge (Episcopal Church USA)

Remedios Varo (Artology)

Sophia (a.k.a. Sapinetia; Celtic Goddess of Wisdom)

Soyal (Hopi Peoples)

Steve Mattsson (Artology)

Teinma Laegda (Decoding by Means of Verse; Celtic Book of Days)

Wassily Kandinsky (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [68 of 71]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [31 of 32]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Avatar: The Way of Water (Film; 2022)

Battle of the Bulge (Film; 1965)

Bottoms Up, by Brantley Gilbert (Song; 2013)

Candleshoe (Film; 1977)

Chiller Dillers (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1968)

Christmas Comes to Pac-Land (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1982)

Colour Blind, by Catherine Cookson (Novel; 1953)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Film; 1988)

Doctor Jazz, recorded by Jelly Roll Morton (Song; 1926)

Doomsday, featuring Gandy Goose (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)

Dumb and Dumber (Film; 1994)

Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas (WB Animated TV Special; 2014)

The Film Fan (WB LT Cartoon; 1939)

Hello, Dolly! (Film; 1969)

Hey Joe, by Jimi Hendrix (Song; 1966)

Hoodwinked (Animated Film; 2005)

Immortal Beloved (Film; 1994)

Joyeux Noel (Film; 2005)

La La Land (Film; 2016)

Love Story (Film; 1970)

Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mama (Animated Film; 1978)

The Magicians (TV Series; 2015)

A Man for All Hunting Seasons (George of the Jungle Cartoon; 1967) [#15]

The Merry Dwarfs (Disney Cartoon; 1929)

Mickey’s Christmas Carol (Disney Cartoon; 1983)

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Film; 2011)

The Muscle (Super Chicken Cartoon; 1967) [#15]

The OA (TV Series; 2016)

A Pair of Greenbacks (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1969)

Papillon (Film; 1973)

Pink Press (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Pink U.F.O. (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Playtime (Jacques Tati French Film; 1967)

The Producers (Musical Film; 2005)

The Quest, by Nelson DeMille (Novel; 1975)

Rabbit of Seville (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)

Rain Man (Film; 1988)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Film; 2016)

Saturday Night Fever (Film; 1977)

Screwball Football (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

The Seven Crystal Balls, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1948) [Tintin #13]

Silkwood (Film; 1983)

Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)

The Small One (Disney Cartoon; 1978)

Snarf: Butterfly Follies (WB ThunderCats Cartoon; 2011)

Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, by César Franck (Sonata; 1886)

Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, “The Wagner Symphony,” by Anton Bruckner (Symphony; 1877)

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "New World Symphony," by Antonín Dvořák (Symphony; 1893)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Children’s Book; 1901)

These Boots Are Made for Walking’, by Nancy Sinatra (Song; 1965)

To Be or Not to Be (Film; 1983)

Toy Tinkers (Disney Cartoon; 1949)

200 Motels, by Frank Zappa (Music Film; 1971)

Unplugged, by Nirvana, airs on MTV (TV Concert; 1993)

The Wacky Weed (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1946)

Today’s Name Days

Adelheid, Elke, Heidi (Austria)

Adela, Hagaj, Sebastijan (Croatia)

Albína (Czech Republic)

Lazarus (Denmark)

Aade, Aale, Adeele, Adelheid, Aliide, Ethel, Haide, Liide, Teele (Estonia)

Aada, Adele, Auli, Aulikki (Finland)

Alice (France)

Adelheid, Elke, Heidi (Germany)

Modestos, Theofano (Greece)

Aletta, Etelka (Hungary)

Albina (Italy)

Alvīne (Latvia)

Albina, Alina, Audronė, Vygaudas (Lithuania)

Oddbjørg, Oddbjørn (Norway)

Adelajda, Ado, Albina, Alina, Ananiasz, Bean, Zdzisława (Poland)

Agheu (Romania)

Albína (Slovakia)

Adela, Adelaida (Spain)

Assar (Sweden)

Addie, Addy, Adela, Adelaide, Adele, Adeline, Adella, Adelle, Alena, Alina, Aline, Della (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 351 of 2024; 15 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of Week 51 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 23 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Bing-Zi), Day 16 (Jia-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 15 Kislev 5785

Islamic: 14 Jumada II 1446

J Cal: 21 Black; Sevenday [21 of 30]

Julian: 3 December 2024

Moon: 97%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 15 Bichat (13th Month) [Scheele / Bergmann]

Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 85 of 90)

Week: 3rd Full Week of December

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 25 of 30)

[neptunehenriksen]

Happy 30th Birthday August!! It's my favourite mixed-race bisexual's birthday today!

Born on 31 August 1993, a week late, but still named after the month she was due. August Tandi-Andersen (she/her) is the child of Dr. Faye Tandi (she/her) and Mx. Alf Andersen (he/they).

She's currently a writer and literature tutor living in Adelaide, SA, Australia. She did finally release her short fiction collection about that fateful January summer break of 2011.

Under A Summer Sky In January is that summer break.

More about it HERE

[sarockradio]

"ROCK MOVES"

with Julie Reynolds

TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS 2PM

This Week:

Photographer / Author Eric Algra is our guest talking about his latest offering Rock‘n’Roll City: Adelaide Babylon.

A photographic history of the performers, writers, producers and industry innovators who thrust Adelaide into national prominence during a unique period of creative alchemy.

Eric captured key moments in Adelaide’s music scene for influential music magazine Roadrunner from 1978 to 1983.

While not every gig had the heady hallmarks of Babylon, Algra said he witnessed “some pretty wild scenes” both on stage and off.

“The sheer excitement generated by so many of these bands created mayhem in the crowds,” he recalled, “which in true rock’n’roll style, fed back to the band and elevated the whole collective experience. ..It rocked.”

www.rocknrollcity.com.au

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