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shire-baird · 3 years ago

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Old Dog, New Tricks

Fun little fic idea I had.

Also on AO3 here

Thank you to @shurisneakers for beta reading!!

Summary: Bucky spends some time with Sam's nephews, and gets a chance to mess with Sam.

Bucky was walking through the Wilson house to get some water when he heard the sound of metal clashing and yelling from another room. When he peeked through the doorway, he saw Sam's nephews, Cass and AJ, watching a movie. The screen showed a group of children running around a ship fighting what looked to be pirates. He found himself stepping further into the room and asking,

"Is this a cartoon?"

AJ, the older boy, turned to look at him.

"Yeah, it's called Peter Pan."

"The style looks different from the cartoons I remember."

"What have you seen?"

"I remember taking my sisters to see Snow White, it was all they could talk about for what seemed like forever. I don't remember who made it though, started with a D I think?"

"Disney, Snow White was their first animated movie, and they got pretty big, this one is also Disney."

"Huh"

That's when Cass, the younger boy, jumped into the conversation.

"Have you not seen any other Disney movies besides Snow White?"

"No."

"What! That's not right, here, you gotta watch with us."

He scooted closer to his brother, leaving room on the end of the couch for Bucky to sit down.

"This one is at the end, but there are lots of Disney movies, AJ, which one should we do first?"

"Let's watch Toy Story"

Bucky was nervous at first, sitting there with Sam's nephews. He didn't really know how to interact with kids anymore, and he didn't want to do anything that might scare them. He knows that Sam would beat his ass, but he was more scared of what Sarah might do if he did something to her boys. But as he sat there, watching with them, he slowly relaxed and even began to really enjoy the movie. Towards the end of the movie, one of the scenes surprised him.

It was when the astronaut toy threw his detached arm up at the cowboy toy after being asked to 'give a hand'. He laughed when that happened. Not the sarcastic little chuckle he used with Sam sometimes, but genuine laughter. Sure, he had laughed with Steve after the ice, and in Wakanda when his goats did something particularly stupid, but a laugh like this, full and carefree? It felt like he hadn't laughed like that since he went off to war.

Cass turned to him with a curious look on his face,

"Can you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Take off your arm."

Bucky looked down at his hand before answering.

"Yeah, if I want to."

Cass grinned and said "That's awesome," before turning back to the movie.

That night after the movie marathon, Bucky laid there on the couch thinking about the time he had spent with the boys, and how simply they accepted him and let him watch with them. It was almost funny how aghast Cass was that he had only seen Snow White, and his subsequent demand that he watch with them. It was nice to just, sit there and enjoy the story.

The Next Day

Bucky was helping Sarah and the boys take some boxes to the restaurant. As they walked down the dock near where the boat was tied, he could see Sam sitting down fiddling with something as a good chunk of the engine sat spread out in front of him. He glanced back as he heard them coming.

"Hey Buck, gimme a hand over here would you?"

Bucky paused, remembering that same phrase from the first movie the night before. To the side, he could see Cass and AJ grinning at him, clearly hoping he would follow through with what happened after the line. He shot them a wink as he carefully put down the box he was holding and reached up to detach his arm.

"Yeah, no problem."

He tossed the arm and watched as it landed on the dock next to Sam with a loud THUNK. Sam jumped at the loud noise, but once he realized what had caused it, he turned around to shoot an annoyed look back at Bucky, which was ruined by his badly-suppressed grin.

"Really man?"

Cass and AJ, who had previously been successful at keeping their giggles under control, burst into laughter at the look on their uncle's face. Bucky grinned widely as he and Sam joined the boys in laughter.

Once they had managed to calm down, Sam stood up and handed Bucky his arm back.

"I'm guessing they made you watch Toy Story with them?"

"As well as a few others."

They boys interjected then,

"He hasn't seen very many movies, so we're making him watch with us."

"Oh are you now? Well you can continue Terminator's pop culture education later, right now you gotta help your mom. Go on, git."

The two men continued their conversation as the boys ran to help Sarah.

"Maybe I need that education, if only to understand all the names you keep calling me."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. You're old."

Sarah yelled at them from where she was opening boxes,

"Are you two old ladies just gonna stand there and gossip, or are you gonna put my engine back together?"

Sam yelled back even as he turned his attention back to said engine.

"Are you ever gonna stop being so bossy?"

Bucky grabbed a toolbox and dragged it closer as he looked at the parts spread out over a section of the dock.

"What did you do to this thing Sam?"

"Shut up, and hand me that wrench."

Bucky ended up staying with them for a few more days, helping Sam and Sarah fix the boat during the day. His evenings were mostly spent playing with the boys, and being introduced to various movies and games. Sarah got a photo of the boys hanging off of Bucky's metal arm that she planned to frame, and Sam got some wonderful blackmail footage of his nephews absolutely destroying Bucky in Mario Kart.

When Bucky left the Wilson home, it was with a list of movies to watch from Cass and AJ, an invitation from Sarah to stop by for dinner anytime, and a promise to Sam to actually answer his goddamn phone once in a while.

A couple days after he got back to his apartment in Brooklyn, he received a text from Sam

I wanna add something to that list of movies the boys gave you.

What

Finding Dory, I think you'd like it.

What's it about

Just watch it

Fine

2 hours later

You're an asshole

😆 What's the problem? I figured you could relate

🖕

I'm impressed you know how to use emojis, old man.

Respect your elders.

#this is my first fic #im proud of how it turned out #tfatws #bucky barnes #sam wilson #the falcon and the winter soldier #old dog new tricks #my writing #Bucky and the Boys

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thenighttrain · 4 years ago

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books read in 2020

i’ve been keeping a list and decided i want it on my blog too! everything is on my goodreads too. follow my book blog @thesonofneptune! bolded are my favourites

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire ★★★★

Stardust by Neil Gaiman ★★★

Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant ★★★★

Heart of Flames (Crown of Feathers #2) by Nicki Pau Preto ★★★★

Reverie by Ryan La Sala ★★

Crown of Feathers (Crown of Feathers #1) by Nicki Pau Preto ★★★

Soul in Darkness by Wendy Higgins ★★★

The King’s Dragon (Fire and Valor #1) by W.M. Fawkes ★★★★

Blue on Blue by Dal Maclean ★★★★

The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★★

The Watchmaker of Filligree Street (The Watchmaker of Filligree Street #1) by Natasha Pulley ★★★

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filligree Street #2) by Natasha Pulley ★★★★

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley ★★★

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Garcia-Moreno ★★★★

Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire #1) by Natasha Ngan ★★★

The Prince’s Dragon (Fire and Valor #2) by W.M. Fawkes ★★★★

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig ★

The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen #2) by Aliette de Bodard ★★★

The House of Sundering Flames (Dominion of the Fallen #3) by Alliette de Bodard ★★★

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1) by S.A. Chakraborty ★★★

The Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley ★★★★

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0) by Suzanne Collins ★★★

Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dominion of the Fallen, #3.5) by Aliette de Bodard ★★★★

The Last Smile in Sunder City (The Fetch Phillips Archives #1) by Luke Arnold ★★★★

Northern Wrath (The Hanged God Trilogy #1) by Thilde Kold Holdt ★★★

The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates #1) by A.K. Larkwood ★★★

Infernal by Mark de Jager ★★★

The City We Became (Great Cities #1) by N.K. Jemisin ★★★

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1) by Tamsyn Muir ★★★

Deathless (Leningrad Diptych #1) by Catherynne M. Valente ★★★

The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1) by R.F. Kuang ★★★★★

The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2) by R.F. Kuang ★★★★

Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★

Rivers of London (Rivers of London #1) by Ben Aaronovitch ★★★

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi ★★★★

The Deep by Rivers Solomon ★★★

Ashes of the Sun (Burninngblade & Silvereye #1) by Django Wexller ★★★

The Century’s Scribe (A Fantastic Decade #1) by Brendan Walsh ★★★★

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuistonn ★★★

The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lembergg ★★★

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi ★★★

Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz ★★★★

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune ★★★★

The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang ★★★★★

Jade City (The Green Bone Saga #1) by Fonda Lee ★★★★

Jade War (The Green Bone Saga #2) by Fonda Lee ★★★★

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo ★★★

The Rage of Dragons (The Burning #1) by Evan Winter ★★★

The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor #1) by Katherine Addison ★★★

The Conductors by Nicole Glover ★★★

The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen #1) by K.S. Villoso ★★★

When The Moon Is Low by Nadia Hashimi ★★★

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow ★★★

Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro ★★★★

White Silence (Elizabeth Cage #1) by Jodi Taylor ★★★

The Rook (The Checquy Files #1) by Daniel O’Malley ★★★★

The Vicar and the Rake (Society of Beasts #1) by Annabelle Greene ★★★

Lava Red Feather Blue by Molly Rinngle ★★★★

The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire #1) by Andrea Stewart ★★★★

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson ★★★

Carter & Lovecraft (Carter & Lovecraft #1) by Jonathan L. Howard ★★★

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (A Good Girls’ Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson ★★★★

The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy #1) by Katherine Arden ★★★★

The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy #2) by Katherine Arden ★★★★★

The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy #3) by Katherine Arden ★★★★

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab ★★★

Tower of Mud and Straw by Yaroslav Barsukov ★★★

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Garcia-Moreno ★★

Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1) by Seanan McGuire ★★★

The Changeling by Victor LaValle ★★★

Ring Shout by Djeli P Clark ★★★★

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson ★★★

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour ★★★

Dead Man in a Ditch (The Fetch Phillips Archives #2) by Luke Arnold ★★★

The Nightmare Thief (The Nightmare Thief #1) by Nicole Lesperance ★★★★

A Time of Dread (Of Blood and Bone #1) by John Gwynne ★★★★

Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel ★★★

Dry by Neal Shusterman ★★★

Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse ★★★★

The Searcher by Tana French ★★★★

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1) by Rachel Caine ★★★

The Burning God (The Poppy War #3) by R.F. Kuang ★★★★

The Drowning Faith (The Poppy War 2.5) by R.F. Kuang ★★★★

The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar ★★★

Long Bright River by Liz Moore ★★

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton ★★★★

Smoke and Stone by Michael R. Fletcher ★★★

A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1) by Arkady Martine ★★★

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan ★★★★

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke ★★★★

The Familiars by Stacey Halls ★★

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman ★★★★

Kings of Paradise (Ash and Sand #1) by Richard Neil ★★★

Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor #1) by Mark Lawrence ★★★★

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig ★★★★

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu ★★★

Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters #1) by Rebecca Schaeffer ★★★

Real Life by Brandon Taylor ★★★

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker ★★★

The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale ★★★

The Humans by Matt Haig ★★★★

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell ★★★★

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa ★★★★

A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland ★★★

The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle #1) by Nghi Vo ★★

The Survivors by Jane Harper ★★★★

The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) by Jane Harper ★★★★

The Lost Man by Jane Harper ★★★

#leanne speaks #books

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ninaraise2020 · 4 years ago

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2020 Book List

For 2020, I made a new years resolution to read 52 books by the end of the year.... which is one of the first new years resolutions I’ve actually kept!! Here are some of my favorites, and my thoughts about everything I read.

As a note: I know audiobooks // ebooks aren’t everyone’s thing, but I read most of these through the Brooklyn Public Library using Libby, and through HOOPLA, the LAPL app. HOOPLA has a ton of stuff, and all you need is to write down an LA address to get a virtual library card. (And just saying, they don’t do anything to confirm that’s your actual address...)

MY LIST with favorites bolded (in the order I read them)

The first bad man, Miranda July

Can’t we talk about something more pleasant, roz chast

Killing and Dying, Adrian Tomine

The Idiot, Elif Batuman

Bad Friends, Ancco

Fully coherent plan: for a better society, David Shrigley

Through a Life, Tom Haugomat

A Body Worth Defending, Ed Cohen

The Hospital Suite, John Porcellini

Excuse Me, Liana Finck

Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso

The Romance of Tristan, Beroul

Two Kinds of Decay, Sarah Manguso

Unfinished Business, Vivian Gornick

300 Arguments, Sarah Manguso

No one belongs here more than you, Miranda July

Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison

Women, Chloe Caldwell

Romance or the End, Elaine Kahn

How to Murder Your Life, Cat Marnell

Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown

A Body Undone, Christina Crosby

Delta of Venus, Anaïs Nin

Sick, Porochista Khakpour

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson

Norma Jean Baker of Troy, Anne Carson

Hunger, Roxanne Gay

Grief Sequence, Prageeta Sharma

The Undying, Anne Boyer

Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag

Gut Feminism, Elizabeth A. Wilson

Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski

Practicalities, Marguerite Duras

The Soft Life, Bridgette Talone

Look at Me, Anita Brookner

The Cancer Diaries, Audre Lorde

Zami, Audre Lorde

Fearing the Black Body, Sabrina Strings

Unbearable lightness, Portia di Rossi

The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson

The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides

The Red Parts, Maggie Nelson

Jazz, Toni Morrison

The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides

Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem

Pain Studies, Lisa Olstein

The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula k. Le Guin

Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay

Coeur de Leon, Ariana Reines

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

TOP 10 Books (in no order)

The Cancer Diaries, Audre Lorde

Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson

Unfinished Business, Vivian Gornick

The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

Zami, Audre Lorde

Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay

Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski

Coeur de Lion, Ariana Reines

Favorite queer books

Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown

The Cancer Diaries, Audre Lorde

Zami, Audre Lorde

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay

Favorite books about illness

Sick, Porochista Khakpour

A Body Undone, Christina Crosby

The Cancer Diaries, Audre Lorde

The Undying, Anne Boyer

Gut Feminism, Elizabeth A. Wilson

Pain Studies, Lisa Olstein

Two Kinds of Decay, Sarah Manguso

Favorite graphic novels

Through a Life, Tom Haugomat

The Hospital Suite, John Porcellini

Excuse Me, Liana Finck

Can’t we talk about something more pleasant? Roz Chast

Killing and Dying, Adrian Tomin

Favorite nonfiction

Fearing the Black Body, Sabrina Strings

Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison

The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson

Gut-Feminism, Elizabeth A. Wilson

Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski

A Body Worth Defending, Ed Cohen

AND..... if you’re interested in seeing my thoughts on each book.....

A Complete List of Every Book I Read in 2020 and My Thoughts (listed in the order read)

The first bad man, Miranda July

This book is absolutely wild, and I greatly enjoyed it – I don’t think it’s everyone’s cup of tea, but if you’re looking for something very funny, surreal and visceral, I’d recommend. I described it to my friend as like if my psyche wrote a book, or like a very true dream. I enjoyed her collection of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, more - but they’re both excellent.

Killing and Dying, Adrian Tomine

This was the first graphic novel I read this year. Zadie Smith said about this book, “Adrian Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime,” so I was very intrigued. It reminds me a lot of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina which is one of my favorite (if not my favorite) graphic novels. I love the book’s minimalist style, and bits of it felt like getting punched emotionally – so I’d recommend if you’re looking for that!

Can’t we talk about something more pleasant? Roz Chast

Roz Chast’s memoir about her parent’s final years is incredibly funny and beautifully done. I think New York Jews will especially enjoy – but I’d recommend to anyone!

The Idiot, Elif Batuman

For whatever reason, this book really grated on my nerves and I was not a fan. Batuman writes about a freshman at Harvard studying linguistics and writing emails to this man I wanted to punch. A lot of people love this book, so I definitely wouldn’t say not to read it – perhaps it just triggered too much of my anxiety from freshman year of college to be pleasurable. I find it similar to Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot, but I liked The Marriage Plot significantly more.

Bad Friends, Ancco

Content warning for abuse/violence – this graphic novel is really dark, and the violence is quite graphic. But overall, I thought it was beautifully done – and I really love the author’s drawing style.

Fully coherent plan: for a better society, David Shrigley

I love David Shrigley – this book is really silly, and I honestly just picked it up from the library because the outside looks fun. It’s a quick read mostly made up of minimalist drawings – so if you want something not-too-serious that will make you laugh, I’d recommend.

Through a life, Tom Haugomat

I also grabbed this from the library because it looked pretty (oops). I absolutely love this illustrator (he’s worth following on Insta even if you don’t read this book). It’s a series of illustrations of a boy that wants to be an astronaut, and it’s one of the most astoundingly beautiful things I’ve read this year. There are no words, and I nearly cried at the end.

A Body Worth Defending, Ed Cohen

This book discusses the history/construction of autoimmunity, and how the idea of a body “attacking itself” is inherently biopolitical. As someone with an autoimmune disorder, I found this book fascinating, but it’s also really dense so I’d just recommend if you have a particular interest in autoimmunity.

The Hospital Suite, John Porcellini

Done by the author of King Cat, this graphic novel follows the protagonist through a series of different severe medical problems. I thought it was really well done and would recommend if you’re interested in art about chronic illness.

Excuse Me, Liana Finck

I’m obsessed with everything Liana Finck does – if you don’t follow her on Instagram you should! – and this book was no exception. It’s very funny and poignant – if you like her cartoons, you’d definitely enjoy!

Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso

My friend recommended this to me a few years ago, and I recently reread. Sarah Manguso writes about her lifelong pursuit of keeping a hyper-meticulous diary, which fascinated me as someone who used to do this, too. It’s a very quick read and made me think more deeply about the desire to constantly record ones’ life as a protection against passing time.

The Romance of Tristan, Beroul

This book is wild – I read it for a class. It’s a medieval book that doesn’t really make sense and I do not think you should read it unless you are also taking a class on Medieval Drugs.

Two Kinds of Decay, Sarah Manguso

Here, Manguso writes about her autoimmune blood disorder, and her suicidal depression, relating the experience of her first flare when she was in college. Big content warning for graphic depictions of hospitals/illness/needles etc., as well as depression. I found it interesting, but I cannot overstate how graphic and upsetting this book is.

Unfinished Business, Vivian Gornick

Absolutely one of the best books I read this year. I saw Vivian Gornick talk at Pomona and was floored. Here, Gornick writes about being a chronic-re reader, and discusses some of her favorite books and how her relationship changed with them throughout time. I found myself underlining everything, her prose is just so wonderful. I think everyone should read this.

300 Arguments, Sarah Manguso

I like Sarah Manguso, so I ordered this. It’s a set of interconnected aphorisms like “Bad art is from no one to no one.” Manguso is clearly brilliant and this book is very well written – it’s just a bit too minimalist for me. I would definitely recommend Ongoingness if you want to read something by her.

No one belongs here more than you, Miranda July

I am obsessed with this short story collection. Again, don’t think Miranda July is everyone’s cup of tea, but the stories were so viscerally weird in a way that really resonated with me.

Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison

I’ve listened to Christy Harrison’s podcast Food Psych for a while now, so was very excited when her book came out. The book focuses on (in Harrison’s words) “Reclaim[ing] your time, money, health, and happiness from our toxic diet culture.” As someone in ED recovery, this book/Harrison’s work in general have changed my life (which I do not say lightly!) �� anyone who struggles with body image/their relationship with food should absolutely read this.

Women, Chloe Caldwell

I read this because a girl on Tinder told me too (lol) – it’s about a woman’s sexual awakening and relationship with this woman, Finn, who reminds me of a lot of hot women I follow on Tik Tok that wear suits and look mean. It takes a minute to get into. I overall enjoyed it, and was touched by the book at the end, but found a lot of the prose to be pretty clunky. So, would I recommend – I don’t know, maybe?

Romance or the End, Elaine Kahn

My friend recommended this book of poetry to me. Elaine Kahn is so talented and writes so beautifully – another book where I found myself underlining everything. Would definitely recommend!

How to Murder Your Life, Cat Marnell

Cat Marnell’s memoir recounts her struggles with bulimia and addiction while working as a beauty editor. I found it enthralling and hard to put down. I recommended it to a friend who had to put it down because it was too stressful. I think it’s a great book, but not for everyone.

Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown

If the meaning of the title intrigues you, I would definitely recommend. This coming-of-age story follows Brown’s childhood, and relationships with women. I thought I liked Women by Chloe Caldwell until I read this book. Very gay, very good!!!! I could not put it down!

A Body Undone, Christina Crosby

In this memoir, Crosby writes about queerness/disability through the lens of her experience after a bicycle accident that left her paralyzed. If you want something gay with lots of theory, this book is for you! Fun fact: Crosby is the friend Nelson writes about in The Argonauts. As a heads up, though, the descriptions of pain can be pretty graphic/triggering.

Delta of Venus, Anaïs Nin

I wanted to read something by Anaïs Nin and this is absolutely NOT what I should have read. Nin wrote this erotica for a man who didn’t like romance and wanted her to skip to the sex – the foreword is basically her ranting about the man who commissioned her to write this work. There’s a lot of (unsurprisingly) incest, as well as depictions of rape/assault. I do not recommend.

Sick, Porochista Khakpour

Sick is a memoir about Khakpour’s experience living with lyme disease, and her struggle to attain a diagnosis and proper treatment. I didn’t know anything about lyme, so found this book very enlightening. I’d add it to your list if you’re interested in memoirs of chronic illness.

Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson

I read this book because a character in the L Word talked about it (oops….). But wow, this is truly one of the best things I’ve ever read (thanks Marina!). Even Carson’s prose is breathtakingly poetic – she stitches together Sappho’s writing, Greek myths & critical theory so seamlessly. I felt like a different person when I finished.

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

I absolutely loved this book. Autobiography of Red is a love story between two men based on a Greek myth. It feels surprisingly epic, despite being a pretty short read. It feels a bit like the long-form-poem version of Song of Achilles. (If you read this book and enjoyed it, absolutely read Song of Achilles).

Norma Jean Baker of Troy, Anne Carson

I love Anne Carson, but I didn’t enjoy this book as much as the others. Maybe it’s because it’s a performance piece and I read it rather than watching it be performed, or maybe I just didn’t get it.

Hunger, Roxanne Gay

In this memoir, Roxanne Gay writes about her rape (so content warning for that, as there are very graphic descriptions), and her relationship with her body. This is one of the most brutally honest books I’ve encountered about food, body image and eating disorders – Gay does not sanitize her self-blame and self-hatred – and it’s an important counternarrative to how fatness is commonly represented in the media. I would not recommend it if you’re in the depths of an ED or early on in ED recovery because it’s pretty triggering. I think it’s an important read, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable just telling anyone to read it off the bat.

Grief Sequence, Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma is a Pomona professor who is wonderful, so I was very excited to read her book. Grief Sequence is an evocative, moving, and incredibly powerful story of Sharma losing her husband to cancer. It made me even more excited to work with her, and I would definitely recommend especially if you go to the 5cs!

The Undying, Anne Boyer

I’m not sure exactly what to call The Undying – maybe memoir, maybe autofiction? But Boyer combines narrative about her own experience with breast cancer with cultural criticism, drawing on both her experience as a poet and an essayist. This book was definitely one of my favorite works about illness I’ve read this year.

Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag

I found this book interesting, but not my favorite of what I’ve read about chronic illness. Sontag writes about how tuberculosis and cancer take on particular cultural symbolism – did you know that tuberculosis was associated with sexual desirability? I did not! Perhaps the piece wasn’t as interesting to me because people don’t tend to get tuberculosis anymore. If you’re particularly interested in TB/cancer, or if you’re writing your thesis about chronic illness I would read, but otherwise, not sure I I’d recommend.

Gut Feminism, Elizabeth A. Wilson

This book discusses depression through the lens of the gut, arguing for feminists to incorporate biological data into their analysis. It’s pretty dense, so I’d only recommend if depression, anti-depressants, and the politics of the gut are particularly interesting to you. But as someone interested in those things, great read!

Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski

Here, Nagoski discusses female sexuality and arousal in a way that made me realize I actually knew nothing about how female arousal works. For example, did you know wetness ≠ arousal? I didn’t! This book truly revolutionized how I think about sex/sexuality. The only caveat is that the book does center on the experiences of cis women (which the author does admit in a disclaimer at the beginning), so I hope that there are future works that touch on the same ideas in more inclusive ways.

Practicalities, Marguerite Duras

I really like Marguerite Duras – The Lover is one of my favorite books – but this book didn’t really do it for me. Duras is brilliant, but parts of it felt a bit mundane/dated. A lot of people love this book, though, so I feel like it’s just me!

The Soft Life, Bridgette Talone

I made a goal for myself to read more poetry this year, since I usually read mostly prose. This is an example of the kind of poetry I struggle reading – l am less drawn to poetry that completely strays away from narrative – and this book was a bit too abstract for me. There’s beautiful imagery, it just felt like it went over my head. But it was recommended by a friend whose taste I greatly respect, so maybe it’s for you and just no for me!

Look at Me, Anita Brookner

This book took me a while to finish. Look at Me follows a librarian and aspiring novelist in her friendship with a glamorous couple. It’s very dry, witty, observant, and brilliantly satirical. I’m very glad I finished it, but it took a while to get pulled in.

The Cancer Diaries, Audre Lorde

Lorde writes about loving women, and her experience with breast cancer. It’s a collection of entries from her journal, combined with meditations on these entries. So, so very beautiful! Also very heartbreaking. This might be my favorite book I’ve read about illness.

Zami, Audre Lorde

Lorde’s wonderful coming-of-age novel covers her life growing up in New York, and her relationships with different women. It took me a bit to get into it, but once I did it was addictive to read. Certain scenes are just so breathtakingly vivid, and I don’t think I’ve read anyone who writes as well as Lorde about loving women. Also, she went to my high school, so that part was very wild to read – definitely recommend in particular to fellow Hunterites!

Fearing the Black Body, Sabrina Strings

I’ve wanted to read this book ever since listening to Strings on one of my favorite podcasts (FoodPsych). This book discusses the historical construction of thinness as an ideal tied to whiteness – it’s very well written and illuminating. I feel like the idealization of thinness is something that is often really tolerated and encouraged in liberal spaces (*cough* Claremont colleges *cough*), so definitely recommend. If you don’t have time for the book, I’d definitely suggest checking out the podcast episode!

Unbearable Lightness, Portia di Rossi

This memoir discusses di Rossi’s experience with anorexia/bulimia, and her relationship with her queerness. I read it in a day, I was so engrossed. However, I wouldn’t recommend to anyone in early stages of ED recovery, or in the thrust of an eating disorder.

The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson

If you have read other works by Maggie Nelson and enjoyed them, and are interested in literature about cruelty, I’d recommend! It’s more theoretical than her other works and it’s pretty dense – I’ll definitely have to read it again to fully ‘get’ it. But Nelson is such a brilliant cultural critic that it’s a pleasure to read anything she writes. Like “truth in art is but a feeling”?? Yes!! Go off!!

The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides

This is definitely top five of the books I’ve read this year. I was floored when I was finished. It’s set at Brown, but so many of the descriptions of campus life really resonated and amused me. The end was heart-wrenching. The prose is so evocative. I loved it.

The Red Parts, Maggie Nelson

This book focuses on the trial for the brutal murder of Nelson’s aunt by a stranger – it’s very gruesome but enthralling. I couldn’t put it down.

Jazz, Toni Morrison

I listened to the audiobook which Toni Morrison reads, which is great. Jazz is set in Harlem in the 1920s, and though it’s pretty short, it’s incredibly vivid and haunting. It’s one of the most original and intriguing narratives I’ve encountered (not even including the beauty of the prose), and unlike anything else I’ve read.

The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides

I read this because I loved The Marriage Plot so much. I didn’t like this as much as I liked The Marriage Plot or Middlesex. After I finished, I thought I didn’t like it, and then I listened to this podcast called Sentimental Garbage and decided I did like it after all. I was frustrated throughout the book at how obtuse the women are, but after getting over my sadness that we never figured out why the girls killed themselves, I have more appreciation for Eugenides’ vision.

Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem

Motherless Brooklyn is different from what I usually read – it’s the only detective novel on this list – but I loved it. It’s set in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, which is particularly exciting (and why my Dad is a big Lethem stan). It’s one of the most original books I’ve ever read, and the descriptions are astoundingly innovative and vivid. It’s also really funny! And he’s a Pomona professor! My mom is reading it too for the WNYC book club, which I believe you can still join if you want.

Pain Studies, Lisa Olstein

Another illness book! Olstein writes about her experience with migraines, and also theorizes about pain. I haven’t read any book exclusively focused on pain, so this was cool! It didn’t resonate with me as much as other stuff I’ve read, but still very good.

The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula k. Le Guin

I was very excited for this book, which is a work of sci-fi written in 1969 about a world where everyone is gender-fluid and has no sexual prejudice. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I had expected to – perhaps because the main drama of the book is finding out whether this world is going to trade with another world, and I am just not very interested in trade. Sci-fi is also not really a genre I read often, so I wouldn’t do much with the fact that this book didn’t resonate.

Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

I’ve cried maybe six times this year and finishing this book was one of them. It’s gay. It’s Greek. It’s epic. If you liked Percy Jackson and now, you’re part of the LGBTQ community you have to read it. This is the kind of book that made me worried it had ruined all other books. I think this is a perfect book, or at least the closest I can imagine.

Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay

This book is astoundingly beautiful. A friend recommended it and said it made his writing a lot happier - which was exactly what I needed! – and this description rings true. I definitely have more trouble reading poetry than prose but found this book very powerful and engaging. I read it in one sitting.

Coeur de Leon, Ariana Reines

Absolutely one of my favorite books of poetry! Coeur de Leon embodies the exact kind of poetry I really like – the language is accessible, it’s visceral, it has a narrative – and also made me feel seen. I feel like it’s also one of those books made for people that like to write, especially about love. Very much recommend.

On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

It took me a while to get into this one, and I felt for a while that everything was too depressing to enjoy it. While I do definitely want to revisit in post-pandemic times, I still was deeply moved. Big content warning though for drug abuse, death, and probably some other stuff I’m forgetting.

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kwebtv · 4 years ago

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For All Mankind - Apple + - November 1, 2019 - Present

Science Fiction (10 episodes to date)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Joel Kinnaman as Edward Baldwin

Michael Dorman as Gordo Stevens

Wrenn Schmidt as Margo Madison

Sarah Jones as Tracy Stevens

Shantel VanSanten as Karen Baldwin

Jodi Balfour as Ellen Waverly/Ellen Wilson

Historical figures

Chris Agos as Buzz Aldrin

Matt Battaglia as John Glenn

Chris Bauer as Deke Slayton

Jeff Branson as Neil Armstrong

Dan Donohue as Thomas O. Paine

Colm Feore as Wernher von Braun

Ryan Kennedy as Michael Collins

Eric Ladin as Gene Kranz

Steven Pritchard as Pete Conrad

Rebecca Wisocky as Marge Slayton

Ben Begley as Charlie Duke

Recurring

Tait Blum as Shane Baldwin

Arturo Del Puerto as Octavio Rosales

Noah Harpster as Bill Strausser

Krys Marshall as Danielle Poole

Tracy Mulholland as Gloria Sedgewick

Dave Power as Astronaut Frank Sedgewick

Mason Thames as Danny Stevens

Olivia Trujillo as Aleida Rosales

Sonya Walger as Molly Cobb

Meghan Leathers as Pam Horton

Wallace Langham as Harold Weisner

Nate Corddry as Larry Wilson

Leonora Pitts as Irene Hendricks

Dan Warner as General Arthur Weber

Lenny Jacobson as Wayne Cobb

#For All Mankind #TV #Science Fiction #Apple +#2000's #Title #Joel Kinnaman #Michael Dorman #Wren Schmidt #Sarah Jones #Shantel VanSaten #Jodi Balfour

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lunarsodasims · 5 years ago

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Sims 4 Marvel Challenge!

This is a 10 generation challenge. If you have a specific expansion or game pack that would make the challenge more interesting, feel free to change it up a bit. It’s sort of a legacy challenge, but not quite. Naturally, because the Avengers aren’t related, this is going to be a little strange, but I tried to organize it chronologically for the most part.

Beware: there are some spoilers.

Generation 1: Steve Rogers “I could do this all day.”

The First Avenger. You’ve always been sickly and weak, so when you see someone being treated unfairly, you just can’t let it go. You might get hurt in the process of helping others, but that’s alright. You could do this all day.

To start, create teen Steve Rogers and his mother Sarah. Storytellers may start out with steve as a toddler or child. When Steve becomes a young adult, the challenge begins.

Must have good trait

Must have ambitious trait

Must meet and befriend Bucky Barnes

Mother must die when he becomes a YA

Enter the secret agent career and buff up

Reach level 10 of the secret agent career

Have a romantic relationship with one of your coworkers (and an unknown child)

Must fake your own death

Must outlive all coworkers

Alternate:

Strangerville--Steve must join Military career instead (defeat the mother if desired)

Parenthood--Steve must age up with every positive character value

Generation 2: Peter Quill “Dance off to save the Galaxy”

You were abducted by aliens when you were a child. Since then, you’ve been kept alive and raised by the aliens (and maybe, you’re happy), but you can’t help resenting them a little. You want to make a name for yourself. (You’re not trying to prove anything. Not at all). This story begins when Peter becomes a teenager.

Must live in one of the hidden worlds with adopted caregiver

Must only leave the realm at night until YA

Not allowed to see “other humans” (other sims besides caregiver) until YA

Must have a slightly poor relationship with caregiver

Max dance skill

Dj on the side as “Starlord”

Become an interstellar smuggler

Marry an ambitious Sim with something green (preferably skin, but may be hair or eyes)

Have a child

Alt:

Get to work--Caregiver and coworkers are all aliens, Peter mustn’t see any other humans until YA

Parenthood--Must age up with poor manners

Get Famous--Become famous for something good

Generation 3: Bruce Banner “Hulk...Hulk like real fire.”

You have a good life with loving parents (even if one of them happened to be an alien) but you care more about learning and inventing than spending time with family. This story begins when Bruce becomes a YA.

Must join the scientist (Astronaut if BG) career

Master the logic skill

Master rocket science skill (Handiness if BG)

Mid-life crisis: get fit and get “green” (skin, hair, (vegetarian? Off the grid?? Whatever you like:))

Must be hot-headed

Must have no children

Must travel to space during lifetime

Alt:

Get to Work--Live on Sixam for a week

Jungle Adventure--Vacation frequently

Generation 4: Thor “Because that’s what heroes do.”

You and your brother have always been opposites, but that’s never stopped you from getting along. But he’s been distant lately. You’re too busy to wonder why, taken in by thoughts of future glory. You’ll be head of the family business soon, and you can’t wait to be in charge. This story begins when Thor becomes a teenager.

Must have self-assured and good traits

Must be good friends with adopted younger brother and lose relationship over time

Must accidentally cause a disaster for the family (start a fire, etc.)

Be kicked out of the house to live in another world

Redeem yourself, but family falls apart due to dysfunction

Run the business

Generation 5: Natasha Romanoff “Just because it’s the path of least resistance, doesn’t mean it’s the right path.”

All you’ve known is hard work and hard truths. You’re willing to do whatever it takes to make things right, but you might have to give up more than just your reputation. This story begins when Natasha becomes a child.

Must be adopted

Age up with emotional control character value

Reach level 10 in Fitness, logic, programming, and charisma

Enter the secret agent career

Must have no children

Generation 6: Bucky Barnes “I’m with you ‘till the end of the line.”

You can’t remember anything, but that’s just fine. You’re content to live in apathy, with no real ties to anything except the ambition of climbing the criminal career ladder. However, when one mission puts all of that in jeopardy, you must choose between what you know and what you...know? This story begins when Bucky becomes an adult.

Must enter the criminal career

Must live in a household with two other sims (adult or elder)

Max fitness skill

May only leave the house when working or when both housemates are gone

Must meet Steve Rogers in the wild

Generation 7: T’Challa “It’s time to show the outside world who we are.”

Father must die when T’Challa becomes a YA

Must not travel out of world until reaching level 10 of career

Max charisma skill

Must enter business, law, secret agent, or police career

Household must volunteer frequently

Visit the ghost of your father (as a spellcaster, at a tombstone or urn, etc.)

Alt:

City Living: Become leader of the free world

Generation 8: Stephen Strange “Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain.”

Being rich and showing off is the greatest part of life as far as you’re concerned. You’ve never been happier than you are now, and you’re sure you never could be. You don’t need anyone but yourself. This story begins when Strange becomes a YA.

Must have Mansion Baron aspiration

Must have noncommittal trait

Max logic still

Reach level 10 of the doctor career

Lose job unexpectedly

Lose all money

Travel to a different world and become a spellcaster (or a different life-state)

Must have 1 child

Generation 9: Tony Stark “I am Iron Man.”

You love your parents but have a hard time showing it. You’re certain all that really matters is getting rich and having as much fun as possible. That is, until you’re all alone. Now what used to be good times have become distractions. This story begins when Tony becomes a teenager.

Must have fabulously wealthy aspiration

Must have Materialistic trait

Parents must die before Tony becomes a YA

Must have a near-death experience

Aspiration change to friend of the world

Change a trait to good

Marry and have 1 child

Must die while child is a toddler

Generation 10: Peter Parker “Everywhere I go, I see his face. I just really miss him.”

You’re smart, but that’s not enough to keep you from getting picked on. As things keep changing, you start to wonder if you’re the reason everyone you care about dies. You’ve never been less certain of yourself. This story begins when Peter becomes a teenager.

Parents must die while a child

Must be cared for by aunt

Must age into YA with three character values

Straight A student

Max programming and robotics

Have a rebellious phase and get in fights

Have gloomy trait

Fall in love before YA

Gloomy trait becomes self-assured

This is the current set of rules for the challenge. If you have an idea you’d like to see added, please let me know! Many of them are somewhat similar (since these kids all have a somewhat similar profession ;) so I would love to hear other suggestions.

I will also be updating the challenge with more alternates for storylines to swap out, such as Carol Danvers, Eddie Brock, and Sam Wilson, so stay tuned!

#marvel #sims 4 marvel challenge #10 gen sims 4 #sims 4 #sims 4 legacy #sims 4 challenge #ts4 #ts4 legacy #ts4 marvel

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Quam Celerrime Ad Astra by @tllgrrl aka Nefertiri Jones

A SarahBucky AU | Rated: T | Pairing: Astronaut!Sarah Wilson x Astronaut!Bucky Barnes | Space Fluff

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They officially started dating during the 18 months of mission training.

9 months in, after grueling, intense, no holds barred physical and mental prep for the mission, good-natured ribbing became coffee breaks, and commiseration became lunches. Study sessions became deep conversations. Dinners with the team became dinners for two, and eventually dinner and the next morning, breakfast in bed.

Their last time to themselves before reporting to the Facility for the week-long preflight quarantine with the crew, they spent the night making love as if it was literally their last night on Earth because the mission was going to be a very long 6 months.

At one point, seeing the bite mark on his shoulder and the bruise on her hip, between kisses she teased, “Keep this up Lover Boy, they’re gonna give us our physicals and wonder if we’re in a Fight Cub.”

“No doubt,” he murmured, rolling the two of them over. “I’m not too heavy on you, am I?”

“Hold on…” she mused, then shifting her hip, her thigh relaxed open a little wider, which pulled an appreciative moan and a soft giggle from both of them. “There. Not heavy at all. This…is definitely one of the benefits of gravity.”

“Affirmative…”

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4 months later, a little more than 2 months remaining of a hand held here, an arm brushed there, a couple of loopy, weightless, zero gravity make out sessions, and quick kisses GoodNight before climbing into their sleeping bags tucked into individual quarters that literally could hold only one person….

“…Barnes. Barnes, do you copy back there?”

“Copy, Commander. Sorry. Just kind of…taken by this view.”

“Yeah. I don’t blame you. Seeing the Earth out there like that. It’s really something.“

“You sure are…I mean, affirmative. Over.”

“Barnes, is your COMM to Crew and Ground live?”

“Negative. We’re presently on Intercom. We have the room to ourselves.”

“Copy. We don’t want another slip up like—“

“I know. Sorry about that. I blame that slip on the Overview Effect and you. Seeing both you and the Earth, floating in space in front of me. I guess I lost myself. Good thing the crew and everyone at Ground Control all know by now that we’re—“

“They do. But what people not us didn’t need to know, or hear, was how good you think my ass looks in this space suit. Granted, you’re not wrong, but—“

“Waitaminute, hold on. Okay. COMM’s off…now.”

“James!!”

“I’m kidding! It’s just…Sarah…from where I am right now, the beauty of Space has nothing on you, cerul meu înstelat.”

“Look at you getting your flirt on at 5 miles a second! Cerul meu înstelat, huh? That’s a new one you’re going to have to teach me later, but for now, Mission Specialist Barnes, mind on task. Clock’s ticking on this EVA. You need to deploy your experiments and gather the data, and I need to check the solar arrays and the thermal blanket on the MSS so we can get back inside and let the next team get out here.”

“Which would give us a little bit of alone time, Commander Wilson. You and I only have…let’s see…36 hours left to try and set a record for the Mile High Club.”

“Ha! I miss you too, and can’t wait ‘til we get back home because not only is there no real privacy to speak of up here, we both know that…things…don’t exactly work out here in space like they do back on Earth.”

“Don’t remind me! Doesn’t stop me from wanting to—hey…do you think I can get Ground Control to release us early? You know, send a—“

“What, a Shuttle to come get us so we can rush home and—?”

“I’m just sayin’! Quarters are really close on the Station, and us not being able to…baby…it’s hard.”

“Not way out here, it’s not!”

“You’re killin’ me, Wilson!”

“Wait’ll we get home. And bring that spacesuit with you, sweet cheeks. Copy?”

[Other mission crew members are heard snickering through their headsets.]

“Hey, you two lovebirds. The sooner you finish up out there, the sooner you two can—“

“What!? BARNES!!”

“Roger that request, Commander.”

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Glossary

Cerul meu înstelat (Romanian): My starry sky.

Quam celerrime ad astra (Latin): “With greatest speed to the stars.”

Roger: “received and understood”

Copy: “Roger” + “I am retaining this info”

Copy: Also means “Did you receive the message?”

EVA: Extravehicular Activity aka “spacewalk”

MSS: Mobile Servicing System. Part of which are robotic arms used to transport equipment and support astronauts during EVA.

The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts. A profound state of awe caused by a particularly striking visual stimulus such as seeing the Earth from space.

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NOTES:

1) Also posted HERE on AO3.

2) Posted again for a SarahBucky Fic/Art Event, fan art by Yours Truly HERE.

2) There was no artist credited for this beautiful fantasy artwork. I even searched Google and can’t find anything. If you know who the artist is, please let me know so I can give them some proper credit. Until someone can tell me who made this, I’m going to say that it was a talented artist. And how often do we see Black women as astronauts in fantasy art? However many you say, it’s not enough.

Thank you for reading and indulging me.

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Black LGBTQ+ playwrights and musical-theater artists you need to know

These artists are producing amazing, timely work.

By Marcus Scott Posted: Friday July 24 2020, 4:56pm

Marcus Scott is a New York City–based playwright, musical writer, opera librettist and journalist. He has contributed to Elle, Essence, Out, American Theatre, Uptown, Trace, Madame Noire and Playbill, among other publications. Follow Marcus: Instagram, Twitter

We’re in the chrysalis of a new age of theatrical storytelling, and Black queer voices have been at the center of this transformation. Stepping out of the margins of society to push against the status quo, Black LGBTQ+ artists have been actively engaged in fighting anti-blackness, racial disparities, disenfranchisement, homophobia and transphobia.

The success of Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play, Donja R. Love’s one in two and Jordan E. Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’—not to mention Michael R. Jackson’s tour de force, the Pulitzer Prize–winning metamusical A Strange Loop—made that phenomenon especially visible last season. But these artists are far from alone. Because the intersection of queerness and Blackness is complex—with various gender expressions, sexual identifiers and communities taking shape in different spaces—Black LGBTQ+ artists are anything but a monolith. George C. Wolfe, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Robert O’Hara, Harrison David Rivers, Staceyann Chin, Colman Domingo, Tracey Scott Wilson, Tanya Barfield, Marcus Gardley and Daniel Alexander Jones are just some of the many Black queer writers who have already made marks.

With New York stages dark for the foreseeable future, we can’t know when we will be able to see live works by these artists again. It is likely, however, that they will continue to play major roles in the direction American theater will take in the post-quarantine era—along with many creators who are still flying mostly under the radar. Here are just a few of the Black queer artists you may not have encountered yet: vital new voices that are speaking to the Zeitgeist and turning up the volume.

Christina Anderson A protégé of Paula Vogel’s, Christina Anderson has presented work at the Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Penumbra Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons and other theaters around the U.S. and Canada. She has degrees from the Yale School of Drama and Brown University, and is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and Epic Theatre Ensemble; she has received the inaugural Harper Lee Award for Playwriting and three Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominations, among other honors. Works include: How To Catch Creation (2019), Blacktop Sky (2013), Inked Baby (2009) Follow Christina: Website

Aziza Barnes Award-winning poet Aziza Barnes moved into playwriting with one of the great sex comedies of the 2010s: BLKS, which premiered at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2017 before it played at MCC Theatre in 2019 (where it earned a Lucille Lortel Award nomination). The NYU grad’s play about three twentysomethings probed the challenges and choices of Millennials with pathos and zest that hasn’t been seen since Kenneth Lonergan’s Gen X love/hate letter This Is Our Youth. Barnes is the author of the full-length collection of poems the blind pig and i be but i ain’t, which won a Pamet River Prize. Works include: BLKS (2017) Follow Aziza: Twitter

Troy Anthony Burton Fusing a mélange of quiet storm ‘90s-era Babyface R&B, ‘60s-style funk-soul and urban contemporary gospel, composer Troy Anthony has had a meteoric rise in musical theater in the past three years, receiving commissions and residencies from the Shed, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company and the Civilians. When Anthony is not crafting ditties of his own, he is an active performer who has participated in the Public Theater’s Public Works and Shakespeare In the Park. Works include: The River Is Me (2017), The Dark Girl Chronicles (in progress) Follow Troy: Instagram

Timothy DuWhite Addressing controversial issues such as HIV, state-sanctioned violence and structural anti-blackness, poet and performance artist Timothy DuWhite unnerves audiences with a hip-hop driven gonzo style. DuWhite’s raison d’être is to shock and enrage, and his provocative Neptune was, along with Donja R. Love’s one in two, one of the first plays by an openly black queer writer to address HIV openly and frankly. He has worked with the United Nations/UNICEF, the Apollo Theater, Dixon Place and La MaMa. Works include: Neptune (2018) Follow Timothy: Instagram

Jirèh Breon Holder Raised in Memphis and educated at Morehouse College, Jirèh Breon Holder solidified his voice at the Yale School of Drama under the direction of Sarah Ruhl. He has received the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award and the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, among other honors. His play Too Heavy for Your Pocket premiered at Roundabout Underground and has since been produced in cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Des Moines and Houston; his next play, ...What The End Will Be, is slated to debut at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Works include: Too Heavy for Your Pocket (2017), What The End Will Be (2020) Follow Jirèh: Twitter

C.A. Johnson Born in Louisiana, rising star C.A. Johnson writes with a southern hospitality and homespun charm that washes over audiences like a breath of fresh air. Making a debut at MCC Theater with her coming of age romcom All the Natalie Portmans, she drew praise for empathic take on a black queer teenage womanchild with Hollywood dreams. A core writer at the Playwrights Center, she has had fellowships with the Dramatists Guild Fellow, Page 73, the Lark and the Sundance Theatre Lab. Works include: All the Natalie Portmans (2020) Follow C.A.: Twitter

Johnny G. Lloyd A New York-based playwright and producer, Johnny G. Lloyd has seen his work produced and developed at the Tank, 59E59, the Corkscrew Festival, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival and more. A member of the 2019-2020 Liberation Theatre Company’s Writing Residency, this Columbia University graduate is also a producing director of InVersion Theatre. Works include: The Problem With Magic, Is (2020), Or, An Astronaut Play (2019), Patience (2018) Follow Johnny: Instagram

Patricia Ione Lloyd In her luminous 2018 breakthrough Eve’s Song at the Public Theater, Patricia Ione Lloyd offered a meditation on the violence against black women in America that is often overlooked onstage. With a style saturated in both humor and melancholy and a poetic lyricism that evokes Ntozake Shange’s, the former Tow Playwright in Residence has earned fellowships at New Georges, the Dramatist Guild, Playwrights Realm, New York Theater Workshop and Sundance. Works include: Eve’s Song (2018) Follow Patricia: Instagram

Maia Matsushita The half-Black, half-Japanese educator and playwright Maia Matsushita has sounded a silent alarm in downtown theater with an array of slow-burn, naturalistic coming-of-age dramas. She was a member of The Fire This Time’s 2017-18 New Works Lab and part of its inaugural Writers Group, and her work has been seen at Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Playwright Playground and the National Black Theatre’s Keeping Soul Alive Reading Series. Works include: House of Sticks (2019), White Mountains (2018) Follow Maia: Instagram

Daaimah Mubashshir When Daaimah Mubashshir’s kitchen-sink dramedy Room Enough (For Us All) debuted at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in 2019, the prolific writer began a dialogue around the contemporary African-American Muslim experience and black queer expression that made her a significant storyteller to watch. She is a core writer at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis as well as a member of Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group, and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Her short-play collection The Immeasurable Want of Light was published in 2018. Works include: Room Enough (For Us All) (2019) Follow Daaimah: Twitter

Jonathan Norton Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Jonathan Norton is a delightfully zany playwright who subverts notions of post-blackness by underlining America’s obscure historical atrocities with bloody red slashes. The stories he tells carry a profound horror, often viewed through the eyes of black children and young adults. Norton’s work has been produced or developed by companies including the Actors Theatre of Louisville (at the 44th Humana Festival), PlayPenn and InterAct Theatre Company. He is the Playwright in Residence at Dallas Theater Center. Works include: Mississippi Goddamn (2015), My Tidy List of Terrors (2013), penny candy (2019) Follow Jonathan: Website

AriDy Nox Cooking up piping hot gumbos of speculative fiction, transhumanism and radical womanist expression, AriDy Nox is a rising star with a larger-than-life vision. The Spelman alum earned an MFA from NYU TIsch’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and has been a staple of various theaters such as Town Stages. A member of the inaugural 2019 cohort of the Musical Theatre Factory Makers residency, they recently joined the Public Theater’s 2020-2022 Emerging Writers Group cohort. Works include: Metropolis (in progress), Project Tiresias (2018) Follow AriDy: Instagram

Akin Salawu Akin Salawu’s nonlinear, hyperkinetic work combines heart-pounding suspense chills with Tarantino-esque thrills while excavating Black trauma and Pan-African history in America. With over two decades of experience as a writer, director and editor, the prize-winning playwright is a two-time Tribeca All Access Winner and a member of both the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and Ars Nova’s Uncharted Musical Theater residency. A graduate of Stanford, he is a founder of the Tank’s LIT Council, a theater development center for male-identifying persons of color. Works include: bless your filthy lil’ heart (2019), The Real Whisperer (2017), I Stand Corrected (2008) Follow Akin: Twitter

Sheldon Shaw A playwright, screenwriter and actor, Sheldon Shaw studied writing at the Labyrinth Theater Company and was part of Playwrights Intensive at the Kennedy Center. Shaw has since developed into a sort of renaissance man, operating as playwright, screenwriter and actor. His plays have been developed by Emerging Artist Theaters New Works Festival, Classical Theater of Harlem and the Rooted Theater Company. Shaw's Glen was the winner of the Black Screenplays Matter competition and a finalist in the New York Screenplay Contest. Works include: Jailbait (2018), Clair (2017), Baby Starbucks (2015) Follow Johnny: Twitter

Nia O. Witherspoon Multidisciplinary artist Nia Ostrow Witherspoon’s metaphysical explorations of black liberation and desire have made her an in-demand presence in theater circles. The recipient of multiple honors—include New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, a Wurlitzer Foundation residency and the Lambda Literary’s Emerging Playwriting Fellowship—she is currently developing The Dark Girl Chronicles, a play cycle that, in her words, “explores the criminalization of black cis and trans women via African diaspora sacred stories.” Works include: The Dark Girl Chronicles (in progress) Follow Nia: Instagram

Brandon Webster A Brooklyn-based musical theatre writer and dramaturg, Brandon Webster has been a familiar figure in the NYC theater scene, both onstage and behind the scenes. With an aesthetic that fuses Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist storytelling, with a focus on Black liberation past and present, the composer’s work fuses psychedelic soul flourishes with alt-R&B nuances to create a sonic smorgasbord of seething rage and remorse. He is an alumnus of the 2013 class of BMI Musical Theater Workshop and a 2017 MCC Theater Artistic Fellow. Works include: Metropolis (in progress), Headlines (2017), Boogie Nights (2015) Follow Brandon: Instagram

#Black #Black LGBTQ #LGBTQ #Playwrights #Musical Theatre #Musical Theater #Writers #TimeOut #timeoutnewyork #Marcus Scott #MarcusScott #Write Marcus #WriteMarcus #Theater

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WHO WANTS TO BE ON TMS?

List of people, who should totally be on The Masked Singer

Here is a combined list of the names I’ve combined. It included both the names I personally wish would do the show & the names I would suggest the show should try to get - who would do this kind of show...who don’t hide away from a little “reality tv” (the celebs, who are currently popular - filming year-round, touring year-round, playing/competing year-round don’t usually have time for such shows, but if they’ve retitred, or taking time off, or it’s off-season/between projects...then anything’s possible...)

NOT REALLY/MOSTLY KNOWN AS SINGERS:

Adam Sandler, actor (USA)

Amanda Seyfried, actress (USA)

Amy Adams, actress (USA)

Anna Kendrick, actress (USA)

Anne Hathaway, actress (USA)

Ansel Elgort, actor (USA)

Antonio Banderas, actor (Spain/USA)

Barret Foa, actor/stage star (USA)

Brian Austin Green, actor (USA)

Bo Guiney, TV host (USA)

Cara Delevingne, actress/singer/model (UK/USA)

Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress (UK/USA)

(Colonel) Chris Hadfield, astronaut (CAN)

Chris Pine, actor (USA)

Cobie Smulders, actress (CAN/USA)

Colin Farrell, actor (UK)

Daniel Radcliffe, actor (UK)

David Anders, actor (USA)

David Duchovny, actor (USA)

David Hasselhoff, actor (USA) though, he is also known as a singer

Dermot Mulroney, actor (USA)

Donald Glover, actor (USA)

Drew Carey, actor/host (USA)

Eddie Murphy, actor (USA)

Eddie Redmayne, actor (UK)

Elyes Gabel, actor (USA)

Emily Blunt, actress (UK/USA)

Emma Stone, actress (USA)

Eric Radford, figure skater (CAN)

Esera Tuaolo, athlete/singer NFL (USA)

Ewan McGregor, actor (UK/US)

Gwyneth Paltrow, actress (USA)

Hailee Steinfeld, actress (USA)

Hugh Jackman, actor (AUS/USA)

Hugh Laurie, actor (UK/USA)

Idris Elba, actor (USA)

Jack Black, actor (USA)

Jadyn Wong, actress (CAN/USA)

James Corden, host-actor-singer (UK/USA)

Jamie Foxx, actor (USA)

Jane Levy, actress (USA)

Jared Leto, actor/singer (USA)

Jason Schwartzman, actor (USA)

Jason Segel, actor (USA)

Jason Sudeikis, actor (USA)

Jeremy Renner, actor (USA)

Jerry Stackhouse, athlete NBA (USA)

Jim Sturgess, actor (UK)

Joey Lawrence, actor/singer (USA)

John Travolta, actor (USA)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor (USA)

(Dame) Judi Dench, actress (UK)

Justin Tucker, athlete NFL (USA)

Karen Gillan, actress (UK)

Kate Winslet, actress (USA)

Katey Sagal, actress (USA)

Kevin Bacon, actor (USA)

Kiefer Sutherland, actor (USA)

Kristen Bell, actress (USA)

Liv Tyler, actress (USA)

Lucy Hale, actress (USA)

Luke Evans, Welsh actor/singer (UK)

Mandy Patinkin, actor (USA)

Mark Wahlberg, actor/singer (USA)

Martin Short, actor/comedian (USA)

Marvin Jones, athlete NFL (USA)

Matt Damon, actor (USA)

Matthew Broderick, actor (USA)

Maya Rudolph, actress/comedian (USA)

Meryl Streep, actress (USA)

Nicole Kidman, actress (USA)

Nicole Richie, actress-celebrity (USA)

NPH, actor/stage star (USA)

Odell Beckham jr, athlete NFL (USA)

Olivia Newton-John, actress/singer (UK/AUS/USA)

Patrick Wilson, actor (USA)

Peyton Manning, athlete (USA)

Rami Malek, actor (USA)

Reese Witherspoon, actress (USA)

Renée Zellwegger, actress (USA)

RDJ, actor (USA) PS. Though most know about his singing skills

Robert Pattinson, actor (USA)

Ru Paul, host/singer (USA)

Russell Crowe, actor (NZ/AUS)

Russell Wilson, athlete (USA)

Ryan Reynolds, actor (CAN/USA)

Sarah Hyland, actress (USA)

Sarah Silverman, actress/comedian (USA)

Scarlett Johansson, actress (USA)

Scott Grimes, actor (USA)

Seth MacFarlane, actor (USA)

Scott Porter, actor/singer (USA)

Skylar Astin, actor, singer (USA)

Stephen Colbert, TV host/comedian (USA)

Taron Egerton, actor (UK)

Tatyana Ali, actress (USA)

Taye Diggs, actor (USA)

Teri Hatcher, actress (USA)

Tom Cruise, actor (USA)

Tom Hiddleston, actor (UK/USA)

Tony Parker, athlete NBA (USA)

Will Smith, actor/singer (USA)

Zachary Levi, actor (USA)

Zooey Deschanel, actress (USA)

KNOWN AS SINGERS

Alicia Keys, singer (USA)

Avril Lavigne, singer (CAN)

Barbra Streisand, singer/actress (USA)

Björk, singer (Iceland)

(Lil) Bow Wow aka Shad Moss, rapper/singer, USA

Britney Spears, singer (USA)

Bruno Mars, singer (USA)

Charlie Puth, singer (USA)

Damon Albarn (Blur), singer (UK)

DMX aka Earl Simmons, rapper/singer (USA)

Eminem, rapper/singer (USA)

Enrique Iglesias, singer (SPAIN)

Harry Connick Jr, singer (USA)

Jakob Dylan, Bob Dylans son (USA)

Jamie Lynn Spears, singer (USA)

Jason Mraz, singer (USA)

Jesse McCartney, singer (USA)

John Legend, singer (USA)

Jon Bon Jovi, singer (USA)

Justin Bieber, singer (CAN)

Katy Perry, singer (USA)

Lady Gaga, singer (USA)

Leona Lewis, singer (UK)

Lily Allen, singer (UK)

LL Cool J, rapper/singer/actor (USA)

Ludacris, rapper/singer (USA)

Lukas Nelson, Willie Nelsons son (USA)

Macklemore, rapper/singer (USA)

Michael Buble, singer (CAN)

Miley Cyrus, singer (USA)

NAS, rapper (USA)

Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy), singer (USA)

Pharrell Williams, singer (USA)

Rihanna, singer (USA)

Robbie Williams, singer (UK/USA)

Snoopp Dogg, rapper/singer (USA)

will.i.am, singer/musician (USA)

CELEB FAMILY

Adam Cohen, musician...Leonard Cohen’s son (CAN)

Jaden Smith, Will & Jada Smith’s kid (USA)

Lily Collins, Phil Collin’s daughter (UK)

Paris Jackson, Michael Jackson’s daughter (USA)

Willow Smith, Will & Jada Smith’s kid (USA)

Zoe Kravitz, singer...Lenny Kravitz’ daughter (US)

YOUTUBERS

Colleen Ballinger (MirandaSings)

James Charles

Lisa Cimonelli

Madilyn Bailey

Markiplier

Sophia Scott

ALSO (WOULD MAKE THE LIST WAY TOO LONG IF ALL LISTED SEPARATELY):

ANY BOY BAND MEMBERS

ANY GIRL BAND MEMBERS

ANY BAND MEMBERS (NOT SOLO ARTISTS. eg: Slash, Brian May)

(STAGE) ACTORS/ACTRESSES

MUSICAL TV SHOW/FILM CAST MEMBERS (eg: GLEE, ZEP)

COMEDIANS/TV HOSTS

ATHLETES

I wrote this list last year, around the time S2 was airing on TV. I just added a few names now, before finally posting it.

#THE MASKED SINGER #TMS #MASKED SINGER #LIST POST

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cksmart-world · 5 years ago

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The Completely Unnecessary News Analysis

by Christopher Smart

Aug. 27

WHAT IF HILLARY HAD BEEN ELECTED...

& ROSA PARKS IS A BARBIE DOLL

If Hillary Clinton had been elected president in 2016, almost no one would know who Stormy Daniels is.

If Hillary Clinton had been elected in 2016, Jason Chaffetz would still be in Congress investigating Benghazi and Hillary's emails.

If Hillary had been elected, Sarah Huckabee Sanders would still be working at IHOP.

If Hillary Clinton had been elected, Chris Stewart, Mike Lee and Mitt Romney wouldn't look like such empty suits — OK, maybe they would, anyway.

If Hillary had been elected, Mike Pence would be a wealthy televangelist, but still couldn't eat lunch alone with a woman at Applebee's.

If Hillary had been elected, Ivanka and Jared would essentially be doing the same thing they are doing now: jet-setting, primping for cameras and letting everyone else eat cake.

If Hillary had been elected, MAGA caps would be replaced by IMPEACH HILLARY hats.

If Hillary had been elected, Stephen Miller would still be hawking Nazi memorabilia online and at the Saturday swap meet.

If Hillary had been elected, the United States wouldn't be a punch line in Europe.

And if Hillary Clinton had been elected president, Donald Trump would be back on TV with Sean Hannity and Laura Ingram in a sitcom called “Arrested Development,” or maybe “Beavis and Butthead.”

A Rosa Parks Barbie Doll? Get On The Bus

Sixty four years after civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., Mattel has come out with a doll in her honor. (We are not making this up.) Note: A bus is not included with the new Barbie Doll — make that Rosa Doll. Yes Barbie has changed. Mattel also is offering dolls in the likeness of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, aviator Amelia Earhart and astronaut Sally Ride. Historically, critics have savaged Mattel for portraying Barbie in a singular and unattainable body type: 5-feet-9, a 39-inch bust, an 18-inch waist and a size 3 shoe. (Seems like she'd tip over quite easily.) The doll is not a healthy prototype, according to the book “Body Wars” by Margo Maine, a clinical psychologist who specializes in eating disorders. But it's a brand-new day according to Mattel: “These historical women broke boundaries that made the world a better place for future generations of girls.” So instead of trying to get a date with Ken, girls can now fight for civil rights or paint surrealistic self-portraits. We're not sure about the outer space thing, but you gotta dream big. As for Ken, sorry dude, you are so yesterday. Can you get us some coffee?

Utah Legislators Love Democracy

We hear a lot about democracy from our political leaders. Many say voting is the cornerstone of democracy. But, of course, democracy has a broader meaning — or should we say promise. It promises justice for all. It promises the community will protect the individual. It promises the people will rule themselves. Promises, promises, promises. Utah legislators love to talk about democracy — until it comes to voter ballot initiatives. Then they think of other promises — like their promise to protect people from themselves. Case in point: Proposition 3 that would fully expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare. The state Republican brain trust on Capitol Hill hates Medicaid because it delivers healthcare to people who can't afford it — the devil's work. So even though voters approved Prop 3 in what can only be seen as an exercise in democracy, Republican leaders had a better idea. They'd trim it back to save some bucks — why throw money at poor, sickly people, anyway. Oops, hold on — it turns out that the Utah Republican plan costs $2.5 million more per month than full expansion would have, according to the state Medicaid director. Darn. Foiled again. Looks like it's back to the back rooms for our righteous legislators who will continue to determine in secret what's best for us. They love democracy, just ask them.

The United States of Special Interests

Speaking of democracy and its origins in ancient Greece, we have to wonder what Plato would make of our system where money is speech and corporations are people. It's no secret that you need millions to get elected to Congress and millions more to stay there. Recently, The Salt Lake Tribune's Tommy “The Bullet” Burr gave us a peek behind the curtain of how Washington works. For example, Congressman Rob Bishop gets a lot of dough from the oil and gas industry. Oh, and the fact that he's the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee is no coincidence. As Tommy writes: “Bishop's committee assignment puts him in a prime position to write legislation that directly affects the folks forking over campaign cash to him.” Before you spit up in your coffee, remember that this is business as usual in our Congress. Democracy? Right. The notion that our system has been subverted by special interests would make Plato puke: the rich get richer and the powerful get more power. The promise of democracy is turned upside-down by those who would gain at the expense of others. As Republicans like to insist, giving rich people tax breaks is really good for everyone else. They keep selling “Trickle Down Economics” as Americans continue to lose spending power, but Utah voters must love it because they just keep electing Republicans. For the rest of us, it's more like “Trickle Down Your Leg.”

Well, the staff here at Smart Bomb is back in good ol' Zion after our dazzling road trip to enchanted New Mexico. Wilson and the band had a great time, too. They thought it was cool they could buy booze at gas stations in New Mexico. They loved the White Sands National Monument, because, according to Wilson, it was like walking in warm snow. The staff really got into the old New Mexico towns of Silver City and Las Vegas that are off the beaten path — great places to hide from the rest of the world. Still, our crack political analysts did miss a lot of news, which was quite relaxing, by the way. But we did hear second-hand that Trump wants to nuke hurricanes, that he is the “chosen one” who will part the Yangtze River and that American Jews who vote for Democrats are no better than Palestinians. As strange as all that sounds, it's not surprising.

All right Wilson, it's great to be back home, so wake up the band and take us out with a little something to rest our weary travelin' bones:

Just got home from Illinois / Lock the front door, oh, boy! / Got to sit down, / Take a rest on the porch. / Imagination sets in, / Pretty soon I'm singin'. / Doo, doo, doo, / Lookin' out my back door...

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