#brooklyn thomason

[macbethz]

i love all the city we became avatars equally <3 *thinks about manhattan* so theres this borough-

the first drawing is very special 2 me because i finally was able to draw him exactly how i imagined him while reading which is always a struggle for me when drawing characters from books

[sapphicfog]

The Avatars of New York City Part 1 - NYC, Manhattan, Brooklyn

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

[froppy-butterflyfan2000]

A case is solved after one incident, triggered that siblings got involved at the library after their apartment got ruined. It leads to heartbreaks and losses as a result.

Dan, Max, Velvet, Stella Junior of Solaria (mentioned fairy that got defeated by Ethan), Elizabeth, Umbra-Violet/Umbra-Victoria, Alice, Kai of Solaria (mentioned), Astra Nova Lumenia, and Dorana II S. Lumenia belong to @gloriousdreamunknown

Morgan Morningstar (mentioned), Haruko Fife (mentioned), and Reggie Mann (mentioned) belong to @aprilbrowines

Ethan Corduroy, Bradley McPherson (mentioned), Evelyn Utonium, Serpent Corduroy, Sandra Stoppable, and Travis Mystery belong to @ej-cappy-universe

Niko Corduroy, Albius J. Artica, Janaya A. Bloodworth-Thomason (mentioned), Jase Ewing, Hannibal Demerest, Hibonite, Brooklyn, Duchess/Tiara, Josie Test (mentioned) and Mirage B. Fagry (mentioned) belong to @froppy-butterflyfan2000 (me)

Candy Nguyen/Candy Thompson (mentioned), Sienna Grey/Sienna James (mentioned), and Maddie Langston (mentioned) belong to @cooltmoney95

[heckoffmate]

Fanman and Kyle get gay married

Original scene from Brooklyn Nine-Nine

[choicescreen]

NEW YORK AVATARS. when this city came alive, a small group of people were chosen to represent it. 

bronca sinawoy. butch lesbian. sixty-eight. lenape.THE BRONX. hot-tempered. fuck around and find out. she was at stonewall when she was seventeen, the alcatraz occupation when she was eighteen, heavily involved in aim all throughout her twenties and thirties, soothed aids patients when their families and nurses didn’t, and somehow had the time to get her phd in art history. she runs an art center in the bronx, and is about to be a grandmother. as the oldest of the avatars, she works as the knowledge holder, and can tell you anything you need or want to know about her city. (i write her, so she goes first.)

the primary. queer. twenty-one. black. NEW YORK CITY. a homeless artist, the avatars are in search for this enigmatic young man throughout the events of the novel. 

manny. bisexual. late twenties. black. MANHATTAN. he loses most memory of his former life, representing his role as a new new yorker. he is a somewhat ruthless strategist. he can allow non-avatar new yorkers to see the enemy if he needs to use them. 

brooklyn “mc free” thomason. heterosexual. fifty-two. black. BROOKLYN. former rapper, lawyer, and current city councilwoman. she has a middle school aged daughter and a sick father. her power is rooted in music. bronca called her out for homophobic lyrics back in the 80s once she realized who she was, something she apologized for.

padmini prakash. lesbian. twenty-five. tamil. QUEENS. graduate student. her power is rooted in mathematical imagination that can change physical reality. she’s bubbly and a little awkward, but very intelligent and quick-witted once she believes in herself. 

aislyn houlihan. heterosexual. thirty. white. STATEN ISLAND. lives with her parents. her father is an abusive, racist cop who calls her “apple”. she can become invisible. she’s involved in n*zi bullshit, so she’s a villain and everyone rightfully fucking hates her. she joins the side of the enemy, eventually. 

OTHERS. cities already born, side characters, and enemies. 

mr. hong. none of your fucking business. appears late fifties, actually much older. chinese. HONG KONG. chinese-inflected british accent. smokes, but doesn’t like it, representing the smog and pollution of his city. kind of an asshole. never not seen in a suit. told bronca to “fuck off” when she told him he couldn’t smoke in a specific area, so he’s got brass balls. 

paulo. bisexual. appears early thirties, actually late thirties. brazilian. SÃO PAULO. due to him being the last city “born”, paulo was saddled with the responsibility of helping new york be “birthed”. the only city “born” in this side of the world. also a major smoker, which he can use to combat enemies and other … eldritch horrors.

veneza. bisexual. trans. twenty-four. black and portuguese. NEW JERSEY. works with bronca at the bronx art center. sees bronca as a mother figure.

the enemy. ageless. UNKNOWN. an infectious, otherworldly lifeform that wants to kill the newly born city of new york. it appears in many forms, including the woman in white (basically a karen girlboss stereotype), dr. white, contagious fungal fronds, and x-shaped spider-like creatures. 

[sistahscifi]

#NKJemisin's sequel to The City We Became got rave reviews from @gq!!! Who is your favorite character/borough? Let us know in the comments. For us, it's a tie between Bronca and Brooklyn!! From @wikipedia: The Primary: the avatar of New York City. A queer Black homeless young man. An artist and hustler. Manny: the avatar of Manhattan. A queer Black man in his late 20s. When he becomes Manhattan's avatar, he loses most memory of his former life, representing his role as a new New Yorker. He is a somewhat ruthless strategist. He can allow non-avatar New Yorkers to see the Enemy if he needs to use them. Brooklyn "MC Free" Thomason: the avatar of Brooklyn. A Black, middle-aged former rapper, lawyer, and current city councilwoman. She has a child and a sick father. Her power is rooted in music. Bronca Siwanoy: the avatar of The Bronx. A lesbian Lenape woman in her 60s. She has a PhD, a hot temper, and a son, and works at the Bronx art center. She is the oldest of the six avatars and thus the holder of the city's lexicon of knowledge. Padmini Prakash: the avatar of Queens. A 25-year-old Tamil immigrant graduate student living in Queens. Her first name means "she who sits on the lotus". She can use mathematical imagination to change physical reality. Aislyn Houlihan: the avatar of Staten Island. A 30-year-old white woman who lives with her parents on Staten Island. Her father is an abusive, racist cop who calls her "Apple", though her name means "dream". She can become invisible. We are currently sold out of signed copies of The World We Make - the second and final book in the Great Cities Duology, but join our mailing list for restock notifications. Link in bio: @sistahscifi Reposted from @orbitbooks_us All is not well in the city that never sleeps...⁣ ⁣ The World We Make, the conclusion to N.K. Jemisin’s Great Cities Duology, is out this November. Available for pre-order now! #SistahScifi #newyorkcity #brooklyn #thebronx #queens #statenisland #manhattan #thecityborngreat #thecitywebecame #theworldwemake #QueerFantasy #queercharacters #howlongtilblackfuturemonth // @hachetteus (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjGGDzoroR6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bandstolookup]

* brother reade

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* flume

* jpegmafia

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* SALES

* young stoner life

* title fight

* jaden

* marc dēlo

* thomas parker

* reptaliens

* josé gonzález

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* vundabar

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* yasiin bey

* yusuf

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[wub-fur-radio]

Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want The Truth?

A word war will set off the keg. My words are war Should a word have two meanings? What the fuck for? Should words serve the truth? I stand for language. I speak for truth. I shout for history I am a cesspool for all the shit to run down in…

–Mike Watt

If you can’t handle the truth please take cover, ’cause we’re detonating these twenty-three 21st century lo-fi punk rock, post-punk, garage punk, and indie rock truth bombs right here, right now. Featuring true, true-ish, and/or truth adjacent words and several enjoyably eclectic varieties of loud (and loud-ish) rock music from DUMB, Hookworms, Wax Idols, Wolf Mountain, Lithics, The Space Merchants, and 17 more bands who hope you people can pick up on what they’re putting down.

Dedicated to D. Boon—“Part of what he was is a part of all of us now.”

Apologies to Watt (and Hurley, and, I suppose, Tweedy). No Minutemen were harmed in the making of this mix.

Play on Mixcloud (or scroll down to use one of the embedded players below)

Running Time: 1 hour, 5 seconds

Tracklist

Power Trip (1:36) — DUMB | Vancouver

Psychic Vampires on the Loose (1:49) — Brad Thomason | Salt Lake City †

New Day (2:31) — The Surfing Magazines | London †

Left Me Waiting (1:19) — Marriage Material | Los Angeles

Boiler Pit (1:33) — Bummerville | Chicago †

Same for Me (4:38) — Cable Ties | Melbourne †

I've Had It (2:47) — Kid Chrome | Seattle

Don't Screw Up (1:48) — Wolf Mountains | Stuttgart †

Topanga Keepsake (2:29) — Behavior | Los Angeles †

Strength Water (2:09) — Brutalism | Austin †

American Dream (4:22) — Lucid Nation | Los Angeles

Coup d'épée (2:08) — Corridor | Montreal †

Indigo (2:51) — Daysee | Chicago

Word (3:33) — The Lamps | San Francisco

Boxing Day (2:24) — Hookworms | Leeds

I Am The Meat (3:01) — Ill | Manchester

Chemical Shift (2:12) — Freak Genes | Manchester

To the Edge of the World (3:26) — The Space Merchants | Brooklyn

The City Against Itself (2:02) — Bad Meds | Liverpool #

Heaven Knows (3:56) — Wax Idols | California

Glass of Water (1:20) — Lithics | Portland

Astrophysical Graffiti (3:57) — Anywhere | Los Angeles

Far Away from You (2:13) — Shark Toys | Los Angeles

All tracks released 2018, except † released 2017 and # released 2015.

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[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday-Wednesday, February 27-28, 2018

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Forget (Dawn/Faith, Teen) by cmk418

Right Words, Right Actions (Buffy/Spike, R) by katleept

Heart Reborn (Buffy/Spike, Gen) by vogue91

And when I see her move I see the Hell to pay (Buffy/Spike, Gen) by vogue91

It's Far Better to Learn (Faith/Tara, Gen) by slutorama

Resurrected (Spike/Reader, Not rated) by mrs-john-winchester

[Re: Prompt: Tara and Faith being on a date but neither of them being aware that it's a date] (Tara/Faith, Not rated) by lesbidar

[Chaptered Fiction]

The Vampire and The Lost Boy (CHAPTER 1) (Angel/Gwen Raiden, Winifred "Fred" Burkle/Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, M) by QueenOfDestielLand

Go West, Paradise is There (CHAPTER 1) (Buffy/Giles, Teen) by Figure_of_Dismay

Takes A Hit (CHAPTER 1) (Faith, Dawn, Buffy, crossover with Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Supernatural, Explicit) by MillieMae

You See Me (CHAPTER 1) (Tara/Faith, Teen) by anyasbunny

Brooklyn's Calling (CHAPTER 1) (Angel, Cordelia, T) by CyberChick135

Something to Talk About (CHAPTER 4) (Xander/Buffy, M) by Janis-70

The Bargaining (CHAPTER 16) (Buffy, Angel, M) by evilbuffyfan4eva

[Images, Audio & Video]

Tattoo: My new #BuffyTheVampireSlayer tattoo by Krissy Bergquist at Electric Tattoo linked by taxidermyworms

Artwork: He’s so damn pretty (Spike) by infinityoftwo

Artwork: [Illustration for we’ll be demon hunters by @neonbars (tara/faith)] by lesbidar

Artwork: faith and tara are dating! by lesbidar

Fanmix: a(n emo) tara/faith fanmix by neonbars

[Reviews & Recaps]

Buffy Reviewed, Season 11, Issue 11 by harsens-rob

BTVS Rewatch Season 1 Episode 7: Angel by thedoctorsprincess

BTVS Rewatch Season 1 Episode 6: The Pack by thedoctorsprincess

Ep 50: Giles' Demon Drag Race by ianxcarlos

Giles Mini - Issue 1 - Thoughts/Review by lilyginnyblackv2

BTVS Rewatch Season 1 Episode 8: I Robot, You Jane by thedoctorsprincess

BTVS Rewatch Season 1 Episode 10: Nightmares by thedoctorsprincess

BTVS Rewatch Season 1 Episode 9: The Puppet Show by thedoctorsprincess

PODCAST: 719: Empty Places by tinyfences

PODCAST: 3.19: Choices by bufferingthevampireslayer

PODCAST: S04E04 - Thomason's Pinterest Account - Fear, Itself by popculturerolecall

[Recs]

More Links Than A Bag Of Sausages - 2/27 by petzipellepingo

More Links Than A Bag Of Sausages - 2/28 by petzipellepingo

[Community Announcements]

Submit to our March Fanfic Contest! by thesunnydalefanficclub

[Fandom Discussions]

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[Re: "Restless"] by whataseamus and quasi-normalcy

[Re: Who would Jenny and Giles ask to be bridesmaids/best men and how?] by jenny-calendar

[Re: What do Jenny and Giles look for in their first house together?] by jenny-calendar

Giles #01 updated covers by buffythecomicslayer

[Re: Relationship drama] by we-pay-for-everything

[Send me ideas for official Buffy merch you’d like to own] by kathubs

[Re: BtVS meme] by bangelicchocoholic

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How to Slay the Buffy Way: Badass Buffy Attitude and Killer Life Advice linked by buffythecomicslayer

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[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

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[equalityforflatbush]

New “This Is Flatbush” Documentary Fights Back Against the Corporate Rebranding of Flatbush, Brooklyn

#ThisIsFlatbush #FlatbushForever #LittleCaribbean  #Beforeitsgone  #TakeItBack ​ #BrooklynisNotforSale

Brooklyn, New York - May 23, 2016 - This Is Flatbush is a new documentary short taking aim at the corporate rebranding of Flatbush, Brooklyn through a compilation of interviews with longtime residents, transplants, activists and a professor of urban planning.

In This Is Flatbush, residents and activists talk about parts of the neighborhood they've long known as Flatbush and the very recent appearance of "Prospect Lefferts Gardens" and "Ditmas Park" on maps. Residents also discuss their fears of losing their homes due to skyrocketing rents as well as how gentrification threatens to destroy the very identity of this largely low-to-middle income migrant community of color.

"Traditionally, the ‘re-branding’ of a neighborhood is done , in order to distance it from whatever the real estate industry feels is ‘problematic’ about the existing neighborhood in order to re-package it to newcomers",  said Victor Moses, a life-long East Flatbush resident and activist with E4F. "The re-branding of Flatbush, it is about the erasure of Caribbean and other migrant families of color who have built this community, who struggle to continue to live here and make this place somewhere to be proud of."

Most importantly, This Is Flatbush focuses on the causes of the neighborhood's gentrification, namely the collusion between the city government, real estate developers, landlords to profit by evicting longtime tenants and rebranding Flatbush with other names in order to attract wealthier, largely white residents from whom larger sums of rent can be charged as new luxury high-rises are constructed.

The documentary was produced as a collaboration between Equality for Flatbush and New York University graduate film students Blair McClendon and Harry Cepka. Imani Henry of Equality for Flatbush (E4F) provided the direction and conducted the interviews. Anna Simmons of E4F arranged many of the interviews and assisted with the general production.

This Is Flatbush features Joyce Stewart, President of 320 Sterling Pl Tenants Association; Ninaj Raoul, Executive Director of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees; Bob Thomason, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association (PLGNA) Founder; Steven Rice, PLGNA Secretary; Tom Angotti, Professor of Urban Planning and Policy at Hunter College; and Flatbush residents Simone, Ashley, Angel, Stephen and Eileen, among others.

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[drewthomason-blog]

title: fool me once. characters: mentions of wren and drew’s parents. summary: drew finds himself in a sticky situation with the diamonds. trigger warning: gun violence

He waits for his parents to fall asleep, his mother always the first to drift off into a heavy slumber, followed shortly after by his father. He doesn’t worry about waking either of them as he slips past their bedroom, the door ajar and the warm, yellow light spilling out into the hallway from his father’s bedside lamp. Drew learned long ago that his parents were heavy sleepers, when he was seven years old he sneaked out of his bedroom every weekend to watch horror movies in his fathers office. When he was sixteen years old he swapped sneaking out of his bedroom for horror movies for climbing out of his bedroom window to go to parties with his friends and practice his lock picking skills on the other apartments in his building. Drew didn’t see it as too much of a risk for getting caught, if anybody did catch him lingering around outside of their house in their neighbourhood he knew they wouldn’t think too much about it — nobody would suspect Drew Thomason, the son of two criminal lawyers being a criminal.

He moves through the rest of the house like a ghost, silent footsteps hurrying down the spiral staircase and the sleeping tabby cat on the back of the leather chesterfield sofa, scratching the sleeping feline softly behind his ear on his way out. The young thief feels a rush of adrenaline through his body as his feet pound the sidewalks of Manhattan, searching for a car or building for him to pick the locks of. It’s not for want or needing that’s compelled him to leave the comforts of his bed tonight, but the itch and desire that was burning inside of himself to prove that he was good, no incredible at what he did. His graduation from high school was looming over his head, his parents pushing him to decide on which of the major universities he would be attending in the country, but Drew had another path set out for himself. He was going to meet with Wren Diamond, leader of The Diamonds and earn himself a spot on the man’s payroll. It was the most effort and energy Drew had put into anything in his entire life, he wanted to make sure he was perfect and that his skills were as refined as they could be.

When Drew found the apartment building that he was going to test his skills out on, he wasted no time in finding his way into the building. He made his way quickly through the buildings foyer and found an elevator to ride to the top floor. Drew was born and raised in Manhattan, he knew the best apartments to steal from were always on the top floor. He rode the elevator to the top, his heart beating with the same excitement he always got before pulling a job. When the elevator doors opened, he peered his head around the corner to make sure the coast was clear before stepping out and into the penthouse apartment. Drew retrieved his phone from his back pocket, snapping a quick picture of himself in the penthouse and sending it to Kieran with the following message… LOOKS LIKE I’VE HIT THE JACKPOT !! 😏👏 💵

It took Drew longer than he would have liked to admit to find anything worth stealing, and even longer to find anything he actually wanted to steal. He wanted something with value, but something he wouldn’t have to put a lot of time and energy into fleecing. It took the thief even longer to find any cash lying around the apartment. Drew figured that if whoever lived here could afford the rent, they’d have a safe of some kind lying around somewhere or at least have an envelope of money hidden beneath their mattress. Drew had searched the bedroom first, knowing everybody hid their most valuable items in their bedroom, followed by the kitchen and finally the bathroom. He lifted the lid on the tank of the toilet, frowning some when he wasn’t greeted by drugs or money. Instead he had found a gun taped to the inside of the tank and while he couldn’t fence the weapon for much, he did begin to wonder what type of person lived in the penthouse. He continued searching the rest of the bathroom, reaching up high and down low until he opened the bathroom sink cupboard doors and began rooting through the aftershaves, cleaning products and the folded up towels. He searched the back of the inside of the cupboard with his fingertips, a smirk crossing his lips when he found a loose corner and pulled it open. “So, that’s where you’ve been hiding.” He said in a sing-song voice, staring into a hidden hole in the wall behind the cupboard filled with rolled up stacks of money, several bags of what he guessed to be cocaine and another gun that was similar to the one hidden in the tank behind the toilet. 

- - -

As he stares down the barrel of Wren Diamond’s gun, a bead of sweat trickling down the side of his face, Drew can’t help but wonder how he could have been so stupid - so reckless. He should have known that the penthouse apartment he had broken into a few days ago belonged to Wren, or at least one of his diamonds. Nobody in Manhattan would have that much cash, drugs and weapons lying around if they weren’t involved in New York’s criminal underground. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid… Drew’s pale, blue eyes search the subway cart frantically, pleading for help from somebody, anybody. Beneath his panicked, rapid breathing though he knows his attempts to look for help are pointless. Wren Diamond is a powerful man, powerful enough to have arranged for this train to only allow access to Drew. It sparks a tiny, flickering flame of excitement burning underneath the fear in his chest. How does he do it? How many people does he have on his payroll? How far does his influence stretch?

“You’re about to learn.” The leader of the Diamond says, as if he was able to read Drew’s thoughts. The young thief frowned some, annoyed with himself for being easier to read than a children’s book. Wren Diamond is a powerful man, but he isn’t powerful enough to trick Drew into believing he can read his mind. Perhaps it’s a look he’s grown used to over the years, the slow realisation on the face of his victims that they really did choose the wrong guy to screw over. “Wait,” Drew demands, having no interest in finding out just how far his influence does stretch. “I can’t give you back what I stole, I don’t have it anymore. I sold the drugs, I spent the earnings even quicker. You don’t need to kill me. Nobody wants to clean up a body on the j-train tonight, yeah?” He half chuckles, flashing the man with the gun pointed at him an almost sincere charming grin. The air shifts around them, crackling like lightning as Drew hears the sound of the safety trigger being flicked off. Drew’s a dead man, he knows it. His parents will mourn him, his mother for longer than his father though he doesn’t doubt that she grieves for the loss of his potential more than for the loss of her own son. For a fleeting moment he considers using his parents as a threat, warning the leader of the Diamonds that both of his parents are criminal lawyers and could ruin him. You might as well put a bullet in their heads yourself. The voice inside of his head is right, he’d be signing their death sentence if he tried to threaten Wren with them, it wasn’t the smart play, it was reckless and a long shot. If Wren had people who could clear a train travelling through Brooklyn, then he knew he’d surely have people whose strings he could pull in a court room.

“Okay.” Wren lowered his gun, much to the surprise of the other Diamond members who stood by either door on the cart. “Nobody dies.” Drew let out a sigh of relief, his shoulders dropping in turn. “Tonight. Nobody dies tonight.“ Wren added as a warning. “You’re in luck, Mr Thomason. It just so happens you’ve caught me in a bind. You see, as luck would have it I’m in need of a thief and she’s dropped you right in my lap — Or should I say my penthouse?” He smirked, which made Drew slightly more uncomfortable than when he had been pointing a gun at him. At least then he knew what the man was thinking. “You’re going to pull some jobs for me where and when I tell you to until you’ve paid off your debt to me and after that if you ever try and steal from me again, we won’t be meeting in such a friendly environment again. Understood?”

Drew nodded, his head was racing with a mixture of sensations — relief, exhilaration, trepidation. Wren had given him a second chance, and a foot in the door into the Diamond’s world. It may not have been the meeting with the leader of the Diamonds that Drew had envisioned, but he was one step closer to becoming a Diamond now.

“When do we get started?”

[iwaseasymeat]

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Article from WSJ: Guilt Is Powerful for Those Doing Fine in the Lockdown

People who can work from home feel conflicted about being so fortunate

Being happy and fortunate in a time of widespread suffering can be a burden of its own. JON KRAUSE

By Nancy Keates

When people ask how she’s doing, Kathren Cavanaugh tries hard not to sound too cheerful.

She can’t deny she is extremely happy with her life amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Her husband’s general-contracting work has evaporated—but that’s given him time to focus on renovating their own house, and they are cooking and working out together more.

But she also feels a sense of unease that things are good for her while they are so bad for others. That guilt spurred her to start volunteering last month for Meals on Wheels, delivering lunches to seniors.

“The hardest thing has been realizing what a bubble I live in. I don’t know anybody who knows anybody who has the virus,” says the 62-year-old strategic-planning consultant from Lake Oswego, Ore.

Guilt is a subject that is coming up a lot in therapists’ offices around the country right now. Counselors say clients who can work from home are expressing discomfort with the dichotomy between the improvement in their lives during lockdown and the devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. They are asking themselves whether it is fair that they are not experiencing the same pain they are seeing in the news.

Of course, feeling guilty is a good position to be in. Few if any of the people feeling guilty would want to change places with those who are sick or have lost their jobs. Yet the pain of guilt is also real, and it is important that people acknowledge it. For one thing, to ignore it carries more-serious psychological consequences. And to accept it has broader societal benefits as people channel their guilt into volunteering and other positive endeavors.

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FOUR WAYS TO PROCESS GUILT

Shift your guilt into gratitude, suggests Hilary Jacobs Hendel, a psychotherapist in New York and author of “It’s Not Always Depression.” Instead of feeling guilty for not being affected by the crisis, feel grateful not to be affected.

Give yourself permission to express feelings, says therapist and coach Christine Forte in Brooklyn, N.Y. She likens reaction to the coronavirus crisis to survivor’s guilt, when people think they don’t have a right to be fine because others have suffered. “Being able to enjoy your life isn’t wrong,” she says.

Don’t compare yourself to other people, says Carla Marie Manly, a clinical psychologist in Santa Rosa, Calif. “Stay in your own lane,” she says. There is no benefit to feeling shame because others are feeling pain. Instead, focus on how you can bring joy to other people.

Allow yourself to hold two opposing feelings at the same time, says Alisa Kamis-Brinda of Philadelphia based Serenity Solutions. Instead of saying “This stinks but I am grateful for what I have,” say, “This stinks and I am grateful for what I have.”

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Managing the negatives

“Ninety percent of my clients who are doing well feel an edge of guilt,” says Carla Marie Manly, a clinical psychologist in Santa Rosa, Calif. She warns patients of the toxicity of comparing themselves to other people: There is no benefit to feeling bad because others are feeling pain, and such guilt only leads to anger, sadness and depression.

One way to stop the progression to anger is to process that feeling, says Alisa Kamis-Brinda, owner of Philadelphia-based therapy practice Serenity Solutions, who is also seeing many people racked with guilt right now. She advises that the way for people to cope with guilt is to accept that they are feeling great even though the current crisis is terrible.

“You can’t push away the emotion. You have to validate it,” she says. Then, she says, recognize that you can feel bad about doing well in this crisis at the same time that you feel grateful you’re doing well.

“People are feeling really conflicted right now,” says Jennie Steinberg, founder of Through the Woods Therapy Center in Los Angeles. She likens the feeling to survivor’s guilt, when there is a sense of injustice. She recommends a positive action to correct that feeling and to express gratitude.

Gratitude is what has worked for Jennifer O’Donnell, a 49-year-old stay-at-home mom in Houston. She and her husband, an investor, have friends in the oil business who are suffering from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. “We are really aware of how blessed we are and how easily it could not be like this for us,” she says.

Ms. O’Donnell is cherishing the time she is spending during the lockdown with her husband and three daughters. She is also reaching out, making an effort to connect to her community by getting to know the farmers she buys vegetables from at the market every week. And the family is giving money to their church’s community projects.

Indeed, guilt doesn’t have to be destructive, some philosophers argue—in fact, properly understood, it can motivate people to address some of the inequities that the virus is revealing.

“If you haven’t done anything wrong, there’s no reason to feel guilty,” says Susan Wolf, a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of “Meaning in Life and Why It Matters.” Everybody’s life has been changed by the current crisis; even if a person is fine overall, they are still likely feeling the frustrations. “You’re allowed to feel frustration,” she says.

She adds that although there’s no reason to feel guilty, there is reason to feel sympathy, compassion, and a desire to help those in one’s community who are seriously harmed and suffering as a result of the pandemic.

Many people are feeling guilt that goes beyond the personal level. Guilt is pervasive now because the coronavirus crisis has opened up a very real class division in the country between those whose jobs allow them to stay home and those whose lives and livelihoods are in the process of being destroyed, says Wilfred McClay, a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma.

Make it better

Krista Thomason, associate professor of philosophy at Swarthmore College, sees it as valuable for a person to worry about being good, as long as it makes them think about what they can do to change a situation instead of blaming themselves, since an appreciation of happiness during quarantine isn’t tied to other people’s suffering.

Guilt tends to promote reparative action, such as helping those in need, says Patricia Greenspan, a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of “Practical Guilt.” She says those benefiting from the crisis have an ethical responsibility to contribute to efforts to alleviate others’ suffering.

Catherine Wilson, author of “Moral Animals: Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory,” thinks that someone who feels guilty should think instead about what kind of world would be an improvement on the one we are living in now. If people don’t feel bad about enjoying themselves but see that they can make life better for others, they can use their energy and talent to activate moral leadership, sparking innovations to make society more just and fair, she says.

Ben West, a 39-year-old Boulder, Colo., entrepreneur, feels guilty that he had to let two of his 26 employees go as a result of the crisis. To alleviate that emotion, Mr. West, who is in the middle of launching a grill company, is working to keep his startup going and the rest of his staff in their jobs.

However, Mr. West is not conflicted about how some aspects of his life during quarantine are better. He now gets to see his 6-month-old daughter before bed every night. He saw her eat her first solid food, and he caught her first laugh.

“It has let me fall in love with my daughter a lot faster,” says Mr. West.

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Noticias de series de la semana: Netflix cancela 'One Day at a Time'

Renovaciones

ITV ha renovado Manhunt por una segunda temporada

NBC ha renovado The Blacklist por una séptima temporada

Starz ha renovado Now Apocalypse por una segunda temporada

Starz ha renovado American Gods por una tercera temporada

Cancelaciones

Netflix ha cancelado One Day at a Time tras su tercera temporada

La segunda temporada de Gigantes (Movistar+) será la última

Netflix ha cancelado The Innocents tras su primera temporada

Noticias cortas

Hallmark Channel ha cortado lazos con Lori Loughlin tras su arresto por la estafa universitaria y ha retirado el episodio de este domingo de When Calls the Heart mientras valora todas las opciones creativas. Tampoco cuentan con ella para la quinta y última temporada de Fuller House en Netflix.

Azie Tesfai (Kelly Olsen) será regular en la quinta temporada de Supergirl.

Incorporaciones y fichajes

Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Killing Eve, Barry) será Taylor, una abogada bisexual, feminista, apasionada y admirada por su marido (Reid Scott), con el que mantiene una relación abierta, en Why Women Kill.

Kathleen Turner (The War of the Roses, Peggy Sue Got Married) será la exmujer de Sandy (Michael Douglas) en la segunda temporada de The Kominsky Method. Sustituye a Jacqueline Bisset, que fue anunciada anteriormente.

David Morrissey (The Walking Dead, The Missing), Luke Treadaway (Fortitude, Traitors), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones, And Then There Were None), Jane Horrocks (Trollied, Absolutely Fabulous), Colm Meaney (Hell on Wheels, Will), Elizabeth Tan (Coronation Street) y Georgia Blizzard (Emu Runner) protagonizarán The Singapore Grip, la adaptación de la novela de J.G. Farrell (1978) para ITV escrita por Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement) y dirigida por Tom Vaughan (Doctor Foster).

Esai Morales (Ozark, How to Get Away with Murder) será Deathstroke en la segunda temporada de Titans.

Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness, Black Mirror), Tamsin Greig (Episodes, Friday Night Dinner), Philip Glenister (Outcast, Life on Mars) y Harriet Walter (The Crown, Flowers) protagonizarán Belgravia.

Frank Whaley (Luke Cage, Ray Donovan) será recurrente en Interrogation como el segundo detective del caso.

John Magaro (The Umbrella Academy, Orange Is the New Black) se une a Newark -antes conocida como The Many Saints of Newark- la película precuela de The Sopranos, que se estrenará en cines el 25 de septiembre de 2020.

Brooklyn McLinn (Parenthood, Happily Never After), Dilshad Vadsaria (Greek, Revenge) y Cecilia Leal (Five Feet Apart) estarán en la segunda temporada de Cloak and Dagger.

Asha Kamali será recurrente en la tercera temporada de Star como Missy, tía de GiGi (Keke Palmer).

David DeSantos (The Rookie) será recurrente en la cuarta temporada de Animal Kingdom como Dennis Livengood, agente de la DEA.

Bailey Chase (Longmire, Saving Grace) y David Andrews (Justified, Shooter) se unen a la cuarta temporada de Queen of the South. Serán Eddie Brucks, un músico que intenta superar su vida personal; y Cecil Lafayette, un juez de buena familia de Louisiana.

Rufus Jones (The Casual Vacancy, W1A), Stephanie Hyam (Bodyguard, Peaky Blinders), Leanne Best (Fortitude, Cold Feet), Samuel Barnett (Dirk Gently, Penny Dreadful) y Robert Emms (Atlantis, Happy Valley) se unen a The Barking Murders.

Evan Evagora se une como regular a la serie de Star Trek protagonizada por Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).

Pósters

    Nuevas series

Sky encarga seis episodios de Cobra, que cuenta qué pasa en los pasillos de las sedes de poder durante tiempos de emergencia nacional. Protagonizada por Robert Carlyle (Once Upon a Time, Trainspotting), Victoria Hamilton (The Crown, Doctor Foster), Richard Dormer (Game of Thrones, Fortitude), David Haig (Killing Eve, Penny Dreadful), Marsha Thomason (White Collar, Better Things) y Lucy Cohu (Broadchurch, Ripper Street). Escrita por Ben Richards (Strike, The Tunnel).

Showtime ha encargado ocho episodios de la limited series Good Lord Bird, basada en la novela de James McBride (2013), sobre un esclavo adolescente que se convierte en miembro de la variopinta familia del abolicionista John Brown. Ethan Hawke (Before Sunrise, Gattaca) interpretará a Brown y escribirá y producirá la serie junto a Mark Richard (Hell on Wheels). Dirigida por Anthony Hemingway (American Crime Story).

Netflix desarrolla All The Light We Cannot See, adaptación de la novela de Anthony Doerr (2014) sobre una adolescente ciega francesa y un soldado alemán cuyos caminos se cruzan en la Francia ocupada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, Thor: Ragnarok) escribirá y dirigirá el piloto de Time Bandits, adaptación para Apple de la película de Terry Gilliam (1981) sobre un niño que descubre un agujero temporal en su armario y vive aventuras recorriendo la Historia junto a seis enanos.

Amazon desarrolla Port of Earth, adaptación del cómic de Zack Kaplan y Andrea Mutti sobre la conversión de nuestro planeta en un puerto alienígena.

Amy Adams producirá para HBO la limited series Poisonwood Bible, adaptación de la novela de Barbara Kingsolver (1998) sobre un misionero evangélico, su esposa y sus cuatro hijas en el Congo belga en 1959. Escrita por Kingsolver y Anya Epstein (The Affair, In Treatment).

Apple encarga ocho episodios de Pachinko, adaptación de la novela de Min Jin Lee (2017) sobre las esperanzas y sueños de cuatro generaciones de una familia de inmigrantes coreanos. Escrita por Soo Hugh (The Terror, The Whispers), será contada en coreano, japonés e inglés.

Fechas

Dead Pixels se estrena en E4 el 28 de marzo

La segunda temporada de Samantha! llega a Netflix el 19 de abril

La tercera y última temporada de Jamestown se estrena en Sky One el 26 de abril

Chernobyl se estrena en Sky Atlantic el 7 de mayo

La cuarta temporada de Queen Sugar se estrena en OWN el 12 de junio

Tráilers y promos

She's Gotta Have It - Temporada 2

Santa Clarita Diet - Temporada 3

Ramy

On My Block - Temporada 2

The Rook

Love, Death + Robots

Dehli Crime

Leila

Samantha! - Temporada 2

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Art F City: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Anxiety on High

Let’s face it—the bulk of this week’s chatter in the art world isn’t going to be about Donald Trump’s Inauguration, but Marilyn Minter and Madonna’s talk Thursday evening at the Brooklyn Museum lamenting it. And that’s as it should be. Resistance to this new presidency is essential.

Friday, we’ll be participating in the #J20 Art Strike, so no content on our website will be available but for a livestream of Rachel Mason lip synching the inauguration as FutureClown. Those seeking to participate in the art protests can head to the Whitney where Occupy Museums will be hosting a “Speak Out”.

Other than that, we’re recommending a show about soul crushing anxiety and despair at LUBOV, and a show called “Infected Foot” at Greene Naftali, because sickness also seems like an appropriate theme for the week. Sorry to be depressing. Unfortunately, there’s no other honest way to paint the events.

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Orgy Park

237 Jefferson Street, 1B Brooklyn, NY 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website

Boning of the Thrownes

What is this show? We’re not exactly sure… but I clicked on it because I thought it might involve an even more-sex-filled (or spookier) parody of Game of Thrones. No such luck, but the brief, cryptic description also sounds enticing: “Thrown’ Bones for the pot, soup’s on and we’re gone veggie.”

At any rate, the list of participating artists looks extremely promising:

Liz Ainslie, Andrea Arrubla, Katherine Aungier, Rory Baron, Joshua Bienko, Tess Bilhartz, Kate M. Blomquist, Lauren Collings Schwarz, Corydon Cowansage, Nicholas Cueva, Julie Curtiss, Emily Davidson, Sonya Derman, Rachel Fainter, Elise Ferguson, Angelina Gualdoni, Yuhi Hasegawa, Clinton King, Jenny Lee, Stuart Lorimer, Ioana Manolache, Anthony Miler, Patrick Carlin Mohundro, Dominic Musa, Steve Mykietyn, Dan Oglander, Maria Stabio, Adam Sipe, Tracy Thomason, Charles Tisa, Zuriel Waters, Lindsay Wraga

Tue

Greene Naftali Gallery

508 W 26th St New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website

Infected Foot

Another contender for this week’s best “Mystery Exhibition with a Weird Name.” We’re not sure what the works in Infected Foot have in common, if anything at all, but Mathieu Malouf’s paintings are always a treat, just like this strange and lovely one above.

Artists: Monika Baer, Thomas Bayrle, Merlin Carpenter, Tony Conrad, Michaela Eichwald, Jana Euler, Genoveva Filipovic, Andrea Fourchy, Sergej Jensen, Michael Krebber, Mathieu Malouf, Laura Owens, Paul Sharits, Reena Spaulings, Josef Strau, Stefan Tcherepnin, Amelie von Wulffen

Wed

The Noguchi Museum

9-01 33rd Road Queens, NY 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Website

Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center

February 17th, 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the United States’ inconceivable decision to forcibly relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps during the second World War. Remarkably, Isamu Noguchi volunteered to leave New York (where Japanese-Americans weren’t subject to the order) and become interned in an Arizona desert camp.

This exhibition features work from the years immediately before, during, and after the sculptor’s internment, and traces the impact of that atrocity on his practice. It’s a timely exhibition not just because of the upcoming anniversary—it seems appropriate this show would just before the inauguration of Donald Trump, who proposed registering Muslim Americans and has plans for mass deportations.

Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York

126 Baxter St New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website

Sadie Barnette: Do Not Destroy

Here’s another timely exhibition about the US government’s repression and bullying of minorities. Sadie Barnette has been mining a 500 page FBI document about her father—labelled “Historical Value/Do Not Destroy”—as source material for artworks. Her father, Rodney Barnette, founded the Compton chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968, and was of course the subject of an extensive surveillance program on the part of the state. The younger Barnette has reclaimed this invasive archive—bedazzling pages like a child’s family scrapbook and enlarging photos to fine-art scale. So good.

El Cortez

17 Ingraham St. Brooklyn, NY 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.Website

Happy Anniversary Roe V Wade

Happy 44th Birthday, Roe v. Wade! We wish we had a better gift for you than a Supreme Court vacancy in the hands of sociopaths, but at least you’re getting a kick-ass party!

The evening is a fundraiser for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and features performances from artist Viva Ruiz (with special guest Bjorn Majestik, drag innovator Matty Horrorchata, comediennes Adrienne Truscott & Suni Reyes, and music from DJ Eli Escobar.

TICKET DETAILS: Advance $15 At the door $20 VIP $50 VIP Admission includes: booth seating, free beverage sponsor drinks, $20 of raffle tickets & fun feminist swag

Thu

The FLAG Art Foundation

545 West 25th Street New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website

Cynthia Daignault: There is nothing I could say that I haven't thought before

Painter Cynthia Daignault collaborates with artists by asking them if she can paint one of their works. Specifically, she approaches artists whose own practices deal with issues of appropriation. The resulting images look a bit like images from a catalog of a show she’s curated about complicated notions of authorship. Yes, this is a pretty “fish-meets-barrel” conceit, but the paintings look pretty darn good. The works she’s depicted come from a pretty impressive list of artists:

Cory Arcangel, Sadie Barnette, Carol Bove, Sara Cwynar, Andy Coolquitt, Peter Dreher, Jessica Eaton, Awol Erizku, Roe Ethridge, Robert Gober, Josephine Halvorson, Anthea Hamilton, Peter Harkawik, Matthew Higgs, Jim Hodges, John Houck, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Margaret Lee, Allan McCollum, Josephine Meckseper, Jonathan Monk, Roula Partheniou, Richard Phillips, Charles Ray, Magali Reus, Jenna Rosenberg, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Erin Shirreff, Lorna Simpson, Julia Wachtel, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Fred Wilson, and Letha Wilson

Two other series on view, “MoMA, 2017” and “The Certainty of Others” similarly play with authorship. In the latter, she’s asked a series of representational painters to recreate one of her still lives, the original of which was destroyed. Those painters include Conor Backman, Jason Bereswill, Todd Bienvenu, Canyon Castator, TM Davy, Gregory Edwards, Matt Hansel, Daniel Heidkamp, Paul Jacobsen, Chason Matthams, Tristan Unrau, and Dylan Vandenhoeck

Brooklyn Museum

200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.Website

Brooklyn Talks: Madonna X Marilyn Minter

Be still my heart! As part of the Brooklyn Museum’s A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism, Marilyn Minter and Madonna (yes, really) will be talking shop on the eve of the inauguration. This is a no-brainer must-see, if you can find a way to get tickets to this thing. They’re sold out.

Fri

Whitney Museum

99 Gansevoort St 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.Website

Occupy Museum Hosts A Speak Out on Inauguration Day

As concerned citizens we need to make it our job to speak out against the new Trump government. That job starts Friday so we need to show up in whatever capacity we can.

Occupy Museums is beginning by hosting a “speak out” at the Whitney, which will be followed by a day of assemblies and actions led by the #J20 Art Strike organizers and Sense of Emergency.  Many of the details have not yet been released, but know that the speak out begins at 11:00 a.m. and runs through 2:00 p.m. and the days activities will culminate at Foley Park at 5:00 p.m. for a protest.

Confirmed: Martha Rosler, Kalup Linzy, Noah Fischer, Naeem Mohaiemen, Tracy Morris, Amy Sillman, Mira Schor, Paddy Johnson (yours truly) and more.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Art F City

6522 Hollywood Blvd 11:30 a.m. ESTWebsite

Rachel Mason, FutureClown

FutureClown, the Internet Avatar of Rachel Mason, will lip synch the swearing in ceremony of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. The performance will take place in real-time and will be streamed online via YouTube.

From our perspective, clowning the entire event is pretty much the only reaction a sane person could have to the inauguration. As a result, the content of our entire site will be inaccessible but for a popup of Mason’s live stream. It’s the only sensible thing to do.

Sat

Trestle Projects

400 3rd Ave Brooklyn, NY 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website

Through a Honeycomb

The debut exhibition from Trestle Projects’ Curator-in-Residence for 2017, Jesse Bandler Firestone, Through a Honeycomb looks to be a great start to the year. The exhibition brings together artists, designers, and landscape architects to consider aspects of the built environment from agriculture and sustainability to surveillance and labor. It’s nice to see at least one event thinking utopian in these dark days.

Artists: Katie Torn, JaNae Contag, Juan Camilo Rodelo Vargas, Janne Höltermann, EcoAge (Emmaline Payette + Paula Pino), Laurencia Strauss, Sean Donovan, and Blue Planet Consulting

Sun

LUBOV

373 Broadway New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website

Hard Cry

Another timely show, this one about soul-crushing despair and anxiety.

Curator Gabriel H. Sanchez has brought together five artists from famously-neurotic NYC to “revel in the emotional sludge of contemporary living”. That includes social media fatigue, political horror, and so much more. Yay!

Artists: Ian Swanson, Cristina de Miguel, Tariku Shiferaw, Ryan Oskin, Kyle Haddad Welch

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