#catherine hays

[arinewman7]

Catherine “Kitty” Gertrude Hay

[averlym]

Hi! Would you maybe be willing to draw Fluff, 1 for platonic Kat and Cathy, please? No pressure if not obv!

"wait is that my book" "you mean our book?" (prompt list here)

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I hope this isn't stupid, but did Henry really do the Great Matter the right way? I just feel if he'd used a normal argument instead of making it a religion problem it'd be easier for him. If he said "I have no son, so I want to make a new marriage and get one, to protect my people from war" then wasn't that a reason other kings had, and they got annulments? That would be just a fact and everyone at the time knew no son had problems. Sure Catherine would still fight but she couldn't really say he was wrong. But instead if he says it's all Leviticus and God's mad it gives her the out to say she never slept with Arthur so God's not counting that as a real marriage. Then Henry has to say she's lying and so she looks the injured party and right to be offended, and nobody knows what to believe so it just drags out hoping someone dies.

Precedentially and in hindsight, making it a "religion problem" might not have been the best course; but I think it was genuinely his belief and also he had been so highly respected as "Defender of the Faith" (literally) up to that point that he saw an opportunity for fame and acclaim in (what he believed to be) the "righteousness" of his case, and a way to shore up the image, power, and prestige of the English monarchy; even when it became clear it would be one from a position of defiance. We have to place his belief in the context of his acclaim as a scholar and theologian up through the 1520s...it was bold, but so was Henry, and while the common narrative is that his case was facile; after further reading I found that to be reductive:

"In Henry’s obsession with an idiosyncratic interpretation of natural law and his apparent indifference to the strength of his own case on Deuteronomy we may discern a litigant who seems determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of possible victory. Nevertheless it is hard to resist the conclusion that the biblical texts themselves support Henry’s claim that his marriage contravened divine law as expounded by Moses. [...] In the field of legal codes Henry’s view, whether treated as a matter of divine or human law, held a strong position. Among other examples the Council of Neo-Caesarea and the regional Council of Agde followed the Levitical injunction by forbidding the marriage of men to their brothers’ widows. Faced with such arguments, Bishop Fisher usually asserted that the prohibitions did not specifically forbid all dispensations – yet nor did they specifically allow any. As on the Leviticus/Deuteronomy dilemma, Fisher reasoned that in cases of ambiguity the pope should interpret the matter. Yet such a papal interpretation had been given by Innocent III in a rider to his judgement on the Livonian issue discussed below: that, whatever the validity of pagan marriages to which the Deuteronomical exception might apply, a man’s marriage to the widow of a deceased childless brother should not be permitted to baptised Christians." HADWIN JF. Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Henry VIII. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 2019

I don't think there's really anything he could've done to assure a 'secure' outcome, tbh (besides the possible counterfactual of applying for an annulment circa, say, 1520 rather than 1527, he did seem to have a better understanding and alliance with Leo X). The final judgement from Clement was that Henry had lived too long in matrimony with Catherine by principle of the dispensation granted to be able to legitimately protest the dispensation.

Precedent ran against Henry in the specific matter of Popes erasing former dispensations. That was not something they had done; but arguably Popes did reverse decisions of their predecessors in other matters, or sometimes reverse their own decisions-- there are many cases, for instance, of Popes granting annulments and then reversing them. This can make better sense of Henry's decision to reify the legitimacy of both his annulment with Catherine and his marriage with Anne via Parliament, even before the Pope has made declaration (because, even if he had made one in his favour, it might not have stuck...the sands were always shifting, too, even if, say, Clement had died without declaration and his successor had been an anti-Imperial candidate, like the later Paul IV, that did rule in his favour, was it not possible he himself would die and his successor reverse that decision? It is plausible to consider, also, a counterfactual where Henry made his application late 1525 or 1526, had it granted January 1527, and Imperial troops stormed as they did by May, pressurizing Clement to reverse...):

"And here it must be acknowledged that, while a substantial case could be built to support Henry’s challenge on the issue of the bull, the fact of that issue had significantly changed the situation and the canonical context within which it might be viewed. On the question of possible rescission of the bull the critics seem to have been right: on balance, precedent would appear to run against the king. Neither a dissolution nor an annulment would seem likely to have been granted. No previous marriage had been ended on the grounds that a pope had acted ultra vires; nor, as David d’Avray notes, ‘was any dispensation to my knowledge … ever revoked because the alleged political ills that it was meant to cure were later shown to be imaginary’. The application of the principle of dissimulatio – the turning of a blind eye to the legal weaknesses of a long-standing union in view of the greater good that would accrue by leaving well alone – could also have favoured the queen’s cause; a similar canonical rule held that ‘doubtful cases ought to be resolved in favour of the marriage’. Most significant of all might be the maxim asserted by Gilles Bellemère in the count of Armagnac’s case, that if the pope asks for advice before taking action, he should be told that the dispensation should not be granted; however, if he has already acted, then he should not be opposed. Thus, even if Henry had succeeded in convincing an impartial court of the impropriety of Julius II’s granting the dispensation, all [of his] lengthy campaign might well have gained him not that triumphant solution for which he had striven but merely the cold comfort of a Pyrrhic victory." HADWIN JF. Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Henry VIII. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 2019

And, that's actually a misconception; it was probably the predominant of his arguments/case, but hardly the only one or aspect:

"Like many other litigants, Henry adopted a ‘scatter-fire’ approach to his task of seeking an annulment, attacking a vast array of targets, hoping that at least one shot might reach its mark. His opponents tended to follow suit, thus a comprehensive analysis of each pellet might seem desirable to do the parties full justice. This has not been attempted in the present study. Instead it has seemed best to concentrate on three of the most serious and most often cited defences of the queen’s case, those based on the questions Henry asked of the universities in 1530-1, thus setting the agenda for the debate. The first of these was that, while forbidden by the texts of Leviticus, marriage to a brother’s widow was prohibited by the Church only if the previous marriage had been consummated, whereas Katherine insisted that she came to Henry 'virgo intacta'. Secondly, it was argued that the Levitical prohibition should be interpreted as being limited by the command in Deuteronomy requiring a man to marry a childless brother’s widow, exactly what Henry had done. Lastly, the king’s critics cited a number of what they considered relevant precdents for the dispensation granted to Henry and Katherine by papal bull in 1503.

Each [argument of the Queen's side] appears to have serious weaknesses. The strict application of canonical procedures in the case would appear to favour a verdict that Arthur and Katherine had indeed consummated their union. On Deuteronomy, not only had the Church generally regarded the command as obsolete and inapplicable to Christians but the contentious verse does not on close examination cover Henry’s case at all. Finally, none of the oft-cited papal dispensations involved a clear-cut breach of the Levitical injunctions: the bull really does seem to have broken new ground and might not have been issued had all the facts been known." HADWIN JF. Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Henry VIII. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 2019

Royals being anti or pro papal tended to be a matter of political timing, and this wasn't unique to Henry VIII. Hell, Mary I's spouse was excommunicated (not just threatened with excommunication, as her father had been circa the Great Matter era) by Paul IV because he had sent the Duke of Alva to occupy the papal states in retaliation for his alliance with France, and deprived her councilor and Archbishop of Cantebury, Reginald Pole, of his legateship and ordered him to return to Rome to answer charges of heresy ; and she chose to defend them rather than repudiate them in kind.

So, for the matter of claiming Catherine wasn't a virgin when he married her...I don't think he anticipated that she'd confess otherwise to Campeggio and unseal the confession; or use the trial of Blackfriars for the opportunity to repeat her own claim otherwise and then refuse to attend the rest of the hearing of evidence. For the hearing in Dunstable in 1533, she refused to attend, as well, and so did her supporters, so there's some revionism in the narrative that the Henrician side of the divide refused to hear her own evidence and supporters. They clearly did not regard it highly; arguably they gave it short shrift, but the political tactic of refusing to acknowledge the legitimacy of any proceedings or hearings outside strict papal jurisdiction (not that all of Catherine's supporters adhered so strictly to that, when it suited them...see: Trial of Zaragoza) by Catherine and her supporters precludes the accusation, reified by Marian Parliament, that Henry and Cranmer "refused to hear evidence" from oppostion. This was a convenient fiction, underrating agency and choice and emphasizing a narrative of corruption vs "godly truth".

But at the same time, I think that aspect of it was a matter of principle for both of them and yet a nothingburger both legally and politically: it was impossible to prove or disprove. There was ambiguity on the matter because the dispensaton covered any possibility ("forsan"); even Clement's declaration did not really fully vindicate her side because he didn't comment on the matter of her virginity upon her marriage to Henry. It was, ultimately, a non sequitur. Henry pursued it because he vehemently believed it was true, and that the proof was in his deceased children by the marriage, that they had died because of the Levitical 'curse', for lack of better word...

And Henry had legal/canonical precedent on his side (see excerpt from JF Hadwin's excellent article on the case above, and this one: "[...] the canonical procedures for determining non-consummation suits would have worked against her. As in any such dispute, witnesses were questioned. Not surprisingly, their stories differed according to their nationality: like the decisions of the universities this was a case of what Hans Thieme delightfully described as cuius regio, eius opinio. English ones remembered a raunchy young prince boasting of his having ‘been this night in the midst of Spain’. Most of the interrogation records of the queen’s Spanish servants have been lost, but they seem to have agreed with the implications of the leading questions that they were fed by recollecting only an immature wimp. Canonical rules, however, held that in such controversies, the husband’s view was to be preferred to the wife’s. Furthermore, in the absence of sound evidence to the contrary, in any marriage that had lasted more than a few days, consummation [would] be presumed. This is why neither Mendoza, the Spanish ambassador, nor his successor, Chapuys, was enthusiastic about Katherine’s claim and probably why Campeggio felt relief that the question was not to be argued at Rome. As Gardiner had warned the queen earlier, presumption would run against her: rightly or wrongly, in any court operating under standard canonical rules and procedures, she would probably have lost this argument."), but not circumstance.

My unpopular judgement is that Henry was actually far more judicious in his timing of the Great Matter than he's given credit for; as early as 1529 he's saying he's "about to undertake the annates", he delays the cessation of paying the annates until Easter 1533; he waits to pass the Act of Kings alone nominating Archbishops and consecrating bishops until Cranmer is elected Archbishop by the Pope (a fait accompli, because it does mean that Cranmer's annulment of his marriage can be viewed as an act of the papacy, by extension; and forces Clement's hand...arguably this backfired, but not fully, he did not excommunicate Cranmer, probably because doing that to someone he had so recently promoted would call his judgement into question); and he doesn't pass the Act in Absolute Restraint of Annates until 1534, after Clement declares for the validity of his marriage with Catherine. Was the timing different (annates are forbidden by law irrevocably, and then Clement declared for the marriage), one could argue otherwise (that Henry had been too hasty); but Clement could've secured annates from England for the rest of Henry's reign had he done the opposite, or possibly delayed their total annihilation had he just continued to not declare on the matter.

[thetarotman]

Prosperous Minds: Tips and Tricks

Forever refrain from using the phrase "I can't afford it."

Welcome to another “Prosperous Minds” post. It had been a long time since I wrote one. It is my pleasure to present to you some “Tips and Tricks” to ongoingly attract Money, Prosperity, Abundance, Professional Success and Financial Fulfillment in your life and world. These are from various sources, such as the writings of the late and great Florence Scovel Shinn, the current and great Dr.…

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The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

[bethanydelleman]

Could you rank the Austen main couples from the least to the most likely to have sex before they are married?

Least to Most Likely:

Edmund Bertram & Fanny Price: It is all very proper. They probably have sex with their clothes on after the wedding.

Fitzwilliam Darcy & Elizabeth Bennet: She would have been down, he wasn't. He later congratulates himself on his excellent self control.

Edward Ferrars & Elinor Dashwood: There were definitely smooches, but after that roller coaster of a courtship, Elinor wants things legal and in writing. Also, just because something feels good doesn't make it right, MARIANNE.

Henry Tilney & Catherine Morland: he is a gentleman, but it was really the long distance relationship that prevented them from doing anything. Was there some racy content in those letters? I'd love to know...

George Knightley & Emma Woodhouse: Donwell is right there. You can walk right over...

Charles Bingley & Jane Bennet: "Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane" I see your intentions, sir. I see them!

Colonel Brandon & Marianne Dashwood: "I have feelings," said she, "let's indulge them." If something feels good, that makes it moral, right? Romanticism says yes, ELINOR.

Captain Frederick Wentworth & Anne Elliot: Do not care about anything except getting married as quickly as possible. Banns take far too long when you've been waiting 8 years and Napoleon just escaped from Elba. Let's get this DONE.

BONUS:

Lucy Steele & Robert/Edward Ferrars: No way in hell with either of them. She's too cunning to give up her best card before she has the man secure.

Frank Chuchill & Jane Fairfax: Not in a million years, no matter how many times Frank makes puppy eyes.

Robert Martin & Harriet Smith: Abbey Mill farm is like, right there. You can walk over. It has a hay barn...

Related: First Kiss for each Austen Heroine Couple

Also, marriage and birth records show that premarital sex was pretty common. Or else the Regency era had magically good premature baby care 😉

[empirearchives]

Costumes of Napoleonic figures at the Devonshire House Ball of 1897

1. Aileen May (née Wyndham-Quin), Countess of Meath as Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland

2. Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (née Countess Josephine Kinsky) as Princess Pauline Bonaparte Borghese

3. Thérèse (née Kinsky), Countess Clary-Aldringen as Caroline Bonaparte Murat, Queen of Naples

4. Florence Anne (née Cole), Lady Delamere as Hortense de Beauharnais

5. Sir Charles Edward Cradock-Hartopp, 5th Bt as Napoleon I; Millicent Florence Eleanor (née Wilson), Lady Cradock-Hartopp (later Countess Cowley and Mrs Duberly) as the Empress Josephine

6. Lord Arthur Vincent Hay; William George Montagu Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale; Candida Louise, Marchioness of Tweeddale as the Empress Josephine

7. Kathleen (née Douglas-Pennant), Viscountess Falmouth as Madame Recamier

8. Maria Henrietta Sophia Chaine (née Phipps) as Madame Sans Gêne

9. Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin as Marshal Lefevre

10. Catherine Dorothea Mary Grosvenor (née Simeon) as Marie Louise

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Ultimate Incest Tournament - Round 2

Propaganda under the cut:

Charlie/Charlie:

Literally the blueprint. it's implied that charles once had a quasi-incestuous relationship with his sister (charlie's mother) and once she got married put all his affection into the child that was named for him

She tries to get him convicted of murder, he tries to kill her. the whole thing is wrapped in a metaphor about growing up and sexual maturity and the rot at the center of the normal all-american family. their final conflict takes place on a train which is. uh. if you know anything about hitchcock. that's. that's a phallus. whatever they have going on is so much weirder than if they just fucked nasty.

They parallel each other and understand each other to a point where there's some unexplained telepathy happening and they are framed by the camera as love interests, whereas her scenes with her love interest are shot as if something's off about them

Uncle Charlie says she's the thing he loves most in the world and gives her a ring

They have a folger-esque 'no, I don't need any presents, you're here' scene

She's very happy to have her friends see them together and both act jealous when the other is being approached by someone else.

They beat the Hays Code and walked so Stoker and House of the Dragon could run

They repeatedly say they're more like twins than an uncle and niece

"Because we're not just an uncle and a niece. It's something else."

Catherine/Heathcliff:

THEE quintessential toxic fucked up siblings. Raised as siblings, potentially also half-siblings by blood, they would kill the whole world so they could be alone together. The whole world could die but Heathcliff and Cathy would be happy. The blueprint.

The og claustrophobic, insane, toxic-to-everybody forbidden codependent incest of ambiguous degree

Minor acts of necrophilia

Brönte was obviously influenced by Shelley's depictions of sibling incest as an ideal form of love

"You said I killed you - haunt me, then!"

"Because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

[bitter69uk]

“Merle Oberon, the durable Anglo-Indian beauty born Estelle Merle O’Brien Thompson in Tasmania (1911), made her film debut as an extra in a 1930 British B film, but soon her dramatic if one-dimensional beauty caught the eye of the Hungarian-born British producer Alexander Korda, who groomed her for stardom and was her husband for a time. In 1935 he sold a half-share in her contract to Samuel Goldwyn, another famous star spotter, who oversaw her transition from exotic to all-American. Never a top star but a popular actress in a number of prestigious films, Oberon continued to make periodic starring appearances until her death.”

/ From Hollywood Colour Portraits by John Kobal, 1981 /

Born on this day: exquisite golden age Hollywood leading lady Merle Oberon (19 February 1911 - 23 November 1979). Of course, we now know that Oberon was actually born in Bombay, India rather than Tasmania, but that wasn’t common knowledge when film historian Kobal wrote his book in the early eighties. In her lifetime Oberon took painful efforts to conceal her mixed-race heritage (when even an onscreen interracial kiss – then called “miscegenation” - was strictly forbidden by the Hays Code), including the use of toxic skin-lightening make-up containing mercury. (A few years ago, the reliably excellent and addictive You Must Remember This podcast devoted an instalment to Oberon – look it up!). In her romantic lead heyday Oberon specialized in period dramas (she’s probably best remembered for playing Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights (1939)), but I like her best in the movies that forced her out of her primarily decorative and ladylike comfort zone like the sordid Temptation (1946), the nymphomania-themed melodrama Of Love and Desire (1963) and especially the obscure 1956 film noir The Price of Fear, in which she plays a prim high society woman whose life unravels after a hit-and-run incident.

[canesenzafissadimora]

Non aver fretta, e non aver paura.

Scegli quello che ti sembra giusto, ma, ogni tanto, quando puoi, anche quello che ti fa felice.

Se non ti vengono le parole, lascia che siano i tuoi occhi a parlare. E impara a leggere gli occhi degli altri, impara a capire quel che non ti dicono.

Ascolta il silenzio, fagli tutte le domande più scomode che ti vengono in mente. Non lasciarti fermare dalla paura per fare le cose che devono essere fatte.

Scappa quando devi, fermati quando puoi: c'è un momento per seminare e un momento per raccogliere - impara a distinguerli, impara ad assaporare entrambi.

Ascolta il tuo corpo e rispettalo: riposati quando te lo chiede, mangia quando hai fame e ogni tanto ubriacati - di vino, di amore o di qualche sogno. Cammina da sola su una spiaggia o in mezzo ad un bosco, piangi se ne hai voglia - ma cerca sempre di ridere di più.

Lascia correre ma non dimenticare: pretendi rispetto ma domandati se anche tu lo porti. Impara ciò che ogni botta ha da insegnarti ma non accettare le ingiustizie.

E ricorda sempre che ciò che ti rende strana o diversa non è necessariamente una debolezza.

Catherine Black

[angelap3]

NON AVERE FRETTA

🦋Non aver fretta, e non aver paura.

Scegli quello che ti sembra giusto, ma, ogni tanto, quando puoi, anche quello che ti fa felice.

🦋Se non ti vengono le parole, lascia che siano i tuoi occhi a parlare.

E impara a leggere gli occhi degli altri, impara a capire quel che non ti dicono.

🦋Ascolta il silenzio, fagli tutte le domande più scomode che ti vengono in mente.

Non lasciarti fermare dalla paura per fare le cose che devono essere fatte.

🦋Scappa quando devi, fermati quando puoi: c'è un momento per seminare e un momento per raccogliere - impara a distinguerli, impara ad assaporare entrambi.

🦋Ascolta il tuo corpo e rispettalo: riposati quando te lo chiede, mangia quando hai fame e ogni tanto ubriacati - di vino, di amore o di qualche sogno.

🦋Cammina da sola su una spiaggia o in mezzo ad un bosco, piangi se ne hai voglia - ma cerca sempre di ridere di più.

🦋Lascia correre ma non dimenticare: pretendi rispetto ma domandati se anche tu lo porti. Impara ciò che ogni botta ha da insegnarti ma non accettare le ingiustizie.

🦋E ricorda sempre che ciò che ti rende strana o diversa... non è necessariamente una debolezza.

Catherine Black

Le Streghe Lucenti

Notte✨✨✨

[cinemaslife]

#169 Robot Salvaje (The Wild Robort) 2024

La Unidad ROZZUM 7134 (Lupita Nyong'o) se ve activada en una isla sin presencia de humanos, unas nutrias curiosas, se meten dentro de la caja donde se encuentra el robot y lo activan.

Rozzum busca por toda la isla algún animal al que poder ayudar, pero se ve rechazada por todos y cada uno de los animales, por lo que decide ponerse en modo aprendizaje y estar durante un tiempo aprendiendo el idioma de cada animal para comprenderlos y comprender sus necesidades.

Una vez analizado busca animales a los que ayudar hasta que se mete en la cueva de un oso, sale corriendo para que el oso no la alcance y huyendo tropieza y cae por un acantilado hasta una rama que sale de él.

Ahí se da cuenta de que ha aplastado a varios huevos y a la madre gansa, dejando solo un huevo entero. Con consciencia decide ayudar al huevo y ponerlo a salvo, pero de la nada sale un zorro que lo roba para comérselo, Rozzum lo persigue por toda la isla peleando por quedarse con el huevo. Al final se lo queda y teniéndolo en las manos del huevo nace un pequeño ganso.

El ganso al nacer se imprima de Rozzum reconociéndola como su madre y siguiéndola a todas partes, el robot no entiende este comportamiento e intenta alejarlo, pero no hay manera, el pequeño ganso va detrás de ella sufriendo pequeños accidentes y demostrándole que sin su ayuda no podrá sobrevivir. Una zarigüeya llamada Pinktail (Catherine O'Hara) (que tiene 7 hijos) le enseña los conceptos clave de la maternidad y le dice que su misión es criar y proteger al pequeño ganso. Por lo que Rozzum acepta la tarea, y lo hace contenta.

El zorro observa de lejos la falta de talento del robot para criar al ganso, ya que no sabe cuáles son sus necesidades, Pinktail le explica que debe enseñar a comer, nadar y volar al ganso antes de que llegue el invierno, si no el pequeño morirá. Rozzum acepta al máximo su misión.

El zorro se presenta como Fink (Pedro Pascal) y se muestra dispuesto a ayudar a Rozzum, le pide que le ponga nombre al pequeño ganso, ya que él la ve como su madre, y después de muchas decisiones lógicas, decide llamarle Brightbill (Kit Connor).

Rozzum le pide ayuda a Fink para poder alimentar a Brightbill, ya que, prueban varias cosas y ninguna va con el pequeño ganso. Fink se aprovecha un poco de la nueva familia y usa al robot para alimentarse y ponerse cómodo, a la vez de que le da vagas descripciones de como criarlo, pero ambo son muy torpes con la crianza.

Conforme avanza los días y meses, Rozzum crían al pequeño con la ayuda de Pinktail y Fink, aunque el resto de animales la odian y la llaman Monstruo. Fink también es un apestado y no tiene amigos, por eso forman su pequeña familia, criando a Brightbill y sobreviviendo apoyándose los unos a los otros.

Brightbill crece hasta llegar a la adolescencia poco antes de que tenga que partir, como no logran que vuelve le piden ayuda a un halcón que le enseña a volar como él, lo cual es muy beneficioso para el ganso. Ahora que el ganso sabe nada, alimentarse y volar se está preparando, pero el resto de gansos se burlan de él y lo menosprecian porque considera al monstruo su madre.

Brightbill deja de llamar a Roz mamá y la empieza a llamar por su nombre, alejandose de ella, esos gansos de forma cruel le dicen que en realidad el robot mató a su familia y él es un pringado por considerarla su madre.

El ganso jefe le dice a Roz que él se encargara de tener al ganso a su lado para la migración y que solo tiene que enseñarle las mejores habilidades, cosa que Roz hace con ayuda de otros animales. Hasta que llega el momento.

Brightbill está cada vez más lejos de Roz y llegado el momento casi no se despide de ella cuando se va volando, aunque el ganso jefe le da una vuelta cerca de ella a modo de despedida.

El invierno ha llegado y los animales se preparan para invernar. Fink y Roz se despiden, ya que ella le asegura, como le dijo a su hijo, que activaría su baliza para poder irse cuando vinieran a buscarle los responsables de la fábrica de robots. Pero a última hora no lo hace y se queda en el refugio que construyó para Fink, Brightbill y ella en modo reposo. Siente que debería decirle a su hijo que le amaba, pero no supieron decírselo.

Con el paso del tiempo en la isla Roz ha ido apurando al máximo sus habilidades y debido a varios golpes, y caídas ha ido deteriorándose, perdiendo piezas y calidad de vida, pero cuando se despierta en la casa y ve a Fink se asustó, este le explica que hay una tormenta muy fuerte y cuando Roz le pregunta por el resto de animales le dice que es probable que mueran.

Roz convence a Fink para buscar a los animales y llevarlos a su casa, que es lo bastante grande como para albergarlos a todos. La mayoría están vivos, pero a punto de congelarse, otros por desgracia pierden la vida, pero a los que llevan les encienden el fuego para calentarse.

Mientras Roz sigue salvando animales en la casa empieza una batalla campal de animales que se alimentan de otros animales, Fink logra contenerlos y que entren en razón, al menos hasta que acabe el invierno.

Mientras Brightbill y los otros gansos encuentran un lugar parecido a un campo moderno de comida donde trabajan varios robots, Rozzum, espera encontrar allí a su madre, porque la echa mucho de menos, pero entiende que no todos los robots son buenos, y salen huyendo por poco de allí.

Los animales empiezan a quererse y a respetarse, mientras va llegando la primavera, Fink y Roz pasan a ser aceptados y queridos por la sociedad que forma la isla.

Justo cuando su hijo vuelve, la isla se ve atacada por otros robots que van en busca de Roz porque activó su baliza. Los animales protegen a Roz y Brightbill la rescata antes de que se la lleven, vuelven a la isla cuando se está librando un incendio gigantesco, pero entre todos logran solucionarlo. Participando como comunidad unida y cuidándose los unos a los otros.

Roz entiende que debe irse porque más robots llegaran, por lo que antes de despedirse de Fink y los otros animales, Roz y Brightbill se despiden diciéndose que se quieren y que nada cambiará eso. Roz se despide de los animales y promete encontrar la manera de volver.

Roz es enviada al campo de alimentos moderno, al estilo la película Wall-e, y conserva todos sus recuerdos, aunque a todos con los que interacciona lo hace como un robot sin sentimientos ni corazón, cosa que sí que tiene.

Cuando llega el invierno a la isla los gansos pueden migrar, ahora Brightbill no es solo aceptado, sino amado por los animales que lo trataron de raro y de tonto, y por los gansos que lo juzgaron y ahora lo ven como un héroe. En la migración pasan por el campo, Brightbill se cuela y busca a su madre esperando que ella lo reconozca y así lo hace. Porque el amor que se tiene va más allá de las especies, y de lo que piensen los demás, porque el amor es amor.

[samcampbellfans]

Sam Campbell Podcast Masterlist

Here's a masterlist of podcast episodes that feature Sam Campbell, in reverse chronological order. I tried to find all of the episodes that are available on the internet, do send me an ask if you find any that I did not include here!

Note: some of these links are Spotify links but usually podcast episodes are available anywhere you usually get a podcast i.e. Apple podcasts, Acast, etc.

September 2024

The Adam Buxton Podcast, Ep 226. Sam Campbell. Recorded 26th and 27th July 2024 at Latitude Festival.

July 2024

The Last Video Store. Hosted by Alexei Touliopoulos.

May 2024

Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains, Ep 6, Ep 7, Ep 8, Ep 9. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Lucy Beaumont.

April 2024

Some Laugh Podcast - Episode 99. Taskmaster, Edinburgh Fringe & Secrets. Hosted by Marc Jennings, Stephen Buchanan and Stuart McPherson.

Tim Key's Poetry Programme. 3. Safari. On BBC Radio 4.

Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains, Ep 2, Ep 3, Ep 4, Ep 5. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Lucy Beaumont.

March 2024

Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains, Ep 1. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Lucy Beaumont.

Off Menu with James Acaster and Ed Gamble - Episode 229, Live with Sam Campbell in Nottingham Royal Concert Hall. Note: the episode was recorded on October 18, 2023 and released 2 March 2024.

January 2024

Drifting Off with Joe Pera Ep 12: Australia and its Greatest Horse ft. Cut Worms. Guests: Sam Campbell, Aaron Chen, Guy Montgomery and Yaraman Thorne aka Yaz.

November 2023

Ep110. SAM CAMPBELL / Plato, Purses & Palm Readings. Trusty Hogs podcast. Hosted by Catherine Bohart and Helen Bauer.

BONUS: Ep111. NATHAN FOAD/ Colleagues, Cucks & Cliff Richard. Trusty Hogs podcast - Sam pulls a prank on Nathan Foad at 22:38. Nathan Foad was in Bloods, the Sky TV sitcom that Sam was also in.

Taskmaster The Podcast. Ep 149. (S16 Ep.10.) Hosted by Ed Gamble.

Northern News. ‘A Spider’s Intern’. Hosted by Ian Smith and Amy Gledhill. Sam Campbell's guest appearance starts around the 21 minute mark.

September 2023

Taskmaster The Podcast. Ep 141. Sam Campbell - S16 Ep. 2. Hosted by Ed Gamble.

May 2023

WTF w/ Sam Campbell. Welcome to Meet You podcast. Hosted by Dart Sultan and Robbie Armfield.

April 2023

Mugg Off #173 Live Show Melbourne. Sam Campbell, Sam Taunton, Tim Hewitt, Laura Hughes.

November 2022

NTS - Hot Mess W/ Sam Campbell (hosted by Babak Ganjei).

October 2022

Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards: The Podcast with Lara Ricote and Sam Campbell.

September 2022

Plot Twist podcast Kevin ‘KG’ Garry and Sam Campbell. Sky TV.

June 2022

Mugg Off #139 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan, and Yaz.

May 2022

Backyard Stories - Episode Thirty Four - Sam Campbell

October 2021

Aunty Donna Podcast Ep 277 Nippers Feat. Sam Campbell and Eric Hutton. Hosted by Zach, Mark and Broden.

July 2021

The Phone Hacks Podcast 170. Sam Campbell - Hay Ladies. Hosted by Mike Goldstein and Nick Capper. (Thanks to Cambo Fans!)

June 2021

The Good Stuff - Episode 41 Feat. Sam Campbell. Hosted by Sam Taunton and Tom Cashman.

Australia Debates - ABC Comedy. Series 1 Episode 1 - Should Social Media Be Banned?

March 2021

Mugg Off #80 Tom Cashman and "Dingo Duggan" - Sam Campbell plays Dingo.

December 2020

Mugg Off #069 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan and Yaz. Note: this episode was recorded in December 2020 but the video was uploaded June 2022.

August 2020

The Grub podcast, with Nikki Britton, Bjorn Stewart, Sam Campbell, Cameron James, and Danielle Walker. Hosts: Anne Edmonds, Greg Larsen and Ben Russell. NOTE: Sam is only in a few clips in this podcast, not in the whole thing.

July 2020

Circling the Drain - Ep1: Elouise Eftos, Sam Campbell. Hosted by Andrew Wolfe.

April 2020

The Good Stuff - Episode 3 Feat. Sam Campbell (An Expose on Women’s Bathrooms). Hosted by Sam Taunton and Tom Cashman.

January 2020

Mugg Off #20 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan and Yaz.

The Grub - 2020 Call-in Special. With Melinda Buttle, Becky Lucas, Sam Campbell, Aaron Chen, Rodney Todd. Hosts: Anne Edmonds, Greg Larsen and Ben Russell. NOTE: Sam is only in a few clips in this podcast, not in the whole thing.

October 2019

The Worst Idea Of All Time - Friendzone Ninety. Hosted by Guy Montgomery and Tim Batt.

May 2019

Special Features with Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos - Ep 50. Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) with Tom Walker and Sam Campbell.

May 2018

Aunty Donna Podcast Episode 97: LIVE FROM THE FACTORY THEATRE SYDNEY FEAT. SAM CAMPBELL

October 2017

The Dragon Friends. S3 Ep 18: THIS BOY FREZNO. The Dragon Friends is a DnD podcast and this episode was live. From the podcast description: "Also Sam Campbell wore a mask and an elephant trunk for all of the recording so if it helps, imagine that." Cambo knows nothing about DnD - he went on the podcast to prank his friend Michael Hing (allegedly). Sam plays the antagonist (an evil Michael Hing).

The Dragon Friends. S3 Ep.17. A Dog With Human Eyes with Carlo Ritchie

August 2017

Mike Check with Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos - Ep 45. The Gong Show S01E04 & S01E05 w/ Sam Campbell

January-February 2015

Sad Boys, episode 1-3 hosted by Sam Campbell, Eddie Sharp and Anith Mukherjee. Originally broadcast via FBi Radio.

November 2014

Mark Williamson Chat Show - Episode 110: Becky Lucas and Sam Campbell. With regulars Lester Diamond and Ryan ‘Special Comments’ Crawford.

June 2014

Truth Nest - Episode 1 Feat. Alexei Toliopoulos. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Craig Anderson.

Below are 'lost episodes' - I cannot find the audio anywhere, or the audio files are broken. Podcast descriptions say Sam was a guest. Please do message me if you manage to find the audio!

Special Features with Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos: 9. 2 Guns with Sam Campbell. July 2015.

Sydney Comedy Festival Podcast. April 2015.

The Loose Five with Marcel Blanch- de Wilt. Episode 107- Sam Campbell & Shubha. January 2015.

Versus on FBi Radio - Witches vs Calendars w/ Sam Campbell and Claudia O'Doherty. December 2014. This episode has unfortunately been scrubbed from Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and FBi Radio website.

The Loose Five with Marcel Blanch- de Wilt. Episode 96- Sam Campbell and Gearard McGeown. September 2014.

A massive thank you to @vampire-lily / Lauren for contributing to this masterlist!!

[decemberwind]

"Chỉ một lần trong đời, tôi thực sự tin rằng, bạn sẽ tìm thấy một người có thể xoay chuyển hoàn toàn thế giới của bạn.

Bạn sẽ nói với họ những điều mà bạn chưa bao giờ chia sẻ với một linh hồn khác, họ sẽ tiếp thu mọi thứ bạn nói và thực sự muốn nghe nhiều hơn. Dù đó là hy vọng cho tương lai, hay những giấc mơ sẽ không bao giờ trở thành sự thật, những mục tiêu không bao giờ đạt được, và nhiều thất vọng mà cuộc sống đã ném vào bạn.

Khi điều gì tuyệt vời xảy ra, bạn sẽ không thể chờ đợi để nói với họ về chuyện đó, biết rằng người ấy sẽ chia sẻ sự phấn khích cùng bạn.

Họ không xấu hổ khi khóc cùng bạn lúc bạn tổn thương, hoặc cười với bạn khi bạn tự biến mình thành kẻ ngốc.

Không bao giờ làm tổn thương cảm xúc của bạn hoặc khiến bạn cảm thấy như bạn không đủ tốt. Thay vào đó, họ trân trọng bạn, cho bạn thấy những điều về bản thân khiến bạn trở nên đặc biệt và xinh đẹp.

Không bao giờ có bất kỳ áp lực, ghen tuông hay cạnh tranh nào, mà chỉ có sự bình yên lặng lẽ khi người ấy ở bên.

Bạn có thể là chính mình và không phải lo lắng về những gì họ sẽ nghĩ về bạn, người ấy yêu bạn bởi vì bạn là chính bản thân bạn.

Ở bên cạnh họ, những thứ tưởng chừng như không đáng kể với hầu hết mọi người, như một nốt nhạc, bài hát hay bước đi đều trở thành báu vật vô giá, được giữ an toàn trong lòng bạn để trân trọng mãi mãi. Ký ức về tuổi thơ quay trở lại, rất rõ ràng và sống động, giống như bạn được trẻ lại. Màu sắc có vẻ tươi sáng và rực rỡ hơn. Tiếng cười dường như là một phần của cuộc sống hàng ngày, mà trước đây nó không thường xuyên hoặc hoàn toàn không tồn tại. Một hoặc hai cuộc gọi điện thoại trong ngày giúp bạn vượt qua một ngày dài làm việc, và khiến bạn vui vẻ.

Với sự hiện diện của họ, không cần phải trò chuyện liên tục, nhưng bạn vẫn hài lòng khi chỉ có họ kề bên. Những điều mà trước đây bạn chưa bao giờ quan tâm trở nên hấp dẫn, bởi vì bạn biết chúng quan trọng nhường nào đối với họ - người đặc biệt trong lòng bạn.

Bạn nghĩ về người ấy trong mọi dịp và trong mọi việc bạn làm. Những điều đơn giản như bầu trời xanh nhạt, gió nhẹ hay thậm chí là một đám mây bão ở đường chân trời đều khiến bạn nhớ họ.

Bạn mở rộng trái tim dù biết rằng một ngày nào đó nó có thể tan vỡ. Và khi mở rộng trái tim, bạn trải nghiệm một tình yêu và niềm vui mà bạn không bao giờ mơ ước có thể.

Bạn sẽ thấy rằng dễ bị tổn thương là cách duy nhất để cho phép trái tim bạn cảm nhận được niềm vui thực sự.

Bạn tìm thấy sức mạnh khi biết, bạn có một người bạn thực sự và có thể là một người bạn tâm giao, người sẽ trung thành đến cùng.

Cuộc sống dường như hoàn toàn khác, thú vị và đáng giá. Hy vọng và sự an toàn duy nhất của bạn là biết rằng, họ luôn là một phần trong cuộc sống của bạn."

- Bob Marley

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Ảnh: The Lovers - Cats Rule the Earth Tarot by Catherine Davidson, Thiago Corrêa

[dailyanarchistposts]

The morning’s farm activities include: milking the goats, carrying hay out to the horse, feeding the chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, etc. and collecting eggs, and tending the rabbits. Later on, gathering vegetables and flowers for market day, checking the fruit trees and associated beehives, tinkering with the tractor, preparing the baler for the last cutting of hay, etc., etc. All the familiar farm chores...only these are all being done in the heart of the City of Detroit, almost within sight of the smokestacks of the giant Ford complex. This farm is located on the converted playground of one of the city’s public schools, the Catherine Ferguson Academy (CFA).

And CFA is not the only farm in Detroit. By my count, there are now at least six micro-farms within the city limits ranging from about an acre to several acres. Even more important, there are now scores of productive community and school gardens, along with hundreds of family gardens, which are providing fresh fruits and vegetables for their neighborhoods and for sale at various farmers’ markets around town. And the urban farming movement is growing here faster each year, strengthening people with healthy produce, and re-energizing communities with shared planning, work, and celebration. It is becoming a movement of urban farmers worthy of linking up with the readers of Small Farmer’s Journal. But how did this movement come about?

Detroit, as everyone knows, was “The Motor City,” the auto capital of the world, home of the GM, Ford, and Chrysler. But in the mid-1970’s, the first of the oil crises hit Detroit like a tsunami. Plants downsized and closed, leaving tens of thousands of Detroiters out of work and neighborhoods devastated. People started leaving the city in droves. That exodus left broad swaths of open fields where vibrant neighborhoods stood a few years earlier. By some estimates there are now in total about 40 square miles of vacant land inside the city limits of Detroit. And as the people left, this new prairie land was rapidly repopulated by pheasants, rabbits, and raccoons, ’possums and songbirds, along with the occasional fox or coyote. But it also brought some determined new urban farmers. As a result, by the early 1990’s, the Detroit Agriculture Network (DAN) came into being to provide a forum for exchange of information, resources, seeds, etc., among these new farmers.

[susieporta]

Ma devi voler bene come prima cosa a te stesso.

Ti devi curare.

Con carezze, leggerezze, o quintali di libri e cose strampalate che ti facciano ridere.

Con amici più giovani di te che rinnovino il tuo entusiasmo, e con amici più grandi di te che aumentino la tua saggezza.

Con persone uguali a te che ti facciano sentire capita e con persone diversissime che ti aiutino a capire.

Guarda tramonti, scrivi una cosa al giorno che ti abbia colpito, poi slegati e vai a correre.

Scappa pure da quel che devi, non aver paura.

Piangi, che non sei debole se lo fai, sei solo vero.

Impara a stare da solo ma continua ad apprezzare la compagnia.

Cammina, ed allenati ad osservare, non solo a guardare.

Hai un medico per il corpo, cercatene uno anche per l'anima: dovresti essere tu, perché l'anima è più difficile da interpretare del corpo e solo tu la conosci.

Ma ricorda sempre una cosa: se non stai bene non potrai mai fare del bene.

Quel che hai dentro scivola inevitabilmente fuori: è l'osmosi.

Se sei distrutto devi ricostruirti, o altrimenti finirai per distruggere.

Catherine Black