#chalice 2015

[sodachalice]

i don't miss kinblr, but i miss people being open about their delusions and generally having a sense of whimsy about them instead of focusing on repressing them so hard that they become a bitter unpleasant person who mocks anyone who even somewhat seems like theyre a "kinnie" from 2017.

[onlyhurtforaminute]

PALE CHALICE-BOUND BY INTRANSIGENT FLIGHT

[anandrettisimp]

Yeap, it’s that time of year again.

For reference, here’s 2024, 2023 and 2022 choices.

Speed round:

At one point they were supposedly prepared to offer a lactose free dairy milk but they apparently changed their mind on that (granted the only known lactose intolerant driver at the time was Will ‘I’ll drink chocolate milk until I’m sick’ Power).

A lot of drivers chose whole milk purely for how it looks in pictures.

From 1947, the race winner was presented with a silver chalice filled with water by track president and three time 500 winner Wilbur Shaw (he’s also the last Indiana native to win the race), referred to as Water from Wilbur. Shaw died in a plane crash in October 1954 and while the water continued for a few years after that, the Indiana diary industry was now offering milk with the driver being given cash if they drink the milk even if they drink orange juice first.

Also have your last 10 winner’s choices

2024 - Josef Newgarden: WHOLE MILK

2023 - Josef Newgarden: WHOLE MILK

2022 - Marcus Ericsson: WHOLE MILK

2021 - Helio Castroneves: 2% MILK

2020 - Takuma Sato: 2% MILK

2019 - Simon Pagenaud: WHOLE MILK

2018 - Will Power: NO PREFERENCE

2017 - Takuma Sato: 2% MILK

2016 - Alexander Rossi: 2% MILK

2015 - Juan Pablo Montoya: WHOLE MILK

[sunsets12]

Follow up to the other ask cause I really would like to know.

How long do you think Rick has been using a ghost writer for? What made you have this theory?

A friend of mine mentioned thinking Trials of Apollo was ghostwritten (I've only read the first book, not the whole series), and it made me pause and be like... wait a minute.

I think he used them for sections of the Heroes of Olympus, but not all of it. The Last Hero and the Son of Neptune do seem like his writing style, but after that it just seems to almost sound like an impersonator. Plus if I'm looking at it from a cynical view, his release schedule of books was crazy:

The Lost Hero: October 12, 2010. ~127,859 words The Red Pyramid: May 4, 2010 ~124,305 words The Son of Neptune: 2011 ~117,675 words The Throne of Fire: May 3, 2011 ~113,038 words The Mark of Athena: 2012 ~132,818 words The Serpent’s Shadow: 2012 ~116,000 (approximate) words The House of Hades: 2013 ~129,725 words The Blood of Olympus: October 7, 2014. ~111,748 words The Sword of Summer: October 6, 2015 ~118,701 words The Hidden Oracle: May 3, 2016 ~89,000 words The Hammer of Thor: October 4, 2016 ~111,544 words The Dark Prophecy: May 2, 2017 ~93,559 words The Ship of the Dead: October 3, 2017 ~101,274 words The Burning Maze: May 1, 2018 ~97,644 words The Tyrant's Tomb: September 24, 2019 ~101177 words The Tower of Nero: October 6, 2020 ~95272 words

Like, I know I've written a lot for TSIYW in less than a year, but I'm not editing it multiple times like RR had to do for his published books. It's honestly likely he had to get a ghostwritter to write some of it just to make his deadlines.

With that being said, from what I remember of The Hidden Oracle (it's been years since I read it) it didn't seem ghostwritten the way some of HoO did. And regarding Chalice of the Gods, it's 100% ghostwritten, and ghostwritten poorly at that (just look at the chapter titles for it vs. the lightening thief: "I Get Flushed" vs. "I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom", "I Take a Himbo for Smoothies" vs. "A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers", "I Meet the Man Bun of Doom" vs. "My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting".) I haven't read wrath of the triple goddess and don't plan to.

[sarkos]

Hicks found no record of the person whose remains the skull-cup was made from, although carbon dating showed the skull is about 225 years old. Its size and circumstantial evidence suggest it came from the Caribbean and possibly belonged to an enslaved woman, he added. In contrast, the chalice’s British owners were well-documented. The cup was donated to Worcester College in 1946 by a former student, George Pitt-Rivers, whose name is inscribed on its silver rim. A eugenicist, he was interned by the British government during the second world war due to his support for the fascist leader Oswald Mosley. The cup was part of the lesser-known private second collection of his grandfather, the Victorian British soldier and archaeologist Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, who founded the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1884. The elder Pitt Rivers bought the skull-cup at a Sotheby’s auction that same year. The listing shows it then had a wooden stand with a Queen Victoria shilling inlaid underneath. Silver hallmarks indicate it was made in 1838, the year of her coronation. The seller was Bernhard Smith, a lawyer and graduate of Oriel College, Oxford, who mainly collected weaponry and armour. Hicks speculated that he received it as a gift from his father, who served with the Royal Navy in the Caribbean. The Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Afrikan reparations, said: “It is sickening to think of Oxford dons, sitting in this bastion of privilege, itself enriched by the proceeds of centuries of colonial violence and extraction, swilling drink out of a human skull that may have belonged to an enslaved person and has been so little valued that it has been turned into an object.”

Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull until 2015, book reveals | Archaeology | The Guardian

[fantastic-nonsense]

Hi! I was looking to see if you know of many comics with Batman's villains at the lead!? (Besides Harley and Selina, who've had multiple series and are pretty easy to find). Other than the "Joker" Novel and Penguin: Pain and prejudice, i couldn't find any. Any good suggestions for Joker, Ivy, Two-Face, or any other villian from the Batman universe?

the tldr is that Ivy has several, Two-Face has a handful, the al Ghuls have a couple, and everyone else has had a couple of single issues starring them.

In general, the Batman Arkham series functions as a Batman Rogues Gallery "Greatest Hits" collection. While most of the stories collected in these trades don't feature the rogues as a protagonist, they all explore the characters and their backstories/motivations and feature them in a starring role!

On principle, I generally refuse to recommend Joker comics. Clown man has enough stuff starring him and they're generally easy enough to find without me promoting him more than he already is. Also, to be honest with you I occasionally go out of my way to avoid stuff starring him because he's frankly bored me ever since DC decided to emphasize him as a psychopathic serial killer instead of a funny villain with a clown gimmick.

However, The Joker's Five-Way Revenge (Batman vol. 1 #251) is a fun read, Joker: The Man Who Laughs and Joker's Last Laugh are both good, and Batman: The War of Jokes and Riddles is decent as well. Another fun one that's a little out of the box is Superman: Emperor Joker.

Other than that...I generally recommend the following for Ivy:

Batman Arkham: Poison Ivy (basically an 'Ivy Greatest Hits' collection)

Batman: Poison Ivy (1997)

No Man's Land (yes, it's long. No, Ivy's not a 'lead'. yes, it's also ground zero for Ivy's redemption arc and features her in a major role)

Gotham City Sirens (2009)

Swamp Thing by Scott Snyder (specifically Vol. 2, Family Tree, and Vol. 3, Rotworld: The Green Kingdom)

Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death (2016)

Poison Ivy (2021) by G. Willow Wilson (curently ongoing)

Ivy also pops up in Ram V's Catwoman (2018) run and pretty consistently in Harley's solo books after 2015.

For Two-Face (my beloved), read Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: Dark Victory (which function as a double feature). Then read any of the following:

Batman: Faces (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #28-30)

Batman: Two-Face (1995)

Batman Annual #14: "Eye of the Beholder"

Gotham Central, which has an extended Harvey-Renee Montoya subplot

Batman/Two-Face: "Crime and Punishment"

Batman/Two-Face: Face the Face (2006)

Two-Face: Year One (2008)

Batman and Robin (2011) 23.1: Two-Face

Detective Comics #1020-1022: “The Ugly Heart”

Two-Face: One Bad Day

And for a couple of stories that aren't Harvey-focused but feature him as a prominent antagonist...read Robin: Year One, A Lonely Place of Dying, and Batman: Prodigal.

For the al Ghuls, apart from the Batman Arkham collections you're primarily looking for Tales of the Demon, the Demon Trilogy (Birth of the Demon, Bride of the Demon, Son of the Demon), Batman: The Chalice, and Batman Annual #26 (the prologue to Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul, which is also fun). Two of Damian's Robin solos (Robin: Son of Batman (2015) and Robin (2021)) also prominently feature Talia. There are...certainly other options, if you want to read about the al Ghuls, but they're rarely well characterized in those (except Talia's LexCorp CEO arc; all hail Talia's Lexcorp CEO arc).

Clayface (the Basil Karlo version) prominently featured as a protagonist in Tynion's Detective Comics Rebirth (2016) run.

Everyone else...apart from stories where they're the prominent antagonist, there were several Villain takeover issues during the period of Batman and Robin (2011) when Damian was dead, Year of the Villain had a few issues focused on the Batman Rogues, and the One Bad Day series focuses each issue on a different Bat Rogue.

There are plenty of other stories centered on various members of Batman's Rogues Gallery, but hopefully this gives you a solid starting place!

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Hero Vision Vol.55 (2015/Winter) Kamen Rider Blade 10th Anniversary Reunion Interviews Discussion on the Blade Drama CD (translations below)

Publication: February 23, 2015

Takayuki Tsubaki (Kazuma Kenzaki/Blade) Ryoji Morimoto (Hajime Aikawa/Chalice) Hironari Amano (Sakuya Tachibana/Garren) Takahiro Hojo (Mutsuki Kamijo/Leangle)

Tsubaki: I know that since Kamen Rider Blade is celebrating its 10th anniversary, the fans have been asking if we could do something for them. It reminded me that this show is still loved by so many people.

Amano: We talked about how it'd be nice if we could do something together. Kindof like how "Ninpu Sentai Hurricaneger" celebrated its 10th anniversary, and released a new project.

Tsubaki: Yeah. Then, we were offered to do a Drama CD. It made me really happy. This is the first of its kind in Kamen Rider history, and I think the only reason such an offer was given, was because the fans, Toei, the sponsors, the staff, and the cast all came together to make it happen.

Amano: For me, at first, I honestly wondered how a 10 year old production would be revived, and whether anyone would buy it.

Morimoto: Yeah. For me, my first impression was that this was a new beginning. Honestly, I was happy, but I was also worried about whether I'd be able to portray the role I played 10 years ago in a convincing way.

Hojo: I felt the same way. However, when I first heard about it, I was more happy than worried. Blade was the work I was most attached to, and had the most vivid memories of during my acting career. Now, in a brand new drama written 10 years later, I was really looking forward to it.

Amano: But, I also thought it was a story that I couldn't accept if all four of us weren't here.

Morimoto: That's the minimum requirement. After all, "Blade" is only possible if we're all together.

Amano: That's why I thought the most important thing was whether Joe (Hojo-san's nickname), who had retired from acting and returned to his hometown Nagoya, would be able to appear in this work. If they said, "He's retired, so just drop it," then there's nothing we can do about it. But, when Joe said he was sure and wanted to continue to be involved with the Kamen Rider series, it was then that I realized for the first time that this story would actually be happening.

Tsubaki: In Joe's case, locating him was quick, but contacting him to finalize the deal was the hard part.

Hojo: Just as we were talking about it, my cell phone died......(laughs)

Tsubaki: It was the first time I saw him in awhile, but he suddenly brought me a box with his new smartphone in it and said, "Baki (Tsubaki-kun's nickname), set it up for me."

Amano: You're better off with a flip phone! (laughs). I sent you an e-mail the other day, but when I asked, "Why didn't you reply?," you said your screen had broke.

Tsubaki: Those kinds of things usually makes me nervous, but it's different when we're working on Blade. The other day, I asked him, "What would you do if you were offered an acting role for something other than Kamen Rider?" He said, "I won't do it. But, if it's Kamen Rider, I'll definitely do it." I'm so happy that Joe still feels that way even after 10 years.

-10 years later, the four of us are just as you imagined-

Morimoto: I was happy to see that the Drama CD was a continuation of the story up to episode 49, which we had performed over the course of a year, all while creating a new story.

Amano: I was happy to see the presence of Kenzaki (Kazuma), how Hajime (Aikawa) had grown as a human, and how Mutsuki (Kamijo) had become an adult.

Morimoto: And also, Tachibana-san is more like a gentleman.

Tsubaki: I think Kenzaki was as I expected. I was told by Director Ishida (Hidenori) in the film "Missing Ace," which takes place 4 years after the show, that, "Kenzaki will not change even after 4 years." I thought that even 10 years later, Kenzaki would still be the same.

Morimoto: It was the exact image I had in mind, or rather, what I wanted him to be like.

Amano: On the flip side, the most unexpected thing was the conversations between Tachibana and Hajime. After 10 years, It seems that Tachibana was now able to talk with Hajime.

Morimoto: That's for sure. At the time, Garren (who Tachibana transforms into) and Chalice (who Hajime transforms into) were enemies.

Amano: Now, Ryo-chan (Morimoto-san) and I are having deep conversations.

Morimoto: Just like me and Amano-kun, I was happy to see that after 10 years, Hajime and Tachibana had developed a strong relationship. That's why I felt that the scene had to be a condensed version of their 10 years together.

Hojo: There's a line from Mutsuki in the TV show, where he says, "I want to protect the smiles and tears of people."……Going along with that, Mutsuki's choice of an event company as a place of employment in order to make people smile had me thinking, "That makes sense." It also makes him happy having junior colleagues. In his mind, Mutsuki's senior is Tachibana-san, but it's not enough to just imitate him. Therefore, I think I was able to play the role of a senior in my own way, although not as strict as Tachibana-san.

Amano: By the way, how are Mutsuki and Nozomi-chan getting along 10 years later? In the Drama CD, it's only brought up alittle bit.

Morimoto: What's more, "Mutsuki," you slurred your words! (laughs)

Amano: I'm very curious. How about in Joe's mind? Do you go for it? Or…..

Hojo: Nozomi……I wonder if we're done.

Amano & Morimoto: What!!? You guys broke up?!

Tsubaki: Nozomi-chan...maybe she married someone else? (laughs) No, no, I'm just joking. What I left out just now, was foreshadowing for the next part.

Morimoto: You left it in!

Tsubaki: I'm sure that in the next part, Nozomi-chan will be in trouble, so Mutsuki, trying to save her, will finally transform into his Jack Form.

Amano: I don't think they (the scriptwriters) put that much though into it!!

-Because we understand each other's roles-

Morimoto: Hajime isn't the type to show his emotions, but during the recording, I was so emotional, that I actually started to cry.

Amano: It was the final scene. When we finished, I said, "This isn't it," and re-recorded it.

Morimoto: Yeah. If Hajime honestly expresses his feelings and becomes 100% human, that's where the story will end. But, after seeing Kenzaki for the first time in such a long time, the thought of never seeing him again made me so emotional. I though, "Hajime should act like this too," but then I realized, "maybe I'm being alittle too feminine." When I asked everyone about it, both Amano-kun and Hojo gave the advice of, "Definitely don't cry." The reason we can share our opinions like that is because we all understand our roles.

Amano: That's right. It's the same for me, I remember other people's roles more than my own.

Morimoto: In a way, it's like looking at it from the Director's point of view. A scene where I tell Amano-kun, "These are the only friends I can trust!," seems strange.

Amano: Now that you mention it, you were very quiet about it at first. But, that scene was also in the TV show, so when I asked Ryo-chan, "What were you doing before?," Ryo-chan remembered it well.

Morimoto: You said I was quite loud at that time

Amano: That's why we re-recorded it. Everyone remembers what Hajime was like, what Mutsuki was like, and what Kenzaki was like.

Tsubaki: When it comes to "that kind of thing" Kenzaki can only speak the "Ondul Language" right? (laughs).

(Everyone laughs)

Morimoto: For better or for worse, the image I have of Kenzaki has never changed. It was the same in the Drama CD. I remembered almost immediately that, "Kenzaki is just like this."

Tsubaki: "Like this," in a good way? (laughs).

Morimoto: Ofcourse. On the other hand, it would be strange if Kenzaki could speak as fluently as (Kenichi) Suzumura-san (laughs).

Tsubaki: Come to think of it, during the dub recording for "Super Hero Taisen," the staff members said, "We have high expectations" So when I asked them, "Which are you expecting?," they said, "Whichever!" Well, from the very beginning, I started chewing as I spoke, and they all started clapping……

Morimoto: You also chewed in the Drama CD (laughs).

Tsubaki: Yeah, I chewed on the first take. Then, a nerve struck in Amano-kun, and he said, "I can't take this anymore…."

Morimoto: Then he left (the recording room).

Hojo: When he came back, he kept laughing like this (he holds his hands over his mouth) (laughs).

Morimoto: It was insanity. I also laughed at the beginning exchange with Kenzaki. In the flashback scene of the main story, he says, "Hajime, you can continue to live among other humans!"

Tsubaki: It came out more, "You can continue to live among other humans….."* (laughs). It's because that scene once traumatized me. *(said slightly slurred towards the end)

Morimoto: Were you actually hurt or something?

Tsubaki: I don't know if it's because people think that my lines with Ondul elements are the correct ones. I was wondering which expectation I should meet, but in the end, I ended up going with Ondul.....

Amano: I was entertained by it though.

Hojo: Another new saying will be born (laughs).

Morimoto: That part of him is what Kenzaki's all about.

Tsubaki: Just so you know, I usually speak very normally. But Kenzaki, he's just different! (laughs)

-We're now eagerly awaiting to visualize it!-

Tsubaki: Thankfully, I heard that the number of pre-orders for the Drama CD exceeded expectations, and Blade, which was broadcast on "Nico Nico Douga" late last year, was also quite popular. So, if we can get a little more support from the fans, I think a video version may be possible.

Amano: I'm glad that we were able to do a Drama CD, and that we were able to appear in Super Hero Taisen with all four of us, but, we mainly did dubbing. Next time I want everyone to appear in a film. By the way, I've confirmed that all four suits of Blade, Chalice, Garren, and Leangle still exist (laughs).

(Everyone laughs)

Tsubaki: Leangle's Jack Form figure is also available!

Amano: No way! I never thought it would actually release….!

Hojo: Come to think of it, at the time of Missing Ace, Baki and Amano-kun lied to me by saying, "I heard Leangle gets his Jack Form……" (laughs)

Amano: Now that it's become a figure, the visualization will also become a reality! So, first of all, we need everyone to support the Drama CD and push for this visualization. It'll be difficult to do something like this in another 5 or 10 years!

Hojo: Kenzaki and Hajime will grow old (laughs).

Morimoto: I'll become a wrinkly Undead! (laughs)

Amano: The Undead don't age, which means we'd have to change the original setting……

Tsubaki: Then it should be within this year. The filming period will be from April to May, and the release will be around August.

Morimoto: That's way too specific! (laughs). If that's the case, we'll have to get a new cards made…..(laughs).

Tsubaki: Talking like this, there's no end to our desires. I still want to make it into a video!

Hojo: When that time comes, I'll come back from Nagoya!

Amano: That's good. I think an adaptation would be fine if Joe actually answered his phone (laughs).

Morimoto: I won't break my cell phone or say that the screen died (laughs). That much is important. But, this year is the anniversary of Blade……so I'd be happy if we could end this year on a good note.

[misterbardman]

I’m just gonna use this tumblr account to ramble about percy jackson stuff but specifically Trials of Apollo. Some stuff I’ll put here:

•I’ve read The Hidden Oracle four times, it’s my comfort book I read when I’m stressed out.

•Read through TOA once in about four days, then read Sun and Star, then Chalice of the Gods in that order

•I read the main books years ago, like back in 2015-2016? Obviously I got Trials of Apollo after and I read that, then read Dark Prophecy up until about chapter 10ish.

•I don’t remember everything that happened in PJO or HoO but I just love rereading TOA.

•I am trying to read Magnus Chase but I’m pretty uninterested, I’m fairly early on though where Magnus is first in the Hotel.

Anyway, now that stuff is out of the way, I’m using this account to talk about my favorite scenes, haiku’s, fun facts, and headcanons.

I have also made a playlist on Spotify for TOA called ‘Falling from Olympus’ if anyone is interested.

[bookclub4m]

Episode 195 - Pop(ular) Culture Non-Fiction

This episode we’re discussing the topic of non-fiction Pop Culture books! We talk about cult classics, the Disney channel, the futch scale, and being Eldritch Millennials. 

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

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Things We Read (or tried to…)

Street Unicorns: Extravagant Fashion Photography from NYC Streets and Beyond by Robbie Quinn

Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman by Pádraig Ó Méalóid

Part 0: Introduction

I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher

And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race by María Elena Fernández

The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry

Note: Anna didn’t have the Disney Channel because she lived in the woods in Alaska. It also did not exist in Canada until 2015.

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel by Jenny Nicholson

That's So '90s!: A Pop-Cultural Guide to the Raddest Decade by Jo Stewart and Lisa Gillard

The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games by Super Eyepatch Wolf

Junk Film: Why Bad Movies Matter by Katharine Coldiron

Other Media We Mentioned

Attack of the New B Movies: Essays on SYFY Original Films edited by Justin Wigard and Mitch Ploskonka

Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Garratt and  Richard Appignanesi

FRUiTS by Shoichi Aoki

Wikipedia

Miracleman: The Silver Age by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham

RuPaul's Drag Race (Wikipedia)

The Pit Stop S16 E01

Glee (TV series) (Wikipedia)

Euphoria (American TV series) (Wikipedia)

Abbott Elementary (Wikipedia)

The Simpsons is Good Again by Super Eyepatch Wolf

Taskmaster: Series 17, Episode 1

Plan 9 from Outer Space (Wikipedia)

Every Frame a Painting

Links, Articles, and Things

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Jam and Matthew will be streaming Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp on Saturday, June 8th at 3pm PT/6pm ET. 

Jam made an image to promote it.

Jam’s Top Ten Video Essays About Media They Haven’t Experienced

Mood board (Wikipedia)

Blockbuster (Wikipedia)

Walkman (Wikipedia)

Milk caps/Pogs (Wikipedia)

Tamagotchi (Wikipedia)

Webring (Wikipedia)

Which Pokémon are the most goth?

20 Pop Culture Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame edited by Jennifer Adese & Robert Alexander Innes

The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel Betancourt

Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture by Zeba Blay

The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown

She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History by Jeff Chang & Dave Cook

Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada by Karrmen Crey

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris

Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones

K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television by Grace Jung

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee

Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life edited by Alina Pete

Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse by Maya Phillips

The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit by Julian Randall

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong by Katie Gee Salisbury

First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game by Nadirah Simmons

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith

Making a Scene by Constance Wu

Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, & Philip Wang

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Then on Tuesday, July 2nd we’ll be discussing the genre of Law/Legal Non-Fiction!

[silvernyxchariot]

My Anisona in different universes (info dump)

Appearance (Most recent drawing)

Starting with what's being depicted. Yes. I know I want to fuck the tol trash Mingo man, but I will always be a Punk at heart.

Name: Myrina, Nyx (inspired by the primordial goddess and an Amazon queen, the name is essentially the same throughout)

Sex: Female

Gender: NB/genderfluid

Pronouns: they/them

One Piece

Epithet: Demon Dog

Black Market Alias: Sloth

Crew: Kiddo Pirates

Romantic/Business Partner: Doflamingo

Occupation: Sniper, Commander in Kiddo's fleet and lead gunman (letting my imagination run wild, End of Series)

Bounty: 600,600,600 B (post-Wano)

Devil Fruit: Inu Inu no mi: model Hell Hound, allows the user to turn into a black dog made of ecto plasm that makes it easy to dodge attacks and "poses" a single target by entering their body

Haki: Kenbunshoku & Busōshoku

Background: A pirate hailing from the South Blue, Myrina Nyx is the Kid Pirate's sniper. They grew up with a single parent who would toss them into the forest to fend for themself. Before Nyx became a pirate, they were a popular bartender who was eventually recruited by Eustass Kiddo.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (pt. 3, 5, & 6)

Occupation: Art dealer (pt 3), Private investigator for Passione and tortoise caretaker (pt 5 & 6)

Stand: "Lilac Chalice," represents the Queen of Cups, a healing Stand with needles for arms for combat and requires blood from the patient to heal them

Romantic Partner: Jean Pierre Polnareff

Relatives: Charlotte M. Polnareff (daughter)

Friends: Noriaki Kakyoin, Avdol, The Joestars, Giorno Giovanna, Risotto Nero

Background: Nyx Myrina was an art dealer from New York working for the MoMA and a natural Stand user. They visited Egypt under the guise of buying rare relics for a local museum from a rich collector but was brainwashed by DIO's parasite to fight the Crusaders. Replace Chaka who was controlled by Anubis with Nyx, Polnareff defeats Anubis and frees Nyx from the parasite. Afterward, Nyx leads the Crusaders to DIO's mansion. (Pt 3)

Nyx later becomes a private investigator with Jean and helps him find more Stand arrows. Nyx and Polnareff conceived a child during their time together. They were separated in Italy by Diavolo, where a wounded Nyx was found by a teenage Risotto Nero and his Nonna, and cared for until Nyx went into hiding; Nyx raised their daughter alone until post-Vento Aureo. Nyx reunites with Jean, who is a ghost inside a turtle's Stand, and works for Passione with him.

Genshin Impact

Vision & Weapon class: Hydro & Claymore

Rating: ★★★★★

Region: Inazuma (origin), Sumeru (home)

Occupation: Vahumana literature teacher and mentor, Adventurer's Guild when bored

Romantic Relationships: Al Haitham + Kaveh (poly)

Friends: Cyno, Deyha, Setaria, Nilou, Candace, Collei

Background: Born as "Jiruga Manda," they were raised in a lesser noble family that served the Tenryō Commission. As opposed to their family, Manda wanted to be a writer and adventurer and escaped Inazuma. After working odd jobs and cram studying, Jiruga Manda changed their name to Myrina Nyx, attended the Sumeru Akademiya, and graduated from the Vahumana Darshan. They now live with the Akademiya's Scribe and his roommate and works as a literature teacher/mentor to Vahumana students.

Honkai: Star Rail

Path: Destruction

Rating: ★★★★★

Occupation: wanderer, Emanator of the Voracity

Species: Phoenix

Romantic Partner: Sunday

Affiliation: Self, Ouroboros the Voracity

Allies: Astral Express, Galaxy Rangers

Enemies: IPC

Obey Me! as MC

Occupation: Student at Royal Academy of Diavolo, Hell's Kitchen, Solomon's apprentice (after the exchange program)

Best Subject: Art, Mathematics

Worst Subject: Devildom Law, Seductive Spellcraft

Fav Subject: Curses and Hexes, Magic Potions

Romantic Interest: Satan

Naruto

The eldest and last visited in 2015. I'll probably change this one to be more up to date when I get the time.

Name: Misora, Suigintou (実空 、水銀燈)

Village: Kirigakure (former)

Affiliation: Akatsuki subordinate

Rank: Jōnin/S-rank missing ninja

Chakra Nature: Water, can use Wind

Signature Jutsu: "Tengu Twins" allows the user and their bonded owl to transform with "wings" for arms and talons for combat

Weapon: wakizashi, kunai, and shuriken

Romantic Interest: Hoshigaki, Kisame

In Boruto: Imprisoned

If you have any questions, you may ask them, but my rule still stands. Be civil and respectful towards me and others in the comment section.

If I had any advice for anyone who wants to start making OCs like it is your very first one, specifically a sona/self-insert, it would be "Make That Mary Sue/Gary Stu." I'm deadass (meaning serious). Everyone starts somewhere and as you collect and dump everything you love onto that ONE character, you'll eventually start refining it and chiseling away at what you don't need or adding&subtracting things when you plug them into whatever universe you choose. . . As you've probably figured out from this entire blog. It doesn't need to be PERFECT from the start. And if anything, you can use the remnants of what you took away from that character to make other OCs. I don't post much OC stuff to Tumblr, at least I don't remember doing so, but I do have more OCs somewhere in my storage.

[sodachalice]

[contremineur]

Porcelain has been made for a thousand years, traded for a thousand years. And it has been in Europe for eight hundred of these. You can trace a few sherds earlier. These broken fragments of Chinese pot gleam provocatively alongside the heavy earthernware pitchers they were found with and no one can work out how they got to this Kentish cemetery, this Urbino hillside. There are scatterings of porcelain across medieval Europe in inventories of Jean, duc de Berry, a couple of popes, the will of Piero de’ Medici with his una coppa di porcellana, a cup of porcelain. You can see a glimpse of white in a list of presents given on an embassy from one princeling to another: a stallion, a jar of porcelain, a tapestry with golden thread. It is so precious, goes the story in medieval Florence, that a porcelain cup stops poison from working. A beautiful celadon-green bowl is deeply encased in silver and disappears into a chalice. A wine jar is mounted and becomes a ewer for a banquet. You can even catch a glimpse in a Florentine altarpiece; one of the three kings kneeling stiffly before the Christ child seems to be offering myrrh in a Chinese porcelain jar, and this homage seems about right for a substance so scant and so arcane, for an object that has come such a long way from the East.

Edmund de Waal, from The white road (Chatto & Windus 2015)

[ahavedheart]

nine people you’d like to get to know better !! tagged by @ronanlynchbf ty for the tag, this was so fun !! 🥰🥰

1. three ships: okay so percabeth for sure, esp since chalice of the gods just came out AND pjo tv is coming out soon…it’s their time to shine. also pynch ever since my trc reread back in march, i’ve been stuck on them. and third i’m gonna say jurdan bc they’ve been on my mind SO much and i’m probably gonna reread tfota soon

2. first ship: was also probably percabeth since i read pjo in elementary school lmao

3. last song: i have unfortunately regressed to 2015 and i’ve been listening to the entire american beauty/american psycho album by fall out boy on repeat for the last like week, it goes so hard tho

4. last movie: twitches!! essential october watch

5. currently reading: i actually just finished yellowface by rf kuang which was amazing i loved reading it

6. currently watching: i’m 6 seasons into a degrassi rewatch lmaoo and before that i was rewatching gilmore girls, i haven’t really watched anything new lately 😭

7. currently consuming: maggi noodles 😋

8. currently craving: always craving some kind of noodle, i’m literally eating noodles rn but i’d kill for some lo mein

i don’t have nine lol but i’m gonna tag @chronicpcssimist @catras-smoothie @aberfaeth @exy101 and anyone else that wants to as well! no pressure at all if you don’t want to!! ☺️

[this-was-a-terrible-idea]

hello again <3

1, 5, 8, 10 + 11 if you do, 14 y 27!

<3 <3 <3 thank you for asking again!!! ily

1) what’s your favorite book you’ve read so far this year? does the answer differ whether it’s your favorite in terms of enjoyment, quality, or message? Vicious by V.E. Schwab! its so fucking good dude it had me HOOKED and im rereading it already. no changes in the answer, it is all around my favorite from this year

5) have you dnf’d any books this year? yes 😭 it was a sports romance that gave me psychic damage and i dnf'd at 51%

8) what’s a book you want to read by the end of the year? a few!!! Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan (tbh i just need to get it out of my backpack and sit down with it for two hours so that should be easy), Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey (i keep renewing my loan on this in Libby and its driving me nuts that i haven't finished it yet), A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers (bc i need a cathartic read to round off the year)

10) do you annotate your books, and if so, do you annotate only specific books or all of them? i'm only just starting to annotate, and only some books!! i've got this thing where i don't want to "ruin" a book but @bi-bats was telling me about how they see annotations and it kinda changed my mind. so far i've only annotated the copy of The Lightning Thief that i used for book club and i'm working on annotating Vicious for @bi-bats (the fact that it's not done yet is stressing me out but it WILL get done)

11) how do you annotate your book? (pencil, pen, tabs, highlighters, etc.; what do you write?) highlighter preferably, with pen underlines! i didn't have highlighters with me when i started annotating Vicious so its got different colored fine tip marker underlines, color coded per person. i mostly just underline things that stand out, and add exclamation marks and things like "he's so unwell" (that one's Vicious specific haha)

14) what’s your favorite adaptation of a book? The Martian (2015) is both one of my favorite movies AND a great adaptation of the book imo!

27) any “unpopular” book opinions? uhhhh suddenly i've forgotten all popular and unpopular book opinions. um, i don't really like a majority of booktok recs?? OH here's one: i think that booktok has done a great deal of damage to book reviews and book review videos specifically. book review videos used to be thought out and give reasons why the reviewer liked or didn't like something, and now the majority of "book review" videos i see are just a list of books with a rating and no explanations and that drives me nuts. i wanna know WHY you liked or didn't like the book, not just a number of stars. especially since everybody's star review criteria is different 😩

ask me different book-related questions!

[calla-tuoleimi]

slight chalice of the gods spoilers

what timeline is this book in because percy's still in high school which should mean it picks up from heroes of olympus/trials of apollo which was in like... what? 2014? 2015? or earlier since there's only like a year spanning hoo?

why are there references to "shallow" and wandavision help ajakdkfkgkg

[finishinglinepress]

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PRAISE FOR The Soul Mate Poems by Kristine Hartvigsen

You may know someone in this book. In fact, you might be in this book. The men—and women—who fill this book are crushes and soulmates and midlife besties and the occasional fellow you’d risk a morning walk of shame for. It’s all numbers, not names, and just enough detail to make you wonder. A boy old enough for a Stoli and a man who cooks by ear, they’re both here. A catalogue of crushes, a natural history of noticing, these are portrait poems, some poignant, some punchy, some impossible, all beads strung on a line of prose reflections that make you smile to think about your own secret history.

–Ed Madden is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and served as Poet Laureate for the City of Columbia from 2015 to 2022.

Kristine Hartvigsen‘s poems, part micro-memoir, part lyric, part palm “on the curve where hip meets buttock,” ultimately choose us. We never forget soul mates and how the “empty chalice echo truths” in a world of sensation, disappointment, and joy.” These poems arouse expectancy, explore attraction’s belonging, and peer across the room with courage and heart. You’ll find yourself on the list.

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–Al Black, author of I Only Left For Tea (2014, Muddy Ford Press) and Man With Two Shadows (2018, Muddy Ford Press), and he was named Columbia’s Literary Artist of the Year by Jasper Magazine in ____.

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