#charles paton

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Rynox (1931) Michael Powell

June 15th 2024

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I always forget precisely how much Jill Paton Walsh was a Lord Peter Wimsey multishipper until I relisten to the talking book of The Attenbury Emeralds.

Her Harriet/Peter? superlative and beautiful and warm and sexy and glorious, absolutely lives up to what Sayers created

Bunter/Hope? delightful, a lovely JPW-canonical pairing for Bunter, approve so much

Peter/Bunter? everywhere, and tender and moving and unspoken, with Harriet and Hope massively shipping it.

Harriet/Hope? not *not* there, for sure Harriet/Peter/Bunter/Hope? honestly, not too far from being canon

Parker/Mary? oh yes, they’ve still got it, Parker’s still a parfait knight, love them

Peter/Parker (aka the Spiderman ship ;-) )? off the scale implications, glorious; contains a completely gratuitous neck-touching scene, and a theology-related meet-cute in the flashback; Peter and Mary are clearly managing to be siblings who are also metamours just fine; Harriet clearly adores it all too

Also JPW seems to have a lot of interest in characters that Sayers, dearly as I love her, had got a bit bored of. Like when Eiluned and Sylvia the glorious (and pretty definitely canonical) lesbian couple from Strong Poison turn up in Thrones, Dominations. And the fact that Freddie keeps turning up and being a darling and a bunny-ears lawyer (well, bunny-ears finance expert). :)

In short: hooray. :D

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Born on May 15th 1857 in Dundee, Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming became one of the leading lights in astronomy.

Her father had died when she was seven; at 14, she had become a student teacher to help support her mother and siblings.

At 20, she had married a Dundee bank employee and widower, James Orr Fleming, 16 years her senior—who would abandon her and their unborn child shortly after her arrival in the United States a year later.

Willamina worked as a maid in the home of Professor Edward Charles Pickering, who was director of the Harvard College Observatory. The story was told that Pickering was often frustrated with the performance of the (all-male) “computers” at the observatory and, reportedly, would complain loudly: “My Scottish maid could do better!” And so it was she went to work for him at Harvard.

Fleming became a full time employee at the observatory in 1881 despite a lack of any math, astronomy, or physics background. She eventually became the first woman to be designated Curator of Astronomical Photographs in 1899. This was the first corporate appointment of a woman at Harvard ever.

Fleming contributed to the cataloging of stars that later were published as the Henry Draper Catalogue. In nine years’ effort she cataloged more than 10,000 stars. During her career she discovered 59 gaseous nebulae, over 310 variable stars, and 10 novae. In 1907 she published a list of 222 variable stars she had discovered.

In 1888, Fleming she made her most well known discovery, the Horsehead Nebula.

The second phot is a depiction of the lady by Greg Moodie, artist and writer, you can see his work in the Scottish newspaper The National, there is a gallery of his work at the Torphichen Inn, West Lothian, where I took the photo.

Read more about her in this Harvard Magazine article here. http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/01/williamina-fleming

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List of all the books I’ve read

just wanted to keep a list of what I’ve read throughout my life (that I can remember)

Fiction:

“Where the Red Fern Grows,” Wilson Rawls

“The Outsiders,” S. E. Hinton

“The Weirdo,” Theodore Taylor

“The Devil’s Arithmetic,” Jane Yolen

“Julie of the Wolves series,” Jean Craighead George

“Soft Rain,” Cornelia Cornelissen

“Island of the Blue Dolphins,” Scott O’Dell

“The Twilight series,” Stephanie Mayer

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee

“Gamer Girl,” Mari Mancusi

“Redwall / Mossflower / Mattimeo / Mariel of Redwall,” Brian Jacques

“1984,” and  “Animal Farm,” George Orwell

“Killing Mr. Griffin,” Lois Duncan

“Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain

“Rainbow’s End,” Irene Hannon

“Cold Mountain,” Charles Frazier

“Between Shades of Gray,” Ruta Sepetys

“Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe,” Edgar Allan Poe

“Lord of the Flies,” William Golding

“The Great Gatsby,” F Scott Fitzgerald

“The Harry Potter series,” JK Rowling

“The Fault in Our Stars,” “Looking for Alaska,” and “Paper Towns,” John Green

“Thirteen Reasons Why,” Jay Asher

“The Hunger Games series,” Suzanne Collins

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Stephen Chbosky

“Fifty Shades of Grey,” EL James

“Speak,” and “Wintergirls,” Laurie Halse Anderson

“The Handmaid’s Tale,” Margaret Atwood

“Mama Day,” Gloria Naylor

“Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Bronte

“Wide Sargasso Sea,” Jean Rhys

“The Haunting of Hill House,” Shirley Jackson

“The Chosen,” Chaim Potok

“Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman

“Till We Have Faces,” CS Lewis

“One Foot in Eden,” Ron Rash

“Jim the Boy,” Tony Earley

“The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox,” Maggie O’Farrell

“A Land More Kind Than Home,” Wiley Cash

“A Parchment of Leaves,” Silas House

“Beowulf,” Seamus Heaney

“The Silence of the Lambs / Red Dragon / Hannibal / Hannibal Rinsing,” Thomas Harris

“Cry the Beloved Country,” Alan Paton

“Moby Dick,” Herman Melville

“The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings trilogy / The Silmarillion,” JRR Tolkien

“Beren and Luthien,” JRR Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien

“Children of Blood and Bone / Children of Virtue and Vengeance,” Tomi Adeyemi

“Soundless,” Richelle Mead

“The Girl with the Louding Voice,” Abi Dare

“A Song of Ice and Fire series / Fire and Blood,” GRR Martin

“A Separate Peace,” John Knowles

“The Bluest Eye,” and “Beloved,” Toni Morrison

“Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley

“The Giver / Gathering Blue / Messenger / Son,” Lois Lowry

“The Ivory Carver trilogy,” Sue Harrison

“The Grapes of Wrath,” and “Of Mice and Men,” John Steinbeck

“The God of Small Things,” Arundhati Roy

“Fahrenheit 451,” Ray Bradbury

“The Night Circus,” Erin Morgenstern

“Sunflower Dog,” Kevin Winchester

“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Betty Smith

“The Catcher in the Rye,” JD Salinger

“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” Sherman Alexie

“Bridge to Terabithia,” Katherine Paterson

“The Good Girl,” Mary Kubica 

“The Last Unicorn,” Peter S Beagle

“Slaughterhouse Five,” Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The Joy Luck Club,” Amy Tan

“The Sworn Virgin,” Kristopher Dukes

“The Color Purple,” Alice Walker

“Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston

“The Light Between Oceans,” ML Stedman

“Yellowface,” RF Kuang

“A Flicker in the Dark,” Stacy Willingham

“One Piece Novel: Ace’s Story,” Sho Hinata

“Black Beauty,” Anna Seawell

“The Weight of Blood,” Tiffany D. Jackson

“Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China,” Hualing Nieh, Sau-ling Wong

“The Weight of Blood,” Laura McHugh

“Everybody’s Got to Eat,” Kevin Winchester

“That Was Then, This is Now,” S. E. Hinton

“Rumble Fish,” S. E. Hinton

“Tex,” S. E. Hinton

“Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World,” Yoshi Yoshitani

“Memoirs of a Geisha,” Arthur Golden

Non-fiction:

“Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl,” Anne Frank

“Night,” Elie Wiesel

“Invisible Sisters,” Jessica Handler

“I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban,” Malala Yousafzai

“The Interesting Narrative,” Olaudah Equiano

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Rebecca Skloot

“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Harriet Jacobs

“The Princess Diarist,” Carrie Fisher

“Adulting: How to Become a Grown Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps,” Kelly Williams Brown

“How to Win Friends and Influence People,” Dale Carnegie

“Carrie Fisher: a Life on the Edge,” Sheila Weller

“Make ‘Em Laugh,” Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway

“How to be an Anti-Racist,” Ibram X Kendi

“Maus,” Art Spiegelman

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou

“Wise Gals: the Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage,” Nathalia Holt

“Persepolis,” and “Persepolis II,” Marjane Satrapi

“How to Write a Novel,” Manuel Komroff

“The Nazi Genocide of the Roma,” Anton Weiss-Wendt

“Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz,” Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel

“Two Watches,” Anita Tarlton

“The Ages of the Justice League: Essays on America’s Greatest Superheroes in Changing Times,” edited by Joseph J. Darowski

“Shockaholic,” Carrie Fisher

“Breaking Loose Together: the Regulator Rebellion in Pr-Revolutionary North Carolina,” Marjoleine Kars

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Elizabeth Rundle Charles

Short Name:Elizabeth Rundle CharlesFull Name:Charles, Elizabeth Rundle, 1828-1896Birth Year:1828Death Year:1896

Charles, Elizabeth, née Rundle, is the author of numerous and very popular works intended to popularize the history of early Christian life in Great Britain; of Luther and his times; of Wesley and his work; the struggles of English civil wars; and kindred subjects as embodied in the Chronicles of the Schönherg-Cotta Family, the Diary of Kitty Trevelyan, &c, was born at Tavistock, Devonshire, Her father was John Rundle, M.P., and her husband, Andrew Paton Charles, Barrister-at-Law. Mrs. Charles has made some valuable contributions to hymnology, including original hymns and translations from the Latin and German. These were given in her:— (1) The Voice of Christian Life in Song; or, Hymns and Hymn-writers of Many Lands and Ages, 1858; (2) The Three Wakings, and other Poems, 1859; and (3) The Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family; (4) Poems, New York, 1867. This has some additional pieces. Her hymn on the Annunciation, "Age after age shall call thee [her] blessed," appeared in her Three Wakings, &c., 1859.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Birthdays 5.2

Beer Birthdays

Bruce Paton (1955)

Anders Kissmeyer (1956)

Brian Hunt (1957)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Jerome K. Jerome; English writer (1859)

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson; actor, wrestler (1972)

Pinky Lee; burlesque entertainer (1907)

Charles McCabe; writer (1915)

Manfred von Richthofen; World War I flying ace (1892)

Famous Birthdays

Lily Allen; pop singer (1985)

Maury Allen; sportswriter, actor (1932)

Christine Baranski; actor (1952)

David Beckham; English footballer (1975)

Theodore Bikel; singer, actor (1924)

William Camden; English historian (1551)

Naomi Campbell; model (1970)

Vernon Castle; dancer, actor (1887)

Catherine the Great; Russian queen (1762)

Bing Crosby; singer, actor (1904)

Connie Crothers; jazz pianist (1941)

Thomas Aloysius Dorgan; cartoonist (1877)

Leslie Gore; pop singer (1946)

Lou Gramm; rock singer (1950)

Lorenz Hart; composer, lyricist (1895)

Theodore Herzl; Zionist (1860)

Hedda Hopper; gossip columnist (1885)

Englebert Humperdinck; singer (1936)

Elijah J. McCoy; inventor (1843)

Lorenzo Music; voice actor (1937)

Novalis; German writer (1772)

Michael Rabin; violinist (1936)

Alessandro Scarlatti; composer (1660)

Benjamin Spock; baby doctor, writer (1903)

Donnatella Versace; fashion designer (1955)

Jenna von Oy; actor, country singer (1977)

Link Wray; rock guitarist (1929)

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Hatchet!Paton's rating of Hatchetfield's catastrophes:

TGWDLM: 10/10. Apotheosis is a classic. World becomes a musical. Hell yeah

Black Friday: 7/10 I love Wiggly but what the FUCK is going on? All these people trigger my social anxiety HELP.

Ape Man: 8/10 Ted can go fuck off but hell yeah Woolyfoot

Watcher World: 1/10 Blinky ily but if I had to go there I would kill everyone in the park and then myself

Forever and Always: 0/10 Charles wyd wdym you're making Paul clones and Emdroids. What.

Time Bastard 3/10 Ted gets character growth but Tinky freaks me OUT.

Jane's A Car: 0/10 you know why

Witch in the Web: 1/10 BOOO I hate good endings!!! Webby is a stupid bitch! Only good thing is all the Lords showing up <3 Willowbella WISH she had my connections lmfaoo

Honey Queen: 6/10 Linda my beloved. Nibbly my beloved. Sam could've died faster. Zoey was a good antagonist but my God will she ever 🎶shut the fuck upppp🎶

Abstinence Camp: 0/10 am asexual gg ez

Daddy: 0/10 Sherman Young stay at least 500 meters away from me thanks. Like I love the Lords too but. Man. Incel vibes.

Killer Track: 0/10 what. What even. The song isn't even THAT good. Stupid.

Yellow Jacket: 1/10 the fighting ring is funny, but what the hell is Pokey doing here. What.

Nerdy Prudes Must Die: 3/10 ghost Max is cool and Grace giving up her chastity is funny af, but I was enjoying school finally being nice! And then Richie and Ruth get killed! And now Grace is on a revenge trip WTF!!!

Workin' Boys: 7/10 go off Hidgens, I'm on your side. Should've survived, Grace is going feral again rip

Hi y’all!

Can you please give me in universe ratings about the Hatchetfield series?

Like, if you were in Hatchetfield going through one of the things (example: TGWDLM, Black Friday, Workin’ Boys, etc)

I’m doing a skit/a video on why my friend should give Hatchetfield a try and thought of doing a bit with sharing in universe ratings.

You don’t have to pretend you’re a canon character, but if you want, feel free to :)

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12.25.19

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House Of Darkness (1948)

"The only reason you're in favour of my taking a holiday is so that you can play the master while I'm away!"

"I can assure you, I'm much more interested in playing the piano."

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Charles Paton's Lament

Charles Paton’s Lament

Just a few lines this morning about minor British character actor Charles Paton (1874-1970), not to be confused with old time blues man Charley Patton! The Paton in question was born and raised in London, and ran away with a circus when he was 14 (1888). Years of experience in music hall and legit theatre followed. His turn from the West End revue John Citizen’s Lament (as the title character)…

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Also funny when there is a line in the narration establishing Paton dislikes nicknames, but he never once calls Charlie “Charles”.

Tbh new headcanon, Charlie is not short for Charles but no one ever told Dr. Bloor that

"I have an announcement to make," the doctor said solemnly. “A new boy has arrived to join the endowed. Charles Bone, stand up."

Wait, if Charlie's full name really is Charles, then it feels kind of silly that everyone calls him Charlie. You'd think the more hostile or uptight characters might prefer Charles to Charlie, yet the nickname persists.

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Blackmail (1929) Alfred Hitchcock

November 30th 2020

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All I’m saying is that Harriet and Peter Wimsey would both be young enough still in the mid-late 60s to visit Oxford, possibly for another Shrewsbury College reunion, or indeed one at Balliol/Bailey, or something to do with one of their kids. And might even have one or more of the rest of their friends in tow, I mean even if Bunter’s retired by then he (and Jill Paton Walsh-continuations spoiler-character!) would still be living with or near the Wimseys. And Charles and Mary Parker also very happily go anywhere Harriet and Peter are as we know. :D

And then inevitably there might be a murder, which leads to the glorious possibility of them all being interviewed as witnesses by DI Thursday, DS Jakes, and DC Morse, and then Peter trying to investigate it himself anyway and at least one of the Endeavour characters turning out to be massive Harriet Vane fans and and and...

*sighs* So many plotbunnies, so few spoons to actually get any writing done. So if any fellow fans of both Endeavour and Dorothy L Sayers (and ideally the Jill Paton Walsh continuations! my thinking is that it would be great if it agreed canonically with The Attenbury Emeralds especially...) want to write this before I get around to it, please please *please* be my guest. :D

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In My Veins - I Dreamed A Dream

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'Killtopia' To Become A TV Series With A Unique Unreal Engine Connection

‘Killtopia’ To Become A TV Series With A Unique Unreal Engine Connection

The cyberpunk graphic novel series Killtopia is on its way to becoming an animated television program with a unique twist. BHP Comics announced on Tuesday that it has optioned the comic’s television rights to transmedia startup Voltaku. The graphic novels, by Dave Cook and Craig Paton, tell the tale of Shinji, a young man trying to save his sister, and Crash, the world’s first sentient mech, as…