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woncon · 2 months ago

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➳ black boots

➶ poly! fem!stray kids x gn!reader (hyunbinilix focus)｡˚ °

-ˏ` ✎﹏ You have a freshly bought pair of black boots, a date night, a short girlfriend and a plan.

➴ genre: poly, slice of life, non-idol au, college/university au, domestic fluff, estabilished relationship

: ̗̀➛ warnings: suggestive themes, petnames & nicknames, reader adoring their girlfriends (literally falling for one of them)

: ̗̀➛ the name changes: chris = christine; changbin = chaebin; felix = felicity; minho = minhee/mina; the gender-neutral names (jisung, seungmin, jeongin, hyunjin) are the same.

⌨ :: 4k words ♡ ︵ . .

⁀➷ hi!! this is the first time i wrote with fem!skz, and i loved 👏 every 👏 second 👏 of it. in this one-shot not every lady pops up, and the focus is mainly on hyunjin, felicity, chaebin and the reader. however, in the future i would really like to go deeper into this au and put together a plot that includes the others as well, their dynamic and stuff.❤️

⁀➷ also, thanks for @wonsheep for betaing! 💓

➳ mlist

The hall carpet is covered with shoes. Running shoes, casual shoes, winter boots. Seungmin's small and large studded boots. In the next box you find rest Minhee's red, pointy heels, nothing to do with the black boots you're desperately searching for. And to be fair, it's quite funny that you find their shoes, who don't even live here, before you find your own.

You sigh in frustration and sit down on your heels. Fewer and fewer boxes remain, and with them less and less hope of finding them before you have to go on the date.

“Wait a minute!” Felicity, who came to your rescue about half an hour ago, pulls out a pair of boots. These seem to be the ones you're looking for, but the feeling immediately passes. Yours have laces, and they're not that high.

“These are Binnie's platform boots,” you identify them. Another pair of shoes from someone who also doesn't live here.

Your girlfriend takes a closer look at the two pieces. “Oh. Sorry.”

“You couldn't have known. I bought it over the weekend, I don't think anyone's seen it yet, just the box. It has a brown box and I remember putting it here.” You pat the closet door. “Right. Here.”

You already took everything you could from that drawer. No black boots, just the closet mockingly gaping at you.

“What if someone accidentally put it on?” Felicity suggests. “Hyune was late for her Picasso seminar today. Maybe she picked up the first thing she could get her hands on and ran for the bus.”

“In that case, she would have left the box at home, right?” You also remember that Hyunjin is in the bathroom. "And she would have taken it off since then."

“You’re right…”

You lean your palm on the forest of shoes and kiss Felicity's cheek where the freckles are the densest. "It's okay, Lissy. I'll find it someday. If not today, I'll pull something else. I'll borrow one of Minnie's boots, for example. There's so much here. Wow.”

“But you were so excited to put it on!” She gives your wrist a dedicated squeeze. “We'll find it, and you'll come in it, and everyone will be at your feet.”

You smile and laugh at that, because that's partly what you're aiming for with the shoes. You want to impress somebody. The fact that Felicity's noticed just proves how much she understands.

“We're going to interview everyone and go through Bin unnie's apartment and Minnie's dorm. This isn’t brownie to vanish without a trace.”

“What if the shoe fairy took it?” you ask.

Felicity narrows her eyes menacingly in response, her voice tinglingly deep. “Then I'll find her, grab her wings, and stick Mina unnie’s high heels up her ass.”

Just the visual image alone makes you grimace. “Ouch.”

"If she's been messing with you, she deserves it," she shrugs.

After finding out that Hyunjin doesn't know anything about the shoes, you make a phone call. Jisung, who also lives with you but spent the weekend at the Christine-Minhee-Chaebin trio's apartment, has nothing of substance to say either, other than that she's on her way home. One more call and it turns out it wasn't the shoe fairy who took your boots, but Jeongin.

“I wanted to make sure to pick the right shades for your date outfits. Chaebin unnie had an idea for pants and I had to see if they matched your shoes. I forgot to tell you. When I bring over Lissy unnie's dress, I'll bring that too,” promises your enthusiastic, dedicated fashion guru, whose dorm room is probably in a similar mess as your hallway; your brought-over clothes scattered but carefully laid out everywhere.

“And did Binnie see it?” you ask.

“I was careful, baby. It was in the box the whole time. And she'll be wearing sneakers like you wanted.”

"You're an angel, Innie," you say gratefully, breaking the line.

Felicity frowns. She heard it all, she just doesn't understand. But she waits in vain for an explanation. With a cryptic smile, you wink at her, then scramble to stretch your weary legs and pour motivation into yourself to put the shoe army back in the drawer.

///

As a final touch, you adjust your socks and check the laces. At last, everything is restored: the shoes you threw out are packed back in. You're wearing the clothes you had planned on wearing, complete with your new black boots.

“So?” you ask.

“Wow, that's big," Felicity says, surprised. “Until you’ve pulled it out, it looked smaller.”

“That's what she said," Jisung steps into the hallway with a waggle of her eyebrows. Felicity laughs and nudges her shoulder.

Then Jisung looks you up and down. So far she has unpacked and given a detailed account of her weekend. She hasn't had a chance to look at your date outfit yet, so she takes the time to do that before she takes a critical look at your shoes. “Sexy. You can stay.” Though she grins playfully, her expression exudes a kind of sincere affection and fascination that makes heat begin to bubble in your chest.

“You mean... at home?” In your mind, the afternoon, most of which you spent searching for shoes and the rest of which you spent in excited preparation, slowly rolls by in a series of images. Also, there was some serious planning going on this week, juggling daily schedules so that you could finally go on a longer date with some of your girlfriends, not just quick meetings during coffee breaks between meetings or classes. It would be silly to throw it all away.

"For real," Jisung nods vigorously. You're sure there are images flashing in her head too, just probably different ones, judging by the way her gaze stops at your thighs and how she bites her lip slightly. “You could stay, but you wouldn't stay clothed for long.”

..Okay. The others will understand that you're throwing everything away. They'd do the same if Jisung looked at them like that.

“No!” Jeongin, appearing on the doorstep, seems to be shouting at your thoughts. You flinch. She doesn't approach you, she stops next to Jisung and Felicity, but she's still quite intimidating, and you still get the impression that she's actually snapping at your thoughts. “No way, unnie. You don't have the right to corrupt my masterpiece yet.”

“Oh?”

“I've worked hard on the composition. For hours. The four of them will look wonderful together if you let them.”

“They'd look wonderful naked together too…” Jisung reports wistfully.

Jeongin sighs. She sighs with similar resignation when Doongie ruffles her cardigan. The sigh is exasperated, but the expression on her face is one of fascination. Love. "Unnie, please."

As Jeongin pleads with Jisung, you too are compelled to bear with yourself. Thanks to this, you remember one of the highlights of your evening, the one you've planned, when the footwear you've chosen really comes into its own, and thus, where the fire of desire has just flared inside you, it settles back to excitement.

Jisung snorts in surrender. “Fine, Innie-yah. I'll wait.” She blows out the air as if her lips were Pandora's box, and now all the horror has been set on its way.

“What's gotten into you, Hanie?” asks Felicity. She and Jisung are usually on the same wavelength, and easily understand each other's feelings. Sometimes they seem to read each other's minds. Now the blonde girl can't read the other either.

“Nothing extra,” she waves her hand, but at the same time she measures your body again with a dreamy expression. “Just a half-finished lyric about Y/nie's thighs and how nice it would be to die between them.” She bites her lower lip again. It's probably involuntary, but even if it's on purpose, you can't resent it. You love biting her as well, her lips always soft and sensitive under your teeth.

“Did you write it?” you wonder. It'd be surprising. It's not that Jisung doesn't like your thighs, she just doesn't write about them. To your knowledge, the last time Jisung wrote about legs was when she put the story of one of her iconic falls into song. The case involved a stuffed guitar case, the pavement and her untied shoelaces.

“It was written by someone who loves traffic and vehicle metaphors.”

Oh.

So Christine writes lyrics about your thighs. It makes you feel like a voyeur peeping through a curtainless window to see yourself on the other side. Christine between your thighs– the thought makes the skin on the back of your neck heat up. You stroke it with the palm of your hand, as if that will cancel out the hopeful flood of heat, the hot feeling that simply knowing Christine is fantasizing about you on scraps of paper has brought out in you.

There is something particularly flattering, sweetly special about being the love of artists.

“Muse?”

You raise your head. At the same time, Felicity, Jisung and Jeongin turn around like three curious meerkats. And Hyunjin giggles, realizing that she calls you all her muses. “Fee. Y/nie. Are you ready?”

“Fuck,” cries the blonde. “I forgot my lip gloss.” With that, she disappears inside the apartment to finish her make-up.

Meanwhile, Jeongin and Jisung make room for Hyunjin, and you look at her as if you're seeing her for the first time. She has her hair done up high, in a bun on the top of her head. Gold earrings jingle by her neck. Lips glowing red with lipstick. She's wearing a black, form-fitting dress and body-coloured stockings. There is no shoes on her feet, but as you're standing in the hallway, that's about to change soon.

It's so different from the Hyunjin emerging with brushes poked through her locks and paint-stained, frayed jeans on her way to the bathroom break from her studio or a flash of colour in the living room as she rushes to her university class. This Hyunjin stops now, or even stops time with her exuberant beauty, because time wants to delight in her too, and preserve her in this moment.

“Wow. You are…” Gorgeous. Amazing. Breathtaking, “wife material,” you whisper.

The next moment you're kneeling in front of her.

Out of the corner of your eye, you see Jeongin put her hand to her mouth and Jisung's lips part.

“What are you doing?” asks Hyunjin, surprised. Like someone who doesn't dare to breathe.

Your knees are weak at the sight of her, that's the case. “I just... just, uh, can I help you put your shoes on?” You finally offer hopefully. “So your clothes don't wrinkle. Or– Or your stockings.”

Hyunjin gives you a gentle smile. “I want to wear my black patent leather shoes.”

While you take out said pair, Jisung and Jeongin come to their senses. The latter tries to pretend that she knew you were not serious or had different intentions than you seemed to, but she cannot speak. Jisung, on the other hand, is starting to indulge in a monologue.

“Damn, it was something, I mean I almost had a heart attack, and, and, well, actually it would have been a nice death, and I could see the drama before my eyes, because wow, how brutal would it be if Y/n wanted Chaebin's wife too–”

Hyunjin lifts her leg for you. Jisung decides to keep quiet and just be a spectator to the events. You slip the shiny-soled shoe onto Hyunjin's foot, and then, with deft movements, you buckle it. You repeat the procedure with the other leg. Hyunjin rewards your patient, dedicated work with a hand extended towards you. When you're done, she pulls you into a standing position.

“You look impressive too, you know. These boots really suit you. If I could, I'd paint you right here.”

You smile gratefully at her, and are happy to let her kiss your hand. The imprint of her lipstick remains on your skin, but it doesn't bother you in the least. You will wear it for the rest of the day like a precious jewel.

“I'm ready!” Felicity glides in like a cheerful blonde whirlwind in a cloud of vanilla perfume. Her pink, floral dress swirls with her as she presses a loud kiss to Jisung's cheek, then Jeongin's, and then strolls over to you in her sandals. “We're not late, are we?”

Although you spent many seconds during the ritual of putting on your retrieved shoes admiring her, you are not too surprised to find that you are not yet satiated by the sight of Felicity. Perhaps you never will be. At least you'll have the whole evening to watch her, and chat with her and the others about trivia or world affairs or whatever the mood brings. You just want to be with them, the rest is extra.

“If we were about to be late, I wouldn't look like this,” Hyunjin chuckles, hugging the younger one around the waist. “Don't worry.”

“Leave though,” Jeongin urges you. “And have a great time, ok?”

“Okay, Innie-yah, you'll be rid of us soon,” Hyunjin rolls her eyes, “and you'll have Jisung all to yourself.”

“Yikes,” says Jeongin with her arms crossed.

“Hey!”

Jisung's offended cry melts as Jeongin turns to her, kisses her cheek, and then walks into the apartment.

“Oh, oh. Yeah. Go ahead,” Jisung gives a thumbs up, and retreats. “Innie-yah, what are your plans? Are you going back to the dorm or are you staying?” You can still hear her hopeful echo.

Felicity rattles her keychain, with all its decorations. “Then let's go on a date!”

You click your heels together like you're Dorothy. Sadly, that won't magically get you all to the restaurant entrance. You have to get there on your two feet, the shoes feeling like stones tied to them. But you'll get used to it. You break them in, as Minhee would say, who has a penchant for breaking in high heels and other shoes. And as you break them in, you'll hold Felicity's soft little hand.

///

Once again, Chaebin has found a comfortable place. She had booked a table on the terrace. The golden glow of the light bulbs hanging above the tables is like stars stolen from the sky. The smell of meat frying on rich fat spreads. Clinking cutlery duets with the soft jazz that emanates from the space inside.

Stretching your neck, you search for a beautiful woman at a nearly empty table. It's not hard to spot a bored goddess among the many chattering table companions, playing with the rim of her wine glass and occasionally sighing deeply. What a sign.

The fact that your boots are taller doesn't save you from the sensation of falling. In fact, it makes you fall deeper into the heat of love.

Hyunjin doesn't need to signal that you have a reservation, because Chaebin waves vigorously as soon as she spots you. Boredom melts off her face instantly, and she slaps the surface of the table with a wide grin, signalling, come here, please. She's always hungry and eager after a workout, but for now, she's only got the glass of wine in front of her.

“Have you ordered yet, wifey?” Hyunjin asks, taking a seat next to her. She rests her hand on the back of the seat and slides her legs over her thigh, and as you sit down you see the nose of her shoe brushing Chaebin's black denim-clad calf. Felicity sits next to you, facing them.

“Nothing on the menu was as desirable as you,” Chaebin says with a grin. “Thank you for spending the evening with me.”

“C'mon, unnie,” Felicity snorts, reaching for the menu. “It's our pleasure.”

You try to find a comfortable position on the cushioned chair, while not taking your eyes off Chaebin.

She's like a spark of optimism. When you look at her, the world is a better place. And it's also so good to look at her: her simple, pink T-shirt, the way the soft, warm crocheted cardigan wraps around her arms and makes it look big compared to the wearer, hiding what muscles are really straining underneath; her hair falling freely; her sweet smile, her face glowing with life; the fading traces of love marks peeking out from under her shirt, around her collarbone.

“You planning on getting down on your knees again?” Hyunjin's innocent-sounding but devastating question interrupts the long moment you spend staring at Chaebin. You blink slowly, as if waking from a dream, but the flush is creeping rapidly up your skin, covering your face in a hot wave.

“Excuse me, but what?” Chaebin elbows on the table and leans closer to you, eager for you to share anything and everything. Those beautiful, sparkling eyes of hers now look only at you, and you would never do anything to make that light fade or die. You want it to shine always. And you know that Chaebin would never judge you for what happened in the hallway, nor would she laugh derisively, so you're not afraid to open up to her.

You adjust the tablecloth with a faint smile. “I helped your wife put on her shoes. But you know her: she overdramatizes everything.”

Chaebin laughs. Hyunjin raises an eyebrow. The laughter turns into a throat clearing. “The secret of our long marriage is that I don't blame her for her mistakes,” Chaebin announces with a serious expression, as if she's truly married to Hyunjin. Then she leans closer, intimately. “Another secret of our marriage is that it is open. Surprisingly open. So... Do you have plans for me too?”

You have many, many plans for this beautiful woman. So many, in fact, that they'll last you a lifetime. Even though you open your mouth, you can't make a sound. Felicity beats you to it.

“You're right,” she says. She holds the menu so high that Chaebin can only see the top of her head, not the conspirational wink she gives you.

Your blonde lover seems eager to help you with your plan.

“Really?” Chaebin tilts her head to the side. Hyunjin's interest is also piqued, her eyes narrowing slightly, as if she could see into you with a squint, reading all your secrets like a cat. She learned this willingly and surely from Minhee. Or from one of your girlfriend's cats, the point is the same.

“You'll see,” you promise. “Today.”

“I can't wait, darling.”

A waiter approaches your table. You feel it's time to follow Felicity's example and take the menu to study it closely. Of course, you won't be able to do so as thoroughly as you have just immersed yourself in the beauty of Chaebin.

///

While Hyunjin and Chaebin are in the bathroom, Felicity reapplies her lip gloss. She parts her lips and watches her movements in her tiny handheld mirror, tracing the path of the pink glittering brush.

“How do you want to do it?” she asks as she closes the mirror with a flick and drops the make-up product into her bag.

Since she went on your shoe-finding tour with you, persistent and supportive, there's no reason to hide it from her. You share your plan with her, and she nods as she listens.

“I'll take Hyune up to the apartment. We won't disturb you.”

You blink in dismay. How can your lovers bother you when you're with one of them?

“This will be an intimate moment,” she explains. “And I feel it should be a moment for the two of you.” She gives you a committed look.

“As you wish, Lissy.”

Hyunjin returns. She picks up her small bag from the chair and props her chair up expectantly. As the three of you leave the table, Chaebin is stuffing the bill into the pocket of her sweater, holding the rest of the leftover boxes with her other hand.

“If you don't mind, we'll take you home to our place, pretty,” Felicity purrs to her, stroking Chaebin's side.

She doesn't mind.

You step up to help with the boxes. For the first time, you stand side by side with your black boots creating an even greater height difference between you. It's enjoyable, very much so.

“New shoes?” A look of surprise crosses her face.

“Do you like it?”

Chaebin nods in agreement, and you all make your way towards the exit.

///

Felicity easily manages to leave you and Chaebin behind. In fact, before she switches to a faster pace, she takes the boxes from both of you, while also dragging Hyunjin away, who has been whispering in Chaebin's ear with enthusiasm, making your girlfriend giggle sweetly. When Chaebin wants to hurry after them because she probably suspects gossip in the air, you speak up.

“Binnie, wait. I owe you a confession.”

The door slams shut behind Felicity and Hyunjin. It's just the two of you on the sidewalk, drenched in the streetlights.

“Oh, all right.”

Your girlfriend grins and doesn't move. You step in front of her, the nose of your boots kissing the nose of her shoes.

Chaebin must turn her head all the way up to look you in the eye. And oh dear– her eyes. So shiny. Maybe while you were walking under the open sky, stardust fell into it. Or an entire, endlessly glowing galaxy. In fact, there might be a whole galaxy hiding inside her body: strong muscles, bright emotions and a sweet laugh vibrating through the cosmos.

Woe to you. You want so badly to sweep her off her feet with your black boots that you let her pull the rug out from under you with her mere existence.

“I bought these shoes for you. To see you like this.”

She frowns.

“So,” you stroke her face with your free hand, “from this height. You're even more beautiful from here.”

“Excuse me, but we're talking about a few centimetres,” Chaebin's face flushes red, but she doesn't pull away.

“A few centimetres can do wonders. I see you differently. You're still fabulous, by the way.”

A giggle comes out of her. A soft, sweet voice that dispels the evening darkness and makes the world a few shades more beautiful. “Okay, I like how a little height makes you so confident.” She puts her hand on your waist and pulls you closer. “Keep going.”

You both know that if Chaebin wanted to, she could easily throw you over her shoulder like a rag doll. How tall you are or what the heel of your shoe looks like doesn't change the fact that she trains her body on a daily basis. That little detail aside; Chaebin isn't the kind of girl who just throws her partners around, and you can flirt with her in a way that makes her knees go weak and heat pour into every single one of her cells.

“Do you know why Hyunjin always wants to kiss you?”

“Ah, it's an eternal secret. Maybe I accidentally gave her a love potio–” Your finger slides over Chaebin's lips and she falls silent.

“From this height, your mouth is plumper. Even more kissable.”

“Hey... You talk as if I were irresistible,” she murmurs to your fingertip. The skin tingles where her lips touch it.

“Because that's the way it is. You,” a soft kiss to her forehead, “are,” a kiss to her nose, “irresistible,” then to her cheek.

“Come on, you giant. Give me a proper kiss.”

Your fingers slide down her neck, your tongue in her mouth. The taste of wine mingles with love, and you're drugged. You almost drop your own presence of mind. Chaebin embraces you, pulling you close. She holds you. When your hand slips between the locks of her silky hair, she groans. The sound has the same effect on you as when you hear her laugh. Her heart murmurs a ragged confession against your chest, and yours responds in a similar rhythm.

You don't know how long you stand like this, lost in each other.

You know you could do this forever, here or elsewhere.

Anywhere.

“I really like your black boots, darling,” notes Chaebin, panting. “If you feel like it, wear them on our next date.”

“I'll think about it.”

You walk to the door of the building. Your black boots proudly knocking with every step.

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autolenaphilia · 2 years ago

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Transfem authors of fiction: a list

I wrote a version of this list in Swedish for a meatspace friend, figure I might redo it for a tumblr audience. The books recommended are usually novels, and in case of prolific authors, the one recommended is usually the most successful and acclaimed one. I haven't read all of these, but I'm working on it. The list is in alphabetical order after the author's last name. I added some notes to the list, to introduce the authors and their books.

Nota Bene this list is based on my personal research, and largely reflects my own tastes in fiction, as in what I've read and considered reading. And it is of course not at all complete. And it's a transfem authors list, so no transmasc authors no matter how worthy. And it's about authors of fiction, not memoirs or non-fiction. So no Christine Jorgensen, even if she wrote a book I want to read. And Jan Morris gets in based on her two Hav novels, not her more prolific non-fiction work. Links are to my reviews on this blog if they exist.

Anders, Charlie Jane - SF/F writer, debuted with Choir Boy (2005), but most famous for All The Birds in the Sky (which won a Nebula).

Aoki, Ryka - her latest sf/f novel Light from Uncommon Stars is her most popular, but she has published both fiction and poetry before.

Becker, Saga - Våra Tungor Smakar våld (Swedish author, her book is untranslated, although quite good)

Binnie, Imogen - Nevada

Daniels, April - Dreadnought and its sequel Sovereign. Novels about a teenage trans girl superhero.

Deane, Maya - Wrath Goddess Sing

Felker-Martin, Gretchen - Manhunt (horror novel)

Kaveney, Roz - Tiny Pieces of Skull (also wrote the Rhapsody of Blood fantasy series, plus numerous poetry collections and non-fiction)

Kiernan, Caitlin R. - Usually categorized as a horror author, written numerous novels and short stories since her debut novel SIlk in 1998. The most acclaimed are probably her novels The Red Tree and The Drowning Girl (which won the Bram Stoker Award)

Leitz, May - Fluids and Girlflesh (review forthcoming)

Morris, Jan - Hav (mostly wrote non-fiction, history books and travel literature, Hav is an omnibus of her two novels about Hav, both "imagined travelogues" about a fictitious country)

Peters, Torrey - Detransition Baby

Plett, Casey - Little Fish (Lambda award winner)

Pollack, Rachel - Prolific writer of several kinds of books, including a pioneering career as a sf/f writer. Did her fictional debut with a short story in a 1971 anthology (credited under her deadname) and published her first novel Golden Vanity in 1980, which are literally the earliest pieces of fiction by an out trans person (not memoir or non-ficton) I've been able to find. So very much a pioneer. Her most acclaimed book is probably Godmother Night (1996) which won the World Fantasy Award. Also wrote comics, most notably Doom Patrol.

Rumfitt, Alison - Tell me I'm Worthless

Serano, Julia - 99 Erics (her debut as a novelist after years of pioneering transfeminist writing and poetry)

Thornton, Jeanne - Summer Fun (Lambda award winner)

#my posts #transfem literature

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mavrustheunskooled · 3 months ago

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my top reads of 2024!!!

I read 152 books in 2024, and I rated 8 at 4.75 stars and 8 at 5 stars (but one of the 5 star reads was a reread from last year, so I’m not including it in this list)

I don’t talk about books a lot here, but I’m a bookseller at an indie bookstore, so reading is kind of my whole thing lol so here are my top reads of 2024 (in no particular order):

4.75⭐️ Reads:

- The Cancer Journals - Audre Lorde (memoir)

- One Woman Show - Christine Coulson (adult fiction)

- Maeve Fly - CJ Leede (adult horror)

- Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong (poetry collection)

- Us Against You - Fredrik Backman (adult lit fic)

- Nevada - Imogen Binnie (adult lit fic)

- The Invocations - Krystal Sutherland (YA fantasy)

- The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern (adult fantasy)

5⭐️ Reads:

- Betty - Tiffany McDaniel (adult lit fic)

- Beartown - Fredrik Backman (adult lit fic)

- One of the Boys - Victoria Zeller (YA sports/coming of age)

- Compound Fracture - Andrew Joseph White (YA horror)

- The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls (memoir)

- Forager - Michelle Dowd (memoir)

- The Brightness Between Us - Eliot Schrefer (YA sci-fi)

#I like books a lot :)#personal

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eyepool · 1 year ago

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Performance artist Christine Binnie in London, April 1980

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theart2rock · 1 year ago

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Vor 40 Jahren - Januar 1984

Ich möchte mir vornehmen, jeden Monat 40 Jahre zurückschauen und einen kurzen Rückblick zu machen. Dabei auch einmal über den Tellerrand der Rockmusik zu schauen. Events - 01. Januar - Leon Schlumpf wird Bundespräsident der Schweiz - 01. Januar - Brunei wird von Grossbritannien unabhängig - 01. Januar - In Ludwigshafen am Rhein wird mit einem Pilotprojekt das Kabelfernsehen gestartet. - 02. Januar - Sendestart von RTL plus - 09. Januar - Die erste Komplettaufführung von Olver Knussen's Where The Wild Things Are findet im National Theatre von London statt. - 10. Januar - Der Vatikan und die USA nehmen nach 100 Jahren wieder diplomatische Beziehungen auf. - 11. Januar - Der BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read kündigt an, die Frankie Goes To Hollywood Single Relax aufgrund des Textes nicht mehr zu spielen. - 12. Januar - Mit dem Konzert des Sängers Renaud wird die wichtigste Konzerthalle Frankreichs, das Zénith eingeweiht. - 17. Januar - The Sing Blue Silver Tour von Duran Duran wird in Japan und Nordamerika fortgeführt. Sie sind die erste Band die auf einer Tour mit Live Video Bildern und Bildschirmen arbeitet. Zudem brechen sie auf dieser Tour alle bisherigen existierenden Merchandising Rekorde. - 21. Januar - Trotz Radioverbot und Zensur schafft es Relax von Frankie Goes To Hollywood auf Platz 1 der englischen Hitparade und bleibt insgesamt 42 Wochen in den Top 40. - 23. Januar - Die Sendung Formel 1 zeigt Michael Jackson's Thriller erstmals in voller Länge. - 24. Januar - Apple stellt seinen ersten Macintosh Rechner vor. Ridley Scott dreht dazu einen aufwändigen Werbespot - 27. Januar - Während dem Dreh für einen Pepsi Werbespot fangen Michael Jacksons Haare an zu brennen und wird ins Spital eingeliefert. - 28. Januar - Bei den 41. Golden Globe Verleihungen gewinnen Der Denver Clan und Fame die begehrten Preise. Wichtige Veröffentlichungen - 1984 - Van Halen - Defenders Of The Faith - Judas Priest - Learning To Crawl - The Pretenders - She's Strange - Cameo - Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi - Disillusion - Loudness - Christine McVie - Christine McVie - Milk And Honey - John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Slide It In - Whitesnake - Software - Grace Slick - Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell - Footloos Soundtrack - Diverse - Fistful Of Metal - Anthrax - Flex-Able - Steve Vai - Just A Little Love - Reba McEntire - Lady Of The Stars - Donovan - Penetrator - Ted Nugent - Tour De Force - 38 Special Schweizer Hitparade Platz 1 Single Charts - Come Back And Stay - Paul Young - ? (Fragezeichen) - Nena - Jenseits von Eden - Nino de Angelo Schweizer Hitparade Platz 1 Album Charts - Venezia 2000 - Rondo Veneziano - Staying Alive Soundtrack - Bee Gees - New Classic Rock - The London Symphony Orchestra Schweizer Interpreten in den CH-Charts - Lost Again - Yello - I'm In Love With My Typewriter - Bo Katzman Gang US Billboard Single Charts - Say Say Say - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes US Billboard Album Charts - Thriller - Michael Jackson UK Single Charts - Only You - Flying Pickets - Pipes Of Peace - Paul McCartney - Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood UK Album Charts - Now 1 - Various Artists - No Parlez - Paul Young - Thriller - Michael Jackson Happy Birthday - 09. Januar - Drew Brown (OneRepublic) - 17. Januar - Calvin Harris (Taylor Swift, Rita Ora, Dua Lipa - 18. Januar - Kirsty Lee Cook (American Idol Gewinner) - 22. Januar - Hyphen (Schweizer Rapper) - 26. Januar - Marcel Colomb (Bitch Queens) Farewell - 01. Januar - Alexis Korner (Blues Musiker) - 10. Januar - Binnie Hale - 21. Januar - Jackie Wilson - 30. Januar - Luke Kelly (The Dubliners) Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

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dospassos · 3 years ago

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Neo Naturists, Flashing in the British Museum, Christine Binnie body-painted and photographed by Wilma Johnson, British Museum, London, 3 March 1982

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toowint · 2 years ago

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The body and the archive

THE BODY AND THE ARCHIVE HOW TO

There’s an element of titillation to having women’s bodies on stage, but when it’s mens’ it takes that away from the men in the audience a bit."ĬB: "Also, it’s illegal. I suppose people are more used to seeing women’s bodies. It brought out something quite horrible in people, but women's bodies were much more ‘acceptable’. Then doing it with a man, people were outraged and did really horrible things like throwing lighted cigarettes at the boys. When we did performances in nightclubs sometimes it was just us three as women, and that was all right. JB: "I think the performances were quite hard for the men, I think they became more vulnerable than us. WJ: "We just used to turn up at a nightclub naked and everyone would go 'great, the Neo Naturists are here!' Doing that now, we'd probably be arrested." Everything we did and the way we lived in the squat was all about creativity. I only lived in the squat for three years and that period was really intense in terms of exhibiting our work as artists, and doing the cabaret and making films. JB: "Everything is ups and downs though, isn’t it? I thought it was an amazing time. I’m worried about this sort of heyday thing and romanticising the past and all that, but I’m a lot happier now than I was then, just generally in myself and how I find ways to express myself." We did it all on instinct."ĬB: "I don’t want to be part of the illusion that it was all wonderful, but I went along with it and at times I think I was really unhappy. JB: "At the time there was a big crossover between what we did as artists, and what we did in life. On what it was really like being a Neo Naturist… It was part of a whole thing about seeing how far we could go." Then we thought ‘let's get even more extreme and just not dress’. For a year I dressed as Marie Antoinette. WJ: "We’d been through the punk thing, which became a bit negative to say the least, then the New Romantics thing, and we were dressing more and more extremely.

THE BODY AND THE ARCHIVE HOW TO

There wasn’t much talk about careers or how to get recognised." When you left art college you didn’t really know what to do. Jennifer Binnie: "I think also, there wasn’t any other way for us at the time. I remember thinking ‘that’s really not fair, how come those men are allowed to go on stage and just have fun showing off, and I’m not allowed to?’ That was one of the things that led me to performance art." I remember going to the Black Cap and seeing these men on stage with their bosoms Sellotaped together to give them cleavages, and coming on stage, having a lovely time, and just showing off. One of the inspirations behind starting Neo Naturists, for me, was transvestites. But with us, we'd all paint each other: it’s not just about being a painted body, but the process of how we get ready and what we do with it afterwards. So we were turning that around."Ĭhristine Binnie: "In Yves Klein’s work he had models painted, but they were just models, and it was his art. Historically in art the woman is the model and the muse, and not the person who’s actually making the work about their naked bodies. Wilma Johnson: "Part of the thing of doing the Neo Naturists was using women as women, rather than their being a sort of object. Among their associates were leading lights in the club kid gay scene, from filmmaker Derek Jarman and dancer and choreographer Michael Clark, to performance artist Leigh Bowery, as well as art world characters like Grayson Perry, Jennifer’s boyfriend at the time. What’s more, the Neo Naturists lived as alternative a lifestyle as their artwork would suggest, living in squats and parading around in clubs like Heaven, Taboo and The Blitz. Together, they broached political ideas around society, austerity and the female body in the most joyous way imaginable. “Then I painted her.” Both Jennifer and Wilma had studied fine art, at Portsmouth University and Central Saint Martin’s respectively, while Christine turned to craft, focusing on pottery. Christine was a life model, and when Wilma set about drawing her, "it only took half a day for her to be painting my body, and not just a picture of me," Christine explains. It all came about fairly organically, the trio explains. Over the course of a five-year period in the early 1980s, the Neo Naturists took their naked, painted bodies out onto the street and into nightclubs, creating their own unique brand of performance art. The group’s main members were Christine Binnie, Jennifer Binnie and Wilma Johnson, and its raison d’être was deliberately bold and hippyish – a daring move at a time when to be a hippy was deeply unfashionable. Anarchic, nude and vitally, vibrantly fun, 1980s performance group the Neo Naturists were a glorious tits-out reprise to Thatcherite Britain, to stiff upper lips and to art world po-faces.

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processandenquiryrhianna · 3 years ago

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Notes taken during the Grayson Perry podcasts. (1/2)

Research into Grayson Perry - Life: Perry was born 1960 in Essex, England to a working-class family, of which Perry admits had its fair share of problems. At four years old, his father left after finding out his mother was having an affair with the milkman, who his mother eventually married. Though, Perry has said that this man was violent towards him, his sister and his mother. Because of these misfortunes, he lived an unhappy childhood, using a fantasy world involving his teddy bear as a coping mechanism. Perry believes that the experiences one has at a young age are noticeable in later adulthood, his of which affected his sexuality and sense of identity. From an early age he liked to dress in stereotypically women's clothes and in his teens realised that he was a transvestite. When he was 15, he lived with his father’s family in Chelmsford, this is when he began to dress as a woman. His father did not approve, and although Perry said he would stop, his stepmother told those around and thus his father threw him out. Leaving him no choice but to return to live with his mother and stepfather in Essex, who were no more impressed by him.

Perry pursued art after the backing from his art teacher, he took part in an art foundation course at Braintree College of Further Education form 1978 to 1979. Most of his education took place at Portsmouth College of Art and Design for BA in fine art, he graduated in 1982. Perry experimented with pottery and exhibited his first piece at a New Contemporaries show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1980. After graduation, Perry got involved with The Neo Naturists, a group birthed by Christine Binnie to bring around the “true sixties spirit”, of which involved living one’s life rather naked and portraying it occasionally in performance where body paint was always involved. His family troubles did not cease, and when he moved away, his step-father told him to “not come back”, the damage within Perry and his parents relationship was so deep, that when his mother died, he did not attend her funeral. As of now, he lives with his wife, author and psychotherapist PhilippaPerry, together they have a daughter Florence who’s as born in 1992.

Perry is most noticeable for his alter-ego “Claire”, who he expresses as dressing in a feminine style. He explains Claire is “a 19th century reforming matriarch, a middle-England protester for No More Art, an aero-model-maker, or an Eastern European Freedom Fighter", and "a fortysomething woman living in a Barratt home, the kind of woman who eats ready meals and can just about sew on a button". His choice of style while as Claire is what is most eye catching, it’s typically artistic, bright, mix and match fabric and all over oozing with visual interest. Perry utilises his alter ego and includes her within his work, dressing himself in stereotypical ’womans’ clothing: for example Mother of All Battles (1996) is a photograph of Claire holding a gun and wearing a dress, in ethnic eastern European style, embroidered with images of war, exhibited at his 2002 Guerrilla Tactics show. Grayson design Claire’s outfits himself, although fashion students at Central Saint Martins art college in London also get involved occasionally, through an annual design competition.

On a more personal note, he enjoys motor biking a travelling. Perry supports the Labour Party, who he has designed works of art to help raise their funds. In 2015, Perry endorsed Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign during their leadership election. Perry said he would support Corbyn as he was “doing something interesting for the political debate” and is quoted saying “I think he’s gold.”. However, in 2018 Perry said that Jeremy Corbyn had “no chance of winning an election”.

Art Process: Grayson Perry has a multitude of skills, including but not limited to; ceramics, tapestries, documentaries, podcasts, writing and lectures. As for Ceramics, here are a variety of examples: In 2002, the Stedelijik Museum in Amsterdam mounted his Guerrilla Tactics , which was partly responsible for his winning of the Turner Prize in 2003, the first to be given to a ceramic artist. His work references the traditional ceramic ways, particularly involving Greek Pottery and folk art. He’s been quoted saying "I like the whole iconography of pottery. It hasn't got any big pretensions to being great public works of art, and no matter how brash a statement I make, on a pot it will always have certain humility ... For me the shape has to be classical invisible: then you've got a base that people can understand". His methods consist of coiling, which is quite traditional, when finished they typically have a omelet surface using various techniques, which include glazing, incision, embossing and the use of photographic transfers. He has he uses these methods not for decoration, but to give meaning. Perry question the idea of pottery being exclusively decorative or utilitarian and cannot be used to express ideas, and this rebellion can really be seen within his ceramic pieces. Perry uses his work as a vessel to reference his upbringing, mostly his stepfathers anger and the absence of a reliable male in his life to provide guidance. ‘Using My Family’ in 1998 is a good example of this, where it is a teddy bear giving affection, and the piece ‘the Guardians’ which are of his mother and stepfather. Perry’s work commonly contains sexually explicit content, as well as child abuse, such as ‘We’ve Found the Body Of Your Child’ 2000. He uses strong juxtaposition with decorative cliches, as well as the technique ‘guerrilla tactic’, using the approachable medium of pottery in order to provoke thought and challenge traditional thoughts.

As for tapestries, Perry crafted a 15m x 3m tapestry called “The Walthamstow Tapestry” in 2009, which bears hundreds of brand names encompassing large figures in the stages of life, from birth to death. perry even made pair of large-scale tapestries for A House of Essex, together named ‘the Essex House Tapestries: The Life of Julie Cope” (2015). The work was completed on a holiday home in Wrabness Essex, along with the collaboration of Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT). It overlooks the River Stour, after a commission from Living Architecture, the charity founded by the philosopher Alain de Botton. The house tell the story of Julie May Cope, a fictional Essex woman who was "Born in a flood-struck Canvey Island in 1953 and mown down last year by a curry delivery driver in Colchester". Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Ellis Woodman said, "Sporting a livery of green and white ceramic tiles, telephone-box red joinery and a gold roof, it is not easy to miss. ... Decoration is everywhere: from the external tiles embossed with motifs referencing Julie's rock-chick youth to extravagant tapestries recording her life's full narrative. Perry has contributed ceramic sculptures, modelled on Irish Sheelanagigs, which celebrate her as a kind of latter-day earth mother while the delivery driver's moped has even been repurposed as a chandelier suspended above the double-height living room." A large and varied amount of work by Perry is within this house, depicting Julie Cop’s life. Including a series of large-scale tapestries, The Essex House Tapestries: The Life of Julie Cope, which include "A Perfect Match" (2015) and "In Its Familiarity, Golden" (2015), and for the bedrooms, "Julie and Rob" (2013) and "Julie and Dave" (2015). He also wrote an essay, "The Ballad of Julie Cope" (2015) and created a series of black and white woodcuts, Six Snapshots of Julie (2015). The work was shown in an exhibition, Grayson Perry: The Life of Julie Cope, at Firstsite in Colchester, Essex, from January to February 2018.

Perry has been in a multitude of documentaries, talking people through his experiences and how this has shaped his journey through life. In 2005, Perry presented a Channel 4 documentary, Why Men Wear Frocks, in which he examined transvestism and masculinity at the start of the 21st century. The documentary won a Royal Television Society award for best network production. He also has a three part series made with Channel 4, made in 2012, ‘All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry’, analysing the ideas help within different social classes through the UK. In 2014, he presented a three-part documentary onChannel 4 ‘Who Are You?’, which explores identity. In it he creates diverse portraits for the National Portrait Gallery, London, of ex-MP Chris Huhne, Rylan Clark-Neal from The X Factor, a Muslim convert and a young transgender man. Again with Channel 4, he discussed masculinity with ‘Grayson Perry: All Man”. Perry has even more documentaries and discussion projects, which I highly recommend.

Grayson Perry i also well experienced with writing, he was an art correspondent for The Times, writing a weekly column until October 2007. He guest edited an issue of New Statesman in 2014, entitled "The Great White Male Issue". Perry gave the 2013 BBC Reith Lectures. In a series of talks titled Playing to the Gallery, he considered the state of art in the 21st century. The individual lectures, titled "Democracy Has Bad Taste", "Beating the Bounds", "Nice Rebellion, Welcome In!" and "I Found Myself in the Art World", were broadcast in October and November 2013 on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. He expanded the lectures into a book, Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood (2014). In 2017 Perry gave the inaugural Orwell Lecture in the North for The Orwell Foundation, entitled "I've read all the academic texts on empathy".

It’s clear to see that Grayson is vastly experienced artist, who’s style, art and intelligence is worth the ponder. I thoroughly enjoyed researching Perry, specifically these wonderful podcasts which I found easy and intriguing to listen to.

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Maker’s name: Margaret Cassie

Petition sheet number: 54

Person honouring: Annie Binnie

Relationship to maker: Great-great-grandmother

Annie Hill was born in January 1838 in Wigan, Lancashire, England, daughter of Sarah and Thomas Hill. Her father died when she was two; her mother married Robert Murdoch when Annie was four.

At the age of 21, Annie’s mother gave her a book of poetry, beautifully inscribed.

Annie married mechanic Robert Binnie in July 1863, in Wiltshire, England. They had two daughters, Laura Roberta and Christine Isabel (my great-grandmother), while living in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and before emigrating to New Zealand.

In August 1878, Annie, her daughters and her parents, sailed from Gravesend in the Dunedin, arriving at Port Chalmers in November. With Robert, who had arrived earlier, Annie settled on a smallholding, ‘Craigieburn’ on Upper Junction Road, Mt Cargill, near Port Chalmers. The large macrocarpa trees they planted still stand along the roadway after 140 years.

We know little about Annie’s life here other than that she was a strong woman who loved her girls, believed in education, and was an accomplished needlewoman. She signed the petition in 1893 at George St, Dunedin.

In 1899 she won a medal for her ‘Collection of Fancy Sewing’. Examples of her lace, beading, sewing, and embroidery exist today.

Aged 16, Christine Isabel, Annie’s younger daughter, attended Otago Girls’ High School and Dunedin Teachers College before taking up teaching – before marrying Nicholas Dodds in 1889. Christine owned land in her name and signed the 1892 petition.

Laura, Annie’s elder daughter, never married; she continued to live with her parents and grandparents at Craigieburn.

Annie died in 1905, at Craigieburn, aged 67, and was buried in Port Chalmers.

Her four grandchildren were all born before she died. They lived nearby in Port Chalmers – there is a treasured photo of Annie, her mother, her daughter Christine, and my grandmother (Dorothy Maude Dodds).

Panel materials: Stylised pink corset, based on a note from Annie asking for her pink corset. Fabrics, beads, and threads mostly stash. Lace from a box (some dyed using food dye) of lace, which dates back to Annie. The main lace is handmade needle lace, apparently a fine example, and I suspect made by Annie, who was an extraordinary needlewoman. 64 beads represent the women who signed the sheet, and Annie’s exquisite beading work – still in the family.

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egyptiansquash · 6 years ago

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PSA World Champs Released

The draws for the 2018/19 PSA World Champs have been announced today, and will take place between February 23 - March 2.

128 of the world’s greatest male and female squash players will descend on Chicago for the most prestigious title in squash as they battle for a record prize purse of $1 million, which is the highest in the sport’s history.

Defending men’s champion and current World No.1 Mohamed ElShorbagy has been drawn against England’s Joshua Masters in round one and is featured on the same side of the draw as three-time winner Ramy Ashour.

ElShorbagy and Ashour contested both the 2012 and 2014 finals - both of which are regarded as two of the greatest squash matches of all time - and could potentially meet in the semi-finals.

Ashour - who is yet to play this season due to a knee injury - will play Australia’s Ryan Cuskelly in round one. The Egyptian is unseeded for the first time since the 2006 World Champs.

World No.2 Ali Farag is seeded on the opposite side of the draw and he will take on England’s Daryl Selby in round one. Farag has the likes of Peru’s Diego Elias and New Zealand’s Paul Coll in his path to the final, while he is predicted to play World No.3 Simon Rösner in the semi-finals. The Ladies

Reigning women’s World Champion and world number 1 Raneem El Welily begins her tournament against South Africa’s Alexandra Fuller as she bids to continue her strong start to the season, which has seen her take two PSA titles so far.

The 30-year-old was thwarted in the final of this tournament in 2014 and 2016, but finally got her hands on the trophy in December 2017 courtesy of a 3-1 victory against two-time winner Nour El Sherbini in Manchester. They are seeded to do battle in the title decider once again.

El Welily is predicted to meet World No.3 Nour El Tayeb in the semi-finals, but El Tayeb must come through a difficult draw which contains 2013 World Champion Laura Massaro if she is to play to her seeding.

Meanwhile, El Sherbini begins her tournament against Satomi Watanabe of Japan and is predicted to play United States No.1 Amanda Sobhy in a mouthwatering third round fixture.

In addition to prize winnings totalling over $72,000, the winner of the World Championships will also qualify for the season-ending PSA World Tour Finals, which pits together the reigning World Champions and all seven PSA World Tour Platinum winners.

The 2018/19 PSA World Championships will take place at Chicago’s Union Station, while matches from rounds one and two will also be held at MetroSquash and the University Club of Chicago.

2018/19 PSA World Champs Men’s Draw

[1] Mohamed ElShorbagy (EGY) v Joshua Masters (ENG) Cesar Salazar (MEX) v Arturo Salazar (MEX) Campbell Grayson (NZL) v Nathan Lake (ENG) Leo Au (HKG) v [15] Raphael Kandra (GER) [16] James Willstrop (ENG) v Ivan Yuen (MAS) Tayyab Aslam (PAK) v Victor Crouin (FRA) Alan Clyne (SCO) v Daniel Mekbib (CZE) [Pre-Qualifier] v [6] Miguel Rodriguez (COL) [8] Marwan ElShorbagy (EGY) v Mathieu Castagnet (FRA) Grégoire Marche (FRA) v Greg Lobban (SCO) Youssef Ibrahim (EGY) v Nicolas Mueller (SUI) Ramy Ashour (EGY) v [14] Ryan Cuskelly (AUS) [9] Mohamed Abouelghar (EGY) v Declan James (ENG)

Shahjahan Khan (PAK) v Chris Simpson (ENG) Tom Richards (ENG) v George Parker (ENG) Todd Harrity (USA) v [4] Tarek Momen (EGY) [3] Simon Rösner (GER) v Omar Mosaad (EGY) Vikram Malhotra (IND) v Richie Fallows (ENG) Borja Golan (ESP) v Rex Hedrick (AUS) Ben Coleman (ENG) v [12] Max Lee (HKG) [11] Saurav Ghosal (IND) v Dimitri Steinmann (SUI) Karim El Hammamy (EGY) v Lucas Serme (FRA) Joel Makin (WAL) v Tsz Fung Yip (HKG) Youssef Soliman (EGY) v [5] Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY) [7] Paul Coll (NZL) v Karim Ali Fathi (EGY) Christopher Binnie (JAM) v Cameron Pilley (AUS) Mohamed Reda (EGY) v Nafiizwan Adnan (MAS) Eain Yow Ng (MAS) v [13] Fares Dessouky (EGY) [10] Diego Elias (PER) v Adrian Waller (ENG) Zahed Salem (EGY) v Mazen Hesham (EGY) Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi (QAT) v Mostafa Asal (EGY) Daryl Selby (ENG) v [2] Ali Farag (EGY)

2018/19 PSA World Champs Women’s Draw

[1] Raneem El Welily (EGY) v Alexandra Fuller (RSA) Lee Ka Yi (HKG) v [17] Hania El Hammamy (EGY) [26] Nadine Shahin (EGY) v Low Wee Wern (MAS) Tinne Gilis (BEL) v [9] Alison Waters (ENG) [15] Victoria Lust (ENG) v Danielle Letourneau (CAN) Anna Serme (CZE) v [21] Emily Whitlock (ENG) [25] Fiona Moverley (ENG) v Lucy Turmel (ENG) Menna Hamed (EGY) v [8] Nouran Gohar (EGY) [7] Laura Massaro (ENG) v Amanda Landers-Murphy (NZL) Coline Aumard (FRA) v [28] Nele Gilis (BEL) [30] Rowan Elaraby (EGY) v Nicole Bunyan (CAN) Nikki Todd (CAN) v [12] Annie Au (HKG)

[16] Salma Hany (EGY) v Tsz-Wing Tong (HKG) Melissa Alves (FRA) v [29] Samantha Cornett (CAN) [31] Zeina Mickawy (EGY) v Haley Mendez (USA) Rachel Arnold (MAS) v [3] Nour El Tayeb (EGY) [4] Joelle King (NZL) v Heba El Torky (EGY) Ho Tze-Lok (HKG) v [23] Mayar Hany (EGY) [18] Joey Chan (HKG) v Sarah Cardwell (AUS) Ineta Mackevica (LAT) v [14] Joshna Chinappa (IND) [13] Nicol David (MAS) v [Pre-Qualifier] Olivia Fiechter (USA) v [24] Millie Tomlinson (ENG) [27] Rachael Grinham (AUS) v Lisa Aitken (SCO) Jenny Duncalf (ENG) v [5] Camille Serme (FRA) [6] Sarah-Jane Perry (ENG) v Vanessa Chu (HKG) Enora Villard (FRA) v [20] Yathreb Adel (EGY) [32] Nada Abbas (EGY) v Liu Tsz-Ling (HKG) Milou van der Heijden (NED) v [10] Tesni Evans (WAL) [11] Amanda Sobhy (USA) v Julianne Courtice (ENG) Hollie Naughton (CAN) v [19] Olivia Blatchford Clyne (USA) [22] Mariam Metwally (EGY) v Christine Nunn (AUS) Satomi Watanabe (JPN) v [2] Nour El Sherbini (EGY)

#World Champs #Chicago

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leonajasmin-writeblr · 5 years ago

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My girls <3

I’ve been seeing the ummmmandy pictures circulating around tumblr so I decided to make my eight main teen girls (yes, my novel has a HUGE cast) from The Mastery! I tend to make more male characters but these lovelies hold their ground. I tend to split my characters based in decade groups, and I can assure you, the twenties and forties groups contain a lot of awesome ladies too :) Maybe I’ll make more if people would like to see them?

P.S. Part of the lore of the series is that most people have a multi-ethnic background. Those who have a largely homogeneous background are either odd instances or come from non-accepting families. So most characters have a very diverse ethnic mix, hence why I haven’t added their background to the list.

In order of appearance:

BOOK 1 ONWARDS

Miriam Arnette- 15, Vanskan, Bisexual (leans more towards girls but has a crush on a dumbass boy rn help her).

Third in line to the Vanskan Empire, Miriam can excel as a diplomatic leader when needed. However, you’ll usually find her being her smug, sassy, sardonic self. She’s extremely future-oriented, which means she doesn’t deal with her demons from the past. Despite this, she has the ability to graphically revisit historical events, which ends up haunting her since she hasn’t dealt with said issues. As the main female character (hence why she has a circle of DOMINANCE), she’ll work through these issues to develop herself into a more stable, developed person, as well as rising to the role of leadership.

Meline ‘Leenie’ Ishikawa- 16, Inglan, Heterosexual.

Meline and Miriam spent the years preceding the series as best friends due to relating to each other’s grief. While much more feminine and empathetic than her friend, Meline can also be a badass at times too- she’s awesome at tennis and there’s more to her than her pretty girl facade. That’s a main feature of her role in the novel; after her and Miriam clash at the beginning and throughout the series, what happens to her?

Bianna ‘Binny’ Bickley- 17, Willsborgian, Pansexual (soon begins dating the lovable bean that is Aiden Donegall).

Binny is the Head Girl of Schwillbrokt Academy of Talented Youths, the school where a lot of the teenage characters attend. She’s approachable, intelligent and ambitious. Basically, she’s set up to become a hugely successful girl and is the one who you love to hate because she seems perfect. However, her eventual relationship with Aiden puts her in a position where she loses a lot of her freedoms since she’s joined one of the most traditionalist Master families. Does she use her natural social skills to sort out the fam and tell them to accept her own decisions?

Christine Aastergard- 19, Norikan, Heterosexual (has a friend who she’s like an old married couple with but are they official? Nobody knows).

Chris was only little when she was separated from her biological family, and eventually got adopted by the ominous Taisto Aastergaard. She’s very emotionally aware (unlike ‘boyf’ who is a plank of wood) and extraverted; if the situation isn’t serious, she’s the life of the party. She’s highly perceptive which makes her a talented combatant since, y’know, she’s fighting in a war right now. She’s relatively minor in Arc 1 but will be a major character for a few chapters in Book 4!

Cherrie Xu- 17, Inglan, Lesbian. Is she a single pringle or is she hiding a girlf?

So, Cherrie recently decided she wants to be a main character in Arc 2?? Okay.

Anyway, I’m Arc 1, she plays a minor role as a whistleblower. She’ll be respectful about it rather than publicly humiliating people, but Cherrie will call you out if she smells bs. When she doesn’t have to sort out her moping cousin or other family drama, Cherrie is chill. She’s rather calm when she talks, but would be the sort to do surprisingly well in Cards Against Humanity. In Arc 2, she’ll develop a role as a diplomat...which could go either really well or terribly depending on what issues she’s dealing with.

Aria Vahi- 18, Norikan, Heterosexual (with a strong, silent, PROTECTIVE boyf).

Sweet, sweet Aria. Grand Master of Norika, an Empire embroiled in a civil war. It’s not her fault- the opposition wanted to overthrow her because she became leader at thirteen rather than because she’s doing a bad job! She’s very sweet and optimistic despite the circumstances. The war is just a thing going on in the background in Arc 1 (my side story Fracturing Fraternity focuses on it however!) but in Arc 2, her and Miriam form a close bond being young leaders. She’s an absolute ray of sunshine and is deeply in love with her strong silent bodyguard Hugo!

Willow Burakgazi- 16, Maneyan, sexuality unknown!

Willow is a character who I’ve slotted in last minute, so she hasn’t had too much development yet (or even appeared, she’s only been mentioned thus far). Since she’s the younger sister of Maneya’s heir and spare, she has quite a lot of free time which she dedicates to study. Willow’s main passion is to persue an education and hopefully become Dr. Burakgazi in the future, but she’s also an empathetic sweetheart. However, due to her mind being on her education and what she’s been reading, she’s also prone to zoning out and is a little clumsy!

Eliora Veisi- 16, Central Empirian, Bisexual (she is more physically attracted to girls but then ends up head over heels for her male equivalent).

Elioraaaaaaaa. She hasn’t actually appeared in the series yet but I love her 💞💞💞

Based on first impressions, you’d expect her to be a popular. She’s big on her appearance and always has designer clothing. In reality, her mother designed clothes and she’s used to dressing up as she modelled them! Behind her appearance, she’s actually a huge nerd. She’s obsessed with the Master’s to the point that her Master friends think she’s knows more about them than they know about themselves. In Arc 2, she ends up getting to know a few main characters and due to her knowledge and impartiality, she ends up managing to sort out a lot of situations. However, due to her knowledge being only from books rather than experience, she can also seem naive and too optimistic in situations.

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