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grandvhs · 2 years

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lista de nomes masculinos que estava no meu bloco de notas e eu só lembrei agora

starting with A ;;

aaron.

adair.

adam.

aiden.

ajax.

alec.

alfie.

allistar.

anderson.

andrew.

andy.

angus.

antonio.

anthony.

archer.

archibald.

archie.

aries.

arlo.

arthur.

ashley.

ashton.

austen.

avery.

axel.

starting with B ;;

bailey.

beau.

beckham.

beckett.

bellamy.

benjamin.

bennett.

bentley.

blade.

blake.

blaine.

blaise.

blue.

bobbie.

bodhi.

brad.

brandon.

braxton.

brayden.

brent.

brett.

brock.

brody.

brooke.

bryson.

starting with C ;;

caleb.

callum.

calvin.

cameron.

carlisle.

carlos.

carson.

carter.

casey.

chad.

chandler.

charlie.

chase.

chaz.

christian.

christopher.

cody.

colby.

cole.

cooper.

colton.

connor.

conrad.

corbin.

corey.

starting with D ;;

dakota.

dallas.

damien.

damon.

dante.

darian.

darron.

darryl.

david.

dawson.

declan.

demetri.

dennison.

denver.

derek.

diego.

diesel.

dimitri.

dixon.

dominic.

donovan.

drake.

drew.

dustin.

dwayne.

starting with E ;;

eason.

eaton.

eddy.

edmund.

edward.

elijah.

elior.

ellias.

elliot.

ellis.

elyas.

ember.

emerson.

emery.

emilio.

emmett.

enzo.

eric.

ernie.

ethan.

ethaniel.

evan.

everett.

everson.

ezar.

starting with F ;;

fabio.

fallon.

farah.

felix.

fernando.

ferris.

felton.

finn.

finnegan.

finnick.

fitz.

fitzgerald.

fletcher.

floyd.

flynn.

foley.

forest.

francisco.

franco.

frankie.

franklin.

fraser.

frasier.

freddie.

fredrik.

starting with G ;;

gabe.

gabriel.

gale.

gallagher.

garcia.

gareth.

garrett.

gary.

gavin.

gene.

george.

gerard.

gilbert.

giovanni.

glenn.

gordon.

grady.

graeme.

grant.

greggory.

gregor.

greyson.

griffin.

gus.

guy.

starting with H ;;

hadley.

hale.

haley.

hamilton.

hamish.

hansel.

harley.

harris.

harrison.

harry.

harvey.

haven.

hayes.

heath.

hector.

hendrix.

henrik.

henry.

holton.

howard.

hudson.

hugh.

hugo.

hunter.

hyde.

starting with I ;;

ian.

ibrahim.

icarius.

idris.

igor.

iman.

immanuel.

imran.

indi.

indiana.

indigo.

indra.

inrique.

irwin.

isaak.

isaiah.

isaias.

ishmael.

isobell.

israel.

ivan.

ivey.

ivor.

ivory.

izzy.

starting with J ;;

jack.

jacob.

jagger.

jai.

james.

jamie.

jason.

jaspar.

jaxon.

jaydon.

jed.

jeremy.

jesse.

jett.

joel.

jameson.

jonathon.

jordan.

jose.

joseph.

joshua.

jude.

julian.

junior.

justin.

starting with K ;;

kade.

kai.

kalen.

kameron.

kane.

kasey.

kayden.

keaton.

keegan.

keenan.

kellan.

kendall.

kendrick.

kevin.

khalil.

kian.

kiefer.

kieran.

kingsley.

kingston.

klaus.

kohen.

konrad.

kristoff.

kyle.

starting with L ;;

lachlan.

lamar.

lambert.

lance.

landon.

langston.

lawrence.

lawson.

leeroy.

lennon.

leo.

leonardo.

levi.

lewis.

liam.

lincoln.

lionel.

logan.

lorenzo.

louis.

luca.

lucas.

lucky.

lucis.

luke.

starting with M ;;

mackenzie.

madden.

maddox.

malaki.

malcolm.

manuel.

marco.

marcus.

marley.

marshall.

martin.

mason.

matteo.

matthew.

max.

micah.

michael.

miguel.

mike.

miles.

miller.

milo.

mitchell.

morgan.

moses

starting with N ;;

nadir.

naiser.

nasir.

nate.

nathan.

nathaniel.

naveen.

naydon.

ned.

nico.

neil.

nelson.

nero.

nicholai.

nicholas.

nila.

niles.

nixon.

noah.

noel.

nolan.

norman.

north.

nylan.

nyle.

starting with O ;;

oakley.

ocean.

octavius.

odell.

olaf.

oliver.

ollie.

omar.

omari.

orion.

orlando.

osborn.

oscar.

o’shea.

osten.

oswald.

otis.

otto.

owen.

oxley.

starting with P ;;

pablo.

page.

palmer.

parker.

parrish.

patrick.

paul.

paulo.

pax.

paxton.

payton.

penn.

percy.

perry.

peter.

phineas.

phoenix.

pierce.

pierre.

prescott.

presley.

preston.

prince.

princeton.

puck.

starting with Q ;;

qadim.

qadir.

quain.

quenby.

quill.

quimby.

quincy.

quinn.

quinten.

starting with R ;;

randy.

raymond.

reese.

reid.

remy.

reuben.

rhett.

rhys.

richard.

richie.

ricky.

riley.

robert.

robin.

roger.

roman.

romeo.

ronan.

ronnie.

ross.

rowen.

ryan.

ryder.

ryker.

rylan.

starting with S ;;

sage.

sailor.

salem.

samson.

samuel.

sascha.

sawyer.

saxon.

scott.

sean.

sebastian.

seth.

shane.

shiloh.

simon.

sinclair.

skyler.

sonny.

spencer.

stanley.

stefan.

steven.

stevie.

storm.

sullivan.

starting with T ;;

tamir.

tanner.

tate/tait.

tatum.

taylor.

teddy.

theo.

thomas.

timothy.

tobias.

toby.

todd.

tommy.

tory.

trace.

travis.

trent.

trevor.

trey.

tristan.

troye.

tucker.

tyler.

tyrone.

tyson.

starting with U ;;

umair.

umar.

urien.

usama.

starting with V ;;

valentine.

valentino.

vance.

vaughn.

victor.

vincent.

vinn.

vinnie.

vladimir.

starting with W ;;

wade.

walden.

wallace.

walter.

warner.

warren.

warrick.

waylan.

wayne.

wendall.

wes.

wesley.

west.

whitley.

wilbert.

william.

willis.

wilmer.

windsor.

winslow.

winston.

wolf.

wren.

wyatt.

wynter.

starting with X ;;

xachary.

xan.

xander.

xavier.

xeno.

ximen.

xylon.

starting with Y ;;

yahto.

yakub.

yasin.

yasi.

york.

ysrael.

yuri.

yusef.

starting with Z ;;

zachary.

zahir.

zander.

zane.

zavier.

zed.

zeke.

zion.

zolten.

#name ideas #male names #nomes masculinos #rpg #prompt #writing help #list

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stedefxckingbonnet · 11 months

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requests info/intro!

hi, everyone!

i thought i'd take a quick second to introduce myself and to also formally open up requests. i'm already working on a few things, but requests really do always help and feel free to submit them at any point--but, we'll get to all of that in a moment!

my name is lavinia, and i am a uni student studying both theatre (dramaturgy specifically) and creative writing! i love to sing, act, write (obviously haha), read (i am a huge fan of classic literature, as well as donna tartt, mona awad, sally rooney, elif bautman, and ottessa moshfegh's works), go to concerts, go to the movies, style/design clothing, paint, collect records/cds, and so much more! this barely scratches the surface really but, if any of you share these interests, always feel free to reach out!

anyhow, as i said, i will officially be opening requests, and at the moment here is the media and the characters i will write for:

Our Flag Means Death

Izzy Hands (my BELOVED)

Ed Teach

Stede Bonnet

Lucius Spriggs

Jim Jimenez

Oluwande

Mary Bonnet

(more available upon request! these were just sort of my first instincts.)

Gilmore Girls

honestly, i'm pretty open to anything unless it's dean. just request and i'll see what i can do!

Gossip Girl

Blair Waldorf

Serena Van der Woodsen

Dan Humphrey

Nate Archibald

Chuck Bass (like sometimes)

Rufus Humphrey

more available upon request.

The Fosters/The Good Trouble

Callie Adams Foster

Mariana Adams Foster

Brandon Foster

Jamie Hunter

Gael Martinez

Dennis Cooper

Malika Williams

more available upon request.

Select Wes Anderson and Tim Burton characters. just ask!

Enola Holmes

Tewkesbury

Sherlock Holmes

Little Women (2019)

Jo March

Amy March

Beth March

Meg March

Laurie

Friedrich Bhaer

Star Wars

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Anakin Skywalker

Padmé Amidala

Luke Skywalker

Han Solo

Leia Organa

Kylo Ren

Finn

Poe Dameron

Ahsoka Tano

more available upon request!

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Basically me just saying I'll write Mr. Darcy. but more characters available upon request, of course.

Community

Abed Nadir

Troy Barnes

Annie Edison

Jeff and Britta I'm a little iffy on but with the right request, maybe. don't hesitate to ask!

The OC

Seth Cohen

Ryan Atwood

Summer Roberts

Marissa Cooper

The Umbrella Academy

Klaus

Viktor

Ben

Five

Diego

Allison

Luther is like, not preferred for me but if you feel strongly about him and have a good request, i’ll consider it but don’t get your hopes up too high!

Once Upon a Time

Emma Swan

Regina Mills

Killian Jones

Neal Cassidy

August Booth

Jefferson (The Mad Hatter)

Mulan

Ruby Lucas (Red Riding Hood)

Belle French

Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White)

David Nolan (Prince Charming)

Peter Pan

Robin Hood

Any others, feel free to ask! I know I left Mr. Gold (Rumple) off, but that's only because it depends with each request. Also, please specify if you want it to take place in Storybrooke pre or post curse, or in The Enchanted Forest.

Merlin

Arthur

Gwen

Morgana

Nimueh

Lancelot

any others, feel free to ask. i am just starting S2, keep that in mind.

The Holdovers

Angus Tully

Dead Poets Society

Todd Anderson

Neil Perry

Knox Overstreet

Charlie Dalton

Steven Meeks

Love Lies Bleeding

Lou Langston

Jackie Cleaver

i'll just start there for now, as honestly it's been a bit since i've written an x reader and i don't want to overwhelm myself much! but please, feel free to request at any time! I will update this frequently, as I am always either getting into new things or remembering things I already love. I am mostly dedicated to OFMD right now, but you may also leave requests for other fandoms and I will keep them on file, or who knows, perhaps even get to them sooner than you may imagine! Have a wonderful day (or night!), and don't forget to request!

yours truly,

lavinia

me filing through all of your requests (hopefully!)

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delicatestm · 1 year

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MUSE LIST.

(Will be added to as time goes on).

Derek Venturi (Michael Seater)

Stiles Stilinski (Dylan O'Brien)

Lydia Martin (Ellie Bamber)

Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich)

Stacey Copeland (Lili Reinhart)

Evan Copeland (Matthew Daddario)

Cadence Mitchell (Hailee Stienfield)

Seth Mitchell (Dylan O'Brien)

Owen Grant (Jack Falahee)

Anna Sawyer (Megan West)

Sadie Hawthorne (Dove Cameron)

Connor Russo (Matthew Gray Gubler)

Bennett Campbell (Crystal Reed)

Dakota Harper (Dylan O'Brien)

Rafael Vigara (Noah Centineo)

Savannah Grace (Renee Rapp)

Noah Davis (Jordan Fisher)

Scarlett Arnolds (Taylor Swift)

Meghan Cooper (Danielle Campbell)

Jeremy Lodge (Peyton Meyer)

Felicty St. James (Selena Gomez)

Landon Royce (Harrison Osterfield)

Quill McKeon (Alberto Rosende)

Lilith Balthory (Devory Jacobs)

Aphrodite Lafont (Leven Rambin)

Simon Lewis (Alberto Rosende)

Reggie Peters (Jeremy Shada)

Audrey Stevens (Katerina Tannenbaum)

Jesse Anderson (Jeremy Strong)

Willow Evans (Sabrina Carpenter)

Finn Langston (Chase Stokes)

Harper Finkle (Jennifer Stone)

Allison Watts (Danielle Rose Russell)

Henry Fox (Nicholas Galitzine - previously found on princehenrytheutterlydaft but because tumblr sucks he is moved here for now)

Siobhan Davis (Charli Wookey)

Katelyn Alvarez (Adria Arjona)

#muse list.

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rms-writes · 1 year

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Seven Snippets, Seven People

tagged by the phenomenal, @eli-writes-sometimes

Rules: post seven snippets and tag seven people.

*Will be fairly long*

1. The familiar sight inside the holding cell had Morgan on edge, remembering previous times. She hated it. Standing behind a row of cold, metal rails while everyone on the other side watched her like she was a caged animal. She stood with her arms crossed over her chest leaning against the wall. Digging the toe of her shoe into the floor, she shook her foot back and forth silently. Her head was low, and the loose strands of hair that had previously clung to her skin now hung in loose waves around her face. A figure stopped just outside the cell pulling Morgan from her daze. "Max." She uncrossed her arms and walked to the bars of the cell. Officer Max Langston was the one man who had been doing his best to keep her out of trouble. As far as the police went, he was really her only friend. He was a tall, middle-aged man with light brown eyes and black hair. Few gray streaks were scattered in his hair, giving away some of his age. "You really did it this time, kiddo." Max chided. "What's going on?" Morgan asked. "They called your parents." He reluctantly informed her. Her heart sank. "What?" She questioned in a near state of panic. Her stomach dropped and her eyes went wide as she stared at him. "They couldn't get a hold of anyone." He continued, putting her at ease. Morgan visibly relaxed, resting her head against the cold metal railing. "Then can you get me out of here?" "I can't." He shook his head sorrowfully. "Morgan, you stole a car. I can't help you this time." She sighed in frustration and dropped her head. ~Finding Hope~

2. So, my escape plan wasn't working as well as I had hoped. Or at all really. Everyone was still mildly pissed and on edge. Eddie was all but, no doubt intentionally, blocking my only way out. I stood staring at him expectantly, waiting for some form of cooperation. His glare shifted to Asher. "Take her home." "Eddie, my car." I argued. He didn't seem the least bit concerned. "It's taken care of." He nonchalantly stated, not even bothering to look at me. "Eddie!" I nearly shouted, staring in irritated confusion. He shot his glare back at me, a look that instantly shut me up. With a quiet sigh I slid past him and meandered up the stairs. Asher wasn't far behind me once I'd made it outside. We silently climbed into the pickup and sat there for a good two minutes before I realized we weren't moving. I looked over at him questioningly, waiting for an explanation. "You're gonna have to tell me where I'm going." He stated as if I should have known. "What with all your tabs on me you don't know where I live?" I couldn't fight the irritation and spite that coated my voice. "That's Eddie." He glared, turning his head away and sitting back in his seat when I said nothing. "5419, Gould Road." I mumbled in irritation, staring out my window. Asher immediately started the pickup and drove. I imagine he would have sat there all night just to spite me. We pulled up the drive and my mind barely registered what was going on. "Nice and isolated out here, huh?" Asher stated more than asked. I said nothing and slid out of the pickup, dragging my bag with me. Shutting the door seemed to take more effort than before, but then again so did walking. There were a lot of questions I wanted to ask Asher on the drive home, but everything was failing me. I could hardly remember them, let alone force myself to strike up a conversation. ~Smoke and Fire~

3. Empty, eerie silence. She remembered waking to that. It was not some loud noise or shouting that jolted her awake, it was the silence. The impending doom. It was as if no one was home. That silence weighed on her chest, slowly suffocating her. She awaited what was to come, but nothing did... She glanced around the room, not quite sure how she had ended up here. Everything was just as she remembered it. The window on the far wall at her right, the tiny dresser next to her bed at the left. Her duffel bag was thrown in the far left corner from the door. Even the atmosphere was just as chilling and tense. After moments of anxiously waiting, Morgan pushed herself higher in her bed, curling her legs closer to her body. Her heart began to beat faster and her breathing slowly increased as she stared at the door in front of her, anticipating who or what was coming. The familiar ghost of fear crept up her spine, encasing her in its strangling hold. The door flew open with a bang, causing her to jump back in fear and surprise. A man stood in the entrance watching her with cold, hardened eyes. A look that immediately paralyzed her— Morgan jumped awake. The sound of the door slamming against the wall startled her, as if it had been real. She was breathing heavily, eyes darting around the ceiling as she absorbed what had happened. It was just a dream. Her mind echoed. She closed her eyes tightly, sitting upright and holding her head in her hands. It was just a dream. She sighed shakily, dropping her hands in her lap. Her hair was fanned around her shoulders and hanging in her face. She ran a hand through it to brush it away. She had not been at that house in over a month, and somehow, she had managed to avoid them all together. But it had not changed the dreams that seemed to be getting worse as time went on. ~Finding Hope~

4. “I’m gonna get a drink.” Levi excused himself, walking across the room to the bar. Morgan went rigid, staring down at the table. Loretta released a small sigh, looking over at Howard. The remainder of dinner went by painfully slow for Morgan. She drank three glasses of water and unintentionally picked apart a napkin. She was acutely aware of the two and a half beers Levi had drunk. The waitress came back with Howard's card, and they all stood to leave. Howard and Loretta conversed with each other the whole ride back to the house, while Levi and Morgan sat quietly in the back. Howard pulled into the garage, and everyone climbed out of the car. A strange sense of Deja'Vu washed over Morgan as she walked around the back of the car, catching sight of Howard, Loretta and Levi in front of the car. Levi bid his parents good night before walking towards the door. “We’ll talk tomorrow.” Howard nodded at Morgan with a small smile. ~Finding Hope~

5. I screwed my eyes shut, trying to keep the tears away and shutting down the memory at the same time. Those boys were so young. Devastated and clearly in shock. They probably barely had time to process what had even happened while they were up there. Harley's tear-stained baby face flashed in my head as a memory I wouldn't soon forget. Justin did his best to stand tall. He looked a lot like a younger Caleb, though his hair was lighter. And Max stared off in the distance almost the whole time. He barely spoke. It was cold. Windy. Borderline raining. I tugged my hood closer to my head as Triston and I walked. He never released my hand. A lot like the first time we met, although this time he didn't hold tight as if I would flee. On occasion he would squeeze my hand, and I began to think this was his way of coping. Making sure I was still there. Having something to hold onto. We walked in silence for a while. We didn't need to speak. After some time, the storm took an intermission, stopping the misty rain and moving clouds around. The wind was less icy, but still an irritant. We had been wandering around for hours, stopping here and there to sit or talk or think. It was getting dark fast. The sun was beginning to set before I knew it, but it only felt like we'd been out here an hour. ~Smoke and Fire~

6. "Sage, are you alright?" A figure appeared to my right, and I slowly lifted my head, blinking a few times. Dani leaned up against the lockers staring at me with concern. "You've been standing here for like a solid five minutes." I stared at her in confusion before I realized I was standing in front on my locker. I don't remember getting here. I turned to her with a full smile. "I'm ok." She looked taken aback at first but seemed to dismiss it. By lunch time Wrench proposed we go somewhere. I don't remember participating but here I was sitting in his pickup. Feeling completely autonomous this whole day was beginning to weigh on me and I tried making a conscious effort to be more awake. When I climbed out of the pickup I looked up at the sky and noticed the overcast. It looked like another storm was close. I breathed in the fresh air and leaned against the pickup, watching as an elderly couple walked down the street. The wind was slowly picking up and the sound of the leaves rustling was getting louder. "You coming?" Wrench asked, appearing beside me. "I'm not really hungry." I looked up at him. "Are you feeling alright?" His eyes scanned my face. I smiled. "Yeah, why?" He lifted a hand to my forehead then moved it to my cheek. "Are you sure?" I nodded forcing a smile. The wind picked up a little more and a chill ran through me. "Will you at least come inside?" He persuaded. Suddenly feeling much colder I agreed and followed him inside. Dani, Wrench, Max and I all sat in a booth. Max and Dani on one side, Wrench and I on the other. I looked around the restaurant, noticing the pictures on the wall, the decorations on the shelves. It smelled like fries. It wasn't incredibly busy, only a few tables were taken. I noticed a man at a corner table staring at ours. He looked away once I noticed and began staring out the window instead. ~Smoke and Fire~

7. The first thing that registered in my brain was a pungent scent. A mix of strong chemicals invading my airway and burning my throat. My stomach churned. "There you go." A man's voice echoed through my ears. Then came the throbbing pain in my skull. The pulsing rythm keeping time with my heartbeat. I pried my eyes open. The light flooded my vision and burned my eyes, and I snapped them shut again. "Come on." The same voice proded. I felt a hand pat my cheek. I pulled my head away from it and tried lifting it up. "Glade you're up." Nicoli spoke evenly. I squirmed in the chair, taking note that my hands were tied behind the back of the chair and my ankles were tied to each leg. "We need to talk." He kneeled in front of me. Slowly everything came back. The events leading up to this moment fell back into place. The ceasless pain in my temple made it hard for my vision to focus. "What were you doing at my warehouse?" He questioned in such a calm manner it was disarming. I stared at him a moment, trying to register what he was asking. Speaking took more effort than I was prepared for, and my words came out forced. "Why did you kill that woman?" He tilted his head slightly and glanced up to my left. Only then did I realize that we probably weren't alone in this room. Nicoli took a breath and stood up. ~Smoke and Fire~

no pressure! tagging: @primroseprime2019, @e-klair, @violets-in-her-arms-writes, @mariahwritesstuff, @pen-for-sword, @j-1173, @zmwrites

#writeblr #tag game #seven snippets seven people #finding hope #smoke and fire

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augustimz · 3 months

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welcome to the world, cooper langston.

#langston legacy #ts4 simblr #the sims 4 #the sims community #ts4 #the sims screenshots #i love the childbirth mod sm <3333333 #and i <3 my lil throuple!

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feyres-divorce-lawyer · 5 months

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GA Characters That Were Also In Scandal

Mellie Grant was also Kathy

Tatcher Grey was also Cyrus Beene

Ellis Grey was also Sally Langston

Henry Burton was also Jake Ballard

David Rosen was also the husband of a patient

Cooper Freedman was also Leo Bergen

James Novak was also the husband of a patient (the opera singer with cancer)

Hollis Doyle was also Eliss’ and Richard’s attending in the 80’s

Charlie (B-613) was also one the patients in the domino surgery

#i’d have to rewatch scandal for more but of the top of my head #shonda really likes to re-use her actors #grey’s anatomy #scandal

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garadinervi · 4 years

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Freedom School Poetry, Compiled by Nancy Cooper, Foreword by Langston Hughes, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Atlanta, GA, 1965 (pdf here) [Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT]

«To the memory of Emmett Till»

#graphic design #poetry #book #cover #book cover #emmett till #nancy cooper #langston hughes #sncc #student nonviolent coordinating committee #yale university library #beinecke rare book and manuscript library #1960s

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chemdoodles · 2 years

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Cooper & Whit from Cattle Stop! My comfort characters recently. I don't know how many times I've read this novel. Seriously.

#cattle stop #cooper x whit #cooper langston #whit morales #fanart

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horrifically · 3 years

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langston hughes, poem // ada limón, bright dead things // mikey and nicky // lori gottlieb, maybe you should talk to someone // patrick cooper, aren't you gonna die someday?

playlist: mikey and nicky (1976) dir. elaine may

#heyyyyyyyyyyyy 🤕#listen to my playlist <3 #mikey and nicky #elaine may #john cassavetes #peter falk

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la-alert · 3 years

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KTLA Breaking News - PLOT TWIST!

Los Angeles has been experiencing extreme rainfall all week due to tropical storms along the pacific. Weather officials are warning all Los Angeles residents of a possible Landslide hitting the area in approximately 12 hours. Governor Newsom is asking ALL Los Angeles residents to evacuate their homes effective immediately. Roads will be closed and the entire state of California will be shut down for the next 72 hours. No flights or private flying coming in and none going out. Failure to evacuate will result in extreme consequences.

There are 2 locations that ALL LA Residents will be evacuating to. Search for your name and happy roleplaying:

*These locations are non-negotiable. If you fail to comply with the plot twist your character(s) will be removed from the role-play*

IF YOU DO NOT SEE YOUR NAME, CONTACT US ASAP.

Location 1: STAPLES Center

Santiago Alves

Romeo Staley

Victoria Dawson

Chancellor Hosein

Destini Wade

Kenya Stokes

Demetrius Bright

Angel De Leon

Amil Moretti

Dreya Miller

Ocean Vance

DeAngelo Hall

Damir Banks

Ahmed King

Greyson Stone

Jovani West

Mia Johansson

Skylar Benjamin

Rogue Soledad

Xavier Harrison

Orion Daniels

Aury Vallejo

Kaif Adams

Creed Landry

Sincere Paul

Armani Jones

Bella Lancaster

Bria James

Kaseem Grant

Josiah Reeves

Kenzo Saint

Hunter Kincaid

Luciano Ellis

Langston Kane

Dawn Taylor

Malachi Fuller

Messiah Green

Etolia Manjoe

Brynlee Moreau

Savannah Martin

Priest Valentine

Kairo Brown

Monisola Saint-Clair

Raj Diaz

Griffin Flenory

Knixon Ali

Dax Joiner

Nyx Boudreaux

Mekhala Vaz

Mykel Angelo

Ishmael McMahon

Antonio Mazur

Mauricio Pearson

Piper Harrington-Cruz

Bentley Narsh

Andrea Williams

Ziya Jameson

Suzette Lynn

Mega Weston

Jodi Lewis

Hadiyah Ali

Keion Hayes

Syx Briggs

Sakari Vaughn

Blessing Hughes

Location 2: LA Mission

Tavish Cervantes

Santiago Alves

Pandora De Leon

Passion Hoode

Imani Towson

Remi Phipps

Emerald Jones

Pierre Sutton

Caleb Cruz

Harlem Zoya

Honey Pete

Kendrick O’Neal

Neveah Roye

Anais Aguado

Felicity Dawson

Jay Benton

Hennessy Castillo

Asiah Porter

Remi Cooper

Ashleigh Landers

Quinn Waters

Kenya Stokes

Diallo Davila-James

Levi Bridges

Tremani Donovan

Arian Milano

Elis Devereaux

Sophea Hudson

Angel De Leon

Siyeed Blakewell

Asaahd Platt

Jade Murphy

Reese Hill

Dynasti Tash

Cloe Monedero

Kilo Davenport

Taj Moragne-El

Justin Diggs

Naji Xavier

Kennya Boyd

Akira Sue-Tsai

Kavea Reid

Tyler Harrison

Lauren Vergara

Prince Hendrix

Mecca Carter

Leonardo Laurent

Wynter Bleu

Asante Briggs

Sebastian Caddel

Sylar Chaves

Ramel Hall

Mayuko Ngo

Skyla Zelaya

Olivia DuVois

Jupitor Trevino

Sydney Bianchi

Illiana Micheals

Qadira Alvaro

Sophea Hudson

Rhian Breaux

Yati Soheila

Livmarie Sesay

Safiyah Senai

Nari Pierre

Zoe Yosef

Brandon St. Martin

Justice O’Connor

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The Savoy Ballroom was a large ballroom for music and public dancing located at 596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Lenox Avenue was the main thoroughfare through upper Harlem. Poet Langston Hughes calls it the Heartbeat of Harlem in Juke Box Love Song, and he set his work "Lenox Avenue: Midnight" on the legendary street. The Savoy was one of many Harlem hot spots along Lenox, but it was the one to be called the "World's Finest Ballroom". It was in operation from March 12, 1926, to July 10, 1958, and as Barbara Englebrecht writes in her article "Swinging at the Savoy", it was "a building, a geographic place, a ballroom, and the 'soul' of a neighborhood". It was opened and owned by white entrepreneur Jay Faggen and Jewish businessman Moe Gale. It was managed by African-American business man and civic leader Charles Buchanan. Buchanan, who was born in the British West Indies, sought to run a "luxury ballroom to accommodate the many thousands who wished to dance in an atmosphere of tasteful refinement, rather than in the small stuffy halls and the foul smelling, smoke laden cellar nightclubs ..."

The Savoy was modeled after Faggen's downtown venue, Roseland Ballroom. The Roseland was a mostly white swing dance club. With swing's rise to popularity and Harlem becoming a connected black community, The Savoy gave the rising talented and passionate black dancers an equally beautiful venue. The ballroom, which was 10,000 square feet in size, was on the second floor and a block long. It could hold up to 4,000 people. The interior was painted pink and the walls were mirrored. Colored lights danced on the sprung layered wood floor. In 1926, the Savoy contained a spacious lobby framing a huge, cut glass chandelier and marble staircase. Leon James is quoted in Jazz Dance as saying, "My first impression was that I had stepped into another world. I had been to other ballrooms, but this was different – much bigger, more glamour, real class ..."

The Savoy Ballroom was named after the Savoy Hotel in London as those who named the ballroom felt this gave the ballroom a classy, upscale feeling, as the hotel is a very elite, upscale hotel.

The Savoy was popular from the start. A headline from the New York Age March 20, 1926, reads "Savoy Turns 2,000 Away On Opening Night – Crowds Pack Ball Room All Week". The ballroom remained lit every night of the week.

The Savoy had the constant presence of the best Lindy Hoppers, known as "Savoy Lindy Hoppers". Occasionally, groups of dancers such Whitey's Lindy Hoppers turned professional and performed in Broadway and Hollywood productions. Whitey turned out to be a successful agent, and in 1937 the Marx Brothers' movie A Day at the Races featured the group. Herbert White was a bouncer at the Savoy who was made floor manager in the early 1930s. He was sometimes known as Mac, but with his ambition to scout dancers at the ballroom to form his own group, he became widely known as Whitey for the white streak of hair down the center of his head. He looked for dancers who were "young, stylized, and, most of all, they had to have a beat, they had to swing".

Unlike many ballrooms such as the Cotton Club, the Savoy always had a no-discrimination policy. The clientele was 85% black and 15% white, although sometimes there was an even split. Lindy hop dancer Frankie Manning said that patrons were judged on their dancing skills and not on the color of their skin: "One night somebody came over and said, 'Hey man, Clark Gable just walked in the house.' Somebody else said, 'Oh, yeah, can he dance?' All they wanted to know when you came into the Savoy was, do you dance?".

The northeast corner of the dance floor, nicknamed "Cats' Corner," was monopolized by the best and boldest dancers. Some sources claim only Whitey's Lindy Hoppers were permitted to dance there, while others are less specific. Competition for a place in Cats' Corner was fierce, and every serious hopper awaited the nightly "showtime". Other dancers would create a horseshoe around the band and "only the greatest Lindy-hoppers would stay on the floor, to try to eliminate each other". On 140th street was the opposite, mellow corner which was popular with dancing couples. The tango dancer known as The Sheik frequented this corner.

Many dances such as Lindy Hop (which was named after Charles Lindbergh and originated in 1927) were developed and became famous there. It was known downtown as the "Home of Happy Feet" but uptown, in Harlem, as "the Track" because the floor was long and thin. The Lindy Hop is also known as The Jitterbug and was born out of "mounting exhilaration and the 'hot' interaction of music and dance". Other dances that were conceived at the Savoy are The Flying Charleston, Jive, Snakehips, Rhumboogie, and variations of the Shimmy and Mambo. Capitol Records released at least one album devoted to the club, The Home of Happy Feet, from 1959.

It is estimated that the ballroom generated $250,000 in annual profit in its peak years from the late 1920s to the 1940s. Every year the ballroom was visited by almost 700,000 people. The entrance fee was 30 to 85 cents per person, depending on what time a person came. Thirty cents was the base price, but after 6pm the fee was 60 cents, and then 85 cents after 8pm. The Savoy made enough money by its peak in 1936 that $50,000 was spent on remodeling.

The ballroom had a double bandstand that held one large and one medium-sized band running against its east wall. Music was continuous as the alternative band was always in position and ready to pick up the beat when the previous one had completed its set. The bouncers, who had previously worked as boxers, basketball players, and the like, wore tuxedos and made $100 a night. The floor was watched inconspicuously by a security force of four men at a time who were headed by Jack La Rue, and no man was allowed in who wasn't dressed in a jacket with a tie. Besides the security staff, the Savoy was populated by "Harlem's most beautiful women": the Savoy Hostesses. They would be fired for consorting with patrons outside the ballroom, but inside the hostesses would teach people to dance and were dance partners for anyone who purchased a 25 cent dance ticket. Roseland Ballroom hostesses often visited the Savoy on their night off; this inspired Buchanan to create Monday Ladies-Free Nights. Other special events began during the week, including the giveaway of a new car every Saturday. The floor had to be replaced every three years due to frequent use.

During the 1930s, Chick Webb was the bandleader of the Savoy's most popular house band. Ella Fitzgerald, fresh from a talent show victory at the Apollo Theater in 1934, became its teenage vocalist. Webb also recorded the 1934 big band song and jazz standard "Stompin' at the Savoy", which is named for the Savoy. The Savoy was the site of many Battle of the Bands or Cutting Contests, which started when the Benny Goodman Orchestra challenged Webb in 1937. Webb and his band were declared the winners of that contest. In 1938, Webb was challenged by the Count Basie Band. While Webb was declared the winner again, there was a lack of consensus on who won. Earle Warren, alto saxophonist for Basie, reported that they had worked on the song "Swingin' the Blues" for competing and says, "When we unloaded our cannons, that was the end".

Floating World Pictures made a documentary called The Savoy King about the ballroom. It was shown at the 50th New York Film Festival. Other prominent Savoy house bandleaders included Al Cooper, Erskine Hawkins, Lucky Millinder (with Wynonie Harris on vocals), Buddy Johnson, and Cootie Williams.

The Savoy participated in the 1939 New York World's Fair, presenting "The Evolution of Negro Dance".

The ballroom was shut down in April 1943 as a result of "charges of vice filed by the police department and Army". Its license was renewed in mid-October of the same year.

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Ernie had nothing to lose, except his nerve.

He had sent a letter in advance requesting a meeting with Mr Eldridge. To his delight his request had been accepted. He approached the Eldridge manor thinking that the meeting itself was a good sign. Perhaps Mr Eldridge was a self-made man too, with respect for hard work and passion.

When he entered the study he was struck by how magnificent it was - and the figure he was meeting with. Mr Eldridge was elderly, but he had a commanding presence and a no-nonsense demeanour. He invited Ernie to sit. His tone was businesslike.

‘I do know who you are, son. You’re the Langston boy my Madeline can’t seem to keep away from.’

‘Sir, with respect I must confess my fondness for your daughter. We have been friends for many years since childhood and our friendship continues to grow.’

‘Indeed. Ever since you two rekindled last summer I can’t seem to make her see sense. She refuses to cooperate like her sister, running off to town and coming back late, rejecting every man she is introduced to.’

‘Sir, if I may be so bold... I think we may be in love. I know we are young but... I would hope to take her hand some day, with your permission... I know I may not seem much, but I am hoping to attend College some day and become a writer... I don’t intend to be a farmer... I can give her the best.’

Mr Eldridge seem to sigh. His hardness seemed to soften slightly, as if he pitied him.

‘You know I must say no to that. For one you are both still too young. But I am sorry to say, you are a man of little means. Your family run a good business, and I can appreciate that. But my daughter needs the very best. She is well educated, skilful and intelligent. She needs a husband who will compliment her best qualities. And she needs a husband who can give her a certain standard of life. I understand your passion and I respect that. But you have done little with yourself, lad. If you have dreams as you say you do, go and fulfil them. Make something of yourself. You can have a life rich with the experiences you desire, but that is a journey you must embark on alone. I won’t tie my daughter up in it.’

‘...but what about what Madeline wants?’

‘What Madeline wants doesn’t matter. My say is final.’

#ts4 historical #ts4 legacy #ts4 decades challenge #sims 4 decades challenge #sims 4 historical #sims 4 legacy #gen 1 #1890s #ernie langston #madeline eldridge

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Poetry is the expression of human experience.

It is the voice when finding ourselves past and future identities.

Poems are a universal noise bringing truth from silence on our lived experiences in race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, health, and family.

These verses, in whichever form they take, are the hopes, dreams, rage, and tears that move our lives.

UCF Libraries is proud to raise up other voices as part of the largest literary celebration in the world.

We have gathered suggestions to feature 16 books of poetry that are currently in the UCF collection. These works represent the wide range of favorite poets for our faculty and staff. To compliment the works featured on the 2021 list, an additional 200 poetry books grace the shelves of our Featured Display next to the Research & Information Desk on the main floor of the John C. Hitt Library.

Click on the Keep reading link to see the full list of titles and descriptions.

A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family’s memory about the Khmer Rouge regime―memory that is both real and imagined―according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space, the in-betweenness of diaspora, in which younger generations must reconcile their history and create new rituals. Sok seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility. Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisition and Collection Services

Buzzing Hemisphere = Rumor Hemisferico by Urayoan Noel In this expansive collection, we hear the noise of cities such as New York, San Juan, and São Paulo abuzz with flickering bodies and the rush of vernaculars as untranslatable as the murmur in the Spanish rumor. Oscillating between baroque textuality and vernacular performance, Noel’s bilingual poems experiment with eccentric self-translation, often blurring the line between original and translation as a way to question language hierarchies and allow for translingual experiences. Suggested by Sandy Avila, Research & Information Services

Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Such were one man's wages. Here, collected for the first time, are all the poems he published in English, from his earliest collaborations with Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Howard Moss, and Anthony Hecht to the moving farewell poems he wrote near the end of his life. Suggested by Tatyana Leonova, Acquisition and Collection Services

Crush by Richard Siken This work, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. Suggested by Rebecca Hawk, Circulation

Different Hours by Stephen Dunn The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's eleventh volume. Suggested by Rebecca Hawk, Circulation

Honeyfish by Lauren K. Alleyne The collection begins and ends with poems that memorialize and mourn the deaths of African Americans who have died at police hands, though to call them poems of protest would simplify their exploration of what life means in relation to death. It is a collection whose architecture works to make each poem, beautiful in their singular grace, add up to much more than the sum of their individual parts. Suggested by Sandy Avila, Research & Information Services

How We Became Human: new and selected poems by Joy Harjo This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. This work explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace. Suggested by Megan Haught, Student Learning & Engagement/Research & Information Services

Legacy: women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes For centuries, accomplished women--of all races--have fallen out of the historical records. The same is true for gifted, prolific, women poets of the Harlem Renaissance who are little known, especially as compared to their male counterparts. In this poetry collection, bestselling author Nikki Grimes uses "The Golden Shovel" poetic method to create wholly original poems based on the works of these groundbreaking women-and to introduce readers to their work. Suggested by Megan Haught, Student Learning & Engagement/Research & Information Services

New Poets of Native Nations edited by Heid E. Erdrich Erdrich gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. These selected twenty-one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000 highlight the exciting works coming up after Joy Harjo and Sherman Alexie. Collected here are poems of great breadth―long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics―and the result is an essential anthology of some of the best poets writing now. Suggested by Dawn Tripp, Research & Information Services

Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil With inquisitive flair, Aimee Nezhukumatathil creates a thorough registry of the earth’s wonderful and terrible magic. In her fourth collection of poetry, she studies forms of love as diverse and abundant as the ocean itself. She brings to life a father penguin, a C-section scar, and the Niagara Falls with a powerful force of reverence for life and living things. With an encyclopedic range of subjects and unmatched sincerity, it speaks to each reader as a cooperative part of the earth, an extraordinary neighborhood to which we all belong. Suggested by Christina Wray, Student Learning & Engagement

Owed by Joshua Bennett Bennett's new collection is a book with celebration at its center. Its primary concern is how we might mend the relationship between ourselves and the people, spaces, and objects we have been taught to think of as insignificant, as fundamentally unworthy of study, reflection, attention, or care. Spanning the spectrum of genre and form--from elegy and ode to origin myth--these poems elaborate an aesthetics of repair. What's more, they ask that we turn to the songs and sites of the historically denigrated so that we might uncover a new way of being in the world together, one wherein we can truthfully reckon with the brutality of the past and thus imagine the possibilities of our shared, unpredictable present, anew. Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisition and Collection Services

Phantom Noise by Brian Turner Brian Turner deftly illuminates existence as both easily extinguishable and ultimately enduring. These prophetic, osmotic poems wage a daily battle for normalcy, seeking structure in the quotidian while grappling with the absence of forgetting. Suggested by Katy Miller, Student Learning & Engagement

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz This is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages―bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers―be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness. In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisition and Collection Services

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language. Suggested by Susan MacDuffee, Acquisition and Collection Services

The Heart Aroused: poetry and the preservation of soul in corporate America by David Whyte David Whyte brings his unique perspective as poet and consultant to the workplace, showing readers how fulfilling work can be when they face their fears and follow their dreams. Going beneath the surface concerns about products and profits, organization and order, Whyte addresses the needs of the heart and soul, and the fears and desires that many workers keep hidden. At a time when corporations are calling on employees for more creativity, dedication, and adaptability, and workers are trying desperately to balance home and work, this revised edition is the essential guide to reinvigorating the soul. Suggested by Rebecca Hawk, Circulation

The Secret Powers of Naming by Sara Littlecrow-Russell Sara Littlecrow-Russell’s style emerges from the ancient and sacred tradition of storytelling, where legends were told not just to entertain, but to teach and, if necessary, to discipline. The power of the storyteller is the power of naming, to establish a relationship, a connection, and a sense of meaning. A name is both a bequest and a burden. Each of the poems in this collection is, in essence, a naming ritual. Sharply, energetically, and always provocatively, these poems name uncomfortable moments, complex emotions, and sudden, often wryly humorous realizations. Suggested by Megan Haught, Student Learning & Engagement/Research & Information Services

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