#david charleston

[sunroseofthewood]

David and Megan, from the Reckoners

[koco-coko]

omg idea for another Reckoners fic

Far in the future Megan and David have or adopt a kid or something but one day the two go missing

And who else would David put as the next legal guardian/godfather but Prof (besides Abraham but maybe he's doing something so kid isnt safest with them idk i'll figure it out)

And Prof didnt know so he just woke up to find some teen at his doorstep and now they have to find David and Megs to

Multiverse hyjinks, overcoming tramuas, fears, grief and failures, plus a bunch of "grumpy man happy child" trope bonding ensue

[every-character-ever-poll]

DAVID CHARLESTON - The Reckoners

Credit to @jamiedodgerart

[epicincorrectreckonersquotes]

David: I'm having a moral quandary, and I could really use your help.

Cody: Oh, moral quandaries. I hate those! Shoot.

David: You're the least moral person I know. How do you live with yourself?

Cody: I'm about to shut this door in your face.

[davidcharleston-steelslayer]

Hi!  First of all, Epics are awesome. 

Second, uhhh...I don’t really know how to have a public platform! So. Here we go!

[illegally-blind-and-deaf]

Biggest mood from Hercules Poirot is adamantly refusing to dance at a party but you're inevitably dragged to the floor dobyoy have no choice but to do the Charleston.

[stuff-diary]

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Movies watched in 2023

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022, USA/Australia)

Director: George Miller

Writers: George Miller & Augusta Gore

Mini-review:

Few directors have a filmography as eclectic as George Miller. Seriously, his work ranges from action and science-fiction to dark comedy, tearjerking dramas and family movies. And Three Thousand Years of Longing adds yet another genre to that list: epic fantasy romance. That being said, I must admit this film was bit disappointing, considering his previous one (Mad Max: Fury Road) was such a mind-blowing masterpiece. It's not that TTYOL is a bad movie, not at all. It's just that my expectations were sky-high.

The "tales" are easily the best part of the movie. They are a visual marvel, with beautiful cinematography and gorgeous sets and costumes. And the stories are just as interesting as the visuals, too. However, the rest of the film falls kinda flat in comparison. The cinematography in the present day scenes is really bland, and sometimes it feels like you're watching a different movie. Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba are incredibly gifted actors, but they don't really have enough chemistry to sell the movie's final act, which is a bit of a shame. I did enjoy their conversations and all the themes approached in the dialogues, though. So, as you can see, Three Thousand Years of Longing is a bit of a mixed bag, but I enjoyed most of it. It lasts less than two hours, too, so it never gets boring. Overall, it's a pretty solid movie, even if it isn't at the level of Miller's best work.

[pamwmsn]

#localartist David Boatwright

"That's ALL Folks" David Boatwright Exhibit at Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston.

[castrotophic]

not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)

You're the Top by Ellen Bass

Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy

Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker

Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley

Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland

Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman

Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller

At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey

In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr

Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston

Midsummer by Charles Simic

Today by Frank O'Hara

Naturally by Stephen Dunn

Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang

Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck

The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell

Lucky Life by Gerald Stern

Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander

Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley

A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill

On Coming Home by Lisa Summe

G-9 by Tim Dlugos

Five Haiku by Billy Collins

The Fates by David Kirby

Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason

Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin

Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young

Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown

Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck

ASMR by Corey Van Landingham

A Welcome by Joanna Klink

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Sorrow Is Not My Name by Ross Gay

You Can't Have It All by Barbara Ras

We Were Emergencies by Buddy Wakefield

To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably In the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio

Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller

[koco-coko]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Reckoners - Brandon Sanderson Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: David Charleston/Megan Tarash | Firefight, Jonathan "Prof" Phaedrus/Tia Characters: David Charleston, Megan Tarash | Firefight, Jonathan "Prof" Phaedrus, Abraham Desjardins, Cody (Reckoners), Missouri "Mizzy" Williams, Blain Charleston, Tavi Phaedrus, Edmund Sense | Conflux, Obliteration (Reckoners), Original Characters, Calamity/Larcener Additional Tags: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Post-Canon, Childhood Trauma, Grief/Mourning, Grumpy Old Men, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Parents Going Missing, angsty teenager, and edgy teen, Prof learns how to be human again, It only took a decade or so and a moody teenager in lace and all black, This kid's been through some stuff, and so has he, Multiverse hyjinks, Dimensional Travel, Mystery solving, while kicking some Epics' ass, They're both self-destructive, and careless with their lives Summary:

Almost five years after Calamity, the Reckoners have grown a lot (and apart). David, Megan, and Abraham have taken over head positions in the Reckoners, more Epics and normal people alike have joined the Reckoners in a bid to do good, and an official Redemption Act was set in place. Now, any and all Epics can publicly renounce their actions and make up for past actions. The States are being rebuilt, more people are fed and safe than ever, and Steelslayer and Firefight are heroes! They even adopted a kid! It was truly a happily ever after.

Except for Prof. He hasn't grown, he hadn't moved on, and he doesn't plan to. He's just fine wallowing in sorrow in a filthy apartment with The Smiths, Belinda Carsile, and Tears for Fears blasting while he helped the Reckoners from the sideline. He was fine. Completely fine!

But then, a sudden disappearance has a teenager named Jackilyn Charleston end up on his doorstep.

Now, it's a race to solve a missing persons' case before all hope is lost, and maybe they can both regain some hope on the way.

[epicincorrectreckonersquotes]

David, narrating: I can’t be expected to pump out metaphors and similes, like some…simile-making thing.

[herpsandbirds]

Perhaps some "boring" birds that are severely underrated?

I think most people are probably most people overlook wrens and sparrows...

Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana), juvenile, family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes, Charleston, SC, USA

photograph by David Ryan

Black-throated Sparrow (Amphispiza bilineata), family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes, southern AZ, USA

photograph by Martin Molina

Lark Sparrow (Chondestes grammacus), male, family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes, San Benito County, CA, USA

photograph by John Fox | Flickr

Bewick’s wren (Thryomanes bewickii), family Trogolodytidae, order Passeriformes, found in the central and western United States and central Mexico

Photographs by Alan Murphy Photography

Carolina Wrens (Thryothorus ludovicianus), family Trogolodytidae, order Passeriformes, Louisiana, USA

photograph by Bonnie Barry

Canyon Wren (Catherpes mexicanus) singing, family Troglodytidae, order Passeriformes, California, USA

photograph by Basar

[vintagelasvegas]

FREE DRAFT BEER THE DAY IT RAINS

Frankie's Cocktails, 1712 W Charleston Blvd – June 27 & 29, 1984

The bar was opened by Frank August in '68, and has been known as Frankie's Tiki Room since 2009.

Photos: (1) Myram Borders Collection, 0112:1018, (2) by David Lee Waite, 0112:1312, both from Nevada State Museum Las Vegas.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

David Smith at The Guardian:

Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, changing their punishment to life imprisonment without parole. The decision follows mounting pressure from campaigners who warned that the president-elect, Donald Trump, backs the death penalty and restarted federal executions during his first term after a 17-year hiatus. “Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden said in a statement released on Monday. “But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice-president, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.” It is the highest number of death sentences commuted by any president in the modern era. Among those spared is Len Davis, a former New Orleans police officer who masterminded a drug protection ring involving several other officers and arranged the murder of a woman, Kim Groves, who filed a brutality complaint against him. Davis also helped send three men to prison for more than 28 years before they were found to have been wrongfully convicted of murder and freed in 2022. During a brief interview Monday, Groves’s son Corey hailed Biden’s commutation of Davis’s death sentence, saying he always wanted the former officer to live as long as possible in prison. “I would like Len to wake up on his his 95th birthday and still be looking at concrete and barbed wire,” said Groves, who received a $1.5m settlement from the New Orleans city government in 2018 along with other family members over his mother’s murder. “I think that’s worse than any death sentence, so I don’t have any problem with what the president did.” There is also a commutation for Norris Holder, who was sentenced to death for a two-man bank robbery during which a security guard died. Prosecutors said Holder may not have fired the fatal shot. Another beneficiary is Daryl Lawrence, sentenced to death in the killing of Columbus, Ohio, police officer Bryan Hurst. Hurst’s former police partner Donnie Oliverio said in a statement: “Putting to death the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace. The president has done what is right here, and what is consistent with the faith he and I share.” The clemency action applies to all federal death row inmates except three convicted of terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston marathon bombing attack; Dylann Roof, who shot dead nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Robert Bowers, who stormed a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers in 2018.

President Biden issues commutations to 37 of the 40 federal death row inmates, changing their sentences from the death penalty to life in prison without parole.

[cantheywinthehungergames]

I don't know if I'm allowed to submit pre-emptively, but: David Charleston, specifically from Steelheart (he turns 19 by the next book, but he's 18 in this one).

Restrictions: no firearms

Advantages: super-nerd with obsessive information gathering and analysis skills, fairly athletic, totally down to kill in a survival situation, out-of-the-box thinker, surprisingly charming if he could win over Megan.

Disadvantages: specifically skilled with guns rather than weaponry in general, really kind of an acquired taste socially, destructively fixated on revenge at this point in his life, will do stupid shit for people he loves.

Name: David Charleston

Age: 18 (Steelheart)

Restrictions: Can only use weapons supplied in the Hunger Games arena (no firearms as asker said)

[uchicagoscrc]

Today we remember those who died while serving in the armed forces. First celebrated in the years following the American Civil War Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971.

This lithograph and sheet music represent only one piece of Memorial Day history. The history of Memorial Day, previously known as Decoration Day, can be traced back to Charleston, SC in 1865. In mid-1864, Confederate forces had converted a Charleston race track into a prison, to hold between 6,000 and 10,000 Union captives who had been evacuated from Georgia prisons. The captives suffered harsh conditions including starvation, disease, and the indignity of being paraded into town, where some Black Charlestonians would sneak pieces of bread to the captives, at risk of being punished for doing so. At least 257 Union soldiers died during their imprisonment there.

In autumn, under a worsening yellow fever outbreak, Confederate officials relocated the prison to Florence, SC, leaving behind the Union dead in unmarked graves.  Black Charlestonians worked to build a proper burial ground at the race course, and reconsecrate the soldiers’ graves. They then organized a memorial event held on May 1, 1865. An estimated 10,000 people attended the event which included processions, singing, speeches, and laying of flowers.

Learn more about the role of Black Charlestonians in the founding of Memorial Day in David W. Blight’s book “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory” and “Denmark Vesey’s garden: slavery and memory in the cradle of the Confederacy,” by Kytle and Roberts.

This TIME magazine article includes images of the race track and the burial ground from the Library of Congress. The event was covered by the “Charleston Daily Courier” on May 2, 1865 and by the “New York Tribune” on May 13, 1865.

While we are unaware of any primary sources within our Special Collections that document this event, we still wish to acknowledge and share this piece of American history that is continually ignored or erased. 

#BlackHistory#BlackHistoryMatters#MemorialDay#Decoration Day