#emilie dionne

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On May 28th, 1934, the Dionne Quintuplets were born near the village of Corbeil, outside of Callander, Ontario. Their names were Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie, and Marie.

The five identical girls, born two months premature to Elzire and Oliva Dionne, were the first quintuplets known to survive infancy. Shortly after their birth, they were made "Wards of the King", supposedly for their own well being as the government deemed their parents unfit to care for them.

The girls became a huge tourist attraction in Ontario, living in what was called the Dafoe Hospital and Nursery, where thousands of tourists came to see them every day.

Although eventually their parents regained custody of the girls when they were about 8, their family life wasn't happy. The sisters left home at 18 and had limited contact with family afterwards.

The money set aside for them in a trust fund was horribly mismanaged, with the government taking money from it to pay for things like research and photographers instead of paying for that themselves. This lead to them having to request money from the government in adulthood, in an effort to recoup what was stolen from them.

Today, the two surviving sisters, Annette and Cecile, who live together in Montreal, turn 90 years old.

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Becoming

Alice Oseman, Radio Silence // David Almond, The Tightrope Walkers // Will Wood, Marsha Thankk You for the Dialectics but I Need You to Leave // Dionne Brand, What We All Long For // Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea // Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance // Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

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Xander invited the rest of his sister Emily's family over while Jasmine and Nora were out, and they all stopped to yell at Travis for stealing their paper. Cookie was blissfully unaware of any problems!

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025 RELEASE

All my videos can be found here, full release under the read more! I am also offering the two Gatsby videos as a bundle for 30 USD!

ORDER FORM HERE

This release includes: Oh, Mary! with Betty Gilpin, A Wonderful World, Hadestown, The Great Gatsby (x2)

THE GREAT GATSBY October 7, 2024 | Broadway | 4K MP4 (10.44GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Austin Colby (u/s Jay Gatsby), Eva Noblezada (Daisy Buchanan), Noah J. Ricketts (Nick Carraway), Dariana Mullen (u/s Jordan Baker), John Zdrojeski (Tom Buchanan), Eric Anderson (Meyer Wolfsheim), Ryah Nixon (u/s Myrtle Wilson), Dan Rosales (u/s George Wilson), Samantha Pollino (s/w Catherine), Jasmine Pearl Villaroel (s/w Gilda Grey), Jake Trammel (s/w Mr. McKee) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of a nice set of understudies! Act One uses internal audio, so there is more audio interference than usual (rustling etc) and is sometimes distorted due to overload, especially at the ends of big songs. A few brief blackouts scattered throughout the video, each lasting about 10 seconds and mostly in Act One. Very slight obstruction on the far left, doesn’t block any action. Some moments of wandering and unfocusing. Some washout on wider shots. Includes curtain call, audio fed from external source for Act Two. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBLRyQ | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL AUGUST 2, 2025

THE GREAT GATSBY November 14, 2024 (M) | Broadway | 4K MP4 (9.72GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Jeremy Jordan (Jay Gatsby), Eva Noblezada (Daisy Buchanan), Dan Rosales (u/s Nick Carraway), Samantha Pauly (Jordan Baker), John Zdrojeski (Tom Buchanan), Eric Anderson (Meyer Wolfsheim), Ryah Nixon (u/s Myrtle Wilson), Charlie Pollock (u/s George Wilson), Samantha Pollino (s/w Catherine), Brandon J. Large (s/w Mr. McKee) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of Dan as Nick! About a minute of blackout during the beginning, and takes a little bit to get going. Some wandering / readjustment and unfocusing throughout. Includes curtain call and the post-show BC/EFA speech, audio is fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBRU3p | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL AUGUST 2, 2025

HADESTOWN December 3, 2024 | Broadway | 4K MP4 (9.37GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Timothy H. Lee (u/s Orpheus), Maia Reficco (Eurydice), Philip Boykin (Hades), Allison Russell (Persephone), Malcolm Armwood (u/s Hermes), Shea Renne (Fate Lachesis), Jessie Shelton (t/r Fate Clotho), Brit West (Fate Atropos), Emily Afton (Worker), Tanner Ray Wilson (s/w Worker), Brandon Camerson (s/w Worker), Alex Puette (Worker), Yael “YaYa” Reich (s/w Worker), Grace Yoo (Worker) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of Tim’s debut as Orpheus! YaYa swung on for Alex as a worker during intermission. Some wandering and unfocusing throughout. Includes curtain call and “We Raise Our Cups,” audio fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBU17p | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL AUGUST 2, 2025

OH, MARY! January 30, 2025 (E) | Broadway | 4K MP4 (5.34GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Betty Gilpin (Mary Todd Lincoln), Phillip James Brannon (Mary's Husband), Chris Renfro (Mary's Teacher), Bianca Leigh (Mary's Chaperone), Tony Macht (Mary's Husband's Assistant) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of the new cast! Head obstruction on the right side that blocks off a little bit of action but is almost entirely worked around. One thirty second blackout about six minutes in. Some moments of wandering and unfocusing. Includes curtain call, audio fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBZRpk | ASKING $18 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL AUGUST 2, 2025

A WONDERFUL WORLD January 27, 2025 | Broadway | 4K MP4 (10.53GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: James Monroe Iglehart (Louis Armstrong), Trista Dollison (s/b Lucille Wilson), Kim Exum (Alpha Smith), Jennie Harney-Fleming (Lil Hardin), Dionne Figgins (Daisy Parker), Gavin Gregory (King Joe Oliver), Jimmy Smagula (Joe Glaser/Mr. Karnofsky), DeWitt Fleming Jr. (Lincoln Perry/Fate Marable), Matt Magnusson (s/w Assistant Director/Sound Engineer), Jason Forbach (Crooner/Larry the Reporter/White Gangster), Brandon Louis Armstrong (Professor Davis/Band Member), Renell Taylor (Banjo Ben), Wesley J. Barnes (Band Member), Ronnie S Bowman Jr. (Band Member), Brett Sturgis (Band Member), Kate Louissaint (Ensemble), Meridien Terrell (s/w Ensemble), Alysha Morgan (Ensemble), Khadijah Rolle (Ensemble), Dori Waymer (Ensemble) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of this short-lived musical! Some moments of wandering and unfocusing. Some washout on wider shots. Includes curtain call, audio fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBZDiD | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL AUGUST 2, 2025

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The Dionne Quintuplets, aged 16, pose with their father, Elzire, atop the RCA Building on a visit to Rockefeller Center, October 20, 1950. They are, left to right, Annette, Marie, Cecile, Yvonne, and Emilie. The Empire State Building can be seen in the background.

Photo: Harry Harris for the AP

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Emily! What was #16 for your spotify wrapped?

Hey, Lauren! #16 was Paint the Town Red by Doja Cat. (The original version Walk on By by Dionne Warwick also made my list!)

[justforbooks]

Cissy Houston

American gospel, pop and soul singer who co-founded the Sweet Inspirations

The career of the American singer Cissy Houston, who has died aged 91, exemplified the vital force underlying so much modern popular music: the close relationship between African-American sacred and secular idioms, specifically the influence seeping from Black gospel music, with its deep emotional roots and eruptions of ecstatic fervour, into the fabric of R&B, soul and pop.

Houston spent 30 years as the “minister of music” at the New Hope Baptist Church in her native Newark, New Jersey. But she also sang, often with her nieces Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, on many of the great pop hits of the 1960s and 70s, from the Drifters’ On Broadway through Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl, Aretha Franklin’s (You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman, Dusty Springfield’s Son of a Preacher Man and Paul Simon’s Mother and Child Reunion to David Bowie’s Young Americans.

As a founder member of a vocal group known as the Sweet Inspirations, she toured and recorded with Elvis Presley. After leaving the group in 1970 to raise her family, she pursued a solo career, recording albums and appearing in New York night clubs, which reached its peak with two Grammy awards for her traditional gospel albums Face to Face in 1997 and He Leadeth Me the following year.

She also became known as the mother of the singer Whitney Houston, whose enormous worldwide success, following her appearance in the 1992 film The Bodyguard, attracted attention to a private life that included a turbulent marriage to the singer Bobby Brown and problems with drug addiction.

Whitney, who had begun her singing career under her mother’s tutelage in the New Hope choir, was found dead in the bath of a Beverly Hills hotel in 2012, aged 48. Three years later Whitney’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, a singer and reality TV personality, died after being discovered in similar circumstances, aged 22.

Cissy Houston was born Emily Drinkard, the eighth and last child of Delia Mae (nee McCaskill) and Nitcholas “Nitch” Drinkard, natives of Georgia who moved to New Jersey in the 1920s. Delia died when Cissy – a childhood nickname that stuck – was eight, followed 10 years later by her husband. Cissy went to live with her married older sister, Lee Warrick, whose children included Dionne and Dee Dee, both only a handful of years younger than their aunt.

Virtually from infancy Cissy and her brothers and sisters had been encouraged by their parents to sing in church. They formed a vocal group, into which Cissy was enrolled when she was five. “I used to get so mad,” she told Rolling Stone magazine in 1978. “We’d be out playing in the sun with the other kids and my older sister, Marie, would make us come in for rehearsal.”

The Drinkard Singers achieved national renown, eventually appearing at Carnegie Hall and the Newport Folk festival. In 1954 Cissy took charge of the New Hope choir, which increased from 15 to 60 voices during her years in charge.

A first marriage in 1955 to Freddie Garland brought her a son, Gary, but ended in divorce. In 1964 she married John Houston, an army veteran who became her manager and with whom she had two children, Michael and Whitney.

By the time the second marriage brought her a change of surname, she was working regularly as a backing singer on pop recording sessions, in demand for her three-octave range. With the two Warrick sisters (who would alter their spelling to Warwick) and a friend, Doris Troy, she formed a unit that was soon busy in New York studios providing backing vocals on hits by Solomon Burke, Chuck Jackson and many others.

When all three of her colleagues left to pursue solo careers, she replaced them with Estelle Brown, Sylvia Shemwell and Myrna Smith. Among their regular employers was the Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler, who recruited them for sessions with Franklin, with Cissy providing the coloratura soprano flourishes featured on Franklin’s Ain’t No Way in 1968. Wexler also gave them their name, which formed the title of their most successful single, Sweet Inspiration, a top 20 hit when released on Atlantic in 1967.

While bringing up her children, Cissy continued to record and make occasional appearances. Although she made several solo albums for a variety of labels and producers, she was never able to match the solo successes in the pop charts of the Warwick sisters or Troy. But when Burt Bacharach recorded his own versions of some of his greatest hits in 1971, he chose her to sing One Less Bell to Answer, Mexican Divorce and All Kinds of People. In 1976 she was featured in Gospel Fuse, a gospel opera composed by Carman Moore and performed with the San Francisco Symphony orchestra, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.

On the 1989 album Whitney, which would sell more than 20m copies around the world, she joined her daughter for a duet on I Know Him So Well, from the musical Chess. In 1992 she and Jackson were reunited for a fine R&B album titled I’ll Take Care of You. By the time she achieved her Grammy gospel successes, secular music was occupying less of her time, although in 2006 she, Whitney and Dionne Warwick recorded a song called Family First for the Hollywood rom-com Daddy’s Little Girls.

In 1998 she published her autobiography, How Sweet the Sound. Fifteen years later, in Remembering Whitney, she told the harrowing story of her long but unavailing struggle to help her daughter overcome her various problems.

Both her marriages ended in divorce. She is survived by her two sons, six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

🔔 Cissy Houston (Emily Drinkard), singer, born 30 September 1933; died 7 October 2024

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THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023

*I read it before

**I read it more than once this year

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Common Grace

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English

Alison Lubar, It Skips a Generation

Atef Abu Saif, The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary

Brynn Saito, Under a Future Sky

Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

*Carolina Ebeid, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior

Chanté L. Reid, Thot

*Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Christine Shan Shan Hou & Vi Khi Nao, Evolution of the Bullet

Christopher Okigbo, Labyrinths (with Paths of Thunder)

Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Dionne Brand, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun

*Dionne Brand, No Language is Neutral

Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive

Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father, translated from the French by Lorin Stein

**Emily Lee Luan, 回 / Return

Erin Marie Lynch, Removal Acts

Fady Joudah, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

Farid Tali, Prosopopoeia, translated from the French by Aditi Machado

Gabriel Palacios, A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth Is Sign (coming out 2024)

Ghayath Almadhoun, Adrenalin, translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

Hauntie, To Whitey & The Cracker Jack

Hervé Guibert, To the friend who did not save my life, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Hiromi Ito, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, translated from the Japanese by Jon L. Pitt

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

*James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

James Fujinami Moore, Indecent Hours

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Jawdat Fakhreddine, Lighthouse for the Drowning, translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Jed Munson, Commentary on the Birds

Jennifer Hayashida, A Machine Wrote This Song

Jenny Odell, Inhabiting The Negative Space

Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense

*Joy Kogawa, A Choice of Dreams

Joy Kogawa, A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems

**Joy Kogawa, From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems

Joy Kogawa, Gently to Nagasaki

*Joy Kogawa, Jericho Road

*Joy Kogawa, Obasan

Joy Kogawa, The Rain Ascends

Joy Kogawa, The Splintered Moon

*Joy Kogawa, Woman in the Woods

Juan Felipe Herrera, Akrílica, eds. Farid Matuk, Carmen Giménez, Anthony Cody

Kamo-no-Chomei, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World, translated from the Japanese by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins

Keorapetse Kgositsile, Collected Poems, 1969-2018

*Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Kōno Taeko, Toddler-Hunting, translated from the Japanese by Lucy North

Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary, as told to George Hajjar

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Kaan and Her Sisters

**Lindsey Webb, Plat (coming out in 2024)

Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

Liyana Badr, A Balcony over the Fakihani, translated from the Arabic by Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley

Lucille Clifton, An Ordinary Woman

*Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats

Lucille Clifton, Good News About the Earth

Lucille Clifton, Good Times

Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman

Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly’s Burden, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor, translated from the Arabic by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, You Can Be The Last Leaf, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Maya Marshall, All the Blood Involved in Love

Michael Prior, Model Disciple

*Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and Other Poems

Mitsuye Yamada, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems

Mohammed El-Kurd, RIFQA

**Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, translated from the Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif

Mourid Barghouti, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Mourid Barghouti, Midnight, translated from the Arabic by Radwa Ashour

Na Mira, The Book of Na

Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro, translated from the Japanese by Edwin McClellan

Nona Fernández, Voyager: Constellations of Memory, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Noor Hindi, DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett

The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry, edited and translated from the Arabic by A.M. Elmessiri

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kappa, translated from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell

Salim Barakat, Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Samih Al-Qasim, All Faces But Mine, translated from the Arabic by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a

Samih al-Qasim, Sadder Than Water: New & Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Nazih Kassis

*Saretta Morgan, Alt-Nature (coming out in 2024)

Satsuki Ina, The Poet and the Silk Girl (coming out in 2024)

Sawako Ariyoshi, The Twilight Years, translated from the Japanese by Mildred Tahara

Shailja Patel, Migritude

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, City of Pearls

Sharon Yamato, Moving Walls

Shivanee Ramlochan, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

**shō yamagushiku, shima (coming out in 2014)

Shuri Kido, Names and Rivers, translated from the Japanese by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander

*Solmaz Sharif, Customs

Stella Corso, Green Knife

*Taha Muhammad Ali, Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story, translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin

Terry Watada, The Game of 100 Ghosts (Hyaku Monogatari Kwaidan-kai)

Victoria Chang, Obit

*Wong May, Superstitions

THE BOOKS I'M CURRENTLY READING, THAT I HAVEN'T FINISHED YET

Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, The Portal (not yet published)

Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

Eqbal Ahmad, The Selected Writings

Essays, ed. Dorothea Lasky

Fadwa Tuqan, A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography, translated from the Arabic by Olive Kenny

James Welch, Winter in the Blood

Lan P. Duong, Nothing Follows

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Touching the Art

Preti Taneja, Aftermath

Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment

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mw female counterparts?

i'd  love  to  see  the  following  being  used  for  counterparts  !  if  you'd  like  anymore  suggestions,  then  feel  free  to  send  in  another  message  !  counterparts: marissa  cooper,  aria  montgomery,  spencer  hastings,  emily  fields,  alison dilaurentis, maya st germain, mona vanderwaal, prue  halliwell,  paige  matthews,  phoebe  halliwell,  claire  standish,  allison  reynolds,  sloane  peterson,  mia  thermopolis,  sam  montgomery,  lindsay  weir,  paris  geller,  lane  kim,  allie  hamilton,  sabrina  spellman,  angela  chase,  betty  cooper,  cheryl  blossom,  toni  topaz,  josie  mccoy,  torrance  shipman,  missy  pantone,  andie  walsh,  kat  stratford,  joey potter, jen lindley, carrie bradshaw, miranda hobbs, jade  west,  addison  montgomery,  lexie  grey,  arizona  robbins,  mary  jane  watson,  elena  gilbert,  katherine  pierce,  anna stern, cat valentine, brenda walsh, kelly taylor, belly conklin, sarah cameron, kiara carerra, cleo anderson, donna martin, caroline  forbes,  jenna rink, bonnie  bennett,  hayley  marshall,  buffy  summers,  willow rosenberg, faith  lehane,  cordelia  chase,  daphne  bridgerton,  lorelai  gilmore,  heather  chandler,  veronica  sawyer,  regina  george,  blair  waldorf,  cora hale, allison argent, malia tate, siobhan roy, fiona gallagher, veronica fisher, serena  van  der  woodsen,  georgina  sparks,  brooke  davis,  peyton  sawyer,  haley  james  scott,  tashi duncan, quinn  james,  alex  dupre,  rachel  gatina,  rosalie  hale,  alice  cullen,  esme  cullen,  jane  volturi,  daphne  blake,  dionne  davenport,  aimee gibbs, amber  mariens,  samantha  baker,  sandy olson, olivia baker, layla keating, betty rizzo, marcia  brady,  lyla garrity, jackie burkhart, donna pinciotti, and  monica  geller  !

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YOUR WRITING IS SO SO BEAUTIFUL!!! i was reading your latest fic, and i genuinely had to stop because i was like. i need to sit down and write a paper on this. i need to analyse how you use sentence structure and metaphors and to what effect. i want to eat it. it's so inspiring.

and unrelated, and a bit of a silly question, what works have most inspired your writing? could be fanfiction but could also be general literature. i'm just very curious.

have a great day!!!

thank you so much 😊😊 thats so kind of you!!!!

uhhh in total honesty, i don't know which writers have rubbed off on me the most. don't have enough objectivity for that. but my fave authors that i would like to believe have influenced my writing the most are: anne carson (poet), w.g. sebald, jorge luis borges, emily st john mandel, dionne brand (poet), and robert macfarlane (travel writer; i love Underland so so so much).

lots of fanfiction writers have also inspired me, but outside of the fics saved in my bookmarks, i've lost a lot :(( so many old naruto and teen wolf fic writers lmao.

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most wanted atm?

here's some of our mw right now ! feel free to bring in:  rachel  gatina,  cher  horowitz, dionne davenport, murray duvall, quinn  james,  ryan  atwood,  lucas  scott,  cory  matthews,  shawn  hunter,  angela  moore,  jack  hunter,  eric  matthews,  gretchen  weiners,  karen smith, cady heron, janis ian, phoebe  halliwell,  prue  halliwell,  paige  matthews,  piper  halliwell,  claire  standish,  allison  reynolds,  taylor  mckessie,  kelsi  neilsen,  marcia  brady,  jan  brady,  dj  tanner,  stephanie  tanner,  sloane  petersen, benjamin  barry,  andie  anderson,  blair  waldorf,  serena  van  der  woodsen,  georgina  sparks,  dan  humphrey,  nate  archibald,  lainey  boggs,  bonnie  bennett,  jake  jagielski,  chade  adams,  emily fields, hanna marin, aria montgomery, alison dilaurentis, spencer hastings, millicent  huxtable, mia  catalano,  julian  baker,  zack  morris,  ac  slater,  leo  wyatt,  ferris  bueller,  ted  mosby,  tim  riggins,  logan  huntzberger,  jess  mariano,  david  silver,  brandon  walsh,  dylan  mckay,  steve  sanders,  steve  hale,  gomez  addams,  andrew  clark,  edward  cullen,  charlie  todd,  jack  mcphee,  sam  malone,  christian  stovitz,  elton  tiscia,  travis  birkenstock,  tristan  dugray,  harvey  kinkle,  ryan  evans,  chad  danforth,  duckie  dale,  marty  mcfly,  dave  rygalski,  joey  tribbiani,  phoebe  buffay,  chandler  bing,  ross  geller,  mike  hannigan,  luke  ward,  rachel  green,  dawson  leery,  and  monica  geller  !

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When your senses are acute, you can’t escape

The Beaches, Desdemona // A. S. King, I Crawl Through It // Sabrina Benaim, Explaining My Depression to My Mother //  Dionne Brand, What We All Long For // Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander // Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

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Per the request of @kingmike1224 I have some members of the Lewis family here! (clean copies of course)

Top row: Whitney Perry (née Lewis), Xander Dionne (née Lewis)

Bottom row: Emily Lewis, Jay Lewis (née Gill)

Everyone is packaged with CC, and as elders since that’s the age they are in my game currently. If you want to download them CC free just use Clean Installer and untick all the CC. They all have black hair naturally in my game if you want to age them down.

Of course once you download them you can do what you like with them, but in case you want to preserve any family relationships, Whitney, Xander and Emily are siblings (born in that order), and Jay is Emily’s husband.

Download (SFS) | Download (MF)

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The image was made in Canva; check it out at the [referral] link here!

Artist Shout-Outs Shared

"Current AI 'art' is created on the backs of hundreds of thousands of artists and photographers who made billions of images and spend time, love and dedication to have their work soullessly stolen and used by selfish people for profit without the slightest concept of ethics." - Alexander Nanitchkov

October's Artist Shout-Outs

#629: Elea Calabrese

#630: Asinjuasflora

#631: Daria R

#632: Adam Scythe

#633: FestivalOfRavens

#634: Steve Simmons

#635: Christina Christidou

#636: Ida Smaga

#637: Illicit Truth

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October's Opinions

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Oct. 19th: How the "Hundred-Dollar Holiday" changed my perspective on gift-giving.

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October's VODs, Videos, and Announcements

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Oct. 4th: Let's Discuss Some $#!7!: September 2024 Wrap-Up & Behind-the-Scenes

Oct. 6th: Let's Play Some $#!7!: Wandersong - Intro

Oct. 8th: STREAM ANNOUNCEMENT

Oct. 20th: STREAM ANNOUNCEMENT

Oct. 20th: Let's Play Some Demos! - Part 5

Oct. 27th: Let's Play Some $#!7!: Reigns - Intro | 53-YEAR REIGN! WOOT-WOOT!

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Poems Written in October

Blog Posts

Oct. 15th: Dead-Eye

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October's Cause of the Month: ADDitude

ADHD Acceptance Month Quotes of 2024

QUOTE 1: Edward Hallowell, M.D.

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October's Neverending Reading List Shares

Oct. 21st: The Neverending Reading List: Book LXXI - How Fires End

Oct. 22nd: The Neverending Reading List: Book LXXII - Show, Don't Tell

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Stupidity Quotes Shared

October's Quotes

QUOTE 22: Zelda French

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R.I.P. Cissy Houston

Cissy Houston, gospel singer and mother of Whitney Houston, passed away on Monday at age 91. Houston, who was born Emily Drinkard, started her music career in 1938 when she and her sister Anne and brothers Larry and Nicky formed The Drinkard Four gospel group. Their sister Marie joined the group and the name was changed to The Drinkard Singers. Houston's sister Lee managed the group and later became the mother of Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick. The group performed regularly around Newark, New Jersey, and after an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, they signed a deal with MCA Records and became the first gospel group to release an album on a major label. The group would experience some more changes in the lineup and become The Sweet Inspirations. They had a Top 40 hit in 1968 with "Sweet Inspiration" and became an in-demand backup group. Van Morrison used them on his iconic hit, "Brown Eyed Girl," and Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Dusty Springfield, George Benson, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, and Carmen McCrae were some of the artists that used The Sweet Inspirations in their recordings. 

Houston started recording solo records in 1963 with the single "This Is My Vow." Her solo album, Presenting Cissy Houston, was released in 1970. Houston recorded four solo albums in the '70s and had a disco hit with "Think It Over." She was the first to record "Midnight Train To Georgia" in 1972, one year before Gladys Knight & The Pips made it a hit. Houston was in demand as a session singer and recorded with Paul Simon, Better Midler, Burt Bacharach, and Linda Rondstadt. She performed live with her band around New York City and Whitney would frequently join her on stage. In the 90s, she won Grammy awards for her gospel albums, Face To Face and He Leadeth Me. She recorded the duet "I Know Him So Well" with Whitney in 1987 and it appeared on Whitney's second album. In 2006, she recorded "Family First" with Dionne Warwick and Whitney for the Daddy's Little Girls soundtrack. BET did a tribute to Whitney Houston in 2012 after passing and Cissy performed "Bridge Over Troubled Water." The average pop culture historian has relegated Cissy Houston to being the mother of Whitney but she was a vocalist in her own right that made music listeners understand that a backup singer was just as important as the lead vocalist. Her work on Aretha Franklin's "Ain't No Way" elevated the song into an otherworldly listening experience and this is why Franklin made sure to have Houston on stage with her during their last television appearance together in 2014 on The Late Show with David Letterman. Houston paved the way for her daughter Whitney and numerous singers, especially those who showed their star power in a supporting role. 

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CISSY HOUSTON (Emily Drinkard 1933-Died October 7th 2024,at 91).American soul and gospel singer. Houston was a founding member of the R&B group The Sweet Inspirations, and sang backup for artists such as Roy Hamilton, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, and Chaka Khan. Houston embarked on a solo career in 1970, and won two Grammy Awards in the Traditional Gospel Album category.

Houston was the mother of singer and actress Whitney Houston, the aunt of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, and a cousin of opera singer Leontyne Price. Houston was also the grandmother of Whitney Houston's only child, Bobbi Kristina Brown.Cissy Houston - Wikipedia