#emma wray

[akariamai]

Chapter 1: Library

Crossover between the Hunger Games and The Promised Neverland

Word Count: 1372

Prologue

Consuming the nightlock berries should have swiftly taken her from the living, released her body from the arena and lifted by the crane of a hovercraft. Instead of being granted the sweet release of death, Marissa, a name she deeply cared for, was given another chance at life. One that appeared to be far worse than the monstrosities she’d been forced to face.

The first life she lived, the one with the name Marissa, ended in tragedy. Her name, now part of the collection of unfortunate souls to be called on reaping day, was chosen for the 74th Hunger Games. The games were a dark cloud, its presence looming over the people in the districts. It only inspired fear for the children and bred hopelessness. Marissa had grown up to see parents keep their children at arm’s length. Only rejoicing when they aged out of the reaping.

She had been lucky. Her parents, despite their fears, cared for her as if the danger did not exist. Their reality shattering every year yet persisting when another name was called. One more year. She just needed to survive one more year but life threw a curve ball to her life. It did not matter how hard her parents wished every night for their daughter to be untouched by the Capital, to escape unscathed by the horrors of the games. Their wishes to a high power were not enough to save her.

Her name and fate intertwined with death itself as soon as her name was spoken for all of District 5 to hear. She remembered the cries of her parents, so clearly, as she was escorted onto the stage. How her eyes found her parents devastated, mourning for their daughter despite her standing despite her standing before them, clinging onto one another. Using each other as a lifeline. It was tragic. Another child to carry on another senseless death.

This new life seemed perfect. It masqueraded itself to be a well-funded orphanage. A cookie-cutter life for the naive human children, who unknowingly awaited their death sentence, all in hopes of being adopted to a kind family. The reality is much darker. A farm packaged into a beautifully perfect lie, provides a life with empty smiles and so-called love. The very foundation of the house is a fabrication. It is filled with deception. It was a prison. They were birds trapped in a golden cage. Never to fly free from the bars; never to see the world beyond the gates.

Finch laid on the bed awake, waiting for the clock to strike, and the day to begin. She was four years old and burdened with the knowledge of their supposed home. She needed a plan but with her scrawny and petite arms, she could do nothing but wait till she grew. She hoped to survive long enough to grow. She still had time left but when would her time come? She noticed the children who were six or older were shipped out randomly or it appeared to be that way. She needed more information.

“Weik up, Finsch!” A high pitched voice called out, snapping her out of her thoughts, “Weik up!”

Finch turned to the person, who was already changed out of their pajamas, and glared at them. “I’m up.” Her reply was unwelcoming. Emma was an irritatingly joyful child, carefree in every way possible. Unaware of the true horrors behind the house she called a home.

“Yay!” She excitedly cheered. Her smile, at one period of time, would’ve comforted Finch but she found herself unable to be at ease.

Finch hurriedly changed into her uniform and walked to the bathroom to brush her teeth. Emma followed closely behind her as they waited for the older children to help the young ones with their hygiene.

“Do you wanna play with me, Nor-man and Wray?”

“No.” Finch had more important things to do. This world seemed to represent fragments of her past life but demons like the ones she saw when she was a baby were completely new. Research needed to be done. She would need to make her way into the library after breakfast.

“Please!” She whined.

“No.”

“Pretty please!” Her whining did not stop. In fact, it only got worse.

“Hello Emma, Finch. What’s going on?” The hoax concern in Isabella’s voice was appalling. If she did not know everything was fake, she would’ve believed her lies. She pretended to care for them. She prepared them for the slaughter with a smile.

“I wanna play with Finch!” Emma waved her arms dramatically, lightly stomping her feet in retaliation but not enough to make too much noise. “But she doesn’t want to play.”

Isabella gently patted Emma’s bright hair and slightly bent over to look down at Finch. “Why don’t you want to play Finch?”

“I want to wread.” It turns out the games were good for one thing. She learned to pretend. This world just needed more of it.

“Really,” She cupped Finch’s face with her hands, “Aren’t you a clever one.” The smile grew upon her face. Finch’s stomach dropped at how unnerving it was. It almost felt real. “Brush your teeth and come down to eat breakfast okay.” Once Isabella was out of sight, Finch felt as if she could truly breathe again. An unseen weight lifted from her shoulders. She was as safe as she could be.

The two girls brushed their teeth with several of their siblings. While they were not siblings by blood, many saw one another as family. Finch was not one of those people. She could not bear to become attached to anyone and lose them. The world was cruel and her heart would not survive another attack. She already lost a family.

Breakfast was swift. The older children helped clean up the dishes and the younger ones hung around Isabella. Finch watched for a brief moment before making her way to the library. Hardly any one of the younger children spent time in the library and as the older children were finishing their morning chores before heading to take their exams, she would have the room to herself. Quiet and safe.

The door to the library creaked as Finch walked inside. It was finally time to look for any helpful information about her situation. She would need to read between the lines as books about demons and farms probably wouldn’t be kept in the house. To keep up appearances, nothing in the pages of the books should outright explain the situation.

First, she searched through a geology book. The world could look different than her first life, Finch needed to be sure. Then, gather a rough estimate on which hemisphere the farm was located in. A stick and the sun should be enough, she just needed to find an excuse on her reasoning. The other kids might get curious. Next, she would work on her survival skills. The games granted her some experience but she relied on the other tributes to not notice her stealing food off of their plates. It worked for a little while until the end neared and the rules changed.

“What are you wreading?” Ray, another four year old, curiously approached Finch. He took a peek at the book she had opened. A map of the world.

Finch pointed at the map and merely said, “Pictures.” Ray was almost as antisocial as she was. He hung out a lot with Emma and Norman but he could be found occasionally at the library. She hoped he would’ve been stuck playing with Emma, but there was nothing she could do to stop him.

She turned to another page and looked at a closer image of one of the land masses from the previous page. One part looked like a sort of boot. Finch remembered seeing a map like this in an old poster, faded and crinkled, in one of District 5’s schoolrooms.

She flipped to another page, hoping Ray would turn his attention elsewhere. She wanted to survive and live. For the girl who’s name was chosen at the reaping and sent to the games. For the girl who never had the chance to grow up. For the girl who wanted to live.

Masterlist

[angelloverde]

"Mo Soul" Player Playlist 6 January

1. Funky Destination - Panama Soul Girl 2. Kan Sano - Inner Sun 3. Bluey - Got to Let My Feelings Show 4. Citrus Sun - You're so Far Away 5. Lady Wray - Guilty 6. Little Simz - Who Even Cares 7. Miami Nights 1984 - Accelerated 8. Lovebirds Feat. Stee Downes - Want You In My Soul 9. Marco Cecamore - Funk For Peace 10. The Mission Feat. John Robinson - Lowe 11. Mark E - Compact Object 12. Matthew Halsall - Finding My Way 13. Mocky - Glide 14. Moonchild - Too Good 15. Emma-Jean Thackray - Our People (CID RIM Remix)

If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!

(Angel Lo Verde / Mo Soul)

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

PHANTOM VENICE

Opening today:

A Haunting in Venice--Kenneth Branagh returns as Hercule Poirot in this gothic, which he also directed. It's 1947 here, and the vain, dapper sleuth with the elaborate mustache has retired from detective work in gradually reviving postwar Venice. He's pulled back into the game by his old acquaintance, mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey), who asks him to debunk, if he can, a supposed clairvoyant (Michelle Yeoh) at a seance after a Halloween party in a beautiful but decaying palazzo.

The seance is intended to conjure the ghost of the daughter of the opera singer hostess (Kelly Reilly), drowned the previous year, but the palazzo has a sinister history beyond this; it's supposedly cursed and haunted. The nonbelieving Poirot naturally is buying none of it, but his skepticism is rattled by the unsettling events of the evening, which include an attempt on his own life.

This is Branagh's third lavish outing as Agatha Christie's elegant gumshoe, after Murder on the Orient Express in 2017 and Death on the Nile in 2022, all three of them scripted by Michael Green. Though Green borrows a few memorable elements from Christie's unusually nasty 1969 novel Hallowe'en Party, Haunting is essentially an original tale; in his amusing preface to the tie-in paperback re-issue of Hallowe'en Party (published under the movie's title), Green preemptively braces himself for the lambasting he's expecting from the hardcore Christie faithful for the movie's liberties.

I've been a Christie reader since high school, and can only say that much as I enjoy her work, I certainly don't regard it as sacred and inviolate. So Green and Branagh's alterations--made with the blessing of the Christie estate--bothered me not in the least. These include changing Ariadne Oliver, Christie's apple-addicted semi-autobiographical alter ego, into an American as a showcase role for Fey, who's a nervy, mischievous hoot and a fine foil for Branagh's sober Poirot. At one point she lets out a scream that could make Fay Wray proud, too.

The rest of the cast--including Reilly, Jamie Dornan,  Riccardo Scamarcio, Camille Cottin, Emma Laird, Ali Khan and Jude Hill, the kid from Branagh's Belfast--all commit to their skulking and lurking and exchanging of pregnant glances, and Yeoh really lets it rip as the medium. The sumptuous, shadowy palazzo setting, designed by John Paul Kelley and shot by Haris Zambarloukos, is properly both beautiful and claustrophobically oppressive.

I'm generally very dense at whodunits, but about three-quarters of the way through A Haunting in Venice, I correctly guessed who the culprit was. Still, there were still plenty of cunning revelations in the story I didn't see coming. I don't think the mystery is as central to this picture, anyway, as the woozy, nightmarish atmosphere. In many ways this film seems to owe less to Christie than to Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg's great Venetian fever dream of 1973.

Despite the sly, enjoyable old dark house trappings, Branagh and Green decline to tip the material into overt camp. Green's literate dialogue--there's even a quick throwaway cribbing from Love's Labor's Lost--allows Branagh to deepen Poirot's response to the situation into a faith-versus-reason internal conflict, without letting the movie slide the other way into pretentiousness. I found Branagh's performance moving; he presents a convincing long dark night of the soul.

[yellobb]

Actually, I’m turning this into a tag game! (Also it looks like I forgot to set the poll to a week, so sorry in advance for that, but it took way too long and tumblr’s editor sucks too bad for me to fix it)

It took me 12 minutes and my list is under the cut :P

No pressure tags: @bazzybelle @beretical-nonsense @shrekgogurt @onepintobean @facewithoutheart @agni-ashes @thewholelemon @raenestee @martsonmars

Again, spelling doesn’t count, so sorry in advance for butchering some of these. Also, I am aware that I had some weird picks, but it’s a high pressure environment!

Qt Cinderella

Maya higa

Michelle Obama

Lauren bobert

Georgia tenant

Anna lundberg

Anna Kendrick

Ann Hathaway

Judy dench

Judy garland

Reese whitherspoone

Margaret thatcher

Joan of arc

Jill Biden

Hillary Clinton

Queen Elizabeth

Meghan Markel

Sofia vergara

Emily blunt

Emma stone

Emma Watson

Sandra bullock

Jennifer Lopez

Natalie Portman

Jennifer Lawrence

Taylor swift

Kasey musgraves

Fuslie

Chloe Moriondo

Dianne Feinstein

AOC

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Amy coney Barrett

Kate Middleton

Cage Blanchett

Meryl Streep

Marilyn Monroe

Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft

Marie curie

Sally ride

Ada Lovelace

Amelia earheart

Martha Washington

Rainbow Rowell

Sharon Tate

Elisa lam

Hailey kioko

Hailey beiber

Kim kardashian

Jenna marbles

Kylie Jenner

Khloe kardashian

Kendall Jenner

Kris Jenner

Ruby franke

Gypsy rose Blanchard

Callmekris

Chadchad

Anya Taylor joy

Riley Reid

Mia Malkova

Caroline kwan

Valkyrae

Pokimane

Tinakitten

Aretha Franklin

Eartha Kitt

Maggie smith

Audrey Hepburn

Aubrey plaza

Karen Gillan

Billie Piper

Tina Turner

Tracy Chapman

Margot Robbie

America Ferrara

Jane Austen

Emily bronte

Virginia Wolfe

Florence nightingale

Nina Simone

Francis McDonald

Grace Kelly

Fae Wray

Tilda swinton

Reba McIntyre

Dolly Parton

Carrie underwood

Joni Mitchell

Catherine Tate

Debbie Ryan

Carly Rae jepson

Miranda cosgrove

Brittany spears

Miley Cyrus

Selena Gomez

Jeanette mccurdy

Miranda sings

Ann rice

I’m shamelessly stealing this from QTCinderella because I thought it was fun and some people are taking over half an hour to do it which is wild to me.

Rules

Must type it out so you actually know when you reach 100

Time starts when you type the first letter of the first name and ends when you type the last letter of the last name

Spelling doesn’t matter

Has to be a public figure, so you can’t just name a bunch of family and friends

No fictional characters

Can be living or dead

Can be any version of their name (ex. Norma Jean and Marilyn Monroe are both acceptable)

Can’t just be a description (so “Jill Biden” is fine but “the First Lady” or “Biden’s wife” isn’t)

Have fun!

[kwebtv]

Watching  -  ITV  -  July 5, 1987 - April 4, 1993

Sitcom (56 episodes)

Running Time:  30 minutes

Stars:

Emma Wray as Brenda Wilson

Paul Bown as Malcolm Stoneway

Liza Tarbuck as Pamela Wilson

Patsy Byrne as Mrs Marjorie Stoneway

Perry Fenwick as Terry Milton

Philip Fox as Sydney Clough (series 1 only)

John Bowler as David Lynch (series 2 on)

Elizabeth Spriggs as Aunt Peggy (from series 2 on)

Liz Crowther as Susan Roberts (series 2 and 3 only)

Ken Jones as Uncle Bernard (series 5)

Russell Boulter as Chris Cameron (series 4 only)

Noreen Kershaw as Joyce Wilson (series 5 on)

Andrew Hilton as Gerald Wilson (series 5 on)

Elizabeth Morton as Lucinda Davis/Stoneway

Richard Good as Jonathan MacMillan

Ally Vuli as Roz

Al T. Kossy as Harold, landlord of the Grapes

Dave Dutton as Oswald the cafe owner

Bill Moores as "Cedric", regular at the Grapes

Anita Petrof - "Mary", regular at the Grapes

[corydonw]

                                                      ANNÉES 1930

                                              “ THE TEXAN ” - 1930

[wally-b-feed]

Yeast Emma Wray

[downthetubes]

We’re Going on a Comics Ramble, with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast!

We’re Going on a Comics Ramble, with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast!

It’s comics chat all the way on the latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast.

Although, of course, how could we not begrudge hosts Nikki Bates and Ian Loxam some air time to discuss their recent engagement, which happened recently on the top of Kendal Castle?

Our congratulations to this hard-working pair!

Also discussed is a piece of art Ian had commissioned…

[prettyinnoise]

PINTERESSANT 20/16 – Entdecke neue Musik aus aller Welt

PINTERESSANT 20/16 – Entdecke neue Musik aus aller Welt

Wir haben auch diese Woche wieder einige Songs und Musikvideos gesammelt, die ihr so eher nicht überall um die Ohren geworfen bekommt.

PINTERESSANT – Musik aus aller Welt, die uns überwiegend über die Musik Promotion Tools wie beispielsweise Submithub erreicht hat.

Endless Forms – Giving Myself to The Glue

#USA #DreamPop #IndieRock #TheNational

https://soundcloud.com/endlessforms/giving-myself-t…

[byneddiedingo]

Jean Arthur and Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, 1936) Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn, H.B. Warner, Ruth Donnelly, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Walter Catlett, John Wray, Emma Dunn. Screenplay: Robert Riskin, based on a story by Clarence Budington Kelland. Cinematography: Joseph Walker. Art direction: Stephen Goosson. Film editing: Gene Havlick. Music: Howard Jackson Frank Capra's perennially popular Mr. Deeds Goes to Town currently has an 7.8 score on IMDb and an 91% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. So let me cavil a little bit about its psychological dishonesty, namely the scene in which Deeds, engagingly played by Gary Cooper, is subjected to a sanity hearing because of his attempt to give away to distressed farmers the $20 million he has inherited -- a scheme that economically speaking doesn't bear much close scrutiny. Capra (and Robert Riskin, who as writer must bear his share of blame) brings on an "expert," a caricature Viennese psychiatrist, who explains that Deeds suffers from "manic depression," the now-discarded term for bipolar disorder, and exhibits a peaks-and-valleys chart of Deeds's mood swings. It's pretty clear that Capra and Riskin want us to regard this testimony as quackery. But anyone who has dealt with bipolarity, either first-hand or with family or friends, can see the element of truth in the diagnosis. We don't know enough about Deeds's daily life in Mandrake Falls, Vt., where, as the town's Faulkner sisters testify, everyone is "pixilated" but them, to give a confident diagnosis that Deeds is in fact bipolar, and the attempt to use the diagnosis as a smear is reprehensible. But Deeds's decision to refuse legal council at the hearing is the act of someone who really is depressed, and while we are supposed to dismiss as chicanery the attempt to classify his eccentricities -- playing the tuba, sliding down banisters, chasing firetrucks, feeding doughnuts to a horse, and above all wanting to give away his money -- as manic behavior, there's a grain of truth there. Moreover, Deeds does in fact exhibit violent tendencies: witness his punching out the poets who mock his greeting-card verses -- who beats up poets? -- and his assaulting the lawyers at the trial. Capra intends his film as a valorization of small-town virtues against city cynicism, but even that doesn't bear much close scrutiny, especially after the more critical looks at small town life in Sinclair Lewis's Main Street or Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. It has always struck me that Capra was the most empty-headed of the great American directors, making films that annihilate thought, or at least anesthetize it. I like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town more than most Capra films: At its best it's lively and funny, but its worst is pretty annoying and even pernicious stuff.

[the-dust-jacket]

Harlots, Hulu’s tale of intrigue, power struggles and family drama in feuding 18th century brothels, is campy, complex, raunchy, gorgeously made and completely addicting. It’s a bawd’s-eye-view of a colorful and ruthless slice of London, and the women who are determined to carve a out a place in a city where all the rules are stacked against them. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a second season to binge, but in the mean time we’ve got plenty of books about sex, politics, rogues, and harlots. 

Mistress of My Fate, by Hallie Rubenhold 

A young woman raised among nobility and turned out on the street fights to shape her own life as a courtesan, gambler, and intellect 

The Convenient Marriage, by Georgette Heyer

A frothy comedy of the haute ton and the demimonde of Georgian London, complete with highwaymen, balls, cardsharps and duels 

Slammerkin, by Emma Donoghue

A prostitute-turned-seamstress explores all the ways in which power is an illusion and illusion is power

The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson 

The rapidly changing world of the Enlightenment, as seen through the eyes of outlaws, concubines, natural philosophers, politicians and moneylenders 

The Fatal Tree, by Jake Arnott 

Thieves and thief-takers, lovers and rogues and prostitutes bring an 18th century scandal to life 

The Crimson Petal and the White, by Michel Faber 

A sensory-heavy, panoramic story of Victorian society and a young prostitute climbing her way up it 

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, by Mackenzi Lee

If he doesn’t mend his libertine ways, Monty’s father will disown him. But the rakish young aristocrat has big plans for his Grand Tour--and his not-terribly-secret crush on his best friend Percy. 

The Lady In Red, by Hallie Rubenhold 

The history of one of the 18th century’s most infamous scandals, the marriage and divorce of the larger-than-life Lady Worsley 

An Almond for a Parrot, by Wray Delaney 

A quirky, dreamlike tale of sex, food, and murder 

Sex With Kings and Sex With the Queen, by Eleanor Herman 

Entertaining histories of royal consorts and concubines through the ages

Faro’s Daughter, by Georgette Heyer

A battle of wits between a dashing gambling house hostess and a proud London gentleman against a backdrop of scandal, seduction, double-crosses and dastardly plots

[luciferianbuddhism]

Luciferian Reading List

I have tried to be exhaustive in these recommendations. This is by no means a final list or representative of the literature that is out there. I have only included content I have read. I would love to hear from you what books do you think would go here?

Satanic Feminism by Per Faxneld - I recommend this book to everyone. It is pricey but it really goes into detail Lucifer through a pop culture historical view. It is well sourced.

The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity - This is a collection of essays that are critical, through, and well cited. It is an academic work so it is not an easy and quick read.

Hemaphrodeities by Raven Kaldera - A good book on transgender spirituality that was recommended to by a friend.

The Devil: A New Biography by Philip. C Almond - Its covers similar material to the Birth of Satan. It is still worth a read.

The Birth of Satan by Gregory Mobley and T. J. Wray - This book retraces a lot of in the first two chapters but in a lot more detail. It has good analysis of the scripture.

The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels - This book traces Satan's origins, how first the Jews and then Christians developed the idea of Satan and the concept of demonization in order to create a unique identity and a basis of us/them. She presents the history of early Christian community and make it accessible to non-academics, so do not worry about academic jargon! She gives a whole picture of political, cultural, religious, and sociological climates of the first two centuries after Jesus' death. Some of these insights come from the Nag Hammadi scrolls.

Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism by Ruben van Lujik - This book is academic and it covers a broad, intelligent, and thorough understanding of how Satanism evolved into what it is today. It documents various form of Satanism and is not hysterical in its portrayals. It also argues that the figure of Satan marginalized political enemies and reflects social concerns

The Devil's Supper by Shani Oates - This book is a through and wonderfully sourced book that goes into the narratives that have shaped our modern idea of the Devil and his role in society, theology, and in witchcraft. It's very different from some of the other books above, but I have placed it last due to the controversy of Anathema Publishing and the fact that it is out of print.

Lucifer Princeps by Peter Grey - It’s been a long time I have read this book and when I read the Red Goddess it really put me off of the author. This is however another book about Lucifer but I would treat it with a grain of salt. I would recommend one of the above books before this one.

(h)Auroræ by Gabriel McCaughry - This is an esoteric text filled with art and poetry. The artwork is absolutely gorgeous and the words beautiful and inspirational. It is a Gnostic Luciferian text that comes from Anathema Publishing but I add it to the list because there is so few texts out there.

Kosmology: Luciferian Philosophy by Jeremy Christner - It is a beautiful Gnostic Luciferian text.

Luminous Stone (from Three Hands Press) is an anthology of Luciferian essays and not done by Michael Ford.

Apotheosis: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Luciferianism & the Left-Hand Path - Michael Ford - Alright I despise Michael Ford. I just have never been able to get into his writings. If I have to include one book of his, it would be this.

The Devil's Raiments by Martin Duffy - Duffy examines the relationship of the sorcerer to that which clothes him and the witch and nakedness.

The Devil's Dozen by Gemma Gray - Yes not a Luciferian book or really related to the Devil at all. It has its place for the devil of the forest. There are other books by Gemma Gray that are of traditional craft.

Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits by Emma Wilby - While not specifically devil related if you are interested in a bit of the intersection of witchcraft, the devil, and cunning folk, and history.

Bible - The Devil can quote the scripture after all.

Qu'ran will obviously tell you nothing about Satan/Lucifer but will tell you all about Iblis.

Paradise Lost by John Milton - This is a classic. If you have never read it, you have missed out!

Lucifer: A Zine - Yes, a zine from a fellow Luciferian.

Litanies of Satan by Charles Baudelarie - Poetry

Eloa or The Sister of the Angels by Alfred de Vigny - Poetry

BrightestAndBest's Wordpress - Yeah that is right, I am including a blog on this list.

Avoid E.A. Koetting

Read everything but use your noggin and just because I do not like Michael Ford does not mean his work has no value. Use what you can and chuck the rest. Pop culture and folk stories can be just as powerful and inspirational too. Inspiration for this path can come outside as well.

[angelloverde]

"Mo Soul" Player Playlist 26 September

Funky Destination - Panama Soul Girl

Kan Sano - Inner Sun

Bluey - Got to Let My Feelings Show

Citrus Sun - You're so Far Away

Lady Wray - Guilty

Little Simz - Who Even Cares

Miami Nights 1984 - Accelerated

Lovebirds Feat. Stee Downes - Want You In My Soul

Marco Cecamore - Funk For Peace

The Mission Feat. John Robinson - Lowe

Mark E - Compact Object

Matthew Halsall - Finding My Way

Mocky - Glide

Moonchild - Too Good

Emma-Jean Thackray - Our People (CID RIM Remix)

If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!

(Angel Lo Verde / Mo Soul)

[nellygwyn]

Books I read in 2020

♡ Slammerkin // Emma Donoghue (re-read)

♡ The Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy Book 2) // Deborah Harkness

♡ Celeste: The Parisian Courtesan Who Became a Countess and a Bestselling Author // Roland Perry

♡ Sophia: Mother of Kings // Catherine Curzon

♡ Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII // Gareth Russell

♡ Longbourn // Jo Baker

♡ Silas Marner // George Eliot

♡ Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames // Lara Maiklem

♡ An Almond for a Parrot // Wray Delaney

♡ Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey // Nicola Tallis

♡ Bess of Hardwick: The First Lady of Chatsworth // Mary S. Lovell

♡ Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading // Nina Sankovitch

♡ The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy Book 3) // Deborah Harkness

♡ The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter // Hazel Gaynor

♡ The Foundling // Stacey Halls

♡ Catherine of Braganza: Charles II's Restoration Queen // Sarah-Beth Watkins

♡ Far From the Madding Crowd // Thomas Hardy (re-read)

♡ Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters // Patricia Pierce

♡ Time's Convert (Book 1 of the All Souls Trilogy prequel series) // Deborah Harkness

♡ The Darling Strumpet // Gillian Bagwell (re-read)

♡ The French Lieutenant's Woman // John Fowles (re-read)

♡ The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough // Hugo Vickers

♡ A Place of Greater Safety // Hilary Mantel

♡ Charlotte Brontë: A Life // Claire Harman

♡ Life Mask // Emma Donoghue (re-read)

♡ Mrs Jordan's Profession // Claire Tomalin

♡ The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough // Ophelia Field

♡ Shadowplay // Joseph O'Connor

♡ Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity, From Bronze Age to Silver Screen // Greg Jenner

♡ Ashes of London (Book 1 of the Ashes of London series) // Andrew Taylor

♡ Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved // Judith Summers (re-read)

♡ The Fall of the House of Byron // Emily Brand

♡ Wolf Hall (Book 1 in the Wolf Hall series) // Hilary Mantel

♡ Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II // Linda Porter

♡ Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney // Fanny Burney

♡ The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle // Neil Blackmore

♡ London in the Eighteenth Century // Jerry White

♡ The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte, and the Hanoverians // Janice Hadlow

♡ Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe // Anthony Summers

♡ Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV // James Munson

♡ Forever Amber // Kathleen Winsor

♡ Girl, Woman, Other // Bernadine Evaristo

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Every Game of Thrones Spinoff and Prequel in Development

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People always say the journey is more important than the destination, but don’t tell that to Game of Thrones fans. After a historic, zeitgeist-capturing run on HBO, Game of Thrones culminated in a divisive, rushed eighth season that left both fans and critics cold on the whole endeavor. This came after a 2012 poll conducted by Vulture that named Game of Thrones fans as the most devoted fanbase in popular culture. Despite all of this once noteworthy love and admiration, the impact left today from Game of Thrones feels almost like a fever dream.

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However, television executives couldn’t ignore the broad, active international fanbase that the series attracted, and before season 8 could sour the taste of the Game of Thrones brand, HBO began hatching ideas for spinoffs, prequels, and companion series. It’s unclear whether new entries in the Game of Thrones universe will help the franchise recapture the white hot intensity of its heyday, but regardless, more adventures in Westeros and Essos are coming. Below you can find all of the details about the slated new entries in the Game of Thrones TV landscape, as well as some projects beheaded before they were given the chance to rule.

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House of the Dragon

The first spinoff out of the gate is this look at Targaryen family history, based on events from George R.R. Martin’s Westerosi history book Fire & Blood. Set roughly 170 years before Ned Stark’s ultimately doomed trip to King’s Landing, House of the Dragon will focus on a Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of Dragons. From co-showrunners Ryan Condal (Colony) and Miguel Sapochnik (director of some of Game of Thrones’ biggest spectacle episodes like “The Battle of the Bastards”) the series will star Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Paddy Considine and Matt Smith. House of the Dragon will be executive produced by George R.R. Martin, of course, who will be working closely with the writers (though he promises not to write any scripts until the long-awaited The Winds of Winter is finished.). 

Considine will portray King Viserys I Targaryen, a warm and decent king whose death sparks internal family strife over the line of succession. The conflict splits Westeros into two halves, represented by the Greens, who back prince Aegon Targaryen II (casting yet to be announced), and the Blacks, who support the king’s first-born child, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (D’Arcy).

DRACARYS! Paddy Considine has been cast as King Viserys Targaryen in #HouseoftheDragon. Learn more: https://t.co/yOrMnPTXmM pic.twitter.com/9SI0vM7WEu

— Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) October 5, 2020

Smith will portray Daemon Targaryen, Rhaenyra’s uncle-husband (sigh, Targaryens, am I right?) who supports her claim, while Olivia Cooke plays Alicent Hightower, Viserys’s second wife and the daughter of his Hand, Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans).

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The rest of the cast is rounded out by Eve Best as Princess Rhaenys Velaryon, Fabien Frankel as Ser Criston Cole, Sonoya Mizuno as Mysaria, and Steve Toussaint as Lord Corlys Velaryon.

Bend the knee. Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Rhys Ifans, and Sonoya Mizuno join the cast of @HBO’s #HouseOfTheDragon For the latest updates: https://t.co/ojAsdiyoWV pic.twitter.com/VKuZDWne1s

— Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) February 11, 2021

Production will begin on House of the Dragon this spring and the series is slated for a 2022 premiere. The first season will consist of 10 episodes.

Tales of Dunk and Egg

Based on three novellas written by Martin, The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword, and The Mystery Knight, the Dunk and Egg stories are set 90-years before the events of Game of Thrones and follow Ser Duncan the Tall, a hedge knight, and his squire “Egg” a.k.a. Aegon V Targaryen, the future king of Westeros and brother of GoT’s Maester Aemon (Peter Vaughan). Eventually, King Aegon names Duncan Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, but not before a series of grand adventures. Martin has previously said that he plans to publish anywhere from 6-12 novellas and would prefer if the stories were finished before a television series begins development, but maybe he should worry about Winds of Winter first and let us have our fun. According to Variety, this Tales of Dunk and Egg spinoff is a “high priority” for HBO.

Nymeria Project

There’s a reason why Arya Stark named her direwolf Nymeria. The name was a reference to the warrior queen and ancestor to House Martell (whose full House name is actually “Nymeros Martell”) who founded the kingdom of Dorne. Set 1,000 years before the events of GoT, a Nymeria focused project could salvage the reputation of Dorne-based stories, which were a frequent subject of fan criticism during the original show’s run. 

The working title for this series is “10,000 Ships”, alluding to the legendary tale of Nymeria fleeing Essos and its dragonlords to cross over into a channel in the Summer Sea, where she burned down her entire fleet of ships so there would be no turning back.

9 Voyages

In the hands of Rome and Gotham creator Bruno Heller, “9 Voyages” would follow Lord Corlys Velaryon, a.k.a, The Sea Snake a.k.a. the Lord of the Tides and head of House Velaryon. Velaryon is set to appear in House of the Dragon, portrayed by British actor Steve Toussaint, and the theory must be that Velaryon will be a breakout character necessitating his own series. Deadline reports that this is the most “fully formed” Thrones project besides House of the Dragon and Tales of Dunk and Egg.

Here’s a quote about Corlys, from the writings found in Westeros’ citadel: “Seventy-nine years of age, he had served four kings and a queen, sailed to the ends of the earth, raised House Velaryon to unprecedented levels of wealth and power, married a princess who might have been a queen, fathered dragonriders, built towns and fleets, proved his valor in times of war and his wisdom in times of peace. The Seven Kingdoms would never see his like again.”

Sounds like quite the guy.

Flea Bottom

Much like the planned HBO Max spinoff of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, Gotham PD, a Flea Bottom series would aim to capture the lives and stories of the common people living in King’s Landing’s poorest district. Though we’ve met former Flea Bottom citizens like Davos Seaworth and Gendry, we haven’t spent much time on those dirty, gritty streets. A Flea Bottom series could be the tonal shift that the Game of Thrones universe needs to re-energize itself and move away from some of the more fantastical elements of the series.

Untitled Animated Series

There are no details, subject matter, or even animation style in place for this pitched foray into the world of animation, but the medium does have a ton of potential to go bigger and farther with the Game of Thrones property than ever before. Whether the episodes take an anthology format detailing individual Westerosi history lessons or the series takes on a huge, winding plot, Martin has published enough backstories and world history to populate Game of Thrones entertainment for a long time. Indeed, throughout the original series run, HBO was fond of running animated explainer clips along with episodes. So there is a precedent for animated Westerosi history.

Abandoned – The Long Night

The first Game of Thrones spinoff to be announced, it was something of a shock when HBO announced that “The Long Night” (“Bloodmoon” was another working title) would not be moving forward. Set in the Age of Heroes, thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones, The Long Night was to come from writer Jane Goldman with Naomi Watts set to star. 

A pilot was shot in the summer of 2019, but apparently was not strong enough to garner a series pickup. A shaky pilot isn’t entirely surprising; remember, the original Game of Thrones pilot was deemed to be a disaster, resulting in 90 percent of the episode being reshot and key actors being replaced.

Other unnamed projects from Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential), Max Borenstein (Godzilla), and Carly Wray (Mad Men) have also been abandoned.

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Richard Cromwell (born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh, also known as Roy Radabaugh; January 8, 1910 – October 11, 1960) was an American actor. His career was at its pinnacle with his work in Jezebel (1938) with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda and again with Fonda in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). Cromwell's fame was perhaps first assured in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), sharing top billing with Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone.

That film was the first major effort directed by Henry Hathaway and it was based upon the popular novel by Francis Yeats-Brown. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer earned Paramount Studios a nomination for Best Picture in 1935, though Mutiny on the Bounty instead took the top award at the Academy Awards that year.

Leslie Halliwell in The Filmgoer's Companion, summed up Cromwell's enduring appeal when he described him as "a leading man, [the] gentle hero of early sound films."

Cromwell was born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh in Long Beach, California, the second of five children, to his mother Fay B. (Stocking) and his father, Ralph R. Radabaugh, who was an inventor. Among Ralph's patented creations was the amusement-park swing ride called the "Monoflyer", a variation of which is still in use at many carnivals today. In 1918, when young "Roy" was still in grade school, his father died suddenly, one of the millions of people who perished during the "Spanish flu" pandemic.

Later, while enrolled as a teenager in the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles on a scholarship, young Roy helped to support his family with odd jobs. The school was the precursor of the California Institute of the Arts, and it was there where he met fellow classmate Edith Posener. Posener, later known as Edith Head, would become one of the leading costume designers in American film history.

Cromwell ran a shop in Hollywood where he sold pictures, made lampshades, and designed colour schemes for houses. As Cromwell developed his talents for lifelike mask-making and oil painting, he formed friendships in the late 1920s with various film starlets who posed for him and collected his works, including Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Claire Dubrey and Ann Sothern. Actress and future Academy Award-winner Marie Dressler was also a friend; the two would later share top-billing in the early talkie film Emma.

Still known as "Roy Radabaugh", he had just two days in film extra work on the side, and can be seen in King of Jazz (1930), along with the film's star, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. On a whim, friends encouraged Roy to audition in 1930 for the remake of the Richard Barthelmess silent: Tol'able David (1930). Radabaugh won the role over thousands of hopefuls, and in storybook fashion, Harry Cohn gave him his screen name and launched his career. Cromwell earned $75 per week for his work on Tol'able David. Noah Beery Sr. and John Carradine co-starred in the film. Later, Cohn signed Cromwell to a multi-year contract based on the strength of his performance and success in his first venture at the box-office. Amidst the flurry of publicity during this period, Cromwell toured the country, even meeting President Herbert Hoover in Washington, D.C.

Cromwell by then had maintained a deep friendship with Marie Dressler, which continued until her death from cancer in 1934. Dressler was nominated for a second Best Actress award for her 1932 portrayal of the title role in Emma.

With that film, Dressler demonstrated her profound generosity to other performers: Dressler personally insisted that her studio bosses cast Cromwell on a loan-out in the lead opposite her — it was another break that helped sustain his rising status in Hollywood. Emma also starred Myrna Loy in one of her earlier screen performances. After production on Emma was completed, Director Clarence Brown tested Cromwell for the male lead in his next feature: The Son-Daughter, which was set to star Helen Hayes. However, the part of the oriental prince ultimately went to Ramón Novarro, and Cromwell never again worked at MGM.

Cromwell's next role in 1932 was on loan to RKO and was as Mike in Gregory La Cava's, The Age of Consent, co-starring Eric Linden and Dorothy Wilson. Cromwell is also remembered during this period in Hoop-La (1933), where he is seduced by Clara Bow. This film is considered the swan song of Bow's career. Next, the much in demand Cromwell starred in Tom Brown of Culver that year, as well.

Around this period in his career in the early to mid-30s, Cromwell also did some print ads and promotional work for Lucky Strike brand cigarettes. According to his niece, Joan Radabaugh, Cromwell was a very heavy smoker. Nevertheless, at his home he was always the gracious host, as his niece related, and as such he took great care to empty the ashtrays regularly, almost to the point of obsession.

Next up, was an early standout performance by Cromwell in the role as the leader of the youth gang in Cecil B. DeMille's now cult-favorite, This Day and Age (1933). To ensure that Cromwell's character used current slang, DeMille asked high school student Horace Hahn to read the script and comment (at the time, Hahn was senior class president at Los Angeles High School). While again on loan from Columbia, Cromwell's by then salary of $200 per week was paid by Paramount Pictures, DeMille's studio. Diana Serra Cary, in her biography of Jackie Coogan, relates an episode on the set wherein Cromwell came to the aid of actress Judith Allen:

I watched as he (DeMille) systematically reduced ingenue ... Allen to screaming hysterics by calling her every insulting name in the book in front of company and crew simply to bring on tears ... Cromwell was the only man on the set who dared confront the tyrannical DeMille. White with rage, Cromwell stopped the scene and threatened to deck him if he didn't let up on the devastated girl. He (Cromwell) then drove her home himself. After that courageous act the chivalric Cromwell was unanimously praised as a veritable dragon slayer by everyone who had witnessed that scene.

After a promising start, Cromwell's many early pictures at Columbia Pictures and elsewhere were mostly inconsequential and are largely forgotten today. Cromwell starred with Will Rogers in Life Begins at 40 for Fox Film Corporation in 1935, it was one of Rogers' last roles and Poppy for Paramount in 1936 wherein Cromwell played the suitor of W.C. Fields' daughter, Rochelle Hudson. In 1937, he was the young bank-robber in love with Helen Mack and on the lam from Lionel Atwill in The Wrong Road for RKO.

In 1936, Cromwell took a detour in his career to Broadway for the chance to star as an evil cadet in an original play by Joseph Viertel, So Proudly We Hail!. The military drama was directed by future film director Charles Walters, co-starred Edward Andrews and Eddie Bracken, and opened to much fanfare. The reviews of the play at the time called Cromwell's acting "a striking portrayal" (New York Herald Tribune) and his performance an "astonishing characterization" (New York World Telegram). The New York Times said that in the play, Cromwell "ran the gamut of emotions". However, the play closed after only 14 performances at the 46th Street Theater.

By now, Cromwell had shed his restrictive Columbia contract, with its handsome $500 per week salary, and pursued acting work as a freelancer in other media as well. On July 15, 1937, Cromwell guest-starred on The Royal Gelatin Hour hosted by Rudy Vallee, in a dramatic skit opposite Fay Wray. Enjoying the experience, Cromwell had his agent secure for him an audition for the role of Kit Marshall, on the soap opera Those We Love, first on NBC Radio and then CBS Radio. As a regular on the Monday night program which ran from 1938 until 1942, Cromwell played opposite Nan Grey who played Kit's twin sister Kathy. Cromwell as Kit was later replaced by Bill Henry. Rounding out the cast were Robert Cummings and Gale Gordon.

In the late 1930s, Cromwell appeared in Storm Over Bengal, for Republic Pictures, in order to capitalize on the success of The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Aside from the aforementioned standout roles in Jezebel and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Cromwell did another notable turn as defendant Matt Clay to Henry Fonda's title-performance in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939).

During this period, Cromwell was continuing to enjoy the various invitations coming his way as a member of the A-list Hollywood social circuit. According to Bob Thomas, in his biography of Joan Crawford, Cromwell was a regular at the Saturday Night dinner parties of his former co-star Franchot Tone and then-wife Crawford. Other guests whom Cromwell dined with there included Barbara Stanwyck and then-husband Frank Fay, and William Haines and his partner Jimmie Shields. During the freewheeling heyday of West L.A. nightlife in the late 30s, Cromwell is said by author Charles Higham to have carried on a sometime, though obviously very discreet, affair with aviator and businessman Howard Hughes.

In 1939, Cromwell again tried his luck on the stage in a regional production of Sutton Vane's play Outward Bound featuring Dorothy Jordan as his co-star. The cast of the production at the Los Angeles Biltmore Theater also included Cora Witherspoon and Reginald Denny

Cromwell served during the last two years of World War II with the United States Coast Guard, along with fellow actor and enlistee Cesar Romero. Actor Gig Young was also a member of this branch of the service during the war. During this period, Cole Porter rented Cromwell's home in the Hollywood Hills, where Porter worked at length on Panama Hattie. Director James Whale was a personal friend, for whom Cromwell had starred in The Road Back (1937), the ill-fated sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front. With the war's end, and upon returning to California from the Pacific after nearly three years of service with the Coast Guard, Cromwell acted in local theater productions. He also signed on for live performances in summer stock in the East during this period.

When in town, Cromwell was a fixture within the Hollywood social scene. According to the book Cut! Hollywood Murders, Accidents and Other Tragedies, Cromwell was a regular at George Cukor's "boys nights".

Back in California for good, Cromwell was married once, briefly (1945–1946), to actress Angela Lansbury, when she was 19 and Cromwell was 35. Cromwell and Lansbury eloped and were married in a small civil ceremony on September 27, 1945, in Independence, California. In her authorized biography, Balancing Act, Lansbury recounts her life with Cromwell, as well as the couple's close friendship with Zachary Scott and his first wife, Elaine. Lansbury and Cromwell have stars within walking distance of each other on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Cromwell made just one statement to the press regarding his wife of nine months and one of her habits: "All over the house, tea bags. In the middle of the night she'd get up and start drinking tea. It nearly drove me crazy."

According to the biography: Angela Lansbury, A Life on Stage and Screen, Lansbury stated in a 1966 interview that her first marriage, "was a mistake" and that she learned from it. She stated, "I wouldn't have not done it", and, "I was too young at 19. [The marriage] shouldn't have happened." Articles based on interviews with Lansbury have stated that Cromwell was gay. Cromwell and Lansbury remained friends until his death in 1960.

Before World War II, in the early 1940s, Universal Pictures released Enemy Agent starring Cromwell as a draftsman who thwarts the Nazis. In 1942 he then went on to appear in marginal but still watchable fare such as Baby Face Morgan, which co-starred Mary Carlisle and was produced by Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the "Poverty Row" studios.

Cromwell enjoyed a career boost, if not a critically acclaimed performance, in the film adaptation of the hit radio serial: Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943), opposite Gale Storm. Next up at Monogram Pictures he was cast as a doctor working covertly for the police department to catch the mobsters in the very forgettable, though endearing Riot Squad, wherein his "fiancée", Rita Quigley, breaks their engagement. Cromwell's break from films due to his stint in the Service meant that he was not much in demand after the War's end, and he retired from films after his comeback fizzled. His last role was in a noir flick of 1948, Bungalow 13. All told, Cromwell's film career spanned 39 films.

In the 1950s, Cromwell went back to artistic roots and studied ceramics. He built a pottery studio at his home. The home still stands today and is located in the hills above Sunset Boulevard on North Miller Drive. There, he successfully designed coveted decorative tiles for himself and for his industry friends, which, according to his niece, Joan Radabaugh, he marketed under his stage name.

Around this time, Baby Peggy Montgomery (a.k.a. Diana Serra Cary), who had appeared in This Day and Age with Cromwell many years earlier, recalled visiting Cromwell at his home along with her late husband during this period to see his "beautiful ceramic screen which had won him a prize at the L.A. County Fair." His original tiles as well as his large decorative art deco-style wall paintings of Adam and Eve can still be seen today in the mezzanine off the balcony of the restored Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, which is today considered a noted architectural landmark.

Under the name Radabaugh, Cromwell wrote extensively, producing several published stories and an unfinished novel in the 1950s. After years of heavy drinking with a social circle of friends that included the likes of Christopher Isherwood, Cromwell ultimately changed his ways and became an early participant and supporter of Alcoholics Anonymous in the Los Angeles Area.

In July 1960, Cromwell signed with producer Maury Dexter for 20th Century Fox's planned production of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, co-starring Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Dix (son of Richard Dix), and Neil Hamilton who replaced Cromwell in the film. Cromwell became ill and died on October 11, 1960 in Hollywood of liver cancer, at the age of 50. He is interred at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California.

Cromwell's legacy is preserved today by his nephew Dan Putnam, and his cousin Bill Keane IV, both of the Conejo Valley in Southern California, as well as the family of his late niece, Joan Radabaugh, of the Central Coast. In 2005, Keane donated materials relating to Cromwell's radio performances to the Thousand Oaks Library's Special Collection, "The American Radio Archive". In 2007, Keane donated memorabilia relating to Cromwell's film career and ceramics work to the AMPAS Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills.

Cromwell was mentioned in Gore Vidal's satirical novel Myra Breckinridge (1968) as "the late Richard Cromwell, so satisfyingly tortured in Lives of a Bengal Lancer".