#erin o neal

[nesperus]

next on the list! erin! love her so much

[maxwellamus]

going to school is actually amazing because @lifesteal8 cant tell my bio gender and is constantly fucking confused

[crystalandparrot]

Rottmnt x Reader

Chapter 1

Please don’t steal or use ideas without permission :)

This is an AU! The reason will be explained in later chapters, but in this AU, the yokai and mutants are fully integrated with humans. The hidden city mainly consists of Yokai and mutants with the occasional human visitor or partner.

Donatello is an independent scientist who still goes by Othello Von Ryan. He found out through trial and error that he was not made for a group laboratory. Now Donatello mainly confides himself in his lab at the lair, he's expanded of course, a man of his caliber shouldn't have to deal with such a small area. He's made great strives in the scientific community, solving some of the world's leading problems. Having won numerous awards, he still finds himself unfulfilled somehow.

Michelangelo is a successful artist, both on paper and in the kitchen. He records himself on the internet, hoping to inspire young minds to fulfill their dreams, no matter how they may look. He prefers to try anything and everything he can, gaining many new skills and discovering new things about himself. Although his desserts were delicious, the feeling of being alone only left a sour taste in his mouth.

Neon Leon. Successful actor, known for being one of the first openly Yokai actor. He inspired other Yokai's and mutants to remove their disguises and embrace what makes them unique. Leon made the world laugh with his one liners and his comical timing. His range is crazy, going from musicals to action, his talent knows no bounds. Although he has romance on the screen, he couldn't hope for something a little more...real.

Raphael (and don't skin me for this), the sweet turtle, became a guidance counselor for trouble youths. You know those kids that throw chairs? Yeah, Raph helps them. More often than not, Raphael recommends the wrestling team, which Raph just so happens to coach. Raph's helped a lot of kids figure out how to reel in their anger and get to the root of their problems. Raph's even managed to give a few select students permission to cut class and go to the weight room if they felt too angry. But no matter how many people Raph's saved (and no matter how much Raph spoke in the third person), Raph couldn't help but feel like there was one more person he needed to help.

April O' Neal. Some say she's the greatest hands on reporter of all time. With Sunita as her partner and camerawoman, the two get dirty, discovering the real problems that people won't report. April's most successful and controversial paper, "Yokai, Mutants, and Humans, oh my!" gained incredible popularity after people read just how many Yokai and Mutants were feeling neglected. Due to April's paper, the government passed a law, allowing Yokai and Mutants to come up to the surface and reveal themselves with no prejudice. It's still an ongoing battle to give everyone the fairness they deserve, but April and Sunita O'Neil fight for justice.

(Y/n) (L/n). Oh wait! That's you! You're a kind hearted soul who's just gotten a job at the School's library. You must really love the Dewey Decimal System...oh you have a nickname for it? Wonderful...You're a creative soul with a passion for helping. You have a myriad of skills, all of which may not have helped in getting this job, but they might help in getting something else. Your day starts off, relatively normally...

Having just moved back to New York after living in the Hidden City for five years was...different, to say the least. Saying goodbye to the nice old tortoise Yokai you had been staying with, you headed out, bags in hand. "Bye, Mrs. Shapiro! Call me if you need someone to water your plants!" You said, waving to the wrinkly tortoise.

"Oh, goodbye dear. I'm gonna miss you. Oh! Drop by Erin's on your way out!" The tortoise Yokai, Mrs. Shapiro, waved a long clawed hand at the you.

You nod with a smile and shut the door behind you. Heading down the street, you waved to friendly Yokai and mutants that walked past. After seeing the street clear a bit, you pulled your phone and headphones out of your pocket. Popping in the earbuds, you played your favorite playlist you found on Spotify. It was titled, 'Jammy Jams', the description being 'Songs for elite music listeners'. The playlist and many more like it, all with a theme of some sort, Studying, Building, (crime fighting?) Jogging, all came from one account by the name of Othello.

As you scrolled through the playlist, you saw the little notification. 'Othello is listening to Weird Science'. With a shrug, you tapped the notification, the song blasting through your headphones as you matched where Othello was in the song. Definitely an oldie, but it fit him...or her...or them—it fit the vibe! As you continued scrolling, adding some of the songs to your own playlists, you didn't hear the three voices yelling nor the shocked gasps of the onlookers that quickly moved out of the way.

A sudden PUSH and you were on the ground, groaning next to a stranger as Technologic blasted through your headphones.

"C'mon, Dee! He's getting away!" A turtle Yokai with dark hair in a half up, half down bun, ran in place and pointed to the direction that they needed to go. He wore an orange mask, had stickers and paint all over his shell, and in his hands sat a Kusari-fundo.

"No, no, I'm fine, Michael." The turtle Yokai next to you, (Dee?), stood up so suddenly, you thought he teleported. He wore a purple mask that wrapped around his head, his-tech goggles sitting on top. On his arms were multiple hi-tech screens and buttons that wrapped around his arms on large bands. Looking on the ground, he spotted his phone and your own, both faced down. He quickly swiped one up, and tucked it in his pocket, "May this be a lesson never to text while running!" The turtle pointed up at the sky almost heroically.

"You crashed into me!" You said defensively.

The turtle Yokai made a noise of surprise and looked down at you, as if suddenly noticing you for the first time. "I was actually referring to me." He muttered, coughing awkwardly. Without warning, two metal arms came out of his...shell? It had to be a shell, right? But it was more purple and armor like. The cold metal of the arms shook you out of your thoughts as they lifted you onto your feet.

"Oh, uh, thanks." You said, now just as awkward as the Yokai in front of you. "Don't you have to—" you pointed your thumb behind you, where the other turtle was freaking out.

"Donnie!" The orange clad turtle whined.

"Right." With a bit of showmanship, the purple clad turtle picked up your unlocked phone off the ground and handed it to you. As you took it, you noticed how he made sure your fingers did not touch. "Adieu, madam." He gave a slight bow and left, joining his accomplice in their efforts.

You giggled as he left, the whole interaction being odd. You looked down at your phone, the screen dimming. You tapped it to ensure it stayed unlocked and reopened Spotify...except, why were the apps in a different format? And your headphones were cutting out, and the background is different, and...what's the use? You know the truth, you switched your phone.

[cowboyjen68]

i am 24, from chicago and i have a crush on youuuu

You are very sweet to tell me and this is my opportunity to talk about how healthy internet personalities or "celebrity" crushes are to young lesbians finding thier own sexuality in a world that mostly assumes people straight (becuase statisically that is objectively true).

I still, to this day, remember, as a teen and young woman having a crush on Christy McNichol, Nancy McKeon (or more particularly her character Jo), and Tatum O Neal. There were older women like Markie Post and Erin Gray who I crushed on. "Ooo older women, they are so steady and have their shit together .. and HOT". I actually knew very little about them off screen. My Teen magazines were featuring TEEN stars, for good reason.

But I still crushed on them and watching thier sitcoms. Most of these women were straight but that was not really important. What was important was they were not really real. I could build them to be how I want to be in my mind using the superficial things I could see about them or learn from little interviews etc.

The internet has changed that dynamic slightly. I am accessible. Reachable. A real person. I wonder if someday media experts will refer to"CowboyJen" as a character I created. They would be wrong but I would understand the thought process. There are aspects of my life I don't share. No one wants to see me ass dragging at 10 pm after a 15 hour shift sitting on my bed trying to untie my shoes before I fall asleep or cleaning my bathroom . My life is entwined with others and I protect their privacy unless they agree to participate.

I do answer DM's. I do respond to comments. I am not simply a character on a small screen that does not interact with the audience. That is a shift in the "celebrity" paradigm. And it can make crushes seem much more real.

What I want to address is that crushes and fantasizing about other women IS NORMAL and healthy and a tool to help us figure what we like, learn to enjoy our sexuality. I remember feeling shame for thinking about these women because it was "dirty" and "creepy". In reality it was no such thing. It is just a normal part of being human, to seek out a safe outlet for fantasy, day dreaming and forming our dislikes and likes in our own head and heart so we can translate that to our real dating/love life.

Crushes don't stop at the teens or 20's. I would argue most adults experience crushes as well and it is just another tool in our humanity that we use to navigate the world we live in.

The largest difference is my generation's crushes were relatively unreachable. Fan mail was mostly answered by an employee or a hired service. Any contact in real life with back stage passes or "meet and greets" were heavily controlled and monitored for safety and to protect the image of the celebrity. And also to often to prevent the musician or actor from over stepping his/her bounds too.

Now many smaller scale recognizable people are accessible in real life. We live and work in our communities. I didn't create a character I just share my life and my reality because I think it can truly give other lesbians and women hope that we are not destined to life of stereotypes because we are butch, or lesbian, or bi or female or not rich or any number of things that get false expectations attached to it.

I guess what I am saying is your crush is healthy and normal and I would never shame anyone for having such feelings towards me. It is also my duty as a role model to not breech appropriate boundaries and I take that job very seriously. The fact is I travel to Chicago on occasion and I am out and about in the real world so the chances of me meeting followers like you and and others is highly likely at some point. I love meeting people and often to respond to and meet followers, who become my friends, in person. We are all people and I am dead serious about forming intergenerational lesbian connections in real life.

Your crush is your safe place to explore emotions and attractions so enjoy.

Side note: I don't not consider myself a "celebrity" LOL I am using that word in the broad sense as meaning a recognizable person outside of my in-person friends and community.

[vixen-academia]

Leituras de 2023

English version

Notas vão de 1 a 5

A Fúria dos Reis, George R. R. Martin - 4,5

Viralizou, Juan Julian & Igor Verde - 2,5

Assim Na Terra Como Embaixo da Terra, Ana Paula Maia - 5 

Baleia Biblioteca, Zidrou - 5

Como Se Fôssemos Vilões - 5

Júlio César, Shakespeare - 4,5

A História Secreta, Donna Tartt - 4,5 (releitura)

Mama, Terry McMillan - 5

A Guerra da Papoula, R. F. Kuang - 5

O Ano das Bruxas, Alexis Henderson - 5

Tomie (Volume I), Junji Ito - 4,5

O Ceifador, Neal Shusterman - 5

Migrações, Charlotte McConaghy - 4

O Circo da Noite, Erin Morgenstern - 5

Nunca Houve um Castelo, Martha Batalha - 4,5

Coisas Humanas, Karine Tuil - 3

Deuses de Neon, Katee Robert - 4,5

Como Ficar Podre de Rico na Ásia Emergente, Moshin Hamid - 4

Havoc at Prescott High, C. M. Stunich - 2,5

Annie em minha mente, Nancy Garden - 4

Tryst Six Venom: Venenosas, Penelope Douglas - 4

A Vegetariana, Han Kang - 4

A Mulher do Século; Patrick Dennis - 5

Kings of Quarantine; Susanne Valenti & Caroline Peckham - 3

Secretária de Satã; Karine Ribeira - 3

A Noite das Bruxas; Agatha Christie - 3

O Médico e O Monstro; Robert Louis Stevenson  - 4,5

Skyhunter: A Arma Secreta; Marie Lu - 4

Corte de Mel e Cinzas; Shannon Mayer e Kelly St. Clare - 2,5

[wizardpigeon]

Things That Affect The Plot Of Dungeons And Daddies That They Forgot Between Sessions

A list by me, eyeballs/eyes (which will be continued as I continue listening t the podcast

Daryl Did Not Eat The Charleston Chew That Payden Gave Him, he gave it to Grant (who I don't think ate it but I don't remember exactly)

Scales Lizard Boy Mcstuffins Knew That The Dad's Were Responsible For The Pyramid, at least that they were involved in the events that caused the pyramid

Scam Likely In The Form Of Glenn Only Asked For Three Gems Which Was Definitely Not All Their Money, so tbh losing it was not that bad, I'm not a maths guy myself but something definitely seems off in how much they seemed to lose in that moment, along with how many gems Scam had to hold over their heads

not once in the court case did they bring up just how many animals they'd sacrificed, like the hat of vermin is incredibly cool but I cannot believe that nobody brought up the fact that the dad's regularly bring sentient creatures into existence for the sole purpose of dying for them

That's all for now :)

[a-soft-nerdy-gal]

Since no one has done this yet

DNDADS CLASSPECTING!!!!!

Spoiler alert for dndads and homestuck!

Lets start with the daddies

Darryl wilson: i believe daryll to be a knight of blood, most actions he takes are to help the group, most of his interactions have to do with relationships and he is the one to spill the most literal blood being a barbarian and all. This one was a bit simple but the others will be more in-depth.

Henry oak: i believe him to be a mage of breath, we know that the breath aspect is going with the flow and with what feels good, surpassing expectations and being a little naive at times. This fits henry to a tea, he shows time and time again that he can surpass expectations when it is needed to protect that which he loves. I made him a mage because not only does he have literal magic but he also has forbidden knowledge, knowledge forbidden even to him as it is the knowledge that he’s FROM the forgotten realms!

Ron stampler, possibly the hardest of the main 4 to place but i’ll try my best, i believe a witch of rage is the best fit with his own father as his witches familiar. Ron is a beacon of confusion, discomfort and awkwardness among the characters, emotions often associated with rage. Is a witch because he is tied to his familiar in a limiting way, which we can see from how he reacted to the idea of going into his own head. But under all this ron may be one of the most powerful characters if we see how well he is connected to rage, some examples are: calling his own creator, sensing that a new character showed up out of nowhere, changing reality so he can fit inside of his pants, causing a town to laugh through stand up comedy and overall confusion their enemies for long enough for the rest to take action. He creates rage and he doesn’t even fully know it lmao.

Glenn close: then there is glenn, my favorite character! And I believe him to be a bard of heart, glen throughout his life is passively destroying heart wherever he goes. Mostly his own, we can draw some parallels between glenn and bro-strider (the prince of heart) to see how one is actively making their child worse and the other passively.

Bro and glen have a lot in common, they both want to prepare their kid for their perception of the real world, they both have unrealistic expectations for their kid, they both let their kid do dangerous things like playing with weapons. The difference is though that bro actively encourages, participates and mandates this whilst glen just allows it to happen. The biggest instance in the podcast of glenn destroying heart though is when he loses the trial, because when he chooses to go to jail the soul of jodie foster is released and the soul of nicholas changes. Other examples are: turning well actually into scam actually literally destroying the two personalities into one kinda like gamzee fusing corpses in sprites.

Now for some other characters! These will have no explanation

Scam likely: thief of rage

Well actually: sylph if rage

Scam actually: rogue of rage

Mark likely: witch of heart

Jodie foster: rogue of heart

Peaden: page of light

Doug: knight of doom

Erin o’ neal: witch of life

The library: bard of light

Willy stampler: mage of rage

Bill close: witch of breath

Barry oak: prince of breath

[mysecretsbooks]

📚BOOKHAUL de Junho Esse mês foi bem tumultuado 🥰 Além de ótimas aquisições, também tive muitas leituras concluídas 🙌🏻 Compras do Prime Day: foram 13 e-books (que não coloquei na lista abaixo), e 21 livros. Infelizmente ficou faltando chegar apenas mais dois livros do Prime Day, mas como não chegou a tempo antes de terminar o mês, então vai ficar para o BOOKHAUL de Julho. 1- Sonhos De Avalon: O Segredo Da Rainha - Bianca Briones 2- Mil Beijos De Garoto - Tillie Cole 3- A Hora Do Pesadelo - Thommy Hutson 4- El Priorato Del Naranjo - Samantha Shannon 5- O Colecionador - John Fowles 6- Predestinada - Abbi Glines 7- De Lukov, Com Amor - Mariana Zapata 8- Corte De Chamas Prateadas - Sarah J. Maas 9- Amante Sombrio - Jessica Rowley Pell Bird 10- Um Dia Em Dezembro - Josie Silver 11- A Nuvem - Neal Shusterman 12- Encanto Mortal - Sarah Cross 13- O Mar Sem Estrelas - Erin Morgenstern 14- Easy - Tammara Webber 15- Sweet - Tammara Webber 16- Her Dark Curiosity - Megan Shepherd 17- A Cold Legacy - Megan Shepherd 18- Em Pedaços - Lauren Layne 19- O Segredo Da Livraria De Paris - Lily Graham 20- Só Depende De Mim - M. Leighton 21- Entrelinhas - Tammara Webber 22- Onde Está Você - Tammara Webber 23- Romance Com O Duque - Tessa Dare 24- Diga Sim Ao Marquês - Tessa Dare 25- A Megera Domada - William Shakespeare 26- Otelo - William Shakespeare 27- O Mercador De Veneza - William Shakespeare 28- Hamlet - William Shakespeare 29- Romeu E Julieta - William Shakespeare 30- Macbeth - William Shakespeare 31- Uma Proposta Irrecusável - Katie Fforde 32- Você Se Lembra De Mim? - Megan Maxwell 33- A Trança - Laetitia Colombani 34- Mais Que Amigos - Lauren Layne 35- Lara Dean Vive Terminando Comigo - Mariko Tamaki,Rosemary Valero-O’Connell 36- Flores Partidas - Karin Slaughter 37- Hamnet (Intrínsecos) - Maggie O’Farrell 38- A Divina Comédia (Inferno, Purgatório, Paraíso) - Dante Alighieri #book #books #livro #livros #MySecretBooks #livrododia #livroseleitura #igreads #BookHaul #BookhaulJunho #BookhaulDeJunho (em Espírito Santo, Brasil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ8jgN9jceb/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What other fandoms are you familiar enough with to use as an AU prompt? Pokemon Trainer AU? Homestuck AU (they'd still probably die but at least there are lots of ways to come back to life)?

I’m not that familiar with Homestuck, definitely not enough to do an AU.  I read the novelizations of the Pokemon show as a kid but never saw the show or played any of the video games.  I did play the super-obscure Pokemon board game, but most of my trading cards were printed in Japanese (I had a strange childhood), so my experience there is, uh, probably not quite overlapping with everyone else’s.

Anyway, if you want list of all my fandoms… Boy howdy.  I don’t think I can come up with them all.  However, I can list everything that comes to mind between now and ~20 minutes from now when I have to end my procrastination break and go back to dissertating.  So here it is, below the cut:

Okay, there is no way in hell I’ll be able to make an exhaustive list.  But off the top of my head, the fandoms I’m most familiar/comfortable with are as follows:

Authors (as in, I’ve read all or most of their books)

Patricia Briggs

Megan Whalen Turner

Michael Crichton

Marge Piercy

Stephenie Meyer

Dean Koontz

Stephen King

Neil Gaiman

K.A. Applegate

Ernest Hemingway

Tamora Pierce

Roald Dahl

Short Stories/Anthologies

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

I Am Legend, Richard Matheson

Dubliners, James Joyce

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Who Goes There? John W. Campbell

The Man Who Bridged the Mist, Kij Johnson

Flatland, Edwin Abbott

I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison

To Build a Fire, Jack London

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bier

At the Mountains of Madness/Cthulu mythos, H.P. Lovecraft

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Close Range: Wyoming Stories, E. Annie Proulx

The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Bartleby the Scrivener (and a bunch of others), Herman Melville

Books (Classics)

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgson Burnett

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

The Secret Annex, Anne Frank

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

The Stranger, Albert Camus

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Atonement, Ian McEwan

1984, George Orwell

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

The Iliad/The Odyssey, Homer

Metamorphoses, Ovid

Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne

The Time-Machine, H.G. Wells

The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Hamlet, MacBeth, Othello, and The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Thomas Stoppard

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

Books (YA SF)

Young Wizards series, Diane Duane

Redwall, Brian Jaques

The Dark is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Diana Wynne Jones

The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix

The Giver series, Lois Lowry

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld

Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt

A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

Song of the Lioness, Tamora Pierce

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle

Unwind, Neal Shusterman

The Maze Runner series, James Dashner

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede

Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar

Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi

Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice

Poppy series, Avi

The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Tithe, Holly Black

Life as We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer

Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause

Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Haunted, Gregory Maguire

Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block

Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

East, Edith Pattou

Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O’Brien

The Looking-Glass Wars, Frank Beddor

The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Homecoming, Cynthia Voigt

Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

The Landry News, Andrew Clements

Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson

Bloody Jack, L.A. Meyer

The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner

A Certain Slant of Light, Laura Whitcomb

Generation Dead, Daniel Waters

Pendragon series, D.J. MacHale

Silverwing, Kenneth Oppel

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Define Normal, Julie Anne Peters

Hawksong, Ameila Atwater Rhodes

Heir Apparent, Vivian Vande Velde

Running Out of Time, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Keys to the Kingdom series, Garth Nix

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken

The Seer and the Sword, Victoria Hanley

My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

Daughters of the Moon series, Lynne Ewing

The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman

Island of the Aunts, Eva Ibbotson

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer

A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray

A School for Sorcery, E. Rose Sabin

The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs

The Edge Chronicles, Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Hope was Here, Joan Bauer

Bunnicula, James Howe

Wise Child, Monica Furlong

Silent to the Bone, E.L. Konigsburg

The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois

Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters, Gail Giles

The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer

Blue is for Nightmares, Laurie Faria Stolarz

Mystery of the Blue Gowned Ghost, Linda Wirkner

Wait Till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn

I was a Teenage Fairy, Francesca Lia Block

City of the Beasts series, Isabelle Allende

Summerland, Michael Chabon

The Geography Club, Brent Hartinger

The Last Safe Place on Earth, Richard Peck

Liar, Justine Larbalestier

The Doll People, Ann M. Martin

The Lost Years of Merlin, T.A. Barron

Matilda Bone, Karen Cushman

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

The Tiger Rising, Kate DiCamillo

The Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

In the Forests of the Night, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

My Teacher is an Alien, Bruce Coville

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, Julie Andrews Edwards

Storytime, Edward Bloor

Magic Shop series, Bruce Coville

A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket

Veritas Project series, Frank Peretti

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

Raven’s Strike, Patricia Briggs

What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy, Gregory Maguire

The Wind Singer, William Nicholson

Sweetblood, Pete Hautman

The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White

Half Magic, Edward Eager

A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle

The Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan

Maximum Ride series, James Patterson

The Edge on the Sword, Rebecca Tingle

World War Z, Max Brooks

Adaline Falling Star, Mary Pope Osborne

Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi

Parable of the Sower series, Octavia Butler

I, Robot, Isaac Asimov

Neuomancer, William Gibson

Dune, Frank Herbert

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth

The Martian, Andy Weir

Skeleton Man, Joseph Bruchac

Comics/Manga

Marvel 616 (most of the major titles)

Marvel 1610/Ultimates

Persepolis

This One Summer

Nimona

Death Note

Ouran High School Host Club

Vampire Knight

Emily Carroll comics

Watchmen

Fun Home

From Hell

American Born Chinese

Smile

The Eternal Smile

The Sandman

Calvin and Hobbes

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

TV Shows

Fullmetal Alchemist

Avatar the Last Airbender

Teen Titans (2003)

Luke Cage/Jessica Jones/Iron Fist/Defenders/Daredevil/The Punisher

Agents of SHIELD/Agent Carter

Supernatural

Sherlock

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Firefly

American Horror Story

Ouran High School Host Club

Orange is the New Black

Black Sails

Stranger Things

Westworld

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Movies

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Jurassic Park/Lost World/Jurassic World/Lost Park?

The Breakfast Club

Cloverfield/10 Cloverfield Lane/The Cloverfield Paradox

Attack the Block

The Prestige

Moon

Ferris Bueler’s Day Off

Django Unchained/Kill Bill/Inglourious Basterds/Hateful 8/Pulp Fiction/etcetera

Primer

THX 1138/Akira/How I Live Now/Lost World/[anything I’ve named a fic after]

Star Wars

The Meg

A Quiet Place

Baby Driver

Mother!

Alien/Aliens/Prometheus

X-Men (et al.)

10 Things I Hate About You

The Lost Boys

Teen Wolf

Juno

Pirates of the Caribbean (et al.)

Die Hard

Most Disney classics: Toy Story, Mulan, Treasure Planet, Emperor’s New Groove, etc.

Most Pixar classics: Up, Wall-E, The Incredibles

The Matrix

Dark Knight trilogy

Halloween

Friday the 13th

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Descent

Ghostbusters

Ocean’s Eight/11/12/13

King Kong

The Conjuring

Fantastic Four

Minority Report/Blade Runner/Adjustment Bureau/Total Recall

Fight Club

Spirited Away

O

Disturbing Behavior

The Faculty

Poets

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Marge Piercy

Thomas Hardy

Sigfried Sassoon

W. B. Yeats

Edgar Allan Poe

Ogden Nash

Margaret Atwood

Maya Angelou

Emily Dickinson

Matthew Dickman

Karen Skolfield

Kwame Alexander

Ellen Hopkins

Shel Silverstein

Musicals/Stage Plays

Les Miserables

Repo: The Genetic Opera

The Lion King

The Phantom of the Opera

Rent

The Prince of Egypt

Pippin

Into the Woods

A Chorus Line

Hairspray

Evita

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Fiddler on the Roof

Annie

Fun Home

Spring Awakening

Chicago

Cabaret

The Miser

The Importance of Being Earnest

South Pacific

Godspell

Wicked

The Wiz

The Wizard of Oz

Man of La Mancha

The Sound of Music

West Side Story

Matilda

Sweeney Todd

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Nunsense

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown/Snoopy

1776

Something Rotten

A Very Potter Musical

Babes in Toyland

Carrie: The Musical

Amadeus

Annie Get Your Gun

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The Final Battle

Rock of Ages

Cinderella

Moulin Rouge

Honk

Labyrinth

The Secret Garden

Reefer Madness

Bang Bang You’re Dead

NSFW

War Horse

Peter Pan

Suessical

Sister Act

The Secret Annex

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Disclaimer 1: Like a lot of people who went to high school in the American South, my education in literature is pretty shamefully lacking in a lot of areas.  (As in, during our African American History unit in ninth grade we read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn… and that was it.  As in, our twelfth-grade US History class, I shit you not, covered Gone With the Wind.)  There were a lot of good teachers in with the *ahem* Less Woke ones (how I read Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye) and college definitely set me on the path to trying to find books written/published outside the WASP-ier parts of the U.S., but the overall list is still embarrassingly hegemonic.

Disclaimer 2: There are a crapton of errors — typos, misspelled names, misattributions, questionable genre classifications, etc. — in here.  If you genuinely have no idea what a title is supposed to be, ask me.  Otherwise, please don’t bother letting me know about my mistakes.

Disclaimer 3: I am not looking for recommendations.  My Goodreads “To Read” list is already a good 700 items long, and people telling me “if you like X, then you’ll love Y!” genuinely stresses me the fuck out.

Disclaimer 4: There are no unproblematic faves on this list.  I love Supernatural, and I know that Supernatural is hella misogynistic.  On the flip side: I don’t love The Lord of the Rings at all, partially because LOTR is hella misogynistic, but I also don’t think that should stop anyone else from loving LOTR if they’re willing to love it and also acknowledge its flaws. 

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Episode 51 - Deadlier Than The Male: Filmi Femme Fatales in Ishqiya and 7 Khoon Maaf

To celebrate #Noirvember, we discuss two contemporary neo-noirs that focus on the femme fatale archetype. 

Show Notes:

Will we or won’t be do an episode on Ittefaq?

Erin’s mother watched Dangal, and she loved it!

We miss Neale! Listen to last year’s #Noirvember’s episode 

Film noir and Neo-noir

#Noirvember and @oldfilmsflicker​

Bollywood noir

What songs are the using in Ishqiya, let Matt know 

Femme fatale

Ishqiya

LMFAO

“Dil Toh Bachcha” 

Uttar Pradesh

Dedh Ishqiya

The Handmaiden

(INTERVAL (“Darling” from 7 Khoon Maaf)

7 Khoon Maaf

Ruskin Bond and The Blue Umbrella

Kind Hearts and Coronets, Truffaut’s Mississipi [sic] Mermaid and The Bride Wore Black, and Cornell Woolrich

Anna Karenina versus Anna Karina

 Erin should called the ending 

Bluebeard

Motivation for murder 

We bring up Fitoor again...and What’s Your Raashee

Murder well

How people change depending on who they are with 

The Love Witch

“O’ Mama”, “Bekaraan”, and “Yeshu”

NEXT TIME: Maybe we’ll discuss Ittefaq, maybe something else?

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some erins to break up the text ask responses

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erin o' neal is so hot i wish women were real

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Historical Review Published by OCPL

Founded by the Wheeling Area Historical Society in 1968, the Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review (UOVHR) is the only publication of its kind in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. Dedicated solely to local history topics, it has become a treasured publication and valuable tool for studying and learning about our geographic area. Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation (WNHAC, later Wheeling Heritage) continued the tradition, editing and publishing the REVIEW from 2010-2018. Ownership of the UOVHR publication was transferred in the second half of 2018 to the Ohio County Public Library in Wheeling. The recently published Spring 2020 issue of the UOVHR is the first edition completely designed and coordinated by the Ohio County Public Library. "With this unexpected special edition, the Ohio County Public Library officially begins its tenure as caretaker of an important regional historical legacy," said UOVHR editor and library programmer Sean Duffy.  The issue originally planned for Spring 2020 was to feature a celebration of Wheeling's history in 250 archival and museum objects. That edition has been postponed until Fall 2020. "We feel a special responsibility to pause to examine current events – bound to be scrutinized by historians of the future – through the lens of the Upper Ohio Valley's behavior, and the consequences thereof, in the face of similar crises throughout our history." Duffy explained. UOVHR content has historically included articles about the economic, political, social, and cultural history of the greater Wheeling area contributed by historians and scholars. The Spring 2020 continues that tradition by exploring the scourge of infectious diseases throughout Wheeling's history, including the Civil War era, tuberculosis sanitariums, cholera outbreaks related to unsanitary conditions during our region’s period of rapid industrial and population growth, and the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. 

The new issue includes:

Wheeling in the Time of Cholera by Dr. Hal Gorby, WVU History ProfessorUnselfish Zeal: Wheeling's 1864 Sanitary Fair by Jon-Erik Gilot, Archivist of the Diocese or Wheeling-CharlestionDent vs. State of West Virginia: How Wheeling Changed the Medical Profession by Dr. William Neal, Professor Emeritus WVU School of Medicine800 Graves: The Schmulbach Mansion & TB Sanitarium at Roney’s Point by Ryan Stanton, Wheeling Park High School Social Studies TeacherBreaking the Grippe: Wheeling During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic by Sean Duffy and Erin Rothenbuehler, OCPL Local History SpecialistsWheeling in the Time of COVID-19: A Photo Essay by UOVHR Staff "Exploring how we have survived historically, both the good and the bad, informs the present and, ultimately, gives us hope." Duffy said. "As has been said many times during the current COVID-19 pandemic, we are all in this together, as a city, a state, a region, a country, and as a species. And our unity and perseverance in the past should inspire us in the present." With a new layout designed by Erin Rothenbuehler, the current, Spring 2020, Special Pandemic Issue of the Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review, Vol. 41, No. 2. is available now for free online in PDF format, accessible at this link: tiny.cc/UOVHR_Pandemic-Issue Commemorative paper copies are currently being printed and can be ordered through the library. Individual copies are $5.00 each (cost) plus $1 shipping ($6 total). To order, visit the UOVHR sign-up page at https://bit.ly/3fed5Sa, send an email to UOVHR@ohiocountylibrary.org, or simply send a check to: UOVHRc/o Ohio County Public Library, 52 16th Street, Wheeling, WV 26003. Please make all checks or money orders out to “Ohio County Public Library” with memo note of “UOVHR.” Subscriptions that had been paid to Wheeling Heritage will be honored through the end of the payment schedule. The library looks forward to continuing the legacy of the Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review. The editorial staff welcomes any comments, feedback, or inquiries regarding the Spring 2020 issue via email at UOVHR@ohiocountylibrary.org. Read the full article

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QRKY Radio Playlist For 03/08/20

QRKY – Quirky Radio Playlist For 03/08/20

Listen Free.  Blues, Swing, Rockabilly, Old Time Radio Shows & More.

Click on the individual song titles in BOLD below.  They’re linked to music videos or to online audio files of the old time radio shows.  Or, if you’d prefer to autoplay the music video playlist, just click HERE.  It;s all for fun and for free, so enjoy.

An American Dream -- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Linda Ronstadt

Voodoo Voodoo -- LaVern Baker

Rhythm Is Our Business -- Jimmie Lunceford

Liquored Up And Lacquered Down -- Southern Culture On The Skids

Ain’t Nobody Home -- B.B. King

True Blue Lou -- Ethel Waters

JUBILEE Radio Show (06/04/45) with Benny Carter -- Armed Forces Radio Service

Ovaltine (Retro Commercial)

Women Have A Way With A Fool -- Coco Montoya

Lotta Love -- Nicolette Larson

Land Of 1000 Dances -- Wilson Pickett

Mama Roux -- Dr. John

Bayou Tortous -- James McMurtry

Wine-O -- Jack McVea & His All-Stars

I’m Bad -- Katie Webster

GI JIVE Radio Show #601 -- Armed Forces Radio Special

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer (Retro Commercial)

Make My Dreams Come True -- Elmore James

When My Dreamboat Comes Home -- Fats Domino

Garlic Bread -- Gary & Larry

How You Want It Done -- Big Bill Broonzy

Skyliner -- Charlie Barnet

Let The Juke Joint Jump -- Koko Taylor

Seduced -- Leon Redbone

PINTO PETE Radio Show #73 -- Pinto Pete & His Ranch Hands

Kellogg’s Cereals (Retro Commercial)

Love And Happiness -- Al Green

Change It -- Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

My Lady -- Crusaders

Fever -- Maria Muldaur

I Put A Spell Ony You -- Creedence Clearwater Revival

Rum And Coca-Cola -- Andrews Sister

Give Me One Reason -- Tracy Chapman

Ford Motor Company (Retro Commercial)

Biscuits And Gravy -- Waddie Mitchell

Big-Boned Gal -- k.d. lang & the Recliners

Big River -- Johnny Cash

Bayou Blood -- Kenny Neal

She Won’t Say Yes -- Love Dogs

Tomi Tomi --  Rudi Wairata & his Mena Moeria Minstrels

Wild Injuns -- Neville Brothers

Texaco Sky Chief Gasoline (Retro Commercial)

Messed Up Again -- Lonnie Brooks

Bad Luck -- Erin Hay

Taylor’s Rock -- Sonny Landreth

Thibadeaux, Louisiana -- Marcia Ball

Oops, My Bad -- Yalloppin’ Hounds

Summertime -- Janis Joplin

Night And Day -- Frank Sinatra

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“Gli esorcisti vogliono eliminare Harry Potter dalle scuole? Sciocchezze. Per capire il maghetto bisogna leggere il Vangelo di Giovanni”. Intervista a Marina Lenti, la biografa della Rowling

La notizia ha sentore di rogo. Il “Guardian” titola così: “Harry Potter book removed from Catholic school ‘on exorcists’ advice’”. Pare che alcuni esorcisti, titillati da eccessiva prudenza, abbiano scovato il demonio tra i libri del ‘maghetto’, ragion per cui i tomi del ciclo ideato da J.K. Rowling sono interdetti agli studenti di una scuola cattolica. La scuola è la St. Edward Catholic School di Nashville, Tennessee, la città della musica, la sede della Gibson, quella del film di Robert Altman. La notizia è stata divulgata in origine dal “Nashville Tennessean”, che ha registrato lo zelo del Rev. Dan Reehil, il quale, leggendo Harry Potter – l’ha letto davvero? – si è accorto che “maledizioni e incantesimi adottati nel libro sono maledizioni e incantesimi reali… rischiano di evocare gli spiriti maligni in chi legge”. Il ciclo fantasy è giudicato “un inganno riuscito”. Stando a quanto riporta la giornalista del quotidiano di Nashville, “Reehil ha consultato diversi esorcisti, negli Stati Uniti e a Roma, che gli hanno consigliato di rimuovere i libri”. A Roma, insomma, qualcuno ha paura di Harry Potter. Ogni commento è tautologico: a questo punto anche il Faust di Goethe, il Macbeth di Shakespeare, le Baccanti di Euripide, Il Signore degli Anelli, i libri di Lovecraft, di Philip K. Dick, di Ursula Le Guin, e sostanzialmente l’intera letteratura fantasy, rischiano il rogo del fanatismo. Una religione che ha paura, in effetti, fa paura. La notizia, va da sé, ha fatto il giro del globo, inondando anche le pagine della stampa nostra. Per dare profondità alla polemica, abbiamo interpellato Marina Lenti, esperta di letteratura fantasy, ma soprattutto del ciclo di “Harry Potter”, a cui ha dedicato svariati saggi. Tra l’altro, è l’autrice della prima, ragionata biografia di J.K. Rowling in Italia, “L’incantatrice di 450 milioni di lettori”, pubblicata da Ares. Un editore cattolico.

Harry Potter censurato dai tradizionalisti cattolici. Come mai? Davvero le storie del ‘maghetto’ implicano una solidarietà con il demonio?

Certo che no, sono sciocchezze che possono sostenere solo coloro che non hanno letto i libri e/o che prestano fede al ‘sentito dire’. Purtroppo a questi ultimi appartengono anche alcuni vertici della Chiesa. Ad esempio, nel 2003, l’allora cardinale Joseph Ratzinger, sollecitato a esprimersi in merito dalla saggista Gabriele Kuby, autrice di un volume intitolato Harry Potter – Gut oder Bose (“Harry Potter — Buono o Cattivo”) le rispose: “È una buona cosa che lei abbia spiegato i fatti di ‘Harry Potter’, perché si tratta di una seduzione sottile, che ha profondi effetti, diretti e non evidenti, nel minare l’anima della cristianità prima che essa possa crescere adeguatamente”. Ora, Ratzinger sarà anche un pozzo di cultura, nessuno ne dubita, ma in questo caso ha preso uno svarione clamoroso basandosi probabilmente su come la Kuby aveva prospettato la questione nel suo saggio, ma senza conoscere direttamente i romanzi. Fortunatamente, suggerì alla Kuby di scrivere anche a monsignor Peter Fleetwood, del Pontificio Consiglio per la Cultura, il quale le spiegò i punti dove, a suo avviso, ella aveva frainteso i romanzi o dove vi aveva letto troppi significati. Fleetwood peraltro si era già espresso in passato in favore della Rowling, dichiarando che “Il modo più appropriato per giudicare ‘Harry Potter’ non e su base teologica, ma secondo i criteri della letteratura d’infanzia”. In seguito, il Vaticano si è di nuovo occupato del maghetto nel 2008, attraverso l’Osservatore Romano, consultando due saggisti, entrambi esperti di letteratura britannica, ma di opposto avviso: Paolo Gulisano, già noto al pubblico fantasy principalmente per le sue pubblicazioni sugli scritti di J.R.R. Tolkien ed estimatore della Rowling, ed Edoardo Rialti, professore universitario che ha mosso le solite, trite critiche incentrate sul fatto che propugnare l’idea di un apprendistato stregonesco, anche solo in un ambito fantastico e a prescindere dal fine benevolo, è in ogni caso contro la Bibbia poiché questa condanna la stregoneria. Per fortuna poi Rialti è tornato in seguito parzialmente sulle proprie posizioni, mostrando un’apprezzabile onestà intellettuale. Del resto, se fossero fondate le accuse di collusione con il ‘Lato Oscuro’, per usare un termine da un’altra famosa saga del Fantastico, come avrebbero potuto essere scritti ben due saggi dal titolo Il Vangelo secondo Harry Potter, il primo dall’americana Connie Neal, esperta in materia di relazione fra Cristianesimo e cultura popolare, e il secondo dall’italiano Peter Ciaccio, pastore metodista laureato alla Facoltà Valdese di Teologia? A queste critiche ridicole la Rowling ha sempre risposto senza peli sulla lingua affermando “Non credo assolutamente nell’occulto, non lo pratico… Ho incontrato letteralmente migliaia di bambini ormai. Nessuno di loro mi ha detto ‘Mi hai davvero introdotto all’occulto’, non uno di loro”. È il caso di sottolineare poi che non è solo l’osservazione sul campo a dare ragione alla scrittrice, ma anche la teoria: gli studi degli esperti (ad esempio le psicologhe Rebekah Richert ed Erin Smith) hanno dimostrato che persino bambini dell’età di 4 anni sono in grado di distinguere personaggi reali da quelli di fantasia e di comprendere come fingere che qualcosa esista non rende comunque reale quel qualcosa. Gli adulti sottovalutano sempre i più piccoli!

L’unica ‘vera’ magia che la Rowling ha utilizzato è quella messa in luce da studi antropologici come ad esempio Il Ramo d’Oro. È innegabile che abbia usato alcune credenze primitive, come quella che considera il sangue un simbolo dell’anima o che sia possibile nascondere quest’ultima in un oggetto per scampare alla morte, ma questo va solo a suo credito: dare una veste coerente alla magia del proprio mondo letterario utilizzando concetti antropologici, piuttosto che limitarla a due casuali scintille e a uno svolazzare di bacchette da cartone animato, dimostra uno scrittore che ha fatto molto bene i compiti casa. Anche altri ottimi autori lo hanno fatto: ad esempio Ursula Le Guin (non a caso figlia di un antropologo) ha usto per la saga di Terramare il concetto di magia del nome, secondo cui per i primitivi conoscere il vero nome di una persona significa ottenerne il controllo.  E nessuno le ha mai rotto le scatole per questo! Ma usare questi punti di riferimento è ben diverso dal sostenere di crederci e di voler fare proseliti. Sarebbe come sostenere che un giallista che si informi minuziosamente sui rituali di un serial killer e li utilizzi in un romanzo sia egli stesso un serial killer o desideri diffonderne i rituali psicotici.

In profondità: qual è (se c’è) il sottofondo ‘religioso’ della saga?

Il sottofondo c’è ma si svela solo nel settimo volume, dove tutte le trame e sottotrame si riannodano (anche se non sempre in modo convincente). Anzitutto c’è un parallelismo evangelico, espressamente dichiarato dalla stessa Rowling, nel senso che anche Harry si sacrifica per il bene della comunità (poiché morire è l’unico modo per distruggere l’ultimo pezzo di anima di Voldemort che alberga in lui e che gli garantisce l’immortalità), mettendo quindi in pratica il più grande amore concepibile secondo il Nuovo Testamento (“nessuno ha un amore più grande di questo: dare la vita per i propri amici”, Gv 15,13). Dall’altro lato abbiamo invece un mago oscuro che, oltre ad aver ucciso innumerevoli vite, ha avuto l’arroganza estrema di voler dominare la Morte con metodi che sovvertono le leggi di Dio e degli uomini. Così, si compie ciò che è affermato nel Vangelo (Gv 12,25): “Chi ama la sua vita la distrugge, ma chi odia la sua vita in questo mondo, la salvaguarderà per la vita eterna”. Pertanto Harry, che non ha subìto il richiamo ammaliante dei Doni della Morte (come invece ha fatto in gioventù Silente, l’altro grande mago della saga) e che ha offerto altruisticamente la propria vita per il bene altrui, diventa suo malgrado il Signore della Morte, mentre Silente ha perso gli affetti più cari e Voldemort – che ha cercato con ogni mezzo di violare le leggi naturali a spese altrui, cercando di rubare la Pietra Filosofale per distillare l’Elisir di Lunga Vita senza aver compiuto la purificazione alchemica dell’anima e creando gli horcrux – subisce una dipartita repentina e ingloriosa.

A che professione di fede appartiene la Rowling? Mi pare abbia accennato, anni fa, alla sua fede cristiana…

Sì, la Rowling si professa credente, anche se ha dichiarato di vivere i confitti che questo può comportare. Del resto non è facile conciliare gli insegnamenti cristiani con ciò che accade nel mondo.

Perché a suo avviso continua a esserci un dissidio tra il genere fantasy e una certa cristianità?

Per ignoranza su cosa sia il fantasy. Come dice sempre provocatoriamente la nostra migliore scrittrice di questo genere, Silvana De Mari, per la maggior parte delle persone “il fantasy è una cosa per bambini o per adulti semi-deficienti”. E fa l’esempio della gag di Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo dove Aldo e Giacomo sono padre e figlio, barbari in un’antichità imprecisata, che si recano sul monte a incontrare la divinità (impersonata da Giovanni): questi si presenta loro come “Pdorr, figlio di Kmerr della tribù di Istarr… Colui che è sceso nelle sacre acque del lago Ffnirr, tra le ninfe Pfgnugherals…”. Ecco, nell’immaginario di chi non conosce il genere, il fantasy è questo, una parodia della cosmogonia di Esiodo o di altri antichi poemi mitologici. L’idea poi che un adulto non possa leggere libri considerati per ragazzi, a meno di essere un po’ ritardato (o, nella migliore delle ipotesi, afflitto dalla sindrome di Peter Pan), è un altro pernicioso fraintendimento nei confronti della letteratura rivolta a questo pubblico. Come ha affermato lo scrittore Philip Pullman “Ci sono degli argomenti, troppo grandi per la narrativa adulta. Possono essere trattati adeguatamente solo nei libri per l’infanzia. Il motivo è che nella narrativa per adulti le storie sono in sofferenza. Altre cose sono avvertite come più importanti: tecnica, stile, conoscenza letteraria”. E come dichiarava C. S. Lewis, “A 10 anni non vale la pena di leggere nessun libro per cui non valga egualmente la pena di leggerlo a 50 e oltre”. Quest’ultima frase fotografa perfettamente lo spartiacque fra libro per ragazzi che diventerà un classico e quello che non lo diventerà. La verità è che sotto le metafore scintillanti di incantesimi e creature fantastiche è possibile sviscerare il dualismo dei grandi temi della vita che ciascuno di noi prima o poi affronta in quel viaggio di formazione che è la vita: l’amore e l’odio, il coraggio e la codardia, la pietà e la crudeltà, il guadagno e la perdita, spesso definitiva col sopraggiungere della morte. E naturalmente la lotta del Bene contro il Male. Esattamente tutto ciò che J.K. Rowling ha messo nella saga di Harry Potter. Spesso poi si aggiunge l’idea che il fantasy, poiché ricorre spesso al soprannaturale (una declinazione di quel ‘senso del meraviglioso’ che caratterizza un buon libro di questo tipo), sia veicolo per concetti ‘new age’. Una definizione che però non vuol dire alcunché, perché è usata indistintamente per racchiudere sia concetti metafisici e trascendenti serissimi, che trucchi da ciarlatani con la pretesa di prevedere i numeri del lotto. Il paradosso è che i cattolici che danno contro alla Rowling sono poi gli stessi che portano in palmo di mano J.R.R. Tolkien e C.S. Lewis, paradossalmente punte di diamante del genere fantastico. Una contraddizione evidentissima che non può avere altra ragione che un preconcetto: mentre è arcinoto che Tolkien e Lewis fossero credenti e quindi si dà per scontato che i loro scritti siano approvabili, non è altrettanto noto per la Rowling. Bisognerebbe invece vedere sempre i reali contenuti, leggendoli veramente e non, come troppo spesso è accaduto per Harry Potter, fidandosi di ciò che hanno affermato altri. L’esempio più eclatante è quello di Laura Mallory, una casalinga della provincia di Atlanta, madre di quattro figli, che conduce da anni un’instancabile attività antipotteriana dopo aver visto un documentario dal titolo Harry Potter: witchcraft repackaged. Making Evil look innocent’ (“Harry Potter: stregoneria riconfezionata. Far apparire innocente il Male”) e che non ha alcuna reticenza a confessare di non aver mai neanche letto i romanzi. Disonestà intellettuale e chiusura mentale allo stato puro che scioccamente priva i suoi di una delle serie più godibili e intelligenti mai scritte.

L'articolo “Gli esorcisti vogliono eliminare Harry Potter dalle scuole? Sciocchezze. Per capire il maghetto bisogna leggere il Vangelo di Giovanni”. Intervista a Marina Lenti, la biografa della Rowling proviene da Pangea.

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New Post Jaida and Paul's Ballara Receptions Chapel Celebration has been published on our website - check it out at https://www.millgrovephotography.com.au/yarra-valley-weddings-jaida-paul/

A new Post has been published on https://www.millgrovephotography.com.au/yarra-valley-weddings-jaida-paul/ - Jaida and Paul's Ballara Receptions Chapel Celebration - 'https://www.millgrovephotography.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Yarra-Valley-Weddings-Jaida-Paul-76.jpg -

Very lovely couple Jaida and Paul got married in October 2018 at one of our favourite spots for Yarra Valley Weddings, beautiful Ballara Receptions. They tied the knot in the Chapel, and Jaida was able to time her arrival absolutely perfectly. As I write this post, there’s heavy rain falling just outside my window – just as it was literally minutes before Jaida arrived at Ballara, and literally minutes after she entered the chapel!

With Celebrant Erin Rollason conductin a warm and very personal ceremony, it was then outside (and inside to shelter) for some photos before celebrating all the way to midnight.

Congratulations again Jaida and Paul – hope you love these! 🙂

  Yarra Valley Weddings – Jaida and Paul

You can check out the rain falling as Paul and the boys arrived, with Jaida just minutes away …

… and yet bright sunshine as our stunning bride pulls in to the driveway!

A very touching moment when a special, lifelong friend gives you some kind words and thoughts for the future …

Well done everyone – we all got the timing just right on this one!

If you’re chased inside by the usual Melbourne Spring weather, there are a lot words places to be than this cosy chapel.

Gotta love Yarra Valley Weddings for all those green spots and spaces …

Raw emotion just got the better of Dad, and I don’t think there were a lot of dry eyes in the house …

… but we all get by with a little help from our friends (and wives and daughters;) )

A mix of Italian traditional dancing and some old-fashioned Oz Rock towards the end of the night meant the dancefloor was packed …

… until the happy couple said goodbye night and disappeared into the night 🙂

The venue of course was one of our favourites for Yarra Valley weddings, beautiful Ballara Receptions – https://www.ballarareceptions.com.au/

The ceremony was conducted by super-celebrant Celebrant Erin Rollason – part of the team at Marry in the Yarra Valley – https://www.marryintheyarravalley.com.au/

Music and MC work by awesome DJ and all around great guy Glenn Legrand – https://legrandstyle.com.au/

Capturing video on the day was Sam from Motion Video – http://motionvideo.com.au/

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