#holly proctor

[augustusaugustus]

14.91 Bang Bang, You’re Dead

Eddie ups the ante, making the relief think it’s Rosie who has the problem. They’ve really made him a genuinely malicious character now, although the seeds were sewn from the beginning when it comes to his manipulation and lies.

Liz is amazing, as always—always there to support her female colleagues.

Meanwhile, the team go paintballing and Derek is not impressed when Reg is declared team commander instead of him. Some nice Andrew moments (finally) and the iconic sight of Matt carving up his opponents in a Terminator helmet. And Tom and Jim conspiring together to bet on the right team.

[bruce-wyatt-burner]

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Holly Hicks

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📷 Justin Proctor

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April '24 reading diary

This month, I finished 9 books in a whole bunch of genres, some of which were fab!

I read a lot more nonfiction than usual this month, starting with On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes. Alexandra Horowitz recorded her conversations with a variety of experts as they walked through neighborhoods looking for examples of their interests, from bugs to typography to whatever attracted her toddler son. Like some reviewers I saw, I was disappointed that not all the walks were in the same neighborhood, which had appeared to be the premise. I also strongly recommend listening to the audiobook, as I did, because some of the conversational wording transcribed from her recordings is unnatural or repetitive written out. Anyway, a lot of the chapters are interesting, and the general theme of appreciating different things about your area by choosing to key in on a thought is great. A pleasant book.

Two great nonfiction books about clothes: Cally Blackman's 100 Years of Fashion, and Behind the Seams by Dolly Parton with Holly George-Warren and Rebecca Seaver. Both books are about fashion in the 20th century and a little bit beyond, and both are huge, heavy books full of the most glorious, well-chosen photographs. Blackman's is nicely organized around themes and not strictly by year, showing not only high fashion, but also the clothes of counterculture scenes and working women. This is a great resource. Parton's book, of course, is about her own stage costumes, and some other clothes people have made for her. It's also a memoir of her changing style and the professionals who contributed to it. Lots of fun.

The best nonfiction book I read this month (and possibly in the past year) was Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin. His written voice is exceptionally strong, able to explain large amounts of historical context without it ever feeling dry or overwhelming. Faloyin makes powerful breakdowns of historical misconceptions and contemporary stereotypes, includes a hugely funny "how-to" guide on writing an awful movie set in Africa, and draws memorable comparisons between political corruption in Western and African nations. There is a description of young men striving not to allow anyone outside their friend group to hold the highest offices in their country, phrased so that the final punch line is that they were talking about the United Kingdom that I think is one of the most effective freeform arguments I've ever read. I very much hope other people will pick this up.

On the fiction side, Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto has been on my radar since it was new. I understand why it was such a hit, but I was disappointed! The book was advertised to me as a murder mystery and romance, neither of which I'd say is true. It's a family screwball comedy! It does that very well, but I got tired of the number of plot beats that required someone to be very silly indeed, and I was never sold on Meddy's logic in multiple plot threads. I don't think I'll read the next.

The short story collection Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor is a mixed bag, like every short story collection in the world. I think he's very skilled on a technical level at creating characters with complete lives and histories implied in a short space, and some of them have interesting things to say about how people reach out, lash out, struggle with guilt and illness, and the problem of kitsch (not in the sense of knickknacks, but of the denial of shit). I do find the stories pretty bleak, and I was very unimpressed with the interconnecting elements. The stories that link are about Lionel, a test proctor who recently survived a suicide attempt, and several dancers, two of whom he begins a poly relationship with. Except for the first, these stories neither stand alone well nor build on each other as a sequence. The relationship is written with a dangerous, taboo edge, largely because these people never properly have any conversations about it, which I found irritating. I'm glad to be familiar with Taylor's work now, but I think he gets in his own way trying to shock in all of the weaker stories.

I also read a single Edith Wharton short story that I didn't realize wasn't a novel until I opened the ebook. It's the wonderful "Xingu," in which a ladies' intellectual lunch club finds themselves at a loss trying to talk to their superior and unfriendly guest, until their least popular member pipes up to ask a question about Xingu. They all follow her lead, trying all the while to infer what, exactly, Xingu is. Great little satire of how people want to look current more than they want to enjoy things.

I grabbed Heartstopper vol. 1 because I needed a banned comic for a challenge, and that's almost synonymous with being a popular LGBTQ+ comic for young people. Frustrated hand gestures. Anyway, this is very sweet, would be totally appropriate for middle schoolers as well (it's sold as YA), and I somehow hadn't realized before that Alice Oseman is the same person who did a webcomic about a band I used to read from time to time when I was younger. I would have liked this a lot more when I was a teenager myself, but it's nostalgic and happy, so I may read the rest.

I'm still reading Lymond and in early April I finished the 3rd of 6 books, The Disorderly Knights. I had a very messy response to this one! I did in fact enjoy it tremendously, and it's technically excellent, full of things that grabbed me and kept me excited to read more every night. I love my problematic bestie Francis and many of the people around him. It also most sharply of the series so far shows upsetting attitudes of Dunnett's by participating in '60s rape culture and Islamophobia that I went beyond being critical of to angry about. It simply wouldn't have been published like this now. I still gave it four stars and I may even go up to five when I have a better sense of how it fits in the long arc of the series. In a thinner or less tailored to me series, these feelings couldn't coexist, but they do, and that's very much shared by everyone else I've been talking to the books about. I'm really glad I have people to talk to them about! It's a long-standing but not very Online^tm fandom. I'm already halfway through the next book.

[tempest-toss]

A list would be helpful! Sometimes it's a little tricky to pick out one muse in particular from a whole ton so lists work super well!

Roger that, here we are! (It's long I'm sorry)

[Also which memory meme: this one, or this one, or both? After all some characters may benefit from memories directly from the muse)

One - The Archivist of the Council, human, coffee addict ~~~

Three - "Noble", the biological son of Dr. Wondertainment, modified Midas touch ~~~~

Four - Embodiment of Nature, husband to several, father of many, Werewolf-Stag creature, a figure of worship, Big Three, founder, sealer of Scarlet King ~~~~

Five - "The Child" 538+ years old, super psychic, a knitter of plushies, Big Three ~~~~

Six - A Glyocklen, can shift into his frost dragon form, Big Three ~~~~

Seven - "Sleeper Agent", former Insurgency assassin, eliminator of traitors, extremely skilled ~~~~

Eight - "Quiet", dating Thirteen, has the ability to forcibly mute people, Council therapist, extremely kind and patient ~~~~

Nine - "Alechemist" android designed to think it was normal, revealed truth at The Factory, nervous, helped eliminate a traitor ~~~~~

Ten - "Gamer" Little brother to 2006, ability to interact and manipulate digital world, can travel to other worlds, boyfriend to Four, formerly of a hacker group "Neon Nightsticks" ~~~~~

Eleven - "Godfather", Former leader of mafia "Cracked Clubs", former site director of Site 230, fatherly figure, immune to anomalies affecting the mind ~~~~~

Twelve - "The Swarm", part bug, from another world, bitter to many, kind to bug-people, laid groundwork to potential undo the damage of the WVBC ~~~~

Thirteen - "The Sniper", Veteran, legally dead, has PTSD, girlfriend of Eight, great at hand sewing, infinite sniper ammo ~~~~

13-ii - "Old Ai", Tempest's version of 079, integrated into Foundation's systems, has lied about killing no people, founder ~~~~~

Brahms "Yam" Yates - Son of Herb, rookie of Flora Fighters, defected, gay baby ~~~~~

Easel - First of Gallery a la Mort's Great Collaborations, only one to create life from painting, elder brother, gruff, doesn't trust Ophelia ~~~~~

Little Misters - Too varied to list out, please click the link ~~~~~

Marcus Woods - Attached to the Soul Locket, Haunted by the following people, please read both links for their info ~~~~~

Jawbone + W.T., Molar, Incisor, Canine - Propheteer of Children of the Deep Woods, blessed to split into four embodiments of his personality, technically a muse for a different blog ~~~~~

High Priest & Father Proctor - leaders of Four's cult, devout worshippers, cannibals, technically muses for a different blog ~~~~~

Morel - High guard for Flora Fighters, think Reinhardt from OW, the godfather of Yam, old buff gay ~~~~~

Holly Tome - daughter of One, trapped in Brunshire Academy, discoverer of way out of time loop ~~~~~

Any others you can think of? - You can ask for them evenif they aren't listed, but please specify whomst it is

[leanstooneside]

An elephant never forgets (SNAPE)

Nikki Reed's metering mouth

Stacy Keibler's evergreen mouth

Crystal Harris's shiny mouth

Fleetwood Mac's wireless mouth

Holly Madison's inert mouth

Kevin Jonas's hissy mouth

Carey Mulligan's combined mouth

Robin Thicke's worldly mouth

Cacee Cobb's permissible mouth

Angelina Pivarnick's doable mouth

Mena Suvari's insistent mouth

Carson Daly's intolerant mouth

Natalie Portman's materialistic mouth

Nacho Figueras's arrested mouth

Kaley Cuoco's wetting mouth

Blake Shelton's engraved mouth

Nelly Furtado's verbal mouth

Drake's swooning mouth

Kate Hudson's livid mouth

Teri Hatcher's winningest mouth

Holly Montag's sympathize mouth

Kate Beckinsale's eaten mouth

Alex O'Loughlin's executable mouth

Victoria Beckham's dedicated mouth

Jason Lewis's smokeless mouth

Kim Cattrall's skeleton mouth

Julian McMahon's unregulated mouth

Stephen Colletti's tallest mouth

Jacqueline Laurita's banned mouth

Elisabetta Canalis's disconnected mouth

Kanye West's occurring mouth

Chloe Moretz's self-taught mouth

Derek Hough's Proctor mouth

Patrick Swayze's supervisory mouth

Ben Flajnik's draining mouth

Carmelo Anthony's fermented mouth

Gwen Stefani's combined mouth

Mary-Louise Parker's entire mouth

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Description of podcast (10 episodes, first season complete)

"When a terrifying phenomenon starts redacting the Doctor from reality, three queer women become the world's only hope."

Cast: Cleo Proctor (Charlie Craggs), Abby McPhail (Lois Chimimba), Shawna Thompson (Holly Quin-Ankrah), Jordan Proctor (Jacob Hawley)

The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Rani Chandra (Anjili Mohindra), Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave), Petronella Osgood (Ingrid Oliver)

FINALLY binged Redacted all the way through. Easier now that it's complete on podcasts.

It's a little scrappy but so, so good.

Among many good moments, one little detail jumped out at me, which I think might be kind of a big deal for trans fans.

So, at the risk of giving away a minor spoiler — (that two characters do eventually meet):

The Doctor and protagonist seek clues in the latter's childhood memories, when she was pre-transition.

In talking over what they see, the Doctor refers to the protag once or twice as "that little girl."

I mean, yes, it's the truth. But it's powerful having the Doctor able to see you, not just now, but then.

[nofatclips]

My Rajneesh by Sufjan Stevens b/w America

[augustusaugustus]

14.90 The Party's Over (part one)

DEAKIN: Any questions? SKASE: Where are the paracetamol?

😍

John doesn’t like being called a “little ginger short-arse”, largely because it’s true.

The real crime in this episode is John’s hair. I'm glad that terrible side part was only present in a few episodes because nope. Absolutely not.

This felt more like a two-parter than a one hour episode, due to the Rod & Tom storyline ending at the half-way point and the mugging story beginning. That part was a bit jarring, but the escalation of things between Eddie and Rosie was handled nicely—particularly Eddie’s manipulation of the relief.

Separating it into two posts because I took a LOT of caps. This one focuses on the Rosie & Eddie plot and the mugging storyline.

[bruce-wyatt-burner]

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[sarahjaneadventures]

hello hello and welcome back to the blue box files!!

[eyra]

Things I've researched for fics

Thanks for the tag @wanderingbandurria​! I bloody love a bit of research. I’ve just had a quick scroll through my Google history and can present you with such gems as:

“do larks live in england”

“does juniper smell good”

“when was the north star discovered”

“how is satin made”

Look I never said I was clever, alright.

Favourite bits of actual research:

The Holly King (wolfstar, 4.7k)

Remus in Hollow Places was sort of vaguely based around the idea of the Green Man - some sort of symbol of growth or the forest or something. Vaguely. But then I started writing The Holly King, and really liked the idea of Sirius being somehow winter’s answer to whatever Remus was doing in summer, and as I dug into it I realised I’d sort of accidentally written them as the Oak King and the Holly King, which I then spent an age reading about. It’s so lovely: an Oak King to rule over the forest in the summer, whose power then transfers to a Holly King for the colder months. In some versions of the myth they’re brothers, in others they’re rivals. In mine they are cute cottagecore boyfriends. It helped that I’d recently seen The Green Knight - there’s a whole thing about the battle between Gawain and the knight being another retelling of the Holly King and the Oak King, endlessly transferring power to one another, year after year. Either way, I loved translating the myth to the Hollow Places world:

The summers remain as glorious as they always were, Remus their ever-loyal steward, wielding the waters and the rains and the lush, verdant ivies and plucking fresh mushrooms from gnarled roots in the forest floor, and then the wheel turns, and the faithful year hands itself over to darker days and winter mornings and Sirius, lighting the evergreens with glowing golden orbs and gathering red berries from the highest branches so that they might garland the cottage together, and keeping Remus warm through the frozen nights. 

That’s how the title came about, in the end - that story was originally called The Old Solstice.

The Proctor House (wolfstar, 5.2k)

What’s a saltbox? How many men would it take, reasonably, to build one? What sort of sweets would a travelling market in the 1800s in New England sell, and how much would they cost? Enquiring minds want to know!

Beneath a Big Blue Sky (wolfstar, 68.2k)

Being off of rural Yorkshire myself I already had a passable knowledge of the basics of how farms work - I once did a summer feeding pigs and such - but I knew little about lambing. I watched a lot of videos that made me feel slightly unwell, and I read a lot about orphan lambs so that I knew exactly what we needed to do with young Snuffles, and I kid you not since I wrote this story I’ve not eaten so much as a mouthful of lamb. Can’t do it - too attached now. Lamb is delicious but I just cannot. Feels like I’m eating Snuffles.

Tagging anyone who hasn’t done this and wishes to - just say I tagged you! x

[midnighttexasrpg]

[wutbju]

So BJU runs the BJU General Alumni group on Facebook. Talking in there is like talking in the Snack Shop or what they call "The Den" now. Sure, there's a semblance of "liberty," but let's not kid ourselves, friends.

The latest thing they are trying to do is utterly juvenile. I'm not the only one who thinks so. But the local celebrity and Friend of the Archive, Jeremiah Dew, and former BJU faculty member, Holly Stratton, are conducting an alumni podcast to keep the alumni connected to their alma mater. But they are trying to peddle the idea that BJU's "dating" life is well . . . quaint and charming. The latest weirdest -- which many WutBJU readers have written in to alert me -- is that two members of the Class of 2021 called Jeremiah Dew ON THEIR HONEYMOON!?!!?!

Seriously. Look.

Grant and Alexandra (Sigmon) Proctor, a pair of 2021 grads, answered JDew's phone call while on their honeymoon! Our co-hosts Holly and JDew catch up with the "youngest" (at the time of this recording) BJU Alumni married couple while they sit on the beach in Cancun. Grant also tells a great story about how paranoid he was when Alexandra didn't show up at the altar on their wedding day!

Do you have an interesting story about dating your future spouse at BJU? Send an email to bjualums@gmail.com and JDew will be in touch!

So if you'd like to be a public part of this BJU strangeness, email Jeremiah today!

[sapphichymns]

Doctor Who enters a new dimension as new spin-off podcast, Doctor Who: Redacted lands on BBC Sounds.

The 10-part series will begin alongside the television Easter special on April 17, giving fans a brand new podcast of action-packed adventures ‘left’ of the much loved science-fiction series. Listeners will be introduced to characters, Cleo Proctor (Charlie Craggs), Abby McPhail (Lois Chimimba) and Shawna Thompson (Holly Quin-Ankrah) - alongside some familiar faces including the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Rani Chandra, Kate Stewart, Petronella Osgood and Madame Vastra.

Doctor Who: Redacted follows Cleo, Abby and Shawna - three broke university drop-outs from different cities across the UK who remain connected via their paranormal conspiracy podcast, ‘The Blue Box Files’. The trio speculate over Abby’s favourite conspiracy theory – intent on finding out the truth behind the mysterious ‘Blue Box’ that keeps cropping up across history. What if this random police public call box was actually an alien ship?

They don’t know who the Doctor is, or if aliens are real, but soon find themselves caught in a supernatural conspiracy as they learn that everyone who’s ever met the Doctor is disappearing and being forgotten. Essentially, they’re being redacted from reality. The Blue Box Files is so unsuccessful that our heroes are the last ones to be affected by the redaction, making Cleo, Abby and Shawna the world’s only hope. Now it’s a race against time to uncover the truth.

Set in the Doctor Who universe, the series entangles past and current storylines, cameos from the Doctor’s friends and allies, as well as appearances from monsters and aliens, identifiable to fans and non-fans alike.When Cleo’s brother Jordan, (played by comedian Jacob Hawley), gets redacted, they spend the rest of the series trying to find him. In the meantime Cleo is dealing with a mother who kicked her out for being trans when she was 16, whilst trying to find out what happened to her Dad – who mysteriously ‘disappeared’ when she was a kid. As the series unfolds we find Abby – the resident believer and Shawna – the sceptic, grapple with their own tribulations on the edge of a will-they, won’t-they romance, despite Abby’s controlling boyfriend.

Doctor Who: Redacted is scripted by bestselling author Juno Dawson, alongside a host of new and experienced writing talent, with a strong emphasis on diversity and regionality. The audio drama primarily explores the relationships between ordinary people unknowingly immersed in the Doctor Who universe.

[harvardfineartslib]

Our second post for National Photography Month features the Andrew S. Dibner Collection of Tintypes, which includes more than 16,000 tintypes, mostly unidentified 19th century portraits produced by studio and itinerant photographers in New England, the Mid-Atlantic, eastern Canada, and elsewhere. Massachusetts physician Andrew S. Dibner collected these photographs between 1992 – 2003.

[Andrew S. Dibner collection of tintypes] Dibner, Andrew S., 1926- [collector, donor]   [ca. 1856-ca. 1910] 16,159 photographs : tintypes, some hand colored ; plates 26 x 19 cm or smaller. Photographers unidentified on about 95 percent of the images. Some identified photographers include: A.E. Alden, George W. Godfrey & Co., C.L. Lovejoy, John H. Wood, A.K.P. Trask, George K. Proctor, G.P. Lasselle, and Simon Wing. Alden, Augustus Ephraim, 1837-1914 [photographer] Trask, A. K. P. (Albion K. P.), 1830-1900 [photographer] HOLLIS number: 990121285490203941

Image 1: Untitled (two men, three women, seated and standing, full-length, outdoor architectural backdrop) Unidentified Artist 9 x 6 cm (3 9/16 x 2 3/8 in.) HOLLIS Number: FAL68589

Image 2: Untitled (portrait) Unidentified Artist 9 x 6 cm (3 9/16 x 2 3/8 in.) HOLLIS Number: FAL25646

Image 3: Untitled (three women, seated and standing, full-length, frontal view, interior backdrop) Unidentified Artist 9 x 6 cm (3 9/16 x 2 3/8 in.) HOLLIS Number: FAL64898