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exhausted-joy · 6 years ago

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SUPER RICH KIDS [YANDERE!BTS] [01]

CHAPTER ONE.

SYNOPSIS: Every summer, the super rich (albeit troublesome) kids of South Korea get sent to a three month long correctional camp in the ancient city of Gyeongju. While you aren't at all a delinquent, your parents decide to send you anyway, claiming you need to 'get out more' and 'live a fulfilling life'. Everything is going swell at first--that is, until you accidentally butt your head into something you aren't supposed to. Things quickly loop into a downward spiral and instead of choosing the right answers on a mock exam, you find yourself bouncing between life and death. Is this what happens when you leave the safety of your bedroom? It doesn’t take long for you to realize that you never should have left.

The instances of arguing with your parents, getting made fun of by your friends, and crying yourself to sleep all seem like distant memories as you stand in front of your parents' silver Lamborghini Gallardo, luggage at your sides, waving goodbye at them for the last time. The time has finally come for your to departure from Seoul and the five hour journey to Gyeongju, where you will stay for three months doing busy work, chores, and other various activities.

And to not get anything confused, you are not excited in the least. In fact, you would probably feel more emotion while watching paint dry than thinking about your current ordeal.

After your parents finally maneuver out of the drop-off lane and out of the parking lot, you roll your two suitcases towards the awaiting bus driver who neatly slides them in the luggage compartment on the side of the bus. He collects your ticket and smiles pleasantly, telling you it's okay to board the bus. You give him a stiff smile, your eyes practically devoid of life as you robotically make your way towards the entryway, climb up the stairs, and find a lonely window seat all the way in the back of the bus.

You silently pray that no one will sit next to you as you set your carry-on bag down on the floor between your legs, your eyes wandering towards the window to watch the rest of the kids put their stuff away and hand in their bus tickets. You sigh sadly, knowing it's a futile thing to wish for. The camp brought in kids from all over South Korea, and there were even rumors that its prestige attracted some from North Korea and America. The buses were bound to be packed with as many kids as possible as all the available spots would have been filled due to high demand.

Thinking back to the text about extended stay you got from Do-Han, you feel as if you really are being sent to a boot camp or prison of sorts. Here you are, on a government-issued transportation vehicle, full of troubled boys and girls that you have no business being associated with. Kids who actually need to be on ones of these buses, ready to receive help and rehabilitation. There were so many horror stories surrounding the camp that seemed so elementary, yet so painfully probable, that it made your stomach churn at the mere thought of meeting foreigners who most likely don't speak in the same dialect or even language as you.

Your thoughts are interrupted by a sudden weight plopping down in the seat beside you. You snap your head in the direction of the intruder in slight alarm, scrunching your nose up in discomfort at their close proximity.

A boy who looks to be about your age now occupies the once empty seat, his darkly colored fringe spilling over his forehead and into his striking brown eyes. He looks stressed and is breathing heavily, his chest heaving underneath his stark black t-shirt made of.. leather? You don't know what kind of fashion sense is trending nowadays, but the white collar of a dress shirt sticking out from beneath it and heavily ripped jeans is really making a statement. One that screams ‘wannabe gangster’.

Observing closely, he seems to be looking at something at the front of the bus, but he keeps his head down low behind the seat in front of him. Is he hiding from someone? Did he sneak on the bus without the bus driver noticing? Is he a runaway fugitive using this bus as a getaway? Questions race through your mind so quickly that it blurs your focus, and you don't notice the boy turn his attention towards you, until he taps your shoulder.

You jolt at the contact and clash eyes with him, suddenly feeling embarrassment rise up within your chest at spacing out. Oh gosh, he was going to talk to you now, wasn't he? It was already bad enough that he sat next to you, and now a conversation?

"Please, pretend you're my sister."

There was no introduction, no 'hello, how are you', just a simple plea that leaves you gaping. You sit there and try to formulate an intelligible response, but it's all so sudden that you think your vocal cords may have imploded. After a few moments of no reply, he grabs your bicep and shakes it urgently, his eyes darting feverishly towards a couple of boys walking down the aisle, who are eyeing both you and the quivering boy next to you.

Gathering up your willpower and courage, the cogs in your mind finally begin turning again and you slap the dark-haired boy in the arm. He looks at you with his eyes wide in shock, but relaxes once he sees the playful smile that tugs at your lips.

"Yah, oppa! Why are you sweating so much? You're going to smell later!" You hope he doesn't notice the tremble of your voice, your so-so acting skills, or the pained expression on your face when you say 'oppa'. You also hope that none of this has anything to do with the threatening-looking boys who take the seats in the isle across from you and your new brother. With a sliver of dread forming in your stomach, you begin to think it does at the glares of confusion and irritation they send your way.

Quickly, the boy falls into character. He lets out a sheepish laugh, rubbing the back of his damp neck bashfully.

"S-Sorry, I didn't think it'd be so hot today. I would have worn something better." You pretend to be annoyed and roll your eyes, letting a soft sigh escape your lips. Leaning back in your seat, you carefully watch the two boys from the corner of your eyes and see them engaged in deep conversation, no longer paying any attention to you or the strange boy. You glance at him and gesture towards the other two boys, and he peeks at them for a split-second before letting out a quiet breath of relief.

You open your mouth to say something, but the boy cuts you off, telling you to whisper. Doing as he asks, you let the questions tumble from your mouth like a competing gymnast.

"W-Who are you? And who are those guys? Why are you so scared?" Your eyes widen in curiosity as he takes a deep breath and runs a hand through his dark hair, his brow creasing.

"I'm Park Jimin. I'm sorry I made you do that but those guys," Jimin pauses as he glances at the two sketchy boys in the seats across from you, still heavily immersed in conversation. "are out for my head. I can't tell you much, but there's an unspoken rule that opposing members can't attack us if we're in the presence of others."

'Opposing members'? What is this, the Bloods and Crips? You are about to shoot him down with more probing questions, but the announcement box cuts you off.

"The seven a.m. bus to Gyeongju will now depart. Please buckle in your seatbelts and remain seated at all times unless it's to use the lavatory. Keep all handbags and carry-ons underneath the seat in front of you and refrain from blocking the isles. Standby for more instructions." A ping of static lets you know the announcement is over. You hadn’t even noticed all the seats become occupied due to your little endeavor. Turning your attention back to Jimin, you notice his expression has become solemnly hard. He looks straight ahead, his pink lips pulled into a thin, tight line.

Without even sparing a glance at you, he single-handedly bats away all your queries, even though you haven't even said a word yet.

"Listen, I can't tell you anything right now—not with those lunatics so close. All you need to know is that you're involved now, and we can talk more at the camp. Now, please, don't look suspicious ."

You purse your lips, gulping. What would await you at the camp and what exactly did you just get yourself into? All the unanswered questions practically drive you up the wall, but you decide to stay silent after Jimin's demand. In fact, the whole bus seems to be blanketed in a suffocating silence, as if everyone on board could feel the clutches of impending doom claw up their throats, too.

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sweetsummersansa-blog · 7 years ago

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EVERY SINGLE DETAIL THAT PROVES JONSA IS ENDGAME!

OKAY SO HERE IT IS! Instead of focusing on University and schoolwork and basically all 1 000 000 more important things I need to do, I’ve written this collection of EVERY. SINGLE. REASON why Jonsa will happen in the books and/or show… or all of them I can remember at least! There are honestly so much! Brace yourselves, for it is long (and full of spoilers if you aren’t caught up in the books or show), but I have tried to organize it best I can, and promise you it will be worth the read!!!

Are your Jonsa shipping hearts ready? Okay! Here we go!

SECTION A - SO MANY NED AND CAT 2.0 PARALELLS!

Let me just start off by saying that of all the romantic couples ever to have been shown/talked about in ASOIAF and GOT, Ned and Cat have been shown to be the strongest, healthiest and as close to perfect as any married couple can get. Their love didn’t come in an instant crazy passion (which GRRM makes pretty clear that he thinks those kind of relationships are unrealistic or doomed from the start, as he shits on those kinds of pairings -Robb/Jeyne/Talisa; Rhaegar/Lyanna; Sansa/Joffrey; Tyrion/Tysha; etc.) Ned and Cat built their relationship stone by stone and they had the happiest of marriages in the series. Cat even calls Ned “The rock I built my life upon” … I mean that’s just beautiful.

Okay! That being established, there is just soooo much evidence in the show and books that points to Jon and Sansa being set up as Ned/Cat 2.0 and thus, foreshadowing that they will end up together…. And here it is:

1)-Parallels in the way they look (Books and Show)

Jon is the Stark child that looks most like Ned (Ned 2.0) – even more than Ned’s trueborn children, while

Sansa is the Stark child that looks the most like Cat (Cat 2.0) - this has been emphasized A LOT in the books and show, I don’t really think I need to get into the details because it’s been stated soooo many times and it’s pretty obvious.

But I will note that even the costumes and hair choices made for both Jon and Sansa in the show are definitely made to parallel Ned and Cat. Take a look:

**BONUS: Michelle Clampton said in an interview that Sansa’s costumes have a pattern that is almost fishlike, referencing her mother and her Tully blood (Cat 2.0).

Also, when Sansa gave Jon his cloak, she made it specifically to look like the one their father wore (Ned 2.0).

2)- Parallels in the way they act (Books and Show)

Jon/Ned parallels : Honor is very important to Jon, just as it was to Ned, and Jon often channels Ned when making decisions in the story: EXAMPLE: Jon Snow executes Janos Slynt in the same way Ned Stark executed the deserter from the Night’s Watch

And can we just take a moment to appreciate this…

I saw this on google, so I don’t know the original poster, can someone tell me if they know whom the gif set belonged to?

Sansa/Catelyn parallels:

Sansa often channels her mother to give her strength when she needs to be strong in the story. EX: Sansa says in the books “I must be as strong as my Lady mother”

I also want to point out that Sansa resembles Cat so much, in personality as well as looks, that Creepyfinger projected his obsession with Cat onto Sansa… and even went so far as to murder a King out of obsession for her.

3)-Both Ned/Cat and Jon/Sansa built their relationship stone by stone (Show)

Like Ned and Cat, Jon and Sansa have been building their relationship stone by stone ever since they reunited. Jon and Sansa had the most estranged relationship out of all the Stark “siblings” and now, they have become the closest. This all happened stone by stone.

It started out with little things- like Sansa gifting Jon with a Stark cloak she made- and then developed into the both of them being able to place huge amounts of trust in each other - i.e Jon entrusting Sansa to rule the North for him.

4)- Jon/Sansa scenes are shot in the same way as Ned/Cat scenes (Show)

Just look at this! In FOUR instances, THREE being separate instances over the span of two episodes in the most recent season, Jon and Sansa scenes were shot EXACTLY the way Ned and Catelyn scenes were shot. Same camera angles and everything! There is no way in hell this is a coincidence. This is deliberate!

THE SHOWRUNNERS ARE DELIBERATELY PARALELLING JON/SANSA AS NED/CAT 2.0! …But okay… if you need more proof that Jonsa will be endgame, wait right there honey because I gots a hell of a lot more up my sleeve! Let’s continue, shall we?

SECTION B - FORSHADOWING OF JON AND SANSA REBUILDING WINTERFELL/THE NORTH TOGETHER (BOOKS AND SHOW)

1-) Foreshadowing of Jon and Sansa being an excellent team as King and Queen (of the North)

When discussing battle strategy with Stannis, (in the show and especially the books) Jon shows impeccable knowledge about the North- its houses, its people, its strength and weaknesses… basically everything that a good Warden/King of the North should know. Why show this is such detail if it isn’t going to be useful/foreshadow something further down the line – as in him using that knowledge to defend the North when he rules it?

Sansa has learned from the very best in The Game – (Littlefinger, Margery, Cersei) and has proven to be very politically savvy in both the show and the books. Again, why bother giving her character these skills if she isn’t going to use them?

With Jon being the military man and Sansa being the political mastermind, they are both foreshadowed in the books to be the other half each other needs to rule well.

This is then PROVEN in the show

The show has shown Jon and Sansa to be a very good team as King in the North and Lady of Winterfell. Jon is a great military man, and is working hard to defend the North. Sansa is very politically savvy and great at managing domestic responsibilities as well (ex: food stores, clothing and armor). They work well together…almost as if they were a married couple?

Why show them as being a very efficient team to such detail unless to set them up to be King and Queen together in the end?

...SEE even Sophie Turner ships it! (anyone know the original maker of this gif set, for credit purposes?)

2-) Both Jon and Sansa dream of recreating the Winterfell of their childhood and putting their family back together (Books).

Jon’s Dream:

“I would need to steal her if I wanted her love, but she might give me children. I might someday hold a son of my own blood in my arms. A son was something Jon Snow had never dared dream of, since he decided to live his life on the Wall. I could name him Robb. Val would want to keep her sister’s son, but we could foster him at Winterfell, and Gilly’s boy as well. Sam would never need to tell his lie. We’d find a place for Gilly too, and Sam could come visit her once a year or so. Mance’s son and Craster’s would grow up brothers, as I once did with Robb. He wanted it, Jon knew then. He wanted it as much as he had ever wanted anything”

- Jon dreams of having a son named Robb, taking his father’s place in the family (and also raising Mance’s and Craters’s son in the way Ned raised Robb and Jon).

Sansa’s Dream:

“If I give him sons, he may come to love me. She would name them Edward and Brandon and Rickon […] In Sansa’s dreams, he children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like Arya”

-Sansa dreams of having sons named Bran and Rickon and a daughter like Arya, taking her mother’s place in the family.

Notice that Jon and Sansa’s fantasies complete each other – or complete the Stark family when put together. The only person who is missing from their fantasies are themselves and each other.

And while their fantasies are with other people (Val and Willas) they do not feature their significant other in their fantasy much… they fantasize about those people as being filler roles for the mother/father of their children in their hypothetical family. They are not important to fulfilling the fantasy at all.

And truly, Jon and Sansa are the only ones who knew what each other’s childhood in Winterfell were like, and they are the only two people in the whole series who share this dream. Thus, they are the only ones who can realistically bring the other’s fantasy to life. Them sharing this particular dream foreshadows that they are each other’s perfect partner/soulmate. Together they will make their dreams a reality.

3)- Sansa literally rebuilt Winterfell out of SNOW (Books and show)

In case you didn’t get that… SANSA REBUILT WINTERFELL OUT OF SNOW (A.K.A JON)

**BONUS: In the books, while building the castle Sansa “could feel the SNOW on her lashes, she could taste the SNOW on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams (a reference to the dream she and Jon share of raising a family in Winterfell?) […] Drifting snowflakes brushed her face AS LIGHT AS A LOVER’S KISS”

There is also more text in the beginning of the chapter linking Jon with this scene:

“The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. All color had fled the world outside. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same. Her boots tore ankle-deep holes into the smooth white surface of the snow, yet made no sound”

This passage strangely reminds me of Ghost, Jon’s direwolf. I mean “ghostly silence” and Sansa not making a sound when walking in snow…Ghost is said to make no sound when he walks (which is why Jon gave him that name) just like Sansa in this quote. Also, Sansa sees the world around her in “whites blacks and greys”, almost as if she’s colour blind… colorblind like a direwolf.

**BONUS 2: Jon literally dreams about rebuilding Winterfell in the books: “Winterfell, he thought, Theon left it burned and broken, but I could restore it. Surely his father would have wanted that, and Robb as well. They would never have wanted the castle left in ruins”

Alright with all that said and done, now I’ll just finish this section right here with this little gem of a quote of Sansa’s while she was Alayne Stone:

“Stone and Snow, that was all that was left of Winterfell. Just like she and Jon”

SECTION C: JON BEING SANSA’S ONLY HERO (BOOKS)

1)-Jon as Prince Aemon the Dragon Knight

Okay, so to begin, I would like to draw everyone’s attention to this passage in the books about Jon and Robb:

“Every morning they had trained together, since they were big enough to walk; Snow and Stark, spinning and slashing about the wards of Winterfell, shouting and laughing, sometimes crying when there was no one else to see. They were not little boys when they fought, but knights and mighty heroes.

“I’m Prince Aemon the Dragonknight,” Jon would call out, and Robb would shout back, “Well, I’m Florian the Fool.” Or Robb would say, “I’m the Young Dragon,” and Jon would reply, “I’m Ser Ryam Redwyne. That morning he called it first. "I'm Lord of Winterfell!" he cried, as he had a hundred times before."

This particular passage foreshadows Robb’s fate.

His first hero, Florian the fool, was indeed a fool and died because of his love for Jonquil. In that respect, Robb was also a fool and chose love/a woman over his duty, and he also died because of it.

Robb also parallels his second hero the Young dragon. Read this conversation between Jon and Benjen:

"Daeron Targaryen was only fourteen when he conquered Dorne," Jon said. The Young Dragon was one of his heroes.

"A conquest that lasted a summer," his uncle pointed out. "Your Boy King lost ten thousand men taking the place, and another fifty trying to hold it. Someone should have told him that war isn't a game." He took another sip of wine. "Also," he said, wiping his mouth, "Daeron Targaryen was only eighteen when he died. Or have you forgotten that part?"

Both Robb and the Young Dragon were very young when they began playing at war, and both were very good at it – I will remind everyone that Robb was an excellent battle commander who won every battle he fought. He also died very young, just like the Young Dragon.

So, if this passage accurately foreshadowed Robb’s fate, we can assume it will accurately foreshadow Jon’s fate as well.

Jon will become - narratively speaking - Aemon the Dragonknight. Prince Aemon has been referred to as the noblest knight who ever lived, (by Arianne Martell explicitely and the majority of people in Westeros) and we all know how much Sansa wants a true and noble knight!

What is more, is that Prince Aemon was famously in love with Naerys –HIS SISTER.

Prince Aemon once won a tourney after his brother Aegon had forbidden him to take part, because Aegon wanted to crown his mistress of that time as the queen of love and beauty instead of Naerys. Disguised as the Knight of Tears, Aemon won the tournament and named Naerys Targaryen as queen of love and beauty in place of the mistress.

The love between Aemon and Naerys makes for arguably the most famous of love stories in all of the seven kingdoms.

Thus, as foreshadowing goes, Jon being Aemon the Dragonknight will have a romantic relationship with his sister (or sister turned cousin) Sansa.

Adding to this, in Sansa’s chapters, Prince Aemon comes up very often:

“Father, I only just now remembered, I can’t go away, I’m to marry Prince Joffrey.” She tried to smile bravely for him. “I love him, Father, I truly truly do, I love him as much as Queen Naerys loved Prince Aemon the Dragonknight” –Sansa to Ned

“Sweet one,” her father said gently, “listen to me. When you’re old enough, I will make you a match with a high lord who’s worthy of you, someone brave and gentle and strong. This match with Joffrey was a terrible mistake. That boy is no Prince Aemon, you must believe me.” – Ned to Sansa

“There are gods, she told herself, and there are true knights too. All the stories can’t be lies. […] She shouted for Ser Dontos, for her brothers, for her dead father and her dead wolf, for gallant Ser Loras who had given her a red rose once, but none of them came. She called for the heroes from the songs, for Florian and Ser Ryam Redwyne and Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, but no one heard” – Sansa’s thoughts. In this quote we see all 3 knights Florian, Ser Ryam Redwyne and Prince Aemon the Dragonknight come up again.

“True knights.” The queen seemed to find that wonderfully amusing. “No doubt you’re right. So why don’t you just eat your broth like a good girl and wait for Symeon Star-Eyes and Prince Aemon the Dragonknight to come rescue you, sweetling. I’m sure it won’t be very long now.” – Cersei to Sansa

Original poster of this theory was @butterflies-dragons I suggest you read the whole post linked here because it’s amazing and full of other foreshadowing moments! : https://butterflies-dragons.tumblr.com/post/162797291864/sansa-stark-a-wolf-with-dragon-wings-i-an

2)- Jon as Syemon Star-Eyes

Symeon Star-Eyes is a legendary figure from the Age of Heroes who was blind. He is described in tales as a knight even though chivalry came to Westeros thousands of years. He is also a knight associated with Jon who shows up reputedly in Sansa’s chapters.

Here is Jon being associated with Syemon Star-Eyes for the first time:

“There was a knight once who couldn’t see,” Bran said stubbornly, as Ser Rodrik went on below. “Old Nan told me about him. He had a long staff with blades at both ends and he could spin it in his hands and chop two men at once.”

“Symeon Star-Eyes,” Luwin said as he marked numbers in a book. “When he lost his eyes, he put star sapphires in the empty sockets, or so the singers claim. Bran, that is only a story, like the tales of Florian the Fool. A fable from the Age of Heroes.” The maester tsked. “You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.”

The mention of dreams reminded him. “I dreamed about the crow again last night. The one with three eyes. He flew into my bedchamber and told me to come with him, so I did. We went down to the crypts. Father was there, and we talked. He was sad.”

“And why was that?” Luwin peered through his tube.

“It was something to do about Jon, I think” –Bran to Maester Lewin

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“Those old histories are full of kings who reigned for hundreds of years, and knights riding around a thousand years before there were knights. You know the tales, Brandon the Builder, Symeon Star-Eyes, Night’s King … we say that you’re the nine-hundred-and-ninety-eighth Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, but the oldest list I’ve found shows six hundred seventy-four commanders, which suggests that it was written during—”

“Long ago,” Jon broke in. “What about the Others?”

This is a conversation between Jon AND Sam (the only chapter that overlaps across ADWD and AFFC).

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“Not every man has it in him to be Prince Aemon the Dragonknight or Symeon Star-Eyes”

- Manderly to Davos. Jon isn’t mentioned in this passage, but I found it interesting how Symeon Star-Eyes is again associated with Prince Aemon the Dragonknight.

Some people think these parallels means Jon will be blind, but I think its a Jonsa foreshadowing.

3)-Execution of Janos Slynt

This is a CONCRETE EXAMPLE of Jon becoming Sansa’s actual hero! Take a look!

“Frog-faced Lord Slynt sat at the end of the council table wearing a black velvet doublet and a shiny cloth-of-gold cape, nodding with approval every time the king pronounced a sentence. Sansa stared hard at his ugly face, remembering how he had thrown down her father for Ser Ilyn to behead, wishing she could hurt him, wishing that some hero would throw him down and cut off his head. But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes,”

-Sansa’s thoughts in AGOT.

Then, in ADWD Jon acted as Sansa’s hero and literally cuts off his head:

Emmett kicked his legs out from under him. Dolorous Edd planted a foot on his back to keep him on his knees as Emmett shoved the block beneath his head. “This will go easier if you stay still,” Jon Snow promised him. “Move to avoid the cut, and you will still die, but your dying will be uglier. Stretch out your neck, my lord.” The pale morning sunlight ran up and down his blade as Jon clasped the hilt of the bastard sword with both hands and raised it high. “If you have any last words, now is the time to speak them,” he said, expecting one last curse.

Janos Slynt twisted his neck around to stare up at him. “Please, my lord. Mercy. I’ll … I’ll go, I will, I …”

No, thought Jon. You closed that door. Longclaw descended.

Credit to @blindestspot she wrote about this in the post liked here: http://blindestspot.tumblr.com/post/50820774456/jonxsansa

4)-Jon refuses to take Sansa’s claim to the North away from her

Marriage/betrothals are a very important part of Sansa’s character arcs and storylines. She is the key to the North and a very valuable political pawn. Everyone wants to use her for her claim, and not one of her suitors came to love her for who she actually is. She comes to this realization in the books, and it totally breaks her heart.

“No one will ever marry me for love. It's my claim they want” –Sansa’s thoughts

However, in ADWD Jon says:

1- "By right, Winterfell should go to my sister Sansa." –Jon to Stannis in his first chapter. "Lady Lannister, you mean? Are you so eager to see the Imp perched on your father's seat? I promise you, that will not happen whilst I live, Lord Snow."

2- "Winterfell belongs to my sister Sansa." –Jon tells Stannis this AGAIN in another chapter later on. "I have heard all I need to hear of Lady Lannister and her claim." The king set the cup aside. "You could bring the north to me. Your father's bannermen would rally to the son of Eddard Stark

Jon is the only one who does not lust for Sansa’s claim on the North. When he is offered it, he refuses it and states TWICE that Winterfell and the North belong to Sansa and Sansa alone , despite the fact she married Tyrion– thus, being the only person who cares about Sansa more than her powerful political position and also foreshadowing that Jon will be the one to marry Sansa for love and not her claim on the North.

I don’t think it can get any more obvious without being too obvious that Jon is Sansa’s perfect hero, and that they will end up together at some point. #jonsaisendgame

But if you still aren't convinced that Jonsa will happen, don’t look away just yet! I still have many a more proofs to provide you with!

SECTION D: HISTORY (BOOKS AND SHOW)

Alright, so I suggest you guys go get some coffee because this section will get a little long. But I have made charts and put pictures to make it easier to follow… Basically I will explain why Jonsa is endgame based on history!

Here we go! So GRRM based his series on the War of the Roses that took place in England in the 15th century, and many of his characters parallel the key players during that war. Specifically, Jon Snow/Targaryen parallels Henry Tudor and Sansa Stark parallels Elizabeth of York – and these characters ended up MARRIED as King and Queen of England at the end of the war. So according to history, that means Jon and Sansa will be married as King and Queen at the end of the series too!

Want proof Jon is Henry and Sansa is Elizabeth? I gotchu! Here we go:

** Little reminder before we start: GRRM confirmed that the Yorks of England are represented by the Starks in ASOIAF, (and the Lancasters of England are represented by the Lannisters).

...Need I say more?

And because I’m lazy, I’m reposting this post of mine I made a while ago comparing Sansa to Elizabeth of York, it’s not as detailed as the Jon/Henry chart, but this is the gist of the parallels between Sansa and Elizabeth:

Here is the link to my original post about EoY if you want to see the gifs in better quality : https://sweetsummersansa.tumblr.com/post/164786372376/elizabeth-of-york-sansa-stark

Now for all historians who want to argue about who Richard III actually is in the series (I say LF but some say Tyrion) if you see Richard III as a Littlefinger- which I think is more fitting- then this last point, as all pints about Richard II, applies as illustrated by the images above.

But I also want to note that for those people who see Richard the III as Tyrion, this last point still fits because Sansa married Tyrion- so still a strange romantic relationship. And we can also argue that Sansa lived as a bastard because of Tyrion – since she posed as a bastard in hiding because she was wanted by the crown after Tyrion was charged with Joffrey’s murder- and she was Tyrion’s wife. We can also argue that Tyrion did have something to do with the downfall of the Stark family, (as pictured in point n.4) because Tyrion was captured by Cat, which set into motion the events leading to the War of the Five Kings.

Anyways… regardless of who you think Richard III is, one thing is perfectly clear: SANSA STARK IS ELIZABETH OF YORK! Meaning she will end up with Henry Tudor/Jon in the end!

***Also wanted to add:

-Both Sansa and Elizabeth are described as having red hair and being fair of face

-Both are/were a valuable political pawn: Sansa = Key to the North, used by people to gain access to the North by marriage. While Elizabeth = used to solidify the King Henry’s claim to the throne through marriage

-In this video, in which historians and GRRM talk about the war of the roses, Sansa is also compared to Elizabeth of York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOyUy5teWp. (Feel free to message me if the Sansa/Elizabeth parallels are unclear!)

**BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL: Despite marrying initially for purely political reasons, Henry and Elizabeth are known for having one of the most successful and loving marriages/relationships of the English monarchy – and they built this loving relationship STONE BY STONE!

Last thing! Take a look at the Tudor coat of arms:

ITS A DRAGON AND A DOG/WOLF STANDING BESIDE EACHOTHER (WITH A LION ON TOP). THE SEVEN KINGDOMS WILL SEE A DRAGON (JON TARGARYEN) AND A WOLF (SANSA STARK) RULE SIDE BY SIDE!!!! (maybe with a lion as hand of the King) #GETHYPEDJONSAFAM

Credit to @kitten1618x: I drew inspiration from this post linked below, especially for the Henry Tudor parallels and the Tudor flag/coat of arms bit. Her post is great, I really suggest you read it she did amazing research! : http://kitten1618x.tumblr.com/search/henry%20tudor

Okay! Whew! I know that was a longer section but hopefully everyone is still with me!

And now, for my next act in the Jonsa-Is-Endgame show, I will be discussing one of my favorite theories/pieces of proof that Jon and Sansa will be together by the end of ASOIAF: LET’S GO

SECTION E: ASHFORD TOURNEY (BOOKS)

This is one of the more popular theories that predict Jonsa being endgame. The Ashford Tourney theory is something found in the first Dunk and Egg novella, "The Hedge Knight." written by GRRM. Basically, it gives reason to believe that Sansa will end up with a Targaryen – and since Fake Aegon hasn’t been important enough to include in the show, we can safely assume that Targaryen will be JON!

In the Hedge Knight, Dunk and Egg go to a tourney held at Ashford to celebrate Lord Ashford's daughter's 13th name-day. The tourney at Ashford Meadow was a tourney hosted by House Ashford at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC. Lord Ashford staged the tourney to celebrate his daughter's thirteenth name day. His daughter was the queen of love and beauty and would have five champions to defend her honour.

The final five champions in the Tourney were:

⁃ Lyonel Baratheon

⁃ Leo Tyrell

⁃ Tybolt Lannister

⁃ Humfrey Hardyng

⁃ Prince Valarr Targaryen (a Targaryen with dark/brown hair)

These oddly correspond with all the men Sansa was betrothed/married to in ASOIAF.

⁃ Sansa’s first betrothed to Joffrey Baratheon

⁃ Sansa’s then planned to be wed to Willas/Loras Tyrell

⁃ Sansa’s married to Tyrion Lannister

- Sansa’s now being betrothed to Harry Hardyng (in the books)

So if logic follows… Sansa now has to be betrothed/married to a dark haired Targaryen… a.k.a Jon Targaryen!

…C’mon, this is too crazy a coincidence not to be a foreshadowing of some sorts! Especially with a Harding in the mix- since it is not a very prominent house. And Especially considering how important marriage/betrothals have been to Sansa’s storyline and character arc.

Here is the link to the original reddit thread first discussing this theory: http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fasoiaf%2Fcomments%2F1vsuxb%2Fspoilers_all_the_tourney_at_ashford_and_sansas%2F&t=OWVmMTQ1ZGZhZDQ4ZWQzNzEwNjE1YmNiZWRlZTlhNTEwNTQyMjRiNyxreWRjaFJnNw%3D%3D&b=t%3A1mugv0k5s0amNKww0gMA7g&p=https%3A%2F%2Fmarydri.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F162256888280%2Fthe-secret-betrothal&m=1

And I’m pretty sure AltShiftX made a video about it on Youtube for those who would rather watch than read!

Is all good Jonsa shipmates? Good! Let’s continue!

SECTION F : JON’S DEATH (BOOKS)

1)-Sansa feels Jon’s death:

In Sansa’s final chapter in AFFC which matches up with Jon’s final chapter in ADWD as far as timing goes (because the two were meant to be one giant book) Sansa heard Jon dying:

“There was ice underfoot, and broken stones just waiting to turn an ankle, and the wind was howling fiercely. It sounds like a wolf, thought Sansa. A ghost wolf, as big as mountains”.

***Freindly reminder that Jon’s direwolf is named GHOST and that Ghost howled for Jon after he died like Grey Wind howled for Robb.

2)-Jon associates Sansa with his romantic love as he died:

Right before he died, Jon thought of Sansa and connected her to the one women he ever truly loved (Ygritte):

“He thought of Sansa brushing Lady’s coat, singing to herself. You know nothing Jon Snow”

ALSO: Jon likes redheads!

**BONUS: In ADWD, Jon chose Ygritte (his red-haired love) over Val (a beautiful woman with silver hair he may have been infatuated with)

“Would I sooner be hanged for a turncloak by Lord Janos, or forswear my vows, marry Val, and become the Lord of Winterfell? It seemed an easy choice when he thought of it in those terms… though if Ygritte had still been alive, it might have been even easier. Val was a stranger to him. She was not hard on the eyes, certainly, and she had been sister to Mance Rayder’s queen, but still …”

SECTION G: FORSHADOWING IN COSTUMES (SHOW)

1)-Sansa’s hair

I actually screamed internally when I saw Lyanna’s hair when she wed Rhaegar! At first first I was sooo mad (like livid) that she wasn't wearing a crown of blue winter roses and just had a typical hairstyle just like Sansa’s... then I realized, she could have been wearing a crown of blue winter roses but they decided to have her hair be Just.Like.Sansa’s.

^^THIS is Lyanna Stark’s hairstyle when she married Rhaegar Targaryen

^^THIS is Sansa Stark’s hairstyle for Season 7.

I mean Wow! It really seems that the showrunners wanted us to see parallels between the two Stark girls, especially in the scene where we find out Jon is a Targaryen and where a Stark Lady married a Targaryen! I mean this show is truly all about the details, and they could of had Lyanna wear a crown of blue winter roses- which would have been more obvious/appropriate for her character, but instead, they made her have the EXACT hair Sansa had all season (despite fashion/hair trends most likely being different at the time she married Rhaegar). History will repeat itself! A Stark Lady and a Targaryen King will fall in love! The episode was called the Dragon and the Dragon Wolf for crying out loud!

2)- Sansa’s wardrobe

Just like Sansa and Lyanna had similar exactly the same hairstyle, they also had similar wedding dresses:

Both Lyanna’s and Sansa’s wedding dresses had the same light/pastel colour palette and the same type of belt that wrapped around the bodice.

Sansa is also dressing like Jon. She has emulated her wardrobe/hair after the people she admired in the past (Cersei, Margarey). Now that she loves Jon, she is emulating him in her choice of clothing (along with his mother).

Jon and both even wear the little Stark direwolf heads on their clothes... but Sansa stops wearing that after Jon leaves... she stops wearing the pin with the direwolf couple because its no longer a fitting representation of her since Jon (her other wolf partner) has left her alone.

Credit to : @jonsalways for the Lyanna/Sansa costume parallels and the “wolf bit” -see what I did there?! She does amazing costume analysis's! go follow her! I mean how do you even notice something as small as Sansa not wearing the stark pin after episode 2! Wow! https://jonsalways.tumblr.com/post/164964237964/sansalyanna-parallel-in-costumes

**BONUS: This is a quote from an article analyzing the meaning of the GOT Season 7 costumes:

Like both queens, she is inspired by influential men with whom she frequently disagreed and that is reflected in her costume design. For Cersei, it was Tywin; for Dany, Viserys. In Sansa’s case, she’s dressing like Jon Snow.

Article: http://tomandlorenzo.com/2017/08/game-of-thrones-season-7-style-costume-analysis/

3)-Jon’s Wardrobe

I just want to point out that Jon is rarely seen without his cloak that Sansa made him. Oh and… cloaks in Westeros symbolize protection in marriage!!!

Like, seriously Jon! You’re in the capital, where it’s hot and sunny for crying out loud! It ain’t even snowing! what are you doing with that heavy ass cloak?!

...Whatevs! Keep wearing that cloak your wifey made you! I guess its cool... let’s just move on, shall we?

SECTION H : FORSHADOWING IN SONGS (BOOKS)

In this section, I will be discussing Jonsa foreshadowing in A Storm of Swords, specifically foreshadowing in the songs that are in Sansa and Jon’s chapters when their chapters are back to back.

So first, in Sansa’s chapter, Sansa is talking to Margarey and Olenna about Joffrey while listening to the song The Bear and the Maiden Fair – a song about a fair maiden falling for a man she’s not expected to fall for.

Lyrics here: http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/The_Bear_and_the_Maiden_Fair

Next is Jon’s chapter. This is when Jon is taken to Mance Raider’s tent by Ygritte, where he fools Mance into thinking he isn’t a crow anymore and successfully infiltrates the Wildlings. Yet when he walks in the tent, he hears someone singing The Dornishman’s Wife – a song about a man loving a woman so much that nothing – not even death – could be worse than not knowing her love.

HOWEVER – and this is the most curious thing- The Dornishman’s wife is later sung by Mance Raider in ADWD at Ramsay’s wedding to Jeyne/fake Arya (JEYNE IS CHANGED TO SANSA IN THE SHOW), only Mance changes the song from The Dornishman’s Wife to THE NORTHERNMAN’S DAUGHTER

“The singer changed the words, though. Instead of tasting a Dornishman’s wife, he sang of tasting a Northernman’s daughter” – this is from one of Theon/Reek’s chapters in ADWD

…We all know who the Northernman’s daughter is- SANSA!!!

Lyrics for the Dornishman’s Wife here: http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/The_Dornishman%27s_Wife

Also, to all those who find the Jon-being-Dany’s-third-treason theory/ undercover lover theory appealing (as I do), I will say this:

RIGHT AFTER these two chapters is Dany’s chapter, and in this chapter, she is very aware that a betrayal is coming her way and she thinks long and hard about the likelihood that someone coming to kill her soon:

“The Usurper on his Iron Throne had offered land and lordship to any man who killed her. One attempt had been made already, with a cup of poisoned wine. The closer she came to Westeros, the more likely another attack became”

Then, Jorah and Dany discuss the possibility of her being betrayed at length:

“The warlocks in Qarth told you that you would be betrayed three times,” the exile knight reminded her, as Viserion and Rhaegal began to snap and claw at each other. “Once for blood and once for gold and once for love.” Dany was not like to forget. “Mirri Maz Duur was the first.” “Which means two traitors yet remain . . . and now these two appear. I find that troubling, yes. Never forget, Robert offered a lordship to the man who slays you.”

I think a red herring is set up in these three chapters. In Sansa’s chapter, we are led to believe that the Hound is “the bear” that Sansa the fair maiden will end up with. In Jon’s chapter, we are led to believe that Ygritte is “the Dornishman’s wife”/ Jon’s true love. And in Dany’s chapter, she and Jorah talk of her betrayal, and we are led to believe that this foreshadows Jorah’s betrayal.

However, the fact that these three chapters being back to back, and GRRM being THE LEAST obvious writer on the planet, makes me think that what is actually being foreshadowed in these chapters is Sansa falling for Jon (someone whom she’s not expected to fall for)- who then also falls in love with her, and she is his one true love not the other red-haired girl (Ygritte)- and then finally, Jon will end up betraying Dany for his love of Sansa- being her final treason “for love”.

This is a MUCH subtler foreshadowing, exactly GRRM’s style – make you think you know one thing through red herring foreshadowing… but it actually turns out to be a completely other thing that was foreshadowed even more, just more subtly.

Credit to @natty86 Original post about these three chapters, and their foreshadowing is here: https://natty86.tumblr.com/search/Jon,%20Sansa%20and%20Dany.%20The%20betrayal%20for%20love..

SECTION I : ORINIGAL OUTLINE FOR ASOIAF

For those who haven’t read the original outline already, these are some quotes/plot points that GRRM had planned in his original outline:

"Arya will be more forgiving ... until she realizes, with terror, that she has fallen in love with Jon, who is not only her half-brother but a man of the Night's Watch, sworn to celibacy. Their passion will continue to torment Jon and Arya throughout the trilogy, until the secret of Jon's true parentage is finally revealed in the last book."

"Exiled, Tyrion will change sides, making common cause with the surviving Starks to bring his brother down, and falling helplessly in love with Arya Stark while he's at it. His passion is, alas, unreciprocated, but no less intense for that, and it will lead to a deadly rivalry between Tyrion and Jon Snow."

I won’t go too much into detail on this one… the outline should be taken lightly because a lot of things have changed from outlines to novels.

However, enough of the ideas in the outline have held base in the books, especially the most basic of plot points so I think it’s fair to assume that the whole “Jon will fall in love with his sister and be tormented by it until he finds out his true parentage” will stay the same. I mean, we already know Jon’s secret parentage was an idea that GRRM kept from the outline… and honestly what other reason could he have for the whole “secret parentage” that would be as important as making a forbidden/twisted love suddenly possible? It seems to me that one of the main reasons for the whole “secret parentage” trope was to create a more twisted and epic love story between Jon and his sister.

The sister has definitely changed from Arya to Sansa though… book Sansa is much closer to book Arya than book Arya is. And GRRM has been foreshadowing Jonsa a lot… hence this meta.

Also, take this with a mountain of salt, but Sansa was once married to Tyrion, so maybe the Jon-Tyrion-Sansa love triangle could happen?

Anyways! Moving forward! We’re almost dome but we still have more to discuss…such as:

SECTION J: JONSA SCENES BEING SHOT LIKE PRETTY MUCH EVERY OTHER ROMNTIC COUPLE ON THE SHOW... JONSA HAVING PARALLELLS WITH EVERY.OTHER.IMPORTANT.ROMANTIC.COUPLE.ON.THE.SHOW.

I won’t include Ned/Cat on this part, mainly because I already touched on this. But I will show parallels between Jon/Sansa and : Sam/Gilly; Robb/Talisa; Brienne/Jaimie. Although the Jonsa/Bramie gifsets are from a post of mine, I want to say right now, all credit to the Sam/Gilly and Robb/Talisa and Jon/Ygritte parallel gifsets goes to @baelerion, she/he made these AMAZING gifsets, I couldn’t make them any better myself. I give ALL credit to @baelerion. Amazing job! Go follow her/him!

SAM/GILLY AND JONSA:

ROBB/TALISA AND JONSA:

JON/YGRITTE AND JONSA:

BRIENNE/JAIME AND JONSA:

I mean.... this speaks for itself... If anyone has doubts or was wondering if Jonsa scenes were actually being shot in a romantic way, the answer is: YES!

SECTION K : OTHER

Okay Jonsa fam, we’ve reached the end of the meta! If you’re still here and reading this, I sincerely thank and applaud you for putting though with it’s extreme length... I had no idea it was going to get so long! Like holy cow, this is section K, this meta 11 sections long, with subsections! WOW! That just shows you how solid our Jonsa ship is.

But before I leave you for good, here are some more Jonsa endgame foreshadowing moments - in no particular order- that just wouldn’t fit in any of the other categories :)

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1. Dany’s hair is styled like Sansa’s in only one scene- the scene where J and D actually have a tender moment, and grab eachother’s hands (similar to how Sansa grobbed Jon’s hands) and in the next episode they have sex… the costume department is very careful with the details when it comes to the girls’ hair, why would they make sure there is a ghost of Sansa in the most tender scene Dany and Jon share together, right before the episode in which they have sex? #Jonsaisendgame

Credit to @jonsalways: Original post noticing this is right here: https://jonsalways.tumblr.com/post/165044111469/theres-something-weird-about-dany-and-sansas -read it! its so much more detailed and amazing!

2. Jon noticing Sansa’s new dress, and stuttering like a nervous boy who has a crush on a pretty girl when he gives her a compliment..

..Hmmm ya sorry Jon, not brotherly AT ALL #Jonsaisendgame

3. Jon gave Sansa a lingereing very non-brothery forhead kiss, and then LOOKED AT HER LIPS!!

^^^IF YOU THINK THIS SCENE WAS PLATONIC YOU ARE LYING TO YOURSELF. This is the scene that cemented it in for me that there was definitely something non-siblings going on with Jon and Sansa tbh. #JONSAISENDGAME

4.Jon and Jorah spoke about Jon’s children in 7x06 AND THEN THE STARK THEME PLAYED AND IT CUT TO SANSA AT WINTERFELL!

^^^Um so ya, everybody, meet Sansa and Jon’s three future sons Robb Eddard and Rickon... #Jonsaisendgame

5. Jon looked back and Sansa when he left her but didn’t do the same for Dany.

And in the script, it read:

“Jon turns in his saddle, sees Sansa standing up there, raises his hand and flashes the smile that wins him the hearts of Icelandic models and Scottish baronesses."

– so a very puppy dog/ half flirty/I love you smile… ok so not the way a brother smiles at a sister…got it! #Jonsaisendgame

6. Aggressive angry kitten Jon threatening and strangleing the shit out of his competition due to jealous rage:

7. And who can forget about the OH SHIT looks from LF and Davos...

Even they know #Jonsaisendgame

8. The camera zoomed in every time Sasna touched Jon… they want us to notice the angst!!

Dem camera angles be screaming #JONSAISENDGAME

9. They had the most emotional reunion out of all the Starks, and have spent a lot of time together to grow close – a season and a half! That’s a lot in the GoT universe!

I wonder why? Oh right! Because #Jonsaisendgame

10. And finally... just the way he looks at her... I can’t even

Pictures don’t even do it justice... but i’m so tired from writing this meta I’ve grown to lazy to go get gifs at this point. And i’m 100% sure I forgot at least one thing I wanted to put in...

But regardless the message is clear #JONSAISENDGAME. Believe that! Because if you cant believe it after this much proof, I would be very very worried!

Ours is the endgame! It is known!

#jonsa #jonsameta #jonxsansa #actuallyjonsa #sansaxjon #jonandsansa #sansaandjon #jonsaiscoming #jonsaisendgame #oursistheendgame

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From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values

Capt. Norwood Penrose Hallowell

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Sally Jenkins

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June 11, 2020 at 3:16 a.m. PDT

There are a half-dozen statues of Stonewall Jackson peering from pedestals, so tall he can see over three states. For a representation of Pen Hallowell, you can find only an archival photograph of a mildly handsome bearded young man in plain tunic, one hand holding a forage cap, the other resting lightly on a sword. Even in that, though, you can see his easy athleticism and his backbone.

It’s not really your fault if you don’t know who Hallowell was. His life and slim writings largely have been buried by “Gone With the Wind” nonsense. They should be revived and made required reading in locker rooms. Maybe then there wouldn’t be so many misconceptions about what constitute guts. Or such a romance with that over-glossed traitor Robert E. Lee and all the other Reb glorification that has haunted our sports fields, police stations, military bases and halls of justice.

American football always has been associated with warrior culture. We have fancied it trained young men to be good leaders, made “field generals” out of them, until it has become associated with what cultural historian Michael Oriard has called “a brand of flag-waving more like superpatriotism.” In truth, just like our statues and monuments, somehow we let the priorities become misplaced. The good teammate must show conformity and mindless allegiance rather than principle, keep his mouth shut and subsume himself and all of his personal colors and convictions in, say, team crimson. Instead of immortalizing Hallowell, we forgot him.

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Hallowell “was a power in Harvard athletics,” according to one of the earliest histories of football, who enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 just after graduating. But what you can be sure of is that he was a hell of a rower and a swimmer. During the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, the 22-year-old swam across the Potomac River three times through bullet-pocked water to rescue trapped and wounded comrades. You can get an additional idea of Hallowell’s virtuosity from the fact that his son Jack was a two-time all-American end in football and his grandson Norwood Penrose III was a runner who finished sixth in the 1,500 meters at the 1932 Summer Olympics before serving aboard warships in World War II.

Jerry Brewer: Black and white teammates know: Conflict is inevitable; winners confront it

Pen Hallowell had something more than physical courage, and so did his elder brother, Edward “Ned” Needles Hallowell. “The Fighting Quakers,” as they were nicknamed, were sons of a Philadelphia abolitionist whose home was a stop on the Underground Railroad. As boys they spirited fugitive slaves to safety in the family carriage. As men they volunteered as officers with the legendary all-black 54th and 55th Massachusetts regiments.

As for Ned Hallowell, he was shot three times charging with the left wing of the martyred 54th Massachusetts at Fort Wagner, just behind his doomed friend Robert Gould Shaw. With Shaw’s body lying in a sandy ditch with his troops, Ned Hallowell assumed command of the regiment. Assigned the rear guard during a perilous retreat in a battle called Olustee, he and his men spent 20,000 cartridges checking the Confederates and then countermarched to save a train of intermingled black and white wounded soldiers that had broken down. When they couldn’t fix the motor, they attached ropes to the engine cars and manually hauled that bloody train to safety, with Confederate gunfire guttering at their backs.

While those men were towing a locomotive by ropes, Pen Hallowell was beating in the doors of Congress trying to get them paid equal to white soldiers. The 54th and 55th were offered just $7 a month, while white soldiers got $13. Largely thanks to the brothers’ efforts, Congress finally approved equal pay for black soldiers in 1864.

Why bring any of this up? Because it’s an example of what black-white alliances can do, for one thing. Because Sunday is Flag Day, for another. And because every well-meaning but unread white athlete, coach, owner, athletic director and sportswriter needs to understand that Pen Hallowell, to whom black lives really did matter, lost his war. And football had no small part in that.

The vague phrase “systemic racism” is not just perpetuated by men with badges. It’s also propagated by our false victory narratives. There have been few more powerful cultural narrators than the NFL and the NCAA, with their close association with military triumphalism. They have been terrible teachers of historical truth, lousy with misplaced definitions of valor. Pen Hallowell was alive to hear Harvard football coach W. Cameron Forbes declare in 1900 that American football was “the expression of strength of the Anglo-Saxon. It is the dominant spirit of the dominant race, and to this it owes its popularity and its hope of permanence.”

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Then there was that Princeton academic and assistant football coach named Woodrow Wilson, who rewrote the Civil War in volumes of purported American history so racist that they enraged Hallowell because they so “abounded with apologies for slavery.”

Hallowell tried to fight back in the post-war battle of values. He wrote essays and speeches devoted to the bravery of black soldiers and those conscientious outliers, abolitionists. On Memorial Day in 1896, he gave a remembrance address at Harvard. Sickened by romantic war myths in which the treachery and slave-driving of the Confederacy were painted over as cavalier spirit, Hallowell said, “To ignore the irreconcilable distinction between the cause of the North and that of the South is to degrade the war.”

Yet isn’t that what we have done? We have degraded that war — to the point that we hardly know what real honor is anymore, much less how to coach it on our playing fields. Degraded it until Colin Kaepernick was reviled for a simple show of conscience on racism. Degraded it until racial justice and the flag seemed in such conflict that a decent man such as Drew Brees couldn’t think clearly and make a clean judgment. Degraded it to the point that Pen Hallowell has faded to a relative obscurity, except among war buffs and historians, while the University of Mississippi kept Colonel Reb as a mascot until 2003. Even now frat boys will dress in the costumes of traitors to the flag at cotillions, without the first blush of hot shame.

Thomas Boswell: It’s not which sports figures are speaking out that’s telling. It’s how many.

It’s the 21st century, yet 85 percent of the authorities in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the coaches, athletic directors, chancellors, presidents and conference commissioners who run it, are white. So are 28 of the NFL’s 32 head coaches. Almost all of them say they are trying to figure out how to “support” black players. As they filter back to their campuses and team facilities, there are a lot of hard conversations about race and patriotism. Whether to emulate the bent knee of Kaepernick in protest. Whether to support Deshaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins in their quest to efface John C. Calhoun, who called slavery “a positive good,” from Clemson’s campus.

If we want football to be something worth preserving, we should demand that it celebrates the right qualities — and people.

Here’s a helpful suggestion to the coaches: Try reading a little Hallowell on the subject of what it is to really fight for each other. In the slim volumes produced by that genuine patriot and war hero are some things that may surprise them. For instance, Nick Saban and his Alabama players probably don’t know that after the war Hallowell helped finance a private school for black students in Calhoun, Ala., with Booker T. Washington.

But most important is what Hallowell has to teach about courage and protest. “The courage necessary to face death in battle is not of the highest order,” Hallowell wrote. He saw a “higher and rarer courage” in the “long suffering and patient endurance” of the soldiers so invested in their equal pay protest that they fought for 18 months without accepting a cent until they won fair treatment.

Hallowell and his brother are buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass., with headstones so small they seem like chips compared with Confederate monuments. When Hallowell finally died in 1914, his close friend and compatriot Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. called him “the most generously gallant spirit, and I don’t know but the greatest soul I ever knew.” If there was a peerless man who deserves to be on a height, it’s Pen Hallowell. Yet look what we have done to him. Look what we have done to all of us.

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New Look Sabres: GM 27 - TOR

2-1 OT Loss

This was 95% of a perfect Buffalo Sports holiday weekend. We got the big, National TV Josh Allen coming out party against Dallas on Thanksgiving followed by a win over the Maple Leafs in Buffalo and an OT loss up in Toronto the following night. Barring Eichel ripping home the OT winner this was almost the best we could’ve asked for. Walking out of the Calgary game in the pouring rain Wednesday I just felt lost with this team. Sure, the last five or so games have looked better than the prior ten in several metrics, but the actual W’s were still few and far between. Friday afternoon in Buffalo we got the win. Saturday evening in Toronto we got damn close to another. Three out of four points in this home-and-home series is awfully nice. I’ve been very forward saying there cannot be anymore moral victories with this team: not in year five of Eichel and year two of Dahlin. This club has underachieved for too long. But in instances like this you got to acknowledge the significance of how a two-game series can make a difference. It’s not just the eye test effects; take a look at the heat maps getting thrown around after these two game and you can see shots coming from the right places. The expected goals, the advanced stat I proclaimed was the harbinger of doom as the hot start faded, its picking up again. Corsi, yeah it’s picking up too! The thing you can take from each game from this one back to the Florida Panthers game, other than five points, is that the Sabres maybe bouncing back from an absolutely ghastly stretch. They maybe bouncing back like they never managed to last season after resurrecting the love of hockey in this City like Easter morning during the ten-game winning streak. If they can’t be consistently good right now, the next best thing is the ability to bounce back. What’s that motivational buzzword: perseverance?

Master motivator Ralph Krueger better be yelling that one in the locker room if we’re getting our bang for the buck out of him. We can ride him all we want about roster optimization but that’s what fans do good or bad and frankly; I don’t think he’s going to mess up the deployment WHEN his boss makes the trade we’ve been waiting for. They’re two points out of second in the Atlantic Division. If you want to get a GM’s attention for the necessity of a single trade, show them how it can make a difference in the standings right now. A top six forward makes a difference in the standings right now. Something about playing the Leafs makes me very long-winded on the prefaces. This game proved what a boon another top six winger would be for this club. Three players scored this game: William Nylander, Rasmus Ristolainen, and John Tavares. You might notice only one of those guys is a Sabre. The next thing you may notice is that Sabre is a guy most would consider not a part of the future of this team anymore. We can point at all the opportunities in this game that didn’t come to fruition while on the other hand also saying, yeah: another real goal scorer in the top six would be nice. Hate them or hate them (those are your only two options) the Leafs know who their guys are. They’ve committed tens of millions of dollars to four or five guys who are therefore paid to score goals or in Andersen’s case prevent them. When they don’t score or block enough the team is screwed. However you may feel about that model it’s gotten them three straight playoff appearances and that’s more than we can say about Buffalo. I’d sell an internal organ for a first-round sweep at this point. They could lose each game by six goals and most of South Buffalo would still be dangerously hammered climbing light poles. Make a trade, Jason. We get it, you find this defensive depth intoxicating but if you listen to what you Head Coach is telling you he certainly isn’t. He wants to optimize the roster and he certainly doesn’t want to get called Housley 2.0. The Bills don’t play for a week, buddy; do you think YOUR boss doesn’t have the time to notice something like that? Get the smart-ass bloggers like me off your back before that pesky fracking baron who pays you realizes how friggin close we are and forces you into another Ryan O’Reilly trade! Where was I going with this?

Oh yeah, another goal scorer taking pot shots at Fredrik Andersen and maybe you seal up the full four points out of this weekend against the Leafs. The Jack Eichel Sabres will respond to that kind of morale bump. Marcus Johansson got called for slashing Cody Ceci and before you know it William Nylander is deking an Auston Matthews assisted shot over Carter Hutton’s shoulder like he was doing a magic trick. We could have a whole separate talk about how special teams is a crapshoot on this team but I’m kinda proud of myself for getting through two Leafs games without putting on the EXPLCIT tag and I don’t want to mess it up now. About seven minutes into the third period Rasmus Ristolainen took a puck in from the boards slowly but surely and this putrid Leafs defense let him all the way to Andersen where he deked in the equalizer. We got the absolute sexiest version of Rasmus Ristolainen this game and not anyone else really. Not even two minutes into the overtime period John Tavares and his unit were just buzzing around with the puck in the Sabres zone. He was covered by Victor Olofsson when we ripped a shot that appeared to not even be on target. However, the hockey gods get the most LOLs out of things going wrong for the Sabres, so Carter Hutton reached his glove out and the puck deflected in off of that. 2-1 OT loss done deal. Okay, to be fair a lot more happened in this game than the score will tell you. Ilya Mikheyev showed us how it’s done in Mother Russia and speared Sam Reinhart right in the nuts without getting called. Jeff Skinner got pissed. Conor Sheary scored a goal that didn’t count because when it crossed the line it was in Andersen’s glove and remember those heat maps I mentioned earlier? Well the Sabres let precisely zero shots from what one might consider the “net front” area while taking a high number of shots from those spots in their own right. Say what you will about the Leafs this season, the Sabres played good offensively and pretty good defensively to get this result.

So you probably don’t want Carter Hutton letting in that OT goal. I don’t see why he wouldn’t put out his glove there though. It probably looked like it could’ve gone in from his angle. Nonetheless it’s an excuse for me to proclaim that the tide has turned: Linus Ullmark is now the starter and Hutton is the backup. We were predicting this would happen last season but here we are with King Ullmark just in time for Christmas. Each time Hutton gets called new Lehner my Ullmark jersey gets a little bit prettier. Enough piling on, I think we can all agree this home-and-home series would’ve been bulletproof had it been four points. Since its three, also more than we probably expected, we probably need a dominating performance tomorrow night against a struggling Devils team to really make it seem like we’re back on track. The very vocal pessimist party on Sabres twitter will probably second guess it until there is an x next to the team in the standings but the resurgence is on. Go beat up the Devils Monday night and fly to Western Canada with the confidence it takes to win in this league. If you have trouble finding that confidence just ask Jimmy Vesey: he went from zero to hero in one week. Confidence is one hell of a drug. Like, comment and reply to this blog to help out. Happy Holidays.

But wait, I’d be a coward to not talk about it. The scandals unfolding right now that originated with Bill Peters and Akim Alui are not a witch hunt. Don’t be a dumbass. Hockey as a sport is not growing. The way the league points to it growing is farcical at best. The sport is shrinking because it’s a rich white kid sport with an ugly culture to match. As North America gets more diverse hockey is not keeping up. Not only is it not keeping up its proving at every turn that it prefers the racist failings of a generation of boomer coaches who get recycled over and over again to any real movement toward inclusivity. Bill Peters thought it was okay to yell the N word about one of his non-white player’s music in a packed locker room. The Ontario Hockey League, twenty something clubs across the most populace province in Canada, thought it was okay to blacklist a kid in his NHL Draft Year as a troublemaker because he got in a fight AFTER one of the most notorious instigators in this sport called him a racial slur. Alui was essentially booed out of Windsor for standing up for himself. Top to bottom this sport is not for everyone and if we have any hopes of saving it for coming generations we have to listen to guys like Akim Alui without feeling like the whole sport is under attack. It’s called learning and growing. It’s something this sport has trouble with far less important issues. The Steve Dangle Podcast is one of my go-to’s on a regular basis. You should listen to it. It’s a lot of Leafs talk but the way they discussed this reckoning here was brilliant. It’s not about what kinda guy Peters or Babcock are. Peters turns out to be a real bad guy. It’s about the fact that hockey allows the culture for people to feel comfortable talking like that. This state of affairs isn’t okay and frankly painting it in your quasi-political culture wars colors is not helpful. That’s harmful. Those last two sentences were me. I felt the need to say this after what’s been going around this week. Please, don’t be a dumbass. I’m looser with the mute button on twitter these days. Don’t be a dumbass, listen. Please just listen. It’s what we need more of these days. That’s it for me. I’m just some blogger. Go listen to someone’s story who’s actually effected by it. Let’s be better people to each other. Let’s Go Buffalo.

Thanks for Reading.

P.S. I feel like close second in Greatest Game Against the Leafs in Sabres history is Punch Imlach’s return to Toronto in 1970. The newspaper clippings are great. Not only did the expansion Sabres beat their Coach’s former team, there was a Sabres fan who gave Imlach a sabre which he had with him for postgame. That’s how you fire the first shot in a rivalry.

#buffalo sabres #hockey #blog #NHL #Toronto Maple Leafs

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jwood719 · 7 years ago

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Looking at the Old Railroads, August 2017: Nebraska Zephyr at the Illinois Railway Museum.

A return trip! O.K. not unusual, I suppose, but that I returned only a few weeks after my initial visit to the Illinois Railway Museum is unusual. Normally, my returns come with rather longer intervals.

However, having again looked up IRM’s website some time in July I think (for why I can’t recall), I saw that Burlington’s Nebraska Zephyr was scheduled to run during the museum’s “Diesel Days.” Now that was reason to make the drive back to northern Illinois. I had seen the Zephyr in its storage barn back in June, but with little distance to back up the camera frame I didn’t even bother to snap a shot. To have it out on the trackage and available for a ride? Catnip!

Diesel Days: a GM Electro Motive Division (EMD) SW-7, formerly run as Chicago Burlington & Quincy’s 9255.

For better or worse, I was far from the only visitor out there. Not being a proper “railfan,” I can but assume that Diesel Days annually draw a serious crowd. I state “not a proper ‘raifan’” because I have not made an avocation of learning, and following, railroad engines, which a goodly number of the other visitors surely had done. I can write up who built these engines with their model designations because IRM has them listed on its website and I can look for additional information on the “web.”

Railfans and the former Union Pacific’s 1848, a GE B40-8.

From many of those about me I heard scraps of conversation - about seeing this engine or that in different locations, the relative merit of differing liveries, and snap observations of which unit was approaching. As may happen for any hobby or avocation, the interest for some individuals in these prime movers has reached a very high point, to put it mildly. Recall that “fan” is a foreshortened form of “fanatic.”

While the “true” railfans positioned themselves along the track for a parade of diesels (they don’t call it “Diesel Days” for nothin’) I wandered the grounds a bit farther than I had in June. Behind the bus barn on the southeast side, for instance, were some rather forlorn motor coaches awaiting restorative efforts (above), while nearby stood a sign rescued from Chicago (below):

In a shift of focus for me, while the railfans watched and took photos and video of parading engines and their trailing consists, I started taking photos of railfans.

I mean, I can only take so many photos of any one engine, beyond which I would only be snapping the shutter for I don’t know what. As my primary interest was the Zephyr, I thought I could spare some frames for the general scene.

Previous two photos: the parading Zephyr and railfans. Below, the view along the platform.

When the parade was over, the majority of the ‘fans were clustered along the platforms nearer the station (as evidenced in the above image). When Chicago & North Western’s 411 (an EMD F7A) returned to the station with its consist of bi-level commutation coaches, the crowd surged toward the doors (following):

For a few minutes it looked like a scene from an apocalyptic movie, with local residents trying to flee some impending doom. “Bring only what you can wear and get on the train!” And, yes, those are true commutation coaches; the coach at the end of the consist opposite the F7 unit was equipped with controls to allow operation with the engine pushing - just like New Jersey Transit!

Through it all, one man’s project kept his head under a box car (above). I don’t know what he was doing, but an angle grinder was involved - I’d know that sound anywhere.

I also took some photographs of other diesels, as has been seen. It was Diesel Days, after all. These (preceding) are former Union Pacific in “heritage” livery. The 1996 in Southern Pacific colors, and the 1988 in those of the Missouri Kansas Texas Line, or “The Katy” (both EMD SD70ACe units).

Sadly for the visual effect, caution tape had to be wound about the stanchions to warn visitors off the equipment. Seems that some people think if it’s not moving, it’s O.K. to climb on. I watched a few parents encourage their small children to climb up for a photo opportunity, and shook my head in wonder. “Did you not read the brochure available at the gate?” I muttered to myself. “It states ‘NEVER climb on any car or locomotive, unless it is clearly posted otherwise.’ Oh, le sigh.” Of course most of us were pretty brazenly ignoring the admonition to not cross the tracks randomly, but still - this aint Disney World! O.K., I’ll climb down now.

Southern Pacific’s 1518, an EMD SD7.

Minnesota Transfer’s 200, an ALCO RS-3, beyond a track maintenance unit outside the diesel restoration shop.

I count myself fortunate, too, that I was able to play my time right and got some shots inside the Zephyr. Wow, if only trains like this were still running all the places they used to! I mean the coach seats were nice (following):

Sure, sure, not all the passenger coaches were this nice back in the “golden age” of rail travel, and yet – even the old commutation coach I rode in back in June was pretty nice. Then again, I’m not riding those commutation coaches on a daily basis, so I can give them some leeway in the “nice” category.

As usual, I also had a couple good naps. I rode coach in the morning, and lounge car in the afternoon (below) and put my head down to let the rock of the car lull me to sleep. I find sleeping on trains to be quite pleasant.

The lounge seating included pivot-mounted “easy chairs” (above) which could do a complete revolution to allow for conversation or window gazing.

As the Zephyr backed past the station, I looked out and said “Hey! I can see my car from here!” (below). This view of the car park shows some space, but only because a number of visitors had already departed. IRM saw a good turnout this day, and the grass was well covered.

Yeah, I’m sure I’ll go back. I may not be a “railfan,” but I do like these old pieces of railway equipment. Like visiting with the “warbirds” flown by the Collings Foundation, I feel some “pull” toward these out-of-date machines. I guess maybe they’re not out-of-date to me. I suppose, though, there will come a day when the planes and trains simply cannot operate any longer; at some point, there may no longer be any fuel available for them. But until that day, I’ll keep taking photographs when I may.

Burlington’s Nebraska Zephyr, pulled by an Electro Motive Corporation (EMC) E5A diesel unit. The Zephyr as it is today represents the final incarnation of the “streamliners” before complete retirement in 1971.

Illinois Railway Museum

Nebraska Zephyr on wikipedia

Photographs: R. Jake Wood, 2017.

#photography #roadtrips #illinoisrailwaymuseum #Trians!

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ryanmeft · 8 years ago

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Long Way North Movies at Home Review

What an odd creature Long Way North is. I would without hesitation recommend it to a young girl, as the narrative of female empowerment at a time when women were supposed to be getting ready to meet future husbands at lavish balls is strong, and unlike American animated films this message is communicated through real struggles and hardships, not with superhuman feats. Young Sasha (voice of Chloe Dunn) is the scion of an aristocratic Russian family who has fallen on hard times, which for aristocrats pretty much means a loss of status. Their patriarch, Oloukine, disappeared one year ago, taking with him a famous ship, a substantial royal investment, and his entire crew. He was looking for the North Pole; no points for guessing what his granddaughter wants to do.

It is 1885 and the movie actually knows it. Sasha's father (Peter Hudson) blames her for a diplomatic incident that causes him to lose a valuable government post; unknown to him, the sleazy official who was "offended" was just looking for an excuse. This culminates with Sasha running to the frozen north sea to try and join one of the treasure hunting ships seeking the lost boat for the reward. Here, she is fleeced by an unscrupulous first mate and left to the mercies of the brutes in the local bar, where she gets a difficult job. Once the expedition does get underway, loss of rations, injuries, illness and other realities rear their heads. Has a Disney film ever addressed how the heroes can go so long without eating? Her quest, predicated on the possibility her grandfather took a different route than the one everyone believes he took, is of course doomed to failure. What specifically she'll find when she gets there is the source of any suspense.

If only the film had the strength of its convictions. Directed Remi Chaye and animated in a sunny, colorful style, it takes Sasha only so far and no further. For instance, the worst thing the rowdy men in the bar do to her is throw food at her, and being forced to bunk with the male sailors is treated as an inconvenience rather than an inevitable sexual assault. That might have been too far for such a film, but Sasha's immense likability is tempered by the fact that she's never truly tested. The swindler in question actually isn't that bad a guy, and amazingly (spoilers, I suppose) no one dies or even suffers any long-term consequences from trekking through the most inhospitable terrain possible at the top of the world. Even the animation assures us there will be no series issues, being too cheerful and bright for such things; when the doomed ship is finally found, I imagine such a discovery in real life would be about ten times as gruesome. The look stands well if considered by itself, but fails almost completely to match the tone of the film.

I like stories about explorers, and ones about mysteries, and ones about strong women uncovering those mysteries. Long Way North, though, is too easy on its heroine and too unwilling to match the tone to the plot to serve as more than a rousing "Yes, we can!" to girls who are as of yet too young for scarier realities. From what I can tell, Chaye who worked in the animation department on the gorgeous The Secret of Kells, has a second film, The Adventures of Martha Jane Canary, coming and from what I can tell it will be about a young girl living a frontier life. In this debut all the pieces are there; I hope next time they fit together.

#remi chaye #long way north #north pole #animation #animated #movies #movie review #peter hudson #chloe dunn #adventure #the secret of kells #the adventures of martha jane canary #sailing #19th century #Russia #dogs

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jonjost · 7 years ago

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Living in Paris for a year and some, and knowing I’d be there around that long, I decided – as seems my habit – to make a film there. A friend, Jim Stark, suggested some actors and I met with them and said my thought was to make a film slowly, over a year, meeting and shooting whenever it suited each of us. We’d improvise, no script at all. They agreed to do so, no pay. For more on the making and circumstances around the film, see this.

Oui Non is simultaneously a fictional narrative, a simple boy-meets-girl story, which is also a critique of the fictional narrative form. It is the confrontation of the falsity of fiction – the story which reveals in a certain order, which conveys a sense of an order to life, colliding with the reality of life: that life is a disordered mess about which the only narrative certainty is that it will end in death.

Oui Non plays with this, makes homage to many things Parisian, from Eugene Atget, to Degas and Lautrec, to Monet and Manet, to French films, to the mythos of Parisian romance, and along the way is trapped in its own real reality in which the narrative story imposed collapsed in the face of the lives of its actors and maker. It is a romantic comedy which is really a tragedy.

OUI NON

2001 | miniDV | Color | Sound | 110 minutes

Concept, script, direction, camera, edit, graphics, sound, music manipulation : Jon Jost

Actors: Hélène Fillières and James Thiérrée

Shown at: Locarno, Rotterdam, Yamagata, Jeonju

A LOVE LETTER TO PARIS Kevin Thomas, LA Times Oct 7 2004

After a long European sojourn, Jon Jost, master American independent filmmakers, will personally present the US Premiere of his OUI NON (1997-2002) at the Egyptian on Sunday. A major work that marks a new direction for this heretofore realist who worked deeply in the American grain, OUI NON is a rapturously beautiful visual poem, a homage to everyday Paris, a farewell to the cinema and a welcome to the digital form and all its possibilities, and a consideration of movies as the eternal illusion.

Amid the city’s vibrant street life, Hélène Fillières, a beautiful young actress, tells us that she will be playing Georgette, who works at the Magnum photo archives. James Thiérrée is a handsome young circus trapeze artist who as Gerome will be playing the same. The pair, who fall in love, provide the slender yet sturdy thread upon which Jost strings his visual sonnets to Paris and its people. Georgette hopes her life will be like a movie with a happy ending, but OUI NON is a constant reminder that movies and life are not the same. So deft is Jost, he never lapses into the merely self-conscious. OUI NON is instead seductive – and sublime.

At the cinematheque: Oui Non, by Acquarello

As much an elegy to film as it is a dissolution of romantic myth, Jon Jost’s Paris-set digital feature, Oui non hews closely to the spirit of Jean-Luc Godard’s late period, mixed media essay films – a reflection on the city and the cinema through conventional images of the present as preconceived, idealized evocations of the past. Prefaced by a montage of Eugène Atget’s diffused, long-exposure photographs at the turn of the century – desolate spaces, cobblestone streets, solitary figures, and shop window mannequins – the image of Paris as distant and ethereal continues through the delayed, somber, motion-blurred shots of the present day, overcast city (culminating with an abstract, dreamlike view of the cityscape from a train window): the haberdashery windows now replaced by runway fashion shows and sculpture gardens by museum installations. This alternation between intersecting (and colliding) dual realities is reinforced in the instances of split-screen and mirroring images that occur throughout the film, as idiosyncratically composed snapshots of everyday life interweave with episodes of performance and improvisations that tell a mundane tale of boy meets girl, further creating layers of ambiguity within the filmed reality (a blurring of bounds that is also suggested in an interstitial note that reveals the actors’ short-lived, off-screen relationship).

In one diptych, lead actress Hélène Fillières discusses her background and acting experience (having previously worked with her sister, Sophie Fillières) before describing her character, George, an office assistant at Magnum Photos who sorts through the agency’s vast archives in search of the perfect photograph to match client requests. For George, each photograph represents a ghost, a moment suspended between life and death. In a sense, her character also takes on the role of a pseudo-filmmaker, manipulating images by creating blow-ups or enhancing contrast to suit the request. Similarly, James Thiérrée’s character, Gerome, an actor and acrobat whose ambition is to elevate circus performance into the realm of theatrical art, also articulates a filmmaker’s (and more broadly, an artist’s) aesthetic and paradoxical dislocation from the real world in pursuit of the art of illusion: “Construct a universe. Construct a folding tent, a folding life.”

Using the prefiguring idea of Paris as a city of “four million souls”, Jost creates his own visual play on words to illustrate this association, as anonymous, real-life “characters” alternately become spectator and spectacle within the observer’s gaze (an interconnection between filmed reality and performance that is reflected in an early shot of the audience at a fashion show in which a man repeatedly exchanges brusque, disapproving glances towards Jost and his camera). Moreover, in describing the streets as being marked by the abrasions and scars of past stories, Jost also converges towards a recurring theme in José Luis Guerín’s cinema (as well as Pedro Costa’s Fonthainas films) in the idea of architecture as palimpsest of covalent, layered histories. Juxtaposed against the image of Georges Méliès’s grave, Jost revisits the intrinsic dichotomy of cinema as both a medium for creative imagination, and as a documentation of reality: a rupture that is reflected in the ironic embrace of familiar conventions that conclude the film – relegating the images of eternal love, happy ending, and tragedy to the art of the spectacle, and consequently, to the death of cinema.

By ROBERT KOEHLER, Variety

Predating some of America’s bashing of all things Gallic, Jon Jost’s “Oui Non” recalls a more durable bond between Yanks and the French in its framework of a fitful love story between a pair of young Parisians. Proof that ultra-cheap video can produce beautiful results, pic will surely frustrate viewers expecting a typical City of Lights romance, but also intrigue auds attuned to blending of narrative and non-fiction. Adventurous DVD distribs should take note.

Jost, long a stalwart of indie filmmaking, began lensing “Oui Non” in 1997 in his then-adopted Paris. (He has since moved back to his native U.S.) With Jost taking up digital vid for the first time, concept involved shooting a love story, but also capturing the off-screen reality circulating around filming. (Pic ended up involving an actual fling between leads Hélène Fillières and James Thiérrée that eventually went sour, according to onscreen text near the end.) Long delays ensued between lensing and final print, finally screened in Locarno and Rotterdam fests (among others), and only now in North America.

Pic is only partly concerned with the fictional love story, using it as just one aspect in an overall look at Paris and life within the city’s rich artistic community. Opening minutes cue this, starting with a lovely gallery of images by early photographer Eugene Atget, dissolving into contempo shots of the city that capture street life at an akimbo angle.

An unidentified female voiceover muses on “a city of 4 million souls … with a myriad of stories,” and eventually, two stories are selected: On split-screens, thesps Hélène Fillières and Thiérrée speak about themselves and their characters — Georgette, an archivist at the legendary Magnum photo agency, and Gerome, trained as a circus performer and now producing his own post-mod circus act. Their characters meet, similarly in split-screen, in a cafe, and though some chemistry is evident, visual separation suggests a doomed affair.

As is often the case with Jost, artistic references are constantly in the air. While works by French composers are intercut on the soundtrack with natural urban sounds (and sometimes barely audible dialogue), his camera sneaks peeks at Paris fashion spectacles, sculpture and paintings in the Louvre, and a bust of film pioneer Georges Melies. Even street graffiti becomes a thing of beauty. The dominant Gallic influence is Impressionism, both in the semi-narrative’s daydream mood and some densely textured, painterly images.

Since lensing was not in the usual 24 fps, a slight stop-motion effect is created (a la silent film) that lends pic the visual illusion of a remembrance of things past. The line between Fillières‘ and Thiérrée‘s characters and themselves grows deliberately invisible, with Thiérrée — one of Charlie Chaplin’s grandsons — displaying his grandfather’s gift for acrobatics.

“The film opens in Paris—a place; a state of being; a state of mind. It is the Paris of another world: a montage of black-and-white photographs from the early twentieth century: elegant, unadorned, humanistic glimpses of time: humanistic because of the people in some of them but also because of their orientation: there, don’t you see, is where people walked; here is the public sculpture that they looked at; here is where people congregated; there is where they banked. The photographs, all outdoor ones, are by Eugene Atget, and the pensive music that accompanies the montage—the cumulative effect haunts—reflects the loss of this older Paris to time, Atget’s being an orphan, perhaps (was his adopted Paris a kind of mother for him?), and the neglect into which his brilliant work fell after the First World War. (Jost may identify with Atget on this last point.) But human accomplishment and activity have their limit, as human lives do, redefining this sample list as follows: there is where people walked who have since passed away; here is the public sculpture that they looked at and can no longer look at; and so forth. We “create reality from fiction” in order to keep it from dissolving before our eyes.”

Dennis Grunes; for complete review (long) see this.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/125061

Yes No Living in Paris for a year and some, and knowing I'd be there around that long, I decided - as seems my habit - to make a film there.

#Degas #Eugene Atget #Hélène Fillières #James Thiérrée #Lautrec #Manet #Monet

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stephenmccull · 4 years ago

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Bingeing on Doom: Expert on the ‘Black Death’ Attracts Cult Following

Before COVID-19, Purdue University English professor Dorsey Armstrong was well known in a way that only other enthusiasts of medieval literature and culture might appreciate.

That is to say, she once got a discount on a replica of an Anglo-Saxon drinking horn — made from an actual cattle horn — because a guy at a conference recognized her.

“That’s the only time I felt famous,” said Armstrong, an expert in medieval studies who heads the English department at Purdue in Indiana. “I got a really cool drinking horn. And whenever I teach ‘Beowulf,’ I bring it out and I pass it around.”

But since the start of the pandemic, Armstrong, 49, has gained a whole new level of acclaim for her Old World expertise. She’s the narrator of “The Black Death: The World’s Most Devastating Plague,” a video series that became must-see TV this spring when it aired on Amazon Prime, just as stuck-at-home 21st-century humans were reeling from the coronavirus crisis.

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In 24 surprisingly compelling episodes, Armstrong introduced the devastation of the mid-14th century to doom-obsessed modern viewers. The flea-driven plague, also known as the “Great Mortality,” overran Eurasia and North Africa from 1347 to 1353, killing tens of millions of people and wiping out half of Europe’s population.

The series was filmed before the coronavirus pandemic, in 2016, as part of The Great Courses, a compendium of college-level audio and video lectures. But “The Black Death” has spurred a broad cult following for Armstrong — even as it underscores the dismaying parallels between the great plague and the deadly disease now circling the globe.

“I just wish that the course were not quite so relevant at the moment,” said Armstrong, whose parents and siblings are among those who have contracted COVID-19 and recovered.

Since March, she has received a stream of daily emails from people who binge-watched “The Black Death,” all wanting to know whether things are as bad now as they were back then.

The answer, thankfully, is no, Armstrong said. Though COVID-19 has infected more than 14.5 million people and killed at least 600,000 worldwide, the proportion of deaths doesn’t compare with the devastation caused by the “Great Mortality.”

“The Triumph of Death,” a 16th-century oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, famously depicts the Black Death.(Credit: Museo Nacional del Prado/Wikimedia Commons)

The ferocious pandemic was dubbed the bubonic plague, reflecting the painful and (at the time) mysterious swellings, known as buboes, that developed in the lymph nodes of the neck, armpits and groin of those infected. The swellings oozed blood and pus, even as the unfortunate patients suffered other terrible symptoms: fever, chills, body aches, vomiting and diarrhea — often followed quickly by death.

As Armstrong notes, the disease could take other grisly forms: pneumonic plague, which infects the lungs, and septicemic plague, where the infection spreads to the blood, often causing skin on the fingers, toes and nose to blacken and die.

The Black Death originated in China and spread along trade routes, turning the Silk Road into a superhighway of infection. It arrived in many places via trading ships, long believed to be carried by the fleas on rats that coexisted closely with humans. A more recent theory contends that fleas and lice on humans themselves helped spread the disease widely. As deaths mounted, populations in region after region struggled vainly to understand its cause or cure.

“The good news is that, all things considered, we are in a much better position than those poor people who had to survive the Black Death,” Armstrong said. “The mortality rate for the Black Death, for those who contracted it, was something like 80%. And we’re still in single digits.”

The modern world also has the advantage of seven centuries of scientific discovery that can root the current pandemic in a rogue coronavirus and target a treatment — and ultimately a cure — based on that understanding.

By contrast, humans suffering through the Black Death blamed an unfavorable conjunction of planets, “bad air,” earthquakes and God’s wrath. It wasn’t until 1894 that Swiss scientist Alexandre Yersin discovered the bacillus that caused the plague: Yersinia pestis, named in his honor.

“During the Black Death, what was really terrifying about that is they really had no idea at all what it was,” Armstrong said. “They had no good science to help them figure out how to cope with it.”

Still, there are some unsettling similarities between societal responses to the plague and COVID-19. In both cases, some officials tried to downplay the severity of the outbreak and the far-reaching economic and social effects. In Florence, Italy, for instance, members of the elite ruling class, decimated by the plague, faced a rebellion from the newly powerful working class, Armstrong said.

Many people, from ordinary peasants to local religious leaders, took the plague seriously and tried to carry out their normal duties. Clergy members were called to the homes of the ill to provide last rites, often contracting the disease in the process. Others, however, ignored the calamity, turning to hedonism and debauchery, “figuring that if they were going to die, they might as well enjoy themselves,” Armstrong said.

“What I would say is that people are the same then as now,” Armstrong observed. “Humans, when they’re together in a large group, often do dumb things. And it’s frustrating that so many people don’t seem to be learning lessons from the past.”

It has been “particularly horrifying,” Armstrong said, to see Asian Americans targeted as the presumed cause of the COVID-19 crisis. During the plague, Jews were scapegoated — and killed — as the possible source of the scourge.

“To think that anyone thinks you can call it ‘kung flu,’ which is so racist,” Armstrong said, referring to President Donald Trump’s characterization of COVID-19. “It’s really distressing. We have international travel. Wherever it originated, it would have spread around the globe.”

Amazon Prime officials wouldn’t say how many people have viewed the series since March. But Cale Pritchett, vice president of marketing for The Great Courses, said tens of thousands of viewers have watched the show each month for the past four years. “It has been a constant in our top 10,” he said. “For a while, it was No. 1.”

Armstrong’s clear mastery of the subject — her doctorate is in medieval literature — and her easygoing teaching style make for engaging TV. The show is set in an office decorated with replicas of skulls, bones and a distinctive beaked doctor’s mask that was filled with sweet-smelling flowers to ward off the plague. Prop rats migrate around the set.

Armstrong, who favors brightly colored blazers, stands to talk through the 12 hours of lectures, striding back and forth across an ornate woven rug. She leavens the often-grisly subject matter with dark humor, reminding viewers, for instance, that the bodies of plague victims have been described as being layered in mass graves the way cheese is layered in lasagna.

The show is set in an office decorated with replicas of skulls, bones and a distinctive beaked doctor’s mask that was filled with sweet-smelling flowers to ward off the plague. Prop rats migrate around the set.(Courtesy of The Great Courses)

In the more than 300 reviews of the series online, viewers note her approachable style. “She doesn’t come across as an intellectual snob,” wrote one. “I wish I would have had her as a professor when I was in college.”

Because of her familiarity with the plague, Armstrong was alarmed this year when early reports emerged of an unknown virus spreading through China.

“I’m always worried about pandemic,” said Armstrong, the mother of 13-year-old twin daughters. “I have peanut butter and toilet paper and water in a cabinet in the basement, even when there is no threat of a pandemic, because that is the situation that is the scariest. Especially if it’s a novel virus, which is what this is.”

In recent months, Armstrong’s fears were realized as four family members — her parents in Seattle, her brother in New York and her sister in the San Francisco Bay Area — contracted COVID-19. They’ve all since recovered, though her mother was hospitalized and received the antiviral drug remdesivir to aid her healing.

If there’s one strong parallel between the Black Death and the current pandemic, it’s the social upheaval spurred by both, Armstrong said. The 14th-century plague upended the rigid social structure of the era, which had confined people to narrow roles of clergy, nobility and peasant.

“Humanity came back after that,” said Armstrong. “And some people would argue that it was that external pressure that changed society so radically that gave us eventually things like the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation that all have their roots in that major event.”

Perhaps current protests and calls for political, economic and social change may have lasting impact, too.

“My hope is that we get something good out of this,” Armstrong said.

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Before COVID-19, Purdue University English professor Dorsey Armstrong was well known in a way that only other enthusiasts of medieval literature and culture might appreciate.

That is to say, she once got a discount on a replica of an Anglo-Saxon drinking horn — made from an actual cattle horn — because a guy at a conference recognized her.

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“I just wish that the course were not quite so relevant at the moment,” said Armstrong, whose parents and siblings are among those who have contracted COVID-19 and recovered.

Since March, she has received a stream of daily emails from people who binge-watched “The Black Death,” all wanting to know whether things are as bad now as they were back then.

“The Triumph of Death,” a 16th-century oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, famously depicts the Black Death.(Credit: Museo Nacional del Prado/Wikimedia Commons)

Because of her familiarity with the plague, Armstrong was alarmed this year when early reports emerged of an unknown virus spreading through China.

Perhaps current protests and calls for political, economic and social change may have lasting impact, too.

“My hope is that we get something good out of this,” Armstrong said.

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Bingeing on Doom: Expert on the ‘Black Death’ Attracts Cult Following

Before COVID-19, Purdue University English professor Dorsey Armstrong was well known in a way that only other enthusiasts of medieval literature and culture might appreciate.

That is to say, she once got a discount on a replica of an Anglo-Saxon drinking horn — made from an actual cattle horn — because a guy at a conference recognized her.

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“I just wish that the course were not quite so relevant at the moment,” said Armstrong, whose parents and siblings are among those who have contracted COVID-19 and recovered.

Since March, she has received a stream of daily emails from people who binge-watched “The Black Death,” all wanting to know whether things are as bad now as they were back then.

“The Triumph of Death,” a 16th-century oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, famously depicts the Black Death.(Credit: Museo Nacional del Prado/Wikimedia Commons)

Because of her familiarity with the plague, Armstrong was alarmed this year when early reports emerged of an unknown virus spreading through China.

Perhaps current protests and calls for political, economic and social change may have lasting impact, too.

“My hope is that we get something good out of this,” Armstrong said.

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9 Tips for Anxiety Relief to Help You Feel Your Best

When you’re feeling anxious, it’s hard to focus on anything else. Your mind and heart might be racing, your palms could be sweating, and you could feel an impending sense of doom. To help you manage these symptoms and get back to feeling your best, we’ve compiled 9 tips for anxiety relief.

Learning about anxiety

Before we discuss some of the tools you can use to manage anxious feelings, let’s talk about anxiety itself. First, it’s important to understand just how common it is. In fact, one in 13 people around the world (or about 7.3% of the global population) are affected by it.

It’s particularly interesting to note the prevalence of clinical anxiety varies from country to country. For example, about 10% of the population of North America, Western Europe, and Australia/New Zealand report symptoms of clinical anxiety. In the Middle East, that number drops to 8%. And in Asia, it’s reported as 6%. For more on worldwide statistics and other information about anxiety, take a look at this fact sheet from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.

While these statistics refer to clinical anxiety, it’s important to consider how many of us experience generalized anxiety on a daily basis. Sometimes it’s brought on by a cause, perhaps a tight deadline or being stuck in traffic. Other times, it seems to take on a life of its own and shows up out of nowhere.

9 tips for anxiety relief

When you’ve got these tips in your back pocket, you can help yourself manage the symptoms of anxiety and get back to feeling and functioning at your best.

Accept your anxiety

One of the most crucial first steps in overcoming anxiety is accepting your feelings about it.

When you accept and recognize these feelings for what they are, you can begin to reframe the way you view your anxiety. Over time, this can change your relationship with your anxiety.

Remind yourself the feeling of anxiety is neither good, nor bad—it simply is.

Next time you start to feel your heart racing, or your stomach turning, take a second to consider your anxious feelings. What are they telling you? Maybe that anxious feeling in your gut is really just your subconscious telling you you’re excited about something.

Instead of telling yourself you’re anxious, reframe your situation to say you’re motivated to attack whatever is making you anxious. You can also use your anxiety as a powerful motivator to help you balance different aspects of your life. For instance, instead of succumbing to crippling feelings of anxiety, use these feelings as fuel to accomplish a task.

Further, pay attention to what brings on your feelings of anxiety. If it’s the same issue reoccurring, maybe it’s your subconscious telling you that you need to reprioritize and rebalance certain aspects of your life. If work is making you consistently anxious, consider speaking to your boss about what can be done.

As long as you’re aware of and accepting of your anxiety, you can begin to manage the symptoms you’re experiencing.

2. Ground yourself

If you find yourself in the midst of an anxious episode—a high heart rate and quick breathing—consider this technique for grounding yourself in the present moment, known as The Five Senses Method:

Focus on finding five things that fall under each of your senses—sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste. Five things each that you can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste. By focusing on the present, your body is freed up from stressing about the anxious feelings.

The purpose for grounding is to allow an anxious individual to step away from their anxious thoughts. Instead, they can focus on the present moment and often experience instant anxiety relief.

3. Become aware of and in control of the moment

Connected closely to the first two tips, awareness and control are important in overcoming anxiety.

When feelings of anxiety come along, it’s easy for your brain to trick you into thinking something worse is happening.

Next time you’re feeling anxious and your heart begins to race, try this: Take a second to pay attention to the present moment. Remind yourself this is just a passing emotion, and feelings of anxiety will fade in time.

4. Evaluate your thoughts

It’s also important to question and evaluate your thoughts to help you find anxiety relief. When you’re anxious, your brain goes into overdrive. It presents you with all sorts of thoughts that can continue to fuel your anxiety.

Remember to question your thoughts and evaluate them with a logical frame of mind. In the middle of an anxious episode, it’s common for your brain to tell you that “everything” is going wrong or catastrophe is looming . When your brain presents you with these thoughts, question them! Don’t accept these lies and worsen the situation.

It’s always beneficial to remain in control of the moment by questioning the often-outlandish and anxiety-inducing thoughts that pop into your brain.

5. Pay attention to your breathing

There are many breathing techniques out there meant to help with anxiety. After all, breathing in deeply is connected to the sympathetic nervous system. This system is what controls the fight-or-flight response. Exhaling (breathing out) is connected to the parasympathetic nervous system, or what influences our body to relax.

If you’re feeling anxious, one of the easiest techniques to try to elevate some of the symptoms is to lengthen your exhale, which encourages your body naturally to relax.

If you have trouble relaxing, grab your headphones and listen to your favorite song. The Xen by Neuvana Headphones are a great way to calm your mind to let you focus on breathing.

While you take nice deep breaths, the headphones also stimulate your vagus nerve. This can send messages to the brain creating calming sensations throughout your body and easing your mind.

Want to learn more about the vagus nerve and why it’s often considered the key to well-being? We cover all that and more in this post.

Another technique is to simply be mindful of your breathing. Evaluate your body as you breathe in. What are you feeling? Tension? Relaxation? Becoming aware of what your body is experiencing is crucial to reducing anxiety symptoms.

6. Use relaxation aids

In addition to Xen by Neuvana technology, there are plenty of aids out there to help support and encourage relaxation and provide anxiety relief. One of the most popular is lavender oil.

Lavender oil has many healing properties and promotes a calming feeling, as well as more restful sleep. Rubbing lavender oil on your skin, or putting some in an oil diffuser is a great start to encouraging relaxation.

7. Do something for your body

Exercising is one of the fastest ways to produce endorphins, or chemicals that act as painkillers in the brain. Plus, it’s an added bonus that you’ll feel accomplished afterward! Studies show that regular exercise can play a role in reducing anxiety and depression symptoms in individuals.

For those who need a push to workout, listening to music during or after a workout can help make it fun. This helps boost your mood and reduces feelings of stress or anxiety. Pairing your post-workout cooldown with the Xen headphones and your favorite playlist can help you recover faster from the workout by combining vagus nerve stimulation with your music for added stress relieving benefits. .

8. Do something for your mind

By doing something for your mind, you are encouraging feelings other than stress, panic, and anxiety to be felt.

During an anxiety attack, try to refocus your attention onto doing something meaningful. An activity to accomplish can distract your mind while also giving you something to focus on.

Here are some ideas to get you started:

Puzzles

Coloring

Writing

Reading

Painting

These activities will help your mind shift to something more positive.

9. Do something for your heart

When you’re suffering from anxiety, consider focusing on something that makes your heart happy. A great example is spending time with animals or consider adopting a pet. Studies have shown that time with animals has a significant impact on reducing anxiety symptoms. In fact, 74% of pet owners reported improved mental health from pet ownership!

Finding tools for anxiety relief that work for you

As you navigate through anxious episodes, you’ll find certain techniques are more effective than others. What gives one person anxiety relief might not work for the next person. But don’t give up! There are so many tools and techniques for anxiety relief that can help you calm your mind and feel your best.

If you’re looking for a unique and effective way to experience the many benefits of VNS, we encourage you to give the Xen by Neuvana Headphones a try. It’s well accepted that stress, including anxiety, has negative health effects on the body. Research suggests the type of stimulation Xen provides may improve sleep, reduce stress, boost your mood, provide anxiety relief, and enhance focus to support overall wellness. Individual results may vary.

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9 Tips for Anxiety Relief to Help You Feel Your Best

Learning about anxiety

9 tips for anxiety relief

When you’ve got these tips in your back pocket, you can help yourself manage the symptoms of anxiety and get back to feeling and functioning at your best.

Accept your anxiety

One of the most crucial first steps in overcoming anxiety is accepting your feelings about it.

When you accept and recognize these feelings for what they are, you can begin to reframe the way you view your anxiety. Over time, this can change your relationship with your anxiety.

Remind yourself the feeling of anxiety is neither good, nor bad—it simply is.

As long as you’re aware of and accepting of your anxiety, you can begin to manage the symptoms you’re experiencing.

2. Ground yourself

The purpose for grounding is to allow an anxious individual to step away from their anxious thoughts. Instead, they can focus on the present moment and often experience instant anxiety relief.

3. Become aware of and in control of the moment

Connected closely to the first two tips, awareness and control are important in overcoming anxiety.

When feelings of anxiety come along, it’s easy for your brain to trick you into thinking something worse is happening.

4. Evaluate your thoughts

It’s always beneficial to remain in control of the moment by questioning the often-outlandish and anxiety-inducing thoughts that pop into your brain.

5. Pay attention to your breathing

If you’re feeling anxious, one of the easiest techniques to try to elevate some of the symptoms is to lengthen your exhale, which encourages your body naturally to relax.

If you have trouble relaxing, grab your headphones and listen to your favorite song. The Xen by Neuvana Headphones are a great way to calm your mind to let you focus on breathing.

While you take nice deep breaths, the headphones also stimulate your vagus nerve. This can send messages to the brain creating calming sensations throughout your body and easing your mind.

Want to learn more about the vagus nerve and why it’s often considered the key to well-being? We cover all that and more in this post.

6. Use relaxation aids

In addition to Xen by Neuvana technology, there are plenty of aids out there to help support and encourage relaxation and provide anxiety relief. One of the most popular is lavender oil.

7. Do something for your body

8. Do something for your mind

By doing something for your mind, you are encouraging feelings other than stress, panic, and anxiety to be felt.

During an anxiety attack, try to refocus your attention onto doing something meaningful. An activity to accomplish can distract your mind while also giving you something to focus on.

Here are some ideas to get you started:

Puzzles

Coloring

Writing

Reading

Painting

These activities will help your mind shift to something more positive.

9. Do something for your heart

Finding tools for anxiety relief that work for you

Learn more about this revolutionary product here.

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9 Tips for Anxiety Relief to Help You Feel Your Best

Learning about anxiety

9 tips for anxiety relief

When you’ve got these tips in your back pocket, you can help yourself manage the symptoms of anxiety and get back to feeling and functioning at your best.

Accept your anxiety

One of the most crucial first steps in overcoming anxiety is accepting your feelings about it.

When you accept and recognize these feelings for what they are, you can begin to reframe the way you view your anxiety. Over time, this can change your relationship with your anxiety.

Remind yourself the feeling of anxiety is neither good, nor bad—it simply is.

As long as you’re aware of and accepting of your anxiety, you can begin to manage the symptoms you’re experiencing.

2. Ground yourself

The purpose for grounding is to allow an anxious individual to step away from their anxious thoughts. Instead, they can focus on the present moment and often experience instant anxiety relief.

3. Become aware of and in control of the moment

Connected closely to the first two tips, awareness and control are important in overcoming anxiety.

When feelings of anxiety come along, it’s easy for your brain to trick you into thinking something worse is happening.

4. Evaluate your thoughts

It’s always beneficial to remain in control of the moment by questioning the often-outlandish and anxiety-inducing thoughts that pop into your brain.

5. Pay attention to your breathing

If you’re feeling anxious, one of the easiest techniques to try to elevate some of the symptoms is to lengthen your exhale, which encourages your body naturally to relax.

If you have trouble relaxing, grab your headphones and listen to your favorite song. The Xen by Neuvana Headphones are a great way to calm your mind to let you focus on breathing.

While you take nice deep breaths, the headphones also stimulate your vagus nerve. This can send messages to the brain creating calming sensations throughout your body and easing your mind.

Want to learn more about the vagus nerve and why it’s often considered the key to well-being? We cover all that and more in this post.

6. Use relaxation aids

In addition to Xen by Neuvana technology, there are plenty of aids out there to help support and encourage relaxation and provide anxiety relief. One of the most popular is lavender oil.

7. Do something for your body

8. Do something for your mind

By doing something for your mind, you are encouraging feelings other than stress, panic, and anxiety to be felt.

During an anxiety attack, try to refocus your attention onto doing something meaningful. An activity to accomplish can distract your mind while also giving you something to focus on.

Here are some ideas to get you started:

Puzzles

Coloring

Writing

Reading

Painting

These activities will help your mind shift to something more positive.

9. Do something for your heart

Finding tools for anxiety relief that work for you

Learn more about this revolutionary product here.

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