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castielsupernatural · 1 year

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im cheating and sending u the same numbers that you sent me because theyre like, the best questions okay 1, 2, 15, 19 KISSES

hiiiiii bestie my answers aren't nearly as interesting as yours sadly, i could NEVER be as well read as you. this got long so the tldr is don't listen to me for book recs just go to jess :)

1. book you’ve reread the most times?

technically it’s probably twilight but let’s say it’s not, and in that case let’s say it’s the raven boys by maggie stiefvater. it’s definitely my most heavily annotated book and i tend to date my annotations and well there’s just a lot of them

2. top 5 books of all time?

i’m gonna do a fiction list and a nonfiction list and again be nice bc i’m not super well read 😭😭 also in no particular order

fiction:

catching fire by suzanne collins sorry i’m a slut for the second book in a series

a gathering of shadows by v.e. schwab see above

the dream thieves by maggie stiefvater sigh. see above

six of crows by leigh bardugo

the secret history by donna tartt sorry women

nonfiction:

dark waters: flood and redemption in the city of masterpieces by robert clark

the power broker: robert moses and the fall of new york by robert caro

the line becomes a river: dispatches from the border by francisco cantù

dopesick: dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted america by beth macy

unsettling truths: the ongoing, dehumanizing legacy of the doctrine of discovery by mark charles and soong-chan rah sorry for listing a book on religion. also if these guys names mean anything to you pls do NOT look at me

15. recommend and review a book

ok ok gonna do my fave nonfiction i've read recently and some of you have been unlucky enough to hear me talk about it but it's the power broker by robert caro, it's a 1,200+ page brick of a nonfiction book published in the 1970's as a biography of robert moses and just new york city infrastructure in general. i read a lot of nonfiction and honestly a lot of the writing is just bad even if the content is interesting but this was seriously one of the most well-written pieces of work i've ever read and it completely changed the way i think about local government. some fun excerpts and all my notes:

granted, part of the fun was i read it with my dad and we had a lot of fun bonding over it, but still! it's been such a cool foundation for other works on urban studies, too - i recently finished davarian l baldwin's in the shadow of the ivory tower: how universities are plundering our cities and there was a whole chapter on new york that i felt really well-equipped to engage with

19. most disliked popular books?

ok not to be one of those ppl that are like teehee i hated it before it was problematic but genuinely i never got the hype about harry potter. i think the problem is i read them out obscenely out of order and probably just a little too young (i started with the order of the phoenix when i was 10) but nevertheless i've just never cared. more recently i read the midnight library and i was so unimpressed i was this could've just been a supernatural episode we didn't have to do all this

book asks <3

#so seriously. if you know of a series with a compelling second installment send it my way bc i’m bound to make it my whole personality #SORRY THIS WAS LONG WINDED #in short: don't come to me for book recs. go to jess!!#i know i got more of these asks but i am going to answer them later as i need to go get a slushie before my laundry finishes

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wearethekat · 2 years

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January Book Reviews Overview

The Bone Doll's Twin (Lynn Flewelling)

Kiss Her Once For Me (Alison Cochrun)

The High King's Golden Tongue (Megan Derr)

Starcrossed (Allie Therin)

The Morning Gift (Eva Ibbotson)

Hidden Warrior (Lynn Flewelling)

Wonderstruck (Allie Therin)

Proper Scoundrels (Allie Therin)

Hell Bent (Leigh Bardugo)

1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)

The Oracle's Queen (Lynn Flewelling)

Plum Duff (Victoria Goddard)

Snowspelled (Stephanie Burgis)

Gentleman Jim (Mimi Matthews)

The Flowers of Vashnoi (Lois McMaster Bujold)

Daughter of the Serpentine (EE Knight)

Masquerade in Lodi (Lois McMaster Bujold)

The Lord of Stariel (AJ Lancaster)

Green Rider (Kristen Britain)

How Not To Marry A Prince (Megan Derr)

Magic Tides (Ilona Andrews)

Black Magic (Megan Derr)

The Ivory Tomb (Melissa Caruso)

Just Like Home (Sarah Gailey)

The Physicians of Vilnoc (Lois McMaster Bujold)

Widdershins (Jordan L Hawk)

Threshold (Jordan L Hawk)

The Dragon Waiting (John M Ford)

Prosperity (Alexis Hall)

#my book reviews #january book reviews #monthly book overview

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sjscoyote · 1 year

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rule: post the first 10 songs that appear on your 'on repeat' playlist 🎶

(Found randomly when I was searching tumblr tags for one of my favorite singers & now I wanna play)

1. Silk Chiffon by MUNA and Phoebe Bridgers

2. Coast by Gone Gone Beyond and Moontricks

3. Spider in the Roses by Sonia Leigh, Daphne Willis, and Rob the Man

4. The Expanse by Juniper Vale

5. Love From the Other Side - Edit by Fall Out Boy

6. Queen of Nothing by The Crane Wives

7. Bloodlust by aeseaes

8. Cookie Cutter by Ivory Layne

9. Lost by Linkin Park

10. Six Feet by Patent Pending

tagging @boxonthenile and @marcellestial-space to challenge them to play, too.

#music junkie #on repeat #challenge #daphne willis #ivory layne #muna #phoebe bridgers #gone gone beyond #juniper vale #aeseaes #fall out boy #linkin park #the crane wives #patent pending

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littlemix-styleblog · 2 years

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Throwback Leigh On Instagram | 2nd March 2022 Sportmax knitted sleeve jacket in ivory: Sold Out Vrai connected earrings: Sold Out lois1xblue teeth bikini: Sold Out

Sportmax oversized trousers with braces in ecru: Sold Out

Piferi upanova 85 white/red: £450 £225

#Throwback #Leigh Anne Pinnock #Instagram #Sportmax #Vrai #Piferi

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whavradio · 16 days

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Berry and Manzi Team Up to Launch Ivory & Onyx in North Andover

To submit Business Bulletin announcements, click on image. Haverhill resident Leigh Berry and North Andover native Nerissa Manzi are opening Ivory & Onyx, a salon, apothecary and wellness center in North Andover. Manzi, who now lives in Danville, N.H., brings more than 15 years of experience in the beauty industry to the endeavor. Specializing in “lived-in” color looks, corrective hair coloring…

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chronic-pessimists · 1 month

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Ask me anything

please ask me questions. As I said earlier, high school football (soccer) pre-season has recently started and the actual season is starting soon. I need something to distract me from the stress and pressure of high school sports, high school itself, and face to face social interaction itself. So please, I beg, ask me questions that have to make me stop and actually think about so it can push all of those other thoughts to the back of my head.

Also if anyone is interested I made a playlist of songs that I think tori Spring would be listening to. The playlist is 5 hours and 19 minutes long and has 87 songs on it.

The songs are:

No Surprises- Radiohead

Creep- Radiohead

Good Looking- Suki Waterhouse

As The World Caves In- Matt Maltese

Space Song- Beach House

Where'd All The Time Go?- Dr. Dog

Nobody- Mitski

Always Forever- Cults

Duvet- boa

Sweet- Cigarettes After Sex

Tired- beabadoobee

Lights Are On- Tom Rosenthal

Fade Into You- Mazzy Star

The Other Woman- Lana Del Rey

God Must Hate Me- Catie Turner

Everything In Its Right Place- Radiohead

Holocene- Bon Iver

People Watching- Conan Gray

First Love/Late Spring- Mitski

Cool Kids- Ecosmith

There is a Light That Never Goes Out (2011 Remaster)- The Smits

Juliet- Cavetown

Liquid Smooth- Mitski

Melatonin- Carter Vail

Motion Sickness- Phoebe Bridgers

Fool- Frankie Cosmos

I Love You So- The Walters

Nothing- Bruno Major

The Bends- Radiohead

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (2011 Remaster)- The Smiths

I Can't Handle Change- Roar

Slipping Through My Fingers- ABBA

The Has Opened My Eyes (2011 Remaster)- The Smiths

Lovers Rock- TV Girl

Right Side of My Neck- Faye Webster

Telephones- Vacations

It's Not The Same Anymore- Rex Orange County

Exit Music (For A Film)- Radiohead

Line Without A Hook- Ricky Montgomery

Hey Little Girl (Live)- sophiemarie.b

Lemon Boy- Cavetown

Average- Sushi Soucy

Top Of My School- Katherine Lynn-Rose

i'll die anyway.- girl in red

Meteor Shower- Cavetown

Sunflower- Michele Leigh

Are You Bored Yet?(feat. Clairo)- Wallows, Clairo

Eleanor Rigby- Cody Fry

Our Word- 36 Questions, Jessie Shelton

The Record Player Song- Daisy the Great

Daddy Issues- The Neighbourhood

Broken- Isak Danielson

Habits- Genevieve Stokes

Burning Pile- Mother Mother

Fourth of July- Sufjan Stevens

Kids- Current Joys

Apocalypse- Cigarettes After Sex

Cry- Cigarettes After Sex

K.- Cigarettes After Sex

Sunsetz- Cigarettes After Sex

Welcome And Goodbye- Dream, Ivory

Gilded Lily- Cults

Treehouse- Alex G, Emily Yacina

Francis Forever- Mitski

Let Down- Radiohead

YKWIM?- Yot Club

Message In A Bottle- The Police

It's Not- Aimee Mann

Eet- Regina Spektor

Ask (2008 Remaster)- The Smiths

Our Window- Noah And The Whale

I Need Some Sleep- Eels

Bloodflood- Alt-J

Motion Picture Soundtrack- Radiohead

Inside Out- Duster

Last Words of a Shooting Star- Mitski

Blondie- Current Joys

Sparks- Coldplay

Fool- Cavetown

If U Wanna Stay- Sweatcult

Everything Is Going to Hell- Teen Suicide

Watching Him Fade Away- Mac DeMarco

New Flesh- Current Joys

ur so pretty- Wasia Project

Crush Culture- Conan Gray

Sappho- Frankie Cosmos

My Own Person- Ezra Williams

I hope you give it a listen and enjoy it.

#distract me #distraction #stress #tori spring #tori spring music #music #playlist #school #sports #life is stressful

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Stranieri Ovunque — Foreigners Everywhere Venice Biennale Arte 2024, Pavilion Picks and Thoughts by Maria Ogedengbe

Decades before the 60th Venice Biennale I visited Venice as a student. I remember the Guggenheim Collection and note how that era was so much closer to when Peggy G was in residence at her palazzo. On returning in 2024 the city felt familiar, like a time capsule. Yet through my stay I was anxious over climate change. Only after the trip did I learn of MOSE, a sea barrier that has been raised 80+ times since being put into use the year after Venice’s flood of 2019 ~

Much of the Venice Biennale Arte takes place in a park called the Giardini (garden). Pavilions there showcase country-specific art exhibits. The Giardini reflects the world at large… the Israel (Israele) Pavilion’s exhibit is currently closed and under guard, and the Russia Pavilion is on loan to the Plurinational State of Bolivia.

United States of America Pavilion

At the US (Stati Uniti) Pavilion, the chromophilia effect with Jeffrey Gibson’s installation is arresting. Murals, friezes, and paintings bearing abstract lines of text, and texts spelled out in the beadwork on monumental figures, lend a didactic quality. In the final room, a wall-scale video shows a dancer who multiplies and dissolves into kaleidoscopic pattern, the spirit of her jingle dress is believed to bring healing. Gibson’s chosen theme, the-space-in-which-to-place-me, is also the concept behind a cluster of sturdy pedestals that forms a stage in the pavilion’s front courtyard. I think of how the US Pavilion facade’s appearance has changed per the visions of artists from Gibson (red, with multicolor friezes & flags) to Simone Leigh (thatched) to Fred Wilson (applying borrowed imagery of Africans bearing the roof).

Korea Pavilion

With its focus on scents, the Korea (Corea) Pavilion at first looks spare inside. Round the corner to find a larger than life bronze elf-child balanced on a toe while waving peace signs… and exhaling perfume, visible as steam, every couple minutes. To arrive at the experimental and commercial scents for this exhibition, artist Koo Jeong A gathered input about scents that define the Korean peninsula and then worked with perfumers to create 17 distinct scents. Several of these are emitted faintly from diffusers hidden around the larger room.

Ethiopia Pavilion

The number of countries presenting in the Biennale has grown over time to this year’s 86. Newer pavilions are set up around the city, most typically in historic palazzos that aren’t open to the public otherwise. These include the Ethiopian Pavilion in the Castello district which offers a generous show of abstract portraits and multi-figure compositions in oils by Tesfaye Urgessa. Currently based in Addis, Urgessa studied and then worked in Germany for more than a dozen years. His command and style show the influence of Neo-Expressionists like Baselitz and the London School, along the lines of Bacon.

Ivory Coast Pavilion

Further afield in the Dorsoduro district are the Ivory Coast and Nigeria Pavilions. Ivory Coast’s theme is The Blue Note, described as a resilient expression combining fatigue and hope. Here Jems Koko Bi’s massive dark man, carved from trees, sprawls on the floor amid scattered beams. When departing from this pavilion note the San Trovaso shipyard just across the canal. Also look for a popular shop that sells cicchetti (little sandwiches) near the pavilion entryway.

Nigeria Pavilion

Where Ivory Coast’s galleries are painted deep blue, Nigeria’s are accented with bright green and mirror effects. Exhibits of objects and artifacts in tri-way mirrored vitrines with cursive descriptions etched on glass fill the central area of the main floor. Staff explained that these are the concept of curator Aindrea Emelife herself. Curator choices give the quality of a shimmery illusion throughout. The mirror theme persists in shiny metal placards about works and writing inscribed on them. Per its placard, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones’ vibrant yellow-orange ceiling mural, Celestial Gathering, “…mirrors the spirit of the nation. The work boldly pushes into an imaginary where, perhaps, a Nigerian painter was patronized by the scuole or confraternities of Venice…”

Holy See Pavilion

Situated in a women’s prison on the island of Giudecca to the south is the pavilion of the Holy See – seat of the Catholic Church in the Vatican, Rome. Its theme is to “embrace with the eye,” to bring sight and perception into dialogue. When Pope Francis visited in April he called for art to “…create forms of human belonging capable of recognizing, including, protecting and embracing… Everyone.” Artists, among whom are Maurizio Cattelan and the Claire Fontaine collective, have collaborated with prisoners in the making of artwork on view. While there, visitors will be accompanied by prisoner–conferencers.

Finland Pavilion

Returning to the Giardini, the Finland (Finlandia) Pavilion is a literal breath of fresh air owing to the freeform adobe “air conditioner” Pia Lindman has built/sculpted adjacent to the far wall. Lindman, who experiences heightened sensitivity to toxins, explores concerns to do with healing through her work. A theme of accessibility is evident in this all-women exhibit through elegant handrails designed by Kaisa Sööt that compliment the artwork and the 1956 Alvar Aalto pavilion.

Canada Pavilion

Trinket, the title of Kapwani Kiwanga’s solo installation at the Canada Pavilion, points to Venice’s production of seed beads also known as conterie. Innumerable long strands of same-color conterie delicately flow over the exterior roof and interior walls creating a solid-color or gradient and together end in defined edges – suggestive of controlled water flow like a yard sprinkler or, conversely, a haircut. Four elegant, slim sculptures combine various metal forms with panels of conterie, clear blown glass, and/or palm oil. Choice of conterie as medium connects Kiwanga’s installation to Murano and related histories.

Since 1291 Venetian glass hot shops have all been located just north of Venice proper on the islands that make up Murano. Concentration and isolation led to proliferation and safeguarding of trade secrets, and Murano became a primary supplier of glass to the world. From the late 1500s to late 1700s beads – “perle di vetro” (pearls of glass) – grew to become 70% of Murano’s production. Beads were shipped from the ports of Venice by the tons and per orders for specific and wide varieties including conterie, larger multi-colored flame-worked “perles,” and glass “rubies.” We think of a profound duplicity that bead-trading across cultures seems to represent, from the purchase of Manhattan to purchase of human beings in Africa, because beads are now viewed as trinkets. However, bead-trading began in a pre-industrial age where “perle di vetro” were used as currency and valued like rubies and pearls.

Netherlands Pavilion

Through my tour of Biennale pavilions, I struck up conversations with staff all of whom seemed to have been personally informed by the artists. In the Dutch/Netherlands (Olanda) Pavilion, a team of staff assist gallery goers with comprehending and navigating the complex exhibition within a high-ceilinged “white cube” where rivulets of yellow palm oil appear to be seeping in from the roof and down walls. Throughout the space, twenty-one sculptures stand on rough hewn pedestals. These were initially sculpted in clay in the Democratic Republic of Congo by members of the collective, Art Circle of Congolese Plantation Workers (Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolese / CAPTC). In Amsterdam, the works were cast in cacao and palm oil – plantation/cash crops deforesting the DRC... and a chocolate recipe echoing those of Ghirardelli and Godiva. The pavilion brochure explains that, through their art practice, the Lusanga-based CAPTC has reclaimed nearly 500 acres-worth of depleted plantation land previously confiscated from Congolese by British-Dutch Unilever and subsidiaries.

This exhibit has been orchestrated by Dutch artist Renzo Martens along with Dutch-Moroccan curator Hicham Khaladi. It includes a twin event with the White Cube in Lusanga (built 2017) connected with the Dutch Pavilion in Venice by livestream video. On the opposite side of the gallery from the livestream, stories surrounding Lusanga’s White Cube are related in video. The drama seems to incorporate an earlier film by Martens, White Cube, symbolizing a kind of Congolese revolt against the general idea of a “white cube” art gallery made possible by wealth directly or indirectly accrued from forced labor in the Congo (whether for cobalt/smartphones in the present day, palm oil/soap under the Lever brothers, or rubber/tires under Leopold).

The screening also shows the arrival of a Pende sculpture in Lusanga on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts until the conclusion of the Venice Biennale in November 2024: the enshrinement and display of this work in the Lusanga White Cube is the exhibit twin to the 2024 Dutch Pavilion in Venice. The pavilion brochure explains how the subject of this work, Belgian colonial officer Balot, forcibly recruited laborers for Unilever until he was killed in a revolt in 1931. The sculpture was created to harness its subject’s angry spirit for the benefit of the Pende people of the southwestern DRC. The screening shows how members of the CAPTC wonder at the sturdiness of the work’s museum shipping crate, yet this awe is quickly superseded by sincere shows of reverence for the figure itself.

Thoughts

Do the Biennale’s Dutch and Holy See pavilions seem to meet with more scrutiny than most because they strike a nerve and create discomfort ? Or perhaps it’s that their aims are so high that there are bound to be small flaws in the outcome ?

In reviewing the pavilions of the 60th Venice Biennale I consider what it means to shift masses of material culture around the world for an ever increasing number of biennials and art fairs. In the background is the up-and-down cadence of the sea barrier, MOSE, a stopgap to protect timeless Venice from becoming an Atlantis. And then we gallery goers, with phone in hand, snap and record while Congolese and their children risk life and limb, frequently under force, to mine materials needed for our next phone upgrade or environment-friendly EV.

Will the notion or act of livestream twinning to places we never travel serve as a self-check to guide us in making our next choices with heightened awareness ?

Can a conference with a prisoner in a prison lead to the sense of human belonging being spread more widely ?

Shall we embrace with our eyes ?

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List of picks – Venice Biennale Arte 2024 national participations (pavilions): click country names for official details including opening hours and last day of exhibit most exhibits continue through November 24, 2024

United States of America – Giardini Castello 30122, requires Biennale Arte ticket Korea – Giardini Castello 30122, requires Biennale Arte ticket Ethiopia – Castello 3647, free of charge Ivory Coast – Dorsoduro 947, free of charge Nigeria – Dorsoduro 3121, free of charge Holy See – Island of Giudecca 712, required reservation & minimum age 18, free of charge Finland – Giardini Castello 30122, requires Biennale Arte ticket Canada – Giardini Castello 30122, requires Biennale Arte ticket Netherlands – Giardini Castello 30122, requires Biennale Arte ticket Also mentioned: San Trovaso shipyard – Dorsoduro 1097

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The Venice Biennale Arte 2024 also includes large scale exhibitions in the central pavilion at the Giardini and at the nearby Arsenale which hosts some national participations (pavilions) in 2024, too. Arsenale Castello Campo Della Tana 2169/F Further, Venice Biennale Arte 2024 Collateral Events (typically art exhibits) take place throughout the city. In general, no ticket or admission is necessary for Venice Biennale Arte 2024 national participations (pavilions) or Collateral Events occurring outside of the Giardini and Arsenale. ABOUT OZ VIZ & read aloud

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wedges-posts · 4 months

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