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[absxntdream]

no thoughts .... merely family man edward crow .

[perfettamentechic]

26 aprile … ricordiamo …

26 aprile … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: Ann Davies, Ann Cuerton Davies, attrice britannica. È stata sposata con Richard Briers dal 1956 alla morte dell’attore nel 2013. La coppia ha avuto due figlie, le attrici Lucy e Kate. Una delle sue prime apparizioni televisive è stata nel ruolo del personaggio Jenny nella serie Doctor Who. Ha recitato con il marito nei film Peter’s Friends (1992), In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) e Run for…

[therelignedstars]

Hey, Jackie, have you ever snuck out of the house without being caught?

The teen sighs her hands in her pockets. "Not once I either get caught by Dad, Kyrian, or Uncle Caleb. Mostly Caleb, though. Well, I've gotten out of the house without getting caught. But I never make it to the party without getting caught."

[milliondollarbaby87]

Poker Face (2022) Review

Jake Foley brings his friends together for a very high stakes poker game, but when secrets are revealed which leads to a massive revenge plot unfolding, oh and not forgetting the fact that thieves also breaking into his house. ⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

[thaoworra]

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association recently released the poems that made it to the finalist stage for consideration for the 2024 Rhysling Awards for Short and Long Speculative Poems of the year. Congratulations to all of the nominees! This will be the 46th year these awards have been conferred!

Short Poems (50 finalists)

Attn: Prime Real Estate Opportunity!, Emily Ruth Verona, Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection Volume II

The Beauty of Monsters, Angela Liu, Small Wonders 1

The Blight of Kezia, Patricia Gomes, HWA Poetry Showcase X

The Day We All Died, A Little, Lisa Timpf, Radon 5

Deadweight, Jack Cooper, Propel 7

Dear Mars, Susan L. Lin, The Sprawl Mag 1.2

Dispatches from the Dragon's Den, Mary Soon Lee, Star*Line 46.2

Dr. Jekyll, West Ambrose, Thin Veil Press December

First Eclipse: Chang-O and the Jade Hare, Emily Jiang, Uncanny 53

Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness, Ali Trotta, The Deadlands 31

Gods of the Garden, Steven Withrow, Spectral Realms 19

The Goth Girls' Gun Gang, Marisca Pichette, The Dread Machine 3.2

Guiding Star, Tim Jones, Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa, ed. Lee Murray (Clan Destine Press)

Hallucinations Gifted to Me by Heatstroke, Morgan L. Ventura, Banshee 15

hemiplegic migraine as willing human sacrifice, Ennis Rook Bashe, Eternal Haunted Summer Winter Solstice

Hi! I am your Cortical Update!, Mahaila Smith, Star*Line 46.3

How to Make the Animal Perfect?, Linda D. Addison, Weird Tales 100

I Dreamt They Cast a Trans Girl to Give Birth to the Demon, Jennessa Hester, HAD October

Invasive, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Polar Starlight 9

kan-da-ka, Nadaa Hussein, Apparition Lit 23

Language as a Form of Breath, Angel Leal, Apparition Lit October

The Lantern of September, Scott Couturier, Spectral Realms 19

Let Us Dream, Myna Chang, Small Wonders 3

The Magician's Foundling, Angel Leal, Heartlines Spec 2

The Man with the Stone Flute, Joshua St. Claire, Abyss & Apex 87

Mass-Market Affair, Casey Aimer, Star*Line 46.4

Mom's Surprise, Francis W. Alexander, Tales from the Moonlit Path June

A Murder of Crows, Alicia Hilton, Ice Queen 11

No One Now Remembers, Geoffrey Landis, Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov./Dec.

orion conquers the sky, Maria Zoccula, On Spec 33.2

Pines in the Wind, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, The Beautiful Leaves (Bamboo Dart Press)

The Poet Responds to an Invitation from the AI on the Moon, T.D. Walker, Radon Journal 5

A Prayer for the Surviving, Marisca Pichette, Haven Speculative 9

Pre-Nuptial, F. J. Bergmann, The Vampiricon (Mind's Eye Publications)

The Problem of Pain, Anna Cates, Eye on the Telescope 49

The Return of the Sauceress, F. J. Bergmann, The Flying Saucer Poetry Review February

Sea Change, David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Ann K. Schwader, Scifaikuest May

Seed of Power, Linda D. Addison, The Book of Witches ed. Jonathan Strahan (Harper Collins)

Sleeping Beauties, Carina Bissett, HWA Poetry Showcase X

Solar Punks, J. D. Harlock, The Dread Machine 3.1

Song of the Last Hour, Samuel A. Betiku, The Deadlands 22

Sphinx, Mary Soon Lee, Asimov's September/October

Storm Watchers (a drabbun), Terrie Leigh Relf, Space & Time

Sunflower Astronaut, Charlie Espinosa, Strange Horizons July

Three Hearts as One, G. O. Clark, Asimov's May/June

Troy, Carolyn Clink, Polar Starlight 12

Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary, John Grey, Medusa's Kitchen September

Under World, Jacqueline West, Carmina Magazine September

Walking in the Starry World, John Philip Johnson, Orion's Belt May

Whispers in Ink, Angela Yuriko Smith, Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Long Poems (25 finalists)

Archivist of a Lost World, Gerri Leen, Eccentric Orbits 4

As the witch burns, Marisca Pichette, Fantasy 87

Brigid the Poet, Adele Gardner, Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice

Coding a Demi-griot (An Olivian Measure), Armoni “Monihymn” Boone, Fiyah 26

Cradling Fish, Laura Ma, Strange Horizons May

Dream Visions, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Eccentric Orbits 4

Eight Dwarfs on Planet X, Avra Margariti, Radon Journal 3

The Giants of Kandahar, Anna Cates, Abyss & Apex 88

How to Haunt a Northern Lake, Lora Gray, Uncanny 55

Impostor Syndrome, Robert Borski, Dreams and Nightmares 124

The Incessant Rain, Rhiannon Owens, Evermore 3

Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis, Angela Liu, Strange Horizons November

Little Brown Changeling, Lauren Scharhag, Aphelion 283

A Mere Million Miles from Earth, John C. Mannone, Altered Reality April

Pilot, Akua Lezli Hope, Black Joy Unbound eds. Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle (BLF Press)

Protocol, Jamie Simpher, Small Wonders 5

Sleep Dragon, Herb Kauderer, The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)

Slow Dreaming, Herb Kauderer, The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)

St. Sebastian Goes To Confession, West Ambrose, Mouthfeel 1

Value Measure, Joseph Halden and Rhonda Parrish, Dreams and Nightmares 125

A Weather of My Own Making, Nnadi Samuel, Silver Blade 56

Welcoming the New Girl, Beth Cato, Penumbric October

What You Find at the Center, Elizabeth R McClellan, Haven Spec Magazine 12

The Witch Makes Her To-Do List, Theodora Goss, Uncanny 50

The Year It Changed, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Star*Line 46.4

Voting for the Rhysling Award begins July 1; a link to the ballot will be sent with the Rhysling Anthology, as well as with the July issue of Star*Line. More information on the Rhysling Award can be found here.

[saintshigaraki]

my reading list currently looks like....

frankenstein* (ill probably finish this one up in a day or two)

the salt grows heavy by cassandra khaw

dracula

wuthering heights

the death of jane lawrence by caitlin starling

the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson

howls moving castle by dianna wynne jones

the secret history by donna tartt

jane eyre

drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk

dune by frank herbert

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

birnam wood by eleanor catton

are prisons obsolete? by angela davis

a game of thrones* by grrm

daughter of smoke* and bone by laini taylor

a clash of kings* by grrm

days of blood and starlight by laini taylor

into the drowning deep by mira grant

dune messiah by frank herbert

their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston

bunny by mona awad

a storm of swords* by grrm

the lottery and other stories by shirley jackson

a psalm for the wild-built by becky chamber

the poppy war by r.f. kuang

the ash family by molly dektar

project hail mary by andy weir

beartown by fredrik backman

a prayer for the crown shy by becky chamber

once there were wolves by charlotte mcconaghy

mother thing by ainslie hogarth

all’ s well by mona awad

the long way to a small and angry planet by becky chambers

the goblin emperor by katherine addison

the memory police by yoko ogawa

our wives under the sea by julia armfield

nightbitch by rachel yoder

the painter’s daughters by emily howes

the will of the many by james islington

a fig for all the devils by c.s. fritz

the devil and mrs davenport by paulette Kennedy

prophet song by paul lynch

our share of night by mariana enriquez

the unmaking of june farrow by adrienne young

the shadow of the gods by john gwynne

the other valley by scott alexander howard

whale fall by elizabeth o’connor

the sword of kaigen by m.l. wang

the cruel prince by holly black

the wicked king by holly black

the dragon republic by r.f. kuang

the burning god by r.f. kuang

starve acre by andrew michael hurley

the assassin's apprentice by robin hobb

the hunger of the gods by john gwynne

a secret history of witches by louisa morgan

the fury of the gods by john gwynne

geek love by katherine dunn

funny story by emily henry

james by percival everett

the seven moons of maali almeida by shehan karunatilaka

book lovers by emily henry

foster by claire keegan

demon copperhead by barbara kingsolver

martyr! by kaveh akbar

small things like these by claire keegan

orbital by samantha harvey

the vegetarian by han kang

the god of endings by jacqueline holland

a feast for crows* by grrm

*rereads

[havendance]

Velveteen vs The Masterpost

When I was in high school, I stumbled across Seanan McGuire’s series of “Velveteen vs.” stories, staring Velma “Velveteen” Martinez, a former child superhero with the power to animate toys, who stumbles from one misadventure to the next. Taking place in a world where superheroics is run almost entirely by a single corporation and child heroes are put through some of the worst abuses of child stars, the series features fun characters, worldbuilding, and relationships, and of course, cool fight scenes. In true comics fashion, it ends on a rather open-ended note and, as far as I can tell, she hasn’t written any stories since 2017, but most of the main arcs are tied up and I definitely recommend you check them out!

(I became obsessed with these stories after finding them. An example of me getting into comics before I actually got into comics.)

(Thank you to https://broken-engines.blogspot.com/ for compiling directory of story links I could borrow for this post.)

Velveteen vs. The Isley Crayfish Festival

Velveteen vs. The Coffee Freaks

Velveteen vs. The Flashback Sequence

Velveteen vs. The Old Flame

Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots, West Coast Division

Velveteen vs. The Eternal Halloween

Velveteen vs. The Ordinary Day

Velveteen vs. Patrol

Velveteen vs. The Blind Date

Velveteen vs. Blacklight vs. Sin-Dee, Part I

Velveteen vs. Blacklight vs. Sin-Dee, Part II

Velveteen vs. The Holiday Special

Velveteen vs. The Secret Identity

Martinez and Martinez v. Velveteen

Velveteen vs. The Alternate Timeline, Part I

Velveteen vs. The Alternate Timeline, Part II

Velveteen vs. The Retroactive Continuity

Velveteen Presents Victory Anna vs. All These Stupid Parallel Worlds

Velveteen vs. The Uncomfortable Conversation

Velveteen vs. Bacon

Velveteen vs. The Robot Armies of Dr. Walter Creelman, DDS

Velveteen vs. The Fright Night Sorority House Massacre Sleepover Camp

Velveteen vs. Vegas

Velveteen Presents Victory Anna vs. The Difficulties With Pan-Dimensional Courtship

Velveteen vs. Legal

Velveteen Presents Jackie Frost vs. Four Conversations and a Funeral

Velveteen vs. Jolly Roger

Velveteen vs. Everyone, Part I

Velveteen vs. Everyone, Part II

Sponsorship: Velveteen vs. The Epilogue

Velveteen vs. The Aftermath

Velveteen vs. Hypothermia

Velveteen vs. Santa Claus

Velveteen vs. Global Warming

Velveteen Presents The Princess vs. Public Relations

Velveteen vs. The Thaw

Velveteen vs. Balance

Velveteen vs. Spring Cleaning

Velveteen Presents Polychrome vs. The Court of Public Opinion and Not Punching Anyone

Velveteen vs. The Melancholy of Autumn

Velveteen vs. A Disturbing Number of Crows

Velveteen vs. Trick or Treat

Velveteen Presents Action Dude vs. Doing the Right Thing

Velveteen vs. The Consequences of Her Actions

Velveteen vs. Going Home Again

Velveteen vs. Everything You Ever Wanted

Velveteen vs. The Retroactive Continuity (2)

Velveteen Presents Jacqueline Claus vs. The Lost and the Found

Velveteen vs. Recovery

Velveteen vs. Temptation

[fanonical]

Did you ever get my ask? I asked about what to do when a child loves something by a problematic author. How do you go about telling them if they’re too young? SHOULD you tell them? I’m talking about current 10 year old HP fans and children who like the Coraline movie. What do we do when it’s them and not adults? We forget about the target audience too much when we talk about things like this as if it were exclusively childhood nostalgia of Millenials/Gen Z

For fuck's sake, I didn't want to rise to the bait here, but this is making me mad because it's such a straw argument, so fuck it, I'm taking the bait. For context, this is anon's first ask:

Anon, first off, you are responding to a post that is five years old and about a subject that we pointedly do not post about anymore, and that alone makes me think you're not responding in good faith, but whatever.

Look, I work in a fucking library. We have HP books. If a child comes up to me and asks 'hey where's the HP books' I am not going to a) kick them in the face, b) tell them they're an idiot or c) refuse to answer. I am going to tell them where the fucking HP books are. I don't put them on displays I make, but I don't censor them, because we are legally not allowed to censor books in the library.

But I guess you're asking more if this is a kid who's in my life, as opposed to a kid who I just kinda come across. So, okay, I have a 9 year old neighbour whose family are friends with mine, we play video games together occasionally when her mum and dad need someone to watch her. And this kid reads books! And this kid reads fantasy books.

If I was seriously talking to her about the HP books, I might tell her about JKR! I would say something like 'I used to like the HP books, but then I learned that the author said some really nasty things about trans people like me. Now I don't like them so much any more.' And we could have a conversation about that, you know! I've talked to this kid about transphobia in terms that are appropriate for her age. We've had discussions about gender before. I think she'd listen to me, and form her own fucking opinion about it! 'I don't like the author of the HP books because she has said some nasty things' is a concept you can communicate to a five year old.

But also like. You're kind of acting like by taking away HP from this (hypothetical in your ask) kid they don't have any other books. Which...isn't true? If all copies of the HP books disappeared off the face of the earth tomorrow, kids would be reading other stuff, as they are currently reading other stuff! My 9 year old neighbour is a huge Jacqueline Wilson fan, she loves the Daisy Meadows rainbow fairy books. I want to introduce her to the Morrigan Crow books. We could get retro and start introducing kids to the Edge Chronicles, I fucking loved those books. Artemis Fowl. A Series of Unfortunate Events. There are so many other book series for kids in this world. I work in a fucking library! I can tell you that the kids are into Tom Gates, Dogman, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Percy Jackson, Babysitter Club, Dork Diaries, and (exasperated sigh) David Walliams books, based on a sample size of every kid I encounter at work. I get asked for all of them far more than I do for HP, actually.

I don't think you'd be ruining every kid's lives by taking away One Series from them. (Particularly not one that's losing some relevancy every day - and I mean that in the sense that it's not an ongoing series, the last book came out in 2007. Nearly 20 years ago. For a nine or ten year old, that's almost double their entire life.) And I don't think you necessarily would be taking it away from them to say 'hey this is the reason I don't like these books'. I trust your average ten year old to be able to have a reasonably mature conversation. You're making it sound like they're all Oliver Twist holding out their gruel bowl saying 'please sir I only read one book'.

Anyway. All this to say, I think kids have the ability to have conversations about media. And there are other books in the world. So, no, taking HP or Coraline or whatever away from kids is hardly snatching candy from a baby. Kids are smarter than you think.

[lotstradamus]

I'm officially calling it! I'm in Ireland of the rest of the year at a family wedding which will NOT be a peaceful reading environment, so:

Things This Infographic Does Not Include: pretty much all of the ‘info’ in ‘infographic’ because it’s ugly as hell this year (again)  

my TOP 15* IN 2023 are:

Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall

The Night of Baba Yaga by Okira Otani

Dark Heir by C S Pacat

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo

All the World Beside by Garrard Conley

When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

Penance by Eliza Clark

The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle by Neil Blackmore

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Girls That Invest by Simran Kaur

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

*in the order I read them in from most to least recent because cba

there were a lot of rereads this year. I'm not listing them because mortifyingly there are MANY that I would have to list TWICE.

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[emma-watson-blog]

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (b. 15 April 1990 in Paris, France)[2] is a French-born British actress and model who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films.

Career

Watson knew she wanted to act from the age of six. Prior to being cast in the Harry Potter films, Watson had only acted in school plays. At school, she took the lead role in several plays, including Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince. Along with plays, Watson participated in many other school productions, including the Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition, in which she won first place for her year at age seven.

Watson's post-Potter acting career has been the subject of conflicting media reports, with some saying she plans to quit acting to concentrate on university, and others stating she plans to continue acting.[1] In July 2009 it was announced that she will be attending Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island[2] Her subsequent enrollment in classes in September 2009 was met with considerable paparazzi interest.

In June 2009, Watson became the new face of Burberry. As of Autumn 2010, Watson is no longer the face of Burberry, but is still with the company.

In March 2010, Watson performed in Anton Chekov's Three Sisters, playing the youngest sister, Irina. The play was a student-directed play at Brown University, where she was a freshman at the time.

In June 2010, Watson was featured in the music video of the song 'Say You Don't Want It' by One Night Only.

In July 2010, it was confirmed that Watson has an official twitter account. In August 2010 Watson confirmed that she had got a hair cut, photos were also released.

In February 2011, Watson became the face of Lancôme. She is still the face of Lancôme today.

In March 2011, Watson's five piece organic clothing line with Alberta Ferretti debuted.

Personal life

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born on 15 April 1990 at 6:00 P.M. in Le Marais, Paris, France. Her parents are Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, and both are lawyers. They lived in Maisons-Laffitte, Paris until they divorced.

When Watson was five years old, her parents divorced and she moved to Oxfordshire, England with her mother and younger brother. Both of Watson's parents have remarried, and she has three half-siblings and two step-siblings

Watson attended the Dragon School, an independent preparatory school, until June 2003. She then transferred to Headington School, an independent girls' school.

Watson was diagnosed with hyperactive-impulsive type ADHD at the age of 5 and has been taking medication for the condition ever since.

An avid sports player, Watson enjoys playing hockey, tennis and rounders. She is also said to be a gifted singer.

Favourites

Music: Seasick Steve, Mumford & Sons, Rihanna, Lady GaGa,[18] Joni Mitchell, Pixie Lott, Lily Allen, The Noisettes, Merril Brainbridge, Michael Jackson, Hot Chip, Van Morrison, Counting Crows, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Pretenders, Jet, Laura Marling, Citizen Cope, Arkane Daze[19]

Fashon Companies and Designers: Burberry, Erdem, People Tree, Ray-Ban, Alex and Ani,Chanel, Stella McCartney, Smythson, Mulberry,[19] Isabel Marant, APC, Agnès B, Chloé,[20] Valentino, Céline, Calvin Klein Collection, Zadig & Voltaire, Maje, Sandro, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, Acne, J Brand, Charlotte Olympia, A.L.C., A.P.C., Alberta Ferretti[21]

Books: I Capture the Castle by Dodi Smith, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger,[19] The BFG by Roald Dahl and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling.[22]

Artists: Gustav Klimt, Francis Bacon, Leonardo da Vinci, Lucian Freud, Frida Kahlo, Egon Schiele,[19] Tracey Emin,[21] Jenny Saville[23]

Actresses: Julia Roberts, Kate Winslet, Penélope Cruz,[20] Natalie Portman[23]

Films: Amélie, Giant, Notting Hill,[21] Pretty Woman[20]

Sports: Swimming, Hockey, Tennis, Dance[20]

Colour: White or Cream[21]

Scent: Lancôme’s Trésor Midnight Rose (which she helped create)[21]

Hotel: The Berkeley (in London)

Architect: Antoni Gaudí

Luggage: Trunks

Destination: Kenya, Africa

Personal Discovery: The blueberry-ricotta pancakes at Little Dom’s (in L.A., California, USA)

Behind the scenes

Watson shares a birthday (April 15) and her own name with Harry Potter co-star Emma Thompson (who portrays Sybill Trelawney - her much-disliked Divination Professor).

Watson was asked in an interview promoting Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone how she would feel kissing her co-stars Rupert or Dan. She jokingly replied 'no chance, not written in my contract'. Ironically, she eventually kissed both of them

Watson was diagnosed with combined/hyperactive type ADHD as a young child. While Watson hasn’t spoken openly about the condition, the ADHD Foundation said in a statement that she had been diagnosed and medicated since childhood while filming Harry Potter.

Watson was not the first choice to play Hermione Granger. Another British actress, Hatty Jones, also auditioned for the role alongside her. Both she and Watson were the last two girls in the audition. Although the casting agents saw potential in Hatty Jones herself, they deemed her too old or outgrown for the role, causing Watson to win instead.

Unlike Watson, Jones had prior acting experience by playing the titular character of the 1998 live-action adaptation of the children's book series Madeline. The film served as her acting debut and made her rise to stardom.

Watson broke her wrist while filming Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Watson also used to have a pet hamster named Millie who Watson enjoyed taking to the Harry Potter set often, she recalled that Millie would squirm around in her lap while getting her make up done. Shortly after production began for Chamber of Secrets, Millie sadly passed away. Watson was left devastated and word of Millie's passing quickly ran through the studio. Then the set department made a special hamster-sized coffin for Millie and Watson said 'I don't think a hamster has ever had a better send-off'.

On the United States show 'David Letterman's Late Show', Watson revealed that she would be going to college in the United States and that she will work on Liberal Arts degree focusing on Humanities.

On 'David Letterman's Late Show', Watson revealed that for secondary school, she went to Headington girls school in Oxford. She also revealed that her grades were mainly in the A category.

On 'David Letterman's Late Show', Watson also revealed that she passed her automatic driving test in 2008 and she is driving a Toyota Prius.

Controversy arose shortly before the release of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film when it was discovered that Watson's breast size had been digitally enhanced on a poster advertising the film's IMAX release. This image gave Melissa Anelli, webmistress of fansite The Leaky Cauldron, 'the full heebie jeebies,' since Watson was playing a fifteen-year-old, and was herself under eighteen.

She achieved eight A*and two A passes in her GCSEs (English exams pupils sit in their last compulsory year of education). She jokingly compared this to her portrayal of Hermione Granger, a self-conscious know-it-all.

Watson passed her driving test on her first attempt on 28 January 2008

Watson is the youngest of the Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger actors. In the books, however, Hermione is the oldest of the three; her birthday is in September while Ron and Harry's are the following year in March and July, respectively.

Watson owns two cats, by the names of Domino and Bubbles.

She doesn't drink tea or coffee. She says she doesn't like the taste

Watson is a huge fan of Nutella

Rumours claimed that Watson nearly did not return for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 filming, but ultimately decided to because she 'couldn't bear seeing anyone else playing Hermione'. However, she has on her official website denied this and explained that she was only trying to make it clear to Warner Bros. that she needed them to cooperate with her education for filming. She later attended Brown University in Rhode Island.

Even though Hermione doesn't have freckles in the books, Watson has freckles around her nose which are usually hidden by makeup in the films.

At least one actor from the Harry Potter films has appeared alongside Watson in almost every non-Harry Potter film she has appeared in. In The Tale of Despereaux, Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid) voices Gregory and Ciarán Hinds (Aberforth Dumbledore) voices Botticelli, in Ballet Shoes, Richard Griffiths (Vernon Dursley) plays Great Uncle Matthew, in My Week With Marilyn, Kenneth Branagh (Gilderoy Lockhart) plays Sir Laurence Olivier, Zoe Wanamaker (Rolanda Hooch) plays Paula Strasberg, Toby Jones (Dobby) plays Arthur Jacobs, Geraldine Somerville (Lily Evans) plays Lady Jane Clark, in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Ezra Miller (Aurelius Dumbledore) plays Patrick, and in Beauty and the Beast, Emma Thompson (Sybill Trelawney) plays Mrs Potts.

Watson has a younger brother, Alex who accompanied her to many premieres. He is also one of the models of Burberry.

In an interview, Watson admitted that she had a crush on Harry Potter co-star Tom Felton saying: 'I have to confess, I had a bit of a crush on Tom Felton in the earlier films, but never on Daniel or Rupert, they are just good friends.' Rupert, on the other hand, admitted that both he and Dan had a crush on Watson saying: 'Emma's a pretty girl. Have Daniel or I ever hit on Emma? Well, she's quite popular with the cast. As for who has the worst crush on her - me or Radcliffe - I'd rather not say.'

Though Watson's natural hair colour is brown, she dyed her hair blonde for Ballet Shoes and to avoid being typecast as 'the girl from Harry Potter'.

Watson's favourite line of which she said in the Harry Potter films was "I'm going to bed, before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed, or worse, expelled." She admitted she liked saying this line because it seemed like the wittiest thing to say at the young age of eleven or twelve.

At the age of just 10, Watson said that she would keep the money she earnt in a bank until she was 21.

Watson was nicknamed 'giggles' on the set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, for laughing so much.

Watson penned the foreword to Tom Felton's memoir, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard.

[absxntdream]

Love it when the guy is absolutely smitten with his wife <3

[perfettamentechic]

26 aprile … ricordiamo …

26 aprile … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2020: Maurice Poli, attore francese, attivo principalmente in produzioni italiane. Poli ha fatto il suo debutto cinematografico nel 1961. In seguito ha alternato ruoli principali e ruoli secondari, essendo spesso scelto come un duro o un cattivo. È considerato uno dei pochi attori ad aver preso parte praticamente a tutti i generi sviluppatisi in Italia in oltre trent’anni. Dopo il ritiro, si…

[reginalusus]

Well met, hopefully...

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[wrestlinghistorywithkay]

The Forgotten Women’s World Champion: The Sandy Parker Story

( Note : I was scrolling through Facebook and the topic of this article was brought to my attention. I wanted to share the story of professional wrestling’s first black womens’ champion. )

We all have watched women such as Jacqueline , Jazz , Sasha Banks/Mercedes Monè, Bianca Belair , Naomi, Jade Cargill , Sonya Deville, Awesome Kong / and Alicia Fox/Vix Crow make history. However, have you heard of a wrestler named Sandy Parker ? If not , here is her story .

Sandy Parker was born on November 1, 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Parker would be raised by her grandmother as her mother couldn’t raise her. Parker would describe herself as a ‘ Tomboy’ when during her childhood due to her love of fighting , tree climbing, and playing baseball. However , her love of fighting would lead her to the having a career in the wrestling business.

Parker became obsessed with professional wrestling when she was a teenager after attending one match . She kept going to the weekly shows , even going as far as Seattle, Washington, to attend shows before a friend of hers suggested that she start training to follow her dream of stepping into the squared circle . Thus , Parker took her friend’s advice and traveled four hours to Michigan to start training . While in Michigan, she trained under Lou Klein , Lucille Dupree , and Mary Jane Mull. In 1969 , at the age of 23, Sandy Parker would make her in ring debut . Therefore , Parker would find herself in South Carolina to train under veteran wrestler , The Fabulous Moolah. Parker would soon leave Moolah’s school due to having personal issues with Moolah about her double standards. Parker , who was Lesbian, stated in a 2008 interview that Moolah didn’t want her going to gay bars and was two-faced. Parker would train under another veteran wrestler , Mildred Burke, after leaving Moolah’s school.

During the early 70s , Parker would form a tag team with Sue Green. They would go on to defeat the team of Toni Rose and Donna Christanello for the NWA Women’s World Tag Team Championships in 1971. Thus, in 1972 , they would lose the championships to Rose and Christanello. Their title change would be unrecognized. Parker would be in a match against her rivals again, but , with Debbie Johnson as her partner . The two would be unsuccessful in their attempt to become the new tag team champions. This match would occur at the Super Bowl of Wrestling.

Parker would start a tour of Japan in the early 1970s where she would make history . Parker would become the first Black woman to become the WWWA World Single Champion in 1973, defeating Miyoko Hoshino. This championship was a part of the All Japan Women’s Wrestling promotion. She would also become an eight time WWWA World Tag Team champion. She would become the NWA United States Women’s Champion and World Tag Team Champion. When she returned from Japan in 1975, she would have a match against Jean Antoine in Oregon. This would be the first women’s wrestling match in 50 years. Parker would also have a cameo in the show , ‘ The Bionic Woman ’. Parker retired in 1986.

In 2022, Parker was hospitalized in Las Vegas , Nevada. She would lose all contact with her family and her friends. Parker’s friend and fellow wrestler , Susan Green , reached out on Facebook to try and find her. However , Greg Oliver , a wrestling reporter , would find out that she would pass away in June of 2022. Her passing would now be coming to light.

My Final Thoughts:

I don’t understand why Sandy’s death is now being brought to those who knew her personally and to the wrestling community. Knowing that she had to deal with a lot of racism and homophobia was just sad. I’m glad that wrestling has become for everyone . We see wrestlers such as Sonya Deville and Nyla Rose who are a part of the LGBT community killing it in the ring. We also see wrestlers such as Bianca Belair and Sasha Banks/Mercedes Monè who made history main eventing Night 1 of WrestleMania 37. I wanted to tell Sandy’s story because I feel like she was forgotten which breaks my heart . Please look her up and learn about her life and career!

I Love All Of You ,

- Kay

[madsmilfelsen]

would love to know your all time/general fav book recs if you have the time!

Hi! Some are repeats but that’s out of love

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

Never Whistle at Night: an Indigenous anthology of dark fiction

Latitudes by Natasha Rao

How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo

Striptastic: a celebration of dope-ass cunts who like money by Jacqueline Frances (comic anthology)

The Vandal by Hamish Linklater (listen LISTEN, I cry every damn time)

Dogsong and The Haymeadow by Gary Paulsen

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

We Have Always Lived in a Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon (first gifted to me by my dad and inspired me to be a writer)

Barkskins by Annie Proulx

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy

Confessions by Saint Augustine

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

South to America: a journey below the Mason-Dixon Line to understand a soul of a nation by Imani Perry

The Civilization of Charlemagne by Jacques Boussard

No Turning Back: a Hopi woman’s struggle to live in two worlds by Polingaysi Qoyawayma

Enemy at the Gates by William Craig

An Underground Education by Richard Zacks (decidedly not something I should have read cover to cover at the tender age of 9)

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar

Bloodstoppers and Bloodwalkers: folk tales of Canadians, lumberjacks, and Indians by Richard M. Dorson

Archaeology of the Night: life after dark in the ancient world (anthology)

Igaruacirpet: our way of making designs edited by Amy F. Steffian

What the Elders have Taught Us: Alaskan Native Ways (anthology)

[qutemag]

The movie guy reviews: Gladiator II

by Benjamin Harkin

Finally, the sequel we’ve been hankering twenty-four years to see on the big screen. A sequel to Gladiator, Ridley Scott’s classic from the middle of his career, sweeping the Academy Awards and setting up Russell Crowe as a household name, the film that shows the gladiatorial games of Rome in all its blood-soaked and inhumanly cruel glory. Tigers are thrown at Russell Crowe. Bigger men are thrown at Russell Crowe. Chariot racing almost kills him. And yet, Russell Crowe proves his mettle as gladiator, grinding any bleeding foe into the white sand and delivering some of the best scenes of carnage in the past few decades of cinema – “Are you not entertained?” he yells to the restless crowds drunk on the gore.

Gladiator II opens with a similarly big canvas of Roman troops invading a fortress town and clearing it to claim their ownership. This gladiator, Paul Mescal, having a Russell Crowe-lite look for most of the film, starts as another troop defending his home. An establishing scene shows his wife joining him in laundry duties, only to prove the motivating factor for Paul Mescal’s absolute hatred of Rome when she is unceremoniously run through with an arrow and swept out to sea.

This is Ridley Scott giving us what we want – an epic of revenge, Paul Mescal’s character broken seeing his wife die at the parapet, managing to salvage the arrow’s feathers that ran through her chest before the Roman troops drag him away in the surf. The haggard face of a man burning with rage. He is drafted into the Roman system, a slave subject to be bought and sold on the gladiatorial arena, proving his stuff beating the crap through a lackey in front of the commanding Denzel Washington as a slave owner and noble. Denzel is very pleased with him and figures to buy him into his services as something of a mentor.

And of course here is where Ridley Scott figures to divert our expectations, similar to his previous effort Napoleon, which took all the grandeur and complexity of the French emperor’s reign and reduced it to Jaoquin Pheonix as a buffoon with mummy issues and small man syndrome. He may as well have put the Egyptian campaign into a hasty montage with Jacqueline scheming, because the military campaigns and substantial reshaping of post-revolution France took a backseat to the weird domination dynamics in the marriage. Napoleon’s theme is an interesting angle, but one that should not have been in a movie that wears the coat of a historical epic, as the sardonic humour of the concept is lost somewhere in the painfully awkward Waterloo sequence that has to balance the history of a general with great military instincts being trounced and the movie’s thesis that Napoleon is actually an idiot who doesn’t know what he’s doing. 

Gladiator II becomes not a story about the gladiator, Paul Mescal, taking vengeance over the death of his wife in the arena. The wife is forgotten about after ten minutes of running time. Instead, Gladiator II sets its sights higher than mere interpersonal conflict. The film morphs into a harbinger for the downfall of Rome itself, a symbol of corruption, greed, a civilisation that’s had its day, with the impoverished slaves rising up against their masters.

A bold aim, too bad the politicking of Denzel Washington forming the crux of the film, is grafted onto a much smaller movie that seemingly is about Paul Mescal as a gladiator at the bottom of the chain. There are shamefully only two or three real set pieces in the arena itself. Ridley Scott nails these as is his rambunctious style of course, and they are suitably exciting theatre of Paul Mescal wrestling rabid monkeys shot up on some ancient equivalent of adrenaline, or a guy riding a giant rhino, or the scene that fills the arena with water and Triremes re-enact some great sea battle. These are well worth the popcorn, and for the fantastical nature of them that outdo the more grounded fights in the first film, the core gladiatorial scenes have that same excitement in them, even if they prove strangely more bloodless than the first film. Of particular note is a decapitation that comes across almost as an error in the editing room, so careful to avoid a proper gory image.

Really the film would be more aptly named Denzel Washington’s Gladiator, because it is Denzel Washington’s commanding performance that takes centre stage. You can see all his machinations in his connections with Roman nobility and politicians, his ways of seamlessly blending in with the spoilt rich while quietly finding common ground with the tired slave rebel Paul Mescal. He plays it brilliantly, and it is in that way an odd thing that his role, as well as Pedro Pascal’s as a side character, overshadow who should be the star – the gladiator.

The dialogue too feels off. Everyone waxes lyrical on Rome’s fate as if they had all read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire over one thousand and four hundred years before Edward Gibbon wrote the book. I quite liked Paul Mescal’s quoting of the poet Virgil, and it is slipped into the film well, however the rest of the philosophical lines come across awfully self-serious, too self-aware, and pretentious for what is a story of the rich and the poor. Maybe Rome is going to fall, but this doesn’t need four different characters foretelling it in wistful contemplation.

I figured this wider plot something dreamt up for Ridley Scott to imbue a completely unnecessary Gladiator sequel with some added heft in the material, although on viewing the plot summary for the first, turns out the politics of Rome was an undercurrent of the first Gladiator. I guess Russell Crowe’s bravura performance outshone this underlying plot, or perhaps in making this so integral to Gladiator II that it feels overcooked, and the meat of it, Paul Mescal in the arena biting monkeys, underdone.

And then Denzel’s plot completely usurps anything to do with the gladiator, and the film’s climax is this dizzying rush of bow-tying to the film’s contradictory threads in somehow dumping poor aggrieved Paul Mescal in front of an army to duel the bad guy. I haven’t talked about the emperors much although they do figure in the movie somewhat. I quite liked the idea of making all the nobility look so sickly white in makeup, with the black corners of their mouths, you can see them rotting away on greed. But they aren’t even the villains really. And so the movie finishes with a smoosh of Paul Mescal somehow leading rebellion, a rebellion we the audience and he didn’t know he’d be part of up until the final ten minutes. It’s all very rushed and speaks more to scriptwriters plugging dogleg storylines than it is an enjoyable ride.

Fundamentally, the problem with Gladiator II is that Gladiator is not a movie that needed a sequel. All of the callbacks to the first Gladiator are not only predictable but hackneyed. Derek Jacobi's character cameos, reminding me he's still around, my last memory of Derek Jacobi being in Branagh's excellent who's who film production of Hamlet from 1996. He does nothing of note in this except be there. By the time Paul Mescal dons the famous armour of Maximus, I could only shake my head and consider how much more Mountain Dew was in my drink. I haven’t used their character names either, for reasons that are also predicted at about the halfway point in the film, to be revealed as a twist that frankly serves only to give an eye brow raise of “really?” although let’s be honest where else were they going to go – Russell Crowe kicked the bucket at the end of the first one.

Look, the action scenes are great, and Denzel Washington turns in a great performance, just don’t expect that Gladiator II will somehow be the sequel that was needed. The film more than earns the twenty-four years of indifference to the notion.

Gladiator II is in cinemas from tomorrow.