#jason freedman

[hearteyespierce]

[ask-the-younger-dean]

despite the horrors we stay silly :3

>Hi! What do I even type here…

I’m kind of tired of having to introduce myself to people all the time. I’m Mariam, I’m 13, I like libraries, that’s it.

Every other month my dad forces me to move to an entirely new state and I lose all my friends and I have to start over at a new freaking school AGAIN and so I made this awesome blog now so I can still communicate with people after I move away and never see them again. and I hope my dad doesn’t find out about this.

OOC Character info under the cut.

Name: Mariam “mimi” Sue Dean. name inspo fun fact, originally I was just gonna name her Mary bc it’s a basic ass name like Jason but I felt like making it Mariam instead (omg miriam “mimi” freedman reference!! (this woman I did a history project on)).

Sue, her middle name is based off the cancelled OG version of shine a light, a girl named sue.

Age: 13 (Originally she was 12 but I aged her up so she could have a tumblr blog)

Her birthday is April 2nd since that’s when this blog was created :) Her dad calls her an expired April fools joke

Grade: 8. (she doesn't go to Westerburg.. for the better)

Family

leaving this short if anyone wants to learn by sending asks, heres an entire lore post for this

Big Bussy Dean (ew) - Father, pretty fucking neglectful, abusive, Mariam completely hates him

Jmom? Jane Dean? idk thats the name I came up with for her. Jane Doe ass. the song Dead Mom from beetlejuice is their entire relationship.

Jason Dean - Brother!! Mariam thinks everything he does (like shooting shit when he gets mad, or giving himself brain freezes) is mostly normal. Gets told she looks like her brother a lot.

. ✦⫘⫘⫘ˎˊ˗ ꒰HEADCANNONS

☆Absolutely scared to the death by quickly moving bugs that aren’t like- really slow ants/isopods or pretty butterflies. Mariam's Slowly desensitising herself to bugs by examining their dead corpses :p

☆Would love taxidermy/dissecting animals

☆Full of pent up rage and strong emotions that she doesn’t have many outlets for. Some school counsellors have tried to get her to join clubs as a way to destress and it’s had.. varying degrees of “success” (rip she’s not good at anything and ends up skipping a lot of the clubs)

☆She uses JD’s old bicycle that he used before he got his motorbike

☆Every move she makes it gets slightly harder for her to make friends as her peers grow older and meaner. (like what veronica said in beautiful) That doesn’t fully discourage her from trying to make friends, and she tries to keep in contact with friends she’s made across states.

☆Has a lot of stories from moving around. Some of them are urban legends which she loves telling others. She really likes horror (probably for the same reason JD gives himself brain freezes)

☆Pretty tall for her age :D (mwahaha @/ask-the-younger-sawyer im TALLER than u)

☆Disorganised attachment issues :(, she finds herself either yearning for attachment or repelled by it. She also experiences emotional dis regulation as a result (which I’ll talk more about in a lore post)

☆Loves zombie apocalypse scenarios. Her number one icebreaker question and she hates it when people give boring answers.

☆ Her safe item is a pound puppy she had ever since before her mom died

[eternal-echoes]

“Below are a nearly a dozen different factors that can sometimes influence a person's sense of sexual identity. Rather than saying any of these things "cause gender dysphoria," it is more accurate to say that they could contribute to a person feeling dysphoric about his or her body. Some individuals might find that some of the factors resonate deeply with them, while others might not relate to any of them. The goal isn't to provide an exhaustive list, but to encourage individuals who experience gender dysphoria to listen with compassionate curiosity to their own story.

Trauma

… when individuals suffer a significant trauma in life, they may dissociate as a defense mechanism.(27) One young woman who had been bullied because of her same-sex attractions, and who experienced the death of her mother, explained why she initially decided to transition: "I also see a connection between my decision to transition and my mom's suicide. She killed herself when I was twenty and I started hormones about three months after she killed herself. We greatly physically resembled each other, and I think one of my motivations for changing my body is I wanted to differentiate myself from her."(28)

Another young woman who witnessed the murder of her mother deduced from the experience that she would be safer and stronger as a man. The idea of becoming stronger is a common theme among some young women who aim to transition. In the words of Alex, "I have my imaginary world and that's one of my coping strategies. When I'm feeling down or depressed, I'll kind of like go into my imaginary world, and in my imaginary world I am a guy. I have a flat chest. I'm strong."(29) Similarly, when Kathy Grace was young, she remembers watching her father abuse her mother and internalized the message that women are hated, vulnerable, and weak.(30) For her, establishing a masculine gender identify offered her protection from being victimized

In one study of children and teens who visited a gender clinic in Australia, 98 percent of them had experienced adverse childhood events before developing transgender beliefs. The researchers found an average of five traumas per child, most of which occurred within the family. They noted that because it can be difficult to untangle gender dysphoria from comorbid factors such as anxiety, depression, and sexual abuse, "Our results suggest the need to bring into play a biopsychosocial, trauma-informed model of mental health care for children presenting with gender dysphoria."(31)

-Jason Evert, Male, Female, or Other: A Catholic Guide to Understanding Gender

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Work cited:

27) Cf.D. Wailing et al., "Dissociation in a Transsexual Population," Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 23 (1998), 121-23; Judith Trowell, " Child Sexual Abuse and Gender Identity Development: Some Understanding from Work with Girls Who Have Been Sexually Abused, in Di eglie and Freedman, Stranger in My Own Body (New York: Routledge, 1998), 154-172.

28) "Why I Detransitioned (made for USPATH presentation)." https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=1-UmPiinIFo. (This book was published in 2022 but the video is no longer available)

29) "Growing Up Trans (full documentary)." https://youtu.be/uIuS-48tSpE?si=cVb7I4gj31nCEYyn

30) Cf. "Tranzformed- Finding Peace with Your God Given Gender." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebodf8rWpv4&ab_channel=PurePassionMedia

31) K. Kozlowska et al., "Australian Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: Clinical Presentations and Challenges Experienced by a Multidisciplinary Team and Gender Service," Human Systems 1:1 (2021), 70-95.

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For more recommended resources on gender dysphoria, click here.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.17

Beer Birthdays

James Pawley Dawes (1843)

Anthony Straub (1882)

Joshua Bernstein (1978)

Five Favorite Birthdays

James Cagney; actor (1899)

Erle Stanley Gardner; writer (1889)

Vince Guaraldi; jazz pianist (1928)

Peter Schickele; music comedian, composer (1935)

Donald Sutherland; actor (1934)

Famous Birthdays

Berenice Abbott; photographer (1898)

Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Ukrainian-Israeli writer (1888)

Ron Asheton; guitarist and songwriter (1948)

John Jacob Astor; zillionaire (1763)

Lou Barlow; guitarist and songwriter (1966)

George Barnes; guitarist and songwriter (1921)

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten; German philosopher (1714)

Luc Bondy; Swiss film director (1948)

Tim Brooke-Taylor; English comedian (1940)

Mark Burnett; television producer (1960)

Geezer Butler; English bass player (1949)

Diahann Carroll; actor (1935)

Niccolò Castiglioni; Italian composer (1932)

Elizabeth Cook; singer and guitarist (1972)

John Cooper; English car designer (1923)

Chris Crutcher; writer (1946)

Spencer Davis; rock musician (1942)

Paul Delaroche; French painter (1797)

Phyllis Diller; comedian (1917)

Cory Doctorow, Canadian author (1971)

Lyonel Feininger;, German-American painter (1871)

Lionel Ferbos; trumpeter (1911)

Wolfgang Flür; German musician (1947)

Wendy Freedman; Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer (1957)

Elbridge Gerry; politician (1744)

Sergei K. Godunov; Russian mathematician (1929)

Gordon Gould; laser inventor (1920)

David Hasselhoff; actor (1952)

Hermann Huppen; Belgian author and illustrator (1938)

Bruno Jasieński; Polish poet and author (1901)

Scott Johnson; cartoonist (1969)

Darryl Lamonica; Oakland Raiders QB (1941)

Nicolette Larson; singer-songwriter (1952)

Thé Lau; Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (1952)

Georges Lemaître; Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (1894)

Art Linkletter; humorist (1912)

Pierre Louis Maupertuis; French mathematician and philosopher (1698)

Robert R. McCammon; author (1952)

Angela Merkel; German chemist and politician (1954)

Craig Morgan; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1965)

Luis Munoz-Rivera; Puerto Rican patriot, poet (1859)

Frank Olson; chemist and microbiologist (1910)

Barbara O'Neil; actor (1910)

Mary Osborne; guitarist (1921)

Quino Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist (1932)

Christiane Rochefort; French author (1917)

Jason Rullo; rock drummer (1972)

Jimmy Scott; jazz singer (1925)

Ephraim Shay, American engineer (1839)

Phoebe Snow; singer (1952)

P.J. Soles; actor (1950)

Red Sovine; country singer (1917)

Christina Stead; Australian author (1902)

J. Michael Straczynski; writer (1954)

Mick Tucker; English rock drummer (1947)

Isaac Watts; English hymnwriter (1674)

Alex Winter; actor (1965)

[seeksstaronmewni]

The Horta Editorial sound credits for the pilot episode of Spongebob Squarepants, “Help Wanted”, is as follows:

Original 1997 credits:

SOUND SUPERVISOR and MIXER: Timothy J. Borquez**

Sound FX Designer (uncredited), SUPERVISING SOUND FX EDITOR: Thomas Syslo (as Tom Syslo)**

DIALOGUE EDITOR: Les Wolf**

MUSIC EDITOR: William B. Griggs, M.P.S.E.

RE-RECORDING MIXERS: Timothy J. Borquez, Timothy J. Garrity

FOLEY MIXER: Brad Brock

FOLEY ARTIST: Diane Greco

SOUND SERVICES PROVIDED BY Horta Editorial, inc.**

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Glacier Sound Design (Jeff Hutchins was one of the uncredited SOUND FX EDITORS)**

Revised 1999 credits:

POST PRODUCTION SOUND SUPERVISOR AND MIXER: Timothy J. Borquez*

SOUND FX EDITORS: Jeff Hutchins (as Jeffery Hutchins)*

DIALOGUE-ADR EDITOR: Jason Freedman (as Jason Freeman)*

RE-RECORDING MIXERS: Timothy J. Borquez, Timothy J. Garrity

FOLEY MIXER: Brad Brock

FOLEY ARTIST: Diane Greco

MUSIC EDITORS: Nick Carr (as Nicholas Carr)**, William Griggs (as William B. Griggs, M.P.S.E.)

*not credited (role and/or creative) on the original 1997 credits

**not credited (role and/or creative) on the revised 1999 credits

***refers probably to “Reef Blower” & “Tea at the Treedome” or music revisions

Tweet version here. Thanks to @rwinger24 who pointed this out.

[thefearsarepapertigers]

If you want a meeting, ask for a meeting. Provide some time options and ask for a specified length. If you want an introduction, ask for an introduction. If you’re looking for funding, tell him you’re currently fundraising and ask to meet to show him your pitch. Don’t be sly. Don’t hint. Make the process ridiculously easy by just asking for what you want.

Jason Freedman

[longlistshort]

Poor People’s Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States at USF Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa uses installations and artworks to tell the story of, and expand perspectives on, The Poor People’s Campaign- from its origins in the late 1960s to the present day form, as well as comment on poverty and other social issues. Both educational and engaging, it shows that despite long struggles and some progress, we are still very far from much needed social change, especially in regards to poverty.

The museum also produced a free full color, 48 page workbook that you can pick up there or download as a PDF that can be downloaded from their website.

From the gallery’s website-

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is well known for his “I Have a Dream” speech, yet much less emphasis is placed on his campaign to seek justice for America’s poor, “The Poor People’s Campaign.” This was a multi-cultural, multi-faith, multi-racial movement aimed at uniting poor people and their allies to demand an end to poverty and inequality. Fifty-three years after Dr. King’s death, the Reverend William Barber II launched a contemporary push to fulfill MLK’s ambitious brief — one that calls for a “revolution of values” that unites poor and impacted communities across the country. The exhibition Poor People’s Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States represents a visual response to Dr. King’s “last great dream” as well as Reverend Barber’s recent “National Call for Moral Revival.”

With artworks spanning more than 50 years, the exhibition is divided into two parts: Resurrection (1968-1994) and Revival (1995-2022). Resurrection includes photographs, paintings, prints, videos, sculptures, books, and ephemera made by a radically inclusive company of American artists, from Jill Freedman’s photographs of Resurrection City, the tent enclave that King’s followers erected on the National Mall in 1968, to John Ahearns’ plaster cast sculpture Luis Fuentes, South Bronx (1979). Revival offers contemporary engagement across a range of approaches, materials, and points of view. Conceived in a declared opposition to poverty, racism, militarism, environmental destruction, health inequities, and other interlocking injustices, this exhibition shows how artists in the US have visualized poverty and its myriad knock-on effects since 1968. Participating artists include John Ahearn, Nina Berman, Martha De la Cruz, Jill Freedman, Rico Gatson, Mark Thomas Gibson, Corita Kent, Jason Lazarus, Miguel Luciano, Hiram Maristany, Narsiso Martinez, Adrian Piper, Robert Rauschenberg, Rodrigo Valenzuela, William Villalongo & Shraddha Ramani, and Marie Watt.

From the museum’s wall plaque about the images from the artists above-

A multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, popular culture, and social justice, Miguel Luciano revisits the history of the Young Lords, a revolutionary group of young Puerto Rican activists who organized for social justice in their communities beginning in the late 1960s. Luciano’s first contribution to Poor People’s Art is a vinyl banner from the public art project Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio (2019), a collaboration with artist Hiram Maristany. It features the photograph “Young Lords Member with Pa’lante Newspaper (1970)” by Maristany, who was the official photographer of the Young Lords and a founding member of the New York chapter. This banner, along with nine other enlarged Maristany photographs, were installed throughout East Harlem at the same locations where their history occurred 50 years prior.

Luciano’s second contribution to Poor People’s Art is the sculpture The People’s Pulpit (2022), a repurposed vintage pulpit from the First Spanish Methodist Church in East Harlem. The Young Lords famously took over the church in 1969 and renamed it “The People’s Church”; they hosted free breakfast programs, clothing drives, health screenings, and other community services there. In this exhibition, The People’s Pulpit features an historic recording of Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri reciting the celebrated poem Puerto Rican Obituary during the Young Lord’s takeover of The People’s Church.

The central sculpture in the second photo-

Afro-Taino artist Martha De la Cruz fashioned her sculptural installation Techo de sin (Roof of Without), 2021, from stolen, scavenged and donated materials found in Southwest Florida. According to the artist, “Florida is home to a large population of Latin American migrants who have ended up in the US largely due to economic pressures, exploitation and veins of power etched by Europe and the US.” Her powerful work deals with the results of this disjunction and the “symptoms thereabouts (e.g. houselessness, fugitiv-ity, government corruption, and income disparity, etc.).” According to De la Cruz, the word “sin” is a common Dominican mispronunciation for the word “zinc.” The sculpture is animated by a single light bulb that turns on for just ten minutes a day.

From the wall plaque about the Lazarus installation (structure in the 3th, 5th and 6th photos)-

Jason Lazarus’s sculptural installation Resurrection City/Poor People’s Campaign: A National call for Moral Revival/A Third Reconstruction (2023) is anchored in the artist’s historical research and several key photographs of Resurrection City. A tent-like shelter inspired by the temporary residences that populated the 1968 mass protest, the interactive sculpture contains simple sleeping quarters and a curated library filled with physical literature and ephemera centered on both the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign and the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, co-led by Rev. Dr.William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.

The library allows for audiences to trace, listen, and talk about the history of advocating for the poor, from 1865 to the present. Additionally, the artist provides a custom transcription (and a QR hyperlink) to Barber’s 49-minute address on the syndicated radio show “The Breakfast Club” in which he carefully outlines his powerful vision for how we might address poverty going forward.

About Jill Freedman’s photograph above-

In the spring of 1968, the talented young street photographer Jill Freedman quit her day job as a copywriter in New York City to join the Poor People’s March on Washington. Freedman lived in Resurrection City for the entire six weeks of the encampment’s existence, photographing its residents as they rallied, made speeches, protested in front of government buildings, confronted police, built makeshift kitchens, organized clothing swaps, and dealt with flooding, petty crime, and illness. One of the most important postwar documentarians, and one of the few women photographers of the era, Freedman captured it all. Freedman’s 2017 book, Resurrection City, 1968-from which this exhibition draws a dozen powerful images-showcases the photographs that she made as a participant in the original Poor People’s Campaign. In multiple ways, Freedman’s images are the sympathetic perch upon much of which much of the present exhibition loosely hangs.

This exhibition closes 3/4/23.

[maswartz]

DC Legacy

The basic premise of this is that the time has come for older heroes to step down and the next generation take their place. Clark Kent is now the editor and owner of the Daily Planet and vows to lead them into the future while keeping their dedication to the truth. Diana Prince is now Queen of the Amazons and has relinquished her title as Wonder Woman though she still joins the Justice Society when needed. Bruce Wayne has become mayor of Gotham City and intends to use the power of the office to fight crime at the root. However the intensified spotlight means he must give up the cowl. Others such as Oliver Queen have stepped down from active duty to become teachers to the next generation, passing down their skills and knowledge. Justice League Superman- Clark Kent Batman- Dick Grayson Wonder Woman- Donna Troy The Flash- Wally West Aquaman- Garth Red Arrow- Roy Harper Starfire- Koriand'r Beast Man- Garfield Logan Raven- Rachel Roth Cyborg- Victor Stone Green Lantern- Kyle Rayner Green Lantern- Jessica Cruz Shazam- Billy Batson Captain Thunder- Mary Bromfield Power Woman- Karen Starr JLA Reserves Supergirl- Kara Zor-El Thunderbolt- Freddy Freedman Thunderstorm- Eugene Choi Thunderblast- Pedro Peña Thunderspark- Darla Dudley Batman Beyond- Tim “Jace” Fox Captain Atom- Nathaniel Adam Green Arrow- Connor Hawke Zatanna- Zatanna Zatara Doctor Mid-Nite- Beth Chapel Argent- Toni Monetti Firestorm- Jason Rusch/Gehenna Black Canary- Dinah Lance Atom- Ryan Choi Plastic Man- Patrick “Eel” O’Brien Jade- Jennifer-Lynn Haden Obsidian- Todd Rice Zauriel Justice League Universal Martian Manhunter- J'onn J'onzz Green Lantern- Simon Baz Green Lantern- Sojourner Mullein Jemm Hawkman- Carter Hall Hawkwoman- Kendra Saunders Adam Strange Darkfire- Ryand’r Metamorpho- Rex Mason Captain Comet- Adam Blake Orion Tomorrow Woman- Clara Kendall Starman- Will Payton The Titans Nightwing- Tim Drake Superboy- Conner Kent Fury- Cassandra Sandsmark Mercury- Bart Allen Blue Beetle- Jaime Reyes Static- Virgil Hawkins Green Lantern- Tai Pham Monkey Prince- Marcus Sun Miss Martian- M'gann M'orzz Empress- Anita Fite Titans West Batgirl- Cassandra Cain Spoiler- Stephanie Brown Red Devil- Eddie Bloomberg Solstice- Kiran Yellow Arrow- Mia Dearden Tempest- Jackson Hyde Power Girl- Tanya Spears Wonder Twins- Zan and Jayna Velocity- Wallace West Outsiders Black Lightning- Jefferson Pierce Thunder- Anissa Pierce Lightning- Jennifer Pierce Grace- Grace Choi Inertia- Thaddeus Thawne Tengu- Asami Koizumi El Dorado- Edward Dorado Jr Longshadow- Ty Longshadow Halo II- Gabrielle Daou Ravager- Rose Wilson Jericho- Joseph Wilson Quake- Atlee Tsunami- Lorena Marquez The Signal- Duke Thomas Offspring- Luke O’Brien Young Justice Red X- Damian Wayne Flamewing- Chris Kent Nightbird- Jon Kent Wonder Girl- Yara Flor Kid Flash- Iris West Impulse- Jai West Teen Lantern- Keli Quintela Green Beetle- Milagro Reyes Speedy- Lian Harper Jinny Hex Amethyst Twister- Traya Sutton Animal Girl- Maxine Baker Aquarius- Cerdian Justice Society Mr Terrific- Michael Holt Green Sentinel- Alan Scott The Flash- Jay Garrick Wildcat- Ted Grant Doctor Mid-Nite- Pieter Cross Wonder Woman- Diana Prince Hourman- Rick Tyler Liberty Belle- Jesse Tyler The Boom- Judy Garrick Stargirl- Courtney Whitmore Cyclone- Maxine Hunkel Tomcat- Tom Bronson Sand- Sanderson Hawkins Jakeem Thunder/Johnny Thunderbolt- Jakeem Williams and Johnny Thunder Atom Smasher- Albert Rothstein Damage- Grant Emerson Dr Fate- Khalid Nassour

[owenthetokencishet]

tagged by @castallurspells

Ten favourite characters from ten different fandoms:

- ensign Beckett Mariner (Star Trek: Lower Decks), I want to be her best friend

- Jinx (Arcane[league of legends does not exist 🙈]), a long weekend spent hanging out with Adam Savage would fix 90% of her problems

- Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse), the politician we NEED

- Sidney Freedman (MASH), when I say I need a therapist, I mean him

- Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange (Marvel Comics, specifically the Jason Aaron run oh my GOD), me too, my guy. Me too.

- Abed Nadir (Community), the ORIGINAL autism creature

- Sanwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings), not the real hero, but still the realest

- Grover Underwood (Percy Jackson and the Olympians), the fucking G.O.A.T.

- Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra (Star Wars, I'm so sorry), LESBIANA JONES

- Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean), hhhHHHOOOttttTTTTTT

I NOMINATE @threecirclingbuzzards, @nutellabolognasandwich @queervictorvandort

Note, the added sentence was all me, you are not obligated to do the same, or any of this for that matter

[hatingwithfears]

BOOKS READ IN 2022

Here’s the complete list of books I managed to read in 2022.

168 books. 54,494 pages.

Renata Adler- Speedboat

Kendra Allen- The Collection Plate

Jonathan Alter- His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life

Kenneth Anger- Hollywood Babylon

Jason Bailey- Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It

Peter Baker, Susan Glasser- The Divider: Trump in The White House 2017-2021

JG Ballard- The Atrocity Exhibition

Julien Barnes- Elizabeth Finch

Brit Bennett- The Vanishing Half

Charles M. Blow- The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

Anthony Bourdain- Medium Raw

Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever- World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Box Brown- Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America

Mariah Carey, Michaela Angela Davis- The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Nick Cave & Sean O’Hagan- Faith, Hope, and Carnage

David Chang- Eat a Peach

Dan Charnas- Dilla Time

Leonard Cohen- A Ballet of Lepers

Lee Cole- Groundskeeping

Teju Cole- Black Paper

Ray Connolly- Being Elvis: A Lonely Life

Brian Contoir- Practical Alchemy

Antoine Cosse- Metax

Charles R. Cross- Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain

Daniele Cybulskie- How To Live Like a Monk

Travis Dandro- King of King Court

John Darnelle- Devil House

Michael Deforge- Heaven No Hell

Rita Dove- Playlist for the Apocalypse

David Duchovny- The Reservoir

Jennifer Egan- The Candy House

Robert Evans- The Kid Stays in The Picture

Scott Eyman- Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

Nicolas Ferraro- Cruz

Mark Fisher- Ghosts of My Life

Mark Fisher- Capitalist Realism

Johnathan Franzen- Crossroads

Harry Freedman- Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius

Matti Friedman- Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai

James Gavin- George Michael: A Life

Lizzy Goodman- Meet Me in The Bathroom

Andrew Sean Greer- Less

Dave Grohl- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Joseph Hansen- Troublemaker

Joy Harjo- Poet Warrior

Robert Harris- The Ghost Writer

Noah Hawley- Anthem

Wil Haygood- Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Film in a White World

Clinton Heylin- The Double Life of Bob Dylan

Andrew Holleran- The Kingdom of Sand

Michel Houellebecq- Serotonin

Sean Howe- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

Dorthy B Hughes- In a Lonely Place

John Irving- The Fourth Hand

Walter Isaacson- Leonardo Da Vinci

Kazuo Ishiguro- Klara and The Sun

Junji Ito- No Longer Human

Robert Jones Jr- The Prophets

Saeed Jones- Alive at The End of the World

Stephen Graham Jones- My Heart is a Chainsaw

Rax King- Tacky

Stephen King- Billy Summers

Katie Kitamura- Intimacies

Chuck Klosterman- The Nineties

TJ Klune- Under The Whispering Door

Karl Ove Knausgaard- The Morning Star

Hideo Kojima- The Creative Dream

Milan Kundera- Slowness

Wally Lamb- I Know This Much is True

Yiyun Li- Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Thomas Ligotti- The Conspiracy Against The Human Race

Roger Lipsey- Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down

Patricia Lockwood- No One is Talking About This

Ling Ma- Bliss Montage

Stuart B MacBride- Halfhead

Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner- Heat 2

Greil Marcus- Dead Elvis

Mike McCormack- Solar Bones

Jennette McCurdy- I’m Glad My Mom Died

Janelle Monae- The Memory Librarian

Ottessa Moshfegh- Lapvona

Leila Mottley- Nightcrawling

Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie- Lost Girls

Grant Morrison- The Invisibles

Mannie Murphy- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Sequoia Nagamatsu- How High We Go in The Dark

Joyce Carol Oates- Blonde

Joyce Carol Oates- American Melancholy

John O’Connell- Bowie’s Bookshelf

Ryan O’Connell- Just By Looking at Him

Jenny Offill- Weather

Paul Ortiz- An African American and Latinx History of The United States

Hiroko Oyamada- The Factory

Hiroko Oyamada- The Hole

Helen Oyeymi- What is Not Yours is Not Yours

James Patterson- Hear No Evil

Larissa Pham- Pop Song

Brian Phillips- Impossible Owls

Stephanie Phillips- Why Solange Matters

Keith Phipps- Age of Cage

Michael Pollan- This Is Your Mind on Plants

Richard Powers- Bewilderment

Questlove- Music is History

Kristen Radtke- Seek You

Sue Rainsford- Follow Me to Ground

Claudia Rankine- Just Us: An American Conversation

George A Romero, Daniel Kraus- The Living Dead

Karen Russell- Orange World

George Saunders- A Swim in a Pond in The Rain

George Saunders- Liberation Day

Samantha Schweblin— Fever Dream

Leonardo Sciascia- Equal Danger

Mark Seal- Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli

Seth- Clyde Fans

Alan Sepinwall- Breaking Bad 101

Zadie Smith- Feel Free

Won-Pyung Sohn- Almond

Bob Spitz- Led Zeppelin: The Biography

Elizabeth Strout- Oh William!

J Randy Taraborrelli- The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

Herve Le Tellier- The Anomaly

Manjit Thapp- Feelings

Olga Tokarczuk- The Books of Jacob

Jia Tolentino- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion

Leo Trezenick- The Confession of a Mad Man

Stanley Tucci- Taste

Una- Becoming Unbecoming

Ocean Vuong- Time is a Mother

Chris Ware- Rusty Brown

WC Ware- Jimmy Corrigan

John Waters- Liarmouth

Peter Weiss- The Shadow of The Coachman’s Body

Missouri Williams- The Doloriad

Antoine Wilson- Mouth to Mouth

Sarah Winman- Still Life

Laurie Wollever- Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography

Kenneth Womack- Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and The End of The Beatles

Hanya Yanagihara- To Paradise

Ed. Jelani Cobb & David Remnick- The Matter of Black Lives

Ed. Sinead Gleeson & Kim Gordon- This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music

[princesssarisa]

Cinderella September-through-November: Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" (1997 TV musical)

Now we reach the third televised version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, which for children of the '90s and 2000s has the biggest cult following of them all. It premiered on ABC's Wonderful World of Disney in 1997, co-produced by Whitney Houston, and featuring an all-star and – in a choice both praised and mocked over the years – colorblind cast. This cast is headed by Houston herself as the Fairy Godmother and 18-year-old R&B sensation Brandy in the role of Cinderella.

All of the classic songs from the original 1957 musical are retained here, although "The Prince is Giving a Ball" and "The Royal Dressing Room Scene" are combined into one number, as a showcase for Jason Alexander in the new comic role of the long-suffering royal steward Lionel. But just as the 1965 remake added one new song, this version adds three other songs from Richard Rodgers' catalogue. "The Sweetest Sounds" from No Strings becomes a distant duet for Cinderella and Prince Christopher (Filipino-American newcomer Paolo Montalbán), expressing their dreams of love. "Falling In Love With Love" from Rodgers and Hart's The Boys from Syracuse is sung by the Stepmother (Bernadette Peters), bringing some new depth to her role by portraying her as a former romantic left bitter and jaded by her two husbands' deaths. Last but not least, "There's Music In You" from the film Main Street to Broadway becomes the grand musical finale, sung by the Fairy Godmother watching over Cinderella's wedding.

The musical also gets a new script once again, this time by Robert L. Freedman, who combines the comedy of Oscar Hammerstein's original 1957 teleplay with the more earnest tone of Joseph Schrank's 1965 teleplay to create just the right balance of humor and heart. As in the 1965 version, Cinderella and Prince Christopher first meet before the ball; this time in the town square, where the Prince wanders disguised as a commoner to escape from his stifling royal duties, and where in their brief conversation they bond over their shared longing for freedom. The stepsisters have new character tics too: brassy Minerva (Natalie Deselle) feels itchy whenever she's nervous, while ditzy Calliope (Veanne Cox) can't help snorting when she laughs. And in keeping with '90s feminism. yet without being heavy-handed about it, this version emphatically brings back the 1957 Cinderella's character arc of learning to take charge of her own future rather than just dreaming of a better life. At first she feels duty-bound to stay with her stepfamily by a promise she made to her late father, but her Fairy Godmother and her blossoming romance with the Prince teach her that she deserves better and give her the courage to escape.

With its high-budget Disney gloss, this is definitely the most visually sparkling of the three Rodgers and Hammerstein Cinderella telecasts. The folksy, atmospheric sets and the colorful 19th century-inspired costumes brim with fairy tale charm: while Cinderella's ice blue ballgown does recall the gown of her animated Disney counterpart, as a whole the production's aesthetic is all its own. The choreography by Rob Marshall (who would go on to direct 2002's Best Picture winner Chicago and several subsequent Hollywood musicals) is charming too, and the magical effects, aided by CGI, seem only slightly dated by today's standards.

Brandy's breathy, popish style of singing might be a slightly acquired taste in these Julie Andrews-tailored songs, but she still makes an appealing Cinderella, alternately gentle, clever, playful and vulnerable. Eleven years before The Princess and the Frog's Tiana, she gave countless black girls their first, invaluable sight of a beautiful fairy tale princess who looked like them. Montalbán's engaging, silky-voiced Prince perfectly compliments her, as do the rest of the starry cast: Peters' glamorous, funny and nasty Stepmother, the buffoonish stepsisters, Alexander's exasperated Lionel, Whoopi Goldberg as the Prince's comically smothering yet truly caring mother the Queen, Victor Garber as her husband and straight man the King, and of course Whitney Houston's charismatic Fairy Godmother, who blends the sass of Edie Adams' 1957 portrayal with the warmth of Celeste Holm's 1965 version, yet with a magnificent voice all her own.

It's no wonder that so many of us consider this Cinderella not only one of the best, but one of the most important of all the fairy tale adaptations of our childhood.

@ariel-seagull-wings, @superkingofpriderock

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Episode 368

Comic Reviews:

DC

Batman: Dear Detective by Lee Bermejo

Black Adam: Justice Society Files – Atom Smasher by Bryan Q. Miller, Cavan Scott, Marco Santucci, Travis Mercer, John Kalisz, Michael Atiyeh

Dark Knights of Steel: Tales From the Three Kingdoms by Tom Taylor, CS Pascat, Jay Kristoff, Sean Izaakse, Michele Bandini, Caspar Wijngaard, Antonio Fabela, Romula Fajardo Jr

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths 4 by Joshua Williamson, Daniel Sampere, Alejandro Sanchez

My Buddy Killer Croc by Sara Farizan, Nicoletta Baldari

Marvel

Amazing Fantasy 1000 by Dan Slott, Kurt Busiek, Jonathan Hickman, Neil Gaiman, Ho Che Anderson, Rainbow Rowell, Michael Pasciullo, Armando Ianucci, Michael Cho, Anthony Falcone, Ryan Stegman, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Marco Checchetto, Jim Cheung, Olivier Coipel, Todd Nauck, Goran Parlov, Terry Dodson, Steve McNiven, Rachel Dodson, Klaus Janson, JP Mayer, Matt Wilson, Rachelle Rosenberg, Jordie Bellaire, Sonia Oback, Frank Martin, David Jay Ramos, Richard Isanove

Alien 1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Julius Ohta, Yen Nitro

All-Out Avengers 1 by Derek Landy, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Frank D’Armata

Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross, Josh Johnson

Infinity Comics

It’s Jeff by Kelly Thompson, Gurihiru

Image

Antioch 1 by Patrick Kindlon, Marco Ferrari

Dark Horse

Shock Shop 1 by Cullen Bunn, Leila Leiz, Danny Luckert

Dynamite

Ninjettes 1 by Fred Van Lente, Joe Cooper, Dearbhla Kelly

IDW

Star Trek 400 by Wil Wheaton, Mike Johnson, Chris Eliopoulos, Declan Shalvey, Rich Handley, Joe Eisma, Seth Damoose, Luke Sparrow, Megan Levens, Angel Hernandez

OGN

Everyday Hero Machine Boy by Irma Kniivila, Tri Vuong

Karma GN by Dan Wickline, Carlos Reno

Kali GN by Daniel Freedman, Robert Sammelin

Garlic and the Witch by Bree Paulsen

Always Never by Jordi Lafebre

Archie

Sabrina Anniversary Spectacular 1 by Dan Parent

AfterShock

Last Line 1 by Richard Dinnick, Jose Holder, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Dave Sharpe

Ahoy

Highball 1 by Stuart Moore, Fred Harper, Lee Loughridge

Ablaze

Boogyman 1 by Mathieu Salvia, Djet

AWA

E-Ratic: Recharged 1 by Kaare Andrews, Brian Reber

Ray’s OGN Corner: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, Lark Pien

Longbox of Horror

Additional Reviews: 13: The Musical, Cuphead Show s2, Butterfly Garden, She-Hulk ep4, Lost in Space s3, Uploads s1, Pinocchio, Cars on the Road, new Simpsons short

News: Dead-End Paranormal Park returns in October for s2, Theme Parks, Stan Sakai back to Dark Horse, Disney+ Day, D23 news, Wish/Elio/Inside Out 2 from Disney/Pixar, Mufasa: The Lion King, October is Jeff month, Radiant Pink, Radiant Yellow, Squid Game star takes on Star Wars role, Paper Girls cancelled, Netflix release model, Anthony Ramos as the Hood, Matt Shankman of WandaVision to direct Fantastic Four, Don Cheadle lead in Secret Invasion and Armor Wars, Leader and Sabra confirmed for Cap 4, Thunderbolts cast, Young Jedi Adventures, Otto Schmidt, Dark Web details

Trailers: Knives Out 2, Quantum Leap, Disenchanted, Little Mermaid, Wendel and Wild, Willow, Andor, Tales of the Jedi, Mando s3, Secret Invasion, National Treasure, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Santa Clause, Percy Jackson, Fabelmans, Werewolf by Night

Comics Countdown:

Always Never GN by Jordi Lafebre

Garlic and the Witch GN by Bree Paulsen

Batman 127 by Chip Zdarsky, Belen Ortega, Jorge Jimenez, Luis Guerrero, Tomeu Morey

Twig 5 by Skottie Young, Kyle Strahm, Jean-Francois Beaulieu

Dark Knights of Steel: Tales From the Three Kingdoms by Tom Taylor, CS Pascat, Jay Kristoff, Sean Izaakse, Michele Bandini, Caspar Wijngaard, Antonio Fabela, Romula Fajardo Jr

TMNT 132 by Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman, Sophie Campbell, Pablo Tunica, Ronda Pattison

Dudley Datson and the Forever Machine 2 by Scott Snyder, Jamal Igle, Juan Castro, Chris Sotomayor

Punisher 6 by Jason Aaron, Paul Azaceta, Jesus Saiz, Dave Stewart

New Champion of Shazam! 2 by Josie Campbell, Evan Shaner

Once and Future 29 by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain

Check out this episode!

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Birthdays 7.17

Beer Birthdays

James Pawley Dawes (1843)

Anthony Straub (1882)

Joshua Bernstein (1978)

Five Favorite Birthdays

James Cagney; actor (1899)

Erle Stanley Gardner; writer (1889)

Vince Guaraldi; jazz pianist (1928)

Peter Schickele; music comedian, composer (1935)

Donald Sutherland; actor (1934)

Famous Birthdays

Berenice Abbott; photographer (1898)

Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Ukrainian-Israeli writer (1888)

Ron Asheton; guitarist and songwriter (1948)

John Jacob Astor; zillionaire (1763)

Lou Barlow; guitarist and songwriter (1966)

George Barnes; guitarist and songwriter (1921)

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten; German philosopher (1714)

Luc Bondy; Swiss film director (1948)

Tim Brooke-Taylor; English comedian (1940)

Mark Burnett; television producer (1960)

Geezer Butler; English bass player (1949)

Diahann Carroll; actor (1935)

Niccolò Castiglioni; Italian composer (1932)

Elizabeth Cook; singer and guitarist (1972)

John Cooper; English car designer (1923)

Chris Crutcher; writer (1946)

Spencer Davis; rock musician (1942)

Paul Delaroche; French painter (1797)

Phyllis Diller; comedian (1917)

Cory Doctorow, Canadian author (1971)

Lyonel Feininger;, German-American painter (1871)

Lionel Ferbos; trumpeter (1911)

Wolfgang Flür; German musician (1947)

Wendy Freedman; Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer (1957)

Elbridge Gerry; politician (1744)

Sergei K. Godunov; Russian mathematician (1929)

Gordon Gould; laser inventor (1920)

David Hasselhoff; actor (1952)

Hermann Huppen; Belgian author and illustrator (1938)

Bruno Jasieński; Polish poet and author (1901)

Scott Johnson; cartoonist (1969)

Darryl Lamonica; Oakland Raiders QB (1941)

Nicolette Larson; singer-songwriter (1952)

Thé Lau; Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (1952)

Georges Lemaître; Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (1894)

Art Linkletter; humorist (1912)

Pierre Louis Maupertuis; French mathematician and philosopher (1698)

Robert R. McCammon; author (1952)

Angela Merkel; German chemist and politician (1954)

Craig Morgan; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1965)

Luis Munoz-Rivera; Puerto Rican patriot, poet (1859)

Frank Olson; chemist and microbiologist (1910)

Barbara O'Neil; actor (1910)

Mary Osborne; guitarist (1921)

Quino Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist (1932)

Christiane Rochefort; French author (1917)

Jason Rullo; rock drummer (1972)

Jimmy Scott; jazz singer (1925)

Ephraim Shay, American engineer (1839)

Phoebe Snow; singer (1952)

P.J. Soles; actor (1950)

Red Sovine; country singer (1917)

Christina Stead; Australian author (1902)

J. Michael Straczynski; writer (1954)

Mick Tucker; English rock drummer (1947)

Isaac Watts; English hymnwriter (1674)

Alex Winter; actor (1965)

[fresh-coast-reader]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge | May 18, 2020: “Book Gradient”

Kingdom of Ash, by Sarah J. Maas

The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells

The Festivals and Their Meaning, by Rudolf Steiner

Rules, by Cynthia Lord

The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon

The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

My Basmati Bat Mitzva, by Paula J. Freedman

Radiance of Tomorrow, by Ishmael Beah

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

Spilling Ink: A Young Writer’s Handbook, by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter

Ghost, by Jason Reynolds

The Complete Middle School Study Guide: World History

The Teachers and Writers Guide to Walt Whitman

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court, by John Wooden

Love that Dog, by Sharon Creech

Shakespeare’s Book of Insults, Insights, and Infinite Jests, by John W. Seder

A Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis

Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie

Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan

[douchebagbrainwaves]

OK, I'LL TELL YOU YOU ABOUT LOT

Really good languages aren't like that. Wealth is what you want, not money. Of all the great programmers I can think to myself If someone with a PhD in computer science can't understand this thermostat, it must be badly designed. So if they're all squawking, perhaps there is something wrong with you if you don't like to admit it, but it's clearly now the established practice. Their other interests leave them little attention to spare for popularity, and since there was nothing we could do to beat America at the national level. I've avoided most addictions, but the whole program around it.1 A lot of research and decide for themselves how valuable your technology was.2

Most founders have such low standards that they'll feel rich with a sum that doesn't seem to work very well. The world seemed cruel and boring, and that's why merely reading books doesn't quite feel like work. When I first learned Lisp, what I liked most about it. So governments that forbid you to accumulate wealth are in effect giant descriptions of how things work. And she is so ambitious and determined that she overcame every obstacle along the way. Where do angel investors come from? That's where speed comes from in practice.

Notes

The attitude of the former depends a lot of detail.

How many parents would still want their kids rather than risk their community's disapproval.

Thanks to Kevin Hale, Jason Freedman, Alexis Ohanian, Eric Raymond, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell, and the rest of the Python crew at PyCon for inviting me to speak.

[thewingedwolf]

Not Telling: A Study in How Much We are Actually Told About The Characters, Part Two of Two

There’s some people I wanted to include but we don’t get descriptions of them physically. I wanted to include Gen’s atendendants but the only real description we get of any of them are Sejanus and Hilarion and that’s it so. This one is more subject to some updates if I can find more descriptions of other notable characters.

But here we go!!!!:

The Magus:

“He had the high bridged nose of most of the people in the city, but his eyes were a very light gray instead of brown. HIs forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.” - this gives us two things

A description of the magus

a description of the way Sounisians look in general - high noses and brown eyes are common

And the aforementioned comment about him being taller than the average man.

“He was in the company of an older man, unscarred, but no less shabby, who boosted him up…” - first description in AcOk. Note that The Magus is still strong enough to boost up a much more grown Sophos.

“He leaned against the higher side, leaving his arms and legs dangling over the lower edges and looking something like a pale spider, but more like an overturned terrapin.” - Firstly, a terrapin is a turtle, which I had to google. Secondly, I think this tells us that the Magus has long, spindly limbs, and maybe a *little* bit of a gut, but that’s just my interpretation of the comparison.

Sophos also comments that the Magus looks very old after they first meet with Gen and Irene.

Dite/Sejanus:

“He was much like his brother, Sejanus, though he wore his hair long and curled in the fashion of the elite young men of the Queen’s court.”

The Minister of War

“He was taller than average, but not noticeably so, a little heavier, but not stocky. His closely trimmed beard was gray, as was most of the hair on his head.” - again, it seems as if the shortness of Gen runs in the family and isn’t completely attributable to the fact that he’s still in the throes of puberty (lmao) when we meet him.

Godekker

“He was extremely dirty and short to the point of being stunted, with the shoulders and beefy arms of a laborer. He wore a freedman’s cap and, judging by his leathery skin, had probably been a field slave for most of his life. He might have been well into middle age, but field workers have hard lives, and he could have been much younger.”

Sounis:

“He was short, just as his father had been, and stocky. His hair was a dark gold color and curled around his ears. It would have looked effeminate on anyone else...He was too short and too oily, and he was a shade too fat to be elegant.”

Relius

We don’t get a real description in KoA beyond a description of his injuries.

“As he pulled his robe around him before sitting, I saw his hands were misshapen, badly broken and healed, with two of the fingers missing. I looked from them to his face and quickly away. They had been undamaged when I had seen him last.”

Teleus

“No matter that Teleus was nearly a head taller than the king.” - Costis in KoA

“...a soldier as big as the Attolian, but older, with gray in his hair and a fancy badge on his breast, stepped up to the Attolian.” - Kamet in TaT

Melheret (ambassador in Attolia)

He was as tall as Sounis, but more slender, with gray in his beard and in the hair at his temples. His narrow face was weathered by time in the sun, and he had probably been a soldier before he was an ambassador. He gave the appearance of good health and radiated a confidence that Sounis envied.” -- I want to note that this also tells us again that Sophos is tall, but also that he’s got some weight on him, probably a lot of muscle and likely a decent amount of fat as well. I sort of imagined him built like Jason Momoa in his off-filming time lmao

The Gods In General

“And that is why Eugenides, alone among the gods, is dark-skinned like the Nimbians on the far side of the middle sea.”- about Eugenides BUT this is later disputed as we see next:

“His skin was not black like the Nimbians’. It was deep brownish red, like fired clay, like that of the ancient people who’d left their portraits on the walls of the ruins on islands in the middle sea. His hair was dark like his half sister’s, but her hair reflected the light in flashes of gold and aubourn; his was black like charcoal. His face was much narrower, his nose sharper. On one cheek was a lighter scar of a burn mark, shaped like a rounded feather. He was smaller than the other gods, dressed in a tunic of plain gray.” - About Eugenides but also a bit about Hephestia- there’s a resemblance between them but he has darker hair and skin than she does while her features are broader than his, and she is taller.

“Their skin was lighter or darker, but always unblemished, their faces symmetrical, their eyes clear. There were no scars, no bent limbs, no squints in those eyes.” - This is interesting to me in that it seems to imply that the gods aren’t all homogenous except Eugenides, contrary to the first quote. It seems implied that Moira and Hephestia are maybe on the lighter side complexion wise, but that the gods aren’t all Pale and Fair.

“She wore a robe cut from deep velvet, its reds darkest in the hearts of its foldes and brightest in its ridges. Her hair was held back from her face by a woven ribbon of gold set with red rubies.” - about Hephestia. Not a lot of description besides her hair being long enough to be held back HOWEVER the outfit is important to keep in mind because when the reader meets Irene, she’s dressing up as Hephestia in this exact outfit.

“Tall even for a man, and much more so for a woman, she wore a white peplos and looked just as if she had stepped from an ancient vase painting. She was like the Goddess appearing as the mentor in an epic, and I felt like a young Oneius.” - this feels very much like a Not Telling moment lmao. Sort of a Classical Beauty look to Moira is what seems to be implied here.

“A stranger stood before me, taller than the Attolian and slim, very elegant. He had a long, narrow face darker than my own and a heavier beard than I will ever grow. The patterns at the edges of his soft skullcap, and the ones around the collar and hem of his belted shift, marked him as a traveler from beyond the Isthmus.” - the mysterious stranger’s description

“instead found a single burly older man in a handsome robe, imposing and obviously wealthy. He was also obviously a former soldier. He still had the bearing and the scars—he was missing his right eye—but he was certainly not the palace guard, nor one of the city’s Enforcers of the Imperial Peace.” - the “wine merchant” that helps Kamet

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There we go!!!!