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thesweetnessofspring · 1 year ago

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A little bit different of a fancast for today, but I haven't been able to get the idea of an animated Hunger Games series out of my head for months now. So I propose not a traditional acting cast of the Hunger Games characters, but a voice cast. I have a bit of a bias for musical theater actors, but can I help it that they are literally some of the most talented people out there?

Starting off with Katniss. Obviously, we need a singer! Even if she only canonically sings a handful of times, even speaking she should have the vocal control of a singer. For that reason, I'm picking Ariana Debose. She's had voice acting experience with Disney in their upcoming film Wish and won and Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in West Side Story so she's clearly very talented and has experience in voice acting. Here's a clip from WSS just to show her acting chops:

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I would be just as happy with Eva Noblezada as Katniss. She's a Tony-nominated actress who did a movie starring as a country singer (Yellow Rose), so she's shown she can do a Southern accent should this hypothetical series really go for the Appalachian aspect to D12 (which they should). And she's Filipino-Mexican American. Really either of these women would be amazing as a voice actress for Katniss.

Now Peeta. We need someone charming and genuine. And one of people who came to mind and really stuck there is Jordan Fisher, who's starred in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway in the title role and is currently in Sweeney Todd, but would likely be most recognized by his role in To All The Boys: P.S. I Love You as John Ambrose. He also has some experience voice acting with various projects. Here's some clips of him as John Ambrose:

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So just imagine these voices coming out of animated characters drawn to look like Katniss and Peeta, in a series with time to tell the story properly, and tell me that wouldn't be the absolute most amazing thing ever.

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catenaaurea · 1 year ago

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And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; and Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; and Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; and Jesse begat David the king. (Matthew 1:3-6)

It should be noted, that none of the holy women are taken into the Savior's genealogy, but rather such as Scripture has condemned, that He who came for sinners being born of sinners might so put away the sins of all; thus Ruth the Moabitess follows among the rest.

Jerome

But Luke has avoided the mention of these, that he might set forth the series of the priestly race immaculate. But the plan of St. Matthew did not exclude the righteousness of natural reason; for when he wrote in his Gospel, that He who should take on Him the sins of all, was born in the flesh, was subject to wrongs and pain, he did not think it any detraction from His holiness that He did not refuse the further humiliation of a sinful parentage. Nor, again, would it shame the Church to be gathered from among sinners, when the Lord Himself was born of sinners; and, lastly, that the benefits of redemption might have their beginning with His own forefathers: and that none might imagine that a stain in their blood was any hindrance to virtue, nor again any pride themselves insolently on nobility of birth.

Augustine

Besides this, it shews that all are equally liable to sin; for here is Thamar accusing Judah of incest, and David begat Solomon with a woman with whom he had committed adultery. But if the Law was not fulfilled by these great ones, neither could it be by their less great posterity, and so all have sinned, and the presence of Christ is become necessary.

John Chrysostom

But how did Ruth who was an alien marry a man that was a Jew? and wherefore in Christ’s genealogy did His Evangelist so much as mention a union, which in the eye of the law was bastard? Thus the Savior's birth of a parentage not admitted by the law appears to us monstrous, until we attend to that declaration of the Apostle, The Law was not given for the righteous, but for the unrighteous. (1 Tim. 1:9.) For this woman who was an alien, a Moabitess, a nation with whom the Mosaic Law forbad all intermarriage, and shut them totally out of the Church, how did she enter into the Church, unless that she were holy and unstained in her life above the Law? Therefore she was exempt from this restriction of the Law, and deserved to be numbered in the Lord’s lineage, chosen from the kindred of her mind, not of her body. To us she is a great example, for that in her was prefigured the entrance into the Lord’s Church of all of us who are gathered out of the Gentiles.

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deadpresidents · 1 year ago

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You read a lot non-fiction what I call "colon books" ("Title: Longer Subtitle"). What are some of your favourite or latest fiction books that you've read?

Even if it’s not your ideal genre, there has to be a more pleasant way of talking about non-fiction titles than calling them “colon books”, right? That sounds like a pretty gross section of the library.

I must admit that I’ve never been a big reader of fiction. I read a lot of books, but fiction has always been a pretty small percentage of them. I don’t have anything against fiction books and, quite frankly, I wish I had more of an interest in them because I believe reading from a broader, more diverse group of genres opens up your mind to a wider array of viewpoints. But I just can’t lose myself in fiction as easily as I do in non-fiction — and I know that not only sounds ridiculous but kind of proves how important it probably is for me to actually read more fiction in order to expand my horizons and build a healthier imagination.

When I do read fiction, it usually is because I like the work of specific authors and don’t want to miss whatever they write. One odd thing is that while I very rarely (almost never, in fact) re-read non-fiction books, when it comes to fiction, I usually stick with the same small collection of favorite authors and often re-read their work.

And if I’m not reading non-fiction, there’s a pretty good chance that I’m reading poetry instead of a novel or some sort of traditional prose fiction. Like I said, it’s probably more of a failure of imagination than anything, but while I respect and appreciate great literature and creative fiction, I just prefer reading stuff that feels more realistic. I couldn’t even guess what the last science fiction book I read was. I have several thousand books in my personal library, but I’m willing to bet that I have less than a half-dozen sci-fi books. My taste in movies or TV shows is pretty similar; I rarely watch sci-fi or fantasy. Even as a kid I was never able to get into them.

So what type of fiction books do I read whenever I actually do pick up something other than non-fiction?

I’ve been pretty vocal over the years about my appreciation/admiration/awe for the work of Sam Shepard. Everything he wrote — from his plays to his prose to poetry to his short story collections — amazes me as a reader and makes me insanely jealous as a writer. I have every book he ever published and just about every play or collection of plays, and I re-read him more than anybody else.

I’m also a huge fan of John Steinbeck and Joan Didion. I think I have just about everything that Steinbeck ever published and I have phases when I fall into a Steinbeck rabbit hole and just tunnel through my Library of America collection of his work, which are treasures. I didn’t get into Joan Didion’s writing until later, so I’m still reading some of her stuff for the first time. I think the fact that I’m from Northern California like Steinbeck (from Salinas) and Didion (who was from Sacramento originally, just like me) helps me put myself in their work in a more intimate way than when I’m trying to read most other writers of fiction. I need that kind of connection to lock on to fiction in the way that I’m able to do with non-fiction. Plus, Steinbeck and Didion also wrote some great non-fiction, so I can get the best of both worlds. Two other authors that I’ve read and re-read many times are Cuba’s heroic founding father, freedom fighter, and martyred revolutionary José Martí and the ingenious, acerbic Ambrose Bierce whose satirical The Devil's Dictionary (BOOK | KINDLE) has miraculously maintained its edginess and razor-sharp humor despite being originally written over 125 years ago.

There’s really not a lot of contemporary fiction that I read. I’m sure I’d find some great stuff if I gave it the chance, but there’s only so many hours in the day that I have to read, so I do tend to give it over to non-fiction, as you might notice when I answer the questions about the books I’ve been recently reading! So, if I am reading fiction, it’s almost always older stuff that I’m finally getting around to reading. During the pandemic, I got lost in the work of Jorge Luis Borges, who I had not spent much time with previously, but I pored through his fiction and poetry. Two more books that I also frequently re-read or pull of the shelves to read pieces of are Baltasar Garcián’s The Art of Worldly Wisdom (BOOK | KINDLE), which was first published in 1647 but still feels fresh 375 years later, and Fernando Pessoa’s brilliant, posthumously published The Book of Disquiet (BOOK | AUDIO | KINDLE).

As for the poets you’ll find on my shelves, it’s probably who you’d expect: Pablo Neruda, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Hafiz, Matthew Arnold, William Blake, and Federico García Lorca. Like I mentioned earlier, Sam Shepard and José Martí are two of my favorites for their prose and poetry. I’d especially recommend Shepard’s 1973 book Hawk Moon: Short Stories, Poems, Monologues and Motel Chronicles (BOOK | KINDLE), published in 1982 by the legendary Lawrence Ferlinghetti at San Francisco’s iconic City Lights Books. José Martí’s greatest work is Versos Sencillos (BOOK | KINDLE), originally published in Spanish 1891 but I recommend the excellent dual-language edition translated by Anne Fountain and published by McFarland & Company in 2005. One other poetry book that is always pretty close to my desk is Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s wonderful The Collected Poems, 1952-1990.

And last but not least — but certainly the least surprising — is William Shakespeare. I love Shakespeare. I don’t think that this is a controversial opinion, but Shakespeare is fucking amazing. You guys can share that secret with other people if you feel the need to do so. If someone put a gun to my head and told me I had to pick only three books to read for the rest of my life, the first thing I would do would be to choose Shakespeare’s Complete Works. Actually…the first thing I would do would be to ask why that person felt the need to put a gun to my head just to choose three books to read. That seems unnecessarily aggressive and wildly inappropriate for the task at hand. But after chastising them for their needlessly dangerous tactics, I would choose Shakespeare’s Complete Works — specifically the latest Norton edition with Stephen Greenblatt as general editor (BOOK | DIGITAL).

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zerogate · 2 years ago

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Out of all this exuberant illiteracy there arose a problem, however. While storming the gates of heaven might be achieved with no education at all, storming the gates of the elite villas of Rome required a little more sophistication. Educated Romans and Greeks such as Celsus and Porphyry had long looked at the literature of Christianity with the utmost disdain – and writers such as Augustine and Jerome knew it. Part of the problem was the Bible: not only what it said but the way in which it said it. Today, robed in the glowing English of the King James Version, it is hard to imagine the language of the Bible ever causing problems. In the fourth century it had no such antique grandeur. The gospels of the old Latin Bible were written in a distinctly demotic style, rich in grammatical solecisms and the sort of words that grated on educated ears. The loss of meaning was negligible – the ancient equivalent of saying ‘serviette’ rather than ‘napkin’. The loss of status was intolerable. If this was the word of God, then God seemed to speak with a distinctly common accent.

And this society had an acute ear for accents. Augustine grew up knowing that grammatical error was more frowned on than moral error and that one might be more despised for saying ‘’uman being’ than one would for being the sort of human being who judged another on his accent. Aitches in Latin, as in Victorian England (and indeed modern Britain), were often a giveaway of class, and the ability to know where to put them was the mark of a gentleman. The upper-class Catullus had sneered mercilessly at a man who, anxious to sound more aristocratic than he was, managed to misplace his. In this aspirational world the language of the Bible was deeply embarrassing.

Augustine, well aware of this, launched into a defence of the Bible’s register: what did it matter, he asked hotly, if one used the wrong word or the incorrect grammatical case? Everyone understood what was being said anyway, whatever words or cases it was said with. What did it matter, when you were beseeching God to pardon your sins ‘whether the word ignoscere (to pardon) should be pronounced with the third syllable long or short’? God might pardon such grammatical sins: Roman aristocrats would not. The simplicity of Christian texts repelled many who might otherwise have considered converting, and shamed many who already had. To convert was, in the words of that telling Augustine phrase, to enter the intellectual world less of a Plato or a Pythagoras than of your concierge. The upper classes simply weren’t going to countenance that; and as long as they stood firm against Christianity then many below them would too. This disdainful elite was, Augustine said, the ‘ramparts of a city that does not believe, a city of denial’.

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Everywhere, Christian intellectuals struggled to fuse together the classical and the Christian. Bishop Ambrose dressed Cicero’s Stoic principles in Christian clothes; while Augustine adapted Roman oratory for Christian ends. The philosophical terms of the Greeks – the ‘logos’ of the Stoics – started to make their way into Christian philosophy.

Not all attempts at assimilation were so successful. One poet rewrote the Gospel of John in the style of a Homeric epic. Another scholar, during the reign of Julian the Apostate – who forbade anyone who didn’t believe in the old gods to teach works such as Homer that contained them – redrafted the entirety of biblical history in twenty-four books of Homeric hexameter and recast the Epistles and the Gospels into the form of Socratic dialogues. Fanciful intellectual genealogies were invented to defend Christianity’s favourite philosophers. Long-dead thinkers who happened to have any resemblances to Christianity in their writings found themselves adopted as unwitting ancestors in the tradition. The whiff of Christianity hung around Plato? Ah, that was because he had visited Egypt and, while there, he had perhaps read a copy of the first five books of the Bible that Moses had, conveniently, left behind. He was, really, one of us. Socrates was a Christian before Christ.

-- Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

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daimonclub · 11 months ago

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Quotes and aphorisms on food

Quotes on food Quotes and aphorisms on food by various and famous authors and writers, ideas and thoughts to a well balanced diet and food philosophy to eat and live better. I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead. Woody Allen We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. Jeff Arder A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. James Beard Unbought feasts. (Lat., Dapes inemptae.) Latin Proverb An anonymous man from the 16th century always used to say: "There are many important things in life, the first is eating, I don't know the others." Carl William Brown Hunger is a good cook. Author Unknown Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. Alice May Brock Eating is touch carried to the bitter end. Samuel Butler One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. John Barrymore Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. Ludwig Van Beethoven

Aphorisms on food Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight. Yogi Berra Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. Ambrose Bierce The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid, and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. George H. Bush The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. Samuel Butler I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown What most moved him was a certain meal on beans. Robert Browning I just hate health food. Julia Child Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. Shirley Conran Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. Robert Byrne A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. Lord Byron The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. Barbara Cartland

Aphorisms and quotes on food It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears. Cato The Elder For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin. Charles II Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. Marcus T. Cicero Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat. Arthur Winter Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine. Susan Powter Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. Fran Lebowitz Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Fran Lebowitz Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soy beans. Fran Lebowitz More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. John Kenneth Galbraith Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. M.F.K. Fisher Food was always a conduit in our family for storytelling, and it was a way for us to keep in touch and remember things. We're people that use food to keep each other together and to always cheer us up and make all of our days better. Rachel ray My favorite food city is wherever I happen to be eating. You know what they say, love the one you’re with! Pamela Anderson A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it. William Collier The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. Cyril Connolly

Salami Italian typical food To eat is human, to digest divine. Charles T. Copeland Square meals often make round people. Joseph E. Cossman I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people. Rodney Dangerfield Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. Ralph Waldo Emerson When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. Euripides Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. Cliff Fadiman Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure. Edna Ferber I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. Totie Fields Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. M. F. K. Fisher Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones. Joseph Epstein I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food. Erma Bombeck Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence. Donald Barthelme He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart. Bible, Psalms The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything. Redd Foxx One should eat to live, not live to eat. Benjamin Franklin More die in the United States from too much food that from too little. John Kenneth Galbraith God comes to the hungry in the form of food. Mahatma Gandhi It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. W. S. Gilbert Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion. Sir Walter Scott Mellow nuts have the hardest rind. Sir Walter Scott

Thoughts on the art of food Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Oscar Wilde We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from. Tom Jaine What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. Lucretius Food is much better off the hand than the fork. Mario Batali You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food. Kurt Vonnegut We need a quarter of the food we eat to live, the rest is used to fatten industrialists, advertisers, doctors and undertakers. (obviously for those dying of hunger the situation changes.) Carl William Brown Food - what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it - is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies. Margaret Visser There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison. Paul Goodman A gourmet is just a glutton with brains. Phillip H. Haberman Jr. As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. Buddy Hackett A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life. Hitopadesa First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. Doug Horton Most of us are either too thin to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking. Edgar Watson Howe A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. Kin Hubbard A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. Samuel Johnson He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. Samuel Johnson He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste. Nikita S. Khrushchev Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet. Harry Kurnitz I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee. Burt Lancaster The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake. Author Unknown

Quotes on food and wine Food is our common ground, a universal experience. James Beard The fact is that this generation - yours, my generation ... we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly. Bono The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. Frances Moore Lappe Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. Fran Lebowitz Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Fran Lebowitz If you're going to America, bring your own food. Fran Lebowitz Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. Fran Lebowitz I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster. Joe E. Lewis If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. Georg C. Lichtenberg Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. Sophia Loren Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them. Tyrius Maximus It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it. Delbert McClinton You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread. Henry Miller Never eat more than you can lift. Miss Piggy We are digging our graves with our teeth. Thomas Moffett Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. Charles De Montesquieu No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. Christopher Morley You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Hector Hugh Munro He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. Hebrew Proverb There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder. New England Proverb

Vegetarian food pyramid Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot. Anthony Robbins We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness. Susie Orbach We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. George Orwell Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. Samuel Pepys Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food. Peace Pilgrim He who eats alone chokes alone. Arabian Proverb It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all. Catalan Proverb Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork. English Proverb A good meal ought to begin with hunger. French Proverb Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have. French Proverb There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette. French Proverb Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. Turkish Proverb When one has tasted it he knows what the angels eat. Mark Twain He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. Saadi I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also. Henry David Thoreau There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. George Santayana To eat is to appropriate by destruction. Jean-Paul Sartre Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. Elsa Schiaparelli He jests at scars that never felt a wound. William Shakespeare There is no love sincerer than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw

Ideas and quotes on food Seven's a banquet nine a brawl. Author Unknown Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. Gloria Steinem Lunch is for wimps. Oliver Stone Man shall not live by bread alone. The Holy Bible Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite. The Holy Bible Much meat, much disease. Author Unknown Fang drops so much food on his ties we keep them in the refrigerator. Phyllis Diller Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup. Dogen A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast. Izaak Walton Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. Lin Yutang Find out more visiting these links: Good food for your diet (With Videos) Vegetarian food diets (With Videos) Thoughts and reflections on food Aforismi e citazioni sul cibo International and Italian recipes Enogastronomia e turismo Italian recipes, fashion and travels https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/easy https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes http://allrecipes.com/recipes/1947/everyday-cooking/quick-and-easy/ http://www.sjana.com/blogs/lifestyle/food-for-the-soul Cooking traditions in Lombardy, Italy Read the full article

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wtfgaylittlezooid · 1 year ago

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Besides your MLP au, what other kind of crossovers you think would be cool for tftgs? I like to do this thing while reading it where I imagine characters from some other thing I like in the place of the cast when I thought it fit.

I like to think of a fnaf crossover with it a lot. Like after the events of FNaF 6, Michael lives out of spite and is determined to live a normal life as a final fuck you to William. So he moves far away and tries to find a job.

The only problem, hiding the corpse thing is difficult. He tends to go by the alias "John Doe" for his own amusement, and wears a cheap white mask for a prosthetic. Because, he could only get a job in the gas station and ends up taking Calvin Ambrose's role due to his management experience.

I also like to think Jeremy and Phone Guy work there too, since both are disabled (jeremy is paralzyed and has lots of brain damage from the bite, and PG is blind) but need the extra money since neither can afford caretakers and extra stuff. Its complete coincidence

#tftgs #fnaf

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crispyblonde · 4 days ago

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Jess’s mother is the CEO of Lifeline Contracting, a company that has a variety of physicians for any company's contracting needs, particularly jobs that hold a lot of danger to ensure that medical care is started immediately. Her grandfather started the company and Clarissa has put a lot of work into it to expand it alongside her husband Kyle. Growing up, Jessica felt a lot of pressure to meet her parents expectations. Being a top doctor in their company was the only option she had ever seen for herself and she was punished from a young age for bringing any grades home that weren’t perfection, even if they were As because they could have been better. All of her free time was spent studying and at church, as her mother is a devout catholic and made sure her children were too. Volunteering and charity galas filled nearly every weekend and Jessica really can’t remember a time where the company was not thriving.

When Huntercorp started to gain traction, Clarissa Moore saw opportunity for another company to have a large contract with. As a result, a hesitant John WInchester allowed Jessica to be sent on a mission with Sam and Dean Winchester to prove the handiness of having a trained doctor with aggressive wound care and surgical training there to start early intervention on hunting related injuries. Her first case alongside the Winchesters led to her early intervention proving its usefulness with a brutal attack significantly injuring Sam Winchester. The younger Winchester found himself rather smitten with her, but his interest wasn't quite enough to get John Winchester to budge on the kind of money Clarissa was asking for and the added expenses of training the contracted doctors within his own company. Jessica's father Kyle saw that the youngest Winchester son had been texting her when John expressed his hesitancy on agreeing to the deal despite what happened on Jessica's ride along.

To solidify the connection of Huntercorp and Lifeline Contracting, and as a sign of good faith for what would become future conglomeration of the two companies, Jessica Moore and Sam Winchester are set to be married at the suggestion of Kyle Moore. A mutually beneficial agreement was finalized and Huntercorp paid the set-up costs of their contract. Nurses and doctors that are paid by Lifeline Contracting, but are trained as agents in Huntercorp. They have to prove they can take care of themselves during hunts because they are there on the scene to bridge the gap of care between an on the job injury and the hospital. Helping with the monster killing part isn’t their primary function, but they are all trained to assist as getting results is the most important part of a job and an extra set of eyes is never a bad thing.

While Jessica was a little iffy on the concept of arranged marriage, and pretty upset that her parents seemed to think she was nothing more than a bargaining chip, she finds Sam to be an absolute dreamboat. She falls in love with him almost instantly. She is a well-mannered, gracious woman with a brilliant mind and can't imagine her life not meaning something. She couldn't live a life where she doesn't help save others. While she can be a bit on the shy side, she is not afraid to comment on those behaving inappropriately, especially when it comes to sexual promiscuity and forbidden office relationships. Particularly, she is pretty vocal about Heidi and Mick, as the two do not even try to hide their relationship as it goes on and the blatant office affair with semi-public sex is downright despicable to her.

Jessica is very keen on keeping Huntercorp’s reputation clean. Cameron Ambrose acts as her mole for office gossip to ensure that nobody is behaving in any way that will get themselves or others killed or put the company in a bad light. Some of the agents that she has tattled on to Sam do not like her, but she sees this only as veiled guilt for their actions. At some point before their big, extravagant wedding, Sam is able to convince her to have sex. Turns out? She loves it! And it becomes a pretty regular thing for them after they had avoided acting on the growing, palpable sexual tension between them. It is pretty noticeable around the office that she’s a lot less uptight and judgmental from this point further.

#╰» 「 ✞ 」 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼. ┊ calculated betrothal

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avidreader1234 · 11 days ago

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Headcanon time for the christianity au

Seek (or Silas)

-Dating Figure and met Figure when studying under his uncle (who's also blind and unable to see that he's a monster)

-Despise himself because he cannot save more Screeches because the other Seek (Black Lucifer) corrupts them and in this AU Screeches are Preteen Giggles (Basically imagine a 9-11 year old covered in black boils and in agony)

-Can sing and play music; I headcanon most game soundtracks were written by him. In my au, once, Figure's uncle and him are both arrested. Seek ended up singing for so long he had a sore throat but he pleased the guards so they let them escape.

-Knew Timothy, Snare and Hide. Thinks Snare is gay for Hide and Hide is gay for Snare in return and doesn't say a thing.

-Used to have 2 eyes before an accident.

Ambush headcanons (Ambrose)

-Called a saint by Halt once.

-Full name is Ambrose Matteo Bush, and used their initials 'A.M.Bush' on most papers.

-Likes a specific Screech and talks to it often.

-Rush's great cousin.

Halt headcanons (Hazael)

-Can military march

-Learned ancient Hebrew and Assyrian for fun.

-Ambush's best friend.

-Knows Guiding and on good terms with them. They swear one time Guiding called herself 'Grace' or 'Gloria'.

-Has a long iron staff to beat the players with.

Eyes headcanon

-Hates Dupe with a passion.

-Fought Dupe once and lost.

-Was a Ophanim. Banishment reason unknown.

-Doesn't know Lucifer.

-Cusses in ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Latin

-Will punch Dupe.

-Once helped Dupe matchmake with Dread

-Calls themselves 'Emmett Xes'

Rush Headcanons (Reuben)

-Learned to speak German

-WW2 fucked him up badly...

-Doed in 1941. Is a poltergeist now.

-Used to be a marathon runner.

-Likes to pretend Dupe is his dad for fun.

-Great uncle of Ambush

Dupe Headcanons (Jacob)

-Picked up the nickname 'Dupe' after duping their neighbors into buying shitty doors.

-Jacob in Bible mythology also means Dupe.

-Dated Abyss

-Is now dating Dread

-Fought Eyes but broke his leg. Leg never healed properly.

-Eyes and Seek hates him so he hides behind fake doors. However, Rush has a feud with Dupe so they intentionally pull the door plates off.

-Has a twin named Harry. Called themselves 'Hairy' and 'Ankle'(Jacob also means ankle)

A-90 and A-120 HCs (respectively named Isaac and John)

-A-90 dislikes old men/anyone named Abram or Abraham. A-120 claims is because of his shitty dad though no one talks about it.

-A-90 has a stop sign that his friend Rebecca(A-60) gave him. He treasures it very much.

-A-90 was nearly ritually sacrificed by his father.

-A-120 prefers being called John

-John tells stories to the ROOMS gang.

-John is 24 years old in 2024.

-John has a dead older brother.

-John occasionally pretends to have written the Bible. Before CL smacks them, that is.

-Speaks Greek, Latin and Italian.

#doors #doors seek #doors ambush #doors eyes #doors halt #doors rush #Christianity au #doors dupe #doors figure #doors headcanons #doors a 120 #doors a 90

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nevereverafter45 · 10 months ago

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I am so sorry about the wait with some of the stories updates, I am slowly getting back into wrestling and started writing my WWE stories again. I will be hopefully posting some new stuff soon.

#ash writes #wwe fan fiction #wwe imagines #john cena fan fiction #john cena imagines #dean ambrose fan fiction #dean ambrose imagines #roman reigns fan fiction #roman reigns imagines #seth rollins imagines #seth rollins fan fiction #jeff hardy fan fiction #jeff hardy imagines

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glapplebloom · 2 months ago

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Rumble implications months ahead of the actual event.

The Royal Rumble is one of the most fun events. The statistics of how long you last or how many you eliminate. The story of a low number making it to the end or a superstar wanting to main event Wrestlemania. The interactions you may not normally see and the possible beginning and ends of storyline feuds. But one of the neat things are the surprise entrants.

The Surprise Entrants can be many things. An injured wrestler coming back. A former employee returning for either one night or making their return. A retired wrestler making one last appearance. And recently, specifically with the Women’s Royal Rumble, the Forbidden Door opened with a TNA Wrestler making an appearance. So what if the Forbidden Door next year has AEW wrestlers make an appearance.

I doubt it considering how much AEW have bad mouthed the WWE at times but you never know. So which AEW Superstar would be cool to see in the event? So here are my 5 choices.

0 - Former WWE Superstars

Let’s face it, the easiest won’t really be as big for AEW as it would for WWE. Most people already know them from their time in WWE. So having Edge, Bryan Danielson or John Moxley (Dean Ambrose) show up would definitely get a pop. But it wouldn’t be a pop because they’re from AEW. It would be a pop because they came back to WWE. So I’m focusing on those who made themselves in AEW and have relatively no WWE appearances.

0 - Names made in other companies

Same reason as above, though I know most would probably associate them with AEW. Kenny Omega, the Young Bucks, Ospreay, they definitely made their names outside of AEW. And it would be super easy to make a list with them included. Basically, their AEW appearances have to dwarf their appearances elsewhere to be part of this list.

1 - MJF

I don’t think many would argue MJF is the biggest star AEW has made. And I bet you could argue he is their biggest star in AEW period. So I can imagine the pop he would get being an AEW star in a WWE ring. When it comes to WWE, MJF’s only appearance (as far as I know) was as a security guard for Samoa Joe. That was played for a feud the two of them had in AEW. So making his first (and possibly only) WWE appearance like this would definitely be a big deal.

2 - Darby Allin

World Wrestling Network, EVOLVE Wrestling, Northeast Wrestling, AAW: Professional Wrestling Redefined. Combine all the matches he had in these promotions and it would still be less than his time in AEW. So if anyone deserves to be considered a pillar it's definitely him. And considering how willing he is to do certain things, I can see him being down to do a killer elimination if he was in. They would definitely pop.

3 - Wardlow

If there is one AEW Wrestler who would fit the WWE mold, it would be Wardlow. His storyline with MJF was star-making and a big guy like him would always be impressive. Shame he probably isn’t as big of a star as he could be considering how they handled his title reign, his rehashing teaming up with Adam Cole and now injuries. But if anything can make him look like a big star again it would be a Rumble appearance with a good number of eliminations.

4 - Britt Baker

She had 3 WWE matches, but as a jobber for others. I’m pretty sure you can add up all her other wrestling appearances and can’t come close to AEW. She is definitely their best known Homegrown Female Talent outside Jade (who is now in the WWE), so her making an appearance would be pretty cool to see. Others I wish I could put on this list among the women are like Toni Storm or Willow Nightingale but they definitely made themselves outside of AEW.

5 - Jack Perry

There’s only one reason: Brawl Out 2024. The incident that had AEW fire CM Punk. If they had someone who could keep Punk on a leash like they likely do in WWE, this could have been big money. You’re seeing it now with Drew McIntyre. If they intend on making Perry a bigger star, showing up in a WWE Royal Rumble to reignite that feud in a controlled environment would be great.

And that’s my list. Who do you think would be a good showcase of AEW to a WWE Audience?

#other

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thedalatribune · 1 year ago

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Saint John Baptiste (Saint John the Baptist) Leonardo da Vinci (1508-1519) Louvre (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)

What Is Art?

We have long resisted offering any definition of art... In my mind, Ambrose Bierce was really into something when he offered his entry in his 1906 Devil's Dictionary:

"Art, n. This word has no definition."

It's not that there aren't plenty of definitions out there, it's just that I find them lacking in some way, or incomplete, or so watered down that they're meaningless. Take Oxford's (n. d.):

"The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically, in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power."

Wait, human creative skill? Do we really want to say other animals are incapable of making art? And there are definitely artworks that I appreciate for neither their beauty nor their emotional power... To me, saying how you are supposed to respond confines the experience.

But is it impossible to define art? Or worthwhile to even try?

For a while now, I've been gathering quotes about art from a range of writers and artists throughout history. I'm going to share some of these with you in the hope that we might gain some understanding of this nebulous idea called art, or that you might find a definition that resonates for you.

I tend to be a fan of the ones that are intentionally enigmatic, like James Baldwin's (The Creative Process, 1962):

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been concealed by the answers."

I like that it leaves the boundaries really wide. Like for me the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers confine art too much, like Seneca (Moral Letters to Lucilius, 65 BC) who said:

"All art is but imitation of Nature."

Which he could maybe get away with saying about the art of his time, but just doesn't hold up for me now... Aristotle (Physics, 350 BC) set his terms in a little more broadly when he said:

"Art completes what nature cannot bring to a finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends."

Which I like for its proposal that art does something nature alone does not. That art works form nature and extends it outward. Because, let's face it, if there's a competition between the power of art and nature... I'm sorry art, it's just not really a contest.

I'm reminded of a quote attributed to March Chagall (1887 - 1985):

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding."

But of course not all art is trying to compete with the beauty of flowers, nor simply reproduce what's already around us. As Paul Klee (Creative Creedo, 1920) stated succinctly:

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes it visible."

Put another way by Bertold Brecht (1898 - 1956):

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."

It's the world-building aspect of art that many of us greatly enjoy... any other work whose new reality compels you, be it realistic or completely abstract. Artists have put forward objects and experiences that are unlikely anything naturally occurring in the world.

I like Chinua Achebe's (Truth of Fiction, 1990) description of art:

"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from which is given to him."

Because art after all, is not just a transporting device for those who experience it, but for its maker as well.

Twyla Tharp (n. d.) wryly observed that:

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

In the delightfully titled Vague Thoughts on Art from 1911, John Galsworthy explains it this way:

"What is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves, And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement."

And that brings us to my favorite explanations of art, which is focused on this idea of art as a means of exchange. John Dewey (Art as Experience, 1934) wrote extensively about this, calling art:

"...the most effective mode of communications that exists. The actual work of art is what the product does with and in experience."

This for me is what art is all about. An astoundingly skillful painting is great and all, but for me it becomes fully what it is by being taken in by others. And I don't even mean human others, I think even penguins count! In the words of James Turrell (Harper's Bazaar, 2013):

"Art is a completed pass. You don't just throw it out into the world - someone has to catch it."

Through art we have the remarkable opportunity to step into the shoes of someone else for a while, to see it as they see it, or want to see it. And in that process we discover things about our own lives and worlds. As Thomas Merton (No Man is an Island, 1955) once said:

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

Louise Bourgeois (Bourgeoism, 1988) phrased it another way:

"Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern."

For me this means that not only can an artist recognize themselves in making the thing, but the appreciator can find some aspect of themselves in their experience of the thing. Even in art work that is centuries old can be made modern in the way it is recognized and understood in the present. And that brings us to one of the most famous aphorisms of all time:

"Art is long, life is short."

Or its Latin Translation from the Original Greek (460 BC - 370 BC):

"Ars longa, vita brevis."

Now in its original context it's often thought to mean that life is short and technique or craft can take a long time to perfect. But it's most often invoked to say that art can last longer than the artist. And art is usually designed or at least hoped to have a live independent of the artist.

I like the way Kerry James Marshall (NPR News, 2017) described his own aims in making:

"What you're trying to create is a certain kind of an indispensable presence where your position in the narrative is not contingent on whether somebody likes you, or somebody knows you, or somebody's a friend, or somebody's being generous to you."

Like there's this hope that any person's art "works" without them being there to talk about it or promote it or explain it. Gerhard Ritchter (Document 7, Volume 1, 1982) once described art as:

"... the highest form of hope."

And it is indeed an act of extreme optimism and even vulnerability to create things that we admit we want to outlast us. I like how William Faulkner (Paris Review, 1956) once explained this aspiration:

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial mean and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

This is exactly how I feel when reading a book or looking at art or listening to music from the past, thrown immediately and viscerally into a time and perspective different from my own but no less real. Through art, I recognize the humanity of countless other beings I'll never meet. [Friedrich] Nietzsche (The Will to Power, 1901) said:

"Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, the deification of existence."

Art tells me that other people really exist and existed in the past, which I know rationally, but only feel through art. For me, also embodied on that statement is the way art can function for the artist as well. I, in making something, affirm my own presence in the world.

There are many ways art perform this win-win function, serving both the artist and the appreciator. Sarah Sze (New York Times, 2013) described art as:

"...sustenance."

And it is sustenance for both artist and audience. Dorothea Tanning (Salon, 2002) said:

"Art has always been the raft on to which we climb to save our sanity."

And that is also true for both artist and audience.

I think too about this 1968 remark by Anni Albers (Interview in the Archives of American Art):

"I have this very what you call today 'square' idea that art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness..."

which brings us to another aspect of art, a big one: art as expression, and an outing of what is inside you. Dorothy Parker (Coda, 1927) once described art as:

"...a form of catharsis,"

or the releasing of emotions that yields some form of relief. Now this can be a gentle kind of thing, like when Henry Ward Beecher (Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887) wrote:

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his picture."

George Baselitz (Interview with Martin Grayford in the Telegraphy, 2007) said:

"Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption..."

which feels about right when you look art Baselitz's work and also the work of many of his so-called expressive painters. I thing we tend to associate "expression" with BIG FEELING, but it really just depends on who is doing the expression and what is being expressed. "What is art", Edvard Munch (Edvard Munch: The Man and His Art, 1977) asked.

"Art grows out of grief, but mainly grief. It is born of people's lives."

...this is another of art's remarkable capacities, to bend and adapt to the whims and wills of its maker. The artist Christo (Flash Art, 1990) once said:

"The work of art is a scream of freedom."

And I love that for Christo and his collaborator Jeanne Claude, that was expressed not through a literal scream or hectic jabs of paint, but through such breathtaking installations... And a work of art isn't always an "expression" per se, sometimes it's the articulation of an idea not necessarily born of emotions. Ralph Waldo Emerson (Society and Solitude, 1870) described art as:

"The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end is art."

And that's why, for Joseph Beuys (Artforum, 1969):

"Even the act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act."

Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (Art and its Significance, 1994) explained to us how:

" Ideas alone can be works of art... All Ideas need not to be made physical... A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind and to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind."

...which reminds me of two other statements on art. One from Ed Ruscha (Ed Ruscha, 2003):

"Art has to be something that makes you scratch your head."

And another from Marshall McLuhan (Understanding Media: The Extensions of a Man, 1964):

"Art is any thing you can get away with."

And art is indeed challenging at times. It is now, and it has been throughout history, ut that seems to be baked into the concept. Francis Ford Coppola (Interview in 99u, 2011) explained:

"An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before."

And again, that's risk for both the artist and those experiencing the art. You have to take the risk along the artist to find that new remarkable thing. And art is powerful, even though it's made up, it can and has shaped my consciousness and changed my mind about things.

There are many quotes about the relationship between art and truth , like [Pablo] Picasso's (Picasso on Art, 1972):

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."

...and Theodor Adorno's (Minima Morlia, 1951):

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."

...but my favorite of these is Wangechi Mutu's (33 Artists in 3 Acts, 2014):

"Art allows you to imbue the truth with a sort of magic, so it can infiltrate the psyches of more people, including those who don't believe the same things as you."

Empires and governments have understood the power of art and used it to varying ends. But the power of art is also wielded by individuals, and collaborating groups of individuals, and that's part of what makes it such a compelling and fulfilling activity to engage in. Both the making of it, and the experiencing of it - alone and together in groups.

It's hard to pin down this thing we call art because it is always changing. As a concept, art is a slippery and flexible and ephemeral, used to describe an enormous range of activities and objects and experiences. In Elbert Hubbard's (Little Journeys to Homes of Great Teachers, 1908):

"Art is not a thing, it is a way."

It's the open-ended, elastic definitions of art that get the closest to me to describing what it really is. [Marcel] Duchamp (Eros C'Est La Vie, 1975) once offered this one:

"What art is, in reality, is the missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap."

I love that gap! For me, that's where the magic happens. It's that space between the art and the appreciator, the artist and the art. It's the gap between my response to a work of art and your response to it. It's the air between all of us all as we make meaning out of the world around us.

I don't think we need a definition of art, but if we did, would think it would be all of these definitions, and all of the many others not included here. And then the challenge is to hold all of them all in our heads at the same time without deciding on any one of them because each of us decides what this thing is called art. This way, art can continue to shift and expand and cater to the needs of those who feel compelled to make it, whatever it is.

Deciding once and for all what art is would exclude those who came along and want to push in a new direction. It would limit what's possible now, and moving forward. It should be an open and evolving concept capable of holding your definition of art along with everyone else's. But I do have to warn you, you have to be careful because [according to Marcel Duchamp (Ritcher, Dada: Art and Anti-Art; 1964):

"Art is a habit forming drug."

What is art for you?

Sarah Urist Green The Definition of Art

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Jealousy| John Ambrose

A/N: I wrote this only because I loved that piano scene and my boy John deserved way better.

Warning(s): strong language, kissing (if that counts as a warning)

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You watched them talk from a distance, putting away the dried-out plants in the useless pile, you signed in defeat. Lara was your best friend, you, her and Josh grew up together, the three of you were the ultimate trio. You loved her with all your heart but at that moment, you couldn’t help yourself to stop the fire of jealously that rose in your chest. Or that could’ve just been the tacos you ate for lunch.

You had never told Lara about the mini crush you had on John. To be completely honest, you had almost forgotten about him. Almost gotten over him but after seeing him for the first time in years in Belleview, all those feelings came back. If it was even possible, he had gotten more charming over the years. Every interaction you had with him after that day screamed you to get away. The devil, or angel, you couldn’t figure out who, but one of them always screamed to end your feelings, that in the end, he was just going to break your heart…like everyone else. These voices started after the first day of interacting with him. When Lara feel down by the mini gumballs, he came to help her up. He seemed to remember her but when it came to you, his words, which are glued in your brain, “and you are?” It wasn’t that he was being rude, in fact he tried to say it in the sweetest way he possibly could, with that signature smile on his face, it turned to shock in seconds when you told him your name. Thankfully he did remember you.

Your eyes were still glued to them, seeing their interaction as he walked over to grab an envelope, ‘must have been Lara Jean’s love letter’ you thought as he placed it in her hands. Lara took the letter from his hands, walking out as you saw John smiling.

“um a little help please” you said quietly. John turned his head, facing you as he quickly nodded his head, “yeah sorry” he added, making his way over to grab more of the plants that had died.

It had been a few minutes of you two working quietly, Lara had still not gotten back and to be honest, you weren’t the best conversation starter. “so y/n” John started, carrying a few boxes and placing it in the donation pile.

“yes John”

Though you didn’t notice, he blushed slightly, hearing you say his name. Letting out a light cough, he continued, “your very different then when I last remember you”

“really…how so?” you asked, turning to face him.

“well for one, your gorgeous” he answered, smiling lightly. You playfully shoved him, both of you laughing in the process, “I’m serious, you are seriously stunning, like y-you have always been stunning but now looking at you, you’ve gotten even more stunning…”

Blushing at his words, you chuckled when you noticed he couldn’t stop blabbering. “I think we should get some work done,” you said as he nodded, agreeing with you. “and then you can tell me how stunning I am” you teased as he threw a dirty rag at you.

A few weeks volunteering, you had grew closer to John. Though you would always feel overshadowed by Lara. There were times when it felt as if he’d forget you were in the same room when she was around. You signed as you looked around the party you were in. You were standing by the corner of the room, Chris was by the stairs with Trevor, Lara was talking to Lucas and you didn’t feel like intruding. Chris had forced you to come to the party, otherwise you would’ve been in your comfy bed, watching your favourite show.

A few minutes passed when you noticed Lara finally leaving Lucas’s side. Giving you the opportunity to finally go over and find someone to talk to. Don’t get me wrong, you and Lara were best friends, but sometimes you knew when she needed her own space.

“hey Lucas” you smiled as you leaned against the counter, mimicking him.

“hey girl” he replies, turning his head to the side to face you. “what’s up? How come you didn’t join us?”

You knew what he was talking about, you smile lightly faded and you forced it upon yourself, in hopes that he wouldn’t have noticed. But you were wrong. “I guess I just..didn’t wanna intrude” you whisper so only he would hear. Though the music in the background made it slightly difficult.

Lucas rolled his eyes, “didn’t wanna intrude, seriously?”

You stayed quite, “okay, spill” he says firmly, making you turn your head to face him. About to question, you knew if you could tell anyone about your problem, it was Lucas.

Letting out a breathe you didn’t realize you were holding, you start talking, “I like John”

Lucas raises an eyebrow, “John?” he questions.

“John Ambrose McClaren” you finished.

Lucas chokes on the ice cream sandwich he was eating. “you like McClaren” he gasps dramatically.

It was your turn to roll your eyes. “yes I like him. I always did since middle school.”

“Does Lara Jean know?”

“no, I never told her.” You start playing with your hands, unable to continue the conversation.

“why not, if you liked him since middle scho-”

“I didn’t want to ruin our friendship. She and Gen broke off cause of a boy and I didn’t want the same thing to happen to us, so I never told her.”

“And you think she won’t find out”

You completely ignore his statement and continue rambling, “you know, sometimes when it’s just me and him, he makes me feel like I’m the most beautiful girl he knows. And then when Lara comes along, it’s like he forgot I even existed. I don’t want to hate her, I really don’t but he makes it so difficult every time I see him with her. I wish he talked to me the way he talks to her. I wish he would see me the way I see him.”

You place your head on the counter in defeat. You feel Lucas hand on your shoulder, rubbing it in comfort. “I’m sorry, I really don’t know what to tell you. All I know is, you’ve got to tell Lara the truth. Before she finds out another way”

You nod your head, knowing he was right. “too late” you hear a faint whisper, causing both you and Lucas to turn around. You see Lara standing there, shook. She turns her heal, jogging her way to the door.

“Lara please just listen to me” you shout, following her track.

“Listen to what, how you lied to me. All these years you lied to me.” Lara tried to turn back but you didn’t let her, “I didn’t want to lose you. Especially not over a boy. He wasn’t as nearly as important to me then our friendship”

You notice Lara let out a tear with your words. “You know I would’ve never been angry, I wouldn’t have ever let our friendship go over a reason like that.”

You nodded your head, feeling ashamed you lied to your friend all these years. “do you still like him?” she asks, to which you simply nod your head. “do you?” you ask.

The question causes her to look up at you instantly. “no, of course not. I love Peter”

“Whose ever idea it was to invite everyone to dig up the time capsule, is-“ your voice trailed off as Lara gave you a death glare, to which you immediately changed your answer, “is a genius, I mean everyone back after years right?”

“I have to agree, get idea Lara Jean” John comments, smiling at her.

You frowned as your gaze fell on Peter also carried the same jealous expression as you. Not even two minutes later, everyone including Gen had shown up. You all were now sitting in the treehouse, in a circle, opening the time capsule. One by one, everyone started collecting their items they put in the capsule. Chris finally took out a little black book and your eyes turned to horror as you jogged to grab it. Placing your head in your hands, you cringed at your younger self. “what is it?” Lara questioned.

“it’s a little book of poems I used to write”

Everyone laughed as you started reading some in your head, “that’s really cute” John says.

You smile, blushing at his words. You lift your gaze up and your heart shatters, realizing he wasn’t talking to you but Lara. Guess you were too lost in your book that you didn’t hear the conversation that was talking place. Unable to top the tears that built up in your eyes, you decided that was your cue to leave.

Quickly wiping your eyes before anyone noticed, which failed because Gen had her eyes focused on you. You stood up, grabbing your belongings and quickly making your way down.

“y/n, where’re you going?” John asks as you started making your way down the stairs.

“leaving” you reply quietly, as you hear a few other people agreeing with you, stating it was their time to leave as well.

You started speed walking to your car, mentally noting that Lara could go with Peter and you really couldn’t stay another minute with John in the same room. The tears that you had wiped off started coming back, and all you could do was continue to wipe them off.

“y/n wait, just stop” John cries behind you. The voice only caused your feet to stride faster.

Just a few steps away from your car, you were stopped by a gentle touch on your wrist. Knowing who it was, you didn’t want to turn around or let him see you cry. Wiping the tears with your other hand, you turned around aggressively, which seemed to surprise him. Probably because you have never been that aggressive with anyone, especially not towards him.

But the anger and hurt that you felt all these weeks, just started building up and today was your breaking point. “are you okay?” he asks with hesitation in his voice, trying to gather the right words.

“no John, I’m not okay. And right now I just need you to leave me alone” You had never meant to shout but him constantly trying to get you to talk was getting on your nerves.

“I don’t understand what the problem is. I mean did I do something wrong, cause everything was fine a few minutes ago.”

You cursed in your head at how oblivious he is. Why can’t he see the undeniable feeling of jealousy you have right now.

“yes, its you, okay. You’re the problem, you’ve always been the problem. And I try so hard to ignore it but you make it so goddamn difficult. Just leave me alone” and with that, you hop in your car, driving off. Leaving John just standing there, incredibly confused.

The next day, you were supposed to volunteer at Belleview and as much as you didn’t want to go, especially since Lara wasn’t coming today. You forced yourself to go. You were in the basement, clearing up the last junk you had found. It was peaceful but was blessed by the beautiful sound of a piano. Signing loudly, you knew who was playing it.

A few moments of war just inside your head, whether or not you should go there, you decided you had to.

Making your way quietly towards the sound, you stood behind him, his back was facing you as he sat on the stool, his fingers carefully falling on the keys perfectly. You just stood there and admired him when he seemed to acknowledge your presence, his fingers continued to play as he spoke his next words, “you have quiet the ability to remain sneakily silent”

“I didn’t know you still played” you answer.

“I never stopped” he whispers, turning his head, signalling you to sit beside him. Carefully making your way, you sat beside him as he moved slightly, giving you space.

“I used to love playing” you say, remembering how much fun you had playing the piano.

“why did you stop” he asks, your gaze falling to his hands, that never stopped hitting the keys.

You opened your mouth, with a little hesitation though continued, “I guess after you left, my passion for playing left too. You were kind of my inspiration”

He smiled, blushing slightly as he gently grabbed your hands. Guiding to a few keys, he showed which keys to play. In a matter of seconds, you started playing the notes he taught you, following your pace as he started playing as well.

“remember in middle school. At lunch, we used to hang around the music room and I would show you how to play”

You laughed, “of course I remember. You were the only reason I started playing in the first place.”

He smiled facing you as you stared back, your heartbeat raising just by the look he gave you. “I’m sorry” You confess, your gaze returning to the fingers that played on the keys of the piano.

“for what, exactly?” John absently asks, pushing the keys of the piano. The sound echoing through the room.

“for shouting at you yesterday. I let my emotions get the best of me.” You admit, flustered as you thought back to your behaviour the previous day.

Meeting your gaze, he lets out a sign as he stopped playing. “I’m not going to lie, it hurt.” His hands fell on his lap, while his gaze dropped to the keys in front of him. “But most of all, I don’t understand what I did wrong?”

You closed your eyes, letting out a breath as you replayed the scene over your head. You let your jealously get the best of you, causing you to react in a way. You were unsure how you were going to explain that to John.

“I got jealous” you whisper in hopes he didn’t hear you.

“Jealous of what?” You watched his eyebrows furrow in confusion. Surely this was going to be new news to him.

Signing once more, your head fell to your lap, playing with your hands as you figure out your next words, “of you and Lara.”

“I’m sorry y/n but I don’t understand why you would be jealous o-“

“I guess I wanted you to act the same way you do around her, to me”

He was silent, and you understood that he still had not figured what you were talking about. “I like you” you express quickly, feeling the huge weight leave your shoulders.

“I like you too, y/n?”

You chuckle in pain as you hear the confusion in his voice. You finally lift your gaze off your lap to his, that were already watching you.

A few seconds, you watched his face turn into realization, “oh-“ he replied, his gaze falling to everything in the room except you.

Considering that as your cue to leave, you got off the stool, turning to leave. Your feet came to a halt as you felt a hand on your wrist. Hearing shuffling behind you, you finally felt his hand leave. His hands fell on your shoulder, turning you around to face him.

Unable to look at him, you looked down in hopes he’d let you go. “look at me” he whispers, “please.”

Your eyes go up, finally landing on his own. ‘If your going to give me a pity excuse and sorry, I really don’t wanna he-“ Your words stop the moment launched his lips onto yours. Your breath hitched in your throat, your brain was unable to process what was happening. And before it got a chance to, he slowly pulled away.

He must have got the wrong interpretation because he was quick to start apologizing, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have-“ You couldn’t stop yourself from grabbing his collar and placing his lips on yours. You felt him smile into the kiss, his hands slowly trailing their way from your shoulder to your waist, gently pulling you closer to him.

Your own hands travelled towards his neck, wrapping them around as you both pulled yourselves dangerously close, if that was even possible. The kiss was slow and passionate, both your lips moved in sync. You felt your heart racing as his hands slid to your hips, pushing you closer against him. You licked his bottom lip for entrance, to which he gladly accepted. Your fingers played with the hairs on the back of his neck, lightly pulling them, causing him to get out a groan. A sound which you instantly fell in love with.

Though you knew you both would’ve continued, you were forced to stop when you hear a cough coming from beside you. Both you and John pulled away instantly. Both of you started fixing yourself, trying to look as presentable as possible as you turned to see who had interrupted.

Stormy stood then with the biggest smile on her face. One where she did not even try to hide. “martini anyone.” She asks, laughing as she made her way back upstairs.

“so…you wanna try that again?” John asks, smiling when he notices you blushing.

And with that, he pulled you in for another kiss.

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