#john r carson

[probably-a-plant-thing]

Doodled some John at different ages because like... I wanna have a point of reference for when I draw Nex older.

I'm pretty sure I've said Johnathan is Nex's dad?? Whatever look at him, he has terrible morals and I love him.

[yomkippur]

the heir: kendall logan roy

"it's fucking lonely. i'm all apart."

my similar but umm very long roman roy post

veniennes, "DOOMED FROM THE BEGINNING"

jamaica kincaid, the autobiography of my mother

katie maria (heavensghost), "it lingers for your whole life"

veniennes, "DOOMED FROM THE BEGINNING"

sophokles tr. anne carson, an oresteia: agamemnon by aiskhylos, elektra by sophokles, orestes by euripides

key ballah, "on fathers"

desireé dallagiacomo, "origin story"

elizabeth lindsey rogers, "questions about the father"

ivan turgenev, first love

george r. r. martin, a storm of swords

stephen adly guirgis, the last days of judas iscariot

eric kripke, supernatural, "in my time of dying"

amatullah bourdon (butchniqabi), "and my father’s love was nothing next to god’s will"

sam fender, "seventeen going under"

john mayer, "in the blood"

salman rushdie, east, west

george r. r. martin, a storm of swords

ocean vuong, "someday i'll love ocean vuong"

[wheel-of-fish]

TODAY, Nov. 6: ONGOING STREAM MARATHON

I'm queuing up a bunch of bootlegs for anyone to drop in and watch whenever! I will be in and out throughout the day myself but will try to update this post with whatever is playing next. There will be no intermissions, and please keep the chat focused on the videos and Phantom only. Thanks! (You can also hide the chat if you don't want to deal with people today!)

Link: https://cytu.be/r/saturdaystreams

Password: totinos

SHOWING HERE:

Noon EST: Stolleboot (fanmade mashup where Jeremy Stolle plays the Phantom, Raoul, Passarino and Piangi)

2:05 p.m. EST: John Owen-Jones, Rachel Barrell, Oliver Thornton (London 2005)

4:10 p.m. EST: Fred Silveira, Giulia Nadruz, Henrique Moretzsohn (São Paulo 2019)

6:25 p.m. EST: Earl Carpenter, Eve Shanu-Wilson, Connor Carson (London 2023)

8:10 p.m. EST: Ted Keegan, Emilie Kouatchou, John Riddle (Broadway 2023)

10:15 p.m. EST: David Shannon, Gina Beck, Simon Bailey (London 2010)

12 a.m. EST (Nov. 7): Norm Lewis, Sierra Boggess, Jeremy Hays (Broadway 2014)

As always, shy anons are welcome. For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ.

[rhaegars-cervix]

Justin Sweet for A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar, 2024 // Dragon & Warrior Princess, John Howe // Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu // Beauty and the Beast, Anonymous (2006) // Euripides (trans. Anne Carson) // A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin // Fran Vegas for Westeros org // Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë // Crimson Peak (2015) // The Unquiet Grave, Irish/English folk song (Abel Korzeniowski ver.)

[highkingpetermagnificent]

25 in 2025

No one's tagged me in this, but it looks fun to me so I wanted to do it. If you want to do it, go for it, and say I tagged you!

All books are from my big pile of books I've bought and haven't read yet, because I really need to get on that. Purple ones were on my 24 in 2024 list that I didn't get to, and green ones were purchases from Independent Bookstore Day 2024 (ideally I'll read them before Independent Bookstore Day 2025, but we shall see.) Some might be both.

In no order, though the first half of the list is fiction and the second half is nonfiction.

The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope

Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson

The Art of Prophecy - Wesley Chu

Lavinia - Ursula K. Le Guin

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett

The Iliad - Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe

She Would Be King - Wayétu Moore

Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot, translated by Eino Friberg

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa

The Peacekeeper - B.L. Blanchard

Sparrows in the Wind - Gail Carson Levine

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States - Samantha Allen

Within the Fairy Castle: Colleen Moore’s Doll House - Terry Ann R. Neff

The Anglo-Saxon World - Kevin Crossley-Holland

Building Anglo-Saxon England - John Blair

Enchanted Wales: Myth and Magic in Welsh Storytelling - Miranda Aldhouse-Green

False, Fleeting, Perjur'd Clarence - Michael Hicks

The Greek Way of Death - Robert Garland

Medieval Women: Voices and Visions - edited by Eleanor Jackson and Julian Harrison

Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War - edited by Claire Breay and Joanna Story

The Contemporary English Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses - edited by Dan Embree and M. Teresa Tavormina

The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses - Philip Haigh

The Nobility of Later Medieval England - K.B. McFarlane

Six Lives: The Story of Henry VIII's Queens - Charlotte Boland

Lots of things on medieval England, but a lot of them are SCA-related. I want to branch out with other history too this year, but these are the books I've already accumulated.

Again, if you want to do this, go for it and say I tagged you!

[uboat53]

Cabinet Endorsements

One thing that's flown a bit below the radar in this election is that former cabinet members haven't been acting like they usually do. Normally, former cabinet members will automatically endorse their former boss for re-election, but Trump's have not been doing that.

This is of particular interest because, while we, the voters, get to see the President give speeches and the like, we don't actually work with him. Presumably a cabinet member is someone who agrees with the president and who the president trusts and who gets to work closely with the president, so their opinion of the president is an important benchmark.

With that in mind, let's take a look at the 44 former cabinet members of the Donald J. Trump administration and the 2 former cabinet members of the Joseph R. Biden administration. I'll put an (E) next to the ones that have endorsed their former boss, an (H) next to the ones who haven't yet, and an (R) next to the ones who have outright refused to do so.

Cabinet Members of the Donald J. Trump Administration (R) VP Mike Pence (H) Sec. State Rex Tillerson (H) Sec. State/CIA Director Mike Pompeo (E) Sec. Treasury Steven Mnuchin (R) Sec. Defense James Mattis (H) Sec. Defense Patrick Shanahan (nominated) (R) Sec. Defense Mark Esper (H) Sec. Defense Christopher Miller (acting) (H) AG Jeff Sessions (R) AG William Barr (H) AG Jeffrey Rosen (acting) (E) Sec. Interior Ryan Zinke (H) Sec. Interior David Bernhardt (H) Sec. Agriculture Sonny Perdue (E) Sec. Commerce Wilbur Ross (H) Sec. Labor Andrew Puzder (nominated) (H) Sec. Labor Alex Acosta (H) Sec. Labor Eugene Scalia (H) Sec. HHS Tom Price (H) Sec. HHS Alex Azar (H) Sec. HHS Pete Gaynor (E) Sec. HUD Ben Carson (H) Sec. Transporation Elaine Chao (H) Sec. Transportation Steven Bradbury (acting) (H) Sec. Energy Rick Perry (H) Sec. Energy Dan Brouillette (H) Sec. Education Besty DeVos (H) Sec. Education Mick Zais (acting) (H) Sec. VA David Shulkin (E) Sec. VA Ronny Jackson (nominated) (H) Sec. VA Robert Wilkie (R) Sec. HS John Kelly (H) Sec. HS Kirstjen Nielsen (H) Sec. HS Chad Wolf (nominated) (E) US Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer (H) DNI Dan Coats (H) DNI John Ratcliffe (H) UN Ambassador Nikki Haley (H) OMB Directory Mick Mulvaney (E) OMB Director Russel Vought (H) CIA Director Gina Haspel (H) EPA Admin. Scott Pruitt (H) EPA Admin. Andrew Wheeler (H) SBA Admin. Linda McMahon (H) SBA Admin. Jovita Caranza

Cabinet Members of the Joseph R. Biden Administration (E) Sec. Labor Marty Walsh (E) OMB Director Neera Tanden (nominated) (H) Office of Science and Tech. Director Eric Lander

The first thing we notice, obviously, is that there are a whole lot more former Trump cabinet members. This is partially because Biden is still in office so his 23 current cabinet members are not counted (it'd be a huge surprise if they didn't endorse him and they probably wouldn't still be working for him if they didn't), but it's also because Trump had way above average turnover for cabinet officials, 19 in the first four years not including the 5 who resigned due to his handling of the 2020 election results (not included because Biden hasn't reached that point in his first term yet), while Biden has had far below average turnover, only 3 so far.

So a lot more people shuffling in and out of the Trump administration, but we also notice a ton more H's than E's there. Heck, there's almost as many R's among Trump's people as there are E's (5 to 7). Meanwhile, Biden's shooting 2 for 3 and the third one hasn't (at least not that I could find) ruled out endorsing him.

Keep in mind, endorsing the nominee of your party is pretty much the bare minimum that any party operative needs to do. Imagine if you applied for a job somewhere, the first question was "do you think this company should be in business", and you answered "no". You probably wouldn't be getting a job there. In other words, refusing to endorse has some big consequences for the people doing it, not just costing them a job in the potential next Republican presidency, but locking them out of the party entirely, and yet a good deal of the people who worked for Trump disliked working with him so much that they're doing it anyways.

As I said, this tends to fly below the radar because it's kind of a formulaic ritual; of course members of the President's party who are closely tied to him are going to endorse him for re-election! That's why you should pay attention now that most of the people who've worked with Trump aren't doing so. It says something, something big.

[sga-owns-my-soul]

Hi) I am happy to present the result of the discussion with @cow-on-a-skateboard your and other people's posts about the headcanons: • About chats: https://www.tumblr.com/inthemiddleofmybackswing/730435963804909568/i-love-this-so-much-also-imagining-a-private-chat?source=share A Russian chat would probably be similar to a Brazilian one. Over time, they would gradually leave there, not understanding the toxic or strange Russian humor.

• John's correspondence with Elizabeth: a casual, funny conversation blah blah blah John's correspondence with Rodney R: A ton of text J: 👍 R: another ton of text J: 👌

• John will find a photo of a lemon somewhere and make a kind of sticker/emoji with it. And then he throws it to Ronon to laugh. And then everyone will have it. Until Rodney freaks out, then they'll delete him. And then they will create a separate chat where they send memes with lemons. • Carson stubbornly does not participate in the chats, despite the fact that he is constantly being invited.

Because he knows that there is either garbage and flood, and he is not interested and does not have time, or medical complaints, but he has enough of them in the workplace. But he has a chat with Elizabeth. Where they support each other and sigh sweetly about everything.

• Why do I think Teyla would like to make memes even though she's not as childish as John or Rodney or Ronon? And she and Ronon have a chat with memes purely about life in Pegasus. To get an emotional release.

Like Russians and Brazilians) But this is just for two aliens, what a private island of their own.

• I liked, from another post, that Zelenka can make moonshine. And he has a chat with those who ordered it. Also, Zelenka is in the Russian chat because he is a Slav and understands all jokes and other things. Sometimes they have heated political and historical battles)

honestly we need more fics and headcanons about a city wide text chain i refuse to believe you put that many nerds and jocks in one place and they don't make some sort of texting system

there's probably ata gene user specific channels or some shit too i bet

i love this concept

[pkmatrix]

The Copyright Statuses of Gorgo, Konga, and Reptilicus

For your edification (and reposted from r/publicdomain on Reddit - Sorry, this is a long one!):

Gorgo, like King Kong, is a character who actually first appears in a tie-in novel published well before the actual movie's release. In this case, the novel was written by Bruce Cassiday (writing under the pen name Carson Bingham) and published by Monarch Books in 1960. You can find the copyright registration for the novel in the 1960 Catalog of Copyright Entries for Books and Pamphlets on Page 1148:

Gorgo, by Carson Bingham, pseud. Based on an original story by Eugene Lourie, screenplay by John Loring & David Hyatt. Monarch Books. Monarch books, MM603) (Monarch movie book) © King Bros. Productions; 11Ju160; A453958.

Interestingly, I checked both the 1960 and 1961 Catalogs but COULDN'T find a registration for the actual movie Gorgo (1961), however I'm pretty certain the movie itself had a proper copyright notice listed on it. I also searched the Catalogs for Periodicals and could not find any copyright registrations for any of the Charlton Comics Gorgo issues.

All of these would have needed to be renewed in the late 1980s or early 1990s, with the most important ones - the June 1960 novel and the 1961 movie - needing to be renewed in 1988 and 1989 respectively. This requires moving over to the post-1978 digital catalog, which is actually searchable. Searching for Gorgo and sorting by date brings up only TWO entries...BOTH for the movie:

Type of Work: Motion Picture Registration Number / Date: PA0000142974 / 1982-06-18 Title: Gorgo / producer, Wilfred Eades ; directed by Eugene Lourie. Imprint: sd., col. ; Publisher Number: 3 film reels (ca. 80 min.) : 16 mm Copyright Claimant: King Brothers, Ltd. Copyright Notice: notice: King Brothers Productions, Ltd. Date of Creation: 1960 Date of Publication: 1961-02-10 Date in Notice: notice: 1960 Authorship on Application: King Brothers Productions, Ltd., employer for hire. Copyright Note: C.O. correspondence. Names: Eades, Wilfred Lourie, Eugene King Brothers Productions, Ltd. King Brothers, Ltd.

And the renewal:

Type of Work: Motion Picture Registration Number / Date: RE0000393467 / 1988-09-11 Renewal registration for: PA0000142974 / 1961-02-10 (in notice: 1960) Title: Gorgo. By King Brothers Productions, Ltd. Copyright Claimant: King Brothers, Ltd. (PWH) Copyright Note: C.O. correspondence. Variant title: Gorgo Names: King Brothers Productions, Ltd. King Brothers, Ltd.

Note how both of these state that they for the movie and date publication as 1961, NOT the novel published in 1960. Also note how the registration number does not match the novel's registration number either.

I can find NO other renewals. Not for the novel, not for any of the comics.

The 1960 novel Gorgo by Bruce Cassiday (writing as Carson Bingham) IS Public Domain. The copyright expired due to non-renewal in 1988.

The 1961 movie Gorgo by Eugene Lourie and released by King Brothers Productions is NOT Public domain. The copyright will expire on January 1, 2057.

All issues of the comic book series Gorgo published by Charlton Comics IS Public Domain. The copyrights expired between 1988 and 1991 due to non-renewal, just BARELY missing the cut off for automatic renewal.

It's a very similar situation with Konga. The tie-in novel by Dudley Dean McGaughey (writing under the pen name "Dean Owen") was published by Monarch Books in 1960. You can find the copyright registration for the novel in the 1960 Catalog of Copyright Entries for Books and Pamphlets on Page 1128:

Konga, by Dean Owen, pseud. Based on an original story and screenplay by Aben Kandel & Herman Cohen. Monarch Books. (Monarch books, MM604) (A Monarch movie book) © Alta Vista Productions, Inc.; 8Aug60; A462440.

There are no registrations filed for the movie or comic books that I can find in the 1960, 1961, or 1962 catalogs.

The movie was released in March 1961 (only a few days apart in the US and UK), seven months after the book.

There were actually three renewals registered for the movie (RE0000443112 and RE0000423860, for LP0000021144, and RE0000412919 for PA0000377525), but none for the novel or comic book.

So, just like Gorgo, the 1960 novel Konga by Dudley Dean McGaughey (writing as Dean Owen) and the comic book series Konga by Charlton Comics ARE public domain.

The movie Konga (1961) is NOT public domain and will enter the public domain in the US on January 1, 2057.

Unlike Gorgo and Kong, I don't think Reptilicus himself is public domain.

I've gone back and forth on this, but here's my latest thinking:

The original Danish film was released on February 20, 1961. I cannot find an American copyright registration for this movie in 1961, but when the URAA went into effect its copyright would've been restored and extended to the full 95 years.

The novelization by Dudley Dean McGaughey (writing as "Dean Owen") was published later in 1961 by Monarch Books. The copyright registration is dated June 6, 1961. This can be found on Page 446 of the 1961 Catalog of Copyright Entries for Books and Pamphlets:

Reptilicus, by Dean Owen, pseud. Monarch Books. (Monarch movie book, MM605) Based on an original story by Sidney Pink. Screenplay by Ib Melchior. © Cinemagic, Inc.; 6Jun61; A506756

I cannot find any renewal registered for the book, so the novelization is public domain.

Reptilicus #1 from Charlton Comics has a cover date of August 1961, which means it was actually published in June 1961. I could not find a copyright registration for it.

The American film - which ISN'T just a dub of the the 1961 movie, but an entirely reshot and re-edited film (they had all the actors re-film every scene again in English, then dubbed over it anyway, and then made significant cuts) - was released some time in late 1962 (can't find an exact date). The copyright registration for the movie can be found on Page 39 of the 1963 Catalog for Motion Pictures and is dated November 21, 1962:

REPTILICUS. Cinemagic. Released by American International Pictures. 81 min., sd., color, 35mm, An Alta Vista Production. Pathecolor. Based on story by Sid Pink. © Cinemagic, Inc.; 21Nov62; LP23589.

The American movie's copyright was renewed on January 8, 1990 (RE0000464900), and the original Danish movie's copyright was renewed by the URAA when that went into effect.

Because the novelization was published several months after the Danish movie's release, the character and story of Reptilicus are NOT public domain. The Danish movie Reptilicus (1961) will enter the public domain in the U.S. on January 1, 2057 and the American movie will enter on January 1, 2058.

Luckily, you have a nice replacement in the character Reptisaurus, another Charlton Comics character whose comics have also lapsed into the public domain. Reptisaurus was originally created because Charlton lost the rights to Reptilicus, so Reptisaurus initially looks just like a red Reptilicus. Later, Reptisaurus graduated to a more unique character design so you get multiple monsters for one! And, frankly, Reptisaurus is a more interesting character anyway - he has a mate, has children, and fights space aliens!

[justinssportscorner]

Elsie Carson-Holt at LGBTQ Nation:

Jessica Norton’s daughter was highly involved at Monarch High School in Florida. She organized and attended prom, spoke at graduation, and even led senior class traditions. However, due to a state ban that prohibits female transgender girls from playing on scholastic sports teams, that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed on the first day of Pride in 2021, the daughter has left school and her mom is now facing termination from her job. Norton’s daughter attended Monarch High School in Broward County Florida, and her mother works as an information specialist at Coconut Creek High School. Last December, Broward County School District began investigating the student allowed to play on Monarch High School’s volleyball team. As a result, several staff members, including the principal of the school, were reassigned to different positions due to “allegations of improper student participation in sports” according to a statement by school district spokesperson John Sullivan.

“I had to find out in a Sun-Sentinel news article that the Professional Standards Committee recommended that I be suspended for 10 days rather than terminated – but I have been in limbo for more than 200 with the hanging threat of termination,” Norton said during the meeting. “I found out, again in a Sun-Sentinel news article on Friday evening, that my termination had been removed from consideration at this Board meeting. The District has yet to notify me or my attorneys of that decision, why it was made, or what will happen next.”

Jessica Norton could be facing termination from her job at Monarch High School in Broward County for letting her trans daughter play girls volleyball despite the fact that SB1028 bars trans girls from girls' sports.

[bookquest2024]

100 Books to Read Before I Die: Quest Order

The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Under The Net by Iris Murdoch

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

A Passage to India by EM Forster

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Ulysses by James Joyce

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Watchmen by Alan Moore

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Money by Martin Amis

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

[probably-a-plant-thing]

They're a ten, but... (Tag game)

tagged by @bluecoolr-main, @the-pinstriped-hood, and @devil-doll13 and probably more people

I did only like... 10 of my lil guys so lemme know if I should do more, ig?

Skulk - They're a ten, but he disappears for days without warning

Marshall: He's a ten, but he's never going to settle down

Matthew: He's a ten, but he's very caught up on the past

Nex: He's a ten, but he's scared of commitment

Catboy: They're a ten, but they post about 85% of their life

Rylan: He's a ten, but he'll run over your pet

Newman: He's a ten, but he won't sleep until he's plagued by visions instead of cords

Sebastian: She's a ten, but she'll wipe out a city with plague for funsies

OMA: It's a ten, but it doesn't understand personal space

John: He's a ten, but he's a cop

tagging @madbadash because she's a bestie and anyone else can do it if they want lol. @ everyone on this bitch.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Doctrines of Grace - Collection of Essays

What the Bible Says About the Doctrines of Grace God's Part and Man's Part in Salvation - John Reisinger The Five Points of Calvinism – R.L. Dabney The Five Points of Calvinism – John Piper The Five Points of Calvinism - WJ Seaton The Reformaed Doctrine of Predestination by Boettner The Reformed Faith – Loraine Boettner The Reformed Faith – B.B. Warfield More Than A Calvinist – John Newton Why Can’t They See This – Tom Nettles A Defense of Calvinism – C.H. Spurgeon Calvinism Fact Sheet - Joel Barnes The Five Points of Calvinism @Monergism More articles like this....

Total Depravity Free Will – A Slave – C.H. Spurgeon Human Inability - Charles Spurgeon Man's Utter Inability to Rescue Himself - Thomas Boston The Doctrine of Total Depravity – Part I – John G Reisinger The Doctrine of Total Depravity – Part II – John G Reisinger Total Depravity – Loraine Boettner Man in His Fallen State – John Newton Decisional Regeneration - James E. Adams The Myth of Free Will - Walter Chantry Captive Hearts, Captive Church - R. C. Sproul More articles like this...

Unconditional Election Chain of Grace – John G. Reisinger The Doctrine of Election – Parts I, II & III – John G. Reisinger Election - B. B. Warfield Election - J. C. Ryle The Argument of Romans 9 – John Piper Who Chose Whom – John F. MacArthur Jr. Who Saves Whom – Michael Horton Unconditional Election - C. H. Spurgeon Election - C. H. Spurgeon Unconditional Election - Loraine Boettner Electing Love - Robert Murray McCheyne More resources like this...

Particular Redemption The Atonement –  Arthur Pink Sufficient for All? - Jim Ellis Death of Death - John Owen Was Anyone Saved at the Cross – James White For Whom Did Christ Die? - C. H. Spurgeon Particular Redemption – C.H. Spurgeon Intro to The Death of Death – J.I. Packer Llimited Atonement - Loraine Boettner Partticular Redemption - Wayne Mack The Love of God and the Intent of the Atonement - D. A. Carson More Resources on Particular Redemption...

Effectual Grace Effectual Calling and Regeneration - Martyn Lloyd-Jones Justification & Regeneration - Charles Leiter The Internal and External Call - Wilhelmus a Brakel Effectual Calling – C.H. Spurgeon The Sovereignty of God the Holy Spirit in Salvation – Arthur Pink Irresistible Grace – Jacob Moseley Preaching the Grace of the Spirit’s Calling – S. Lewis Johnson Who Can Come – Mark Webb More Resources like this...

Preservation of the Saints Can a Christian Lose His or Her Salvation? - Greg Johnson Perseverance of the Saints – Loraine Boettner Sanctification and Perseverance - Herman Bavinck Perseverance of the Saints - Wilhelmus à Brakel Perseverance of the Saints by Brian Schwertley How to Know you are a Real Christian - Jonathan Edwards More Essays like this...

Related to the Doctrines of Grace

Augustine and Pelagius – R.C. Sproul From Whitefield to Wesley – George Whitefield (Includes Wesley’s Sermon Free Grace) Ian Murray on Whitefield and Wesley The Legacy of Charles Finney – Michael Horton The Carnal Christian Doctrine – John G. Reisinger The Pelagian Captivity of the Church – R.C. Sproul The Moral Basis of Faith – Tom Wells A Simple Explanation of Monergism

[healerqueen]

50 Favorite Children’s Books

Inspired by Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki’s list of his earliest literary influences. This list is limited to books I read in childhood or youth. 50 Childhood Favorites

Caddie Woodlawn and sequel by Carol Ryrie Brink

Winter Cottage by Carol Ryrie Brink

The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, and sequels by Elizabeth Enright

Enemy Brothers by Constance Savery

The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Derwood, Inc. by Jeri Massi

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Heidi by Joanna Spyri

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong

All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

Family Grandstand by Carol Ryrie Brink

Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink

Cheaper By the Dozen and sequel by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Rebecca’s War by Ann Finlayson

The Lost Baron by Allen French

Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman

Captive Treasure by Milly Howard

Toliver’s Secret by Esther Wood Brady

Silver for General Washington by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft

Emil’s Pranks by Astrid Lindgren

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien

Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois

Freddy the Detective and Freddy the Pig series by Walter R. Brooks

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Robert Lawson

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

The Wombles by Elisabeth Beresford

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander and Wayne Geehan

Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George

The Bridge and Crown and Jewel by Jeri Massi

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Young Adult:

The Eagle of the Ninth and other books by Rosemary Sutcliff

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan

Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George

Buffalo Brenda by Jill Pinkwater

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret (a nonfiction memoir)

Picture Books:

Make Way for Ducklings and other books by Robert McCloskey

Go, Dog, Go by P.D. Eastman

Sam and the Firefly by P.D. Eastman

Robert the Rose Horse by Joan Heilbroner

Ice-Cream Larry by Daniel Pinkwater

Mr. Putter and Tabby by Cynthia Rylant

Discovered as an Adult: Seesaw Girl by Linda Sue Park

The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye

The Armourer’s House by Rosemary Sutcliff

Urchin of the Riding Stars and the Mistmantle Chronicles by M.I. McAllister

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Escape to West Berlin by Maurine F. Dahlberg

Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan

The Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan

Courage in Her Hands by Iris Noble

Knight’s Fee by Rosemary Sutcliff

Victory at Valmy (Thunder of Valmy) by Geoffrey Trease

Word to Caesar (Message to Hadrian) by Geoffrey Trease

The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

The Reluctant Godfather by Allison Tebo

Seventh City by Emily Hayse

Escape to Vindor by Emily Golus

Valiant by Sarah McGuire

The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart

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American Musical History

Seeing the absolute fuckshit going on about people hating rap, jazz, ska, etc makes me want to educate on just. The sheer amount of American music history that is founded on the work of slaves and Black Americans. That said here is all the material from my AMH course. The "playlists" have both songs and informational videos in them.

W1 - What is American Music

Slides

Playlist

Article "defining" American Music

W2 - Sacred Music in the Colonies

Slides

Playlist

W3 - Roots of African American Sacred Music

Slides

Playlist

Article on African American Spirituals

Sections on Spirituals and Gospel, Blackface Minstrelsy, the Blues, Country, R&B and Soul, Folk Music, and Rap below the cut

W4 - Spirituals and Gospel

Slides

Playlist

Biography of Mahalia Jackson

Article on African American Gospel

W5 - Blackface Minstrelsy

Slides

Playlist

Video on the Jim Crow Museum

Video. Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form

W6 - The Blues

Slides

Playlist

Textbook on Music: Its Language, History, and Culture

Article: How ‘Race Records’ Turned Black Music Into Big Business

Article: "Shoot Myself a Cop": Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" as Social Text

Video: Leon Redbone - Crazy Blues

Video: Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues

W8 - Blues and Country

Slides

Playlist 1: Blues

Playlist 2: Country

Video: The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane Fiddlin John Carson

Article on Lesley Riddle, the man behind the Carter Family's Success

Textbook Chapter: Early Country Music

W9 - R&B and Soul

Slides

Playlist

Academic article: Rock! It's Still Rhythm and Blues

Textbook Chapter: Urban Contemporary: Soul, Funk, and Global

Article on James Brown redefining Black Pride

W10 - Folk Music

Textbook Chapter: American Indian Music, Folk Songs, Spirituals, and Their Collectors

Playlist

W12 - Rap

Slides

Playlist

[beardedmrbean]

The Georgia House voted Monday to define antisemitism in state law, a move supporters say would help prosecutors and other officials identify hate crimes and illegal discrimination targeting Jewish people.

Lawmakers voted 136-22 to approve the measure just a few weeks after some residents in suburban Atlanta found anti-Jewish flyers left in their driveways inside plastic bags. Among them was Democratic Rep. Esther Panitch, one of the bill's sponsors and Georgia’s only Jewish legislator.

"Children who went out to play on their driveway picked up baggies filled with hate and asked their parents, `What is this?'" Panitch said, adding, "A bill of this type should be uncontested. It gives our legal system a clear definition of antisemitism."

WITH ANTISEMITISM ON THE RISE, AMERICAN JEWISH GROUPS AIM TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST THREATS

In 2020, Georgia passed a hate crimes law that allows additional penalties for crimes motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender or disability.

Panitch and other supporters of House Bill 30 said its legal definition of antisemitism is necessary because officials don't always recognize it. The bill advances to the Georgia Senate for further debate.

The measure would adopt into state law a definition by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which defines antisemitism as a "perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews" and can have both "rhetorical and physical manifestations."

This includes "targeting of the state of Israel," although the alliance says on its website that "criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic."

Some lawmakers who voted against the measure said they feared it would infringe on free speech rights, including the right to criticize the Israeli government.

"How far will you go to police our words?" said Rep. El-Mahdi Holly, D-Stockbridge, adding: "We must preserve our American values and vote no on this definition."

ACTOR BEN PLATT SAVAGES ‘REALLY DISGUSTING’ NEO-NAZIS PROTESTING HIS BROADWAY PLAY

Panitch said her bill wouldn’t create any new crimes, but rather would guide prosecutors in deciding whether there’s sufficient evidence in criminal cases to trigger enhanced hate crime penalties. Legally defining antisemitism would also help in cases of illegal discrimination, she said.

"You need a definition to be able to say that a swastika is antisemitic," Panitch said. "It’s as simple as that. Things that you think would be obvious are not obvious."

Rep. John Carson, R-Marietta, said similar proposals have become law in states including Arizona, Arkansas, Iowa and Tennessee. Other supporters of the Georgia measure said they're concerned that antisemitism in the U.S. appears to be on the rise.

A survey conducted last fall by the American Jewish Committee found that four in five American Jews said antisemitism in the U.S. has grown in the past five years. A quarter of respondents said they were directly targeted by antisemitic expressions, either in person or on social media.

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NOW READING: Casket of Souls - Lynn Flewelling

Books Read in 2024

January

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy Letters From Palestine - Ghassan Abdullah, Kenneth Ring True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World - Adolphus Greely Memories of the Andes - José Luis Inciarte Kick at the Darkness - Keira Andrews Fight the Tide - Keira Andrews The Terror - Dan Simmons What Lies in the Woods - Kate Alice Marshall The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne The Manson Women and Me - Nikki Meredith

February

A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes Farm Boys - Will Fellows The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien Reforged - Seth Haddon The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson The Absolutist - John Boyne The Origin of Others - Toni Morrison Black Gun, Silver Star - Art T. Burton The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien

March

The Magpie Lord - KJ Charles Dead Wake - Erik Larson He Who Drowned the World - Shelley Parker-Chan Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly Ocean’s Echo - Everina Maxwell I Had to Survive - Roberto Canessa The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir In the Hurricane's Eye - Nathaniel Philbrick

April

A Certain Hunger - Chelsea G Summers The Sunshine Court - Nora Sakavic Steal the Sky - Megan O'Keefe The Indifferent Stars Above - Daniel James Brown The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien RHatO vol. 1: Dark Trinity - Scott Lobdell RHatO vol. 2: Who is Artemis? - Scott Lobdell These Fleeting Shadows - Kate Alice Marshall

May

I Am Still Alive - Kate Alice Marshall Bunker Hill - Nathaniel Philbrick Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown Batman: A Death in the Family Ordeal by Hunger - George R. Stewart Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling Thunderstruck - Erik Larson Stalking Darkness - Lynn Flewelling

June

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Feed Them Silence - Lee Mandelo The Splendid and the Vile - Erik Larson River of Teeth - Sarah Gailey Manhunt - Gretchen Felker-Martin Traitor's Moon - Lynn Flewelling Dragon Age: The Silent Grove - David Gaider Incident at Gunn Point - Ralph Cotton

July

Endurance - Alfred Lansing The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo Shadows Return - Lynn Flewelling The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown

August

The White Road - Lynn Flewelling What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia - Elizabeth Catte The Demon of Unrest - Erik Larson In the Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson Road to Surrender - Evan Thomas Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle Taste of Marrow - Sarah Gailey Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann

September

The Wager - David Grann Leeward - Katie Daysh The Devil to Pay - Katie Daysh All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque The Nightland Express - JM Lee Tombstone - Tom Clavin We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

October

Unspeakable Things - Jess Lourey No One Can Know - Kate Alice Marshall Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes The Summer of 1787 - David O. Stewart Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong The Foxhole Court - Nora Sakavic The Raven King - Nora Sakavic The King's Men - Nora Sakavic Strikeforce Vol.1 - Tini Howard

November

Strikeforce Vol.2 - Tini Howard The Sunshine Court - Nora Sakavic The Queen's Starfire Throne - Hailey Turner Local Woman Missing - Mary Kubica She's Not Sorry - Mary Kubica Elite Capture - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò TGCF vol.1 (manhua) - MXTX TGCF vol.2 (manhua) - MXTX The Message - Ta-Nahisi Coates This Town Sleeps - Dennis E. Staples On Tyranny - Timothy Snyder

December

Saezuru 0-8 - Yoneda Kou The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie The Time Machine - HG Wells