#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.

[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.

[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

[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

[berylian]

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

[probably-a-plant-thing]

Detective Johnathan R. Carson

[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.

[sga-owns-my-soul]

For the ships ask:

R O D N E Y

ahh i can always count on you to send me something rodney related for an ask 😂 i love it

R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?

honestly i gotta go with rodney and elizabeth! their friendship is everything to me and i wish we got to see more of it

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

clicked a playlist hit shuffle and Solitary Man by Johnny Cash came on and uhh. yeah that's a pretty john sheppard song! 😂

D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.

john/elizabeth. idk why i just. i can't see it. i love their friendship but them as a couple just feels. Wrong to me

N - Name three things you wish you saw more of in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).

the only thing that comes to mind is i wish there was a gif of that one shot in epiphany where they're all in the field looking for john and the beast attacks and rodney and carson have their guns drawn and they're in front of elizabeth. haven't been able to find a gif of that anywhere lmao so if you've seen it let me know!!!

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

i already answered this so i'm gonna plug another dumb fic i've written- Bone??? it's just that scene from b99 but with john and ronon and lorne lmao

Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

okay i have a bad habit of not paying attention to/remember names of things so i might get the names of these wrong but 911(?) the firefighter(?) show and saving hope (charlie 🥺) give me so many feelss and i've never seen them lmao

[illiana-mystery]

What r your top 5 Willem characters atm? 👀

Oh, that's a good question. Well, I think I can give you a pretty good answer. 😉 Here's the five I really like so far...

John Geiger (Speed 2: Cruise Control)

Bobby Hicks (The Florida Project)

Leonhard Seppala (Togo)

Paul Smecker (The Boondock Saints)

Joe Cribbens (Dead for a Dollar)

My sixth pick, if asked, would be...

Carson Clay (Mr. Bean's Holiday)

I also have some honorable mentions:

Klaus (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)

Bud Carter (Bad Country)

John Clark (Clear and Present Danger)

Lionel "Elvis" Cormac (Daybreakers)

Hope that answers your question. 😊

[coffee-n-ocs]

Onyx Soul: An Urban Fantasy Series

Set in the deep south of the USA, in 2001, in the fictional town of Gravesend, this is an Urban Fantasy (think 'True Blood' more than 'Supernatural').

Cast / Characters:

Top Row (Left to Right): Freema Agyeman as Cree Riley, a 'Pure-Blood' Siren Luis Guzman as Lucero Blue, a 'Pure' Demon of Light and Dark Matthew Lillard as Raine Silver, a 'Pure' Demon and Mad Scientist Jack Black as Dana Carlisle, half Human, half Siren Mark Lamarr as Mayor Tatum, a ghost who died in the 50s Drew Powell as Raleigh Raven, a 'Man Made Human' (Frankenstein's Monster) Bottom Row (L to R): (Self Insert, but I'm using Milly Alcock as a face claim) Milly Alcock as Navy Carson-Harlow, a shapeshifter, half vampire, half werewolf John DeSantis as Hayden Harlow, a 'Pure-Blood' Vampire Tyler Labine as Phoenix Carson, a 'Pure-Blood' Werewolf Jim Parrack as Harley Yancy, a 'Pure' Human, and the newest person in town.

The Town:

Gravesend, hidden by the 'veil' and invisible to (most) humans. The town is inhabited by all creatures, Vampires, Sirens, Demons, the list goes on. Dana is the town's only half-human, and looked down upon for his mother sleeping with a human to make him. Navy is the town's only 'Shifter', a mix of Vampire and Werewolf, looked down upon by everyone outside of her family. And Harley, the first pure human, is a conundrum to most, Dana's the cause for him even seeing the town, let alone buying the only not-haunted house (for practically free). Harley lives next-door to the Carson-Harlow siblings, who take him under their care quickly, knowing that a human, especially a pure human, only brings hunger to half the town.

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G J and R

G - Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was in it

i remember very clearly!! the first ship i ever really participated in online fandom with was !! heero/duo from gundam wing! lmao weirdly matched bffs in a war zone with tons of h/c potential. whoever knew that baby me and current me are exactly the same 😂

J - Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr

i'm not sure i've ever gotten into a fandom because of tumblr. i have certainly watched shows/movies because of tumblr. schitt's creek and the old guard come to mind, but i wouldn't say i'm particularly in those fandoms. currently have rogue heroes up on deck because of tumblr, too. but again, don't think it'll impact whether or not i join the fandom.

i came to tumblr because i wanted to participate in xmen fandom more though! and i started to talk to people about stargate because i saw everyone having fun in the tags! but i was already engaged in fic writing/reading outside of tumblr for both of those fandoms <3

R - A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships

i don't think i'm truly alone in shipping anything, but i'll be over here yelling about clone!carson/john for the rest of time. specifically the two of them together without prime!carson/john having come first. and i'm pretty sure there are no other fics there about this besides my own 🥲