#karen patricia

[fashiontimeless]

Blumarine Spring 1993

[divinebeautyrevealed2]

My Favorite Models #4

[dealerlover]

gladosluver are you okay also do u like girls

i could put the most insane lore drop here and yall would be like "yea thats gladosluver for you" and i love it every time. yesterday i hurt my shoulder and today i woke up with a leg injury..? what even happened

anyways kirikuta and asukame for the win i love and hate making ships cuz like 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 no content..... sad... but 🤗🤗🤗🤗 lookie oooo i made that!!!! i made the ship n everything about it!!! the dragon warrior its me!!!!! 😁😁😍

"it vanished and became a hairball" is REALLY funny. EAT EVERYONE

[cuntycassandra]

21. Women you would let step on you

This ask has been in my ask box for far too long. I am so sorry anon. (Says a lot cause I haven’t had anon on for over six months)

But in honour of pride month, current top five women I would let step on me:

[biromanticwritergal]

Recently Read Books May-July 2023.

And The Mountains Echoed and The Yellow Birds were both for my grad class but the rest I chose myself. Most of these went towards my personal reading challenge for this year too.

The books pictured above:

And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

The Appointed Hour by Susanne Davis

No one is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Care of by Ivan Coyote

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

Lord John and The Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon

Frankisstein by Jeanette Winterson

Grrrls on the Side by Carrie Pack

Vanessa & Virginia by Susan Sellers

I also read Edna O' Brien's The Lonely Girl and bell hooks' Feminism is for Everyone, neither are pictured here.

I'm currently reading Self Made Man by Norah Vincent.

[teenagefeeling]

i like that i occasionally run into young women or girls (like my age and younger) named ada. because it wasn't a common name for a long time so i always assume they were probably named after a grandparent or great-grandparent and i think that's a sweet reason for names to come back into popularity

[martyncrucefix]

Greedy alpha-creatures: the poetry of Ulrike Almut Sandig

I’m shocked to realise that it is a full year since I posted my review of the stunning long poem, Porcelain, by the contemporary German poet, Durs Grünbein, in Karen Leeder’s equally impressive translation (Seagull Books, 2020). That review was originally commissioned for, and published in, Patricia McCarthy’s penultimate issue of Agenda (those who follow such things will know that Patricia has…

[thaoworra]

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

Short Poems (50 finalists)

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

The Beauty of Monsters, Angela Liu, Small Wonders 1

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

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

Deadweight, Jack Cooper, Propel 7

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

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

Dr. Jekyll, West Ambrose, Thin Veil Press December

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

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

Gods of the Garden, Steven Withrow, Spectral Realms 19

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Invasive, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Polar Starlight 9

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

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

The Lantern of September, Scott Couturier, Spectral Realms 19

Let Us Dream, Myna Chang, Small Wonders 3

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

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

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

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

A Murder of Crows, Alicia Hilton, Ice Queen 11

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

orion conquers the sky, Maria Zoccula, On Spec 33.2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sleeping Beauties, Carina Bissett, HWA Poetry Showcase X

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

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

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

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

Sunflower Astronaut, Charlie Espinosa, Strange Horizons July

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

Troy, Carolyn Clink, Polar Starlight 12

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

Under World, Jacqueline West, Carmina Magazine September

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

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

Long Poems (25 finalists)

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

As the witch burns, Marisca Pichette, Fantasy 87

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

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

Cradling Fish, Laura Ma, Strange Horizons May

Dream Visions, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Eccentric Orbits 4

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

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

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

Impostor Syndrome, Robert Borski, Dreams and Nightmares 124

The Incessant Rain, Rhiannon Owens, Evermore 3

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

Little Brown Changeling, Lauren Scharhag, Aphelion 283

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

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

Protocol, Jamie Simpher, Small Wonders 5

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

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

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

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

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

Welcoming the New Girl, Beth Cato, Penumbric October

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

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

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

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

[zimortythemeatwarden]

SENTIENT AI MASTERLIST

suggest your own if you have any

AM [IHNMAIMS]

Announcer Bot [Regular Show]

Blaine [The Dark Tower]

Biograft [Phighting]

Bobert [TAWOG]

Boxbots [OK KO]

Butlertron [Clone High]

Butter Bot [Rick & Morty]

Caine [The Amazing Digital Circus]

Cart [Regular Show]

Closet [Barbie Life in a Dreamhouse]

Collosus [Collosus]

Commander Tartar [Splatoon 2]

Computer [Courage The Cowardly Dog]

Companion Cube [Portal]

Computer [Invader Zim]

Conner [Detroit Become Human]

Cores (all of them) [Portal]

Crash [Awful Hospital]

Cyborg Noodle [Gorillaz]

Deborahbot [Mitchells Vs The Machines]

Droids [Star Wars]

Dr Oid [Pluto's Reprisal]

Edgar [Electric Dreams]

Enzo [Midnight Horrors]

Eric [Mitchells Vs The Machines]

Fabrication Machine [9]

Folder [HFJONE]

Freda [ATHF]

Fridge DJ [ITFT]

Fun Bot [Sprunki]

Fun Computer [Sprunki]

Giffany [Gravity Falls]

GIR [Invader Zim]

Guardian [Collosus]

Gummigoo [The Amazing Digital Circus]

Hal 9000

Helkhod [Midnight Horrors]

Iterators [Rain World]

Jailbot (all iterations) [Superjail!]

Jenny [MLAATR]

Jumping Jhonny Jumble [Crashbox]

Kara [Detroit Become Human]

Karen (both iterations) [Spongebob Squarepants]

Kinitopet [Kinitopet]

Mepad [Inanimate Insanity]

Mephones (all of them) [Inanimate Insanity]

Metal Sonic [Sonic]

Metal Steve [Bunny VS Monkey]

Monika [DDLC]

Mr. Floccin / Lewiz Floccinaucinihilipilification [TAWOG OC]

Octus [Sym-Bionic Titan]

Orca [Splatoon]

OUTRAGE [OUTRAGE]

PA.I.nter [Pressure]

PAL [Mitchells Vs The Machines]

Patricia [The Dark Tower]

PDA [TPOT]

PO3 [Inscryption]

Professor Rocket [Crashbox]

Prototype [Regretevator]

Remote [BFB]

RGB2 [Regular Show] (in my heart he will always be sentient ai. 🙁)

Rick's Car [Rick & Morty]

Robot Flower [BFDI/BFB/TPOT]

Robot Jones [Whatever Happened to Robot Jones]

Robots [Crashbox]

SAL9000 [2010]

Scag [Regretevator]

Senpai [Friday Night Funkin]

S.H.I.V.A. [Submachine Series]

Squid [Will You Snail?]

SQUIP [Be More Chill]

Sox [Lightyear]

Speakerboxes [BFDI]

Tau [Tau]

Texty [HFJONE]

Tobor [Mysims]

TV [BFB/TPOT]

V1 & V2 [Ultrakill]

Vee [Dandy's World]

Vira [Midnight Horrors]

Wheatley [Portal]

WOPR [Wargames]

World Machine [Oneshot]

WX-78 [Don't Starve]

[nofeelingisfinall]

love, always.

[west wind, mary oliver || the lovers of valdaro || in a week, hozier & karen cowley || leonard matlovich’s tombstone at the congressional cemetery in washington, dc. || everywhere, everything, noah kahan || memorial to a marriage, patricia cronin || cassandra clare]

[dabiconcordia]

Reading the Obituaries

Now the Barbaras have begun to die, trailing their older sisters to the grave, the Helens, Margies, Nans — who said goodbye just days ago, it seems, taking their leave a step or two behind the hooded girls who bloomed and withered with the century — the Dorotheas, Eleanors and Pearls now swaying on the edge of memory. Soon, soon, the scythe will sweep for Jeanne and Angela, Patricia and Diane — pause, and return for Karen and Christine while Susan spends a sleepless night again.   Ah, Debra, how can you be growing old?    Jennifer, Michelle, your hands are cold. by Marilyn L. Taylor

[crimsonender]

as a fellow transmasc, i don't think it's productive to assert that women shouldn't be afraid of us while also telling women they should shut up about this fear of men. i'm not saying it's okay to specifically target trans men, but they do because we're directly in community with trans women after all and we should know better about perpetuating systemic forms of oppression like misogyny as marginalized men. you're grown and say you have a lot of specifically trans women in your life that you care for— you should know how to respond to a woman you disagree with, without talking down to her and resorting to misogynistic remarks like calling her a Karen for saying she feels threatened by transmascs. let me know if I'm missing racial context there for why you called patricia that, but that term is for white women who feel threatened by Black people, so I could only assume you were using it in a misogynistic context for a woman who complains a lot that you want to shut up.

I try not to pull this card because I think it quickly becomes a race to the bottom, but since you asked I'm a man of colour and Patricia frequently compares her experience as a white woman to black people and pulls out the crybully routine whenever she's criticized. I think that's pretty typical Karen behaviour. If you needed racial context hope that's good enough.

Not for nothing but transgender men don't hold any positions of power in our society, which is what makes cis men an actual threat to women and marginalized genders. Like you know that men aren't ontologically evil right? You know that men aren't predisposed to being oppressive and we just live in a system that has placed them on top, right?

[bekolxeram]

7x03 analysis part 2 — Too many Cats

Tommy flew a helicopter into a Category 5 hurricane, at least the show told us so. Is it even possible for an aircraft to fly in those conditions? Today, we are going to figure out just how strong the storm actually is canonically, and how realistic our beloved weewoo show is.

TW: Hurricane, extreme weather, natural disaster

What is the difference between a tropical storm and a hurricane? What even is a hurricane?

Both tropical storm and hurricane are tropical cyclones, just of different strength. A tropical cyclone is a rotating storm system with a low pressure center. The center, or the eye of the storm, sucks in warm moist air from an oceanic environment and it feeds into the generation of storm clouds that organize themselves into a spiral pattern due to the Earth's rotation, aka Coriolis effect.

A tropical cyclone is classified by its maximum sustained wind.

So if it's below 62 km/h, it's a tropical Depression. if it's between 63-118 km/h, it's a Tropical Storm. A Category 5 hurricane though has a maximum sustained wind speed of over 252 km/h.

A strong enough tropical cyclone is called a hurricane in North America, a typhoon in East Asian, and a cyclone in the Indian Ocean (including Australia).

How strong is the storm in 7x03 actually?

We first see the storm at the end of 7x01, when First Mate Kenneth tells Captain Ochoa there is a strengthening tropical storm in the ship's path. Captain Ochoa decides to reverse course back to LA and instructs Kenneth to alert the Coast Guard, but they get interrupted by the cartel.

Fast forward to 7x02, the next mention of the storm comes from Karen. When Hen is sent home by Chief Simpson, she tries to call Athena, but it goes straight to voicemail. Karen tells her cell service is probably spotty out at sea because of the hurricane, which has just got upgraded.

It's recently upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane, as we can see from Karen's tablet.

Then Hen goes to Maddie to ask the Coast Guard to look for Bathena's cruise ship. When Hen shows Maddie the ship tracking app on her phone, the time is 10:28. (I'm guessing PM because it's already dark outside during the Kyle Ortiz call.)

By the time Chief Simpson comes by to reinstate Hen, she's already talking about a Cat 5 hurricane. That can't be more than an hour or two later.

So which one is it? Is it a Cat 2 or a Cat 5? Who should I trust?

Tommy. Whenever he flies, his safety depends on his understanding of the local wind condition and weather. You should listen to him:

So it's a Cat 5, at least by the time the 118 set off on their journey to save Bathena.

Can a tropical storm intensify into a Cat 5 hurricane in hours?

No, not in real life. The record for most rapid intensification of a tropical cyclone is Hurricane Patricia in 2015, but it still took 24 hours. This doesn't mean the storm in 7x03 is completely made up. I believe I might have found the real life inspiration behind it.

Hurricane Otis (2023)

An area of low pressure formed on October 15, 2023 over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. While it was during a significant El Niño period and the ocean temperature was record-breaking-ly high, strong vertical wind shear condition near the storm was predicted to hinder its development. It was originally forecasted to make landfall as a mere tropical storm. People in Acapulco went to bed on October 23 expecting moderate wind and light rainfall, many stopped seeking out updates of the storm.

In the early hours of October 24, meteorologists at the NHC recognized from satellite images that tropical storm Otis was rapidly intensifying into a hurricane. The NHC officially upgraded the storm to a Cat 1 hurricane at 13:00 CDT and sent out a hurricane hunter aircraft to accurately measure the actual wind speed of the cyclone.

Satellite images provide a pretty good model to estimate the strength of a tropical cyclone, but the most reliable way to measure wind speed is still to fly an aircraft into it and physically measure it. When the hurricane hunter managed to fly into the eyewall of Otis, everyone realized they made a huge mistake: Otis had already become a Cat 3 hurricane, and it was expected to strengthen even more. It takes time to process data received from the hurricane hunter, so operationally the NHC still classified Otis as a Cat 1 hurricane until the next advisory was scheduled to come out, which was at 16:00 CDT, but by that time, Otis was already near Cat 4 strength. It was then officially upgraded to a Cat 5 hurricane at 22:00 CDT.

While Otis did take around 24 hours to intensify from a tropical storm to a catastrophic hurricane, if you just look at the NHC advisories, it pretty much jumped from a Cat 1 into a Cat 5 in 9 hours. It caused extensive damage to Acapulco when it made landfall because the city was severely underprepared. I suspect the cruise ship disaster arc was inspired by hurricane Otis because it happened just a month after the writer strike ended. Also, in 7x02 Maddie, a 911 dispatcher, was not aware that the tropical storm had already strengthened into a hurricane, which mirrors the unexpected development of hurricane Otis.

As the storm in universe was going back at sea and not making landfall, the authority was probably in even less of a hurry to find out what the actual strength of the cyclone was. So it could take them even longer to send in weather reconnaissance aircrafts. I can imagine the 911-verse version of the storm jumping from a Cat 2 to a Cat 5 officially in mere hours.

Can a helicopter fly in a Cat 5 hurricane?

Technically yes, but the chopper won't be doing the flying. The aforementioned NOAA Hurricane Hunter is a Lockheed P-3 Orion specifically modified and fortified for weather information collection. If this four-engined workhorse has to fight tooth and nail against crosswind and turbulence in order to fly into the eye of the storm, a small single engine helicopter definitely would not fair any better. It would end up getting tossed around, a particular strong downdraft might slam it into the ocean, or a prolong bout of severe turbulence might rip it apart. Luckily in 7x03, Tommy is not actually flying into a hurricane, he's trailing behind it.

NOAA Lockheed WP-3D Orion Hurricane Hunter

In a blink-and-you-miss-it exchange between Buck and Tommy, after Tommy says "a Cat 5 hurricane passed through here", Buck asks why he means by "passed through" and what they are flying in at the moment.

"iNTermITteNt sHOweRs"

When looking at the cross section of a tropical cyclone, you can see rows of rainbands around the eyewall, increasing in size the closer it is to the center of the storm. If you have ever experienced a tropical cyclone making landfall, you would know it starts with sporadic bouts of rainfall (aka intermittent showers), which then gradually increase in frequency and severity as the storm approaches. Once you are within 100-200 km of the eye, wind speed would become violent while the rainbands become so wide and close together it basically keeps raining until you are right under the eye.

These are radar images of hurricane Irma (2017) making landfall in Florida. Bands of moderate to heavy rainfall spread across the inner core region of the cyclone, with still pretty consistent light to moderate precipitation between the gaps. But in the area further away from the eye in the southwest and southeast quadrants, you can see more squall line like patterns. Precipitation would abruptly begin and stop as you fly in and out of those outer lumps of clouds.

Wind speed in that area is no where near hurricane level even for a Cat 5 cyclone, it is typically under 100 km/h. That does not mean it is a safe condition to fly in. Because the outer rainbands of a cyclone are less affected by the storm's vortex dynamics, they behave more like regular thunderstorms. As you know, thunderstorms are big no-no's for aviation safety. In fact, the outer rainbands of a typhoon once contributed to a plane crash in Taiwan.

Conclusion

The hurricane in 7x03 is likely based on reality, albeit with a bit of exaggeration and a shortened timeline for dramatic effect. It is possible to fly and control a helicopter in this specific condition, but the danger is still quite high. Flying into a thunderstorm has a whole different set of risks associated with it, which I will tell you all about next time. Yes, part 3 of this series is "how to crash a helicopter with weather", so stay tuned.

[stateofcharles]

2025-2028 in rhythmic gymnastics - what do we know about senior groups? (all information is from this article)

2025 will see groups dealing with 5 ribbons and 3 hoops & 2 balls.

2026-2028 will all be about 5 balls and 3 hoops & 4 clubs.

about olympic groups!

BULGARIA🇧🇬: 3 members of the Paris 2024 team officially announced their retirement: Kamelia Petrova (2006), Magdalina Minevska (2005) and Margarita Vasileva (2005). The other two members, Sofia Ivanova (2005) and Rachel Stoyanov (2003), remain in the group, with Ivanova taking over the role of captain.

Among the new entries we find: Suzan Pouladian (2007), member of the 2021 junior team, together with Viktoria Georgieva (2006), Sofia Pavlova (2007), Ivon Boshkilova (2007), Danaya Atanasova (2007) and Alina Kolomiets (2006).

Based on photos from control training, the starting five are Ivanova, Stoyanov, Pouladian and Kolomiets, with Georgieva for 5 ribbons and Atanasova for the mixed routine.

(photo credits: Nedkova - BRGF)

MEXICO🇲🇽: The team of Paris 2024 stays the same: Dalia Alcocer (2004), Adirem Tejeda (2002), Julia Gutiérrez (2007), Sofia Flores (2004) and Kimberly Salazar (2004). The substitutes are Karen Villanueva (1998), Lily de León (2008), Ángela Ku, Elina de la O and Fernanda Salas

SPAIN🇪🇸: Patricia Pérez (2004) and Ana Arnau (2005) officially retired, whilst Inés Bergua (2004), Salma Solaun (2005) and Mireia Martinez (2005) continue their journey in the team.

Substitutes are confirmed 2023-junior Lucia Munoz (2008), Andrea Corral (2008) and Alessandra Marcos (2008), and also 2021-junior Andrea Fernandez (2006). New entries are Cecilia Rodriguez (2009), who was also part of the 2023 junior team, then Marina Cortelles (2007), junior individual gymnast at the 2022 European Championships, and Marta Luisa Cordobilla (2007)

(photo credits: RFEG)

ITALY🇮🇹: Alessia Maurelli (former captain) and Agnese Duranti officially announced their retirement. Laura Paris (2002) and Daniela Mogurean (2001) are set to continue; Martina Centofanti (1998) is recovering from a knee surgery, but she's so far still confirmed as part of the team. Alessia Russo is pursuing technical formation.

The official 2025 team includes: Alexandra Naclerio (2005), Serena Ottaviani (2005) and Giulia Segatori (2004), who contributed to the junior silver medal back in 2019. Official documents also feature: Chiara Badii (2007) and Lorjen D'Ambrogio (2007), members of the 2021 junior team, together with Laura Golfarelli (2007), Allegra Jakic (2007) and Sofia Sicignano (2004)

BRAZIL🇧🇷: The only official retirement from the Paris team is Deborah Medrado (2002). The other members will continue: Maria Eduarda Arakaki (2003), Nikole Pircio (2002), Sofia Madeira (2003) and Victoria Borges (2002), who has successfully completed her physical rehabilitation after the injury in Paris!

The already-reserve gymnasts were confirmed: Barbara Urquiza (2003), starting member between 2021-2023; Mariana Goncalves (2005) junior individual gymnast at the 2019 World Championships; Maria Paula Caminha (2008), junior team member in 2023; Maria Fernanda Moraes (2006). New names are 2023 juniors Keila Santos (2008), Ana Luiza Franceschi (2008) and Lavinia Silverio (2009), together with Marianne Giovacchini (2005) and Rhayane Brum (2009)

UKRAINE🇺🇦: Only the Paris captain, Mariia Vysochanska (2002), retired. Official documents report that Olympians Diana Baieva (2004), Valeria Peremeta (2007) and Kira Shirykina (2008) will still be part of the group, but there is no news about the 5th 2024 Olympian, Alina Melnyk (2005).

Other members are Yelyzaveta Azza (2005) and Oleksandra Yushchak (2006), who competed in Valencia 2023 but not in Paris.

(photo credits: Mariya Muzychenko)

ISRAEL: All members retired, but there is no official information about the new members yet. One possibility is Michelle Munits, Daniela Munits' sister, who was first reserve last year.

FRANCE🇫🇷: Célia Joseph-Noël (2003), Manelle Inaho (2003) and Aïnhoa Dot-Espinosa (2005) announced their retirement, whilst Justine Lavit (2006) and Lozea Vilarino (2003) keep on training for the team.

Last year's reserve were confirmed: Emma Delaine (2003), who competed in Valencia 2023; Shana Loxton-Vernato (2007), junior individualist at the European Championships in 2022; Maëlys Laporte (2006), Salomé Lozano (2007) and Margaux Sol (2008). New entries include, as we know, former Georgian individualist Anna Khutsishvili (2006), together with Sasha Abensour (2010 - she won't be able to compete until 2026!), Eva Pusiol (2009), Charlie Rene (2009) and Naïa Okasha (2009)

(photo credits: Fanny Cortyl)

other emerging teams!

USA🇺🇸: Getting ready for their home Olympics, the senior team will from now on be coordinated by Kamelia Dunavska (former Bulgarian team gymnast, world gold medallist in 1987). The team has been formed starting from the 2023 Junior group: Goda Balsys (2008), Kristina Lee (2008), Greta Pavilonyte (2009), Annabella Hantov (2008) and Alani Spata (2008). Other members are Lorelei D'Angelo (2008), Kalina Trayanov (2007), Deanna Georgieva (2007), Elizabeth Semenova (2009), Anastasia Slipets (2008) and Natalia Ye-Granda (2008).

(photo credits: Allison Mott)

FINLAND🇫🇮: Team member Elisabeth Jamil (2004) announced her retirement, whilst it seems that Lia Kallio (2007) will go back to individual gymnastics. Confirmed athletes are Nea Kapiainen (2007), Anni Olkkonen (2007), Emilia Kärkkäinen (2008), Anastasiia Polishchuk (2007), together with new-entries Lumi Mäkinen (2008) and Miisa Kurvi (2008)

POLAND🇵🇱: Although there is no official news, from social media is appears that Madoka Przybylska (2006), Magdalena Szewczuk (2006) and Julia Wojciechowska (2006) will continue onto the team journey. To them, we add 2023 juniors Vesna Pietrzak (2009), Melody Wąsiewicz-Hanc (2008) and Maria Aszklar (2009), together with Vlada Bodnar (2008) and Daria Straltsova (2009), Belorusian gymnast who has been living in Poland for some years now.

(photo credits: Indrek Kask)

ESTONIA🇪🇪: Waiting for the 2025 European Championships on their home soil, the team has been almost completely renovated: only Ksenja Ozigina (2007) reamins from the 2023 group. With her, we will see 2023 juniors Kamila Grigorenko (2008), Polina Tubaleva (2009), Nika Oborskaja (2009), Elys Kretelle Kukk (2009) and Johanna Pertens (2009)

(photo credits: Indrek Kask)

feel free to add any more information you may have! <3

[broadwaydivastournament]

A Birthday Tribute to Stephen Sondheim

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Diva posts and polls with a 24-hour Stephen Sondheim lockdown to recognize an honorary Broadway Diva and certified musical theatre god.

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (1930) was a legendary composer and lyricist who essentially reinvented the American musical with his soaring scores and fiendishly clever lyrics. With Oscar Hammerstein as his mentor, he began his Broadway career writing lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959). Throughout his life, he won eight Tony Awards, including a Special Tony, more than any other composer. His dedicating to writing fascinating, flawed, fantastic roles for women (particularly women of a certain age) means his work is some of the most sought-after of our Divas.

Sondheim Theatre and Concert Credits:

I have done the research and pulled together a list of every single role our Divas have played, and every Sondheim concert they have participated in. Here are just a few takeaways.

All together, 64 Divas have had a whopping 245 roles/concerts and counting.

Eleven Divas have never (to my knowledge) performed in a Sondheim or at a Sondheim-specific concert. Seven of those are non-singing actresses, leaving just four musically-inclined Divas bereft. (Brenda Braxton, Lillias White, Linda Eder, Ute Lemper). However, all four Divas have performed Sondheim's songs in their personal concert repertoires

Eighteen Divas have done just one Sondheim, some in particularly obscure contexts.

The most common roles are The Witch (Into the Woods - 9), Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd - 8), Mama Rose (Gypsy - 8), Desiree Armfeldt (A Little Night Music - 8), Phyllis Rogers Stone (Follies - 6). More on that later.

Most Frequent Sondheim Performers:

Bernadette Peters: 21 Highlights include: Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Follies, Gypsy.

Patti LuPone: 20 Highlights include: Company, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Anyone Can Whistle.

Marin Mazzie: 13 Highlights include: Passion, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods, Anyone Can Whistle.

Audra McDonald: 11 Highlights include: Sweeney Todd, Passion, Six by Sondheim, A Little Night Music.

Donna Murphy: 11 Highlights include: Passion, Into the Woods, Anyone Can Whistle, Follies.

Christine Baranski: 11 Highlights include: Company, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, Follies.

Tony Awards and Nominations:

Leading Actress in a Musical: 14 Nominations (exc. wins) | 5 Divas 9 Wins | 4 Divas

Mama Rose in Gypsy is the most-decorated role in musical theatre canon, and arguably the best role for women period. In five productions, every actress has either been nominated (Ethel Merman, Bernadette Peters), or won (Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Patti LuPone).

Both Desiree Armfeldt actresses have won their respective years (Glynis Johns, Catherine Zeta-Jones). Additional winning roles have been Phyllis Rogers Stone (Alexis Smith), Mrs. Lovett (Angela Lansbury), The Baker's Wife (Joanna Gleason), and Fosca (Donna Murphy).

Featured Actress in a Musical: 17 Nominations (exc. wins) | 4 Divas 4 Wins | 1 Diva

Some of the most common roles to be nominated for in a Sondheim show are Amy and Joanne from Company (in the original production, Elaine Stritch competed in Leading Actress), and Louise in Gypsy. No featured role has netted more than one award.

Winners: Patricia Elliott (Charlotte, ALNM), Laura Benanti (Louise, Gypsy), Karen Olivo (Anita, West Side Story), and Patti LuPone (Joanne, Company).

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yooooo love ur blog!!! thought i'd ask bc i didn't know if there was a way to search: do you have any recommended reading? definitely interested in theory, but also movies/shows/etc that have stood out to you/that you've had fun analyzing in your studies! basically....hi can i have Your Dream Syllabus Reading List

Well hi there! I'm glad you enjoy my blog.

I have my monster theory 101 reading list here in a post that goes into a bit more detail about why those particular readings. But there are definitely some other readings that I personally have really enjoyed and that have been really helpful to me. So here's a list of theory stuff that wasn't included in the 101 reading list;

Undead (A Zombie Oriented Ontology) by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood by Sarah Arnold

Birth Traumas: Parturition and Horror in "Rosemary's Baby" by Lucy Fischer

Monstrous imagination by Marie-Helene Huet

Ex(or)cising the spirit of Japan: Ringu, The Ring and the persistence of Japan by Nicholas Holm

Posthuman Teratology by Patricia MacCormack

Evil Children in Film and Literature by Karen J Renner

Well-Travelled Female Avengers: The Transcultural Potential of Japanese Ghosts by Elisabeth Scherer

The Birth of the Clinic and the Advent of Reproduction: Pregnancy, Pathology and the Medical Gaze in Modernity by J Shaw

There's probably a lot more but these are ones that I remember very clearly and that made a real lasting impression on me.

In terms of fiction texts that stand out to me for their monstrous potential or that I've had a lot of fun analysing in my work;

Ringu (1998) and The Ring (2002)

Splice (2009)

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Let The Right One In (2008)

Brightburn (2019)

Sinister (2012)

The Exorcist (1973)

Resident Evil Biohazard (2017)

Prometheus (2012)

Alien Covenant (2017)

Alien Resurrection (1997)

Like all of the Alien Franchise really but those three in particular. Even if I'm still upset that Alien Romulus came out after the cut off date for texts for my thesis and my supervisor won't let me include it because it is a Masterpiece

Dead Space (especially the recent remake holy shit I love the idea of decay as an extant form of life)

Not technically a movie or a show or any form of traditional media but I highly enjoy and recommend The Mystery Fleshpit National Park also