#kim wormald

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Gone fishing

‘Each time this Australasian darter dived, I had no idea where it would briefly resurface; sometimes without food, sometimes swallowing it quickly, and, just this once, tossing a common galaxias into the air to ensure it went down head-first. The way the darter is rising from the water, with duck weed clinging to its feathers, reminds me of a sculpture emerging from its plinth.��

Photograph: Kim Wormald

2023 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards

[cptrs]

[herpsandbirds]

Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus), male, family Maluridae, SE Australia

photograph by Kim Wormald

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As I'm currently indexing this blog or, rather, meta-tagging posts in my new version of it on the Blogger website (I will post proper link as soon as it's finished), I decided to compile a list of all the women who feature (or receive a mention however fleetingly) within it. I have tried to trawl the blog ''with a fine toothcomb'', but I'm bound to have missed a few names - oh well! Here is the list as complete as I can muster. The women appear in (broadly) alphabetical order by first name. *** NB it is still a work in progress ***

VOCALISTS & MUSICIANS

Alice Waterhouse (flute) * Amy Winehouse * Angel Olsen * Annie June Callaghan * Ari Up & The Slits * Be Good Tanyas, The * Billie Holiday * Bjork * Black Belles, The * Cait O’ Riordan (Pogues) * Calista Williams (Bluebird) * Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson (The B52s) * Cistem Failure * Clementine Douglas * Cosey Fanni Tutti * DakhaBrakha (well, 3/4 of them!) * Debbie Harry * Edith Piaf * Elizabeth Morris (Allo Darlin') * Holly Golightly * HoneyLuv * Katy-Jane Garside * Kelis * Kim Deal (Pixies & Breeders) * Maxine Peake * Maxine Venton & Mimi O'Malley (Captain Hotknives) * Meg White * Melanie Safka * Nico * Nina Simone * Patti Rothberg * Penny Ford (Snap!) * PJ Harvey * Rhoda Dakar (Special AKA) * Seamonsters, The * Siouxsie Sioux * Suzanne Vega * Tray Tronic * Trish Keenan (Broadcast)

VISUAL ARTS

Annegret Soltau * Anne Ophelia Dowden * Artemisia Gentileschi * Barbara Regina Dietzsch * Beverly Joubert * Camille Claudel * Clara Peeters * Dale DeArmond * Doreen Fletcher * Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale * Élisabeth Sonrel * Elisabetta Siriani * Elizabeth Mary Watt * Ella Hawkins * Evelyn De Morgan * Frida Kahlo * Gertrude Abercrombie * Helen Martins * Kate Gough * Laura Knight (Dame) * Leonora Carrington * Lily Delissa Joseph * Liza Ferneyhough * Magdolna Ban * Mandy Payne* Mary Delany * Miina Akkijrkka * Ndidi Ekubia * Pamela Colman-Smith * Paula Rego * Rachel Gale * 'Romany Soup' * Sarah Vivien * Shirley Baker * Siirkka-Liisa Konttinen * Sofonisba Anguissola * Sonia Delaunay * Tish Murtha * Vali Myers * Vanessa Bell

COMEDY, DANCE & DRAMA

Alicia Eyo & Carol Morley ('Stalin My Neighbour') * Claire Foy * Daisy May Cooper * Gabrielle Creevy & Jo Hartley ('In My Skin') * Isadora Duncan * Jessica Williams ('Love Life') * Lesley Sharp, Michelle Holmes & Siobhan Finneran ('Rita, Sue & Bob Too') * Michaela Coel ('I May Destroy You') * Morgana Robinson * Samantha Morton * Yasmin Paige (Jordana Bevan in ‘Submarine)

WRITERS, JOURNALISTS, SCHOLARS & POETS

Agatha Christie (MBE) * Andrea Dunbar * Anaïs Nin * Angela Thirkell * Anna Funder * Anna Wickham * Edith Holden * Elizabeth O'Neill * Enid Blyton * Harriet Beecher Stowe * Helen Castor (Dr.) * Hilary Mantel * Janina Ramirez (Dr.) * Jeannette Kupfermann * Jenny March (Dr.) * Jenny Wormald (Dr.) * Lia Leendertz * Mary Oliver * Orna Guralnik (Dr.) * Rachel Beer * Susie Boniface * Virginia Woolf

HISTORICAL FIGURES

Anne, Queen of Great Britain * Anne Boleyn, Queen of England * Anne of Cleves, Queen of England * Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni * Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes * Catherine de’ Medici, Queen Consort/Regent of France * Catherine Parr, Queen of England * Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England * Catherine of Valois, Queen of England * Christine de Pizan * Cixi, Empress of China (aka  Empress Tz'u-hsi ) * Eleanora of Austria, Queen of France * Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France; Queen of England; Duchess of Aquitaine * Eleanor of Castile * Eleanor Talbot ("The Secret Queen") * Elizabeth I Queen of England * Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England * Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of England * Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia * Hatshepsut, Pharaoh of Egypt *Hildegard of Bingen * Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France * Isabella I, Queen of Castile * Isabella of Aragon, Princess of Asturias * Isabella of Portugal, Empress Consort of Holy Roman Empire and Queen Consort of Spain, Germany & Italy * Isabella of France, Queen of England * Jacquetta of Luxemburg * Jane Grey (Lady), Queen of England for Nine Days * Jane Seymour, Queen of England * Juana (aka Joanna), Queen of Castile * Katherine Howard, Queen of England * Louise of Savoy, Regent of France * Margaret of Anjou, Queen Consort of England * Margaret of Austria [check which one] * Margaret Beaufort, Lady * Marie Antoinette, Queen of France * Mary I, Queen of England * Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland & Ireland * Mary, Queen of Scots * Mary of Austria [check which one] * Mary of Burgundy, Duchess * Matilda, Holy Roman Empress * Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem * Sophia of Hanover, Electress * Tatya Betul, Empress of Ethiopia * Theodora, Empress of Byzantium * Victoria, Queen of England & Empress of India

SAINTS & BIBLICAL/CHRISTIAN REFERENCES

Anna (wife of Tobit) * Apollonia (Saint) * Barbara (Saint) * Catherine of Alexandria (Saint) * Ecclesia * Eve (the first woman) * Felicitas of Rome (Saint) * Genevieve (Saint) * Godeberta * Jael * Jezebel * Judith * Lucy (Saint) * Margaret of Scotland (Saint) * Mary Magdalene * Rahab * Rose of Lima (Saint) * Synagoga * The Queen of Sheba * Thérèse of Lisieux (Saint) * Virgin Mary, The* "Whore of Babylon", The * Ursula (Saint)

MYTHOLOGICAL

Anat * Asherah * Astarte * Atalanta * Aurora * Baba Yaga * Circe * Chhinnamasta * Clio/Kleio * Demeter (Rmn: Ceres) * Dido, Queen of Carthage * Durga * Elaine of Astolat * Europa * Eurydice * Hathor * Hesperides * Io * Isolde/Iseult * Isis * Juno (Gk: Hera) * Kali * Kriemhild/Gudrun * Kudshu * Lakshmi * Persephone (Rmn: Proserpine) * Radha * Sabine Women, The * Sati * Sedna * Sirens, The (half-female, half-bird) * Three Graces, The * Valkyries, The * Venus (Aphrodite)

WIVES, MUSES, CONSORTS & SIGNIFICANT OTHERS

Anastasia Romanovna (wife of Ivan the Terrible) * Anne Hyde (1st wife of James, Duke of York; she did not live long enough to see him become James II) * Anne Lovell (wife of Sir Francis Lovell) * Anne of Denmark (wife of James VI of Scotland/James I of England & Ireland) * Bella Chagall (wife of Marc Chagall) * Catherine of Braganza (wife of Charles II) * Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Queen of England as wife of George III) * Clementine Churchill (wife of Winston Churchill) * Diane de Poitiers (royal mistress to the French king, Henry II) * Emma Hamilton, Lady (mistress of Lord Horatio Nelson) * Evelyn Pyke-Nott (wife of John Byam Shaw) * Françoise Gilot (partner of Pablo Picasso) * Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (mother of Lady Jane Grey) * Henrietta-Maria (wife of Charles I) * Lady Martha Temple (wife of Sir William Temple) * MacDonald sisters, The (Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa) * Marguerite of Navarre/Angoulême (sister of French king, Francis I) * Mary of Modena (2nd wife of James VI and I, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland) * Mary Shelley (mentioned as wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, though a renowned author in her own right) * Mary Soames (daughter of Winston Churchill & wife of Christopher Soames) * Mary Stuart (daughter of Charles I and mother of the future William III) * Mary Watts (wife of George Frederic Watts, and designer and artist in her own right) * Olga Khokhlova (1st wife of Pablo Picasso) * Portia (wife of Brutus) *

2OTH CENTURY & MODERN DAY

Christabel Pankhurst * Emily Wilding Davison * Emmeline Pankhurst * 'Gulabi Gang' * Hannah Hauxwell * Helen Keller * Hilary Clinton * Liz Truss * Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll * Mata Hari * Melina Mercouri * Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe * Rahima Mahmut * Sylvia Pankhurst *

[nixieofthenorth]

New Holland honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae) 📸 Kim Wormald

[dear-indies]

Hi, hope you are doing well! I was hoping if you can help me find a father, mother and twin brother for a Emily VanCamp character? Thank

Mother:

Lindsay Duncan (1950)

Kim Cattrall (1956)

Geena Davis (1956)

Sela Ward (1956)

Holly Hunter (1958)

Margaret Colin (1958)

Sean Young (1959)

Emma Thompson (1959)

Kristin Scott Thomas (1960)

Jennifer Coolidge (1961)

Laura San Giacomo (1961)

Jodie Foster (1962)

Elisabeth Shue (1963)

Jeanne Tripplehorn (1963)

Hope Davis (1964)

Marisa Tomei (1964)

Calista Flockhart (1964)

Laura Linney (1964)

Father:

Michael Ironside (1950)

Ron Howard (1954)

Reed Birney (1954)

Bryan Cranston (1956)

Billy Campbell (1959)

Kyle MacLachlan (1959)

Bradley Whitford (1959)

Stanley Tucci (1960)

George Clooney (1961)

Michael J. Fox (1961) - has Parkinson’s Disease.

Richard Roxburgh (1962)

Twin brother:

Tony Cavalero (1983)

Anthony Carrigan (1983) - has alopecia.

Michael Roark (1983)

Patrick John Flueger (1983)

Aidan Turner (1983)

Kenny Wormald (1984)

Luke Mitchell (1985)

Stuart Martin (1986)

Here you go!

[jimmymcgill]

Better Call Saul + Yellow

[woozapooza]

Better Call Saul: The Verdict

I’ve been putting off writing a BCS wrap-up post, partly because I’ve just been too emo, partly because I just don’t even really know where to start. But I’ve delayed long enough, so let’s do this.

I thought the show struck a perfect balance of connecting to its parent show and standing on its own. It has a lot of the same themes as Breaking Bad—choices, identity, the stories people tell about themselves—but an overall less epic, more down-to-earth feeling. I really can’t choose between BCS and BrBa at this point. They complement each other so perfectly, and while they are very different shows starring very different characters, they feel like such a complete whole, each standing perfectly well on its own but made richer by the other. I’d love to write more about this topic one day.

Favorite character: KIM!!!!! God, she’s so amazing. Her ambition, her passion for justice, her mischievous streak, her troubled backstory, her crushing guilt in 6B (I LOVE characters who are haunted by regret), her ponytail. I would die for her.

Second favorite character: Nacho!!! It took me a while to warm up to him because previously I only knew Michael Mando as Vic from Orphan Black (NOT a likeable character) but I eventually I got over it because he was just so great.

Third favorite is the Magic Man himself. What a stroke of genius to take one of the most two-dimensional characters from the original show (he’s a great character, don’t get me wrong, but he doesn’t have much psychological depth because that just wasn’t the role he was created to fill) and use his two-dimensional nature as a way to create a compelling spinoff by showing us how he got to that point. Or rather, showing us how he got to the point of presenting the facade of Saul Goodman to the world.

I thought they did a great job setting things up for Breaking Bad without it ever feeling forced. One aspect of this is that there were several occasions where it looked (to me, anyway) like they were setting something up, but they ended up doing something totally different. Like in s1 or 2 (I forget when exactly), Jimmy is asked not to practice law under the name McGill because it could cause confusion between his practice and HHM. I assumed that that would lead to him taking a different name, but the actual circumstances that led to him practicing as Saul were completely different and happened much later. The show is really good at subverting expectations, not for the sake of being like “haha, we are smarter than you” but for the sake of telling a story that doesn’t feel contrived or lazy.

Ugh, I really want to say a LOT more, but I just can’t get my thoughts into words. Hopefully I can write more—a LOT more!!!—about both this show and BrBa in the future. For now, I’ll just say that while part of the reason I’m having trouble writing about BCS is because my brain just isn’t working very well at the moment, part of the reason is just that it is so profound a show, I can’t wrangle it into coherent thoughts.

Overall grade: A+

EDIT: I forgot to say that Betsy Kettleman and Daniel “Pryce” Wormald are two of the funniest characters ever invented.

[mcmalewife]

better call saul season 6 predictions

- [ ] “the days of wine and roses” is the gene opening scene 6x01

- [ ] most of, if not all of the finale is centered on gene

- [ ] kim has to call the disappearer, explaining how saul has his card in the first place

- [ ] kim and gene reunite at the end

- [ ] nacho almost survives but dies

- [ ] lalo dies

- [ ] lalo (or the twins) kill nacho

- [ ] someone we’ve never seen in this universe kills lalo

- [ ] howard gay confirmed

- [ ] howard gets arrested

- [ ] bill burr as kuby or whatever his name is

- [ ] one more huge fight between jimmy and kim

- [ ] one more sex scene between jimmy and kim

- [ ] one more chuck flashback

- [ ] one more young kim flashback

- [ ] kim and jimmy meet for the first time flashback

- [ ] we won’t see any brba characters like walt, jesse, and skylar but they will be referenced

- [ ] tuco comes back

- [ ] zafiro añejo

- [ ] kaylee ehrmantraut looks 22 now

- [ ] 10 burner flip phones will be snapped in half

- [ ] gene sweater

- [ ] laser tag origin story

- [ ] danny from laser tag is daniel wormald

- [ ] vamonos pest (ira?) becomes saul’s client

- [ ] there will be no explanation for the howard blood pic

- [ ] kim gets arrested and jimmy (saul) is her lawyer… and he loses 😫

[krokonoko]

better call saul bestie 🍒

the character i least understand:

hmm probably Gus atm! I don't think all of his actions make a lot of sense right now? but we've already bemoaned this a lot sooo yeah. get it together King!

interactions i enjoyed the most:

every interaction with Howard, especially Kim+Howard. each one of those is solid gold. Jimmy and Chuck were also amazingly well written, I honestly miss them. Mike and Jimmy got a lot of fantastic scenes. Nacho and Wormald were absolutely hilarious together, whenever Lalo is on screen I have a blast... Idk honestly! lots of really good material here!

the character who scares me the most:

none, I guess? I mean I guess Chuck sometimes a little but. fear is generally not an emotion I have while watching TV shows.

the character who is mostly like me:

I always dread this question lmao I got no clue who I even am, let alone what fictional character I'm LIKE

hottest looks character:

probably Nacho.

one thing i dislike about my fave character:

are we going with Nacho? or with Howard? or with Lalo? lmao especially for the first two it's like. just give them proper screen time, agency and plot relevance again pretty please. Lalo is golden, he can stay exactly the way he is. but let him do more too!

one thing i like about my hated character:

don't have a hated character :o

a quote or scene that haunts me:

"But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance!"

to my own surprise, when I think of my top BCS moments, I keep coming back to Chicanery?

a death that left me indifferent:

considering fandom's reaction to it, I'm surprisingly indifferent about Werner's death. don't get me wrong, he was cool, I liked him! (finally some proper German in an American TV show qq!) but to me his death felt very inevitable for the plot to move forward, and those are the deaths I don't generally mourn.

a character i wish died but didn’t:

we don't know who's gonna end up dead or alive just yet ;D

my ship that never sailed:

all my ships are sailing what are you talking about.

[queer-asams-and-family]

Asian American Families & Religion (06)

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As previously described, family support has a significant effect on health outcomes for LGBT youth and adults. In LGBT Asian American populations, the importance of family and acceptance is compounded by cultural values that emphasize familial connections, filial piety, and heteronormative expectations for offspring. Touched on briefly was the role of religion; in this post, that will be expanded upon.

Traditional Asian religions, such as Shintoism or Hinduism, do not address homosexuality or other queer identities (Akerlund & Cheung 289-90). Buddhism, a religion practiced by nearly 500 million across the world (Liu, “Buddhists”), also does not address LGBT identities in traditional texts, though the Dalai Lama has previously condemned homosexual relationships as “sexual misconduct ("Stances of Faith”). This is largely irrelevant, however, since most Asian Americans today are Christian (Liu, “Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths”), a product of relatively successful historical missionary outreaches. This can also be seen somewhat as a reflection of the popularity of Christianity, which comprises just over 70% of the American population (Wormald).

Religious beliefs and homophobia have been linked (Liu, “Religious Beliefs Underpin Opposition to Homosexuality”) and, while religion is not the sole reason Asian American families reject LGBT identities, it has a significant role. It varies from population to population – Koreans tends to be Protestant, Filipinos Catholic, Thai Buddhist, Vietnamese a split between Catholic and Buddhist, and Chinese a unique spread of religiosity and affiliation – and, accordingly, each population’s religious affiliation can be linked, with some consistency, to receptiveness to LGBT identity (Masequesmay 323). Overall, though, due to the strong tie between religion and family acceptance, LGBT youth of color report religious views of their families as a factor in family rejection (Kuper et al. 711).

Additionally, sexuality is rarely discussed in Asian American families due to both religious and cultural taboo; while most receive very little sexual education, including information about bodily processes like menstruation, some receive absolutely none (Kim & Ward 24). Queer Asian American youth and adults thus do not have the “luxury” of talking candidly with their families about their sexuality (Nadal 170), though subtle non-verbal communication may still occur. Parents convey ideals about cultural sexual values even through silence (Kim & Ward 25) just as they and other family members may silently be aware of their children’s LGBT identity (Nadal 170).

Works Cited

Akerlund, Mark, and Monit Cheung. “Teaching Beyond the Deficit Model.”  Journal of Social Work Education , vol. 36, Oct. 1999, pp. 279–292., http://proxy.cc.uic.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ehh&AN=3295517.

Kim, Janna L., and L. Monique Ward. “Silence Speaks Volumes: Parental Sexual Communication Among Asian American Emerging Adults.” Journal of Adolescent Research, vol. 22, no. 1, 2007, pp. 3–31., doi:10.1177/0743558406294916.

Kuper, Laura E., et al. “Coping With LGBT and Racial-Ethnic-Related Stressors: A Mixed-Methods Study of LGBT Youth of Color.” Journal of Research on Adolescence, vol. 24, no. 4, 2013, pp. 703–719., doi:10.1111/jora.12079.

 Liu, Joseph. “Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths.” Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project, Pew Research Center, 18 July 2012, www.pewforum.org/2012/07/19/asian-americans-a-mosaic-of-faiths-overview/.

Liu, Joseph. “Buddhists.” Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, Pew Research Center, 17 Dec. 2012, www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-buddhist/.

Liu, Joseph. “Religious Beliefs Underpin Opposition to Homosexuality.” Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, Pew Research Center, 17 Nov. 2003, www.pewforum.org/2003/11/18/religious-beliefs-underpin-opposition-to-homosexuality/.                                            

Masequesmay, Gina. “How Religious Communities Can Help LGBTIQQ Asian Americans to Come Home.” Theology & Sexuality, vol. 17, no. 3, 2011, pp. 319–335., doi:10.1179/tas.17.3.f6j256341505r572.    

Nadal, Kevin L., and Melissa J. H. Corpus. “‘Tomboys’ and ‘Baklas’: Experiences of Lesbian and Gay Filipino Americans.” Asian American Journal of Psychology, vol. 4, no. 3, 2013, pp. 166–175., doi:10.1037/a0030168.

“Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ Issues: Buddhism.” Human Rights Campaign, The Human Rights Campaign, www.hrc.org/resources/stances-of-faiths-on-lgbt-issues-buddhism.