#lawrence indiana

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Fort Ben public library, Lawrence, Indiana

[reasonsforhope]

do you have any good queer news? I'm a queer person and hearing all the shit thats happening across the world is making me bummed out

I do! All of this is from LGBTQ Nation's excellent good news tag

^Article date: July 6, 2023

"Only two months after its formation, the “No SB 180” initiative had succeeded at making the city of Lawrence, Kansas a sanctuary city for LGBTQ+ people. Last week, in a unanimous vote, Lawrence became the first city in the state to declare itself as such.

Ordinance 9999 bans the city and all of its employees from collecting or releasing information on a person’s “biological sex, either male or female, at birth” and from helping with any investigation, detention, arrest, or surveillance “conducted by a jurisdiction with the authority to enforce Senate Bill 180, as enacted.”"

^Article date: July 28, 2023

"A federal judge has told a group of anti-trans parents to mind their own business after the group filed a lawsuit challenging an Ohio school district’s bathroom policy.

The attempts to meddle do not “pass legal muster,” he wrote in his ruling, saying that the group has no reason to sue.

“Not every contentious debate concerning matters of public importance presents a cognizable federal lawsuit,” Judge Michael Newman wrote, denying their petition to stop the Bethel Local School District’s policy that allows a single transgender middle school student to use the restroom that aligns with her gender identity."

^Article date: August 8, 2023

"The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the independent federal agency responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance, has released its first-ever “LGBTQI+-inclusive” policy since its founding in 1961.

The four-point policy is meant to serve as a blueprint for USAID staff and partners around the world to champion LGBTQ+ and intersex development and the human rights of all queer people through the agency’s work, said Jay Gilliam, USAID’s senior LGBTQI+ coordinator, in a video explaining the policy...

In simpler terms, the U.S. will try to improve diplomatic relationships with other countries by investing in locally-led LGBTQ+-inclusive programs that are shown to positively impact communities in need."

^Article date: August 3, 2023

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled in favor of three transgender students who were forbidden by their schools from using bathrooms matching their gender identities. The circuit court upheld a lower court’s preliminary injunction that said the schools have to let trans students use facilities associated with their genders...

The case involves three trans boys in Martinsville, Indiana and Terre Haute, Indiana, who need access to the boys’ room at their middle and high schools...

The court took into account the fact that Title IX bans discrimination on the basis of sex in schools that receive federal money, which is most of them. Citing the 2020 Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton Co. that found that job discrimination against LGBTQ+ people necessarily takes sex into account and is therefore prohibited under Title VII, the appeals court ruled that the trans boys are likely to succeed in their case and that preventing them from using the correct bathroom while the case works its way through the court system could cause irreparable harm.

^Article date: August 2, 2023

^Article date: June 21, 2023

"A federal judge has ruled on the side of trans rights after a conservative group tried to overturn an Ohio school district’s anti-bullying policy.

The national conservative group Parents Defending Education (PDE) tried to get a preliminary injunction passed on the Olentangy Local School District’s prohibition on misgendering trans students. The policy includes students, teachers, and parents and it applies to out-of-school hours and social media as well."

^Article date: August 2, 2023

There's literally a bunch more I wanted to include, by the way! Tumblr just stopped being able to load them. Going back to add a few more in the reblogs now.

I know it feels like everything is against us right now. But I promise you: that is not true. The bigots and bastards may usually be the ones moving faster (in large part because they suck and don't care about democracy or due process at all),

But in the end, we are going to win. I promise.

[deckardsdwelling]

Harrison Ford biking on the back lot of Warner Bros. Studios where "Shrinking" Season 2 is currently in production - 2/28/29 - @allysonfanger (IG)

- WDD

[roguekaiju]

That scene in raiders of the lost ark where Marion asks Indy where he's not hurting and he just randomly points at his elbow and she kisses it... if I say Lawrence and Benitez.....

[aceredshirt13]

So my buddy @oshawolt and I have watched the first two episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and by far the funniest part about the show is that its complete inability to give teenaged Indy anything like a concrete logical reason to enlist in WWI results in it reading like Indy is willing to go against his friends, his family, his loved ones, all logic, and a significant number of his moral codes, solely because his bestie T. E. Lawrence signed up for the war, and he apparently values that above literally all other aspects of his life.

Like. Listen. In the first episode, Indy joins Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution because he wants to help people, but when a poor villager tells him how even the most just of wars inflict untold suffering on the innocents the soldiers claim to be fighting for, Indy becomes disillusioned with the war effort... only to read a letter + photograph he keeps with him from Lawrence, who says he's joining the war effort in Arabia because he believes it is a cause worth fighting for. And Indy proceeds to immediately forget literally everything he just heard that Mexican villager say and go "fuck it, we ball. and by ball I mean go to the trenches." Indy has decided that the Mexican Revolution "isn't his war", but he's American - WWI in 1916 isn't his war any more than the Mexican Revolution is. So that obviously can't be his justification??

Now, ostensibly he goes because his friend Remy, a Belgian guy he met in Mexico who was fighting for the revolution after his family was killed, decides to go back to Belgium and fight in his own homeland's war instead of the Mexican one. In fact, in the upcoming episodes, he and Remy are together quite a lot. But during the first episode set in Mexico, we are never given to believe that he and Indy are particularly close - they seem like acquaintances at best. Not much time is shown of them together, and we hoped that in the second episode, when the two of them disembark in London and enlist in the Belgian Army, we'd get some of that good old intergenerational friendship energy and really see why Indy, despite not necessarily believing in this war, might want to go to support his friend in Belgium, and his more distant friend in the Middle East.

Nah. Remy ditches Indy for a hot widow almost immediately, and for the entire rest of the episode his ass is GONE. He literally doesn't show up again except to give Indy the papers saying it's time to go to the army, and to be like "oh by the way I'm married now!" at the train station. Bro apparently does not hang out with Indy or tell him anything. Which would be understandable if they were acquaintances, but like??? Aren't they meant to be so close as friends that Indy would up and fight a war with this guy???

Meanwhile, Indy follows a cute girl to a suffragette meeting, they become best friends on the virtue of "speaking an unbelievably unrealistic number of languages" and "having literally identical backstories" (to the point where we found ourselves wishing she'd been Indiana Jones in this show instead, given that she's apparently just his cooler genderbent version played by someone who can act better), meet and get along with his tutor since childhood (who apparently is close enough with Indy now not to want him to enlist in the Army and endanger himself, despite the fact that she disliked Indy so much as a child and allowed him in so many absurdly dangerous situations that we became convinced she was deliberately trying to get him killed in a way that looked like an accident), and eventually fall in love. All through this, Indy helps with the women's suffrage movement, lends money to a poor woman and her children, watches his friend/girlfriend throw a dessert at Winston Churchill (who is in this episode for five minutes because Why The Hell Not I Guess), meets multiple people whose loved ones have been killed in the war, and is told by an older suffragette that one day of the good work he's put in today is worth one year of time in the trenches. At one point, while visiting the girl's family, he is asked why he joined the war effort, and gives an unbelievably vague and evasive answer that all but proves he doesn't even know why. And in the end, he wants to ask the girl to marry him, but she says no - partially because of the implication that she doesn't know him quite well enough to be willing to sign her rights away, and partially because she doesn't know if after the war they'll be two different people.

So let's look at the facts. Here in London, he has friends, family, someone he loves who he could spend a life with and eventually marry after they've established themselves, and a purpose he enjoys with clear, positive results. Sure, he's already signed up for the Belgian Army, but he enlisted under a half-assed fake name that couldn't possibly be traced. He scarcely ever sees Remy - he seems to owe him nothing, and owe his country no allegiance. Why not just... not go when his number is up? What reason on Earth could he have to do anything but stay?

So naturally, he just. He just fucking goes! For no conceivable reason - no conceivable reason other than that Lawrence is also in the war!

Indy's been friends with Lawrence since they met when Lawrence was 20 and Indy was a nine-year-old kid who couldn't act very well - Lawrence asked him to call him "Ned", and he still does (which, for the record, Indy's tutor, who has literally known Lawrence longer than Indy has and is on good terms with him, does not. Apparently she didn't get the nicknaming permission. Rip). Still does, because the only time Indy is able to give a concrete answer about anything in the war is when said tutor angrily asks him why he's enlisted, and he says that "Ned" is in the war! He knows this because apparently Lawrence actually kept his promise to write to him, and they've been writing letters and sending stuff to each other since Indy was a child! And - judging by every other thing in his life suggesting otherwise - Indy values the actions of his pen pal more than anyone else's opinions, his friends and love life, and his own safety and happiness! That doesn't seem like a normal way to react to the actions of a guy you only knew in-person for a few days as a child!

Unless...

...

...In conclusion, world-famous fictional film character Indiana Jones would not have become the person he is if it hadn't been for his gay little crush on real human man T. E. Lawrence.

[80smovies]

[nomsfaultau]

Okay so after the last repost I just have to ask. What the hell happened to fault!Ranboo? I am not reading the fic for mental health concern reasons (concerned about the fact that I'll be absolutely devastated and cry and die). But this is just- what the fuck happened?

Totally fair to skip, Fault gets very intense. There was a little side story called What Happened in the Cavern in which Ranboo escapes the Foundation and hides in a cave system. Except it starts to flood and they're trying to escape the water because it's like acid to them. Lawrence, a side character, encounters them on his honey moon with his wife Maria. Ranboo has the slight problem of mindlessly attacking anyone who looks in his eyes, and auto knows where the person who looked at him is if their eyes are open. And obviously Mariah looks. So Ranboo rips out their eye of ender to teleport into a mindless rampage (tho it does grow back). Then blind + feral Ranboo is hunting them down while Lawrence is desperately trying to guide Mariah out with her eyes squeezed shut. Very horror monster vibes.

They get cornered, Ranboo claws through Mariah's eyes and she's super duper dead. Ranboo snaps out of the state and is pretty horrified, keeps apologizing to Lawrence.

Ranboo: Is there anything I can do? To help?

Lawrence: yes. die.

And then Lawrence proceeds to trick Ranboo into going feral and holds Ranboo down in the flooded cave water, causing their body to dissolve in an incredibly gruesome death. He's left with their skull and his wife's corpse and just kinda sits there vacantly until the Foundation shows up.

.....so technically it's all a big hewwo obama joke? Given the flooding, 'then perish' etc....

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1936, archeological Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr was recruited by the government to find and retrieve the biblical Ark of the Covenant before the Nazi’s could during Hitler’s drive to find religious artifacts to aid him in winning World War II. (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flm)

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

Lupin special where the Seven Pillars of Wisdom are 'reinterpreted' as a legend of seven actual jewels that Lawrence hid out in the desert or w/e

mfw I remember the awful Lawrence-related Part 2 episode:

[gingerwerk]

So you’re gonna look me in the eye and tell me that the fact that will Byers goes missing AND Mary Winchester gets killed by the yellow eyed demon in November of 1983 have Nothing to do with each other

[blogdemocratesjr]

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman

Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan

[deckardsdwelling]

Harrison Ford in Shrinking

[Harrison Ford as Paul Rhoades in “Shrinking” - AppleTV - credit: tedslasso]

— WDD

[richonnefan50]

The way I’m going to scream ageism 😭if they retire the Daniel ,Johnny ,and Chozen characters going forward in the Karate kid/cobra Kai franchise after the show . Like I hope they don’t make the mistake of not recognizing what made this whole thing work . It was the idea of seeing Johnny Lawrence and Daniel again that renew people interest in the overall Karate Kid franchise again (not even that Jaden Smith movie did it😭)not the idea of seeing a bunch of new kids taking karate 😭. This isn’t even being nostalgic either .Like when people are ask who their favorite characters are from the show most fans both old and young say Johnny Lawrence . Like the Hawk and the Miguel type of characters on the show are okay and everything but it not the OG. And we could argue that the fault of the writers cause they gave more compelling interesting layered stories to Daniel ,Chozen,Terry and Kreese etc while the teens were just caught in silly love triangle storylines 🥴. And I hope Ralph and Billy don’t feel that we’re tired of them and they need to step aside and let someone younger take the lead cause that the farther thing from the truth 😔😭❤️. Like you better let these 2 old dorks play these characters whenever wherever for as long as they wish or so help me 😭😭😭

[roguekaiju]

I forget how intense hyperfixations get for me everything I touch I look at with conclave goggles. Stardew Valley, what if Lawrence and Vincent were both allowed to resign and both moved to a small farming town, to run the church there... Indiana Jones, what if a group of baddies snatched Lawrence to use him to try and find a secret Vatican treasure... Skyrim, Vincent as a priest of Mara and Lawrence as a priest of Stendarr... Conclave itself but where Vincent is brought in as a teacher in residence while Lawrence is still teaching canon law (which im pretty sure is part of his backstory in the novel)... the possibilities are endless and they won't leave me alone!!!!!!

[adamwatchesmovies]

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

When you put the finishing touches on a film, you always hope it will be a hit but few must know for sure how the public will react to their hard work. When Steven Spielberg wrapped production on Raiders of the Lost Ark you wonder if he knew. Packed with wall-to-wall excitement, unforgettable characters, one memorable scene after another, deliciously evil villains, a romance that draws you in and a protagonist so cool it’ll make you want to become an archeologist so you can imitate him, this is the kind of movie that reminds you why you love movies.

In 1936, American archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is sent to investigate a dig funded by the Nazis. Rumor is Indy’s old mentor discovered the location of the Ark of the Covenant, that whoever possesses it will be granted invincibility and that the last clue to its location is in the headpiece of a staff Abner Ravenwood left to his daughter, Marion (Karen Allen).

You can simply sit back and enjoy the show but if you’ve got an eye for filmmaking, Raiders of the Lost Ark takes you through a masterclass. The opening scene is a dazzler. The way it sets up Indiana Jones, it’s like they designed the character to be recognizable from his silhouette alone - guaranteeing his iconic status. As our hero, Harrison Ford practically embodies the definition of manliness. He’s crafty and methodical. He’s always got a snappy remark to ensure his opponents are dumfounded even before he throws a first punch. When he encounters an opponent stronger than he is, his well-oiled brains make up the difference. The chemistry between our favorite archeologist and the beautiful Marion (who winds up kidnapped and captured more than a couple of times but is otherwise tough and resourceful) is unmissable. You want them to get together almost as much as you want them to find that mysterious Ark.

When you look at the whole picture, there’s nothing grandiose about the characters and their relationships. The sadistic Major Arnold Toht (the wonderfully slimy Ronald Lacey) is evil through-and-through. He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever except that he excels at making you intimidated. The film has a tiny bit of something to say about the value of archaeological finds in that Indy’s rival, Dr. René Belloq (Paul Freeman) sees every ancient trinket as an object that randomly happens to be valuable, whereas our hero sees the non-monetary value they will earn from future generations. What makes it so special, then? It's the emotions the story stirs within you. Even if you've never sat through the Saturday morning serials Philip Kaufman, George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan and Steven Spielberg saw as children, you immediately understand what made them special because this is essentially one of those blown up and made by fine artists. Every cliffhanger has you on edge, wondering what’s next. As soon as our heroes make it out of one jam, you get a bit of a breather to laugh… but then you’re thrown right back into the thick of it with another spike pit or goon looking to cause trouble. Every frame of Raiders of the Lost Ark fulfills the kind of childhood desire that guarantees you leave satisfied.

You could watch Raiders of the Lost Ark 100 times and always find something new in it. From the characters to the action and the romance, there's too much to drink in for just one sitting. It's no wonder we're still talking about it today. (On Blu-ray, April 10, 2020)