#lgbtq+ shelby family

[nerdyenby]

I posted 179 times in 2022

That's 179 more posts than 2021!

105 posts created (59%)

74 posts reblogged (41%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@shelbys-here

@destinysbounty

@funnytwittertweets

@strikerofdeath0

@mysharona1987

I tagged 173 of my posts in 2022

Only 3% of my posts had no tags

#ninjago - 49 posts

#lego ninjago - 48 posts

#ranboo - 20 posts

#mc championship - 18 posts

#lgbtqia - 16 posts

#mcyt - 16 posts

#lgbtq - 16 posts

#mcc - 16 posts

#jay ninjago - 16 posts

#zane ninjago - 15 posts

Longest Tag: 106 characters

#timeline character motivation and just the logistics of this horro comedy being canon just doesn’t compute

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Empires: haha worldbuilding

Hermits: I will build your entire freaking world /th

234 notes - Posted October 28, 2022

#4

INTERNET!!! LOOK AT MY PRETTY GRAPH (it’s a venn diagram but whatever)

It’s all the MCC participants (on the wiki as having participated in at least two events) that are on SMPs! I don’t know whether to thank Scott for bringing together such a wide group of people or to cuss him out for making this diagram so hard to put together /lh.

While we’re here, I also looked at the average age and the percent of LGBTQIA+ people on each server (from this sample).

Average age:

Origins- 22.6

Dream SMP- 23.08

X Life- 23.25

Empires- 27.14

Life Series- 30.88

Hermitcraft- 32.00

Percent LGBTQ:

Hermitcraft- 14.29%

Life Series- 25%

X Life- 28.57%

Dream SMP- 34.62%

Empires- 42.86%

Origins- 44.44%

Keep in mind this data may not be entirely accurate as I did it all in one sitting, without double checking, and using wikis as the primary source.

252 notes - Posted August 25, 2022

#3

YOU KNOW WHAT?! IM GONNA TALK ABOUT IT! I’M GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW INSTANTLY KLAUS AND SPARROW!BEN LATCHED ONTO EACH OTHET AND WHY

Ben was Klaus’s only constant for decades. They bickered and fought constantly but they’re brothers, they love each other. When Ben died, Klaus was relieved that Ben was finally able to move on and find peace, but he still missed him, it’s clear as day in how he regards Sparrow!Ben when they first meet.

However, that’s all fairly surface level, stated clearly in the show itself. What’s less evident is that Ben has never had a friend before. I believe he says this, but I haven’t seen anyone truly pick it apart. His family was even faker than the Umbrellas’. They got along better, but they were more business partners than anything else. They spent their whole lives together, but barely got to know each other because their whole life is a publicity stunt. They’re under constant watch and judgement not just from their dad, but from the whole city and even each other. They worked so hard to be good at their jobs that they never were allowed to figure out who they were outside of them, even to each other. Ben isn’t deeply affected by losing his siblings because he doesn’t know how to mourn a relationship that lacked any authenticity. They worked together to be the perfect unit, so anything that didn’t fit into that image was hidden away, especially from the others because they *will* use that against you. And they spent every moment together, so none of them were ever allowed to be anything less than what was expected of them. Ben never got the opportunity to find out who he was outside of the guy on the billboards.

Then in walks Klaus, someone who knows Ben better than he knows himself. He knows the Ben that was allowed to be real, the Ben that was allowed to experience emotions other than stoicism and anger, the Ben that learned unshielded love through constant companionship with Klaus. Sparrow!Ben was never given the chance to become that, but seeing the absolute mess that is the Umbrellas, he finds that he wants it. He wants to be a mess, to be allowed to feel, to be accepted even when you screw up. He doesn’t know how to be the version of himself that earned that type of love, but then Klaus tells him that being real was what made Ben so easy to love.

And then they’re hanging off of each other the rest of the night. Don’t you dare make it weird (glares at Netflix), these losers are touch deprived. They’re clingy as hell in the most platonic way possible because do you think Sparrow!Ben has ever received any sort of physical affection? How many years has Klaus been metaphorically leaning on Ben before he finally learned to do so literally, only to lose him almost instantly? They each so desperately need the support the other is longing to give, okay?! They just want hugs, your honor.

333 notes - Posted July 25, 2022

#2

Things I know would have Techno doing his stupid little high pitched cackle /affectionate

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468 notes - Posted July 2, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Aqua is so funny because they’re like “I feel like I went to school with you” after like game two and by game four Purpled literally says “We’re family, I’ll protect you guys” like what 😭 this is the most unexpected found family ever. Their vibes are: seniors in high school being paired up for a group project when they’ve barely spoken but always wanted to be friends and now they’re emotionally attached

798 notes - Posted September 24, 2022

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[batjmlworld]

Three Days of Darkness Blues

"Another year over, and a new one just begun." (so said Mr. Lennon)

As a young person in my teens and twenties, I so much wanted to be a Dayton broadcast legend...

.....but instead I was handed a sour lemon.

Stuggled for five years at a broken-down FM station in a radical right wing racist white trash Indiana town

My bosses were supporters of the ever-arrogant anti-semetist "Liberty Lobby", the racist Ku Klux Klan and the fear-factor-based John Birch Society

Needless to say it so much gave me the blues and I was feelin' depreciated,dejected, demeaned and down.

And the self-righteous holy-roly hilljack preachers thumping their king james versions...also claiming that Dr. King was a commie.

Was fired in 1979 and moved back to my home stomping ground of Sidney and Shelby County.

Worked for a year in a plastic 2 liter pop bottle factory, where I was branded "dummer than a hay rake" by the drug-dealin'/dope smokin' bubbas

..and evetually was fired once again.

In due time I finally realized that we're living in a day in age of "people being lovers of their own selves"

Biblical prophecy bein' fulfilled in my face... all around me.

Abortion, same-sex marriages and I could and can go on....such a lowdown, yet prophectic self-righteous mass murder sin!

But this is just the beginning

I met my wife in 1979..and we both married-up in 1982.

Brought three sons into the world....one of which afflicted with autism...and the other two with attention deficit disdorders

Needless to say my wife became increasingly cynical

And pulled my sons out of the local Catholic elementary school.

She got her "tubes tied" after my youngest son was born

And arrogantly justified it in the name of "a woman's right to choose"

And became a devil's advocate for the LGBTQs

(though she herself isn't one of them...yet she is wearing their shoes)

....how selfish, unrighteous, anti-Catholic and uncool.)

I feel like a loner in the Catholic faith..and it so much gave me the blues..hence I became a volunteer for Catholic radio

And now I feel the inner-peace of the Spirit, though I still struggle to this day

But the times are fixin' to get worse to aplocalypic proportions.

As my deepest gut feelings are telling my broken heart and aching soul

That the three days of darkness are now heading our way.

So please head the messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje.

The apocalypyse is surely heading our way!

(What else an I say?.....)

COME LORD JESUS...please take me and my family home by your tender loving mercy.

In short....

VIVA CRISTO REY!!!!

JML 01/06/23

Medjugorje message Christmas Day December 25, 2022:

"Dear children!

Today I am carrying my Son Jesus to you, that yo may be His peace and the reflection of (the) clarity of heaven.

Pray, little children to be open to receive peace because many hearts are closed to the call of the light which changes hearts.

I am with you and am praying for you to open yourselves to receive the King of Peace, who fills your heart with warmth and blessing.

Thank you for having responded to my call."

BVM 12/25/22

(relayed by JML the bluespoet from https://www.medjugorje.org)

[meaty4spicedbuns]

John Shelby &Bisexual!Fem!Reader | One shot - A glass from the Garisson

Imagine : Being openly Bisexual with the Shelby and flirting at the bar from boredom with John.

Resume: Thomas leave you three at the Garisson counter while he is discuting with somebody for business purpose. Arthur decided to boredly drinking while waiting. But you and John aren't patiently wait. So you both decided to set a little competition.

Warning: Bisexual fem!reader as written in the title ; so if you're homophobe just freak off this blog thank's. Otherwise none, just you being handsome and John being a lill' shy.

Author note: /!\ English isn't my first langage, and this one shot is kinda old. I had it on my computer for more than two years now. I'm a little bit shy to share this fic with you to be honnest ahah. I tried to correct some mistake, but since I'm actually writting one shot to get better with my english's writting skill, it's still wobbly. Any comment is appreciated (or even like or reblog); thanks you for reading :) !

PS : when I say ''flirting from boredom" we both consent to think you and John are mature and no childish ; you're respecting any person you going to flirt with :) (i feel the need to add that)

Gif not mine ! (thank to the person who made it)

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As a friend of the Shelby family, it is usual to see you hanging with them at the bar. Having a drink, discussion, or just some troubles. And today wasn’t far different from all the usual. There was nothing particular to do, work was over. At least for you. Thomas was still in a long discussion with a possible costumer in the V.I.P square, letting you wait outside at the counter. And even though you were patient, it’s been half an hour and you all began to be bored.

That how you began to look at the people in the pub with John. You were both looking for people to flirt with; Arthur wasn’t in the mood since he already had a girl in mind. And one of the things that made the situation more interesting were that John knew about your situation, your sexuality, and was taking it as a competition. Since you were able to love both men and women, he wanted to see which of you were the most attractive; male ego, you know.

And there is that girl at a table. She is elegant. Kind of your type for you, or John, for a one standing night.

“- See that girl, you said with a smile. I bet I can made her interested in me.”

He let go a chuckle, up an eyebrow and whispered:

“- Don’t get me wrong miss, but I’m sure she’s more into boy than girl. You wouldn’t even get her name.

- Then go, and get it, you Don Juan.”

Without saying anything more, the Shelby just bash off your comment with his hands. His eyes turn away from the girl you were both talking about, you just realized he was getting a little bit shy from the thought of accosting that stunning girl.

That made you chuckle. So you decided for the next minute to just let him some time in case he grown some balls, but when you hit him with your elbow to ask if he wanted to go trying his chances, he just stare at her for a few second and shake his head. “Just a stupid game, he sights.”.

But you were still in the mood to play, and to prove to John you were going to win the game; because you love to prove you’re right after all. So, you decided to take the first step. You get up from your chair and walk toward her. You could hear your friend facing toward you while you were walking. You were pretty sure he was shocked to see you took the lead; and a little bit jealous.

As a girl, you were always more welcomed when accosting another woman; as you appaear less threatening. You politely asked her if you could take a sit and saw by her smile that she was more than happy to have company. You can feel her glaze traveling all over you. She had those beautiful eyes you know John would love, and you were so pleased to feel his gaze on your back during your conversation with the woman he envies. At the end, you stand up and said:

“- If you like guys, there is my friend at the bar the younger one, is named John and find you beautiful. But if you like girl, my name is (Y/N) and I would be delight to know you more for a night.”

With a brief smile, you winked at her and joined the guys. Both were curious to know what happened. And five minutes later, you find that girl coming back. She put her glass on the counter and look both at you and John.

“- I’m more into girl, she purred while looking at you. But I guess we could manage for us three.”

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[darkomenszine]

Vol 1 Charities

Alliance Healthcare Services http://www.alliance-hs.org/ (US 🇺🇸)

This not-for-profit organization provides affordable/free therapy to people in Shelby County, TN. They offer outpatient, intensive outpatient, home-based, and community based programs, as well as access to nurse practitioners for medication. They also provide case workers for clients who need help and support in other ways.

Donation link: http://www.alliance-hs.org/fundraising

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Befrienders Worldwide https://befrienders.org/ (INTERNATIONAL 🌐)

Befrienders Worldwide is a global network of 349 emotional support centres in 32 countries, spanning 5 continents. Befrienders Worldwide centres provide an open space for those in distress to talk and be heard. This is via telephone helplines, SMS messaging, face to face, internet chat, outreach and local partnerships.

Donation link: https://befrienders.org/donate-now

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Canadian Mental Health Association https://cmha.ca/ (CA 🇨🇦)

The Canadian Mental Health Association is the most established, most extensive community mental health organization in Canada. Through a presence in more than 330 communities across every province and one territory, CMHA provides advocacy, programs and resources that help to prevent mental health problems and illnesses, support recovery and resilience, and enable all Canadians to flourish and thrive.

Donation link: https://cmha.donordrive.com/?fuseaction=donate.event&eventID=561&language=en

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Crisis Textline https://www.crisistextline.org/ (US, UK, CA and IR 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇮🇪)

Operating in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland, Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention by empowering a community of trained volunteers to support people in their moments of need.

Donation link: https://donorbox.org/crisistextline

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Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders https://www.msf.org/ (INTERNATIONAL 🌐)

Médecins Sans Frontières is an international, independent medical humanitarian organisation, providing medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare.

Donation link: https://www.msf.org/donate

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Mind https://www.mind.org.uk/ (UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿)

Mind is one of the leading mental health charities in England and Wales. They provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem, as well as lobbying and campaigning to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding of mental health issues.

Donation link: https://www.mind.org.uk/donate

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PRIZMA https://www.prizma-kosice.sk/  (SK 🇸🇰)

[Website only in Slovak]

(Blurb courtesy of Google Translate:)

PRIZMA is the only community and counselling centre in Slovakia for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise minority identified/LGBTQ+ people. It responds to the needs of the queer community to have accessible and respectful therapeutic services, as well as the need to meet in a safe environment, grow personally and emotionally, defend their rights, exchange knowledge, and raise public awareness of their needs or the prejudices they face in the public environment.

Donation link: https://sq.darujme.sk/prizma-0d410/

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Survivors UK https://www.survivorsuk.org/ (UK 🇬🇧)

SurvivorsUK provides support to male and non-binary people who have experienced sexual abuse or assault at any time in their lives. They operate a UK-wide helpline, and provide both individual counselling and group work from their base in London, as well as offering support for friends and family of male survivors, and campaigning to raise awareness around the effects of sexual assault in the wider community.

Donation link: https://survivorsuk.enthuse.com/Donate#!/

[classicsnerd]

The Wilds at Pride fanfic

Shelby was so excited! She was about to spend an entire, perfect day with all the people she loved most: her six best friends and her girlfriend, Toni. It was now a year since the day their plane had crash-landed and they had all been stranded on an island together for three months and the eight had decided to celebrate the anniversary by reuniting in L.A and going to Pride together. 

This would be Shelby’s very first pride and she could not help but be amazed and the amount of progress she had made since the year before. When she entered that plane, she had been closeted and in-denial about her sexuality, hiding her true self behind her pageant facade, terrified of doing anything to made father mad. Now, she was out to her family and friends and had an amazing girlfriend who she loved as well as a wonderful support system. Without Dot and Toni, Shelby might not have survived her senior year. 

Shelby met the others at the entrance to the event and immediately kissed Toni hello and then hugged her friends.The only reason why Shelby felt safe enough to kiss another girl in public was because she knew she was surrounded by members of her community. 

“You know,” said Nora, “the fact that so many people in our group of eight are in LGBTQ community should have been highly improbable at least statistically speaking. I think the normal number is one in five people, but somehow, in our group of eight, there are seven queer people.” 

“Fuck the statistics,” shouted Fatin, “I’m pretty sure that number is bullshit. Our situation of only having one straight person in a gay friendgroup is way more common than the gay best friend archetype from TV.” 

Toni laughed and then said, “Come on, let’s go do some queer stuff! Pride 2020!” 

Shelby grabbed Toni’s hand and Fatin grabbed Leah and the whole group walked into the celebration. Their first stop before joining in the parade was a large tent selling pins and flags. The person manning the booth was an attractive twenty year old woman with her short hair in an undercut and two pins, one with the lesbian flag on it and the other with the pronouns “she/her.” The woman smiled at the oncoming group. 

“Hey y’all! What can I get you?”

Toni and Shelby approached first, “Can we get a big lesbian flag and she/her and she/they pins, please?” 

“Of course,” said the woman, “and you two make a super cute couple by the way.”

Next went Fatin and Leah who asked for a pansexual pin and a bisexual pin. They’re relationship was so new and Shelby knew from Dot that it had taken a lot of time and angst before they finally got together. Shelby was just happy to see her two friends so comfortable together. 

Rachel, Nora, and Dot went next and got asexual, pansexual, and nonbinary pins. Even Martha got herself a little ally pin from the cute woman at the stand. 

Then the eight of them joined the surging mass of people all donning different color flags, surrounded by a community there to celebrate loving yourself and others. In that moment, Shelby finally realized the true wonderfulness of being a part of this community. She basked in the fact that she would always have these people to help her.

[waverlys-tampon-angel]

i finished watching the wilds and genera+ion panels from outfest and i have thoughts (starting with the wilds) 

this one seemed kinda random and i felt like it didn’t really go too in depth into the characters of shelby and toni. or at least not much past what was already said by their actors and the show creators during other interviews/IG lives/etc.

also it kind of felt like everyone was just repeating “authenticity is what people need” over and over again, which is true, but there are other avenues that could have been explored.

i think it would have been interesting to talk about the importance of how white people in particular can center discussions about feminism and queerness around themselves (or at least neglect to view it with an intersectional perspective), applying this notion both to the creation of the show (like how sarah s. talked about the diverse writer’s room, specifically the queer woman of color helped shaped toni’s story to ensure this was authentic) and also gretchen’s actions, as all the characters come from marginalized backgrounds and she is bringing this horrible trauma into their lives (and their families lives) for the cause of “feminism”

i know this panel is for pride and the overall focus is LGBTQ+ topics, but i wish they just spoke a bit more about race and how that affects how toni and shelby perceive each other (esp bc toni essentially points out the white savior complex with shelby through some joke early in the season)

i follow jill (the moderator) on twitter and i know she is a very comedic person on there and i enjoyed lighthearted discussions about tiktok, etc  but there was definitely room to include more “serious” topics

usually i don’t comment on panels/IRL things but i just wanted to share and i genuinely was interested in how other people received this panel. this was quite a long post but if anyone else has thoughts on this i would love to hear

[princechickennugget]

Honestly this post has been a huge debate of mine for the past couple of years

I used to be such a huge advocate in the LGBTQ community whenever I’d first come out as bisexual, then gay, and then transgender all together in the steps of figuring out who I was meant to be from childhood, through high school, and then into my adult years.

I’m a straight transgender male.

Around a year or so into my transition - I took everything down, deleted all of social media from a wide follow base/one of the higher advocates in the transgender community, and began to live my life completely stealth. I had to. I could pass well enough and was far enough to do it unless someone who knew me outted me.

The bitter truth of it all is.. people will harm you for being transgender. They will rape you to make a “man” out of you. They will cold heartily beat you to death.

I’d switched jobs (a job I’d worked at for about 2-3 years) due to the fact of being harassed by coworkers, degraded, questioned on inappropriate things, and just overall I felt like I couldn’t even go into work without someone harassing me or fearing my life.

What made me leave is whenever I became the overall discussion of town and a customer physically attacked me. I couldn’t go into bathrooms without being terrified of being raped or beat to death literally just for needing the restroom.

I’ve struggled a lot with mental health. I’ve come from a very rough childhood where there was a lot of abuse. Physically, emotionally, and just things that were out of our hands as children.

I’ve held my silence in every “me too” movement. I never hated my body because I was transgender, I LOVED myself as a girl - I just never was who I was meant to be. I felt things that normal people just didn’t feel and never knew what it was. That’s why I struggled so much with figuring out if I were gay, or I was supposed to like guys because it’s the “normal” thing to do - meanwhile I wanted to be the guy. I remember asking my mom in third grade to cut my hair like a boy and I’d cry because I couldn’t stand to pee like my brother. I was pushed in stalls and beat by kids for having my hair short and dressing like a “tomboy”

Overall, I genuinely didn’t understand why I couldn’t just do these things.

I hated my body because of the innocence that was robbed from me for years. No one knows because you’re terrified and that’s where silence comes into play for years at a time. Ive never told anyone and this part takes my whole body to write out. So sadly, Me Too.

Being transgender ruins friendships, family, and job opportunities more than you would ever believe.

I’ve been shunned in the family, lost good friends, hidden in almost every single relationship because they were either scared of what their parents thought or what other people thought of me, and I’ve lost out on some good job opportunities just for being transgender once they found out - I guess from running my background with my social/ or I why I don’t go by Shelby as my legal name. It’s a VERY lengthy hard process especially in Louisiana to change everything.

I won’t ramble too much anymore but -

In the end to the people who are reading this, thank you so much for your support and love. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Thank you for loving me for ME and building friendships without further questioning me.

To my girlfriend, you are everything that I’ve needed as for as stability, love, and patience. The first person to actually let me meet their parents and to stand by my side and to show how proud she is to stand along side of me through this life with me.

Thank you to my massage school for changing my name in the graduation walk to make me feel welcomed without asking

Thank you to my parents who have struggled to accept but are working day by day to understand. Now that I’m older, your love has run in a higher measure. I understand that sometimes we don’t ask for the things to happen the way that they did but you’ve tried everything that you could have to make us have a better life apart from the marriage and I forgive you.

Thank you to my work. Walmart has made me feel so comfortable, welcome, given me tremendous opportunities to show my knowledge, and overall I have met so many wonderful people who will be lifelong friends. It’s not a job that I walk into anymore, it’s my second place where I call home. I love my TEAM.

Don’t let people ever try to take credit for the path you’ve made yourself.

If you’re depressed/suicidal/have anxiety, this is a sign I promise it gets better. You will make it through this.

You are LOVED.

I forgot what it’s like to be proud of myself and I AM SO PROUD OF WHO I AM.

It’s terrifying writing this to welcome the world back into, but it’s also being truthful to myself.

You can share for the ones who are struggling & remember to be kind to one another please.

Especially with everything going on in the world - it’s a fear to be alive in the BLM movement for our brothers and sisters that are fighting right now.

You fought for our movement and we will continue to STAND AND FIGHT WITH YOU EVERYDAY. human is human. Skin to Skin we show our truth how Love is Love.

I am SAGE and this is my TRUTH.

Thank you for reading 🤍

[hadtochangemyurlquick]

who are some of your fav lgbtq characters? (movie books tv anything)

i'm curious as to what prompted this but my answers as probs not too exciting

korra and asami from legend of korra were the first gays i saw on screen so probs them, quinn and santana from glee were both pretty important to my coming out, kara danvers from supergirl was so pretty and handsome, clarke and lexa from the 100 of course turned me into a sword lesbian. after clarke and lexa, it was adora who changed my life pretty severely. and since she-ra i've been hyperfocusing on toni and shelby. but dot, leah, and rachel have all been super important to me as queer girls with different gender expressions and sexualities and complicated relationships with their families.

in books there have only been two books which have been transformative to me as a queer person as of yet. rubyfruit jungle by rita mae brown and the miseducation of cameron post by emily danforth. so molly bolt and cameron post were both extremely important. since, molly has lost some love from me but i can't deny she was never helpful.

and of course, john grady cole and lacey rawlings from all the pretty horses

[merakiaes]

Hello! Can I get Marvel, Harry Potter, Twilight, Stranger Things, The Witcher, Peaky Blinders, The Walking Dead, Suicide Squad, Game Of Thrones ship? 💖 179 cm tall; dark brown, past shoulder-length hair with bangs; blue eyes (the left eye is mixed with hazel, aka, heterochromia iridium); heptagon face shape with dimples; rectangle body shape. Hufflepuff. INFP-T. Bi-curious. Pisces-Aries cusp sign. ”Looks like could kill you, but is actually a cinnamon roll.” At first, I may come off as reserved, shy, yet polite. I, as many of us, have a resting bitch face, that’s why people may think that I’m in a bad mood. It takes me a lot of time to warm up to somebody, cause I have social anxiety. Hate small talk, or speaking in front of the public. When I’m nervous, I tend to mess up my words or forget what I was supposed to say. I’m usually playful, dirty-minded and goofy around close friends. I’m the so-called, ”fashionista and mom” from my circle of friends. A perfectionist, punctual, over-thinker, slight control/clean freak. Stubborn in some situations. If I’m annoyed or getting impatient, I can say something witty or sarcastic. I’m constantly fighting an inner battle with myself, trying to accept myself. I don’t like to smile or laugh in public, cause of the small gap between my front teeth. I really hate taking selfies or somebody else taking pictures of me. The clothes I wear depends on my mood (and the weather outside), but it’s always a mix of smart casual or comfortable. Don’t like doing things out of my comfort zone, prefer to stay indoors. Dislike asking people for help (it makes me feel uncomfortable). I don’t like arguments, but I will square up if they come for my family or I snapped. I’m a kind-hearted person, always ready to help someone in need, quite modest as well. My hobbies include listening to any type of music, reading, watching movies or tv shows, traveling (if given the chance), and cleaning. Have a thing for writing. Very protective of my family. Divorced parents. Motherly towards kids and friends. An old soul, and the ”black sheep” of my family. A feminist, support LGBTQ+ community. Sometimes I like to try and cook easy recipes. Dislike black coffee, prefer tea or orange juice. That’s it, - thanks!

MARVEL

I ship you with Bruce Banner!

He would be kind of wary and scared to talk to you to a start. The other guy may be big and strong, but he’s not. He doesn’t have much confidence in himself when in his human form and he would be intimidated by you at first glance, but once he actually works up the courage to come and talk to you, you’d get on great.

He knows what it's like to struggle with social anxiety so he would be patient and need some time to become comfortable with you, as well, scared of messing things up by saying the wrong thing and/or sharing too much. 

Like you, he rambles when he’s nervous so that’s just another thing you have in common, but once he’s comfortable with someone, he’s more than happy to participate in some sarcastic, dirty-minded banter. 

He’s very reserved and, like earlier mentioned, doesn’t have much confidence. He would never understand how someone like you would want someone like him but he would be so in awe of the fact that you did want him. 

He knows all too well what it’s like to be at odds with yourself and accepting who you are so he would be very understanding and supportive of that, and he’d comfort you about your insecurities and let you know that you’re more than good enough. 

You’re also very similar in that you prefer to stay indoors, away from all kinds of social activity, and not go out of your comfort zones while, as well as the way you’re both more than willing to help other people in need while disliking asking for help for yourselves.

HARRY POTTER

I ship you with George Weasley!

George is the literal definition of a cinnamon roll. He’s so kind, caring and thoughtful, and I feel like we don’t talk about that nearly enough. 

You’re shy and reserved, and he’s forward and energetic. You struggle to warm up to people, and he has no problem whatsoever getting to know new people. So I feel like it would be a good match. He would kinda just force all his energy onto you so that you, as a result, wouldn’t feel as anxious about meeting someone new, you know?

He could help you let loose a bit more, and I mean that in the most respectful way possible; not because you’re uptight, but more so to help relieve some of that stress and pressure that everything always has to be perfect.

He’s so loud as a person that neither you nor anyone else would even notice your mistakes, like messing up your words, because George and his twin just take the stage wherever they go. 

George loves pushing his limits and discovering new things so I feel like he’d definitely try to get you out of your comfort zones on some occasions, but at the same time, he’s a lot less pushy than his twin and would give up if he noticed that you really didn’t want to do something, whereas Fred probably would’ve just dragged you along by your arm and bugged you until you gave in.

He’d find your shy personality adorable to a start but once you got comfortable enough to show your playful, dirty-minded and goofy side, he would just be amazed and get even more excited around you. 

And knowing him, he’d love both your heterochromia and the gap between your teeth. He would find your eyes the most fascinating thing in the world, and he’s just generally a person who loves “different” and finds it beautiful. 

Being protective over family and loved ones is a plus for any of the Weasleys, seeing as the most precious thing they have is just that; family. So the fact that this is a quality you have would make George even more attracted to you, as would your motherly instincts.

 TWILIGHT

I ship you with Embry Call!

Like Bruce, Embry probably would’ve been a bit intimidated by you on first sight. Not only because of your resting bitch face, but also because he just has no experience with girls, whatsoever. 

After much encouragement from the other boys, however, he probably would’ve been able to work up the courage needed to approach you and most likely, knowing him, he would’ve stumbled over his words and completely messed up, so you’d never have to worry about messing up like that, yourself, because he would just be such a mess that it would be hard to beat. 

Embry is, like you, playful, dirty-minded and goofy when he’s in the right company, but he’s much quieter and shyer than the other boys on the reservation, as well as reserved in general - like you. He’s also a lot more caring and loving than his pack members but, like the rest of them, he’s very protective of family, which is just another thing the two of you share. 

Embry is a wolf so, obviously, he enjoys being outside and participating in fast-paced activities, but I don’t think he’d mind staying inside with you, watching movies, or just listening to music and hanging out. His mom definitely wouldn’t mind, as he’s technically grounded for life for sneaking out every night, which he keeps ignoring much to her dismay. 

He’s just so kind and humble. He’d be so sweet and supportive about your insecurities and never force you to do anything you’re not comfortable with, and he’d be all over your cooking, no matter how good or bad you are at it!

 STRANGER THINGS

I ship you with Jonathan Byers!

Jonathan knows everything about being the black sheep. He had to find himself and learn his value completely on his own, so he knows what it’s like to be at war with your own mind in accepting who you are. 

He believes that people should be judged by their ability to work rather than by what gender they are and that women should be respected just as much as men, as seen when he disapproved of how Nancy was being treated by her co-workers, and therefore also shares your feminist ideals. 

He would be the sweetest to you about your insecurities and tell you that it’s okay to be different no matter what and that you’re beautiful and enough just the way you are. 

He’s introverted, asocial and kind just like you, cares very deeply for family and knows what it’s like to have divorced parents. 

He’s very much into music just like you are and is not very fond of small talk nor fighting either, so I feel like you would have a really calm and stable relationship. 

 THE WITCHER

I ship you with Jaskier!

Jaskier is a little like George Weasley in the way that he always steals all the attention whenever he walks into a room. He’s got a very loud personality and for the same reasons I think you’d be good with George, I think you would be good with Jaskier!

Unlike you who prefer staying within your comfort one, Jaskier might care about that a bit too little. Let’s just say that he would never bother you about not being more adventurous, because he’d be far too busy stepping out of his comfort zone and getting into trouble, himself, to notice.

Jaskier is also a big fan of writing, reading and, of course, music, so I think you’d be able to have some really good times together.

 PEAKY BLINDERS

I ship you with Ada Shelby!

Being the only woman as well as the only really sensible member of a family full of gangsters for sure puts a person under the “black sheep”-category, so Ada knows all about feeling out of place. 

She’s the only member of the Shelby family who absolutely hates violence which is one of the main reasons I think you’d suit each other, seeing as you don’t like arguments. Just like you, she will square up if she absolutely has to in order to defend herself, but she’d much prefer not to. 

She’s very level-headed and tries her best to stay well clear of all the illegal activities that her family get up to, instead, putting her focus into activism and trying to improve equality for everyone, as well as trying to embrace the beautiful and sensuous things life has to offer.

She has a natural instinct to take care of those who can’t look after themselves, she’s kind-hearted and humane, accepting and understanding, so she would be very patient with getting to know you and let you take the time you needed. 

Out of all the Peaky Blinders characters, I can almost guarantee you that Ada is your best shot at getting a peaceful and unproblematic life. 

THE WALKING DEAD

I ship you with Daryl Dixon!

Daryl may be brave and good at surviving, but he is, at the same time, constantly facing challenges from his past as an abuse victim. Because of his trauma, he’s very socially awkward and doesn’t really know how to connect with other people, even though he does seem to have the desire to do so. For example, at the beginning of the apocalypse, he often spoke to people without making eye contact and cringed away from physical touch, with little to no social skills, and even though he has definitely gotten better at it, the struggle is still there to some extent.

His childhood trauma is also the reason for his insecurities, of which the biggest one is his scars. He’s ashamed of them and every day he’s reminded of the fact that he, through all his life, has been nothing and no one. He often shows signs that he considers himself to be worthless as well as depressed, and shows clear discomfort and distrust for people he’s not all that familiar with. 

Because of the discomfort of being around people, he prefers to keep his distance from groups, because he functions best when he’s either alone or in the company of just one or two people; preferably the former. So naturally, he’s very quiet, not at all fond of small talk. Even with people he’s comfortable being around, he’d rather sit in a comfortable, mutual silence than speak. 

You have all these things in common; finding it hard trusting and opening up to people, being over-thinkers, disliking small talk, constantly fighting inner battles with yourselves and struggling to accept yourselves, disliking asking people for help, as well as having big social anxieties in general.

But what you also have in common is that you’re very protective of family. Daryl may prefer to keep to himself, but he doesn’t hesitate to risk his life in order to save the members of his group. He’s incredibly selfless and loyal to a fault and would stop at nothing to protect his people as well as help people who can’t protect themselves. 

As a result of his abuse, he also an extreme attentiveness to others. He’s so hypervigilant that not only is he always prepared for zombies, but he can also attentive to the emotions of people. So even though he might struggle with communicating sympathy verbally and through touch, he will go to great lengths to use his special skills to help those in pain, this meaning - you wouldn’t have to communicate your feelings through words every time since he’d most likely pick up on your body language, which can be a really big relief when you’re self-conscious about stumbling over words when nervous and struggle with social anxiety. 

He would just be very understanding of your social issues in general and as he absolutely hates when people try to pry into his life before the apocalypse, he would never put any pressure, whatsoever, on you to open up to him in anything other than your own time. If anyone knows what it’s like to feel out of place, it’s him. 

SUICIDE SQUAD

I ship you with Rick Flag!

It’s no secret that Rick is very serious and short-tempered when in combat and on the job. His personality is usually described as sturdy, stoic and serious and he’s been trained to serve and follow orders without questions. He takes his responsibilities very seriously and gets frustrated when others don’t pay him the same respect.

But away from his job, Rick also has a softer, more vulnerable side and is capable of warming up even to enemies through his ability to see things from different perspectives, as seen when he happily hugs Floyd after defeating Enchantress. He’s deeply protective of those he loves and would go to unthinkable lengths to protect them. 

He isn’t a person who willingly goes out of his comfort zone either; on the contrary, it’s usually something he’s pressured to do by other people who, often, have some kind of leverage on him. 

So had he only been presented with the choice, I think he’d really be into the idea of a simple life with no drama, no danger. Just him, his significant other, living together and going about their ways either separately or together, before having dinner and falling asleep together in front of a good movie or tv show. He’d be more than happy living a life as simple as that. 

Underneath that whole military attitude, he also has a sense of humor hidden away; the goofy and playful one, just like yours. And I think that you would be really good together in that sense. 

GAME OF THRONES

I ship you with Jon Snow!

Jon is known to be humble, calm and withdrawn and would, at least after the events of the last season, much rather live a calm, simple life than one full of adventure and challenged limits since he’s so clearly shown to be burdened by the constant danger and responsibility. 

All his life, Jon has lived as an outcast; a bastard, and the black sheep in a family of wolves. Because of Catelyn’s consistent hatred and torment, he never felt anything other than hatred, self-doubt and shame toward himself and has never felt like he belongs anywhere, with anyone. 

He was forced to quietly wrestle with dejection and loneliness his entire life; always among them, but never really one of them, and because he never quite fit in, he was naturally more susceptible to anti-social behavior, as shown in the way that he always tends to mind his own business, prefers to stay within his comfort zone and also in the way that he isn’t big on small talk.

He was so ashamed of himself and who he was that he pledged himself to the Night’s Watch in order to escape the label of a bastard, so he knows better than anyone what it’s like to try and accept oneself. 

To finish it off, he’s the ultimate feminist, who takes powerful women for what they are and understands the importance of lifting them up. He encouraged Arya and her proclivity for archery and combat and he admitted to his misjudgments and faults without being derisive or sexist when Sansa outsmarted him and saved his ass in the Battle of the Bastards so he doesn’t consider it to be emasculating to be equal, or even inferior, to a woman, and doesn’t pick and choose what kind of woman to support. He supports all of them and their individual strengths, whether it be physical power in combat, or mental power in politics. 

FAST AND FURIOUS

I ship you with Leon!

Little is known about Leon since he was only in the first movie with minimal screentime, but I have, over the years, built my own opinion of him through his way of behaving in the moments we actually got to see him.

My first thought on him was that he’s a bit of the lost loner type and that he’s much more rational and level-headed than the others.

He voices his disapproval to Dom on several occasions and got shut down every time, which showed that he didn’t really trust him to keep them safe and out of handcuffs, and that he wasn’t comfortable with how far they were taking things. 

This, to me, equals that he’s not a person who is very fond of stepping out of his comfort zone and would much rather play it safe and stick to the things he knows.

I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a coward, but he’s definitely more cautious than the rest of the squad. Rather than getting high off the thrill, he just seems like he’s along for the ride, without actually needing the excitement like the others do. Plain and simple: he’s a tag-along:er, not an adrenaline junkie.

In the scenes he’s in, he was always the one to, in one way or another, look out for the well-being of the others, and I can imagine, since he and Jesse met before the two joined the squad, that he looked after Jesse for a long while, as well.

Jesse had pretty severe ADD as well as slightly faulty instincts and understandings in some social settings both because of his ADD and because he was raised by his criminal dad to know no better, so looking out for him would probably take a little bit of work since I’d guess that he got himself into trouble a lot. 

Because of this, I’ve kind of put him in the “caretaker”-category, since he seems to be so much more genuine and caring than the rest, and that, in turn, is why I think he’d be a good match for you. 

I also think that you’d be good together because of the fact Jesse shares a lot of qualities with you; a bit reserved, stuttering when nervous, and being generally anxious around strangers. Since Leon has experience with this, he wouldn’t judge you but rather know how to handle it, support you and make you feel more comfortable. 

His mother left him when he was still young and he has clearly been struggling to find a place where he belongs. He thought that he found it with Dom’s crew, but when Jesse died and Vince and Letty got seriously hurt, he obviously had enough, decided that the heat had become too risky and that he didn’t want anything more to do with the illegal activities. 

Once again, after Jesse’s passing, he was left alone, and I’m one hundred percent sure that he left the crew to go live a safer, calmer life because, like Rick Flag, he just seems like the type to want a quiet life with a like-minded significant other, maybe some animals and/or a kid or two. Basically just a “perfect, happy family”-situation with no risk-taking, just staying safe within your comfort zones. 

[that-little-bisexual-mess]

MC playlist/aesthetic challenge

I like songs. I like aesthetics. So here is a little challenge : You make a list of 8 important facts about your MC or things that your MC loves, and you make a little playlist and a little moodboard for each of the facts along with a little explaination. (This challenge might be a little dumb but this is something I wanted to do soooo ....)

Ada Margot Shelby (HPHM MC)

Ada and Jacob

“Hey Brother” - Avicii, 2013

“When We Grow Up” - Diana Ross, 1973

Ada and Jacob have always been close. Jacob is very protective of his little sister and Ada admires her big brother. Their bond never really break, even when the young man is away or couldn’t be found. After all they both been through and when they are finally reunited, they are closer than ever.

Ada’s origins

“Douce France” - Charles Trenet, 1947

“This Is England” - The Clash, 1985

One of the things Ada is the most proud of, is her origins. The family on her father’s side is from England and the family on her mother’s side is French. Both Jacob and Ada are fluent in French, thanks to their grandmother Margot Durand. Whenever they would go to her place, they would only speak french.

Ada’s parents

“Je Te Promets” - Johnny Hallyday, 1986

“The Living Years” - Mike & The Mechanics, 1988

Ada and Jacob lost their parents at a very young age. Ada was 8 years old when her father was killed by Bellatrix Lestrange and 11 years when her mother died of Dragonpox. Their death, along with the deaths of her grandparents, impacted Ada a lot. One of her life biggest objectives is to make her parents proud.

Ada’s Mental Health

“What’s Up?” - 4 Non Blondes, 1992

“So Am I” - Ava Max, 2019

“Fix You” - Coldplay, 2005

“Good Guys” - Mika, 2015

Ada suffered from depression. Her parents and grandparents deaths, her brother’s disappearance and later the death of some of her friends and loved ones like Dora, Ted Tonks or Rowan leaved a huge mark on her. She struggled for years with depression and PTSD after the war. Also the fact that so many people would follow Voldemort, by fear or by conviction, didn’t help at all. She relied a lot on the love of her second family, the Tonks, and the love of her friends. They never let her down and she’ll always be thankful for that.

Ada’s Second Family

“Don’t Leave Me Alone” - David Guetta, Anne-Marie, 2018

“You Raise Me Up” - Josh Groban, 2003

“Flashlight” - Jessie J, 2015

After her mother died, Ada had to go leave with the Tonks, since Andromeda was her Godmother. She had known them her entire life. The Tonks quickly became her second family. Dora became her sister, Andromeda her second mother and Ted her second father. They were here for her during her darkest days and she was always here for them during theirs. When Ted told 11 years old Dora that Ada will come live with them and she will become like a sister to her, Dora said “She always have been my sister”. One time, while they were walking on Diagon Alley, Ada and Dora made a prank on a Pureblood supremacist who had insulted Ted of “Mudblood” and Andy of “Bloodtraitor”. The man got mad at them and yelled at them. Andy saw that and told him to “Stop yelling at my daughters or I will turn you into a cockroach”. And another day, the family intended a Quidditch match and Ted, who was talking to a colleague, told the latter that “My daughters both play Quidditch at Hogwarts”. Everytime Ada would hear them casually referring her as their daughter or sister, she would smile for days.

Ada’s Bisexuality

“3e Sexe” - Indochine, 1985

“Girls / Girls / Boys” - Panic At The Disco, 2013

Not much to say here. Ada is bisexual and she’s very proud of it. All of her family and friends accepted her without question because in my vision, the wizarding world is LGBTQ+ friendly and by that I mean every freaking letter even the T.

Ada and Penny

“i wanna be your girlfriend” - girl in red, 2018

“Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)” - Irma Thomas, 1968

“Hooked On A Feeling” - Blue Swede, Björn Skifs, 1974

“Ring Of Fire” - Johny Cash, 1967

“Only You” - Yazoo, 1982

“Le Baiser” - Alain Souchon, 1999

Ada had a crush on Penny ever since she met her during her first year at Hogwarts. They went on every romantic events that took place at Hogwarts togetger but only started to officially date during their 7th year. They’re both madly in love with each other and they spent the rest of their life together.

Ada’s friends

“You’ve Got A Friend In Me” - Randy Newman, 1995

“Count On Me” - Bruno Mars, 2010

“I Think We’re Alone Now” - Tiffany, 1987

“Don’t You (Forget About Me)” - Simple Minds, 1985

“Nothing’s Gonna Stop us Now” - Starship, 1987

Ada’s friends are some of the most important people in her life. Dora is her oldest friend and her best friend. She met Charlie during their first meal at Hogwarts after they both got sorted into the same house. She first really talked to Hogwarts during her first night at Hogwarts, in their dorm room. And finally Dora introduced her to Penny the next day. The group spent all of their free time together. The loss of Rowan and, later, Dora, was really hard on all of them, especially for Ada. But after the war, Charlie and Penny never left her side and they never forgot about Rowan and Dora.

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So, here it is ! I hope you like it !

I tag @ljthebard1​ @unfortunate-arrow​ @hphm-brooke​ @sirfluffig​ @montaguehphm​ @son-of-aurlius-piscius​ and everyone who wants to play

I can’t wait to learn even more about your wonderful MCs !!

[brooklynmuseum]

A Call for Cultural Courage

Dear Friends,

On opening night of the TED2017 conference, just before headliner Pope Francis took the spotlight, artist Titus Kaphar walked to center stage declaring, "I love museums." Standing in front of a large-scale replica of Dutch master Frans Hals’s seventeenth-century painting entitled Family Group in a Landscape, which depicts a European family and a Black servant set against a country landscape, Kaphar began his talk with a story. It went like this: While Kaphar and his two young sons were on an outing to the American Museum of Natural History, the boys were confronted with the 1939 Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the museum’s entrance. The sculpture depicts Roosevelt on a horse flanked by two men, one Native American and one of African descent. The boys questioned why one man got to ride the horse while the others had to walk. To the children, this seemed unfair. For Kaphar, it was a seminal moment that stopped him in his tracks—the question reminded him of the portrayals of white-dominated hierarchies that pervade our culture.

Kaphar then posed a question for the TED2017 audience: “Can art amend history?” As he asked the question, he dipped a wide household paintbrush in white paint and began to cover his own painting until all the figures, except the young Black boy in the background, were obscured. The audience collectively gasped as Kaphar forced them to consider the focus of their gaze—and whose histories are seen or made invisible. Kaphar concluded his talk by sharing his desire to create art that "wrestles with the struggles of our past" and, in the process, models how art can contribute to shaping history.

If artists and art can wrestle with the past and amend history, so too can museums. And we must. Museums like the Brooklyn Museum were founded on the fundamental belief that the sharing of world cultures would lead to greater understanding and empathy, thereby advancing civilization. Many of us in the museum field still value this glorious ideal. However, we recognize that museums have also privileged Western white narratives while often diminishing the histories of others. This is important to understand because, for better or worse, museums contribute to the narratives that shape our society, and our society is in great need of more empathy and respect.

At this time of social unrest, people around the globe are using protest to call upon their museums to do better. We can debate the accuracy of information and the effectiveness of the strategy, but like it or not, we shouldn't be surprised by protest. As the President of the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker, recently shared museums are in crisis because America is in crisis. In his recent op-ed in The New York Times, Walker urged museums to do better. Why? Because museums are fundamental pillars of our American democracy and among the few truly public spaces for people to come together, learn, share ideas, and debate; because art has the capacity to inspire empathy; and because people count on museums to confront difficult and important issues with understanding and respect.

So how are we at the Brooklyn Museum striving to do better? 

Lots of ways. First, doing better means understanding that the stories we tell matter. We have therefore made it an institutional priority to present special exhibitions that shine a spotlight on cultural histories that have long been suppressed. For example, we have highlighted issues of systemic racism and have drawn attention to important African American and Latinx artists with exhibitions such as We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (2017), The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America (2017), Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (2018), and Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 (2018). We have looked at issues of gender equity across time in A Woman’s Afterlife: Gender Transformation in Ancient Egypt (ongoing) and Roots of “The Dinner Party”: History in the Making (2017). With David Bowie is (2018), we examined the artist’s liberating embrace of gender and sexual orientation. And with our current exhibition Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall, we have taken a contemporary look at LGBTQ+ issues. In Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving (2019), we focused on disability and its impact on the artist’s identity and practice.

In addition to our special exhibitions, we present works from our historical collections in context and in mutual dialogue with the communities they come from. In 2016, we reinstalled our American Art galleries to celebrate our nation’s rich history of immigration. And earlier this year, in the collection installation One: Egúngún, a masterwork from our Arts of Africa collection was displayed alongside extensive new research by the curator of the presentation, who consulted with Yorùbá communities in both Brooklyn and Nigeria to better contextualize the object’s meanings and origins. When possible, we also connect our exhibitions and collection installations to civic organizations devoted to advancing positive societal change that impacts our communities, for example, by partnering with organizations that combat mass incarceration and support the rights of immigrants.

Doing better means becoming Brooklyn’s largest arts classroom by supporting the education of our youth, especially those in our most under-resourced communities. For example, thanks to a grant from the Kenan Foundation, we have partnered with some of Brooklyn’s most financially challenged schools to provide in-school art classes where there were none. Our education programs are also expanding the number of young people who visit the Museum every year with their schools, caregivers, and camps. We have grown our programming for teens, especially LGBTQ+ teens and teens of color. And doing better means supporting creative learning with teacher training and resources to bring the Museum into school classrooms throughout the City.

Doing better means challenging the historical insularity of museums by broadening partnerships with our communities to provide services that are relevant and that have an impact. Today, the Brooklyn Museum works with hundreds of community organizations each year. We invite local artists, artisans, and community service organizations into the Museum to connect with our hundreds of thousands of annual visitors through public programs, workshops, and other events. We host public school graduations, serve as an election polling site, support funding drives for communities that have suffered from natural disasters, and lend our space to local organizations for meetings. We seek the advice of community members on the presentation of specific exhibitions. For more than 50 years, over Labor Day weekend, we have hosted the City’s single largest celebration of Caribbean culture, organized in partnership with the West Indian American Day Carnival Association, in our parking lot and culminating in a magnificent parade that ends at our front plaza. You can expect more as we work to grow these commitments.

Doing better means being financially accessible to all, which means remaining affordable despite the very real challenges of funding a major non-profit cultural institution outside of Manhattan. We are proud to be one of the only major art museums in the City with suggested admission, making it possible for many of our audiences to visit our world-class collections for free. We are also proud that on the first Saturday of every month we offer free programming, musical performances, art classes, and other events from 5 to 11 pm, when the Museum is packed and buzzing with thousands of excited visitors.

Doing better also means looking at ourselves and our operations with the goal of advancing our longstanding institutional commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion among our ranks. Through the guidance of our new DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Plan we are working to recruit more staff from communities historically underrepresented in museums, including disabled, gender-nonconforming, and transgender people; people of color; and those from varied socioeconomic backgrounds. Thanks to Citibank, we actively support pipelines for jobs in our field by partnering with colleges and universities with diverse student bodies (such as CUNY and HBCUs) to recruit interns. Doing better means working toward greater wage transparency and fairness. And it means continuing our efforts to cultivate diversity on our Board in terms of race, gender, disability, socioeconomic status, and professional background—from artists and scholars to community members and business leaders—who share a passion for our mission. We don’t have all the answers, and our work is not without contradictions, but we push ahead as we always have, because our work matters.

Art—and museums—can amend history. And at such a pivotal moment, shouldn’t that be a priority? Indeed, it’s a priority for us at the Brooklyn Museum. So, today Kaphar’s painting is displayed in the very first gallery of the Brooklyn Museum, setting the tone for our audience's journey as we consider who creates historical narratives and how those narratives serve us. It’s a reminder that great cultural institutions must do their best to contribute to a more equitable and empathetic world.

Anne Pasternak Shelby White and Leon Levy Director Brooklyn Museum

Barbara M. Vogelstein Chairman, Board of Trustees Brooklyn Museum

[welcometothebookreport]

In 2020, I read 40 books (with maybe a few more to be added after I post this) after discovering my love of reading all over again. I am not a very hard reader to please, so it will be rare for me to rate a book with a low score, so I doubt you’ll ever see any criticism from me. So, here we go!

A few things before I start: There are three series in this list (but technically only two, because I’ve only read Serpent & Dove so far) but I’ve limited myself to no repeat authors. That must have been the hardest part for me. Since Jessi went the extra mile and ranked them in order, I’ve decided to make myself suffer the same. And while most of these were not published in 2020, they were read in 2020.

I am (sometimes) a picky reader, but any book that is on this list, I have loved. I chose not to rate them because honestly, they would have all been high. I give ratings easily, and try not to pick things apart even for books I truly did not like.

Please keep in mind that I do my best to add trigger warnings, but you should always check for certain triggers before reading. Triggers vary for everyone.

10. Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen

Warnings: There’s a male character that’s a creep and you’ll spot him as soon as you crack this one open. This tale deals with Peyton being sentenced to prison, and their mother practically glossing over what he’s done by victim blaming.

I have read Dessen’s books since I was 13 and I truly still enjoy her stories as much as I did then. While this was a re-read for me, it’s a tie for my favorite book of hers. It’s tied with Along For the Ride.

Sydney is left in the aftermath after her older brother, Peyton, is sentenced to prison after a drunk driving accident that paralyzes a boy. Formerly in his shadow, Sydney struggles to discover what it is she wants, and how she wants to be seen as her own mother seems to gloss right over her. It’s a YA read that always feels like more than the romance that originally interested me.

9.  Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

Warnings: Misogyny. The church and religion plays an extremely heavy part of this plot, which was hard for me to get into. It’s clear that some characters do not value women in their actions and words toward Lou. It made me uncomfortable in spots because I just wanted to get past it, but I plan to read this one again since I know that it won’t bother me this time! Still, there is: violence in parts, religious zealots (in case that’s something that makes you uncomfortable like it did me), derogatory slurs toward women, and again, misogyny.

I finished this one two days ago, and I sincerely cannot wait to dig into the sequel. Lou is a witty, snappy character that was such a breath of fresh air from the normal. You usually see the male lead that’s a bit crude, a bit quick to pull the trigger, and the one that’s harder to crack. Is that what happened here? Absolutely fucking not. Shelby Mahurin took something I loved, enemies to lovers, and kicked its ass. Forced marriage? UM YES. A witch and a witch-hunter? Mortal enemies? Characters that can never possibly love each other? DONE DONE DONE.

It’s hilarious in parts. Serious when it needs to be. A bit spicy too, while not a lot, which I certainly appreciate. Reid’s character development is a wonder to watch, at least for me, and by the end of the book, I am so in love with him that I don’t know what to do with myself. I have so many annotations for this novel.

8. The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

Warnings: There’s a fair bout of murder. Women are expected not to take lovers before marriage while men are not held to the same standard. Gross. Allessandra is continually underestimated so let me say: let the women do the work.

It’s called the Slytherin romance we’ve been waiting for, and I agree. While this is a shorter read, and a standalone, I was pleased with it. Both characters are incredibly ambitious, but it’s Allessandra that steals the show. The plan? To enter the palace, woo the king, and then kill him in order to take his kingdom. She’s wicked in all the ways I love.

I loved this book, and each page, but this was the line that will make me return to it: “I’m not a trollop,” I announce to the empty room. “I’m a sexually empowered woman, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

The Folk of the Air Series by Holly Black

Warnings: Aside from murder, there’s nothing that stands out to me as a trigger.

A series! The first! There’s something interesting about this series for me, and it’s that I didn’t fall in love altogether, all at once. It was gradual, like wading into water until it went right over my head. By the final fourth of The Cruel Prince, I was fully invested in this world and I absolutely needed to know how Jude and Cardan would become, well, Jude and Cardan.

As a YA series, I was not expecting the sheer amount of mystery, political intrigue, and plot twists that came with this series. However, I never knew what was going to happen, and if I did guess what was coming, Black had at least two more twists to send me for a loop. The Queen of Nothing was likely my favorite book of the series, with The Wicked King as a close second.

6. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Warnings:  Discussion of attempted non-con assault, forced disclosure of sexuality

I laughed until my eyes watered and I nearly cried in this book. Delightfully funny, and snappy, RW&B delivers on everything I didn’t know that I needed. I had never read a book where LGBTQ was represented in such a positive light. As someone raised in a more conservative household, I’ve known my own sexual orientation for a long time, but this book made me feel like I could relax in my skin because this story was stunning.

Alex and Henry left me with so much hope that it’s impossible to ever put the lid back on. I’m so happy I read this.

(oh, god, we’re in the final five.)

5. The Caraval Series by Stephanie Garber

Warnings: Physical and emotional child abuse.

I could dedicate multiple posts to this series. Maybe I still will. While this is at number five, it’s my favorite series I’ve ever read. If I could only have one series to read for the rest of my life, I would choose this one. Hands down. Full stop. These characters live in my head constantly and I would give an obscene amount of things to read it all over again for the first time. I actually read this with two of my closest friends in our many book club, and we all loved it.

Doused in magic, this world is unveiled to us with excellent descriptions. Truly, Garber owned my heart within a few chapters. Scarlett is the elder sister, Tella the younger, and if you don’t love Tella by the end of Caraval, I promise you will. I know because I was skeptical, but here I am. I’ve said it to my friends, but Scarlett is the one who holds my hair while I have a hangover. Tella is the one that helps me start the bar fight.

With non-stop turns, and magic, everything comes to life on these pages. And the romance, the romance. Please, please give me my great love in this style. It’s not too much to ask for, is it?

4. Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer

Warnings:  loss of sibling, loss of parent, alcoholism, mention of infidelity, mentions of previous physical and emotional child abuse.

Mae sent this recommendation to me, and I devoured all of Kemmer’s books post-haste. Declan and Juliet fall in love without knowing who the other is, while also not liking the real version of their penpal. Juliet has lost her mother, and she’s treading water, but not well. Declan has suffered in the years that follow a family tragedy, and he’s not adapting to life with his new step-father.

But he opens with CemetaryGirl (Juliet) and it’s raw in the best of ways, and the openness between them that eventually moves from their bubble to reality is one of the most pleasing things to read. I’ve read it twice this year. I will read it again next year too.

I also read this twice this year and will for sure be reading it again in 2021.

3. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Warnings: Child abuse.

This was another novel that I fell in love with as I went, and that’s definitely because of the non-linear narrative. It was a little confusing, but I’m going to read it again someday since I know everything now! I read this to follow-up to Caraval with my book club pals, and it’s just what I needed to leave Caraval behind. Marco and Celia are incredible and I absolutely believe that the ending of this novel is one of the best endings I’ve ever read.

My book club has not finished this book entirely this so I’m not sharing any spoilers, but I would like to share one of my favorite quotes. “What did you wish for?” “I wished for her.”

2. Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

Warnings: Cuba is in the middle of a revolution, and it’s tense in parts. There are some bittersweet elements and I think the parts of the ending are like the punch in the gut you need in order to wake you up and remember to live.

This was my first read once I really dug back into this hobby in August. It was picked by Reese Witherspoon for her book club, and she always picks good books. This is a dual timeline romance, and mystery. It’s an absolute stunner of a book. It’s a dear favorite to me now. I’ve never been to Cubs, or heard stories, but Cleeton manages to make you feel like you’re right there feeling saltwater spray across your face.

The romance made me feel breathless, but truly it’s the strong familial ties that make this such a beautiful gem. It leaves you with hope even in the dark and with love in the absence of it. I could scream about this book for the rest of my life, which I absolutely intend to do.

Favorite line? “You’re going to be difficult to walk away from, aren’t you?” “I hope so.”

1 In A Holidaze by Christina Lauren

Warnings? There are none that strike me. This is a lighthearted read that pulls at the heartstrings, but it’s by no means short on the laughs. And, I’m sorry for the long wall of text below.

In A Holidaze is the story of a woman stuck in her ways of never going after what she truly wants until a stray wish lands her in a time loop over the holidays. It's only after repeating the same day a few times that she quite literally says "fuck this," and starts living for HER. I really expected this to just be a Hallmark kind of read, but it was SO MUCH MORE. You should read it, even if it's after the holidays.

It's witty, and heart-wrenching, and it's just everything I didn't know I needed. Mae is snarky, and brave when she figures out that there is nothing stopping her, and the romance is - GODDAMN. Andrew. I need an Andrew and a fan.

It's not quite a love triangle, which was what I expected and I was so pleasantly surprised. I have grinned like a goddamn fool all day. I have giggled all day in front of customers, and my co-workers. I have nearly CRIED in my bedroom when my heart fell out of my ass and landed somewhere near my ankles, because hello, it's gonna get you.

This is going on my yearly re-read list for the holidays.

In the two days since I’ve finished, I’ve convinced my two friends in book club to read it, convinced Jessi to order it from Book of the Month Club, convinced another friend to read it, and bought it for Mae on Christmas day because her library had a six month hold and that was simply unacceptable.

[route22ny]

“The moral crisis of poverty amid vast wealth is inseparable from the injustice of systemic racism, ecological devastation, and our militarized war economy.”       by Rev. Dr. William Barber II,  March 30, 2020.  (complete text below)

***

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet millions of American families have had to set up crowdfunding sites to try to raise money for their loved ones’ medical bills. Millions more can buy unleaded gasoline for their car, but they can’t get unleaded water in their homes. Almost half of America’s workers—whether in Appalachia or Alabama, California or Carolina—work for less than a living wage. And as school buildings in poor communities crumble for lack of investment, America’s billionaires are paying a lower tax rate than the poorest half of households.

This moral crisis is coming to a head as the coronavirus pandemic lays bare America’s deep injustices. While the virus itself does not discriminate, it is the poor and disenfranchised who will experience the most suffering and death. They’re the ones who are least likely to have health care or paid sick leave, and the most likely to lose work hours. And though children appear less vulnerable to the virus than adults, America’s nearly forty million poor and low-income children are at serious risk of losing access to food, shelter, education, and housing in the economic fallout from the pandemic.

The underlying disease, in other words, is poverty, which was killing nearly 700 of us every day in the world’s wealthiest country, long before anyone had heard of COVID-19.

The moral crisis of poverty amid vast wealth is inseparable from the injustice of systemic racism, ecological devastation, and our militarized war economy. It is only a minority rule sustained by voter suppression and gerrymandering that subverts the will of the people. To redeem the soul of America—and survive a pandemic—we must have a moral fusion movement that cuts across race, gender, class, and cultural divides.

The United States has always been a nation at odds with its professed aspirations of equality and justice for all—from the genocide of original inhabitants to slavery to military aggression abroad. But there have been periods in our history when courageous social movements have made significant advances. We must learn from those who’ve gone before us as we strive to build a movement that can tackle today’s injustices—and help all of us survive.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, African Americans who had just escaped slavery joined with white allies to form coalitions that won control of nearly every southern legislature. These Reconstruction-era political alliances enacted new constitutions that advanced moral agendas, including, for the first time, the right to public education.

During the Great Depression, farmers, workers, veterans, and others rose up to demand bold government action to ease the pain of the economic crisis on ordinary Americans. This led to New Deal policies, programs, and public works projects that we still benefit from today, such as Social Security and basic labor protections.

Pushed by these movements, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt even called in 1944 for an economic bill of rights, declaring: “We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.”

During what I like to call the “Second Reconstruction” over the following decades, a coalition of blacks and progressive whites began dismantling the racist Jim Crow laws and won key legislative victories, including the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act.

With each period of advancement has come a formidable backlash. This is how we find ourselves today, in the year 2020, with levels of economic inequality as severe as during the original Gilded Age a century ago. Since the Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby decision, Americans have had fewer voting rights protections than we did fifty-five years ago, while thanks to the earlier Citizens United ruling, corporations can invest unlimited sums of money to influence elections.

In response to fair tax reforms, the wealthy have used their economic clout to slash their IRS bills, cutting the top marginal income tax rate from more than 90 percent in the 1950s to 37 percent today. In response to the hard-fought wins of the labor movement, corporate lobbyists have rammed through one anti-worker law after another, slashing the share of U.S. workers protected by unions nearly in half, from 20.1 percent in 1983 to just 10.5 percent in 2018.

Decades after Depression-era reforms, Wall Street fought successfully to deregulate the financial system, paving the way for the 2008 financial crash that caused millions to lose their homes and livelihoods. And the ultra-rich and big corporations have also managed to dominate our campaign finance system, making it easier for them to buy off politicians who commit to rigging the rules against the poor and the environment, and to suppress voting rights, making it harder for the poor to fight back.

Our military budgets continue to rise, now grabbing more than fifty-three cents of every discretionary federal dollar to pay for wars abroad and pushing our ability to pay for health care for all, for a Green New Deal, for jobs and education, and infrastructure, further and further away.

In short, the official measure of poverty doesn’t begin to touch the depth and breadth of economic hardship in the world’s wealthiest nation, where 40 percent of us can’t afford a $400 emergency.

The wars that those military budgets fund continue to escalate. They don’t make us safer, and they’ve led to the deaths of thousands of poor people in Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, and beyond, as well as the displacement of millions of refugees, the destruction of water sources, and the contamination of the environments of whole countries.

The only ones who benefit are the millionaire CEOs of military companies, who are getting richer every year on the more than $350 billion—half the military budget—that goes directly to their corporations. In the meantime 23,000 low-ranking troops earn so little that they and their families qualify for food stamps.

Key to these rollbacks: controlling the narrative about who is poor in America and the world. It is in the interest of the greedy and the powerful to perpetuate myths of deservedness—that they deserve their wealth and power because they are smarter and work harder, while the poor deserve to be poor because they are lazy and intellectually inferior.

It’s also in their interest to perpetuate the myth that the poverty problem has largely been solved and so we needn’t worry about the rich getting richer—even while our real social safety net is full of gaping holes. This myth has been reinforced by our deeply flawed official measurements of poverty and economic hardship.

The way the U.S. government counts who is poor and who is not, frankly, is a sixty-year-old mess that doesn’t tell us what we need to know. It’s an inflation-adjusted measure of the cost of a basket of food in 1955 relative to household income, adjusted for family size—and it’s still the way we measure poverty today.

But this measure doesn’t account for the costs of housing, child care, or health care, much less twenty-first-century needs like internet access or cell phone service. It doesn’t even track the impacts of anti- poverty programs like Medicaid or the earned income tax credit, obscuring the role they play in reducing poverty.

In short, the official measure of poverty doesn’t begin to touch the depth and breadth of economic hardship in the world’s wealthiest nation, where 40 percent of us can’t afford a $400 emergency.

In a report with the Institute for Policy Studies, the Poor People’s Campaign found that nearly 140 million Americans were poor or low-income—including more than a third of white people, 40 percent of Asian people, approximately 60 percent each of indigenous people and black people, and 64 percent of Latinx people. LGBTQ people are also disproportionately affected.

Further, the very condition of being poor in the United States has been criminalized through a system of racial profiling, cash bail, the myth of the Reagan-era “Welfare Queen,” arrests for things such as laying one’s head on a park bench, passing out food to unsheltered people, and extraordinary fines and fees for misdemeanors such as failing to use a turn signal, and simply walking while black or trans.

We are a nation crying out for security, equity, and justice. We need racial equity. We need good jobs. We need quality public education. We need a strong social safety net. We need health care to be understood as a human right for all of us. We need security for people living with disabilities. We need to be a nation that opens our hearts and neighborhoods to immigrants. We need safe and healthy environments where our children can thrive instead of struggling to survive.

With the coronavirus pandemic bringing our country’s equally urgent poverty crisis into stark relief, we cannot simply wait for change. It must come now.

America is an imperfect nation, but we have made important advancements against interconnected injustices in the past.

We can do it again, and we know how. Now is the time to fight for the heart and soul of this democracy.

***

Rev. Dr. William Barber II is a co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival.

Read more by Rev. Dr. William Barber II

Source: https://progressive.org/magazine/real-epidemic-poverty-barber/

Note: the title of this article, and the purpose of this post, is not meant to diminish the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic in any way.

[joie-university-rp]

Dear RACHEL BERRY,

It is with great pleasure we invite you admission to Joie University! Welcome to the Thunderclap family!

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Congratulations, KIM! Please be sure to check the New Members’ Checklist and send in your character’s account within 24 hours from now. We cannot wait to see all that you will bring to this roleplay! We love you already!

OOC INFORMATION:

Name/Alias; pronouns: Kim

Age, Timezone: 20+, EST

Activity, short explanation: Like 7/10, ya’ll know I’m here a bunch ~

Ships: Rachel/chemistry

Anti-Ships: Rachel/forced

Triggers: RFP

Preferred photo for Character’s ID (please give a link): https://www.google.com/search?q=sarah+hyland+photoshoot&safe=strict&sxsrf=ALeKk01tpm3ojLdqVf-IqXJusw2TU0M_3w:1604023869941&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=fzd4uYLyeav91M%252CndwsEwlajME1VM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQPK0XkBIR6fAteN8uaAFRN-i3maA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwingOrHntvsAhWjhOAKHWrdDY0Q9QF6BAgCEE4&biw=1366&bih=657#imgrc=fzd4uYLyeav91M

Anything else:

IC INFORMATION:

Full Name (First, Middle, Last): Rachel Barbra Berry

FC: Sarah Hyland

Age/Year at University (Freshman [1st Year], Sophomore, Junior, Senior, or Graduate Student): Freshman

Birth date (MONTH DAY, YEAR): December 18, 1997

Hometown (please be sure to check the hometowns listed for characters your muse is related to!): Lima, Ohio

Gender/Pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Major(s): Musical Theatre

Minor(s) [optional]: N/A

Housing request (remember, only the president of a Greek Organization is required to live at a Greek House to be in it!): Single Apartment

Extracurriculars (Click here for the list. Be sure to specify any executive board positions [i.e. president, secretary, etc.] If something isn’t listed, please put it here and we will add it to the masterlist!): Glee Club (President), Drama Club, LGBTQ Association

Greek Life Affiliation [optional] (Please be sure to specify any executive board positions [i.e. president, pledge educator, etc.] or if your character is not yet a member, but plans to rush): N/A

CHARACTER PROFILE:

Rachel Barbra Berry graced the world with her presence on the 18th of December in the year 1997. She was adopted into a family that consisted of her two doting fathers, and later included her irksome brother. She could carry beautiful tunes before she could walk, as she likes to tell. She’s had a gift for singing and performing from a very young age. Being adopted, it was always a wonder where talent came from. In her high school years, Rachel coincidentally came face to face with her birth mother, Shelby Cochran. She was the coach of an opposing Glee club, and that only fueled her passion for the stage even further.

When most people think of Rachel, they think of a self-centered diva who will take anyone down to get to the top. Which… is what it can appear to be from the outside. Rachel even signs her name with gold stars she is that determined. As a child, Rachel was often teased in school for being alone and without many friends. She spent most of her time by herself at recess, with her CD player listening to soundtracks of musicals. The characters in the shows were her friends, because she felt like she knew them. When she realized her mother was a former Broadway star and had her own powerful voice that could almost put hers to shame, Rachel’s drive to Broadway became even stronger. The main reason she wants it so bad, is to have a connection to her birth mom. She adores her dads, however she yearned for a tie to her biological family.

After graduating from McKinley, Rachel left Ohio and moved straight to New York. She struggled for a bit, living in a tiny apartment and auditioning like a mad woman to any role she was suited for. She even waited tables for extra money… Rachel Berry. Rachel earned herself the part of Fanny Brice which was her dream. It took a little over a year of hardships, but she had landed the part. She stayed in the city for a few years until recently.

Rachel had gotten her Broadway dreams, however she had missed out on the college experience. She also missed her dads, and even her brother Brighton at times. She decided this year to return home for a while, as she is currently in between shows. Nothing seemed to be open to her there in the city, so it seemed like the perfect time to come home and take a break for a while.

STUDENT CENSUS SURVEY:

(Please answer the following questions IN CHARACTER. Responses can be as long or short as you see fit!)

What made you want to attend Joie University? ~ A college education makes someone well rounded, and as a Broadway performer that is very important. While I am improving my own resume here, I feel that I can also be an example for those around me and offer them experiences that they would not have otherwise if I was not in attendance at Joie.

What are at least 3 positive or neutral and at least 3 negative traits that you believe you possess? ~ I am talented, driven, and ambitious. Negative? Well, I do not believe that trait is in my vocabulary.

Which of your traits do you value most? ~ My talent.

How can that trait benefit the University (or its student body) as a whole? ~ I can inspire others to try to measure up to the talent I possess.

What do you hope to gain from your experience at JU? ~ I would like to inspire the glee club members the way I was inspired in high school. As the president, I think I will be able to accomplish this easily.

What is a quote or song lyric that describes you? ~ “I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.” - Barbra Streisand

[janawriting]

「  ʙʟᴏᴏᴅʟɪɴᴇs  」

                     ↳ a peaky blinders fanfiction

♛ SYNOPSIS

“You do realise he has to die?” A small smirk curled her painted lip. “We Italians are quite the traditional folk.”

The Shelby leader pursed his lips. "I'll do it myself. Tonight."

"Right, of course. Unless, perhaps..." She leaned forward and plucked a cigarette with her slim, elegant fingers from the pack on his side of the table. Eyes sparkling with mischief behind long dark lashes she slowly brought it to her crimson lips, acutely aware of his blue eyes tracing her movements.

"We make a deal."

OR IN WHICH CATERINA CLARKE, THE HEIRESS OF BIRMINGHAM’S NOTORIOUS ITALIAN MAFIA, GETS TANGLED UP IN SOME MURKY BUSINESS WITH THE FLAT CAP WIELDING GANG AND THEIR ENIGMATIC LEADER, THOMAS SHELBY.

♛ BASIC INFO

title // bloodlines

           ↳ part one of the legacies series

genre // crime drama, romance, fanfiction

pov // third person

status // work in progress

themes // crime, love, found family, grey morality, death, war and post-war trauma, LGBTQ+, friendship,

warnings // violence, character death, mature content, triggering topics, extreme profanity and period typical intolerance, alcohol and drug abuse

pairings // thomas shelby x oc

a note from the author // In hopes of being as authentic as possible, I used real locations in Birmingham and England, carefully studying their history so I can fit them into the story. ( can you tell I’m a a history nerd yet?)

♛ THE CAST

                                     madchen amick as

                                   CATERINA CLARKE

                        ❝ sʜᴇ's ᴡʜɪsᴋᴇʏ ɪɴ ᴀ ᴛᴇᴀᴄᴜᴘ ❞

                                 cillian murphy as

                                   THOMAS SHELBY

            ❝ ᴄʟᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴀs ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴠɪʟ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛᴡɪᴄᴇ ᴀs ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ ❞

                                  alex turner as

                                 FRANCESCO CLARKE

                      ❝ ɪ ᴡɪsʜ ɪ ᴅɪᴅɴ'ᴛ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ❞

                            marcello mastroianni as

                                ROBERT CLARKE

❝ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ ɪs sᴡᴇᴇᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀɴ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀғᴜʟ❞ 

                        peaky blinders cast as

                    THEIR RESPECTIVE CHARACTERS

        ❝ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏʀᴅᴇʀ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴇᴀᴋʏ ғᴜᴄᴋɪɴɢ ʙʟɪɴᴅᴇʀs ❞

STARTED : october 6th, 2019

COMPLETED :

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