#louisa maier

[biarritzzz]

Rewatching Little Women 2019 remake because it's the right period for it and watching some interviews with Greta Gerwig and the cast, I'm struck try the absolute refusal of straight women to acknowledge that a woman whose creation/work they enjoyed was actually a lesbian. In this instance: Louisa May Alcott.

Greta Gerwig is obviously talented, educated and intelligent. She must know this yet she states over and over that Louisa May Alcott never married and never had kids. Yeah. BECAUSE SHE WAS A LESBIAN.

The word lesbian never passes her lips. A supposedly feminist film, directed by a woman, with a cast comprised of mostly women. Yet saying lesbian is still taboo. 

Sespursongles said it best and I will quote her:

“But of course there are also lots of very talented lesbian writers, the problem being then that no one acknowledges them as lesbians, because lesbophobia — or they don’t want to be recognised as “lesbian writers” as it might kill their career. The “lesbian lit is crap” belief doesn’t hold when we know that many gifted artists and writers in history were lesbians, but 1) you can’t point it out because all nonlesbians would start obsessively dissecting their lives to prove het attraction, and 2) of course they couldn’t apply their gift to writing about lesbians (or themselves) because then they would never have become literary figures; only bihet people are allowed to write about their experience. This might have created in some cases a kind of catch-22 where the talented lesbian writers who knew they had a chance of making it big didn’t write about lesbian stuff because that might have killed their chances, while the less-gifted writers who knew they weren’t likely to become great literary figures were the ones who wrote lesbian stuff since they weren’t afraid of having something bigger to lose.”

In this case, there’s the added bonus that Jo is clearly Louisa May Alcott herself (self-insert) and if LMA had had her say, Jo would have remained a spinster (aka a lesbian) but a lot of straight women identify with her character because she is the most interesting, complex and frankly cool character in the book. Nobody is identifying with boring Meg who only wants to get married and pop babies, that’s for sure. 

So admitting that Jo is lesbian-coded would mean for straight women that they can longer project themselves onto/identify with Jo. Because god forbid they would identify with a lesbian. 

No way. 

This reminds me of the shitshow that occurred a few years ago with the movie Ammonite and how FURIOUS straight feminists were that Mary Anning had been turned into a lesbian. The horror. Granted, we don’t know whether Mary Anning was a lesbian. The fact is, she never married. 

Which was het feminists’ entire reasoning: why don’t we let her be single! why can’t women be single! Why does romance always have to be pushed on women! blablabla

Meltdown ensues.

Hum. Funny you’re all saying that when you never choose that life for yourself. You know: the single, childfree life. Funny you’re now super invested that a woman who is considered to be the first paleontologist and who never married should apparently remain single because she is being portrayed as a lesbian in one movie that you will never watch anyway. 

It’s almost funny how they can’t hide their prejudice and lesbophobia when it’s clear that the default for them should be heterosexuality and what bothered them so much was the lesbian representation. 

So let’s recap: Louisa May Alcott: Lesbian

Marguerite Yourcenar: Lesbian

Vivian Maier: Lesbian

Louise Michel: Lesbian

Anne Lister: Lesbian (hard to deny, this one)

[myhauntedsalem]

The Willard Library: Most Haunted Library In The U.S.

The Willard Library, located in Evansville, Indiana, was built in 1881 by William Carpenter, known locally as a pioneer of public charity. Victorian Gothic in design, the brick building stands two stories tall, with a tower and ornate window arches. Being the oldest library in the state of Indiana, it contains a treasure trove of local historical archives and genealogy materials. It also has a ghost. An apparition reportedly roams the hallways and library rooms. She became known as the Lady in Grey, since she was dressed in an 1800’s period grey dress with a matching grey shawl. First seen in the late 1930’s by a custodian, who soon quit his job in fear of seeing her again, 

she’s been viewed countless times since. Patrons and employees alike have witnessed water turning on and off, touches on their hair, unexplained noises, and items being moved. After numerous sightings, the library installed a series of web cams around the library, allowing viewers from around the world to search for her from the comfort of their own homes.

The results have been phenomenal. People from all around the world have captured images of the grey lady as she roams the library in the middle of the night. Some even see her during the daytime, lingering in the children’s room or browsing the titles in the library.

During the mid ­1970’s, when the library was under construction, the lead librarian, a woman named Margaret Maier, reported that the ghost went home with her. Her son didn’t believe her until he saw the apparition for himself. He witnessed a woman in a long grey dress climbing the staircase to the second floor in their house. When he went to investigate, she vanished before his eyes. After construction was completed, the Lady in Grey soon returned to the library. The special collections librarian also experienced the apparition. She was reading a book, while walking out of the second story staff room. As she passed a stack of books, she stopped short, catching something out of the corner of her eye. When she looked up, she found herself face to face with the ghostly figure.

Who is the Lady in Grey?

While nobody knows for certain, many claim she is Louise Carpenter, daughter of William Carpenter. As it turns out, Louisa might have good reason to haunt the building her father established.

[highflyartist]

I will now tell you really useless facts about ✨JOSEPHINE'S FAMILY FROM 2000 - NOW,✨

Facts about Louisa:

• She was inspired by Louise from The Nutcracker Prince

• She has a boyfriend named Erik

• She is the eldest and "prettiest" daughter to the Maier family.

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Facts about Josephine:

• She's literally based on Marie from the original story & Clara from The Nutcracker Prince, Nutcracker Fantasy & Barbie in The Nutcracker

• She's Saragona's love interest and future-wife

• She's a girlboss-

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Facts about Fritz:

• He's based on Fritz from The Nutcracker Prince & the original story

• He's gay-

• He's a gamer.

[thebrewstorian]

Many roads lead to & through the history of beer in Eugene

Alternate title: Eugene beer, a story in six parts

Read the first: Many roads lead to and through the history of beer in Eugene

Read the second: “I furthermore request that my residence never be sold to a saloon keeper”

Read the third: The years of quick turnover at the Eugene City Brewery: August Werner and Henry Hageman

Read the fourth: Mary and Mathias Meller, a short story that could be much longer

Read the fifth: The Vogl Family

Read the sixth: Pironi and Weinhard [alternate title “It all comes back to Louisa”]

Read them all: #eugene beer history

I've been doing a deep dive into the history of pre-Prohibition brewing in Eugene, but now I have the luxury of onsite research that alluded me during the lockdown days. It also got me back to the microfilm.

And.

In addition to my book research, I’m preparing for a tour for the 2022 American Society for Environmental History conference, which includes visits to AleSong and Wild Craft Cider and a much-abbreviated telling of the six-part story I'm going to pose here.

The pre-Prohibition era story of Eugene brewing deftly illustrates the movement of brewers, the collaboration and business partnerships, and hints at the regional competition between them. As I do in much of my work, I want to show the influence and impact brewing had on the families, especially the women, and often that is also just in a hint or a suggestion – a decrease in the value of family property, lawsuits, language in wills, items in a probate record. And sometimes it is more than that, as was the case in Johanna Behrens will, which included the directive that her property could not be sold to a saloon keeper.

The story of the brewers in Eugene is also unique because we can trace the lineage of one brewery through many hands.

Here’s a Sanborn map from 1884, the earliest I’ve found, that shows the layout of the brewery.

And one from 1902, when it had changed hands and become a Weinhard’s beer and ice depot (bonus candy store and restaurant above).

There was another brewery in Eugene, the Bavaria Brewery at the NE corner of 7th and Olive (where a parking garage is now).

Here it is in 1885.

And in 1890 when it had a saloon attached.

It was run by Eugene Wiedeman, who lived in Corvallis and Eugene with his wife Johanna [Meyer/Maier, Deckenbach] and their kids. In addition to the brewery in Eugene, which he ran from approximately 1885 to 1891; in 1895, Wiedeman died of a heart attack at 42 years old on the street in front of their house (also at the corner of 7th and Olive) and his obituary said he’d been engaged in the brewery business in Eugene for 11 years (1884-1895). He also had a brewery in Junction City from 1884-1888. After Eugene’s death, Johanna moved to Portland, where she ran a boarding house until she died in 1927.

Back to the Eugene City Brewery, which was started by Louis Behrens in the 1860s and, ultimately, closed by the estate of Henry Weinhard in the late 1910s. And, in considering these two men, it is also noteworthy that they both started brewing in the Portland/Oregon City/Vancouver area at the same time. But their lives and companies took very different directions in terms of revenue and business longevity.

One thing to note about how I refer to people. Under normal circumstances, I would always use last names rather than the less formal and more familiar first names; however, when I talk about people who were married, it becomes confusing quickly, so I refer to them by first name.

THE BEHRENS

Johanna Storm was born in 1823 in Stockholm, Sweden, and she married brewer Louis Behrens in 1852. Louis was born in 1818 and sources conflict about his place of birth either Baden, in Germany, or Bern (there’s one in both Germany and Switzerland). Unlike most other brewer families, Louis and Johanna probably immigrated directly to Oregon (though likely not together) and he had an 1851 Donation Land Claim in Oregon City.

On April 1856, George Flanders sold 4 lots in Portland to Henry Saxer and Louis for $350 “together with all and singular the apparatuses thereunto belonging.”

The Weekly Oregonian featured their first joint advertisement for the Liberty Brewery in July 1856, but just six months later, there was a dissolution notice for the partnership and notice that Saxer would continue the business in the same location.

Learn more about brewing in Oregon and why Henry Saxer didn’t open the Liberty Brewery in Portland in 1852 in my Oregon Encyclopedia essay.

It’s unclear what Behrens did in the intervening years, but in May 1858, he placed an advertisement for a new brewery at Railroad and 8th Street in Oregon City.

He was also involved in local politics, namely in protesting an early move to ban alcohol, even before Oregon was a state, with a particular focus on beer.

“On Tuesday scarcely anything could be heard on the streets and in all the stores where groups were assembled, but arguments on lager beer. The gold excitement is entirely swamped by it. Such was the public interest in the debate that the Court-house was crowded to overflowing by men and women who manifested, their pleasure by tremendous cheers at regular intervals through a debate that lasted till half after ten o’clock. This time, Louis, who keeps the lager beer brewery, came to our relief, and made a speech on the negative. The anti-beer men were dissatisfied with the result, and the debate was adjourned over to next Monday night. We hear that the anti-beer men are talking of sending abroad for help.” The Oregon Argus, 7/24/1858

In a letter dated February 9, 1859, less than a week before Oregon became a state, Louis wrote to the staff at The Statesman and reminded them they “know how to appreciate a good article of Lager Bier,” and “that editors, printers and devils are always thirsty,” so he sent them a keg. The staff thanked him for the present, called him a friend, and assured that they had “toasted him with bumpers filled to the brim.” The article concluded with this statement: “Lager is ‘the cup that cheers but not inebriates.’ And Louis is an adept in the matter of ‘the brew,’ and too honest to conduct that venerable institution any other way than ‘on the square.’” His honesty was on display later in the summer, when he was passing by the city jail early one morning and stopped a jail break.

In 1860, the Berhrens family lived in Oregon City, where Louis continued his work as a brewer. Notice that they lived next door to A Speelman, also a brewer, his family, and a barkeeper.

They had 3 children, Victor (6), Charlotte (4), Evelina (2), lived in a house worth $7500 ($256,000 in 2022), and had a personal estate valued at $1000 ($35,000 today).

There are some clues about what life in Oregon City was like for them. In 1860, there was a fight between two men at the brewery one afternoon in May, “in which glass tumblers and stones were pretty freely used” and one man drew a knife on the other man, who “took refuge in Judge Caufield’s store by jumping through the window.” At the 1861 Oregon Agricultural State Fair, Johanna contributed home-made bread. There were other submissions for “fine butter – fresh, and in the firkin” and “specimens of fresh butter,” as well as cheese, one block weighing between fifty to sixty-five pounds, wine from Oregon grapes supplied up by Mr. Keil of Aurora, and flour from the Standard, Oregon City, Island, and Mill Creek mills.

Read about the overlap of Louisa Weinhard and the Aurora Colony in my Oregon Historical Quarterly article about her!

Sources used:

Historic newspapers (Historic Oregon Newspapers, but also newspapers.com, Chronicling America, and historic newspaper sites from other states)

Ancestry.com

Late 19th and early 20th century books about people and places (mainly on Hathi Trust and Google Books)

Free form searching on the internet (Tavern Trove is good for approximations of dates, but there are also regional history newsletters that are helpful)

Sanborn Fire Insurance maps

[aion-rsa]

Suranne Jones’ Best Roles From New Drama Vigil to Doctor Who, Gentleman Jack & More

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We’ve seen her sew knickers, spew out Artron Energy, run a coal mine, solve and commit murders, and now thanks to BBC One thriller Vigil, we’re seeing her gumshoe her way around a nuclear submarine sniffing out a naval conspiracy. There’s very little Suranne Jones can’t do. To celebrate the breadth of her on-screen work, here’s a selection of Jones’ finest performances so far.

Karen Macdonald in Coronation Street

The Street’s where it all started for Jones, playing the mouthy, ambitious Karen McDonald (née Philips) to audiences of almost 20 million four nights a week. Jones won two ‘Most Popular Actress’ National Television Awards on the bounce for Karen, a dynamic Manc who dressed like she was in a girl band, always stood her ground and wouldn’t think twice about throwing her pint over you/threaten you with a stiletto heel if you crossed her. Energetic, fun, and as fiery as her signature red, Karen gave them hell and went through her own on screen as well. Suranne Jones was equal to it all.

Ruth Slater in Unforgiven

Jones’ second collaboration with screenwriter Sally Wainwright after 2007 TV movie Dead Clever, was Unforgiven. This terrific three-part ITV drama told the story of Ruth Slater, a woman recently released from prison after serving a lengthy sentence for the murder of two police officers when she was a teenager. Damaged, untrusting but fierce, Ruth sets about rebuilding her life and searching for her estranged sister, a role that won Jones much well-deserved acclaim in 2009.

Idris in Doctor Who

What a part! The TARDIS has been a Doctor Who fixture since the very beginning, and in 2011, Suranne Jones played the Doctor’s temperamental ship in human form. In Neil Gaiman-written episode ‘The Doctor’s Wife’, a plotting planet who fed on TARDIS energy lured the Doctor to it, and made its servants transfer the TARDIS’ matrix into the body of a young woman named Idris. Jones’ performance brilliantly captured the unhinged energy of a mind fractured by multiple timelines, and gave fans a truly moving scene as the TARDIS finally said not goodbye but hello to the Doctor, her thief.

Sandra in Beautiful Thing

Jonathan Harvey’s 1993 play about the first love between two young gay men on an East London estate was made into a feature film in 1996, but Jones – a regular theatre actor – appeared in a 20th anniversary production that was filmed for DVD. In Beautiful Thing, she plays Sandra, the irrepressible, fiercely protective mother of teenage boy Jamie. Sandra’s own love life and work ambitious distract her from what’s happening in Jamie’s love life until she accidentally discovers his sexuality. Jones brings back a little of the fizz and naughtiness that made her Corrie character so popular, with added grit and emotion.

Rachel in Scott and Bailey

Much-loved crime drama Scott and Bailey ran for five series on ITV, and told the story of two detectives working for Manchester Major Incident Unit Syndicate 9. It was always as much about the characters’ lives as it was the cases they investigated – largely because Rachel’s life in particular couldn’t seem to stay out of dealings with the law, from her married partner’s murder to her unpredictable brother. Based on an idea co-conceived by Jones, and written in large part by Sally Wainwright, it’s a warm series with the appeal of watching professionals with a convincing, mature friendship, being good at their jobs.

Read more

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Vigil Episode 1 Review: A Top Twist On the Trid-ent Tested Murder Mystery

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Vigil Episode 2 Review: Deeper into the Conspira-Sea!

By Louisa Mellor

Gemma in Doctor Foster

When Dr Gemma Foster discovers that her husband (played by Bertie Carvel) is cheating on her with a younger woman (played by Jodie Comer), she does things the rest of us might fantasise about, but would never dream of actually doing. That was the draw of this hit domestic noir, which gave Jones her first major BBC success and Best Actress Bafta win. Jones was brilliant as Gemma – clever, dangerous, unhinged and capable of anything. No wonder Doctor Foster went out in the US with the subtitle “A Woman Scorned.”

Anne Lister in Gentleman Jack

Speaking of Doctor Who, if Suranne Jones ever required an audition for the role of the Doctor, Gentleman Jack would work a treat. In Jones’ third Sally Wainwright collaboration, she plays real historical character Anne Lister, 19th century lesbian and landowner with a very Doctor-like self-possession, cleverness and brusque impatience. She’s a dynamo as Lister, striding around the moors like she owns the place (which she does), talking a mile a minute and thinking twice as fast as that. Series two started filming in February 2021 and should be with us early next year.

Victoria in I Am Victoria

Jones had best clear the shelf ready for another Bafta after her performance in I Am… Victoria, part of Channel 4’s drama anthology created by writer-director Dominic Savage. In the one-hour special, she played a property developer and mother of two whose life looked idyllic from the outside. Nice house, good husband, great kids, lovely things, plenty of money… but underneath, her quest for perfection and control was driven by anxiety and deep-seated mental health issues. It was a tough, moving watch, and a painfully recognisable portrayal of a struggle more common than people like to let on.

See also:

Save Me and Save Me Too Jones is terrific as Claire, the mother of a missing teenager whose father Nelly (Lennie James, who also wrote both series) represents a past she’d left behind but can’t quite shake off.

A Touch of Cloth Jones sends up the detective genre with a rare comic outingin Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier’s crime drama spoof.

The Secret of Crickley Hall Jones plays the mother of a missing child who moves to a house haunted with poignant secrets in this three-part BBC adaptation.

The Crimson Field Jones plays a motorcycle-riding WWI nurse in Sarah Phelps’ field hospital drama, which was cancelled too soon after just one series.

Five Days Jones plays a police officer who becomes entangled in the story of a railway bridge death and a baby abandoned on a train.

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[thesehauntedhills]

The Willard Library

The Willard Library, located in Evansville, Indiana, was built in 1881 by William Carpenter, known locally as a pioneer of public charity. Victorian Gothic in design, the brick building stands two stories tall, with a tower and ornate window arches. Being the oldest library in the state of Indiana, it contains a treasure trove of local historical archives and genealogy materials. It also has a ghost.

An apparition reportedly roams the hallways and library rooms. She became known as the Lady in Grey, since she was dressed in an 1800’s period grey dress with a matching grey shawl. First seen in the late 1930’s by a custodian, who soon quit his job in fear of seeing her again, she’s been viewed countless times since. Patrons and employees alike have witnessed water turning on and off, touches on their hair, unexplained noises, and items being moved. After numerous sightings, the library installed a series of web cams around the library, allowing viewers from around the world to search for her from the comfort of their own homes.

The results have been phenomenal. People from all around the world have captured images of the grey lady as she roams the library in the middle of the night. Some even see her during the daytime, lingering in the children’s room or browsing the titles in the library.

During the mid ­1970’s, when the library was under construction, the lead librarian, a woman named Margaret Maier, reported that the ghost went home with her. Her son didn’t believe her until he saw the apparition for himself. He witnessed a woman in a long grey dress climbing the staircase to the second floor in their house. When he went to investigate, she vanished before his eyes.

After construction was completed, the Lady in Grey soon returned to the library.

The special collections librarian also experienced the apparition. She was reading a book, while walking out of the second story staff room. As she passed a stack of books, she stopped short, catching something out of the corner of her eye. When she looked up, she found herself face to face with the ghostly figure.

Who is the Lady in Grey?

While nobody knows for certain, many claim she is Louise Carpenter, daughter of William Carpenter. As it turns out, Louisa might have good reason to haunt the building her father established.

[haeddoti]

Hey there everyone! Though I already uploaded another post, I’ve always loved to write these kinds of self-checklists and therefore chose 50 questions from a random internet site. Without further due, let’s get started!

What is your full name?

My name is Marie and I sadly don’t have a second name…

What does your name mean?

Apparently it’s Hebrew and/or Egyptian and means either the well-fed or the loved one. Guess which origin I prefer lmao.

Are you named after anyone?

No, no one in my immediate family is named Marie, I guess my parents just liked the name. My sister is named Eve but my family is like, not religious at all.

Does your name make any interesting anagrams?

Well it makes Maier, which is a surname in my country but other than that, no.

If you had to change your first name, what would you change it to?

I always loved the name Louisa or any name that can be shortened into a cute nickname since Marie doesn’t have any options in that area. Probably never gonna change my name tho, since “Louise” is the name of my grandmas hated step-mom...

Where are you from?

I’m German and I’m pretty sure 99% of my family is ethnically west/centre-european.

Where were you born?

I was born Germany.

Where did you grow up?

I grew up in the rural/suburban areas of Hesse, a federal German state, so basically between fields and LOTS of forest.

Who did you look up to growing up?

I looked up to a lot of football players and now I don’t even play football anymore. Sad times.

What are your best characteristics?

I consider myself to be very optimistic and I’m able to talk to anyone about anything.

What are your favorite things about yourself?

That sounds weird, but I am really good at picking up on the atmosphere in a room, a conversation or somebody’s mood. Like I feel like the emotions and the ~vibes~ of the room as… colors? It’s weird to describe but I’m really proud of that ability.

Which of your parents are you closest to?

I think I’m on a similar level of “closeness” but if I had to pick it would probably be my dad since we have a lot of the same interests.

Which of your parents are you more like?

My character is basically carbon copy of my mom, so yeah.

Are your grandparents still married?

Yes they are!

What relative was important to you growing up & why?

My cousins! I have 6 of them and two are really close to my age (one is less than 30 days and one is a year and a half) and I used to spend practically every week-end at their place since they lived so close by.

What is one thing that you’ve never revealed to your parents?

My sexuality and my concerns about my mental health oompf #dontbelikeme

What would your parents have named you if you were the opposite gender?

Felix or Oskar

What do you call your grandparents?

Oma and Opa

What is your best physical feature?

I have really curly blond hair which I guess is nice? As I previously said, I’m pretty strong and I have a lot of inner strength and muscle mass. I’m not bulky tho.

What is your biggest accomplishment?

No idea.

What is your biggest fear?

Spiders, Heights and being left alone.

What is your biggest regret?

Not expressing my appreciation for my friends/family enough.

What is your eye color?

The average person would call it light brown, my best friend called it diarrhea-swamp-dirt-brown. Lovely, isn’t she.

What inspires you?

Books and written pieces in general. Music videos, songs and the like, so things that I guess are meant to inspire others.

What is the most important thing in your life?

My own happiness.

What has required the most courage of you in your life so far?

Talking to my friends about my mental health issues. Still got a lot of things to tell and lots of things to do.

Who is your favorite actor?

… Tom Holland? I dunno.

Who is your favorite actress?

Scarlett Johansson. Black Widow is cool. And she can sing well too.

Who is your favorite celebrity?

I don’t really care about celebrity culture nor can I name someone rn that I really like, follow and keep up with.

Who is your favorite musician?

I like lots of different artists from lots of different genres so picking a favorite is hard…

Who’s your favorite person in the world?

Once again, I don’t have one favorite person, I have a group of people who I consider to be my favorite people in the world, people with whom I get along great.

What is your favorite childhood memory?

Summer at my cousins place, role-playing as warrior cats, playing Dragon Quest IX until 2 am and them sleep till 10 and repeat.

What is your favorite color?

Sunflower yellow, light blue, gold and really soft purple-pinks.

What is your favorite cultural activity?

(had to google what that meant lol) uhh, I like visiting old cities and looking at old architecture and castles. City tours and museums and getting a feeling for the atmosphere within the town.

What is your favorite drink?

Sparkling water (I’m German, what did you expect), coffee, smoothies and hot cocoa.

What is your favorite fairytale?

Rapunzel! I’m from the town where the fairytale originated and also the general area the Grimm brothers lived.

What is your favorite food?

Dampfnudeln (lit. translated steamed noodles, but its more dough-y and sweet), Spaghetti con salmone, eggplant anything (I love eggplants), veggies with feta and salmon and my moms cherry-chocolate-cake.

What is your favorite holiday destination?

I like visiting new places but I love the alps.

What is your favorite ice-cream flavor?

Yogurt and stracciatella.

What is your favorite music genre?

I enjoy most genres except metal and german music in general.

What is your favorite physical activity?

Volleyball. I played volleyball for nearly 8 years now (but I’m not that good lol)

What is your favorite quote?

Be as you wish to seem -Socrates

What is your favorite snack?

Strawberries

What is your favorite song?

Oof, too many. I’ll make a separate post lmao.

What is your favorite sport?

Apart from obv Volleyball, Ice skating and dancing but I’m not good with either.

What is your favorite time of the day?

The morning. Since my windows face east, the sun lightens and heats my room really early in the morning, so I can sleep no longer than 8am max in the summer. Not too bad tho, I’m a morning person.

What is your favorite type of clothing?

If I could, I’d like to steal Jasmines (cup of jasmine on youtube) wardrobe. I really like “asian street style” type of clothes. But I don’t have the confidence, the money or the willpower to change my clothes like that. So rn, my clothe are pretty basic.

What is your favorite way to pass time?

Drawing.

What are the names of your favorite restaurants?

“La Siesta”, “La dolce vita” and “Schalander”.

What is your all-time favorite town or city? Why?

Stockholm and Munich are very high up there even tho I only visited both cities only one time. Hamburg is nice too.

Oh well, that were 50 questions! I got some more ideas what I could post so I will update sometime soon since summer holidays are approaching and there will no more school work.

Till then, see you around!

[highflyartist]

So sorry for the delay guys!

BUT HERE YOU GO!

CHAPTER 1 OF DOAHC 2

[myhauntedsalem]

The Willard Library: Most Haunted Library In The U.S.

The Willard Library, located in Evansville, Indiana, was built in 1881 by William Carpenter, known locally as a pioneer of public charity. Victorian Gothic in design, the brick building stands two stories tall, with a tower and ornate window arches. Being the oldest library in the state of Indiana, it contains a treasure trove of local historical archives and genealogy materials. It also has a ghost.

An apparition reportedly roams the hallways and library rooms. She became known as the Lady in Grey, since she was dressed in an 1800’s period grey dress with a matching grey shawl. First seen in the late 1930’s by a custodian, who soon quit his job in fear of seeing her again, she’s been viewed countless times since. Patrons and employees alike have witnessed water turning on and off, touches on their hair, unexplained noises, and items being moved. After numerous sightings, the library installed a series of web cams around the library, allowing viewers from around the world to search for her from the comfort of their own homes.

The results have been phenomenal. People from all around the world have captured images of the grey lady as she roams the library in the middle of the night. Some even see her during the daytime, lingering in the children’s room or browsing the titles in the library.

During the mid ­1970’s, when the library was under construction, the lead librarian, a woman named Margaret Maier, reported that the ghost went home with her. Her son didn’t believe her until he saw the apparition for himself. He witnessed a woman in a long grey dress climbing the staircase to the second floor in their house. When he went to investigate, she vanished before his eyes. 

After construction was completed, the Lady in Grey soon returned to the library. The special collections librarian also experienced the apparition. She was reading a book, while walking out of the second story staff room. As she passed a stack of books, she stopped short, catching something out of the corner of her eye. When she looked up, she found herself face to face with the ghostly figure. Who is the Lady in Grey?

While nobody knows for certain, many claim she is Louise Carpenter, daughter of William Carpenter. As it turns out, Louisa might have good reason to haunt the building her father established.

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The Willard Library

The Willard Library, located in Evansville, Indiana, was built in 1881 by William Carpenter, known locally as a pioneer of public charity. Victorian Gothic in design, the brick building stands two stories tall, with a tower and ornate window arches. Being the oldest library in the state of Indiana, it contains a treasure trove of local historical archives and genealogy materials. It also has a ghost.

An apparition reportedly roams the hallways and library rooms. She became known as the Lady in Grey, since she was dressed in an 1800’s period grey dress with a matching grey shawl. First seen in the late 1930’s by a custodian, who soon quit his job in fear of seeing her again, she’s been viewed countless times since. Patrons and employees alike have witnessed water turning on and off, touches on their hair, unexplained noises, and items being moved. After numerous sightings, the library installed a series of web cams around the library, allowing viewers from around the world to search for her from the comfort of their own homes.

The results have been phenomenal. People from all around the world have captured images of the grey lady as she roams the library in the middle of the night. Some even see her during the daytime, lingering in the children’s room or browsing the titles in the library.

During the mid ­1970’s, when the library was under construction, the lead librarian, a woman named Margaret Maier, reported that the ghost went home with her. Her son didn’t believe her until he saw the apparition for himself. He witnessed a woman in a long grey dress climbing the staircase to the second floor in their house. When he went to investigate, she vanished before his eyes. 

After construction was completed, the Lady in Grey soon returned to the library. The special collections librarian also experienced the apparition. She was reading a book, while walking out of the second story staff room. As she passed a stack of books, she stopped short, catching something out of the corner of her eye. When she looked up, she found herself face to face with the ghostly figure. 

Who is the Lady in Grey?

While nobody knows for certain, many claim she is Louise Carpenter, daughter of William Carpenter. As it turns out, Louisa might have good reason to haunt the building her father established.

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The Willard Library  Evansville, Indiana

The Willard Library, located in Evansville, Indiana, was built in 1881 by William Carpenter, known locally as a pioneer of public charity. Victorian gothic in design, the brick building stands two stories tall, with a tower and ornate window arches. Being the oldest library in the state of Indiana, it contains a treasure trove of local historical archives and genealogy materials. It also has a ghost.

An apparition reportedly roams the hallways and library rooms. She became known as the Lady in Grey, since she was dressed in an 1800’s period grey dress with a matching grey shawl. First seen in the late 1930’s by a custodian, who soon quit his job in fear of seeing her again, she’s been viewed countless times since. Patrons and employees alike have witnessed water turning on and off, touches on their hair, unexplained noises, and items being moved. After numerous sightings, the library installed a series of web cams around the library, allowing viewers from around the world to search for her from the comfort of their own homes.

The results have been phenomenal. People from all around the world have captured images of the grey lady as she roams the library in the middle of the night. Some even see her during the daytime, lingering in the children’s room or browsing the titles in the library.

During the mid ­1970’s, when the library was under construction, the lead librarian, a woman named Margaret Maier, reported that the ghost went home with her. Her son didn’t believe her until he saw the apparition for himself. He witnessed a woman in a long grey dress climbing the staircase to the second floor in their house. When he went to investigate, she vanished before his eyes. After construction was completed, the Lady in Grey soon returned to the library.

The special collections librarian also experienced the apparition. She was reading a book, while walking out of the second story staff room. As she passed a stack of books, she stopped short, catching something out of the corner of her eye. When she looked up, she found herself face to face with the ghostly figure.

Who is the Lady in Grey?

While nobody knows for certain, many claim she is Louise Carpenter, daughter of William Carpenter. As it turns out, Louisa might have good reason to haunt the building her father established.

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The Willard Library: Most Haunted Library In The U.S.?

The Willard Library, located in Evansville, Indiana, was built in 1881 by William Carpenter, known locally as a pioneer of public charity. Victorian gothic in design, the brick building stands two stories tall, with a tower and ornate window arches. Being the oldest library in the state of Indiana, it contains a treasure trove of local historical archives and genealogy materials. It also has a ghost.

An apparition reportedly roams the hallways and library rooms. She became known as the Lady in Grey, since she was dressed in an 1800’s period grey dress with a matching grey shawl. First seen in the late 1930’s by a custodian, who soon quit his job in fear of seeing her again, she’s been viewed countless times since. Patrons and employees alike have witnessed water turning on and off, touches on their hair, unexplained noises, and items being moved. After numerous sightings, the library installed a series of web cams around the library, allowing viewers from around the world to search for her from the comfort of their own homes.

The results have been phenomenal. People from all around the world have captured images of the grey lady as she roams the library in the middle of the night. Some even see her during the daytime, lingering in the children’s room or browsing the titles in the library.

During the mid ­1970’s, when the library was under construction, the lead librarian, a woman named Margaret Maier, reported that the ghost went home with her. Her son didn’t believe her until he saw the apparition for himself. He witnessed a woman in a long grey dress climbing the staircase to the second floor in their house. When he went to investigate, she vanished before his eyes. After construction was completed, the Lady in Grey soon returned to the library.

The special collections librarian also experienced the apparition. She was reading a book, while walking out of the second story staff room. As she passed a stack of books, she stopped short, catching something out of the corner of her eye. When she looked up, she found herself face to face with the ghostly figure.

Who is the Lady in Grey?

While nobody knows for certain, many claim she is Louise Carpenter, daughter of William Carpenter. As it turns out, Louisa might have good reason to haunt the building her father established.

[myhauntedsalem]

The Willard Library

The Willard Library, located in Evansville, Indiana, was built in 1881 by William Carpenter, known locally as a pioneer of public charity. Victorian Gothic in design, the brick building stands two stories tall, with a tower and ornate window arches. Being the oldest library in the state of Indiana, it contains a treasure trove of local historical archives and genealogy materials. It also has a ghost. An apparition reportedly roams the hallways and library rooms. She became known as the Lady in Grey, since she was dressed in an 1800’s period grey dress with a matching grey shawl. First seen in the late 1930’s by a custodian, who soon quit his job in fear of seeing her again, she’s been viewed countless times since. Patrons and employees alike have witnessed water turning on and off, touches on their hair, unexplained noises, and items being moved. After numerous sightings, the library installed a series of web cams around the library, allowing viewers from around the world to search for her from the comfort of their own homes.

The results have been phenomenal. People from all around the world have captured images of the grey lady as she roams the library in the middle of the night. Some even see her during the daytime, lingering in the children’s room or browsing the titles in the library. During the mid ­1970’s, when the library was under construction, the lead librarian, a woman named Margaret Maier, reported that the ghost went home with her. Her son didn’t believe her until he saw the apparition for himself. He witnessed a woman in a long grey dress climbing the staircase to the second floor in their house. When he went to investigate, she vanished before his eyes. After construction was completed, the Lady in Grey soon returned to the library. The special collections librarian also experienced the apparition. She was reading a book, while walking out of the second story staff room. As she passed a stack of books, she stopped short, catching something out of the corner of her eye. When she looked up, she found herself face to face with the ghostly figure. Who is the Lady in Grey? While nobody knows for certain, many claim she is Louise Carpenter, daughter of William Carpenter. As it turns out, Louisa might have good reason to haunt the building her father established.

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Line of Duty: Why You Should be Watching the Hit UK Crime Thriller

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On the 22nd of July 2005, the day after a series of failed terrorist bombing attempts in the UK capital and a fortnight after fifty-two people had been killed in the London Underground bombings, a Metropolitan Police surveillance team misidentified Brazilian electrician Jean-Charles de Menezes as a fugitive terrorist and fatally shot him as he entered Stockwell Tube Station.

The aftermath of de Menezes’ death, the circumstances of which were the subject of intense press speculation in the run up to a 2008 inquest that resulted in no criminal prosecution for the officers involved, caught the imagination of screenwriter Jed Mercurio.

Previously the creator of Cardiac Arrest and Bodies, a pair of TV dramas that exposed troubling aspects of the modern public health service, Mercurio would use a fictional version of the de Menezes shooting as the way in to a drama that would give UK police procedure the same treatment. When policing goes tragically wrong, where along the line of command does the blame lie? When resources are allocated according to success rates, when cutbacks are made, and when targets are prioritised over public service, what is the fallout?

Mercurio dramatised these questions in Line of Duty, 2012’s gripping BBC Two thriller, currently being repeated on BBC One to fill the schedules emptied by the effects of COVID-19. Filmed in Birmingham and set in a bureaucracy-heavy, target-driven urban crime unit, Line of Duty tells the story of DCI Tony Gates (Lennie James), the head of a criminal investigative team whose results have won him the title of Officer of the Year.

As you might expect, over the course of the five hour drama, a question mark is hung over Gates’ suitability for the accolade. Is he the squeaky clean officer his target record suggests? Is his team the model unit they appear to be on paper? Asking those questions is DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston), a recent transfer to Anti-Corruption, and an unwelcome newcomer to the Midlands unit. Who watches the watchmen? AC do, not that anybody thanks them for it.

Though core characters continue to the second series, Line of Duty’s first run works as a standalone drama. It’s a five-hour episodic story pivoting on the fulcrum of Tony Gates’ character. Is he really a bent cop, or a victim of circumstance? Along with the audience, AC-12’s position on Tony rotates from corrupt to clean (well, cleanish), from ally to enemy and back again.

Moving us through Gates’ many facets is Lennie James (The Walking Dead, Save Me), a stage and screen actor and writer whose talent is responsible in no small part for series one’s success. Even in Line Of Duty’s more sensational cop thriller moments, James’ performance as Gates is varied, layered and credible. Gates is a family man and he’s an adulterer, he’s a careerist surrounded by cronies and – to borrow from The Wire – he’s good police. All of those aspects James plays with absolute conviction.

Joining James in the ranks of talented cast are Vicky McClure and Martin Compston as DS Fleming and DS Arnott. When series one aired in 2012, both young actors were better known for indie film and, in McClure’s case, improvised drama (she was heart-breaking as Lol in Shane Meadows’ This Is England series) and perhaps because of that, both bring that sense of naturalism to the often clichéd world of TV crime drama. Over the next four series, each one a steadily growing word-of-mouth hit for the BBC, McClure and Compston have become beloved by fans and are now indissociable from their AC-12 double-act. (The surrounding cast just continues to improve too, with guest stars in later series including Keeley Hawes, Daniel Mays, Thandie Newton and Stephen Graham.)

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In Line of Duty, we meet young, optimistic police, and jaded, unsympathetic box-tickers. There are officers driven by a strong sense of duty, and those in it just for the pension and to repay personal debts. We see the police both hamstrung by, and choosing to, prioritise paperwork and statistics over justice. There are so many tiny derelictions of duty fringing the central corruption investigation that it’s no wonder active police weren’t happy to advise on the drama; it doesn’t flatter the profession.

There are, however, enough good-hearted, sound-thinking characters for the series not to be an attack on modern policing. It’s an empathetic precinct drama with things to say about loyalty and the difficulty of taking an ethical stand.

Gina McKee, Craig Parkinson, Adrian Dunbar, Paul Higgins and TV’s Neil Morrissey all slot in without a glitch around James, Compston and McClure’s central trio. That the cast has no weak links carries Line of Duty over scenes set in a one-dimensional ‘sink estate’ populated, it seems, solely by prostitute mums, feral kids and crack-dealing young black men in hoodies.

That said, if you were to tick off how many of the crime drama clichés lampooned by Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier in their sharply observed 2012-14 A Touch of Cloth spoofs appear in Line of Duty, its score card would be sparse. Not empty, mind you, but it sits high above the watermark for the genre.

Yes, there are shock cliff-hangers, yes, every so often a character will thump his chest and declare himself a “proper copper” and yes, the title is spoken aloud in a crucial final scene, but those are rare moments of broadly drawn cop show stuff. It’s the drama’s quieter insights and stand-out performances that stay with you.

Line of Duty is so well-made a drama with such a sage perspective about modern policing that its few frustrations – the undeveloped junior officers, its tabloid vision of estate life, Gates’ wife’s lack of any kind of character – are perhaps felt more keenly than they would were it just any other crime thriller. It does so much so well that its brief dips seem all the more noticeable.

By having an agenda other than using violent crime to shock and titillate, Line of Duty stands almost alone as a UK police thriller. It examines the bureaucratic culture of modern policing alongside the slit throats, detached fingers and freezer-stuffed bodies. If you weren’t among the 4.1 million-strong UK audience for Line of Duty back in 2012, or the millions more who joined between then and the mega-hit fifth series in 2019, now is the perfect time to get on board.

Line of Duty series one is currently being repeated at 9pm on BBC One on Monday and Tuesday nights.

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