#margaret jordan

[apollopolls]

[neverscreens]

— MY LADY JANE, SEASON ONE.

Who'll Be the Next in Line?, Part One, Part Two.

Wild Thing, Part One, Part Two.

With A Girl Like You, 495 Screencaps.

Bluebird is Dead, Part One, Part Two.

I'm Gonna Change the World, Part One, Part Two.

I Feel Free, 498 Screencaps.

Another Girl, Another Planet, 497 Screencaps.

God Save the Queen, Part One, Part Two.

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[guiltyonsundays]

Margaret Atwood sat down to write Alias Grace and she said imagine the personification of 19th century ideas about white femininity (madonna whore complex embodied in a celebrated murderess and lunatic who may also be a virginal brutalised victim and is certainly a menial domestic servant skilled in textile crafts with a submissive yet composed demeanour) and white masculinity (a spoiled upper class manbaby who immediately judges every woman he interacts with on how attractive he finds them and has nonstop violent sexual fantasies while thinking himself the pinnacle of civilisation and chivalry and rational scientific endeavour) and then showed the man fucking falling to pieces while the woman is like. you good bro

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Maddie Morrow- Havenfall by Sara Holland

Lucy Muchelney- The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Moiraine Damodred Sedai- The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan

Silariathas “Silas”- Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

[brittanybwrites]

The two books I finished//the two books I’m currently reading

[wonder-worker]

"My analysis is predicated on a distinction between the medieval concepts of authority, defined as the legitimate right to act, and of power, the ability to impose one’s will on others. By the High Middle Ages, inherited authority was associated with a fief, granting individuals the right to rule in a certain region according to certain prescribed regulations. While authority typically implies a chain of command, power, a more elusive quality, is defined abstractly as the ‘‘ability to act effectively on persons or things, to make or secure favorable decisions which are not of right allocated to the individuals or their roles.’’ According to this definition, power is much more elusive, based on personal effectiveness and influence rather than on sanctioned right to command. This distinction clearly operated in the Middle Ages, where the two concepts were related but not synonymous. Authority was associated with hereditary [or granted] titles and offices. However, while the possession of authority legitimated one’s actions, it did not guarantee their effectiveness. Conversely, while individuals who lacked authority could impose their will on others by force or influence, their actions would not have been considered legitimate. Although they are often used interchangeably by modern authors, authority and power referred to distinct attributes in the Middle Ages."

— Erin L. Jordan, "The "Abduction" of Ida of Boulogne: Assessing Women's Agency in Thirteenth-Century France", French Historical Studies, Volume 30, Issue 1 (Winter 2007)

[picturebookshelf]

Little Puff (1973)

Story: Margaret Hillert -- Art: Sid Jordan

[stastrodome]

Fun Facts. 100% verified.

Dunkin Donuts purchased the rights to the song Me and Bobby McGee to advertise their fall flavors and came up with the theme Good enough for Dunkin / and Bobby McPumpkin.

Michael Jordan once bet four and a half million dollars on what he thought would be the opening song at a 1992 Mandy Moore concert.

Known to the press as "The Iron Lady", Margaret Thatcher was known to her friends as "Punchbowl Peggy".

George Eliot planned on writing a sequel called The Tobacconist on the Tay.

A Swiss delegate to the United Nations once asked the General Assembly "after all we did for chocolate and cheese, why did you stick us with Swiss chard?"

[ruleof3bobby]

THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS (1987) Grade: F

Time has been horrible to the mostly on the nose jokes. Felt like a rip-off of other more popular 80's comedies. Don't Watch.

[sodeartomyheart]

Margaret Jordan Patterson

[americanmodern]

Margaret Jordan Patterson, woodcut

[mitchelldailygames]

2024 Book Round-Up

I’m doing this again! These are things I read this year, not books that came out this year. They’re not in any particular order.

The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross I read this book and the next from this series (the Laundry Files) this year and kind of fell in love. It’s about an agent and IT guy from a secret British agency in charge of stopping demons and other monstrosities summoned by computers from destroying the world. The horror has a very cosmic/eldritch vibe. I also find it quite funny with almost Pratchett-like dry humor, though with a pitch black coat of paint on it. Office politics is also a big part of the stories, but resolved in much more grisly ways than hopefully you’d find in your workplace. There are a lot of books in this series, so I have a lot to look forward to.

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert Just finished this one. I wasn’t expecting to like it as much as I did. A lot of the book happens inside Paul’s head or through political conversations, but I felt the story still moved along well and had interesting twists and turns. The weirdness of the Dune universe also takes a big step forward which I appreciated here. You could leave the first book still debating if Paul still fits in the typical white savior narrative, and this book shatters that really effectively.

Erasure by Percival Everett I think I heard about this one from an interview with the author on the On the Media podcast. The basic premise is a Black author is critically well-received but not commercially because he writes experimental fiction that publishers and distributors find to be not reflective enough of the African-American experience (something that he’s not trying to write about). He hits a point when he needs money after tragedy hits his family and is frustrated by the market and writes a book about a young man in the hood full of stereotypes that he intends as a scathing parody of other books that are selling well. Minor spoilers, people love the book and take it as an authentic look at the African-American experience. This was more experimental than I was expecting—the entirety of the terrible book the character writes is in this novel—but I found it really compelling. The tension in the last scene had my heart hammering.

Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller Another book that landed on my list by way of podcast a long time ago, this book is part biography of ichthyologist David Starr Jordan, part memoir, and part critical examination of taxonomy, eugenics, and the western obsession with classification and hierarchy. It’s a pretty beautiful work that I find myself thinking about and referencing quite often.

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch Want a fantasy book that’s about all rogues? This is that book. It’s a crime/heist thriller in a really well-built world. There’s a great mix of high highs and low lows in this book (warning, it gets dark), and it uses tension really well. The heisting and scheming is all really fun, the magic and monsters of the world are really cool balancing an overall pretty harrowing story.

Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus OK, like most of these I heard about on a podcast. Jamie Loftus has been one of the most common voices coming through my speakers/headphones this year and she narrates the audiobook for her book. This book is about hot dogs, told through a cross country hotdog tour. It’s also about the meat industry, COVID, a relationship at its end, and America’s relationship with consumption. It’s very well written and a good encapsulation of what I love about Jamie’s brand of journalism and storytelling.

Escape from Incel Island by Margaret Killjoy Margaret Killjoy is another favorite person to listen to/read. This book is a pretty short, pulpy romp about a future where all of the incels get tricked by the government into getting trapped on an island and a woman and a non-binary mercenary who are sent to the island and then have to escape. It’s violent, sometimes scary, but doesn’t take that side of itself too seriously. Woven through are some really compassionate and poignant examinations of gender, masculinity, and the complexity of people.

Reading Now/On the Shelf I’m currently reading Lessons in Birdwatching by Honey Watson and loving it. It’s a really cool far-future sci-fi book about research students stationed on a planet where the residents appear to experience time nonlinearly. It will probably be the first book I finish in 2025 and will show up on this list next year.

Also on the shelf are The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy which is marketed as a young adult fantasy novel and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, the author of A Psalm for the Wild-Built which I read last year. I’m really looking forward to both!

[atthenunnery]

ATN #71: Today, I Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything…

by Mags on December 7, 2011 at 12:01 AM

No seriously though.

Can you recognize who’s who?

[guiltyonsundays]

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 🤝 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins:

Having absolutely vile male POV characters whose narration didn’t make it into their respective film/tv adaptations, thus making them appear far more sympathetic and their relationship with the female protagonist seem far more romantic than it was in the book

[falconcrestalbumphoto]

Ana Alicia, Laura Johnson, Jane Wyman, Margaret Ladd, Morgan Fairchild et Susan Sullivan.

[joaquimblog]

BAYREUTH 2023: PARSIFAL (Schager, Zeppenfeld, Welton, Shanahan, Garanča, Kehrer; Scheib, Heras-Casado)

L’estrena de la nova producció de Parsifal que ha inaugurat fa tres dies el Festival de Bayreuth 2023 anava envoltada del misteri i l’expectació per la proposta escènica de Jay Scheib (això no és gens original) i pel sorprenent encàrrec d’atorgar la direcció musical de la inauguració i d’una òpera tan bayreuthiana,  al director granadí Pablo Heras-Casado, una aposta arriscada i la segona vegada…