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dopeepidemic · 1 year ago
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Inktober #26: Remove
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darlingillustrations · 2 years ago
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PRIDE is timeless
sources for photographs:
Bluebirds - Kitty Ely class of 1887 (left) and Helen Emory class of 1889, Mount Holyoke students, via vintagephoto.livejournal.com. Source for image.
Cats - Nusch Éluard and Sonia Mossé. Paris. 1935 Photographer: Man Ray. Source for image.
Chipmunks - Source for image.
Deer - Source for image.
Dogs - Source for image.
Foxes, dancing - Photograph by Thurston Hopkins, Tango in the East End, London, 1954. Source for image.
Foxes, dapper - Source for image.
Frogs - Photograph from a collection called “Hidden in the Open,” curated by Trent Kelley. Source for image.
Giraffes - “Tough Threads.” Ken Russell photographed Teddy Girls in London -1950s. Source for image.
Hedgehogs - Chuck Rowland & Harry Hay (Apr. 7, 1912 – Oct. 24, 2002), 1983. © Stephen Stewart, via @onearchives. Harry Hay was the visionary behind the queer liberation movement in the U.S. With his background in leftist politics, Hay merged the revolutionary idea of homosexuals as an “oppressed cultural minority” with the fundamentals of organizing. (verbiage by lgbt_history… read more here).
Lions - I found this image on the internet in 2017 and have not been able to relocate it since.
Octopus - Circa 1970 by Donna Gottschalk. Source for image.
Otters - Source for image.
Polar Bears - Source for image.
Rabbits, mm - Source for image.
Rabbits, ww - Source for image.
Raccoons - Photographed by Kay Tobin, circa 1977. Source for image.
Red Pandas - Mariana Romo Carmona and June Chan (b. June 6, 1956), New York City, 1988. Photo © Robert Giard Foundation. (read more about these activists here)
Seagulls - Source for image.
Skunks - Photograph from the etsy shop The Vintage Image Boutique.
Sloths - Castro Street Fair, San Francisco, California, August 17, 1980. Photo © Paul Fusco. (read more about this street fair here)
Snow Leopards - Gay Pride Day, NYC 1980 / © Stanley Stellar.
The Affectionate Animal series is a project I have worked on for years, illustrating vintage photographs of queer couples. All paintings are by me, Erin Darling. Here is a link to the series on my site.
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cherrycola27 · 1 year ago
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Series Warnings: Mythology!AU. Language, alcohol, drinking. Military inaccuracies. Mutual pining, unrequited love. Allusions to and eventual smut. Minors DNI. 18+. Individual chapter warnings will come as needed. Banner Credit @thedroneranger
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Chapter 6: My Type
You and Bradley were both thankful that you were at a good place again in your friendship. The two of you returned to your previous routine of your Wednesday night hangouts, and the rest of August slipped away into a moment in time. September brought you two closer together as you still danced around the line of friends or something more.
It also brought along Mickey's birthday, and after the way the last party ended, the squad was ready to have a fun night out that didn't end in chaos.
Fanboy had never outgrown his punk rock phase, and for his birthday, he asked that every attend a cover band concert La Jolla. He had gone all out and even rented a party bus to take the group to and from the venue. Unfortunately, you had plans that night and wouldn't be able to attend. You made sure to send him a nice gift, though. Mickey was over the moon when he opened the autograph Star Trek poster and immediately forgave you for missing out on the fun.
Bradley, however, was extremely disappointed in the fact that you weren't coming. He was hoping that tonight would finally be his chance to lay his feelings on the line for you, but instead, he was drinking a beer, sandwiched between Payback and Bob, while Jake and Coyote made use of the stripper poles in the bus.
When they arrived, he couldn't wait to get off and get some fresh air. He had texted you a few times, but you hadn't responded. He checked his phone again to see that his messages were still unread. He sighed in disappointment before tucking his phone away and heading inside with everyone else.
Inside, an EDM DJ was playing some throwback Coldplay while a few techs were setting up for the band. The Daggers found a section near the right side and settled in. They gave their drink orders to a waitress who winked and Mickey when she found out it was his birthday.
Moments later, she returned with drinks and the promise to come back and see if they would need anything later.
With his whiskey in hand, Bradley leaned over to Fanboy and asked, "What's the name of this band again?"
Fanboy rolled his eyes. "The Styx. They do a mix of punk rock, eighties hits, pop, and some original songs. I heard them at a festival about a year and a half ago, and I've seen them a few places here and there. I'm pretty excited to see them again, though. Their lead singer left the band about five months ago to go solo, and apparently, an old friend of the lead guitarist stepped up and has been with them. I haven't heard her, but apparently, she's way better than the old singer." Fanboy explains.
Bradley nods his head and sinks back into his chair as he and everyone else waits for the show to start.
About ten minutes later, the DJ finishes, and some filler music comes through the speakers. The owner of the bar tells everyone that the band will start shortly. More people pour in. Bradley's mind wanders to you, and what you might be doing tonight.
...............
"How's the crowd out there?" You ask Lyla as she checks over her guitar once more. "The energy is fantastic. The place is pretty packed, too." She tells you with a smile.
"Great." You sigh.
A packed house
More people to watch you fail
"Don't worry, babe, you're going to kill it like you always do!" Mariana, the drummer and Lyla's sister, tells you. "Exactly. Just relax, we've got this!" Derrick, the bass player, says to the group. "If anyone boos, I will jump off the stage and shove my keyboard down their throat." Trent, Derrick's husband tells you. You can't help but laugh. You want to say something witty back, but you hear the stage manager start to introduce the group.
You can do this
You love doing this
You're going to be great
You take a deep breath and give yourself a once over in the mirror before stepping out. You look good— really good.
Netted tights cover your legs before disappearing under your cut-off denim shorts that show off your thigh tattoos.
A cropped black vintage Bon Jovi shirt covers your torso. You've cut some of the neck out of the shirt, so the lace of your bralette underneath is visible. Layers of silver chains with charms hug your neck and cleavage. A red flannel is tied around your waist.
Heavy, black, Doc Marten boots are on your feet, and your hair is loose and wild around your face. Sultry dark makeup graces your features, and you've traded your signature cherry red pout for a sensual shade of burgundy.
Rings and bracelets adorned your fingers and wrists. You truly looked the part of a rock queen. You look like sex on legs
Maybe you should pay Bradley a visit after this was over
You were broken from your thoughts by the cheers of the crowd. You took a deep breath as the rest of the group stepped out onto the stage. It was dark, thankfully, you couldn't make any faces out, and they couldn't see you just yet.
You turned to Lyla and the rest of the band who gave you the go-ahead.
..........
The Daggers, especially Fanboy, waited with baited breath as the band set up. Bradley sat there with a fresh glass of whiskey and prayed they were as good as Fanboy had made them out to be. There was nothing worse than sitting through a shitty band.
Soon, the opening sounds of Fallout Boy's "Centuries" filled the room. The band stayed shrouded in dim lights until the opening chorus finished, and then bright lits illuminated the stage.
Fanboy screamed in excitement as he leaned over to say something to Fritz, but Bradley's eyes didn't leave the stage. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. He wasn't drunk. Surely, his mind had to be playing tricks on him.
Just as he was about to say something, it seemed like the entire group came to the realization at the same time.
"Oh my shit." Jake said. "It's that—"
"That's Hades." Bradley said before Jake could finish his question. "Holy shit." Bradley breathed out as he watched you on the stage.
You owned the space. You presses filled the room and demanded the attention of the crowd.
Bradley was captivated by you. He knew that he was attracted to you before. He'd tried so hard to keep his feelings pushed down, and when he kissed you, he knew he'd ruined his chances. But then—then you wanted to be his friend again, and he got the chance to fall for you all over again.
And this time, he fell harder.
Now, there was no denying his attraction for you. As he watched you on that stage, enthralled with your beauty and this new side of you he'd never seen before, Bradley couldn't help but let his mind wander.
The music continues, but now, it's all background noise to Bradley.
He isn't even sure what song you are singing right now. He's too busy watching the way your body moves to the beat and how he's sure you wore that outfit just to mess with him.
He knows that the last part isn't true because surely you didn't know that the Daggers would be here tonight. Fanboy had only asked if you were free tonight. He'd never told you the plans, but in the back of Bradley's mind, he likes to think that you wore that cropped Bon Jovi tee for him and the moment you'd shared months ago.
He watches the hem of your shirt catch on your fingertips as you drag your hands up your body and sway with the music. Bradley hasn't stopped staring at the patch of skin that is just visible between it and the waistband of your jean shorts. He is eager to know what you might have on under it and how it would look on his bedroom floor.
Maybe it was wrong of him to think it, but Bradley didn't care.
Haunting melodies poured from your wine colored lips. They weaved through the crowd and flooded his ears. Bradley was hanging onto every word you sang. His mind wandered as he wondered if his name would sound just as pretty as your songs did when it tumbled from your lips as he brought you to the peak of pleasure.
You were absolutely fearless in the way you put on a show. You worked the room and had everyone captivated. Bradley hoped that one day, he'd be able to find out if you would put on a show just for him in the privacy of his bedroom.
God, you were so fucking beautiful up there. And he knows he probably looks like an absolute ass because he has been ignoring the rest of your friends for almost the entire forty-five minutes you've been on the stage, but he can't help it.
He's so awestruck by you and this part of your life. It's another piece of the puzzle that makes you so unique and so amazing to him.
You're smart, witty, beautiful, funny, and talented on more than one front. Bradley loves that he's learned something new about you.
He wants to learn more new things about you. He wants to add more pieces to the puzzle until he has the whole picture.
He would give anything to spent eternity figuring you out.
You announce the final song of your set list, a rock cover of "Bad Romance," and Bradley finds it ironic because he would take any kind of romance with you. Good or bad.
With this being the last song, you go wild. You release all your inhibitions as you move about the stage and command the room, just like you command the sky.
Bradley has to discreetly adjust himself through his jeans because he gets distracted by the way your necklaces move.
The layers of silver chains of various lengths with charms scattered throughout them hugged your neck in the best way. Bradley didn't realize he could be jealous of a few pieces of jewelry, but as he grips his glass of whiskey tighter, he finds himself longing to replace them with his hands. He just knows that you'd look so fucking beautiful with his long fingers wrapped around your throat while he fucked you like the good girl he knows you would be for him.
Just when he thought you couldn't surprise him anymore, that night, you prove him wrong. When the bridge of the song comes up, you switch to singing in French. French? Since when did you know another language?
Now he wanted to know if you were fluent in it, and if you were, would you talk dirty to him in it. Fuck, you were still a mystery to him, in the best way.
As the song came to an end, you hit your knees for the final high note, and the entire crowd jumped up and screamed for you, the Daggers included. Bradley isn't embarrassed to say that he was definitely the loudest.
After you and the rest of the band thanked everyone for coming out and bidded the audience farewell, Bradley watched you disappear behind a black curtain.
More filler music started up as the squad sat down and looked at each other.
"So, Hades moonlights as a rockstar." Coyote said, breaking the silence of the group.
"Would it be weird if I asked her to get me an autograph from her band mates?" Fanboy asked.
"I don't think so. I just can't believe she didn't tell us." Phoenix said as she finished her beer.
"We all have things that we don't tell everyone about. Maybe she was afraid we'd make fun of her or something. Plus, have you met some of us? A few members of our group aren't the best at respecting other people's feelings." Bob said as he and everyone stared directly at Jake.
"For the last time, I apologized to her! Jeez!" Jake said as he threw his hands up in defense.
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Once off the stage, you downed a bottle of water and panted to catch your breath.
"We were amazing tonight!" Derrick cheers as he puts his bass away. "Hades, you killed it with the vocals!" Trent compliments you.
"I'm just glad you didn't have to fight an audience member, I doubt your husband would have bailed you out of jail—again." You needle Trent.
"Oh my gosh, it was one time, and they dropped the charges." Trent huffed.
Lyla and Mariana laugh as they put their things away. "You guys want to get a drink? To celebrate a successful show?" Mariana asks. "Absolutely. Hades, if you keep this up, we might not ever let you go!" Lyla tells you as she slings an arm around your shoulder.
"Lyla, I told you, I'm just helping you our until you can find someone to replace Candice." You tell her.
Lyla shakes her head as the five of you head out of the backstage area and to the bar. You take a seat with your back to the crowd. A few patrons come up and speak to all of you, but none linger too long. You've just put your pomegranate margarita to your lips when you hear a familiar voice call, "Well what do we have here? If it ain't Hades."
You set your drink down and spin on your stool. You're shocked when you turn around and see all twelve of your friends and coworkers standing in front of you.
"Oh my gods, what are you guys doing here?" You ask them.
"This is what I had planned for my birthday." Fanboy tells you.
"Oh, Mick, I had no idea. You should have told me, and I could have gotten you a front row spot!" You tell him.
"You could have told us you were a rockstar." Phoenix says.
You don't have a chance to respond before Lyla says, "Well, aren't you going to introduce us?"
"Oh, sorry. Guys, this is Lyla, we were stationed together in Lemoore a few years ago. She was my wingman until she hung up her wings to be a mechanic. And this is her sister Mariana and Derrick and his husband Trent, and they are The Styx." You say.
"We are The Styx." Lyla corrects you.
After a few polite hellos, you turn to your squadron. "And guys, this is Fanboy, Payback, Halo, Omaha, Bob, Phoenix, Yale, Harvard, Fritz, Coyote, Hangman, and—Bradley." You say as you point out each one of them.
"Bradley—er—Rooster, is my new wingman." You tell your band mates.
"You are a lucky duck to be flying with her." Lyla tells Rooster. "She saved my ass several times."
"Don't let her fool you, Lyla had my back, too." You smile.
"So, Hades, how did you end up doing—this?" Bob asks you, never failing to address the elephant in the room.
"Lyla and I lived together in the barracks. We used to do karaoke on the weekends. She always played a little and decided she wanted to do music more seriously. Unfortunately, Lyla was in a training accident and shattered her left hip." You told them. You wince at that detail. It had been the one time that you weren't flying with her because an admiral had pulled you into a meeting.
"Not too long after Lyla's accident, I was transferred. We kept in touch, and she told me to call her if I was ever back in California." You told them.
"And I couldn't get back in a plane anymore after that, so I took to fixing them and playing guitar in my spare time. At an open mic night, Mariana and I met Derrick and Trent and Candice, our former lead singer. We hit it off, and The Styx was born." Lyla explains.
"But, Candice thought she was too good for us and moved to L.A. five months ago, " Mariana adds.
"Thankfully, Hades just happened to get station in San Diego. So, when she called me to catch up, I convinced her to do a show with us, and that's kind of led us here." Lyla finishes.
"Wow, that's insane." Payback says.
"Yeah, crazy." You shake your head, suddenly feeling on edge now that your work friends new more about your personal life. It wasn't that you were trying to hide this from them, but at the same time, you liked your privacy.
Secrets kept you safe
Bradley could tell that you were getting uncomfortable, so he tapped your knee to get your attention before grabbing your wrist and pulling you away from the crowd.
"You were amazing up there, Angel." He praises you as you tuck yourselves into a corner of the club.
"Thanks, maybe next time, you can join me, and we can hit them with some 'Great Balls of Fire.'" You laugh. Bradley chuckles.
A comfortable silence settles over the two of you. You both look at see the Daggers talking and drinking with your band mates.
"How did all of you get here?" You ask him.
"Fanboy got a party bus. Jake was recreating scenes from Magic Mike on the drive here when he was still half sober, I'm terrified to see what's going to happen on the way back." Bradley shutters.
"I didn't even get to have my drink, so I'm sober. I drove here, wanna ride home with me?" You offer him.
Bradley abso-fucking-lutely wanted to ride home with you. And then, when the two of you got home, he wanted to take you into his apartment, strip you down, and hear you sing for him in a different way. And he wanted you to sleep over so he could make you breakfast the next morning before he fucked you in his shower. However, he couldn't say that to you, so instead, he just said, "Yeah, Angel, that would be great."
The two of you quietly snuck out the back of the club. You had grabbed your things already. You made it to the car before Bradley, but instead of opening your door, you stood there, subconsciously waiting for him to do it. He smiled and opened the door and helped you in.
The drive back to San Diego was filled with playful banter, more singing, and flirty touches.
.............
Once you were back at your apartment complex, Bradley made sure to walk you to your door.
You wanted to invite him in, but it was late, and you were still high on adrenaline from performing, and you didn't trust yourself not to drag him to your bed. If you were going to do this with him, you were going to do it the right way.
So, you settled for a simple goodnight kiss on his cheek before tucking yourself inside your home.
After he said goodbye to you at your apartment door, Bradley bolted upstairs to his.
Tonight, he's thankful that he is your upstairs neighbor and that he has a corner unit where his bedroom doesn't share a wall with anyone.
Why? Because of the way your name sinfully falls from his lips while he touches himself and selfishly chases his release.
He's been hard for you all evening, and your flirty touches in your car on the ride home coupled with the way your soft lips felt on his cheek had him spiraling as he fists his cock.
He cums hard, spurts of it painting his hand and abs with hot white streaks. As he comes down from his high and cleans himself up, Bradley can't help but think about how his cum would look splattered on your thigh tattoo or dripping out of you. He groans, already hardening at the thought of it.
After quelling the fires of his desire with a cold shower, Bradley slips between the sheets of his bed and thinks of you and how he could make the two of you something more.
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ninja-muse · 3 months ago
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September was a good month! Nothing I read was bad, which means my ranking this month was done by hairs and vibes and I definitely recommend everything. Even my DNFs were good, objectively. They just weren't for me. And my library has finally, finally, started to put June and July releases into circulation, and Seanan McGuire knocked it out of the park again, and I found out I won an ARC by getting an email that effectively said the parcel had been delayed, and I managed to read two-thirds of a book in a single day because I had public transit adventures on purpose.
My expected book haul didn't happen, though. My birthday yielded one book (the Tolkien), but also two bookish puzzles, one bookish shirt, and two bookstore gift cards. (Yes, I have already preordered something, never fear.) (No, I'm not complaining. I do not need more books. And the shirt's perfect.) And once again, I feel like I didn't read enough, but I had some freelance work come my way and that ate into my reading time. Oh, and uh, GBBO is back so there went another evening….
I managed two books off my physical TBR this month. The Trixie Belden is one I "accidentally" bought online a few months ago. I loved these books as a kid and I'm determined to one day own them all. (I think now I'm missing six.) I was pleasantly surprised by how well it held up and would love to see Trixie get a reboot or rerelease for modern kids. She is hands-down better than Nancy Drew and I'll fight people about it. The other book is a Philip Pullman short story I liberated from work and which has been sitting on my shelves for something like six years. Lee Scorsby gets his own prequel story! It's great! And definitely improved by my inability to picture him as anyone but Lin-Manuel Miranda.
And A Natural History of Dragons was exactly the sort of book I imagined it being, and I think it's going to be a near-binge series for me. I have the second book coming in for me at the library now, and I'm pretty sure I'll be requesting the third once I'm done with that.
I'm going to have work in October at reading more dark or complicated things, or striking more of a balance. Five cozyish books this month was a little much.
Oh, and one last thing: due to recent news, I've purged my library of all Neil Gaiman works I don't have a sentimental connection to. I've yet to take the stack to my favourite new used bookstore for credit, but as far as I'm concerned, they're already gone.
And now, as usual, here’s my list of everything I read this month, in the rough order of how glad I was to have read them.
Tidal Creatures - Seanan McGuire
Somebody is killing incarnations of the moon and the remaining moon gods, lead by Chang’e, must stop them before the cosmic balance is upset.
8/10
major Chinese-American POV character, 🏳️‍🌈 secondary character (lesbian), South Asian secondary character, 🏳️‍🌈 author
library book
The Disenchantments - Celia Bell
During the Affair of the Poisons, a baroness and her female lover are thrown deeper into the underworld of lies and secrets after a vicious murder.
8/10
🏳️‍🌈 protagonist (sapphic), 🏳️‍🌈 secondary character (sapphic)
warning: domestic abuse, misogyny, beating
reading copy
A Natural History of Dragons - Marie Brennan
A memoir by Lady Trent, renowned natural philosopher and adventuress, covering her childhood, first expedition, and the troublesome dragons of the Vystrana highlands.
8/10
warning: death, murder, animal death
library book
Once Upon a Time in the North - Philip Pullman
Lee Scorsby arrives in Novy Odense and finds a conniving politician, a beleaguered captain, and a hired gun—not necessarily in that order.
7/10
warning: blood, gun violence
off my TBR shelves
Shoestring Theory - Mariana Costa
After everything goes wrong under King Eufrates, Grand Mage Cyril decides to turn back the clock and prevent disaster. Unfortunately, his plan for fixing things was “wing it” and he’s never been good at politics. Out in October
7/10
🏳️‍🌈 protagonist (gay), 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters (multisexual), major dark-skinned characters
warning: suicide, animal death
reading copy/won
Buried Deep and Other Stories - Naomi Novik
A collection of fantasy short stories.
7.5/10
🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters (achillean)
reading copy
Dreadful - Caitlin Rozakis
Gav wakes up with no memories in a dark wizard’s lab. He quickly realizes he is the dark wizard and if he doesn’t figure The Plan soon or play to type, there won’t be a Gav at all.
7/10
🏳️‍🌈 secondary character (achillean)
library ebook
Trixie Belden and the Mystery at Saratoga - Kathryn Kenny
When Honey’s groom suddenly goes missing, Trixie and Honey naturally start working on the wheres and the whys and whatever else they need to bring him back.
6.5/10
warning: attempted animal cruelty
off my TBR shelves
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society - C.M. Waggoner
When Winesap’s amateur sleuth realizes her town’s per capita death rate, she grows convinced that something supernatural is afoot. And that’s before her cat starts talking.
7/10
Black secondary character, 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters (gay, bi man)
borrowed from work
The Forest City Killer - Vanessa Brown
An account of a number of unsolved murders in late-1960s London, Ontario, with a bent towards there having been a serial killer.
7/10
🇨🇦
warning: murder, sexual assault
library ebook
Picture Books
The Bakery Dragon - Devin Elle Kurtz
Ember wants a gold hoard like the big dragons, but he’s too small to get one the normal way. One night, he follows a golden glow to a bakery and everything changes.
9/10
DNF
Garden of Earthly Bodies - Sally Oliver
When thick hairs begin to grow on Marianne’s back, her doctor diagnoses grief and trauma and sends her to a New Age center, where strange and unsettling things are happening.
borrowed from work
Goth - Lol Tolhurst
A history of goth music, from a musician who was there at the beginning.
reading copy
Currently reading
The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean
An entertaining history of chemistry and the elements of the periodic table.
library ebook
Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century - Richard Taruskin A history of early written European music, in its social and political contexts.
The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Victorian detective stories
disabled POV character (limb injury), occasional Indian secondary characters
warning: racism, colonialism
Monthly total: 10 + 1 Yearly total: 92 Queer books: 2 Authors of colour: 1 Books by women: 9 Authors outside the binary: 0 Canadian authors: 1 Classics: 0 Off the TBR shelves: 2 Books hauled: 1 ARCs acquired: 1 ARCs unhauled: 3.5 DNFs: 2
January February March April May June July August
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ripped-up-newspaper · 1 year ago
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a continuously updating list of books I would like to read, the crossed out titles are those I’ve finished;
Crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyeysky
Where they burn books they also burn people, marcos antonio hernandez
The mind of god, dr. jay lombard
The evolution or mortality, richard joyce
The fear of the feminine, erich neumann
The yiddish policemen's union, michael chabon
Memoirs of lady trent, marie brennan
All's well, mona awad
If we were villains, M.L. Rio
The outsider, albert camus
The metamorphosis, Kafka
Sleepless nights, elizabeth hardwick
Heaven, Mieko Kawakami
The Kites, Romain Gary
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
How to Justify Torture, Alex Adams
Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval
The Man Who Watched The Trains Go By, Georges Simenon
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
Lust For Life, Irving Stone
Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre, Walter Kaufmann
A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers
The Collector, John Fowles
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
The Resurrectionist, E.B. Hadspeth
Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Brianna Wiest
Newsflash, Mira Grant
Seven Against Thebes, Aeschylus
Lysistrata, Aristophanes
The Wasps, Aristophranes
Smoke, Dan Vyleta
The Count of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Froth On The Daydream, Boris Vian
Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant
Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
Native Tongue, Suzette Haden Elgin
The Judas Rose, Suzette Haden Elgin
Earthsong, Suzette Haden Elgin
The Deeper The Water The Uglier The Fish, Katya Apekina
If The Body Allows It, Megan Cummings
Am I Disturbing You?, Anne Hebert
Things We Lost In The Fire, Mariana Enriquez
Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder
Parasite Eve, Hideaki Sena
The Red Market, Scott Carney
Women In The Picture, Catherine McCormack
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brookston · 9 months ago
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Holidays 3.24
Holidays
Abracadabra Day
Billboard Pop Album Chart Day
Breakfast Club Detention Day (in “The Breakfast Club”)
Cherokee Nation Remembrance Day
Commonwealth Covenant Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
Concordia Asteroid Day
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of NATO Bombing in Servia
Exxon Valdez Spill Remembrance Day
Feast of the Trickster of Liberty
Flatmate’s Day (UK)
Golden Saxifrage Day
Great American Takeout Day
Heroes’ Day (Congo DRC)
Independent Accommodations Dat
International Day for Achievers
International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims (UN)
International Houdini Day
International Love Your Cat Day
International Right to the Truth Day
International Whistleblower Day
Kazimiras Diena (Return of the Larks; Ancient Latvia)
Lipoprotein(a) Awareness Day
National Adverse Drug Event Awareness Day
National Each Person is a Person of Worth Day
National Life Day (Poland)
National Orange Day (New York)
National Remembrance Day of Poles Saving Jews under German Occupation (Poland)
National Revolution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
National Side Boob Appreciation Day
National Stephanie Day
National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)
National Women of Color in Tech Day
The Office Day
OSX Day
See if you Can Remember How to Play Parcheesi Day
Student Day (Scientology)
Truth and Justice Day (Argentina)
Tulip Day (French Republic)
World Freedom of Thought Day
World Kabaddi Day (India)
World Tuberculosis Day (UN)
Food & Drink Celebrations
International Sauerkraut Day
National Cake Pops Day
National Cheesesteak Day
National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
National Cocktail Day
4th Sunday in March
Black Marriage Day [4th Sunday]
Sunday League Day (UK) [4th Sunday]
Weekly Holidays beginning March 24 (4th Week)
International Peace Syndrome Awareness Week [Last week in March]
National Cleaning Week [begins 4th Sunday]
National Second-Hand Shopping Week [4th Week in March]
World Irish Dancing Week [4th Week in March]
Independence & Related Days
Commonwealth Covenant Day (Northern Marianas Islands)
Greece (Formally Declared a Republic; 1924)
New Year’s Days
Nowruz (New Year) [Day 5, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ... 
Navruz (Tajikistan)
Nooroz (Iran)
Novruz (Azerbaijan)
Festivals Beginning March 24, 2024
Hilton Head Wine & Food Festival (Hilton Head, South Carolina) [thru 3.30]
Maine Maple Sunday (Maine)
Paella Challange (San Antonio, Texas)
Feast Days
Akhnaten, by Philip Glass (Ancient Egyptian Opera; 1984)
Baghwan Shree Rajneesh Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Blessings of Birch Water, The Silver Lady of the Woods (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Catherine of Vadstena (a.k.a. Catherine of Sweden; Christian; Saint)
Dario Fo (Writerism)
Day of Blood (Ancient Rome; Everyday Wicca)
Dies Sanguines (Day of Blood, a.k.a. Bellona’s Day; Sacrifices to War Goddess Bellona; Ancient Rome)
Festival of Cybele (Fasting & Mourning Attis’ Death; Ancient Rome)
Frank Weston Benson (Artology)
Gabriel the Archangel (Christian; Saint)
Hildelith of Barking (Christian; Saint)
Irenssus of Sirmium (Christian; Saint)
John Smibert (Artology)
Komoeditsi (Celebrating Meveshii Bog, Great Bear God, including sacrifice to Great God of Honey; Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Left-of-Field Fanciers Fortnight (Shamanism)
Mac Cairthinn of Clogher (Christian; Saint)
Morton the Beaver (Muppetism)
Orest Kiprensky (Artology)
Origen (Positivist; Saint)
Óscar Romero (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism)
Pandia (Festival of Zeus; Ancient Greece)
Paul Couturier (Church of England)
Red Wine Day (Pastafarian)
Sacred Pillar-Stone Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Simon the Infant (a.k.a. Simon of Trent; Christian; Martyr at Trent)
Walter Hilton (Church of England; Martyr at Norwich)
William Morris (Artology)
William of Norwich (Christian; Saint)
Christian Liturgical Holidays
Holy Week begins [thru 3.30]
Sixth Sunday in Lent (Western Christianity) (a.k.a. ... 
Branch Sunday
Jack-’o’-Lent Day (England)
Flower’s Day (Bulgaria)
Flowers’ Sunday (Duminica Florilor or Floril; Moldova, Romania)
Palm Sunday
People's Sunday
Pussy Willow Sunday (Latvia)
Semana Santa (Spain)
Sul y Blodau (Flowering Sunday; Wales)
Virpominen (Finland, Karelian custom)
Yew Sunday
Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]
Shushan Purim [14-15 Adair II]
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [12 of 53]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [36 of 71]
Prime Number Day: 83 [23 of 72]
Premieres
Akhenaten, by Philip Glass (Opera; 1984)
...And Then There Were Three, by Genesis (Album; 1978)
The Brandenburg Concertos, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Six Concertos; 1721)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams (Play; 1955)
Cilly Goose (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1944)
Concerto in B Flat Minor (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1942)
Country Bear Jamboree (Disneyland Show; 1972)
Crazy Over Daisy (Disney Cartoon; 1950)
Dirty Work, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1986)
Dolores Claiborne (Film; 1995)
Do The Freddie, by Freddie & the Dreamers (Song; 1965)
Funny Little Bunnies (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1934)
The Godfather (Film; 1972)
The Good Eleven (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)
Hannah Montana (TV Series; 2006)
Haunted Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)
Ice Dragon: Legend of the Blue Daisies (Animated Film; 2018)
Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1964)
John Wick 4 (Film; 2023)
No One Is To Blame, by Howard Jones (Song; 1986)
Nuthin’ Fancy, by Lynyrd Skynyrd (Album; 1975)
The Nutty Network (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)
The Office (US TV Series; 2005)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Musical Play, U.S.; 1974)
The Saint Goes West, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories; 1942) [Saint #24]
Scenario, by A Tribe Called Quest (Album; 1992)
Scent-imental Romeo (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)
Symphony No. 7 in C Major, by Jean Sibelius (Symphonic Fantasy; 1924)
Tall Tale (Film; 1995)
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of…, by Arrested Development (Album; 1992)
Tweet and Sour (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)
Watch the Birdie (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1958)
Withering Heights (Film; 1939)
Today’s Name Days
Elias, Karin, Katharina (Austria)
Didak, Katarina, Latin (Croatia)
Gabriel (Czech Republic)
Judica, Ulrica (Denmark)
Albe, Albi, Albina (Estonia)
Gabriel, Kaapo, Kaappo, Kaapro (Finland)
Catherine, Karine (France)
Elias, Heidelinde, Karin (Germany)
Gábor, Karina (Hungary)
Attilio, Didaco, Flavio, Gabriele, Romolo, Tiberio (Italy)
Kazimirs, Spulgis (Latvia)
Daumantas, Donardas, Gabrielius, Ganvilė, Liucija (Lithuania)
Rikke, Ulrikke (Norway)
Dziersława, Dzierżysława, Gabor, Gabriel, Marek, Sewer, Sofroniusz, Szymon (Poland)
Zaharia (Romania)
Gabriel (Slovakia)
Catalina (Spain)
Gabriel, Rafael (Sweden)
Gabe, Gabriel, Gabriela, Gabriella, Gabrielle, Gigi (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 84 of 2024; 282 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 12 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 8 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 15 (Ding-Hai)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 14 Adair II 5784
Islamic: 14 Ramadan 1445
J Cal: 24 Green; Threesday [24 of 30]
Julian: 11 March 2024
Moon: 99%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 28 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Plato]
Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 6 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of March
Zodiac: Aries (Day 4 of 31)
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brookstonalmanac · 9 months ago
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Holidays 3.24
Holidays
Abracadabra Day
Billboard Pop Album Chart Day
Breakfast Club Detention Day (in “The Breakfast Club”)
Cherokee Nation Remembrance Day
Commonwealth Covenant Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
Concordia Asteroid Day
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of NATO Bombing in Servia
Exxon Valdez Spill Remembrance Day
Feast of the Trickster of Liberty
Flatmate’s Day (UK)
Golden Saxifrage Day
Great American Takeout Day
Heroes’ Day (Congo DRC)
Independent Accommodations Dat
International Day for Achievers
International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims (UN)
International Houdini Day
International Love Your Cat Day
International Right to the Truth Day
International Whistleblower Day
Kazimiras Diena (Return of the Larks; Ancient Latvia)
Lipoprotein(a) Awareness Day
National Adverse Drug Event Awareness Day
National Each Person is a Person of Worth Day
National Life Day (Poland)
National Orange Day (New York)
National Remembrance Day of Poles Saving Jews under German Occupation (Poland)
National Revolution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
National Side Boob Appreciation Day
National Stephanie Day
National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)
National Women of Color in Tech Day
The Office Day
OSX Day
See if you Can Remember How to Play Parcheesi Day
Student Day (Scientology)
Truth and Justice Day (Argentina)
Tulip Day (French Republic)
World Freedom of Thought Day
World Kabaddi Day (India)
World Tuberculosis Day (UN)
Food & Drink Celebrations
International Sauerkraut Day
National Cake Pops Day
National Cheesesteak Day
National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
National Cocktail Day
4th Sunday in March
Black Marriage Day [4th Sunday]
Sunday League Day (UK) [4th Sunday]
Weekly Holidays beginning March 24 (4th Week)
International Peace Syndrome Awareness Week [Last week in March]
National Cleaning Week [begins 4th Sunday]
National Second-Hand Shopping Week [4th Week in March]
World Irish Dancing Week [4th Week in March]
Independence & Related Days
Commonwealth Covenant Day (Northern Marianas Islands)
Greece (Formally Declared a Republic; 1924)
New Year’s Days
Nowruz (New Year) [Day 5, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ... 
Navruz (Tajikistan)
Nooroz (Iran)
Novruz (Azerbaijan)
Festivals Beginning March 24, 2024
Hilton Head Wine & Food Festival (Hilton Head, South Carolina) [thru 3.30]
Maine Maple Sunday (Maine)
Paella Challange (San Antonio, Texas)
Feast Days
Akhnaten, by Philip Glass (Ancient Egyptian Opera; 1984)
Baghwan Shree Rajneesh Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Blessings of Birch Water, The Silver Lady of the Woods (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Catherine of Vadstena (a.k.a. Catherine of Sweden; Christian; Saint)
Dario Fo (Writerism)
Day of Blood (Ancient Rome; Everyday Wicca)
Dies Sanguines (Day of Blood, a.k.a. Bellona’s Day; Sacrifices to War Goddess Bellona; Ancient Rome)
Festival of Cybele (Fasting & Mourning Attis’ Death; Ancient Rome)
Frank Weston Benson (Artology)
Gabriel the Archangel (Christian; Saint)
Hildelith of Barking (Christian; Saint)
Irenssus of Sirmium (Christian; Saint)
John Smibert (Artology)
Komoeditsi (Celebrating Meveshii Bog, Great Bear God, including sacrifice to Great God of Honey; Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Left-of-Field Fanciers Fortnight (Shamanism)
Mac Cairthinn of Clogher (Christian; Saint)
Morton the Beaver (Muppetism)
Orest Kiprensky (Artology)
Origen (Positivist; Saint)
Óscar Romero (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism)
Pandia (Festival of Zeus; Ancient Greece)
Paul Couturier (Church of England)
Red Wine Day (Pastafarian)
Sacred Pillar-Stone Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Simon the Infant (a.k.a. Simon of Trent; Christian; Martyr at Trent)
Walter Hilton (Church of England; Martyr at Norwich)
William Morris (Artology)
William of Norwich (Christian; Saint)
Christian Liturgical Holidays
Holy Week begins [thru 3.30]
Sixth Sunday in Lent (Western Christianity) (a.k.a. ... 
Branch Sunday
Jack-’o’-Lent Day (England)
Flower’s Day (Bulgaria)
Flowers’ Sunday (Duminica Florilor or Floril; Moldova, Romania)
Palm Sunday
People's Sunday
Pussy Willow Sunday (Latvia)
Semana Santa (Spain)
Sul y Blodau (Flowering Sunday; Wales)
Virpominen (Finland, Karelian custom)
Yew Sunday
Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]
Shushan Purim [14-15 Adair II]
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [12 of 53]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [36 of 71]
Prime Number Day: 83 [23 of 72]
Premieres
Akhenaten, by Philip Glass (Opera; 1984)
...And Then There Were Three, by Genesis (Album; 1978)
The Brandenburg Concertos, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Six Concertos; 1721)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams (Play; 1955)
Cilly Goose (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1944)
Concerto in B Flat Minor (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1942)
Country Bear Jamboree (Disneyland Show; 1972)
Crazy Over Daisy (Disney Cartoon; 1950)
Dirty Work, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1986)
Dolores Claiborne (Film; 1995)
Do The Freddie, by Freddie & the Dreamers (Song; 1965)
Funny Little Bunnies (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1934)
The Godfather (Film; 1972)
The Good Eleven (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)
Hannah Montana (TV Series; 2006)
Haunted Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)
Ice Dragon: Legend of the Blue Daisies (Animated Film; 2018)
Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1964)
John Wick 4 (Film; 2023)
No One Is To Blame, by Howard Jones (Song; 1986)
Nuthin’ Fancy, by Lynyrd Skynyrd (Album; 1975)
The Nutty Network (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)
The Office (US TV Series; 2005)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Musical Play, U.S.; 1974)
The Saint Goes West, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories; 1942) [Saint #24]
Scenario, by A Tribe Called Quest (Album; 1992)
Scent-imental Romeo (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)
Symphony No. 7 in C Major, by Jean Sibelius (Symphonic Fantasy; 1924)
Tall Tale (Film; 1995)
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of…, by Arrested Development (Album; 1992)
Tweet and Sour (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)
Watch the Birdie (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1958)
Withering Heights (Film; 1939)
Today’s Name Days
Elias, Karin, Katharina (Austria)
Didak, Katarina, Latin (Croatia)
Gabriel (Czech Republic)
Judica, Ulrica (Denmark)
Albe, Albi, Albina (Estonia)
Gabriel, Kaapo, Kaappo, Kaapro (Finland)
Catherine, Karine (France)
Elias, Heidelinde, Karin (Germany)
Gábor, Karina (Hungary)
Attilio, Didaco, Flavio, Gabriele, Romolo, Tiberio (Italy)
Kazimirs, Spulgis (Latvia)
Daumantas, Donardas, Gabrielius, Ganvilė, Liucija (Lithuania)
Rikke, Ulrikke (Norway)
Dziersława, Dzierżysława, Gabor, Gabriel, Marek, Sewer, Sofroniusz, Szymon (Poland)
Zaharia (Romania)
Gabriel (Slovakia)
Catalina (Spain)
Gabriel, Rafael (Sweden)
Gabe, Gabriel, Gabriela, Gabriella, Gabrielle, Gigi (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 84 of 2024; 282 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 12 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 8 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 15 (Ding-Hai)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 14 Adair II 5784
Islamic: 14 Ramadan 1445
J Cal: 24 Green; Threesday [24 of 30]
Julian: 11 March 2024
Moon: 99%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 28 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Plato]
Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 6 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of March
Zodiac: Aries (Day 4 of 31)
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wholegrainsims · 6 years ago
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day one: welcome
sul sul everyone! looking forward to a great few weeks with you. ;)
with nothing but love,                                                                            Mariana Trente
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cirrates · 2 years ago
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one of the concepts I have for monster high ocs is 2 best friends one of them is based on a vampire squid and the other is based on a cirrate octopus (glowing sucker octopus and blind cirrate octopus specifically) and one of them is half vampire and its not the vampire squid. ANYWAY im trying to develop them more as individual characters im thinking the cirrate one has been living between the deep sea and the surface for awhile theres like a joint custody arrangement going on there or something whereas the vampire squid probably has a much harder time adjusting to the surface since xe's lived in the deep sea xir whole life and such. but is still having fun with it. vamp squid is very flat and direct in terms of speech but always kind and well-meaning whereas cirrate vamp girl is always smiley and expressive but has no problem being mean. vamp squid thinks shes hilarious though. I have an idea for a third cephalopod-based character but I havent figured out anything about them yet. theyr a glass octopus. if you care.
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dopeepidemic · 1 year ago
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Inktober #25: Dangerous
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ashintheairlikesnow · 4 years ago
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chimerical (adj.) - created by unchecked imagination; fantastically visionary or highly improbable
(this short drabble references events that occur in @orchidscript​‘s Henry story - see her Masterlist for Henry right here for better context)
Tagging: @burtlederp, @finder-of-rings, @endless-whump, @whumpfigure, @stxckfxck, @slaintetowhump, @astrobly, @newandfiguringitout, @doveotions, @pretty-face-breaker
CW: Referenced noncon, referenced whump of a minor (description of bruises, past whump), trauma response, negative stimming
“Honestly, what were the chances?” Governor Oliver Branch had his hands folded on the desk in front of him, smiling his perfect made-for-TV smile, the hints of wrinkles around his face only adding to the impression, the image, of a man whose life had deeply amused him, from birth until his very moment.
There was a pause, and the reporter must have felt some pressure to speak, because just offscreen, a softer voice says, “Any abduction - after so long, they’re looking at recovery rather than rescue-”
“Oh, I know,” Oliver replied, smooth as silk, rotten underneath. “I do. It’s just so highly improbable, isn’t it? And yet such a miracle, a gift if you will, for Alex to have his son home at last.” If a different kind of smile twitched at the corner of Oliver’s mouth, it wasn’t clear on the screen. “Two years spent in such destitution, coming home so thoroughly injured... honestly, I was surprised Alex even took my call, I’m sure he could barely bring himself to leave his boy’s side.”
“So you did make a call to Governor Caldwell-”
“Of course I did! An hour after the news broke! Just because he and I have a bit of a, ah-... let’s call it a bit of a prickle in our working relationship - we both have lofty dreams, you see, and they conflict just a bit - it doesn’t mean I don’t always want the best for he and his lovely wife. Why, when Nicky went missing I was one of the first on the phone to send my thoughts and prayers for a swift recovery.” Oliver paused, and added, “That it took two years makes you wonder if perhaps someone upstairs didn’t think much of my thoughts and prayers.”
Oliver and the reporter both laughed - the reporter a little uneasily, as if uncertain whether or not Oliver was really joking. Oliver, though, laughed with a genuine, sparkling, charismatic good humor that came right through the screen.
“You know, when it happened, I told Alex - I swore to him - that I could just feel that he’d see his Nicky again. I was sure of it.” Oliver sat back, gave a camera-ready smile. “And sure enough, here he is, home again for good. Right where he belongs.”
The screen shifted back to a different journalist sitting at a desk, who looked at the screen with a pleasant, empty-looking smile. “That was Patricia Trent, our Senior Political Analyst here at WYFN, speaking with Governor Oliver Branch regarding the recent breaking news that Governor Alexander Caldwell’s missing son has returned in a surprise bombshell after being missing for two years.”
A photo came up next to the reporter’s head, showing a long-limbed, slightly gawky boy standing just behind two obvious politicians, the governor and his First Lady Mariana Aldersky, everyone dressed impeccably. Alexander Caldwell and Mariana were all smiles, while Nicholas looked dazed, beaten and bruised, with a hint of a crooked look to his nose that hadn’t been there before.
He was a little older than Chris remembered, but he knew the boy’s face, still. Purpled and bruising, he still knew it. He knew the wrinkle in his nose, he knew what the stone-faced boy looked like smiling and shy. He knew what Alexander’s hands felt like up his shirt and in his mouth and what his teeth felt like digging in to soft skin and leaving marks.
He knew what Nicholas looked like with flushed face and mussed-up hair giggling with him, curled up together, knew what he felt like to kiss.
He’d never stopped knowing, not since the first visit, the long one at the ski resort. Days helping Nicky cook, making beds together and cleaning up and laughing over stupid things and stealing kisses when their Sirs weren’t looking even though they didn’t care, it was nice to have just one thing that didn’t belong to them, that belonged to Baldur and Nicky alone-
“We’ll be back after the break,” The news anchor said with a bright, winning, white-toothed smile, “with more in our interview with Governor Oliver Branch. Next up, we ask the Governor about his plan to see legislation passed on-”
“Don’t watch that,” Antoni said softly from the doorway. “Chrisha, don’t. Do not watch him. It never helps.”
Chris, curled into the tiniest ball he could manage on the floor in front of the couch, only shook his head and drew further into himself. Behind his knees, safely hidden from sight, he began to tap his fingers roughly against his own stomach.
Antoni swallowed. Chris hadn’t hidden his little taps and things he did for... months now, maybe more than a year. How fast just a glimpse of the man who had held him could make him hide it again. 
“It’s, it’s not his son,” Chris whispered.
Antoni blinked. “I am sorry, what?”
“Nicholas. Nicky, the, the, the-the-the... the boy. Um. Governor’s... the one they just, just found. Governor Caldwell’s... It’s... it’s n-n-not his son. He’s not his son.” 
Anyone else might have asked for further clarification, maybe. Or needed their hand held at what Chris was trying to say. Antoni, though, knew immediately what he meant. He’d seen bruises like that on someone before, after all, sitting across from him at the breakfast table, with Mr. Davies presiding over some deranged understanding of a family-
Antoni’s voice was tight, when he asked. “Platonic?”
Maybe they just wanted a son. Maybe they just couldn’t conceive, it was possible, people had said it happened sometimes-
“N-No,” Chris said, and seemed somehow to get even smaller. “Not... not that. Like me, but... with, with cleaning and cooking, too.”
“Chrisha, how do you know-”
“I, I met him. They’re friends, our Sirs are friends.” Chris began to rock, slowly, forward and back, and Antoni made no move to stop him, aware of the tension rising in the room, the way that Chris’s movements were what he used to keep it from breaking. His eyes were still locked on the screen, even though they were talking about some celebrity adopting a dog from the Humane Society now. It didn’t matter - Chris wasn’t seeing the TV, anyway. “They, they fake not liking each other but-but-but-but it’s a game. It’s a game, it’s another game, it’s a fucking game and they made us play and there’s no way to win-”
“Chrisha-”
“They, we, I met him a couple times and-... and and and-” Chris groaned and buried his head in his arms, resting them on his knees, continuing to rock back and forth more violently than before. His fingers twisted in his hair and Antoni moved without hesitation this time, dropping into a crouch next to him and drawing the redhead closer. 
“I didn’t know he escaped,” Chris said, burying his face against Antoni’s neck, knocking his forehead lightly against his throat. Antoni just held on tightly - Chris needed held but he didn’t need stopped. “I didn’t, I didn’t know, I didn’t know that he escaped and I didn’t even think to look-... I didn’t-... it’s not fair, it’s not, not, not-not-not-not-... not fucking fair, Ant, it’s not fair!”
“Sssshhhh, shush-shush-shush,” Antoni tried, swallowing again, wondering how Jake did this with all of them all of the time, when Antoni felt so completely out of his depth. “I know, I know it’s not. You could not have looked, you did not know how to read to look for him-”
“I knew his name! I knew my Sir’s! I couldn’t, couldn’t tell anyone but I knew! B-but I didn’t, I-... He-he was the only, he was, he was so nice and and-and, and, and... and and and he, he should have gotten to stay gone, h-he should have-” Chris hiccuped a sob. “He wasn’t rescued, they, they recaptured-”
“I know,” Antoni cut him off, his own heart skipping a beat in sudden terror at the thought. Recapture. He couldn’t think of anything more horrifying to face than being dragged back. “I know, Chrisha. I know.”
“H-He’s the only person where it was ever oh... okay, with him it was okay,” Chris sniffled against him. “And he got away and they-they got him back and it’s not fair.”
“I know. But this won’t be his only chance. If they let him be seen, then-... then he will have another chance, Chrisha.” Antoni didn’t know if he was telling the truth or a lie but he couldn’t stand the pain in Chris’s voice, he had to say something. It was all he could think of to say. “I know it hurts-”
“I hate this! I hate it! I hate that, that it happened to... to-to-to him, too, and I hate that they took him back and and and-and-and-and I hate that my, my Sir is fucking smiling about it!”
Antoni could only hold him as he shook and raged and cried against him. He could only stay there, as still as possible, and let Chris wear out his grief and guilt, and think, I know how you feel. I wish I deserved to be so angry.
“He’ll be okay, Antoni repeated, almost numbly.
He had to hope the reassurance wasn’t a lie.
But at least Antoni could be here, someone who knew what it meant to have left someone else behind.
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misslisterkeepsajournal · 4 years ago
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1826 Wednesday 5 April
6 11 1/4
Wrote the rough draft of index from 18 March to 1 April (this month) which took me till 8 3/4 - Went out at 8 55/60 to William Keighley and his son William who have this morning begun to cut and lay the fence at the bottom of the wood, in Mitholm holm - came in at 10 5/60 - took a turn or 2 on the terrace - then came upstairs - my long expected Letter from Mrs. Barlow (Paris) 3 pages the ends and under the seal - great deal of useful information respecting our journey, and a pattern of corded muslin to match for Madame Galvani - must not travel veturino - must not go to Bordeaux - one or other will not suit my aunt at all - the livre de postes very correct - follow this and cannot go wrong - Par poste (of 6 miles)
'1/50 for each horse, that is trente sols par cheval - trente sols par postilion, to the latter you give an additional dix sols, par poste, as 'un pour boise' or etrennes for himself which brings it to 2 francs for the postboy - they will often charge you 15 sols greasing, mending etc. which you can look to'.....'Captain Droz calculates the expense of posting from 9 to 10 francs par poste'....'Mr. and Madame Droz seemed to recommend Montpelier - a great many good physicians reside there also should I be in Paris when you visit it you will call on me or not just as you please'
She then proceeds to tell me of having been at a call at Mrs Kidds her Mrs Kidds society improved etc etc. such is all the notice taken of my seeing her or of my returning her letters etc. her letter is mere chit chat and about our travelling and as cold or rather as indifferent as possible never once addresses me by my name pointedly avoids any address at all concludes with
'did Madame ever tell you that she had passed fifty six at the abbaye saint germain (military prison) with her lover and that she had spent a thousand francs per day in giving dinners to his friends etc. etc. wishing you a long continuance of happiness and prosperity and that every blessing may attend you hereafter allow me to remain your very sincere friend CMB'
What a letter her style how altered is she then going to be married that her being in Paris in the autumn is uncertain my heart misgave me as I read her pages I felt I know not what my aunt asked if I had had a letter from her she wished to speak of her I said her letter was deadly cold I knew what she meant did not blame her it was my then mind not to call on her and I turned the subject I could not speak on it my heart was full tears were almost rushing to my eyes and all my blood seemed in my head perhaps she will not write to me there will be little more intercourse between us a feeling of desolation came over me tho I thought of Pi [Mariana] she must go back to delta [Charles Lawton] we will hurry thro Paris I will see no one there my mind seemed unstrung unable to attend to anything how can she be so cold so soon
I hurried up from breakfast at eleven and a quarter said to my aunt I would write my journal it always did me good
Came upstairs at 11 1/4 - have just written all the above of today - it has done me good my mind is more calm I begin to feel as if I could care less about it I will not write to her from the impulse of the moment I begin to reason on the altered style of her letter the change is too sudden the last was all religion this all indifference I cannot help returning to my old thought she is deep she wants to catch me is it not possible the change in her manner is studied she expects and means me to notice it I will take my time and muse upon it and play cautiously I will lay my feelings aside if she really did love me as she said she cannot be really indifferent so soon I will be calm and composed I have always had flying doubts of her we shall now see and try the truth - poor Pi [Mariana] I can trust her and she will suit me best perhaps after all I have known and tried her long my journal has indeed done me good the tyrannous feeling of the moment of mortification and I know not what is passing by God be thanked oh that I was better better in the eye of heaven -
Mrs. B- [Barlow] says,
'with vetturino horses you travel ten leagues a day, neither more nor less, you are not permitted to stop where you please, and the postilions always take you where their horses can be best accommodated, and this generally proves to be the worst and dirtiest Inn for the travellers to travel post, or vetturino, will come to much about the same expense, but the latter can only be tolerated in Italy'....Travelling post 'is just once again as expensive as the diligence conveyence; besides that, you will find their charges at Inns much greater; and also, if an accident occurs to their carriage on the road, you may detained on your journey a fortnight or more to get it repaired'.....
Vide line 13 et sequiter of the last page - I am much better she answers all my questions about travelling so particularly or I should begin to feel rather indignant at 'should I be in Paris when you visit it you will call on me or not just as you please' - Mrs. B- [Barlow] met Madame de B- [Boyve] at Mrs. Kidd's - very civil to her and most attentive -
'She never pronounced your name' - 'Monsieur de Cussy said you would require 4 horses, so did Monsieur Droz - the latter calculated that it would cost you from 800 to 1000 francs to get to Montpelier or a similar distance' -
Had just finished the above of today at 12 40/60 - Whitley has sent me a wrong periodical this morning 'the Edinburgh Journal of Science', conducted by Dr. Brewter, instead of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal conducted by professor Jameson - my father came - downstairs about an hour - gave him money to pay the men Riley and company who will have finished walling tonight at Northgate - From 2 1/4 to 3 40/60 wrote the latter 1/2 page 3, and the ends, and under the seal, very small and close, of my letter written this day week, and on Saturday and finished today - very kind letter - tell her of having hired Mc.D- [Macdonald] say today whether she suits us or not we shall always be equally obliged to her Miss Mc.L- [Maclean]
'If we like her the credit is yours; if we do not, the responsibility is our own - Never have a fear when you are good enough to do anything for us - we do not measure intentions by their success' - Bad her not fidget herself about that over which she has no control 'and if the interest of the debt does not amount to more than half your income never mind it her brothers good management may bring all round - I wish you could make over all your cares to your brother, take a certain income, be it what it might, and go, and be wherever suited your father best' - Our plans uncertain - 'we shall go to Paris in the 1st instance, and thence, I think to Montpellier - we should fix upon Florence for the winter, but I am doubtful how my aunt will be able to bear so long a journey - Dr. Scudmore says Nice' - ask her advice and to get us what information she can - 'I have not yet read Dr. Clarke on the different merits of these places - If it should turn out that my aunt is not able to go abroad (and Heaven only knows what will be the event), we must try Bath - You know it is not my custom to look on the dark side of anything; but, turn which way I will, the prospect is unclear and cheerless - Never dream of saying too much on the subject of your health to me - I think of it perpetually with much anxiety - Except on this account, you Sibbella, are the only one of my friends who has never given me a moment's uneasiness; and my regard for you is perhaps better, and steadier than you think - You will take my letters as they may be; and I will keep my promise, and write 'pretty frequently' - It is not in my heart to disappoint you in anything - 'Incomparable woman!' I write as in the person of your niece - Find fault with her and not with me - I think of you when I am happy - I think of you when I am not so - I seem to remember you only as I saw you at Esholt - Now and always, here and even where, it would delight me to see you and those who love me best, love you for my sake, till they love you for your own - I have thought more deeply than you may have fancied, on the contents of your last - I, too, have been, perhaps foolishly, plunging myself in debt by a very dear purchase which, somehow, I could not resist - but there are melancholy contingencies which seem as if they must happen, that, with economy, will clear me in 2 or 3 years after their occurrence This is not so much my reasoning, as my aunt's, whose conduct towards me is, in everything, most kind, most liberal, and most admirable - Our income will be lessened I know not how much as yet' -.....
''I will allow I am not congenial to Miss B-' this makes me smile - Poor Miss B-! she does not much suit either you or myself - I sometimes think, how nearly she had prevented all lasting intercourse between yourself and me! Sibbella! Could she have recompensed you for the loss of one whose regard for you will endure unaltered to the end? - Now that you understand me better, and know me well enough to believe me reasonable, and have forgiven me the sins of dress and address, I will acknowledge, there was, and is, and ever will be a tinge of romance in the colouring of my regard for you - But does it offend you Sibbella? or do dishonour to your judgement, or injustice to your heart? or have you even one prejudice that it would alarm? There is little, perhaps too little of romance in my feelings towards the world in general - My great regret is, that I did not know you earlier - A bulletin of your health at the end of your letter, if you please - and you, too, have dreamed of ossification! - you are right - What matters it how we leave this world, so our passage to the next be smooth? Good bye, Sibbella! May we meet there where consolation is not wanted, and, while we are here, may you believe me always very faithfully and affectionately yours AL - Tell us your opinion - Montpellier, Nice, or Florence? I think it will be Montpellier' -
Twenty minutes reading over my letter then From 4 to 4 3/4 wrote the last 41 lines of today - wrote the rough draft of the index of these 5 days of this month - wrote a note to Mr. Whitley to go tomorrow to desire him to send me the right Edinburgh Journal, and returning him the wrong one - Read over Mrs. B-'s [Barlow's] letter again - I feel quite composed about it now and quite reconciled-
Dressed - Dinner at 6 1/4 - tea and coffee at 8 1/4 - In the evening looking over and burning papers out of the cupboard opposite the door - after my aunt went to bed and to have her bath at 9 1/4, sat up looking over the top middle drawer of my uncle's bureau - burnt my uncle Samuels pocket book full of orders payments and patterns and burnt etc. etc. - Fine day, tho' a little damp and rain early in the morning and about noon and towards evening - Barometer 1/2 degree above changeable Fahrenheit 49° at 10 35/60 at which hour came up to bed - wrote the last 4 lines - hurried into bed having to curl my hair - E..O.. -  
Reference: SH:7/ML/E/9/0080 - SH:7/ML/E/9/0081
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Goma-Laca - Afrobrasilidades em 78 RPM (Ao Vivo no Sesc Vila Mariana, 2014)      Goma-Laca                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Sesc Vila Mariana, 8 de fevereiro de 2014. Com Juçara Marçal, Russo Passapusso, Karina Buhr, Lucas Santtana, Letieres Leite, Gabi Guedes, Hercules Gomes, Marcos Paiva, Sergio Machado.                                                                                                                                                                            00:00 Ogum                                                                                                        06:58 Babaô Miloquê                                                                                        12:56 Guriatan                                                                                                    18:47 Não Tenho Medo Não                                                                                                                                                                                                                Vídeo por Estúdio Varanda                                                                              Imagens: Eugênio Vieira e Pedro Palhares                                                Montagem: Eugênio Vieira                                                                                                                                                                                                                Goma-Laca é Biancamaria Binazzi e Ronaldo Evangelista                      http://goma-laca.com                                                                                                                                                                                                                           De 78 à 320 : l’Afro-Brésil de Goma-Laca         Goma-Laca, le film                       Afro-Sambas.fr | Au Coeur des Musiques du Brésil                                                                                                                                 OLIVIER CATHUS , “De 78 à 320 : l’Afro-Brésil de Goma-Laca”, publié le 8 octobre 2014 : Passer des tours à la minute (78 rpm) aux kilobits à la seconde (mp3 320 kbps) n’est rien de plus qu’une façon d’envisager l’évolution technologique des moyens de reproduction sonore. Mais c’est aussi une façon de souligner combien le projet Goma-Laca s’inscrit dans une perspective historique de défense du patrimoine musical afro-brésilien.                                                                                                                                                            L’album Afrobrasilidades em 78rpm sorti récemment sous la direction de Letieres Leite, vient donner chair au projet Goma-Laca. Mais, pour garder la métaphore végétale souvent utilisée pour parler des musiques brésiliennes, il n’est que le fruit qui permet de valoriser la force des racines, à savoir les premiers enregistrements de musiques afro-brésiliennes pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Avant qu’elle soit remplacée par le bakélite et la vinylite, les premiers disques en 78 Tours étaient gravés sur une rondelle à base de gomme-laque, laquelle est une résine sécrétée par une variété de cochenilles élevées à ces fins. D’où le nom Goma-Laca car, à l’origine de ce projet initié par les journalistes Biancamaria Binazzi et Ronaldo Evangelista, on trouve deux formidables sources de documentation, les collections de disques de Mário de Andrade et d’Almirante : des milliers de 78 Tours en gomme-laque.                                                                                                                                                                      C’est en 1935 que l’écrivain Mário de Andrade, l’auteur notamment de Macunaima, développe en véritable ethnomusicologue son projet de discothèque afin que les musiciens brésiliens découvrent et aient accès aux folklores du pays. Rattachée au Centre Cultural São Paulo, elle prendra par la suite le nom de sa directrice : Discoteca Oneyda Alvarenga. Outre les enregistrements, Biancamaria Binazzi et Ronaldo Evangelista ont également pu consulter les commentaires que notait, pour chacun d’entre eux, l’écrivain sur une fiche cartonnée.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                La collection d’Almirante est également impressionnante, enrichie de nombreuses photos d’enregistrement et de témoignages. S’il a connu le succès dans les années trente comme chanteur, c’est comme en tant qu’homme de radio qu’il fait carrière. Son émission Curiosidades Musicais sur la Rádio Nacional a été la première, en 1938, à faire entendre au pays entier le son du berimbau en l’accompagnant d’un commentaire encore empreint des préjugés de l’époque puisqu’il le décrit comme un « rudimentaire et barbare instrument afro-brésilien » !                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Ce sont justement ces préjugés qui ont incité les curateurs du projet à limiter leur quête aux musiques noires du Brésil, celles qui encore aujourd’hui sont trop souvent ostracisées. Et encore ont-ils laissé de côté les sambas et marchinhas pour privilégier, parmi les archives, des témoignages plus roots : les pontos de candomblé, chants de travail et autres toques de capoeira. Non pas tant pour la valeur ethnographique de ces documents sonores mais bel et bien pour en révéler la richesse et la modernité.                                                                                                                                                                                          Devenu un véritable centre de recherches, Goma-Laca s’est d’abord donné pour mission de faire découvrir ces trésors cachés et permettre de les écouter, par le biais d’émissions de radio ou directement sur le site. L’étape suivante a été de solliciter des musiciens pour interpréter ce répertoire. Avant l’album Afrobrasilidades em 78 rpm sorti cette année, il y eut, en 2011, un Volume 1 même si celui-ci ne s’est pas traduit par un album mais seulement par un concert (dont on peut voir les vidéos sur le site). La direction musicale en avait été confiée à Thiago França, accompagné de sa formation Sambanzo. Les morceaux sélectionnés étaient interprétés par, entre autres : Juçara Marçal, Bruno Morais, Emicida.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Cette fois-ci, c’est Letieres Leite, le maestro bahianais fondateur de l’Orkestra Rumpilezz, qui dirige les sessions organisées autour d’une formation resserrée : Hercules Gomes au Fender Rhodes, Sérgio Machado à la batterie, Marcos Paiva à la contrebasse et Gabi Guedes aux percussions et atabaques, pour accompagner, à tour de rôle : Juçara Marçal, Russo Passapusso, Karina Buhr et Lucas Santtana. Rien que des habitués de ce blog !                                                                                                                                                                          Dès l’origine du projet Goma-Laca, ses initiateurs sont convaincus de la contemporanéité intacte de ces musiques. Ils pensent également que la meilleure façon de la révéler est d’en proposer une relecture moderne. À l’écoute de ce formidable album, on attribuera une partie de la réussite du projet à Letieres Leite. Point n’est besoin d’artifices technologiques, son parti-pris organique souligne d’autant mieux la force intemporelle de ces musiques.                                                                                                                            Goma-Laca semble aussi s’amuser à relier les générations, ainsi imagine-t-on la reprise de « Cala Boca Menino » en duo par Juçara Marçal et Russo Passapusso, comme un clin d’œil et un hommage à João Donato : c’est lui qui a donné ses lettres de noblesse brésiliennes à ce piano Fender Rhodes qui donne sa couleur si particulière à l’album et lui encore qui a repris le morceau qu’il tenait lui-même de Dorival Caymmi, en l’occurrence un thème de capoeira.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Si les musiciens donnent une cohérence instrumentale aux enregistrements, l’inspiration des interprètes, tous excellents, fait le reste. Si Juçara Marçal est ici en terrain connu tant l’étude des musiques religieuses afro-brésilienne a été au cœur de sa carrière depuis de longues années, on sera, par contre, surpris par un Lucas Santtana versatile et léger, à l’aise jusque dans l’embolada « proto-rap » (dixit le livret). Quant à Russo Passapusso, il impulse sa fougue de MC aux morceaux qu’il vient chanter ici.                                                                                                                                                                                        Puisque Goma-Laca plonge un pied dans le passé pour mieux planter l’autre dans son époque, il est intéressant de comparer les versions.                                                                                                                                                              Ici, « Batuque », interprété en 1929 par Stefana de Macedo, aujourd’hui par Russo Passapusso avec une intro au Rhodes d’Hercules Gomes qui évoquerait presque les beats en furie d’un morceau de drum’n’bass !                                                                                                                                                                    Le disque est en téléchargement gratuit sur le site Goma-Laca. On y trouve même bien plus que ça : les enregistrements originaux en 78 Tours, des articles, de nombreuses vidéos. Une véritable mine d’or… Que demander de plus ?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Goma-Laca – Afrobrasilidades em 78 RPM (2014) mp3 320 kbps                                                                                                                                                        01. Juçara Marçal, « Exu » 02. Russo Passapusso, « Batuque » 03. Karina Buhr, « Minervina » 04. Karina Burh, « Do Pilá » 05. Lucas Santtana, « Passarinho Bateu Aza » 06. Lucas Santtana, « Vou Vender Meu Barco » 07. Juçara Marçal, « Ogum » 08. Russo Passapusso, « Babaô Miloquê » 09. Karina Buhr, « Guriatã » 10. Lucas Santtana, « Não Tenho Medo Não » 11 Juçara Marçal & Russo Passapusso, « Cala Boca Menino »
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Red Wine Day (Pastafarian)
Simon the infant (Christian; Martyr at Trent)
Walter Hilton (Church of England; Martyr at Norwich)
William Morris (Artology; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [12 of 53]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [36 of 71]
Prime Number Day: 83 [23 of 72]
Premieres
Akhenaten, by Philip Glass (Opera; 1984)
...And Then There Were Three, by Genesis (Album; 1978)
The Brandenburg Concertos, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Six Concertos; 1721)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams (Play; 1955)
Country Bear Jamboree (Disneyland Show; 1972)
Crazy Over Daisy (Disney Cartoon; 1950)
Dirty Work, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1986)
Dolores Claiborne (Film; 1995)
Do The Freddie, by Freddie & the Dreamers (Song; 1965)
Funnies Little Bunnies (Disney Cartoon; 1934)
The Godfather (Film; 1972)
Hannah Montana (TV Series; 2006)
Ice Dragon: Legend of the Blue Daisies (Animated Film; 2018)
No One Is To Blame, by Howard Jones (Song; 1986)
Nuthin’ Fancy, by Lynyrd Skynyrd (Album; 1975)
The Office (US TV Series; 2005)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Musical Play, U.S.; 1974)
Scenario, by A Tribe Called Quest (Album; 1992)
Symphony No. 7 in C Major, by Jean Sibelius (Symphonic Fantasy; 1924)
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of…, by Arrested Development (Album; 1992)
Withering Heights (Film; 1939)
Today’s Name Days
Elias, Karin, Katharina (Austria)
Didak, Katarina, Latin (Croatia)
Gabriel (Czech Republic)
Judica, Ulrica (Denmark)
Albe, Albi, Albina (Estonia)
Gabriel, Kaapo, Kaappo, Kaapro (Finland)
Catherine, Karine (France)
Elias, Heidelinde, Karin (Germany)
Gábor, Karina (Hungary)
Attilio, Didaco, Flavio, Gabriele, Romolo, Tiberio (Italy)
Kazimirs, Spulgis (Latvia)
Daumantas, Donardas, Gabrielius, Ganvilė, Liucija (Lithuania)
Rikke, Ulrikke (Norway)
Dziersława, Dzierżysława, Gabor, Gabriel, Marek, Sewer, Sofroniusz, Szymon (Poland)
Zaharia (Romania)
Gabriel (Slovakia)
Catalina (Spain)
Gabriel, Rafael (Sweden)
Gabe, Gabriel, Gabriela, Gabriella, Gabrielle, Gigi (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 83 of 2023; 282 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 12 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 6 of 28]
Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 3 (Xin-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 2 Nisan 5783
Islamic: 2 Ramadan 1444
J Cal: 22 Ver; Oneday [22 of 30]
Julian: 11 March 2023
Moon: 12%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 27 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Origen]
Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 5 of 90)
Zodiac: Aries (Day 4 of 30)
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Holidays
Abracadabra Day
Billboard Pop Album Chart Day
Commonwealth Covenant Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
Exxon Valdez Remembrance Day
Feast of the Trickster of Liberty
Flatmate’s Day (UK)
Great American Takeout Day
Heroes’ Day (Congo DRC)
Houdini Day
International Day for Achievers
International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims (UN)
International Houdini Day
International Love Your Cat Day
Kazimiras Diena (Return of the Larks; Ancient Latvia)
Lipoprotein(a) Awareness Day
National Adverse Drug Event Awareness Day
National Each Person is a Person of Worth Day
National Orange Day (New York)
National Remembrance Day of Poles Saving Jews under German Occupation (Poland)
National Revolution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
National Side Boob Appreciation Day
National Stephanie Day
National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)
Nowruz (New Year) [Day 5, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ... 
Navruz (Tajikistan)
Nooroz (Iran)
Novruz (Azerbaijan)
The Office Day
OSX Day
See if you Can Remember How to Play Parcheesi Day
Student Day (Scientology)
Truth and Justice Day (Argentina)
World Freedom of Thought Day
World Tuberculosis Day (UN)
Food & Drink Celebrations
International Sauerkraut Day
National Cake Pops Day
National Cheesesteak Day
National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
National Cocktail Day
4th Friday in March
Pliny the Younger Day (Normally 1st Friday in February but postponed in 2023)
Wear a Hat Day (Ireland) [4th Friday]
Independence Days
Commonwealth Covenant Day (Northern Marianas Islands)
Feast Days
Baghwan Shree Rajneesh Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Catherine of Vadstena (a.k.a. Catherine of Sweden; Christian; Saint)
Dies Sanguines (Day of Blood, a.k.a. Bellona’s Day; Sacrifices to War Goddess Bellona; Ancient Rome)
Festival of Cybele (Fasting & Mourning Attis’ Death; Ancient Rome)
Gabriel the Archangel (Christian; Saint)
Hildelith of Barking (Christian; Saint)
Irenssus, Bishop of Sirmium (Christian; Saint)
Komoeditsi (Celebrating Meveshii Bog, Great Bear God, including sacrifice to Great God of Honey; Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Mac Cairthinn of Clogher (Christian; Saint)
Morton the Beaver (Muppetism)
Origen (Positivist; Saint)
Óscar Romero (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism)
Pandia (Festival of Zeus; Ancient Greece)
Paul Couturier (Church of England)
Red Wine Day (Pastafarian)
Simon the infant (Christian; Martyr at Trent)
Walter Hilton (Church of England; Martyr at Norwich)
William Morris (Artology; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [12 of 53]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [36 of 71]
Prime Number Day: 83 [23 of 72]
Premieres
Akhenaten, by Philip Glass (Opera; 1984)
...And Then There Were Three, by Genesis (Album; 1978)
The Brandenburg Concertos, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Six Concertos; 1721)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams (Play; 1955)
Country Bear Jamboree (Disneyland Show; 1972)
Crazy Over Daisy (Disney Cartoon; 1950)
Dirty Work, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1986)
Dolores Claiborne (Film; 1995)
Do The Freddie, by Freddie & the Dreamers (Song; 1965)
Funnies Little Bunnies (Disney Cartoon; 1934)
The Godfather (Film; 1972)
Hannah Montana (TV Series; 2006)
Ice Dragon: Legend of the Blue Daisies (Animated Film; 2018)
No One Is To Blame, by Howard Jones (Song; 1986)
Nuthin’ Fancy, by Lynyrd Skynyrd (Album; 1975)
The Office (US TV Series; 2005)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Musical Play, U.S.; 1974)
Scenario, by A Tribe Called Quest (Album; 1992)
Symphony No. 7 in C Major, by Jean Sibelius (Symphonic Fantasy; 1924)
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of…, by Arrested Development (Album; 1992)
Withering Heights (Film; 1939)
Today’s Name Days
Elias, Karin, Katharina (Austria)
Didak, Katarina, Latin (Croatia)
Gabriel (Czech Republic)
Judica, Ulrica (Denmark)
Albe, Albi, Albina (Estonia)
Gabriel, Kaapo, Kaappo, Kaapro (Finland)
Catherine, Karine (France)
Elias, Heidelinde, Karin (Germany)
Gábor, Karina (Hungary)
Attilio, Didaco, Flavio, Gabriele, Romolo, Tiberio (Italy)
Kazimirs, Spulgis (Latvia)
Daumantas, Donardas, Gabrielius, Ganvilė, Liucija (Lithuania)
Rikke, Ulrikke (Norway)
Dziersława, Dzierżysława, Gabor, Gabriel, Marek, Sewer, Sofroniusz, Szymon (Poland)
Zaharia (Romania)
Gabriel (Slovakia)
Catalina (Spain)
Gabriel, Rafael (Sweden)
Gabe, Gabriel, Gabriela, Gabriella, Gabrielle, Gigi (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 83 of 2023; 282 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 12 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 6 of 28]
Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 3 (Xin-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 2 Nisan 5783
Islamic: 2 Ramadan 1444
J Cal: 22 Ver; Oneday [22 of 30]
Julian: 11 March 2023
Moon: 12%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 27 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Origen]
Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 5 of 90)
Zodiac: Aries (Day 4 of 30)
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