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You guys should all read Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich so you can all understand how. fucking. Close. We were. To large scale climate action.
I'm not done with the book yet but everything so far has made me want to scream at someone or start crying. We were so so fucking close.
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Film Review: Dark Waters (2020)
Dark Waters has Ruffalo fighting the good fight against corporate America Film goers will be familiar with the little guy taking on the big corporation genre. We’ve seen it before in The Insider, A Civil Action and Erin Brockovich. We’ve also seen Mark Ruffalo lead a team of investigative journalists as they try to uncover the dirty deeds of the Catholic Church in Spotlight. So Dark Waters on…
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Dark Waters (2019)
"The system is rigged. They want us to believe that it'll protect us, but that's a lie. We protect us. We do. Nobody else. Not the companies, not the scientists, not the government. Us."
#dark waters#nathaniel rich#mario correa#matthew michael carnahan#todd haynes#mark ruffalo#anne hathaway#tim robbins#bill pullman
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To the sadism of white America, Davis contrasts the Native reverence for living creatures. Many North American tribes ascribed spiritual qualities to eagles, considering them avatars of strength and wisdom. For the Te’po’ta’ahl of California’s central coast, the bald eagle is the Creator himself. After constructing the world, Bald Eagle molds a man from clay, turns one of his feathers into a woman, and brings the man to life with a flap of his wings (in a plot twist, Bald Eagle next orders a coyote to inseminate Eve). Eagle feathers were used in religious ceremonies, dances, powwows, medicine rites, piercings, doll dresses—but of course all those feathers had to be plucked out of real birds, and preferably live ones.
Native peoples, who also told stories about balds abducting infants, silently endured their own “bird of paradox” ironies. Though Davis writes that they “spoke to animals as if speaking to an elder: with respect,” and that “many people today think of Indians as the original environmentalists,” he also must acknowledge that they killed loads of eagles. He describes parkas sewed out of the downy skin of eaglets, a dance troupe dressed in the feathers of 300 birds, and a ritual in which eaglets were sprinkled with cornmeal and squeezed to death. Some of the customs persist: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Eagle Repository, the legally designated morgue for every dead eagle in the nation, distributes feathers, heads, and entire corpses to various tribes for use in ceremonies. The agency also recently authorized the Hopi to seize 40 eaglets a year from their nests, douse them in cornmeal, and strangle them. Such horrors don’t begin to reach the scale or malice of the carnage wrought by white people, but I suspect eagles don’t share Davis’s reverence for Native customs.
— The Strange History of America’s Bald-Eagle Obsession
#nathaniel rich#the strange history of america’s bald-eagle obsession#history#birds#animal cruelty#animal welfare#wildlife conservation#native americans#usa#salinan#te'po'ta'ahl#eagles#bald eagle#jack e. davis
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“The idea was to start in New Orleans and from there we had no plan”
This has been the idea of many people who have come to New Orleans.
Nathaniel Rich, in the foreword to South and West by Joan Didion
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hollow of the Three Hills
by Esteban Maroto (art) / Rich Margopoulos (story adaptation)
from Eerie #63, February 1975
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#hollow of the three hills#nathaniel hawthorne#esteban maroto#rich margopoulos#eerie magazine#warren#horror art#comic art#horror comics#full story
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pick a book for me to take on work travel
Ends of the World by Peter Brannen - nonfiction geology book about earth's previous mass extinction events. The author is also the writer of one of my favorite climate history Atlantic articles I read for a college assignments.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer - nonfiction true story of Chris Mccandless, who decided to leave society to live in the Alaskan wilderness and was later found dead. I want to read Into Thin Air too but I don't have a copy (my mom probably does but that won't help me for this trip)
Dune by Frank Herbert - do i have to describe what Dune is about at this point? I've never read it and I also refused to see the movies 'caues I wanted to read the book before doing so
A Song for the River by Philip Connors - nonfiction/memoir by the same author who wrote my beloved fire lookout book Fire Season. This book also has to do that, as well as a massive fire he witnessed in his national forest, but I think it's a lot more about grief and death.
What the Eyes Don't See by Mona Hanna-Attisha - nonfiction/memoir by one of the doctors who discovered the Flint water crisis. I'm actually already 90 pages into it but got distracted and haven't picked it up for like a year. It's very good and highly relevant to my work (though I don't do lead in tap water but you know it's great information to have)
#i can't believe there's only one fiction book on this list omg#i do read a lot of fiction ofc but i think i more often check them out via libby or read on my phone#i will bring whatever book you vote but if my heart is pulling me to a different one i'll bring both#quara talks books#i love how my books here so obviously demonstrate my inclination towards environment related things#i also own a Fat anthology of american environmental writing excerpts and essays sincd thoreau#also keep meaning to reason silent spring by rachel carson. kind of a crime i havent tbh#but i may have to do it as an audiobook instead#and ofc my losing earth by nathaniel rich that i havent read yet because i know it will invoke strong Despair
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what if i what if i write a nath fanfic after im done with jason
#this one would be LONG tho i gotta plan#i haven't even finished high school#but i cant get him off my head#and im supposed to be route castiel#?????#rich kids are my nemesis#mclng#my candy love new gen#mcl#my candy love#jason mendal#mclng jason#nathaniel carello#mcl nathaniel#mcl fanfic#mclng fanfic
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VeronaHills, Round Nine: Capp (C)
Cornwall and Nathaniel were enjoying a father-son breakfast of generously buttered toast when the boy asked a curious question.
"Daddy, who's the man in cape?"
"Well!" Cornwall rested his slice and flicked crumbs from his moustache. "I believe you're referring to Rich Mann." At Nathaniel's nod of affirmation through a mouthful, Cornwall continued. "You'll be seeing more of him. His son is marrying your cousin Juliette. So you see - he's becoming family."
Nathaniel considered this, his eyes wandering to the ceiling where thoughts often sat. Then he met his father's gaze and asked: "Will he be my grandfather?"
"Well - I don't know about that, Nathaniel. Tell you what. Let's book a session with a genealogist. They'll tell you all about your family tree."
The parental promise had been made before Cornwall even realised what he was saying. He made a mental note to hire a mid-tier genealogist - one who wouldn't ask too many questions or spot too many oddities regarding true parentage. After all, Nathaniel wanted a surprise grandfather, not a surprise sister!
A Capp meeting later that evening had Cornwall sharing Nathaniel's adorable request. "What a little dot he is," Goneril remarked, desert dry as ever. They plucked one potato chip after another from their packet. "He'd better hope the little Mann doesn't puss out."
"Gon!" Regan was aghast at her sibling's choice of word. It was a valid concern - Junior wasn't known for consistency - but Rich had spoken of a ring at the ready, so there was no need for such comments.
Cordelia's absence from the meeting just had the side effect of tongues being loosened somewhat.
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A while ago, we saw someone explain why they don’t like first person. Aside from “it’s shallow” (which feels like a shallow critique itself without more context), they cited a desire to understand what all the other characters in a scene are thinking and feeling, and I found that very interesting.
Because I don’t feel like every story benefits from knowing every character involved in it to such an intimate degree.
A lot of interesting speculation can be derived from gaps in the narrative. Why did he do that? What was her real motive there? The protagonist can speculate, but are they really the most objective source for that, or are you assuming that they are because they’re in the narrator seat, and they haven’t explicitly called themself unreliable?
First person creates a very specific opportunity to convey characters outside of the protagonist via showing and not telling.
It also creates a great opportunity to put your reader in a mental maze (the central narrator’s perspective) and give them a fun crumb trail out of it (the way that other characters react to the narrator).
I personally think that first person really shines under the right circumstances; and I think one of the best circumstances is when the central narrator has some horrendously skewed worldview. When they’re a fucked up little guy. When they think they know what’s up and they really, really don’t.
And when there’s other characters just as fun outside of them to force the reader to fill in the blank spaces for themselves.
Anyway, sometimes I feel like the push against first person is motivated by people being burned by boring, one-dimensional first person narrators and/or a distaste for common YA conventions. At other times, I feel like it’s motivated by the very bland desire to have the author shine a flashlight into every nook, cranny, and crevice of the narrative so that you don’t miss out on anything. I understand the desire to know more, but it's also fun to be able pick up the flashlight yourself as a reader!
No style of narration is inherently lesser than another. They just suit different readers and author's tastes.
#writeblr#first person#writing#writing advice#this was queued to put distance between us having this thought and us putting it out#anyway this is why we write first person narration for Nathaniel and Velvet#they’re both fascinating and you’re supposed to be dissecting their thought process while you’re immersed in it!#their perspective is the cage we’ve dropped the narrative in#and the way that OTHER characters REACT to them from the outside will help tell you what is actually going on!!#Nathaniel is a nervous wreck and can be easily convinced that he is more or less competent and/or smooth than he actually is#while Velvet is extremely traumatized and has internalized that trauma into a blithe normalcy and passively fucked-up sense of humor#the way that other people react to Velvet opening his big mouth should say way more than#any perspective switch where we cut to a Not Velvet character internally explaining “Velvet is fucked up guys don’t emulate Velvet”#anyway third person is beautiful. we love third person.#but books would be less rich if that was the only acceptable perspective to use
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#{Nathaniel | imagery}#new muse#your not so average rich kid#He has the money thanks to his parents but still has that same work ethic as them
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From X-Men Red Vol. 2 #011, “A Storm on the Horizon”
Art by Stefano Caselli, Jacopo Camagni and Federico Blee
Written by Al Ewing
#x-men red#storm#ororo munroe#craig marshall#saucier#professor x#charles xavier#sunspot#roberto da costa#nova#rich rider#magneto#max eisenhardt#mister sinister#nathaniel essex#jon ironfire#marvel#comics#marvel comics
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There is truly no greater representation of Southern California living than Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
#crazy ex girlfriend#cxg#west covina#california christmastime#from a native when i watched it i was like yes this is home they got it right for the first time ever#despite people literally living in socal who write shows set in socal???#but they're probably mostly transplants who stay in the hollywood bubble and don't go past that to what normal people live like#though the one thing is that nathaniel is not at all like the rich people of socal#they didn't get that right but everything else it's like they're making a documentary
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S1E17 is literally the best one, look how happy Greg is singing and dancing "I gave you an UTI" and also the song is an absolute banger and Rebecca really is in love with him she even sings "omg I think I like you" another great song, but then everything onwards is shit until we're introduced to Nathaniel and I fucking live him and the my beloved Greg comes back and then I'm back to be torn between two great men and I'd fucking sing "the math of love triangles" with Mr Plimpton replacing Josh the simpleton. Sorry for the rambling I had to get it off my chest before the post S2E03 depression hits me.
#im just rambling about#crazy ex gf#bc thats all im doing lately#should i rewatch it for a third time in a row right after the finale? or will i be sick of it already?#i dont think i could ever grow tired of#greg my beloved#or sexy rich ken doll (Nathaniel)#i even lost count of how many times did i rewatch it im somewhere between 6 and 9 times but only second time in a row#im insane arent i?
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Fun fact (where “fun” here is to be read as “I’m tired of this, grandpa”), this is part of why “climate change” was introduced instead of only using “global warming”. Although the globe warming (and the oceans becoming a heat sink which melts the polar ice caps which creates more water to be a heat sink which melts more ice which—) contributes to the wavy polar vortex - which in turn causes extreme, intense colds in places that don’t normally see it/aren’t equipped for it - people will see “warming” and think “oh good, no more polar vortexes in southern Michigan!” Which is not only very much false, but also exactly the opposite of the truth.
With “climate change”, though, you get the myriad that it encompasses: prolonged and more intense hurricane seasons, drought seasons/fire seasons, rainy seasons, and other things that IN MODERATION can be handled, but combined together and at this level of intensity spell a bad time globally. For example, a metric shitload of rain after weeks of intense drought means that the ground is baked solid and can’t absorb it, but the water has to go somewhere. It will go into your home. That’s climate change, baybeeee!
If you’re really looking for a more simple explanation, here’s an attempt at a flow map, where each asterisk is a direct impact on humanity: increased greenhouse gas emissions -> more trapped heat in the atmosphere -> warming oceans (the Gulf of Mexico IS CURRENTLY 73.4-84.4°F) -> increased/prolonged hurricane season*, weaker jet stream -> melting ice caps -> colder winters*, hotter summers*, pressure systems generally staying where they are for longer -> drought*, flood*
The climate changes because of global warming. Sometimes people get confused and think of the two phrases as two separate entities, and justify one over the other. It’s the Obamacare and ACA thing all over again. They’re the same damn thing.
So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.
#global warming#climate change#environmental chemistry#there could be wayyyy more chemistry in this regarding CFCs and the ozone layer but I’ll let it rest for now#this is what happens when you study chemistry at a liberal arts school#you inevitably have to take environmental chemistry 💀 which will reinforce your worldview 💀💀#also my science in society class did a lot for this so shoutout to my prof for dealing with the mysoginy of being a STEM prof 💀#I still learned a lot AND we bonded!#edit:#if you would like further reading I highly recommend “losing Earth: a recent history” by Nathaniel Rich#really explains the story of how a couple decades in recent history shaped where we are today
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totally off topic but ive been rewatching crazy ex girlfriend lately and boy there is a lack of nathaniel x reader fic because i guess the show came out at a time before reader inserts really happened but ohhh boy i am a little tempted to give it a try lmao if my rich asshole ben fics weren't already a thing i think id be even more tempted but frankly theres a lot of overlap there kfkdjfdf anyway hes the rotisserie chicken in my head rn and im trying to come up with a blurb inspired by something he does in the show because a couple other ideas i have are inspired by other characters sooooo
#funnily enough the other 2 ideas are based on the same character#who is actually one of my least faves in the show#(defs my least fave of rebeccas bfs even tho the writers were sooooooo into him)#i always thot he came across as an asshole but not in the fun sexy way just in the judgemental asshole way#nathaniel on the other hand hoooo boy rich ass who learns how to open up to other people and use his powers for good#ugh i lov
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