#rebecca harding davis

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

Listen I’m enjoying East of Eden for all the Biblical allusion and its meditation on trauma, grief, and the impact trauma has on communities

But I think Steinbeck’s misogyny and racism is so overwhelming that it’s almost impossible to take his other comments on society seriously

Because if he’s so blind to his own internal prejudice- how much can I possibly trust his judgment on biblical interpretation and the truth of American community consciousness during the 19th-20th century?

Anyway, for commentary on the life in the American West, and the impact war, famine, and diversity had on creating the collective identity of the American people, during the 19th and 20th centuries, seek authors like:

Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Edith Warton, Zora Neel Hurston, Rebecca Harding Davis, Alice Walker, Susan Glaspell, Marianne Moore, Sandra Cisneros, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Joy Harjo, N. Scott Momaday, Lanston Hughes,

(and SO MANY MORE)

All of these authors deal with the subjects (to various degrees) of class vs individualism, American emergent Identity issues, industrialism, tradition vs modernism, and multiculturalism in the West in ways that are much more nuanced than anything Steinbeck ever wrote.

Some of them wrote with clear Christian overtones- some with indigenous religiosity and recrimination of internalize colonialist attitude existing within pop-christian thought, and some of them are pure modernist empiricists. And I love the diversity of thought extant within these works- much more interesting than painting with broad generalization and assuming all of American history to revolve around the same conceptual points modern evangelist's decree.

We are a nation built on diversity- of people, of thought, and of place. I'll accept no other definition of what it means to be USamerican.

At this point, I'm pretty sure Steinbeck was just projecting his own hatred of women, and processing his divorce, throughout the entirety of East of Eden- like the book gets so close to interesting biblical allusion overlay onto familial interdependent dynamic and mediation on the nature of evil - but then his work devolves into racism and misogyny diminishing the impact of these really interesting themes.

BOOO!

Why do I have to read this. I hate the so-called Literary Canon.

So sick of the fact that I have to read the work of every white American man ever- for the purpose of my degree program's culminative exam- yet many of the women authors, indigenous authors, or multiethnic authors will not be on my exam.

IDK bro- I'm feeling a type of way about it today.

[apotelesmaa]

I wish I could get a degree in lit/ethics but that would possibly be the only thing more useless than a viscom degree but goddamn do I love literary (or any media) analysis truly nothing is more fun than picking apart a story to find your own interpretation of the authors intentions and defending it. Lovveee to make a philosophical argument based on the actions of characters.

[stilouniverse]

Rebecca Harding Davis "Una legge tutta sua", Bibliotheka Edizioni

PRIMA TRADUZIONE ITALIANA PER IL ROMANZO PROTOFEMMINISTA “UNA LEGGE TUTTA SUA” DELL’AMERICANA REBECCA HARDING DAVIS Il libro anticipa il cinema progressista degli anni Trenta e Quaranta Traduzione e introduzione di Aldo Setaioli Bibliotheka Edizioni L’inizio è all’apparenza quello di un romanzo gotico, con una seduta spiritica ben presto smascherata. Segue un intermezzo con quadri di genere…

[redgoldsparks]

Hi, I just read your book gender queer and wanted to tell you that i have never felt more seen by a book in my life (or any media for that matter). Im also genderqueer and somewhere on the aro/ace spectrum and your book put into words alot of things I’ve never known how to express. Thank you for putting yourself out there!

(also do you have any other comic book recommendations?)

Hello anon! Thank you for this kind message! I very much do have comic book recs. In no particular order, here are some favorites. Not all of these are books are queer, but many are. If you want queer specific recs, here are some other asks I've previously answered- books about nonbinary identities, nonbinary mostly fiction

Memoir/Nonfiction 

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley 

March Trilogy by Senator John Lewis, Nate Powell and Andrew Aydin

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home by Nicole Georges 

You & a Bike & a Road by Eleanor Davis 

Tetris: The Games People Play by Box Brown

The Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and Harmony Becker

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls 

Hey Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka 

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha 

Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang 

Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir by Tyler Feder 

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada and Ko Hyung-Ju 

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton 

Homebody by Theo Parrish 

The High Desert by James Spooner 

Fiction

Prince of Cats by Ronald Wimberly 

This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

Skim by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley 

Nimona by ND Stevenson 

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang 

The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews

Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni

The Chromatic Fantasy by H.A. 

Salt Magic by Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock

Beetle and the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne

Kiss Number 8 by Colleen F Venable and Ellen Crenshaw 

Finder Library Vols 1 & 2 by Carla Speed McNeil

Castle Waiting: The Lucky Road by Linda Medley

The Deep and Dark Blue by Niki Smith

Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti 

O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti 

Snapdragon by Kay Leyh

Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal 

Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen 

A Frog in Fall by Lisa Sterte 

Thieves by Lucie Bryon 

The Great Beyond by Lea Murawiec

Short Stories

The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects by Mike Mignola 

Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman

[zemagltd]

Everyday Poetry - "The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet." Rebecca Harding Davis

[The sun through the leaves...]

[companion-showdown]

Family Feud Nominations, Who is the Best Doctor Who Family

If I've missed a character out of one of the families let me know (within reason, I imagine all these families are massive in the EU, so prioritise tv or significant characters)

Currently, the only rule is no families may inculde anyone who is even ambiguously The Doctor, it'll get super complicated super fast imo

Any characters, eg River, who can link up multiple different families to create a single massive family unit will be treated on a case by case basis. If it is possible to pick one of the smaller family units that they are a part of to include them in while not including them in any of the others (in a way everyone will agree at least makes sense) they will be included in that family only, otherwise they will not be included

Please bare in mind when you are nominating that I am hoping to keep the number of nominations under 64 to run this as a mini-tournament. This is not a hard rule so if nominations do exceed 64 its not a big deal, just something I'd like everyone to bare in mind

Nominees

Foreman-Campbell (Susan, David, Alex)

Chesterton-Wright (Ian, Barbara, implied to be married after they leave)

McCrimmon (Jamie, Heather, V.M.McCrimmon, various others)

Waterfield (Victoria, Edward (father))

Lethbridge-Stewart (Kate, The Brigadier, Doris (Brig's wife in Battlefield), Archibald Hamish (TUAT), Gordon (Kate's son in Downtime), Kadiatu, The Great Intelligence, Lucy Wilson)

Grant/Jones (Jo, Cliff, Santiago (Jo's grandson in Death of the Doctor))

Smith (Sarah-Jane, Lavinia (aunt), Brendan Richards, Luke, Sky, Mr Smith, K9 (they are her family and I will not be hearing otherwise), Barbara, Eddie (parents in Temptation of Sarah-Jane Smith))

Leela, Andred, Veega, Rayo

Adric and Varsh (brothers)

Nyssa, Tremas, and Kassia (daughter, father, step-mother)

Jovanka (Tegan, Vanessa (aunt in Logopolis), Colin (cousin in Arc of Infinity))

Turlough (Vislor, Malkon (brother in Planet of Fire))

McShane (Ace, Audrey (mother), Kathleen (grandmother), Liam (brother))

Tyler (Rose, Jackie, Pete, Tony (baby mentioned in Journey's End), no I will not be adding the metacrisis to this list)

Another Smith (Mickey, Rita (grandmother))

Slitheen

Harkness (Jack, Grey, parents, Alice Carter (daughter), Steven Carter(grandson))

Isolas (Fear Her)

Jones (Martha, Francine, Clive, Tish, Leo, Leo has a baby as well, Adeola Oshodi)

The Family of Blood

Redfern-Smith (Joan, John (various), possible dream children and grandchildren)

Shafe Kanes (from Utopia, Kristane, Beltone)

Mott-Noble-Temple (Donna, Sylvia, Wilf, Shaun, Rose)

The Adipose

Pond-Williams (Amy, Rory, River, Brian, Anthony, Amy's aunt and parents)

Owens: (Craig, Sophie, Stormageddon Dark Lord of All)

Gillyflower (Mrs Gillyflower, Ada)

Paternoster (Jenny, Vastra, Strax)

Oswald (Clara, Ellie, Dave (parents), grandmother, and I'm going to say Danny makes the cut, Orson)

Potts (Bill, Mother, Moira (foster mother))

O'Brien-Sinclair (Graham, Ryan, Grace, Aaron (Ryan's father))

Khan (Yaz, Najia (mother), Hakim (father), Sonya (sister), Umbreen (grandmother))

Lewis (Dan, Eileen (mother), Neville (father))

Swarm and Azure

Bel, Vinder and their as yet unborn child

Sunday (Ruby, Carla, Cherry, many many foster siblings)

The TARDIS and Lolita

Little House of Cwej

The House of Lungbarrow (Grandfater Paradox, Qenceus, Inocet, various cousins, Irving Braxiatel, Maggie Matsumoto, Ulysses, Penelope GAte, Anna Joyce)

The House of Dvora (Morbius, The War King, Thessalia, Romana, various others)

Langer (Clyde, Carla (mother), Paul (father))

Jackson (Maria, Alan, Chrissie)

Chandra (Rani, Haresh, Gita)

The Wu Diaspora (Cindy Wu and her clones)

Munmeth and Mutmunna (Medicine Man)

Ada and Alice Obiefune

Who (Susan, Barbara, Louise)

Jones-Davies (Ianto, Rhiannon, Johnny, David, Mica)

Summerfield (Bernice, Issac, Claire, Jason Kane, Peter, Wolsey, Keith, Rebecca, Cousin Eliza, Benedict I-IV, Christine)

Miller (Lucie, Pat (aunt))

Schofield (Hex, Cassie, Hilda)

House of Witforge (Narvin, Lenaris, Helico, Narvin's father, Rexin)

Faction Paradox

Pollard (Charley, Louisa, Richard, Margaret, Edward Grove, The Sound Creature)

Mesh Cos, Lon Shel, Julian White Mammoth Tusk

Cooper-Williams (Gwen, Rhys, Anwen, Geraint, Mary (Gwen's parents))

Chenka (Liv, Tula, Kal, Garlon Rosh)

Sinclair (Helen, Albie, Trev Bailey)

Forrester

Proctor (Cleo, Jordan, parents)

Nominations will be open until Midday Friday (03/05, 12:00 BST (GMT/UTC +1)), I will try and give a more specific time then

[fandomtrumpshate]

Unlisted Fandom Challenge

Two days ago, at our last Unlisted Fandom Challenge update, we had a 3-way tie for first. Today? One of those fandoms has taken the lead AND a new fandom that hadn't had even a single signup before has jumped all the way into a 4-way tie for second. Your fandom could do the same, in the hours still left before signups close!

At present, our leaderboard looks like this:

7 Danny Phantom

5 Carmen Sandiego (2019) 5 For All Mankind 5 Tortall 5 Yu Yu Hakusho

4 Ace Attorney 4 Alan Wake/Remedyverse 4 Formula 1 RPF 4 Ted Lasso 4 The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison 4 The Stanley Parable

3 Greek Mythology/Religion 3 Buffyverse 3 Bungo Stray Dogs 3 Call of Duty 3 Detective Conan 3 Dragon Ball 3 HBO War 3 Kingdom Hearts 3 Persona Series: 3-5 3 Professional Wrestling 3 Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb 3 Shades of Magic - V. E. Schwab 3 The Mummy films 1999-2008 3 Undertale

Given the way Carmen Sandiego came from *nowhere* to tie for 2nd place, a single signup really can shake things up! And for the next few hours, signups are STILL OPEN! Do the thing!

The rest of our unlisted write-in fandoms under the cut for length -

2 Ghosts (TV) 2 Black Sails 2 Cosmere 2 CSI 2 Cyberpunk 2077 2 Dead Friend Forever 2 Death Stranding 2 Dice Punks (podcast) 2 Dimension 20 2 Donten ni Warau / Laughing Under the Clouds 2 Dracula 2 Dune 2 Firefly 2 Glee 2 Guardian/Zhen Hun 2 Hermitcraft/The Life Series SMP 2 Imperial Radch Series 2 Inception 2 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 2 Mob Psycho 100 2 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury 2 Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint 2 Ordem Paranormal Quarentena 2 QSMP / Quackity SMP 2 Riverdale 2 Saw 2 Slow Horses (TV Show) 2 South Park 2 Stormlight Archive 2 The Bear (TV) 2 The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros 2 The Folk of the Air (Holly Black) 2 The Radiant Emperor Series 2 Venture Bros 2 Voltron 2 Wolf Pack 1 1670 1 A Court of Fey & Flowers 1 a league of their own (TV series) 1 A Plague Tale (Videogame Series) 1 American Gods 1 Among Us 1 Bandom RPF (Bad Omens) 1 Bandom RPF (Lorna Shore) 1 Bandom RPF (Motionless In White) 1 Beastars 1 Bendy (and The Ink Machine/Dark Revival) 1 Horror 1 Bioshock 1&2 1 Blue Beetle 1 Blue Eye Samurai 1 Books of the Raksura 1 Boondock Saints 1 Breakfast With Scot 1 Bunny - Mona Awad 1 Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher Entertainment RPF 1 Cabin Pressure 1 Cats the musical 1 Charlie's Angels (2019) 1 Cherry Magic 1 Chronicles of Narnia 1 Cobra Kai 1 Coffee Talk (Video Game) 1 Criminal Minds 1 Death Note 1 Devil May Cry 1 Dexter 1 Digimon 1 Discworld - Terry Pratchett 1 Disney Theatrical Animated Universe 1 Divergent 1 DMBJ (Grave Robber's Chronicles) - Xu Lei 1 Dream SMP 1 Dungeons and Daddies (podcast) 1 Endeavour/Morseverse/Inspector Morse (ITV/Dexter) 1 Ensemble Stars!! 1 Fallout Video Game (Bethesda) 1 Falsettos 1 Fargo FX 1 Farscape 1 Fire Emblem (4-10, 13, 14, 16) 1 Five Nights at Freddy's 1 Friends at the Table 1 Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid 1 Grantchester 1 Green Creek 1 Grey's Anatomy 1 Grimm 1 Gundam (see below for details) 1 Hatchetfield 1 Hawaii 5.0 1 Hello From The Hallowoods 1 High School Musical 1 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 1 Hollow Knight 1 Honkai Star Rail 1 Horizon Zero Dawn 1 Infinity Train 1 IT (Movies - Muschietti) 1 Jeff Satur - music videos 1 Julie and the Phantoms 1 Kushiel's Legacy 1 Law and Order 1 Legend of the Galactic Heroes 1 Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4) 1 London Spy 1 Lovecraft Mythos 1 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic 1 Magnificent Seven 1 Mary Grant Bruce's Billabong series 1 Mrs. Davis 1 My Little Pony 1 Nancy Drew (CW Series) 1 Narcos (TV) 1 Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard 1 NU: Carnival 1 Omori 1 One Direction 1 Orphan Black 1 Outlast 1 Paranatural 1 Phantomarine 1 Re-Animator 1 Resident Evil/Biohazard 1 Sex Education (TV) 1 She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 1 Simon Snow Series 1 Skins (UK) 1 Slam Dunk 1 Starry Musical 1 Succession 1 Sunless Sea 1 Super Sentai 1 Sweeney Todd 1 Team Starkid 1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 The Adventure Zone: Balance 1 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension 1 The Adventures of Tintin 1 The Artful Dodger 1 The Good Place 1 The Greenhollow Series - Emily Tesh 1 The Hollows - Kim Harrison 1 The Last Kingdom 1 The Left-Handed Booksellers of London - Garth Nix 1 The Lunar Chronicles 1 The Mechanisms 1 The Pairing (Casey McQuiston) 1 The Saint of Steel 1 The Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler 1 The Terror (TV 2018) 1 Three of Hearts 1 Tin Can Bros 1 Tower of God 1 True Detective 1 Twilight 1 Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold 1 Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) 1 Weak Hero Class 1 1 Westworld (TV) 1 Yellowjackets 1 Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

[destinyc1020]

Also Florence's role in Dune 2 was extremely small. If they wanted to add another cast member to these FYC events I would prefer Rebecca or Bardem, who could theoretically get supporting actors noms (even though it's hard to get acting noms in the sci-fi genre)

Yea, Rebecca would have been a more valid choice, come to think about it. 🤔

Although, Viola Davis received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the film "Doubt" even though she only had about 10 minutes of screen time! 😁 Her performance was THAT compelling.

So, sometimes, it's not even how long an actor was onscreen, but how great and memorable their performance was.

[w0efulboopsoul]

Question about Stratus's brother:

Why is he so hard on Stratus?

Question about Stratus:

Why is she traveling so much? Like what is her end goal?

🤔

Getting to the bottom of these questions requires diving deeper into the Silvaton family and the blood feud that developed the night Gordon introduced a young woman he had fallen in love with named Miria Hartwright to the entire family.

Although she was human, her inclusion in the Silvaton family was warm. However, the son of the Oldest Aunt in the Silvaton family was slain by hunters who turned out to be Miria's own family, coming to collect their human daughter, cutting short the 'happy times'. Miria herself became a target to the rest of the Silvaton's causing Gordon and his parents to defend her forcing the family to split into two factions. Taking Miria to safety Gordon and his father have a heated discussion with the young brunette and explain to her that Gordon and she must part ways. For her own good, or the family would kill her. She reluctantly agrees and together she and Gordon visit a young witch named Mayleen who erases her memories of Gordon and the short time they had spent together.

He later learns that Miria is married to a young man named Johnathan Davis however, their lives are cut short as two of his cousins manage to kill the newlyweds and leaving three little girls behind. He has little time to mourn, however, as the Hartwright family retaliates by killing his mother and father. Leaving Gordon to raise his younger sister on his own.

See Gordon's thing with Stratus is simple:

He made his mistakes and has seen the consequences of what they brought. He doesn't Stratus to suffer the same fates as Miria, their parents, and his Aunt.

In his eyes he's not being hard on her, he is protecting her and preparing her for a cold and cruel world. He had three major roles to fill when the two lost their parents, Brother, Father, and Mother. To him, he did the best he could with what tools and cards were dealt to him. He would do anything for Stratus, even if it meant providing a little 'tough' love. He never considered his actions toward his sister to be too harsh nor what she would do in the future, as his fear of what would happen far outweighed his judgment. After all, she was all he had left.

(It can be a touchy subject for the big guy. Just pat his back with a broom he will live.)

This is why he is so shaken when Stratus defends Rebecca against his vicious bite and receives the wound herself before shoving him back. They both know exactly what her actions meant between the two siblings.

She had betrayed him.

"Stratus, they were once human...

Interacting with anything human is FORBIDDEN!"

(..... *Coughs*)

Stratus's View and Why She Travels:

To understand why Stratus is constantly traveling before meeting the girls, let's have a look at how she views Gordon's treatment and the weight of her betrayal toward her brother for said girls. Although understanding to an extent, she can't help but feel oppressed and still holds a deep resentment toward him for killing Jason. She can't help but feel she never lived the life she wanted, just the one he made for her. She never had a childhood, friends, etc. She lived in total isolation with Gordon being his bait or catching her own bodies. Eventually, she just got bored, tired, and restless of it all. So, she went for a walk. A long walk. As to why she does this? To harden herself. She's got goals and doesn't want anything to get in the way of them.

As for her end goal, to say she has ambitions would be an understatement. She gained her freedom at the price of being marked and scarred as a traitor. Her goals are set in stone for her and they include the other half of the Silvaton family. She's out for blood and blames them for everything that has happened to her and her brother. She's making her own pack, and she's coming for the head of the Silvaton family, quite literally her head. Once she has it rolling on the floor she plans to take the head of the family herself so her word is law. She won't stop at just one head either. She's taken many lives human and non-human, and she won't have mercy on the other Silvatons.

[femslashrevolution]

Popular Pairing List Update

The following pairings have more than 10 recent posts in their pairing tag, and are therefore too popular to be posted on Rarepair Thursdays:

Aerith Gainsborough x Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy)

Amelia Collins x Zoe Miller (Class of '07)

Anaïs Davis x Bobbie De Bruyn (wtFOCK)

Aninlaphat Sawetwarit x Pilanthita Kasidit (The Loyal Pin)

Anna x Elsa (Disney Princesses)

Applejack x Fluttershy (My Little Pony)

Azula x Ty Lee (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Barbara Holland x Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things)

Bérénice Leblond x Carla Furiani (Ici tout commence)

Blaze x Kristina Corinthos Davis (General Hospital)

Buffy Summers x Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Cady Heron x Regina George (Mean Girls; Mean Girls Musical)

Cate Randa x May Olowe Hewitt (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters)

Clary Fray x Isabelle Lightwood (The Mortal Instruments)

Darcy Lewis x Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Delia Ketchum x Jessie (Pokemon)

Dorcas Meadowes x Marlene McKinnon (Harry Potter)

Dorcas Meadowes x Narcissa Malfoy (Harry Potter)

Earth x Sun (23.5)

Eileen Dunlop x Rebecca (Eileen)

Eve Unwin x Suki Panesar (Eastenders)

Falin Touden x Marcille Donato (Delicious in Dungeon)

Fluttershy x Rarity (My Little Pony)

Ginny Weasley x Pansy Parkinson (Harry Potter)

Gwen Runck x Nikki (That 90's Show)

Gwen Stacy x Mary Jane Watson (Marvel Comics)

Jack Danvers x Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso)

Kristi Miller x Marielle (From)

Harper Row x Stephanie Brown (DCU; Gotham Knights)

Harumoto Itsuki x Hayashi Fuyu (Chaser Game W)

Ink x Pa (Bad Buddy)

Jamie x Marian (Drive-Away Dolls)

Jiang Zhaoyun x Lan Ze (Legend of Yunze)

Lady Hideko x Sook Hee (The Handmaiden)

Luce x Rachel (Imagine Me & You)

Margaery Tyrell x Sansa Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Padmé Amidala x Sabé (Star Wars)

Prang x Warang (Love Senior)

Sabine Wren x Shin Hati (Star Wars)

The following pairings have been posted less frequently recently, and have therefore been removed from the popular pairing list:

AJ Campos x Paige Evans (Crush)

Alex Cabot x Olivia Benson (Law & Order: SVU)

Amalia True x Penance Adair (The Nevers)

Amanita Caplan x Nomi Marks (Sense8)

Ana Servín x Mariana Herrera (Madre sólo hay dos)

Anne Shirley x Diana Barry (Anne of Green Gables; Anne With An E)

Ava Coleman x Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)

Beca Mitchell x Chloe Beale (Pitch Perfect)

Becky Baker x Imogen Moreno (Degrassi: The Next Generation)

Bette Porter x Tina Kennard (The L Word)

Casey Gardner x Izzie (Atypical)

Deena Johnson x Samantha Fraser (Fear Street)

Eleanor Levetan x Gabbi Broussard (Do Revenge)

Frankie Bergstein x Grace Hanson (Grace and Frankie)

Frannie Langton x Marguerite Benham (The Confessions of Frannie Langton)

Héloïse x Marianne (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)

Imogen Temult x Laudna (Critical Role)

Jen Harding x Judy Hale (Dead to Me)

Jules Vaughn x Rue Bennett (Euphoria)

Keeley Jones x Rebecca Welton (Ted Lasso)

Malini x Priya (The Jasmine Throne)

Maria Hill x Natasha Romanoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe; Marvel Comics)

Riri Williams x Shuri (Marvel Cinematic Universe; Marvel Comics)

Shelby Goodkind x Toni Shalifoe (The Wilds)

[howlingday]

You know i can see jaune going the same path as david in the cyberpunk AU

So, here's my thoughts on the Edgerunners finale and the series as a whole. I feel like, in this world of cyberpsychosis, psychos, and corporate greed, I feel like the path David took was... It was the worst part of the series.

Don't get me wrong. This series is PHENOMENAL and will stick with me for years to come. The art, the music, the world and it's characters, I loved them all!

But the way David was doomed to fail from the start like a Greek tragedy irks me to no end. David was a smart kid who struggled to get where he was supposed to be, but life kept handing him shit deal after shit deal until he finally makes it big, only to be smashed down because "evil corporations".

David going full psycho without telling Lucy, following the same path Maine went pisses me off because I honestly thought he was smarter than that. Him hopping into the war machine to save Lucy, I get, and it's a great set-up for the finale where he goes toe-to-toe with Adam Smasher. And him losing hard because that's just how hard Addy Smashmeplease be, I understand.

But the tragedy of it all just pisses me off because the answer is so damn obvious to me, and it's a plot point in stories I fucking hate. Everything failed in COMMUNICATION.

"Hey, Lucy, I'm feeling inadequate and that's what's causing my chrome addiction, driving me down the path of going psycho."

"Shit, Davie, that's bad. I think that's how Maine and a lot guys die out here, so you should probably slow down. Also, I know I was a child of a top-secret government experiment, but it's scaring me with how easy someone could find me and take me."

"Wassup, chooms! It's me, Rebecca, and I wanna kiss Dimples!"

"Weird! Me, too! What do you think David?"

Exaggeration? Maybe, and maybe I'm in the wrong for wanting a happy ending in a grimdark franchise of greed, murder, and addiction, but that's just how I be. I gotta hold onto some kind of hope.

Okay, now that I'm done raving like a psycho:

Jaune going the same path as David. I think he would, and yes, that includes the poor communication aspect. Jaune isn't open about his feelings for almost five volumes running now, and he isn't going to start soon. (OR IS HE?! DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUN!)

Jaune getting chromed out so hard that he starts going psycho so people won't pick on him anymore and take what's his? Yup. Definitely a Jaune move, especially after Volume 3.

But there's always an Adam Smasher, and Jaune getting smashed to bits is just how this story is going to go.

All part of the fuckin' cycle, man.

[jen-angst]

Emily Dickinson Letter #56

This is such a small letter- honestly the type of thing that could be conveyed in a single DM in modern day. Emily is requesting an article from Atlantic Monthly entitled "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis. I still find it endearing that she sent a letter like this.

[fundieshaderoom]

Fundie and Adjacent Families I Follow: May 2024 in a Glance

Births:

Gracie and Aaron Keyes welcomed their second child, Brooks Davis "Davis" on May 6. He joins an older sister.

Savannah and Cole Labrant welcomed their fifth child Beckham Blue. He joins 3 older sisters and an older brother.

Isabel (Trewhella) and Jake Patrick welcomed their fifth child on May 29. She joins 2 brothers and 2 sisters. The name was not announced.

Audrey and Jeremy (Roloff) welcomed their fourth child, Mirabella May Roloff on May 23. She joins 1 older sister and 2 older brothers.

Tori (Bates) and Bobby Smith welcomed their fifth child, Weston Slade on May 29. He joins 2 older brothers and 2 older sisters

Pregnancies:

Madeline (Langdon) and Zachary Garcia are expecting their first child, a boy.

Kristen (Baird) and Zach Clark are expecting their third child. They will join 2 older brothers.

Brighton and Reed Robertson are expecting their third child. They will join 1 older brother and 1 older sister in August.

Rebecca (Robertson) and John Reed Loflin are expecting their third child in November. This child will join 1 older brother and 1 older sister.

Jennifer (Hartono) and Joshua Toto are expecting their second child in December. This child will join 1 big sister.

Engagements:

Danielle Seewald and Lawson Howard got engaged.

Gender Reveals:

Katie (Bates) and Travis Clark are expecting a baby boy.

Tiffany (Espensen) and Lawson Bates announced they are expecting a little boy. This was already accidentally revealed several times...

Name Reveal:

Karissa and Mandrae Collins have chosen the name Arrow Chosen.

Artemesia and Isaac Anderson have chosen the name Dietrich.

Relationship Hard Launches:

Marjorie Jackson is dating Phillip Todd.

Jason Duggar soft launched. This could be Claire Langdon.

[james-stark-the-writer]

aw, man, how did they fuck up the ending to a masterpiece, this should have been better than Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind for me, especially as it is a variation on the themes that that movie tackled, but it just misses out because i don't love the execution of (or really much of anything about) the last 5 minutes. otherwise, this is KINO of the highest order. i can't recall the last time i was so utterly engrossed in a narrative that i didn't want to pause it to say something. there's actually a lot of "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis in this. (turns out the more i talked about this, the less i liked it bc i just saw more stuff i didn't love.)

My ★★★★★ review of Princess Mononoke on Letterboxd

[libraryleopard]

December reads

asterisk = reread

Blood to Poison by Mary Watson

Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni

The Mossheart’s Promise by Rebecca Mix

The Body’s Question by Tracy K. Smith

Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV et al 

The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan

Something More by Jackie Khalilieh

The Tent Generations: Poems edited by Mohammad Sawaie

Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey

Hijabi Butch Blues by Lamya H

Old Enough by Haley Jakobson

Prom and Other Hazards by Jamie Sullivan

Poems on Friendship by various authors

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Ferguson, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Before the Next Bomb Drops by Remi Kanazi

A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee

Rosewater by Liv Little

Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Unraveller by Frances Harding

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro

The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue

Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza

The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall

Arden Grey by Ray Stoeve

The Best American Poetry edited by Matthew Zapruder and David Lehman

The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee

How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill edited by Jericho Brown

The Adam of Two Edens by Mahmoud Darwish

The Feast Makers by H.A. Clarke

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

Gay Club! by Simon James Green

Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min

The King’s Assassin: the Secret Plot to Murder King James I by Benjamin Woolley

All Systems Red by Martha Wells*

Judas & Suicide by Maya Williams

You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

Currently reading

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju

The Secret Life of Albert Entwhistle by Matt Cain

[jessicafurseth]

Reading List, In a Flash edition.

The Laughing Heart [Charles Bukowski, 1993] Your life is your life Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out. There is a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness. Be on the watch. The gods will offer you chances. Know them. Take them. You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it. You are marvelous. The gods wait to delight In you.

[Image: Lucas Allen]

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"Some of the ways friendship changes in this life stage is just “being in your 30s.” Friends are already disappearing from dinner parties and birthdays and day trips and concerts and “God, I’ve had a shit week. Can we just sit on your couch and eat takeout?’’ evenings. There are so many big events besides having children that make you less available to friends: serious relationships, career changes, getting sober, moving cities, caring for aging parents, finances. We talk through those moments because we’re aware enough of how important friendships are and how hard they are to keep. You literally live longer the more adult friends you have, and if you believe the surgeon general, we’re all one invitation away from being part of the “loneliness epidemic.” Parenthood (specifically motherhood) is a known contributor to feeling isolated, but though we tell friends, “You work too hard,” or even, “Your new girlfriend is a drag,” we never point our fingers at the baby and say, “That thing is tearing us all apart." Can Parents and Childless People Be Friends? [Allison P Davies, The Cut]

"We have brothers, sons, lovers – but they can’t live here!" The 26 older women living in a cohousing community in Chipping Barnet [Anita Chaudhuri, The Guardian]

The Case for Love-Life Balance [Faith Hill, The Atlantic]

‘Oddly satisfying’: what’s behind our drive to collect useless items? [Amelia Tait, The Guardian]

Celebrities are now “honest” about diet, exercise and beauty. I wish they weren’t [Amelia Tait, The New Statesman]

"The internet as we know it is a glorious, awful, intricate, sprawling series of networks that needs our information in order to function. We cannot go back to a time before this was true—before turn-by-turn directions and eerily well-targeted ads, before we carried little data-collection machines in our pockets all day—and nor would all of us want to. But we can demand much more from the reckless stewards of our information." What Digital Privacy Is Worth [Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic]

"There are so many fun things to do on the internet. You can watch that History of Japan video for the zillionth time. You can have a glass of wine and reply enthusiastically to the Instagram Stories of everyone you know. Anything, truly anything, is a better use of your time than getting upset that a stranger somewhere disagrees with you." Social media is making you angry. You simply have to ignore it. [Rebecca Jennings, Vox]

You don't have to post about your moral outrage [Elizabeth Spiers, The New Yorker]

Citizenship Restored - a fascinating story about gaining German citizenship as a descendant of Jewish refugees [Daniel Trilling, the London Review of Books]

"This pandemic skip — the strange sensation that our bodies might be a step out of sync with our minds — happened to people of all ages. We’ve heard of those freshmen in high school, who, never having attended middle school, went back to their classrooms punching each other like 12-year-olds. A friend skipped from 57 to 60 and, when she started dressing up to leave the house again, realized she felt distinctly out of sorts in her clothes — her dresses felt suddenly too short or too colorful. (At 57, she said, patterns felt ironic. At 60, they didn’t.) My skip, I realized, had carried me swiftly through what would have been my last couple years of socially permissible carelessness. And what I’d dropped into didn’t especially appeal, particularly after having been trapped in the house cats-in-a-bag style for three years: real adulthood with all its attendant concerns." The Pandemic Skip [Katy Schneider. New York Magazine]

“I was on my own so much, just with my thoughts. The way I describe it is like weeding your garden. You don’t realise it, but your head is full of these weeds and when you’re walking, you’re on your knees pulling weeds. After about a year and a half, when I was down in south Peru, I felt like I’d thought all the thoughts, and the garden was clean. There was no more angst, no regrets, nothing I could pick through. I was in the Atacama desert, lying under a million stars, and it felt I was at the bottom of myself. All the doubts went. It was a hollowed-out feeling. A simple sense of existing – you’re just a small little creature in the universe. It was just peace.” Tom Turcich on his seven-year walk around the world [Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian]

A Guide to Lana Del Rey’s Literary References [Sophie Lou Wilson. AnOther Magazine]

"A completely correct theory, in which one of our greatest movie stars reveals humanity’s changing relationship to modernity." Sandra Bullock and the Rise of Tech [Jim Windolf, The New  York Times]

"When people say they’re able to strictly abide a certain diet under any circumstances, I feel both a bit jealous and also incredulous: what are you missing? Not just food-wise, but conversation-wise. I find it important that I’m always coming into friction in the world about being a bivalve-eating vegetarian: how else would I know how unfriendly the world is to a plant-based diet? How else would I be told stories of the vegans who eat cheese only in Spain or the vegetarians who make accommodations for certain seafood? I want to know these stories, and I want to know everyone’s food story." On the ‘Grandma Rule’ [Alicia Kennedy]

Historic England is creating  an online map of ghost signs [Steven Morris, The Guardian]