#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.

[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

[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.

[skvatnavle]

New in Town

Rhett Abbott x Abigail Miller

Warnings: pining, mentioning of masturbation (squint and you miss it), flirtatious behavior.

Notes: Yes, I have given reader a name, but no other descriptions of appearance. I just don't wanna use y/n 😅

And this an AU set in 1886. No spoilers for Outer Range.

Thanks to @hederasgarden for beta reading and the rest of the Top Gun girls for encouraging me to do this ❤️

Words: 1.8K

Days often went by slowly out at the frontier. Life was easier, simpler. Some would say boring, but to people born here, they didn’t mind the stillness. Sitting on his horse, gently swaying in the saddle as the sun shines above, Rhett can’t really picture living anywhere else.

Sure, as a kid he sometimes had dreams about the big city. Perry had been there a few times, with Rebecca being from Laramie, and talked about how magnificent it was. Buildings taller than you could imagine and shops full of things Rhett could never dream of being able to afford. He even heard whispers that they had just opened the doors to Wyoming’s first University.

But Rhett had never felt that pull. He wanted to make his father proud, maybe get a small farmhouse of his own one day with some little ones to carry on his name. But he was slowly giving up on that dream, none of the girls here wanted anything to do with him.

Rhett had a reputation of being a bad seed. Drinking too much, often getting into fights. No man here thought him suitable for their daughters, which had caused him to flee out windows many a night with his Long John’s around his ankles and an angry father waving a weapon. Shifting in his saddle, he can still feel one of the hails from Mr. Johnson’s shotgun that one time he was a little too slow.

Reaching the small town of Wabang, the quiet stillness of the prairie is replaced by the buzzing of the town folk going about their day. The Barber welcoms the first customer of the day and Old Man Davis opening up the trading post.

As they ride past the saloon, Sheriff Smith is escorting Trevor Tillerson away under huge protest. One of the whores’ eye Rhett and waves seductively, trying to lure him in. But he just offers her a soft smile, tipping his hat before catching up with his father and Perry.

Behind him, he hears the exaggerated whine along with his name leaving Daisy’s lips. With every other girl in town out of reach he had turned to Daisy’s services a few times. Not that he was very proud of it, but she was nice and he had gotten the release he needed. A way for him to dull his loneliness for a while.

Near the station, the crowds are gathering, awaiting the train. The railroad was done not a year ago and it had already done wonders for the town. But it was the buzzing that caught Rhett’s ear. The town had lost its teacher a month ago to sickness and now someone new was on their way here.

When they reach the trading post, Perry and Royal greet Davis, exchanging small pleasantries, but Rhett doesn’t care much. He just dismounts his horse and gives her a few pets to her cheeks, turning his gaze towards the train that’s slowly reaching the station.

No one really ever comes to Wabang, so it’s no surprise that only one person exits the train, but the crowd makes it hard for Rhett to see. Curious, he walks closer just to see what type of fella this new teacher could be. Only to stop dead in his tracks.

This certainly was no fella, and you were certainly not from around here. Dressed in a gown fit for a city lady with hair to match, you stand out from the crowd. Rhett can’t help but smile at the way you’re dressed, all fancy and polished.

When you turn, your eyes meet his and for a second, Rhett forgets how to breathe. Your eyes are magnificent, their beauty only challenged by the bright smile on your lips. Swallowing hard, Rhett tries to compose himself. You might just be the most gorgeous woman he’s ever seen.

As the chatting continues around you, and some men help to put your luggage onto a small wagon, Rhett finds himself staring at you. Not in a creepy way, or at least he hopes so. But he just can’t tear his eyes away. You’re not like any girls here. He already knew that the second he saw that book under your arm. Hardly anyone here had any real education, let alone would read for fun.

Hell, Rhett himself didn’t even know how to read properly, his father insisting on working on the farm was more important. So he knew he wasn’t smart enough for an educated lady like you. Turning away, already giving up on the idea of talking to you, Rhett hears something hard hit the ground and turns around to you. Some of the suitcases have fallen off the wagon.

“Let me help you with that, Ma’am.” Rhett offers, quickly moving to pick them up. Once done, he is met by your sweet smile, only this time it’s all for him.

“Thank you so much, Mr.?”

“Abbott. Rhett Abbott.” He offers his hand but retracts it when he sees how dirty it is. But you just keep your hand in mid-air with a smile, waiting for him to take it.

“I moved away from the big city, Mr. Abbott. I’m not opposed to getting a little dirty.”

Somehow, Rhett hopes this doesn’t just apply to the dirt on the ground, but he quickly tries to dismiss that thought, knowing full well that he shouldn’t think about you like that. He shakes your hand, yours so small against his, lips pulling up into a sweet smile.

“Sounds promising, cause we often get a little dirty here, Mrs.?”

“Miller. And it’s Miss.”

With that you turn away with a shy smile, making sure you have everything before heading to your new home. Rhett helps you onto the seat, his fingers resting at your hips for a second. Images of his hands digging into your curvy naked form flashes before his eyes, and he feels himself getting flustered as he lets go of you.

“Have a good day, Mr. Abbott. And thank you for your help.”

“Anytime, Miss Miller. Anytime.”

And with that, you drive away, but don’t get very far. The town folk keep stopping you, wanting to say hello to the newcomer. Rhett walks back to Royal and Perry, almost done loading goods into the wagon. They all look towards you and Rhett sighs heavily.

“She’s a pretty little thing.”

A bag of barley hits his chest and makes him stumble backwards, pulling him out his little daydream. When he looks at his father, Royal looks annoyed, his brows pulled into a frown.

“Don’t even think about it, Rhett. She’s a respectable woman.”

Rhett throws the barley onto the wagon, shooting you a quick glance before turning back to his father, trying to seem indifferent.

“Don’t worry, Pa. I wasn’t gonna.”

“Like you’ve ever kept your word when it comes to a woman.” Perry counters, clearly amused. Rhett jabs at Perry’s chest, which only makes Perry laugh louder. He’s telling the truth, but the words hurt nonetheless. Hurt that even his family would think so little of him, how could he ever hope anyone else would think otherwise?

“Shut your mouth, Per.”

Perry just shakes his head as he continues to load the goods onto the wagon. As Rhett picks up the last bag of flour, he looks up to find you looking at him from your seat in the wagon. He hopes to God you didn’t hear any of their banter. You’d hear soon enough about his reputation. But he sure hoped you wouldn’t believe every word. He didn’t stand a chance with a gal like you, but he could always dream.

A whole two weeks had gone by since Rhett had last seen you. He had tried to push you out of his head, but to no avail. You occupied his thoughts during the day, making the chores easier to get done. You had also occupied his thoughts at night. Shamefully he’d fisted his cock at the thought of you more times than he could count, your bright smile and kind eyes haunting his every waking hour.

He didn’t even know you, yet you were all he could think about. He’d heard girls in town talk about love at first sight and he had always thought they were crazy. But maybe there was something to it?

“Daddy, you gotta take me to school.”

Amy’s voice pulls him out of his thoughts. This is exactly the opportunity he’s been looking for. A way for him to see you again.

“I can take you.”

Shocked, they all look at Rhett. He is by no means a bad uncle for Amy. Actually, he was always going out of his way to make that little girl happy. But he’s never once followed her to school. As he walks her to the door, Royal stops him with a hand on his chest.

“What are you doing, Rhett?”

“Just following Amy to school. Ain’t nothing to worry about, Pa.”

“You know… Whenever you say that you always get into trouble.”

Rhett just offers his dad a sideways smile before heading out the door, Amy in tow. All the way into town, Amy tells about what a great teacher Miss Miller is. Reaching the school and seeing you there, giving all the kids a big, bright smile, he can’t help but agree. You sure are something.

You greet Amy with equal vigour as the others, before your eyes land on Rhett. Maybe he’s just fooling himself, but it sure looks like your smile grew bigger seeing him there.

“Mr. Abbott. To what do I owe the pleasure? It’s usually your sister-in-law following Amy to school.”

“Oh, she…” he pauses, nervously rubbing his neck, “She was busy this morning.”

“It’s just because Uncle Rhett wanted to see you.” Amy says matter of factly, before running to her friends, leaving Rhett embarrassed and you flustered.

“Uhm, I… I just wanted to make sure you’ve settled alright. That you’re okay.”

It’s a poor excuse and he knows a smart girl like you will see right through it. Luckily, you don’t seem to mind. Hell, it even looks like you might be a little flattered.

“Well, I’m honoured, Mr. Abbott. I feel better knowing I have someone like yourself watching over me.”

Another parent is dropping off their son, demanding your attention. You offer Rhett a good day, before turning towards the school. Knowing he shouldn’t, he still takes a step forward and stops you gently, his fingers brushing against your arm. You turn to look at him once more.

“Miss Miller? If there’s ever anything I can do for you, please let me know.”

Everything in him hopes you’ll take him up on his offer. That maybe he can prove to you that he is a good man and that maybe he could be worthy of someone like you.

“I don’t think your wife would take too kindly to you helping out other women.” you say, as you take a step closer to him, fidgeting with the book in your hand.

“I don’t have a wife.” he answers softly with a faint smile, before tipping his hat and leaving. Straddling his horse, he finds you still looking at him with a shy smile.

“Have a good day, Miss Miller. I look forward to seeing you again.”

Thank you so much for reading <3

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[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]

*

"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]

[fandomtrumpshate]

Unlisted fandom challenge!

Since our numbers post earlier today, we've had more than 30 signups, including write-ins for 2 more fandoms, bringing the total of unlisted fandoms to 155 ... for now ...

At the top of the list we have a 3-way tie for 1st, a 5-way tie for 2nd, and a 6-way tie for third ...

5 Danny Phantom

5 For All Mankind

5 Yu Yu Hakusho

4 Ace Attorney

4 Ted Lasso

4 Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison

4 Stanley Parable

4 Tortall

3 Greek Mythology/Religion

3 Bungo Stray Dogs

3 Call of Duty

3 Dragon Ball

3 Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb

3 Mummy (1999 franchise)

A single sign up could change all that ...

The rest below a cut for length -

2 Alan Wake/Remedyverse

2 Ghosts (TV)

2 Buffyverse

2 Cosmere

2 CSI

2 Detective Conan

2 Dracula

2 Dune

2 Firefly

2 Formula 1 RPF

2 Glee

2 Guardian (2018)

2 HBO War

2 Hermitcraft/The Life Series SMP

2 Imperial Radch Series

2 Mob Psycho 100

2 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury

2 Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint

2 Persona Series: 3-5

2 Professional Wrestling

2 Riverdale

2 Saw

2 Shades of Magic - V. E. Schwab

2 Slow Horses

2 Stormlight Archive

2 Bear (TV)

2 Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros

2 Folk of the Air (Holly Black)

2 Radiant Emperor Series

2 Undertale

2 Venture Bros

2 Voltron

2 Wolf Pack

1 1670

1 a league of their own (TV series)

1 A Plague Tale (Videogame Series)

1 Adventure Zone: Balance

1 Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across 8th Dimension

1 Adventures of Tintin

1 American Gods

1 Among Us

1 Artful Dodger

1 Bendy (and The Ink Machine/Dark Revival)

1 Billabong - Mary Grant Bruce

1 Bioshock 1&2

1 Blue Beetle

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 Dexter

1 Dice Punks (podcast)

1 Digimon

1 Dimension 20

1 Discworld - Terry Pratchett

1 Divergent

1 Donten ni Warau / Laughing Under the Clouds

1 Dungeons and Daddies (podcast)

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 Good Place

1 Grantchester

1 Green Creek

1 Greenhollow Series - Emily Tesh

1 Grey's Anatomy

1 Grimm

1 Gundam (see below for details)

1 Hatchetfield

1 Hawaii 5.0

1 Hello From The Hallowoods

1 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

1 Hollows - Kim Harrison

1 Honkai Star Rail

1 Horizon Zero Dawn

1 Horror

1 Inception

1 Inspector Morse

1 IT (Movies - Muschietti)

1 Jeff Satur - music videos

1 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

1 Julie and the Phantoms

1 Last Kingdom

1 Law and Order

1 Left-Handed Booksellers of London - Garth Nix

1 Legend of the Galactic Heroes

1 Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4)

1 London Spy

1 Lunar Chronicles

1 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

1 Magnificent Seven

1 Mechanisms

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 Pacific Rim

1 Pairing (Casey McQuiston)

1 Re-Animator

1 Saint of Steel

1 Sex Education (TV)

1 Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler

1 Simon Snow Series

1 Skins (UK)

1 Slam Dunk

1 South Park

1 Starry Musical

1 Succession

1 Super Sentai

1 Sweeney Todd

1 Team Starkid

1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1 Terror (TV 2018)

1 Three of Hearts

1 Tin Can Bros

1 Tower of God

1 True Detective

1 Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold

1 Wayfarers (Becky Chambers)

1 Westworld (TV)

1 Yellowjackets

1 Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

[chaoticunorigionalstranger]

Book of Mormon - Matinee - 30.9.23 (Cast Change)

Principle cast in the photo.

Jack Greaves (Schrader), Jed Berry (Church), Jed Hoyle (Poptarts), Philip Catchpole, Brian O'Muiri (Zelder), Jack McNiel (Michaels), George Littell (Davis), Amandla Elynah, Paige Miller, Kirk Patterson, Rebecca Daisy Wellington

Chomba S Taulo (guard) went off at the interval and was replaced by Chris Copeland (swing).

Due to Gavin Alex (MP) having a bad back, Philip Catchpole (Brigham Young) did the lift at the end of AAP.

Jack Greaves:

Instead of the chirographed moves, he was doing 'sexy' dancing in TBT in the slow motion scene

In the airport scene he was playing a gameboy as he said his lines, and Jed H tried to take it away from him, but he didn't

In AAP he wasn't wearing a beard, instead he just had a moustache. He was leaning over while on the platform, licking his lips and very obviously perving at Jack M. Jack M was trying not to laugh

Yoda had a light saber during MU

In SMHD he did his usual 'sexy Dharma', but when Mr Price came on, Dharma had a t shirt that said "I love Xaddies".

In JSAM as the MP's assistant, him and Jack M, went and got a bench instead of the MP's chair and both sat down while MP (Gavi Alex) had to stand behind them. MP spent alot of time pulling his assistant's wigs backwards

Myles Hart

Did the entire show shirtless

During the scene with Price and the book, when he says "up their arse" he went and slapped Rolley's arse. REALLY hard

As Brigham Young he went and rubbed his clit nose right in Conner's face

Stevie Webb

Lots of flirting with Price

Generally giving his all

Very camp throughout - normal camp actions exaggerated