#the beacon collective

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oh. oh god. why did i think of her first. oh dear. oh no. this doesn't bode well for her.

but, my dearest friend... you ask, I'll answer!!!

Let's talk about Layla!

Leilani Kalili Cobadonne (Or... just Layla for short) is a main character is a long-time-coming original comic series The Beacon Collective. She's the older sister of the main character Brady (who,,, deserves his own post for sure) and actually serves as the deuteragonist in the first part of the comic series. She's nineteen years old and an aspiring fashion designer, and she's bright, cheerful, and incredibly witty. Most people think her to be a little bit of an airhead -- this, however, is super far from the truth. The world that TBC takes place in is a high/modern fantasy world with two ways to obtain magic. One is being born with a specific type, and the second is learning it. Learning a specific type of magic is a long and arduous process that takes people years -- even decades, to fully attune themselves with, and it is never ever to the power levels that those who were born with that type of magic are able to achieve. It's also a process that normally requires the help of an experienced tutor.

Anyways, Layla self taught herself illusion magic in the span of about a year. Though, a good portion of this can be attributed to the fact that she was still a child and children's brains can absorb things easier and... yeah.

Development

Layla was actually the last (main) character to be created -- I'm excluding Amadeus because she doesn't become prominent until the second part of the story. Layla was created to replace a different character who used to be Brady's twin sister. I wanted someone who would provide a more nurturing vibe towards Brady's quest, which is. Ironic. Considering what her main internal conflict ends up being. Technically, one could trace Layla's origins all the way back to a character who shared my deadname and was Brady's babysitter, but I'm counting Layla having not officially started being Layla until she was named that.

Speaking of the name... Layla is the only main TBC character whose name I chose specifically for the meaning. Layla was decided first, and is a bit on the nose with the fact that it means "night" or "dark" in Arabic: a direct reference to the darkness magic she was originally born with. For a while, I was content with just calling her Layla. And then I nailed down her story a little bit more, and realized how important her heritage was to her... and decided that Layla was probably just a nickname. This is where Leilani comes in: the name is Hawai'ian and means "heavenly garland of flowers" or "royal child." Since the islands that Layla originally came from are heavily inspired by Hawai'i, I knew the name needed to be of that origin. I thought the imagery of flowers was important since Layla is heavily associated with a specific flower in my brain (which we'll get to later.) Additionally, I thought the meaning of "royal child" was a nice little bit of foreshadowing about where she'd end up in the story.

Now that I've dedicated a whole ass paragraph to her name and why I chose it, I can actually talk about her. And... well, long story short, Layla was the character I had the hardest time pinning down. Her personality varied wildly in every iteration: she went from being cynical and rude to ditzy and overly kind, and these two personalities duked it out every time I tried to update her. Her visual design was deeply convoluted as well: I couldn't ever settle on a proper hairstyle or color for her! I couldn't even settle on a career for her. Was she a singer? A dancer? a seamstress? a fashion designer? a pop star? a social media influencer? I couldn't decide on anything concrete for her.

And then I realized the problem: I'd created her to fulfill the narrative, when all the other character had been made... just to be characters. I was never satisfied with her because she was so one-dimensional compared to everyone else. I needed to let her become her own person, even if it drastically impacted the plot that I'd already laid out.

And oh boy... did it.

Design

Once again, I am cursed with having not many visual refs, but I do have this cute sketch I literally just made of her for your viewing pleasure. Behold!

Alas no full-body, but still. Helpful. So, Layla isn't someone I can really analyze the Outfit of because her outfits consistently change throughout the story. Regardless, I can talk about two colors that are pretty prominent in this: pink and blue.

Pink: Layla's favorite color, in case you couldn't tell by her hair (which she did bleach and dye! Her natural hair color is a really dark black). It's a bright and peppy color, and is often associated with love -- which is great, because Layla truly is a romantic at heart. Pink is also the more innocent counterpart of red, which is something that I place great importance on, given that a.) the concept of "innocence" is important to her character and b.) there's actually... someone else heavily associated with red.

Blue: Layla's second favorite color, and the favorite color of a certain someone she may in fact be interested in 👀She also tends to go with the lighter shades of blue in her outfits. Light blue is a calming color, which is a contrast to the more vibrant pink she sports -- but still reveals that nurturing, big-sister nature she has.

In earlier concepts of her design, her eyes were green, but I didn't like that as much as the brown. Brown eyes are often seen as really pretty and sweet (like chocolate) and I felt that was a nice thing for her design to have. Also, it just looked better.

Her hair is naturally wavy and she honestly doesn't do a lot with it to make it as voluminous as it is, but in a meta-sense, I wanted to pull from those huge, poofy hairstyles from the seventies to enforce that when you first meet her she's this dreamy, almost larger than life character.

In contrast to her hair, she's someone who leans more into the "cute" type of clothing -- much more girlish than mature. She's only nineteen and she's aware of the fact that many people don't think she's the smartest, so she uses the way she dresses to feed into this notion and get people to underestimate her. That being said, she's someone who places a lot of importance on her appearance: she takes pride in looking good! You won't see a lot of wrinkled shirts or pants/skirts on her because she takes care to ensure her clothes are nice and neat. It's not ostentatious, though (unless she wants to be.) She also prioritizes practicality. She might wear a cute pair of hiking boots on a trip, but they'll still be hiking boots.

Personality

Like I said, Layla is someone who balances practicality and fashion pretty well. And I think that dichotomy can be expanded to her general personality: she's a very exuberant and excitable person but she also very obviously has a soft side, which is shown most often whenever she interacts with her brother or any of the characters that are around his age. She's... almost impulsive? She jumps to conclusions very quickly and she's not correct all the time. A lot of her actions have the potential to get her in trouble, but she's a quick thinker and can often come up with a solution to avoid consequences of most anything. She's a very sweet person and will often go out of her way to help people, but if someone wrongs her or people she's close to, she holds grudges for a very, very long time.

She's also very stubborn -- in fact, I think she's probably the most stubborn out of all of the main characters. Telling her she can't do something will only inspire her to do it more, which is the main reason she learned illusion magic at such a young age.

Layla's view of the world is (like everyone else) colored by the experiences she had when she was younger. She wasn't always as boisterous and stubborn -- she actually used to be a very shy kid. When she entered high school, though, she started realizing that people wouldn't hesitate to walk all over her and decided that she simply wouldn't take that. She's a very down to earth person, and every now and again when she gets flustered a bit of the shyness resurfaces.

She's also someone who would be called an "adventurous person." She loves trying new things and it's actually this almost thrill-seeking aspect of her that gets her sucked into the narrative of TBC. She's a big fan of amusement parks -- both for the roller-coasters and the cute things you can buy there.

For a very, very long time, Layla has been interested in textiles and clothing. She's someone who can ramble on and on and on about all different types of fabrics and patterns -- often to the point of annoying other people. She doesn't really mind, though -- she knows her friends will always listen to her, even if they never seem to quite grasp what she's talking about.

Backstory

Born Leilani Kalili on the islands of Ponokai, Layla lived in a small but very nice home with her mother, Koa. Her mother worked as an agent for the Black Calliope, an international organization dedicated to preserving relationships between multiple different countries as well as investigating any potential threats impacting those countries -- under supervision of those places' governments, of course. When Layla was eight years old, Koa was alerted to the presence of a strange bull-like animal terrorizing the main island -- a strange, almost monstrous creature that almost seemed otherworldly. The Ponokai military had tried to deal with the animal, but very few of the teams who had set off to defeat it returned. There were reports of the animal having reached the then-dormant volcano and making its home there, which was very bad news for the islanders since the animal was rumored to have both earth and fire magic. Koa assembled a special task force of people from both the Black Calliope and her island's military and set off with hopes to defeat the monster -- but not before instructing her previous partners in the Black Calliope, Malcolm Cobadonne and Juniper Lee, to take care of Layla should anything happen to her.

Koa never returned.

Malcolm and Juni took Layla back to their home country, Vezda, where Malcolm officially adopted Layla after Koa was declared MIA. Malcolm also adopted another child -- a little boy named Brady, who was only three years younger than her. Layla, both mourning her mother and wary of this new country, was a very reclusive child who spent most of her time silently playing pretend with her porcelain doll -- a prized possession given to her by Koa. With some coaxing, though, Malcolm was eventually able to convince Layla to try a new activity: dancing. In her classes, she began to come out of her shell and make friends with the others, but she still maintained her reputation of being the shy kid. Throughout this time, she was also being taught -- not in public school, but by a private tutor that worked out of the local monastery. It was there that she met a young boy named Tenn, who's getting his own post because. oh. oh dear. Tenn. oh man. that one's a doozy.

Anyway, the main reason Malcolm had Layla privately tutored instead of being put in public school was because he wanted to give her time to adjust to the new environment in Vezda as well as provide her with specialized instruction in order to learn the Vezdian language. Her brother, who was native to the country, was sent to public school immediately after being adopted. After a few years time, Layla was also enrolled in public school... right in time for middle school.

Now, objectively, her experience wasn't as miserable as it could have been, mostly due to a friend she'd managed to make in her dance classes: Nate, an outgoing boy who immediately adopted Layla into his friend group. Those two met another girl, Robin, and the three of them quickly became an inseparable trio, with Brady tagging along as often as he was allowed to. They even created a band together!

Layla often visited the monastery, both to hang out with Tenn and check out the monastery's massive library, which is where she taught herself how to do illusion magic. The monastery was also where she first met the crown prince of Vezda, Bo, who was talking to Tenn, actually. (Bo gets his own post because... he's got a Lot.) She quite literally ran into him -- after apologizing profusely, she somehow stumbled into inviting him to watch her band perform at a festival in town and he obliged. After the performance, he caught her and actually gave her his phone number. Over the years, they grew closer and closer, and Layla thinks of Bo as almost an older brother now.

Around the same time she entered high school, another person came into her life: James. She learned eventually that James was Tenn's younger brother, but was initially introduced to them as Brady's friend -- and then later, his boyfriend. She took on an almost surrogate older sister role with James, and he immediately latched onto that. Through James, Layla learned of Tenn's less-than-stellar treatment of his little brother, and this heavily strained their relationship.

And then... Tenn transferred to public school.

Initially, he'd been accepted as part of the group that Nate, Robin, and Layla (who had since become popular kids mostly due to Layla fully embracing her bubbly nature) had cultivated, but when tensions started to rise between Layla and Tenn... Well, the others chose Layla. She finished out high school without reconciling her relationship with him.

Having graduated with high honors and higher hopes, Layla chose not to go to college -- opting instead to take an internship with a local fashion designer with considerable social influence. She also used her connections, namely Bo, to get her designs showcased in a few prestigious places. This ended up backfiring on her, however, as she was inevitably accused of being in a secret relationship with the crown prince. Though this weakened her reputation (she was known more as Bo's "girlfriend" than as a fashion designer) she never let that get in her way.

Special Topic: Subverting Expectations

Yeah, she deserves this.

I want to call back to my original problem when I was first developing Layla: I needed her to fit the narrative. And... well, she didn't want to!

That's a very common trend throughout her life, both within her world and in a completely meta sense.

See, Layla really was only "scripted" to be a maternal force, but in an older sister way -- in the way that eldest daughters often are. She grew from there, but that was her little niche that she was supposed to fit in to. Now, granted, that's not to say that she was forced into that position by her family -- Malcolm and Juni were very good parents! It's just that when shit hits the fan the way it does in TBC, someone needs to step up... and someone needs to be the one to go "you... guys know it's okay to Feel Things, right? Let me take care of stuff while you go do that." Except she... has to do that all of the time, because all of the main characters are basically (if not explicitly) kids.

Also, even within the narrative, she tends to get viewed in the context of someone else's story. "Brady's sister," "Bo's girlfriend," etc. etc. She gets forced into all of these roles that she doesn't necessarily mind, but she wants to be known for more than that.

I want to take this time to talk about flowers. Namely, one specific flower that I heavily associate with Layla. The pink amaryllis. The amaryllis as a flower means "pride, strength, and determination," which are all qualities Layla has. The pink amaryllis is specifically a sign of friendship -- another thing that is very important to her, especially when talking about her relationship with Bo.

See, Bo and Layla are two very close friends who people keep mistaking as something more. Especially on Layla's end, people are almost insistent that she has to be in love with Bo -- they're just too close for her not to be! The pink amaryllis signifying friendship, and it being her signature flower in my mind is... almost defiant of that. No, she's not in love with him, no, they're not together, they're just friends. Nothing more. And being friends with Bo is perfectly wonderful as it is -- she adores being his friend. They're just not... compatible as partners, no matter what other people want to say about them.

A lot of these expectations end up compounding on her, though, and later on in the story, she kind of... well. Doesn't take it well.

Fun Facts:

Layla is a huge fan of magical girls!

When she gets a horse (which does happen in canon) she names her Apple Jack :)

Songs and music are important on both Ponokai and Vezda -- thus Layla is very, very likely to break into song at the drop of a hat.

Her favorite instrument to listen to is the piano! Brady was actually considered a prodigy when it came to the piano, so she grew up listening to him play.

Due to being born with darkness magic, she has the nice advantage of having nightvision.

Her favorite animal is a bunny.

She's canonically AuDHD <3

She hardly ever eats red meat -- it wasn't very popular on Ponokai, and she prefers fish and poultry far more.

Brady was the one who gave her the nickname Layla.

Layla has dyscalculia -- because of this, she often tries to avoid places where she has to do math. High school was a struggle for her, but she managed to pass her math classes with pretty damn good grades.

[tippenfunkaport]

Watching The Beacon with my smallest associate and when Catra throws her tablet in frustration and it breaks against the tree, Tiny asks, "Now how is she going to play Mochicats?" which was so hilarious to me I had to make this.

She's having a great time.

[lightsaber-dorphin]

My read of Ahsoka in Rebels is that she isn’t chill she’s numb. Bro hasn’t felt an emotion since Order 66 and she’s not about to start now. After Malachor Kanan realizes Ahsoka sensed Anakin during the siege of Lothal but spent months hunting for proof she was wrong and then let Vader kill her, and isn’t even surprised. Like that’s Typical Fulcrum Behavior right there. Rex asks her how she’s doing and her mind goes completely blank.

[wherewhereare]

The person on the cover is Gwen and Eric's grandfather. He used to perform a trick in which he would put seeds in his mouth and a bird would eat the seeds from his mouth. @lamb83

[bigforeheadbaddie]

Since No Doubt has announced their return for the upcoming Coachella 2024 music festival, I present to you…

A Newbie’s Guide to:

✨No Doubt✨

I’ve split up this guide by mediums of ~education~. Essential viewing, listening, and reading. This will help you get caught up and be guaranteed to sing along to every word, come April. It’s in April, right?

But first off…

Part 0. Controversies

I know what you might be thinking:

Wait. Isn’t Gwen Stefani a cultural appropriator?

And the answer is yes. And no. And yes & no. Honestly, it’s up to your personal opinion because there is no definitive guide for identifying or diagnosing cultural appropriation.

It’s defined as “the inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity” so, take that as you will. Gwen has definitely acknowledged her ‘adoptions’ of ‘cultural elements’ so it’s up to you to decide whether or not it is ‘inappropriate’.

This video is a great one about Gwen/No Doubts’ controversial moments that doesn’t spare any details, and is hilarious: https://youtu.be/NRUdZMngGTw?si=7tFJ4ZWEL4hBSkSy

Part 1. Essential Viewings:

E! Pop of Culture No Doubt Special (2012): https://youtu.be/TRIDg9B7sW0?si=jMlLkrGEOlucOwBU

This mini doc gives you the general run down on No Doubts history including some really great rare footage and interviews from the members (excluding Gabe & Stephen who I personally consider a part of the band)

Comprehensive List of Music Videos in Chronological Order: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrKMiVh6uoiJJ92beCveEbnpIGMonNyvS&si=YBZk0F5uRuVFewcF

I must warn you, this list includes Gwen’s solo stuff…some good, some not so much. I chose this playlist because it is uncertain if the ND (that’s what real No Doubters use as short hand for No Doubt 😎…get it? ND…No…yeah, you get it) setlist will include Gwen’s solo work, so it’s always good to be prepared.

Live in the Tragic Kingdom (1997): https://youtu.be/qf_tfei05oU?si=N_nsc5W7DzNpTb9C

Are you really a No Doubter if you haven’t seen this? It doesn’t cover Return of Saturn, Rock Steady, or Push & Shove as this was recorded after only their first 3 albums, but it is widely considered by No Doubters as their most iconic concert to date.

Part 2. Essential Listening Materials:

The music videos you watched probably have got you covered, but it never hurts to listen to a musical artist you’re looking to get into…musically…duh.

The Singles (2003): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL45FxAW8gNeH7NxBy2n1iIVwbWDxWXmNv&si=KGacYtdAezI0V0LD

The “essentials” playlists on Spotify or Apple Music should do, but if you have neither streaming services then this will do brilliantly. This doesn’t include anything from the Push & Shove era, but the best songs off that album were on your aforementioned music video playlist so, no worries! They probably won���t play anything from that era at Coachella anyways 😬 Just saying!

Unreleased & Demo Tracks: https://youtu.be/0msQzzIDf-M?si=O_p76KXX2YOBP_4k

If you really want to get on the PhD in No Doubt-ology track then give this a listen and once you’re done with that head on over to

Everything in Time (2004): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQvL6GLJiX93FVje8cjh1kZro5EFonJ-m&si=7gkM0rKo_tl0hKZE

which is another compilation of unreleased materials, but from the later years.

Part 3. Essential Readings

How Gwen Stefani Went From No Doubt to the Hollywood Walk of Fame: https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/gwen-stefani-career-no-doubt-to-hollywood-walk-of-fame

This is a great article that truly covers it all when it comes to lead singer Gwen Stefani’s career. Including, of course, her time with No Doubt.

However, it did left out some valuable information on Gwen’s greatest songwriting inspiration: love 🤓

So here’s some context for the songs on Tragic Kingdom: https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/491341/a-look-back-at-gwen-stefanis-bittersweet-romance-with-no-doubt-bandmate-tony-kanal/

And for all the other years…yeah, this one’s a doozy…https://www.nickiswift.com/632277/things-you-forgot-happened-during-gwen-stefanis-relationship-with-gavin-rossdale/

Oh and Blake Shelton? All you have to know is that they’re currently living happily ever after together and it’s all very ooey-goey so…good for her!

Part 4. Final Exam

You thought I wouldn’t quiz you? Well, you’re dead wrong, pal. Don’t worry, it’s gonna be fun.

In 2020, Gwen (independent of ND) released this single: https://youtu.be/vZvkyfwD8mI?si=aCOxu-a225mZFH4o recreating several looks from her past. If you can identify about 80% of the references then you are ready for Chelly! Yuck, sorry.

Okay that is the rundown on all things Gwen Stefani & No Doubt. If you watch/listen/read everything above then you’re a certified No Doubter. Congratulations & welcome to the club. See you at Coachella!

[unofficialadamtaurus]

“Why’d they all just ditch Ruby?” I NOTICED THAT TOO !! PLS how is that going over the writers head? How in the world do they not see what terrible/oblivious friends they’re making WBY out to be 🤣. Weiss keeps “accidentally” reminding Ruby of how much she’s fucking up, last episode Blake scolded her for thinking about Remnant, and Yang gets mad at her for being in the ever after. They’re doing more to make me feel bad for Ruby than the stupid herb trip shit on god.

like jesus christ they're supposed to be FRIENDS. In the first episode Ruby says that she'd fuckin KILL HERSELF to go after Yang (she's lying about why they're actually down there in the moment but to say that the way she did makes me think she'd do it in other circumstances) but I do not get the impression that the others would do the same for her. They keep ditching her, scolding her, ignoring or glossing over her obvious distress. The Ace Ops had a more believable friendship than this I swear to god.

[jtownraindancer]

Finally!!!!!

[greenlakegalpals]

the branwens have strilalonde energy.

qrow is a dave strider that started drinking his problems away like a true lalonde

raven is a rose lalonde if rose was raised by striders and developed a sudden hatred for wizards

[pastrycreamsicle]

look at this cool as heck dollhouse i saw at goodwill!!

[trevlad-sounds]

SUNDAY 10 September Mixtape 368 “Garden Landing”

Synth Electronica Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays. Support the artists and labels. Don't forget to tip so future shows can bloom.

Secret Circuit-Electric Garden 00:31

Home-We're Finally Landing 03:50

Helios-All The While 07:59

Apta-The Split 12:32

Polypores-Hexagram 16:48

KILN-Burl 19:46

James Bernard-A Feeling (Christian Kleine Remix) 22:12

Lee Hannah-Cheap Perfume 27:48

Loris S. Sarid-Pretty Cloud 30:17

Glinca-And Destroy 33:18

Oberu-The Oracle 38:34

Maston-Hydra 40:52

Erik Strauss-Subside 42:28

Joerg Dankert-Last Goodbye to Earth 46:04

[dappio]

man this game has no right being so pretty

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

The novel that dares to tell the truth about a perverse love.

Theirs was a love no man could share!

Draga yielded her long-legged girlishness to unnatural embraces. . . . it was an ecstasy such as Draga had never known.

Her lips were tender and clinging as she pressed them to Jo's voluptuous flesh. . . .

She was on the brink of total perversion. . . . Draga's only hope now was -- a man!

Oh, the steaminess of it all!! Carol Emory's pulp novel Queer Affair was published in New York as a Beacon Book, an imprint of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp., in 1957, and even by today's standards, the sexual frankness of the novel is pretty steamy. Unfortunately, because it's the 1950s, a fully-realized lesbian relationship will not stand. At least one of the partners has to be off her nut (in this case, Jo), while in the end male heroes come to the rescue.

The story centers around up-and-coming dancer Draga Hamilton who is introduced to celebrity sculptor Jo Stanhope by Draga's lawyer Gilbert Young who is desperately in love with Jo. Jo, however, has other ideas, as she seduces the vulnerable Draga and they begin a torrid love affair, which, as already stated, is quite frankly narrated. Draga is head-over-heels, until of course her old flame Ronnie Marsh shows up on the scene and ruins everything for Jo.

In the end, the whole sordid love quadrangle literally devolves into a barely-suppressed S&M encounter. Jo takes her revenge on Draga's infidelity by grabbing a bullwhip that is inexplicably hung on the wall and beats Draga almost senseless with it. The whipping, however, sends both into a building sexual frenzy until both Gilbert and Ronnie come bursting through the door. Ronnie whisks Draga out of harm's way (at least as he perceives it), and Gilbert gives Jo a taste of her own whipping medicine, to which both react with this memorable passage:

Jo Stanhope looked up at him with misted eyes. "Oh, Gilbert -- you've done something for me. You've rescued me. Why, it--it was --" "Never mind," Gilbert said. "And you won't find it so bad being married to me. After all, I'm sort of womanish, you know."

Meanwhile, Draga is recovering in Ronnie's soothing arms, to which she responds, "Move over a little, sweetheart . . . I want to sit in your lap." THE END. Ugh!!

Despite Queer Affair being mentioned in several texts on early lesbian pulp novels, we could find nothing on the author Carol Emory, who we suspect is possibly a man. Nevertheless, the author makes sure early on that the reader knows Emery has done their homework on lesbianism:

Gilbert had warned her that the sculptress was a lesbian, but at the time the fact had seemed to her irrelevant. Love between women was not altogether a new and startling idea to Draga. She had read many books on the subject, including those by Radclyffe Hall and Diana Fredericks.

Appropriately, Barbara Grier, in her iconic The Lesbian in Literature, gives Queer Affair a rating of A for having "a major lesbian component but not sympathetically portrayed." While we may not know who Carol Emory is, we do know that the butch/femme cover art is by Frank Uppwall and was first painted for another pulp novel, Gutter Star by Dorine B. Clark, published in 1954, and then reissued for the cover of Queer Affair three years later.

View more posts on lesbian romance fiction.

View more LGBTQ+ posts.

View other pulp fiction posts.

[krispyweiss]

Quarter Notes: Blurbs & Briefs from Sound Bites

- In this edition: “Austin City Limits;” KT Tunstall; Willie Nelson; & the TICKET Act

A BEACON FOR “ACL”’S TONY LICKONA: “Austin City Limits” executive producer Terry Lickona is the winner of PBS’ 2024 Beacon award.

���Terry is a legend,” PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger said in a statement. “He has grown ‘Austin City Limits’ from a small regional showcase into the longest-running music series in television history.”

A NOVELLA FOR KT TUNSTALL: KT Tunstall is the recipient of the 58th Novella Award for Outstanding Song Collection, the Ivors Academy announced. Tunstall will receive the honor at a May 23 ceremony.

COOKING WITH WILLIE AND WEED: Willie and Annie Nelson will release a new cookbook, “Willie and Annie Nelson’s Cannabis Cookbook: Mouthwatering Recipes and the High-Flying Stories Behind Them,” on Nov. 12.

TICKET ACT PASSES THE HOUSE: The House of Representatives this week passed the Transparency in Charges for Key Events Ticketing Act, NBC News reports. If passed by the Senate and signed by President Biden, the law would, among other things, require sellers to list full prices, including fees, up front.

5/17/24

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middle-earth dashboard simulator

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pippin was 29 years old???

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he should've been at the green dragon

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#gates of argonath #argonath #amon hen #middle earth landscapes #photographers of middle earth #travel #dark academia #lmao pls reblog this i almost fell out of my boat taking this photo

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my hungry ass could never travel with lembas

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#the entitlement i see on this site sometimes is disgusting #y'all will just post about having easy access to lembas when we can't eats hobbit food??? #we must starve??? #vent #do not rb

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CALLOUT FOR GRIMA WORMTONGUE

I've talked a lot about this already on this blog, but I want to have everything collected in one post so next time some dipshit with a white hand icon slides into my inbox to call me a liar I can just link to this post. tl;dr grima wormtongue has been poisoning my uncle and the land of rohan for the past few years, and here are the receipts:

Keep reading

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i stg if one more of you tells me I should've sent frodo on the eagles I'm asking iluvatar to take me back

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recent read: there and back again: a hobbit's tale by bilbo baggins

I thought this was SOOO fun and cute! I'm usually not into rpf but did anyone else think there was something between bilbo and thorin? 👀 I can't be the only one who saw it. but the ending made me cry my eyes out.

4.5/5 stars

#booklr #there and back again #bilbo baggins #recent read #dark academia #light academia #book review

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who up mirking they wood

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🐛 manofsirith Follow

wtf the new king of gondor just bowed to these four random short guys?? everyone else bowed too and I just went along with it lmao 😅 am I missing something????

#this is right after he sang a song and made out with some hot elf chick #truly the wildest coronation i've ever been to

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ULTIMATE HOTTEST FIRST AGE BADDIE TOURNAMENT FINALS!!!!

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here y'all go again pitting two bad bitches against each other

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everyone who voted galadriel is a kinslayer apologist #luthiensweep

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fuck my job so much. everyone manifest an attack on gondor so I can finally warm my fingers on this beacon fire.

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by eru this can't be happening

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[pennifold]

The PWHL teams possibly having future names via fans has me *thinking*…

New York Colossus (for Lady Liberty and her teal patina)

NY Harbourmasters? I feel like it has to come back to liberty and her torch lamp. New York Beacons??

For Boston, it’d be cool to acknowledge the amazing history of ‘mill girls’ in local textile mills of New England starting the first strikes and setting the stage for collective action and labor unions. ‘Mill Girls’ isn’t the most dignified moniker, though. Boston Collective? Boston Bobbins? Haha

Of course, beloved local animals are always a hit. Someone suggested Minnesota Monarchs and I’m in love with that. Turtles are great - are there Red-eared Sliders in Ottawa? If I could get away with calling a team Horseshoe Crabs, I would. Fierce locals with some history: Beaver, Mink, Barred Owl, Osprey, Raccoon, Black Bear, Chipmunk, Lobster,

Chipping Sparrow, Chickadee, Wren, Nuthatch - little birds have some great names

There are local dragonflies called Boghaunters, so that may be my new Boston front runner

Boston Osprey has a ring to it

[bigforeheadbaddie]

Gwen Stefani, 1991