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[umgeorge]

"Last time out in Austin 🦅 Camera roll highlights from Texas ‘23 📸" - october 15, 2024 📷 @.mercedesamgf1 / instagram

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[ummick]

📷 @.katymotorsport / instagram

[megamindfandombookclub]

New episodes airing on Thursday, June 20th!!

Part 2 of Season 1 will air on Peacock in two days!

Here is a list of sites curated by Megamind Fans to help others watch:

"Megamind Rules!" Show Availability:

USA: Streaming platform: Peacock https://www.peacocktv.com/ **Date: ** March 1st AUSTRALIA Streaming platform: Stan https://www.stan.com.au/ Date: March 2nd UNITED KINGDOM (Unknown) Other Countries: Currently unknown. You may need to consider getting a VPN to use Peacock from your location. (The UK and AU have trademarks set, so it's likely you'll be getting it as well.)

"Megamind vs The Doom Syndicate" Movie Availability

USA: Streaming platform: Peacock https://www.peacocktv.com/ **Date: ** March 1st AUSTRALIA (Note: Unconfirmed, but assumed. See <#983559635455856651>) Streaming platform: Stan https://www.stan.com.au/ Date: March 2nd (?) UNITED KINGDOM Streaming platform: Sky Cinema https://www.sky.com/tv/cinema Date: April 7th

(Below info is pulled from FlixPatrol https://flixpatrol.com/title/megamind-vs-the-doom-syndicate/streaming/)

BRAZIL Streaming platform: Amazon Prime https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0GQ8FGUVP06TWTZLX0J4XOJNKM/ ALGERIA, BAHRAIN, CHAD, EGYPT, IRAQ, JORDAN, KUWAIT, LEBANON, LIBYA, MAURITANIA, MOROCCO, OMAN, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, SOMALIA, SOUTH SUDAN, TUNISIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, YEMEN Streaming platform: OSN https://osnplus.com/ DENMARK (Megamind mod Dommedagssyndikatet) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.dk/film/megamind-mod-dommedagssyndikatet-2023 FINLAND (Megamind vs. Tuomiosyndikaatti) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.fi/leffat/megamind-vs.-tuomiosyndikaatti-2023 ICELAND Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.is/movies/megamind-vs-the-doom-syndicate-2023 NORWAY (Megamind og Dommedagssyndikatet) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.no/filmer/megamind-og-dommedagssyndikatet-2023 SWEDEN (Megamind och Undergångssyndikatet) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.se/film/megamind-och-undergangssyndikatet-2023 Other Countries: Currently unknown. You may need to consider getting a VPN to use Peacock from your location. (The UK and AU have trademarks set, so it's likely you'll be getting it as well.)

If you do not see your country in the list above, this list below should be able to help.

The creative team is constantly subjected to bullying by trolls online. Please do them a good turn and leave them a positive review on IMDB or on their social media pages.

This show means a LOT to a ton of people. Please practice kindness wherever you can.

If it helps, Adam Lambert sang the theme song and he also plays a MAJOR character! If you can't do it for us, do it for him??? (does he use he/him pronouns? internet search wasn't clear.)

[middstape]

Chapter 1 (the letter) will x lisi au

7 a.m. November 17, 2023

Today is the day.

At four p.m. Lisi will find out if she is accepted to play in the world juniors her third year in a row.

A month prior Lisi received the letter in the mail stating that she was a possible draft prospect and to keep up to date if the world juniors wanted her. It's not that she was really nervous about not getting a chance to return to the team but almost half of her freshman season was cut short due to a shoulder injury.

At seven sharp Lisi heard the piercing noise of her alarm clock going off. She groaned and turned over turning off the alarm before putting the covers over her head. She was never much of an early riser. Just as she begins to doze back off there's a knock on her bedroom door.

"Lisi can I come in?" a small, shy voice from the other side of the door calls out.

Elliot.

Elliot is Lisi's younger brother- the baby of the family who has been attached at the girls hip since she could remember. He has always had a habit of getting up before everyone else and waiting outside her bedroom door for the alarm clock to go off before asking to come in.

Lisi lets out a short sigh before responding. "Sure bud comm'on in." Not even a second later Elliot is rushing into the room straight on to Lisi's bed.

Elliot looks up at her and whispers "Are you nervous about today?" Lisi looks up at her little brother with a slight smile "Only a little bit, nothing crazy to worry about." He smiles before it slowly fades from his face, "If you leave I'm not going to see you for a long time." Lisi's eyes soften at the little boy "Don't worry too much babe, it's only a couple of weeks."

"Yeah I guess." He mumbles. Lisi pauses for a minute before speaking up "Tell you what, let me get ready and you can come with me and Allison to get breakfast and get ready tonight." Elliots eyes light up before bolting up from the bed "Really?!" Lisi almost laughs "Yes really now go get ready or I'll leave you here." She warns. Before she can say more Elliot is up from the bed and halfway down the hallway.

After Elliot is out of the room, Lisi gets up from bed and starts to get ready for the day. She throws on some straight legged-light washed jeans and a baggy graphic t-shirt before brushing her hair.

---

As she walks down the stairs her phone pings twice.

Going into the living room Lisi takes her phone out of her back pocket and see's that she has a text from her best friend and an unsaved number in her phone.

iMessages

Alley Cat: im ready for ya whenever u get here ;)

Lisi: gotcha be there as soon as E's ready <3

Lisi smiles at Allison's text before getting another message from the unknown number.

iMessages

xxx-xxx-xxxx: yo future miss usa cap we're in madison rn if you want to meet up

xxx-xxx-xxxx: oh shit this is ryan btw

Ryan? Ryan who? Lisi scrunched her eyebrows before texted back.

Lisi: um ryan who sorry?

xxx-xxx-xxxx: damn you don't see someone in four months and the forget who you are :(

The lightbulb went off in her head before she grinned and rolled her eyes.

Lisi: leonard. that's totally not my fault i have your old number. if anything you forgot about me when you didn't send me the new one.

Ryan Leoser: um well thats irrelevant anywho you wanna meet up with us

Lisi: and who is us?

Ryan Leoser: me gabeo and smitty

Lisi: I suppose I can make time for you guys in my sched yk busy day and all

Ryan Leoser: yeah yeah grandma where you wanna meet

Lisi: blah blah blah meet me and allison at breakfall in 45 don't be late

Ryan Leoser: yes ma'am i've got a very excited blondie wanting to see you. he'll make sure we aren't late.

---

Lisi grins before turning off her phone before calling out to Elliot. "Let's go bud we got a lot to do today." Elliot comes rushing down the hallway before making it to the door.

As they walk out to Lisi's car she speaks up to her brother "Do me one favor El?" He looks up at her with curious eyes "What?"

Lisi tries to hold in her laugh "Never become as annoying as Ryan Leonard."

~an~

hooray chapter one is done *cue bullhorn*

any who this is only slightly proof-read so mb for any mistakes

also ikik no will this chapter :( BUT he is coming don't even fret

also ryan<3

[apod]

2023 May 7

The Helix Nebula from CFHT Image Credit: CFHT, Coelum, MegaCam, J.-C. Cuillandre (CFHT) & G. A. Anselmi (Coelum)

Explanation: Will our Sun look like this one day? The Helix Nebula is one of brightest and closest examples of a planetary nebula, a gas cloud created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. The outer gasses of the star expelled into space appear from our vantage point as if we are looking down a helix. The remnant central stellar core, destined to become a white dwarf star, glows in light so energetic it causes the previously expelled gas to fluoresce. The Helix Nebula, given a technical designation of NGC 7293, lies about 700 light-years away towards the constellation of the Water Bearer (Aquarius) and spans about 2.5 light-years. The featured picture was taken with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) located atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii, USA. A close-up of the inner edge of the Helix Nebula shows complex gas knots of unknown origin.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230507.html

[srbachchan]

DAY 5584

Jalsa, Mumbai                June 1/2,  2023               Thu/Fri  1:05 AM

Birthday - EF - Barun ..  Manish Singh Rajpoot AB Ef .. June 1,  2023 ..  and all our wishes on this special day 

Thursday, 1 June🪔 .. once again we regret missing your birthday on May 31 , Ef Amit Agrawal from Seattle USA 😔 .. apologies .. and the wishes are ever sincere and filled with love ..

🪔 .. birthday joys to Ef Arko Majumdar from the city of joy - Kolkata .. remain in well being and prosperity ..

Penchant for greater detail .. penchant for the information and meanings of the many that we never dared to seek .. or we did the absence of the place to go or discover through such designs that knew .. and now with the benefits of availability the power of the knowing has become passé ..

That disturbed condition that prevailed us all in the lack of it and the innocence to ask for fear of being ridiculed .. is now over .. in conversation that element of informed knowledge and the inquisitive requisite has faded beyond all horizons .. 

Bring up any topic today and the rest of the personnel in discussion already know .. nothing is unknown .. where and what the conversation rests today is the private lives of the human .. what he wears , where he goes , and many other .. 

The medium of information now harbours reaction, your input on a controversy , and opinion that has become prevalent  ..

The Informative communicative machinery .. informs who sneezed when and where .. which destination the eating took place .. and the response to a query that has been put up by them .. they not definitive , in case it creates controversy and thereby loose their credibility and dignity .. but put it out with that mosts remarkable insignia the QUESTION MARK .. ???? 

Out with the communication in the form of information, but to justify legality,  put out the question mark on it .. a protection for them , and the believability of the head line for the subject ..

I am ok .. it does not matter or concern us if it is not ok with you .. and your correction or denial gives them further content to fill up the multitude of informative content that can be run for hours and days .. 

EG., 

so and so FINISHED .. ! screams head line .. point made to be read seen and believed .. but followed soon after with the question mark ? .. gives the institution its protection ..  

I am ok .. may not be ok for you .. because my accusation was a question not a statement of fact  .. 🤣

Provoke not the silence of the defeat .. for within that silence shall build the sound of victory  ..

Amitabh Bachchan

[wildswrites]

wip intro ; calla lilies.

Format borrowed from @coffeeandcalligraphy (here). Genre: Adult apocalyptic fantasy. Status: Currently drafting (wordcount updates at end of post)

Synopsis: A day that begins as a host to Calla’s great aunt’s funeral comes to an end in the middle of nothing more or less than a zombie outbreak. Miles from home and without any sort of vehicle, Calla must make it home to her family - her pack - before something happens to them (or her). At her side is Sienna Bradley, the weird kid from high school all grown up: a powerful sun witch who is a force to be reckoned with. When they take on a ten month old baby to save his life, things only get more complicated.

Setting: small country town USA. Vibe: climbing over a chain link fence - slicing open your shins on the cold metal. an unfamiliar gun in hand. rage boiling beneath the skin, promising retribution. abandoned cars clog the highway. tripping over a crack on the sidewalk, bloodying your knees, not allowed to cry. the shuffle of the dead, feet scraping across the concrete. wishing, wanting, waiting for home.

Characters:

Calla Singh (POV - 28) werecoyote; blunt but confident.

Sienna Bradley (27) sun witch; flighty but whimsical.

Rhee Moon-sik (24) human; sensitive but level.

"Robin” (10 months) baby; stubborn but sweet.

Calla’s family will also play a part in the story, but we’re not there yet.

Excerpt:

Stepping into the unknown is a force of nightmares, and yet it is one that I take readily; the only other option is to send Sienna out first with the baby, or to never leave this old building until it falls down around us or something drags us from it kicking and screaming. The thought of that is enough to push me out the door, a hand back to warn Sienna against coming right after, and I must face what is beyond the last inch of safe space that I am leaving behind.

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[killed-by-choice]

Candi Miller, 41 (USA 2022)

(NOTE: At the time ProPublica began circulating the case, Candi’s manner of death was UNDETERMINED and suspicious factors remained unknown. This is a post to clarify what is actually known and what is still unverified. I also want to clarify that the sale of the abortion drugs was legal only through a questionable loophole.)

Georgia’s laws unambiguously allow maternal healthcare. It was never illegal for a woman to receive lifesaving medical treatment, and the abortion ban is written in a way that allows doctors, not politicians, to have the final say in what constitutes a threat to life and health. But pro-abortion propaganda spread the myth that the abortion ban made health care illegal, and it was this myth that would lead Candi Miller to lose her life.

Candi Miller and her family

Candi was diabetic and also suffered from lupus and hypertension. Regardless of pregnancy, she needed medical attention already. She was afraid of potential effects of the pregnancy on her health. However, she did not see a doctor because of misinformation that she and her family unfortunately believed.

Opponents of the Georgia heartbeat law continuously spread the lie that pregnant women could not receive treatment for pregnancy complications. The law clearly stated otherwise, but Candi didn’t know that. The myths scared her so badly that when she realized she was pregnant, she didn’t even try to go to the doctor. She loved her family and was described as being quick to stand up for her children, but she thought an abortion might be her only way to survive.

Because of the alarming misinformation, Candi was scared enough to undergo an abortion without even seeing a doctor to assess the situation first. She bought abortion pills over the internet using the drug dealer site Aid Access, which as of 2023 conducted their dealings by exploiting a legal loophole. A “doctor” in another country who would never meet Candi would “prescribe” the pills legally and then send the drugs through the mail, making it legal— at least on their side of the computer. (In 2022, however, this “shield” loophole was not the one they were exploiting.) The dealers claimed that the pills were safe despite the FDA’s warning to stop, which they blatantly ignored.

And it was because of these lies that Candi was scared out of going to a doctor. These lies led her to have an abortion out of fear, and to take black box drugs without medical supervision. When she began to suffer from side effects, she still did not see a doctor because she had been falsely told that the law would keep them from treating her. She didn’t even get an ultrasound to find out how far along she was.

Candi suffered an incomplete abortion, which caused sepsis. Because of the lies and misinformation about state laws, she didn’t seek any medical attention. Her teenage son watched his now-bedridden mother moan in pain for days before she needlessly died with her 3-year-old by her side.

Although ProPublica covered Candi’s death, they tried to blame her death on the law that clearly did not ban healthcare. They also did this even though at the time of publishing, Candi’s manner of death was undetermined. In addition to the decaying tissue left behind by the abortion, she was found to have a lethal combination of painkillers in her system. This included the active ingredients in Benadryl and Tylenol, but also Fentanyl. Suspicions were raised on where the drugs had even come from. There was no history of drug use in her records, and even her family did not know how she got them. One theory was that Candi may have accidentally overdosed herself while trying to self-medicate, and another was that she committed suicide out of desperation to escape her pain. However, in the window where Candi had taken the drugs, she could not get out of bed. The manner of death— suicide, homicide, accidental or another category— had not even been determined when ProPublica came to her house, took pictures of her children holding her ashes and publicized the case.

AidAccess, which had previously been told by the FDA to stop violating regulations on dangerous drugs, refused to accept responsibility for killing Candi. They claimed their deadly pills hadn’t killed her, even though they were what caused the incomplete abortion, sepsis and the intense pain that may have driven Candi to take her life (whether intentionally or not).

Had Candi seen a doctor in the first place for the medical treatment that was unambiguously allowed, she could still be alive— and maybe her child would be too. Telling scared people that it’s illegal for them to receive care can have deadly consequences, and so does supporting shady drug dealers that operate on legal loopholes. It’s time to hold Aid Access accountable, along with any other predatory dealers that exploit fear and end lives.

www/propublica.org/article/candi-miller-abortion-ban-death-georgia

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/274849331/candi-miller

[mcbastardsmausoleum]

Severin Films Announces the Follow-up to the Most Successful Boxed Set in Company History with ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS: A COMPENDIUM OF FOLK HORROR VOLUME 2

ALL IS REVEALED.

ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS:

A COMPENDIUM OF FOLK HORROR VOLUME 2

Unquiet spirits have gathered once again: ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS: A COMPENDIUM OF FOLK HORROR VOLUME TWO brings together 24 films representing 18 countries for more of the best-loved, rarely seen, thought-lost and brand-new classics of folk horror, most making their disc debuts including the North American Disc Premieres of the Severin Films Original Productions TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST directed by Sean Hogan and the documentary SUZZANNA: THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC directed by David Gregory, which will have its World Premiere at the Sitges Film Festival on October 12th. The set also features 55+ combined hours of new and archival Special Features including trailers, interviews, audio commentaries, short films, video essays, historical analyses and bonus feature-length films; a 252-page hardcover of newly commissioned folk horror fiction by luminaries that include Ramsey Campbell, Cassandra Khaw and Eden Royce with illustrations by Drazen Kozjan, and much more, all curated and produced by WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED creator Kier-La Janisse.



ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS:

A COMPENDIUM OF FOLK HORROR Vol. 2

Disc 1: TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST / PSYCHOMANIA Blu-ray

TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST (UK/USA, 2023)

- A Severin Films Production

- Worldwide Disc Premiere

PSYCHOMANIA (UK, 1973)

- 4K Scan from the Original Camera Negative Provided by The British Film Institute

Special Features For TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST:

- Audio Commentary With Director Sean Hogan And Co-Producers Paul Goodwin And Nicholas Harwood

- On The Lych Way – Corpse Road Chronicler Dr. Stuart Dunn Discusses The Pathways Of The Dead

- Trailer

Short Films: WE ALWAYS FIND OURSELVES IN THE SEA

- Audio Commentary For WE ALWAYS FIND OURSELVES IN THE SEA With Director Sean Hogan And Co-Producers Paul Goodwin And Nicholas Harwood

- EPK For WE ALWAYS FIND OURSELVES IN THE SEA

- OUR SELVES UNKNOWN

Feature Specs For TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST:

Runtime: 45 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.9:1

Audio: English Stereo

Closed Captions: English SDH

Region: A/B/C

Special Features For PSYCHOMANIA:

- Introduction By Film Historian Chris Alexander

- Audio Commentary With Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, Founding Editor Of Hellebore Magazine

- Stone Warnings – Dr. Diane A. Rodgers On Stone Circles And Standing Stones In Film And Television

- Return Of The Living Dead – Interviews With Actors Nicky Henson, Mary Larkin, Denis Gilmore, Roy Holder And Rocky Taylor

- The Sound Of PSYCHOMANIA – Interview With Soundtrack Composer John Cameron

- Riding Free – Interview With "Riding Free" Singer Harvey Andrews

- Theatrical Trailer

Feature Specs For PSYCHOMANIA:

Runtime: 91 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

Audio: English Mono

Closed Captions: English SDH

Region: A/B/C

Disc 2: THE ENCHANTED / WHO FEARS THE DEVIL Blu-ray

THE ENCHANTED (USA, 1984)

- 4K Scan from the Original Camera Negative

- Worldwide Home Video Premiere

WHO FEARS THE DEVIL (USA, 1972)

- 2K Scan from the Last Existing 35mm Print

- Worldwide Disc Premiere

Special Features For THE ENCHANTED:

- Audio Commentary With Director Carter Lord And Camera Assistant Richard Grange, Moderated By Filmmaker/Author Kier-La Janisse

- Audio Commentary With Chesya Burke, Author Of Let's Play White, And Sheree Renée Thomas, Author Of Nine Bar Blues

- A Magical Place – Interview With Composer Phil Sawyer

- Hole In The Wall – Character Notes By Screenwriter Charné Porter

- Trailer

- Short Film: SWIMMER

Feature Specs For THE ENCHANTED:

Runtime: 90 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Audio: English Mono

Closed Captions: English SDH

Region: A/B/C

Special Features For WHO FEARS THE DEVIL:

- THE LEGEND OF HILLBILLY JOHN Alternate Opening Introduced By Actor Severn Darden

- Audio Commentary With Television Historian Amanda Reyes

- Crumble Will The Feet Of Clay – Interview With Producer Barney Rosenzweig

- Silver Strings – Interview With Actor/Musician Hedges Capers

- Manly Of The Mountains – Author David Drake Remembers Manly Wade Wellman

- Occult Appalachia – Occult Historian Mitch Horowitz On The Arcane Texts Of Wellman's John The Balladeer Stories

- Theatrical Trailer

Feature Specs For WHO FEARS THE DEVIL:

Runtime: 98 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Audio: English Mono

Closed Captions: English SDH

Region: A/B/C

Disc 3: THE WHITE REINDEER / EDGE OF THE KNIFE Blu-ray

THE WHITE REINDEER (Finland, 1952)

- 4K Scan from the Original Camera Negative

- North American Blu-ray Premiere

EDGE OF THE KNIFE (Canada, 2018)

- 4K Scan from the Original Camera Negative

- American Disc Premiere

Special Features For THE WHITE REINDEER:

- The Projection Booth Episode On THE WHITE REINDEER Hosted By Mike White And Featuring Kat Ellinger, Author of Daughters Of Darkness, And Talk Without Rhythm's El Goro

- Short Films: A WITCH DRUM, THE NIGHTSIDE OF THE SKY

WITH THE REINDEER

Feature Specs For THE WHITE REINDEER:

Runtime: 68 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Audio: Finnish Mono

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Special Features For EDGE OF THE KNIFE:

- Audio Commentary With Directors Gwaai Edenshaw And Helen Haig-Brown

- RETAKE – Making The World's First Haida-Language Feature Film

- Short Films: HAIDA CARVER, NALUJUK NIGHT

Feature Specs For EDGE OF THE KNIFE:

Runtime: 101 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1

Audio: Haida 5.1, Haida Stereo

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Disc 4: BORN OF FIRE Blu-ray

BORN OF FIRE (UK, 1987)

- 4K Scan from the Original Camera Negative

- North American Disc Premiere

Special Features For BORN OF FIRE:

- Igniting The Fire – Interview With Director Jamil Dehlavi

- The Silent One Speaks – Archival Interview With Actor Nabil Shaban

- Between The Sacred And The Profane – Archival Lecture On The Cinematic World Of Jamil Dehlavi By Dr. Ali Nobil Ahmad

- The Djinn Revisited – Director Dalia Al Kury Examines The Role Of The Djinn In Contemporary Arab Culture

- BORN OF FIRE And The Roots Of Pakistani Horror – Interview With Scholar Syeda Momina Masood

- Trailer

- Short Films: TOWERS OF SILENCE, QÂF

Feature Specs For BORN OF FIRE:

Runtime: 84 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Audio: English Mono

Closed Captions: English SDH

Region: A/B/C

Disc 5: IO ISLAND / SCALES Blu-ray

IO ISLAND (South Korea, 1977)

- 2K Scan from the Internegative

- International Disc Premiere

SCALES (Saudi Arabia, 2019)

- Sourced from the 2K Digital Master

- Worldwide Disc Premiere

Special Features For IO ISLAND

- Audio Commentary With Archivist And Korean Film Historian Ariel Schudson

- Shaman's Eyes – Dr. Hyunseon Lee On Shamanism In Korean Visual Culture

- Short Film: THE PRESENT

Feature Specs For IO ISLAND:

Runtime: 112 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Audio: Korean Mono

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Special Features For SCALES:

- Telling Our Stories – A Conversation With Director Shahad Ameen And Producer Rula Nasser, Moderated By Filmmaker/Author Kier-La Janisse

- Trailer

- Short Film: KINDIL

Feature Specs For SCALES:

Runtime: 76 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Audio: Arabic 5.1 Surround

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Disc 6: BAKENEKO: A VENGEFUL SPIRIT / NANG NAK Blu-ray

BAKENEKO: A VENGEFUL SPIRIT (Japan, 1968)

- 4K Scan from the Fine-Grain Negative

- Worldwide Blu-ray Premiere

NANG NAK (Thailand, 1999)

- Sourced from the HD Master

- International Blu-ray Premiere

Special Features For BAKENEKO: A VENGEFUL SPIRIT:

- Audio Commentary With Jasper Sharp, Author Of Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History Of Japanese Sex Cinema

- Scratched – A History Of The Japanese Ghost Cat

- The Vampire Cat – The Classic Folk Tale Read By Tomoko Komura With Original Music By Timothy Fife

- Trailer

- Short Film: MAN-EATER MOUNTAIN

Feature Specs For BAKENEKO: A VENGEFUL SPIRIT:

Runtime: 87 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Audio: Japanese Mono

Subtitles: English

Region: A

Special Features For NANG NAK:

- Audio Commentary With Mattie Do, Director Of THE LONG WALK, And Asian Gothic Scholar Katarzyna Ancuta

- Love And Impermanence: NANG NAK And The Rebirth Of Thai Cinema – Interview With Director Nonzee Nimibutr

- Trailer

Feature Specs For NANG NAK:

Runtime: 101 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1

Audio: Thai 5.1, Thai Stereo

Subtitles: English

Region: A

Disc 7: SUNDELBOLONG / SUZZANNA: THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC Blu-ray

SUNDELBOLONG (Indonesia, 1981)

- Sourced from the RAPI Films’ HD master

- Worldwide Blu-ray Premiere

SUZZANNA: THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC (USA, 2024)

- New Documentary Directed by David Gregory

- Worldwide Disc Premiere Blu-ray

Special Features For SUNDELBOLONG:

- Hantu Retribution – Female Ghosts Of The Malay Archipelago

- Short Film: WHITE SONG

Feature Specs For SUNDELBOLONG:

Runtime: 106 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Audio: Indonesian Mono

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Special Features For SUZZANNA: THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC:

- A Conversation With Director/Co-Producer David Gregory And Co-Producer Ekky Imanjaya

- Trailer

Feature Specs For SUZZANNA: THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC:

Runtime: 88 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1

Audio: Indonesian Stereo

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Disc 8: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST / THE NINTH HEART Blu-ray

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Czechoslovakia, 1978)

- 1080 Master by Národní Filmový Archiv Prague

- North American Blu-ray Premiere

THE NINTH HEART (Czechoslovakia, 1979)

- 1080 Master by Národní Filmový Archiv Prague

- North American Blu-ray Premiere

Special Features For BEAUTY AND THE BEAST:

- Audio Commentary With Film Historian Michael Brooke

- Archival Interviews With Director Juraj Herz And Actors Vlastimil Harapes And Zdena Studenková

- Short Film: FRANTIŠEK HRUBÍN

Feature Specs For BEAUTY AND THE BEAST:

Runtime: 91 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

Audio: Czech Mono

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Special Features For THE NINTH HEART:

- Audio Commentary With Kat Ellinger, Author Of Daughters Of Darkness

- The Uncanny Valley Of The Dolls – The History And Liminality Of Dolls, Puppets And Mannequins

- The Curious Case Of Juraj Herz And The Švankmajers – Video Essay By Czech Film Programmer Cerise Howard

Feature Specs For THE NINTH HEART:

Runtime: 92 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Audio: Czech Mono

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Disc 9: DEMON / NOVEMBER Blu-ray

DEMON (Poland, 2015)

- Sourced from the HD Master

NOVEMBER (Estonia/Poland/Netherlands, 2017)

- Sourced from the HD Master

Special Features For DEMON:

- Introduction By Slavic Horror Scholar Dr. Agnieszka Jeżyk

- Audio Commentary With Film Historian Daniel Bird And Film Critic/Actress Manuela Lazić

- In The Shadow Of The Dybbuk – Video Essay By Peter Bebergal, Author Of Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story Of The Technological Quest For The Supernatural, And Filmmaker Stephen Broomer

- Trailer

- Short Film: DIBBUK

Feature Specs For DEMON:

Runtime: 94 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Audio: Polish 5.1 Surround, Polish Stereo

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Special Features For NOVEMBER:

- The Supernatural Lore Of NOVEMBER – Archival Video Essay With Film Critic John DeFore

- Kratt Test Footage

- Theatrical Trailer

- Short Films: BOUNDARY

JOURNEY THROUGH SETOMAA, MIDVINTERBLOT

Feature Specs For NOVEMBER:

Runtime: 115 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1

Audio: Estonian, German And Italian 5.1 Surround

Estonian, German And Italian Stereo

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Disc 10: LITAN / BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING Blu-ray

LITAN (France, 1982)

- HD Master from the Original Camera Negative

- North American Blu-ray Premiere

BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING (USA, 2006)

- 2K Scan from the Original Camera Negative

- Worldwide Blu-ray Premiere

Special Features For LITAN:

- Audio Commentary With Film Historian Frank Lafond

- Un Tournage LITAN – Archival Making-Of Made For Antenne 2

Jean-Pierre Mocky, Un Drôle D'Oiseau – 1982 Episode Of Temps X

Feature Specs For LITAN:

Runtime: 88 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

Audio: French Mono

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Special Features For BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING:

- Introduction By Director Christiane Cegavske

- 2021 Indie Scream Online Film Festival Q&A With Christiane Cegavske

- Production Stills And Concept Illustrations

- Trailer

- Trailer For SEED IN THE SAND, Cegavske’s Work-In-Progress

Feature Specs For BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING:

Runtime: 70 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Audio: English Stereo

Closed Captions: English SDH

Region: A/B/C

Disc 11: NAZARENO CRUZ AND THE WOLF / AKELARRE Blu-ray

NAZARENO CRUZ AND THE WOLF (Argentina, 1975)

- HD Scan of the Only Existing Print

- Worldwide Blu-ray Premiere

AKELARRE (Spain, 1984)

- 4K Scan from the Original Camera Negative

- Worldwide Blu-ray Premiere

Special Features For NAZARENO CRUZ AND THE WOLF:

- Audio Commentary With Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Director Of HERE COMES THE DEVIL, And Nicanor Loreti, Director Of PUNTO ROJO

- Short Film: LOVE FROM MOTHER ONLY

- Audio Commentary For LOVE FROM MOTHER ONLY With Director Dennison Ramalho

Feature Specs For NAZARENO CRUZ AND THE WOLF:

Runtime: 88 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1

Audio: Spanish Mono

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Special Features For AKELARRE:

- The Realistic Inquisition – Interview With Director Pedro Olea

- Empowered Woman – Interview With Actress Silvia Munt

- Playing The Villain – Interview With Actor Iñaki Miramón

- Invoking The Akelarre – Dr. Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, Author Of Spanish Horror Film, On The Basque Witch Trials

Feature Specs For AKELARRE:

Runtime: 97 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

Audio: Spanish Mono

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Disc 12: FROM THE OLD EARTH Blu-ray

FROM THE OLD EARTH (Wales, 1981)

- 2K Scan from the Original Camera Negative

Special Features For FROM THE OLD EARTH:

- Introduction To FROM THE OLD EARTH By Musician Gruff Rhys

- Getting A Head In North Wales –Interview With Director Wil Aaron

FROM THE OLD EARTH By The Book – Welsh Folklore And O'R DDAEAR HEN

- A Sword In The Battle Of Language – Welsh Film Scholar Dr. Kate Woodward On The Welsh Film Board

- Short Films

     - Introduction To BLOOD ON THE STARS By Gruff Rhys

     BLOOD ON THE STARS - Reunion Hotel – BLOOD ON THE STARS Cast Reunion From Gwesty Aduniad

- THE WYRM OF BWLCH PEN BARRAS

Feature Specs For FROM THE OLD EARTH:

Runtime: 46 Minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Audio: Welsh Mono

Subtitles: English

Region: A/B/C

Disc 13: THE CITY OF THE DEAD / THE RITES OF MAY Blu-ray

THE CITY OF THE DEAD (UK, 1960)

- 2K Scan from the Original Camera Negative

THE RITES OF MAY (Philippines, 1976)

- 4K Scan from the Original Camera Negative

- North American Disc Premiere

Special Features For THE CITY OF THE DEAD:

- Introduction By Kay Lynch, Director Of The Salem Horror Fest

- Audio Commentary With Film Historians Kim Newman And Barry Forshaw

- Archival Audio Commentary With Film Historian Jonathan Rigby

- Archival Audio Commentary With Actor Christopher Lee

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[quoththemaven]

2023 Favoritest Book Reads

Vineland - Pynchon, Thomas

Prophet - Blaché, Sin & Helen Macdonald

And the Ass Saw the Angel - Cave, Nick

Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes, Will 

The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) - Pratchett, Terry

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative - Kleon, Austin 

Sonic Life: A Memoir - Moore, Thurston

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) - Jemisin, N.K. 

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Roach, Mary

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too - Sun, Jonny

The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Home (Binti, #2) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Binti: Sacred Fire (Binti, #1.5) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Binti (Binti, #1) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Black Paradox - Ito, Junji

David Bowie's Low (33 1/3) - Wilcken, Hugo

Faith, Hope and Carnage - Cave, Nick

The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Aslan, Reza

Smashed - Ito, Junji

Time Shelter - Gospodinov, Georgi

Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3) - Dayal, Geeta

Armageddon in Retrospect - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Neverwhere (London Below, #1) - Gaiman, Neil 

The Committed (The Sympathizer #2) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh 

Into the Great Wide Open - Canty, Kevin 

Mongrels - Jones, Stephen Graham 

DisneyWar - Stewart, James B.

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Roach, Mary

The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin, Ursula K.

My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3) - McGonigal, Mike 

Suttree - McCarthy, Cormac

Life's Work: A Memoir - Milch, David

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Schwab, V.E.

Against the Day - Pynchon, Thomas

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood - Ryan, Maureen 

Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (33 1/3) - Himes, Geoffrey

La Moustache - Carrère, Emmanuel

Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid (33 1/3) - Favreau, Alyssa 

Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea - Pinsker, Sarah 

The Man Without a Shadow - Oates, Joyce Carol

The City & the City - Miéville, China 

Mem - Morrow, Bethany C. 

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Harari, Yuval Noah

Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs (33 1/3) - Eidelstein, Eric

Gutshot - Gray, Amelia 

The Price of Time (Watch What You Wish For #1) - Tigner, Tim 

The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever - Sepinwall, Alan 

Just Kids - Smith, Patti 

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir - Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto 

Flicker - Roszak, Theodore

Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers - Miller, James Andrew 

Flashback - Simmons, Dan

Flaming Lips' Zaireeka (33 1/3) - Richardson, Mark 

The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh 

Pavement's Wowee Zowee (33 1/3) - Charles, Bryan

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) - Gibson, William

Invisible Cities - Calvino, Italo

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) - Jones, Stephen Graham 

The Wes Anderson Collection - Seitz, Matt Zoller

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Dick, Philip K.

Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (33 1/3) - Maner, Sequoia

The Nineties - Klosterman, Chuck

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Zevin, Gabrielle 

Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age - Mitenbuler, Reid

A Heart That Works - Delaney, Rob 

Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) - Butler, Octavia E.

Cryptonomicon (Crypto, #1) - Stephenson, Neal 

Blacktop Wasteland - Cosby, S.A. 

Pearl Jam's Vs. (33 1/3) - Brownlee, Clint

Tracy Flick Can't Win - Perrotta, Tom

Devil House - Darnielle, John 

Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2) - Butler, Octavia E.

Heat 2 - Mann, Michael & Meg Gardiner

Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures (33 1/3) - Ott, Chris

Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) - Butler, Octavia E.

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Stephenson, Neal 

The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3) - Lynch, Scott 

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) - Atwood, Margaret 

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[ocean-in-my-witchy-soul]

Building my Liturgical Calendar 2023-2024

Sat in the sun for solstice yesterday. Didn't have a lot to do for it, but I was able to take a nap on the porch with the sun at my back and warm on my skin.

I think I've decided on some points/activities of my liturgical year. Here's my thoughts for the next calendar year. This is not 100% finished, as I want to incorporate more gods into my worship calendar, but this is a helluva start. My practice is pretty lax, and I want to tighten that up nowadays.

Under a cut for length.

What kind of things do other folks do for your practice? Do any of these match up with your practice? I'm curious!

Super Moon: July 3, 2023

Moon at closest orbit to Earth. Ritual for Mani.

Name Day: July 11, 2023

Day my name change was officially legal. Maybe something to Loki!

Gotcha Day for Saga: August 1, 2023

My baby boy Saga will have been with me for two years! I don't remember if this is specifically the exact day, but after checking my texts about getting him, I've decided on this date. He's such a good kitty cat. Ritual to Freyja. Get him treats and new cat toys.

Super Moon: August 1, 2023

Moon at closest orbit position to Earth. Ritual for Mani.

Perseid Meteor Shower: Mid-July to August, predicted peak August 13, 2023

Do something witchy or just bask in the beauty that is space.

Lokabrenna: August 20th, 2023. I used this In-The-Sky calendar calculator to find when Sirius would first be visible at my latitude. Here's some tips from the Reddit user I got the link from.

Not sure what I'll do, but I'll probably not be able to actually see Sirius in the sky. Maybe some like. fox shaped cookies or otherwise themed food and some cinnamon tea out on the porch? Maybe I'll write something and offer it to Loki. I don't have an altar, so since everyone will be asleep then (it'll be "visible" from 06:14 to 06:17 local time), I can use the table outside for some private time with Him. At any other time: bonfires are good, anything to do with flames.

Blue Super Moon: August 30, 2023

Second full moon in a single month, also super moon. Ritual for Mani.

Gotcha day for Ríma: September 1, 2023

My baby girl Reems will have been with me for two years! Much like with Saga, I don't remember the exact date, but it was approximately a month after he came home. Ritual to Freya. Get her treats and new cat toys.

Dating Anniversary: September 15, 2023

The start of Beloved and I's official relationship. Ritual of thanksgiving to Frigg. Celebration of Beloved. Maybe do something with Loki and/or Sigyn, too? I read about a ritual of 'holding the bowl' for Sigyn that really resonated with me. What an act of devotion.

Birthday: Mid-September

Can I make something witchy here? I'm sure I can.

Autumnal Equinox: September 23, 2023.

Probably something food related? Something sun and moon or fall related. Apples, harvest, wheat, corn. Maybe dedicate a harvest food to Yngvi-Freyr. Hang out in the garden. Ponder the natural balancing/opposing forces: night/dark, summer/winter, spring/fall, etc. Joint ritual for Mani and Sól.

Super Moon: September 29, 2023

Moon at closest orbit position to Earth. Ritual for Mani.

Some Point During Fall: various, unknown

I want to do something with Hel here. Maybe this year once things even out in my personal life I'll start looking at the local cemeteries and see if they need volunteers for grave keeping/tending.

Winter Nights/Disablót: October 28, 2023.

I've read that it's on the first full moon after the first new moon after the fall equinox. Something dedicated to Yngvi-Freyr, as thanks for the last of the harvest. More food. Something disir related? I've just read this article in Patheos's Happily Heathen column about the holiday. Definitely more research to be done. New year? Need more research.

Thanksgiving (USA): November 23, 2023

Secular "holiday", but still important to my family. Participate in prep for celebration, make something for dinner. Quality family time.

Geminids Meteor Shower: Estimated duration: November 19-December 24, predicted peak December 13-14

Do something witchy or just go stargazing and enjoy the beauty that is space.

Winter Solstice/Yule: December 21, 2023.

Ideas: Stay up all night to witness the coming of the dawn, stay up rest of day. Drink cocoa with marshmallows and cinnamon to stay warm through the night, moon/winter themed foods. A ritual to Mani and Odin. In the weeks leading up to Yule, make little gifts for friends and family. I made a handful of these felt goats last year!

Research more heavily into Yule being on the full moon after solstice. If that is the case, Yule will be on the 26th.

Christmas: December 25th, 2023

Not heathen, and basically secular in my family, but important to my people. Gifts, tree, sweets/food, etc. Quality family time. Maybe find a way to go volunteer somewhere. Lord knows my fam makes me crazy.

Vernal Equinox: March 19, 2024.

It's too early for the garden, so I'm not sure what. Maybe go buy some flowers for Grandma? Try to get out in the sun, if it's not too cold. Ponder the natural balancing/opposing forces: night/dark, summer/winter, spring/fall, etc. Joint ritual for Mani and Sól.

April Fool's Day: April 1, 2024.

Trickster and well-meaning pranks day. I'm not really one for pranks, so I'll probably just read some stories of about Loki. The story of Thor's wedding, anyone?

Sigrblót: April 23, 2024

Fourth full moon after the first new moon after the winter solstice, as calculated by using timeanddate.com. Three day-three night festival marking the beginning of summer. Food and celebration, for sure. Source some mead? Probably able to work in the garden.

Mother's Day: May 12, 2024

I kinda want to do some genealogy work with mom. Maybe make a list of my ancestral mothers and reflect on their lives a bit, think about how their lives went to make it possible for me to be born. Celebrate mom. Well. She doesn't much care for celebration, but I'll try to do something more than "here's some money for buying books".

Memorial Day: May 31, 2024.

My grandpa was a vet, so if next year is like this year, I'll go with mom and grandma to the cemetery to visit and clean/beautify the graves of him and grandma's side of the family. Doing this is about as close as I get to ancestor veneration. My family is Mormon, so reciting a prayer to Hel over their graves isn't super appropriate, but I have Her in my thoughts as I spend time amongst the headstones.

Pride: June 2024 (various)

Joint ritual to Fenrir as wrongfully oppressed and Loki as breaker of chains. Volunteer in the community for events and build frith.

Father's Day: June 16, 2024

Similar to Mother's Day. I want to do some genealogy work with mom. Maybe make a list of my ancestral fathers and reflect on their lives a bit, think about how their lives went to make it possible for me to be born. Celebrate dad. Maybe take him out for a movie and dinner. (This year's FD (2023) was pretty meh since I'm broke. I'm going in on a gift with my brother, and hopefully it'll arrive next week-ish.)

Summer Solstice: June 20, 2024.

Stay up all day to witness the coming of the night, stay up rest of night. Eat/drink something seasonal (lemonade of whatever variety?), maybe fruity popsicles to stay cool through the day. Sun/summer-themed foods. A ritual to Sól.

Other non-calendar thoughts:

I want to start a formal reading and reflection of the Hávamál. Like... I don't know. The thing that immediately comes to mind is the practice of reading Bible verses and reflecting in a special journal. Maybe it's my cultural xtianity speaking, but something like that appeals to my desire for structure.

Likewise, do a formal reading of the sagas/eddas.

Do more research into holy days and occasions for Odin, Hel, Fenrir, Loki, Sigyn, Jormungandr, and maybe Bragi.

Dedicated magical creativity sessions, maybe?

Monthly offerings to gods.

Something for landvættr.

Do more space witchery! It's good for the soul!

Build frith through the community using regularly scheduled volunteer activities.

[xtruss]

Phillis Wheatley: The Unsung Black Poet Who Shaped the US

She is believed to be the first enslaved person and first African American to publish a book of poetry. She also forced the US to reckon with slavery's hypocrisy.

— Rediscovering America | Black History | New England | USA | North America | Tuesday February 21st, 2023 | By Robin Catalano

(Image credit: Paul Matzner/Alamy)

When the Dartmouth sliced through the frigid waters of Boston Harbor on 28 November 1773, the Quaker-owned whaler carried a cargo that included 114 chests of British East India Company tea. Eighteen days later, the tea, along with 228 additional trunks from the soon-to-arrive Beaverand Eleanor, would play a starring role in the US Colonies' most iconic act of resistance, which ultimately led to the Revolutionary War.

In the Dartmouth's hold was another precious cargo: freshly printed copies of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, a collection by Phillis Wheatley, the first enslaved person, first African American woman and third female in the US colonies to publish a book of poetry. Her life and work would become emblematic of the US struggle for freedom, a tale whose most visible representation – the Boston Tea Party, when American colonists protested Britain's "taxation without representation" by dumping tea into the harbour – celebrates its 250th anniversary this year.

Evan O'Brien, creative manager of the Boston Tea Party & Ships Museum, said, "Our mission, especially this year, is to talk not just about the individuals who were onboard the vessels, destroying the tea, but everyone who lived in Boston in 1773, including Phillis Wheatley."

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral is believed to be the first book of published poetry by an enslaved person in the US (Credit: SBS Eclectic Images/Alamy)

Actor Cathryn Philippe, who interprets Wheatley at the museum, connected with the poet's remarkable accomplishments. "You often hear about the tragedy of enslavement, which is a part of history that needs to be understood. But we don't hear much about the joy or successes of enslaved or formerly enslaved Africans."

Wheatley was born in what is now Senegal or Gambia and was abducted in 1761 when she was just seven or eight years old. Forced, along with 94 other Africans, aboard the slave-trading brigantine Phillis, she survived the treacherous Middle Passage, which claimed the lives of nearly two million enslaved people – including a quarter of the Phillis' "cargo" – over a 360-year period, and arrived on Boston's shores that summer.

“We Shouldn't Hesitate To Call Her A Genius”

Frail after eight weeks at sea, the girl caught the attention of wealthy merchant and tailor John Wheatley. He purchased the child as a gift for his wife, Susanna, and renamed her after the vessel that had spirited her away from her home.

Phillis showed a natural aptitude for language. David Waldstreicher, professor of history at the City University of New York and author of the forthcoming biography The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, said, "She became fluent and culturally literate and able to write poems in English so quickly that we shouldn't hesitate to call her a genius."

Despite Wheatley's connection to the Boston Tea Party, her legacy remains largely unknown (Credit: Robin Catalano)

Although the Wheatleys were not abolitionists (they enslaved several people, and segregated Phillis from them) they recognised Phillis' talents and encouraged her to study Latin, Greek, history, theology and poetry. Inspired by the likes of Alexander Pope and Isaac Watts, she stayed up at night, writing heroic couplets and elegies to notable figures by candlelight. She published her first verse, in the Newport Mercury, at age 13.

While many New Englanders took note of the poet's gifts, no American printer would publish a book by a Black writer. Poems on Various Subjects was eventually financed by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, and published in London. As a 19-year-old in 1773, Phillis travelled to the city, escorted by the Wheatleys' son. She was an instant sensation. Her celebrity, along with England's criticism of a new nation that simultaneously subjugated her while comparing its own relationship to the Crown as slavery, led the Wheatleys to manumit her in 1774.

A keen observer, Phillis frequently wrote about significant moments in America's fight for independence, carefully walking a fine line between being overtly political or critical of the colonial government as a Black woman. As a 14-year-old in 1768, she praised King George III in the poem To the King's Most Excellent Majesty for repealing the Stamp Act. Two years later, in On the Death of Mr. Snider Murder'd by Richardson, she memorialised the killing of 12-year-old Christopher Snider by a Massachusetts-born Loyalist during a protest over imported British goods.

Soon after, in 1770, a skirmish between Colonists and British soldiers erupted in front of the Old State House, not far from where Phillis lived on King Street, culminating in the Boston Massacre. Today, a circle of granite pavers, its bronze letters dulled by age and thousands of footsteps, marks the spot where blood was spilled. Following the incident, Phillis was inspired to write the poem On the Affray in King Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770.

The Boston Massacre took place near Phillis' residence (Credit: Ian Dagnall Computing/Alamy)

Scholars estimate that Phillis produced upwards of 100 poems. Because her work makes few references to her own condition and is often couched in Christian concepts and the extolling of popular figures of the day, she has sometimes been dismissed as a white apologist.

Ade Solanke, a writer and Fulbright Scholar whose play Phillis in London will be performed in Boston later this year, said, "I think the biggest misconception about her is that she wasn't an abolitionist. You think of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, people who were explicitly condemning slavery and going to war against it. But the act of writing poetry as a Black woman in this time period was pretty radical."

Wendy Roberts, a University at Albany professor who recently discovered a lost Wheatley poem in a Quaker commonplace book in Philadelphia, agrees. "I don't think any deep reader of Wheatley comes away thinking she's an apologist. She was asserting herself, her agency, her wish for freedom, her presence as a person."

Most buildings in Boston with a direct connection to Phillis' life no longer stand. Some were razed by a pair of fires in the 18th and 19th Centuries, and others have been replaced by urban renewal in the mid-1900s. The Old South Meeting House, a stately Georgian red-brick church built in 1729 and tucked between glass-and-concrete skyscrapers on Washington Street, is an exception. Besides being Phillis's place of worship, it was a cradle of philosophical debate, and served as planning headquarters for the Boston Tea Party. It now operates as a museum, with a statue of the poet flanked by exhibits on other ground-breaking figures from the pre- and post-Revolutionary eras.

The Old South Meeting House where Phillis worshipped is one of the few buildings in Boston that remain with a connection to her life (Credit: Ian Dagnall/Alamy)

The writer almost certainly strolled through 50-acre Boston Common, the country's oldest public park (and site of the newly unveiled, and controversial, statue honouring Civil Rights icons Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King). Phillis may have conducted the Wheatley family's shopping at Faneuil Hall, once the city's main marketplace for household goods – and located next to where enslaved people were once sold. It's now a retail centre, where visitors can pick up souvenirs, sample a variety of foods, or take a tour with a guide outfitted in 18th-Century breeches, waistcoat and tricorne hat.

Some experts speculate that Phillis participated in funeral processions for Snider and the five victims of the Boston Massacre, in which their coffins were paraded from Faneuil Hall to the Granary Burying Ground – also the final resting place of Revolutionaries like Samuel Adams, John Hancock and Paul Revere. Sombre and quiet, the cemetery bears more than 2,000 slate, greenstone and marble gravestones, many carved with traditional Puritan motifs like blank-eyed death's heads and frowning angels.

Phillis, who died in poverty after developing pneumonia at age 31, is thought to be buried in an unmarked grave, with her deceased newborn child, at Copp's Hill, in Boston's North End neighbourhood. An elegant statue of her, alongside renderings of women's rights advocate Abigail Adams and abolitionist Lucy Stone, holds court over the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. This year, when a replica of the Dartmouth sails into the Boston Tea Party & Ships Museum on Griffin's Wharf, it will host a permanent exhibit on the poet.

In addition to a statue of Wheatley at the Boston Women's Memorial, a second statue of her is located inside the Old South Meeting House (Credit: Robin Catalano)

Phillis's legacy is perhaps best experienced in the work of contemporary artists. As part of the 250th anniversary celebrations, Revolution 250, a consortium of 70 organisations dedicated to exploring Revolutionary history, will host a variety of performances and exhibits, including a full-scale re-enactment of the Tea Party on 16 December. Several events will honour the poet, among them a photography exhibit by Valerie Anselme, who will recreate Phillis' frontispiece that adorned the original publication of Poems on Various Subjects.

Artist Amanda Shea, who frequently hosts spoken word events and poetry readings around the city, explained that, in many ways, she is carrying on a legacy pioneered so long ago. "I feel like I'm part of the continuum of Phillis Wheatley. It's really important to be able to write and tell our stories. It's our duty as artists to reflect the times in which we live."

[srbachchan]

DAY 5512

Jalsa, Mumbai                   Mar 20/21,  2023                Mon/Tue  8:08 AM

Poll for Jaipur Pink Panthers .. poll for Abhishek 

https://twitter.com/sportshonours/status/1635952022309486594?s=48&t=g42Fn4NtdYhPIymlkFOd2A

or for convenience  -

https://bit.ly/VoteforPanthers

✨ .. 🪔 .. March 21 .. as the World celebrates the welcoming of Spring .. we here in our little World of the Ef celebrate the birthday of .. the Boss from USA 🇺🇸 , Ef Meenu Gupta , the lovely mad Punjaban .. Ef Sikandar Khan 🇮🇳 .. Ef Ipshita Kajuri from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 .. and Ef Rehaab Abd El Hamed aka Ropaa , the lovely flower girl from Egypt 🌺🇪🇬  ✨ ..may this auspicious day be ever in continuity and love .. from the family Ef

... and the unseasonal rain, raineth every day almost in Mumbai  .. the early morning vision through the doors and windows be of surprise, at the most and then the worry of the water proofing and the fear of unprotected leakages as construct work is initiated over the residences  ..

unseasonal doth create several issues with the crops and the farmers over the State .. the rains come by June and July at the advent of the Monsoon .. but for the past few days it has beaten all regular arrivals and presented itself here and now .. it cooleth .. it bring succour to some and misery to the other .. the unpreparedness is the value that it brings .. and that be the mission of life and its challenge .. to be not unprepared .. 

Nature though runs its own system .. social , moral, political, scientific .. ALL .. and none be the warriors that dare to battle it  .. victory be theirs always .. the supreme , the unknown , the divine is the victor ever ..

So ..  stepping up the desire to be back to work it was presentable to be able to move about to the work place , to judge assess the condition .. both of the rib and the toe .. and the faith that guides us to proclaim that ‘so long as there is life there is struggle’ .. keeps upon us like the work bag slung over shoulders on most of the gentry these days .. travel , work place , office , all .. just about everyone everywhere is shouldered with the essential .. a convenient tool for all the accessories .. and they be many in the days of today ..

More of this later .. 

But now immediately a request .. 

There is a poll being conducted for the Sports Honours in our region and our dear Abhishek’s Kabaddi Team , the Jaipur Pink Panthers, which won the Championship , is in the three top nominations .. and the polling STOPS today .. so lets show our support via Family Ef .. and put in our numbers too ..

QUICK ..  polling stops TODAY .. today is the last DAY .. !!!

its on the net and social media and this be the link : 

https://bit.ly/VoteforPanthers

so get going gang and lets WIN .. 

or if there is a need for the other link here it be  :

https://twitter.com/sportshonours/status/1635952022309486594?s=48&t=g42Fn4NtdYhPIymlkFOd2A

As I welcome in many the comments of the Ef in their effort of togetherness and family I also commend all that helped in tracing the video and pictures that I desired .. it was for a cause that needed attention and I am so happy that the cause appreciated it limitlessly .. soon there shall be the reason for this cause and I am certain that many in the Ef family would clamour to be the recipients of the reason and cause .. soon to be executed ..

And the wonder Ef who subjects me to ease and comfort in my work informs that it is World Poetry DAY .. and quotes Babuji’s translated Autobiography for the benefit of us all  ..

“Even today it is only while composing poetry that I know a state of mind in which all mental powers are centred: an absorption, an engrossed concentration and complete forgetfulness of self, which I have begun to think of as Samadhi, meditative abstraction.”

“When I live in my feelings - living feelings through art with greater intensity and depth than is possible otherwise - then I am dead to the world.” 

“My poetry is something that rises directly from my feelings, and I had not thought that others would also find their own feelings reflected there. It was not my intention to introduce some school based on a specific principle, to enunciate some philosophical idea, to initiate some revolution, or to throw down a challenge to Chhayavad, the established poetic school of the time; but such things have increasingly been identified in my poetry. The label 'Halavad', 'the Poetry of the Vine' that was applied to my poetry from the very beginning, simply differentiated it from Chhayavad; but if Chhayavad was a literary genre, then my poetry should be dubbed 'Jivanvad', 'the Poetry of Life', a direct expression of life lived, enjoyed and endured.”

There is an entire universe that has been explored thought about and expressed in all the works of my father Dr Harivansh Rai Bachchan and there is very little attention appreciation or effort been made to present it for research and analysis ever .. this is a need and a priority for not just me and my family, but for the World of Literature and life ..

And every effort that can be made in my humble capacity shall be done , I do hope and pray .. for its completion and fructification ..

He deserved more .. much more .. 

But as is wont , genius is ever recognised only after they have left .. that is the most painful reality ..

May there be peace and love all about ..

Amitabh Bachchan