#writer Julie parsons

[popculturelib]

Fanzine Friday #34: The Feminist Writers Guild National Newsletter vol. 9 no. 1 (Spring 1986)

The Feminist Writer's Guild was a feminist group in the 1970s and 1980s that sought to create a central place for feminist writers to interact and discuss their profession. In addition to the feature article, "The Hazards and Advantages of Self-Publishing Your Poetry" by Julie Parson, this issue of the newsletter included interviews with writers Octavia Butler, Alexis DeVeaux, and Margaret Atwood.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

[dirtbag-linecook-kyloren]

10 characters/10 fandoms

YESSS THANK YOU @jaynesilver FINALLY MY WIDE READING OF FIC COMES IN HANDYYY

We're gonna go chronologically through my life because I think that's REALLY FUN (I legit couldn't choose a west wing character just know that if there's a secret 11th character is the ensemble cast of the west wing)

Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl

My first antihero, and we started YOUNG on that, I was reading these books premiddle school. I was obsessed with these books as a kid, and I'm still obsessed with them today. There's rumors of a third, more adult series when Artemis and Holly may get together and I will EAT THAT SHIT UP I LOVE THEM

2. Vexen, Kingdom Hearts

I Legit think this man primed me to enjoy Hux as a character. Like, I'm not kidding, I was obsessed with him as a kid. I'm 90% certain I wrote deviant art fan fic, but I have since abandoned that account so it's hard to know for sure if it ever got published. I was definitely roll playing at age, like, 13? way too young but god I loved him he was BATSHIT

3. Ianto Jones, Torchwood

Man, I can't really explain how much Ianto Jones as a character, he and Jack's kiss on screen, their relationship, and the events of the 456 changed me? It was DEEP though, I woke up the next day a different person, with much less trust in television writer's and their good intentions.

4. Desmond Miles, Assassin's Creed

We have to jump a few years to mid high school, because no joke I was on that Kingdom Hearts train for a WHILE. I love him, he was probably my first blorbo, before the term was invented. I tried to play the games after (MAJOR SPOILER) but I just couldn't do it. They didn't have the draw without him.

5. Stiles Stilinski, Teen Wolf

Now we've hit late high school, arguably my second blorbo. As a kid with ADHD, he was no joke valuable representation to me, even if it was sometimes played for laughs. I was also the least athletic kid on multiple sports teams who still tried really hard, so I got him, yknow?

6. Will Graham, Hannibal

It's legit tough for me to chose if I like the Will Graham of the books or the TV show better. (Don't ask me about the movies, I haven't seen them, and I probably won't. Movies and I have trouble. See: ADHD.) I'm not sure if he's a blorbo or just like, a regular character I like? My hannibal phase was my last 8 year ship, so the line is pretty blurred.

Now we've reached the part where I dived into a lot of fandoms at once, because I dropped out of college and kind of did a weird spiral? Idk, we've lost chronology is what I'm saying

7. Artemis Crock, Young Justice

god I cannot say enough good things about her and I also cannot express how much (MAJOR SPOILER) made me mad FOR HER. Like it was cruel specifically to her and we should talk more about that, honestly. She was definitely a blorbo, but we're still PRE blorbo as a word in my vocabulary.

8. Darcy Lewis, MCU

My first real fandom bicycle, I ship her with everyone from Loki to Agent Coulson to Natasha. As someone who often feels like the comic relief character in their own life, I appreciate her.

9. Kent Parson, OMG Check Please

My sweet, sweet disaster son. My emotionally constipated hockey boy. The reason captain america is my SECOND favorite character with a birthday on the Fourth of July. I love him, he was amazing, and also my first experience with like, really toxic fandom was being so mad when people tried to equate his canon mental health issues with a noncanon, imagined abuse?? It was wild, I ended up so distressed about it i did have to leave the fandom.

10. Armitage Hux, Star Wars

I mean you've been on my blog for like ten seconds i think it's obvious?? The others needed explanations but like YOURE HERE YOU KNOW

WAIT I FORGOT TO TAG PEOPLE SHIT @sariastrategos @gingersnappish @fallingdeeperintothispit

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X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse #3 Review

X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse #3 Review #apocalypse #heirofapocalypse #MARVEL #marvelcomics #comics #comicbooks #news #mcu #art #info #NCBD #comicbooknews #previews #reviews #xmen #hoxpox #houseofx #powersofx #wolverine #reignofx #trialsofx #fallofthehouseofx #riseofthepowersofx

Writer: Steve Foxe Art: Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons, Lorenzo  Ruggiero, Alex Sinclair, VC’s Clayton Cowles, and Dotun Akande Publisher: Marvel Comics Price:$3.99 Reviewed by: Anonymous Release Date: July 10th, 2024 Warren Worthington III long ago – and at great cost – made peace with the seed of Death that Apocalypse planted within him. But as the contest to choose an heir rages on, ARCHANGEL takes…

[petnews2day]

Scarlet Blake, who killed a cat and put animal in blender, found guilty of man's murder

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/C7bf8

Scarlet Blake, who killed a cat and put animal in blender, found guilty of man's murder

Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, was found dead in the River Cherwell at Parson’s Pleasure, in Oxford, in July 2021. By Henry Vaughan, Home affairs reporter and feature writer @Henry_Vaughan Friday 23 February 2024 15:15, UK A woman who filmed herself killing a cat before putting the animal in a blender has been found guilty of […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/C7bf8 #CatsNews

[originalchicago]

bughouse [buhg-hous]

noun, (slang)

an insane asylum.

"Bughouse Square" didn't start out as a gathering place for "kooks". It was a cow path with a well that farmers used to water cattle. Now its a cool little piece of serenity not too far from busy Michigan ave and Rush street.

In 1842 , the owners of the three acre parcel donated it for use as a park. Located across Walton Street from Newberry Library at 901 N. Clark Street in the Near North Side of Chicago.

They stipulated that it be called Washington Square Park, one of four present day Chicago parks that use the surname Washington. (the others being Washington Park, Harold Washington Park, and Dinah Washington Park) It is Chicago's oldest existing small park (renovated a few times) and a registered historic landmark.

By the 1890's, it had bisecting diagonal walks, limestone coping, picket fencing, and a Victorian fountain in the center. Perfect for "soapboxing", a flamboyant art form used metaphorically today but in the 1890's, public oration required an actual wooden box to stand on. It was around this time that it became known as "Bughouse Square".

A good soapboxer was quick on his feet as well as with his wit, to escape angry crowds and put down hecklers as they often gave provocative speeches on religious or political themes.

A speaker named One-Armed Cholly Wendorf would raise the stub of his right arm and declare "You know where the rest of this is? Somewhere in France. Somewhere in a trench. … Cholly Wendorf's arm is enrichin' the soil that grows the grapes that bring you the best Cognac money can buy."

A good soapboxer after all, also knew how to get the crowd on his side.

Speakers with moniker's like “Cosmic Kid,” Ben “the clap doctor” Reitman, the Sheridan twins (Jack and Jimmy) came to soapbox but people such as Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair, Edgar Lee Masters, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons and Theodore Dreiser also spoke there.

It was known as a center for free speech, rivaling such oratory landmarks like Hyde Park in London. Artists, writers, radicals, and hobos pontificated, lectured, recited poetry, ranted, and raved much like they do on Facebook today, then they would go to the Dil Pickle. A bohemian club owned by Wobbly John "Jack" Jones, about a block away where they would listen to jazz, recite poetry, rant and rave some more and maybe put on a play while imbibing a drink or two. The club had an orange alley door and a sign that read “DANGER” and two arrows pointing to the club’s entrance with the warning “Step High, Stoop Low, Leave Your Dignity Outside.” It closed in 1933.

"Bughouse Square" had its heyday between the 1920's until the mid 60's.

It had been a major tourist attraction starting in the 20's with thousands of people coming by the busload.

Nowadays, the Newberry Library hosts the "Bughouse Square" debates in July, a celebration of First Amendment rights. They encourage speakers and hecklers alike to join in and speak their mind about issues of the day. They also do reenactment speeches by famous Chicagoans as well and have open mic poetry, music and food.

There is also a memorial tablet which declares the park as "Chicago's Premier Free Speech Forum."

Bring a thick skin.

[bobbie-robron]

It’s all very well being moral but it doesn’t put a roof over your head, does it?

01-Dec-2016 episode 2

[toastandhoodies]

Aaron (with Luke, Liv, Diane and Vic) 1 year today. 12th December 2019

[smittenwithsugden]

Aaron: You don't have to go because of me.

Liv: I'm not being in the same room with you.

Aaron: Liv, you told me that you didn't even like boys like that. Then the next thing I know, you're cuddling with Jacob on the sofa, getting up to all sorts.

Liv: We're not getting up to all sorts. We weren't doing anything like that.

Aaron: He's a teenage boy.

Liv: So? It's Jacob, he's not some sex pest. He knows that I'm not into all that and he's fine about it.

Aaron: I'm just trying to protect you, Liv, that's all.

Liv: Except you don't have a clue, do you?

Aaron: So, then tell me. How am I gonna have a clue unless you talk to me?

Liv: I don't... I like him, all right? And he likes me. Well, at least he did until you went all Victorian dad on us. Look... I've done my research, right? I've been looking online. Cos I knew that I couldn't be the only person that felt... different. So, you know, I... I don't have sexual feelings for people. And that's all right. You know, you can... You can still have romantic feelings, you can still be attracted to people. Just not physically.

Aaron: Okay.

Liv: Jacob gets that, he gets me. And, you know, he's all right with it. So am I.

[dswcp]

Happy Clone Wars Friday from our beloved hairless harpy in one of her earliest comics!

“The Clone Wars 7: In Service of the Republic,” Part 1. Dark Horse. July 15, 2009. Writers: Henry Gilroy and Steven Melching. Penciller: Scott Hepburn. Inker: Dan Parsons. Letterer: Michael Heisler. Colorist: Michael E. Wiggam.

[doctorofmagic]

@the-enterprising-bookworm​ said:

I made a small playlist for him a couple years ago! It includes a couple 70s songs like: In the Past - The Chocolate Watchbands Ballrooms of Mars - T Rex Ticket to the Moon and Strange Magic - Electric Light Orchestra I also have a couple songs that are more Celtic, including: Clohinne Winds- Niamh Parsons Anywhere Is - Enya The Mystic's Dream - Loreena McKennit Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band and Subterranean Homesick Alien by Radiohead are on there as well 😊

I'm very excited to see your playlists! I love 70s music and time/magical songs, and Clea's sounds delightful too!

Thank you sharing your playlist! I’ll definitely take a look at it!

@i-sudoku​ said:

Yup. I love their friendship

Same. They’re so sweet. And it also destroys the concept that m|f friendships don’t exist.

@commanderbenedictcumberbatch​ said:

If I may interject! As a fellow writer on a different site. Some writers pick various days throughout the month. There is a website that states it as the 18th. For what reasons, I don't know.https://the-take.com/watch/who-is-doctor-strange I did some digging.  Ditko's birthday is November 2nd and Benedict's Birthday is the 19th of July. So.. I rally don't know. As for me: I chose November 9th. Cause it was supposed to be my actual due date. But was born 3 weeks early

You may definitely interject! Yes, I made the same research but found nothing except this site and some tweets. Also thank you for sharing your headcanon! I personally don’t have one haha

@razzled-and-dazzled (can’t tag, sorry) said:

Strange's exact birthdate has never been officially stated, but it's been commonly accepted to be November 18, 1930 for at least as long as I've been a fan (early 1980s). I think people picked Nov. 18th because it is Alan Moore's birthday.

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on it! I was also wondering how canon this information was... it turns out it’s not official. And wow, you’re a hardcore fan!! I’m so honored. Thank you for being around since the 80′s! Alan Moore’s birthday, eh? It makes sense...

[gra-sonas]

For two seasons, The CW's Roswell, New Mexico followed the struggles and triumphs that came with Liz Ortecho returning to her hometown. Along with dealing with acts of racism within her community, Liz's life is further sent into chaos after discovering her childhood best friend and his family are actually aliens. As the series progresses, the brilliant scientist not only catches an alien serial killer, but she also helps her resurrected sister, Rosa (Amber Midthunder), adjust to the future and saves the city of Roswell from a bomb threat.

There is no stopping Liz, especially with Roswell, New Mexico Season 3 kicking off July 26. In anticipation of the show's newest season, Liz's actor Jeanine Mason sat with CBR to talk about what's in store this year for her character, including how the show tackles social issues, the importance of Liz's role as a scientist, and how Season 3 isn't afraid to go big or go home.

CBR: Since Season 1, Roswell has tackled a lot of real world social and political issues. For you, why do you think this show is able to address such important topics, alongside the more sci-fi oriented plot points?

Jeanine Mason: First of all, that is the history of sci-fi, and that is why we love sci-fi, to actually be living metaphors for cultural issues, and that was the thing that made me most excited about getting to work in sci-fi with this show. Particularly because it's a show led by a Latin woman, and in 2020, which is when Season 3 happens -- but even in 2018 when we started, the idea to exist as a Latina you can choose to not be political is a farce. Your existence is political. Our existence as women is political. I assume that you identify as a woman?

I do identify as a woman.

Jeanine Mason: So there you go. Our existence is political because our body is on the ballot. So by the nature of this show, being led by a Latin woman, it is a show that is always going to be centered on social issues. Every year, it's fun to see what our writers, what their hearts are yearning to discuss, and what messaging activists they're connected to or that I'm connected to are urging us to put at the forefront of our dialogue in the year. People can definitely expect more of that in Season 3, and even more in Season 4.

That's very exciting, and talking a little bit about Season 3 without getting into spoilers... Since this takes place in 2020 and in past seasons we've seen [Roswell] directly address the past presidency and stuff like that -- what social themes can we expect in Season 3?

Jeanine Mason: A big part of our show always is LGBTQ+ social issues, and we had trans woman in Season 2. Is that Season 2?

Yeah.

Jeanine Mason: What I love about our show is it's in everything. Sometimes it's something where someone's just existing. By nature of that not being the reality as often as it should be on television, it is a protest. And then sometimes we're more explicit, and we find other things to nail some messaging with, and then other things we present questions and present both sides. That's the best kind of TV. I think we do a great job of that, especially with our LGBTQ+ characters. I love Alex the most, so I was thrilled to see what Alex is navigating, particularly in his journey as a war veteran.

I think this year for Liz it relates to work, which I thought was super fun. She's working for a giant corporation, and she is brilliant, and her contributions to this corporation are significant. She is doing them on the promise that this corporation's morality lines up with her own, and that all of her contributions and brilliance will then be brought directly to her community and affect positive change in her community. Oftentimes, we are finding that people of color, marginalized people who're thriving at their jobs, in journalism, and in everything, that when they get to a point where they're like, I'm getting to actually speak with a real platform or develop a drug that is going to save lives, but I don't work for a company that cares to do that first, that cares to put what they report to be a priority actually as their number one priority.

It's devastating because then you get people having to make the decision and not have all the resources they could benefit from with these big corporations, and that's absolutely something that Liz is navigating off the top of the season for sure, and Genoryx does become a big presence in Season 3. I thought it was a brilliant way to, first of all, honor her Latina, but also honor that she's a scientist, and especially after a pandemic, where we got to honor that she's a scientist, and what's something that a Latina scientist actually faces in her workplace, and this is maybe not the first thing people would guess, but we found it's very pressing.

Speaking about Liz and her role as a Latina scientist, there was one line that really stood out to me in Season 2, which was, "This isn't what the world teaches girls like me to dream." I wanted to know, for you, what makes Liz such an important character, and what's it like playing such a badass protagonist?

Jeanine Mason: I love it! Thank you! I think, to be honest, the amazing thing about Liz is that this book series that this is all based on, Roswell High, her name is Liz Ortecho; she's Latina. Not long ago, the original [television] series aired, and the decision was made to make that character white, and listen, Shiri Appleby, I'm her biggest fan. It is not a reflection on the actors at all. It's just a reflection on what we prioritize in our culture as the things we were going to consume, and we can love that series, and we can acknowledge the brilliant work that so many people... like a cult following my god! Brilliant! But we could also go, "That wasn't that long ago." And now you're getting to do this show, and we're going to honor what was originally the intention with this character.

Sometimes I forget because we're all making such a conscious effort to talk about our representation and do better, but the problem with that is it becomes commonplace for some people, and then I have moments where I have to remember it's been such a short amount of time. I've been acting now for 10 years, as a professional, and when I think about what my pilot seasons looked like, those first five years, and the kind of roles I was going up for, I never, ever would have thought this job would be coming when it's coming. The jump was fast, but the awareness was fast.

But that doesn't mean that as much as we are trying to normalize it, absolutely stoked to celebrate it, because it's huge milestones. So I'm trying to really be bold in what I advocate for, being included in this woman's journey on this show, and being honored and respected and fully fleshed out. So the next time it happens, it's like, "Oh, right! We have heard Jeanine talk about how her room should be a reflection of a young, Mexican woman, so it's not weird that we're setting aside extra funds to get the real products from Cuba for this Cuban character to have in her room." Whatever it is, little things like that.

What are you most excited for audiences to see in Season 3?

Jeanine Mason: Oh, man! I think it's like a real dynamic season. I think the beauty of a Season 3 is you're getting to get away with murder because season threes don't get handed out all that often anymore. We really took it as an opportunity to totally escalate their growth. All of the characters. To go, "Okay, let's confront some stuff that's been holding us back, that they themselves have not even been aware of." So it's a real big metaphor for marrying themselves.

The Jones and Max (Nathan Parsons) of it all is an actual sci-fi literal metaphor that all of the characters are going through, of them shedding what they have not acknowledged that's not servicing them for a long time. The characters end in a very different place and in a place that allows them to expand into stuff for some characters like Kyle (Michael Trevino) for example is more playful and romantic by the end of the season, which I loved for him.

And the other thing is, partially as a result of the COVID protocol, we just went full out with the alien explosions and gags and tricks and effects and stunts. Our stunt team, god bless them, they were just on overtime. The last episode of the season's insane. I think a majority of the cast had body doubles there, and even with the most incredible, competent stunt doubles, I still manage every year for the finale to have my knees all cut up. I just can't help but be, "Let me do a couple of takes." And I am no hero. Leave it to the professionals. Let them do their thing. But we really upped the ante on all that stuff this year, so it's really dynamic. You're gonna love that.

[dispatchdcu]

X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse #4 Review

X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse #4 Review #apocalypse #heirofapocalypse #MARVEL #marvelcomics #comics #comicbooks #news #mcu #art #info #NCBD #comicbooknews #previews #reviews #xmen #hoxpox #houseofx #powersofx #wolverine #reignofx #trialsofx #fallofthehouseofx #riseofthepowersofx

Writer: Steve Foxe Art: Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons, Lorenzo  Ruggiero, Alex Sinclair, VC’s Clayton Cowles, and Dotun Akande Publisher: Marvel Comics Price:$3.99 Reviewed by: Anonymous Release Date: July 31st, 2024 The survivors of Apocalypse’s deadly trials confront the final test as their past, present and future converge. When the dust settles, only one will remain to safeguard mutantkind’s…

[ancomlibrary]

Industrial Evolution & Labor Day:

The AFL versus the IWW

As the Knights of Labor went down, the American Federation of Labor commenced to rise. This latter organization, after about twenty-three years’ existence, claims over a million members. It was the AFL that inaugurated “Labor Day,” the first Monday in September. This Labor Day was originally intended to be the one day in the year on which labor could devote to its own interests, for the purpose of cultivating a spirit of solidarity and fraternity among the working class. But “Labor Day” has lost this feature—instead, it has degenerated into a day when politicians, fakers and grafters have full swing, and a free platform to lie, and to gull the masses.

All the evidences of disintegration are apparent in the AFL at the present time. One does not have to be an enemy to make this statement; in fact, the writer is a friend to organized labor, but facts are facts, nevertheless. The American Federation of Labor is doomed: first, because of its own inherent rottenness; and second, because, in common with all other craft organizations, it has outgrown its usefulness, and must give way to the next step in evolution, which is the Industrial Union, which proposes to organize along industrial lines, the same as capital is organized.

While I am positive the days of the AFL are numbered, I nevertheless recognize and am compelled to give credit to that organization for the great benefit it has been to the working classes of America.

On the ruins of the AFL, there is at the present moment arising the Industrial Union which was organized in Chicago, July 8th, 1905. This industrial organization is organized along the lines of Industrial Evolution, hence it is bound to succeed.

- Lucy E. Parsons ◙ September 5th, 1905

[bobbie-robron]

Look. I know they’re your family and… one on one, they’re alright (thanks)… kind of, but… there’s no escape, they’re everywhere. And there’s no boundaries!

01-Dec-2016 episode 1

[toastandhoodies]

Aaron (with Robert, Liv, Vic and Seb) 1 year today. 10th October 2019

[smittenwithsugden]

Liv: Is your dad in?

Jacob: Er, no, he’s still at work.

Maya: Do we need to call him?

Aaron: No, not unless you'd feel more comfortable with him being here?

Jacob: Why, what are you gonna do?

Aaron: I think I owe you an apology. I'm sorry I was so aggressive with you, I just... I thought I was looking out for Liv and... I got it wrong. (to Maya) And you must've thought I was a right psycho storming out of the pub like that.

Maya: Oh, it doesn't matter.

Aaron: It's just when she told me that you were at ours, on a... date, I just lost the plot and... (makes some sort of noise) Anyway, can we start again?

Liv: He's gonna rein in the whole caveman act, aren't you?

Jacob: Yeah, sure, no worries.

Liv: Right, let's go before you ruin it.

Aaron: Yeah.

Liv: I'll text you later.

Jacob: Yeah, okay.