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fatehbaz · 7 months

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A Dreamtime story from the Nuenonne First Nation of Bruny Island off the Southeast Coast of Tasmania (lutruwita) narrates how [...] a young pup [...] of the “Tasmanian tiger” (thylacine) [...] transformed [...] into corinna [...]. When lutruwita -- Tasmania, also known as Van Dieman’s Land -- was opened for British colonization in 1803, a medley of settlers -- from [...] fortune-seekers to species hunters -- made it to the island in the course of a few years. Travel guides and memoirs published at the time soon dubbed Tasmania the “sanatorium of India,” drawing many British colonists to the island who hoped to recuperate their health debilitated by prolonged stay in the tropics.

More significantly, it wasn’t only materials and bodies that circulated between the colonies [India and Tasmania]. But also ideas, impressions, and experiences gained in one colony made their way to the other. [...]

Settler farmers identified the thylacine as a “blood sucking vampire” [...]. [P]olitician John Lyne -- a representative of the Tasmanian rural lobby -- proclaimed, quite preposterously, that “30000 or 40000 sheep” were taken each year by the thylacine [...]. By 1830, the Van Diemen’s Land Company was already offering a reward for the killing of [...] the “hyena” i.e. the thylacine. Likewise, Mercury reported in 1882 in a piece headlined “Tiger Extermination” that landowners declared “a reward of £5 to be paid for each full-grown tiger [...] and £2 10s, for all cubs [...]." As a result, the animal [...] was extirpated by 1936. Comparison between the thylacine and the Indian tiger abounded in settler discourses [...]. This was in spite of the fact that the thylacine and the Indian tiger were two entirely different species, morphologically and ecologically. [...] Yet early settlers in Tasmania, many of whom had first landed on or had connections in British India carried the idea of the tiger as a ferocious predator [...]. [T]hese representations of the thylacine’s “nature” were based on faulty understanding of the animal perpetuated by myopic colonial science that privileged imperial economic interests above all. [...]

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One of the major thylacine traders in Tasmania was James Harrison. Known as the “West Coast naturalist,” Harrison purchased and sold about twenty-five live animals and twenty dead specimens of thylacine. He was born in the Nowgong district of Assam in northeast India to a family of speculators en route from England. It is noteworthy that James Harrison spent his childhood in a region in India that was known for its [...] wildlife. Game hunting [...] was [...] [a] common pursuit among the Europeans in Assam [...]. Moreover, the period saw a spike in the visit of professional hunters and species collectors to the region as vast [habitat] was being stripped off to make way for tea plantations. [...]

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William Thomas Dennison, who served as governors of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) and Madras in India, described in Varieties of Vice Regal Life (1870) the tiger hunts he had organized in India. Dennison’s book reinforced the idea that the tiger is a pest, an impediment to human progress, which echoed his policies towards the thylacine during his stint as the governor of Tasmania (1847-1854). [...]

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Likewise, Sainthill Eardley Wilmot -- the grandson of Sir John Eardley Wilmot, the lieutenant-governor of Van Diemen’s Land from 1843 to 1846 -- served as a forestry officer in British India. Sainthill was born in Hobart in 1852 and spent his early life there. In My Home In Tasmania (1852), Louisa Ann Meredith mentions the presence of an “untamed” wild thylacine in Sainthill’s grandfather Sir John Eardley Wilmot’s private menagerie in Hobart. Later Sainthill Eardley Wilmot would take a particularly hostile attitude towards the tiger and other big cat species while working as the Inspector General of Forests in British India. [...] He also wrote an it-narrative about the Indian tiger, The Life of a Tiger (1911), that predicted the tiger’s impending extinction. On multiple occasions, he has alluded to the thylacine “wreaking havoc” on flocks of sheep in Tasmania. [...]

The material circulation of the living thylacine in India is little known apart from an exhibition of two live members of the species at Madras Zoo in 1886 [...]. The narrative circulation of the animal, however, has been relatively plentiful.

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Text by: Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya. "Constellation Spirit, Vicious Vermin, and Icon of Environmental Guilt: Affective Entanglements of the Thylacine in Tasmania and India". The Otter, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Emotional Ecologies series (edited Jessica M. DeWitt and Sarah E. York-Bertram). 20 July 2023. [Image and caption also published and included in Bhattacharya's article. Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

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arthistoryanimalia · 9 months

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#WombatWednesday:

Dumpy the Wombat, from Louisa Anne Meredith's _Tasmanian friends and foes : feathered, furred, and finned; a family chronicle of country life, nature history, and veritable adventure_, 1881, p. 53.

#wombat #Wombat Wednesday #Louisa Anne Meredith #19th century art #book art #book illustration #Australian animals

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gnar-slabdash · 1 year

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Leverage Mark Showdown -- Second Heat Contestants

Where the nominator left comments (or fun extra descriptors), I'm including their comments, cause those are way better than what I'd come up with. Where they didn't leave comments, you'll have to settle for mine :P

Jack Lattimer The Radio Job, The Last Dam Job (also sort of most of Season 4) Hes a background guy, just barley staying relevant but also managing to be a pain in the ass to Nate and the crew, but he's not as much of a threat as Damien Moreau, but still stays in the background disrupting htings and giving the crew a hard time purely beciase he wasts a few extra bucks. Hes a bad gys that feels realistic an investor who found a way to cheat the system to benefit himself.

Jimmaaay Jimmy Jimmy Ford The Three Card Monte Job go grandpa

Dr. Anne Hannity The Inside Job That cocky/confident shit is hot... Except for the part where she manufactures a famine. But every time she thought she had a trump card she was sexy af

Dalton Rand The Future Job he's the worst kind of loathsome esp bc he's the most directly confronted with the harm he's doing and is totally blase about it

Nicky & Heather Moscone The Wedding Job They're both great caricatures and I like that they double cross each other.

Alan Foss The Two-Horse Job He’s one of the most well-sold “cartoonishly evil immature dickbag“ characters we encounter. I love his arrogance, his uber-hateable sexism, and the over the top reactions he makes are so much fun to watch him get angry about. Damien Moreau, "IF WE MUST" The Big Bang Job, The San Lorenzo Job - specifically for the bathrobe and flipflops and being carefully staged to not look like everyone around him is normal human size, bless him - silly charming terrifying bastard man. can't believe this hasn't been done yet.

Retzing & Sons The Snow Job Dysfunctional crime family getting synergistically worse the more they try to deal with each other. Also I get excited every time I see my boy Jonathan from Buffy

Meredith The Lonely Hearts Job Man, she actually almost did our heroes in, didn't she? I love her grudging respect for Sophie, like she is genuinely into the art of grifting and willing to acknowledge being bested

James Kanack The First Contact Job He could have just been another rich and successful asshole. But no, that wasn't enough for him. HE HAD TO TALK TO ALIENS.

Mitchell Kirkwood The Studio Job Dude was a charming psycho, I'd let him murder me for my songs 😍 Plus watching his face break was 😚 Divine 😚

Hugh Whitman The Gone Fishin' Job Yeah, you know, let's do some regular debt collection fraud and also fund an entire militia out in the woods behind the bank, that seems normal, right?

Larry Duberman The Reunion Job what if there was a nerd who had sometbing sooooooooo wrong with them. also his actor was in big eden i got really excited when i recognized him

Wendy Baran The Gimme a K Street Job - okay I cave, you got me with this one. You're gonna have to send some propaganda, cause the nominator didn't say anything and i literally remember nothing about this character except she thinks breaking teenage girls' necks is a fun way to make money - Update! The nominator says: - Okay I said Baran bc I hate her so very much - And she’s a girlboss (derogatory)

Andrew Grant The Miracle Job Love the energy, love the way he threw a wrench in their plans by being even more of a sleazy money grubber than they expected (and more creative about it!), and yeah, he's another one that I actually feel kinda bad for cause playing on his anxiety was LOW.

Irina Larenko The Stork Job She was such a ditzy cunt, I hated her but I loved watching her on screen. Kinda cute in a way idk plus her main muscle was kinda unfff

#leverage #favorite mark poll #bracket poll

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maaarine · 1 year

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Bibliography: articles posted on this blog in 2023

Posted in January

To grasp how serotonin works on the brain, look to the gut (James M Shine, Psyche, Jan 03 2023)

Thousands of records shattered in historic winter warm spell in Europe (Ian Livingston, The Washington Post, Jan 02 2023)

“Il faut que tu sois belle maintenant” : en Égypte, des femmes libérées du voile restent prisonnières des diktats (Aliaa Talaat, Al-Manassa via Courrier International, 20 nov 2022)

Mystery of why Roman buildings have survived so long has been unraveled, scientists say (Katie Hunt, CNN, Jan 06 2023)

Colombia’s surrogacy market: Buying a baby for $4,000 (Lucía Franco, El País, Jan 04 2023)

How to spot an eating disorder (Phillip Aouad & Sarah Maguire, Psyche, Jan 11 2023)

UAE sparks furious backlash by appointing Abu Dhabi oil chief as president of COP28 climate summit (Sam Meredith, CNBC, Jan 12 2023)

Don’t tell me that David Carrick’s crimes were ‘unbelievable’. The problem is victims aren’t believed (Marina Hyde, The Guardian, Jan 17 2023)

Baromètre Sexisme 2023 : "La situation est alarmante", estime le Haut Conseil à l'Égalité (Juliette Geay, Radio France, 23 janvier 2023)

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Posted in February

Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws (NPR, Feb 16 2023)

Are Men the Overlooked Reason for the Fertility Decline? (Jessica Grose, The New York Times, Feb 15 2023)

American teenage girls are experiencing high levels of emotional distress. Why? (Moira Donegan, The Guardian, Feb 16 2023)

Figures that lay bare the shocking scale of toxic influencer Andrew Tate’s reach among young men (Maya Oppenheim, The Independent, Feb 17 2023)

Why psychological research on child sex offenders is important (Meetali Devgun, Psyche, Feb 22 2023)

Derrière les chiffres des féminicides, des visages et un continuum de violences contre les femmes (Fanny Declercq, Le Soir, 27 fév 2023)

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Posted in March

English is not normal (John McWhorter, Aeon, Nov 13 2015)

Are Iranian schoolgirls being poisoned by toxic gas? (BBC News, March 03 2023)

‘Why do we need a supermodel?’: Backlash after Fifa makes Adriana Lima Women’s World Cup ambassador (Henry Belot, The Guardian, March 02 2023)

New Human Metabolism Research Upends Conventional Wisdom about How We Burn Calories (Herman Pontzer, Scientific American, Jan 01 2023)

Polish woman found guilty of aiding an abortion in landmark trial (Harriet Barber, The Telegraph, March 14 2023)

How Diet Builds Better Bones: Surprising Findings on Vitamin D, Coffee, and More (Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, Jan 01 2023)

Met police found to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic (Vikram Dodd, The Guardian, March 21 2023)

Chinese Dating App Does the Swiping for Singles to Find Love (Nikki Main, Gizmodo, March 21 2023)

Aphantasia can be a gift to philosophers and critics like me (Mette Leonard Høeg, Psyche, March 20 2023)

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Posted in April

Facts Don’t Change Minds – Social Networks, Group Dialogue, and Stories Do (Anne Toomey, The LSE Impact Blog, Jan 24 2023)

Uganda’s failure to jail child rapists as teen pregnancies soar (Tamasin Ford, BBC News, April 17 2023)

Italy risks ‘ethnic replacement’ because of low birth rate and high immigration, says minister (Nick Squires, The Telegraph, April 19 2023)

Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times (Robert P Baird, The Guardian, March 30 2023)

India overtakes China to become world’s most populous country (Hannah Ellis-Petersen, The Guardian, April 24 2023)

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Posted in May

Des crèches ferment toutes les semaines, « et ce n’est pas près de s’arrêter » (Le Soir, 5 mai 2023)

People in comas showed ‘conscious-like’ brain activity as they died, study says (Hannah Devlin, The Guardian, May 01 2023)

Chinese woman appeals in battle for right to freeze her eggs (The Guardian, May 09 2023)

Women CEOs: Why companies in crisis hire minorities - and then fire them (The Guardian, DG McCullough, Aug 08 2014)

Glass cliffs: firms appoint female executives in times of crisis as a signal of change to investors (Max Reinwald and Johannes Zaia and Florian Kunze, LSE Business Review, Aug 19 2022)

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Posted in June

Afghan women in mental health crisis over bleak future (Yogita Limaye, BBC News, June 05 2023)

Support Of Amber Heard Alongside French Feminists & Cinema Figures (Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, June 05 2023)

Why is Japan redefining rape? (Tessa Wong & Sakiko Shiraishi, BBC News, June 07 2023)

Catching the men who sell subway groping videos (Zhaoyin Feng & Aliaume Leroy & Shanshan Chen, BBC News, June 08 2023)

Netherlands to provide free sun cream to tackle record skin cancer levels (Kate Connolly, The Guardian, June 12 2023)

The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think (Joanna Thompson, Quanta Magazine, Jan 26 2023)

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Posted in July

‘Farsighted impulsivity’ and the new psychology of self-control (Adam Bulley, Psyche, Feb 03 2021)

Can a perfectionist personality put you at risk of migraines? (Shayla Love, Psyche, July 25 2023)

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Posted in August

How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain (Marta Zaraska, Quanta Magazine, Feb 28 2023)

Why religious belief provides a real buffer against suicide risk (David H Rosmarin, Psyche, Aug 07 2023)

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Posted in September

What Are Dreams For? (Amanda Gefter, The New Yorker, Aug 31 2023)

Rape Cases Seize Italy’s Attention and Expose Cultural Rifts (Gaia Pianigiani, The New York Times, Sep 03 2023)

Councils in England in crisis as Birmingham ‘declares itself bankrupt’ (Heather Stewart and Jessica Murray, The Guardian, Sep 05 2023)

Nearly one in three female NHS surgeons have been sexually assaulted, survey suggests (Jamie Grierson, The Guardian, Sep 12 2023)

Domination and Objectification: Men’s Motivation for Dominance Over Women Affects Their Tendency to Sexually Objectify Women (Orly Bareket and Nurit Shnabel, Sep 09 2019)

In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’ (Manuel Viejo, El País, Sep 18 2023)

When the human tendency to detect patterns goes too far (Shayla Love, Psyche, Sep 19 2023)

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Posted in October

My Brain Doesn’t Picture Things (Marco Giancotti, Nautilus, Oct 04 2023)

“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases (Sarah C.P. Williams, The University of Chicago, Sep 11 2023)

Poland election: exit polls point to Law and Justice defeat as Tusk hails ‘rebirth’ (Shaun Walker, The Guardian, Oct 16 2023)

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Posted in November

What I have learned from my suicidal patients (Gavin Francis, The Guardian, Nov 22 2019)

Did natural selection make the Dutch the tallest people on the planet? (Martin Enserink, Science, Apr 07 2015)

Tumblr Is Always Dying (Elizabeth Minkel, Wired, Nov 14 2023)

How accurate is the new Napoleon film? Sorting fact from fiction (Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Times, Nov 19 2023)

Far-right party set to win most seats in Dutch elections, exit polls show (Jon Henley and Pjotr Sauer and Senay Boztas, The Guardian, Nov 22 2023)

Climate change: Rise in Google searches around ‘anxiety’ (Lucy Gilder, BBC, Nov 22 2023)

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Posted in December

The sexual assault of sleeping women: the hidden, horrifying rape crisis in our bedrooms (Anna Moore, The Guardian, June 15 2021)

Afghanistan: Taliban sends abused women to prison - UN (Nicholas Yong, BBC News, Dec 15 2023)

Longitudinal Associations Between Parenting and Child Big Five Personality Traits (University of California Press, Nov 18 2021)

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Severe Morning Sickness (Azeen Ghorayshi, The New York Times, Dec 13 2023)

#article #articleindex #2023

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justamonkeyonautopilot · 10 months

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So I noticed that apples replay for 2023 is already up on my iTunes, so I thought I’d just document somewhere what it has listed as my 100 only six months into the year and then come back in December to see if it is still the same or if it has changed any.

Dancin’ Fool - Gary Wilmer

Fireball - Pitbull

School Song - Matilda the Musical

Bloody Mary - Lady Gaga

Abcdefu - GAYLE

Show Me How You Burlesque - Christina Aguilera

Run This Town - Jay Z, Kanye West & Rihanna

Eat Me - Demi Lovato

Insane - Black Gryph0n & Baasik

Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz

Happier Than Ever - Kelly Clarkson

Psycho - Anne-Marie

Rich Girl - Gwen Stefani

I’m Not Here To Make Friends - Sam Smith

Darkside - Neoni

Cinderella Snapped - Jax

Zero To Hero - Hercules Soundtrack

She Keeps Me Up - Nickelback

Bitch - Meredith Brooks

Boss Bitch - Doja Cat

Téir Abhaile Riu - Celtic Woman

Enemy - Imagine Dragons

Five Collurs In Her Hair - McFly

Play With Fire - Sam Tinnesz

The Fine Print - The Stupendium

Get Busy - Sean Paul

Don’t Stop Me Now - Queen

Candyman - Christina Aguilera

Me and the Devil - Soap&Skin

Control - Zoe Wees

If It’s Not God - Maddie Zahm

F**kin’ Perfect - P!nk

Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps

Youth of the Nation - P.O.D.

Love Thy Neighbour - Prom Soundtrack

Land of Yesterday - Anastasia the Musical Soundtrack

Fat Funny Friend - Maddie Zahm

Come With Me Now - KONGOS

Eyes Closed - Ed Sheeran

Absolutely (Story of a Girl) - Nine Days

Do You Hear The People Sing - Les Mis Soundtrack

Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

Centuries - Fall Out Boy

Riot - Three Days Grace

Queen of Kings - Alessandra

Barbie&Ken - Kate Gill

Never Gonna Not Dance Again - P!nk

Thunder - Gabry Ponte

Just a Number - Amanda Williams

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

The Whole “Being Dead” Thing - Beetlejuice the Musical Soundtrack

I Think I’m In Love - Kat Dahlia

Stick It To The Man - School of Rock Soundtrack

Fairytale - Alexander Rybak

Accidentally In Love - Counting Crows

21 Reasons - Nathan Dawe

That’s What I Want - Lil Nas X

Don’t Lose Ur Head - SIX Soundtrack

Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls

Girl Like Me - Black Eyed Peas

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

Just Got Paid - Sigala

Dem Beats - Todrick Hall

Shivers - Ed Sheeran

1985 - Bowling For Soup

Victoria’s Secret - Jax

Deep Down - Alok

Emperor’s New Clothes - Panic! At The Disco

Me Against The Music - Britney Spears

Mein Herr - Cabaret Soundtrack

Bad Influence - P!nk

Call Me - Blondie

First Hello - Grant Knoche

Raise Your Glass - P!nk

Dear Maria, Count Me In - All Time Low

Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish

Better When I’m Dancing - Meghan Trainor

Boyfriend - Dove Cameron

Pinch or Snuff - Gaelforce Dance

Wellerman - Nathan Evans

La Vie Boheme - Rent Soundtrack

Ex-Wives - SIX Soundtrack

Circle The Drain - Katy Perry

Under Pressure - Queen

Rockabye - Clean Bandit

Six - SIX Soundtrack

Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd

Mi Gente - J Balvin & Willy William

Mercy - Shawn Mendez

Beat Again - JLS

In Too Deep - Sum 41

Dream On - Aerosmith

Adore You - Harry Styles

We On Top - Photronique

HandClap - Fitz and The Tantrums

Right Back Where We Start - Maxine Nightingale

Fat Lip - Sum 41

Green Green Grass - George Ezra

Rotten to the Core - Descendants Soundtrack

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sweetly-yours-and-mine · 1 year

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thank you to @softlyspector for tagging me!

three ships: marc x layla, steven x layla, javi p x therapy

first ever ship: first ever ever was Walter Blythe and Una Meredith from the Anne of Green Gables series (I had a really bad johnlock kick for a while though, right after that)

last song/album: song: Que sont devenues les fleurs by Dalida, album: The Record by boygenius

last movie: A Man Called Otto

currently reading: The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë,

currently watching: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, wanna start Barry and Succession, restart New Girl,

currently consuming: matcha, and two mini chocolate easter eggs

currently craving: iced americano

No pressure tags: @whats-belay @alwritey-aphrodite @pennyserenade @moonknightly and anyone else who'd like to do this!

#ab me #tag games

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starswift-borzoi · 2 years

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We couldn't show at the MBC Specialty today in Kalamazoo, MI but we're able to show at the All Breed. Seren was Select bitch for another 5 pt major under Judge Ms. Kimberly Anne Meredith. Congratulations to all the winners! At the MBC Specialty Legend received an award of merit under Judge Anne Midgarden DVM. Congratulations to all the winners 🏆👏🏻 #borzoi #russianwolfhound #doglover #doglife #sighthoundsofinstagram #borzoiofinstagram #borzoisofinstagram #purebreddogsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram #starswift #starswiftborzoi https://www.instagram.com/p/CeH_3fXuT8g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#borzoi #russianwolfhound #doglover #doglife #sighthoundsofinstagram #borzoiofinstagram #borzoisofinstagram #purebreddogsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram #starswift #starswiftborzoi

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bmaatuga · 2 years

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We Tweeted the above photo of Anne Ruth Crawford (on left) this week and it got a great response. It was taken from this article in Terry, UGA’s business school’s magazine, as Mrs. Crawford was the business school’s first female graduate. In 1954, she became the film librarian for UGA.

The General Extension Service started the film service in Atlanta, and it eventually moved to UGA. An article from The Red and Black student paper from July 16, 1948 (p. 6) describes its purpose and reach:

In the Red and Black of April 20, 1951 (p. 8), Meredith Hart was listed as the librarian. The huge projector being threaded with 35mm film likely has nothing to do with the 16mm film library being discussed, but it looks impressive.

In December that year, another short piece. By the way, we still have the print of BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.

On April 16, 1953, the Red and Black touts the library again, focusing more on numbers:

An April 27, 1967 article describes the basic operation of the library and, in the last paragraph, a bit of history of the library.

J.C. Wardlaw of the General Extension Service in Atlanta, contracted with Teaching Film Custodians to supply Extension with films, and his first order was for 100 films. Here’s one of the film request forms found in the Hargrett Library, where records of the film library’s transactions are preserved.

A 1937 Teaching Film Custodians catalog is available online thru HathiTrust. In it, you can read about the fascinating history of the organization that took it upon itself to educate students through film: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112067278421&view=1up&seq=11

A 1954 TFC catalog is available through the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/filmsforclassroo00virgrich/mode/2up?q=Georgia

Through labels on film cans we have, you can see the evolution of the Extention film library’s location; first in Atlanta--

Then housed in Old College at UGA in Athens--

Then to the Georgia Center (you can see one of these labels on a can on the shelves in the top photo of Mrs. Crawford)--

Then a later version of the Georgia Center label--

Unfortutnately, “River Valley Archaeology” is one of the films we never got in the archives. Sure, we have the can with its label, but the film inside that can was not RVA. If anyone ever runs across it, we’d love to have that film! It’s mentioned in the February 16, 1951 issue of Red and Black:

We’re lucky to have the 11th edition of their catalog from 1955, but wish we had one for every year they existed!

One of the many pieces of film ephemera we keep at the bench is this reminder card, placed in each film can, from the Film Library. Some good advice for all film collections.

#16mm film #UGA #archives #education #library

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germenis · 1 year

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Don't be a dummy! Click *LINK IN BIO* to listen to a NEW episode of Visceral Reactions on MAGIC, Sir Richard Attenborough's immaculate psychological thriller from 1978. Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margaret, and Burgess Meredith, this psychological thriller, based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, involves a fractured mind, a dummy named Fats, and a few dead bodies. Quinton provides all the behind-the-scenes info, while Matthew takes you through the history of ventriloquism, what seems like an endless list of period-appropriate serial killers, and the landscape of 1970s entertainment. Join us to learn more about the movie that prepared Attenborough to make his 1982 epic, Gandhi. - ##horror #horrormovies #film #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #moviepodcast #horrorpodcast #visceralreactions #magic #anthonyhopkins #richardattenborough #annmargret #williamgoldman #jerrygoldsmith #filmadaptation #bookstomovies #ventriloquist #ventriloquism #burgessmeredith #applepodcasts #spotifypodcast #1970smovies #psychologicalthriller https://www.instagram.com/p/CnuGIppuDEm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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relaxvideobar · 2 years

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Sabías que, Meredith Ann Brooks nació hoy el 12 de junio de 1958 en Oregón, Estados Unidos, es una cantautora, guitarrista y productora musical estadounidense que consiguió reconocimiento mundial en la década de 1990 con su álbum Blurring the Edges y especialmente con el sencillo "Bitch", producción que le valió una nominación a los premios Grammy en 1998 por "mejor interpretación vocal de rock" y por "mejor canción de rock". En 1998 publicó el álbum Deconstruction, producción que no logró los resultados comerciales esperados, al igual que sus siguientes álbumes de estudio, Bad Bad One (2002), Shine (2004) e If I Could Be... (2007). En 1995 Brooks firmó un contrato discográfico con el sello Capitol Records. Dos años después fue publicado su primer sencillo, titulado "Bitch", el cual le valió una nominación para el premio Grammy a mejor intérprete femenina de rock. El sencillo logró la certificación de disco de platino en tierras australianas. Su álbum debut Blurring the Edges se convirtió también en disco de platino y alcanzó la posición número 22 en la lista de éxitos Billboard 200 en los Estados Unidos. El álbum fue producido por David Ricketts, que se encargó de tocar los teclados en el disco. @relaxvideobar www.relaxvideobar.com (at RELAX VIDEO BAR) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ceuv6xEsxtd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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promenadewithme · 3 years

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First of all, I want to thank all of you so much for the follows, likes, comments, reblogs and support in general! I can't believe I hit 50 followers so soon! I know it’s not much, but I actually didn’t expect any at all so I’m so happy!! Thank you ❤️

Now, this is how the celebration is going to work: first you chose a song and a character. Then send it to my requests with your pronoun of choice, along with any other specifications and I'll write you a fic based on the song! You can either send the song or specific quotes as prompts

To find the fics I will write, use the #Anastasia's 50 followers celebration

This event starts today (May 20th) and ends June 10th

Support Me on Ko-Fi - if you’re feeling generous 💕

Songs:

Fluff (Romantic)

Paper Rings - Taylor Swift

London Boy - Taylor Swift

Love Story - Taylor Swift

Lover - Taylor Swift

King of My Heart - Taylor Swift

Willow - Taylor Swift

Crazier - Taylor Swift

New Year’s Day - Taylor Swift

Daylight - Taylor Swift

Jump Then Fall - Taylor Swift

How You Get The Girl - Taylor Swift

You Are In Love - Taylor Swift

It’s Nice To Have A Friend - Taylor Swift

Today Was A Fairytale - Taylor Swift

State Of Grace - Taylor Swift

Mine - Taylor Swift

Delicate - Taylor Swift

Say You Won't Let Go - James Arthur

Naked - James Arthur

Rewrite The Stars - James Arthur + Anne-Marie

I Won't Give Up - Jason Mraz

I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

Tenerife Sea - Ed Sheeran

How Would You Feel (Paean) - Ed Sheeran

Kiss Me - Ed Sheeran

Afterglow - Ed Sheeran

Lego House - Ed Sheeran

Dive - Ed Sheeran

Galway Girl - Ed Sheeran

Everything Has Changed - Ed Sheeran + Taylor Swift

I Was Made For Loving You - Tori Kelly + Ed Sheeran

Make You Feel My Love -Adele

One Call Away - Charlie Puth

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars

Count On Me - Bruno Mars

Little Things - One Direction

Night Changes - One Direction

Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley

Andante, Andante - ABBA

Waterloo - ABBA

All Of Me - John Legend

Ocean Eyes - Billie Eilish

Snowman - Sia

A Thousand Years - Christina Perri

Arms - Christina Perri

Teenage Dream - Katy Perry

Halo - Beyoncé

The Only Exception - Paramore

Dandelions - Ruth B

Someone To You - BANNERS

Would You Be So Kind - Dodie

Someone You Like - The Girl and The Dreamcatcher

If I Could Tell Her - Ben Platt

Absolutely Smitten - Dodie

How Long Will I Love - Ellie Goulding

Angst (Romantic)

Good 4 u - Olivia Rodrigo

Drivers License - Olivia Rodrigo

Deja Vu - Olivia Rodrigo

Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo

Traitor - Olivia Rodrigo

Enough For You - Olivia Rodrigo

1 step forward, 3 steps back - Olivia Rodrigo

Happier - Olivia Rodrigo

Jealousy, Jealousy- Olivia Rodrigo

Favourite Crime - Olivia Rodrigo

Hope Ur Ok - Olivia Rodrigo

Betty - Taylor Swift

Exile - Taylor Swift

Teardrops On My Guitar - Taylor Swift

Wildest Dreams - Taylor Swift

Tolerate It - Taylor Swift

You’re Not Sorry - Taylor Swift

Should’ve Said No - Taylor Swift

White Horse - Taylor Swift

You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift

My Tears Ricochet - Taylor Swift

Back to December - Taylor Swift

Breathe - Taylor Swift

The 1 - Taylor Swift

All Too Well - Taylor Swift

Invisible String - Taylor Swift

Evermore - Taylor Swift

Lose You To Love Me - Selena Gomez

The Heart Wants What It Wants - Selena Gomez

When I Was Your Man -Bruno Mars

Someone Like You - Adele

Hello - Adele

All I Ask - Adele

Let Her Go - Passenger

Say Something - A Great Big World

Stay With Me - Sam Smith

California King Bed - Rihanna

Take a Bow - Rihanna

Broken Hearted Girl - Beyoncé

Tonight I Wanna Cry - Keith Urban

The Winner Takes It All - ABBA

SOS - ABBA

One Of Us - ABBA

Half a Heart - One Direction

Yesterday - The Beatles

If The World Was Ending - Julia Michaels

Colors - Halsey

Happier - Ed Sheeran

One Last Time - Ariana Grande

Why’d You Only Call Me When You High - Artic Monkeys

Play Date - Melanie Martinez

Just a Friend to You - Meghan Trainor

All I Want - Kodaline

Love You From A Distance - Ashley Kutcher

Potential Breakup Song - Aly & AJ

I Don’t Wanna See You With Her - Maria Mena

Let Her Go - Passenger

All My Tears - Ane Brun

Always On My Mind - Elvis Presley

Someone to you - Lewis Capaldi

Before You Go - Lewis Capaldi

Others

Sit Still, Look Pretty - Daya

How To Be A Heartbreaker - MARINA

No Body, No Crime - Taylor Swift

Look What You Made Me Do - Taylor Swift

Blank Space - Taylor Swift

You Need To Calm Down - Taylor Swift

Getaway Car -Taylor Swift

Gorgeous - Taylor Swift

Bad Blood - Taylor Swift

The Man - Taylor Swift

22 - Taylor Swift

Dorothea - Taylor Swift

Marjorie - Taylor Swift

The Best Day - Taylor Swift

Mirrorball - Taylor Swift

I Forgot That You Existed - Taylor Swift

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things - Taylor Swift

The Lakes - Taylor Swift

The Last Great American Dynasty - Taylor Swift

Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson

When I Kissed The Teacher - ABBA

I Have A Dream - ABBA

I've Been Waiting For You - ABBA

You'll Be In My Heart - Phil Collins

Titanium - David Guetta (feat. Sia)

F**ckin' Perfect - P!nk

New Rules - Dua Lipa

IDGAF - Dua Lipa

Bad Guy - Billie Eilish

You Should See Me in A Crown - Billie Eilish

COPYCAT - Billie Eilish

Count On Me - Bruno Mars

Stand By You - Rachel Platten

Firework - Katy Perry

Because You Loved Me - Céline Dion

See You Again - Wiz Khalifa + Charlie Puth

NO - Meghan Trainor

Skyfall - Adele

Gasoline - Halsey

Castle On The Hill - Ed Sheeran

Save Myself - Ed Sheeran

Supermarket Flowers - Ed Sheeran

Small Bump - Ed Sheeran

Growing Up - Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Ed Sheeran

7 Rings - Ariana Grande

Bad Liar - Selena Gomez

Rare - Selena Gomez

Who Says - Selena Gomez

I Turn To You - Christina Aguilera

Till There Was You - The Beatles

Sweetest Devotion - Adele

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THRONE OF GLASS: Dorian Havilliard and Chaol Westfall.

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NARNIA: Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy, Caspian and Aslan.

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This may not make any sense, but would you be willing to list some Christines and phantoms who's voice "matched" their portrayal? For example, Meghan P and Holly Anne both have very strong vocals (as in resounding and heavier, not necessarily skill level) that match their feistier and really stubborn portrayals, while anouk has a much lighter, floaty quality that fits her dreamy and sweet portrayal. (They could be from any time period, I just chose recent performers as examples because their fresh in my mind)

No worries, I understand the question! To some extent this depends on how each person thinks a "feisty" Christine or a "strong" Christine or a "sweet" Christine sounds (e.g. I would "match" darker, more resonant voices with mature, intelligent Christines while the feisty Christines I visualize (audiolize?) as having strong voices but with a bit more lightness), but I can certainly think of a few whose voice "matched" their portrayal, such as:

Patti Cohenour - Cohenour has this gorgeous voice with high notes that sound like crystal, delicate and breathtaking, and her Christine was similarly ethereal, not all there, someone you can easily see the Phantom worshiping.

Adrienne McEwan - McEwan has definitely been described as a more mature Christine, reserved, quiet, keeping her emotions in check in a way that made her seem more aloof than your average Christine. Her voice was similar, dark and resonant.

Meredith Braun - An interesting case. In the first act, Braun was very childish and painfully naive, and her squeaky, super-light voice fit that portrayal very well. Then she made major growth in the second act, and it fit rather less well (though the contrast was certainly interesting).

Kim So Hyun - Much more so in her first run (after that her voice darkened considerably), but just watch this clip (yes I post it a lot, sorry if it's a favorite). The expressiveness of her face is more than matched by the expressiveness of her voice.

Rachel Barrell - Rachel Barrell is definitely one I'd call intelligent, strong, and feisty, at least with John Owen-Jones (she was calmer with Earl Carpenter and downright dull with Matthew Cammelle), and I find her voice matches it, though I'm sure that's a polarizing opinion: those strong high notes but a slight nasal quality and squeakiness that makes her sound a bit younger. I dunno, but I think the two match well.

Gina Beck - Gina Beck is the sweetest, most sympathetic Christine, girlish and charming, and vocally she's all that too: light and emotive, if occasionally wobbly and prone to breaking (which also matches her Christine's tendency to break down). Actually, you can say a fair few Christines fall into this category (sweet, childish Christines with sweet, light, pop-y voices).

Trista Moldovan - Moldovan I found to be a large-eyed, fearful, dreamy Christine (except with Hugh Panaro, in which case she was dreamy but also horny). Her voice was also really similar, with this gorgeous "floating" quality that I don't hear very often.

Anna O'Byrne - O'Byrne's Christine was hysterical, broken, and at the point of a mental snap. Her voice was like that too. I guess that doesn't sound like a good thing, but it matches! (I actually enjoy her Christine, so there.)

Harriet Jones - Jones had a lovely voice, very light but definitely classical and well-trained. That was her Christine too: all large eyes and naivete and an initially meek demeanor, but when pushed, you'd see the spine come out.

Kaitlyn Davis - Davis's voice was what I'd call "middle of the road": not light, not dark, not operatic but not a belt-y modern voice either. That's not a bad thing! It was a lovely, all-around good voice. Her portrayal was like that too, just a wonderfully decent attempt at showing all of Christine's sides: the naivete, the fear, the growth, the strength.

Isabel Schwartzbach - Like O'Byrne, Schwartzbach was a Christine more in line with Leroux's novel: nervous, tense, head in the clouds, these great expressive eyes and a waifish look. And those were her vocals too: dreamy, expressive, light, sometimes almost too much so - fragile, even. But well-matched.

Meghan Picerno - Pretty much everything you said. Picerno has this massive, operatic voice that fills the theater, and her Christine was wonderfully intelligent, observant, sometimes fiercely angry and passionate. A great match.

Lucy St Louis - And to finish it off, we have Lucy St Louis, who has a more classical voice with a lighter touch, sometimes floating and with a wistfulness underneath. Her Christine had a similar sense: radiant, innocent, deeply sympathetic and saddened for the Phantom.

And because I'm sure people will ask for the opposite: two that come to mind are Rebecca Caine and Daruã Góes from the Brazilian revival. Caine has this unique, "weepy" lilt to her voice that makes her Christine sound perpetually sad, but gives a very intelligent, passionate, and strong portrayal. And Daruã Góes - okay, this is partly visual, but Góes was a tiny little Christine with a round face and big eyes and an overall childish demeanor. Her voice was not that, it was big and dark and not at all what I was expecting. It actually threw me off when I watched video of her, because I kept wondering how a voice that large was coming out of such a small Christine. Very fascinating.

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reading list - 900: history & geography

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☐ 901: FOUCAULT, Michel – Les mots et les choses ☐ 901: GOULD, Stephen Jay – Questioning the Millenium ☐ 901: McNEILL, William H. – The Rise of the West ☐ 902: WEIR, Stephen – Encyclopedia Idiotica ☐ 907: JONNES, Jill – Eiffel's Tower ☐ 909: HARARI, Yuval Noah – Homo Deus ☐ 909: ROGAN, Eugene – The Arabs ☐ 909: TOYNBEE, Arnold J. – A Study of History ☐ 910: POOLE, Robert M. – Explorers House ☐ 911: BROTTON, Jerry – A History of the World in 12 Maps ☐ 914: SHANAHAN, Brendan – In Turkey I Am Beautiful ☐ 914: WEST, Rebecca – Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ☐ 915: FLETCHER, David – Brian on the Brahmaputra ☐ 918: SIMONS, Eric – Darwin Slept Here ☐ 919: KAVENNA, Joanna – The Ice Museum ☐ 920: COLLINS, Paul – Banvard's Folly ☐ 920: STRACHEY, Lytton – Eminent Victorians ☐ 933: PEROWNE, Stuart – The Life & Times of Herod the Great ☐ 936: TACITUS – Agricola ☐ 937: BEARD, Mary – SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome ☐ 937: SUETONIUS – De vita Caesarum ☐ 937: TACITUS, Publius Cornelius – Annals ☐ 938: McKEOWN, J. C. – A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities ☐ 938: THUCYDIDES – History of the Peloponnesian War ☐ 939: CLAPP, Nicholas – The Road to Ubar ☐ 940: CHURCHILL, Winston – The Second World War ☐ 940: MARKS, Leo – Between Silk and Cyanide ☐ 940: TUCHMAN, Barbara – The Guns of August ☐ 942: FRASER, Antonia – Faith and Treason ☐ 943: HETT, Benjamin Carter – Burning the Reichstag ☐ 946: ORWELL, George – Homage to Catalonia ☐ 946: SHRADY, Nicholas – The Last Day ☐ 949: ROSEN, William – Justinian's Flea ☐ 951: SCHELL, Orville & DELURY, John – Wealth and Power ☐ 951: SPENCE, Jonathan D. – The Gate of Heavenly Peace ☐ 955: AXWORTHY, Michael – Revolutionary Iran ☐ 956: ROBERTS, Jo – Contested Land, Contested Memory ☐ 960: MEREDITH, Martin – The Fate of Africa ☐ 966: De VILLIERS, Marq & HIRTLE, Sheila – Timbuktu ☐ 967: DINESEN, Isak – Out of Africa ☐ 970: KING, Thomas – The Inconvenient Indian ☐ 971: HELE, Karl S. – The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature ☐ 972: GLASSMAN, Steve & ANAYA, Armando – Cities of the Maya in Seven Epochs ☐ 973: CUMMINGS, Joseph – Ten Tea Parties ☐ 973: DUBOIS, W. E. B. – The Souls of Black Folk ☐ 973: FOOTE, Shelby – The Civil War ☐ 973: HOFSTADTER, Richard – The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It ☐ 973: McPHERSON, James M. – Battle Cry of Freedom ☐ 973: TURNER, Frederick Jackson – The Frontier in American History ☐ 973: WILLIAMS, William Carlos – In the American Grain ☐ 974: CARO, Robert A. – The Power Broker ☐ 974: SHORTO, Russell – The Island at the Center of the World ☐ 978: DRURY, Bob & CLAVIN, TOm – The Heart of Everything That Is ☐ 981: LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude – Tristes Tropiques ☐ 985: ADAMS, Mark – Turn Right at Machu Picchu ☐ 996: ALEXANDER, Caroline – The Bounty ☐ 998: MULVANEY, Kieran – At the Ends of the Earth ☐ 999: LEMONICK, Michael D. – Other Worlds

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☐ ADAMS, Henry Brooks – The Education of Henry Adams ☐ ANGELOU, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ☐ BASCOM, Tom – Chameleon Days ☐ BATE, Walter Jackson – Samuel Johnson ☐ BETANCOURT, Ingrid – Even Silence Has an End ☐ BOYD, Julia – The Excellent Doctor Blackwell ☐ CAMPBELL, Olivia – Women in White Coats ☐ CHANG, Jung – Wild Swans ☐ CHENEY, Margaret – Tesla ☐ EVERITT, Anthony – Cicero ☐ FRANK, Anne – The Diary of a Young Girl ☐ FRANKLIN, Benjamin – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin ☐ GILMOUR, David – Curzon ☐ GOWING, Lawrence – Vermeer ☐ HACKEL, Steven W. – Junipero Serra ☐ ISAACSON, Walter – The Code Breaker ☐ JAGER, Eric – Blood Royal ☐ JOHNSON, Paul – Mozart ☐ KALANITHI, Paul – When Breath Becomes Air ☐ KAPLAN, Fred – Thomas Carlyle ☐ KAY, Adam – This Is Going to Hurt ☐ LEKUTON, Joseph Lemosolai – Facing the Lion ☐ LEVI, Primo – Se questo è un uomo ☐ LOFTIS, Larry – The Princess Spy ☐ MALCOLM X – The Autobiography of Malcolm X ☐ MAN, John – Attila ☐ MAN, John – Gutenberg ☐ MARCHANT, Jo – The Shadow King ☐ MARKHAM, Beryl – West With the Night ☐ MEYER, G. J. – The Borgias ☐ MILTON, Giles – Samurai William ☐ MUKHERJEE, Siddhartha – The Emperor of All Maladies ☐ NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich – Insomniac Dreams ☐ NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich– Speak, Memory ☐ NIMURA, Janice P. – The Doctors Blackwell ☐ OLSZEWSKI, Erin Marie – Undercover Epicenter Nurse ☐ PARKER, Richard – The Improbable Return of Coco Chanel ☐ PAUSCH, Randy & ZASLOW, Jeffrey – The Last Lecture ☐ RANDALL, Margaret – Che on My Mind ☐ SCHILLACE, Brandy – Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher ☐ SINCLAIR, David – The Land That Never Was ☐ SKLOOT, Rebecca – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ☐ STEINEM, Gloria – Marilyn ☐ TWAIN, Mark – The Autobiography of Mark Twain ☐ WALLS, Jeannette – The Glass Castle ☐ WASHINGTON, Booker T. – Up From Slavery ☐ WEATHERFORD, Jack – Genghis Khan ☐ WELSH, Mary Sue – One Woman in a Hundred ☐ WESTOVER, Tara – Educated ☐ WHITAKER, Robert – The Mapmaker's Wife ☐ WOLFF, Tobias – This Boy's Life ☐ WOODHAM-SMITH, Cecil – Florence Nightingale ☐ WRIGHT, Richard – Black Boy ☐ XUE, Xinran – Sky Burial

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Getting to Know You meme

Tagged by @sanspatronymic, thank you for thinking of me!

Rules: tag a few people you’d like to know better or catch up with.

Last song: Oh dear, I’m sorry to have to tell you this one :P Last night I was making flashcards for my son and I put on a playlist that I’d made for my brother’s birthday a couple weeks back. Onto this playlist I’d put mostly good music, but it concludes shamelessly with the song “Ninja Rap” by Vanilla Ice, from the hilariously terrible Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. My brother and I watched that movie so many times back when I was ten and he was eight. So. Many. Times.

Last film: It was The Matrix (the first one). Somehow John had never seen it before? I don’t know how he managed to be an American teenager in 1999 and not see this movie but he’s badass like that. I decided it was time to drag him down with me, though. Its style of cartoonish ‘ultra-cool’ violence is not his cup of tea, but I promised him that the first film has a sense of humor about itself, which is what makes it for me. It came up because he and I play ‘movie questions’ with each other all the time, and on a recent drive we started listing movies that we considered Good Stupid Fun. This movie came high on my list, right alongside Tremors. I was working in a movie theater the summer The Matrix came out and I really enjoyed it at the time, but hadn’t rewatched it in the decades since. I was hoping I would still find it good stupid fun, and indeed I did!

Currently watching: The Mandalorian (I’m most of the way through season 1 and not particularly sold on it, tbh, but I’ll keep going through season 2 as I think it’ll have more appeal once some actual relationships have a chance to build up) & Supernatural (a Cas-centric rewatch, to the surprise of nobody!). I will probably catch up with WandaVision before long, I hear good things. I also recently watched the Holmesian kdrama Queen of Mystery, which was delightful.

Currently reading: Men At Arms (Terry Pratchett), and a lot of fic. One recent fic I can recommend is Dorinda’s excellent hurt/comfort naval fic Most Musical, Most Melancholy (rated T, Patrick O’Brian novels, Aubrey/Maturin, 8.5K). No one writes them quite like Dorinda...her ear for the language is superb! On a friend’s recommendation I’ve also ordered Meredith Ann Pierce’s Darkangel trilogy from the library -- I have no idea what they’re about, but she’s nostalgic about them from her high school days and I want to be able to talk about them with her :)

Currently craving: I found out last week that my blood test results from a year ago indicated I was pre-diabetic on the cusp of full-blown diabetic. This was the first I’d ever heard of it, my doctor not having bothered to tell me at any point. Nor has anyone in that doctor’s office ever discussed any prevention strategies with me at all, be it dietary changes or medication, despite the fact that I told them repeatedly I was at high risk to develop it, having had gestational diabetes when I was pregnant. So I was pissed off when I found out, but have now moved on to focusing on carb counting more strictly than before and hoping I can stay in the pre-diabetic zone as long as possible. So generally I’ve spent the last week eating less food in more spaced out intervals, so I’m just kind of craving the days when I could eat anything :) Ah, they pass too soon, these days of wine and roses! But, silver lining, I’m getting back into god’s gift for carb-counters, omlettes! Tonight I will make another delicious bundle of eggs, stuffed olives, and feta cheese, woot!

Tagging: @thetimemoves, @plaidadder, @viridiandecisions, @a-candle-for-sherlock, @beastlyanachronism, if you like, or anyone else who wants to!

#me memeing

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