HAPPY BELATED MOTHER’S DAY
to all the Nancy Drew characters who have lost their mothers.
We love you!
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The Good Doctor - Season 6
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Endless List of My Favorite TV Shows
The Good Doctor (2017 - Present)
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Prompt: What would they name their children?
Characters: Everyone ;)
Format: Headcannons
Warning(s): None <3
A/N: Why? Because I like to name things. It's fun. Now I have them on record for when I choose to do any future AUs. I have synesthesia so these are inspired by the color I see when I hear a character's name. Also a reason to use my cute new headers.
Fem. leaning: Beatrice
Masc. leaning: Pierce
Fem. leaning: Donna
Masc. leaning: Mason
Fem. leaning: Elise
Masc. leaning: Jessie
Fem. leaning: Harper
Masc. leaning: Benjamin
Fem. leaning: Anne
Masc. leaning: Romeo
Fem. leaning: Rori
Masc. leaning: Asra
Fem. leaning: Petunia
Masc. leaning: Reese
Fem. leaning: Ginger
Masc. leaning: Easton
Fem. leaning: Piper
Masc. leaning: Sebastian
Fem. leaning: Hazel
Masc. leaning: Jasper
Fem. leaning: Maya
Masc. leaning: Mako
Fem. leaning: Ebony
Masc. leaning: Khalid
Fem. leaning: Isis
Masc. leaning: Anton
Fem. leaning: Violet
Masc. leaning: Felix
Fem. leaning: Odette
Masc. leaning: Markel
Fem. leaning: Clementine
Masc. leaning: Dieter
Fem. leaning: Clara
Masc. leaning: Atlas
Fem. leaning: Collette
Masc. leaning: Elias
Fem. leaning: Fiona
Masc. leaning: Silver Ren
Fem. leaning: Lilliana
Masc. leaning: Kai
Fem. leaning: Rosemary
Masc. leaning: Matthias
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Chenford aside, the storyline I want to really see explored this season is Harper.
"I am an enigma wrapped in a badass riddle."
I love the way she describes herself😂 but I also want to see her trauma explored more deeply. Especially with this latest shooting and how it will affect her, and how James will take it. Obviously, this isn't the first time Harper has shot someone. Nolan said himself, "Harper has seen things that would give Freddy Krueger nightmares."
But I think Harper very much compartmentalizes the job. And out of all of them, I think she is the best at leaving work at the station and making sure she is present for her family when she is home.
Having said that, I think she internalizes a lot of it. And seeing how James was when Harper was trying to help the kidnapped boy and when she was trying to assist with Fiona Ryan's stalker, I think he's definitely going to have opinions on her killing this man, even though it was the right call and had to be done in order to save Lisa.
I know we're short on time this season, but I do hope we get to see some of this explored.
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Some Dancers at YAGP Finals:
Ballet Academy of Chapel Hill:
Tinsley Wallace (10)
Ballet Bloch Canada:
Keenan Mentzos (14)
Bayer Ballet:
Chloe Helimets (13)
Jaslyn Kwan (15)
Crystal Huang (15)
Amelia Chen (15)
Cary Ballet Conservatory:
Eric Poor (14)
Concept Pavielle:
Harper Anderson (11)
Club:
Harper Schwalb (10)
Bella Linman (10)
DanceLova:
Charlotte Pham (10)
DKCBA:
Summer Wellman (11)
June Freeman (13)
Kiera Sun (13)
Natalie Kulba (14)
Cayman Lee (14)
Clara Riggs (15)
Lyla Briggs (15)
Izzy Howard (16)
Aimee Choo (17)
Elite Classical Coaching:
Nicholas Du (11)
Angelina Tan (14)
Fort Lauderdale Youth Ballet:
Dylan Custodio (12)
Independent:
Emma Bassel (11)
Jun Lu:
Athena Hu (11)
Larkin:
Savannah Jackson (9)
Isabella Charnstrom (11)
Savannah Manzel (13)
MBA:
Ophelia Thiem (10)
Ellary Day Szyndlar (11)
Victoria Carrillo (11)
Tova Tustin (12)
Channing Dennis (14)
Sabrina Dorsey (15)
Lillian Rossman (15)
Gracie Kirkwood (16)
Chloe Hennessey (16)
Audrey Lyons (17)
Melanie McIntire (17)
Alecia Lucchesi (17)
Sofia Rutova (18)
Parker Rozzano-Keefe (18)
Tyler Cohen (18)
New Level:
Reese Braga (10)
Pittsburgh Ballet House:
Giada Reino (11)
Stars:
Santiago Sosa (13)
Studio 4:
Reese Ottney (11)
The Art of Classical Ballet:
Ashley Demi Otano (11)
Kya Massimino (13)
The Dallas Conservatory:
Maeve Olsen (9)
Georgia Reed (10)
Zoey Reese (12)
Tobias Weber (13)
The Rock:
Jillian Chapler (11)
Crystal Huang (15)
Yoko's:
Isabella Tjoe (13)
Fiona Wu (13)
Xtreme:
Blake Metcalf (13)
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attempting to rank all my 2023 reads, because i dont really give ratings anymore, but still want to try to make sense of everything i read this year. there were a lot of great books, and this was really hard! this order doesn't speak to the objective quality of the books, but rather my personal enjoyment of them.
(5 stars)
1. Ariah by B.R. Sanders
2. A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files (reread)
3. Leech by Hiron Ennes
4. Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott
5. Point of Hopes by Melissa Scott
6. Ocean's Blood by Thelma Mantey
(~4 stars)
7. Point of Sighs by Melissa Scott
8. The Stone Prince by Fiona Patton
9. The First Stone by Mark Anthony
10. Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files
11. Point of Knives by Melissa Scott
12. Fair's Point by Melissa Scott
13. Silent Reading by Priest
14. The Door into Shadow by Diane Duane
15. Aleksey's Kingdom by John Wiltshire
16. Obsidian Island by Arden Powell
17. Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror edited by Lor Gislason
18. Spring in Siberia by Artem Mozgovoy
(~3 stars)
19. The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
20. Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
21. The Master of Samar by Melissa Scott
22. Master of One by Dani Bennett and Jaida Jones
23. The Painter Knight by Fiona Patton
24. Chasing Cold by Stephen Graham King
25. Resistance by B.R. Sanders
(~2 stars)
26. A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow
27. The Trans Space Octopus Congregation by Bogi Takács
28. Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
29. Dreamer by Steven Harper
30. The Stark Divide by J. Scott Coatsworth
31. Steal the Sky by Megan E. O'Keefe
32. Fiorenzo by Sebastian Nothwell
DNFs:
Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
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Author Spotlight: Tamara Jerée
Check out this wonderful essay on sapphic, Black, paranormal romances from Tamara Jerée. Tamara is the author of The Fall That Saved Us, a current club read out today!
As writers, we often hear that we should write the book we want to read. For me, that’s meant writing into a niche that feels largely unacknowledged. The more descriptors I stack—sapphic, Black, paranormal, romance—the shorter the list of books becomes. Finding darker sapphic romance by and about lesbians of color is hard. Stepping into a bookstore, I often feel like there is still a narrow range within which the publishing industry will allow us to exist. Readers don’t seek out our books in the same ways. Especially when compared to the diverse range of literary experiences for white women, I feel the lack.
I can immediately think of a few adult titles that fit into the Black sapphic paranormal romance genre. There’s Darknesses by Lachelle Seville, a romance featuring a sapphic Dracula. I was excited to find that Fiona Zedde, whose contemporary romances kept popping up as a recommendation for me, also writes paranormal romance. Every Dark Desire is the first in her vampire series. (If you’re interested in a comprehensive list, Tuesday Harper maintains a searchable database of Black WLW books here. I stumbled upon some new titles for my TBR!)
In lieu of paranormal romance, I often find myself reaching for sapphic horror to fill out my moody reading list. The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan is an F/F erotic horror novel set in Singapore that follows a maidservant and her vampire mistress. House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson is a gothic horror novel that doesn’t call its vampires vampires but nevertheless satisfied my need for bloody, brooding sapphics.
I’m compelled by erotic horror—and horror that winks at the erotic—because it confronts our personal and cultural fears and, in doing so, leaves us with nothing more to be scared of. Here, look at our depth and ugliness and resilience and strange pleasures. Ultimately, look at how we survived. Those darker elements influence all my work. I want the catharsis of safely staring down weird and terrible things. When combined with the structure of romance, the guaranteed HEA reassures. Maybe you’ve been through a long night, but you deserve happiness.
I want to talk about the first novel in the Black lesbian paranormal genre that ever made me feel seen as a writer, the one that sank its teeth into me and made me think this is possible; this is where my work wants to be. Published in 1991, The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez follows a queer Black vampire through the antebellum era and into the present before casting her and her chosen family into a speculative future. The novel isn’t a romance, but it does catalogue Gilda’s lovers through the ages—who she chooses to bring into immortal life and how they care for each other in a hostile world.
In the introduction, Gomez discusses how nervous she was about the book because lesbians in her community were skeptical of the rep. Attaching something taboo like vampirism to a Black lesbian protagonist? It was risky. Their concerns remind me so much of the debate in queer circles today over what depictions of ourselves and our communities are proper. We worry about writing people like us as villains or monsters because it would give fuel to hegemonic perspectives that are already eager to see us as deviant and evil.
As one of those readers and writers who finds power in reclaiming the monster, of being an antagonist to an unjust society, I’m thankful for Gilda. And I’m so glad Gomez took the risk. It’s empowered me as a Black lesbian writing romance that confronts heavy themes of mental illness and healing from abuse through a paranormal and fantastic lens. In my debut novel The Fall That Saved Us, Avitue—the succubus love interest—is an unrepentant villain, a sexy bad girl unafraid to show her teeth to a world that’s hurt her. She’s a monster because others have said so, and she wears the title as a badge of honor. The main character Cassiel, however, views Avitue as a savior—from her scarred past and a stagnant present.
The Gilda Stories expanded for me what we can be and do. There’s an infinite number of Black stories we can tell. Black people can be anything we want, including the hot lady monster who gets the girl.
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THE DANCE AWARDS LAS VEGAS RESULTS 2023
JUNIOR SOLOS:
1st Fiona Wu - YOKO’S JP!
2nd Savannah Manzel - LARKIN JP!
3rd Keelyn Jones - DANCEOLOGY JP!
4th Ava Ding - YOKO’S JP!
4th Kelsie Jacobson - LARKIN JP!
5th Aria Du - YOKO’S JP!
5th Violet Schwarz - CSPAS JP!
6th Peyton Szuberla - DANCEOLOGY JP!
6th Isabella Tjoe - YOKO’S JP!
7th Fiona Sartain - DANCEOLOGY JP!
7th Kylie Lawrence - CSPAS JP!
8th Tiara Sherman - THE ROCK JP!
8th Daphnie Braun - LARKIN JP!
8th Savannah Gilliam - CSPAS JP!
9th Harper Ducale - HYPE JP!
10th Hannah Bozer - CLUB JP!
10th Evelyn Lee - DANCEOLOGY JP!
10th Channing Embry - NEXT STEP JP!
10th Kai Toves - PAS DE DEUX HAWAII JP!
10th Iris Chan - YOKO’S JP!
10th Alexis Alvarez - CLUB JP!
10th Joy Lin - YOKO’S JP!
10th Ingrid Wirtz - LARKIN JP!
10th Reagan Francis - DANCEOLOGY JP!
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Some Yagp finals
Chloe Hennessy (16): Swanhilda; Grateful Bond
Crystal Huang (15): Gulnara; Valse Masquerade
Ellary Day Szyndlar (11): Paquita; Weeping (yayy I love this one)
Fiona Wu (13): Awakening of Flora; Broken Bow
Harper Anderson (11): Medora; Instrospection
Harper Schwalb (10): Fairy Doll; Gilded Swan
Isabella Charnstrom (11): Scarlett Sonata
Isabella Howard (16): Etudes; Over it, Scene
Isabella Tjoe (13): Paquita; Song of the Black Swan
Kiera Sun (13): Aurora Act III; Mist
Kya Massimino (13): Kitri Act III; 24
Melanie Mccintire (17): Etudes; Beyond the Mirage
Reese Braga (10): Le Matin
Savannah Jackson (9): 3rd Odalisque; Recall Your Face
Savannah Manzel (13): Concerto; Gamzatti
Victoria Carrillo (11): Queen of Dryads; Lux Aeterna
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The Good Doctor - Season 5
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“The world’s male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emma Thompson photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair, 1995.
Ella Hattan c. 1885, better known by 'La Jaguarina,' is regarded as one of the greatest swordswomen of the 19th century.
"She had, for years, defeated just about every male opponent she could find, usually with broadswords on horseback."
Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022).
"Beautiful she is, sir! Lovely! Sometimes like a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowndilly, small and slender like. Hard as di'monds, soft as moonlight. Warm as sunlight, cold as frost in the stars. Proud and far-off as a snow-mountain, and as merry as any lass I ever saw with daisies in her hair in spring-time. … But perhaps you could call her perilous because she’s so strong in herself. You, you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock, or drown yourself, like a Hobbit in a river. But neither rock nor river would be to blame."
- The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
Lorde photographed by Perou, 2017.
"I'm little, but I'm coming for the crown." - Still Sane, Lorde
Mia Wasikowska for Alice In Wonderland (2010).
"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
- Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).
"Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind." - Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Fiona Apple photographed by Joe McNally, 1997.
This mind, this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways.
So don't forget what I told you; don't come around, I got my own hell to raise.
- Sleep to Dream, Fiona Apple
Florence Welch
I need my golden crown of sorrow
My bloody sword to swing
My empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology
I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
- King, Florence & The Machine
Joan of Arc by John Gilbert (1817–1897) c. 1876.
"She was truthful when lying was the common speech of men; she was honest when honest was become a lost virtue; she was a keeper of promises when the keeping of a promise was expected of no one; ...she was full of pity when a merciless cruelty was the rule; she was steadfast when stability was unknown, and honorable in an age which had forgotten what honor was; she was a rock of convictions in a time when men believed in nothing and scoffed at all things; she was unfailingly true in an age that was false to the core; ... she was of a dauntless courage when hope and courage had perished in the hearts of her nation..."
- Mark Twain, Joan of Arc
Monica Vitti in La cintura di castità (1967).
Natalia Vodianova photographed by Michelangelo Di Battista for Harpers Bazaar UK, 2010.
Kate Bush photographed by Adrian Boot, 1980.
Only tragedy allows the release
Of love and grief never normally seen.
I didn't want to let them see me weep,
I didn't want to let them see me weak,
But I know I have shown
That I stand at the gates alone.
- All The Love, Kate Bush
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I know there is no schedule but who are you looking forward to watching at YAGP Finals? If they are streaming?
they are streaming classical and pas de deux!
i'm looking forward to watching harper anderson, harper schwalb, ellary day, bella charnstrom, savannah manzel, savannah jackson, kya massimino, crystal huang, izzy howard, kennedy kahler, katarina carney, kiera sun, & fiona wu! so excited!
some of these are assumptions as to who was invited/going!
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