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Joseph R. Eberle - Emissary

(Fantasy fiction - June 1953)

Gotham Academy PMV thing that I wasn't able to finish + a bunch of the scenes that I was able to finish

The Journey That Matters: What It Was Like, Directed and Produced by Arwen Curry, Featuring Ursula K. Le Guin [reading her essay 'What is Was Like' (2004), in Words Are My Matter. Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, Small Beer Press, 2016], 2023 [Literary Hub]

Cinematographer: Jeff Streich Editors: Maya Curry, Sarah Cannon Composer: Will Fritch Location Sound: Anna Rieke Motion Graphics: Alexandra Petrus, Kia Simon

Archival footage and stills: The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation; Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

What It Was Like A talk given at a meeting of Oregon NARAL in January 2004 «My friends at NARAL asked me to tell you what it was like before Roe vs. Wade. They asked me to tell you what it was like to be twenty and pregnant in 1950 and when you tell your boyfriend you're pregnant, he tells you about a friend of his in the army whose girl told him she was pregnant, so he got all his buddies to come and say, "We all fucked her, so who knows who the father is?" And he laughs at the good joke. They asked me to tell you what it was like to be a pregnant girl—we weren't "women" then—a pregnant college girl who, if her college found out she was pregnant, would expel her, there and then, without plea or recourse. What it was like, if you were planning to go to graduate school and get a degree and earn a living so you could support yourself and do the work you loved—what it was like to be a senior at Radcliffe and pregnant and if you bore this child, this child which the law demanded you bear and would then call "unlawful," "illegitimate," this child whose father denied it, this child which would take from you your capacity to support yourself and do the work you knew it was your gift and your responsibility to do: What was it like? I can hardly imagine what it's like to live as a woman under Fundamentalist Islamic law. I can hardly remember now, fifty-four years later, what it was like to live under Fundamentalist Christian law. Thanks to Roe vs. Wade, none of us in America has lived in that place for half a lifetime. But I can tell you what it is like, for me, right now. It's like this: If I had dropped out of college, thrown away my education, depended on my parents through the pregnancy, birth, and infancy, till I could get some kind of work and gain some kind of independence for myself and the child, if I had done all that, which is what the anti-abortion people want me to have done, I would have borne a child for them, for the anti-abortion people, the authorities, the theorists, the fundamentalists; I would have borne a child for them, their child. But I would not have borne my own first child, or second child, or third child. My children. The life of that fetus would have prevented, would have aborted, three other fetuses, or children, or lives, or whatever you choose to call them: my children, the three I bore, the three wanted children, the three I had with my husband—whom, if I had not aborted the unwanted one, I would never have met and married, because he would have been a Fulbright student going to France on the Queen Mary in 1953 but I would not have been a Fulbright student going to France on the Queen Mary in 1953. I would have been an "unwed mother" of a three-year-old in California, without work, with half an education, living off her parents, not marriageable, contributing nothing to her community but another mouth to feed, another useless woman. But it is the children I have to come back to, my children Elisabeth, Caroline, Theodore, my joy, my pride, my loves. If I had not broken the law and aborted that life nobody wanted, they would have been aborted by a cruel, bigoted, and senseless law. They would never have been born. This thought I cannot bear. I beg you to see what it is that we must save, and not to let the bigots and misogynists take it away from us again. Save what we won: our children. You who are young, before it's too late, save your children.» – Ursula K. Le Guin, Words Are My Matter. Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, Small Beer Press, Easthampton, MA, 2016

love that the gotham academy girls dynamic is 2 haters and a lover... olive hates batman (she's so valid and i lover her), pom is a HATER by trade and loves john constantine (batman's frenemy), but maps is like... uber obsessed with batman and his mythos.

Local child is wiser than a significant number of local adults.

(Source: Gotham Academy: Second Semester)

40 hours of drawing dean in a scene originally from s1e20 dead man's blood that i modified to (hopefully) work with the story that inspired it. i cut sam out of the scene, put the laptop on the table, made a little phone with the final painting cropped/blurred/made cooler toned that sam's holding. i used the powerbook g4 for the laptop (not the s1 one with the stickers that was in this scene), used the s2 phone, put the mystery spot pig 'n a poke sign on the front window, changed the across-the-street buildings a bit. kind of a mishmash.

this is the third time i've painted dean, and the third time i really struggled with his face. either a face comes together relatively easily, or it really really doesn't. this was the latter, yet again. anyway, i enjoyed all these details and not-face drawing, especially the pig illustration and the impala. i was really struck when reading that fic with this idea that i could make something happen that would be tied into the story, but also would work within my limited capabilities of needing a reference to draw from. and i really like the idea of drawing dean from the lens of what would moments sam would take a picture of.

art post here inspiration fic the archivist

song: you remain by william ryan fritch

MERRY XMAS EVERYONE!!!

Have some random kaiju Xmas scenarios

Anyone interested in a Gotham Academy Big Bang event? Let me know!

Why do they deserve to win?

Jo Mullein

Pomeline Fritch

(no propaganda submitted)

I want Jason to become the designated magic investigator for Gotham. None of the other bats want to touch magic with a ten foot pole, but Jason is casually steeping in the supernatural. They should just start shoving their weird cases on to him. It could be fun.

Jason is trying to get a somebody out of a demon deal they made. He kidnaps Harvey to be the person “Lawyer”. “I don’t know what kind of Lawyer you need for this, but I’m not it.” “Don’t care, you owe me for the zombie mess” Harvey ends up joining permanently as Jason’s legle consultant.

Speaking of zombies, Powers International is still around doing weird stuff with Lazarus Resin. The become the Wolfram & Hart to Jason’s Angel Investigations,

Somehow Dr. Langstrom ends up on the squad. Jason and Harvey are both very confused to discover he knows magic. Langstom proudly shows off his JLD membership card. They are even more confused that he’s a member of the Justice League and can’t decide if  being apart of the magic division specifically makes it more or less weird.

Every Jason series is better when he has a kid sidekick. In this one it’s gonna be Maps Mizoguchi. Who at this point has met every bat except for Jason and Dick. And given her own inclinations towards the supernatural she just makes sense here.

Jason and Harvey are confused again when Maps knows Dr. Langstrom and mentions he used to be one of her teachers at Gotham Academy. Langstrom gets around.

Maps drags her friend Pomeline into the group. Langstrom starts teaching her magic. Everyone else gets nervous because this can’t possibly end well.

One time they get a case and end up needing to talk to the king of hell to get it solved. This time everyone is confused by Jason when he says no problem. They set up a summoning circle and out pops Bizarro, This is not what any of the others where expecting.

I feel like there’s gotta be a good way to include Eddie Bloomberg in this and revive his friendship with Jason. But I also don’t know if he ever came back from the dead after heroes in crisis so . . .

was rereading vol 2 of second semester for art references and:

Pom and Coltons interactions are always just the best, like damn they’re trying their best to work with what they have.

I just think calamity olive looks really cool here like “go off girl get em’!”

also this panel of maps !!! I literally love it so much, like girl is really going through it. She won’t even give Colton a high five :(

Olive D: something about olive truly convincing herself she’s alone.

DC: Saved by the Belle Reve - Gotham Academy Story PREVIEW