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I miss drawing my gay boys,,, (plus an additional colored sketch)
Fire boy: Jayus
Plant boy: Simon
#art#yep#arty art#oc#Simon antebellum#Jayus sparrow#they are such idiots#and they are in love#all the time forever#sketch#gas cans ocs
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So… oc redesign?
I may have gotten way too into vigilantes/hero’s once again
#screaming about art#screaming doodles#art#digital art#oc art#doodles#umm#Simon antebellum#my silly silly meow meow#The Black Raven#the flowering plague#cause that’s what the universe is called in my head#I’ll explain it later but it’s basically the flower zombies idea take#*taken to the extreme#I’ll post more on it soon just. wanted to get this out there#yeah#colored sketch#digital sketch
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Season 2 and 3: The Winchester's and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Demon Deals
Season 2 rating: 9/10
Best episodes from S2: Simon Said, RoadKill, and AHBL I & II
Worst episode: Hollywood Babylon (Just boring)
Season 3 rating 6/10
Best Episodes from S3: No Rest for the Wicked and The Kids Are Alright
Worst episode: Red Sky at Morning (just boring)
Sterling K. Brown is amazing his role as Gordon Walker is great.
I wish the special children plot line lasted longer. I believe so much more could have been done with them.
Ellen and Jo are not the best written characters on a re-watch. I liked them first time but not anymore.
Love episodes with 'human' monsters
Law enforcement episodes are some of my favorites
Dean doesn't have the best mental health in season 1 but in season 2 and 3 he has really started to derail. Couldn't keep his father save and he might lose his brother to an undetermined future.
Sam does stupid shit when he is emotional especially when Dean is involved.
Bella Talbot is a Boss Bitch. I like her more this time around.
Ava is adorable even if she turns into a little serial killer. "I just helped steal some dead guy's confidential files! I'm awesome"
I want to know the story behind 'funky town' Did happen before Sam went to Stanford or when he started hunting with Dean again?
Honestly, Gordon acting like Dean wasn't gonna hunt his ass down for murdering Sam is hilarious
Sam always blames himself for situations out of his control. Makes me sad.
I'm pretty sure that the hotel in Playthings is an Antebellum home.
2.12 Everytime I watch Nightshifter, I can only think of this:
2.12 Dean is such a simple man :" I like him. He says okey-dokey." What a fuckin dork. I love him.
2.12 Sam is so exasperated and bitchy this episode
2.12 Victor Henriksen was short-lived. Would've have been nice for the boys to have an ally in the feds.
2.12 The ending is amazing
Sam continues to believed that he can't be saved
Jared Padalecki is amazing and terrifying in 2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign
2.14 Demons really be trying to make the boys divorce
2.14 The Jo scene is so uncomfortable and the actors did amazing job of portraying it
2.14 I literally read a fanfic where Dean was in the place of Jo. It was some good shit not gonna lie
2.14 I'm pretty sure Meg was shocked that Dean would literally help his brother get away with murder. What's one more crime?
2.14 I have to give it to Meg. She was really trying to get Dean to turn against Sam and kill him. Hell, if she stopped possessing Sam after using his body to kill Dean, Sam would have embraced his dark destiny
Poor Sam. Dean knows what Madison meant to him in more ways than one
Wish we saw more of the lawyer and Deacon from 2.19 Folsom Prison Blues
2.19 Dean having fun in prison and fitting is so well is such a vibe. Sam's being disturbed by it was amusing.
2.20 Even in a world where they were never hunters, Dean still becomes an alcoholic
2.20 Wincest fics having DJINN are my favorite. Good shit right there
2.20 Dean wants Sam to be happy but not at the expense of losing their relationship with one another. Bruh, that shit is depressing.
Aww! Sam is Azazel's favorite
Andy is me in AHBL
Sam flexing his leadership skills in cold oak. Feel like a proud momma
Sam's first death hits hard. The relief on his face when he sees Dean coming for him. The last thing before death he sees is Dean allowing him to let go safely. And Dean just holding onto his world with desperation as his soul dies along with Sam.
Sam finding out about Dean's deal is heartbreaking. He was taken from his brother by a demon, finds out about his demon, he was killed violently, and then he is resurrected only to find out his brother sold his soul. Poor Sammy.
I forgot how shocking Sam's descent into savagery is. Blood thirsty little giant. Don't blame him though. I would be pissed off to if I was stabbed in the back literally and metaphorically
John really climbed out of the bowels of hell, saved his boys, and yeeted to Heaven
Dean becoming catatonic after Sam's death is so sad; his entire world just ended. Family may not end in blood but he is sole survivor of his own blood
Jensen Ackles flexing his acting chops with his emotional scenes begging for his brother to be okay and then having a monologue over his corpse is so fuckin good. Makes me cry everytime.
Demons calling Sam the Boy King or any alternative will never not be cool but it will continue to be funny
I like episodes involving their childhood and baby Dean tried so hard for Sammy
I actually didn't care for blond Ruby the first time I watch the series but I like her more during the re-watch. She is awesome and snarky
As much as I like Bella, she is fuckin dumb for stealing the colt like what the hell man. She reaped what she sowed right there
I used to find mystery spot funny but is more depressing than anything. Sam was barely holding on to his sanity and his moral compass was derailing fast
The way Dean begins to become more unhinged as his deal grows closer made my heart hurt
Lilith poked a goddam bear torturing and killing Dean in front of Sam's face. Gotta give her props; she had fuckin balls considering Sam's future. Guess Lucy didn't give her the memo or just didn't care since he was stuck in the cage. Having Sam Winchester on your ass is probably worse than facing Dean. Unhinged Sammy is somethin else
#Observations and opinions from seasons 2-3#samdean#dean winchester#sam winchester#the epic love story of sam and dean#wincest
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top five *and* bottom five historical eras
top five:
01. filthy victorians; they made me what i'm made of!
is it cheating to count the gilded age separately, or is it cheating to list them as the same? i genuinely cannot decide. either way, here it is, awkwardly sandwiched with the victorians, as always.
02. ancient israel, especially the period leading right up to and spanning the jewish-roman wars. three-hour long historical epic about simon bar kokhba when.
03. american revolution. i can't help it; my father celebrated the fourth of july bigger than christmas. i've come to accept that there is a part of me that will always have a little starry-eyed wonder for The American Experiment.
04. the mughal era. flashy the white queen-style miniseries about the war of succession between aurangzeb and dara shikoh WHEN!
05. late 1950s/early 1960s u.s. but, like, the spicy youth culture edition as depicted in the documentaries rebel without a cause, the outsiders, and west side story.
honorable mentions: belle époque (i know. i know i have, like, three different versions of the long nineteenth century on this list. it will happen again); The Period Formerly Known As The Dark Ages; the weimar republic; the "wild west."
bottom five:
01. antebellum southern U.S. i cannot with the way people aestheticize this period and pretend that doing so is harmless, or worse, Their Culture, and i wish everyone who's ever had a plantation wedding a very die.
02. ancient rome. it's just never been terribly interesting to me. best i can do is sit through the donmar warehouse's coriolanus.
03. the regency. bridgerton is overrated, jane austen is overrated, i hate your clothes, and you all are the reason why the victorians felt the need to cover up table legs lest they promote impure thoughts*.
04. the 15th century, not for any particular personal dislike, and it's where my man R3 hails from, so the love is there, but i always feel like everything that happened in the 15th century is either way too late or way too recent for my comfort. i don't like how few years, relatively speaking, are between geoffrey chaucer and joan of arc, or between richard iii and henry viii. the hollow crown really fucked me up.
05. I SWEAR TO GOD IF THE ZOOMERS KEEP TRYING TO BRING BACK Y2K
*that is a joke and a myth. in fairness, the stories about regency women dampening their dresses so they clung better might be a myth, too. but still.
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Besides the double murder stereotype. What are other things you dislike about danganronpa/fangans in general, when it comes to writing?
//There's a lot I could say about that, but I think the biggest one for me is the fridging. Dear lord, I hate fridging.
//On the off chance you're not familiar, fridging comes from the trope "Stuffed in the Fridge," which comes from "Women in refrigerators" by Gail Simone, which was a response to a Green Lantern issue where Kyle Rainer's girlfriend Alexandra was killed by the supervillain Major Force and shoved into the fridge for her to find. Quite a journey, I know.
//Fridging refers to the tendency for characters to be killed, harmed, traumatized, de-powered, or otherwise made to suffer not for the advancement of their own stories, but to affect someone else entirely. It's only ever about the character feeling sad or mad in response to these things, often briefly and shallowly.
//For another prime example, Barbara Gordon, aka the OG Batgirl, was shot in The Killing Joke and subjected to humiliation, but not for the advancement of her own character. No, it was entirely to upset her father, Jim Gordon; she is gone from the story after one last scene in the hospital with her. Barbara was left traumatized and paraplegic in a story that wasn't even about her. It was only thanks to the work of other writers later that she became her new identity of Oracle.
//I bring all this up because fridging is an inherently bad trope. It's not one that's often done wrong but can work in certain situations, it's one that is simply bad writing. It's on the same level as Bury Your Gays or R*pe as Drama, bad conceptually and worse in application, because it trashes one storyline or arc for the sake of changing another
//I know what you may be thinking in regard to DR here, and yes, Kaede is definitely a good contender. She was set up to be the first female protag of a canon killing game, only to be caught up in a murder situation and die, leaving local sad boi Shuichi to take up the role in her wake.
//The thing is, while I can certainly see the argument there- an interesting female lead being killed so we can have another sad boi learn to be confident- a lot of people go too far and wish harm on Shuichi and fans of his. This is not the acceptable response to fridging.
//Likewise, I can see the other side of the argument, where Kaede's actions were in line with her personality, how she was willing to go further than other protags and was thus done in by her own actions. No, Tsumugi killing Rantaro and framing Kaede doesn't mean she did nothing wrong; she set up the trap and was willing to crush someone's head. True Fridging rarely comes from a character's own actions, usually outside forces that just want to hurt someone else.
//And while I did enjoy Fuyuhiko's storyline in DR2, I can't help but feel that the deaths of both Mahiru and Peko to get us there feel...iffy. Not true fridging, but maybe fridging adjacent? Peko's death is understandable, but the actual murder of Mahiru and both of them dying for a dude's storyline always did rub me the wrong way a bit. It at least aims for tragedy rather than exploitation in that regard.
//Idk, maybe Hibiki and Kanata's deaths are so comparatively worse that I've softened on the canon examples a bit more. Those two were pure emotional manipulation in every respect, and otherwise had no bearing on their stories.
//And yes, male characters can get fridged too, but it happens far, far more often with female characters. The essay was called Women in Refrigerators for a reason.
//The thing that truly boggles my mind is that I've seen so many fan theories for fangans like Despair Time or Antebellum, usually victim or killer predictions, and their arguments have ultimately boiled down to fridging them for someone else's development, or sometimes purely for the feels. "Charles will die so Whit can learn how to mourn properly" and the like.
//People get annoyed when it happens in the stories themselves, yet theories are oddly rife with it and I don't understand why. As I said, fridging is an inherently bad trope. You cannot do it right, so you simply should not do it at all. And no, the argument that "this is a death game" is no excuse.
//"Anyone can die" is not the same thing as "dying for stupid, contrived reasons is acceptable." Especially not when the reason is "you're in the way of my preferred ship," but that's a whole other iceberg to deal with.
//Bottom line, keep the fridge clear for milk, juice and frozen pizzas, not the corpses of characters who should have arcs of their own
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Literature Review: Stowe's Use of Dialect
In this literature review I will be analyzing the 1931 article written by Tremaine McDowell titled "The Use of Negro Dialect by Harriet Beecher Stowe". As this article is considerably older than other, more modern interpretations of Stowe's work, it employs the use of racial terminology that cannot be condoned in 2024. However, when quoting citations from this article as well as Uncle Tom's Cabin, I will be quoting them word-for-word, but do not take this as tolerance for the words themselves.
During my reading, one aspect of Stowe's tone of writing was how she portrayed her black slave characters, like Eliza, George, and Tom, with their choice of vocabulary compared to white characters, like Eva and her father, as well as Simon Legree. This is established right away in the story as Tom's family and other slaves on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky speak to one another using colloquial, plain language, such as when the slave Chloe responds to George Shelby saying, "'Mose done, Mas'r George,' said Aunt Chloe, lifting the lid and peeping in -- 'browning beautiful -- a real lovely brown. Ah! let me alone for dat. Missis let Sally try to make some cake, t'other day, jes to larn her, she said. 'Oh, go way, Missis,' said I; 'it really hurts my feelin's, now, to see good vittles spilt dat ar way! Cake ris all to one side - no shape at all; no more than my shoe; go way!" (Stowe, 26). The slave Chloe's dialect is shown when she abruptly cuts words off and combines words in a way that would not have been common among whites, so it makes her character as a slave very apparent from the get go. However, despite this, Stowe does not stay consistent in her usage of this type of language as an indicator for the race of the character speaking, as the reader may assume. Tremaine McDowell states that "... the foundation of the speech of all of Mrs. Stowe's characters is the dialect, not exactly of the New Englanders of fiction as is suggested by Krapp (The Enlish Language in America, I, 262), but the common body of folk-speech which underlies American dialects in all sections of the country" (McDowell, 322). This general indicator of class, rather than race only, does not make identifying characters by their speech any easier, as characters like Tom, Eliza, and George seem to sway very easily between the characteristic southern dialect that Stowe uses for other slaves as well as some choice usage of eloquent verbiage, a typical trait of Stowe's white characters. McDowell states simply that "[d]ue to this constant resemblance between the speech of her white and that of her blacks, Mrs. Stow is often unable to make adequate distinction between the two" (323).
It is also worth noting that in their article, McDowell begins a comparison of Uncle Tom's Cabin to some of Stowe's other literary works that followed its publication, such as her work Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp(1856). McDowell says that "Mrs. Stowe makes no advance in her recording of negro dialect. Here, as in Uncle Tom's Cabin, slaves have little difficulty with gender or number of pronouns, they usually keep their tenses disentangles, and they even distinguish between shall and will... Such dialect is convincing only to the most uncritical reader" (324).
I think that one takeaway from Stowe's observed use of language as a race and class indicator is that it is inconsistent at times and generally not a great form of representation for slaves of the antebellum days. Stowe's limited experience in the south and with slave life & culture specifically as a white northern woman means that her caricatures are what a lot of white and northern readers will believe to be true, when reality shows us that it's merely for entertainment.
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Holidays 1.26
Holidays
Australia Day
Bald Eagle Appreciation Day
Bessie Coleman Day
Day of Islam (Poland)
Dental Drill Day
Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)
Dungeons & Dragons Day
Engineer’s Day (Panama)
General Douglas MacArthur Day (Arkansas)
International Customs Day
International Environmental Education Day
International Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day
International Sous Vide Day
Liberation Day (Uganda)
Lotus 1-2-3 Day
Multicultural Children’s Book Day
National Diane Day
National Heroes Day (Cayman Islands)
National Ranboo Day
National #24 Day
Renewable Energy Day (Indiana)
Republic Day (Canada, India, UK)
Rocky Mountain National Park Day
Rum Rebellion Day (Australia)
Spouse’s Day
Television Day
Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement
World Day for the Abolition of Meat
World Day of the Fisherman
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Green Juice Day
National Irish Soda Bread Day
National Peanut Brittle Day
National Pistachio Day
Spike the Punch Day
Stingray IPA Day
4th & Last Thursday in January
Clashing Clothes Day [4th Thursday]
NASA Day of Remembrance [Last Thursday]
National Cheat Day [4th Thursday]
Independence Days
Michigan Statehood Day (#26; 1837)
Suttornland (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Alberic (Christian; Saint)
Conon (Christian; Saint)
Dévote's Day (Monaco; Saint)
Founders of Cîteaux (Alberic of Cîteaux, Robert of Molesme, Stephen Harding)
Gabriele Allegra (Christian; Blessed)
John the Baptist (Positivist; Saint)
Paula (Christian; Saint)
Pilar (Muppetism)
Powamu begins (a.k.a. Bean Dance Ceremony; Hopi) [8 Days; thru 2.3]
Rum Rebellion Day (Pastafarian)
Sailing of Anubis (Ancient Egypt)
Steve Jackson Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
St. John the Baptist (Positivist; Saint)
String Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)
Timothy and Titus (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [4 of 53]
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Tycho Brahe Lucky Day (Scandinavia) [1 of 4]
Premieres
Bridge Over Troubled Waters, by Simon & Garfunkel (Album; 1970)
Catch and Release (Film; 2017)
The Clock Watcher (Disney Cartoon; 1945)
Così Fan Tutte, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1790)
Der Rosenkavalier, by Richard Staruss (Comic Opera; 1911)
Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player (Album; 1973)
Don’t Stop Me Now, by Queen (Song; 1979)
Eddie the Eagle (Film; 2016)
The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series; 1979)
Hello, I’m Johnny Cash, by Johnny Cash (Album; 1970)
Instant Karma, written and recorded by John Lennon (Song; 1970)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Talk Show; 2003)
Need You Now, by Lady Antebellum (Album; 2010)
Notes on a Scandal (Film; 2007)
The Phantom of the Opera (Broadway Musical; 1988)
Riverdale (TV Series; 2017)
Twelve O’Clock High (Film; 1950)
Volver (Film; 2007)
Today’s Name Days
Paula, Timotheus, Titus (Austria)
Bogoljub, Paula, Timotej, Tit, Tonka (Croatia)
Zora (Czech Republic)
Polycarpus (Denmark)
Ulve, Ulvi (Estonia)
Joonatan (Finland)
Paule, Pauline, Timothé (France)
Paula, Timotheus, Titus (Germany)
Xenofon (Greece)
Paula, Vanda (Hungary)
Paola, Timoteo, Tito (Italy)
Agnis, Ansis (Latvia)
Daugis, Eigilė, Justas, Rimantas (Lithuania)
Esten, Øystein (Norway)
Paula, Paulina, Polikarp, Skarbimir, Wanda (Poland)
Arcadie, Ioan, Iosif, Maria, Xenofont (Romania)
Tamara (Slovakia)
Paula, Timoteo, Tito (Spain)
Bodil, Boel (Sweden)
Arkad, Arkadiy, May, Maya (Ukraine)
Aubrey, Conan, Coner, Conner, Connor, Conor, Gonzalo, Paola, Paula, Paulette, Paulina, Pauline (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 26 of 2023; 339 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 4 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 5 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Jia-Yin), Day 5 (Jia-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 4 Shevat 5783
Islamic: 4 Rajab II 1444
J Cal: 26 Aer; Fiveday [26 of 30]
Julian: 13 January 2023
Moon: 30%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 26 Moses (1st Month) [St. John the Baptist]
Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 2 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 37 of 90)
Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 6 of 30)
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Holidays 1.26
Holidays
Australia Day
Bald Eagle Appreciation Day
Bessie Coleman Day
Day of Islam (Poland)
Dental Drill Day
Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)
Dungeons & Dragons Day
Engineer’s Day (Panama)
General Douglas MacArthur Day (Arkansas)
International Customs Day
International Environmental Education Day
International Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day
International Sous Vide Day
Liberation Day (Uganda)
Lotus 1-2-3 Day
Multicultural Children’s Book Day
National Diane Day
National Heroes Day (Cayman Islands)
National Ranboo Day
National #24 Day
Renewable Energy Day (Indiana)
Republic Day (Canada, India, UK)
Rocky Mountain National Park Day
Rum Rebellion Day (Australia)
Spouse’s Day
Television Day
Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement
World Day for the Abolition of Meat
World Day of the Fisherman
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Green Juice Day
National Irish Soda Bread Day
National Peanut Brittle Day
National Pistachio Day
Spike the Punch Day
Stingray IPA Day
4th & Last Thursday in January
Clashing Clothes Day [4th Thursday]
NASA Day of Remembrance [Last Thursday]
National Cheat Day [4th Thursday]
Independence Days
Michigan Statehood Day (#26; 1837)
Suttornland (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Alberic (Christian; Saint)
Conon (Christian; Saint)
Dévote's Day (Monaco; Saint)
Founders of Cîteaux (Alberic of Cîteaux, Robert of Molesme, Stephen Harding)
Gabriele Allegra (Christian; Blessed)
John the Baptist (Positivist; Saint)
Paula (Christian; Saint)
Pilar (Muppetism)
Powamu begins (a.k.a. Bean Dance Ceremony; Hopi) [8 Days; thru 2.3]
Rum Rebellion Day (Pastafarian)
Sailing of Anubis (Ancient Egypt)
Steve Jackson Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
St. John the Baptist (Positivist; Saint)
String Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)
Timothy and Titus (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [4 of 53]
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Tycho Brahe Lucky Day (Scandinavia) [1 of 4]
Premieres
Bridge Over Troubled Waters, by Simon & Garfunkel (Album; 1970)
Catch and Release (Film; 2017)
The Clock Watcher (Disney Cartoon; 1945)
Così Fan Tutte, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1790)
Der Rosenkavalier, by Richard Staruss (Comic Opera; 1911)
Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player (Album; 1973)
Don’t Stop Me Now, by Queen (Song; 1979)
Eddie the Eagle (Film; 2016)
The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series; 1979)
Hello, I’m Johnny Cash, by Johnny Cash (Album; 1970)
Instant Karma, written and recorded by John Lennon (Song; 1970)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Talk Show; 2003)
Need You Now, by Lady Antebellum (Album; 2010)
Notes on a Scandal (Film; 2007)
The Phantom of the Opera (Broadway Musical; 1988)
Riverdale (TV Series; 2017)
Twelve O’Clock High (Film; 1950)
Volver (Film; 2007)
Today’s Name Days
Paula, Timotheus, Titus (Austria)
Bogoljub, Paula, Timotej, Tit, Tonka (Croatia)
Zora (Czech Republic)
Polycarpus (Denmark)
Ulve, Ulvi (Estonia)
Joonatan (Finland)
Paule, Pauline, Timothé (France)
Paula, Timotheus, Titus (Germany)
Xenofon (Greece)
Paula, Vanda (Hungary)
Paola, Timoteo, Tito (Italy)
Agnis, Ansis (Latvia)
Daugis, Eigilė, Justas, Rimantas (Lithuania)
Esten, Øystein (Norway)
Paula, Paulina, Polikarp, Skarbimir, Wanda (Poland)
Arcadie, Ioan, Iosif, Maria, Xenofont (Romania)
Tamara (Slovakia)
Paula, Timoteo, Tito (Spain)
Bodil, Boel (Sweden)
Arkad, Arkadiy, May, Maya (Ukraine)
Aubrey, Conan, Coner, Conner, Connor, Conor, Gonzalo, Paola, Paula, Paulette, Paulina, Pauline (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 26 of 2023; 339 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 4 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 5 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Jia-Yin), Day 5 (Jia-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 4 Shevat 5783
Islamic: 4 Rajab II 1444
J Cal: 26 Aer; Fiveday [26 of 30]
Julian: 13 January 2023
Moon: 30%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 26 Moses (1st Month) [St. John the Baptist]
Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 2 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 37 of 90)
Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 6 of 30)
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Bourke, Joanna. Rape: Sex, Violence, and History. Great Britain: Virago Press, 2007.
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Elder, Robert, “A Twice Sacred Circle: Women, Evangelicalism, and Honor in the Deep South, 1784-1860.” The Journal of Southern History 78, 3 (2012): 579-614.
Foster, Thomas A. “Sexual Abuse of Black Men Under American Slavery.” Journal of History and Sexuality 20, 3 (2011): 445-464.
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel-Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. “African American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race” Signs 17 (1992): 251-274.
Hodes, Martha. White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Hooper, William, “Address on Female Education,” Address on female education, given to the Sedgwick Female Seminary, Raleigh, N.C. (February 27, 1847).
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Powell, Anastasia. Sex, Power and Consent: Youth Culture and the Unwritten Rules. Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Scott, Anne Firor. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Varon, Elizabeth R. We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
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Young, Vernetta D. and Zoe Spencer. “Multiple Jeopardy: The Impact of Race, Gender, and Slavery on Women in Antebellum America,” in Race, Gender, and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror, edited by Mary Bosworth and Jeanne Flavin, 65-76. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.
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NY / Sana Musasama: I Never Played With Dolls
A selection of Topsy Turvy dolls including depictions of Rosa Parks, Elizabeth Jennings, Nina Simone, Winnie Mandela, Lorraine Hansberry, Sojourner Truth, Zora Neale Hurston and Maya Angelou. Completed from 2010 – present, dimensions variable, ceramic and mixed media.
Sana Musasama: I Never Played with Dolls
September 17 – October 30, 2022
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 18, 2 – 6pm
Curated by Rachael Gorchov
Essay by TS Murphy
BROOKLYN, NY – Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is thrilled to present Sana Musasama: I Never Played with Dolls, the first exhibition featuring her Topsy Turvy dolls, a project Musasama first embarked on over a decade ago to commemorate personally influential women and girls. The work represents a spectrum of individuals from public figures such as Coretta Scott King and Jackie Kennedy to Musasama’s family members and symbolic stand-ins for anonymous child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Throughout its evolution, this body of work has grown to incorporate not only Musasama’s ceramic work, 32 hands have contributed to this project. To list a few: senior citizens in New York City, survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia, and art and engineering students, thus collaborating with communities she has worked with as an activist for 26 years and as a teacher. Accompanying the Topsy Turvey dolls will be Musasama’s “I See Me” dolls, reimaginations of a doll Musasama’s mother made with her when she was a preteen to help her appreciate her own hair when other children perceived wavy, “whiter” hair to be more desirable. The Artist at Play: new works by Sana Musasama, an essay on Musasama’s life and this body of work by TS Murphy accompanies this exhibition.
Popularized during the American Antebellum period, Topsy Turvy dolls frequently portray an African head and torso fused at the waist with a European one. When one side is held upright, a long skirt hides the other. The dolls can be flipped to reveal and hide the reverse. Many theorize that enslaved Black women sewed Topsy Turvy dolls for their children. As Murphy writes:
“It was said, the enslaved children ‘couldn’t have dolls in their image’. If they were ever caught with a ‘black doll’, they would simply ‘turn it over’ to the white more acceptable side. There is a theory about the opposite being true that the children of the enslaved shouldn’t play with white dolls resembling their owners, only black ones.”
Musasama’s pairings of individuals in her Topsy Turvy dolls reveal a constellation of influences and associations. Nina Simone is paired with Winnie Mandela, Rosa Parks with Elizabeth Jennings, Musasama with her mother. Through these dolls, Musasama also commemorates women with whom she and society have complicated relationships with. Condoleezza Rice is joined with Monica Lewinsky, Sally Hemmings with Martha Jefferson.
The Topsy Turvy dolls are raku-fired ceramic, wearing intricate clothing sewn by Musasama’s collaborators. Many are animated, turning in a circle. The dolls are meant to be dynamic, interactive. The mechanics suggest how they might be played with, some seem to come to life.
The I See Me dolls represent a couple of formative influences and the taking charge of one’s own narrative. In addition to referencing a childhood memory, they also mark the beginning of dollmaking in Musasama’s career. Decades ago, she taught teenage girls in alternative-to-incarceration centers. There, she witnessed powerful art therapy exercises in which the students projected themselves onto blank dolls. Through this, she recognized the power of seeing oneself in a doll. Like many of them, Musasama never played with dolls as children, having not seen adequate representations of herself in dolls. While some may see racist tropes in the hairstyles of the dolls, Musasama is adamant that this read is that of an othering eye. They reflect how she and her peers wore their hair as children and their aesthetic.
In this body of work, Sana Musasama has exhumed personal and collective histories and experiences and has woven them with sorts of dollmaking that have become obscure through decades of relegation to play and folk. She has turned these dolls into a platform from which to praise the women and girls represented in them and their makers.
Sana Musasama received her BA from City College of New York in 1973 and her MFA from Alfred University, New York in 1988. She was awarded the 2022 Life Honorary Membership Award and the 2018 Outstanding Achievement Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) for her years of teaching and her humanitarian work with victims of sex trafficking in Cambodia and the United States. She was featured in “Artists on Artists to Watch, and Maybe Even Collect,” by Noor Brara in the New York Times T Magazine in 2021. Musasama is the coordinator of the Apron Project, a sustainable entrepreneurial project for girls and young women who reintegrated back into society after being forced into sex trafficking. In 2016, she was a guest speaker on “Activism through Art” at ROCA. A recently published article by Cliff Hocker, “If I can Help Somebody: Sana Musasama’s Art of Healing” appears in the International Review of African American Art. In 2015, the Museum of Art and Design in New York selected four works from The Unspeakable Series for their private collection; Musasama was awarded the ACLU of Michigan Art Prize 7 and Art Prize 8. In 2002, she was awarded Anonymous Was a Woman and in 2001, Musasama was featured in the 2001 Florence Biennial. Her work is in multiple collections such as The Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina; The Museum of Art and Design in New York, New York; the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, New York; the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York; Bluffton University in Bluffton, Ohio; and in numerous private collections. Sana Musasama lives and works in New York.
Tiger Strikes Asteroid’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
photos by Pacifico Silano
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Since these are my first words to you... I should let you know something... about everything...
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That I use an uniminaginable amount of deception my halfson...
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But today I will tell you the truth about my self...
In a past existence, for Christ the Lord is the first to enter existence and the last to leave it... thus... Son of Man... always returns...
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That I am no saint my halfson... nor am I a prophet... ;_;...
But I knew Peter well...
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We got into a quarrel...
I was on my vessel, a ship as it were, and boarded his...
We scuffled... and well...
Lets just say... we traded blows and decided to call the match that was a real fight to the death.. a draw.
You can put me on a lie detector at any time my halfson... nothing will change truth and mercy who kissed when they met.
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If you don’t think this is exactly a SnowBaz song from Wayward Son, I’m sory but you’re wrong.
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Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
The protests over the deaths of George Floyd and other oppressed citizens and against police brutality reminds me of the series of fugitive slave rescues that happened throughout many Northern states during the 1840s and 1850s. These rescues featured citizens resorting to drastic measures to rescue those fugitive slaves who had been captured by slave catchers and Federal marshals in Northern cities and towns.
One of the most famous of these rescues happened in the towns of Oberlin and Wellington, Ohio in September 1858. When a fugitive slave named John Price was arrested by slave catchers and the Federal marshal under the Fugitive Slave Law, outside the abolitionist town of Oberlin, he was taken to nearby Wellington. The slave catchers and Federal marshal planned to catch a train to Ohio’s capital, Columbus and later convey Price to his owner in Kentucky.
However, Oberlin’s citizens learned about Price’s capture and the slave catchers’ plans to catch a train in Wellington. A large group of them that included both the town’s black and white citizens followed Price, the slave catchers and the Federal marshal to Wellington. Then along with a group of Wellington citizens, stormed the hotel where Price was being held and used force to rescue him, before conveying him to Canada.
In the aftermath of the rescue, thirty-seven Oberlin citizens were indicted by a Federal grand jury. Twelve of those men were African-American, including Charles Henry Langston, grandfather of poet Langston Hughes. After negotiating with Ohio state officials, Federal officials had released 35 of those men, but two were convicted - including Langston and a white citizen named Simon Bushnell. Langston was sentenced to 20 days in jail and Bushnell, 60 days. However, both men were released before they could complete their sentences.
#oberlin oh#wellington oh#oberlin-wellington rescue#fugitive slave law#john price#antebellum#charles henry langston#simon bushnell#social protests#george floyd#police brutality#abolitionism#anti-slavery protests
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Playlist Considerations
A couple of thoughts for the day:
Kraken Ed: Vengeance Is Mine by Alice Cooper
Happy Stede/Ed: Got a Hold On Me by Christine McVie
The Break-Up: Need You Now by Lady Antebellum
Heartbroken Ed: The Show Must Go On by Queen
Happy Stede/Ed: Think I'm In Love by Eddie Money
Reunion/Stede's Apology: Something Happened on the Way to Heaven by Phil Collins
Revenge Co-Captains/Family: Room At The Top by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Stede Bonnet: You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon
Hopelessly In Love: Love Walked In by Thunder
The Break-Up: Be With You by Enrique Iglesias
Heartbroken Ed: I'm So Afraid by Fleetwood Mac (Live, Lindsey Buckingham on vocals)
#BlackBonnet#The Revenge#GentleBeard#Stedward#BlackStede#Kraken#The Kraken#Stede Bonnet#Edward Teach#Blackbeard#Our Flag Means Death#Spoilers#Our Flag Means Death Spoilers#OFMD#OFMD Spoilers#Stede/Ed#Stede x Ed
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Daughter of Darkness Playlist
@enamis-lana @nevquariel @omret @zephyronthewind @coolmegan123
Now that I’m taking a short break from writing the story, I took the opportunity to finalize the playlist! I’ll be posting these in the final notes of each book, and will prob put the entire thing at the end of Memory’s Echo. But you guys get it now because you helped make it! HUGE thanks to everyone who contributed!!! You tripled the number of songs I had!
I debated back and forth whether to post all or some of the Memory’s Echo playlist, but I really don’t want to spoil anything. However, if a song you sent in isn’t here today, there’s a chance it’s on that list! Some of you sent in songs that were perfect for that story without knowing it.
Some of these songs would probably fit in more than one place, but I put them where it made the most sense to me, and tried to arrange them in as close to chronological order as I could get.
Each song is tagged with an initial at the beginning which indicates POV - M for Meli, R for Riku, A for Aiden.
Without further ado, the playlist is under the cut.
Sorrow’s Promise:
(M) Going Under - Evanescence
(M) New Rules - Dua Lipa
(M&R) The Gift of a Friend - Demi Lovato
(R) Roll to Me - Del Amitri
(M) Stuck - mxmtoon
(R) Make You Feel My Love - Adele
(M&R) Fallin’ for You - Colbie Caillat
(M&R) On Purpose - Sabrina Carpenter
(M) Louder - Charice
(R) The Reason - Hoobastank
(M) Jar of Hearts - Christina Perri
(M) I Never Told You - Colbie Caillat
(R) We Can Do Better - Matt Simons
(M&R) Ready to Fight - Roby Fayer
(R) Up - Olly Murs ft. Demi Lovato
(M&R) Run to You - Pentatonix
(M) Stronger - Kelly Clarkson
(M) Done - The Band Perry (note: this song was stuck in my head during the early planning stages of SP and is the entire reason that Aiden exists)
(M&R) A Thousand Years - Christina Perri
(M&R) Uncover - Zara Larsson
(M,R,A) Simple and Clean - Utada Hikaru
Inferno’s Edge:
(M&R) I Run to You - Lady Antebellum
(R) True Colors - Anna Kendrick & Justin Timberlake
(R) Heart to Heart - James Blunt
(M) What Do You Want From Me? - Adam Lambert
(R) I Won’t Let Go - Rascal Flatts
(M) Smoke and Fire - Sabrina Carpenter
(R) Oh Ms Believer - Twenty One Pilots
(R) I Told You So - Keith Urban
(M) Sound the Bugle - Bryan Adams
(M) Hello - Evanescence
(R) From the Bottom - Shallow Side
(R) A Reason to Fight - Disturbed
(M) Train Wreck - James Arthur
(R) Goodbye My Lover - James Blunt
(M) Sanctuary - Utada Hikaru
Please let me know if you find any of the links are messed up!
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