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scifrey · 11 months

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Deleted Scene: Take Root

For those who love the "Cling Fast" / Hob Adherent series: this is, regrettably, not a new story. The series still ends where it ended.

However, it used to have a different ending. In that different version, instead of "Hold Tight" and "Keepsakes: A Plane Ticket", I planned to resolve the Daniel Hall and Orpheus storylines by writing a much longer multi-chapter fic about Hob finding out he still has living descendants through another TV show. In this story, Morpheus would have gotten jealous of Hob's living children, and spend more and more time asleep, with Daniel, until Despair & Desire finally came to Hob to tell him the truth about Orpheus.

I wrote this first chapter and then really, really struggled with the story after that. A long conversation with @late-to-the-magnus-archives led me to realize that if I did the Walkers/Daniel/Orpheus thing this way, by making them a negative thing in Hob's life, by choosing to stretch the trope of miscommunication between lovers, and by basically reverse-uno-ing all the work Hob did to grieve his brief mortal family, then I was doing a disservice to events and character growth in "Cling Fast".

Thematically it might have been a good fit, but it was perilously close to manufacturing unrealistic dissent for the sake of drama, and not because this is how the characters would have actually reacted in this situation.

So, I abandoned this tale, found better, kinder ways to resolve the Walkers/Daniel/Orpheus storylines, and reworked the series to be as it currently stands.

However.

I am still a little in love with this tiny fragment of a tale, and wanted to share it with you. Just for funsies.

Happy reading!

-J

Status: Deleted Scene from a story I won't be completing.

Series: the Hob Adherent series.

Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022) Includes some comics canon, and some cameos from the wider Gaiman-verse, but it’s not necessary to know to enjoy the story.

Rating: Gen

Warnings: Discussions of grief and in-canon character death.

Relationships: Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling, Eleanor | Hob Gadling’s Wife/Hob Gadling (past)

Characters: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Hob Gadling, Matthew the Raven, Destruction of the Endless, Patrick the Bartender, Harriet Butler, Maisie Hampstead

TAKE ROOT

When the camera crew walks into The New Inn, Hob assumes it has something to do with Cardenio. The filming request had come through Harriet, and as Hob trusts her not to chuck him into any situation that would endanger him, or his husband, and their secret, he'd said yes without really looking into the details of the television program.

They'd asked to film inside the pub, and to interview him on camera. As this was just one in a long line of such requests, he'd set the date, and thought nothing more about it.

(When this lifetime was over, Hob was going to have to ask for a very heavy favour from little Daniel Hall, to ensure that no one remembered that his face matches that of Robert Gadlen the Sixth, sometime media darling of the mediaeval history studies world. Dream of the Endless had already pledged to make his uncles' transition as smooth as was in his power, thank goodness, but Hob was still nervous about all the footage floating around out there.)

What Hob didn't expect was for the crew to come in full guns blazing, so to speak.

"Oh, hello," he says, standing up from the banquette as a steady-cam, followed by the operator holding it, enter the pub. "Welcome to The New Inn."

The red light at the camera's lens is on, warning the world that it's recording. He's suddenly very glad he let Matthew talk him into wearing his hot-professor outfit, and the very light makeup required for this sort of thing. His hair is still shorter than he’d like, the scar on the left side of his head from a gunshot wound finally hidden by the longer style, for which he’s grateful. He wouldn’t want anyone to see it and worry.

Hob had kind of assumed that the crew would be dolling him up, but in the years since Elizabethan Manor he's learned that it never hurts to be camera-ready, just in case.

A man in a wireless headset enters behind the camera operator and waves at him, then points at the red light.

Yeah, I got that, Hob thinks but doesn't say. He's not sure why they're filming right away, but he doesn't want to spoil whatever shot they have planned. Maybe they spoke to Surinder and found out what a terrible actor Hob is, and have decided that it's far better to get his First Reactions on camera than to ask him to pretend.

Hob doesn't mind, but it would have been nice to be warned first.

Actually, if he bothered to read Harriet's email with any kind of depth, he probably was.

Patrick, the only other person in the pub at present, drops behind the bar like a WWI private tripping into a trench, and then scuttles into the kitchen, presumably to warn Destruction to stay hidden if he doesn't want to be filmed. Dee is in the middle of making the day's crusty loaf, so nothing will pull the Endless from the kitchen, unless it's serious.

Dee means business when he bakes.

"Thank you!" a young woman behind the PA says. She ducks around the other two folks, who are lingering in the doorway, and moves purposefully across the pub. Once she's firmly within the shot, she sticks out her hand. "I'm Maisie Hampstead."

"Hi Maisie, I'm Bob," Hob offers, shaking and then holding out a chair at his usual two-top for her because he's a gentleman, and old habits tend to kick in when he's wrong-footed. "What brings you to my humble pub?"

Maisie sets a heavy leather folder on the table between them, and for a second, Hob is terrified that this is a set up. That someone had hacked Harri's email, got him cornered, is about to reveal his terrible truth to a live-streamed audience, with a phalanx of nondescript cars and government scientists waiting in his front garden if he tries to run.

He reminds himself that the literal god of warriors is just one wall away, covered up to his elbows in flour, and that even if he was taken out of here against his will, his inlaws are the most powerful and immutable forces in the universe. Nothing and no one can harm him. Also, he can't die, which makes him ruthless and vicious when it comes to protecting himself—he doesn't have to avoid injury the way other people do when engaging in combat. While bullet and stab wounds hurt, they can be ignored in favour of finishing a fight.

But Maisie just smiles at him, flush with genuine excitement, and flips back the cover of the folder to reveal a… a family tree.

Okay, so not a clandestine setup or sting operation.

But something just as fraught.

Hob's eyes go wide as he skims the names on it, he knows they do, and he's pretty sure he must look absolutely pole-axed, because that's how he feels. He knew the BBC Historics department had mocked up a family tree for Elizabethan Manor, but he's never had occasion or desire to sit down and study it. He was already chastined enough by the fact that they found him in the first place. He had no patience to read in black and white where exactly he screwed up in hiding his past identities.

Hindsight, as the saying goes, is 20/20.

But the cameras are on him and he can’t exactly snap the cover shut and shout them all out the door. Not after he’d told Hari that he’d be game. So he reads on.

At the top of the tree, in computer-generated font, it reads:

Hob's breath catches in his throat as he runs the tips of his fingers over first Eleanor's, then Robyn and Wee John's names. It's taken a lot of work, but he's proud that he's able to have this out-of-the-blue reminder of their love and loss, and not immediately react negatively. He is joyfully reminded of that time of his life, seeing their names, instead of triggered.

But… no, wait, something's different…

"There's a… there's another line here," Hob croaks, following the dots downward from Robyn's box. This wasn't part of the graphic when they shared it on the show. "There shouldn't be another line here. He never…" Hob flattens his palm over the next row down on the family tree, not ready to read it yet.

Instead, he looks up at the young woman across from him, drinking in the sight of her like a parched man at a wholly unexpected, but nonetheless welcome, oasis.

She's blonde, hair flaxen-yellow and straight as a pin. But her eyes are dark, soulful brown, crinkling just enough at the corner to put her in her late twenties, he guesses. Detached earlobes. Complexion a few shades darker than his own, but still within the realm of olive-skinned. She's wearing light makeup, eyelashes mascaraed dark and lips painted and funky plum red. They curl on one side when she realises what he's doing, what he's looking for, the smile secret and mischievous in one corner.

And she has a cleft chin.

"Oh my god," Hob breathes. His eyes burn. There's a lump in his throat the size of a fist. He swallows hard. Excitement and fear and confusion swirl up in his middle, nauseating and fluttery.

He wants to reach out and grab her face between his hands, and hold her there, cataloguing everything. He wants to shove away from the table and race up the stairs and start shouting at the framed sketches of Robyn over his bed. He wants to curl up under a weighted blanket and hide from the truth until his husband coaxes him out.

Instead he just sits at the table, mouth hanging open like a landed fish.

He wishes Morph was here, and at the same time is unaccountably glad that his husband is in the middle of his daily ramble through the nearby Wapping Woods park. This is, he thinks, something he wants to discover on his own, first. Something to cherish and to hold, just for him, before he has to share it with the wider world.

Entirely on camera, of course.

Like all his major emotional revelations lately, it seems.

Ha.

"You… he… did he…?"

"See for yourself," Maisie coaxes him gently.

Slowly, tremblingly, Hob lifts his hand away from the paper.

"Robyn had a son," Hob whispers, voice wavering. His hands are shaking. He presses them between his thighs, under the table, where the camera can't see. "I had a—" he cuts himself off with a choked noise, wet and thick with longing.

"They weren't married," Maisie explains, not oblivious to his surprise and distress, and quick to reassure. Though, from her perspective, he guesses it must be very odd, to see someone falling to pieces over family revelations that are already centuries past. "They never got the chance to."

She slides another piece of paper out from under the family tree, a copy of a handwritten letter, and Hob snatches it from her hands perhaps too eagerly. It's an account of a fight in the alleyway behind a tavern, written from the perspective of a bystander—no, not a bystander. A witness.

A patron at the tavern the night Robyn died.

There's a sentence highlighted but the letters blur and slide across the page.

Hob wipes at his eyes. "I… sorry, can you read it to me…?"

Maisie takes the letter back and reads:

Young master Gadlen protested that he had no quarrel with the brothers of the distraught maid. He shewed that he had drawn neither dagger nor mayde a fiste. He did then call them brothers of his owne and did swear his intent to wed, but his oath came too layte for a knife had been thruste under his rib. Martha did wail and forswear the murderer as her kin, and held fast the lad until his heartsbloode had ceased to flow into the street. Mister Hampsted took his daughter awaye inside to the warmth. The undertaker was called for piteous master Gadlen and the lad was borne awaye to the house of his lamented father.

Hob remembers that night with the clarity that four hundred years of reliving it in his nightmares, and wishing he could have found a way to prevent it, has gifted him with. The smell of the tobacco he'd been smoking in the study mixed with the fatty funk of the tallow candles; the squeak of the undertaker's cart wheels as they bumped up the drive; the crunch of boots on the gravel as Rob's friends accompanied his body in an honour guard of misery; the gasp of horror Fletcher quickly stifled when he caught sight of the solemn procession; the taste of the claret Hob had been enjoying turning to sour bile on the back of his tongue.

Maisie mistakes his grave silence for incomprehension of the archaic English.

"The night Robyn Gadlen found out that Martha was pregnant, it looks like her brother jumped him for taking her virtue," Maisie explains gently. "Martha said in later letters that Robyn had proposed marriage as soon as she'd told him, and they'd conspired to elope. But her brothers stopped them as they were sneaking out the back of the tavern. They never made it."

I never knew, Hob realises. There was a child out there, Robyn's child, and I never even knew it. I failed Robyn. I failed this little Harry. I was so busy wallowing in my own grief and self pity, too busy getting drunk each night with Despair, too busy calling for and rebuffing Death, that I never… did she bring the child to the house? Was I too insensible, too pathetic to even be sober long enough to see the baby when I had the opportunity—

Hob's breath shudders out of him in a soft moan. "Why did… why did she never bring the babe to Robyn's father?"

"Her own father sent her away to a convent that same night," Maisie says. "Here, here's another letter. She wrote often to a cousin during her confinement. She says that she would have fled to Gadlen House if she could, but her brothers had carried her off so quick that she was in a nun's cell before the blood was dry on her hands."

"Oh Christ," Hob groans, both a prayer for that poor girl, and a curse against those who had kept her from him. He is awash in relief that he hadn't actively driven his grandson and his mother away, and both regret and anger in equal measure that the baby was hidden from him. "And after the birth?"

"Martha returned home with little Harry and married a man who agreed to care for them both so long as Harry's parentage was never mentioned. The man took over her father-in-law's tavern eventually, but he died of cholera a few years later."

"Hampstead," Hob repeats dully, his brain clicking over slowly, like his gears were filled with fluffy, grief-coloured cotton. "That was… that was the proprietor. Of the White Horse."

"Yes."

He looks up, feels the blood draining from his face. "Robyn died in the White Horse?"

Maisie cuts a confused glance at the camera, not sure what this has to do with the conversation they're clearly supposed to be having. "Yes."

Hob fists his hand in his shirt, over his heart. Surely, surely, he was going to die now.

This had to be it, after six hundred and sixty-some-odd years. Surely, there was no way to survive a heartbreak like this. "I thought… they said a tavern brawl, but they never said which one, and I—"

Maisie reaches out as if to touch his arm, and then stops halfway across the table, unsure of her welcome. "I'm sorry, do you need a minute?"

"Yes," Hob hiccups, and stands from the banquette. He doesn't look at the camera, doesn't make eye contact with the PA. He just walks straight back to the kitchen, pushes open the door, and zombie-shuffles right into the arms of Destruction, who has clearly been waiting for him.

The door has barely shut behind him before his face crumples and his lungs seize up. "He died in the White Horse," Hob sobs quietly. "Right there, where I—"

"I'm so sorry, Hob," Dee says, and rubs his back.

"All that time, I never marked it or… I feel like I should have known. I should have felt it."

"He went to the Sunless Lands in peace, Hob. There was nothing of your son remaining in that place for you to have felt. Don't feel guilty about that."

"I wish I'd known."

Dee hums gently, soothing, and hugs Hob harder as he weeps. Being hugged by Dee is like being gently crushed by tree-trunks. Hob presses his face against his brother-in-law's chest and lets Dee squeeze his soul back into his body.

After a few long minutes, Hob steps back and gives Dee a grateful pat on the arm. "Where's Patrick?"

"I sent him out for lemons," Dee rumbles.

"I bought a whole bag yesterday."

"I know."

"Thank you."

Dee studies his face. He must not like what he sees there because he says, "Do you want me to kick them out?"

"No," Hob replies. He sighs and scrubs his mouth, tries to pat down his hair. "No, no, it's fine. It was just… unexpected. Serves me right for not reading Harri's email more thoroughly."

Dee peers out of the porthole window in the kitchen door at the film crew. Hob can hear the murmur of their discussion, but not the contents of it. "Still, that's a hell of a thing to spring on a guy."

"I'll say," Hob snorts. "Oh, hey look, it's noon. I can drink now."

"Don't go overboard," Dee says, eyeing him.

"Don't worry," Hob reassures him, patting his massive forearm again. "I'm not going to fall back into my self-destructive ways. I spend enough time with you as it is, new-new kid."

Destruction snorts. "I was more thinking about how Despair would worry about you. She hovers like a brooding chicken."

Hob chuckles at the image, which was likely the point, and appreciates Dee's concern for his well being. Hob finishes putting himself to rights, squares his shoulders, takes a deep breath, and shoves the rest of his freak-out down, down, down to share with Morpheus when his husband gets back. And the cameras are gone.

On his way back to his table, he stops at the bar to scoop up four champagne flutes, and pulls one of the nicer bottles of prosecco out of the back of the fridge.

"Well," he says, feeling if not settled then at least more centred, when he sets his glasses down on the table beside Maisie's folder. "I think I can guess what happens next in the story, and if I'm right, then I figure we'll have something to toast to."

Maisie lights up, and Hob can see it, right there, in the way her eyes sparkle—here is his son's many-times granddaughter, come back to him. His blood, in her veins, seeking him out like a loadstone.

Oh christ, Hob thinks, falling a little bit in love with the kid on the spot. I'm going to have to let her dictate the pace of our family bonding, or else I'm going to be selfish and grabby.

"To be fair," Maisie says, "until we found some new documents, I thought I was a Fletcher."

"The Steward?" Hob asks, startled.

"After Martha's husband died, the tavern went to one of Martha's brothers and she came perilously close to abject poverty. She had other children to feed, and thought it was time for Robert Gadlen to know about his grandson. But by then they say the man had fully gone mad, and the Steward decided it was unsafe for the kid to live with him," Maisie explains, sliding the corresponding photocopy of a much older document out of the pile to show him.

It seems I owe that filthy cheating thief my gratitude for this, at least, Hob thinks as he pursues the paper. I absolutely was not in my right mind and this would have absolutely made it worse.

"When Fletcher just showed up at the civil courts one day with a kid, everyone assumed the little boy was actually his. Up until a month ago, my whole family thought we were the illegitimate descendants of the Steward. But the dates weren't adding up, and… well, then we joined the show and they did some digging. The historian found Martha's letters in the Gadlen Fell Crate papers, along with the documentation from the Court of Chancery, and suddenly it all made sense."

"Chancery?" Hob echoes, startled. "Little Harry was a ward of the Councillor?"

"Oh, you know what that is!" Maisie says, delighted. "I didn't."

Hob chances a look up at the P.A., who shrugs, and gives a go-head wave. He taps the family tree still between them, bringing her attention to the fake younger brother he had invented for himself in the early 1700s, Richard Gadlen.

"Maisie, besides what it says on the family tree, did they tell you who I am?"

"Just that Richard Gadlen was my, uh, eight-times great uncle," Maisie says, blithely unaware of how Hob's heart is threatening to burst apart behind his ribs. "Which means you're my, um, no wait, we figured this out, my ninth cousin, once removed because you're one generation older than me."

Hob huffs a chuckle. More than one generation, he thinks.

He's taken to putting silver at his temples in the last year, just a speckle of bleach with a toothbrush, followed by some of the grey-pastel dye that the kids are into these days. He used to have to do this with chalk, so it's much nicer to not shed faux dandruff every time he turns his head. Morph, peacock that he is, isn't ready to start putting on airs of age. Doesn't matter, though—his hair is so black most people already assume it's coloured.

"And did they tell you what I do for a living?" he asks, reaching for the prosecco and unwrapping the foil.

"No," Maisie says, looking around The New Inn. "I assume you're a publican?"

"Well, yeah, but that's not my full-time gig." He works the cage off the bottle neck, and shoots a look at the camera operator. They give him a thumbs up, prepared for the loud noise. He begins to wiggle the cork. "I'm a professor at the University of York. I teach Medieval and Early Modern History and Language. My name is Doctor Robert Gadlen—"

"The sixth!" Maisie squeals in delight, finally putting all the clues together. "Oh my gosh! You're the Witch Knight!"

Hob groans. "We are not calling me that," he says, just as the cork jumps free with a delicious little pop.

#losyark #cling fast adjecent #cling fast #the hob adherent series #hob x dream #hob adherent #dreamling week #dreamling #centennial husbands #centennial boyfriends #deleted scene #the sand man #sandman #dreamling fanfic #dreamling fic #lord morpheus #feel free to fanfic my fanfic

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starriharriet · 27 days

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My super wings oc –Harriet!!

(they dont have voice claim yet :'< -creator)

"What do you mean you lost my clover leafs again?!"

-Harriets biggest issue,losing their clover leafs.

"Cream puffs enlightened me a lot but i like caramel cheesecake more."

-Harriets opinion on food,their main favorite is desserts,pastries and cake

Harriets info:

Harriet is actually a mirrored version of Jett that got its own personality and opinions with being planned as discontinued (if they were deleted than Harriet wouldnt even exist lmao),despite of being a mirrored version of their brother (they dont know it yet),Harriet is actually pretty soft and hyper positive at the same time.They do specialize on few things which is luck,music and happiness,which is why they were 'created' to help people who struggle with their lives ;D

Harriets info (2):

Even though they specialize of things that were opposite of their brother,they do actually have something in common,speed.Except that these siblings use it in very different ways but had the same meaning,like how Jett uses his speed to rescue people,Harriet uses their speed as a challenge on how they sing (Sunny is their mentor btw).

Harriets Weapons

Harriets bio:

Name: Harriet

Age:16

Height: (a bit shorter than Jett)

Eye colour:Purple

Birthday:December 14 (og date when Harriet became my main oc on tt -creator)

Gender:non binary

MBTI: ENFP

Harriets facts:

their hand is detachable somehow

would kick your ass with a smile instead of a angry ahh face

once pranked Jett but ended up getting pranked instead

once pranked Tino with a dragonfly toy they found

(Harriet likes talking to people too :3 -creator)

#super wings #super wings oc

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paulinedorchester · 3 months

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So I completed my Downton Abbey rewatch project just under the wire (it's now gone from PBS Passport), and I have so much to say about it that I'm going to have to confine my self to just a few things.

What PBS had been offering until today was apparently the original ITV cuts, which were slightly shorter than what PBS originally broadcast. When the show was new in the U.S., bits and pieces that had been cut in the U.K. were restored. I recall reading comments from a British viewer who also saw some episodes on a visit here and much preferred the American cuts; better continuity and storytelling, he said. In any case, things I remember quite clearly were missing from the streaming versions. I'm now curious about how Peacock, or whatever it's called now, is approaching this issue.

Even with that complaint, I had forgotten how good it is.

One thing that struck me over and over again was the loyalty that the show inspired in actors. Well, maybe not from Jessica Brown Finlay, Dan Stevens, and Siobhan Finneran (a-hem). But Michael Cochrane played Mr Travis in eight episodes spread out over five years; and in s6e8 Harriet Walter appeared in a single scene (the wedding) as an extra; Rose Leslie returned in s6e4 after a four-year hiatus. That's really something.

When I was actively writing fic I substituted ought to for the American should so many times that I started doing it in conversation, which earned me my share of puzzled or faintly annoyed looks. But in Downton Abbey it's should all over the place — even from Violet! Have I been barking up the wrong tree?

And finally:

After Edith's wedding everyone heads back to the Abbey for the reception. As the bride's mother, Cora is technically the hostess at a party taking in her own home . . . so why does she keep her hat on?

#downton abbey #rewatch

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neopuff · 2 months

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so i just rewatched Hunters (2020) on amazon over the weekend - little did i know that amazon had chopped up and reorganized the first season to make it over an hour shorter than it was originally

wish i'd realized it sooner cuz a lot of good scenes were removed, maybe not plot important but they emphasized the point of a show where the discussion is Nazis Are Still Alive and Well. but anyway. for anyone who wants to know what all was cut here's an incomplete list of everything i noticed as i skimmed through the original version of the show today:

ep 1:

jonah thinking about college letters/looking at carol across the street before ruth gets shot

travis introduction scene

nasa nazi lady choking on her food, stripping in the bathroom

jonah & friends looking at girls on the beach

meyer talking about chava and the human chessboard scene

jonah eating the soup and yelling that its not his safta's soup

some dialogue removed from meyers speech to jonah at the end

ep 2:

the whole team introduction scene??? with all the comic book-y styles

"im tired im hungry im in fucking florida" millie scene

holstedder holocaust flashbacks were completely removed?

lonny saying he'd fuck ruth if she was younger and that everyone scares him, jonah mentioning cheeks and bootyhole to him

movie opening changed to mix with team introduction scene

scene with holstedder at the piano felt very different

meyer picking up the phone

how many nazis were killed in nuremberg

maria introduction scene

biff and tobias phone call

schidler corp nazi writing July 13 on a map

ep 3:

ruth first night in the camps flashback was shortened significantly

lonny pissing his name on the ground

millie and maria scene w/ travis watching them (that acknowledges sommers)

eva talking to nazi employees, "darwin's offspring"

Know This Now: How To Find A Nazi

"no one wants to be robin" "robin's got it made" conversation. "there's nothing wrong with wanting to stay alive"

stayin alive boardwalk scene where jonah sees young ruth

bootyhole and jonah couch conversation

joe and roxy hand scene and conversation extended

some travis stalking millie scenes were removed

"homegirl is a jew"

eva talking about biff's weapon, then travis and eva phone call where he reports heinz' death. a bunch of lines were cut. including "we've got friends in the FBI"

"ruth chose the darkness" mindy @ jonah

lonny and harriet scene in the restaurant

ep 4:

travis looking at photos in jonahs bed

wolf/ruth conversation lines cut

a bit of harriet & contact man's scene cut

lines from murray and bank nazi were cut, criticism of meyer's character

"compensation from maryanne's family is prepared" money scene with tobias

lonny harassing the bank cops

millie/maria i love you scene

meyer gives jonah the ring

ep 5:

"i don't look that jewish" "you? jew." lonny and jonah scene

tilda sauer presentation and information

jonah being terrible to carol

lonny on the phone with his agent

some dialogue between biff and juanita

ep 6:

some of harriet's flashbacks were cut, small scenes

some dialogue between biff and juanita

ep 7:

some of joe's traumatic share time story was cut

the slinky on una's stairs

music box cipher with the lullaby to get the code

joe: "hi. you're little." @ roxy's daughter, lingering looks between joe and roxy

lonny on the ground bleeding

ep 8:

travis arguing back at eva

jonah apologizing to mindy

Game Show Sequence - Why Does Everyone Hate the Jews?

ep 9:

US tribunal was reshot as a serious flashback rather than an old timey TV screening, also many lines were cut. "yup, that shit really happened!"

carol finding jonah's college acceptance letters

lonny and harriet talking about lonny's dad

jonah's friends seeing him drive away with the hunters and discuss talking to the cops

biff and millie talking

travis drinking eva's blood milk

big soundtrack change while lonny's sneaking into the electrical part of the factory

lonny explaining his fake bomb

ep 10:

harriet fishing meyer out of the water

millie talking to travis in jail and he talks about orange and a bunch of other lines were cut

meyer and ruth flashbacks were shortened i think

travis' parents coming to see him in prison and then he asks for a jew lawyer

some of travis' conversation with the lawyer was cut

#hunters #hunters 2020 #jonah heidelbaum #meyer offerman #lonny flash #travis leich

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diyiskindofmyjam · 4 months

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Adventures in... lingerie making?

Yeah so at some point I thought, you know what I'm going to do instead of studying for my finals? Bra sewing. So I took a deep dive into bra patterns, underwires, lace and elastic.

There are a few patterns so many people rave about online, the Harriet bra, the Black Beauty bra, the Marlborough bra etc. There are so many small pattern companies specialised in lingerie patterns and it was a little intimidating when choosing one. They're also not cheap. A bra pattern is easily 15-20$ and I get why, but I'm a little cheap when it comes to patterns. This is however not a project I wanted to draft my own cups for. The Maya bra is a free pattern, but it's not a style of bra I wear often.

I don't have big boobs (I wear a 65D/30D) and like, a lot of the home-sewing bra patterns offer a lot of coverage and support. Which is great! But it's not what I wanted. So when I saw this nice plunging/push-up bra pattern, and people online were like "it's not a beginner friendly, buy when you have some bra-making experience" I went like "that sounds like a perfect pattern for me, a beginner". Of course I bought the paper pattern of the Merckwaerdigh PBH30. And the Cambia bra pattern because it intrigued me.

Then it was time to get lost in all the kinds of elastics and fabrics I would need. I caved and just bought a bra kit; shipping prices can variable and I didn't like the kits the Dutch sites offered. I did however like this black lace set by smallbobbins.be.

And then I started on a test bra, made out of some cotton voile and purple lace and lycra I had in my fabric stash. I had such a hard time with the instructions; even though they're available in mine and Merckweardigh's native language, this pattern is very... ehm brief in the instructions. Thank the gods for the wayback machine and clothing engineer's tutorial on how to insert the removable padding pocket. After that things made way more sense, but I still wrote my own instructions + illustrations (message me if you're interested). I decided halfway through my mock up, that I felt confident enough and that I would make a 'mock up' out of the bra set. I used a different piece of bra tule that was included (it was a shade lighter). The cup pieces were so small that I suspected I could make at least 2 bra's out of it if I threw some strap elastic, rings and sliders in that I already had in my stash. I ripped the hook and eye closure of a too small bra and reused it.

I made the B70, like the measurements table told me to do. I allowed myself some experimenting with a one-piece lace cup fabric (not my fave look). It went pretty well! Until I used a zigzag stitch to topstitch the power mesh to the picot elastic and the black thread on the beige power mesh showed all the missed stitches of my machine. It's not pretty at all. I hate ripping out seams that are positioned well, but I do want to redo this after I do some much needed maintenance and timing management on my machine, before I start zigzagging my 'official' version of the bra.

The wires, even though they're push up wires, are a little too big, but I've ordered shorter ones.

To mine and everybody's surprise, (no really, I was really surprised), the cups are... too small? Yeah not sure how that happened. I might be on my period, but even those measurements fall neatly in the "84-86 cm" measurement for the B70 cup. I'm not totally spilling over, but it's noticeable enough that some of my breast tissue is not in the cup before I did the swoop. Adding the little padding 'cookies' for some volume is making the problem a little worse. So I guess that means I'm making a C70 for my 'official' bra.

#lingerie #sewing #bra making #PBH 30 #Merckweardigh #smallbobbins

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PROGRAMMER’S NOTES, JAZZ SPECTRUM, 4 JUNE 2022

While there is an obvious gimmick that defines this show, I took the challenge of finding songs with women’s names in alphabetical order as a structuring convention that could define this invention the way the Rhythm changes launches countless wonderful improvisations, even more, compositions.

This show is about the tunes and there are many favorites here, precisely because the composers are paying tributes to loved ones. There is a lushness, a poignancy, an ache, and a beauty because they are love songs.

My Romance is a fitting Song of the Week and I culminate with Bill Evans/Scott LaFaro/Paul Motian at The Village Vanguard in 1961. But there are other rich versions, even vocals by Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn. And there’s more of that band with Waltz for Debby and Gloria’s Step.

There would have been Alice in Wonderland too, but the show’s host pared things down in effective and interesting ways. In any case, I wanted to start with Eric Dolphy’s Miss Ann. The changes he made improved the show. So let me count the other ones:

—Sam Rivers’ own Beatrice rather than Stan Getz with Kenny Barron.

—Ingrid Jensen’s Christiane, not the Buster Williams Christiana by Sphere.

My two choices would have been recent repeats, precisely because they are favorites.

—The tribute to Emily Dickinson is nice on two levels. I very much like the Johnny Mercer tune, but our host went against his inclination and played it recently. So it is not a love song, instead a nice tribute for a significant women artist by a woman composer. That’s what Melissa Aldana’s Frida by Artemis which follows also is.

—I had Clifford Brown also doing Portrait of Jenny hard on the heels of him Jacqui. Louis Smith’s is another fine version

And, yes, I put Charlie Parker’s Kim in there. It’s my show and my name.

I had started My Romance in the middle of a set, not at the top of the third hour, a way the concept became a constraint. But he fixed that.

O is hard, so I went with Charles Mingus’s Orange Was The Color of Her Dress. Q is hard too, but I had two, sort of, with the Sons of Kemet’s tribute to Harriet Tubman from My Queen Is A Reptile and Jackie McLean’s Song for My Queen. There are two Ns, but Nefertiti as one of them is a nod in this direction too.

It gets to be late in the show but there are two Monk tunes and three performances with the poignant solo version of Ruby My Dear when she was ill and Monk had to go on as well as the version when John Coltrane was in the band.

I guess there isn’t any Ellington/Strayhorn, but Monk and Shorter, Mingus, Golson, and Parker. If it’s about the tunes—and it most definitely is—then the likes of them had to be here. But there’s much love and beauty here that transcends what could be a gimmick too clever by half.

And here are those tunes:

SET 1

Eric Dolphy w/Booker Little, Far Cry, “Miss Ann” 4:18

Art Farmer & Benny Golson Jazztet, Complete Mercury Recordings, “Along Came Betty” 5:32

Sam Rivers, Fuchsia Swing Song, “Beatrice” 6:14

Gary Peacock Trio, Now This, “Christa” 4:44

Ingrid Jensen, Vernal Fields, “Christiane” 7:14

Set 2

Chet Baker and Paul Bley, Diane, “Diane” 5:33

Bill Evans, Waltz for Debby, “Waltz for Debby” 6:48

Jane Ira Bloom, Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson, “Emily & Her Atoms” 6:43

Artemis, Artemis, “Frida” 7:21

Set 3

Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard, “Gloria’s Step” 6:12

George Cables Trio, Cables Fables, “Helen’s Song” 6:35

Miles Davis, ESP, “Iris” 8:34

Clifford Brown/Max Roach, Study in Brown, “Jacqui” 5:12

Set 4

Louis Smith, Ballads for Lulu, “Portrait of Jenny” 7:00

Charlie Parker, Now’s the Time, “Kim” 3:00

Ella Fitzgerald, With the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, “Laura” 3:46

Miles Davis, Filles de Kilimanjaro, “Mademoiselle Mabry” 16:37

Set 5

Ben Webster/Sweets Edison, Ben and Sweets, “My Romance” 6:08

Sarah Vaughan, Sassy, “My Romance” 3:16

Houston Person, My Romance, “My Romance” 5:54

Set 6

Red Garland, A Garland of Red, “My Romance”. 6:52

Benny Golson Quartet, Free, “My Romance”” 7:30

Ella Fitzgerald, The Rodgers and Hart Songbook, “My Romance” 3:46

Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard, “My Romance” 7:14

Set 7

John Coltrane, Giant Steps, “Naima”. 4:23

Miles Davis, Nefertiti, “Nefertiti”. 7:55

Charles Mingus, Plays Piano, “Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue” 4:17

Set 8

Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Corners, “Pannonica” 8:50

Charles Mingus, Revenge!, “Peggy’s Blue Skylight”.12:53

Sons of Kemet, Your Queen Is A Reptile, “My Queen Is Harriet Tubman” 5:38

Set 9

Jackie McLean, Jackie Mac Attack, “Song for My Queen”10:24

Thelonious Monk, Alone in San Francisco, “Ruby My Dear”. 4:00

Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane, “Ruby My Dear” 6:20

Mingus Big Band, Live in Time, “Sue’s Changes”. 11:23

#jazz #2022 #jazz spectrum #wgte

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Do we know what’s going on with the crowns across the different productions?

It seems that some queens still use the old style crowns (Liv, Shannen, Chiara, Lauren Drew, Cassy, etc using the old Aragon crowns or Jen, Harriet, etc using the old single band short S/P crown) while some have the new ones (ex Jen Aragon).

Also with the alt Aragon crown, we have two new designs: the single band crown (Collette, Zara) and double band (Rachel, Nat, Jen).

The Seymour crown situation is also weird as to why some Seymours have a white crown vs black…

Can you please try to make sense of all this? Along with this, do we know how many different types of crowns the different productions are using right now, excluding retired designs like the Maiya?

Okay, so on the last question I don’t have all that info yet, but @lightleckrereins and I have a crowns masterpost long in progress that will answer it once it is finished.

The shorter answer for a lot of this is just that Six is in a bit of a weird period with costumes/hair and wigs/crowns. The current costumes system started very small in 2018 and the show grew really exponentially and unexpectedly, which they hadn’t originally planned for. 2019-2020 was then an era full of a lot of experimentation and a lot of changes as the show grew and they brought in different people and teams to try and manage that, who then made different decisions for different productions. Over lockdown they seem to have gotten together and started really deciding to standardize things, which is how we started getting newer designs (costumes, wigs, and hair) with the 2021 Broadway production or the 2021 West End cast change. However, those are both from times when they had to remake everything! They still have a lot of cast members from pre-lockdown in their old costumes, wigs, and crowns That’s why they still have a lot of older pieces left over from that phase in 2019 in addition to the shiny new 2021 designs/changes. A lot of those older versions will be phased out eventually, like Aus/UKT having old costume designs, but that probably won’t be until the next cast changes and/or those costume pieces (including crowns) need to be replaced.

Another major factor is that ultimately, as much as we talk about increasing standardization, Six still has different people working on different productions. At least 4-5+ costume shops worked on their costumes for current productions and 3-4 different teams working on crowns, and there are several costume associates that all work on different productions. As a result there are still going to be some changes even within the general standardization we’re seeing.

As far as specific examples/questions you asked about:

- Chiara Assetta, Shannen Alyce Quan: Australia is, from what I’ve seen, still using their 2019/2020 crowns. Those already had some differences from other productions due to accommodating hairstyle changes.

- Cassandra Lee/Jennifer Caldwell Aragon crowns, Lauren Drew, Harriet Watson/Natalie Pilkington Seymour crowns: Current crowns are a mix of old 2019-20 and newer crowns made for the 2020 (cancelled) and 2021 productions as needed. All of the old designs that you’re commenting on are older crowns. Jennifer and Natalie Pilkington both wear the updated Aragon style; I’ve been assuming this is related to their wig style but that’s purely speculation and it may be for a totally different reason (also keep in mind that the UK alts generally seem to share crowns, so Nat/Jen probably have the same new one and Cassy is presumably still using her old one).

- Zara MacIntosh/Collette Guitart/Rachel Rawlinson: Zara/Collette vs Rachel is probably just a change made to design. Like I mentioned with Nat/Jen, it’s also likely that Zara/Collette shared a crown and the single row may have been to accommodate Zara’s hairstyle.

- Liv Alexander: I’m going off of memory with this one so I may not be entirely correct, but she seemed to have one crown that she used for both Aragon and Cleves. It was an old style and probably an old crown used by a former queen - they needed one that wasn’t currently in use so that she could travel between the productions without accidentally taking anyone else’s. Probably didn’t make her entirely new ones because they knew she’d only be with the productions for a short period of time.

- Black vs white Seymour crowns: This is a decision that is mostly going to be up to associates, but it seems like the general guideline is that blonde/light hair = white band while darker hair = black band. White band was probably just because they liked the look of it for Abby Mueller, and then why they go back and forth depending on the queen is just based on limiting really stark color variance. Let me note that that’s specific to actors wearing the principal-style costume - so far all of the actors in alt costumes have exclusively had a black Seymour crown because it works better with all the alt costumes (no white on alt costumes, so white would look out of place on the crown).

Hope that’s helpful!

#asks #six musical #six crowns #six 3rd uk and ireland tour #six west end #jane seymour six #six the musical #six aus nz tour

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From the Los Angeles County Library catalog. They have 10 of Mio’s books on pre-order but nothing on LCC’s latest book even though I submitted a purchase request. They have LCC’s other books so she is a well renowned author in the library system. Anyway, here is a listing for juvenile literature with 18 copies in paperback version.

A black woman did that! : 42 boundary-breaking, bar-raising, world-changing women Author: Adero, Malaika, 1957- author. ISBN: 9781941367513

Subject Term:

African American women – Juvenile literature.

African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438

Genre:

Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637

Biographies.

Contents: Jesmyn Ward – Stacey Abrams – Misty Copeland – Alice Coltrane – Mada C.J. Walker – Patricia Bath – Lorraine Hansberry – Mo'ne Davis – Harriet Tubman – Debbie Allen – Angela Davis – Meghan Markle – Barbara Harris – Ava DuVernay – Xenobia Bailey – Bethann Hardison – Alice Walker – Serena Williams – Coretta Scott King – Whoopi Goldberg – Hadiyah-Nicole Green – Amy Sherald – Mary Fields – Cathy Hughes – Mae Jemison – Nina Simone – Ida B. Wells – Zora Neale Hurston – Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Shirley Chisholm – Bessie Coleman – Gwendolyn Brooks – Faith Ringgold – MIchelle Obama – Glory Edim – Abbey Lincoln – Shonda Rhimes – Shirley Ann Jackson – Simone Biles – Ella Baker. Summary: A Black Woman Did That! spotlights vibrant, inspiring black women whose accomplishments have changed the world for the better. A Black Woman Did That! is a celebration of strong, resilient, innovative, and inspiring women of color. With a vibrant mixture of photography, illustration, biography, and storytelling, author Malaika Adero will spotlight well-known historical figures and women who are pushing boundaries today–including Ida B. Wells, Madam CJ Walker, Shirley Chisholm, Althea Gibson, Mae Jamison, Maxine Waters, Jesmyn Ward, Ava DuVernay, and Amy Sherald. Readers will recognize some names in the book, but will also be introduced to many important black women who have changed history or who are reshaping the cultural landscape. They’ll learn: *how the activism of Bree Newsome resulted in the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House. *how Barbara Harris became the first female bishop of the Episcopal Church *how mathematician Katherine Johnson’s work at NASA was key to getting American astronauts to the moon *how Alicia Garza, Patrisse Collins, and Opal Tometi launched the Black Lives Matter movement *how Mary Fields crisscrossed the country on horseback in the 1890s as the first woman to drive a mail coach *how the work and inventions of Dr. Patricia Bath have saved or restored the eyesight of people around the world Entries on each woman or group will highlight their accomplishments, their world-changing words, and the ways in which their lives and actions have made the world a better place. The book will also include a robust resource list of books, audio and visual recordings, and links, inviting readers, parents, and teachers to learn even more about the amazing black women featured in the book.

Author Notes

Malaika Adero , author of Up South: Stories, Studies and Letters of This Century’s African American Migrations (The New Press, 1993) and co-author of Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (Doubleday, 2003) with Dr. Lucy Hurston. Shorter published works have appeared in many anthologies and periodicals including Mending the World , edited by Rosemary Robotham, Black Southern Voices by edited by James Early & John O. Killens, Essence magazine, AOL Black Voices, and Black Enterprise . She’s based in New York City and Atlanta, Georgia. Chanté Timothy is a freelance illustrator based in London, England. Her work focuses on children’s illustration with an ever-growing passion for representation of minorities. Her drawings are bubbly, bright, and colorful, with lots of movement and energy. She uses eye-catching, contrasting colors to draw in the viewer.

Wow! What the hell is her name doing there? This is disgusting. Her name doesn’t belong with some of those amazing women! She is trash! She has done nothing for the world….I’m disgusted!.😔❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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ao3feed-harlos · 4 years

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The Queen

by VioletRoseAramis

In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.

Or the shorter version: Mal is Buffy. I want Harlos.

Words: 9794, Chapters: 1/12, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Mal The Vampire Slayer

Fandoms: Descendants (Disney Movies), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Mal (Disney), Carlos de Vil, Harry Hook, Doug (Disney: Descendants), Ben (Disney: Descendants), Hades (Disney), Chad Charming, Harriet Hook, Adam (Disney), Diego de Vil, Anthony Tremaine, Audrey Rose (Disney), grimhilde, Evil Queen (Disney), Luke (BtVS)

Relationships: Ben/Mal (Disney: Descendants), Harry Hook/Carlos de Vil, Chad Charming/Doug, Hades/Elsa

Additional Tags: AU, Inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Kinda, Like, I'm using the scripts, maybe changing some shit around, Might write the stories to my liking after the first two chapters???, we'll see, I'm mostly doing this for Harlos, Werewolves, Vampires, Demons, yada yada

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/25696636

#Harlos #harry hook #Carlos de vil

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Victorian craze for jewel names: Coral, Ruby, Pearl, Peridot,

Word names: Ember / Amber, Ebony,

Flowers: Lily, Rose, Daisy, Poppy, Bluebell,

Trees: Ask, Willow,

Virtue names: Hope, Faith, Grace,

Mythological: Freya, Angel, Venus,

Fictional: Alice, Ulysses,

Seasonal: Summer, April, June,

Other: Nieve, Mia, Amelia, EMily, Imogen, Louise, Jane, Anne, Karis, Sharon, Lucy, Serenity, Tiegan / Taegan, Scarlett, Sebastian, Willow, Mariella, Magnus,

English: Jessica, Samantha, Michael, Christopher

Biblical: Jack, George, Samuel, John, Jacob, Caleb, Lucas, Ethan, Simon

Scottish: Cameron, Finlay, Malcolm, Keir, Lachlan, Ivor, Graeme, Nessa, Jean, Euphemia, Marjorie, Sena, Skye, Caitriona, Fiona, Eileen, Elaine, Rowan, Heather, Effie, Eden, Erskine, Ross, Maeve, Avalone, Wren, Cordelia, GUinevere, Isolde, Morgana, Penrose, Rhonwen,

Short names: Emma, Ava, Noah, Liam, Finn, Bram, Tess, Mila, Isa, Ike, Leon, Rahm, Remy, Jim, Eve, Nick, Hilde,

Indonesian: Maret, Harimau, Putri, Lintang, Baskara, Satriya

Marjorie: pearl (Scottish). “attractive, lively, cheeky. Could have faded with the advent of the word Margarine.” Variants: Margery, Margaret, Marjorie (Scottish). Nicknames: Margie, Marge, Jorie.

Lyceion:

Hermione: messenge, earthly (feminine of Hermes) In ancient Greek myth, Hermione is the daughter of Spartan King Menelaus and his wife Helen; in pre-Potter lit, the name appears in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and in Walter Scott's novel The Fortunes of Nigel.

Valentine:

Celestine:

Alexander:

Hypatia: highest, supreme (Greek) Agora was a film about Hypatia of Alexandria, an early philosopher and scholar of mathematics and astronomy, as well as inventor of several scientific

Isidore: gift of Isis (Greek) A common ancient Greek name belonging to several saints. It was adopted by Spanish jews to the point where it was almost their exclusive property.

Charlotte: free man (feminine of Charles, French) An elegant royal name with many bearers. Charlotte Brontë, E.B. White’s Charlette’s Web, Charlotte York from Sex and the City. Appealing since it sounds feminine yet grownup, sophisticated yet lush.

Arianna: (Greek)

Arrietty: estate ruler. “A pretty, dainty name for one of the little characters in the children’s book series The Borrowers.” Harriet, Harry, Henriette/a, Henry. Henriette: Etta, Hetty, Hattie.

Josephine: Jehovah increases (French of Joseph). Josie, Jo, Joey.

Clementine: mild, merciful (French of Clement, Latin). Suggests peace and happiness, a lovely image. Other names with related meanings: Beatrice, Felicity, Hilary, Arcadia, Irina, Mercy.

Felicity: good fortune, happy (Latin). “A virtue name related to Hope, Faith and Charity. But much more feminine and hapier.” Nicknames: Flick, Fee, Felicia.

Aurelia: the golden one (Latin). Related: Aurelius, Aurora, Oriana.

Cedar: “A fresh and fragrant nature name more apt to be used for a boy.”

Clarence: bright (Latin)

Cordelia: heart (Latin), daughter of the sea (Celtic). Nicknames: Cora, Delia, Lia, Del, Cordie. Related: Coraline, Coral, Caroline.

Ciel: sky (French). Related: Seal, Celia, Ceil.

Brielle: hunting grounds (French). “Although it sounds modern, it’s a traditional Cajun contraction of Gabrielle.” Related: Gabrielle.

Daphne: laurel tree, bay tree (Greek). “Seen by Americans as quintessentially British. In Greek mythology, Daphne was a nymph who was saved from an over-amorous Apollo by her father, a river god, transforming her into a laurel tree. Her name was taken from that of the shrub and became part of the British vogue for plant names at the end of the nineteenth century.”

Minette: faithful defender. “Frenchified name of Henriette Marie rarely used in France.”

Fraser: French for strawberry (Scottish). Variants: Frasier, Frazier, Fraser.

Esperence: Spanish for hope, expectation (English). Variants: Esperanza, Sandra.

Giselle: pledge, hostage (German)

Larissa: citadel (Greek, Russian). “Name of nymph that’s daintily pretty and fresh alternative to Melissa or Alyssa.” Related: Larissa, Larisa, Melissa, Marissa, Alyssa, Lara.

Lillian: lily the flower (English from Latin). “More serious and subdued cousin of megapopular Lily. It probably originated as a pet form of Elizabeth.”

Marcella: warlike (Latin). “Depicted as the world's most beautiful woman in Don Quixote, this long neglected name seemed dated for decades but just might be ready for restoration. Saint Marcella was a Roman matron of strength and intellect who organized a religious sisterhood at her mansion, which St. Jerome guided in religion and learning.” Related: Marcella, Mercellina.

Meredith: great ruler (Welsh). Nicknames: Merry, Merri.

Flower names: Lily, Lillian;

Cisneros:

Mozart:

Sophia:

Emma:

Olivia:

Mercedes: Merche: Marzia: Mneme Naiara

Natascha

Reginold

Nicasia: victorious (Latin) from Nike, the personification of victory. Related to Nicole.

Niara: nebula, mist (Hindi)

Tiara: crown, jeweled headdress (Latin)

Odette: wealthy (French, from German) Name of the white swan in Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake. A particularly soigne, sophisticated yet upbeat choice. The black swan is named Odile.

Peridot: a green gemstone (Arabic) symbolising the August month. Said to be used for helping people put the past behind them. In ancient time it was a symbol of the sun. Highly valued in Hawaii where they’re believed to be the tears of the volcano goddess Pele.

Pele: goddess of fire (Hawaii)

Opal:

Seraphina: ardent, fiery (Hebrew) Seraphim is among the highest ranking angels with six wings.

Serena:

Violet:

Sidonie: from Latin Sidon. Chic French favorite. Sidony, Sydney.

Collette: people of victory (Greek), French feminine of Nicholas.

Sabrina: Latin for River Severn, deriving from Celtic mythology. Sabina, Serena

Samantha: told by god (Hebrew) feminine of Samuel. Samara

Siobhan: the lord is gracious (Irish Gaelic) variation of Joan, feminine of John. A lovely Irish name whose perplexing spelling has inspired many phonetic variations, but using the original form preserves the integrity of one of the most beautiful Irish girls' names. Variants: Joan, Johanna, John, Siobhan

Vanessa: species of butterfly; literary invention.

Esther: star (Persian)

Tiffany:

Madonna:

Kimberly:

Teal:

Alden: old, wise friend (English)

Valeska: strength, health, spirited (French/Slavic of Valerie) Name of Red Riding Hood in the 2011 update. Peaked in 1960s and was in the top 100 until 1988. Word is associated to the word valor. Valerie, Valeria

Chrysanthe:

Cybele: mother of all gods (Greek) and goddess of fertility, health, nature. Often confused with Sybil.

Corisande:

Mythological names

Rhea: a flowing stream (Greek). “mythological earth mother of all the gods. A lot better than the Roman equivalent: Ops. Rhea reentered the US Top 1000 in 2015. Its only previous appearance on the list since 1968 was 2004.”

English names

Margareth: pearl (Greek) Nicknames: May, Mary, Marge

Elizabeth: pledged to God (Hebrew) Mother of John the Baptist, and two notable English queens. Another memorable bearer was Elizabeth Taylor. Isabel is the Spanish version. Related: Lisette, Lise, Isabel. Nicknames: Lizzie, Eliza, Beth, Libby, Bess, Tibby, Betty, Betsy.

Theodore: gift of God (Greek). “An extremely attractive and exotic choice, with several equally attractive user-friendly nicknames, and more edge and sheer phonic apeal than the English form.” Variants: Theodora (Swedish), Tiodoria (Spanish). Nicknames: Ted, Teddy, Theo, Thea, Dora, Dory.

Laurence: from Laurentium, a city noted for its laurel trees, which was a symbol for wisdom and achievement. (Lawrence, Lauro, Larry, Lorenzo, Renzo, Enzo)

Leonard: brave lion (German)

Madeleine: high tower or woman from Magdala. Variants: Magdalen (Aramaic), Maddie.

Nicole:

For their meanings

These names I’ve included since they aid as components that many other names are constructed from.

Isis: throne (Egyptian) Before the rise of the political group, Isis was best known as the name of the supreme Egyptian goddess of the moon, sky, magic, motherhood and fertility, revived by feminists and others willing to cross into arcane territory.

Shorter names

Ella: all, completely (English) or fairy maiden (German)

Naia: to flow (Hawaii) Exotic variant of Maia

Maia: mother (Greek) Maia is one of those light, ethereal girls' names with mystical overtones and mythical roots. In Greek legend, she was the fair-haired daughter of Atlas who mothered Zeus's favorite illegitimate son, Hermes. To the Romans, Maia was the incarnation of the earth mother and goddess of spring, after whom they named the month of May. It's a favorite among Nameberry users.

Atlas: a Greco-Roman god that was strong enough to carry the world on his shoulders. Previously thought too powerful for a baby boy.

Mary: bitter (Hebrew) Variants: Marietta, Marie (French)

Katherine: pure Variants: Karen (Danish), Kieran (Irish), Kerenza, Karina, Kyra

Linda: pretty (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian) Lives forever in baby name history for toppling Mary from its 400 year reign as no. 1. queen of names in 1947.

April: to open (Latin)

August:

June: named after goddess Juno, queen of the heavens (Latin) Juni, Juno, Djuna

Regis: kingly (French) Rex

Virgil: staff bearer (Latin) The name of the greatest Roman poet and an early Irish saint who believed the earth was round, Virgil is rarely heard nowadays, but it retains a certain pleasantly fusty feel and likable southern twang.

Edith: prosperous in war (English) Among the oldest surviving Anglo-Saxon names. WIdely used in 19th century novels. Edith was a hugely popular name a hundred years ago that's being revived among stylish parents in Stockholm and London. It's currently beginning to gain traction in the US among those with a taste for old-fashioned names with a soft but strong image.

Source

Nameberry.com

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April Larson / Coldsore SWING LOW (split release)

SWING LOW by April Larson / Coldsore

Black 'vinyl style' CDr & Green C40 tape made from recycled plastique with rubber stamped sticker in laser-printed cardboard cover, rubber stamped and hand numbered in plastique foil envelope. Limited edition of 15 CDRs & 15 tapes. totes-format.tk

The longing for liberation of all oppressed runs deep in my (grm's) mind/life and often reflects in the releases of my projects. The idea to work with the traditional SWING LOW tune and it's symbolic(?) connection to the abolitionist UNDERGROUND RAILROAD in the so called USA, was originally a concept for THE BIG SLEEP (a long night of drones) event in 2020 in Helsinki. For a release of a reworked and much shorter version, i invited April Larson from Louisiana to contribute a topical track for a long due split-tape with COLDSORE. And here we finally have it, after quite a delay - before a global pandemic has hit us all and another hurricane has caused havoc, not only on April's home, but all the while the horrors of white supremacy have been a hegemonic principle of opression of all BIPOC people. In memory of Harriet Tubman and the countless organizers and supporters of the abolitionist struggle, back then and now. The struggle continues! 200€ of the possible income will be donated to SOUTHERN SOLIDARITY: southernsolidarity.org "Southern Solidarity is a grassroots, community-based group of volunteers in solidarity with the unhoused in their quest toward liberation. We organize the delivery of food, medical resources and basic needs directly to the unhoused in the downtown area of New Orleans because the government has not filled this need. We are influenced by anti-imperialist principles and mobilized by a black queer woman. As a group of 30, we organize the daily delivery of food, medical resources, and other basic needs directly to hundreds of unhoused people in the downtown area of New Orleans because the government has failed to meet needs. Southern Solidarity is involved in both direct relief and consciousness raising efforts of members and recipients in our collective struggle for liberation. Some among us are undocumented, formerly incarcerated, unhoused, trans, activists but more importantly, all among us are anti-imperialist." --- Disclaimer: TOTES FORMAT is an anarchist project, it does not fully align with marxist and absolutely not with most mao-leninist (or worse mutations of so called communism) ideologies, but that does not mean there shall be no solidartity with the crucial material work SOUTHERN SOLIDARITY has been and is doing. I write this, because i find points like this important to be transparent. Onwards!

April Larson: aprillarson.bandcamp.com Coldsore: coldsore.tk Artwork & physical production by GRM.

#april larson #coldsore #totes format #abolition #harriet tubman #southern solidarity #mutual aid

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anotheruserwithnoname · 6 years

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hi sorry to bother you but how do i see the extra victoria scenes that aired on pbs and not itv? i'm in the uk and had no idea we were missing out on certain scenes. how many are there?

It varied from episode to episode but as far as I was able to tell, every episode of both series with the exception of the first two episodes of Series 1 and the Christmas special had some (sometimes in 5-minute range) extra footage added to the PBS versions. This is because PBS isn’t a commercial network and so needed more footage to pad out the time slot. The first two episodes of Series 1 actually had a few minor scenes cut because they were edited together to form a movie-length episode (the first 4 episodes of Series 2 were also combined but they weren’t edited together so actually had scenes added). Comfort and Joy also had several minutes cut, including the entire Victoria’s portrait subplot.

Most of the scenes added were character moments, including many fleshing out the “downstairs” characters - to the point where at least one episode last year had plot holes filled as a result (while some scenes opened new ones, such as Brodie’s unexpected anger over Francatelli having interest in Skerrett), and this year I found the Irish famine episode’s pacing was better for its added sequences. There have also been some Jenna scenes, including a good chunk of the final act of “King Over the Water” between the return from Scotland and the “striptease” scene, with additional sequences involving Victoria with Harriet and Lehzen and Robert Peel and a scene where Albert insists on stoking a fire at Buckingham himself, much to the consternation of one of the servants. The railroad episode from last year had a charming pair of scenes added where Victoria and Albert work out a secret signal to tell each other “I love you.” I don’t recall any major added Vicbourne scenes, however, but my memory might be faulty. We also saw last year a scene in which Victoria works out the deal with Conroy for him to leave, which while not filling in a plot hole did flesh things out a bit.

(Because this came up in conversation I’ll point out that nothing x-rated was added by PBS; no “censored loved scenes” or anything - in fact, though I’d need to have the PBS version to compare side-by-side - I think the scene where Albert’s father dies while visiting a brothel is slightly shorter than what ITV showed and I know that PBS blurred over the brief glimpse of Alfred and Drummond’s posteriors in the skinny-dipping scene in the France episode).

In the US the episodes are available on the PBS Passport streaming service (with those three episodes I mentioned also shown uncut), and apparently that’s the only legal online source for the extra scenes. I am unaware of them being released elsewhere, though perhaps someone who has access to other streaming services can chime in as to whether they have the ITV or PBS versions. The DVD released in North America uses the ITV versions of the episodes. Last year someone put some of extra Victoria and Albert scenes together for YouTube, so maybe someone will do that again this year. I would love to do a side-by-side comparison of the episodes, but I only have the ITV versions as I had no means to record the PBS versions and from Canada I can’t access Passport.

#victoria #jenna coleman

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leafbracer98 · 4 years

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Thre have been recent rumors of Disney changing a bunch of rides to update them with modern standards have me a little worried. Not because I think the attractions shouldn’t be changed, but because of a worrying, to me at least, omission; Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room.

I love the Enchanted Tiki Room but I will admit it’s not free from its problems; being made in 1963, like 30 years after Tiki Culture became a thing.

It’s hosted by 4 animatronic Parrots, one German named Fritz, one French named Pierre, one Irish named Michael, and one Mexican named Jose. Jose is one who opens the show, iconically remarking that “My siestas are getting shorter and shorter” after being woken up by the cast member (or guest the cast member picks to “help out”). The show is a musical performance by the gorgeous animatronic birds and flowers before we get stopped by the tiki carvings on the wall beginning an ominus “Hawaiian War Chant”, with the flowers joining in, the song climaxing in rain and thunder. Apparently “the gods have been angered by all the celebratin’” according to Michael and Pierre tells us it’s time to say “adieu” after one last song, they talk about their magic trick of us facing the doors and making ourselves dissapear! The doors open and we exit to an adorable version of Heigh Ho from Snow White but the lyrics are changed to how they hope we enjoyed the show but now it’s out the door we go.

There are a few differences depending on the park you’re in, most notably the preshows and the WDW version not having a fountain (also I think you’re allowed to bring food into the Disneyland version but I’m not 100% positive)

Here’s a video of the Disneyland version because its the original:

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https://youtu.be/VFSCP9AGxIk

The show, despite its flaws in depicting other cultures is fun, and iconic even to this day.

The music is iconic, and the attraction led to the famous Dole Whip snack, and the animatronics themselves are historically a major step forward in making lifelike animatronics due to them being able to “breathe” thanks to their chests being covered by a custom woven cashmere, that came about when Harriet Burns noticed how a cashmere sweater Walt Disney was wearing moved at the elbows exactly the way the imagineers envisioned.

But it’s problems depicting other cultures is definitely there; with all 4 birds very much being stereotypes, it was the 60’s after all and Jose was of course voiced by a white man (no hate to Wally Boag, look him up, man was a legend [literally, he was made a Disney Legend in ‘95 and he deserved it]) and of course the attraction being based on American Tiki Culture, which while fascinating, is definitely... Iffy.

So it genuinely worries me that the Tiki Room isn’t mentioned in these rumors, because I hope they turn out to be true. I hope that Disney will change their attractions for the better, and if you dare say “well the Tiki Room is too iconic to change so you just have to live with its problems” I will remind you that Carousel Of Progress AND Country Bear Jamboree are both iconic and historic AND on the list of rumored attractions getting changed (and in the case of the Carousel of Progress I really hope they also fix whatever is wrong with John because as funny as it is watching him glitch out on YouTube, it feels like it’s happened too many times for there to be nothing wrong with him).

Are the Tiki Rooms problems just too many? Maybe it’s just my enjoyment of the attraction talking, but I don’t think so. I don’t know for sure how they’d fix it but if there’s a will there’s a way and I believe in the imagineers. I hope they don’t just ignore its problems and leave it as is if they’re going to change other attractions, because if they do, the Tiki Room will stand out like a horrible sore thumb.

Would they cut their losses and close it? Probably not, due to its historical value, but it’s a very real possibility, even if it’s one that would make me and a lot of Disney fans really sad. The attraction isn’t exactly at the top of people’s “must do at Disney” lists (unless you’re me and love the show AND can’t wait to implant the catchy song into your friends heads before using these historical animatronics to talk at length about how animatronics have changed over the years). I’m pretty sure it only really gets lines when it’s peak season and/or particularly hot or rainy (luckily WDW Tiki Room is in Florida I guess). It would be a massive bummer to see this historical attraction go the way of Horizons though. Upside would be they’d hopefully replace it with a Moana ride or maybe even something original.

Although them closing it and just not replacing it would NOT be the Worst Case Scenario. The Worst Case Scenario would be them closing the ride and replacing it on both costs with the “Under New Management” version of the show which was just awful.

https://youtu.be/6oyj3OTmNFE

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#serously under new management sucked #but hey at least the Uh-Oa animatronic looked cool enough to put in Trader Sams Tiki Bar #i dont even want to talk about the polynesian resort because i feel underqualified #Enchanted Tiki Room is one of my faves despite its many problems #im a sucker for weird disney facts animatronics and catchy music #also enjoy having In the tiki-tiki-tiki-tiki-tiki room stuck in your head all day #I think its just as catchy an earworm as Its A Small World just without the loop factor #which makes it way less annoying #Hannah’s Talking #Disney #Ramble #Walt Disney World #Disneyland #Disney Rumors #Disney History #Disney facts #Disney Changes

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