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peachraindrops · 2 years

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The votes are in!

Good Girls Appreciation Week 2022 will take place Sunday, August 7th through Saturday, August 13th.

WHAT IS IT?

Good Girls Appreciation Week 2022 is seven straight days of dedicated fans creating and sharing new content showing their love for the show. Each day of the week has a specific theme voted by fans to interpret as creatively as they like!

I don't know about you guys, but life has been more depressing than usual lately and Good Girls gives us an escape. Let's have some fun with this!!

WHAT ARE THE THEMED DAYS?

Y'all voted and here they are:

WHO PARTICIPATES?

Everybody! Creators create, and the larger fandom boosts those creations with likes and (especially!) reblogs to spread the joy.

It’s a great time for people that have thought about trying their hand at content creation to give it a go!

#GGAW2022

More details under the cut.

HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?

You can participate as much or as little as you like. If just one day speaks to you, create content based on that theme. Post it on the allotted day with the designated hashtag, and boom, you’ve participated!

Several people have already expressed interest in what kind of content they’d like to contribute, but there’s no official sign-up. You can lurk for a few days, get a feel for it, and then post, or you can start planning and creating now, waiting for the official week to post.

WHAT ARE THE RULES?

I know rules are lame but we have to make this thing a somewhat official thing somehow 😂. There are 6 important rules of #ggaw2022 so that we see a #GGAW2022 post when we see it:

Keep it positive! This means when you’re focusing on your love of A, B, or C, you avoid tearing down X, Y, and Z in the process.

Spread the love! Like the posts you see and encourage content creators, old and especially new! Hit that reblog button a little more often. The fandom benefits when we support each other and encourage newbies to try their hand at creating something. Let creators know what you think they’ve done especially well by leaving positive tags and/or dropping a note in their inbox!

Use the designated hashtag! Tag all posts #ggaw2022 so that anyone following the tag can see all the new content as its uploaded.

Use headings or captions! Try to use a heading or caption that alludes to which day you are posting for, e.g. “Day 2: Favorite Location - The Park.”

Post within your timezone! The days last a little longer here in Good Girls Land where time is fake and everyone counts on their fingers! Don't worry about calculating numbers—the day starts at 12:01 am and ends at 11:59 pm in whatever timezone you happen to be in.

Do your best! Try your best to post by the designated day, but remember: this is supposed to be fun. If you miss the designated day but are still really inspired to make or finish something for it, share it anyway!

WHAT TYPE OF CONTENT SHOULD WE SHARE?

Literally anything that makes you feel some sort of way. Gifsets, videos, photo manipulations & edits, moodboards, drabbles or short fics, imagines, metas, fanart, playlists, and whatever else you can think of! Wanna make a cross-stitch pattern and share it with the rest of us? Wanna make a list of GG-inspired recipes? Want to make a movie poster? Go for it!

WHAT ABOUT PROMPTS?

The survey showed me how many ideas y'all have for this so we'll try this! Submit them to my inbox (@peachraindrops) anon or not, whatever feels best, and I'll post them all in an inspiration post a week from today, July 20th, 2022 in an aggregated (and nameless!) list. The prompts will be used for creators to draw inspiration from and maybe even hit a few of your favorite things!

FINALLY:

We all want to see these themes the way you interpret them! Again, the more creative, the better. In the end, I just hope this brings a little bit of joy back into everyone's lives because that's what we need right now, right?!

& the final finally:

thanks to everyone for all of the excitement and participation, and even more finally to @foxmagpie for letting me rip most of this post from GGAW2021. I would have been lost trying to figure this out without something so detailed to go off lol.

Reblog to spread the word!

#ggaw2022 #gg fandom #nbc good girls #beth x rio #beth boland #rio good girls #christina hendricks #mae whitman #retta #reno wilson #manny montana #matthew lillard #good girls nbc #dean boland

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rioannie · 2 years

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Annie realizing what everyone sees in him😒😩😶🤧

Gifs by @sdktrs12

#annie marks #nbc good girls #rio good girls #good girls nbc #rio x annie #mae whitman #manny montana #runway #ggedit #tvcentric #goodgirlssource #rio & annie #beth boland #brio #brio good girls

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resovrceful · 5 days

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— CHRISTINA HENDRICKS in GOOD GIRLS SEASON TWO (eps. 01 - 04)

By clicking the source link, you will find #832 (#2671 total) gifs of CHRISTINA HENDRICKS as ‘BETH BOLAND’ in GOOD GIRLS, SEASON TWO. All gifs were hand made with love by me, @resovrceful , are all sized 268x151, and are all within tumblr’s maximum limit.

All members of my server gain early access to gifpacks, and you can join here. Please do like and/or reblog if you found this at all useful, and if you’re feeling even more generous please consider buying me a coffee.

About: CHRISTINA HENDRICKS was born in 1975, is FEMALE and is WHITE. Please cast them accordingly. Gifs Feature: Mae Whitman, Manny Montana, Matthew Lillard, Retta. Warnings/Triggers/Other: alcohol, blood, drinking, eating, flashing lights, guns, kissing, scenes of a sexual nature.

#christina hendricks gifs #christina hendricks gifpack #christina hendricks gifhunt #gif pack #gif hunt #gifpacknetwork #gifpackshq #gifpacksgalore #supportcontentcreators #fcxdirectory #gifsociety #gifhunthub #olderfcs #fc:christina hendricks #res:gifhunt #* mine.

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best-supermassive-character · 9 months

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Pairs from Round 1:

1. ‌The Curator x Dr. Hill – Nick Kay x Salim Othman x Jason Kolchek – Jacob Custos x Nick Furcillo

2. ‌Fliss DuBois x Julia – Laura Kearney x Hannah Washington – Kate Wilder x Julia

3. ‌Hannah Washington x Jessica Riley – Matt Taylor x Ashley Brown – Salim Othman x Dar Basri

4. ‌John x Angela – Conrad x Jacob Custos – Kate Wilder x Jamie Tiergan

5. ‌Mike Munroe x Jessica Riley – Conrad x Beer x Rachel King – Conrad x Fliss DuBois

6. ‌Daniel x Taylor – Hannah Washington x Emily Davis – Nathan Merwin x Joey Gomez

7. ‌Charlie Anderson x Hodgson expedition – Rachel King x Clarice Stokes – Nick Kay x Salim Othman

8. ‌Jeff Whitman x Marie Whitman – Emily Davis x Ashley Brown – Revenant Carver x Judge Wyman

9. ‌Abraham Alastor x Tabitha Milton – Alex Smith x Julia – Nick Kay x Rachel King

10. ‌Kurum x Balathu – Lady Bradshaw x Ellis van Huyten – Hannah Washington x Ashley Brown

11. ‌Emma Mountebank x Kaitlyn Ka – Eric King x Nick Kay – Eric King x Nick Kay x Rachel King

12. ‌Beth Washington x Emily Davis – Beth Washington x Sam Giddings

13. ‌Jason Kolchek x Salim Othman – Erin Keenan x Rachel King

14. ‌Mike Munroe x Jessica Riley x Emily Davis – Conrad x Brad Smith

15. ‌Granthem Du'Met x Kate Wilder – Granthem Du'Met x Jamie Tiergan

16. ‌Mark Nestor x Kate Wilder x Jamie Tiergan x Erin Keenan – Adam Jones x Jonathan Finn

17. ‌Emily Davis x Jessica Riley – Kate Wilder x Erin Keenan

18. ‌Joseph Lambert x Amy Lambert – Mark Nestor x Kate Wilder

19. ‌Joe Roberts x Charlie Anderson – Tanya Clarke x Vince Barnes

20. ‌Danny x Olson – Ashley Brown x Chris Hartley x Josh Washington

21. ‌Emily Davis x Sam Giddings – The Curator x Player

22. ‌Dylan Lenivy x Chainsaw – Tabitha Milton x Taylor

23. ‌Brad Smith x Fliss DuBois – Emma Mountebank x Abigail Blyg

24. ‌Beth Washington x Laura Kearney – Conrad x Brad Smith x Fliss DuBois

25. ‌Kaitlyn Ka x Ryan Erzahler x Dylan Lenivy – Jamie Tiergan x Erin Keenan

26. ‌Laura Kearney x Kaitlyn Ka – Granthem Du'Met x Erin Keenan

27. ‌Laura Kearney x Max Brinly – Sam Giddings x Jessica Riley

28. ‌Conrad x Josh Washington – Emma Mountebank x Kaylee Hackett

29. ‌Matt Taylor x Jessica Riley – Brad Smith x Dylan Lenivy

30. ‌Rachel King x The Ancient One – Dar Basri x Eric King

31. ‌Ashley Brown x Jessica Riley – Kate Wilder x Erin Keenan x Jamie Tiergan

32. ‌Chris Hartley x Ashley Brown – Ryan Erzahler x Dylan Lenivy

33. ‌Kate Wilder x The Curator – Becky Marney x Felicity Graves

34. ‌Sam Giddings x Hannah Washington – Nick Furcillo x Abigail Blyg

35. ‌Josh Washington x Chris Hartley – Laura Kearney x Travis Hackett

36. ‌Max Brinly x Laura Kearney x Travis Hackett – Nick Kay x Jason Kolchek

37. ‌Josh Washington x Jessica Riley – Kate Wilder x Shelby

38. Fliss DuBois x Julia - Mark Nestor x Joseph Morello 39. Emily Davis x Ashley Brown - Kate Wilder x Michelle Morello

#smg pairing tournament #supermassive games tournament #tournament #house of ashes #little hope #man of medan #the devil in me #the quarry #until dawn #the dark pictures #the dark pictures anthology #not a poll

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favevoiceactorbracket · 1 year

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Meet the Competing Voice Actors!

After the preliminaries and days of deliberating, here are you VOICE ACTORS COMPETING! One will take home the spot of Tumblr's Favorite Voice Actor!

A note before they are introduced! If you would like to support any of them send in an ask or make propaganda, any propaganda you make and post yourself should have me tagged! As well using the tags #favevabracket or #favevabracket2023!

And a quick reminder about the two rules that will be staying active!

No harrassment, hate, or vitriol will be tolerated. We are here to celebrate the work of voice actors not tear each other down

This is all for fun! Do not take it super seriously!

Good luck to all of our competitors!

Kirby Morrow

Rob Paulsen

Robbie Daymond

Tiana Camacho

Alex Hirsch

Khoi Dao

Megumi Ogata

Ray Chase

Sungwon Cho

tara strong

Yuri Lowenthal

Alejandro Saab

Billy Kametz

Billy West

bryce papenbrook

Cree Summer

Grey DeLisle-Griffin

Kevin Conroy

Phil Lamar

Zach Aguilar

Zeno Robinson

AJ Michalka

Alex Brightman

Allegra Clark

Ashley Johnson

Christopher R. Sabat

Daws Butler

Eartha Kitt

Erika Harlacher-Stone

Frank Welker

J. Michael Tatum

Jack De Sena

Jason Griffith

JK Simmons

John DiMaggio

June Foray

Kristen Schaal

Mark Hamill

Richard Horvitz

Steve Blum

Tom Kenny

Wendie Malick

Aaron Dismuke

Aaron Paul

Aimee Carrero

Alison Brie

Ami Koshimizu

Angela Bassett

Ashley Ball

ashly burch

Avi Roque

Ayumu Murase

Ben Schwartz, baby!

BETH MAY

bill farmer

Bill Scott

brandon rogers

Caitlin Glass

Casey Kasem

Cassandra Lee Morris

Cecil Baldwin

Christine Cavanaugh

Clark Duke

Colleen Clinkenbeard

Daman Mills

Dan Castellaneta

Dan Provenmire

Dani Chambers

Dante Basco

Dave Fennoy

David Tennant

Deedee Magno Hall

Deven Mack

Doris Grau

Doug Boyd

Dylan Marron

Elizabeth Maxwell

EG Daily

Elijah Wood

Ellen McLain

Eric Vale

Erin Fitzgerald

Josey Montana McCoy

Greg Chun

Gu Jiangshan

Guilherme Briggs (brazilian)

Haley Tju

Harry Shearer

Haruka tomatsu

Helen Gould

Hynden Walch

Jack McBrayer

Jackson Publick

Jaime Lynn Marchi

Jason Griffith

Jason Liebrecht

jason marsden

Jennifer Hale

Jerry Jewell

Jim Cummings

Jim Ward

John Burgmeier

John Swasey

Johnny Yong Bosch

Julie Kavner

Justin Cook

Kaiji Tang

Katey Sagal

Kdin Jenzen

Keith David

Ken Sansom

Kent William

Kevin Brighting

Kevin R Free

Kieran Reagan

Kimberly Brooks

Kimiko glenn

Kyle Igneczi

Kyle McCarley

Laura Bailey

Lauren Tom

Leah Clark

Liam O’Brien

Lorenzo Music

Lucien Dodge

Lucille Bliss

Lydia Mackay

Lydia Nicholas

Maddie Blaustein

Mae Questel

Mae Whitman

Maggie Robertson

Mara Wilson

Mark Oliver

Matthew Mercer

Matthew Zahnzinger

Maurice LaMarche

Max Mittelman

Mel Blanc

Melissa Hutchinson

Michael Adamthwaite

Micheal Sinterniklaas

Mike Judge

Monical rial

Natsuki Hanae

Nicole Tompkins

Olivia Olson

Olivia Wilde

P.M. Seymour

Parker Simmons

Patricia Ja Lee

Patrick Pedraza

Paul Castro Jr

Paul Frees

Penny Parker

Pete Gustin ( i think thats how it's spelled)

Peter Cullen

Phil Harris

Phil Hartman

Ricco Fajardo

Roger Craig Smith

Roz Ryan

Sandra Oh

Sarah Miller-Crews

Sayaka Ohara

Scatman Crothers

Scott Adsit

Scott Mcneil

Stanley Tucci

Stephanie Beatriz

Stephen Merchant

Steve Whitmore

Tabitha st Germain

Takaya Kuroda

Tom Kane

Tress McNeil

Veronica Taylor

Vincent Tong

Will Arnett

Yasuo Yamada

Zach Callison

Bobbie Moyinhan

Josh Brener

Andrew Francis

Brent Millar

Sebastian Todd

Kestin Howard

Lizzy Hofe

Andy Cowley

Todd Haberkorn

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Russi Taylor

#your competitors! | masterpost #favevabracket2023 #favevabracket #other competitions #masterpost #polls #fandom polls #tumblr polls #tournament #poll society

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dear-indies · 1 month

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Hello hello! Please could I get some fc help? I'm looking for a female fc with a bit of a punk/grunge/edgy/alternative look - probably 30s but age is not a big deal at all! - bonus points if the fc is queer and/or not purely super femme-y

Thank you!

Beth Ditto (1981) - is queer - has spoken up for Palestine!

Fefe Dobson (1985) Afro-Jamaican / Unspecified First Nations, White.

Jurnee Smollett (1986) African-American, possibly other / Ashkenazi Jewish - in Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey and The Twilight Zone.

Roberta Colindrez (1986) Mexican - is queer.

Alba Flores (1986) Romani - is a lesbian.

Diane Guerrero (1986) Colombian - in Doom Patrol - has spoken up for Palestine!

Mae Whitman (1988) - is pansexual - in Jack.

Ritu Arya (1988) Indian - in The Umbrella Academy.

FKA twigs (1988) African-Jamaican / White, possibly Egyptian.

Hannah John-Kamen (1989) Nigerian / Norwegian - in Resident Evil.

Katy M. O'Brian (1989) African-American, and white - is queer.

Mary Galloway (1990) Quamichan and Unspecified White - is queer - in Querencia.

Sarah Kameela Impey (1991) Indo-Guyanese / British - in We Are Lady Parts.

Jessica Henwick (1992) Chinese Singaporean / English - in The Matrix Resurrections.

Devery Jacobs (1993) Mohawk - is queer.

Hope this helps!

#fc help #rph #rpc

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mistressheroine · 4 months

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WIP Whenever

Thank you for the tag @im-immortal 💚

I'd just like to take a moment to say a massive thank you to whoever nominated me for The Moonshine Awards this year! I was blown away by how many I got and I'm so honoured to be considered amongst so many amazing writers, artists and content creators! I never thought that I would be writing fic on an almost daily basis this time last year but all the friendship and support I have recieved has meant so much to me and has given me so much confidence ❤️

I've yet to make a start on chapter 6 of Keep Me (hopefully at some point this week) as I've been focusing all my attention on my Valentine's Day fic for BHF23! So here's a little preview for Can You See Right Through Me?

“I’ll do a quick sweep upstairs, why don’t you see if there’s anything we could use.” Daryl whispered before he cautiously mounted the wooden staircase, still on high alert. Beth watched as he ascended into the shadows above, his footsteps causing the floorboards above to creak despite how lightly he was treading and she let out a sigh of relief when she heard him call that it was all clear a couple of minutes later. She ran a hand over her damp hair before removing her backpack, a cloud of dust dancing around the air as it hit the floor and began to search through the kitchen cupboards. It had been untouched, a rarity after all this time since the Turn, the crockery and glassware was all stacked up neatly inside. She found an old box of unopened crackers and a few cans of soup and beans which she laid out on the kitchen counter. It was then that she spotted a wooden box with a faded piece of paper placed neatly on the top, its edges curling and yellowing slightly from the exposure to the air and sunlight but Beth could still make out the handwritten message that had been left behind: There is always hope. Beth reached out with hesitant fingers for the note, remembering the last time they had come across shelter that was seemingly too good to be true. She heard Daryl making his way back down the stairs and towards where she stood in the semi-darkness of the kitchen, carrying a lit candle. As he came closer and cast more light across the room, Beth saw that the wooden box had an inscription carved into the lid surrounded by groups of delicately painted violets. She recognised the quotation from a long forgotten class in high school, a quote paraphrased from a Walt Whitman poem - We were together, I forget the rest. “Found some candles and a few blankets tucked away upstairs. They’re dusty but they’ll keep us warm enough if it gets any colder. I’ll get the bike covered and try to find some wood for a fire ‘fore the rain gets too heavy. What’d ya find?” Daryl asked, spotting the piece of paper she still had pinched between her fingers. Beth glanced over her shoulder at him, his face bathed in the warm glow of candlelight as he placed it beside her on the counter. Another memory flashed across her mind, another candlelit kitchen and his face bathed in warm light. “Whoever used to live here, they left something behind for whoever came along.” Beth whispered, her throat suddenly dry as the image of his ocean blue, intense gaze across the kitchen table that night at the funeral home refused to leave her mind. She shook her head as he leant past, his arm brushing lightly against hers as he ran surprisingly delicate fingers over the lid of the wooden box. Beth unfolded the piece of paper and found a short message written inside which she proceeded to read out loud.

I'll tag @sasusc @olpie @boltthrutheheart and anyone else who wants to share 😘

#bethyl #tag game #wip game #twd #the walking dead #daryl dixon #beth greene #otp #bethyl fanfiction

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warningsine · 3 months

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Having finished season 1 of "Good Girls," let me say that:

It is a hilarious series with 3 disaster leads (affectionate), but for all of its slapstick humor, its heart is: working class women trying to stay afloat.

Retta, Hendricks and Whitman give amazing performances that complement each other. Their chemistry truly is the biggest strength of the show.

Joan on "Mad Men" was understandably guarded, so it's refreshingly different to see Hendricks let loose as Beth. The way her voice switches from sweet and girly to sharp and authoritative on the spot? 11/10.

Retta nails both the comedic and dramatic bits with ease.

Whitman is charming as emotionally immature yet completely lovable Annie.

Truth be told, the season drags a little towards the second half despite the fact that the series is fast paced in general. They could have gotten away with 8-9 episodes instead of 10.

Yes, the concept is not entirely believable or original, but who cares? Didn't see anyone criticizing "Breaking Bad" for its straight up cartoonish moments. Why do we have to be so harsh when it comes to soapy delights that do not take themselves seriously like this one or "Why Women Kill"? Prestige dramas are good and all, but please give us a break from the typical male antihero narrative.

My point is, it is not the most scathing or poignant take on #MeToo and feminism, but so what?

Watching Beth hit the guy that almost rapes her sister reminded me of that moment in "Kevin Can F*ck Himself" where Patty injures her brother to protect Allison.

They paraphrased "Thelma and Louise" during that very scene. <3

Allison Tolman, here you are again being a total gift. If only she had more screen time/were a regular. Let her extort the ladies all she wants, but get rid of Leslie.

Say whatever you want about Dean, but Matthew Lillard's scenes with Hendricks are [chef's kiss].

Really loved Annie's child. Ruby's was also a delight. Both family arcs were touching.

Ruby and Stan. What a loving relationship. It was inevitable that the lie would leave their marriage in shambles, but it still is upsetting when that happens.

For a moment there, I was afraid that they were going to make Nancy the 1D "bitchy" wife so that the audience would root for Gregg and Annie (I do like them, but I do not think they will work out). Suffice to say, I gave a sigh of relief when they had Annie sympathize with her and call Gregg out on his shit.

I do not get the hype about Rio. He was funny in the beginning, but his generic/1D bad guy shtick got repetitive and annoying pretty fast. He shows up, puts on that growly voice, recycles 3 facial expressions while threatening the ladies and flirting with Beth, leaves. It does not help matters that Hendricks outshines the actor in every scene they share. From the way people talked about him, I thought he'd be more of a male Villanelle (s1 Villanelle), but without APD. Mea culpa. Knowing that they were actually initiating a romance, not just sexual tension between them, does not surprise me in the least, but it does leave me unimpressed.

#the important questions: when does beth kill a man (or at least shoot someone) and is it worth watching the show until then?#gg

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kwebtv · 11 months

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Oppenheimer - BBC - October 29, 1980 - December 10, 1980

Historical Drama / Biography (7 episodes)

Running Time: 420 minutes

Stars:

Sam Waterston as J. Robert Oppenheimer

John Carson as Narrator

Christopher Muncke as Colonel Kenneth Nichols

Jana Shelden as Kitty Oppenheimer

Kate Harper as Jean Tatlock

Edward Hardwicke as Enrico Fermi

David Suchet as Edward Teller

Manning Redwood as Lieutenant General Leslie Groves

Peter Whitman as Robert Serber

Matthew Guinness as Hans Bethe

Bob Sherman as Ernest Lawrence

John Morton as Robert Wilson

Garrick Hagon as Frank Oppenheimer

Liza Ross as Jackie Oppenheimer

Barry Dennen as Isidor Rabi

Peter Marinker as Haakon Chevalier

Phil Brown as Lewis Strauss

Sarah Brackett as Priscilla Duffield

The series aired on PBS' American Playhouse from May 11, 1982 to June 22, 1982

#Oppenheimer #TV #Historical Drama #Biography #BBC #1980 #PBS #Sam Waterston #John Carson

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toughgirlchallenges · 3 months

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Beth Whitman - completed the Grand Slam Plus with Racing the Planet. This included running 5 separate events, each 250K, across Georgia (the country), the Namib Desert in Namibia, the Atacama in Chile, the Gobi in Mongolia and Antarctica.

Beth is a traveler first and foremost. With 35 years of travel experience, each year she spends three to four months abroad, combining her love of adventure with vacation and business.

For 15 years she has been running WanderTours, focusing on women-only tours, where she encourages and inspires women to dive deep into cultures and to challenge themselves by getting out of their comfort zone.

She recently discovered running and, at age 50, ran her first marathon. She then discovered ultra-running and has been using these as an excuse to explore remote destinations around the globe that few people ever see.

Most recently she completed the Grand Slam Plus with Racing the Planet. This consisted of running five 250K stage races across four deserts: the Gobi in Mongolia, the Atacama in Chile, the Namib in Namibia, Antarctica and, the one non-desert race, a run across the country of Georgia.

While many people have completed these races, she is part of a small group of competitors (only seven women!) who have completed them in a year's time (OK, slightly longer due to Covid).

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We first spoke with Beth - Feb 11th 2020 - Running her 1st Marathon at 50, completing the Snowman Trek in Bhutan.

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Show notes

Who is Beth Whitman and what she does

Speaking with Beth at the end of 2019 where she shared more about running her first marathon and completing the Snowman Trek in Bhutan.

Going back to the start of 2020

4 desert races - with Racing the Planet

Wanting to run these 4races in 1 year (Namib Race (Namibia), Gobi March (Mongolia), Atacama Crossing (Chile) and The Last Desert (Antarctica))

Continuing to run and train, even when races and borders were getting closed

Not knowing what was going on, and continuing to hope that the race would go on.

Running every street in your city/neighbourhood

Having a purpose to get up every day and go running

The rules of the ‘running every street’

The mental side of always being ‘on’ while running

The challenges of running a tour company during covid

Dealing with uncertainty

Her first race - running Georgia (country) in 2021

Dealing with stress

Using mediation and becoming more aware of her thoughts

Needing to know what was happening and starting to doom scroll

Becoming more aware of her habits

Cutting back on caffeine and sugar

Moving on quickly from each trip/race

Needing to spend more time in reflection and appreciation for what’s been achieved

Revenge travel

Having 7 weeks between the Georgia race and the next ultra in Namibia

Fuelling ultra marathons being a mostly vegan

Magical moments and highlights from running

Running in Antarctica and the challenges with the terrain and weather

The mental struggle and thinking that she wasn’t going to be able to carry on while running in the desert

What kept her going during the tough times

How to find out more about Beth and her tours

Being most active on Facebook

Final words of advice

Having something to look forward to

The power of making a plan

Why you are capable of so much more than you think

Social Media

Website:

www.WanderlustAndLipstick.com

www.WanderTours.com

Instagram:

@bethwhitwa

@wandertours_pics

Facebook: @bethwhitwa

Check out this episode!

#podcast #women #sports #health #motivation #challenges #change #adventure #active #wellness #explore #grow #support #encourage #running #swimming #triathlon #exercise #weights

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starsallalight · 5 months

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Leave a like/comment if you'd like a starter from:

Alison Heywood

Belle Sauveterre

Beth March

Christine Daaé

Daisy Brooke

Dominic Marshall

Edward Ledoux

Ella Ledoux

Queen Feraine

Princess Gwyneira

James Stringer

John Brooke

Lila Whitman

Lucy Pevensie

Lady Rosamund

Sonya Rostova

Susan Pevensie

Vlad Rostov

I'll be attempting some drafts and opens as well.

#➳ 𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑠 & 𝑠𝑎𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒 ➳ ; 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 ; ❨ooc❩

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your-own-scifi-nerd · 11 months

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I don’t know why I’m doing this, but I am. Here’s a list of all my OCs, and what their names mean. Guess which one is for which fandom. Some are easier than others.

Athena Sapphire Sencen (Thena)

Athena(first name): the greek goddess of wisdom

Sapphire(middle name): a gemstone related with royalty

Sencen(last name)

voice claim: Juman Malouf, ‘Agnes’ “Fantastic Mr. Fox”

Phoebe Rose Black (Rosie)

Phoebe(first name): bright or radiant

Rose(middle name): a flower that represents romance, love, beauty, and courage

Black(last name)

voice claim: Sophie Aldred, ‘Ace McShane’ “Doctor Who”

Star Rosemary Niche (Rose)

Star(first name’s e): a star in the sky

Rosemary(middle name): dew of the sea

Niche(last name)

voice claim: Kristen Bell, ‘Anna’ “Frozen”

Faye Elena Barnes

Faye(first name): loyalty or belief

Elena(middle name): sun ray, shining light

Barnes(last name)

voice claim: Estelle Swaray, ‘Garnet’ “Steven Universe”

Susan Alice Sullivan-Smith (Suzie)

Susan(first name): lily of the valley

Alice(middle name): noble, exalted

Sullivan-Smith(last name)

voice claim: Vivian Nixon, ‘Millie’ “Helluva Boss”

Lilith Alex Coulson (Lily)

Lilith(first name): belonging to the night

Alex(middle name): defender of humankind

Coulson(last name)

voice claim: AJ Michalka, ’Stevonnie’ “Steven Universe”

Penelope Hestia Jackson (Penny)

Penelope(first name): weaver

Hestia(middle name) the greek goddess of hearth and home

Jackson(last name)

voice claim: Sarah Silverman, ‘Vanellope Von Schweetz’ “Wreck-it-Ralph”

Aine Cedar Ward

Aine(first name): brilliant, happiness

Cedar(middle name): a tree that represents strength, longevity and resiliency

Ward(last name)

voice claim: Daisy Ridley, ‘Rey’ “Star Wars”

Rune Alena Vagerson

Rune(first name): secret

Alena(middle name): tower

Vagerson(last name)

voice claim: Billie Piper, ‘Rose Tyler’ “Doctor Who”

Alexandria Rose Tyler-Williams (Alex)

Alexandria(first name): defender of humankind

Rose(middle name): a flower that represents romance, love, beauty, and courage

Tyler-Williams(last name)

voice claim: Ellen McLain, ‘Glados’ “Portal”

Asterin Mori Eraline

Asterin(first name): star

Mori(middle name): God is my teacher, forest

Eraline(last name)

voice claim: Zeno Robinson, ‘Hunter’ “The Owl House

Amaris Mallory Kenobi (Mar)

Amaris(first name): promised by God

Mallory(middle name): unlucky

Kenobi(last name)

voice claim: Mae Whitman, ‘Katara’ “Avatar: The Last Airbender”

Astra Blossom Pendragon

Astra(first name): star

Blossom(middle name): flower-like

Pendragon(last name)

voice claim: Deborah Watling, ‘Victoria Waterfield’ “Doctor Who”

Elaine Christine Rothschild-Kirk (El)

Elaine(first name): sun ray, shining light

Christine(middle name): follower of Christ

Rothschild-Kirk(last name)

voice claim: Ashleigh Ball, ‘Rainbow Dash’ “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”

Caroline Jane Foxer (Genesis Gwendolyn G.)

Caroline(first given name): free woman

Genesis(first chosen name): new beginning

Jane(middle given name): God is gracious

Gwendolyn(middle chosen name): blessed ring

Foxer(last given name)

G.(last chosen name)

voice claim: Isabel May, ‘Veronica Duncan’ “Young Sheldon”

Elizabeth Rebecca Quinn (Beth)

Elizabeth(first name): God is my oath

Rebecca(middle name): bind or tie

Quinn(last name)

voice claim: Jodi Benson, ‘Ariel’ “The Little Mirmaid”

Fern Prentice Tyler

Fern(last name): sincerity

Prentice(middle name): apprentice, learner

Tyler(last name)

voice claim: Chiari Queen, ‘Victoria’ “Metal Family”

Jacob Kane Kirk

Jacob(first name): supplanter

Kane(middle name): battlefield

Kirk(last name)

voice claim: Michael Ark, ‘Arvo’ “The Walking Dead”

T’Laura Amanda Kirk

T’Laura(first name): achievement

Amanda(middle name): worthy of love, lovable

Kirk(last name)

voice claim: Mae Whitman, ‘Amity Blight’ “The Owl House”

Soren Leonard Kirk

Soren(first name): stern, strict, severe

Leonard(middle name): lion's strength

Kirk(last name)

voice claim: Jorden Fry, ‘Lewis Robinson’ “Meet the Robinsons”

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Round 3

Alex Smith x Julia - Matt Taylor x Jessica Riley

Ashley Brown x Jessica Riley - Emma Mountebank x Kaitlyn Ka (Mounteka/Banka)

Emily Davis x Ashley Brown - Jason Kolchek x Salim Othman (Jalim)

Dylan Lenivy x Chainsaw - Sam Giddings x Hannah Washington

Laura Kearney x Max Brinly - Conrad x Fliss DuBois

Becky Marney x Felicity Graves (Gravey) -Ryan Erzahler x Dylan Lenivy (Rylan)

‌Hannah Washington x Jessica Riley - Beth Washington x Sam Giddings

‌Emily Davis x Jessica Riley - Josh Washington x Jessica Riley

Jeff Whitman x Marie Whitman - Jamie Tiergan x Erin Keenan (Jerin)

‌Dar Basri x Eric King (Daric) - Nick Kay x Salim Othman

Kate Wilder x Jamie Tiergan (Wildgan) - Rachel King x Clarice Stokes (Clarachel)

Mark Nestor x Kate Wilder (Markate) - Conrad x Brad Smith (Conbrad)

Laura Kearney x Kaitlyn Ka (Kearka) - Mike Munroe x Jessica Riley

‌Josh Washington x Chris Hartley (Climbing Class) - Laura Kearney x Hannah Washington

Emma Mountebank x Abigail Blyg (Blygbank) - The Curator x Player

The Curator x Dr. Hill - Fliss DuBois x Julia

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The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self: How a Circle of Friends and Lovers United Nature and Human Nature

Mind is invisible nature, while nature is visible mind.

Just after the revolutionary work he recounted in Awakenings, Oliver Sacks wrote in a note to the music therapist at Beth Abraham Hospital: “Every disease is a music problem; every cure is a musical solution.” He was quoting Novalis—the young German poet and philosopher who, while working in a salt mine and studying mathematics, geology, physics, and biology, was composing tortured and transcendent poems inspired by the death of his teenage beloved.

Novalis is one of the characters who animate Andrea Wulf’s Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self (public library) — the story of a circle friends and lovers in late-eighteenth-century Germany who refined their ideas in ricochet—ideas that shaped our present understanding of art and nature, mind and reality, the world and ourselves as function and functionary of it.

After the formidable Germaine de Staël popularised their ideas outside Germany, the tendrils of their influence went on to touch Coleridge and Emerson, Whitman and Joyce, sinking into the very soul of the modern world and its self-regard.

Having previously written about Alexander von Humboldt and the “invention” of nature—in the sense of the birth of its modern conception—Wulf now chronicles the “invention” of the modern self, the Ich, in the intellectual kiln of the same time and place, revealing the two to be inseparably related, reminding us that we can’t understand nature if we don’t understand ourselves or care for one without caring for the other.

She calls them the Jena set, after the town in Duchy of Saxe-Weimar where they constellated their portable universe of radicalism, and writes:

“They were rebellious and felt invincible. Their lives became the playground of this new philosophy. And the story of their tiptoeing between the power of free will and the danger of becoming self-absorbed is significant on a universal level. The Ich, for better or worse, has remained centre stage ever since. The French revolutionaries changed the political landscape of Europe, but the Jena Set incited a revolution of the mind. The liberation of the Ich from the straitjacket of a divinely organised universe is the foundation of our thinking today. It gave us the most exciting of all powers: free will.”

Against the grain of their time, they exercised their free will in open marriages and long-term monogamies without marriage. With names that sounded alike and intellectual passions that fired alike, they became a kind of hive mind fixated on celebrating the self and set out to “symphilosophise”—a term they invented for the intellectual symbiosis and symphonic creative collaboration at the heart of their life. Wulf writes:

“Taken together, the knowledge available in the minds of those who lived in Jena was like a great living encyclopaedia covering a vast range of subjects from antiquity to comparative anatomy, from electricity to Spanish literature, from philosophy to poetry, from history to botany.”

Among them, of course, were Goethe and Schiller, whose intergenerational friendship was the intellectual and creative anchor of both of their lives. Humboldt flits in and out of the scene, with his experiments in galvanism and his passionate devotion to the web of life. But there are also central characters now nearly forgotten—the influential brothers August Wilhelm Schlegel and Friedrich Schlegel, who believed that they were “all part of the same family of magnificent outlaws” and stood against Rousseau in their conviction that both boys and girls deserved a rigorous education; the young Friedrich Schelling, who at age eleven had informed his teachers that they had nothing else to teach him and had become the youngest professor appointed at the University of Jena at twenty-three, who “radiated infinity,” and who believed that “mind is invisible nature, while nature is visible mind” and told his students:

“As long as I myself am identical with nature, I understand what living nature is as well as I understand myself.”

There was Novalis, who “regarded the ordinary with wonder” and “slept little and worked hard”—at his poetry and in the salt mines—and believed that we and the world are an integrated system, each indispensable to the other, so that our task is to “catch sight of ourselves as an element in the system.” Wulf writes:

“His notebooks are filled with more than a thousand sections which analyse, synthesise and connect everything from music to physics, poetry to chemistry and philosophy to mathematics. And he did so with a fluidity and lightness that reveals a mind wide open to everything. Novalis began to assemble his ideas and material under conventional headings, such as archaeology, religion, nature, politics, medicine, and so on, but also under more unusual groupings, such as “theory of the future,” “musical physics,” “poetical physiology” and “theory of excitation.””

It was Novalis who offered the closest thing they had to a founding credo of Romanticism:

“By giving the commonplace a higher meaning, by making the ordinary look mysterious, by granting to what is known the dignity of the unknown and imparting to the finite a shimmer of the infinite, I romanticise.”

But by far the most colourful character is Caroline Schlegel, who was to the German Romantics what Margaret Fuller was to the American Transcendentalists. Vivacious, opinionated, educated far beyond the gendered limits of her time, Caroline spent time in prison for her revolutionary leanings, had a baby by a young Napoleonic soldier after a fiery one-night stand, and was animated by what she called “a firm, almost instinctive need for independence.” She besotted both Schlegel brothers, married one in what was at base an amicable friendship, and took the young Schelling as a lover, becoming the great love and muse of his life. The slight squint of her blue eyes cast the spell binding everyone into the “magic circle” of the group. “We have to build a poetic world out of ourselves,” Novalis told her as he declared her the beating heart of that world.

They all believed in the power of language. “You have not just to carry out revolutions,” Friedrich Schlegel wrote, “you have to speak them too.” No one spoke them more revolutionarily than the young Schelling, whose lectures enchanted a generation of thinkers with a whole new way of seeing the world—his students called it his “poetry of the universe.” Wulf writes:

“For millennia, thinkers had turned to their gods to understand their place and purpose in the unknowable divine plan. Then, in the late seventeenth century, a scientific revolution began to illuminate the world. Scientists had peered through microscopes into the minutiae of life or lifted new telescopes to the skies to discover Earth’s place in the universe. They had dissected human hearts to learn how the body functioned and classified plants, animals and minerals in neat categories to impose order on the world in which they lived. They had calculated the distance between the Sun and Earth, described how blood circulated through the body, and sailed to Australia, a “new” continent some ten thousand miles away on the other side of the world. They had discovered oxygen and used mathematics to define the laws of planetary motion and gravity.

The Enlightenment had truly enlightened. But this new rational approach had also created a certain distancing from nature and excluded the roles of feeling and beauty. Nature had become something that was investigated from a so-called objective perspective. Light, for example, was no longer appreciated for its kaleidoscopic play of iridescent colours, Novalis said, but for its refraction and “mathematical obedience”: hence its elevation to the term “Enlightenment” itself. This was why Schelling’s students fell for their young professor. He reunited what the scientific revolution had separated: nature and humankind. No matter how much scientists observed, calculated and experimented, there was something emotional, something visceral and perhaps inexplicable about humanity’s connection to nature. However we feel it, nature can soothe, heal or simply fill us with joy. Schelling gave us the philosophical explanation.

And by doing so, his philosophy of oneness became the heartbeat of Romanticism.”

In consonance with William Blake’s lifelong devotion to turning art into a lens on the universe, the Jena set understood that because we are part of nature, the products of our creative imagination are how nature examines itself, comprehends itself, and coheres. Wulf considers how Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism “became the philosophical underpinning of Romanticism”:

“An artwork—a painting, a sculpture, a poem—was therefore the expression of the union between the self and nature. Whatever an artist produced was created by nature through him or her. Nature—the unconscious product of the self—and the conscious self came together in the artistic creation. Art was therefore essential in order to make sense of the world, Schelling declared. Neither rational thought nor the most accurate scientific instruments held the key to understanding the world. Art was the finite or concrete representation of the infinite. Art opened “the holiest of holies,” Schelling wrote. It was the revelation of the universe through the creative production of an artist.”

These were ideas the entire Jena set shared. Friedrich Schlegel proclaimed that “all art should become science and all science art.” Novalis insisted that “science in its perfected form must be poetic” and that “laboratories will be temples.” Caroline Schlegel prophesied that “when the world goes up in flames like a scrap of paper, works of art will be the last living sparks.”

Works of art only ever spring from the particular vantage point of a particular authentic self—an Ich—and this is the enduring legacy of the first Romantics.

But all great ideas, if followed not critically but cultishly, run the risk of metastasising into dogmas. Today, we are living with one such metastasis of Romanticism in our staggering epidemic of selfing—rather than connecting us to each other and the living world as kindred elements in a system, the inflamed Ich has folded us unto ourselves: living proteins of ego. It is by returning to the original philosophy, before its mutation, that we stand a chance of reclaiming the self as a crucible of creativity and a portal of connection to nature.

Wulf reclaims the legacy of the Romantics:

“Life is a negotiation between our rights as an individual and our role as a member of a community, including our responsibilities towards future generations who will inhabit this planet. How can we live a meaningful life in which we determine the direction of our path while also being a morally good person? How do we reconcile personal liberty with the demands of society? Are we selfish? Are we pursuing our dreams? Are we treading on someone else’s liberty? Are we looking only after ourselves? Or others? Or both? We have entered a social contract with each other and with our governments, agreeing to abide by laws and conventions—yet this only works if we are free and trust one another at the same time.

The Jena Set believed that we have to be conscious of our selves—to be “selfish” in the sense of being aware of and in control of our own being and free will.

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The “Art of being Selfish,” in the context of Schelling’s Naturphilosophie, also means understanding one’s place in this great interconnected living organism that is nature. “Since we find nature in the self,” one of Schelling’s students concluded, “we must also find the self in nature.” Being selfish in that sense means comprehending and recognising the concept of unity with the universe. Not harming the planet therefore means not harming yourself.”

With an eye to Novalis’s insistence that “without perfect self-understanding we will never learn truly to understand others,” she adds:

“Only if we are fully aware of ourselves—of our needs, our wishes, and of our thoughts—can we truly embrace the other. This emphasis on the Ich means being “self aware” as the prerequisite for “being aware and concerned for the other.” Only through self-awareness can we feel empathy with others. Only through self-reflection can we question our behaviour towards others. Self-examination in that sense is for the greater good—for us, for our wider community, for society in general and for our planet.”

Complement Magnificent Rebels with poet, painter, and philosopher Etel Adnan—a modern-day Romantic, writing in her nineties—on the self and the universe, then revisit the Schelling-influenced Emerson on how to trust yourself and Whitman’s Humboldt-inspired poem “Kosmos.”

Source: Maria Popova, themarginalian.org (28th November 2022)

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