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“By 1900 child mortality was already declining—not because of anything the medical profession had accomplished, but because of general improvements in sanitation and nutrition. Meanwhile the birthrate had dropped to an average of about three and a half; women expected each baby to live and were already taking measures to prevent more than the desired number of pregnancies. From a strictly biological standpoint then, children were beginning to come into their own.
Economic changes too pushed the child into sudden prominence at the turn of the century. Those fabled, pre-industrial children who were "seen, but not heard," were, most of the time, hard at work—weeding, sewing, fetching water and kindling, feeding the animals, watching the baby. Today, a four-year-old who can tie his or her own shoes is impressive. In colonial times, four-year-old girls knitted stockings and mittens and could produce intricate embroidery; at age six they spun wool. A good, industrious little girl was called "Mrs." instead of "Miss" in appreciation of her contribution to the family economy: she was not, strictly speaking, a child.
But when production left the houschold, sweeping away the dozens of chores which had filled the child's day, childhood began to stand out as a distinct and fascinating phase of life. It was as if the late Victorian imagination, still unsettled by Darwin's apes, suddenly looked down and discovered, right at knee-level, the evolutionary missing link. Here was the pristine innocence which adult men romanticized, and of course, here, in miniature, was the future which today's adult men could not hope to enter in person. In the child lay the key to the control of human evolution. Its habits, its pastimes, its companions were no longer trivial matters, but issues of gravest importance to the entire species.
This sudden fascination with the child came at a time in American history when child abuse—in the most literal and physical sense—was becoming an institutional feature of the expanding industrial economy. Near the turn of the century, an estimated 2,250,000 American children under fifteen were full-time laborers—in coal mines, glass factories, textile mills, canning factories, in the cigar industry, and in the homes of the wealthy—in short, wherever cheap and docile labor could be used. There can be no comparison between the conditions of work for a farm child (who was also in most cases a beloved family member) and the conditions of work for industrial child laborers. Four-year-olds worked sixteen-hour days sorting beads or rolling cigars in New York City tenements; five-year-old girls worked the night shift in southern cotton mills.
So long as enough girls can be kept working, and only a few of them faint, the mills are kept going; but when faintings are so many and so frequent that it does not pay to keep going, the mills are closed.
These children grew up hunched and rickety, sometimes blinded by fine work or the intense heat of furnaces, lungs ruined by coal dust or cotton dust—when they grew up at all. Not for them the "century of the child," or childhood in any form:
The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play.
Child labor had its ideological defenders: educational philosophers who extolled the lessons of factory discipline, the Catholic hierarchy which argued that it was a father's patriarchal right to dispose of his children's labor, and of course the mill owners themselves. But for the reform-oriented, middle-class citizen the spectacle of machines tearing at baby flesh, of factories sucking in files of hunched-over children each morning, inspired not only public indignation, but a kind of personal horror. Here was the ultimate "rationalization" contained in the logic of the Market: all members of the family reduced alike to wage slavery, all human relations, including the most ancient and intimate, dissolved in the cash nexus. Who could refute the logic of it? There was no rationale (within the terms of the Market) for supporting idle, dependent children. There were no ties of economic self-interest to preserve the family. Child labor represented a long step toward that ultimate "anti-utopia" which always seemed to be germinating in capitalist development: a world engorged by the Market, a world without love.”
-Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women
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Just finished reading Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English for free on Internet Archive! ⭐⭐⭐⭐
❝Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This pamphlet explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States. The authors conclude that despite efforts to exclude them, the resurgence of women as healers should be a long-range goal of the women’s movement.❞
#feminism#witches#witch#midwifery#midwives#midwife#nurse#nurses#Barbara Ehrenreich#Dier#Deirdre English#witchcraft#witchcore#internet archive#book recs
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English - Le Streghe Siamo Noi - La Salamandra - 1975
#witches#salamanders#occult#vintage#Witches Midwives and Nurses#le streghe siamo noi#witches are us#la salamandra#il vaso di pandora#pandora's jar#medicine as a way to repress women#barbara ehrenreich#deirdre english#italian edition#1975
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why does everyone make such a big deal about the name Deirdre in the S08E01 of Psych? I’d assume it was just Shawn but Despereaux also gets it wrong. Has the name just never made it to America?
#personally I love it when Vinnie Jones shows up out of nowhere to be some mean English gangster#psych#shawn spencer#burton guster#pierre despereaux#Deirdre
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So as I’ve been playing Engage with the Japanese voices, I’ve noticed very clearly that voice lines absolutely don’t match up to what is being spoken a good chunk of the time. I know FE translation is notorious for censoring (as apparently the only closest official translation of a FE game we’ve had is Echoes), but playing a FE game with Japanese audio for the first time is really driving it home. I can’t speak a lick of Japanese but I know some basic words, and I’ll notice small things like where a character clearly apologizes or thanks someone and it doesn’t show up at all.
So then today, this pops up in my recommendations:
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And honestly I’m actually pretty peeved. We’re going back into Fates levels of censorship and I really don’t like that. Yes, I know I was concerned about being able to support characters like Clanne and Framme, but I thought that was addressed as an overall part of the game, not as a move of censorship. It would creep me out, sure, but I’d rather it be put in the English version of the game as-is, especially because it’s not like I have any interest in supporting them so it doesn’t concern me anyways. I’m really not happy that our localization practices still think that it’s okay to censor anything problematic. I want to play the game as it is, and if there’s one thing I absolutely hate, it’s being lied to. That’s what censorship is. Keep the weird personality traits. Keep the lines about being afraid of gaining weight. Keep the support options. I’m an adult who understands what fiction is, not some dainty little Southern belle who will faint at the slightest offense to my frail sensibilities.
#Fire Emblem Engage#Fire Emblem#spoilers#discourse#I guess I should tag as discourse#Also side note but THAT'S ROSADO'S ENGLISH VOICE?!?!#THAT VOICE DOESN'T FIT HIM AT ALL!!! GIVE ME MY KAWAII ROSADO VOICE!!!#And I've mentioned it before but I'll say it again: This is why I'm so sad and afraid for Genealogy of the Holy War's localization option#Because either the game will never get an Echoes-esque re-release because of Deirdre and Arvis's incest#Or the translators/localizers will try to erase any trace of it in the English release#Without realizing that there's a whole important story aspect as to why it happens and what makes it so fucked up besides 'it's incest'
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the thing about code or language switching is that its almost always context-based and purposeful. strip it of its context and it becomes frivolous and meaningless.
the reason “hola mi nombre es juan. oh my god I didn’t realize I was speaking spanish.” is ridiculous is because it’s exceedingly rare anyones going to accidentally switch languages. in everything everywhere all at once, they speak chinglish to each other. they never accidentally speak mandarin to deirdre in the IRS office for example because that would be ridiculous.
eeaao is such a splendid depiction of this. especially due to the varying levels of mastery across their generations. its clear joy understands mandarin but doesn’t speak it (except when jobu is trying to be dramatic). she doesn’t have enough grip of cantonese to tell gong gong that becky is her girlfriend but she understands enough to know evelyn doesn’t say it. you have to understand that Both of these things can be true for this scene to hit so hard. in particular, i love the back and forth between waymond and evelyn. she fully switches to english when speaking to alpha-waymond. but switches back and forth with her waymond in a way that feels so reflective of speaking languages that represent home in different ways. with an ease you can only grow into with someone having grown up in both environments.
#🦇#everything everywhere all at once#eeaao#eea@o#anyways accurate depictions of multilingual households my beloved#meta#1k
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My Dianic/Female Centered witch reading list (will update as I get more)!
The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries by Z. Budapest (because obviously)
The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler
Who Cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles
The Skeptical Feminist by Barbara G. Walker
The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries by Ruth Barrett
The Pagan Book of Living and Dying by Starhawk
Moon Time by Lucy H. Pearce
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
WomanRunes by Starhawk and Molly Remer
Whole and Holy: A Goddess Devotional by Molly Remer
You are the Placebo by Joe Dispenza
The Power of Ritual by Casper Ter Kuile
Feel free to leave some recommendations! I really like hearing especially about non-pagan books that influenced your practice (like the last two listed here were for me)!
Blessed be! 🌙💫✨
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Disclaimer: I am not Catholic. Everything I know about Catholicism is from friends and internet searches. Let me know if I got anything egregiously wrong!
Every few weeks or so, Neil would decide that the family would be going to church on Sunday.
Billy hates it. It isn’t even just the fact that mass is boring as shit and Billy doesn’t even believe in god. It’s the fact that his dad makes the decision for all of them—him, Susan, and Max—that they would be going.
Susan was raised Catholic, but she doesn’t personally identify that way anymore. She hadn’t in a long time. And Billy knows, from snippets of conversations between Susan and her sister Deirdre that he overheard, that Susan fucking hates the Catholic Church. Even so, Susan had taken Max to church a few times before marrying Neil. Pretty much just for holidays though, and only for the community aspect of it all. To her credit, Susan always made sure that Max knew that the Bible was not to be taken literally and that most of the religion was bullshit.
Neil was raised Catholic. His father had been Catholic. His mother, on the other hand, had been part of the Eastern Orthodox minority in Hungary. Neil’s father had forced her to convert to Catholicism when they got married even though he wasn’t a particularly religious man. He had also all but forced her to speak only English in their home. So. Neil had been raised in the Catholic faith and only learning bits and scraps of Hungarian.
Anyway.
The Hargrove-Mayfield family rolls into St. Vitus one Sunday. The night before, Billy had missed curfew and Neil hadn’t believed him when he said that he had been studying with Nancy and lost track of time. To be fair, that story had been a total, blatant lie. The truth was that Billy had been at Steve’s house getting railed on top of his pool table, but obviously Billy couldn’t tell his dad that.
The logical thing to do when you know your teenage son is lying to your face is to make your family go to church and make your son go to confession. At least according to the Neil Hargrove Guide to Parenthood.
Neil walks Billy to the little alcove where the confessional is to make sure he gets in line.
“We’re sitting three rows from the back,” Neil says. “If you and Max behave yourselves, we can go to Waffle House after.”
The night before, Neil slammed Billy against a wall while he was demanding to know why he had missed his curfew. He probably would have beaten him, but he got distracted enough to snap out of his rage when Susan “accidentally” knocked a glass off of the counter.
Billy knows that sometimes, rarely but still sometimes, his dad feels guilty about getting physical with him. Guilty enough that his dad tries to make up for it with things like buying a pint of Billy’s favorite flavor of ice cream at the supermarket or taking the family out to get breakfast after church.
(Sometimes when his dad hurts him badly enough, he “makes up for it” by doing things like helping Billy pay for his car or taking the family to the animal shelter to adopt a dog)
Before Billy walks into the confessional, he watches Neil walk over to where Susan and Max are sitting. There have been times where his dad would stay in line with him, waiting for his own turn or just making sure that Billy actually went in.
He walks in the booth. It’s one of those that’s divided by a screen. When Billy had his first Communion, the confessions were done face-to-face. It had been awful having to tell a grown-up man—that he had to call “Father”—how he had pushed Lance Shepherd off the jungle gym at recess because he had put a wad of gum in his friend Amy’s hair.
Billy kneels and makes the sign of the cross.
“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned,” Billy says rolling his eyes. “It’s been, like, three months since my last confession. I think.”
“Unburden yourself.”
Billy blinks—he’s never heard a priest say “unburden yourself.” He’s only ever heard the standard “tell me your sins.” Billy recognizes the voice from the other side of the screen as Father Peter. There are two priests who preside over St. Vitus: Father Thomas, who’s old as fuck and rarely cracks a smile, and Father Peter, who is in his 40s and always greets people by their names.
“I let my friend cheat off my quiz in History class,” Billy begins. in his defense, it was a pop quiz and Jonathan’s grade in that class needed all the help it could get.
“I picked a fight with my sister,” he continues. That little spat with Max had been so fucking stupid; it was over whose turn it was to clean the bathroom. The fight had only lasted about seven minutes and they had both gotten over it quickly.
“I talked back to my parents...um...a fair amount,” he says. He stops speaking for a moment, wondering if he should just end his confession there to save everyone a whole bunch of time.
“Anything else?” Father Peter asks.
This was stupid. Church was stupid. Confession was fucking stupid. Catholicism was a nasty, fucking system invented to make people feel bad about shit like having sex and being gay.
“Yeah actually,” Billy snarks. “I missed curfew last night and lied to my dad about where I was. I told him I was studying with my friend, but I was really having sex with my boyfriend. Pre-marital, gay sex. ‘Cause I’m gay.”
Billy has no idea what Father Peter’s response to that is going to be. In a million years, he never would have predicted that Father Peter would say:
“Do you think that’s a sin?”
“I mean, isn’t it?” he asks, thrown off. “Like from a Catholic perspective?”
“Some people interpret Scripture that way,” Father Peter says. “But when you read the Bible, it’s important to consider the historical context. And important to remember that it’s been translated and revised many times over the centuries.”
“Do you think it’s a sin?” Billy asks. Even though he really couldn’t give a rat’s ass about what a priest thinks.
“No, I do not,” Father Peter says. “As long as it’s done with love and respect and not with malice, I don’t believe that any expression of sexuality is a sin.”
“Oh,” Billy says. “Um, cool.”
“God does not hate gay people, Billy,” Father Peter says softly.
Billy digs his fingernails into his palm. He didn’t think that Father Peter would recognize his voice.
“For your penance—”
“Wait, you just said it wasn’t a sin.”
“The sex is not a sin,” Father Peter clarifies. “But helping your friend cheat on their test is. And so is disrespecting your family.”
“I guess.”
Billy swears he hears Father Peter chuckle at that.
“For your penance, say three Hail Marys,” Father Peter continues. “Help your parents out around the house. Do an activity with your sister that she chooses. And help your friend study so that they’re prepared for the next test.”
“Okay,” Billy nods.
He listens as Father Peter intones a prayer of absolution and leaves the confessional to join his family in the pews.
Nothing’s really changed. Billy still doesn’t believe in any sort of god. He still thinks religion is bogus. He’s only going to say those Hail Marys because his dad is there and the promised trade-off of Waffle House for good behavior is too good to pass up.
But he does make a mental note to share his class notes with Jonathan and study with him. And also to take Max to the arcade and maybe let her win a game or two.
#billy hargrove#max mayfield#susan hargrove#neil hargrove#harringrove#(like in the background)#catholic billy hargrove
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Getting ready for the Booklr Reads Australian challenge. These are a selection of Aussie books I own (fiction on the left, nonfic on the right) which I'll be choosing from during the month. I'm a mood reader so I have no idea what I'll actually end up picking but I'd like to get through at least a few of these.
List of titles and brief descriptions of each is below the cut for anyone looking for ideas for their own Australian reads.
The open book is The Tea Chest by Josephine Moon (my current read.)
It's a rather sweet novel revolving around four women who's lives in Australia have been disrupted and who come together to open a tea shop in London.
A true History of the Hula Hoop by Judith Lanigan
The book weaves together two parallel stories, one of Catherine, a struggling Aussie hula-hooping performance artist, and the other of Columbina, a feisty 16th century Italian female clown travelling through Europe with the first ever commedia dell'arte troupe, while also weaving in the history of the hula hoop.
Without Further Ado by Jessica Dettmann
A romcom inspired by/paying homage to Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, in which the protagonist loves the Kenneth Branagh adaptation and finds her love life mirroring the plot.
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne
A romance inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, in which Victor Frankenstein's sister Angelika is anxious for love and decides to take matters into her own hands and create a suitable suitor.
Empires by Nick Earls
This novel spans continents and centuries. It's split up into 5 parts, each occurring in a different time and place, but which all intertwine and connect. It's about two brother from Brisbane who've lead separate lives, but its also about humans in strange and difficult times, the way people see themselves, and the interconnectedness of all things.
The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson
A cosy mystery set in 1965 Sydney. It follows a group of tea ladies who work in a fashion house getting tea and biscuits for the staff. Until a murder occurs in the building and the tea ladies become accidental sleuths.
Top End Girl by Miranda Tapsell
Larrakia Tiwi actress Miranda Tapsell's memoir about her work and life as an Aboriginal woman and how she combined both when creating the film Top End Wedding.
Girt by David Hunt
A humorous look at Australian history, from megafauna to Macquarie. Full of strange, ridiculous and bizarre stories.
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age by Deirdre O'Connell
This is the story of the Sydney and Melbourne legs of American jazz band The Colored Idea's ill fated Australian tour in 1928. It's about the international rise of African American jazz, the history of Australia's entertainment industry and modernism in the arts in Australia, and the influence of the White Australia Policy beyond immigration issues.
Flash Jim: The Astonishing Story of the Convict Fraudster Who Wrote Australia's First Dictionary by Kel Richards
This is a biography of conman, pickpocket and thief James Hardy Vaux who was sent to Australia as a convict. Not only does it go into explanations of his numerous crimes but also the origins of Australian English as Vaux also created a dictionary of the criminal slang of the colony, some of which can still be seen in modern Australian language.
Great Australian Mysteries by John Pinkney
A collection of Australian true crime mysteries including inexplicable disappearances, unsolved murders and scientific enigmas.
Notorious Australian Women by Kay Saunders
This book celebrates the lives of some of Australia's most fearless, brash, and scandalous women, including bushrangers, courtesans, and writers, amongst others.
#booklr reads australian#booklr#book stack#reading#vegemite#australia#(coincidentally the book im currently reading is also by an aussie#but id started that before the challenge was even announced lmao#im hoping to finish it by the end of july but if i dont then it still counts for the challenge in august!#also actually i've already read top end girl so i defs wont be reading it in august)
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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (1973) by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
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“Dr. Edward H. Clarke's book Sex in Education, or a Fair Chance for the Girls was the great uterine manifeso of the nineteenth century. It appeared at the height of the pressure for co-education at Harvard, where Clarke was a professor, and went through seventeen editions in the space of a few years. Clarke reviewed the medical theories of female nature—the innate frailty of women, the brain-uterus competition—and concluded, with startling but unassailable logic, that higher education would cause women's uteruses to atrophy!
Armed with Clarke's arguments, doctors agitated vociferously against the dangers of female education. R. R. Coleman, M.D., of Birmingham, Alabama, thundered this warning:
Women beware. You are on the brink of destruction: You have hitherto been engaged in crushing your waists; now you are attempting to cultivate your mind: You have been merely dancing all night in the foul air of the ballroom; now you are beginning to spend your mornings in study. You have been incessantly stimulating your emotions with concerts and operas, with French plays, and French novels; now you are exerting your understanding to learn Greek, and solve propositions in Euclid. Beware!! Science pronounces that the woman who studies is lost.
Dozens of medical researchers rushed in to plant the banner of science on the territory opened up by Clarke's book. Female students, their studies showed, were pale, in delicate health, and prey to monstrous deviations from menstrual regularity. (Menstrual irregularity upset the doctor's sensibilities as much as female sexuality. Both were evidences of spontaneous, ungovernable forces at work in the female flesh.) A 1902 study showed that 42 per cent of the women admitted to insane asylums were well educated compared to only 16 per cent of the men—“proving,”obviously, that higher education was driving women crazy. But the consummate evidence was the college woman's dismal contribution to the birth rate. An 1895 study found that 28 per cent of female college graduates married, compared to 80 per cent of women in general. The birth rate was falling among white middle-class people in general, and most precipitously among the college educated. G. Stanley Hall, whose chapter on "Adolescent Girls and their Education" reviewed thirty years of medical arguments against female education, concluded with uncharacteristic sarcasm that the colleges were doing fine if their aim was to train "those who do not marry or if they are to educate for celibacy." "These institutions may perhaps come to be training stations of a new-old type, the agamic or agenic [i.e., sterile] woman, be she aunt, maid—old or young—nun, school-teacher, or bachelor woman."”
-Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women
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There is probably no industrialized country with a lower percentage of women doctors than the US today: England has 24 percent; Russia has 75 percent; the US has only seven percent. And while midwifery— female midwifery — is still a thriving occupation in Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, etc., it has been virtually outlawed here since the early twentieth century. By the turn of the century, medicine here was closed to all but a tiny minority of necessarily tough and well-heeled women.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English | Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
This book was published was in 1973. Updated 40 years later:
"One-third (37.1%) of the active physician workforce in the United States was female. Percentages of females in the 48 top specialties ranged from a high of 65.0% in pediatrics to a low of 5.9% in orthopedic surgery."
Going from 7% to 37% is a significant gain. But it comes after a millennium of context which is in the book, from the ruthless slaughtering of witch healers to the methodical exclusion of women from higher education (all while learning from their resources with no credit). Trips me to think about what our presence would be like in health today had there not been such targeted femicide
Some good news though, the AAMC found: "Similar to faculty composition, most active physicians were White (56.2%) and male (64.1%). However, among the youngest cohort of active physicians (34 years of age and younger), women outnumbered men in most racial and ethnic groups."
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D.U.D.E Bios: Ida McDougall
The Cyhyraeth Duchess of C.R.C Ida McDougall (2020)
The eldest daughter of Deirdre, and second eldest granddaughter of Naoise, Ida. An Irish-Catholic woman living in Wales and an attentive and sympathetic mother. Ida is one of Kirby's first cousins once removed.
"Some days I really could scream my scream lungs out."
Name
Full Legal Name: Ida Elain Ffion Briallen McDougall (Née Llewellyn)
First Name: Ida
Meaning: Derived from the Germanic element 'Id' possibly meaning 'Work, Labour'.
Pronunciation: IE-da
Origin: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, French, Polish, Finnish, Hungarian, Slovak, Slovene, Germanic
Middle Name(s): Elain, Ffion, Briallen
Meaning(s): Elain: Means 'Fawn' in Welsh.
Ffion: Means 'Foxglove' in Welsh.
Briallen: Derived from Welsh 'Briallu' meaning 'Primrose'.
Pronunciation(s): EH-lien. FEE-awn / FI-awn. bri-A-shehn
Origin(s): Welsh. Welsh. Welsh.
Surname: McDougall (Née Llewellyn)
Meaning: Variant of 'MacDougall', which means 'Son of Dougall' in Gaelic.
(Llewellyn: Derived from the Welsh given name 'Llywelyn', which is probably a Welsh form of unattested Old Celtic name 'Lugubelinos', a combination of the names of the gods 'Lugus' and 'Belenus', or a compound of 'Lugus' and a Celtic root meaning 'Strong'.)
Pronunciation: mack-DO-gall (loo-EHL-in)
Origin: Scottish (Welsh)
Alias: Cyhyraeth Duchess, Ida McDougall
Reason: This is Ida's ring name
Nicknames: None
Titles: Mrs
Characteristics
Age: 27
Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns
Race: Human
Nationality: Welsh
Ethnicity: White
Birth Date: November 5th 1993
Symbols: Banshees, Cyhyraeths, Ghosts, Crowns
Sexuality: Straight
Religion: Irish-Catholic
Native Language: Welsh
Spoken Languages: Welsh, Irish, Scottish (Scots Gaelic), English
Relationship Status: Married
Astrological Sign: Scorpio
Theme Song: 'The Dirty Glass' - Dropkick Murphys (2011-)
Voice Actor: Anna Thomas
Geographical Characteristics
Birthplace: Tullahought, Kilkenny, Ireland
Current Location: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales
Hometown: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales
Appearance
Height: 5'6" / 167 cm
Weight: 136 lbs / 61 kg
Eye Colour: Blue
Hair Colour: Brown
Hair Dye: None
Body Hair: N/A
Facial Hair: N/A
Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 15
Piercings: Ear Lobe (Both), Tragus (Both), Eyebrow (Double, Both), Anti-Eyebrow (Both)
Scars: None
Health and Fitness
Allergies: None
Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Smoker, Social Drinker
Illnesses/Disorders: Depression
Medications: Antidepressants
Any Specific Diet: None
Relationships
Allies: (As of Jan 2020) The Rhydderch Clan
Enemies: (As of Jan 2020) None
Friends: Matrona Volkov, Eira MacThaoig, Rachel MacGregor, Wanda Llewellyn, Vale Llewellyn, Cadence Llewellyn, Dacre Llewellyn
Colleagues: The C.R.C Locker Rooms / Too Many To List
Rivals: None
Closest Confidant: Desmond McDougall
Mentor: Deirdre Llewellyn
Significant Other: Desmond McDougall (28, Husband)
Previous Partners: None of Note
Parents: Ivan Llewellyn (48, Father), Deirdre Llewellyn (47, Mother, Née Rhydderch)
Parents-In-Law: Diarmaid McDougall (58, Father-In-Law), Fionnuala McDougall (59, Mother-In-Law, Née Babineux)
Siblings: Kevin Llewellyn (24, Brother), Padrig Llewellyn (21, Brother), Wanda Llewellyn (18, Sister), Vale Llewellyn (15, Sister), Aaron Llewellyn (12, Brother), Bada Llewellyn (9, Brother), Cadence Llewellyn (6, Sister), Dacre Llewellyn (3, Sister)
Siblings-In-Law: Mavourneen Llewellyn (25, Kevin's Wife, Née McEachern), Rathnait Llewellyn (11, Padrig's Wife, Née McTaggart), Aoide McPhee (25, Desmond's Sister, Née McDougall), Valentin McPhee (26, Aoide's Husband), Tihomir McDougall (22, Desmond's Brother), Astraea McDougal (23, Tihomir's Wife, Née Monroe), Arete McDougall (19, Desmond's Sister), Tomislav McDougall (16, Desmond's Brother), Arethusa McDougall (13, Desmond's Sister)
Nieces & Nephews: Muadhnait Llewellyn (4, Niece), Muire Llewellyn (1, Niece), Ceallach Llewellyn (1, Nephew), Valko McPhee (5, Nephew), Arke McPhee (2, Niece), Velichko McDougall (2, Nephew)
Children: Keelin McDougall (7, Daughter), Caomh McDougall (4, Son), Cathal McDougall (1, Son)
Children-In-Law: None
Grandkids: None
Great Grandkids: None
Wrestling
Billed From: Kilkenny, Ireland
Trainer: The C.R.C Wrestling School, Talulla Rhydderch, Deirdre Llewellyn
Managers: Desmond McDougall
Wrestlers Managed: Desmond McDougall
Debut: 2011
Debut Match: Ida Llewellyn VS Deirdre Llewellyn. Ida won via pinfall.
Retired: N/A
Retirement Match: N/A
Wrestling Style: Brawler / Hardcore
Stables: The Rhydderch Clan (2011-)
Teams: No Team Names
Regular Moves: Belly To Back Suplex, Bulldog, Figure-Four Leglock, Inverted Atomic Drop, Low Blow, Multiple Jabs, Poking / Raking Opponent’s Eyes, Running High Knee Strike, Big Boot, Atomic Drop, Backbreaker Rack, Diving Overhead Chop, High Knee, One-Armed Body Slam, Piledriver, Running Big Boot, Running Leg Drop, Vertical Suplex Slam
Finishers: Sleeper Hold, Jumping Knee Drop, Top Rope Jumping Knee Drop
Extras
Backstory: Ida McDougall (Née Llewellyn) of the C.R.C (Welsh Wrestling League / Cynghrair Reslo Cymru) owning Rhydderch family. When Deirdre dies Ida will have a 1/504th ownership of the promotion. Ida is a 'Cyhyraeth Style’ (Brawler / Hardcore) trainer. She’s mostly Welsh.
Trivia: Nothing of Note
#D.U.D.E#original character#Rhydderch#Llewellyn#McDougall#C.R.C Wrestling School#C.R.C Wrestling Promotion#C.R.C Wrestling Family#Rhydderch Clan
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"Such was the state of medical 'science' when witch-healers were persecuted for being practitioners of 'magic.' It was witches who developed an extensive understanding of bones and muscles, herbs and drugs, while physicians were still deriving their prognoses from astrology and alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold."
Witches, Midwives and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
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after the biggest identity crisis, feelings of failure and major breakdowns, i've decided that my next academic year will be... different. i need a break from uni, which still hurts to admit. i intend to make learning enjoyable again, so i will start my year of rest and slow learning. the idea is to go back to learning at my own pace about whatever im curious about and NOT for obligation. so! this is a list of nonfic titles i am considering picking up!
- Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, by Angela Chen
- An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong
- Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, by Sunaura Taylor
- Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, by C. Riley Snorton
- Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, by Amanda Leduc
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures, by Merlin Sheldrake
- Having and Being Had, by Eula Biss
- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, by Deirdre Cooper Owens
- Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World, by Honor Cargill-Martin
- Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power, Eleanor Herman
- Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses, by Jackie Higgins
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, by Michael Pollan
- The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy, by Tristam Adams
- Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World, by Elinor Cleghorn
- Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, by Linda Nochlin
- Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
- Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother, by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
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MEGAN ADAMS.
FACECLAIM: Saiorse Ronan.
AGE: 17-18.
GENDER: Female.
OCCUPATION: Aspiring Veterinary Student.
SPECIES: Human.
SEXUALITY: Straight.
NATIONALITY: American.
EYE COLOUR: Grey.
HAIR: Shoulder length, light brown.
HEIGHT: 5ft 6″.
SCARS: Just the one on her right forearm from a dog bite acquired when she was seven.
LANGUAGES: English.
ZODIAC: Virgo, September 20th.
HOBBIES: Reading. Doodling. Volunteers at a rescue centre.
SKILLS: Medical knowledge (animals). First aid. Math.
MEDICAL: Penicillin allergy.
VICES: Sour candy.
CONNECTIONS: Deirdre (step sister) written by @hvbris. Sam (step sibling) written by @collidingxworlds. Lavinia (step mom) written by @hvbris.
BIOGRAPHY
Men weren’t to be trusted. Not a single one. And that extended, so Megan was told by her new step-mom, to her dad as well. Always a quiet but intelligent girl, a little shy, Megan was already wary of talking to boys as she entered her teenage years, but this was reinforced when Lavinia came into her life.
Along with her came Megan’s step-sister, Deirdre, a little older and lot more confident. Wanting very much to get along and not cause any ripples in the household, Megan immediately looked up to her new sister. Even if Deirdre resisted her every attempt to do so.
All her memories of childhood were happy ones, right up until her mother’s death, but Lavinia was determined to turn Megan against her own blood. The turning point came when Megan found out her Dad had cheated on her Mom while she was sick. The seed was planted, now watered. Men weren’t to be trusted.
When Lavinia finally poisoned Victor Glass, taking the life of her second husband, Megan was shaken, torn by her emotions and her loyalty to her dad. But he’d betrayed his daughter and his previous wife.
Didn’t he deserve it?
VERSES
Main
A seemingly ordinary and shy girl harbors terrible secrets about her family.
The Hunger Games
Born in District 1, Megan had never been like any of the Careers , never interested in volunteering her life for the entertainment of the Capitol. Reaped for the games at 17, she went from a life of secret bloodshed to an arena of chaos, with her step mother drilling in the need for Megan to make her proud and elevate the family.
Jurassic World
The lucky winner of a student veterinary placement at Isla Nublar, Megan never expected to actually be chosen. It was a dream come true, a chance to start off her training and later career with a bang. The plan was to live and work at the impressive Jurassic World park for six months. But the island had other plans.
#like a long scream out there always echoing ; megan adams#& hvbris & collidingxworlds ; blood is running deep some things never sleep > the adams family#megan aes#megan ; main v#megan ; hunger games v#megan ; jurassic world v
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