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sarcasticsciencefictionwriter · 9 months

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List of Actors in Sanctuary who Also Appeared in Stargate (Spanning Entire Franchise).

Main Cast (Counting Regular Major Appearances):

Amanda Tapping. Sanctuary: Helen Magnus. Stargate: Sam Carter.

Christopher Heyerdahl. Sanctuary: John Druitt, Bigfoot. Stargate SG-1: Pallin. Stargate Atlantis: Halling and Todd the Wraith.

Ryan Robbins. Sanctuary: Henry Foss. Stargate Atlantis: Ladon Radim.

Agam Darshi. Sanctuary; Kate Freelander. Stargates Atlantis: Novo and Athosian 2.

Jonathon Young. Sanctuary: Nikola Tesla. Stargate Atlantis: Dr. Parrish.

Peter Wingfield. Sanctuary: James Watson. Stargate SG-1: Hebron and Taneth.

Jim Byrnes. Sanctuary: Gregory Magnus. Stargate SG-1: Documentary Narrator (Heroes Part 2). Stargate Infinity: voice (no character listed).

Significant Stargate Actors Not in Main Cast of Sanctuary:

Michael Shanks. Sanctuary: Jimmy (one episode). Stargate: Daniel Jackson.

Tom McBeath. Sanctuary: General Villanova. Stargate SG-1: Colonel Harry Maybourne.

Vincent Gale. Sanctuary: Nigel Griffin. Stargate SG-1: Deputy - Agent Cross. Stargate Universe: Morrison. (he was significant in Sanctuary and had a high episode list for Stargate, so no arguing)

Colin Cunnigham. Sanctuary: Gerald (one episode). Stargate: Major Paul Davis.

Paul McGillion. Sanctuary: Terrance Wexford (four eps + webisodes). Stargate Atlantis: Carson Beckett.

David Hewlett. Sanctuary: Larry Tolson (webisodes). Stargate: Rodney McKay.

Kavan Smith. Sanctuary: Joe Kavanaugh (two episodes + webisodes). Stargate: Evan Lorne.

David Nykl. Sanctuary: Strickland (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Radek Zelenka.

Sarah Strange. Sanctuary: Allison Grant (one episode). Stargate: Morgan Le Fey.

Dan Shea. Sanctuary: Transit Cop 2 (one episode). Stargate: Sergeant Siler.

Gary Jones. Sanctuary: George (one episode). Stargate: Walter Harriman.

Peter Flemming. Sanctuary: FBI Agent Bruce Tanner (one episode). Stargate: Agent Barret.

Martin Christopher. Sanctuary: False Priest/Father Clark. Stargate: Kevin Marks.

Barclay Hope. Sanctuary: Security Force Commander (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Col. Lionel Pendergast.

Peter DeLuise. Sanctuary: Ernie Watts (one episode/webisodes). Stargate SG-1: Sal's Diner Customer, Wormhole X-treme Replacement Actor, plus 20 other roles. Stargate Atlantis: Dr. P. Smith (uncredited). Stargate Universe: Peter. (<- also directed all four shows)

Significant in Sanctuary but not Stargate:

Shekhar Paleja (Credited in both as Shaker Paleja). Sanctuary: Ravi Ganapathiraman. Stargate SG-1: Jaffa. Stargate Atlantis: Doctor (uncredited, six episodes).

Ian Tracey. Sanctuary: Adam Worth. Stargate SG-1: Smith.

Pascale Hutton. Sanctuary: Abby Corrigan. Stargate Atlantis: First Officer Trebel. (<- almost/should have been main cast in Sanctuary)

Carlo Rota. Sanctuary: Richard Feliz. Stargate Universe: Carl Strom.

Other Actors in Mostly Minor Roles in Both (but often more significant in Sanctuary, for obvious reasons) Listed in Order of Sanctuary Appearance:

Lauren K. Robek (Credited as Kirsten Robeck in both). Sanctuary: Maryanne Zimmerman (three episodes). Stargate SG-1: Lieutenant Astor.

Sheri Rabold (credited as Sheri Noel in all). Sanctuary: Molly (two episodes/webisodes), Helen Magnus Stand-in. Stargate SG-1: Physiotherapist. Stargate Atlantis: Scientist, Lab assistant.

Laura Mennel. Sanctuary: Caird (one episode/webisodes). Stargate SG-1: Mary. Stargate Atlantis: Sanir.

Alex Zahara. Sanctuary: Carver (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Motion Capture Warrior, Warrick Finn, Iron Shirt, Eggar, Shy One, Alien Leader, Alien #1, Micahel Xe'ls.

Peter Bryant. Sanctuary: Cabal Team Leader (two episodes). Stargate SG-1: Hoskins and Fro'tak.

MacKenzie Gray. Sanctuary: Mr. Jones (one episode). Stargate Infinity: Pahk'kal, Napoleon Bonaparte (voices).

Matthew Walker. Sanctuary: Oliver Braithewaite (one episode). Stargate SG-1/The Ark of Truth: Merlin/Roham.

David Richmond-Peck. Sanctuary: Jake Polanski (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Jaffa Leader. Stargate Atlantis: Toran.

Panou. Sanctuary: Sylvio (two episodes). Stargate SG-1: Lt. Fisher.

Katherine Isabelle. Sanctuary: Sophie (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Valencia.

Chuck Campell. Sanctuary: Two-Faced Guy. Stargate: Chuck the Technician.

Gabrielle Rose. Sanctuary: Ruth Meyers (one episode). Stargate: The Ark of Truth: Alterean Woman #2.

Daryl Shuttleworth. Sanctuary: (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Commander Tegar, Commander Rigar.

Rukiya Bernard. Sanctuary: Kayla Bradley (one episode). Stargate Universe: Airman Richmond.

Alex Diakun. Sanctuary: Doctor (three episodes). Stargate SG-1: Tarek Solaman.

Chris Gauthier. Sanctuary: Walter (two episodes). Stargate: Mattas and Hertis.

Anne Marie DeLuise. Sanctuary: Rachel (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Amy Vandenberg, Farrell.

Aleks Paunovic. Sanctuary: Duke (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Rakai.

Ryan Kennedy. Sanctuary: Darrin Wilson (one episode). Stargate Universe: Dr. Williams.

Terry Chen. Sanctuary: Charles (three episodes). Stargate SG-1: Monk.

Nimet Kanji. Sanctuary: Pili (two episodes). Stargate Atlantis: Doctor.

Ron Selmour. Sanctuary: Kanaan (three episodes). Stargate Atlantis: Jannick.

Raquel Riskin. Sanctuary: Cheryl (one episode). Stargate Universe: Mindy.

Eric Keenleyside. Sanctuary: Det. Michael Bronson (one episodes). Stargate SG-1: Fred.

Michael J Rogers. Sanctuary: Stanley O'Farrel (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Major Escher, Col. Richard Kendrick, Colonel John Michaels.

Fabrice Grover. Sanctuary: Father Nathaniel Jensen (one episode). Stargate: The Ark of Truth: Amelius.

Allison Hossack. Sanctuary: Lillian (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Zerina Valk. Stargate Atlantis: Perna.

Scott McNeil. Sanctuary: Birot (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Kefflin, Townsperson.

Jody Thompson. Sanctuary: Fallon (three episodes). Stargate Atlantis: Hospital Nurse.

Nels Lannarson. Sanctuary: Commander Tollan, Praxian Guardsman. (two episodes). Stargate SG-1: Major Green. Stargate Atlantis: Captain Holland.

Sean Rogerson. Sanctuary: Castor (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Nevik.

Richard de Klerk. Sanctuary: U.S. Sergeant (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Dominic, Joe.

Aaron Brooks. Sanctuary: Lieutenant Hallman (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Nisal.

Collen Winton. Sanctuary: Anna (one episode). Stargate SG-1: National Security Advisor, Dr. Greene.

David Milchard. Sanctuary: Garris. Stargate Atlantis: SGC Technician.

Greyston Holt. Sanctuary: Lt. Coxswell (two episodes). Stargate Universe: Corporal Reynolds.

Brian Markinson. Sanctuary: Greg Addison. Stargate SG-1: Lotan.

Lara Gilchrist. Sanctuary: Cassidy (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Dr. Hewston.

John Novak. Sanctuary: Thug Boss (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Colonel William Ronson.

Martin Cummins. Sanctuary: Brad Sylvester (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Aiden Corso.

Kurt Evans. Sanctuary: Agent Gavin Crealy (two episodes). Stargate SG-1: Col. Johnson.

Sage Brocklebank. Sanctuary: Canadian Press Photographer (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Rand Protectorate Tech.

Kwesi Ameyaw. Sanctuary: Colonel Bosh (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Olokun. Stargate Atlantis: Technical Sergeant.

J.C. Williams. Sanctuary: SCIU Agent (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Jaffa (uncredited), Stargate Universe: Marine (uncredited).

Caroline Cave. Sanctuary: Sheila Delacourt (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Dr. Cole. Stargate Universe: Dana.

Brent Stait. Sanctuary: Finn Noland (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Major Louis Ferretti.

Richard Stroh. Sanctuary: Orin (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Genii Soldier #2.

Venus Terzo. Sanctuary: Capt. Franklin (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Dr. Francine Michaels.

I spent entirely too much time on this, but I really got going. I also probably missed a few people (and didn't even start on the crew because of so much overlap). I'm not sure if this is just Vancouver film industry at work or what, but I am done.

#sanctuary #stargate sg1 #stargate atlantis #stargate universe #please someone care #i spent so much time on this

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harley-rose25 · 4 months

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Some Vulcanoid/Human fic Prompts/plot ideas I want people to take because I wont write them; k thanks.

Captain Solok Section:

A reoccurring verbal sparring match between Captain Solok and civilian Reader/OC. It's part of Reader/OC's love language. Solok thinks Reader/OC just hates him.

2. Human Reader/OC ends up in a Dominion or Cardassian prison camp with Captain Solok; Pon farr hits…

3. Solok has a secret admire.

4. Captain Solok being (not-so-secretly) obsessed with humans and his crews gossip logic discussion thus.

5. Solok is obsessed in love with Hyper-romantic, emotion personified human Reader/OC.

Vorik Section:

Neelix throws a Valentines day party in one of the holodecks.

2. Reader/OC desires Vorik and decides to make their feeling known; rather aggressively.

3. Muscle-mommy Reader/OFC and Vorik have an encounter.

Dr. Yuris Section:

After losing his medical license on Vulcan Yuris is invited to practice on earth; Dr. Strom Goes with him. Shenanigans ensue.

2. Human Reader/OFC with chronic illness seeks out Vulcans for help after years getting nowhere with human doctors.

3. Dr. Yuris is at another medical conference, after his license is reinstated, when he experiences shan-hal-lak upon meeting Reader/OC, a Human bio-engineer who is actually paralyzed and can only move because the exoskeleton bodysuit they designed.

4. Yuris is invited into secret society of Humans with psionic abilities who are not to keen to have their identities or abilities known to the public.

General Naughty Naughty Section; any character or variety character:

1.Femdom Reader/OFC sees cute vulcanoid on DS9 and wants to play.

2. Reader/OC is a human prostitute brought to DS9 to service the Romulans.

3. Reader/OC is captured by Romulans and forced to work as a sex slave producing human fetish porn.

#star trek #vulcans #captain solok #ensign vorik #vorik #ds9 solok #dr. yuris #dr. yuris of vulcan #romulans star trek #romulan/human #vulcan/human #writing prompt #prompt list #fic ideas #plot ideas

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moshieee · 4 months

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…Imagine the Floffis in the mafia AU. Their positive emotions and all, but just imagine them like jumping around and unintentionally causing a lil bit of chaos and like y’all use that for distractions, or you teach them how to ‘play’ with others, aka distract them.

Or they just become little wallet snatchers that think it’s a game of fetch and that the person just didn’t come to get it back/j

I’m just imagining mafia-fied Floffis

Oh yea in light hearted stuff yes they would use them as distractions

However in the mafia AU moshie wouldnt have nearly as much empathy, I imagine they would have left before Dr Córas taught them proper morals if they got tangled up in a mafia,

They would on purpose let strom infect some of the floffis so they could use them like aggressive guard dogs for more serious situations

#mafia au #i guess????#asks #floffis #goop buddies #mafia moshie

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saltedsolenoid · 5 months

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I think u should elaborate on all of them because I wanna hear (sitting criss cross apple sauce like at carpet time)

alright ! this ask is in reference to this poll, which has now concluded! i'll go over all the options in horrid amounts of non-detail.

1: Main character sees her own grave; doesn't really care. This one is, expectedly, about Rosine Strom. She does see her own grave, albeit in a section of the game that I might alter in some way. Tl;dr, she sees four empty graves in the town's graveyards, and gives each of them offerings of coins. Only one of them doesn't go away by the next day. Figure out what this means yourself.

2: Some guy uploads a recreation of his brain to his employer's network Yeah. Well. It's a bit difficult to describe this without making it sound increasingly strange. Essentially what it says on the tin. It's a code replication of this Some Guy's personality. This definitely isn't plot relevant. (Lie)

3: A florist becomes a sentient pile of goop. This is treated as normal. This one is somehow true! Also pretty self-explanatory. He still does his job as a florist, though. Here's his design.

4: A college student's apartment is physically melting. She still lives there. Also true! It isn't 'melting' entirely, that's more of a turn of phrase but it gets pretty close. It's like when you leave gummy candy in the sun for a little bit too long and it gets weird and goops together. Essentially, it becomes hell dimension. I drew concept art for it here.

5: Two side characters are vampires. This isn't plot relevant in any way. Yeah. They work at the museum in the town that the game takes place in. They aren't really major characters, and they don't really do much otherwise. The fact that they're vampires and they're shit at hiding it is brought up like twice. They're pretty cool otherwise.

6: Main character 2 drew main character 1 dying on the cross at age 10. This one won, and it's true! Aluzie Alvarez-Matvienko, otherwise known as Main Character 2, drew Rosine Strom dying on the cross after she had a seizure and was hospitalized in 5th grade. Aluzie got a little bit worried, and drew Rosie drawing on the cross to ensure that she would come back safe. Yknow. Like Jesus. This is a normal Christian child activity. This is brought up during conversation once or twice.

7: There's a public committee dedicated to crying into a river to replenish it. This one is the lie... Sorry.... There's a river in the town though.... That's the inspiration for this lie....

8: Antagonist is given special permission to exit a train in motion at any time. Also fairly self explanatory. Main Antagonist, otherwise known as Ilex Holly, has a habit of walking into the woods that this train passes through, and got a bit annoyed with the fact that the staff on the train tried to stop him. He talked with a shit-ton of supervisors and got a specialized ticket to walk into the woods off the train at any time. This is very relevant.

9: A recurring clue in the story is that this one guy really likes moby dick. It's moreso a clue towards some themes of that one guy (same one guy who uploaded his brain to his employer's network) than a major clue to the mystery of the game. It does get tossed around a few times during mystery and puzzle segments, but not much.

#together in hell #ask #long post

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unscharf-an-den-raendern · 1 year

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Schloss Einstein Folge 1030

Charlotte ist wütend, weil Leon seine Insulin-Pens zu Hause liegen lassen hat und dann zum Basketball spielen gegangen ist. Er weigert sich nämlich, eine Insulin-Pumpe zu benutzen, weil er nicht will, dass jeder gleich merkt, dass er Diabetes hat. Nach Elisabeth aus Schloss Einstein Seelitz ist er erst der zweite Charakter mit Diabetes. Endlich wieder Chronic Illness Representation!

Casper möchte für Mikka Snacks aus dem Snackautomaten holen, doch der ist leer und weil Sirius Putzdienst hat, kann er ihn erst in zwei Tagen wieder auffüllen. Casper versucht trotzdem alles - z.B. Frau Schiller einen neuen Putzplan anzubieten.

Weil sich Charlotte und Joyce im Share Space schon wieder in die Haare gekriegt haben, lenken sich Io und Leon mit einem romantischen Spaziergang ab.

Casper schafft es, dass Sirius den Snackautomaten doch früher auffüllen kann, indem er Frau Schiller dabei zusieht, wie sie ihr Tablet entsperrt und es dann klaut, als sie kurz telefoniert.

Auch im Schloss Einstein Universum gibt es Wohnungsmangel: Frau Amani beklagt sich bei Dr. Berger über ihre Probleme bei der Wohnungssuche: "Bis ich endlich eine Wohnung finde, wo ich denke die passt wirklich zu mir, haben sie da schon über 100 Leute beworben."

Kurze Zeit später im Hintergrund

Bestimmt überteuert.

Frau Schiller findet heraus, dass jemand den Putzplan geändert hat, doch weil Casper es zugibt, Mikka ihn allerdings decken möchte, müssen beide putzen.

Marlon hat ein Problem: Er hat vergessen, sich für ein Modul anzumelden und das einzige, in dem noch Platz ist, ist Herr Hausers Waldlaufmodul. Zum Glück gibt es Frau Amani, denn Dr. Berger möchte das Zukunftsprojekt gerne medial begleiten lassen. Wenn Marlon es schafft, noch drei andere Schüler:innen aufzutreiben, die es mit ihm machen, muss er nicht zum Waldlaufmodul. Yay, endlich wieder die Schülerzeitung!

Mikka und Casper wäre nicht Mikka und Casper, wenn sie nicht noch einen Weg finden würden, sich um den Putzdienst vorbeizumogeln. Casper hat einen alten kaputten Saugroboter gefunden und Mikka weiß gleich, was los ist. Mikka: "Ich glaube, hier ist der Kontakt zum Akku verbogen." Casper: "Deshalb funktioniert der Stoßsensor nicht." Also versucht Mikka, die Drähte mithilfe einer Zange wieder miteinander zu verbinden. Ich hoffe, sie haben Punkt 1 beachtet.

Sie haben den Akku nicht vorher rausgenommen, aber es ist trotzdem nichts passiert. Mein Physikunterricht ist lange her, aber versteh ich das richtig? Die haben ohne den Akku vorher rauszunehmen mit einer Metallzange an dem Kabel hantiert, über das ein Sensor Strom vom Akku kriegt? Hallo, schon mal was von Leckstrom gehört? Das verstößt doch bestimmt gegen mindestens eine Vorschrift zur Arbeitssicherheit. Anzeige ist raus!

#schloss einstein

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theyoungturks · 1 year

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thelastdayalive · 11 months

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BRENT SPINER in Superhero Movie (2008)

#brent spiner #brent j spiner #dr. strom #superhero movie #superhero movie 2008 #he's so babygirl #w #giffing #editing

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spacerhapsody · 1 year

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dr axel schwarz fics?? sowas gibt’s? :D

Nicht so viele, wie es geben sollte (weshalb ich auch dringend mal was daran ändern muss)! Ich finde zumindest immer noch, dass er ein absolut fantastischer Charakter war :D

@hazelestelle did the good work und hat zwei großartige AWZ/UU-Crossover mit ihm geschrieben:

Nur wer gegen den Strom schwimmt, ist kein Ponyhof

Wundervoller Crack, in dem Axel der neue Controller bei Huber Bau ist

Hoffnungsschimmer – Das Soulmate AU

Wer bisher nicht wusste, dass er ein Ringo Beckmann/Dr. Axel Schwarz Soulmate AU im Leben braucht, sollte nochmal drüber nachdenken!

#i miss this idiot lmao #welcome to germany #repeat after me: it's only a soap...

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arwainian · 2 years

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My Reading this Week

This week was my last week of classes for the fall semester, so I've been busy with prepping for presentations and final exams and final papers. However! I have done some reading, through of mix of reading on sunday and easy reading like manga, short stories and fanfiction

Finished:

Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women edited by Paula Guran

Father Peña's Last Dance by Hannah Strom Martin Sun Falls by Angela Slatter Magdala Amygdala by Lucy A. Snyder The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black In the Future When All's Well by Catherynne M. Valente

I am shocked that I managed to finish this before I left for the airport, but my determination to have one less this to pack was strong. My favorite of this set of short stories was Magdala Amygdala, because it was super gross so I sent it to some friends to read too! fun fact: reading this anthology got me hyped to writing my vampire story, so I've been working on that

Started and Finished:

you there? keep me company by misspickman on ao3

(hi moss!) as i wrote in my reading journal, this is for recording READING not recording BOOKS. now, i do not know tim and kon very well, but i am here to support my mutuals' writing whenever possible

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 10 by Kamome Shirahama

i adore the art of this series so much, it's so cute and INTRICATE and also the plot is so stressful to ME. I am stressed. I just want these kids to be okay....

the cat who got the whipped cream by bluecloak on ao3

this is a f@tt fanfic that i managed to skip when i was digging through the archive looking for good fic a few weeks back. i came back to it bc i saw cute fanart for it and enjoyed my time! i think the fact that it was labelled a coffee shop au initially scared me off

Sharp Teeth, Sharp Eyes or: The Boy-God and the Wolf by thunder_rolled_a_six on ao3

i gotta love a good fairytale style story about gods, this was cute though I don't have much to say

beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing by Aidan James

my friend sharing this short story he read with us prompted me to say we needed a book club channel in our server. this was good, and you should read this if you like androids that fuck with gender and fuck in general

Started:

Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia

this is a mystery I got recommended a while back, and my second time taking it out of the library to try reading it. i don't like how short the chapters are and this hasn't really clicked with me, but i desperately want to try continuing with it. if i don't really like it by the time i'm a quarter of the way through i'll just drop it

Article, Chapter, and Primary Source Reading for School:

"Racial Health Disparities and COVID-19--Caution and Context" by Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun and Dr. Adolph Reed, Jr. in The New England Journal of Medicine "Inequality's Deadly Toll" by Amy Maxmen "COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months" by Ed Yong Ottonian Queenship, "Queens and Dynasties in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries" by Simon MacLean "Bolesław I and the Emergence of Poland" (1025AD) as translated by Paul W. Knoll & Frank Schaer "The Election of Hugh Capet" by Richer of Reims (987AD)

(and here's all the readings i did for my final week of classes. i did not skip a single reading, though when given a choice between two i DID pick the shorter one, may or may not go back and read the longer one when i have time but just for my own fun)

everyone please wish me luck on my finals and stuff!

#cal reading log #arwainian princessoid decrees #bookblr

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loneberry · 2 years

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The praise singers: poets George Mackay Brown and Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Mackay Brown were both Catholic converts, shy and tormented by depression, whose poems are filled with delight in Creation. A recently discovered cache of Brown’s notebooks shows how deeply he empathised with Hopkins’ inner struggles

[Pasting the entirety of this beautiful article here because I’ve been in a Hopkins hole and enjoy contemplating how poets befriend dead poets, how the poet feels the presence of the dead poet at the church of St Aloysius during evening Mass. If it’s tl;dr at least let me leave you with George’s extraordinary final vision before dying: Just before he lost consciousness, he said to the doctor and nurses attending him, “I see hundreds and hundreds of ships sailing out of the harbour.”]

By Maggie Fergusson

A poet’s hope, W.H. Auden believed, is “to be like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere”. No twentieth-century poet was more local than George Mackay Brown. He was born in the Orcadian seaport Stromness in 1921, and there, pretty much, he stayed – not even venturing the 15 miles to Orkney’s capital, Kirkwall, until he was in his mid-twenties.

In an age of Concorde and inter-city travel, he was as rooted in his landscape as John Clare or William Barnes. But, by drawing his boundaries so closely around him, he allowed his imagination to range freely through time and space. As Seamus Heaney put it, “George Mackay Brown transformed everything by drawing it through the eye of the needle of Orkney.”

So there was consternation among his friends when, in June 1989, Brown announced that he planned to make his first (and only) trip to England. The centenary of the death of Gerard Manley Hopkins was approaching, and the Bodleian Library in Oxford was putting on an exhibition of his manuscripts. The similarities between Hopkins and Brown were striking: both were converts to Catholicism, shy, spiritual, passionate, tormented, but also filled with euphoric gladness by the wonders of Creation.

“No English poet ever fell upon the language with such skill, sweetness and boisterous daring,” Brown wrote of Hopkins. Seeing the work of the Jesuit poet “in the ink” might help him to understand how Hopkins “forged and hammered and welded those resounding marvels”.

Brown travelled south with a friend, but the journey, by sleeper, was fraught. He was terrified by the semi-automated, fast-folding lavatory doors. At bedtime, he took a sleeping pill but, as he could find no water, it lodged in his throat. He didn’t realise that his compartment had a blind, so all through the night station lights flashed across his face.

By the time his editor, Hugo Brunner, met him at King’s Cross, he was shaken and weary. After a brisk tour of London, during which Brown was photographed in front of Buckingham Palace, clinging to a carrier bag from Argo’s baker in Stromness, in which he’d packed his pyjamas and toothbrush, Brunner drove him to his home in north Oxford. A friend who met him there soon after his arrival said he looked so frail, sitting in the garden, it was as if some dry leaves had blown themselves into the vague semblance of a man.

But, once he’d had time to rest, things looked up. Hopkins’s beloved Oxford –

Towery city and branchy between towers:

Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd,

lark-charmèd, rook-racked,

river-rounded

– began to work its magic.

Brown’s visit happened to coincide with the election for a new Professor of Poetry, and he walked through the city in the June sun to watch the voting.

The retiring professor, Peter Levi, spotted him standing in shadows. “He was a formidably craggy, elderly hairpin of a man,” Levi wrote. “Of everything I saw that day, his face is the only unforgettable experience.”

Brown talked to the pupils at St Edward’s School. He allowed himself to be interviewed by Sue MacGregor. He was driven out to Littlemore, and was deeply affected to visit the tiny chapel where Newman was received in 1845. But what moved him most was the welcome he received from Hopkins himself. Almost everywhere he turned in Oxford, Brown later wrote in The Orcadian, he sensed Hopkins’ spirit – “sweet” and “eager”. On the centenary itself, he visited the church of St Aloysius, where Hopkins had been curate, and sensed him “especially there in that little church … at evening Mass”. He travelled home to Orkney relieved, but elated.

It was three years after this that I first met Brown, sent to Orkney by The Times to interview him on the publication of his novel Vinland. I was in Stromness for four days, and we forged an unlikely friendship. “I hope you will come back often, Maggie,” he wrote after I left. “I feel you belong here in Orkney.” So I did go back, often, and the summer before he died Brown – who I now called George – gave me his blessing to write his biography, after he was gone.

It was a daunting task: how to make a book about a man whose life had been so interior and apparently uneventful? But as soon as I set to work, material flooded in – most wonderfully George’s correspondence with Stella Cartwright, “Muse of Rose Street”, the beautiful, tragic woman, possessed of “a kind of radiance, a rich essence on which poets and artists feed to sustain themselves”, whom he nearly married.

George had told me that his work on Hopkins – preliminary notes for a thesis he never completed – was in his attic, and I very much looked forward to reading it. But it couldn’t be found, and it wasn’t until recently that it turned up in a sale, and was bought by the National Library of Scotland. So last July, Edinburgh steeped in a summer haar, I slipped into the manuscripts room to look through rough jottings made by George in a handful of buff-covered exercise books in the 1960s. Here are just a few of the nuggets I found.

Winifred Maynard, the tutor who oversaw George’s work, and whom I tracked down in researching my book, found him a frustrating student. She had hoped he might produce some original work on Hopkins’ theories of prosody: sprung rhythm, outriders, instress, inscape. But what he loved to do instead was just to read Hopkins’ poems “in my own way, often aloud”, and to respond to them simply. And what his response lacked in sophistication, it made up for in feeling.

Hopkins, he writes, “was not a poet of fairgrounds and inn-yards, like Chaucer or Burns; he was a lonelier poet even than Wordsworth on his lonely hills”. So George is fascinated by the handful of real people “who live and move in Hopkins’ art”. Some of these are not much more than “metaphysical diving boards”, but a few come alive – none more so than Felix Randal – “caught in the tension between his life of elemental labour and the peace of a good death”.

Felix Randal the farrier, O is he dead

then? my duty all ended,

Who have watched his mould of man,

big-boned and hardy-handsome

Pining, pining …

There is “intimacy” in this poem, George writes, not just because Hopkins had come to love Randal, but because “the image that comes closest to Hopkins himself is that of a blacksmith … fettling ‘for the great gray dray-horse his bright and battering sandal’”. Through poems like these, George writes, Hopkins was making “a heroic lonely attempt to put song back into a language grown thin and washed out”.

Seamus Heaney called George Mackay Brown “the praise singer”, and he might have shared this epithet with Hopkins, many of whose poems express an exuberant love of Creation that no English poet has equalled –

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –

When weeds, in wheels, shoot long

and lovely and lush …

But then there is the Hopkins of the dark sonnets. “The melancholy of Victorian poetry,” George writes, “is all pale grey shadows compared to the black pit Hopkins went to at a certain late period of his life.” What “haunted him cruelly”, George feels, “was the loss of Eden in every individual, which needs must be (none knew it more than Hopkins himself, the priest: the Confession box is a kind of sewer where all the world’s filth runs away), and yet the great rift between innocence and sin wrung protest after protest from him against the seeming heartlessness of God –

No worst, there is none. Pitched past

pitch of grief,

More pangs will, schooled at forepangs,

wilder wring.

Comforter, where, where is your

comforting?

Mary, mother of us, where is your

relief?

“Such abandonment is all the more terrible for a man who is a priest,” George writes, “who holds in his hands every morning at Mass the Bread of Heaven.”

Is this a dark night of the soul? Not quite. In the dark night, George writes, people doubt the existence of God. Hopkins never does. “The dark night is next to incommunicable, but these sonnets express only too vividly the misery of all men who try to live simultaneously in two worlds. That is why they are so impressive, whereas (for example) St Teresa of Avila’s attempts to convey the ‘dark night’ to ordinary people leaves them cold and puzzled.”

George, like Hopkins, lived with blackness, though he never allowed it into his poetry. From adolescence, he was plagued by depression – “so severe it can be that one longs for oblivion”. And depression was bound inextricably with guilt. “The sun is flashing off the snow on to the back of my head as I sit writing in the kitchen,” he wrote to a friend one winter’s morning, “and all that brightness makes me feel what a filthy creature I am.”

No wonder, then, that George felt profound empathy for Hopkins’ moral scruples. Both poets were conflicted, for example, about fame. “There is a point with me,” Hopkins wrote to Robert Bridges, “when I must absolutely have encouragement as much as crops rain.”

And yet fame was, he believed, “one of the most dangerous things to man”. The only “just judge, the only just literary critic, is Christ, who prizes, is proud of, and admires, more than any man … the gifts of his own making”.

Hopkins was, George writes, “a divided man”, whose poetry bears witness to “the naked encounter of the sensualist and the ascetic”. He responds to Creation with “outbursts of pure pagan joy”, and then tacks  on to them “God-invocations”. It doesn’t always work: “One can see the marks of the stitching.”

And yet Hopkins’ strivings were the opposite of futile. “No poet”, George writes, “ever indulged himself more, sought more passionately by all means – sensuous, intellectual, spiritual – for the fullest and truest flowering of his being.”

And for both these extraordinary poets, bleakness and bewilderment yielded, in the end, to bliss. The members of Hopkins’ Dublin community who sat at his deathbed heard him murmur “I am so happy, I am so happy”. George died in the Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall in April 1996. Just before he lost consciousness, he said to the doctor and nurses attending him, “I see hundreds and hundreds of ships sailing out of the harbour.”

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The Rock Cycle (Yamaguchi) is now open!　ロックサイクル（ヤマグチ）展ついにオープン！

The exhibition features new works by Glasgow-based artist Ilana Halperin, developed both in Japan and Scotland, alongside thematically resonant works by Yamaguchi-based artists Yoshihisa Nakano and Keijiro Suzuki. Thank you everyone who came to celebrate with us this opening weekend - we‘ve been having a really amazing time of exchange, sharing, conversations and laughter with you. Thank you also to those who joined us for the Orkney International Science Festival event today. It’s a perfect occasion to revisit how the project has been growing since 2018 through Ilana's beautiful narration, and how we made contact with a different yet connected geological landscape of Orkney through the talk of the Orcadian geologist Dr John Flett Brown. The event was then invited participants to an exhibition tour with Naka and Keijiro, followed by Keijiro's origami windmill making workshop focusing on wind - a crucial resource for greener energy and characteristic of Orkney/Stromness. Thank you Ilana, John, Naka and Keijiro for sharing your works and perspectives. And.... MASSIVE HIGH FIVES to team and supporters of TRCY, and the entire team at The Pier Arts Centre, especially Andrew, Kari, Isla and Carol. Thank you for being so patient and supportive to make it real! #TheRockCycleYamaguchi runs until 12 Nov 2022 at The Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Orkney. Funded by: Akiyoshidai Academic Centre, Yamaguchi University; Creative Scotland; Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation; and The Pier Arts Centre. 本展ではグラスゴー在住アーティスト、イラナ・ハルペ��ンが日本とスコットランドで制作した新作と、山口在住アーティスト、中野良寿氏と鈴木啓二朗氏によるテーマの響き合う作品群を展示しています。オープニングを共に祝ってくれた皆さんありがとうございました。一緒に交流し、分かち合い、会話し、笑い合う、本当に素晴らしい時間を過ごすことができました。また今日のオークニーインターナショナルサイエンスフェスティバルのイベントに参加してくださった方々もありがとうございました。イラナの素敵なナレーションを通じ、2018年からプロジェクトがどのように成長してきたかを再確認するとともに、地元の地質学者ジョン・フレット・ブラウン博士の講演を通じ、オークニーという異なるしかしつながりのある地質的な景観と接触することが叶いました。その後、中野先生、啓二朗さんとの展示ツアー、そして啓二朗さんによるオークニー／ストロムネスの重要な資源で特徴でもある「風」に焦点を当てた折り紙風車作りのワークショップが行われました。イラナ、ジョン、中野先生、啓二朗さん、作品と視点を共有していただき、どうもありがとうございました。そしてなにより、ロックサイクル（ヤマグチ）の関係者や応援してくださった方々、ピアアーツセンターのチーム、特にアンドリュー、カリ、アイラ、キャロルに心から感謝します。展覧会を実現するため辛抱強く応援してくださって本当にありがとうございました。ロックサイクル（ヤマグチ）展は2022年11月12日まで、オークニー諸島ストロムネスのピア・アーツ・センターで開催中です。助成：山口大学秋吉台アカデミックセンター、クリエイティブ・スコットランド、グレイトブリテン・ササカワ財団、ピア・アーツ・センター

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