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plantfeed · 6 months

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welcome to marina, EMILIA ‘MIMI’ MARTÍNEZ ( cis-woman, she/her ) ! they are a TWENTY-SEVEN year old who has lived on the island for THREE YEARS. word on the street is they’re currently living in HYLAND PARK and works as a REALITY TV STAR & COSMETICS SALESWOMAN FOR A MULTI LEVEL MARKETING SCHEME. everyone also says they look a lot like ALEXA DEMIE. what do you think? — NORA, 27, she/her, GMT. pinterest. blog tag.

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NAME: Emilia Rosa María Martínez. NICKNAMES: Mimi. AGE: twenty-seven. (to the media she’s twenty-four) GENDER & PRONOUNS: cis woman, she/her. OCCUPATION: reality TV star (was on love island) and sells cosmetics for a multi-level marketing scheme (kerri in this country in her pyramid scheme power suit JSDGHKJGS), but is determined to become an actress, or at the very least an influencer. basically just wants to stay in the limelight. ARCHETYPES: the attention whore, the insta-famous, the future trophy wife, the femme fatale, the homewrecker, the gold-digger. ZODIAC: gemini sun, virgo moon, scorpio rising. RESIDENCY: hyland park (in her abuela's house). originally from boulder city. TATTOOS: ‘lucky you’ on her hip bone (tacky, but she got it at 16 when it seemed pretty renegade). ‘work bitch’ along her index finger

AESTHETICS.

von dutch. a strappy cami top that says ‘please do not do coke in the bathroom’. low-waisted jeans that show off your belly button piercing. acrylic nails tapping against a heavily embellished second-hand dell laptop. heart shaped sunglasses in every colour. translucent stripper heels with barbie doll heads and plastic spiders in the heel. spraying champagne you can’t afford all over the walls. still talking about your tenth grade performance as anita in west side story, narcotics in a heart shaped locket. an amazon wishlist full of lingerie linked on your tinder profile. wearing a dress bought by your sugar daddy to morning mass. sex tapes recorded on VCR. a religious devotion to waxing clinics. necking shots like you were born to do it. a weeping virgin mary statue above the kitchen sink.

CHARACTER REFERENCES.

Gabrielle Solis (Desperate Housewives), Ruby (Sex Education), Fatin (The Wilds), Jennifer (Jennifer’s Body), Bianca (10 Things I Hate About You), Beth (Dare Me), Ekin-Su (Love Island, 2022), Megan (Love Island, 2018) Frankie (Too Hot To Handle), Olivia Atwood (Love Island, Getting Filthy Rich), Stefani (Zola), Alice (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies)

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#marina:intro #love island canonically a part of her backstory n i'll flesh it out more in the google doc too xxx

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typeonpaper · 2 years

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#SINCEDAYONE.

MIMI MARTÍNEZ ( cis-female, she / her, alexa demie ) is TWENTY-SEVEN (but has told the show she’s twenty-four) and a COSMETIC SALESWOMAN FOR A MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING SCHEME from LAS VEGAS, NEVADA. they are known as THE DRAMA QUEEN because they are TENACIOUS, but if things kick off, they can be a bit EXPLOSIVE. they’re PANSEXUAL and describe their type as TALL, DARK AND CUNTSTRUCK from their time in the villa, they’re hoping to find FAME. ( acrylic nails tapping against a heavily embellished iphone, translucent stripper heels with barbie doll heads in the heel, wearing a dress bought by your sugar daddy to sunday morning mass. ) [ pinterest ]

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NAME: Emilia Rosa María Martínez. NICKNAMES: Mimi. AGE: twenty-seven. (says she’s twenty-four) GENDER & PRONOUNS: cis woman, she/her. OCCUPATION: sells cosmetics for a multi-level marketing scheme (kerri in this country in her pyramid scheme power suit JSDGHKJGS), but is determined to become an actress, or at the very least an influencer. ARCHETYPES: the attention whore, the insta-famous, the future trophy wife, the femme fatale, the homewrecker, the gold-digger. ZODIAC: gemini sun, virgo moon, scorpio rising. RESIDENCY: las vegas. originally from boulder city. TATTOOS: ‘lucky you’ on her hip bone (tacky, but she got it at 16 when it seemed pretty renegade). ‘work bitch’ along her index finger

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character references.

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PLAYED BY: nora, 26, gmt, she/her. DISCORD: i fort u was diffrunt jawja#8664

#crackon:intro #cant wait for her to fall in love and cry.#the full backstory n headcanons are long so no worries if u skim xxx

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mediaevalmusereads · 5 months

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2023 Reading Wrap-Up: the Good, the Bad, and the Meh

Below is a list of books that I read in 2023. I’ve sorted them into 3 categories: the good (books I loved), the bad (books I didn’t like), and the meh (books I thought were just ok). Other than these categories, the books aren’t listed in any special order or ranking.

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

The Good

The Beautifu Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Civilizations by Laurent Binet

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis

Powers of Darkness by Valdimar Asmundsson

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Say Yes to the Marquess by Tessa Dare

Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare

A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare

The Square of Sevens by Laura Robinson-Shepherd

Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn

Unlocked by Courtney Milan

Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

If We Were Villains by ML Rio

Under the Eye of Power by Colin Dickey

Proof By Seduction by Courtney Milan

Our Hideous Progeny by CE McGill

Bea Wulf by Zach Weinersmith

Hen Fever by Olivia Waite

The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh by KJ Charles

Lord Dashwood Missed Out by Tessa Dare

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare

A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare

A Rogue's Rules for Seduction by Eva Leigh

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Affective Medievalism by Thomas Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg

A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

Kent State by Derf Backderf

Anti-Christ by Mernard McGinn

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Meh

The Nothing Man by Katherine Ryan Howard

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

A Christmas Bride by Mary Balogh

A True Account by Katherine Howe

The Disenchantment by Celia Bell

Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam

The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

Penguin's Poems for Love by Laura Barber

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Marry Me By Midnight by Felicia Grossman

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Trial By Desire by Courtney Milan

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Beauty and the Blacksmith by Tessa Dare

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Weyward by Emilia Hart

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sara MacLean

How the Wallflower Was Won by Eva Leigh

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Erotic Medievalisms by Elan Justice Pavlinich

Hit Me With Your Best Scot by Suzanne Enoch

Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins

Prize for the Fire by Rilla Askew

Bisclavret by KL Noone

The Witches of New York by Ami McKay

A Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela Regis

The Bad

A Love By Design by Elizabeth Everett

Mr. Malcolm's List by Suzanne Allain

A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Finding Meaning by David Kessler

Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare

The Prince of Prohibition by Marilyn Marks

The Heiress Hunt by Joanna Shupe

The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley

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suchananewsblog · 1 year

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‘Cat Person’ Director Susanna Fogel And Stars Emilia Jones & Nicholas Braun On Their “Cringily Relatable” Post-#MeToo Dating Tale — Sundance Studio

The core truth of human nature examined in Susanna Fogel’s stellar new thriller Cat Person is most succinctly summarized by the Margaret Atwood quote that serves as its epigraph. “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them,” she writes. “Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Both perspectives are captured in the film, starring Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun, which world premiered at…

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lucidtrust · 2 years

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Big brother cirkus

Big brother cirkus series#

Seen at the circus: Gabrielle Stewart, Tim Atwood, Kristen Robinson, Laura Veydt, Tina Davis, Jennifer Miller, Lauren Hill, David and Vicki Danielson, Marty and Joann Perz, Doug Chew, Mary Humberger, Bob and Chris Markley, Jim and Pat McRickard and Brian King. The Big Brother Housemates got a chance to show they are great performers as they presented the. Guests also tried their luck, bidding on auction items such as tickets to see Broman in “Hamilton” at Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center, rinkside Pittsburgh Penguins tickets, and a getaway to Nemacolin Woodlands Resort.Įvent committee members included Gloria Brown, Robie Shoff, Rachel Sloan, Doug Estok, Josh Bogert, Julie King, Natalie Shoff and Alexa Mapstone. The interactive galleries bring the circus to life by making children of all ages part of the big show. of the Maxwell Brothers Circus, the big cats and of Jesse in the ring. Big Brother oekuje da se ukuani pridravaju pravila, a njihovo krenje moe znaiti da e ukuan biti zamoljen da smjesta napusti kuu. It is dedicated to the people at the Maxwell Brother's Circus who took the time. U nastavku je navedeno sve ono to se smije i ne smije raditi u Big Brother kui. After dazzling their new housemates with their circus skills Emilia got into her bikini and. R&B singer blasted as ‘transphobic’ for rejecting transgender woman’s advances on ‘Big Brother’ show. Big Brother ovisi o tome da li se ukuani pridravaju strogih pravila i uvjeta. The siblings perform a circus double act.

Big brother cirkus series#

It was produced and cowritten by Irwin Allen, later known for a series of big-budget disaster films. Davida sicer nismo priklicali, Maa pa nam je odgovorila na vpraanja. Na spletu smo zasledili fotografijo njenega nekdanjega fanta Davida v ljubljanskem klubu Cirkus, na kateri je z drugim dekletom. Rukenbrod said he is not a performer but he is a friend of BBBSLR Executive Director Stephanie Babich Mihleder: “She said, ‘Can you play the bearded lady?’, and I said yes.”ĭuring the dinner hour, the 200 guests were introduced to the evening’s honorees: Donna Bailey, Partner of the Year Dave Schroeder, School-Based Big of the Year and Eric Davis, Community-Based Big of the Year. Emilia Arata, 18, is in the house with her brother Victor, 19. US/ Canada rentals) 2 The Big Circus is a 1959 film starring Victor Mature as a circus owner struggling with financial trouble and a murderous unknown saboteur. Maa Levai, plavolaska, ki se je spomnimo iz Big Brotherja, je samska. Big Brother 24 is the twenty-fourth season of the American reality television program Big Brother.The season premiered on July 6, 2022, on CBS in the United States and Global in Canada.

#Big brother cirkus

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roses-and-rads-archived · 4 years

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Lone Wanderer - Emilia Atwood

#shes high good karma high charisma and low int #shes so stupid but shes so nice and cool u cant help doin whag she asks #emilia atwood #ocs #fo #lone wanderer #fo3 #mypost #fo ocs #myaespost

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texaschainsawmascara · 2 years

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Tantrum - Ashnikko / Jennifer’s Body / The Devil - BANKS / Game of Thrones / Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing - Margaret Atwood / Belladonna of Sadness / Moss Angel the Undying / Firestarter / Girl From Nowhere / Carrie / Devil In Me - Halsey

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thetudorslovers · 4 years

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"Look—my feet don’t hit the marble!

Like breath or a balloon, I’m rising,

I hover six inches in the air

in my blazing swan-egg of light.

You think I��m not a goddess?

Try me.

This is a torch song.

Touch me and you’ll burn."

-Margaret Atwood, "Morning in the Burned House"

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silverlake-gossip · 4 years

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Residents as superhero’s/villains

Superheroes

Peter Parker/Spiderman — @mattrusso

Hawkeye — @soniels

Wonder Woman — @thelanamiddleton

Elektra — @aubreyjenkinsrp

Johnny Storm/The Human Torch — @leofitzsilverlake

Daredevil — @callanwithecstasy

Captain America — @theaspenbarris

Deadpool — @judenolans

The Hulk/Bruce Banner — @hannah-banana-brooks

Villains

Harvey Dent/Two Face — @jimmyshore

Venom — @hoperosehalpin

Poison Ivy — @emiliasmr

Hannibal Lecter — @sam-not-samantha

Barbara Kean — @phedova

The Riddler — @lucian-harvey

Emma Frost — @eleanoratwood

Raven/Mystique — @shilohscottt

Penguin — @eli-cohen

#residents as #matt russo #sophie daniels #aubrey jenkins #leo fitz #callan reid #aspen barris #jude nolan #hannah brooks #jimmy shore #hope rose halpin #emilia sinagra adler #sam blackwood #ophelia cordova #lucian harvey #eleanor atwood #shiloh scott #eli cohen

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trinasleeps · 5 years

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Matt Czhuchry and Emilia Clarke - @stephofrps

#matt czuchry #emilia clarke #ellie solo #wesley atwood #wes atwood #crackship

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beyonce-knowles-carter · 3 years

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QUEEN OUTFITS IN FANTASY TV & FILM

Ravenna — The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016) portrayed by Charlize Theron & styled by Colleen Atwood Daenerys Targaryen — Game of Thrones (2011 - 2019) portrayed by Emilia Clarke & styled by Michele Clapton Akasha — Queen of The Damned (2002) portrayed by Aaliyah & styled by Angus Strathie Galadriel — The Lord of the Rings (2001 - 2003) portrayed by Cate Blanchett & styled by Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor Calanthe — The Witcher (2019) portrayed by Jodhi May & styled by Tim Aslam Kidagakash Nedakh — Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) voiced by Cree Summer & animated by David Berthier Phoenix — 满城尽带黄金甲 / Curse of The Golden Flower (2006) portrayed by 巩俐 / Gong Li & styled by 奚仲文 / Yee Chung-man Tamlin — The Shannara Chronicles (2016 - 2017) portrayed by Caroline Chikezie & styled by Jane Holland Maleficent — Maleficent (2014) portrayed by Angelina Jolie & styled by Anna B. Sheppard Titania — A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999) portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer and styled by Gabriella Pescucci

#filmedit #fashionedit #lotredit #gotedit #disneyedit #tvedit #marya #films #costumedesign

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wethenorth-archive · 3 years

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WE THE NORTH ↳ announcement 6 → names in use We got a very good question about duplicate names. Unless related we do not allow duplicate surnames. We do not allow duplicate first names but will allow similar spelling. Please see under the cut for the names in use. Please use Ctrl+f as they are not in alphabetical order. Thank you!

ANNIE PRICE CARLY HAWKE DEXTER SOMMER KEAHI PAOA KENADIE AUGUSTINE NOAH WALLACE ABEL SANDERS ESMERALDA BELL EVELYN HEO MATTHEW LACROIX DELILAH LEAUMONT KASHVI SANDHU SAWSAN ARMSTRONG JAYLEE UNDERWOOD SEBASTIAN HARDING DYLAN SONG JASMINE FLOWERS HYUN-JAE PARK NATHANIEL HENDRIX PENELOPE DIAZ REAGAN FARLEY SAHANA SANDHU ALICIA BRYANT ANGELO CALLOWAY MELANIE JACKSON SAMANTHA PILKINGTON ARTHUR GODFREY EDRIC ARSLAN SAMSON ARMSTRONG JAXON O'KEEFFE SILAS HAWKE MILES HAWKE DIMITRA LOVELL JOSEPHINE JAYAKUMAR LINCOLN NASSAR MIN-HO PARK OLIVER BRYANT PRUDENCE MCKNIGHT RUBY RAJA-SALEM TALIA BELL-ARMSTRONG VINCENT ARMSTRONG AREUM JEON AVERLY ROSEWOOD ELIJAH COOPER FLETCHER RHODES HUDSON ARMSTRONG KAHLAN THOMPSON LENA ARMSTRONG LOGAN CALLOWAY NIXON LOVELL SAWYER BERLINSKY WYNTER HILL ALEXIS GARCIA AXEL LOVELL CHETANA AGRAWAL CHRISTOPHER HAWKE HUNTER ALCOTT JORDAN MESSINA QUINN CARPENTER SAVANNAH ARMSTRONG VICTOR FLORES AMAYA GRAVES ANDRÉ DUARTE HAKIM KOURI JAMES MCKNIGHT MEREDITH ZHOU MITCHELL LOVELL SIERRA ANDERSON MAISIE FONTAINE JADE RAJA-SALEM RHYS HAWKE CESAR CORTEZ EZEKIEL IDRISSI GREGORY TREMBLEY KIAAN DHAWAN MARQUIS BRYANT PARIZA NASSAR RAYLEIGH STERLING RUSSELL HUGHES THEODORE SHERWOOD TOMÁS PELLETIER PEIGI WILSON SIENNA ARMSTRONG YAMI SUWANNARAT MARGOT MARTIN ANASTASIA BAXTER FELICITY GREY LUCA CHIANG PIPER MORGAN TAE-SUNG PARK ELIAS KANG AMELIA ATWOOD MILDRED WARREN EMERALD REYES GREG HAWKE SHEPHERD CLEARY AUBREY DAWSON EMILIA HART MINJUNG SEONG WEI LI AVA TARGAS BRENT JACOBSEN CAMPBELL CALDWELL DAWN HUELLET ISAAC ROUSSEAU KRISTEN SNEED LANDON FRASER MASON HENDERSON SYLVIE DELACORTE TOBIAS BROOKS VALERIA CORTEZ KYUNG SEONG ELEANOR NASSAR JAVIER RAMIREZ BEAU LAFLAMME ESTER PERETZ MCKINLEY KEATING DIEGO LOPEZ ELIANA SHIRAH FINNEAS WILSON LUNARA OSMAN NAIRA DHAWAN LEONARD JAYAKUMAR OLIVA ARMSTRONG SHIANNE WILLIAMS JEFFREY PHILLIPS NOELLE WILLIAMS MACON HOLLIFIELD DIMITRA BLACK OCTAVIA LAURENT FLYNN WALKER

#wtnrp #announcements

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peckhampeculiar · 5 years

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Jade’s journey

WITH A CAREER SPANNING TV, THEATRE AND FILM, ACTOR AND POET JADE ANOUKA CAN TURN HER HAND TO ANYTHING.

She talks about filming with Idris Elba, her one-woman show Heart and how she took hundreds of local youngsters for a night out at Peckhamplex

WORDS: EMMA FINAMORE; PHOTO: LIMA CHARLIE

Some people just seem made for storytelling, and the magnetic Jade Anouka – equal parts actor and poet – is most definitely one of them.

Now living in Camberwell – near her favourite brunch spot, Kurdish cafe Nandine on Vestry Road – Jade grew up in Bexley, later moving out to Dartford. She kept up her local connections though, going to secondary school in Lewisham, and it was here in south-east London she had her first proper break in acting.

Inspired by Saturday drama classes, a 17-year-old Jade entered a competition in the local paper and landed a week-long workshop at Greenwich Theatre. It ended with a production of the musical Golden Boy, alongside Olivier-nominated Jason Pennycooke – now in hit West End show Hamilton – and Sally Ann Triplett, whom Jade describes as a “musical theatre legend”.

“I was actually doing a project on her at school when I went to Greenwich Theatre,” she says. “Whenever I was in a play I enjoyed it so much, it would become my world. My parents could see it too, before I even knew I could do it as a job. I just loved it.”

It was a love she grabbed with both hands. Jade headed to the National Youth Theatre on a scholarship and then on to university, to Guildford School of Acting.

“It was a bit of a culture shock,” she remembers. “There were lots of people there who knew the whole ‘acting world’, they knew people’s names, they knew playwrights – and I didn’t know anything. I just liked messing about on stage.

“There were people there whose worlds were so different, who’d had totally different upbringings to me. So that was a bit of a shock. But I made mates for life, friends from different worlds, which is really good but also from the point of view of an actor – to be able to empathise and not be closed into your own world. It was amazing to meet an array of people and make friends.”

Despite once being told by her voice teacher she would “never do Shakespeare – I got completely slated for my voice”, Jade was hired immediately after graduating in 2007 by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, where she not only landed a spot in an internationally touring play but earned a postgraduate award in teaching Shakespeare.

She was hired by the RSC for a role in The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood’s twist on Homer’s epic The Iliad, focusing on a group of women who make just a brief appearance in his original. The all-female cast took the production to Atwood’s home country of Canada, where she came to see it, setting Jade up for a 14-month stint with the company.

Since then, she has taken the worlds of both stage and screen by storm – picking up numerous awards and accolades. In 2011, she received a commendation at the Ian Charleson Awards for her performance as Ophelia in Hamlet at the Globe, and in 2014 she won the Stage Award for Acting Excellence for her one-woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe. She was also named among InStyle’s Bafta breakout stars for 2018.

A woman of many talents, Jade has landed television roles in Doctor Who, Chewing Gum, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man and Trauma. Earlier this year she appeared alongside Sheridan Smith in Cleaning Up, a six-part drama on ITV.

Her most recent adventure in television is alongside megastar Idris Elba in his Netflix comedy series Turn Up Charlie, based in London and Ibiza, in which he plays a down-on-his-luck DJ, while Jade is Tommi – a slick, successful sound engineer.

“That was so much fun, I’ve never worked so long on a comedy before. I’d done a bit on Chewing Gum but nothing like this,” she smiles. “And he [Elba] created such a great vibe on set, because he was producing it too. I loved the cast – Piper Perabo [of Coyote Ugly fame] is great, she’s so cool. We went to Ibiza to film too – I got the jammiest deal.

“Idris is great – he improvises a lot, so we’d finish the scene but then keep rolling. If it feels like something’s fizzing they’ll keep it going.”

She has fond memories of when the cameras switched off too. “Oh my God, I swam in that sea,” she laughs. “Everyone was there, cast, producers, crew... we all had a dip and I remember looking round and thinking, ‘This is mad! Work should not be this fun’. I was proper pinching myself.”

Jade had another pinching-herself moment in March, when her film Fisherman’s Friends hit the cinema screens and made the top four movies in the UK – behind only Dumbo, Captain Marvel and Us. It follows the story of 10 fishermen from Cornwall who get signed by Island Records and achieve a top-10 hit with their debut album of sea shanties.

Jade plays a key role in the story. “It’s a proper feel-good British film,” she explains. “I play the head of Island Records, who signs the fishermen, who is a real person in real life, but is a man.”

Gender-hopping in roles isn’t unusual for Jade, who despite proudly flying the flag for female actors – in Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeare trilogy at the Donmar Warehouse in 2016, for example – has played parts such as Henry IV’s Hotspur and Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, and has spoken previously about wanting to tackle James Bond.

“I was thinking about that the other day. And I also play roles on stage that are ‘male’ roles too. I kind of love that,” she smiles.

The idea of playing with identity feeds into her other life as a poet, in which she writes and performs verses, often exploring issues like gender and ‘otherness’.

Poetry has been with her since drama school and it was something she embraced on the road on acting jobs. “It was a way to be creative and be in control,” she explains. “When I couldn’t be in control in the acting world, I could be in control of my poems.”

In 2016 this led to her publishing a volume of verses – called Eggs On Toast – and last summer she gave a TEDx talk at Theatre Peckham on “being black, being a woman, being other”, featuring many of her own poems. Bounty, for example, explores the complexity of race and identity, with powerful, emotive lines.

“It ended up that the talk was going to be about identity,” Jade explains. “I knew I had to use poetry, because that’s how I can communicate with my voice best.”

She closed the talk with I Am A Woman – a powerful homage to Maya Angelou and her seminal poem Phenomenal Woman – peeling away societal expectations of femininity, getting to the root of what being a woman means to Jade.

What it means to be a woman of colour, and an actor, is also important to her, and it inspired a local event she organised last year called Black Panther Peckham.

“I love superhero films,” she explains. “I grew up obsessed with them, but there were so few black women. I was so disappointed with Halle Berry as Catwoman, because I love Halle Berry and thought it would be amazing... and then it was such a bad film. The script was just all wrong.

“So when I heard about [superhero film] Black Panther I thought, ‘Oh my God this would have been my absolute life when I was young’, and I just thought that people like my little cousins needed to watch it.”

Seeing Oscar-winner Viola Davis raising money in the US to send underprivileged young people to see the film, Jade sought to do something similar here in London. “We shouldn’t take it for granted that everyone can just afford to go to the cinema. Peckhamplex is obviously good anyway – £4.99, get in! – but even that for some people is a luxury. So I just started a GoFundMe page, and it went absolutely mental!”

Jade raised thousands of pounds for hundreds of local children to see Black Panther at Peckhamplex, with popcorn, drinks and Disney merchandise donated to the evening, along with a post-show Q&A for the young audience.

“It was so heartwarming,” she smiles. “It was so great that we could do it. I kept popping into the cinema and hearing the crowd’s reactions. There was something about a load of young people being in a room alone with their peers, that kind of shared experience, that was really special. They were having so much fun.”

Jade recently took another 140 young people from Peckham and other parts of south-east London to see the play Emilia in the West End. “I just thought it was so important for young people to see this production,” she says.

“The first of its kind with three women of colour in the lead and on the poster, in a play set in Shakespeare’s time about a forgotten, hidden story of a woman who found her voice. I was able to use some money left over from Black Panther Peckham to help make it happen.”

The second half of this year is set to be as action-packed as the first, with Jade appearing in A Black Actress – a photo exhibition celebrating black actresses that is set to open this summer. She will also appear alongside Blake Lively and Jude Law in The Rhythm Section, a big release hitting cinemas in November.

When we meet, she has just finished a run of her own one-woman show, Heart, at The Vaults under Waterloo Station, and it marks another branching-off in her creative life.

The 50-minute monologue is a journey of the heart, following a woman from her wedding day for the next seven years. “It’s a kind of call-to-arms, a call to look at society,” she explains.

“Really, again, it’s all about identity, and maybe feeling ‘other’. The idea of that and of heartache –where that sits you in society. It’s funny, but most people were crying at the end. They said they could recognise their own stories or moments in it.”

Opening on International Women’s Day with an all-female team made it all the more poignant, along with the fact that Jade was performing her own material in the setting of a play, rather than someone else’s script, or speaking poetry.

“It was different because it was my words,” she says. “There’s nothing to hide behind, but it was amazing. It was the start of a journey – I’m definitely going to do it again [Heart will be coming to a London theatre this autumn] and hopefully publish it. I just want it to live on, I want it to be told and told.”

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uponthepages · 6 years

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𝕓𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 𝕤𝕖𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝟙𝟡𝟜𝟘𝕤

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

❝It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery ... Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist – books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.❞

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

❝Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.❞ Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously--and at great risk--documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years and covering 6,500 miles, but it is through incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives. Between Shades of Gray is a novel that will steal your breath and capture your heart.

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

❝World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia, and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, almost all of them with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in one another tested with each step closer toward safety. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. Not country, nor culture, nor status matter as all ten thousand people aboard must fight for the same thing: survival.❞

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doeer

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

Here’s a list on Goodreads of YA books set in the 1940s and here’s a general list of books set in the 1940s as well.

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#Book Recommendations #book recs #books set in the 1940s #1940s fiction #books #booklr #reading #decade recs

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dcbicki · 7 years

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what’d emilia clarke do?

In whatever latest spread she did for Harper’s Bazaar, she says:

”I’m starting to get really annoyed about this stuff now because people say, ‘Oh, yeah, all the porn sites went down when Game of Thrones came back on’. I’m like The Handmaid’s Tale?”

I f**king love that show, and I cried when it ended because I couldn’t handle not seeing it. That is all sex and nudity. There are so many shows centred around this very true fact that people reproduce. People f**k for pleasure – it’s part of life.”

Saying the recent adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale was “all sex and nudity”, and basically insinuating that it’s a show about all people (not just the men), “fucking for pleasure” when it’s about the sexual servitude and rape and impregnation of devalued women is absolute bollocks.

The only part of that quote that I don’t entirely loathe or disagree with is ”this very true fact that people reproduce”, because scientifically-speaking, she’s not wrong. But on that same note, I don’t think there are even a handful of other shows that focus on reproduction as a main theme.

Adding to that, there’s only one (truly) consensual sex scene in the show for the main character (THT), set post-Gilead, and this also happens to be the only scene in ten hours-worth of television where full nudity is shown (not the only scene where intercourse takes place), because it’s about female empowerment and a woman’s choice to do what she wants with her body (not her right, given her situation).

Comparing Atwood’s work to what is, let’s be really honest here, gratuitous nudity on Game of Thrones is, in my opinion, incredibly disgusting, and completely off the mark. She can get naked on GoT if she wants, and anyone can, and that’s great - nobody’s saying she can’t, or isn’t allowed to defend herself. But saying it isn’t gratuitous when it is - because it is, because we don’t need to see someone’s asscrack to know they’re having sex - is a load of bull.

Both shows are on opposite ends of the story-telling spectrum and they’re incom-fucking-parable. She may as well have just compared Daenerys, who has been sexually liberated for some years now, to June/Offred, who has been sexually oppressed for some years, and patted herself on the back.

Thrones uses full-on nudity (repeatedly) to engage viewers, safe for maybe one or two sex scenes. Handmaid’s’ one scene of nudity thus far was about intimacy and the desire to be touched and a longing for just a little bit of freedom. Show me one scene in GoT where those same conditions apply (Missandei/Greyworm aside, if you squint).

To sum up… she’s full of shit, and I’m tired of her.

#anon #answered #you all might think i’m over-exaggerating but i’m just NOT having it #anti emilia clarke

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