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dk-thrive · 1 year

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I feel like I go into a phone booth and I turn into a poet sometimes. Most of the other time, I’m just Maggie who pushes the stroller.

In the fall of 2015 I sat in a chair in a coffee shop and wrote a poem on a legal pad, which is where most of my poems begin. I titled it “Good Bones.” The poem was published online in the journal Waxwing the following June—the same week as the Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando and the murder of MP Jo Cox in England.

You’re reading this book, so you probably know what happened next: the poem went viral. Reporters emailed, messaged me on social media, called. Meanwhile, I was parenting two children, ages three and seven. I was Violet’s mom and Rhett’s mom most of all—that was how I was known to people in my life, and that was fine with me. Even after the poem went viral, I was still hidden, cleverly disguised as one of the least visible creatures on earth: a middle-aged mother. As I told a reporter from the Columbus Dispatch, my hometown paper, “I feel like I go into a phone booth and I turn into a poet sometimes. Most of the other time, I’m just Maggie who pushes the stroller.”

It’s cynical to think the end of a thing is tucked inside its beginning, like the hidden pictures in a Highlights magazine—an umbrella, a pencil, a roller skate. Or a pinecone, a postcard, a poem. But my marriage was never the same after that poem.

— Maggie Smith, from "Hidden Pictures" in “You Could Make this Place Beautiful: A Memoir” (Atria/One Signal Publishers; April 11, 2023) (via Last Tambourine)

#Maggie Smith #poet #poetry #good Bones #Pulse Nightclub #Jo Cox

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thecrimecrypt · 1 year

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Crimes That Shook Britain (Yorkshire)

The Crossbow Cannibal Between June 2009 and May 2010, Stephen Griffiths murdered three sex workers in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

His final attack was captured on CCTV and led to his arrest. He shot his last victim - Suzanne Blamires - with a crossbow as she tried to escape his flat, before stabbing her in the head with a knife.

In custody, he boasted to officers of West Yorkshire Police, ‘I’ve killed loads,’ and also claimed to have eaten body parts of his victims. It’s thought his other known victims - Shelley Armitage and Susan Rushworth - also suffered this fate. Griffiths, who called himself the Crossbow Cannibal, was jailed for life and will die in prison.

The Murder of Jo Cox Jo Cox, 41, was MP for Batley and Spen, West Yorkshire - the constituency where she was born - and was married with two small children, aged 5 and 3.

On 16 June 2016, she was killed outside the library where she was to hold a constituency meeting. She was shot in the head and chest with a sawn-off hunting rifle and stabbed 15 times. Jo’s killer Thomas Mair - a far-right extremist - was convicted of murder on 23 November 2016 and was given a whole-life term.

The Yorkshire Ripper Known as the Yorkshire Ripper, serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, from Bingley, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, was serving 20 consecutive life sentences after he was found guilty of 13 murders and seven attempted murders in 1981.

Over five years, he attacked women across West Yorkshire and Manchester, picking victims he believed to be prostitutes, though not all were.

Once arrested, he attempted to plead guilty to manslaughter, claiming diminished responsibility and saying God told him to kill prostitutes. Sutcliffe served most of his sentence in Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security psychiatric facility, but was judged sane enough to be moved to HMP Frankland in 2016.

Sutcliffe died at University Hospital of North Durham aged 74 on 13 November 2020, having been sent there with COVID-19. He had a number of underlying health problems including, obesity and diabetes. He reportedly refused treatment.

The Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews In February 2009, Karen Matthews, from Dewsbury, called the police when her daughter Shannon, 9, didn’t come home from school. What followed was the biggest investigation by West Yorkshire Police since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.

Every newspaper in the country reported on the case, with one offering a £50,000 reward for information leading to Shannon’s safe return.

Three weeks after she’d gone missing, Shannon was found alive at a flat less than a mile from her home. The flat belonged to Michael Donovan - the uncle of Karen’s boyfriend - Donovan was arrested and, soon after, so was Karen Matthews.

In November 2008, both denied charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice. Leeds Crown Court heard Karen had engineered Shannon’s kidnap with Donovan to claim the reward. Shannon had been drugged, tethered, and hidden inside a divan bed during her captivity.

Matthews and Donovan were found guilty of all charges and jailed for eight years. Both have now served their sentences.

The Fox Killings Arthur Hutchinson, also known as The Fox, was wanted by police for rape. Then, on 23 October 1983, he broke into the Sheffield home of Basil and April Laitner.

Also there were their children Richard, 26, and Nicola, 18. Hutchinson killed Richard, Basil, and April, then raped Nicola at knife point before fleeing. He’d already spent five years in prison for attempting to murder his brother-in-law.

After a 39-day manhunt, The Fox was captured and serving life. He will never be released.

The Murder of Sharon Beshenivsky Sharon Beshenivsky had been an officer with West Yorkshire Police for nine months in November 2005. On the day she was killed, the mum of five and her colleague went to an emergency call at Bradford travel agency.

There, they were fired on by armed robbers and Sharon was fatally wounded, her colleague seriously injured. Three men were convicted of her murder and got life. Three others were also jailed in connection to the killing.

#murder #truecrime #tc community #tcc family #serialkillers #killing #true crime community #serialkiller #blog #the crime crypt #crimes that shook britain #england #jo cox #yorkshire ripper #peter sutcliffe

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whenibecameaparentireadbooks · 6 months

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Rereading Babies

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes Written and illustrated by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury Walker Books, 2008 I once told a friend I reread books. He looked at me like I was mad. He was a football fan and would rewatch goals but rereading books seemed absurd to him. Maybe it was the effort. All that right and left movement of the eye. Maybe he thought second, third or fourth readings were…

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dreamersdrivel · 2 years

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August 2022 New Releases

August 1st 2022 ~ GoodreadsA windswept island, dreary and forgotten. A girl with magic in her blood, pushed to the brink of madness. Cassie Murdoch is haunted by the black-eyed woman that killed her mother. Come find me, she unceasingly whispers to Cassie. Feeling driven to insanity, Cassie is sent away to live with her estranged grandmother. Navigating her new home on Tide Island, Cassie…

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#Abigail Manning #Angelina J. Steffort #book spotlight #books #Catelyn Wilson #fantasy books #Jo Cox #kindle unlimited books #Sheryl Quinn #Sophia Slade #upcoming releases

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kwockwoc · 5 months

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April 2, 1899.

S. Katayama to N. Cox:

"I am all in a bother and miserable without you here. Have I told you this? I must have. Do you think you might come down this week? There is sure to be enough time. Just bring all your work. Of course, you may spend all your time in your study here if you wish it! I shall simply sit there in the corner, by the Kentia between the back wall and the large bookcase, and watch you at work ..."

A little while ago I wrote a short fiction set in a late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century AU, called Shadow Theatre. Basically Seiji and Nicholas are rival scholars in occult studies. Shadow Theatre tells their story.

The wonderful @johannathemad has produced this amazing image of the two in Nicholas's study at Fairhaven House. Mind-blowing. Thank you so much Jo for working with all my wild ideas x 💝💪 So fortunate to have had the chance to commission you!

#nicholas cox #seiji katayama #shadow theatre #fence comic #fence fanart #fencecomic #nichoji #kwoc seal of approval #kwoc energy #honestly i am still amazed by this artwork #everything about it #from the pillow on the floor to the wayang kulit puppet #thanks jo

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appletvsource · 20 days

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CONSTELLATION (2024-) 1x04 The Left Hand of God 1x05 Five Miles Out, the Sound Is Clearest

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applesandbannas747 · 7 months

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remember when i fixated on stickers? I never posted more because I didn't finish character sets lmfao but i will post them anyway

#jackshit #fence comic #Nicholas cox #seiji katayama #eugene labao #i use these daily #also edited some of them to get complete pictures XD so anything that doesn't look right is my fault not Jo's

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thestarminstrel · 9 months

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god. him.

#a personal thank you to jo for giving me another leather jacket nick to add to the collection #also the temptation to redraw gay panic seiji from 2020 #if you dont know wtf that means then dont worry about it #fence comic #fence fanart #fence redemption #nicholas cox

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russdavilar · 9 months

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#ZoeBall #SaraCox #JoWhiley

#jo whiley #sara cox #Zoe Ball

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ratwavegamehouse · 3 months

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Terminal, the digital pirate action game, has been upgraded.

As part of the campaign we funded seven stretch goal writers to create techno-fables; stories and legends within the world of Terminal, about cycles of struggle gone by. All of those stretch goals are now in and have been added to the book.

We have:

Zachary Cox (@soulmuppet) contributing a second-person narrative of entering the Terminal

@gormengeist exploring the history of Harbringer, the founder of Libertatia and the first Omen

Chloe Montgomery (@puddle-witch) telling of the ghost ship and it's spectral captain Princess

Tanya Floaker (@anarcutie) sharing the fable of the jolly Cornelius, a renegade

Jo Winter (@winterymute) introduces the awoken who want to go back, the Cult of the Waking Dream

Alyssa Ridley exploring a sinister plot of the Robot Authority to install a false Omen

Clove Fulminata contributing a really tender telling of abandoned machinery finding home

Here's the KS update talking about the additions and next steps before printing

Download the complete Terminal now.

#indie ttrpg #game design #ttrpg #digital pirate action #legit loved the techno-fables #i got to see some of my favourite writers explore a world I created #thats really cool

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northern-punk-lad · 5 months

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You ever noticed labour only cares about MPs safety when it comes to white MPs

When Muslims are facing an increased in Islamophobia they where quite

When Asian MPs faced an increase in anti Asian hate because of the attack ad labour did on rishi they didn’t care

When black MPs face regular anti black racism they don’t care

But when a white mp is mildly criticised for a vote it’s all “mp safety” “remember Jo cox”

#uk politics #england politics

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marzipanandminutiae · 1 year

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it just seems strange how many people are being weird *to you* about abby cox’s video… when it’s (imo) quite a lovely video. as an afab nonbinary person, i’m so so interested in her discussion of how people like me would have realistically navigated the past, and it’s not like she doesn’t acknowledge them! it’s just that the options were more limited than a lot of media presents them, but that’s what history IS and it’s not insensitive to discuss how real people lived realistic lives.

also you always get SO many asks when a topic like this comes up, it’s as though you’re the historical costuming rep for tumblr and people want you to defend them for perceived slights

I think it was just one person who sent several anons over the course of the day, in response to another person who asked why I didn't like L*ttle W*men 2019. I mentioned not liking that they put Jo in menswear from the waist up when they claimed historical authenticity and that choice- while not something that could never have happened; GNC women did exist, and like Abby Cox, I never claimed they didn't -doesn't make sense in the specific contexts in which they applied it.

But yeah, the vitriol over that video never made sense to me. Everyone seems to firmly believe that she basically said "screw masc-presenting women" and that's just. Not what it is at all? There's an entire section of the video about women who DID wear conventionally masculine clothing in the 19th century! She praises the costuming in G*ntleman J*ck (censoring for the tags) for threading the needle re: reflecting Anne Lister's masculine presentation but still acknowledging that she had to make concessions to the world she lived in!

(And don't even get me started on the whole Mary Wollstonecraft tizzy. Yes, she was a "quote unquote feminist" because the term "feminist" didn't exist yet and has connotations today that would be inaccurate to apply to her. Current scholarship usually calls her a "proto-feminist" or finds a more cumbersome but precise way to describe her views. Yes, she did say "cringey" things about women and fashion- namely, that the only reason women showed an interest in dress was that their Minds Were Caged By The PatriarchyTM. She was human. She was fallible. Why is that a sin to say?)

I don't know. I'm happy to offer my opinion on such things any day, but you're right- that particular Anon certainly was determined to Win the discussion, and waxed more than tiresome by the end.

#ask #anon #historical costuming #discourse #historical fiction

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sourcreammachine · 6 months

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so the UK government is planning to change the definition of extremism after NINE people were arrested at the London Palestine march, out of one hundred thousand attendees

yeah, if the charges against the arrested are correct then those were hate crimes, unambiguously - chanting about a historic massacre of jews. but with the Tories’ abhorrent PCSCA on the books and in force, which treats fundamental acts of protest as crimes, it’s remarkable that this event ended with that few arrests. this was without question a peaceful and honest outcry in a democratic society

so, the met and Braverman’s draconian powers failed this time. so Gove announces they’re changing what extremism is defined as, ie so the PCSCA acts better next time. fucking hell

i cannot stress this enough. the UK government must not be given this enabling act, not for Cruella, not for Rishi, not for Keith, not for no one.

the main point of the PCSCA was to stamp out climate protests and other bothersome groups. if the government gets to redefine extremism, protesting in this country is going to be far more difficult. not to mention the monitoring that comes along with the extremist label. the climate protests, the Sarah Everard protests, BLM, the republic movement, central strike demonstrations, pride, trans vigils, they can all end with far more mass arrests, criminal records and monitoring. no Princess can try to sanitise that

and if the label is broadened far enough for this measure to achieve what it wants, then it’s crying-wolf. antisemitism IS roaring high in this country, and we need community solidarity and state action to counter it to save lives, livelihoods, and the British Jewish communities that mean so much. by swamping the definition of criminal antisemitism with criticism of the IDF and Israeli State, via the definition “support for Hamas” [citation needed], congratulations, it’s far harder to recognise, counter and fight the actual antisemitic problem in this country. it’s dead-catting every jewish person in britain

i’ve been silent about this month’s events so far. i’ve been disgustingly silent. because i saw 1,400 innocent people slaughtered in the Simchat Torah Massacre, and 200 kidnapped, and i felt the need for justice. in a just world, this would be a just cause, one of the most just you can imagine. the planners and perpetrators of this horrific attack would’ve needed to be dragged to The Hague and left to rot forever. i kept silent because of cognitive dissonance, no more no less. i was outraged and in mourning. i wanted justice, and i wanted it so bad that i could put aside the fact that this is not justice, and it never would have been with an IDF pursuing its everyday atrocities

the Simchat Torah dead are never going to be done justice. they are being used. the IDF, SOI, Netanyahu, Likud and their enablers are waging something beyond retribution. this is genocide. Gaza is being blitzed and butchered. annihilation and death is the end goal. and my government is planning to define believing that fact to be extremism. they couldn’t move their arses about hate law after Brianna Ghey, or the Plymouth Incel, or Finsbury Park, or Jo Cox, but apparently not wanting 2 million people to be bleached off the face of the earth needs to be stamped out

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fataltantrums · 3 months

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AND IN THE END ... WHO DO WE HAVE?

alaric ' ric ' saltzman, relation : father, species : human, status : alive ... portrayed by gerard butler.

josette ' jo ' laughlin - saltzman, relation : biological mother, species : witch, status : deceased ... portrayed by courteney cox.

caroline forbes, relation : surrogate / adoptive mother, species : vampire, status : undead ... portrayed by anya taylor joy.

elizabeth ' lizzie ' saltzman, species : siphon, status : alive ... portrayed by sydney sweeney.

josette ' josie ' saltzman, relation : twin sister, species : siphon, status : alive ... portrayed by emma mackey. [ @josettesaltzman ]

malachai ' kai ' parker, relation : uncle, species : siphon heretic, status : deceased ... portrayed by penn badgley.

olivia ' liv ' parker, relation : aunt, species : witch, status : deceased ... portrayed by gracie dzienny.

lucas ' luke ' parker, relation : uncle, species : witch, status : deceased ... portrayed by oliver stark.

#re : alaric saltzman.#re : jo laughlin saltzman.#re : caroline forbes.#re : josie saltzman.#re : kai parker.#re : liv parker.#re : luke parker.

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kwockwoc · 5 months

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@johannathemad reaching new heights (depths?) with this devilish Nicholas Cox... thanks Jo 🥰😈🧡

#fence comic #johanna the mad #nicholas cox #fencecomic

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1990jeevas · 1 year

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Nam On-jo + Grief (for @straight-passing-bi)

War of the Foxes, Richard Siken / All of Us Are Dead (2022-) / Happy Together (1999) / All of Us Are Dead (2022-) / Love Warrior, Glennon Doyle Melton / Collateral Loss, Franchesca cox / All of Us Are Dead (2022-) / Spirit Hold, Holly Warburton / Jamie Anderson / All of Us Are Dead (2022-) / Grief, Franchesca Cox

#shit self #nam on jo #all of us are dead #yoon i sak #lee cheong san #nam so ju #web weaves #web weavings #comparatives #grief #blood #death #damez weaves #rbs > likes #nam onjo #lee cheongsan #yoon isak

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