Q: Do you get off on being tempestuous?
A: “What do you mean “get off”? That’s just the way I am.”
Q: How would you like to be remembered?
A: “I want to be remembered as a diva from beginning to end who never compromised in what she felt about racism and how the world should be, and who to the end of her days consistently stayed the same.”
Q: But isn’t life about evolving and changing?
A: “Not for me.”
/ Brantley Bardin interviewing legend-with-an-attitude with Nina Simone in Details magazine, January 1997 /
Born on this day: lacerating, regal and fierce High Priestess of Soul Nina Simone (née Eunice Kathleen Waymon, 21 February 1933 – 21 April 2003). I’d argue Simone was at her artistic zenith between 1964 – 1966, when she recorded essential statements like “I Put a Spell on You”, “Work Song” (“I left the grocery store man bleeding …”), “Ne Me Quitte Pas”, “Wild is the Wind”, “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”, “I Hold No Grudge” and especially “Four Women” (“I’m gonna kill the first mutha I see …”). Pictured: portrait of Simone by Herb Snitzer, 1959.
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In the Star Wars RPG I'm running, the party is currently on a planet that's having it's big annual Harvest Festival. The festivities include a Harvest Kween* Pageant.
I now call upon Monster Fucker Tumblr to render judgment on my fake space beauty pageant!
Please Reblog for reach, as I don't have a lot of followers, and be sure to keep the tag "kween" for the benefit of my players so they can block this post and not be spoiled!
*"Kween" being a non-gendered word for monarch on this planet.
Alright, here we go!
Here are your Harvest Kween Contestants!
You're bound to love Buttercup Hazelburry!
Hailing from Pandala city on the east coast of Macbraulth, Buttercup, or "Butters" to her friends, is a personal trainer who enjoys hiking, skiing, and participating in the local burlesque scene!
Always on the cutting edge of style, here comes Cleo!
Local fashion icon Cleo is making her Harvest Kween debut this year, and she couldn't be more excited. Growing up here in Zamora, Cleo has been something of a local entrepreneur since childhood, when she started her own fashion line while still in primary school!
What more need be said other than his name? This is...
✨ Destiel ✨
An awed hush please for our next contestant, Karga!
A bouncer and local Rap-Battle participant, Karga is a force to be reckoned with, possessing brains, brawn, and beauty! We could not be more thrilled to have her in this year's competition.
A tour guide at Magmar park, on the famous Vulcorr expanse, please welcome Palmenno Frolins!
Palmenno brings his signature joie de vivre to everything he does. Whether he's hard at work, or hard at play, Palmenno's personality is always front and centaur!
All the way from Iscandar, this is Starsha!
This mysterious beauty from a distant star came to Hibor to work as an astronautical engineer on The Ring, and are we ever glad she did!
Hey Fam! It's Strombella!
Zamora's most prolific Holo-Tok "influencer", Strombella Enduran is a near constant presence at every event in our fair city, so it should come as no surprise to see her here today!
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, here comes Tibur Jauzen!
Tibur comes to the Midron system all the way from the opposite side of the mid-rim, from the aquatic planet of Karkarodahn. Here on Hibor, they work as an engineer at the Kazzanth deep sea power station. A dangerous job, but "Danger" is their middle name!
A visitor from the planet Bofuunidal, it's our pleasure to introduce you to Todd.
In his own words: "I thought I was in line for the concession stand, but it turned out to be the line for the Harvest Kween competition! By the time I realized my mistake, I figured What the hell."
Priceless. Good luck Todd. Win or lose, we'll make sure you get fed!
And now, our final contestant...
He's 8 feet of trouble in a 4 foot body, this is Tommy Midnight!
Tommy is a loner, a rebel, a bad boy with a heart of gold who's nothing but trouble, or so his business card says. Tommy is unemployed by day, and an unemployed musician by night. If you have a band looking for a front man, Tommy is interested.
And now it's up to you!
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“Little Richard scared my grandmother in 1957. I was eleven years old, and on my way to her house for dinner with my parents and had just shoplifted a record in the five-and-dime. Mom and dad hadn’t even noticed. Easy pickings – the 45 of “Lucille” on the Specialty label. My favourite tune. I felt happily defiant in the backseat of the car with the sharp edge of the single jabbing my stomach beneath the sweater. Once inside Mama’s, I made a beeline to her out-of-date hi-fi and let it roll. “Lu-CILLE! You won’t do your sister’s will!” came blaring through the house like a rabid pack of dogs. It was as if a Martian had landed. My grandmother stopped in her tracks, face ashen, beyond comprehension. The antiques rattled. My parents looked stunned. In one magical moment, every fear of my white family had been laid bare: an uninvited, screaming, flamboyant black man was in the living room. Even Dr Spock hadn’t warned them about this.”
/ From the book Role Models (2010) by John Waters /
Happy heavenly birthday to Mr Show Business Personified … the Georgia Peach … the Bronze Liberace … his Royal Highness, the divine Little Richard (né Richard Wayne Penniman, 5 December 1932 - 9 May 2020)! We’ll never see Little Richard’s like again. My favourite song by his will always be “Directly from My Heart” (1959). Oh, and “The Girl Can’t Help It” (1958) of course!
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