Graureiher, or gray heron

Photo by Michael Doring (Flickr)

This has probably been obvious to the community for a while... but it just dawned on me the similarity between them. Not the art specifically, but elements of their character and archetypal basis.

NAME INSPO: what people are currently naming uk babies edition. i like anecdotes more than statistics and facts, and names are a wild amount of fun, so here's a lil collection of names i know have been given to a small person recently -- and i know that, because i know 'em ! name stats often mean nothing when it comes to areas more exact than a state or a country, so i'm offering the world an incredibly niche selection by offering names i've heard in my location of arse end of nowhere, england, and all these names belong to somebody under the age of six. we're all here for fun, so if you want to ignore the fact that naming trends were definitely different 20/30 years ago, i support you, bestie. happy roleplaying !

aaliyah

addison

aj

arlo

arthur 'artie'

aubrey

ava

bear

beatrice

blossom

bruce

daisy

diana

dylan

effy

elysia

hallie

halo

harlowe

henry

isla

jack

james

kai

leo

lily

lyla

luna

mabel

maisie

marlee

mavis

michael

nova

oliver

renesemee

remy

rosa/lie

savannah

scarlett

tallulah 'tilly'

theo/dore

wilbur

zachary

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … December 13

1912 – England requires flogging for a second violation of the 1898 law prohibiting Gay solicitation.

1913 – Sir John Pope-Hennessy (d.1994), was a British art historian and museum director. He was a scholar of Italian Renaissance art. Many of his writings, including the tripartite Introduction to Italian Sculpture and his magnum opus, Donatello: Sculptor, are now considered classics in the field.

Pope-Hennessy was born into an Irish Catholic family in Belgravia, London, to Major-General Richard Pope-Hennessy and Dame Una Pope-Hennessy (née Birch), who was the daughter of Arthur Birch, Lieutenant-Governor of Ceylon. He was the elder of two sons; his younger brother James Pope-Hennessy, also a homosexual, was a writer of note. At Oxford John was introduced by Logan Pearsall Smith (a family friend) to Kenneth Clark, who became a mentor to the young Pope-Hennessy. Upon graduation Pope-Hennessy embarked on what he referred to as his Wanderjahre, travelling in Continental Europe and becoming acquainted with its great art collections, both public and private.

Pope-Hennessy served as the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1967 and 1973, and then as the director of the British Museum from 1974 until 1976. His nickname to staff was "the Pope".

When his homosexual brother James, (1916-1974) was beaten to death by a lover in 1974, Pope-Hennessy left the British Museum after only three years as director. Pope-Hennessy looked for a change in life venue. Initially he withdrew to Tuscany, but was enticed by an offer from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to head its department of European painting, and moved to New York. He combined this curatorial post with a professorship at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and enjoyed mixing with the city's high society.

In New York, Pope-Hennessy met Michael Mallon, a young scholar attending Pope-Hennessy's Frick lectures. Pope-Hennessy secured him an internship at the Metropolitan and Mallon became Pope-Hennessy's life partner. The two retired to Florence in 1986.

Pope-Hennessy died in Florence at age 80 from complications from a liver ailment.

Peter Dorey (L) with Ernest Cole

1947 – Peter Dorey (d.2021) was the co-founder of Gay’s the Word, the first bookshop in the UK dedicated to selling books and magazines for the LGBT+ community.

Dorey founded the shop in Bloomsbury, central London, together with Ernest Hole and Jonathan Cutbill, in 1979. Naming the shop after the Ivor Novello musical, the trio aimed to provide a safe space where LGBT+ people could meet and share a love of books, including many titles that were not available elsewhere.

Peter Dorey was born in 1947 in London to Frederick and Irene Dorey and educated at Preston Manor Grammar School in Wembley. Whilst at the University of Leeds he became interested in broadcasting, working for the student radio station on campus. Upon graduating he joined the BBC as a sound engineer, spending more than 20 years at studios in Belfast and Bristol. It was at a meeting of Gay Icebreakers, a social group, that he and his colleagues came up with the idea of a specialist bookshop for the LGBT+ community, with Dorey providing the funding.

During the miners’ strike of 1984-85, the bookstore became the meeting hub for Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), a group which raised funds for striking coalminers in south Wales. Their story is celebrated in the film Pride (2014), directed by Matthew Warchus.

As the subject of long-term surveillance and institutional homophobia, Gay’s the Word was raided in 1984 by HM Customs and Excise, which claimed that “indecent or obscene” material was being held there. Thousands of pounds of stock was removed by Customs officers whilst Dorey and his colleagues were charged with conspiracy to import indecent books, under the archaic Customs Consolidation Act of 1876.

Questions in parliament from Chris Smith and Frank Dobson and pressure from campaigners forced a review of the case. A crowdfunding campaign raised £55,000, including £3,000 donated by the author Gore Vidal. Smith came out as Britain’s first openly gay MP a few months later. The charges against Dorey and his co-directors were eventually dropped.

Dorey met Timothy Groom in 1985 and they were partners until Groom's death in 2010

1969 – Allen R. Schindler, Jr. (d.1992) was an American Radioman Petty Officer Third Class in the United States Navy who was murdered for being gay. He was killed in a public toilet in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan by shipmate Terry M. Helvey, who acted with the aid of an accomplice, Charles Vins, in what Esquire called a "brutal murder". The case became synonymous with the gays in the military debate that had been brewing in the United States culminating in the "Don't ask, don't tell" bill.

Airman Apprentice Terry M. Helvey, who was a member of the ship's weather department (OA Division, Operations Department), stomped Schindler to death in a toilet in a park in Sasebo, Nagasaki. He was left lying on the bathroom floor until the Shore Patrol and the key witness to the incident (Jonathan W.) carried out Schindler's body to the nearby Albuquerque Bridge. Schindler had "at least four fatal injuries to the head, chest, and abdomen," his head was crushed, ribs broken, and his penis cut, and he had "sneaker-tread marks stamped on his forehead and chest" destroying "every organ in his body" leaving behind a "nearly-unrecognizable corpse" that was only identifiable by the tattoo on his arm. Jonathan W. witnessed the murder while using the restroom. He noticed Helvey jumping on Schindler's body while singing, and blood gushing from Schindler's mouth while he tried to breathe. The key witness was requested to explain in detail to the military court what the crime scene looked like, but would not because Schindler's mother and sister were present in the courtroom.During the trial Helvey denied that he killed Schindler because he was gay, stating, "I did not attack him because he was homosexual" but evidence presented by Navy investigator, Kennon F. Privette, from the interrogation of Helvey the day after the murder showed otherwise. "He said he hated homosexuals. He was disgusted by them," Privette said. On killing Schindler, Privette quoted Helvey as saying: "I don't regret it. I'd do it again. ... He deserved it."

After the trial, Helvey was convicted of murder and Douglas J Bradt, a captain who tried to keep the incident quiet was demoted and transferred to Florida. Helvey is now serving a life sentence in the military prison at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, although by statute, he is granted a clemency hearing every year. Helvey's accomplice, Charles Vins, was allowed to plea bargain as guilty to three lesser offenses, including failure to report a serious crime and to testify truthfully against Terry Helvey, and served a 78-day sentence before receiving a general discharge from the Navy.

The events surrounding Schindler's murder were portrayed in the 1997 TV film Any Mother's Son. In 1998, Any Mother's Son won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Made for TV Movie.

1975 – Lionel Baier, born in Lausanne, is a Swiss film director. He began his career with a short called "Good Enough To Eat" and two docs: one for Swiss television called The Pastor, the other about gay pride in the Valais.

At 28 he released his first feature, a breakout festival hit, Garcon Stupide, about a confused, uneducated, perpetually frisky 20 year-old named Loic who wants more than the quick tricks he turns with older men on the streets of Lausanne. The marketing department tried to sell Baier's follow-up, Stealth, as another gay romp but the character's main preoccupation is coping with the discovery that his family's background is Polish, which leads to a road trip, which leads to a providential hookup.

In 2009, Baier made Another Man about a straight writer who stumbles into a job as a small-town newspaper movie reviewer For something different, the next year Baier shot Low Cost on his cell phone in a month. Low Cost is a 60-minute drama about a 34 year-old who knows when he's going to die. In 2013 he released Great Waves, his first period drama, set in April 1974 during Portugal's Carnation Revolution.

1990 – Anton Hysén is a Swedish footballer who plays in the Swedish third division for Utsiktens BK, which is coached by his father Glenn Hysén. He is a former member of the Swedish national under-17 association football team and was given a trainee contract with BK Häcken from 2007 to 2009,[3] but was hindered by injuries and instead joined Utsiktens BK, for whom he plays in his third season. He was previously a member of Torslanda IK. His older brothers are football players Tobias Hysén (half-brother) and Alexander Hysén. He won the seventh season of Let's Dance, being the first openly gay person to win this competition.

He came out as gay to the Swedish football magazine Offside in March 2011. Daily Mail has described Anton as the "first high-profile Swedish footballer to announce that he is gay" and as the second active professional football player to come out, after English footballer Justin Fashanu in 1990. The BBC called him "a global one-off".

Hysén was profiled on Swedish broadcaster TV4 on March 9, 2011, in a debate show moderated by Lennart Ekdal titled "Can gays play football too?".

He works part-time as a construction worker.

1999 – US Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered a full review of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. The policy had recently been criticized for creating a hostile environment.

2002 – The Belgium Senate approves same-sex marriage, making Belgium the second country to do so.

I was expecting Tom B it have the saddest gravestone not Billy W 😭 but that was brilliant!

My next question is... idk of you're into paintings or any form of art, but what painting/sculpture/art pieces would each of Ewans characters be?

Ooooh, this is an interesting one. This will be really subjective and based on my own personal preference of artists, as my breadth of knowledge is limited to the artists/styles I like.

Abraham - The Virgin Spring by John Dyer Baizley

Aemond - Paradise Lost by Gustave Dore

Billy Taylor - this piece by Caitlin Hackett

Billy Washington - From the Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Goya

Ettore - this piece by Alex CF

Genyen - this piece by Glyn Smith

Michael - this piece by Gustave Dore (I can't remember its name, I've taken to calling it "stop hitting yourself")

Osferth - this piece by Sin Eater Illustrations

Tom Bennett - this piece by John Dyer Baizley

Time to post more angeology lore memes + Arts Goetia

For context(?):

Israfil, or Raphael known in Christianity, holds the trumpet that would sound when the apocalypse starts.

A'albiel is an Angel that follows the Archangel Michael, not the best general since Jophiel and Zadkiel are the ones closer to Michael, but an angel nonetheless. Probably not to be confused with Albiel but like... it does sound the same so I don't judge it really.

Now what's fun about Abdiel is that apperantly he is an Angel while Abbadona (again not to be confused by Abbadon/Apollyon) is a fallen seraph, at one time the chosen companion of the faithful Abdiel.

*Slams table* where is that love story?!?

(9.v.). In Klopstock, The Messiah, Capto 21, Abbadona, not wholly committed to the rebellion and constantly bemoaning his apostasy, is called "the penitent angel." It should be pointed out, however, that a fallen angel cannot repent-not, at least, in Catholic doctrine-for once an angel sins, he is "fixed eternally in evil" and his mind, accordingly, can think evil only.

I've never been so intrigued by Dictionaries I swear—

Granted it's from an epic poem written in 1748 BUT STILL, if popular media has taken oh so many things from Dantes Infierno and Paradise Lost then I very well can just make a meme about an epic poem.

Deborah is a prophet from the old Testament that I rather just give a brief chapter from Judges on the KJ bible:

And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand. And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go. And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

So tldr the war calls on her! And the Gustav Dore art of Deborah is just so great I love it.

Movement Project - Sculpture 22/1/24

(week 2)

I had no clue what I was going to do for sculpture, or have any idea to begin with. Both Michael and Sarah asked everyone to gather around a big sheet of paper at the beginning and jot down terms related to our topic for around five minutes apiece. Subsequently, we would alternate two spots and continue writing any more words that related to the other person's idea until the page was full.

After returning to our sections, Michael and Sarah asked us to choose five terms that truly caught our attention and consider what resources we might utilise to make those ideas come to life. I don't know what terms I chose, but they had something to do with shiny, disco ball, etc. I ultimately used a material similar to sheet metal, and Sarah used the guillotine in the woodworking studio to cut them into large strips. I started playing around with the material, folding, bending, and stacking it to obtain a general idea, but nothing immediately came to me.

After awhile I did more research artist and discovered Joe Rush, a British artist. He is the founder of Mutoid Waste Company, a performance arts collective that has performed at Glastonbury Festival. Some of his work includes

IN THE , A SCRAP BUST. By Joe Rush. Dore & Rees.

'pedal' By Joe Rush. Dore & Rees.

Blue Boy. By Joe Rush. Bonhams New Bond Street.

Joe's art is pure magic, and I was immediately drawn to it. Some of his designs make logic, while others don't. During the first week, I was still unsure of what I was going to produce, so I kind of just messed about and came out with this piece.

Something that would still reflect off lights or lasers but be less flashy and aesthetically pleasing was what I wanted to create—something that was somewhat similar to a disco ball but not quite the same.

Unfortunately I dont know what happened to this piece so I do only have photos and videos

do you have any like, masc cute names? or masc angel names? /mf

here you go!

Masc + Cute:

James

Jamie

Cedar

Liam

Noah

Oliver

Willow

Theo(dore)

August

Casper

Everett

Forrest

Harper

Jude

Luca

Milo 

Masc + Angel

Adathan [from theology]

Azazel [from theology]

Cael [from mythology]

Camael [from theology]

Daniel [from theology]

Gabriel [from theology]

Hanibal [from theology]

Michael [from theology]

Nathaniel [from theology]

Samuel [from theology]

Raphael [from theology]

Raziel [from theology]

Zachariel [from theology]

A convicted sex offender in Oklahoma shot and killed six people – including his wife and her three children – before turning the gun on himself, police confirmed Wednesday. 

The details come after 39-year-old Jesse McFadden and the bodies of seven others were found on a rural property near Henryetta, Oklahoma – about 90 miles east of Oklahoma City on Monday. 

Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said the victims had been shot one to three times in the head.  

The victims were McFadden’s 35-year-old wife, Holly Guess, and her three children, Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17; Michael James Mayo, 15; and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13. 

Two teen girls Brittany Brewer, 16, and Ivy Webster, 14, who were visiting the family over the weekend, were also found dead. 

Police found the seven bodies amid a search for McFadden after he failed to appear at his long-delayed jury trial on Monday in Muskogee County. 

McFadden was sentenced in 2003 to 20 years for first-degree rape of a 17-year-old. He was released three years early despite facing new charges of using a contraband cell phone in 2016 to trade nude photos with a 16-year-old girl. 

Now family members of the victims are questioning why McFadden – despite facing new charges that could send him back to prison – was freed after serving only 16 years and nine months of his original 20-year sentence. 

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections did not respond to Fox News' request for comment on the matter.

Court records show McFadden was charged with the new crimes in 2017 after the young woman's relative alerted authorities. 

Set free in October 2020, he was arrested the next month and then released on a $25,000 bond pending the trial, which was repeatedly delayed, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ominous text messages obtained by KOKI show McFadden appearing to blame his accuser – now a 23-year-old woman – for ending his "great life" and saying that he was determined not to go to prison. 

"Now it’s all gone," he texted. "I told you I wouldn’t go back." 

He added: "This is all on you for continuing this." 

McFadden married Guess in May 2022; what she knew of his record isn't clear. Her mother, Janette Mayo, said the family didn't learn about her son-in-law's criminal history until a few months ago.

"He lied to my daughter, and he convinced her it was all just a huge mistake," Mayo told The Associated Press. "He was very standoffish, generally very quiet, but he kept my daughter and the kids basically under lock and key. He had to know where they were at all times, which sent red flags up."

Breakfast Club Trailer

Completed trailer and bloopers

I loved this entire experience, I learned so much. I improved my premiere Pro skills so much with editing. It was also a great teamwork experience.

My job was filming and editing the blooper reel. I also acted as Allison.

Thank you so much to all of our actors, we couldn't have done it without you!

Amber O' Dwyer @k00281728

Jade Taylor @k00279003

James Kearney @k00285376

Liam Keary @k00285513

Lilian Beamish @k00284723

Luke Sweeney @k00282818

Michael Dore @k00287999

Robyn O' Rahilly @k00281598 ( Me :D )

Ronan Chin @k00282432

Michael Malice Brings Anarchy To The Jimmy Dore Show >

The Jimmy Dore Show | January 31, 2013 | 50:48

Podcaster, author and agent provocateur Michael Malice recently appeared on The Jimmy Dore Show to discuss his dedication to anarchism, the two-party system, the breakup of the Soviet Union and the comparative ways propaganda is disseminated through a population in totalitarian vs democratic states. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger engaged in a wide-ranging conversation with Malice touching on all these topics and more.

Era o domingo, o dia que ele escolhia para fazer uma comida especial para a família, o som já estava ligado e a bebida já o acompanhava. Mesmo não tendo a melhor das aparências, consequências da febre dos anos 80/90, sorria com verdade. Apesar das dores do vício, ainda era responsável por nos proporcionar momentos felizes em família. E assim construíamos nossas memórias ao som de Raul Seixas, Zé Ramalho, Alceu Valença, Legião Urbana, Kid Abelha, Guns N' Roses, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, entre outros.

Um homem inteligentíssimo e além de seu tempo, atrevo-me a dizer. Desprovido de preconceitos, gostava das pessoas não por status, coisa difícil hoje em dia. Qualquer um poderia ter sua amizade e também seu ódio, mas este segundo era momentâneo, voava juntamente com a fumaça expelida.

E a fé? Essa não poderia faltar, a insistência em buscar por um Deus acolhedor e perdoador, sempre veio dele, que humildemente reconhecia suas falhas diariamente.

Viveu intensamente, errado ou não, viveu!

E serás o único que verdadeiramente me deu amor leal, sr. Maluco Beleza.

E que me ensinou a não dar tanto valor à opinião alheia, porque no final, só somos nós mesmos.

Encerro esse texto dizendo, que eu também "perdi o medo da chuva", pai. Estou "tentando outra vez".

Ps. Filha do Machado

The Exhausted Bear

Assistir ou imergir em The Bear é um desafio... Sempre tenho a impressão de que se não estou indo profundo em melancolia estou em profunda histeria, e parabéns a quem escreve, produz, atua e dirige, vocês conseguem. São tantas camadas que não tem como não se identificar com alguma questão ali retratada. Carm ficar preso em um câmara fria é até literal demais pra representar o que ele está passando, sim ele está em uma câmara há muito tempo, congelando junto com os sentimentos de inadequação, rejeição, incapacidade, não se permite ser amado pq não se sente merecedor disso, já lidou com tantas tragédias na vida que simplesmente vive esperando mais uma grande decepção para se ancorar. E quem nunca? Quando você vive em ambientes disfuncionais é assim que você se sente, não merecedor de paz, de amor, de alegria, coisas simples pra vivermos sem nos sentirmos uns zumbis, que apenas perambulam por aí. E quando vive algo bom ou mergulha fundo, com pressa e medo de acabar rápido ou se afasta com facilidade como estratégia de defesa mesmo. E isso ocorre principalmente em ambientes familiares que trazem insegurança, pois o lugar que era pra ser sua referência de âncora firme, é aquilo que mais te deixa à deriva na tempestade. E você cresce, mas pode resultar em um Carm que é volátil nas emoções e não se permite ser feliz, como uma Natalie que está sempre esperando desesperadamente uma melhora que pode não vir ou como um Michael que simplesmente não suporta e se esvai, não julgo nenhum dos três pois já estive nas três camadas. E o interessante é que os personagens até se apoiam, mas quando a situação sai do controle todo mundo vira uma panela de pressão sem válvula de escape, regurgitando as coisas mais cruéis uns para os outros e não, nao tem como construir relacionamentos seguros e saudáveis dessa forma. Se alguém nao fizer diferente utilizando outras ferramentas para lidar com esses caos eles sempre estarão nesse lugar de insegurança e dor, porque as pessoas que mais possuem o poder de nos ferir são as que são próximas a nós, porque com elas nossos escudos caem e nossas partes mais vulneráveis ficam expostas, amar é se expor, mas de preferência se expor com quem sabe que vai recolher seus espinhos quando tiver que te abraçar. Eles precisam encontrar esse espaço onde vão sim machucar uns aos outros, mas que também vão escolher nao ferir porque estão feridos. Seila, só sei que às vezes essa série me dispara gatilhos, me deixam pensativa sobre como os lugares que sentimos mais amados podem se tornar lugares que fabricam nossas maiores dores e traumas. Mas no final é isso, é você ressignificar toda essa bagunça aí sabe? Se for pra isso acabar em algum lugar que acabe em nós, que sejamos os primeiros a recolher os espinhos pra abraçar, os primeiros a se enrolarem em plasticos bolhas para acolher quem sempre está com seus espinhos á mostra por conta de tanto tempo de escassez (ou seja, nos fortalecermos para acolher quem precisa e fortalecer pode ser fazer terapia por ex), os primeiros a liberarem perdão, os primeiros a estender graça pq entende que tb pode ser aquele que fere e precisa ser perdoado, os primeiros que escolhem se calar para não machucar, os primeiros que elogiam, os primeiros que escolhem lembrar dos motivos de gratidão, os primeiros a permanecerem quando a vontade é de fugir, os primeiros que compreendem que ser maduro não é alimentar os monstros, mas encontrar os oásis nesses desertos, os primeiros que amam simplesmente por saber que vale a pena amar, e que "o bem é uma semente que vinga, o amor é uma raiz atemporal."

Babies with interesting names born in Vermont between 2008-2019 [C & D]

Caidynse Mae Caileub Joseph Caizaiah Ryder Calamity Kathleen Carbon Lee Catalieyhau Rae Cedarmyrth Elfstar Chastity Rose Chatum Raymond Thomas Cheviye Benjamin Eulysses Chrisdiauna Rose-Pearl Christerfer William Clohie Rain-Ann Cloud Evander Grey Cooley Norris Courin Solsper Dore Coyote Knox Cranston Wood Cricket Nearing Maureen Cryssandrah Lynn Cyder Burckes

Daemyn Charles Daevonee Artrice Daiton-Violet Marie Danger Willem Anders Daylynd Craig Dazzle LeRoy Delaware Blaise Denver-Dai Dionsyus Pestilence Dovahkiin Michael Albert Draysin Reid Dreamiyah Qwanaygne Drezdyn Kendrick Drift Cassidy Drizztn Dana Dune Danger

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Michael Kors Size 14 Gingham sleeveless Dress.

Michael Arruda, presidente da OMNI Brasil, irá lhe mostrar como assumir o controle da sua mente e, consequentemente, da sua vida pessoal e profissional. Para isso, ele lhe apresentará o processo que o permite acessar seu subconsciente, identificar as causas de dores e insatisfações e solucioná-las de forma rápida e efetiva: a hipnoterapia.