Paramore at Austin City Limits by Rachel Parker for The Dallas Observer (2022) *click for better quality
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Coming at y'all with the Parker siblings- Rachel and Ryan 🏃
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Rachel Parker
Rachel Parker is Jane's magic teacher and Chaz and Jenny's sister. She's very smart and disciplined. Reserved, but not unconfident. A total Ravenclaw. One of her dreams is to be named valedictorian.
Rachel mostly teaches Jane about magical history. She likes teaching word for word from the old history books in her father's collection, but Jane prefers it when Rachel explains history in her own words. Rachel also shares Jane's Element of Air, which makes her the natural choice for teaching Jane how to float objects, and eventually, how to fly.
Like many Airs, Rachel has a talent for singing. But unlike her sister, Rachel doesn't have ambitions for fame. She wants to dedicate her life to a noble cause.
Rachel also has a secret, which she asks Jane to keep. So, she's by no means the perfect mentor. But she is dedicated and caring. And Jane likes to think of her as an older sister. Or maybe, even a friend.
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Comanche warriors had for centuries taken female captives, of all and any race, and fathered children by them who were raised as Comanches. The kidnapping of a blue-eyed, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker in 1836 would mark the start of the white man's forty-year war with the Comanches, in which Quanah Parker [Cynthia's half-breed son] would become a key figure.
The only borderland where white civilization met hostile Plains Indians was in Texas. Oklahoma was pure Indian territory, where beaten tribes were forcibly relocated, often right on top of warlike plains tribes. The Parkers' land was like the tip of a blunt finger of Anglo civilization jutting out into the last stronghold of untamed Indians in America. In 1836 it was a very dangerous place. There had been recent Comanche raids in the area: a caravan of settlers had been attacked and two women kidnapped; a month later a family had been attacked on the Guadalupe River; two men killed and a woman and her two children taken captive. She had somehow escaped, and later wandered battered, bleeding, and nearly naked into a camp full of astonished Rangers in the middle of the night. As it was, the Parkers were easy prey. They were too new to the western frontier. When a large band of Indians rode up to the fort at ten o'clock in the morning, seventeen-year-old Rachel Parker guessed incorrectly, and perhaps wistfully, that they were "Tawakonis, Caddoes, Keechis, Wacos," and other sedentary bands of central Texas - but they soon realized they had made a disastrous error in leaving themselves so exposed. Had they fully understood whom they were confronting - mostly Comanches, but also some Kiowas, their frequent running mates [and the only other tribe that hunted on horseback] - they might have anticipated the horrors that were about to descend on them.
What happened next is one of the most famous events in the history of the American frontier, as the start of the longest and most brutal of all the wars between Americans and a single Indian tribe.
[Warning: edited descriptions of disturbing violence]
Rachel Parker and her sister watched in horror as the Indians surrounded her uncle and impaled him on their lances, and then [tortured], while probably still alive. This all happened very quickly. Rachel, attempting to run with her fourteen-month old son, was soon caught, and she would write, "a large sulky Indian picked up a hoe and knocked me down." She fainted, and when she came to was being dragged by her long red hair, bleeding profusely from her head wound. Meanwhile three of her relatives were stripped naked and scalped, while her granny was [sexually assaulted] and left for dead, although she would miraculously survive. Two women and three children were taken captive. Two of those children would become household names on the western frontier. The logic of Comanche raids was straightforward: All the men were killed, and any men who were captured alive were tortured to death as a matter of course, some more slowly than others; the captive women were gang-raped. Some were killed, some were tortured. But a portion of them, particularly if they were young, would be spared. Babies were invariably killed, while preadolescents were often adopted by Comanches or other tribes, or sold and ransomed back to the whites for horses, weapons, or food.
-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
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La casa in fondo al lago
La casa in fondo al lago
Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo deciso di spostarci negli Stati Uniti per parlare di un film che attendevo da molto tempo ma che purtroppo, a causa del Covid, è uscito da noi in home video ossia Antebellum. La storia narra di Eden, una schiava di colore, durante la Guerre di Secessione, costretta a lavorare in una piantagione di cotone e a subire le angherie…
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My favorite kind of character is 'My trauma made me both super kind and a huge fucking asshole'
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I love you black annabeth I love you Jewish Spiderman I love you Desi rapunzel I love you black Ariel I love you Hispanic snow white I love you black captain America I love you seeing yourself represented in your favorite characters
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𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟.
OUTER BANKS.
jj maybank, rafe cameron, pope heyward, sarah cameron
SURVIVING SUMMER.
baxter radic, marlon sousa
THE WALKING DEAD.
benjamin (twd), glenn rhee, rick grimes, daryl dixon
SCHOOL SPIRITS.
wally clark
911.
evan buckley, eddie diaz
MARVEL.
peter parker (all), captain america
TOP GUN.
jake seresin, bradley bradshaw, robert floyd, natasha trace
LIFE IS STRANGE.
chloe price, warren graham, rachel ambers, ryan lucan, alex chen, steph gingrich
RED DEAD REDEMPTION.
arthur morgan, sadie adler
THE DOLAN TWINS.
grayson dolan, ethan dolan
SHAMELESS.
lip gallagher
THE MAZE RUNNER.
minho, thomas, gally
THE QUARRY.
jacob custos, max brinly, nicholas furcillo
UNTIL DAWN.
josh washington, jess riley, mike munroe
TEEN WOLF.
stiles stilinski
CELEBRITY CRUSHES.
dylan obrien, will poulter, thomas brodie sangster, archie madekwe, jeon jungkook, park jimin, josh hutcherson, rudy pankow, drew starkey, tom holland
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Paramore at Austin City Limits by Rachel Parker for The Dallas Observer (2022)
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Some sibling banter while Rachel helps Ryan with his make-up and nail polish 💅
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Things Percy Jackson has in common with Harry Potter
Black hair and green eyes
The protagonist
Was unkowingly part of a magic species
Things Percy Jackson has in common with GWEN STACY
Streaked hair
New Yorker
Rock music fan
Corrupted abusive dad
Awesome mom we don't see enough of
Bully beater
Only friends are other outcasts
Anger issues
Poor social skills
Brutal ass fights
Insecure from trauma
Was framed for an uncommited crime at a huge turning point in the story
Same sense of humor
Complete sweetheart despite the tough exterior
Normal world best friend is a greeneyed redhead bombshell weirdgirl
Had a corrupted form and is scared of it(That one Tartarus scene with the poison/Gwenom)
Not actually oblivious,just a mix of inexperience and having too much shit going on
Has a found brother who's a bit younger that's an optimistic softboy but also a little shit with a black color theme
Autistic
Pastel punk
In love with a hugely dorky guy who wears glasses that's down horrendous and has great power that comes with great responsibility just like she does and who she banters and flirts with
Daughter of a sea god/Watercolors artstyle dimension
Is a trans girl
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Imagine Me & You
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i forgot this one oops. my bad gang. i think this was the point where i realized im just doing x-men fanart w spider-man there for attention. the girls and the gays and spider-man
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