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Double Door (1934) Charles Vidor
April 21st 2024
#double door#1934#charles vidor#evelyn venable#mary morris#anne revere#kent taylor#colin tapley#guy standing#virginia howell#helen shipman#pre-code#PreCodeApril
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Im 40 pages into reading Orlando and why does this guy give me the same vibe has Howell Jenkins huh?
#orlando#virginia woolf#howls moving castle#howell jenkins#literature#im tabbing this book like i have lit class to impress
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I feel like more people need to hear about the Howell letters. There's two of them from Jennifer Howell to Amber's sister, and they're long, and I heard they weren't allowed to come into evidence is why we didn't see them in the trial.
I've been trying to think what would be the best way to go about answering this because they are indeed so long, and I think I'll link the letters from Twitter so you guys can go read them in full yourselves, and then give bullet points below them.
(And yes, they weren't allowed to come into the trial on hearsay reasons, and I'll do my best to explain that below.)
The first letter: (Takes place before UK trial.)
The letter starts off with Jennifer Howell telling Whitney Heard that she's writing to her after receiving two subpoenas to testify to what lead Whitney to stay with her after leaving the JD and AH's penthouses.
She then goes on to express concern that she's come to find out the story she testified to (full of stories told to her from WH and others) did not match up with the story WH testified to (or would testify to). She also tells WH that if Amber asked her to perjure herself then she needs to recant and think of herself. Basically, she was concerned WH was going to lie on the stand and JH wanted her to not do that if she was indeed planning to.
So what didn't match up?
JH claims WH told her and staff that she tried to stop Amber from attacking Johnny and nearly got thrown down the stairs, with no mention of JD hitting AH, instead WH stating she didn't know why JD put up with Amber's abuse. She also claims her father reminded her that WH moved in because she was terrified of Amber.
She also recounts other WH stories involving Amber throwing wine at WH, WH loudly proclaiming that AH cut off JD's finger, and that the only info she had regarding the extramarital affairs is what WH and Paige had told her.
JH never states she knew exactly what WH would say in her testimony, but we know in contrast that WH testified that JD hit Amber and Amber punched him because she thought he was going to push WH down the stairs.
In short, this letter is JH telling WH what she would be testifying to, and what she believes to be the truth because it's what Whitney told her, and WH should be aware of that if she intends to testify something different under persuasion of her sister while encouraging her to break free from her sister for her own safety.
In shorter, she's accusing WH of lying, and stating that she won't perjure herself for WH no matter how much she cares for her.
All that said, this letter would have never made it into the trial as it's full of hearsay. None of her accounts come first hand, but from stories she was told from other people like WH, her own father and mother, and staff. Because these accounts don't come from her own firsthand experience they aren't admissible because she was not present to see them happen.
The second letter: (Takes place during the UK trial.)
This letter starts off with Jennifer Howell stating she's now read everything on the case and then scolding Whitney Heard for lying on the stand. It's clear that she is quite upset.
She warns Whitney that she's now likely in danger of being charged with perjury, conspiracy to commit fraud, and "who knows what else."* She also expresses concern for herself and anyone else WH had spoke to about Amber because WH was asking them "to hold [her] web of lies." and if called forth they'll either be forced to tell the truth as they know it or lie because they love her.
She expresses her anger at watching WH lie and knowing AH put her up to it, and tells her the fact that she's a victim of Amber will be the only thing keeping her from going to prison.*
*To clarify, the likelihood Whitney would go to prison or face charges is slim to none. However, Jennifer, like many laypeople, likely did not know this and genuinely believed it could happen and was afraid for her friend/employee.
She then goes on to list all the lies told on the stand and how she knew them to be lies.
Listed are: (Sparknote version)
- Amber claiming she decided at 18 not to drink or do drugs and presently only ever drinks red wine. JH claims a lot of people have personally confirmed to witness otherwise.
- WH saying AH never abused her. JH claims WH personally told her as well as the entire office the opposite, told the entire office AH cut off Johnny's finger and frequently threw things (often wine) at people when angry.
- WH lied to her coworkers claiming [Redacted] would be using one of the art salons and couldn't be disturbed, when she was really arranging a rendezvous for him and AH.
- WH lied about the stair incident. (See first letter above) JH confronts her, saying "either you were lying then or you are lying now."
- JH states IO Tillet lied in his testimony about the wedding, because WH had returned told her he had hit Rocky Pennington.
- JH brings up the restraining order and the allegation that Rocky and WH punched Amber to give her a visible mark, and how it was strange WH was so "buddy-buddy" with Rocky in the elevator footage despite Whitney telling JH how much she hated Rocky. Jennifer then goes on to detail other testimony that didn't line up with AH's claim that JD assaulted her on May 21st, and how the cops saw no marks, nor does concierge (who had video and other witnesses who agreed.) Samantha McMillien claims she also saw no bruises the day after the alleged assault, and the makeup artist only claims to cover up a cracked lip, only to also claim that AH often has cracked lips. She tells WH that she knows JD never returned to the building, and how the day before the TRO is filed the video of AH, WH, and Rocky is taken with them pretending to punch AH and flat out asks WH which one of them did it because AH had no marks on the 21st but comes down the morning after that video with marks on her face.
Jennifer then ends the letter by both letting Witney know she cares deeply for her and begging Whitney to recant her untrue statements to avoid jail time and telling her she deserves better than being forced to carry her sister's lies. She also expresses further distress for herself and others as well believing they may also be in danger of being charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. (To state again, she wouldn't be, but again, she doesn't realize, as many wouldn't, and appears to genuinely fear this as a real outcome)
As in the first letter, this letter also would have never made it to trial on hearsay grounds.
While she's transparent with the fact that all her knowledge is a second-hand account told to her by both primary and secondary sources, it's the fact that none of her accounts come from her being present in the moment that makes them hearsay.
There's also the matter that right out of the gate in the second letter she declares she's read up on the trial.
They don't let witnesses be in the courtroom aside from when delivering their own testimonies to avoid tampering with their accounts, and they don't allow them to read up on the trial beforehand either for the same reason. Therefore, everything she says in this email is more or less considered as having come from a tampered witness, for lack of better wording, and would not be allowed to come in.
I hope I did these justice and helped explain why these letters were not admitted into evidence for either trial.
As always, if you have any further questions don't be afraid to ask!
(Allegedly the source from which both these letters came is Johnny Depp's former lawyer, Adam Waldman. Any additional sources to confirm or deny this or the legitimacy of these letters are welcome.)
#if you believe any of this information to be flawed please submit any additional sources to this blog#so this post may be amended and corrected#amber heard#defamation trial#depp v heard trial#johnny depp#depp vs heard#johnny depp vs amber heard#virginia trial#uk trial#howell letters#jennifer howell#whitney heard#whitney henriquez#perjury
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Mother says the doctor let her hemorrhage all through the night I was born. The pool of blood that splashed around her hips on the rubber sheet until morning is symbolic to me of the life she, and her mothers before her, have bled away for others—making vampires of their husbands and children and leaving their own inner selves anemic and ravaged.
Dad first saw her in the summer of 1923, galloping bareback over the Idaho plains in men's overalls, her hair whipping behind her. Because there were so few sons and so many daughters in the Howell family, Mom helped with the outdoor farm work. The labor was often so heavy and so almost impossibly hard that it made the small, slender girl weep as she did it. Despite that, Mom still preferred it to the work of the women in the house: the endless cooking and scrubbing, sewing, soapmaking, preserving. Just washing clothes was a superhuman feat, boiling water over an outdoor fire and stirring and wringing and hanging and ironing—a two-day chore that had to be done every week by all the women of the house.
Her mother, short and plump and silent, was the first one up in the morning to build the fire, put the bread in to bake, and prepare the huge breakfast, and the last one to bed at night. Mom says her mother was always tired and didn't talk much, but confided to her once that she only wanted to live to get her children grown and then to die. She got her wish. Mom's father, whom Mom idolized, lived through two more wives after her mother died.
Mom filed all this away in her unconscious.
Late one summer night, three years ago, in the kitchen of my house in Virginia where womanhood finally found and claimed me, for the first time my mother looked squarely at what it had meant in her life to be female. On the farm in Woodruff, she confided, the men came in from their work at dark, ate supper, sat around and talked a little, perhaps, and then went off to bed, while the women, who had been up in the morning before the men, wearily washed the dishes (without soap, so the water could be fed to the pigs) and got to bed an hour or two later. I asked her what she thought of her near-perfect father for behaving this way. Her eyes filled with tears and she whispered, "It wasn't fair."
Since that night she has regained some of her defenses against recognizing the blatant injustices of such a system, so when I've reminded her of what she told me that night, she's insisted that she hadn't remembered correctly, and that her father often had helped with the dishes and had not gone to bed leaving the womenfolk still hard at work. But I remember that night in my kitchen and the terrible things that were dawning upon both of us, and I know she remembers what was required of her as a girl. After a bonebreaking day in the fields, she was to drag her exhausted body and her screaming muscles about the kitchen to help the women with the supper and the washing up while the men were allowed—even expected and encouraged—to rest. And despite going to bed two hours later than the men, she had to arise earlier than they did the next morning to begin it all over again. There was no rest for the women—only endless drudgery until the children were reared, and then death.
-Sonia Johnson, From Housewife to Heretic
#sonia johnson#female oppression#patriarchy#male entitlement#males are incompatible with health#womens history
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those verses
Those verses. You know the ones I am talking about. They might not be the same ones I am going to share, but you have some verses that often come to your mind, of you share often or they give you what you need, when you need it and so much from God.
I share today a few of the verses that stick out for me and have for years. Yes, I have shared them before. They are good for me. I bet they are good for you as well. Check out mind. These are, those verses.
James 1:2-4 NASB
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
I first heard these when my aunt gave me some preaching tapes almost 40 years ago. Powerful truth. I need joy. How about you? I go through struggles. How about you?
Now, another verse that has been mine for years. This is good. One of those verses.
Colossians 3:2 NASB
Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.
When you don’t know what to think about, think about this. I need this reminder. How about you?
I often catch myself being anxious and needing peace. Check out another of those verses.
Philippians 4:6-7 NASB
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Do you ever worry? Don’t lie. I need God to guard me, and those verses do that for me. And that is why my life verse is this…
James 1:5 NASB
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Those verses. They stand out or come up in my life and in my mind often, and I need them. How about you? What are “those verses” for you?
Prayer List:
Cathy Dunham’s sister Leslie battling cancer, Jenny Biggs, Amanda Hutchinson, Danny and Kathy Wilson, Anita Martin, Cathie Carter, Valerie Hirtriter, Lauren Whorley, 5 year old Ava, Timmy Howell, Dionna Cameron, Roger Marsh, Ricky and Angie Burnett, Felecia Watkins, Steve Bradshaw, and Ron Harris, Mission trips to West Virginia and Cuba in April (please consider supporting financially)
#e-devotion#devotion#devo#Bible#verse#verses#Scripture#word#God#Jesus#Christ#think#worry#christian#faith#church#needed#remember#reminder#The Community Fellowship#michael harrison
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A little about me
If y’all are like me and like to know about the people behind the accounts you’ve become familiar with on tumblr, this is for you! If you don’t care, I just uploaded Baby Fever pt 2 so go read that !!! Either way, thank you for stopping by my blog <3
My tumblr veteran card
I’m Adalaide aka Ada or Laidy.
I’m 21 years old
The kitty you see here is my sweet baby Rigby
I’m from West Virginia/ Kentucky, US. I’m a proud progressive Appalachian #yallmeansall
I’m an environmental science major
I practice granny magick and I’ve been transitioning to a holistic lifestyle
My favorite music artists are: The Front Bottoms, Tyler Childers, Ethel Cain, and Bush,,, but I listen to everything from grunge to Midwest Emo to jug rock to rap to bluegrass. I believe all music can be admired in its own way.
My favorite YouTubers are: Cody Ko, Kurtis Conner, Daniel Howell/ AmazingPhil, Danny Gonzalez, and Rachel Maksy
I’m definetly a Cartoon Network adult (like a Disney adult but more childhood trauma)
If you want to talk to me about any of these topics or more please feel free to message me, I’d love to make friends on here!!
And lastly, if you know me irl, no you don’t 😭
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The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted by Congress in September, 1850, received the signature of Howell Cobb, of Georgia, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, of William R. King, of Alabama, as President of the Senate, and was “approved,” September 18th, of that year, by Millard Fillmore, Acting President of the United States.
The authorship of the Bill is generally ascribed to James M. Mason, Senator from Virginia. Before proceeding to the principal object of this tract, it is proper to give a synopsis of the Act itself, which was well called, by the New York Evening Post, “An Act for the Encouragement of Kidnapping.”
SYNOPSIS OF THE LAW
Section 1. United States Commissioners “authorized and required to exercise and discharge all the powers and duties conferred by this act.”
Section. 2. Commissioners for the Territories to be appointed by the Superior Court of the same.
Section. 3. United States Circuit Courts, and Superior Courts of Territories, required to enlarge the number of Commissioners, “with a view to afford reasonable facilities to reclaim fugitives from labor,”.
Section. 4. Commissioners put on the same footing with Judges of the United States Courts, with regard to enforcing the Law and its penalties.
Section. 5. United States Marshals and deputy marshals, who may refuse to act under the Law, to be fined One Thousand dollars, to the use of the claimant. If a fugitive escape from the custody of the Marshal, the Marshal to be liable for his full value. Commissioners authorized to appoint special officers, and to call out the posse comitatus.
Section. 6. The claimant of any fugitive slave, or his attorney, “may pursue and reclaim such fugitive person,” either by procuring a warrant from some judge or commissioner, “or by seizing and arresting such fugitive, where the same can be done without process;” to take such fugitive before such judge or commissioner, “whose duty it shall be to hear and determine the case of such claimant in a summary manner,” and, if satisfied of the identity of the prisoner, to grant a certificate to said claimant to “remove such fugitive person back to the State or Territory from whence he or she may have escaped,”using “such reasonable force or restraint as may be necessary under the circumstances of the case.” “In no trial or hearing under this act shall the testimony of such alleged fugitive be admitted in evidence.” All molestation of the claimant, in the removal of his slave, “by any process issued by any court, judge, magistrate, or other person whomsoever,” to be prevented.
Section. 7. Any person obstructing the arrest of a fugitive, or attempting his or her rescue, or aiding him or her to escape, or harboring and concealing a fugitive, knowing him to be such, shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars, and to be imprisoned not exceeding six months, and shall also “forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars for each fugitive so lost.”
Section. 8. Marshals, deputies, clerks, and special officers to receive usual fees; Commissioners to receive ten dollars, if fugitive is given up to claimant; otherwise, five dollars; to be paid by claimant.
Section. 9. If claimant make affidavit that he fears a rescue of such fugitive from his possession, the officer making the arrest to retain him in custody, and “to remove him to the State whence he fled.” Said officer “to employ so many persons as he may deem necessary.” All, while so employed, be paid out of the Treasury of the United States.
Section. 10. [This Section provides an additional and wholly distinct method for the capture of a fugitive; and, it may be added, one of the loosest and most extraordinary that ever appeared on the pages of Statute book.] Any person, from whom one held to service or labor has escaped, upon making “satisfactory proof” of such escape before any court of record, or judge thereof in vacationa record of matter so proved shall be made by such court, or judge, and also a description of the person escaping, “with such convenient certainty as may be;”a copy of which record, duly attested, “being produced in any other State, Territory, or District,” and “being exhibited to any judge, commissioner, or other officer authorized,”. “shall be held and taken to be full and conclusive evidence of the fact of escape, and that the service or labor of the person escaping is due to the party in such record mentioned;” when, on satisfactory proof of identity, “he or she shall be delivered up to the claimant.” “Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as requiring the production of a transcript of such record as evidence as aforesaid; but in its absence, the claim shall be heard and determined upon other satisfactory proofs competent in law.”
#The Fugitive Slave Law#RACISM#white hate#racism in the us#slavery#An Act for the Encouragement of Kidnapping#ilegal kidnap of free people#Black Lives Matter#white lies#white history matters#slave catchers#police origins#kidnappers#watchmen
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snippet Sunday!!
thank u to all of my besties for tagging me in this love y'all @greenvlvetcouch, @colgatebluemintygel, @spindrifters & @cr-amber ♥♥♥
it only seems fair that I post 4 snippets, one for each tag :)
next chapter of 'I've got diamonds in my eyes (for you)'
“Why are the elevators out of service again? This is homophobic.”
Remus’s voice is strained, muffled behind the cardboard box in his hands - he kicks the apartment door closed with one socked foot and shoves the box on to the kitchen counter. Sirius laughs at Remus from the floor, sprawled out on the hardwood of his living room. Their living room.
Each wall is lined to the ceiling with boxes. The couch is covered in clothes on hangers, draped along the back of it - thick sweaters, worn t-shirts and vintage jeans. Spread all across the apartment - from the two pairs of shoes by the door to extra pillows on the bed - are all the pieces of a newly shared space.
first chapter of foxfire, my self-indulgent Appalachian wolfstar AU
Fog rolls out along the highway like an old friend and Remus’s fingers flex in their grip on the steering wheel. The last time he was in Virginia he hadn’t even been old enough to drive, but he remembers his father cursing every time the fog came in. It settled over the mountain, blurring the trees and blotting out the gravel roads. Not for the first time, Remus wishes he had taken a plane. His sedan doesn’t even have fog lights, but then – he’s never needed them.
His family moved out of Virginia after the accident. It had been inevitable, really. Hope Howell had one foot out of the valley her entire life, and Lyall Lupin would follow her anywhere. They ended up in Pittsburgh, not quite escaping Appalachia afterall, but getting out of the mountains.
Remus remembers waking up in the backseat of his parent’s minivan just as they crossed the West End bridge - the lights of the city like stars in the open sky back home. It all seemed impossibly bright, busy, beautiful. He had fit in easily at school, young enough to morphe his deep southern drawl into something more neutral. Hope found work at a museum in their neighborhood, Lyall taking a position with US Steel. Their old life was a distant memory. There were no woods to get lost in, no trailers tucked on the side of a mountain or deep in a valley.
and there here's a couple snippets from the outline of my hp transfest fic - wolfstar & jegulus in 2005 baby!!!! the first one is sirius telling James that he's trans and talking about how uncomfy his binder is, the second is the whole squad meeting up at the club
* ‘you don’t have to wear that - you can take it off right now, if you wanted. i just finished washing some big shirts that came in yesterday, they’re in the dryer if you want to change’
* ‘ my chest isn’t that big,’ it feels weird to say this out loud to another human person. james flushes a little but sirius continues ‘i think with a big enough shirt and a flannel over it, no one will notice’
* ‘well it’s none of their damn business, if they do’
*sirius doesn’t know if he can talk, so he doesn’t. james says, ‘go ahead and change, i’ll count the till’
*sirius is putting on an oversized flannel when james pops his head in the back room and says, ‘hang on - you could pick any name you wanted and you chose sirius??’
*‘my family likes star names - i wanted to match with regulus.’
james looks sad in that deep, deep way that only happens when sirius mentions his family. they don’t talk about it again that day.
* remus goes in for a hug at the end of lunch and sirius panics bc he isn’t wearing a binder that day and they haven't had That Talk yet and he steps out of remus’s reach, laughs it off
* remus looks a little sad and sirius says, ‘sorry, i just - didn’t get a lot of hugs as a kid.’ this is way too much of an explanation and now remus looks concerned and sirius BOLTS, but runs into James
* ‘boys - come to the club with me tonight’
* ‘sirius, i am not asking - remus, we’d love for you to join us’
* remus looks at sirius who is rolling his eyes but looks excited and says, ‘sure, yeah - i’ll meet you there’
*the club is called ‘the double crown’ and it’s small, tucked away just on the outskirts of town
*when sirius gets there james is standing by the bar with two women - a redhead and a blonde they’re holding hands. sirius feels less out of place. he’s wearing a lace t-shirt that’s cropped just to the hem of his binder, high-waisted black jeans with a silver belt made up of small stars connected all the way around. his hair is up in a messy bun, dangling star earrings, motorcycle boots making him an even 5’10
*remus comes in right after him, looks sirius over
*‘cute boots - it’s nice to not have to lean down to get a look at your face’
*sirius flushes all over and james’s eyebrows shoot up
*‘sirius, remus - this is lily, and mary! we just met, they’re my best friends’ he points at them when he says their names
*lily, the redhead, reaches out to brush her knuckles against sirius’s shoulder, ‘nice to meet you star boy’ she turns to remus ‘and you, tall dark and brooding’
I think all of my mutuals have already been tagged lmao but if any of y'all haven't been, feel free <3
#wolfstar fic#wolfstar#wolfstar fanfiction#jegulus#trans sirius black#WIP#can y'all tell how excited I am for my transfuse fic#I'm foaming at the mouth over here
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Hi everyone!
I am selling 2 tickets to Dan Howell’s tour at Capital One Hall in Virginia this Saturday! Tickets are $65 each, but the price can be negotiated. The tickets are for center row, so you’d be getting full view of Dan from up close. If anyone would like to buy these tickets or at least one of them, please let me know! My instagram is @llayan.al if you want to dm me there. Reblogging this would really help reach the right audience, I would really appreciate it!
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If you enjoyed "Kingdom of the Wicked" by Kerri Maniscalco, you might enjoy these book recommendations that share similar themes of dark magic, witches, and suspense:
"The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black: This is the first book in the Folk of the Air series, which follows a human girl named Jude who is forced to live in the treacherous world of Faerie. The series features complex characters, intricate world-building, and a fast-paced plot filled with magic, political intrigue, and romance.
"The Grisha Trilogy" by Leigh Bardugo: This series follows a young girl named Alina as she discovers she has the power to manipulate light and is whisked away to a magical academy for Grisha, people with magical abilities. The series features a richly drawn world, complex characters, and a compelling plot filled with magic, romance, and political intrigue.
"The Witch Hunter" by Virginia Boecker: This book follows a witch hunter named Elizabeth who is accused of being a witch herself and must go on the run to clear her name. The book features a strong female protagonist, a richly drawn world, and a plot filled with suspense, romance, and magic.
"A Shadow Bright and Burning" by Jessica Cluess: This book follows a young girl named Henrietta Howel, who discovers she has the power to control flames and is recruited to a magical order tasked with fighting dark creatures. The book features complex characters, an intricate world, and a plot filled with magic, romance, and suspense.
"The Beautiful" by Renee Ahdieh: This book follows a young girl named Celine who moves to New Orleans in the late 1800s and gets involved with a group of vampires. The book features lush descriptions of New Orleans, complex characters, and a plot filled with suspense, romance, and dark magic.
These are just a few book recommendations that you might enjoy if you're a fan of "Kingdom of the Wicked." Each of these books features similar themes of dark magic, witches, and suspense and will keep you on the edge of your seat.
#literature#booknerd#book blog#books#book quotes#bookaddict#bookblr#booklr#books and reading#bookish#kingdom of the wicked#fantasy
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Star Reporter (1939) Howard Bretherton
March 31st 2024
#star reporter#1939#howard bretherton#warren hull#marsha hunt#wallis clark#clay clement#morgan wallace#paul fix#virginia howell#joseph crehan
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Various Artists — Stop MVP: Artists from WV, VA and NC Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (War Hen)
The Mountain Valley Pipeline, if it’s ever finished, will stretch over more than 300 miles in rural Wester Virginia and Virginia, crossing environmentally sensitive parts of the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains carrying dangerous, polluting loads of fracked gas. The League of Conservation Votes estimates that the pipeline will generate more than 89 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution annually, about as much as 24 average U.S. coal plans or 19 million passenger cars. Building it will require razing forests that have been sequestering carbon for centuries.
It’s a climate catastrophe, and because it runs through an area that is rich in musical history and culture, it has become a focus for artists and activists, including Daniel Bachman, who organized this 40-track compilation in protest of the pipeline. All proceeds from STOP MVP will go to the Appalachian Legal Defense Fund to support protesters resisting the pipeline’s construction.
That is, of course, one compelling reason to buy this set of music, but it is very far from the only one. The music here is exceptionally diverse and almost uniformly excellent. If you look at the cover and envision a steady stream of earnest folk songs, punctuated by some fingerpicking, think again. Certainly that’s represented on these two discs, but so is noise and rock and punk and hip hop and even, at the end, a stirring piece of gospel that will steel you for the cause.
There’s so much music here that it’s hard to get a grip on it all, but let’s hit some highlights. Magic Tuber String Band’s haunted, haunting rendition of “Undone in Sorrow” is both staunchly traditional and absolutely modern in its lament for a natural world gone haywire. Isak Howell, similarly, finds something potent and bracing in minor key picking. Solar Hex straddles baroque classical cello and folk lament, and there are indeed four crows cawing in the background to “Stone Wall with Four Crows.” My favorite discovery in this lengthy, skewed-folk all-star line-up comes from Høly Riot’s “Spirit Riot,” which kicks up a feeling-the-lord-speaking-in-tongues ruckus with its driving, droning ecstasies.
Some of the cuts are literally about the MVP pipeline, like Joshua Vana and Bernadette “BJ” Lark’s full-throated, heart-swelling “To the River,” while others reference the area’s long history of industrial subjugation. “The Dolly Womack Wreck” retells the story of an old-time train wreck, where the engineer was flayed alive by steam from a broken boiler. “The Coal Tattoo,” sung by Bachman’s father, is about his father’s death in a mine explosion. The hip hop/electronic “John Brown” by Appalachian rapper Prolo chronicles generations of poverty and racism in the region.
A lot of well known folk and indie artists have chipped in. There are tracks from Sally Anne Morgan, Ned Oldham, Nathan Bowles, Rosali Middleton (as Edsel Axle). Yasmin Williams and Bachman himself. But the real tribute to Bachman’s taste, restless song-hunting and open-minded-ness comes from the bands you might not be familiar with, the eerie soundscapes of Tallulah Cloos, the beefy country rock of Tucker Riggleman and the Cheap Dates, the unhinged noise of Dog Scream. The mountains and valleys threatened by MVP are rich in plant and animal diversity, but also musical breadth, and this compilation brings them all together for a worthy cause.
Jennifer Kelly
#stop mvp#mountain valley pipeline#war hen#jennifer kelly#albumreview#dusted magazine#compilation#protest#daniel bachman#folk#country#rock#hip hop
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Comp Reading Lists
In an attempt to self-study several areas and expand my own knowledge, improve my ability to do research, and keep current with fields of interest, I'm building my own "comps list" here of relevant books. There are so many academic articles that I'm not sure if I'll include them here, but I'd like to at least track my reading of books. Comps lists are typically for Ph.D. students studying for exams, but I thought it might be a useful tool for me too. If you have suggestions, I welcome them.
BTS Studies
BTS, Art Revolution, Jiyoung Lee.
BTS and ARMY Culture, Jeeheng Lee.
BTS: The Review, Youngdae Kim.
Philosophizing about BTS, Cha Minju.
Bumping into BTS, Ji Kim, Mick Shin, and Jane Do.
Map of the Soul - Persona: Our Many Faces, Murray Stein.
Fan Studies
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Henry Jenkins.
A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics, Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams.
Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Mark Duffett.
A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams.
Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans, Mel Stanfill.
Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, Jonathan Gray, Cornell Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington.
Fan Cultures, Matt Hills.
Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline, Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael.
The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media, Lisa Lewis.
The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse.
Loving Fanfiction: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Online Fandoms, Brit Kelley.
Fandom as Classroom Practice: A Teaching Guide, Katherine Anderson Howell.
Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies, Jungmin Kwon.
Emo: How Fans Defined a Subculture, Judith Fathallah.
Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, Rukmini Pande.
Game Studies
Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture, Megan Condis.
Learning in Video Game Affinity Spaces, Sean Duncan.
Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity, Shira Chess.
Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming, T.L. Taylor.
Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Video Games, Stephanie Boluk and Patrick Lemieux.
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture is the Worst, Christopher Paul.
My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft, Bonnie Nardi.
Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds, Celia Pearce.
Ethics, Psychology, & Philosophy
Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care, Joan Tronto.
Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction, Murray Stein.
The Ethics of Care, Virginia Held.
Research Ethics in the Real World, Helen Kara.
The Portable Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Kaufmann.
General Reading & Methods
Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project that Matters to You, Thomas Mullaney and Christopher Rea.
The Practice of Qualitative Research: Engaging Students in the Research Process, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber.
Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation, Sonja Foss and William Waters.
Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Series Books, William Germano.
Learning to Make a Difference: Value Creation in Social Learning Spaces, Etienne Wenger-Trayner and Beverly Wenger-Trayner.
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method, Tom Boellstorff and Bonnie Nardi, et. al.
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, James Paul Gee.
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Early U.S. Era - The Howell Legacy - c. 1840s South Carolina
Trigger Warning - Mentions of Slavery within this challenge and other sensitive things.
Greetings!,
Meet the Howell Plantation. In the charming South Carolina town of Willow Creek, The Howell name is of very high status. The family comprises Parker and Amalia Howell and their three children: Damon, the eldest; Aspen, the middle; and Danny Howell, the youngest. The family owns ten slaves and is the only family in the town with a plantation. The family’s main slaves are Reginald and Nora Howell. Due to the family's admiration of Nora and Reginald’s skill and workability, the two built a cabin on the family’s main lot. Reginald is currently courting Nora and has taken a lot of interest in her.
Parker Howell’s 2nd great grandfather of unknown identity inherited the plantation to his son Vernon C. Howell who inherited to his son, Anthony C. Howell, who handed the plantation to his first son, Elliot C. Howell. Elliot had his son Parker C. Howell and then inherited it to Parker at the age of 39, after Elliot died at the age of 78.
Anthony C. Howell’s grandfather began the plantation in 1663 when he was appointed one of the Lord’s Proprietors and given the land by King Charles II. Anthony’s grandfather is the forgotten ninth Lord's Proprietor, for his name was erased from many sources, not even Elliot knew his name; Anthonys father Vernon refused to utter his name...
Though the reason for his identity and erasure is unknown and up for speculation, Parkers great-great grandfather is revered by Willow Creek for driving the natives out of the settlement with the help of his men who came along with him on the ship, which marked the beginning of the new town.
Nora was born on a Virginia plantation, separated from her mother, father, and grandmother at age six, and brought to South Carolina. Parker bought Nora when she was 18; she is now 26 in 1840. Nora is very passive and timid but gets inspired easily. She is a domestic slave in charge of cooking, cleaning, and doing laundry.
Reginald was born on a South Carolina plantation. His mother was conceived by the r*pe of her mother done by their master. Reginald's mother being biracial explains Reginald’s faint yet noticeable European features. Reginald's father and mother were later hung due to being caught by their sadistic master while they were conspiring to escape with their family and the other slaves. (The master, married with kids, was secretly and deeply in love with Reginald's mother and couldn't fathom losing her, which was really the driving point that led him to commit such an act.)
Afterward, Reginald was relocated to a South Carolina plantation at an early age and then given to Parker by Reginald’s previous master as a gift when Reginald was 20. Reginald is now 29 years of age in 1840. Despite the tragic death of his parents, Reginald is very charismatic and upbeat and knows how to stay out of trouble most of the time. He is the primary field hand and he’s in charge of taking care of errands around town as well as taking care of the cattle and crops.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 Howell (Later named Howard).
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Group of officers [Capt. Pierce, Capt. Page, Capt. Howell, Lt. Kelly] Headquarters, Army of the Potomac (Culpeper, Virginia) (x) (x)
#american civil war#us civil war#civil war#timothy o'sullivan#army of the potomac#just my dudes chilling at hq#acw#history
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The X-Philes: Epilogue
Thank you to everyone who helped with this.
For Moe, who always believed I was a writer at heart. I'm sorry you never got to read this. I'll tell you all about it when I see you again. May 1941-May 2022
Dan was sitting in Phil’s living room enjoying a homemade blueberry muffin, which it seemed he did like after all, when the call came in from Nurse Millwood that his mother had passed away. She had gone peacefully, she said, in her sleep.
Dan realized he would be tasked with organizing her funeral and that he’d have to request time off from the Bureau to set everything up. Phil, of course, offered to come with him.
The day of the funeral was a sunny one down in West Virginia, with fluffy and thick bright clouds in a soulful blue sky and nothing like the last time they’d been down there. The service itself was beautiful as well: a dark, polished wood casket lined with fine fabric, a photo of the nurse during her days in residency propped up with a wreath at its feet, and white flowers adorned the top of the casket, calla lilies, her favorite.
The service was attended by past and present hospital staff, family, including both her sons, and friends, both new and old, as any good funeral should.
Off to the side stood three ghosts seen only by two of the funeral attendees: a husband and wife, and a friend.
These two funeral attendees departed as the service drew to a close and piled themselves back into the taller and older one’s beat-up vintage car that once upon a time they’d spent way too many hours in for the arduous journey back from West Virginia home to Connecticut: a journey they never intended to make again.
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What remained of MedLife was found to have been funded by a private philanthropist who claims to have not known what kind of research he had been funding exactly and will most likely not face any criminal charges. Most others involved, however, were looking at life in prison for their humanitarian crimes. It looked as if the FDA personnel who had been sent in to research claims of foul play were either paid off or perhaps threatened, much like the hospital staff in West Virginia, all of whom were under investigation for their roles in helping either to cover up these crimes or for their silence and complacency in them despite threats from the former MedLife company. This information wasn’t followed up by Special Agent Howell, however. He’d handed the case over to a more suitable team and was working on other cases with the help of his civilian partner, one who, rumor had it, could see ghosts. It was said that this was why Dan had such a high rate of solving crimes. Of course, it could have just been that he and his partner seemed to make such a good team.
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