#Carol Mavor

[thebluesthour]

While the Greek root of the word nostalgia, 'nostos', means 'the return home' — anyone who has been there knows that the return home is never without pain. Nostalgia feels like getting the blues. According to the Oxford English dictionary, 'nostalgia' is 'a form of melancholia caused by prolonged absence from one's home or country; severe homesickness'. Indeed, 'Nostos might hold out the promise that, yes, you can return whence you came, but nostalgia happens because you can't go home again.'

Carol Mavor, “A Bolt From the Blue”, Blue Mythologies

#lit #quotes #words #nonfiction #Carol Mavor #Blue Mythologies #diaspora blues #etymology #the most human colour #m #queued

[soracities]

My mother is 'swallowed and preserved'. She is an untranslated and untranslatable trauma.

Carol Mavor, from “A Blue Fawn’s Eye”, Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour

#q #lit #quotes #carol mavor #blue mythologies #the book of women #reading #m #x

[hitchell-mope]

An actual next generation fancast.

I once made a fancast for a Kelvin Timeline set Star Trek: The Next Generation movie*. But now I’m thinking. What about a Kelvin Timeline set movie about the children of the OG characters? Which, of course, led me to a new fancast. Like so.

Mitchell Hope. Georgie Kirk. Jim and Carol’s son. First Officer.

Kristen Bell. Joanna McCoy. Bones’s daughter. Communications Officer.

Jamie Chung. Demora Sulu. Sulu’s daughter. Captain.

Graham Phillips. Nikolai Chekov. Chekov’s nephew. Security Officer.

Freya Mavor. Ada Scott. Scotty’s daughter. Ships Doctor.

Tyler James Williams. Grayson Uhura. Spock and Uhura’s son. Engineer.

* https://www.tumblr.com/hitchell-mope/616130631041220608/next-generation-fancast

#star trek #kelvin timeline #jim kirk #carol marcus #kirkus #mitchell hope #bones mccoy #joanna mccoy #kristen bell #hikaru sulu #demora sulu #jamie chung #pavel chekov #graham phillips #montgomery scott #freya mavor #spock #nyota uhura #spuhura #tyler james williams #anti spirk #(just to be safe)

[hellshee]

Carol Mavor, from “A Blue Fawn’s Eye”, Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour // Joe Bousquet — 'My wound existed before; I was born to embody it.' // Warsan Shire, from “The House,” Her Blue Body // Langston Hughes, from ‘Tired’ featured in Selected Poems // Underbelly, Nicole Homer

#house of the dragon #houseofthedragonedit #hotdedit #aemond targaryen #alicent hightower #aemondtargaryenedit #alicenthightoweredit #welighttheway #myedits #1k+

[ojo-rojo]

Libby Edwards.

“Colour is bodily; it is erotic. It comes from the body, like a voice.” Julia Kristeva, “Giotto’s Joy”, as quoted in Carol Mavor’s "Blue Mythologies".

#Libby Edwards

[dear-indies]

Weird request, but do you have any faceclaims that are gingers? It's so hard to find ginger faceclaims of different ethnicities, body types, etc.

Hey anon! I’m not sure if you only wanted diverse faceclaims only but below are 200+ ginger faceclaims and I have noted the diverse suggestions. Please let me know if you’d like more specific suggestions for example from a certain age range.

Big thanks to @katherine-mcnamara! 

Non-binary:

Nicky Endres (1982) Korean - non-binary, transfeminine, genderqueer and queer - they/she.

Olly Alexander (1990) - non-binary and gay - he/him.

Kaitlyn Alexander (1992) - non-binary - they/them.

Maggie McGill (?) - is non-binary, queer and fat/plus size- she/they,

Women:

Joy Behar (1942)

Sondra Currie (1947) 

Becky Ann Baker (1953)

Kay Adshead (1954)

Julianne Moore (1960)

Carol Alt (1960)

Andrea Arnold (1961)

Marcia Cross (1962)

Cheryl Hawker (1962) - is fat/plus size.

Amy Yasbeck (1962) Lebanese / Irish.

Kate Walsh (1967) 

Molly Ringwald (1968)

Debra Messing (1968)

Catherine Tate (1969)

Stephanie Belding (1971)

Brigid Brannagh (1972)

Nathalie Boltt (1973)

Alyson Hannigan (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish.

Amy Adams (1974)

Tina Campbell (1974) African-American.

Alicia Witt (1975)

Jen Richards (1976) - is trans and bisexual.

Isla Fisher (1976)

Lauren Ambrose (1978)

Natasha Lyonne (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Itziar Castro (1977) - is a lesbian.

Jaime Ray Newman (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Rachelle Lefevre (1979)

Ruth Connell (1979)

Nur Fettahoğlu (1980) Turkish.

Sarah Drew (1980) 

Bridget Regan (1982)

Bronagh Waugh (1982)

Lotte Verbeek (1982)

Alexandra Breckenridge (1982)

Kate Mara (1983)

Tuğçe Kumral (1983) Turkish.

Lynsey Bartilson (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish / Norwegian, Dutch, mix of English, Irish, and French.

Magda Apanowicz (1985)

Emily Beecham (1985)

Deborah Ann Woll (1985)

Natalya Rudakova (1985)

Sarah Power (1985)

Our Lady J (1985) - is trans. 

Mary Wiseman (1985) - is queer.

Sepideh Moafi (1985) Iranian.

Elçin Sangu (1985) Turkish.

Issa Rae (1985) Senegalese / African-American, Creole [African, French, distant Spanish], distant French-Haitian.

Katie Leclerc (1986) - has Ménière’s Disease.

Florence Welch (1986)

Laura Spencer (1986)

Gillian Alexy (1986)

Crystal Kay (1986) Korean / African-American,

Valorie Curry (1986)

Jessica Keenan Wynn (1986)

Sarah Snook (1987) 

Evan Rachel Wood (1987) - is bisexual. 

Genevieve Angelson (1987)

Nicola Coughlan (1987) - is fat/plus size.

Elena Satine (1987)

Sarah Hay (1987)

Stacey Farber (1987)

Christiane Seidel (1988)

Maggie Geha (1988) 

Amber Skye Noyes (1988)

Sabina Karlsson (1988) Gambian / Swedish.

Renee Olstead (1989)

Jessica Kellgren-Fozard (1989) - has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with Marfanoid phenotype causing blindness in one eye and deafness - is a lesbian.

Clémentine Desseaux (1988) - is fat/plus size.

Jane Levy (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, some Irish and Scottish.

Jessie Buckley (1989)

Renee Olstead (1989)

Jenna Thiam (1990) Armenian, Belgian / Senegalese, English, French.

Lee Sung Kyung (1990) Korean.

Galadriel Stineman (1990)

Başak Gümülcinelioğlu (1991) Turkish.

Coral Kwayie (1991) Ghanaian / British.

Carmen Solomons (1991) Mixed South African.

Su Kutlu (1991) Turkish.

Charlotte Spencer (1991) 

Colby Minifie (1992)

Alina Kovalenko (1992)

Eleanor Tomlinson (1992) 

Haley Ramm (1992)

Alexis Jordan (1992) African-American / Puerto Rican.

Anna Shaffer (1992) Black and White South African / South African Jewish.

Louisa Connolly-Burnham (1992)

Jennifer Stone (1993)

Mayra Tercero (1993) Honduran.

Olivia Cooke (1993)

Molly Quinn (1993)

Freya Mavor (1993)

Sharon Belle (1993)

Molly C. Quinn (1993)

Thiều Bảo Trâm (1994) Vietnamese. 

Janet Devlin (1994) - is bisexual. 

Ahsen Eroğlu (1994) Turkish. 

Madelaine Petsch (1994)

Jacqueline Emerson (1994)

Bronwyn James (1994) - is gay and fat/plus size. 

Khadijha Red Thunder (1994) Chippewa Cree, African-American, Spanish - is pansexual. 

Marina Ruy Barbosa (1995) Brazilian.

Aleece Wilson (1995) Metis, Afro-Canadian, Irish and Italian.

Ciara Baxendale (1995)

Phoebe Dynevor (1995)

Bree Kish (1996) 1/4 African-American 3/4 Spanish, Irish, Dutch - is fat/plus size.

Thanaerng Kanyawee Songmuang (1996) Thai.

Luca Hollestelle (1996)

Sue Ramirez / Sue Dodd (1996) Filipino / White. 

Katherine McNamara (1996)

Thanaerng Kanyawee Songmuan (1996) Thai-Chinese. 

Sierra McCormick (1997)

Toto Bruin (1997)

Ellie Bamber (1997)

Sydney Sierota (1997)

Bo Barah (1997)

Maddison Brown (1997)

Melis Sezen (1997) Turkish.

Kiera Allen (1997) - is paraplegic.

Jordana Beatty (1998)

Annalise Basso (1998)

Erica Gluck (1998) African-American, possibly other.

Sonny Turner (1998) Black British.

Mathilda Mai (1998)

Duda Brandão (1998) Brazilian.

Cheng Xiao (1998) Chinese.

Fujita Nicole (1998) Japanese / Polish, Russian.

Erin Kellyman (1998) Afro-Jamaican / Irish - is a lesbian. 

Emma Kenney (1999)

Juliette Angelo (1999)

Ellie Darcey-Alden (1999)

Julia Lester (2000) Jewish.

Kennedy Walsh (2000) 

Mina Sundwall (2001)

Talia Jackson (2001) African-American / White.

Alana Pancyr (?) 

Lynley Eilers (?) - is fat/plus size. 

Men:

William Atherton (1947)

David Caruso (1956)

Boris Becker (1967)

Tom Goodman-Hill (1968)

Morgan Alling (1968)

Toby Stephens (1969)

Tony Curran (1969)

Eric Johnson (1970)

Brendan Beiser (1970)

Zack Ward (1970) 

Michael Rapaport (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Alan Tudyk (1971)

Anthony Rapp (1971)

Damian Lewis (1971) Welsh, English, Scottish, and 1/16th Jewish [Sephardi and Ashkenazi].

Scott Grimes (1971)

Michael C. Hall (1971) - has stated he’s “not all the way heterosexual.”

Brett Tucker (1972)

Ewen Bremner (1972)

Kevin McKidd (1973)

Mackenzie Astin (1973)

Kris Holden-Ried (1973)

Dash Mihok (1974) - has Tourette Syndrome. 

Michael Shannon (1974)

Seth Green (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson (1975) - is gay.

Marc Menchaca (1975) 

David Lewis (1976)

Krondon (1976) African-American - has albinism.

Kristofer Hivju (1978)

Diego Klattenhoff (1979)

Ethan Cohn (1979) 

Ben Foster (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, French, Irish, distant Welsh and Scottish (mother; who may have converted to Judaism).

Sam Heughan (1980)

Rolf Kristian Larsen (1983)

Jidenna (1985) Igbo Nigerian / English, German, Dutch.

Alex Saxon (1987)

Kerem Bürsin (1987) Turkish.

Rupert Grint (1988)

Chris Bylsma (1988)

Luke Newberry (1990)

Alan Ashby (1991)

Calum Worthy (1991)

Elijah Baker (1991) Black British and White.

Stephen Joffe (1991) 

Sean Berdy (1993) - is deaf and has bipolar disorder.

Cameron Monaghan (1993)

Niall Cunningham (1994)

Jack Kilmer (1995)

Elliott Jay Brown (1996) Black British.

Ralph Souffrant (1996) Afro-Haitian.

Iwahashi Genki (1996) Japanese.

Leon Seidel (1996)

Yoshino Hokuto (1997) Japanese.

Garet Allen (1997)

Kai Alexander (1997)

Jake Austin Walker (1997)

Louis Hofmann (1997)

Tashi-Jay Kwayie (1998) Black British.

Justin Tinucci (1999)

Gytis Gedvilas (1999)

Tucker Albrizzi (2000) - is fat/plus size.

Pierre Sekongo (2000) Ivorian / French.

Thomas Barbusca (2003)

Stacey Edward (?) African-American.

#fc help #rph #rpc #ginger fc #ginger fcs

[wordsintheattic]

“I begin a dream of blue. I make blue reveries in the darkness of my mind. Like little travelogues, these dreams come in bursts and spurts, from the indigo-blackness of my imagination.”

—Carol Mavor, “A Bolt From the Blue”, Blue Mythologies

#dark academia #light academia #books and libraries #books & libraries #bookblr #booklr #literature #spilled poetry #writing #writers on tumblr #writings #poetsontumblr #art #quotes #life quotes #desiblr #poetry #love poetry #spilled ink #spilled words #spilled thoughts #library #philosophy #bookish #bookworm #books #reading #words #wordsnquotes

[p3achyl3monm3lon]

Turquoise 01 

Turquoise Aqua / Fresh Aqua / A paler baby hue sits between its two parents, green and blue / colour of the seas ocean, its a holiday, of pacific emotion / refresh with Hawaiian Cyan, a hydration of rejuvenation / for aqua translated, becomes something translucent / purest water possessing a cleansing aura opposing any stormy colour / for over here it’s paradise and I’m in nirvana / lapping around island of Ibiza, enter this tranquil Bohemia / where women wear this peace-filled gem for a love-life trend / sip on still oasis, dip submerged body into eden / laid back, a feeling as light as floating / fresh nature green a-washed with blues serene in this watery scene / in reality and on your tv screen / blow a minty bubble gum colour, like a breath of fresh air, breathe new life into here / for everyone’s choice is always, the ever popular, turquoise

//

‘First Man and First Woman also summoned the other three Holy People, Water Sprinkler, House God, and Talking God. Together, they told Turquoise Boy and White Shell Girl that they were creating the sun and the moon. They asked Turquoise Boy if he would become the sun, and they asked White Shell Girl if she would become the moon.’

Joel Gladd, 3. Navajo Diné Bahane, Anthology of Earlier American Literature : College of Western Idaho

/

‘In this way, Turquoise Boy became the sun, Jóhonaaʼéí, The One Who Rules the Day. And White Shell Girl became the moon, Tłʼéhonaaʼéí, The One Who Rules the Night. Níłchʼi Haʼaʼaahdę́ęʼgo, the East Wind, asked to carry the newly formed sun to his land so that it could begin its journey there.’

Joel Gladd, 3. Navajo Diné Bahane, Anthology of Earlier American Literature : College of Western Idaho

//

‘Polaroid blues are amongst the most gorgeous blues I know, like those obscene Polaroid blues of fashion / art photographers Helmet Newton and Guy Bourdin. Land explains why my blood looks blue and gave us the gift of the Polaroid with its stunning cyans.’

Carol Mavor, Introduction, Blue Mythologies, Reflections on a Colour

/

‘Passion flowers and clinging ‘wild convolvulus blossoms’ entwine her figure in this Arabian nights bower so as to enhance the passion we feel for her and her emerald green, blue-turquoise rimmed robe.’

Carol Mavor, Introduction, Blue Mythologies, Reflections on a Colour

[pelsjas]

My mother is ‘swallowed and preserved’. She is an untranslated and untranslatable trauma.

Carol Mavor

[nekozalenky]

Cameron's pictures are haptic in the fullest sense of the word. Not only did she physically scrub, scratch, brush, and fingerprint her glass plates, she also focused on the ways in which women touch. [...] Levinas tells us that "in a caress, what is there is sought as though it were not there, as though the skin were a trace of its own withdrawal, a languor still seeking like an absence which, however, could not be more there." Similarly, the photographic skin that Cameron's Madonnas shed onto her glass negatives and albumenized papers can be read as traces of an absence that could not be more there. After all, Mary Hillier is dead and gone; yet she is there before us. Of course, all photographs are traces of such skin. Balzac understood this, which is why he feared losing thin ghosts of himself, like layers of skin, with each photograph "taken." With Cameron, we are also left with the photographer's own skin (her fingerprints) on a plate that gives way to women touching the skin of infants and other women.

Carol Mavor on Julia Margaret Cameron, in Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs

#carol mavor #julia margaret cameron

[j-a-n-e--d-o-e]

After reading Alice in Wonderland I didnt think that any other writer could mess with my head as badly as lewis caroll did.

Congratulations Carol Mavor I'm only a few pages into your book 'aurelia art and literature through the mouth of the fairy tale' and im already hating myself.

If it didn't look so interesting I would have stopped after the first page. This is going to be such a doozy

#Wtf am I reading #lewis caroll #Carol Mavor #Why #why do you do this to me #Books #books and libraries

[thebluesthour]

I begin a dream of blue. I make blue reveries in the darkness of my mind. Like little travelogues, these dreams come in bursts and spurts, from the indigo-blackness of my imagination.

Carol Mavor, “A Bolt From the Blue”, Blue Mythologies

#lit #quotes #words #nonfiction #Carol Mavor #Blue Mythologies #the secret of blue is well kept #m #queued

[soracities]

Photographs hold their referent (whether it is a goose, a breast, a starfish, a woman) as never changing. Photography's 'magic' casts the short-lived as forever and ever non-altered in an eternal emulsion of the frozen time of Briar Rose's hundred-year-long sleep. Photographs make good the daguerreotype glass of Snow White's coffin.

Carol Mavor, “To Blue”, Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour

#q #lit #quotes #carol mavor #blue mythologies #notes on an art form #on photography #reading #m #x

[halfsavagehardyfree-blog]

In the Search, we experience what is now famously called the Proustian sentence: a peculiar winding, revising, rethinking, destabilizing, breathtaking, delicious, exhausting, ribbon of perfection - minus story, minus linear time.

Reading Boyishly, Carol Mavor

(Introduction, p20)

#Carol Mavor #Marcel Proust #In Search of Lost Time #Reading Boyishly

[lufairchild]

Although my fingertips have longed to touch the beaten hems of their skirts, the netting of their headdresses, the wires of their crinolines, the silkiness of their tights, the scented pages of their tattered and clutched books, the roundness of their pearls, the soft bits of their always new hair that cavorts about their lovely ears in joyful escape from their hairpins, their velvet cummerbunds, the lift of their closed but smiling lips, the warmness of their eyelids shut off in pretend sleep, their bodies and all that has touched them, I have only touched the precious edges of their pictures. To touch inside, to reach within the borders is forbidden; they are just photographs, to be preserved, protected from the oils, the dirt, the smirches of my fingertips. My fingers are bound…bound with words.

Carol Mavor, Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (p. xxv)

#carol mavor #clementina hawarden #photography #victorian studies #my research #ughhhhhhhhh #so lovely

[peoniepoetals]

I, hopefully we, make a storm, but not a Storm.

Carol Mavor, in “The Writerly Artist: Beautiful, Boring, and Blue”

#carol mavor #quote #quote*