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uwmspeccoll · 2 years

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Farewell Staff Pick - Goodbye, Clare!

For my final staff pick, I chose The Ballad of Lemon and Crow, a story written by Glenn Todd and illustrated with six photogravures by Bruce Conner. Bruce Conner (1933-2008) was an artist from McPherson, Kansas who grew up in Texas who worked in many mediums such as assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography. He officially retired in 2000, but continued making work as “anonymous,” specifically the ink blots such as the ones patterning the cover of this book. Glenn Todd was a writer who was born in Archer City, Texas in 1930. He worked as a printer for San Francisco fine-press publishers until landing at Arion Press, where he served as an editor and writer. After 1995, during his retirement, he began to work on writing his own fiction. Both Conner and Todd bring their regional awareness and tone to this story about two neighboring families and three generations in rural Oklahoma in the early to mid-20th century.

The Ballad of Lemon and Crow was published in 2002 by Arion Press in San Francisco in and edition of 326 copies signed by the author and artist. It was designed and produced by Arion Press proprietor Andrew Hoyem with the assistance of Gerald Reddan, Leif Erlandsson, Shannon Kelley, Blake Riley, Charles Martin, and Katherine Case. The Monotype English Old Style type was composed and cast at Mackenzie & Harris by Peter Stoelzl and Lewis Mitchell, and printed onto all-cotton Ruysdael.

The book is bound in black and yellow printed cloth and housed in a black slipcase. Both the printed inkblot pattern and the lemon and the crow rebuses on the title page were made using photopolymer plates. The book begins with one of the six interleaved prints on mould-made T.H. Saunders buff paper made in Somerset, England. The oval-shaped illustrations for the prints are collaged wood engravings that have been printed as photogravures. In response to the illustrations, the author wrote short poems to link the images back to the story. These poems can be found in the suite of prints that is sold with the book, and in our copy we can see them in the prospectus that accompanied it.

This book stood out to me originally just from the title, and how they are the namesakes of the families in the story. It is a uniquely captivating folk tale weaving reality with the supernatural, and the illustrations manage to bind this all together. The craftsmanship that went into its creation is evident, and it is a joy to flip through. I will miss having the privilege to learn from and discover the endless books in this collection, and will treasure the time I had.

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-- Clare, former Special Collections Undergraduate Intern

Clare graduated in May 2022 with a BFA in printmaking and narrative forms. We look forward to seeing her work in the Milwaukee art community.

#Staff Pick of the Week #Staff Picks #Lemon and Crow #Arion Press #Andrew Hoyem #Glenn Todd #Bruce Conner #The Ballad of Lemon and Crow #Mackenzie & Harris #folk tales #folk stories #Oklahoma #fine press books #Clare

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tenpintsof-sundrop · 12 days

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗

Thank you so much for sending me this!

I am proud of so many of my fics and I'm not even fully sure how to go about this, so... I guess I will just make one rec from each of the fandoms I have written for?

(Warning for some blood in gifs below - but generally there is blood and violence in this fics anyway, so...)

From DC Titans:

No Place Like Home on AO3 - Gar Logan x Fem!Powered!Disabled!Reader x Jason Todd. Friends to Lovers. (Poly Soulmates). Smut, Angst, Hurt and Comfort with a Happy Ending. 90k across 7 chapters. When Jason leaves the Titans broken and battered, he gets set on a dangerous path. It's up to you and Gar, the two people who care about him the most, to bring him home.

Oh, another day on the assembly line, everybody better march in time,

Cause the factory don't care why, you been sayin' coulda, shoulda, woulda.

(There's no place like home. There's no place like home.)

If I could recommend one singular fic and say 'this fic encapsulates my style and summarises everything I am proud of when it comes to writing fanfiction' - this would be it.

I have so much to say about this fic and a lot of it I probably have already said it - but basically, this fic is the reason I started writing. I started writing long before I actually wrote this fic, but everything I have ever sought in terms of creative satisfaction came from this fic. This feels like my orgasmic climax in terms of creating things.

And if this fic is something I could be buried with, I would be proud. If this fic is something that people remember me for, I would be so fucking proud. (Which is not likely, because it's from a very small fandom and I know people are gonna remember me for fics from bigger fandoms that are way more popular, and I wish I could shove this fic in the faces of people who read my other popular fics and make them read it lmao.)

If for some reason I had to quit writing right now - I would be most proud of this singular piece. Especially because so much of this fic, the characters, and the dynamics has been inspired by my real life relationship with my lovers, and the reader character was inspired by my struggle with disability and coping with the loss of control as I became more disabled over time - but having my lovers there for me made that loss of control easier to swallow. It's about how trauma can ruin you and letting someone love you when you are broken is one of the hardest things you can do, but one of the most radical and most rewarding. If you ever liked my writing and my style, even if you don't like Titans - please go and read this.

From The Walking Dead:

(I know this gif is sad but it fits the fic so well.)

Hold Me Tight Or Don't on AO3 - Glenn Rhee x Fem!Reader x Maggie Greene. Established Poly Relationship. Smut and Heavy Angst (No Happy Ending). Set during Season 3, Episode 4. 7k (Oneshot). You are bitten by a Walker while trying to help get Glenn and Maggie to safety, and you are facing your last hours of life. And in those last hours, you only have one wish - to have sex with your partners one last time. Luckily for you, they would do anything for you, and they can’t help but to oblige.

Oh no this isn't how our story ends,

So hold me tight, hold me tight. (Or don't.)

This fic has had some more attention lately, since I have been wanting to write for The Walking Dead again, and I just really want to re-state - I fucking love this fic. This idea came to me so randomly and struck me like lighting and I am so happy that this fic came to fruition. This fic represents so many things that I am excited about writing - poly relationships, relating the themes of sex and death, sad endings (I weirdly prefer writing sad or melancholic endings instead of traditional happy ones).

I am really proud of this fic. If you can handle angst, you should go read it.

From Criminal Minds:

From Your Lips on Tumblr - Jennifer Jareau x GN!Reader. Established Relationship. Smut, Hurt and Comfort. Set during Season 2, Episode 15. 3k (Oneshot). After JJ is attacked by dogs on the Hankel farm, you take the time to check on her and distract her flustered mind with a loving touch.

So, most of my Criminal Minds fics have done really well and don't need to be recommended just because it's a really popular fandom, but JJ fics don't really do well? Idk why she's not a popular character?

But I love this fic. I had so much fun working on this fic, and working in the religious references and imagery from the show - this fic was just so much fun for me. And I think it needs more love.

From The Last of Us:

IFHY (I Fucking Hate You) on AO3 - Abby Anderson x Fem!Reader. Enemies with Benefits. Smut and Angst. Set during the main events of Part II. 8k (Oneshot). You and Abby truly hate each other. So when you find Abby handcuffed inside an elevator, instead of being kind and just letting her out, you make her pay a certain price for the key.

I fucking hate you - but I love you.

I'm bad at keeping my emotions bubbled.

You're good at being perfect, we're good at being troubled.

There are so many fics from TLOU that I loved writing and that I'm really proud of, but this one really caught my eye on the list. I love writing about conflict, and I really love writing reader characters who are so bitchy and just cause conflict. (Maybe it's because I'm so nice irl and I never cause conflict, I get out all my internal chaos in writing characters who shit disturb and cause chaos all the time.)

I loved writing this because it's so non-traditional. It's not sappy, it's not romantic - again, it has a really melancholic ending. The characters are so toxic for each other (which is also something I love writing - because it's horrible for relationships irl, but for fiction it's so interesting to explore and observe).

I think this is one of my best, most interesting fics and I really loved doing it.

From Harry Potter:

King For A Day on Tumblr - Poly!Golden Trio x Fem!Reader. (Fem!Reader x Ron Weasley, Harry Potter, and Hermione Granger). FWB to Poly Lovers. Smut (with slight Angst). Set during Deathly Hallows. 22k (Oneshot). While Horcrux Hunting with your closest friends, the dangerous influence of Slytherin’s Locket causes Ron to snap. And it turns out - he brings on something that everyone in the tent really needed.

You told me think about it - well I did.

Now I don't wanna feel a thing anymore.

I'm tired of beggin' for the things that I want.

I'm over sleepin' like a dog on the floor.

Imagine living like a King someday - a single night without a ghost in the walls.

I have spoken about this fic at length, and how this was a spirtual awaken for me - if No Place Like Home was a culmination of everything I am as an artist, then this fic is an echo of those things. Again, I fucking love writing about poly relationships - and I think this fic has one thing that was missing from No Place Like Home. And that is exploring each individual thread of a poly relationship and how someone interacts with each person in the relationship outside of the poly group functioning as a whole. That is definitely a strong suit of this fic.

Also it's amazing filthy nasty smut, which is something I love writing, and something I am really talented at.

From Stranger Things:

I'm Still Standing on AO3 - Nancy Wheeler x Fem Disabled/Chronically Ill Reader. Best Friends to Lovers. Angst, Smut, (slight Fluff). Hurt and Comfort. Happy Ending. Set during Season 4. 37k across 3 chapters. You start having horrible waking nightmares, but you don’t want to worry your best friend Nancy by telling her. She’s already occupied trying to chase down a trans-dimensional killer wizard, and you are convinced that the two problems aren’t possibly related.

There's a cold and lonely light that shines from you,

And you wind up like the wreck you hide, behind that mask you use.

This fic is so interesting.

I wrote this fic shortly after Season 4 came out - and even though I had a few fics for Stranger Things that were pretty popular, everyone just collectively ignored this one? And I know for a fact that it is because Nancy is the love interest. I know that if I had picked Steve or Eddie as the love interest for this fic, then this fic would be just as popular as my other ST fics - but because the subject matter is so deeply personal, I connected with the scenes of Nancy kicking ass at the hospital and worked from there.

(And tbh, if I had to choose a male love interest for this concept, I probably would have chosen Billy, because I relate to him on so many deep personal levels.)

Literally everything in this fic is very personal to me - this is all about my own raw traumas. From the abusive father to the extreme medical trauma to the strained caretaker mother, to the older sister who distances herself from it all - even though this is set in the universe of Stranger Things - this is the story of my life. And idk if I would have wanted it to be a more popular fic, because it is so personal? But I am upset that I worked so hard on it and so many parts of it are so raw, and nobody really saw it. I am upset that I had the bravery to post something so personal and it was just - crickets.

There are so many parts of this fic that I am so insanely proud of. The horror sequences are something that I worked so hard on - not just with the emotion of translating my own trauma, but I wanted to make something honestly scary and I wanted to pay tribute to the tension and emotion and visuals of all my favourite horror media - including Stranger Things and the beautifully tense horror aspects of Season 4. And this is another fic that I feel truly, absolutely represents me as a person to my core. And I feel like it's worth reading if you wanna know more about me and who I am.

(And lastly)

From misc. horror fandoms:

No Brainer on AO3 - Derek Cho (Steven Yeun) x Fem!Reader x Melanie Cross (Samara Weaving). Co-Workers to Lovers. Smut. Based on the film Mayhem from 2017. 7k (Oneshot). When you are the last person alive with an elevator key that Derek and Melanie desperately need, you agree to make a trade. Turns out, when what you're asking for is a threesome - you don't drive too hard of a bargain.

This is one of my favourite fics of all time. This is proof that I do not write for popularity - this fic is written for a fandom on AO3 with a total of five fics FIVE (including mine) and 2 of them are about characters from other media experiencing the plot of this movie as an AU, and mine is the only fic that is x reader. So I didn't just fill a niche - I looked where there was no niche and I dug a hole.

But like - Steven Yeun. Yes, I fell in love with Glenn from TWD, but this is a movie where he is also covered in blood, and rather than being Glenn's meek, reserved self (which I love) - he is outraged and swearing and killing and it makes me foam at the mouth. And I am already in love with Samara Weaving from The Babysitter - so this is literally a killer combination.

My bisexual ass did not even finish the film before I was typing out this fic on my phone.

And I am so happy that I wrote it - because sometimes you just need a self indulgent, blood covered smut.

And you guys can read it too if you want <3

#sundrop answers #fanfiction #mickisnotclever #my lovely moots #jason todd x reader #gar logan x reader #glenn rhee x reader #maggie greene x reader #jennifer jareau x reader #abby anderson x reader #ron weasley x reader #harry potter x reader #hermione granger x reader #nancy wheeler x reader #mayhem 2017

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springawakeningfan · 9 months

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15 YEARS since SPRING AWAKENING'S FIRST NATIONAL TOUR OPENED on August 15, 2008 at The Balboa Theatre in San Diego, California

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dozydawn · 8 months

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Jenni Meno and Todd Sand compete in the US Figure Skating Championships, 1996. Photographed by Glenn Cratty and Jamie Squire.

#pairs skating #jenni meno #todd sand #figure skating #pairs #glenn cratty #jamie squire #1996 #1990s

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lesbiancolumbo · 2 months

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this is gonna be such a fun awards show considering there's almost no overlap with the oscars this year

#even tho they really couldn't find more women to fill out the director category? L #savannah and raven are literally right there #anyways i think greta or franz or andrew are gonna take lead (teyana or jeffrey could steal)#and for supporting i want to say it'll go to da'vine but would love to see charles get some love here. but lbr glenn has my vote #dominic is taking that breakthrough like everyone in that category is great but i can't see him losing that #i think PL will take film and maybe director but i could see them giving it to todd

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2ndaryprotocol · 1 year

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#colors #robert duvall #sean penn #don cheadle #mario lopez #Dennis hopper #maria conchita alonso #randy brooks #damon wayans #jack nance #Glenn Plummer #grand l bush #tony todd #courtney gains #Clark Johnson #cops #gangs #south central #los angeles

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crushing-on-nico-di-angelo · 1 year

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@firefighter-diazbuckley ♡

text: eleven, sandra cisneros // @nakakabaliw // dead poets society // @mercifulstudie // glenn dean // 911 fox

#sandra cisneros #glenn dean #dead poets society #911 fox #hey em #ugh im gna cry as im typing this #i love you so much.#happy birthday #im gna go into detail why i chose each image real quick #first off the obvious. sandra cisneros eleven is Your Story. its yours. and its your birthday. and youre this age and youre 15 and 12 and 8 #and 5 and 2 and 1 and every single age in between but today youre this age. and im so glad to see you grow the way you have and are #next is oranges #oranges as an act of love is something im a big believer in #and theyre your favorite fruit #and youre constantly eating them #and theyre also yours #ill never see an orange without thinking 'omg emily firefighter-diazbuckley'#dead poets society is a movie you and i both love #for very similar reasons #and it was todds birthday and its your birthday and i adore you and todd both #as i was putting this parallel together i tried so hard to think of what made you you. and dead poets society was one of the first things t #o come to mind.#shakespeare and theater and academia are so inherintly you that i would have been remiss to not include it. you love theater so much and u #dedicate so much time to it and we'd be a mess without you. youre the best stage manager in the world #i chose this glenn dean painting because it felt very you. and it felt mature. youre maturing my love and youre doing so well.#youre so old i cant believe it. the colors and the bright blue sky and the mountains you love so much are just you #and i know growing up can feel catastrophic (hence the catastrophic 911 photo)#but you handle it with grace. and just like diaz and just like buck and just like hen you come out of it stronger #and you come out every time. and just as you root for them. im rooting for you.#i love you. happy birthday.

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that90ssmshow · 10 months

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Calypso’s Comic History

The full comic history of Calypso, voodoo witch and partner of Kraven. It's a wild, problematic ride.

We recently talked about Calypso in our latest episode of Weird Lore Bullshit Corner, a podcast where we talk about Spider-Man’s strangest stories and characters. You can find that here.

#calypso ezili #kraven the hunter #sergei kravinoff #alyosha kravinoff #todd mcfarlane #spider-man torment #spider-man 1990 #glenn herdling #alan weiss #denny o'neill #scott mcdaniel #infinity war comic #daredevil #simon garth #the lizard #jm dematteis #smcomics

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balu8 · 11 months

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Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere #2

by Mike Carey; Glenn Fabry; Tanya/Richard Horie; Todd Klein And Neil Gaiman

DC/Vertigo

#dc cómics #vertigo comics #neil gaiman's neverwhere #adaptation #glenn fabry #tanya horie #richard horie #todd klein #mike carey #neil gaiman #comic book #comics

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Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil (2011)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

Hoodwinked! Looked awful; so terrible anyone who caught it in theatres probably wondered if there was something wrong with the projector. The writing saved the movie. It featured catchy songs, a novel angle on the fairytale thing and pretty good jokes. Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil doesn’t have such redeeming qualities. It looks like garbage and the writing is just as poor. Had I seen this in theatres and paid that extra $3 for the 3D, I might’ve died of shame.

Wolf (voiced by Patrick Warburton), Granny (Glen Close), and Twitchy Squirrel (Cory Edwards) now work for the Happily Ever After organization under the supervision of Nicky Flippers (David Ogden Stiers). While Red (this time voiced by Hayden Panettiere) trains in a monastery far away, the group fails to rescue Hansel and Gretel (Bill Hader & Amy Poehler) from the hands of a wicked witch. Their kidnapping is tied to the theft of an age-old desert recipe that grants supernatural abilities, meaning it’s more important than ever for the group to let go of their disagreements and band together.

Once more written by Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards and Tony Leech, the script is abysmal. This sequel came 6 years after the first. Instead of working on the script during that gap, the writers wrote it hours before their deadline, grabbing liberally from the bag of references you’ve seen a thousand times whenever they couldn't think of a joke. Andy Dick returns briefly as Boingo the Bunny, just so they can steal some lines from Silence of the Lambs. We're subjected to references from Star Wars, Goodfellas, and John McLane’s catchphrase from Die Hard… twice. The only children who could possibly tolerate this film are too young to understand these winks and the adults will only furrow their brows. The gags aren’t merely unfunny, they’re anti-funny. You resent "Hoodwinked Too!" and if anyone amusing did actually come up (theoretically, mind you), you wouldn’t laugh out of spite.

This movie constantly pelts you with gimmicky voice acting - Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong voice two of the Three Little Pigs. It’s a desert barren of imagination and creativity. At no point does the film do anything pleasantly surprising. Japeth the Goat returns. Your heart leaps. Perhaps a comical song is underway? Nope. Just a forgettable, horrid tune. They find a way to crowbar in the Woodsman (Martin Short) again but he’s nothing but a plot device to get us from the second act to the third. Nothing more. You don’t care about anything on-screen. The animators didn't either. Granted, they had to stick somewhat close to the visual style of the first movie to maintain some kind of continuity, but generally, scenes are empty, and the conclusion - which features a Godzilla-sized rampage - has the big threat varying wildly in size from shot to shot.

The only good thing about Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil is that it's forgettable. You’ll groan and gnash your teeth while it’s playing, you’ll be in agony listening to the bad jokes, the stiff animation will make you desperate for anything better. Once it’s over, however, the ordeal is so bland and mirthless you won’t even have the rage necessary to set it on fire. (On DVD, October 4, 2019)

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