#James Bland

[huariqueje]

Moonlight - James Bland

British , b. 1979 -

Oil on canvas , 65 x 60 cm. 26 x 24 in.

#James Bland #british artist #interior

[twixnmix]

Ads for Club Riviera in St. Louis

Luis Russell / Sister Rosetta Tharpe (January 1945)

Billie Holliday (January 21-28, 1950)

Cab Calloway (January 1, 1951)

Duke Ellington (January 12-19, 1952)

Louis Jordan (May 4-12, 1956) / Count Basie (May 18, 1956)

Dinah Washington (June 26-28, 1956) / Little Richard (July 20-21, 1956)

Ike Turner (May 25, 1957)

Little Willie John (June 20-22, 1957)

Ray Charles (January 10-11, 1958)

B.B. King (August 22-32, 1958)

Jackie Wilson (February 26-27, 1960)

Etta James & Elmore James ( April 30, 1960)

Bobby "Blue Bland / Little Jr. Parker (April 7, 1961)

#club riviera #luis russell #sister rosetta tharpe #billie holiday #cab calloway #duke ellington #louis jordan #dinah washington #ike turner #little willie john #bb king #ray charles #jackie wilson #eitta james #bobby blue bland #st louis #african american

[solitaire-sol]

22: Lineage

For: @prongsfoot-microfic Month: March 2023 AO3: Link Notes: Canon divergence, though right now it's just in the form of a soulmate AU (yes, another one) as encountered by little bitty James and Sirius, with a supporting appearance by a very displeased Walburga Black. Another first-of-several-connected-microfics.

It was strange to think that they might not have met were it not for pureblood traditions, though really, James and Sirius were barely related; courtesy of a shared ancestor from several generations back that made them cousins, probably, or possibly uncle and nephew several times removed. Regardless, there was just enough Black in the Potter line that the latter was invited when the former held the usual grand fête to announce their next Heir: Sirius Orion Black had just made seven years old, which meant that it was time for him to be propped up in front of various friends, relations and people of note as the future head of his House.

Sirius hadn't known who the Potters were, exactly, but it wasn't hard to assume that James was a distant relative, as at the time they looked much alike: The same ink-black hair, the same childish, doll-like features, dressed in similar formal robes for the occasion. The similarities ended there, however, as there was something about James that seemed distinctly novel to Sirius, a certain vivaciousness which an outsider might have largely recognized as the normal exuberance of childhood-- Something which was unsightly enough, to Orion and Walburga's brand of parenting, that it had been quickly trained out of their own sons.

James and his parents had waited patiently with the other guests – well, more or less patiently, in James' case – until they reached the front of the reception line. Their parents exchanged the expected greetings, cordially on the part of Fleamont and Euphemia and with barely restrained disdain from Orion and Walburga; James had bowed beautifully, then stuck out his hand with brassy fearlessness, hazel eyes gleaming with interest. Sirius, despite himself, felt that interest too, something stirring beneath his prematurely disinterested facade like green shoots beneath the winter's snow.

When their hands touched, the light that shone from between their clasped palms was unmistakable: Brilliant gold and deep silver, radiant and shimmering like a living thing, luminous ribbons winding around the two children as their magical cores sensed their fated partner. It was impossible to see that light and think it anything other than the meeting of souls, which was undoubtedly why Walburga had paled and yanked her son away, dragging Sirius towards the house with nary a word for the guests as murmurs of scandalized delight rippled through the crowd. Walburga was muttering under her breath, very unlike her usual dispassionate elegance: “It's bad enough we're related to them at all, however distantly; I refuse to allow my son to be weighed down by a blood-traitor 'soulmate!' This is patently ridiculous--"

Sirius barely heard her, head turned and eyes over his shoulder, struggling to keep James in view for as long as he could. In that moment, barely cognizant of what had just occurred, Sirius only knew that he and James Potter belonged together, that they were bound together by something deeper than blood, against which even his mother's venomous determination surely stood no chance.

#prongsfoot microfic #prongsfoot #bambibelle #starbucks #james potter x sirius black #sirius black x james potter #going through a bout of the ol' 'my writing is bland and insipid and i should never inflict it on the internet' #but also i've been writing a microfic every time tumblr shows me something i don't want to see #can't mash a downvote button? write the bad taste away #so here we are #fics by sol

[blanddcheadcanons]

James Gordon Jr and Lobo both have a weird friendship due to their nature that leaks far from the rest that makes them compelled to spread chaos

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#james gordon jr #lobo #the main man #bland gold

[james-sunshine-potter]

tw/ heavy talks of homophobia

"Hey, looking good, where are you heading?" Sirius commented as Hames walked into his living room. Sirius came round to help Regulus with something he needed to do for work. Sirius and Regulus are surrounded by books, contracts and general mess as James uses the mirror above the fireplace to take off his jellewery, leaving it on the mantlepiece in-front of him.

"Oh my cousins getting married, i'm leaving soon,"

"Soon, it's barely ten am!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Indian weddings are like all day events,"

So, James hadn't been looking forward for this wedding. It wasn't that he didn't like his extended family, he does. He gets on alright with them. His parents were going to be there, and he gets on well with his cousin, the one getting married. It's just... some of the older members of his family.

He's avoided telling Regulus about it for a particular reason

"A wedding? Why didn't you tell me, I haven't prepared anything, when do you leave?" Regulus asked, taking his nose out of a book.

"My parents are picking me up in roughly half an hour..." James was really trying to avoid this conversation.

"You haven't mentioned this to me, how long have you known about this?" Sirius asked. despite the length regulus and Sirius has lived at the Potters, they never really met much of James' extended family. A lot of them don't live in England, and the ones who do, don't speak great English. James has always been able to communicate to them, as English wasn't his first language. It wasn't even his second. Barely his third... But his parents thought it might be for the best they don't meet. So they only ever met a handful of them, majority of being on his dad's side. Regulus nor Sirius ever asked about it.

The point was that, Regulus and Sirius didn't know his family very well. If they went to this wedding, they would be completely out of place, and James isn't sure how much they'd enjoy it. He isn't sure he's going to enjoy it.

"I want to say a month, I haven't really been thinking about it," James said loosely as he walked out the room briefly, coming back in with his sherwani, the jacket which went with his outfit.

"A month? Why haven't you told me... what can I do with twenty minutes?" James and Regulus had been to weddings together before, if they ever have a plus one on an invite, it's always them.

Which is what the issue lies in...

"Yeah, that's why I haven't told you... you're not exactly coming," James said, knowing that would be better than umming and erring.

"What? Why?" Regulus didn't sound hurt or offended, he sounded confused.

"Cause I didn't get a plus one on my invite," James started to button up his sherwani, as he leaned against the arm chair facing the couch which Sirius and Regulus were on. Work completely forgotten.

"Oh..." is all Regulus said.

"Why didn't you get a plus one? Has no one else got a plus one?" Sirius pushed.

"No, Indian weddings don't really work like that..." James didn't want to have this conversation, he just wanted today to be over with. "I called my cousin about it but they said it was final, I asked about that and they people did, but it didn't 'work out' for me... I don't plan on staying that long anyway, so I just left it at that,"

"Well, you should have pushed it, surely if you explained that you wanted your boyfriend there they would understand," Sirius pushed, sitting on the edge of the couch now.

"I... kind of don't" James said, immediately back tracking when regulus does pull an offended look, "It's not you, I would love you to be there it's just..."

"It's just what, James? Why don't you want me there?" Regulus spat, filling the air with tension.

"It's my extended family... they don't... love the fact I'm gay," James admitted and the air radiating of Regulus cooled, "It's just... my family is very religious, which you guys know from my parents but they also come from apart of the world which is still living with out of date ideologies... gay marriage isn't even legal there yet, and only in the past five years have being gay been decriminalized..."

Horror and shock paint Sirius and Regulus' face as James speaks.

"I've never intended for them to know, it was easier that way, especially as they didn't love my way of live before... not being a doctor or following down an academic job, so every time I saw them it was a lot 'why you not a doctor yet?' or being compared to my cousins, which is normal in Asian families, I mean my dad's parents are Vitaminise, along with all their family, so it's disappointment from both ends, you know,"

James took a deep breath, letting them catch up.

"If you never told them, how did they find out?" Sirius asked innocently.

"Because my mum told my aunt, and it spread like wildfire... she told her a couple of months after I came out to her, you remember how long it took for my parents to get comfortable with it... they're fine with it now... but I know my extended family, and now every event since has been filled with weird looks, side comments and my Nani asking me 'when will I meet a fine lady'... just worded differently in Urdu..."

"So they didn't give you a plus one because..." Regulus started, but James finished Regulus' sentence.

"Because they didn't want me bringing a man as a date to the wedding? Yeah... it's a sort of tell not show sort of thing in my family... I'm the only open gay person in my family, and I didn't even come out on my terms... the point is you wouldn't have a good time at this wedding, homophobic family members and large get togethers don't mix well, and you don't have to be subjected to that, as I said before I don't plan on staying long,"

As James finished speaking, there was a honk from a parked gold Honda from outside their house.

"If they're being horrible to you about this, you shouldn't go James... that's unfair on you," Sirius said, as James slid on his sandals.

"It's fine, my parents want me to go, plus being a first cousin makes me in the bridal party for the groom, I'm my cousins best man... the wedding doesn't even started till one pm, I have four hours of mehndi and meeting my cousins soon to be in laws ahead of before the ceremony even begins... it'll make it worse if I don't go,"

Regulus nods, Sirius has a look of defiance on his face but James ignores it.

"Well, come home as soon if they're making you uncomfortable,"

James plants a strong kiss on Regulus' lips and leaves for the longest wedding of his life.

#this is kind of a character study into james #look no family is perfect and it makes james a bland character if people lump him with the idea of a perfect pristine family #its unfortuanalty common for homphobia in asian familues #btw the stats i put in this are accurate #but james is commonly headcannoned as desi so it's interesting concept to look into #i did research into indian fashion and weddings and the traditions but if i said anything wrong or inaccurate that's on me #back to my first point #no parents are perfect and it kind of makes james family boring and takes depth away with his characther as a whole #which isn't fun #also i'm not saying homophobia is 'interesting' im just saying as desi james is such a commen hc it's something to look into #james potter #maurder era #regulus black #jegulus #starchaser #sunseeker #jsp- marauder era #sirius black #james potter microfic #regulus black micriofic #sirius black mircrofic #marauders era #incorrect marauders quotes #harry potter marauders #marauders #marauders fandom #the marauders #marauders microfic #the black brothers #james sunshine potter microfic

[linddzz]

Avatar2 made me actually insane. I could while watching it see the threads of like ten really good interesting character stories within it that all kept getting smothered under James taking three hours to wobble around so many points that I don't even know WHAT narrative he wanted me to take other than a rehash of "ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION AND COLONIALISM BAD"

I'm losing my fucking mind. It's like he used state of the art stunning visuals and tech to make a supremely shitty movie of a really interesting 20 book long scifi novel series that doesn't exist.

The entire movie was a repeated process of me going "oh hey there is a lot really cool set up you have here for- ok yeah. Yes James I got it. Yeah James...James I got the devastation and cruelty of exploitation and consumption. Yeah I got it when you spent ten minutes showing animals set on fire by landing ships it wasn't subtle James. I got it the first ten times so if we redirect over - wait why are we doing this plot point again?? James you did that already what about- wait how long were they with this island culture anyway???"

#avatar #james why was Spiders character beat with his 'new family' with Jake??? that should have been Neytiri???? #james how tf did you set a great parallel with the human in the alien body and his son being (culturally) alien in the human body #and then DO NOTHING WITH THAT #how do you have multiple characters with set ups to explore how they define themselves within these conflicting cultures and not go into it #james how did you make stories that would work better as novels with more internalized narratives that wouldnt work for cinema #and then use gorgeous cinema to badly tell those stories #DO YOU SEE THE GOOD STORIES DROWNING UNDER YOUR FUCKING BLAND ASS TAKES???

[inksplit]

would like to mention the Dead Silence script ive been pulling from is an earlier draft so it's a little different from the final version, mostly I think the finished project is much more coherent and overall an improvement but i really just want to take a moment for this fucked up horrorshow that didn't make it in

#dead silence #script #james wan #leigh whannell #horror #the weirdest thing to me is the drastic character shift with the detective #hes kind of just. bland and mostly sympathetic to jamie and then in the final version hes this super weird snarky antagonistic character #which is better! hes more interesting and memorable that way and makes jamie's struggle heightened bc No One Will Help Him #was hoping for any kind of insight into the constant shaving thing but its not in this script so i guess ill never know #gore #gore text #body horror #uhhh sorry if this is Not what you wanted to see today lmao im not sure how else to tag this #gross

[quietparanoiac]

— Well, I hate to disagree... — Then don't!

Blandings (2013-2014), 1x01

#Blandings #Blandings 2013 #BBC Blandings #Blandings Castle #P. G. Wodehouse #Pelham Grenville Wodehouse #Constance Keeble #Frederick Threepwood #Clarence Threepwood #Sebastian Beach #Jennifer Saunders #Jack Farthing #James Norton #Timothy Spall #Mark Williams #Alice Orr-Ewing #period drama #perioddramaedit #periodedits #gifshistorical #Jimmy Belford #Angela (Blandings) #Blandings 1x01 #my gifs #Jennifer Saunders resembles Fanny's... relative here much more than she does in Ghosts

[msfcatlover]

I see your “Jay Peters is Jason’s most common alias (because it’s funny,)” headcanons, and raise you:

James “Jamie” Graves.

Because Jason thinks it’s funny.

#Jason todd #jason wayne #jason peter todd #red hood #red hood jason #red hood jason todd #red hood!jason #red hood!jason todd #mine #my writing #// #First rule of an alias is: You want a name whose first sound is close enough to your own that you’ll respond easily (and cover your ass #if you react to the ‘’wrong’’ name where anyone can see.) #Second rule is: Too bland sounds more suspicious than too specific (but don’t ever be too specific.) #Third is: You’re never gonna sell it if you can’t comfortably wear the name. #James is extremely bland. Having a nickname makes it more personable but Jamie can be a nickname for literally dozens of things #ironically making it more forgettable. Graves isn’t a name you see every day but it’s not one that grabs the eye or sticks in the mind #just ordinary enough #Jason can react to the ‘’Jay’’ syllable no problem and the morbid joke of a last name makes it easy to remember/respond to. #He hears someone call ‘’Graves’’ and immediately goes ‘’Yeah that’s me.’’ Like he’s had a lifetime of practice. #(Invented this for a fic that’ll probably never exist; Jason was doing pre-RH recon in Gotham and this was his cover. #Jamie’s a self-taught art student doing odd jobs for cash. Tim spots him at a local cafe and is like ‘’JASON?!?!’’ #Tim investigates. Jason accidentally becomes Tim’s friend while trying to gather information. Jason doesn’t realize Tim’s recognized him. #Tim thinks Jamie Graves is either a runaway clone or Jason with amnesia. Then UtRH starts and Tim realizes Jamie’s the Red Hood. #Things spiral from there. #)

[thosebitingdoxies]

one of my sore spots of reading next gen potter clan fanfics is that they only ever talk about their famous dad. and yes i get it harry saved the wizarding world.

but like ginny, their mother, was a professional quidditch player. a successful professional quidditch player. (and a war hero herself, thank you very much) the amount of press she probably got must have been insane. look at how the press hounds football players irl, it must have been the same if not more. ESPECIALLY after the press found out she was dating harry potter, the paparazzi must have skyrocketed.

so PLEASE, next time you write a harry potter next gen fic, have the kids be annoyed (or proud) of their mum’s success and fame too. or at least acknowledge she’s a bloody celebrity too.

thank you

#i have read too many fics with just harry being acknowledged #and ginny as the dotting but bland housewife #please #as if ginny bloody potter would ever be a boring housewife #harry potter #ginny weasley #ginny potter #harry potter next gen fic #A FAMOUS QUIDDITCH PLAYER #albus potter #james potter #lily potter

[cleowho]

“There are things out there...”

Battlefield - season 26 - 1989

#doctor who #classic doctor who #classic who #seventh doctor #sylvester mccoy #battlefield #elizabeth rowlinson #june bland #pat rowlinson #noel collins #peter warmsly #james ellis

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

This was, as they say, a glow up

#aquaman #dc comics #arthur curry #dceu #bless james wan for getting the comic accurate costume in the movie #and making it look good #and doing away with whatever that bland mess zs was going for #letting him dictate the look of the entire fictional universe was really a bad call #because he has the most boring aesthetic #he mostly got by in his career so far by lifting images from comics and hiring some decent cinematographers #but when he decides to do it all himself you get army of the dead #it's no surprise wan completely rejected how zs depicted the atlantians for his own movie #he isn't deathly afraid of colourful comic book silliness like zs is

[twixnmix]

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Duke Ellington - January 29, 1960

Lloyd Price - March 13, 1960

Fats Domino - October 22, 1961

Ike & Tina Turner - June 1, 1962

Jackie Wilson - May 19, 1963

Bobby Blue Bland - November 15, 1963

James Brown - November 20, 1964

Lloyd Price / Erma Franklin - August 15, 1965

Four Tops - July 9, 1966

#wamplers ballarena #duke ellington #lloyd price #fats domino #ike & tina turner #jackie wilson #bobby blue bland #james brown #four tops #dayton ohio #1960s #1960s music #ohio

[elegant-fleuret]

Don't get me wrong, I think all the soundtracks for the GotG trilogy slap. But someone couldn't have given Rocket a raspberry pi with, like, a terabyte of music before they left? You can't tell me he'd prefer that boomer rock on Quill's zune over Rage Against the Machine or Slayer.

On that note, Rocket would listen to AnalCunt unironically and you can't change my mind. He'd totally be into shit like grindcore, death metal, sceamo, ect and you best believe he'd be in the center of the pit throwing hands at a show.

#rocket raccoon headcanon #James Gunn I love you but your taste in music is bland #Let Rocket crowdkill #fleuretthoughts

[kitsuragied]

i was a bit skeptical about the whole green tie deduction but. he actually looks very nice!

#like better than usual. #hes so bland looking idk why i like him so much #house md #james wilson

[hombresexual2]

James Hill

#james hill #bland