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randomestfandoms-ocs · 11 months

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Glee OC Masterlist ( J-Z)

[ A - H ]

Name: Jaci Jones

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Sofia Wiley

Love Interest: Artie Abrams

Name: Jason Del Monico

Story: All Or Nothing

Face claim: Ross Lynch

Love Interest: Mercedes Jones

Name: Jeanette Jameson

Story: Multi

Face claim: Alyson Reed

Name: Jeremy St James

Story: Corner Of The Sky

Face claim: Joshua Bassett

Love Interest: Sebastian Smythe, Rory Flanagan, Marley Rose

Name: Johanna Berry

Story: John Hughes Movie

Face claim: Joey King

Love Interest: Camilo Ayers

Name: Johanna St James

Story: Multi

Face claim: Kate Reinders

Love Interest: Chad Channing

Name: Josh St James

Story: Multi

Face claim: Zac Efron

Love Interest: Nell Baker

Name: Josie St James

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Lily Rose Depp

Name: Joy Schuester

Story: By Its Very Definition

Face claim: Lili Reinhart

Love Interest: Noah Puckerman, Brittany Pierce, Mike Chang, Sebastian Smythe, eventual Sam Evans

Summary: Joy Schuester knew what glee was - how could she not? Her dad never shut up about the good old days, his glory years at McKinley High. He even named her after something his old coach would say - by its very definition, glee is about opening yourself up to joy. Big whoop, she’d never really cared. Really she was just interested in cheer, drama club, and dancing around her room while singing along to Taylor Swift. But then her dad takes over the glee club and Joy has no choice but to join. She expected the showtunes, the divas, and even her dad’s white guy rapping. She didn’t, however, expect to fall in love, and she definitely didn’t expect to find herself caught in the middle of a war between her coach and her dad.

Name: June Harris

Story: All Rhodes Lead Home

Faceclaim: Hailee Steinfeld

Love Interest: Jesse St. James

Name: Kendall Pierce

Story: Songs Of The Heart

Face claim: Meg Donnelly

Love Interest: Mike Chang

Summary: Maybe it was her age. Maybe it was the special Pierce… intelligence. Maybe it was just that she was a better person than most students at McKinley High. But whatever it was, Kendall Pierce didn’t understand why she couldn’t cheer and sing. She didn’t understand why Quinn Fabray was so insistent that she not join Glee, or why the New Directions were so suspicious of her “intentions”. She loved to sing and she loved to cheer, it should have been simple. But when Quinn Fabray suddenly joins the club, with her sister and Santana in tow, Kendall starts to realize that nothing about high school is as simple as it seems.

Name: Lilibeth Anderson

Story: Teenage Dream

Face claim: Olivia Rodrigo

Love Interest: Marley Rose

Name: Lindsay Wright

Story: Multi

Face claim: Brittany Snow

Love Interest: Amelie Kline

Name: Logan Hayes

Story: Dream Maker

Face claim: KJ Apa

Name: Mac Hudson

Story: Breakthrough

Face claim: Charles Gillespie

Love Interest: Betty Fabray

Name: Mandy Abrams

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Liana Liberato

Name: Marilyn Pillsbury

Story: Life Can Be Beautiful

Face claim: Madelaine Petsch

Love Interest: Brittany Pierce, eventual Quinn Fabray, possibly Quinn Fabray & Sam Evans

Summary: When Marilyn Pillsbury was ten, her mother died. When she was twelve, her dad was arrested. When she was thirteen, she moved in with her aunt Emma. And when she was fourteen, she started at William McKinley High School. And she was nothing but the weird guidance counsellor’s weird niece. But then, after a fateful encounter with three Cheerios in the girls’ bathroom, Lyn finds herself being dragged into the spotlight. She becomes a Cheerio, she’s hot and popular and the school loves her, she’s everything she ever wanted to be. And when Quinn joins the glee club, Marilyn is right beside her with Brittany and Santana; finally she can do what she really loves without fearing the consequence. She’s on top of the world, life is beautiful. And then she finds out that Quinn is pregnant, and she has to make a choice. Will she seize the opportunity to rise to the very top, or will she stay loyal to the girl who brought her up from the lowest of lows?

Name: Mark Carter

Story: Multi

Face claim: Bart Johnson

Name: Maureen Morton

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Renee Rapp

Love Interest: Quinn Fabray

Name: May Taylor

Story: All Rhodes Lead Home

Face claim: Hailee Steinfeld

Love Interest: Mike Chang

Name: Melissa Carlson

Story: Brutal

Face claim: Kaitlyn Dever

Name: Melody Naccarelli

Story: Multi

Face claim: Brenna D’Amico

Love Interest: N/A, sometimes Jeremy St James

Name: Mia Rose

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Lily Collins

Name: Millie Kindell

Story: Corner Of The Sky [ & others ]

Face claim: Anna Camp

Love Interest: Jesse St James

Name: Natalie Astor

Story: Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl

Face claim: Maia Mitchell

Name: Nell Baker

Story: Multi

Face claim: Anne Hathaway

Love Interest: Josh St James

Name: Paige Callahan

Story: Brutal

Face claim: Zendaya

Name: Robyn Del Monico

Story: All Or Nothing

Face claim: Olivia Holt

Name: Roman Kline

Story: Somewhere Only We Know [ & others ]

Face claim: Aaron Tveit

Love Interest: Cooper Anderson & Ash Astor

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Name: Roxie Flores

Story: The Greatest Star

Face claim: Camila Mendes

Love Interest: Noah Puckerman, Sebastian Smythe, eventual Sam Evans

Summary: Rosalind Flores was used to living in Quinn Fabray’s shadow. Quinn was the head Cheerio, even though Roxie was the better cheerleader; Quinn got the boys, even though she had a stick up her ass; Quinn had the friends - lackeys, even though she treated them like dirt. And then Mr. Schuester takes over the Glee Club and Roxie sees a refuge from her life as Quinn’s understudy. And it’s great. Sure, Rachel is as obsessed with being number one as Quinn, but Roxie loves to sing and she’s really, genuinely happy. It’s everything she hoped for; it’s perfect. And then Quinn Fabray walks into the choir room and Roxie’s sanctuary collapses around her.

Name: Sadie Berry

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Ciara Bravo

Name: Savannah Evans

Story: Rumour Has It

Face claim: Dove Cameron

Love Interest: Valeria Ramírez & Bobby Seurat

Summary: The first thing that the Evans siblings learned when they moved to Lima was that rumours spread much faster than they did back home. The second thing that they learned was how to lie. And lie they did. They were just three siblings; their financial struggles were because of their dad’s job; they absolutely most definitely didn’t have another sister who’d been in the hospital for as long as they’d been in Ohio. And everyone believed them. Right up until Rachel Berry sees Sam hugging some blonde girl outside of a motel and drags the entire glee club on a witch hunt that ends with them meeting the Evans siblings in their motel room. All of the Evans siblings. Even Savannah, Sam’s twin and best kept secret who, rumour has it, it about to start at McKinley High.

Name: Sutton Reeves

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Emma Watson

Name: Tally Boyer

Story: Brutal

Face claim: Haley Lu Richardson

Name: Tommy Walker

Story: Breakthrough

Face claim: Jeremy Shada

Name: Trisha Kent

Story: Brutal

Face claim: Cassie Scerbo

Name: Valeria Ramírez

Story: Rumour Has It

Face claim: Sofia Carson

Love Interest: Savannah Evans & Bobby Seurat

Name: Xander Smythe

Story: Breakthrough

Face claim: Joe Keery

Love Interest: Betty Fabray

Name: Zoe Giardi

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Grace Van Dien

Love Interest: Mike Chang

#ocappreciation #masterlist #glee oc

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terrainofheartfelt · 2 years

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Dan + prose & poetry 7/?

Franz Wright, from “One Heart” / 5.16 "Cross-Rhodes" / Molly Brodak, “Molly Brodak” / Sylvia Plath, “Three Women” / Jeanette Winterson, Love: Vintage Minis / text post by user inkskinned / Sandra Lim, "The Stronger" / Shy Watson, "MODERN LOCKET" / Yves Olade, “When Rome Falls”

#dan humphrey #gossip girl #gossipgirledit #danhumphreyedit #*#web weaving #dan texts #~dan's big stupid bleeding heart edition~#jessica does web weaving

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hedghost · 10 months

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Wait yes book game I'm so here. Although kinda feel like these are very heavily influenced by 2021 booktok 😂 Drop yours too bestie 👀

P.s. apologies in advance for this very unnecessary long ask I do apologise

1. Current read - My Sister The Serial Killer (Oyinkan Braithwaite)

2. Fav book of all time - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid) - basic I know but I love it sm

3. Last 3 books - My Dark Vanessa (Kate Elizabeth Russel), How to Kill Your Family (Bella Mackie), The Radium Girls (Kate Moore)

4. Top 3 genres (+ a rec) -

Romance (any and every trope and I can't pick 1 rec so have 5 sorryyy🫣 - A Thousand Boy Kisses (Tillie Cole), One True Loves (Taylor Jenkins Reid), All Rhodes Lead Here (Mariana Zapata), Birthday Girl (💀🙈 Penelope Douglas), It's Not Like It's a Secret (Misa Sugiura))

Historical Fiction - All the Light We Cannot See (🤩 Anthony Doerr) OR Ariadne (Jennifer Saint)

Fantasy - Dance of Thieves (Mary E Pearson) OR Crooked Kingdom (Leigh Bardugo)

5. Book to avoid at all costs - It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover, obvs 🙄), ACOSF (Sarah J Maas, jesus lord no I couldn't cope)

omg thank you anon i’m glad someone wanted to join in on my game 😌

i haven’t read like most of those icl, i’ve heard my sister the serial killer is good it’s on my list! as is the crooked kingdom, all the light we cannot see, the radium girls, and ariadne, but i’ll have to check the others out, i love a bit of romance every now and then !

evelyn hugo is so good i do agree i love a lot of tjr’s books

okay wait lemme think of mine:

current read: freshwater (akwaeke emezi) it’s so good so far rlly recommend it!

fave book of all time: this is how you lose the time war (amal el-mohtar & max gladstone) best book of all time everyone needs to read it asap!!! close second is the humans (by matt haig) made me fall in love with the little bits of being human again

last three reads: oranges are not the only fruit (jeanette winterson) so so good and amazingly written, highly recommend, the lesbiana’s guide to catholic school (sonora reyes) - such a good queer ya coming of age story, so so good (cw suicide attempt though!) and the confessions of frannie langton (sara collins) which is an amazingly written historical fiction ab slavery, racism, womanhood and queerness, v tragic in parts but so good (+ an element of mystery) (cw for rape/assualt)

top 3 genres:

magical realism: book of form and emptiness - ruth ozeki

sapphic ya romance: her name in the sky - kelly quindlen

sapphic fantasy: the priory of the orange tree - samantha shannon

book to avoid at all costs: gonna have to agree with you and go with it any colleen hoover book (also sally rooney i feel i would hate)

#guys please more people send me yours this is so fun hearing your recs

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providencepeakrp · 11 months

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mwm face claims 25-35 and most wanted male connections?

Good Afternoon! Below is a list of mosted wanted male fcs between the age range you're inquiring about, along with most wanted male connections that could fit that age range as well!

Michael Evans Behling, Chris McNally, Raymond Ablack, Dev Patel, Alex Landi, Kerem Bürsin, Finn Cole, Avan Jogia, LaRoyce Hawkins, Tommy Martinez, Lucas Till, Jack Falahee, Trevante Rhodes, Chase Stokes, Elliot Knight, Paul Mescal.

Connections we'd love to see filled!

Jeanette Prabhakar needs her roommate(s).

Dilan Barak needs her romantic connection.

Penny Lind needs her childhood friend / slowburn love interest.

Nadia Morgan needs her hate + comfort pal.

Wesley Kennedy needs his youngest brother.

Cam Le needs her younger brothers.

Boyd Connors needs his younger brother.

#answered #fc help

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lboogie1906 · 1 year

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Carl Maxie Brashear (January 19, 1931 – July 25, 2006) was a Navy sailor. He was a master diver, rising to the position in 1970, despite having his left leg amputated in 1966. The film Men of Honor was based on his life. He enlisted in the Navy on February 25, 1948, four months before the military would be desegregated. He graduated from the Navy Diving & Salvage School in 1954, becoming the first African-American to attend and graduate from the Diving & Salvage School and one of the first African-American Navy Divers. While attending diving school in Bayonne, New Jersey, he faced hostility and racism. He found notes on his bunk saying, "We're going to drown you today, nigger!" and "We don't want any nigger divers." he graduated 16 out of 17. He first worked as a diver retrieving approximately 16,000 rounds of ammunition that fell off a barge that had broken in half and sunk. On his first tour of shore duty in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, his duties included the salvaging of airplanes and recovering multiple dead bodies from the sea. He was assigned to escort the presidential yacht Barbara Anne to Rhode Island. He met President Eisenhower and received a small knife that said, "To Carl M. Brashear. From Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957. Many, many thanks." After making chief in 1959, he stayed in Guam for three years doing mostly demolition dives. He retired from the Navy on April 1, 1979, as a master chief petty officer (E-9) and master diver. He served as a civilian employee for the government at Naval Station Norfolk and retired in 1993 with a grade of GS-11. He married Junetta Wilcoxson (1952–1978), Hattie R. Elam (1980–1983), and Jeanette A. Brundage (1985–1987). He had four children. His grand-nephew is retired professional ice hockey player Donald Brashear. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CnmJIx4rZIr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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skye-heaven · 1 year

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￣￣￣￣｡ﾟﾟ〝. ⌠ KATHERINE RHODES. ⌡

. . . . ╱︎𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒆 ╱︎ ︵ . . ❜

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ nombre : ⠀

: :　 Katherine Jeanette Rhodes.

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ especie : ⠀

: :　 Humana.

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ nacionalidad : ⠀

: :　 Estadounidense.

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ orientación sexual : ⠀

: :　 Heterosexual.

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ alineación moral : ⠀

: :　 Neutral buena.

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ datos: ⠀

┣ . . . ╱︎ Hija de James Rhodes.

┣ . . . ╱︎ 26 años.

. . . . ╱︎𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏 ╱︎ ︵ . . ❜

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ distintivo : ⠀

: :　 (#) WarMachine.

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ fandom : ⠀

: :　 Marvel.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀╰❱ ; Segunda Generación.

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ estatus : ⠀

: :　 Out-canon (OC).

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀╰❱ ; Activa.

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ faceclaim(s) : ⠀

: :　 Yara S.

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ plataforma activa : ⠀

: :　Whatssapp.

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ shipps exclusivos : ⠀

: :　 Happy Hogan.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀╰❱ ; @eliaselmango

⠀⠀ ⠀° ┄ nota extra : ⠀

┣ . . . ╱︎ Sin exclusividad general.

┣ . . . ╱︎ Disponible para comunidades y pv.

≀ 𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝘀𝗸𝘆𝗲.𝘁𝘅𝘁

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ironhusband · 3 years

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I’m having many thoughts about the Rhodes family and the friendship they could have with Tony. Tony coming over to see how Roberta and Terrance are doing when the news is covering a war Rhodey is in, letting Roberta teach him how to cook and letting Terrance teach him how to fix cars.... Jeanette calling Tony during that period of time where Rhodey and Jeanette were fighting, because Tony was an addict too and he gets some parts of it better than anyone... Lila and Tony doing science together, Tony turning a blind eye to Lila messing with the suit like Rhodey never does, because he’s the Cool Uncle™.... Tony telling the family to relax, everything will be fine, Rhodey will be fine and while they do he’ll take care of everything in the hospital... Tony not being a replacement for Rhodey during all those times he’s away, but being a good way to ease the longing the family feels for him.

#I am having some thoughts and feelings today #james rhodes #tony stark #Roberta Rhodes #Terrance Rhodes #Jeanette Rhodes #lila rhodes #rhodes family #I just think that rhodey being deployed would be really hard for Rhodey's family and it will be hard for rhodey too and they'd share the-#hardship yknow? Roberta and Terence would give Tony old photo albums and share stories and Jeanette would share hers as well #(but they're more sisterly and stuff) and then Tony tells the family about the stupid shit rhodey did in spring break #and they'd all laugh and hope that wherever rhodey is he's okay

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bookishdiary · 2 years

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Five incredible memoirs to add to your tbr

These books have thought me more about life and human relationships than anything else, they are of universal importance.

- Trigger Warning (Themes of sexual and psychological abuse)

1. Instrumental by James Rhodes

In this thought provoking and eye opening story James Rhodes, now a famous concert pianist, reflects on the sexual abuse he had to endure as a child and how classical music safed him from his severe depression and drug addiction. A must read if you want to understand the harsh reality and consequences of sexual abuse, but also a touching manifestation about the powers and meaning of classical music. "This is a memoir like no other: unapologetically candid, boldly outspoken and surprisingly funny".

2. The last expedition by Robert Scott

"In November 1910, a ship called Terra Nova left New Zealand on its way south to Antarctica. On board was an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, a man determined to be the first to reach the South Pole. A year and a half later, Scott and three members of his team died during a brutal blizzard.Even in his final hours, Scott found the strength to continue the journal he'd started at the beginning of his adventures; the diary was found beside his frozen body."

3. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

A heartwrenching memoir about the troubles writer Jeanette Walls had to face growing up with an alcohol-dependent father: "When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family." 4. The blinding abscence of light by Tahar Ben Jelloun

This technically isn't a memoir but I included it because it was highly based on real life events: "Ben Jelloun reveals the horrific story of the desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies in underground cells with no light and only enough food and water to keep them lingering on the edge of death. He delivers a shocking novel that explores both the limitlessness of inhumanity and the impossible endurance of the human will."

5. In the dream house by Carmen Maria Machado

"In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse."

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firstfullmoon · 4 years

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sorry if this has been asked before, but what are your favorite quotes about (romantic) love?

• “I love you. I want us both to eat well.”

— Christopher Citro, from “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shriek”

• “You kiss the back of my legs and I want to cry. Only the sun has come this close, only the sun.”

— Shauna Barbosa, from “GPS”

• “August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don’t you? 92 degrees even in the shade.”

“I used to be a hopeless romantic. I am still a hopeless romantic. I used to believe that love was the highest value. I still believe that love is the highest value. I don’t expect to be happy. I don’t imagine that I will find love, whatever that means, or that if I do find it, it will make me happy. I don’t think of love as the answer or the solution. I think of love as a force of nature - as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving. And when it burns out, the planet dies.”

“If love is going to be done differently I will have to do it. I don’t mean as a messiah-thing, I mean as a me-thing. I want to look into your eyes and not get blown up. I want you to see me as I am and not destroy me. I don’t want to retreat into plant life, or have the same bad dream every night. I don’t want to watch a city burn because I was there.”

— Jeanette Winterson

• “I’ll take care of you. / It’s rotten work. / Not to me. Not if it’s you.”

— from Anne Carson’s translation of Orestes

• “I think of you all the time and therefore have little to say that would not embarrass you, for instance my first feeling about the rain was that it was like you.”

— John Cage, from a letter to Merce Cunningham

• “I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.”

— Maggie Nelson, Bluets

• “I want to be a village full of sweethearts, / as you are, every second of the day, / cooking me soups & drawing me pictures / & holding me, my inexplicable & elephant sadness, / with your infinite arms. / But isn’t it true, you are not / always why I am happy. & I promise / it is true, you are almost never why, / why I am sad.”

— Chen Chen, from “Elegy for My Sadness”

• “Look here Vita—throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads — They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.”

“I always have such need to merely talk to you. Even when I have nothing to talk about – with you I just seem to go right ahead and sort of invent it. I invent it for you. Because I never seem to run out of tenderness for you and because I need to feel you near.”

“I could only think of you as being very distant and beautiful and calm. A lighthouse in clean waters.”

“What can one say — except that I love you and I’ve got to live through this strange quiet evening thinking of you sitting alone. Dearest — let me have a line… You have given me such happiness…”

— Virginia Woolf, from letters to Vita Sackville-West

• “I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”

“Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude.”

— Vita Sackville-West, from letters to Virginia Woolf

• “Love is awful. It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do. It’s all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there. So no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own. I was taught if we’re born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it’s easy. But I’m not sure that’s true. It takes strength to know what’s right. And love isn’t something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.“

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge, in Fleabag

• “i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)”

— e.e. cummings, from “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]”

• “There was once a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her-immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife’s hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love. When I met Ana I knew: I loved her to the point of invention.”

— Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House

• “oh god it’s wonderful / to get out of bed / and drink too much coffee / and smoke too many cigarettes / and love you so much”

— Frank O’Hara, from “Steps”

• “This morning there’s snow everywhere. We remark on it. You tell me you didn’t sleep well. I say I didn’t either. You had a terrible night. “Me too.” We’re extraordinarily calm and tender with each other as if sensing the other’s rickety state of mind. As if we knew what the other was feeling. We don’t, of course. We never do. No matter. It’s the tenderness I care about. That’s the gift this morning that moves and holds me. Same as every morning.”

— Raymond Carver, from “The Gift”

• “Well Marianne, it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine.”

— Leonard Cohen, in a letter to Marianna Ihlen

• “I think about love on a scale from 1 to 10. Most of us find a 6 or a 7, and that’s why we have divorce. It’s the truth. We settle for that 6 or 7. But I like to think Kevin is Chiron’s 10. He’s found that and he realizes that there’s no reason to settle for a 6 or a 7 because, “I know this person is my 10. Whether or not this person believes I’m his 10, I’m going to devote my life to this person entirely.” That’s why the line where he says, “You’re the only man that’s ever touched me,” for me, was the most amazing, most beautiful thing I’ve seen in cinema, period. Because that’s what we strive for as people, to find that one person because they’re there. If Kevin doesn’t feel that they should be together, Chiron is just going to die a miserable person because that’s his person and he won’t settle for anything else.“

— Trevante Rhodes about Moonlight

• “I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world”

— Frank O’Hara, from “Having a Coke with You” but the whole poem is !

• “The door slammed and someone came home and low voices could be heard, the single lilt of a question as it rose, “How was it?” or “Are you hungry?” Something plain and necessary, yet extra, with care, a voice like those tiny roofs over the phone booths along the train tracks, the ones made from the same shingles used for houses, except only four rows wide—just enough to keep the phone dry. And maybe that’s all I wanted—to be asked a question and have it cover me, like a roof the width of myself.”

— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

• “I keep wishing for you, keep shutting up my eyes and looking toward the sky, asking with all my might for you, and yet you do not come. I thought of you, until the world grew rounder than it sometimes is, and I broke several dishes.”

— Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Minnie Holland

• “I don’t want you to be nervous. Maybe thinking of a walrus would help. Have you seen the video of the penguin accidentally stepping on a sleeping walrus? It thought it was a rock. The walrus wakes up like what the fuck and the penguin scurries off like oh shit. Sometimes it’s funny watching a surprise happen, and not just funny but kind of amazing — like, you never really know what’s what when it comes to this planet.

Then again, when it’s you getting surprised, that’s different. Especially for tender ones like us. What are we supposed to do? It’s bad for our hearts, you know. I hope you won’t need pills like I do. I think I get so scared because I’m greedy — I want to hold onto everything, the world wants to take it away. What the fuck. The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.”

— Mikko Harvey, “For M”

• “Willem sleeps on the left side of the bed, and he on the right, and the first night they slept in the same bed, he turned to his right on his side, the way he always did, and Willem pressed up against him, tucking his right arm under his neck and then across his shoulders, and his left arm around his stomach, moving his legs between his legs. He was surprised by this, but once he overcame his initial discomfort, he found he liked it, that it was like being swaddled. One night in June, however, Willem didn’t do it, and he worried he had done something wrong. The next morning–early mornings were the other time they talked about the things that seemed too tender, too difficult, to be said in the daylight–he asked Willem if he was upset with him, and Willem, looking surprised, said no, of course not. “I just wondered,” he began, stammering, “because last night you didn’t–” But he couldn’t finish the sentence; he was too embarrassed. But then he could see Willem’s expression clear, and he rolled into him and wrapped his arms around him. “This?” he asked, and he nodded. “It was just because it was so hot last night, Willem said, and he waited for Willem to laugh at him, but he didn’t. “That’s the only reason, Judy.” Since then, Willem has held him in the same way every night, even through July, when not even the air-conditioning could erase the heaviness from the air, and when they both woke damp with sweat. This, he realizes, is what he wanted from a relationship all along. This is what he meant when he hoped he might someday be touched.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

• “No, I didn’t imagine my being alone with you the way you do. If I want the impossible, I want it in its entirety. Entirely alone, dearest, I wanted us to be entirely alone on this earth, entirely alone under the sky, and to lead my life, my life that is yours, without distraction and with complete concentration, in you.”

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer

• “If I could attach our blood vessels so we could become each other I would. If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth, to this present time, I would. If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin and look out your eyes and forever have my lips fused with yours, I would.”

— David Wojnarowicz, The Half-Life

• “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell, I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

• “If Moses had seen the way my friend’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man”

— Rabbi Yehuda Al-Harizi/Judah Ben Solomon Harizi

• “I’ll rob the bank that gave you the impression that money is more fruitful than words, and I’ll cut holes in the ozone if it means you have one less day of rain. I’ll walk you to the hospital, I’ll wait in a white room that reeks of hand sanitizer and latex for the results from the MRI scan that tries to locate the malady that keeps your mind guessing, and I want to write you a poem every day until my hand breaks and assure you that you’ll find your place, it’s just the world has a funny way of hiding spots fertile enough for bodies like yours to grow roots. I hope our ghosts aren’t eating you alive. If i’m to speak for myself, I’ll tell you that the universe is twice as big as we think it is and you’re the only one that made that idea less devastating.”

— Lucas Regazzi, from “Small”

• “I thought she was sleeping until I heard her call out from across the room, “Will you bring me a glass of water?” I did. Then in her always-sleepy tone and drawl she said, “Do you remember when you were a little girl and you would ask your mama to bring you a glass of water?” Yeah. “You know how half the time you weren’t even thirsty. You just wanted that hand that was attached to that glass that was attached to that person you just wanted to stay there until you fell asleep.” She took the glass of water that I brought her and just sat it down full on the table next to her. Wow, I thought. What am I gonna do with love like this.”

— Dito Montiel, One Night

#this is the best ask i've ever received actually thank you so much #w #compilation #the earth was made for lovers #shauna barbosa #jeanette winterson #madeline miller #franz kafka #hanya yanagihara #emily dickinson #ocean vuong #maggie nelson #chen chen #virginia woolf #vita sackville west #david wojnarowicz #frank o’hara

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Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald as Ernest Lane and Gwen Marlowe in a publicity still for Sweethearts (1938). Nelson was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and had 23 acting credits, from an uncredited singing bit in a 1933 short, to a 1956 episode of The Danny Thomas Show as himself. Eight of his 23 credits are with Jeanette. He has three best 1,001 entries - Dancing Lady, Phantom of the Opera (1943), and as voice and narrator of Willie the Operatic Whale in Disney's Make Mine Music.

#nelson eddy #jeanette macdonald #sweethearts

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier thoughts

Spoilers below the cut obviously

The starting was dubious af. Marvel needs to stop pushing US military propaganda by setting their scenes in the Middle East.

But Sam’s action sequence against Batroc though? *CHEF’S FUCKING KISS*

I cannot overstate how refreshing it was to see a Black superhero (outside the Black Panther franchise) kick ass and take down all the bad guys singlehandedly and save the target.

Sam’s journey is gonna be a huge focal point going forward -- where, hopefully, we see him grow out of Falcon and into Captain America.

Plus, the fact that Torres survived the first episode means he’ll probably take on the Falcon mantle as Sam becomes Cap.

Sam’s hesitancy at accepting the shield, his speech about it was beautiful (regardless of how I feel about St*ve)

RHODEY

Rhodey’s expression was so poignant and sad and nostalgic as he heard Sam speak. He was friends with St*ve and losing him, so soon after losing Tony, had to have hurt. Plus, as he said, the world’s broken.

God, I really, really, really wanted to reach into my screen and hug both Rhodey and Sam. They have each other, they’ll be okay, they’ll rebuild the Avengers together. Pls.

As an aside, I really need Sam to appear in Armor Wars. Pls. Sam’s nephews and Lila Rhodes hanging out, Jeanette and Sarah complaining about their reckless dumbass brothers. Show Rhodey and Sam’s friendship outside work, pls.

Bucky finally has the chance to develop a personality and he’s off to a great start. His therapist is hilarious and the way she roasts him, a 100-year-old supersoldier/former assassin and him just making that 100% done face was hilarious.

His nightmares. Oh man...I am sorry for all the shit I said about Bucky during Civil War, someone get this man some grief counselling.

His friendship with Yori was beautiful but I was pegging him to be an old buddy of his -- not the father of one of the soldier’s victims. God that reveal scene where Bucky sees the guy’s photo in Yori’s apartment was gut-wrenching.

Bucky Barnes uses a flip phone. I need to know what dating sites has he been going on -- match.com? Lol. The sweet yet awkward date was sweet yet awkward.

The scenes between Sam and his sister were amazing. The fact that she was left to survive with her kids during the snap while her husband was gone, her brother disappeared, that must’ve been brutal. Not everyone got to live a cosy farm life like the Starks or do laundry in a multimillion-dollar compound.

Sam trying to hold onto his family’s legacy while Sarah is being forced to be practical was a great parallel -- I’ve always thought Captain America, by virtue of the title, was steeped in nostalgia even as the world changed around him. Sam’s family legacy is one of the few known anchors he has in this chaotic new world because he wasn’t alive to see the worst of the horrors. Sarah lived through that horror and the family legacy, the boat, is only a reminder of the pain she endured to survive.

I know they probably don’t end up selling the boat because the trailers showed them and Bucky on it but I really love the dynamic between Sarah and Sam.

Them getting denied a loan despite the guy recognizing Sam was such an important scene because I don’t think phases 1-3 ever addressed the sustainability of a superhero life. Like, you can either be someone like Tony Stark who has billions from his company or you can be like Peter Parker who has a day job at the Bugle. But in the MCU, everything thus far had been handwaved as Tony Stark will pay for it, or as Sam said, the Avengers depended on the goodwill of a lot of people

But in a chaotic new world, that goodwill is in short supply. But I cannot help but think loan guy’s reaction would’ve been very different had Steve been sitting there asking for a loan. I hope the show explores what it means to be a Black superhero more in depth.

The flag smashers were awesome. I wonder if the guy who beat up Torres was enhanced. More supersoldiers? Can’t wait for Zemo to show up.

I really missed good mcu storytelling that was absent from Endgame and even Infinity War to an extent. But this show is off to such a great start.

Bring on Sharon Carter’s first appearance 🥰

#the falcon and the winter soldier #fatws spoilers #sam wilson #bucky barnes #my posts

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Florida elections

2000: President, Senate

2002: Governor

2004: President, Senate

2006: Senate, Governor

2008: President

2010: Senate, Governor

2012: President, Senate

2014: Governor

2016: President, Senate

2018: Senate, Governor

2020: President

2022: Senate, Governor

2024: President, Senate

2026: Governor

2028: President, Senate

2030: Senate, Governor

2032: President

2026 will be the best bet for Democrats to take back the Governorship because there are no up-ballot elections to crowd it out. No president, no senate, just governor, so they won't have to worry about the coattail effect.

Our current governor Ron DeSantis is definitely going to be on the 2024 presidential ticket, either as the nominee himself or as Trump's new VP if he decides to run for a non-consecutive term. He faces re-election in 2022, probably going up against Charlie Crist, our former one term governor (Republican turned Independent turned Democrat), who he will probably defeat, so that means 2024 will decide who will run for governor in 2026. If DeSantis runs for president or VP and wins, then his lieutenant Jeanette Nuñez will become governor and serve out the last two years of his second term and almost certainly run for re-election in 2026, giving her an incumbency advantage. If DeSantis runs in 24 and loses, then he'll be term limited and unable to run for governor again in 26, making it an open race. Nuñez might run, or she might be primaried by an even farther right trumpist nutjob like Matt Gatez, but either way there will be no incumbent, so the Democrats won't face as steep an uphill battle. If Republicans take back the White House in 24, then the Democrats might have a midterm advantage in 26, but I wouldn't count on it.

Biden is much more popular than Trump, he won more votes than any candidate in American history, and a popular vote majority which no Republicans has gotten since Bush in 2004 and his dad in 1988. Given how much he has already improved the economy Biden will almost certainly win the popular vote again in 2024, though whether or not he'll win the electoral college is up in the air; Republicans in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are changing the laws to make it harder to vote and are redrawing congressional and state districts to favor themselves, so Biden might lose on a technicality, the third time this century. I pray not, because we can't handle another Trump term, or a DeSantis one; DeSantis is so stupid he makes Trump look like a Rhodes Scholar. Trump likes to pretend he's a genius, but DeSantis is proudly stupid, unabashedly anti-intellectual, he revels in it, calling intelligence an elitist liability. Republicans don't elect smart presidents, they haven't since Bush Sr in 1988, and before him Eisenhower in 1956.

2024 will be the greatest shit show to ever show shit, making 2016 and 2020 look like civilized philosophical debates.

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2. Natalia Nakazawa & Nazanin Noroozi

Natalia Nakazawa and Nazanin Noroozi discuss their use of archives and photographs, creating hybrid narratives, cultural transmission, and the formation of personal and cultural memories.

Natalia Nakazawa, Obtrait I, Jacquard woven textile, 71 x 53 inches, 2015, Photo credit: Jeanette May

Natalia Nakazawa: First off, Naz, how are you doing? There has been so much going on - it is far too easy to forget we have bodies. We have families, we have things we need to do, and we need to take care of ourselves. As they say, put the oxygen mask on first, and then help others. Can you maybe start by just telling us what your day looks like? What are you doing to take care of yourself?

Nazanin Noroozi: I’m doing ok. I have to balance my day job and my studio time. My day job is working in high-end interior design firms in which our clients spend millions and millions of $$$ on luxury goods. It is very interesting to look at the wage gap especially considering the pandemic. When someone can spend 40k on a coffee table for their vacation house, and you hear all the issues with the stimulus checks etc, it makes you wonder about our value system and how our society functions.

As for self-care, I guess just like any other artist, I buy tons of art supplies that I may or may not need! I just bought a heavy-duty industrial paper cutter that can cut a really thick stack of paper! I needed it! I really don't have room for it, but I bought it! So that is my method of self-care! Treat myself to things that I like but may be problematic in the future. ;)

Natalia: I recently re-watched Stephanie Syjuco’s Art21 feature online where she talks about having to actively decide to become a citizen of the US, despite having come to this country at the age of 3. One of the poignant points she brings up is how we are all reckoning right now with what it means to be “American”. She also brings up the iconic photo taken by Dorothea Lange of a large sign reading “I am an American” put up by a Japanese American in Oakland right after the declaration of internment - thinking about how citizenship can be given or taken away. This all feels very relevant right now. What do you think about these questions? How do you use archives and photos of our past to engage in these issues of belonging, citizenship, and the precarity of it all?

Nazanin: What I try to do with archives is to question them as modes of cultural transmission and historical memory. I think many artists deal with archives in a more clinical and objective manner, whereas I like to add my own agency to these found photographs. When one looks at a family album or found footage, one is already looking at fragmented narratives. You never know a whole story when you look at your friend’s old family albums. I truly embrace this fragmented, broken narrative and try to make it my own. I also constantly move back and forth between still and moving images, printmaking and painting, experimental films and artist books. So there is this hybridity in the nature of found footage itself that I try to activate in my work. In these works handmade cinema is used as a medium to re-create an already broken narrative told by others, sometimes complete strangers to tell stories about trauma and displacement. That is what fascinates me about archives. The fact that you can recreate your story and make a new fictional alt-reality.

Nazanin Noroozi, Self Portrait

Natalia: But who is to say these if fictional alt-realities are less important or less serious than purely “art historical” narratives? One of the things that I am exploring in my work is giving space for slippages in memory, rearranging of timelines to accommodate a lived experience. What happens when we look at collections - even museum collections - with the same warmth, tenderness, and care that we would an old friend? What possibilities are dislodged there? What benefit is there to towing the status quo - which is built on white supremacy, stolen artifacts, and other types of lying, exclusion and dubious authoritative storytelling? Also, there are so many family histories that often become reified - being told and retold with certainty over and over again. How do we claim agency from that oppressive knowledge? The things we tell ourselves about our families may not be “true” so what do we risk by revisiting our archives and re-telling those histories through our current eyes? When we re-examine the history - we may discover new ways of seeing and being with ourselves.

Nazanin: I like to think of photographs as sites of refuge. When you look at a photograph of a kid’s birthday from many years ago, you know for fact that this joyous moment is long gone. These mundane moments that bring you “happiness” and security won't last. It’s like “all that is solid melts into air”. In a larger picture, isn't everything in life fragile and fleeting and there is absolutely no certainty in life? For example, look at how Covid has changed our “normal everyday” life. A simple birthday party for your kid was unimaginable for months. In “Purl” and “Elite 1984” I mix these mundane moments with images of flood, natural disasters and other forces of nature to talk about fragile states of being and ideas of home. I digitally and manually manipulate footages of a stormy Caspain Sea, Mount Damavand or a glacier melt to ask my questions about failure or resistance, you know? I let the images tell me the new narrative, both visually and thematically.

Something I find really interesting in your work is how you re-create these alt-realities by actively and physically engaging your audience into participating in your work, like your textile maps - called Our Stories of Migration? Do you have any fear that they may tell a story you don't like? Or take your work to a place that you didn't anticipate? How do you deal with an open-ended artwork that is finished but it needs an audience to be complete?

Natalia Nakazawa, Our Stories of Migration, Jaquard woven textiles, hand embroidery, shisha mirrors, beetle wings, beads, yarn, 36 x 16 feet, 2020, Photo credit: Vanessa Albury

Natalia: I am always stunned by the generosity of the people I meet - those who dive in and share their own histories - and I think it points to a universal need of ours to share and connect. There is always potential to create intimacy - even within the walls of large institutions, such as schools or museums - when our own lives are placed at the center with care and concern. I’ve never heard a story that didn’t make me pause and grant me more space for contemplating the complexity of being a human on this planet. We have all kinds of mechanisms for memory - archives, written diaries, photos, paintings, objects - but at the end of the day they are nothing without our active participation. Quite literally they are meaningless unless they are being interacted with. That has been the entry point for me, as an artist and educator. How do we take all of these things that exist in the material world and make sense out of them? What does the process of “making sense” do to the way we live TODAY? Or, perhaps, how we envision the future? It is almost like a yoga practice, a stretching of the mind, a flexibility to think backwards and forwards - that lends us more space to consider the present.

Nazanin: Yeah! I think you really are on point here! I think we really can't understand our existence without retelling the history and recreating new realities.

Nazanin Noroozi, The Rip Tide

Natalia: Thank you, Nazanin! Anything coming up for you that you want to mention?

Nazanin: Yes, I am actually doing a really amazing residency at Westbeth for a year. This is an incredible opportunity as I get to live in the Village for one year and have a live-work space in such an amazing place. Westbeth is home to many wonderful artists!

Natalia Nakazawa, History has failed us...but no matter, Jacquard textiles, laser cut Arches watercolor paper, vinyl, jewels, concentrated watercolor and acrylic on wood panel, 40 x 90 inches, 2019, Photo credit: Jeanette May

Natalia Nakazawa is a Queens-based interdisciplinary artist working across the mediums of painting, textiles, and social practice. Utilizing strategies drawn from a range of experiences in the fields of education, arts administration, and community activism, Natalia negotiates spaces between institutions and individuals, often inviting participation and collective imagining. Natalia received her MFA in studio practice from California College of the Arts, a MSEd from Queens College, and a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has recently presented work at the Arlington Arts Center (Washington, DC), Transmitter Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY). Natalia was an artist in residence at MASS MoCA, SPACE on Ryder Farm, The Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Wassaic Project, and Triangle Arts.

www.natalianakazawa.com @nakazawastudio

Nazanin Noroozi is a multimedia artist incorporating moving images, printmaking and alternative photography processes to reflect on notions of collective memory, displacement and fragility. Noroozi’s work has been widely exhibited in both Iran and the United States, including the Immigrant Artist Biennial, Noyes Museum of Art, NY Live Arts, Prizm Art Fair, and Columbia University. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Artistic Freedom Initiative, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYFA IAP 2018, Mass MoCA Residency, North Adams, MA and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency, NY. She is an editor at large of Kaarnamaa, a Journal of Art History and Criticism. Noroozi completed her MFA in painting and drawing from Pratt Institute. Her works have been featured in various publications and media including BBC News Persian, Elephant Magazine, Financial Times, and Brooklyn Rail.

www.nazaninnoroozi.net @nazaninnoroozi

#natalianakazawanazaninnoroozi #natalianakazawa #nazaninnoroozi

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