#Paula Stone Williams

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#harry stone #liz williams #night court #s1 #harry anderson #paula kelly #q

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Night Court 2023

A while back we talked about the truly perplexing reboot of Mad About You… available only if you were using a specific cable carrier. I watched the whole thing, and while did kind of like Abbey Quinn as Paul Riser’s daughter, the reboot all around was disappointing. Jamie had turned from a quirky but high maintenance girl to a completely unlikable virago. And Paul coma as he always did was just…

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#Dan Fielding #Gurgs #Harry Anderson #harry Stone #India de Beaufort #Liz Williams #Lucretia #Marsha Warfield #Melissa Rauch #Night Court #Night Court 2023 #Paula Kelly #Richard Moll

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Yes votes / Artist - Song title / Poll number / Showdown votes / * Showdown Winner

95% A-ha - Take On Me #91 - 45.2% *

94,8% Boney M. - Rasputin #37 - 49,3% *

94,3% Dolly Parton - Jolene #110 - 43,1% *

94,1% Britney Spears - Toxic #04 - 51,9% *

92% Fleetwood Mac - The Chain #116 - 44,4% *

90,2% Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) #163 - 30,8% *

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86,3% Chumbawamba - Tubthumping #82 - 24,9%

86% Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode #53 - 18,6%

85,5% Dido - Thank You #120 - 5,6%

85,3% Ricky Martin - La Bomba #132 - 8,3%

85,2% Queen - The Show Must Go On #142 - 20,9%

85% Green Day - Basket Case #47 - 27,6% *

84,9% Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop #41 - 15,8%

84,7% The Cardigans - Lovefool #135 - 24,2% *

84,5% Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love #136 - 18,8%

84,4% Daryl Hall & John Oates - Out of Touch #67 - 31,4% *

82,7% Nightwish - The Phantom of the Opera #144 - 8,6%

82,6% Junior Senior - Move Your Feet #76 - 6,5%

82,4% Myrkur - Tor i Helheim #54 - 7% 82,4% Tracy Chapman - Fast Car #145 - 32,5% *

82% Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way #105 - 19,2%

81,9% Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling #152 - 17,1% * 81,9% 3 Doors Down - Kryptonite #167 - 15,1%

81,6% N Sync - Bye Bye Bye #52 - 26,9% *

81,5% Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow #42 - 16,7%

80,7% Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity #72 - 17,9%

80,5% Pixies - Where Is My Mind? #148 - 13,5%

80,2% Oasis - Wonderwall #157 - 16%

80,1% Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun #119 - 14,9%

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79,3% Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up - #Bonus Poll

78,8% Shakira - Ojos Así #75 - 7,5%

78,5% Kaoma - Lambada #57 - 4,2%

78,4% Danny Elfman - This Is Halloween #05 - 13,9%

78,2% Panic at the Disco - The Ballad of Mona Lisa #78 - 18,5% *

78% Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke #64 - 5,3%

77,6% Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower #95 - 13.1% 77,6% Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World #118 - 10,7%

77% Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road #22 - 29,4% * 77% Kesha - Blow #38 - 12,1%

76,4% Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue - Whatta Man #134 - 15,1%

76,3% Johnny Cash - Hurt #81 - 35,6% * 76,3% Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside #92 - 8.2% 76,3% The Offspring - Gone Away #143 - 5,9% 76,3% The Longest Johns - Hoist Up The Thing #169 - 7,8%

76% Foo Fighters - The Pretender #111 - 14,2%

75,9% Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows #87 - 12,9%

75,7% Nothing but Thieves - Is Everybody Going Crazy? #113 - 3,7%

75,5% Tarkan - Şımarık #94 - 3.1%

75,2% Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) #147 - 14,2%

74,9% Måneskin - Off My Face #151 - 7,9%

74,8% Måneskin - Zitti e Buoni #16 - 33% *

74,6% Nat King Cole - Nature Boy #09 - 7,2% 74,6% Within Temptation - Stand My Ground #165 - 6,4% 74,6% Pink - Who Knew #166 - 8,4%

74,3% Arash - Tike Tike Kardi #137 - 2,6%

73,6% Paula Abdul - Straight Up #156 - 6,2%

73,3% Beck - Loser #124 - 16,4%

72,6% Evanescence - Imaginary #44 - 13,5%

72% Robbie Williams - The Road to Mandalay #129 - 3,9%

71,7% Lil Green - Why Don't You Do Right? #34 - 1,8%

71,1% Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher #130 - 14,4%

71% Udit Narayan - Bholi Si Surat #141 - 1,5%

70,9% Nine Inch Nails - Closer #93 - 22%

70,7% Ryan Gosling - I'm Just Ken #159 - 12,4%

70,6% The Lightning Seeds - You Showed Me #59 - 2,7% 70,6% Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back #83 - 7%

70,5% Queen - Mustapha #29 - 11,4%

70,4% Soggy Bottom Boys - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow #26 - 22,3% 70,4% Metallica - Wherever I May Roam #77 - 8,6%

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69,9% MUCC - Ryuusei #19 - 7,4%

69,5% Spooks - Things I've Seen #104 - 0,8%

69,2% Flo Rida feat Kesha - Right Round #02 - 6,2%

68,9% Era - Ameno (Remix) #24 - 4,8%

68,5% Linkin Park - Bleed It Out #63 - 23,9% 68,5% Snow - Informer #139 - 4,7%

68,3% Run-DMC featuring Aerosmith - Walk This Way #127 - 10,9%

68,2% Limahl - The NeverEnding Story #60 - 9,8% 68,2% Nelly Furtado - Maneater #160 - 17,1% *

68,1% Stromae - L'enfer #89 - 9,8%

67,9% Urban Symphony - Rändajad #90 - 2,2%

67,8% Muse - Endlessly #107 - 9,4%

67,6% My Chemical Romance - Sing #80 - 17,3%

67,3% “Weird Al” Yankovic - White & Nerdy #43 - 16%

67% Avicii - Hey Brother #164 - 13,9%

66,7% The Hives - Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones #58 - 2,7%

66,3% System of a Down - B.Y.O.B. #128 - 26,2% *

66% Texas - Summer Son #154 - 2,6%

65,8% Cliff Edwards - When You Wish Upon a Star #85 - 2,2%

65,7% Modern Talking - Brother Louie #50 - 4%

65,4% Harry McClintock - The Big Rock Candy Mountains #131 - 6,7%

65,2% Eimear Quinn - The Voice #32 - 2,5% 65,2% 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman - California Love #121 - 8,3%

64,7% Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch #162 - 9%

64,6% Gorillaz - Stylo #61 - 15,8% 64,6% Duran Duran - The Chauffeur #133 - 7,1%

64,4% Alice Cooper - Poison #01 - 10,5% 64,4% Depeche Mode - It's No Good #101 - 9,1%

64,1% Destiny’s Child - Jumpin’, Jumpin’ #51 - 12,7%

63,8% Kongos - Come With Me Now #17 - 15,9% 63,8% A. R. Rahman - Jai Ho #40 - 4,6%

63,3% Dua Lipa - New Rules #126 - 10,6%

63,1% Olly Murs - Heart Skips A Beat #106 - 2,2%

63% Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? #123 - 3,8%

62,4% 30 Seconds to Mars - Fallen #30 - 5,5% 62,4% Beastie Boys - Intergalactic #153 - 16%

62,3% Childish Gambino - This Is America #71 - 18,2%

62% Billie Eilish - No Time to Die #168 - 5%

61,4% The Prodigy - Breathe #112 - 4,5%

61,3% Blue Stahli - One Last Breath #99 - 1.8%

61,1% Wham! - Everything She Wants #108 - 6,5%

60,6% Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah #70 - 9,9% 60,6% Kwoon featuring Babet - King Of Sea #115 . 0,5%

60,2% Toni Braxton - You're Makin' Me High #155 - 1,4%

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58,9% AC/DC - Hail Caesar #158 - 3,2%

58,7% Duran Duran - The Wild Boys #21 - 9,6%

58,5% Nova Twins - Antagonist #68 - 4,5%

56,8% Mendez - Adrenaline #23 - 1,2% 56,8% Sash! - Ecuador #73 - 1,7%

56,7% George Michael and Mary J. Blige - As #62 - 3,2%

56,6% Nikka Costa - Like A Feather #48 - 0,6% 56,6% Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds & Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow #103 - 5,7%

56,1% Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love #117 - 0,8%

55,9% Blur - Coffee & TV #56 - 9,7%

55,7% Big Brovaz - Nu Flow #65 - 0,9% 55,7% K’s Choice - Everything For Free #79 - 1,2%

55,4% Moby - Natural Blues #07 - 2,5% 55,4% Janet Jackson featuring Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell - Got 'til It's Gone #146 - 2,2%

55,2% Rammstein - Engel #35 - 7,3%

55,1% Maximum the Hormone - What's Up, People?! #138 - 10,6%

54,5% Billie Myers - Tell Me #86 - 0,9%

54% Aqua - Turn Back Time #28 - 8,2%

53,9% Ardis - No Man's Land #88 - 0,9%

53,5% Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me #13 - 5,2%

53,4% Apashe - Lord & Master #170 - 1,5%

52,8% Madonna - Who's That Girl #18 - 9,8%

52,7% Aerosmith - Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees) #84 - 3,5% 52,7% MUCC - Daikirai #161 - 2,1%

52,2% Marilyn Manson - The Fight Song #49 - 2,1%

51,6% Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler #14 - 6%

51,3% Mariah Carey - The Roof (Back in Time) #46 - 1,4% 51,3% Mori Calliope & Reol - 虚像のCarousel #55 - 5,6%

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49,9% Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At #31 - 6,9%

49,8% Shaggy - Hey Sexy Lady #122 - 4,1%

49,7% Warren G & Sissel - Prince Igor #20 - 2,2%

49% Billie Eilish - NDA #10 - 2,6%

47,7% Massive Attack - Angel #39 - 5,9%

47,5% Adam Tensta - My Cool #11 - 1%

47,4% Slipknot - The Blister Exists #100 - 2,6%

47% Seether - Fuck It #74 - 2,6%

46,9% Rhiannon Giddens - Way Over Yonder #102 - 1,2%

46,8% Spiritbox - Rotoscope #66 - 2,6%

46,6% Sabrina Carpenter - Feather #25 - 4,6%

46% Prince - The Greatest Romance Ever Sold #69 - 2,6%

45,6% Jimmy Cliff feat Lebo M - Hakuna Matata #06 - 2%

44,3% 3T and Michael Jackson - Why #114 - 0,7%

43,9% The Prodigy - No Good (Start the Dance) #08 - 2,6% 43,9% David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans #33 - 8,5% 43,9% Faithless - Insomnia #109 - 2,9%

42,7% Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice #12 - 16,3%

42,6% Eminem - Rabbit Run #27 - 2,9%

40,6% Michael Jackson - Will You Be There #45 - 2,3%

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39,8% Alanis Morissette - I Was Hoping #96 - 1.6%

38,8% Wyclef Jean - Gone Till November #36 - 1,1%

37,9% Ariana Grande - Yes, And? #140 - 1,8%

36,5% Jedward - Luminous #125 - 1,4%

35,3% Noporn - Geleia de Morango #150 - 0,3%

34,6% Ena Mori - Fall Inlove! #149 - 0,4%

33,3% Ryan Gosling - Put Me in the Car #15 - 3,2%

30% Darren Hayes - Spin #03 - 0,6%

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29% Dreamcrusher - In Due Time #98 - 0.7%

28,2% BTS - Life Goes On #97 - 1.8%

#note

[broadwaydivastournament]

Broadway Divas: Obscure Sondheim

To highlight how vast and varied Sondheim's roles and shows are, these five Divas have a singular Sondheim credit to their repertoire that are a little more obscure than most. So obscure that my dream of finding pictures to dazzle you all with was quickly shattered.

Bebe Neuwirth as Cinderella's Stepsister, Florinda, in a reading of Into the Woods for a 1994 movie that never came to fruition. This reading took place at director Penny Marshall's house and had a truly breathtaking cast: Robin Williams (The Baker), Goldie Hawn (The Baker's Wife), Steve Martin (The Wolf), Danny DeVito (The Giant), Carrie Fisher (Lucinda), and fucking CHER as The Witch. Bebe Neuwirth and Carrie Fisher as catty sisters tormenting Cinderella and getting their eyes pecked out. And then Cher trying to feed them to Danny DeVito. We were robbed of a masterpiece.

Judith Light as Joanne in a Reprise! presentation of Company at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. Though not known for her singing abilities, Judith was nevertheless part of an all-star cast for this two-week run in 2004. The only review I could find was...not favorable. It's been twenty years, and I, for one, think Judith Light deserves her chance at redemption.

Linda Emond as Mary in Merrily We Roll Along, 1988. The Seattle-based ACT company produced Sondheim's biggest flop musical through the month of May in 1988. Linda, then in her late twenties, played the female lead in a rare musical role for her. And I do have a picture thanks to ACT's fantastic archival system.

Pictured: Linda Emond (Mary) center, surrounded by Joseph Dellger (Franklin Shepherd) and Joseph McNally (Charley). And no, I cannot tell which man is which...

4. Susan Blackwell as The Giant in a 2019 one-night-only staged concert of Into the Woods. If you thought the recent Broadway revival was bare-bones, it had nothing on this staged concert at the Town Hall in NYC. There is one singular photo that includes Susan, and without knowing she was meant to be there, you'd never be able to identify her.

Pictured (L to R):

5. Paula Leggett Chase as Stella Deems in Follies, a one-night-only special event in Tangier, Morocco featuring a transcontinental cast of Divas. Since 2013 (excluding pandemic years), Rob Ashford has staged fundraising productions of shows such as A Little Night Music, The Crucible, and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Confusingly, though Paula sang Stella Deems' song "Who's That Woman," she was credited in the program as Emily Whitman (presumably they just combined the roles for this production and gave them to the dancer in the cast?)

Pictured (L to R): The late Haydn Gwynn (Phyllis Rogers Stone, my beloved), Marisa Berenson (Solange LaFitte), Harolyn Blackwell (Heidi Schiller), Jenna Russel (Sally Durant Plummer), Paula Leggett Chase (Emily Whitman), Harriet Harris (Hattie Walker).

#broadwaydivastournament #sondheim #bebe neuwirth #linda emond #judith light #paula leggett chase #susan blackwell

[bossuets]

read in 2024!

it's that time again! i loved doing reading threads in 2022 and 2023 so i will definitely be carrying on the tradition this year. as always, you can find me on goodreads and storygraph, and you're always welcome to message me about books!

Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu* (★★★★★)

Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks and Stones by Ngozi Ukazu* (★★★★★)

Check, Please! Chirpbook by Ngozi Ukazu* (★★★★★)

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (★★★★★)

The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert** (★★★★☆)

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (★★★★★)

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell (★★★☆☆)

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (★★★☆☆)

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett (★★★★☆)

Dream Work by Mary Oliver (★★★★☆)

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (★★★★☆)

Cain’s Jawbone by E. Powys Mathers

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

You’ve Been Summoned by Lindsey Lamar** (★★☆☆☆)

The Seven Ages by Louise Glück (★★★★☆)

The Last Girl Left by A.M. Strong & Sonya Sargent** (★★★☆☆)

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Normal People by Sally Rooney (★★★★★)

How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin** (★★★☆☆)

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen (★★☆☆☆)

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (★★★☆☆)

The Drowning Faith by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (★★★★★)

The Burning God by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

King Lear by William Shakespeare (★★★★☆)

All These Sunken Souls by assorted authors, edited by Circe Moskowitz (★★★★☆)

The Big Four by Agatha Christie (★★★☆☆)

The Avant-Guards, Vol. 1 by Carly Usdin, Noah Hayes (★★★★☆)

That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton (★★☆☆☆)

The Avant-Guards, Vol. 2 by Carly Usdin, Noah Hayes (★★★★☆)

Jurassic Park by Michael (★★★☆☆)

The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis (★★★☆☆)

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (★★★★★)

Violeta by Isabel Allende (★★★☆☆)

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (★★★★☆)

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (★★★★☆)

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (★★★★☆)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (★★★★★)

An asterisk (*) indicates a reread. A double asterisk (**) indicates an ARC.

#personal post #reading thread

[maaarine]

The Authority Gap: Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and what We Can Do about it (Mary Ann Sieghart, 2021)

“Men behave worse when they outnumber women. Put a woman alone in a meeting with four men, and 70 per cent of the interruptions she receives from men are negative.

Turn it round so that you have four women and one man in the room: here, just 20 per cent of the interruptions women receive from men are negative.

As the study says, when women predominate, ‘Men undergo a drastic change. They become far less aggressive.’

Even very small boys – aged between three and a half and five – interrupt girls twice as often as the little girls interrupt them. (…)

Paula Stone Williams, a trans woman, married and had children before she transitioned.

‘I am learning a lot about what it means to be a female and I am learning a lot about my former gender,’ she says.

‘There is no way a well-educated white male can know how much the culture is tilted in his favour.

There’s no way he can understand it because it’s all he’s ever known and all he ever will know. I never thought I had privilege, but I did.

‘Apparently, since I became a female, I have become stupid.

The more you’re treated as if you don’t know what you’re talking about, the more you begin to question whether or not you do in fact know what you’re talking about.

I now understand a woman’s tendency to doubt herself.’ (…)

And not being listened to can have serious implications for women’s mental health.

Anita Martin is a psychiatrist in the north of England, covering a population of 120,000, and she told me, ‘It comes up again and again for women when they’re depressed that they find it really difficult to be heard, really difficult to assert themselves.

Everyone needs agency in their life. If your learned experience is that you’re not listened to, that your opinions don’t matter, you think there’s no point my doing anything because nothing will change.

That’s the message that they’ve constantly had from society, that what they think doesn’t matter. We see that more in women than men.’”

#mary ann sieghart #book #the authority gap #weaker sex

[sandybrett]

WOE.BEGONE Character Playlists, Part 2

Here are all my character playlists for WOE.BEGONE characters who are not, have never been, and will presumably never be Mike Walters. Listed in order of first appearance. Cut for length and possible vague spoilers.

Matt

"The Magician" by Dizzy "The Winding Stair Mountain Blues" by the Turnpike Troubadours "Cuyahoga Canal" by The Taxpayers (suggested on the Discord) "Down Here" by the Turnpike Troubadours "Research Me Obsessively" from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Anne

"She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)" by The Judybats "A Shot in the Arm" by Wilco "Bravado" by Lorde "We Can Build a Fire" by Autoheart (from a collaborative Ty/Mike playlist) "Shot at the Title" by Curtis McMurtry "The Bonnie Dell House" by Sarah and the Safe Word (from @fortunechaos's Cowgirl Anne playlist)

Ryan & Cannonball

"Turn The Lights Off" by Tally Hall (suggested on Discord) "Blast Doors" by Everything Everything (from Percival's playlist)

Hunter

"So-Called Friend" by Uncle Tupelo "Hanging Tree" by Tim Easton "Heel Turn 1" by The Mountain Goats (suggested by @solipsistful) "Chaplinesque" by Curtis McMurtry "Harvest" by I See Hawks In L.A. "Heel Turn 2" by The Mountain Goats (from @solipsistful's playlist) "Burning Bed" by The Backsliders "When Will You Die?" by They Might Be Giants "Gaucho" by Steely Dan "Can't Cheat Death" by The Ballroom Thieves (from @fortunechaos's Mikey playlist) "my tears richochet" by Taylor Swift "A Fond Farewell" by Elliott Smith

Chance & Shadow

"Emmylou" by First Aid Kit (suggested by @woebegonepod on Discord) "Trouble's Here" by Jann Browne "Don't Follow" by Shelby Merry (from @auxilion's playlist)

Marissa & Charlie

"Old Slew Foot" by Rose Maddox "Miss Marissa" by Reckless Kelly "The Girl I Can't Forget" by Fountains of Wayne "Wilder than Her" by Dar Williams "Don't Follow" by Shelby Merry (from @auxilion's playlist) "it's time to get good at darts" by Brian David Gilbert

Edgar

"What A Heavenly Way To Die" by Troye Sivan "Flaws" by Bastille (from Scholastic Arson's Edgar playlist) "FOOLS" by Troye Sivan "Don't Ask Me Why" by The Backsliders "Body Paint" by Arctic Monkeys (suggested by @fortunechaos) "Out of the Picture" by Son Volt "When Anger Shows" by Editors (from Scholastic Arson's Edgar playlist) "Happiness Will Ruin This Place" by San Fermin (from @ante--meridiem's Mike/Edgar playlist) "I Saw It Coming" by Reckless Kelly "A Lifetime to Find" by Wilco "In Our Bedroom After the War" by Stars (from Scholastic Arson's Edgar playlist) "Mesa, Arizona" by Jeffrey Foucault "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" by Paula Cole "Expert in a Dying Field" by The Beths "IDK You Yet" by Alexander 23 (from @auxilion's playlist) "Ours" by Joe Pug (suggested by @woebegonepod on Discord) "Somewhere in Time" by Reckless Kelly

Ty

"This House Is a Circus" by Arctic Monkeys (suggested by @fortunechaos) "Erase" by They Might Be Giants (from @solipsistful's playlist) "I Love You for Psychological Reasons" by They Might Be Giants (from a collaborative Ty/Mike playlist) "My Ugly" by Cloudfodder (from Scholastic Arson's Ty/Mike playlist) "Skullcrusher Mountain" by Jonathan Coulton (from a collaborative Ty/Mike playlist) "Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" by Ned Sublette "Panoply" by WOE.BEGONE (from @fortunechaos's Tex/Outlaw playlist) "Otters" by Ryan MacIntyre (from @fortunechaos's Tex/Outlaw playlist) "Expert in a Dying Field" by The Beths "Pot Kettle Black" by Wilco "Outlaw Ty" by WOE.BEGONE "Jenny" by the Mountain Goats "It's All Part of the Plan" by the Punch Brothers "Sway" by The Rolling Stones "Blood Orange Morning Light" by Andrew Montana (from finch's Tex/Outlaw playlist)

Felix

"This House Is a Circus" by Arctic Monkeys "Parallel Universes" by Dan Warren (from @ante--meridiem's Mike playlist) "3 AM" by Matchbox Twenty "Working for the Knife" by Mitski

August

"Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" by Ned Sublette "Seven Shells" by Fred Eaglesmith "Almost (Sweet Music)" by Hozier "IDK You Yet" by Alexander 23 (from @auxilion's playlist) "I Saw It Coming" by Reckless Kelly "The Curse of the Blackened Eye" by Orville Peck (from Icarus is Falling's Michael/August playlist) "Mostly Major Chords" by Shayfer James (from @fortunechaos's Mikey playlist)

Jam

"Goody Two Shoes" by Adam Ant "Fun" by Troye Sivan "Gaucho" by Steely Dan "Tonight's the Day" by Wilco "ilomilo" by Billie Eilish "Ours" by Joe Pug "The Ballad of Cowboy Jam" by WOE.BEGONE

Eagle

"Kill a Man" by James and the Shame (from @auxilion's playlist) "Eye" by The Scarring Party (from @auxilion's playlist) "War on War" by Wilco "Epithet Erased: Countdown" by plasterbrain and Dawn M. Bennett (from Percival's playlist)

Songs that I desperately want to put on *someone's* playlist but I don't think they currently fit anyone

"Leavin' Yesterday" by John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff "Tired of Walking" by James McMurtry "Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But..." by Arctic Monkeys "Man Out of Time" by Elvis Costello "Broken Bed" by James McMurtry "Twist the Knife" by Neko Case

#woe.begone #matt lastname #anne wbg #ryan wbg #hunter jeremiah hartley #chance and shadow #marissa ng #charlie wbg #edgar wbg #ty betteridge #felix wbg #sylvester august baxter #jamilla gardner #eagle wbg #and now for something completely different #that time travel podcast #playlist

[thelonecalzone]

At long last, here is the official reading list for There'll Be Some Changes Made, and a few recommendations from some of the readers! It's long, so hopefully there's a little something for everyone.

Thank you again to the wonderful readers, both for your encouragement, and for helping me compile this list <3

Recommendations (Named Throughout TBSCM)

The Pearl - John Steinbeck The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Upon the Blue Couch - Laurie Kolp In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith Paradise Rot - Jenny Hval Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters Fingersmith - Sarah Waters Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta In at the Deep End - Kate Davies Some Girls Do - Jennifer Dugan This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid Lavender House - Lev AC Rosen My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg Straight Jacket Winter - Esther DuQuette and Gilles Poulin-Denis

Source Books (Referenced, but not named)

The Odyssey - Homer The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams Hamlet - William Shakespeare The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Come Along with Me - Shirley Jackson (unfinished novel) We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson A Certain Hunger - Chelsea G. Summers The Poison Garden - AJ Banner

Honorable Mentions:

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson Different Class - Joanne Harris The Lost Girls of Ireland (Book 1) - Susanne O’Leary The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum The Broken Girls - Simone St. James Dear Fahrenheit 451 - Annie Spence The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston Ash - Malinda Lo Everything Leads to You - Nina LaCour Camp Slaughter - Sergio Gomez The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka A Slow Fire Burning - Paula Hawkins The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Emily M. Danforth Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Banished (Under the Coffee Table) Books - DO NOT READ:

Ulysses - James Joyce Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult The Book Thief - Markus Zusak In the Darkroom - Susan Faludi Marley & Me - John Grogan

Recs from Fellow Readers

Things We Lost in the Fire - Marina Enriquez Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg Mouthful of Birds - Samantha Schweblin  The Safety of Objects - A.M. Homes Crush - Richard Siken The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare I’ve Got a Time Bomb - Sybil Lamb The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo Sadie - Courtney Summers The Messy Lives of Book People - Phaedra Patrick The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix The Lying Lives of Adults - Elena Ferrante They Were Here Before Us - Eric LaRocca The Patience Stone - Atiq Rahimi Agamemnon - Aeschylus Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's poetry - (start with "You Foolish Men") The poems of Sappho - (“Anactoria”, the book of fragments, and “Goatherd” specifically)

#kcfh #kevin can fuck himself #kcfh fanfic #there'll be some changes made #tbscm #pattison #allison x patty #reading list

[girlonedge]

23 books I want to finish in 2023

Fairytale by Stephen King

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

My Policeman by Bethan Roberts

The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

Invisible life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

Blind Spot by Paula Hawkins

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Life, the Universe and everything by Douglas Adams

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson

#23 books 2023 #booklr #book recs #repost

[halloweenvalentine1997]

A recommended list of books I own and read

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Fatal Flowers by Rosemary Daniell

Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

The Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall

What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes

The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes

The Old Contemptibles By Martha Grimes

The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes

Help the Poor Struggler by Martha Grimes

And Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Watching You by Lisa Jewell

Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

The Truth about Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell

A Demon in my View by Ruth Rendell

The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates

The Doll Master by Joyce Carol Oates

Night Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates

The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates

Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates

High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates

I Know You Know by Gilly Macmillan 

The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark

Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell

Dead Run by Erica Spindler

Carrie by Stephen King

The Shining by Stephen King

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

The Stand by Stephen King

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul

A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

The Third Twin by Ken Follett

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison

When Shadows Fall by J.T. Ellison

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller by Henry James

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

My Sweet Audrina by by V.C. Andrews

The Cutler series by V.C. Andrews

The Logan series by V.C. Andrews

The Hudson series by V.C. Andrews

Ruby by V.C. Andrews

Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews

The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag

The Elizas by Sara Shepard

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

Wait for Me by Sara Shepard

Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shepard

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Summer by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule

Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule

Every Breath You Take by Ann Rule

The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh

Slenderman by Kathleen Hale

Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

#books #personal

[nightcourtcaps]

#harry stone #liz williams #night court #s1 #harry anderson #paula kelly #q

[frasermints]

Why are you majoring in religion?

because i want to?

transgender people aren't a monolith. a lot of us have religious trauma. my church's parenting classes were based on the teachings of the IBLP. i'm no stranger to the harms of fundie christian/leader/s on [fill in the blank].

i also believe that that's not what spirituality is. "christianity" hasn't been what a lot of us understand god's love to be, and it hasn't been for a long time. (here is a good explanation of the rob bell model, 2:27:45-2:30:24)

religion has been traumatic for too many people for too long. when my uncle killed himself the chaplain leaned against the wall of the surgical waiting area (public, about 20 other people) and asked me how i felt about it. in earshot of a fuck ton of other people. i told him i felt like shit! that my uncle just died! how did he expect me to feel! and he said "okay..." and walked away.

i'm majoring in religion because i want to become a chaplain, and the behavior i witnessed that day can't be allowed to continue. people like me need to be the faces of modern religious support. queer people. brown people. people that are starting to understand how evil western christianity is fucked up and has been for centuries. we need to step up and say hey! we fucked up! and we're changing it! we're killing the mold from the inside out! and this is how!

people like j. s. park and paula stone williams (the latter of whom i am friends with on facebook btw. a wonderful, kind, and beautiful woman. love her. would die for her.) are leading the charge. but we have to keep going. they aren't getting any younger and chaplain work is still, like, important. old people are still religious. young people are still religious. religious people of all ages die in hospitals all the time.

and u don't even need to die to request a chaplain. i'm requesting one the day of my top surgery. just to talk things out and work through my feelings before i go under. chaplains r often mental health professionals on top of religious professionals. in a lot of places, you need bare minimum a clinical social work license to become a board certified chaplain and work in a hospital. which is what i'm getting. i am also going to be an LCSW. so. there's that.

also, like. it's cool to know what ur friends are talking about. i have friends that aren't atheists and aren't christians. one of my friends is a practicing witch. my irl best friend is muslim. religion majors aren't automatically bootlicking fundies. some of us genuinely just want to understand wtf is going on outside our four walls. like, where i'm going u don't even have to study the bible for any of ur classes. none of them! not a single one!

i'll leave u with this tho. because i do still feel like getting preachy. nowhere in the actual physical bible does it say that transition is ungodly. my transness is not ungodly. but the bible does say something pretty fucking affirming.

Psalms 139: [13] For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. [14] I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. [15] My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. [16] Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

#my post #asks #anonymous #answered #ex fundie posting

[celebritieswhosupportgenocide]

Abdul, Paula Accardi, Gimena Aniston, Jennifer Apatow, Judd Baddiel, David Baron Cohen, Sacha Bass, Lance Bayer, Vanessa Beckham, Sara Benson, Ashley Bialik, Mayim Bieber, Justin Biel, Jessica Black, Jack Bloom, Orlando Braun, Scott Brie, Alison Brolin, Josh Cain, Dean Carr, Jimmy Chastain, Jessica Chenoweth, Kristen Cohen, Andy Collins, Lily Condor, Lana Cooper, Bradley Cox, Courtney Crystal, Billie Curtis, Jamie Lee David, Cazzie Davis, Viola Debose, Ariana Del Rey, Lana Deschanel, Zooey Deutch, Zoey Dewan, Jenna Diddy Combs, Sean Dobrev, Nina Douglas, Michael Dr. Phil Eric, Andre Fanning, Dakota Ferrell, Will Fisher, Isla Foster, Chelsea Fry, Stephen Gad, Josh Gadot, Gal Gage, Lukas Garner, Jennifer Garner, Julia Garrix, Martin Gellar, Sarah Michelle Gelman, Brett Gilmour, David Gomez, Sarah Goodblum, Jason Groban, Josh Groff, Jonathan Haddish, Tiffany Hamil, Mark Hamm, Jon Handler, Selena Hargitay, Mariska Hewitt, Jennifer Love Hudgens, Vanessa Hyland, Sarah Imbruglia, Natalia Jackson, Paris Jenner, Kris Jenner, Taylor Judge Judy Kailing, Mindy Kardashian ,Amy Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kemsley, Dorit King, Joey Kiyoko, Hayley Kloss, Karlie Kunis, Mila Lautner, Nicole Leggero, Natasha Levine, Adam Levy, Eugene Levy, Shawn Lohan, Lindsay Lohan, Lindsay Longoria, Eva Lucas, Matt LuPone, Patti Madonna Mamet, Zosia Marguiles, Julianna McGregor, Ewan Mendel, Howie Messing, Debra Meyers, Seth Mia, Pia Michele, Lea Miguel Milano, Alyssa Mirren, Helen Moore, Mandy Morrone, Camila Munn, Olivia Norris, Chuck O'Donnel, Rosie Oberman, Tracy-Ann Ora, Rita Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, Sharon Oyelowo, David Pascal, Amy Paulson, Sarah Peck, Josh Peele, Jordan Peltz, Kim Perry, Katy Phillipps, Busy Plaza, Aubrey Pompeo, Ellen Portman, Natalie Prisloo, Behati Richie, Sofia Riley, Rachel Rock, Chris Rock, Chris Rose, Ruby Rosenthal, Phil Roth, Ellie Rowling, JK Saldaña, Zoe Sandler, Adam Savage, Ben Schnapp, Noah Schreiber, Liev Schumer, Kylie Schwartz, Lorraine Schwarzenegger, Patrick Schwimmer, David Segel, Jason\ Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jessica Shannon, Molly Shields, Brooke Short, Martin Silverman, Brooklyn Snyder, Zach Sommerhalder, Ian Spears, Lynn Jamie Spektor, Regina Stiller, Ben Sting Stone, Sharon Sudeikis, Jason Theroux, Justin Thorne, Bella Timberlake, Justin Tisdale, Ashley Waititi, Taika Walsh, Kate Washington, Kerry Whiterspoon, Reese Wilde, Olivia Williams, Tyler James Wu, Constance Yatra, Sebastian Zimmer, Constance Zinchenko Zoe, Rachel Zuckerman, Jeremy

[malevolent-muse]

Fan Art - Law&Order: SVU/CI

- The following links will take you either to a Tumblr post or a work on AO3 -

Law & Order: SVU

Olivia Benson - I Olivia Benson - II Sonny Carisi - I Sonny Carisi - II Sonny Carisi - III Elliot Stabler Fin Tutuola John Munch Don Cragen Amanda Rollins Rafael Barba William Dodds Mike Dodds Peter Stone Emil Skoda Melinda Warner

Law & Order: CI

Robert Goren - I Robert Goren - II Alexandra  Eames James Deakins Nicole Wallace Ron Carver Mike Logan Frances Goren Frank Goren Mark Ford Brady Paula Gyson James Deakins

#law and order svu #law and order criminal intent #fan art #robert goren #olivia benson #rafael barba #sonny carisi

[back-and-totheleft]

"My deepest thanks for your acknowledgment that Vietnam is not over, although some people say it is. But that Vietnam is a state of mind that continues all over the world for as long as men in his [sic] quest for power interfere in the affairs of other men. So many thanks to give tonight. I want to give it to Ron Kovic for his largeness of heart. And to Tom Cruise, for making Ron's dream come true. And to a great supporting cast in that true, thankless meaning of the word. To a crew that never failed: to Bob Richardson, and Bruno Rubeo, David Brenner, John Williams, Alex Ho, Clayton Townsend, Joe Reidy. To the people of Dallas, Texas. To the warm people of the Philippines. To Tom Pollock and Universal Pictures. To Wylie and Mike Minkler. To Paula Wagner, my guardian angel. And to Elizabeth, my naijo no ko. Thank you for this night."

-Oliver Stone's acceptance speech for Best Director at the Academy Awards, Mar 26 1990 [x]

#oliver stone #academy awards #oscars

[teastainedpagesss]

Cicada Temple

I just watched a ted talk that said, "the call toward authenticity is sacred, it's holy, it's for the greater good." - Paula Stone Williams.

And while she was talking about her experience as a transgender woman I felt that it resonated in my own life. As a kid, a girl in my elementary school told me, " you don't have a personality." as her reasoning for not being my friend so I strived to be unique, different, my own person, to the point I had a teacher later tell me, " you are far too melodramatic, you have a big personality and you would make more friends if you simmered down." so throughout my life i waffled from watering myself down to being fed up and being my most extreme version of myself. I was a chameleon shifting towards my current audience changing to be the perfect version of myself for the person I was talking to. and that was exhausting, it was an act. it wasn't real and it didn't feel real. I realized that maybe I wasn't meant to be a chameleon. Maybe instead, I am a cicada, maybe I crawl out of my skin to sing as loud as I possibly can because that's in my nature to be odd, persistent, loud, and creative. I can't be everything to everyone, but I can have fun and be myself and that call is sacred, its precious, and holy. A temple is built to honor the god it is dedicated to, not the people who go to worship there. And likewise, you and I are built to honor OURSELVES, to fall in love with who WE are and the space WE take up and create within: not to build ourselves into the cookie-cutter house for others to live in.

I am both a temple, and the God it is dedicated to. I am a cicada singing, dying and being reborn within this body of a 20 year old girl. I am striving to love myself with a love that is overwhelming and all consuming and that is sacred beyond anything. So I ask you to the same question I had to ask myself: Who are you really?

#late night thoughts #deep thoughts #random thoughts #temple #shrine #self healing #self love #poetry #traumacore #darkacademism #mental health #bpd thoughts #living with bpd #original poem #dark academia #self care #self concept #i am my own #i am holy #i am loved #i am enough and so are you my love