#Slum Boy

[rosemariecawkwell]

Review: Slum Boy - A Portrait, by Juano Diaz

Publication date Thursday,February 29, 2024Price £20.00EAN\ISBN-13 9781914240829 Description“This is a heart-breaking story, beautifully told. I hope it finds a millionreaders”. – Andrew O’Hagan John MacDonald must find his mother. Born into the slums of Glasgow in the late ’70s, a 4-year-old John’s life is filled with the debris of alcoholism and poverty. Soon after witnessing a drowning, his…

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

Boys shooting craps in the tenements, 1940.

Photo: Max Yavno via The Museum of Contemporary Art

#vintage New York #1940s #Max Yavno #b&w photography #slums #tenements #boys playing #craps #shooting craps

[fabiansociety]

“once things are a little bit… CLEANER, i would love to bring you in on that. really exciting stuff.”

y’all are gonna get stepford wived. get outed. body snatched.

#taz steeplechase #kenshall’s little speech is pure paranoia fodder and i love it #trust no one #trust yourself least of all #really really hoping one of the boys has been a hardlight construct for ages #montrose with his constant mask? #beef with a wealth of archival footage to pull from? #emmerich with decades of employment in the body snatching lab and who identifies more with hardlight than with humans? #this is all assuming that kenshall is real #and that this entire campaign hasn’t just been an extremely high cost Dentonic Experience for three rich men who want to slum it #which to be fair does accurately describe TAZ as a whole

[godkilller]

headcanon. Gin can tank a punch (and dish'em out without any problems) ... but he'll still be a little thrown off if someone's able to get into his bubble without him deliberately letting them in range to throw a hit like that. Gin's the type to bring a knife to a fistfight, too, so don't expect him to play fair and let a punch fly without Shinso shooting to lop the hand clean off before it can connect.

#[ headcanon ] fresh snowfall; fading footprints mark his path #thinking abt fight threads (lovingly) again tonight and -- #my boy fights dirty. #but yeah he can take a beating without much issue -- he grew up in the slumiest slums. #get prepared for unfair tactics though if one does chose to opt for a fistfight with him. #he'll bite a chunk outta your neck he'll go full feral your honor. #tw graphic injury

[mooremars]

I really thought when I woke up this morning that somehow I was young and fun enough to have gone out unexpectedly on a work night, have a few drinks, get back at 2, and be totally fine the next day. And then I forgot to use laundry detergent two. separate. times. I think it's time to retire calling myself young, fun was already debatable.

#I mean I got free pretzels and drinks and made prolonged eye contact with a minorly famous person so like worth it #and I learned that apparently a shirley temple with vodka is a real drink #but oh boy am I tired and clearly showing it #Charlotte for ts #also there was a woman who sat next to me for a while and google has inadvertently revealed to me that it was busy philipps??? #was she slumming it or was i batting above my average who's to say #gotta make up for party by going to bed at 8pm in a very young and fun fashion

[theevilqueen394]

That feeling when you REALLY just wanna curl up with some good fanfiction, but you can't FOR THE LIFE OF YOU, figure out what it is you want to read!!! No fandoms or specific characters are sticking out. All I want to do is READ. But I can't fucking PICK WHAT I want to read!!! Or who I want to read about!!! Or what world I want to be transported to!!!

Is this readers block?!?!

Help!! I'm desperate!!!

#readers block #fanfiction #fandom #harry potter #game of thrones #vikings #marvel #star wars #vampire diaries #the 100 #I'm stumped #send help #criminal minds #NCIS #the lost boys #reader slum

[thetoaddaddy]

i keep seeing pics of og naruto where jiraiya is crouching heavily to be on childrens levels to talk to them and man definitely crunches majorly in his sleep esp if he cold

i mean its already not possible by the level hes crouching and loosing 4 ft off his body but hes flexy so he scrunch

He do be crunchin. I love it how he crouches down to speak to kids like the gentle giant he actually is. Def baby chatters to babies and toddlers too. And mama hens them sometimes will lay floof over the smols to protect them.

Maybe controversial but like Jiraiya kinda has russian vibes like his strong square face and tall broad build. Like no wonder he can squat so good he got the slav in him.

#toad daddy asks #🌺 ooc #squats with the boys smoking drinking and playing card games in the streets #he def a deep slum russian like no class here

[starlooove]

Jerrica Benton and Bruce Wayne kin eachother

#they are business partners #omg… #the starlight girls #ppl keep wanting Bruce and Jerrica to be together #but besides the fact that yuck #ppl fight against it by saying the amount of kids they’d adopt combined would cause the universe to spontaneously combust #rumor that theres only starlight girls bc Bruce takes all the boys #Batman tells kids to buy jem albums to promote positive thought and emotion #Dick immediately tells them the misfits are better #even as nightwing #he says they add a lil spice #despite the ALLEGED murder attempts #hood promotes them bc of the murder attempts #do anything to achieve ur dreams guys don’t let anything stop you <3 #omg. #Imma make a post someday about where everyone comes from #rio isnt a gothamite he’s from suicide slums and he THINKS that’s basically a gothamite #hes in for a big ass surprise when he gets to Gotham #jemxbatfam #new tag ig #batfam is for batfam stuff but when I’m being more general it’ll be jemxdc #i was gonna tag em each for exposure but I remembered DPxdc #what a trip to see that discourse no thx

[philtatosbuck]

the sooner we (read: you people) realize kie’s parents aren’t shitty for wanting better for her the sooner we can be normal

#kie carrera #kie has literally been slumming it up and pretending she's poor #and her parents. Want Her To Be Safe? That's Literally It #i love john b & jj & pope but let's be so fucking real #they act like they don't have much to live for #and to be HONEST?? that's because of how they were raised #pope with parents who work all the time just to provide #jj with a dad who was abusive as hell #john b with a dad who was half there #there is a fundamental difference between the boys and kie #they actually have nothing but each other #and kie loves them without a doubt but she doesn't #Get that the pogues didn't start just as a way to cause trouble #they literally had nothing else #kie IS a pogue but she also has good parents who fucking care about her #and she constantly disrespects them #her poor people posing does not actually mean her parents don't care #they don't want her to be friends with three troublemakers? god forbid #they don't want her to get involved anymore with an alleged murderer? God Forbid. #outer banks #i'm Sick of people acting like actual good parents are awful #for wanting their kids to be fucking safe #kie literally slept with pope partially to be able to throw it in her mom's face #like. come on. #kie's mom has never been ashamed of her husband she literally just wants her daughter safe

[rosemariecawkwell]

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

Kids playing in the yard of a tenament, 1936.

Photo: Arnold Eagle via the Jewish Museum

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1930s #Arnold Eagle #tenament #slum #children #boys #kids playing #urban life #street photography #b&w photography

[cospinol]

and also:

double unexpected but it was nice of this show to provide a lightly aste-flavoured chara to go along with him

#‘last second redemption arc for finn’s shitty brother’ was nearly the only enjoyable moment in this deeply deeply dire finale lol #not that it was good in and of itself #but. in an episode of nothing but insanely depressing bs framed as genuinely positive and uplifting good-end stuff #with ‘people in the slum can earn/use love points now’ being by far the most off-the-wall horrifying of the bunch #nonetheless this stupid moment with his stupid brother made me laugh out loud. it feels so grim omg!! #like thank you hack omg<3 the real problem was clearly that ppl living in poverty didn’t have access to predatory social medi fake-currency #without even touching the content moderation stuff omgggggg #gotta say. yurei deco was perhaps not anime of the season #txt #anyways what we were getting at here is I did actually love finn’s backstory ep in and of itself. in a vacuum. that’s my boy

[whoreofhallownest]

I just developed out the alternative Keir idea, and it actually works pretty well! It feels much more like just another sex encounter than anything more.

And also Keir got thrown in jail because she stole a second claw, so I don't have to worry about him for the entire rest of the story lmao

In addition, the ending of the idea spits her right into Crossroads so it'll be easy to continue from. Nice!

As for the others, Hathon's idea got just a minor adjustment, Vespen's been scrapped until I figure out how Colo works, and Zel-Ruunes been scrapped.

And I still have no idea what to do for Nyre. I'm trying my hardest to hang onto him, but man I have zero ideas for what to do with him.

Maybe he could be an unnamed npc encounter in the slums/pleasure house? I was going to put him in Crystal Peaks, bc Moth and Radiance Connection, but like, I don't have any ideas for him there. he doesn't fit with the ideas i already had for that area.

Meanwhile, Slums and Pleasure House are basically free cards. It'd be easy to just throw him in one of them.

I'll poke around at other areas, and if nothing jumps out, I'll probably toss him in one of those.

Slums would make more sense, but Violette's going there right after escaping from the mantises, and that might be too soon.

#Perverse Hallownest ramblings #I still need to figure out the difference between slums and Pleasure House ideas lmao #Nyre my boi I'm trying to keep you but you ain't making it easy

[whereisthedamndaddymanual]

Gonna be honest.

I hope it's a ho nest

Honus Wagoner

Yeah and like, NO tobacco usage anywhere

🚭 also like no kissing in my office ;)

#room 200 and Johnny went to banes and NobEL k #me to arthur in a fellowship of men up this somehow means the boy will read for you when he cines along sir #mmm scribbles... #she teared up and there were still like 3 inches fo go #gotta get that juice in her or out rather #kitchens #large flour scoops of well something that musk be for confectioners sugars #aometimes I like those moments where I realize what we are #also ok cool trick with the internet #like I guess you are gonna find a way to rwxh out and touch someone.... eventually #coming out the slums #and knowing this is like yeah #even a lunatic would want my seed some way some how #the lunatic is on the path.....now he is on the couch....now he is back to pacing the floor #also me: no I actually completely understand what he is going through #I could say he handles it better than I do #and that's ok #a walking talking machine #my little burrito...with another somewhere #looks like her sister but her mother and father isn't that weird #also me yup that's how family works empty nuts #I blow my load and get philosophical #all those cleaning memes well theres your ticket to bring room service #I mean..... #that night when we danced #if we had privacy #um we probably would have done more #I would be on fire and be like hold up turn you around and look right dorectly at your face and be like it's you #fine then I guess you did want it as bad as I did #if you are like that with the The One

[kickmag]

Media Questions Of The Week

Does Derric "D-Dot" Angelettie have a better catalog than J. Dilla? 

#j dilla #deric angelettie #deric d dot angelettie #bad boy records #slum village #Youtube