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reasoningdaily · 8 months

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GREENWOOD, Dist. – On the 102nd anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the Tulsa Community Remembrance Coalition honors unknown victims with a solemn soil collection ceremony at Standpipe Hill in the Historic Greenwood District. The gathered soil, collected from both Standpipe Hill and Oaklawn Cemetery, honors those whose lives were tragically lost during this dark and painful moment in history.

The exact number of victims who perished in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 remains unknown. However, estimations range from 300 to upwards of 500. The event, which took place over a two-day period from May 31 to June 1, resulted in widespread destruction and loss of life in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, also known as “Black Wall Street.” However, due to the chaotic nature of the massacre, the destruction of records, and a lack of comprehensive investigations, an accurate and final count of the victims has never been determined.

Recent efforts to uncover the full extent of the tragedy continue, including through forensic investigations and testimonies from survivors and their descendants.

Greg Robinson, a member of the Tulsa Community Remembrance Coalition, emphasized the significance of gathering at Standpipe Hill. “It is amazing that we honor those unknown who were lost in the Tulsa Race Massacre. That we do it here on truly sacred ground – that actually represents the greatness of what Black Wall Street was, is and will be into the future,” Robinson shared. He then honored the American World War I veterans who lost their lives. “It is not lost on us that we honor veterans on this day as well,” Robinson added.

During the ceremony, Kristi Williams, a member of the Tulsa Remembrance Coalition and a descendant of the massacre, delivered a poignant reading. Through her words, she reminded everyone in attendance of the historical significance of the Tulsa Race Massacre and shed light on the countless victims whose identities have been lost to time, emphasizing the need to remember and honor them.

“Less than two dozen victims have been documented by name, but research has estimated that hundreds of Black men, women and children died in the massacre,” Williams sternly explained.

During Williams’ address, she shared an intriguing detail about the majestic hackberry tree standing tall on Standpipe Hill. She then revealed that this remarkable tree possesses a special ability to grow thick bark over the areas that were once damaged by fire, creating a protective shield against future harm, explaining that its resilient characteristic serves as a metaphor for the community’s ability to heal and endure in the face of adversity.

Williams proceeded to recount the heroic tale of Horace ‘Peg leg’ Taylor, a World War I veteran. She described how Taylor courageously positioned himself atop Standpipe Hill, wielding a gatling gun, and valiantly defended the hill for hours, providing a vital shield for the residents of Greenwood as they sought to escape from the violent White mob.

US Veteran Kenneth ‘K.Roc’ Brant, who works for the Terence Crutcher Foundation, shared a deeply personal reflection on the mental struggle he faced during the Centennial of the Massacre back in 2021.

He recounted the challenge of honoring both the victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre and the veterans during the centennial commemoration, which coincided with Memorial Day weekend.

“That weekend weighed heavily on me. [I was] torn as a Black military veteran and a Black man living in Tulsa,” Brant shared. At the ceremony, Brant recited a poem he wrote called “Holding Space” to express the thoughts and feelings he experienced. “This weekend, we remembered that some gave all. Here in Tulsa, we remembered that some took all. How do I hold space for both?” Brant said.

Brant’s individual story sheds light on the emotional and psychological battle he endured during his time in service and while navigating the complexities of what Black soldiers experienced during the Massacre upon their return to Tulsa after WWI.

#Honoring Unknown Victims of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre #tulsa #white hate #race massacre #american white hate #Black Lives Matter #Tulsa race massacre

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blackberryvision · 10 months

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Thirty Are Better Than One, Andy Warhol. Brant Foundation, E. Vil (this is all Peter Brants personal work/collection)

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blakegopnik · 11 months

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THE FRIDAY PIC is a view of one space in the current Andy Warhol exhibition at the Brant Foundation in New York. I just wrote about it in the New York Times, not even realizing that my review would appear almost on the anniversary of Warhol’s near-fatal shooting by Valerie Solanas on June 3, 1968.

One thing I noticed in the show, but didn’t have room for in my piece, was the surprisingly close link between Warhol’s art and the work of Jackson Pollock and the other AbEx-ers, the art-stars of Warhol’s youth.

That’s not so much because of the (obvious) way in which Rorschach and Oxidation and Shadow paintings by Warhol, as seen on the back wall here, do an obvious riff on AbEx.

The real, deeper link, I think, comes in how much Warhol’s paintings function as records of his presence in the world. That’s very evident with the Oxidations, which come directly “out of” Warhol, you might say, almost the way a Pollock comes “out of” the motion of Pollock’s body and arm. And the Rorschachs also suggest Warhol’s mark-making presence, by virtue of the moments of blotting they record. (Warhol didn’t know, or more likely pretended not to know, that the real Rorschach test consists of a fixed set of manufactured blots.)

But the more important truth is that Warhol’s presence (especially as a gay man) is suggested in very many works that have no visual links to AbEx — in his campy Soups, his martyred Marilyns, his “nuclear-flash” Sunsets (he was born on Aug. 6, the anniversary of Hiroshima). It hardly takes any kind of leap to see Warhol, the man and maker, reflected in a good number of the works he made.

Which means that the usual story we tell about Warhol’s break with out-of-date AbEx may not be quite right: In putting himself “into” his art, he was Pollock’s direct heir. (Photo by Tom Powell, via The Brant Foundation)

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dragonomatopoeia · 2 years

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Working Bibliography

This is a (currently incomplete) inventory of the sources I'm pulling from when researching material for Counter/Feint. It will be divided into three sections: General References (for things like sewage treatment, state laws, tax codes, white collar crime, etc), Original Media (for comics, episodes, movies etc), and In-Line References/Allusions (for when a character's narration makes a literary allusion, uses jargon, or directly quotes a line from part of the source material)

some of them will be in MLA format and some won't because i am prone to arbitrary whims

General References

“A Fix for Combined Sewers — The Cost of Cleanliness.” PBS, 8 June 2022, https://www.pbs.org/show/a-fix-for-combined-sewers-the-cost-of-cleanliness/. Accessed 5 Sept. 2022.

Collins, Chuck. The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions. Polity, 2021.

Delaware's Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health

Delaware Solid Waste Auth. v. News-Journal Co., 480 A.2d 628 (Del. 1984)

Hanley, Tim. Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet's Ace Reporter. Chicago Review Press, 2016.

Houston, Brant, et al. The Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases and Techniques. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002.

Kurkjian, Stephen A. Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled off the World's Greatest Art Heist. Public Affairs, 2016.

Kent County, Delaware's Sewer Regulations

Michel, Casey. American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the Greatest Money-Laundering Scheme in History. Scribe, 2021.

Murphy, Jarrett. “Through Illegal Pipes and Improper Dumping, Homes and Businesses Pollute NYC Waterways.” City Limits, 17 Jan. 2018, https://citylimits.org/2018/01/16/in-unknown-numbers-and-often-unwittingly-homes-and-businesses-pollute-city-waterways/.

Planet Princeton's award-winning series of investigative pieces on the Princeton Sewer Operating Plant bribery case, including this piece: https://planetprinceton.com/2020/03/08/state-fined-municipality-of-princeton-35000-for-operating-illegal-dump-at-sewer-facility/

Ritter, Roy H. “The Wilmington, Delaware Sewerage System.” Sewage and Industrial Wastes, vol. 28, no. 5, 1956, pp. 644–50. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25033068. Accessed 5 Aug. 2022.

Original Media

Superman: The Animated Series- "World's Finest" - This one started the whole exercise because I thought it was hysterical that Lois had dated Bruce/ found out he was Batman WAY before she learnt anything about Superman's identity. Hilarious.

Superman: TAS- "The Late Mr. Kent"- This one's important to me and my characterization of Clark for about one million separate reasons

Batman: TAS- All of it

Batman #177- notable for Bruce Wayne's love of cubist expressionism and also the character of Roy Rennie who shows up here and never again. He wants to be the Alfred Foundation's publicist so, so, so bad. I have realized his dream

chapter 2 edit: this is also where the Lathrop Gallery comes from! In the comics, the Lathrop Gallery received an endowment from the Alfred foundation

Fraction, Matt, et al. Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? DC Comics, 2020.- This is in MLA again because it's physically in front of me. It has a profound impact on my characterization, especially Lois's. Her disdain for conspiracy theories and insistence on using the term 'sociogram' over 'conspiracy board' comes from this. It's also the origin of Janie Olsen

Superboy (1949)- I think it's funny to pick and choose elements from this and incorporate it into Clark's backstory arbitrarily. I also think it's funny that I first wrote the line about Clark wanting to kiss Superman if he hadn't BEEN superman before i started reading Superboy because guess what. He forgets he's superboy constantly. and what does he immediately do. Start sighing over superboy. I am SO good at comics

Superboy #85- Especially notable for the appearance of Mightyboy! "Who is Mightyboy?" you might ask. As well you should, since he appeared once in 1960 and never again. However!!!! This is a surprise tool which will help us later because he lives in my brain and also Clark's backstory

World's Finest #285-288- There's just. A lot to unpack here. But I sure have incorporated it into characterization and quirks! Still undecided on if I want Clark to have super hypnosis or not because I think it would be characterful for him to have it and not use it. and also it's extremely stupid as a concept and i love stupid. but also i hate hypnosis

World's Finest #84- Spoiler for the fic, but this premise was so hilarious to me that I immediately decided to replicate it, but with a twist that is typical of my ethos: making bruce step directly onto a rake

Ironically enough, a similar story was presented in Adventure Comics #275, but again. It does not make Bruce step on enough rakes for my taste. Still works as inspiration though!

Superman Annual #11- For the man who has everything. I love this one so so so so much. It greatly informs my understanding and portrayal of Superman, but also it's just a really tight narrative. Also!!! Jason Robin is there!!! Every day I regret placing this fic on a timeline that doesn't align with Jason making an appearance. Lad of all time.

Also important from Superman Annual #11 is the imagery of Batman pathetically presenting a designer rose he had commissioned special for his boy bestie, only for it to be crushed underfoot in the wake of a battle. now there's some symbolism. there's some pathos. there's some grade a pathetic bruce-isms.

Yang, Gene Luen, and Janice Chiang. Superman Smashes the Klan: The Graphic Novel. DC Comics, 2020. - Absolutely phenomenal work that digs into the diaspora elements of Superman's narrative and grapples with The American Ideal, racism, and what it means to stand for your community against violent bigotry. Also the art is soooo charming. I reference this one a bunch because I love it. It's got everything I love about Superman

There's way more to add but I'm tired and this is a working bibliography. I promise more will come

In-Line References/Allusions

Because comics are the way they are, I wanted to make this fic feel like it existed in a bunch of overlapping time periods all at once.

This means that instead of refraining from making references to broader pop culture like I do with other fics, I'm leaning into them instead. Therefore, some of these are going to be deliberate references that I thought would be characterful. Especially since Lois and Clark are reporters, and Jimmy and Bruce went to fancy schools for fancy little lads

"You're killing me, Smalls"- A famous line from The Sandlot (1993). I am unable to resist the pull of low-hanging fruit

"he could always depend on the kindness of strangers"- semi-ironic deployment of a line from A Streetcar Named Desire. on one hand, Clark genuinely trusts in and relies on mankind's desire to do right by each other. on the other, he thinks bruce wayne is a complete and utter tool here. he's being a bit tongue in cheek about how he's relying on a jackass to help him out

"the pale blue light of a sympathetic moon" is from The Drowsy Chaperone. It's such an evocative phrase. I think Clark would enjoy musicals

"Saint Laurent"- Listen. I read fashion blogs for this. I asked my friends who lose their minds over fashion on the regular. I looked through ready to wear collections and slide shows. And while I want to have faith in the Bruce Wayne that lives in my head and nowhere else, I understand that the search for an ethical designer label is a fruitless one. All I can do is say "in this universe, YSL was never acquired by Gucci, and yet it still, inexpicably, has the insufferable ready to wear collection that includes the ugly fucking gentrified rodeo wear."

also a lot of the outfits look like they're designed for haunted little victorian boys. which. [gestures at him]

"Dorothy [...] you're not in Kansas anymore"- I think this one's obvious, but it's a Wizard of Oz reference

“Is there a ‘c’ in ‘absence’?”- Lois's habit of frequently misspelling words comes up in a lot of adaptations and runs, and I think it's incredibly charming

"There better be a thirty on your buyback piece!"- Traditionally, -30- marks the end of copy that's been submitted for editing

Backfielding- Another term for conducting line edits

Ron Troupe- Political analyst for the daily planet. In comics, he was introduced RIGHT before Superman died but I'm playing calvinball here and I like him :) so

Adam Grant- Cat's son! I'm not killing him off, unlike the comics. There's a lot re: The Toyman where i'm just. y'know. i'm just not gonna. look. at whatever's going on there. So it goes with comics

"the gentle way the strongman had spoken to him, telling him about the disarming power of a silly costume, the way performance became its own kind of strength"- referencing a sequence from Superman Smashes the Klan. This will not be the last time

Lan-Shin Lee- For instance, Lan-Shin is from Superman Smashes the Klan! At the end of the original work, she becomes a cub reporter

Carmine Falcone- I still have never read a frank miller comic and you can't make me. but i will steal the occasional character. for flavor. anyway he's either one of the biggest or the biggest ringleader of organized crime in Gotham, depending on the run and adaptation

“While discontinuous in action, perceived surveillance—”- Bruce is paraphrasing a bit of Discipline & Punish here, specifically the part about panopticism

“Have you tried committing a felony?”- This line comes directly from the World's Finest episodes of Superman: the animated series that first inspired this fic

Superman Signal Watch- this one's a classic. As seen in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, the watch works just as the fic describes

#there was a sewer man #air's dabbles

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spacetimewithstuartgary · 10 months

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Researchers use supercomputer to investigate dark matter

A research team from the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Summit supercomputer to run one of the most complete cosmological models yet to probe the properties of dark matter—the hypothetical cosmic web of the universe that largely remains a mystery some 90 years after its existence was definitively theorized.

According to the Lambda-cold dark matter model of Big Bang cosmology—which is the working model of the universe that many astrophysicists agree provides the most reasonable explanations for why it is the way it is—85% of the total matter in the universe is dark matter. But what exactly is dark matter?

"We know that there's a lot of dark matter in the universe, but we have no idea what makes up that dark matter, what kind of particle it is. We just know it's there because of its gravitational influence," said Bruno Villasenor, a former doctoral student at UCSC and lead author of the team's paper, which was recently published in Physical Review D. "But if we can constrain the properties of the dark matter that we see, then we can discard some possible candidates."

By producing more than 1,000 high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations on the Summit supercomputer located at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the team modeled the Lyman-Alpha Forest, which is a series of absorption features formed as the light from distant bright objects called quasars encounters material along its journey to Earth. These patches of diffuse cosmic gas are all moving at different speeds and have different masses and extents, forming a "forest" of absorption lines.

The researchers then simulated universes with different dark matter properties that affect the structure of the cosmic web, changing the fluctuations of the Lyman-Alpha Forest. The team compared the results from the simulations with fluctuations in the actual Lyman-Alpha Forest observed by telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and then eliminated dark matter contenders until they found their closest match.

Consequently, the team's results were contrary to the Lambda-CDM model's primary contention that the universe's dark matter is cold dark matter—hence the model's abbreviation, which references dark matter's slow thermal velocities rather than its temperature. Instead, the study's top prospect indicated the opposite supposition: We may indeed be living in a universe of warm dark matter, with faster thermal velocities.

"Lambda-CDM provides a successful view on a huge range of observations within astronomy and cosmology. But there are slight cracks in that foundation. And what we're really trying to do is push at those cracks and see whether there are issues with that fundamental foundation. Are we on solid ground?" said Brant Robertson, project leader and a professor at UCSC's Astronomy and Astrophysics Department.

Beyond possibly unsettling a few long-held assumptions about dark matter, and the universe itself, the UCSC project also stands out for its computational feat. The team accomplished an unprecedentedly comprehensive set of simulations produced with state-of-the-art simulation software that accounts for the physics that shape the structure of the cosmic web and leverages the computational power of the largest supercomputers in the world.

The UCSC team used a GPU-optimized hydrodynamics code called Cholla, or Computational Hydrodynamics On ParaLLel Architectures, as the starting point for its simulations on Summit. Developed by Evan Schneider, an assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cholla was originally intended to help users better understand how the universe's gases evolve over time by acting as a fluid dynamics solver. However, the UCSC team required several more physics solvers to tackle its dark matter project, so Villasenor integrated them into Cholla over the course of three years for his doctoral dissertation at UCSC.

"Basically, I had to extend Cholla by adding some physics: the physics of gravity, the physics of dark matter, the physics of the expanding universe, the physics of the chemical properties of the gases and the chemical properties of hydrogen and helium," Villasenor said. "How is the gas going to be heated by radiation in the universe? How is that going to propagate the distribution of the gas? These physics are necessary to do these kinds of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations."

In the process, Villasenor has assembled one of the most complete simulation codes for modeling the universe. Previously, astrophysicists typically had to choose which parameters to include in their simulations. Now, combined with the computing power of Summit, they have many more physical parameters at their disposal.

"One of the things that Bruno accomplished is something that researchers have wanted to do for many years and was really only enabled by the supercomputer systems at OLCF: to actually vary the physics of the universe dramatically in many different ways," Robertson said. "That's a huge step forward—to be able to connect the physics simultaneously and do that in a way in which you can compare them directly with the observations.

"It just hasn't been possible before to do anything like this. It's orders of magnitude, in terms of computational challenge, beyond what had been done before."

Schneider, who advised Villasenor on his work to extend Cholla, said she thinks his additions will be "totally critical" as she prepares Cholla for her own simulations on the new exascale-class Frontier supercomputer, which is housed along with Summit at the OLCF, a DOE Office of Science user facility at ORNL. She is leading a project through the Frontier Center for Accelerated Application Readiness program to simulate the Milky Way galaxy and will be using some of the solvers added by Villasenor.

"Astrophysics software is very different than other kinds of software because I don't think there's ever any sort of ultimate version, and that certainly isn't the case for Cholla," Schneider said. "You can think of Cholla as being a multitool, so the more pieces we add to our multitool, the more kinds of problems we can solve. If I built the original tool as just a pocketknife, then it's like Bruno's added a screwdriver—there are a whole class of problems we can solve now that we couldn't address with the original code. As we keep adding more and more things, we'll be able to tackle more and more complicated problems."

TOP IMAGE....The cosmic web shown in detail with other critical components of the simulations including dark matter, gas, temperature and neutral hydrogen density. The last panel shows the absorption features of the Lyman-alpha forest. Credit: Bruno Villasenor/UCSC

CENTRE IMAGE....The gas distribution tracing the cosmic web and a set of skewers that cross the simulation box along which the Lyman-Alpha Forest absorption features are computed from the simulation and used to compare to observations. Credit: Bruno Villasenor/UCSC

LOWER IMAGE.....This figure illustrates how the temperature of the cosmic web changes as you change the intensity of the ionizing energy from quasars from left to right and as you change the timing of when these quasars form from bottom to top. This image was generated from another large grid simulation that we also ran on Summit. Credit: Bruno Villasenor/UCSC

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #spacetimewithstuartgary #starstuff #spacetime #dark matter

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jordi-gali · 2 years

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Josh Smith - The American Dream Exhibition - The Brant Foundation https://www.brantfoundation.org/exhibitions/josh-smith-the-american-dream/

#josh smith

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drownmeinbeauty · 2 years

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A PORTRAIT OF THE YOUNG MAN

King Pleasure is an immense, immersive exhibit about art star Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died in 1988 at the age of twenty-seven. His sisters Lisane and Jeanine chose works to display here from those bequeathed to them, wrote the wall texts, and directed Architect David Adjaye in the installation design. Not surprisingly, the result is very personal.

The show, that fills the ground floor of the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, leads one through Basquiat's career chronologically. It includes literal recreations of his childhood home in Boerum Hill and his adult studio on Grand Street. Video monitors play interviews with the artist's family members and associates. We hear about Basquiat pranking a babysitter as a boy, deciding to become an artist as a teen, and achieving world celebrity as a young adult. His dealer Anina Nosei tells how, on a flight to Paris, he left his first class seat to join her in economy. There's plenty of sentimentality in these stories but not much about the art. What kind of artistic training did Basquiat have? Why did he use oil sticks rather than paintbrushes? How did he transform a personal syntax of words and symbols, almost alchemically, into canvases of orchestral grandeur?

The Brant Foundation opened in 2018 with a display of large Basquiat canvases, the ones sold through his galleries, and what a glorious spectacle it was. They were bold and seductive, alive and mysterious, rich with narrative. They held their own in the elegant, super-sized spaces of the gallery.

The works in King Pleasure are mostly smaller in size and ambition; many are studies for the large canvases sold to his dealers. They are presented here as artifacts, not art. Basquiat's siblings want to capture their brother's humanity. I can understand their desire to control the narrative but the narrative, however dramatic, holds limited interest. The paintings hold much more.

Photograph © Ivane Katamashvili .

#ART #EXHIBITION #GALLERY #PAINTING #SCULPTURE #DRAWING #Basquiat #DavidAdjaye

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spacesuitsims · 2 years

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And with that, Ash completed the Serial Romantic aspiration. It’s finally happening!! Ashton is out of his fuckboy phase and ready to be a decent sim

Ascendant Legacy Challenge Rules

gameplay tag: #ts4 ascendant legacy

Libra Rising Zodiac Challenges:

Cheerful, Romantic

Aspiration: Serial Romantic or Villainous Valentine, and Super Parent

Career: Law or Detective or Secret Agent

Modality: Cardinal Air, Planetary Ruler: Venus

Libra is ruled by Venus, the planet of desire and harmony. They are the social butterfly of the zodiac with a magnetizing energy. Libras are the only sign ruled by an object, the scales which represent balance and justice. As a result, Libras Risings have the ability to adapt and see neutrality and nuance in situations, which makes them a great investigator. Opposites attract is a common theme as the birth chart is the opposite of the natural order. Libras Risings can often struggle with emotions, feeling overly emotional reacting to mundane aspects of life and detached during tragedies or joyful events.

Your Libra is leaning a bit too far to one side of the scales, do you choose good, or do you choose chaos?

Choose the Super Parent aspiration after the aspiration in note 1

Fall for a telemarketing scam / investment scam should it present itself

Perform comedy routines or busking one night of the week

Gen 2 – 2nd house: House of Resources

The 2nd house is the resources of the native and focuses on what the person has and values. It occurs directly after the 1st house and holds the foundation of the identity through the native’s resources. As a second Gen heir, your focus is on what they own.

Play with the cursed lot trait from Gen 2’s birth (regardless if Gen 2 heir is first born), your Gen 1 sim accidently built their house on sacred land and the ancient spirits are angry… rightfully. (Note 3)

Complete one collection of your choice

Make 3 wishes in the wishing well, without bribes and live with the consequences (do this after Gen 3 is born / or if a solo household shift+click another sim into your household to prevent potential game over). Alternative: Make all your decisions using the future cube.

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Maura (she/they) is Eila’s best friend but has always had a crush on Ashton. Ash was out on a date with Alexus Hecking (Brant Hecking’s daughter) who he was extremely attracted to (WW), but I couldn’t finish the date because he kept autonomous queueing interactions with Maura from across the lot. Guess he knew exactly who he wanted his final partner to be...

fun fact - Maura is actually my Gemini rising heir and the OG tester of ALC before I made Aspen. It’s only right that I included them back into the story.

#ts4 ascendant legacy #ts4 legacy #s4 gameplay #sims 4 gameplay #my gameplay #sims 4 legacy challenge #ts4 astrology legacy #ts4 screenshots #Zodic family #Zodic Gen 2

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Kin pride thing:

Olga Romanov from Syren of the Skies? Not straight, but society hadn't advanced enough for us to have more vocabulary than that about it.

Rick Brant? (#Rick🌟) Aroace but I had no idea at the time, because I was born in 1930 and American society wasn't having conversations about ace people even in forward-thinking circles until the late 60's/early 70's. Shoutout to Scott for telling me not to force myself to date anyone in multiple books, he was a very good ally and a great friend.

Agent Charde, aka "beetroot friend", according to the mods back in the day, from SCP Foundation? Too traumatized to know due to canon.

In conclusion: I was just as lost then as I am now about my non cishetallo identities and it's wild that I'm on life number four and have learned precisely nothing. Maybe I'll get it together sometime in this life. We can but hope.

#fictionkinfessions #fictionkin #canon genders and sexualities #olgaromanovkin #syrenoftheskieskin #rickbrantkinrickbrantserieskin #agentchardekin #scpkin #BEE TROOT FREIND HIEE #mod party cat!

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ganhosdoelefante · 5 months

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New York - 27 de maio de Ano 3 - Domingo - Doc - 27 anos

07:00 - Acordo e malho com Pi:

08:00 - Volto, tomo banho e me arrumo.

08:40 - Tomamos café: Juice Press

09:10 - Vamos ao museu: The Brant Foundation

09:50 - Saímos. 10:20 - Chegamos um local famoso de chocolate: The Chocolate Room

10:40 - Vamos ao cine: Cobble Hill Cinemas

12:50 - Almoçamos: Topaz Thai Authentic

14:00 - Voltamos e relaxamos na piscina.

15:00 - Voltamos, tomamos banho e ficamos confy. 15:30 - Ficamso vendo filme e cochilamos.

18:30 - Tomamos banho e nos arrumamos para jantar. 19:30 - Janto com Pi: Indian Accent

Começamos os drinks.

Depois, jantamos.

21:40 - Voltamos e dormimos.

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ear-worthy · 6 months

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The Art Career Podcast Launches Season Four -- Caviar, Vampires & Warhol

There are some troubling trends in our society related to the arts. First, West Virginia University has eviscerated its language and humanities programs. It’s only the first of prominent colleges shifting their focus away from the arts.

Second, the arts have been attached to some “woke” conspiracy by unnamed elitists. That is silly since, the arts offer us a richness and fullness to our lives, and offers us avenues to perspectives and insights we may have missed.

That's why I like The Art Career podcast with Emily McElwreath so much. The podcast celebrates the arts, the people involved, and the value the arts add to the vibrancy of our society and its culture. Here is the mission statement of the podcast: "Want to learn and be inspired by the leading art professionals who are shaping our culture? The Art Career Podcast is a space, breaking barriers by letting you sit in on candid, straightforward conversations with leaders in visual arts, writing, music, theater and film. Join New York-based advisor, curator, and overall artist advocate, Emily McElwreath as she dives deep into topics like self-development, career trajectories, mental health, social justice, and the artists that have changed our lives"

The host, Emily McElwreath, asserts, "With each episode, our mission is to empower you, expanding your journey through the arts."

To be clear, McElwreath doesn't just have guests who are artists in the sense of painting. To her, "artist" is an expansive term, so she has writers, fashion experts, poets, educators, and even a critic.

The Art Career podcast just began its fourth season in mid-October with an episode named, Matthew Tully Dugan: Caviar, Vampires, and Warhol. In the episode, artist Mathew Tully Dugan cooks the most delicious small plate for the host's editor Ben and the host. --Thomas Keller’s potato pavé with whipped roasted bone marrow, salt cured egg yolk, hackleback caviar and wasabi microgreens. "A most delicious way to launch Season 4!" McElwreath announces as she savors the food. Her guest, Matthew Tully Dugan has an impressive body of work -- His paintings, sculptures, installations, texts, and curatorial projects collapse the popular and the subcultural, the collective and the personal, as a means of processing contemporary conditions and their impact on the psyche. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Will Shott, NY (2023), 56 Henry, New York (2022), Loveclub, NY (2021), Fierman, New York, NY (2018) as well as a public works in collaboration with Half Gallery, NY (2023). Dugan also runs a curatorial program, Art Death with yearly exhibitions in Miami Beach. Tully's upcoming exhibition, "Inferno", will open at Lomex's new Walker Street project space this Halloween. It will be up until November 5th.

In the fourth season, it’s not an exaggeration to say that McElwreath has gotten even better as a host. She has a natural ease about her, and that translates into a voice that calms, challenges, and crackles with kinetic energy.

Emily McElwreath owns a firm, McElwreath Art Advisory, which is a full-service firm that provides guidance and assistance to art collectors through a comprehensive list of services. She has over seventeen years of experience as an advisor, independent curator, and art educator.

Throughout her career, Emily McElwreath has worked on blockbuster exhibitions, including Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Nate Lowman at The Brant Foundation, as well as lecturing at top NYC museums including The Whitney and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

That blend of the real world with the academic makes McElwreath the perfect person to create and host the podcast.

The podcast is supported by ⁠The New York Studio School.⁠ Founded in 1964 as an intensive studio arts program with an emphasis on perception, artists learning from artists, and drawing as the most direct means of describing one’s ideas or experiences, the Studio School offers an array of full-time and part-time programs that prioritize small classes and individual guidance from dedicated instructors distinguished in their fields.

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