#anti miquel

[glowing-disciple]

Reading List - 2024

Currently Reading:

Champions of the Rosary by Donald H. Calloway

The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Books Read:

The Complete Book of Kitchen Collecting by Barbera E. Mauzy

Dreaming the Biosphere by Rebecca Reider

Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Funny Number Tricks by Rose Wyler

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis

Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Gödel, and the History of Archetypes by Robin Robertson

Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis

Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks

Reflections on Evolution by Fredrick Sproull

Roadie: My Life on the Road with Coldplay by Matt McGinn

Time for Bed, Sleepyheads by Normand Chartier

Future Reading:

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Adventures in Cryptozoology Vol. 1 by Richard Freeman

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez

Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions by Philip S. Callahan

The Anti-Mary Exposed by Carrie Gress

The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle

The Art Nouveau Style by Stephan Tschudi Madsen

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Cairngorms by Patrick Baker

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Cubism by Guillaume Apollinaire

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Evolution by Nowell Stebbing

Expressionism by Ashley Bassie

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by Hal Johnson

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

Fundamentals of Character Design by Various Authors

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Humorous Ghost Stories by Various Authors

Illuminated Manuscripts by Tamara Woronowa

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Joan Miro by Joan Miro

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter

Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

Living by the Sword by Eric Demski

The Longest Cocktail Party by Richard DiLello

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

Otis Spofford by Beverly Clearly

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD by Jonas Jonasson

The River by Gary Paulsen

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill

The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology by Deena West Budd

The White Mountains by John Christopher

#reading list #to update as I go

[bowenandjohnson]

i had a feeling since the season description was released that anaïs and bobbie were probably going to be illustrated as a toxic or bad relationship in the end. for the entire season, the writers have shown that this is anaïs’ first romantic partner, and her first sexual experience. anaïs doesn’t know any different. i think it’s also important to note that earlier in the season, when the two first got together, bobbie was continually pushing anaïs to go public, and was even using finn to antagonize her and make her come out — i honestly think we glossed over that a bit too much. i think it just further reinforces bobbie’s disregard for others’ feelings and wellbeing, as long as she gets the outcome she desires. she put hanne in the hospital, and was still able to sleep soundly, she didn’t want anaïs to call ada, and to skip work and stay with her. the red flags are red flagging.

of course, bobbie is 16 years old, but her age shouldn’t shield her from the fact that she needs to take accountability for her actions and get help for her substance abuse, as well as therapy to learn more appropriate coping mechanisms & to talk about her family and her family structure.

i honestly hope anaïs and bobbie are apart at the end of the season, because i think it would be important for teenagers to see that it is okay not to be the fixer or the solution to someone’s needing help, and that it is important to encourage specialized, professional help and support that these kids aren’t equipped to handle. but do i have faith in these writers? 🤷🏼‍♀️

i hope this made sense, i literally just woke up.

(ps: if these writers also bring anaïs and finn together romantically, i think it could be an interesting contrast to her relationship with bobbie… similar to nora’s relationships with alejandro and jorge vs her relationship with miquel in skam españa s3.)

(pps: i am not an anobbie or bobbie anti, i honestly just think it’s better at this point if they work on themselves individually as people. they could always reconnect in future seasons! i am also a person who has lost my own father young, and seen how addictions can take a toll on people you’re close to, so i have a lot of sympathy for both bobbie and hanne!)

#wtfock #anaïs davis #bobbie de bruyn #hanne dewit

[useless-catalanfacts]

“For shouting ‘I want the Statute!’, Miquel was murdered.”

This is the first line of the song that Al Tall dedicated to Miquel Grau, a 22-year-old boy who was murdered by a fascist on October 6th 1977, when he was posting a poster calling for a demonstration of October 9th (the national day of the Valencian people) to ask for a Statue of Autonomy (a greater degree of autonomy for the Valencian Country instead of centralism from Spain’s capital city).

Even though the murderer -a fascist man member of the Spanish supremacist organization Fuerza Nueva- confessed to killing Miquel because he couldn’t stand seeing posters for the Valencian national day, this was not treated as a hate crime. He was originally sentenced to 12 years of prison for murder, but the Minister of Justice of the Spanish Government granted him a partial pardon and reduced his sentence to only 4 years. Then, he studied law and went on to become an attorney for big firms, as well inheriting the ownership of gas stations and insurance companies.

You can read more about Miquel’s murder in this previous post.

Immediately, all the people who were pro-independence protested against this new attack of fascist violence. They were days of silent homages. But the governor was worried that Miquel’s funeral would incite further protest. For this reason, the police kidnapped Miquel’s 3 friends who were with him posting the posters and who had taken him to the hospital.

8,000 people showed up to the funeral. During the coffin’s procession, the anti-riot police showed up and didn’t let the funeral procession continue. They made the coffin tumble and knocked off the flower crown that Miquel’s girlfriend had placed on it. Then, the police took the coffin and put it in the police car, as the funeral attendees tried to stop it. Miquel’s coffin was taken to the cemetery alone, escorted by a car of the municipal police and another car of the Spanish military police.

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Al Tall is a Valencian folk music band who played traditional Valencian/Mediterranean music and their own compositions based on traditional music. Very soon after Miquel’s murder, Al Tall had taken a traditional Valencian song and given it this new lyrics:

Per cridar "vull l'Estatut!" ai, ai, ai, ai... Per cridar "vull l'Estatut!" a Miquel l'assassinaren.

For shouting ‘I want the Statute!’ For shouting ‘I want the Statute!’ Miquel was murdered.

Açò passà en Alacant, soledat de l'ai, ai, ai... Açò passà en Alacant, en Alacant el mataren

This happened in Alacant, [Alacant was Miquel’s city] loneliness of oh, oh, oh... This happened in Alacant, in Alacant they killed him.

Per cridar "vull l'Estatut!" a Miquel l'assassinaren.

For shouting ‘I want the Statute!’ Miquel was murdered.

Ja el porten a soterrar, ai, ai, ai, ai... Ja el porten a soterrar, l'acompanya tot lo poble.

They’re taking him to be buried, They’re taking him to be buried, the whole town accompanies him.

No poguerem dir-li adéu, soledat de l'ai, ai, ai... No poguerem dir-li adéu, perquè el taüt ens furtaren.

We couldn’t say goodbye to him, We couldn’t say goodbye to him, because they stole the coffin.

Ja el porten a soterrar, l'acompanya tot lo poble.

They’re taking him to be buried, the whole town accompanies him.

Per guanyar la llibertat, ai, ai, ai, ai... Per guanyar la llibertat, quants germans tenen de caure.

To win our freedom, To win our freedom, how many brothers must fall?

Miquel Grau ja no està ací, soledat de l'ai, ai, ai... Miquel Grau ja no està ací, quan avui tots l'esperàvem.

Miquel Grau isn’t here anymore, Miquel Grau isn’t here anymore, when we all expected him today.

Per guanyar la llibertat, quants germans tenen de caure.

To win our freedom, how many brothers must fall?

#miquel grau #història #valencianophobia #catalanophobia #música #arts #al tall #país valencià #music #traditional music #antifascism #antifascist #folk music #world music #memòria històrica #historical memory #1970s #history #recent history #working class history

[docpiplup]

A new upcoming film, Un cel de plom (2023)

@asongofstarkandtargaryen

On April 28, Un cel de plom (Ashes in the Sky), the first fiction film by Miquel Romans that tells the life of Neus Català, one of the last survivors of the Ravensbrück Nazi extermination camp, will be released in theaters. Nausicaa Bonnín (Tres díascon la familia, La luz de Elna) puts herself in the shoes of the historic woman in a free adaptation of the homonymous book by Carme Martí (Amsterdam Publishing House, 2012), specifically in one of its episodes, in the which narrates the return home of this activist in the anti-fascist struggle and a reference to the French resistance.

«This is a story of overcoming, of absences and of struggle for memory, a story of women fighters and dreamers. Neus died in April 2019 at the age of 103 and this film wants to be a tribute to her”, explains Romans, who makes his feature film debut with this film that will have its world premiere on the day April 22 as a film in competition in the Official Section of the BCN Film Fest 2023.

Catalá was born in 1915 in Guiamets. Once the Civil War broke out, she worked in defense of the Republic as a nurse, and finally crossed the border with France along with 180 boys and girls from one of Negrín's colonies. There she joined the Resistance, together with her husband, Albert Roger. Her militancy ended in detention and torture in Limoges prison and she was finally deported in 1944 to the Ravensbrück women's extermination camp. From Ravensbrück she was transferred to the Holleischen labor camp (Czechoslovakia), where she joined a group of women who sabotaged the bullet production factory where the Nazis made them work. They were known as El Comando de Gandulas.

In 1945, with the liberation of the Nazi camps, Neus Català returns to France after being imprisoned by the German army. As she recovers her life in freedom, she recalls the events of when she formed part of El Comando de Gandulas. But the true resistance of Neus Català begins now: the fight for memory.

Cast: Nausicaa Bonnín, Rachel Lascar, Roger Batalla, Iria del Río, Natalia Barrientos, Paula Vélez, Laura Conejero, Quitterie Picamoles, Pep Ferrer, Daniel Horvath, Christiane Dollmann and Fernando Corral.

• Screenplay: Miquel Romans, Lydia Zimmermann

• Photography: Marc Zumbach

• Production: Miquel Romans

Un cel de plom is produced by Principal 2 Films and Comando de Gandulas AIE in co-production with TV3, with the participation of Aragón TV and the support of the ICEC. Filmax will distribute it in theaters.

#un cel de plom #period dramas #upcoming films #nausicaa bonnin #rachel lascar #roger batalla #iria del río #natalia barrientos #paula vélez #laura conejero #quitterie picamoles #pep ferrer #daniel horvath #christiane dollman #fernando corral #miquel romans

[jojiship]

Being happy that she broke up with him and is finally free of him, remembering the photos:

#skam españa #skam espana s3 #nora grace #miqhell #diquel #anti miquel

[waru-chan8]

I wanted Pons to win, but I'll take that podium if it means Aegerter is out of it

#MotoE #Gran Premio Red Bull de España #Spanish GP 2022 #Miquel Pons #anti-Aegerter

[norgestan]

skames said: noorhelm was a toxic couple and we’re gonna prove it

#skam españa #skam #anti noorhelm #nora grace #miquel pombo #william magnusson #noora saetre #sana bakkoush #amira naybet #allow me to be a little bit salty about the noora sana convo w that comparison please JSKD #anyways skames you're the only bitch in this house that i ever respected #my gifs #og

[prettylittleheronstairs]

what if

what if season 3 of SKAM España ends in a bad way for Nora? I mean, season 2 of Noora ends with Noora moving to London with William. We all know that that did not end up well - they broke up. So what if this trip to Rome is the London thing?

Then in Season 4 we see from Amira’s POV a changed Nora.

IDK, I hope to see Nora struggling with the aftermath of a toxic relationship but I dont know what to think anymore.

Maybe she does go to Rome with Miquel and thats when the girl squad finds out about Miquel’s true colours... (Eva telling how their friendship is becoming weird, Alejandro telling the she blocked him... maybe Viri pieces things together?) but it’s too late???

idk its just thoughts that come to my head and I need to write down

#skam españa #skam spain #miquel pombo #dique #miqhell #anti noorhelm #nora grace #noreva #skamverse #miquel and nora

[academyofbrokenhearts]

Unpopular opinion right under the cut.

I still don’t like this season.

Okay, the portrayal of an abusive relationship was very well done, and I can vouch for that. But when you put everything in context, it just... does not work.

This was supposed to be Nora’s season. We were supposed to see things from her perspective, to connect with her and understand her. And it’s kind of difficult to do this, when the writers made her jump from harmless Alejandro to Miquel, rhymes with hell.

I can understand them not liking Noorhelm, there were lots of things I didn’t like about them either (I’ve written about this before). It amuses me to no end though how they decided to change the narrative by splitting OG William up into a Good William (Alejandro, whom, apart from that rude comment towards Viri, was The Good Guy all along) and a Bad William (Miquel, whom we did not know and did not care about, and who was written as a cartoon villain, with little depth or personality otherwise).

Like, if they really wanted to make A Point about the toxic aspects of Noorhelm, why not keep the original story and have Nora call Alejandro on his bullshit at the end, and dump him, instead of building things up towards what would have been the healthiest Noorhelm in all remakes, only to switch things in the very first episode of the season, and then serve us woman pain and toxicity in almost every scene?

#SKAM España #SKAM Spain #don't read if you think this season is super innovative and amazing #Nora Grace #Alejandro Beltrán #Alejandro Beltrán de Miguel #Miquel has no rights #criticism #anti Noorhelm #more like Noorhelm critical

[gayfromnowhere]

Hey! I made a quick edit showing some of the signs of emotional abuse in Minora's relationship. I hope you like it. :)

#skam espãna #skam edit #skames #norandro #anti minora #anti miquel pombo #nora grace #alejandro beltrán

[betrosla]

“Antic nom del carrer. Dedicat a Miquel Pedrola, militant del POUM (Partit Obrer d’Unificació Marxista) i milicià mort al front d’Osca. Veï de la Barceloneta”. Barcelona. Catalunya. 08/06/2019. Foto de Pepín.

#betrosla #barcelona #Barceloneta #poum #miquel pedrola #catalunya #catalonia #antifeixista #anti-fascist #troskista #trotskyist

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

The natural brightness of the night sky A recent study analyses data collect4d at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete reference method to measure the natural brightness of the night sky using low-cost photometers. Of the 44 photometers in the survey, the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma, Canary Islands) stands out at the darkest of all the skies analysed. The night sky is not completely dark; even in the remotest places there is a glow in the sky produced by natural components, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial, and by artificial lighting of human origin. Even though the main bright sources such as the Moon, the Milky Way, and the Zodiacal light are easily recognisable, there is a glow which dominates the sky brightness on the darkest nights, produced in the upper layers of the atmosphere, and whose strength depends on a set of complex factors such as the time of year, the geographical location, and the solar cycle. Solar Cycles are ordered in periods of activity lasting 11 years. We refer to solar maximum when the activity of the Sun has grown, sunspots appear on its surface, and its radiative emission has grown, which affects the molecules in the Earth's atmosphere, causing an increase in the brightness of the night sky. When these events are much reduced we call this solar minimum. In 2018 Solar Cycle 24 entered into this phase and since then a series of photometers, TESS, situated around the world, have collected 11 million measurements which have been used to define a method of reference for the study of natural darkness with equipment of this kind. Among the results in the article, which will soon be published in The Astronomical Journal, there are outstanding "systematic observations of short period variations (of the order of tens of minutes, or of hours) in the brightness of the sky, independently of the site, the season, the time of night, or of solar activity, and which have been shown, for the first time, with low cost photometers, to be associated with events produced in the upper layers of the mesosphere, that is to say to the "airglow", explains Miguel R. Alarcón, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and first author of the article. "This work has demonstrated the high sensitivity of low-cost photometers if they are linked in a network. The final analysis of the full set of TESS photometers shows the Gegenschein, a faint glow in the night sky, visible around the ecliptic, the same plane on which we see the zodiacal light and the planets" explains Miquel Serra-Ricart, an astronomer at the IAC and a co-author of the article. "The network of photometers has shown, yet again, that the Canary Observatories are in the First Division" he adds. From the 44 photometers which took data from such places as Namibia, Australia, Mexico, Argentina and the United States, among others, it was possible to determine that the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM, Garafía, La Palma, Canary Islands) is the darkest of all of them". As can be read in the article, the darkness at the ORM is very close to natural darkness, artificial light adds only 2% to the sky background. From the network of photometers installed in the Spanish Peninsula, we should pick out the excellent sky darkness in the Community of Extremadura, the region of Montsec (Lleida), Javalambre (Teruel) the Sierra Nevada and the Pyrenees in Navarre. Studying light pollution The glow produced by the scattering of artificial light at night (ALAN) by the components of the atmosphere (gas molecules, aerosols, clouds...) is known as artificial skyglow. Estimates suggest that more than 10% of the Earth's surface receives ALAN and that this figure increases to 23% if we include the atmospheric skyglow. Some 80% of the human population lives in places with light pollution, and around a third of them cannot see the Milky Way. There are few places left in the world where one can appreciate, observe, and measure the natural darkness. The worrying consequences of light pollution due to human activity, for nature, our health, and for astronomy, have motivated scientific interest in this type of atmospheric pollution. Over the last decades, various increasingly accurate devices have been developed and marketed to measure the darkness at night. The TESS photometers of the STARS4ALL project, which made this study possible, are based on the same sensor as the Sky Quality Meter (SQM) photometer. EELabs: The sustainable use of artificial lighting But now there are new projects under way using new technologies, to continue to investigate this threat. This article proposes that to measure the reach of light pollution it is necessary to combine measurements of the scattered light from urban nuclei made from space (mainly from satellites) with maps of darkness in remote natural areas taken by installing networks of self-running photometers with high time resolution and a mean separation of several kilometres. This is one of the main aims of the EELabs project. EELabs (Energy Efficiency Laboratories) is coordinated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, with participation by the Portuguese Society for the study of Birds (SPEA), the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and the Technological Institute for Renewable Energies (ITER). TOP IMAGE....In the upper part of the image, the Observatory of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma, Canary Islands) taken in February 2020. The lower part shows the sky in the southern hemisphere from the La Silla Observatory (ESO, Chile) in April 2016. In this composition the Milky Way runs almost vertically above and below the horizon. In the upper half Venus is immersed in the Zodiacal Light, which produces a complete circle through the starry sky. Andromeda and the Magellanic Clouds can also be seen. This image, produced by astrophotographers Juan Carlos Casado and Petr Horálek, was Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) on February 27th 2020 (apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200227.html) CREDIT Juan Carlos Casado and Petr Horálek CENTRE IMAGE....A vertical panorama obtained from the Teide Observatory, which shows a bright Zodiacal light centred on the Teide volcano under snow (Teide National Park, Tenerife), with the Milky Way in winter, from the star Sirius to the left (this is the brightest star in the night sky) to the double cluster in Perseus on the right. In the upper part of the image there is the faint Gegenschein which can be seen only with very dark sky. This image was taken within an initiative against light pollution by the European project STARS4ALL (www.stars4all.eu). STARS4ALL is designed to increase social sensitivity about the negative effects of artificial light on human welfare, biodiversity, the visibility of the stars, security, and energy waste. CREDIT Juan Carlos Casado LOWER IMAGE....The Gegenschein is a faint bright spot on the night sky located in the opposite direction to the Sun, (the "anti-solar" point) on the ecliptic. The Gegenschein can be detected only in dark places with very low levels of light pollution. The previous image was taken on March 11th 2021 from the Teide Observatory (IAC, Tenerife). CREDIT Juan Carlos Casado

#space #science #Astronomy #physics #news

[useless-catalanfacts]

De Salses a Guardamar i de Fraga a l’Alguer: les comarques de parla catalana una a una. 33/88: el Baix Penedès (Penedès, Catalonia). 

Baix Penedès (“Lower Penedès”) is a coastal district whose capital city is el Vendrell, a city known for being the birthplace of Pau Casals, considered one of the greatest cello players of all times and one of the most significant peace and anti-Francoism activists of the 20th century.

Àngel Guimerà, one of the most important poets and playwriters of 19th century Catalan literature, was also raised in Baix Penedès, where his father was from (Àngel himself was born in the Canary Islands).

Even though the coast of this shire is touristic for the beach, it also has a lot of culture to offer. There are archaeological sites from Prehistory to nowadays, including some important sites of the Ancient Iberian culture in Calafell and Banyeres del Penedès.

Photos from El Vendrell Turístic, Xino xano per Catalunya, Tech Sales Group, Angela Llop (2), Miquel Badal Ramon, Gabriel Mestre Solé, Penedès turisme.

#comarques #baix penedès #pau casals #àngel guimerà #arts #música #literatura

[unpensadoranonimo]

Opiniones de política española (12/4/2021)

¿Cuánto nos va a costar Madrid? - Cristina Monge

Experimentos en Twitch y 'ciclón Ayuso' en Facebook: así es el 4-M digital - J. Bocanegra

La batalla de Madrid (2): duelo al sol entre Iglesias y Errejón - César Calderón

La gira 'anti Ayuso' y 'anti Iglesias' de Abascal y Monasterio: visitarán todos los pueblos - El Confidente

Periodistas en la mira de los comunistas - Miquel Giménez

Por la República, noventa años después - Víctor Arrogante

Sánchez y la gestión del odio - Jesús Cacho

Su Majestad España: la república era esto - Antonio Casado

#opiniones #politica #españa #psoe #podemos #pp

[yasminaseason]

the way SOME skam españa antis are so thickheaded that they think nora’s season is about her “romance” with miquel without actually knowing what’s happening when the entire season is about a toxic relationship and how it can happen to ANYONE and it’s not the victim’s fault.....the way some of you hate women

#skam españa #im 100% ok with people disliking skam esp or not watching it it’s not my place to decide that #but at least don’t talk bs if you don’t know anything

[jojiship]

Me after the 21:30 clip:

#skam españa #skam espana s3 #nora grace #anti miquel #diquel #miqhell #i don't want her to get hurt by him #but I know she will