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rocknluvy · 1 year

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dead poets and pets headcanons! their childhood/family pets, favourite animals, and what pets i think they would actually 'end up' with

neil perry

have you seen thomas perry? have you heard him speak? neil did not have a childhood pet. i think he really wanted a dog as a kid, but after a while of his father refusing, he would resort to asking for a fish or a hamster. his father's answer did not change absolutely adores the welton dog and always tries to sneak him treats and headpats and hugs and kisses and- he's just full of love yk he also seems like a fan of rodents? like guinea pig, hamsters and such,, he absolutely gets a dog after welton [more in todd's section]

todd anderson

the andersons bought jeffrey a cat for his fourteenth birthday it's a korat, his name is benjamin and he's a huge jerk -to everyone but todd. so it's more of todd's cat than anyone else's. todd loves cats overall, he enjoys how they just are, and finds their presence calming. once he moves out he takes benjamin with him and literally no one tries to fight him on this. also i think later in life he and neil would get a therapy dog to help todd deal with his anxiety, and neil with his trauma/depression. every once in a while one of the poets might feel down too, and todd's more than happy to let them 'borrow' the dog i feel like he would find arachnids fun, but his parents find them gross, and neil's is afrad of them, so he wouldn't ever have one

knox overstreet

idk why, but overstreets just feel like a crusty white dog named coco family. also his younger sisters have a rabbit! also i think him and charlie both used to do horseback riding as kids, as some sort of summer extracurricular?? anyways, yes, his family bought him a horse,, which is a totally standard thing to buy your child. he's not all that into horseback riding anymore and would let his siblings have the horse knox definitely loves dogs, and would have a golden retriver methinks just has that vibe

charlie dalton

his family have a bengal cat which he loves. he manhandles the shit out of that bastard and the cat doesn't really mind. the cat's name is orion, but really? it's Bastard. also his family owns horses and there's at least one that charlie dumbass-proofed (basically got it used to tolerating him as he does increasingly dangerous things around it) (idk if that's actually possible, i don't know anything about horses other than they look kinda cool) (idk why but the visual of charlie riding a horse like a skateboard cannot escape my mind i simply had to share). definitely a dog person, though he doesn't strike me as a guy that would actually have a dog? at least just on his own, he could have one with someone (a bf maybe? a bf named steven meeks even?,) he loves dogs, but having a whole creature depending solely on him is not a good idea.

gerard pitts

dog person. obviously he just seems like a guy that would enjoy going on long runs it's bc he's tall with long legs and what can make a run better? a dog he had a childhood dog that was already pretty old when he was born.. anyways! they got a him a german shorthair to celebrate him graduating middle school totally not bc he was heartbroken he probably wouldn't try and relocate the dog once he moves out just to not stress him out he might get a turtle though, he looks like a turtle guy

steven meeks

meeks' family has a miniature poodle. she's very well trained and steven deff treats her very politely. like- 'hello, would you like a treat, ma'am? of course, just do a spin first please?,, there you go, thank you :)' <- no babytalk or anything like that, he seems like a guy who just talks to animals like they're human all the time overall, but he's extra polite to her he feels like a,, calm dog person. like he enjoys their energy and likes having an excitible furry friend, but doesn't run around them or like match their general chaoticness also i feel he might get a gecko <3 just a lil' guy to sit on his shoulder while he studies/works <3

richard cameron

my lifelong hc for cameron's family is that he has some grandparents and cousins living on a farm, that he spends half of every summer with, doing typical farm things,, like caring for farm animals,, like cows,, and with that comes 'cow person' cameron headcanon he has his favourite in the herd for sure that he's just best friends with :) she has huge eyes and she listens to him rant, she's the best obviously one cannot simply own a cow as a pet, and since they're his favs he would probably opt out to not have any pets. scratch that i just thought about him having a chicken as a pet and am endlessly amused by it. he has a pet chicken

#dead poets society #dead poets fandom #dead poets headcanons #neil perry #todd anderson #knox overstreet #charlie dalton #steven meeks #richard cameron #anderperry #neil x todd #meeks x charlie #dalmeeks #starlie #mazzy.txt #live now

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daydreamgoddess14 · 8 months

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Not a Couple (no, really!)

For day 3 of the Tedbecca Prompt Party 🥳

5 times someone mistakes Ted and Rebecca for a couple and the one time someone didn’t believe that they actually are...

Using prompts No. 29: 5 times someone mistakes Ted and Rebecca for a couple, and No. 17: Rebecca is Ted’s emergency contact.

Ted Lasso/Rebecca Welton fluffy fluff.

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Ted brought another round back from the bar, Rebecca still had her head down frantically scribbling down the information Beard was giving her.

“No, you’re wrong - it was Man City in 2017-18. Chelsea was the year before, it was the start of the big City dominance.”

“I’m telling you, Rebecca, it was Chelsea in 2017.”

“No it wasn’t Beard. Trust me!” Beard looked at Ted with pleading eyes.

“Ted -”

“Beard. I love you, man, but I’m gonna defer to the woman who lived in the UK at the time and who had personal involvement in soccer at the time.”

“Football.”

“Right, boss. Football.” Rebecca wrote down Man City for her remaining answers - name the Premier League champions every year from 2012-3 season to 2022-3 season. Rebecca chose not to gloat when she was proven correct. When Beard went to the bar next, Rebecca and Ted poured over the picture round, heads bowed together whispering.

“Weheeey!”

“Wanker, you did it at last!” They looked up to see Baz, Paul and Jeremy with big smiles and pints in hand.

“Whatcha talkin’ bout fellas?”

“You and the boss! Lookin’ goooood!” Baz shot Rebecca with a finger gun and a wink.

“Oh, no no, we ain’t-”

“It’s about time, innit lads?” Jeremy grinned.

“Yeah, took ya long enough!”

“Boys, you’re mistaken, we’re-”

“Ohhh! Haven’t had the chat yet?” Paul asked and turned to the others, “they haven’t had the chat yet, idiots!”

“Oh shit. Sorry, Ted.”

“Sorry Ms Welton, sorry Ted.” Jeremy and Baz both looked mildly ashamed. “But still, nice one! You wanna have the chat though before she finds someone, y’know, fitter.”

“Well thanks for that, Benjamin Bratt. But when Rebecca tells you you’re mistaken, she means we ain’t dating at all. Just friends here, like that Ryan Reynolds classic.”

“What?”

“Huhh?”

“For real? Cos… I mean, they definitely ended up together in that movie.”

“No no, I don’t think they did. Clues in the title boys.” Ted said firmly.

“They did, I’m sure they did,” Baz whipped out his phone, “I’ll google it, to find out for sure.” Rebecca rolled her eyes, amused rather than offended by their insistence. “Yep, see - definitely did. Oh! Maybe that’ll happen to you two!” Baz looked as though he’d just seen the light.

“Yeah!” Jeremy agreed.

“You’re right matey, that’s it! They just don’t even know it yet.” Paul turned back to Ted and Rebecca, “you just don’t even know it yet!”

“Great chat, boys. Think we’d better get on with the quiz.” Ted insisted, gesturing at their answer sheet.

“Oh yeah, c’mon, let’s finish our picture round. Good luck with the chat wanker! Bye Ms. Welton, lovely to see you, you’re looking very lovely this evening.” The boys disappeared just as Beard returned.

“Do I want to know what that was about?”

“You absolutely do not Coach Beard, believe me.” Rebecca laughed.

"Good evening, Coach Lasso. I’m Jade. Nate has told me a lot about you.” The young woman smiled as Ted approached the front desk of A Taste of Athens.

“Only the really good stuff I hope, Carly Pope.”

“I don’t know who that is.” Jade replied dryly. Ted waved his hand,

“Well then, I guess Popular weren’t that popular over here.”

“Nathan said you’d be bringing your girlfriend this evening. Nice to meet you Ms Welton. Let me show you both to your table.”

“Oh, we’re not-”

“I’m not his-”

“We’re not together.”

“Just friends. Colleagues.”

“She’s the boss.” Ted jerked his thumb at Rebecca. Jade stared at the two of them, bemused for so long that the silence became excruciating.

“Right. Follow me.” She led them to a small candlelit table in the back of the restaurant. “Table for two people who aren’t a couple.” She gestured to the table, deadpan, “so you say.” she muttered quietly as they took their seats.

“That’s the second time in the last month that’s happened.” Ted shook his head, opening the menu.

“Hmm. Weird. They’re obviously projecting. Wine?”

“Yeah, how about that red we had last time?”

“Not sure I fancy red, I’m thinking of having the fish?”

“Oh yeah, definitely not red then. They have a Livio Felluga Pino?”

“Perfect, well spotted.” They talked happily about their current workload, the mood of the team and Beard’s latest sandwich swap contribution. Jade watched them share a starter, offer each other a taste of their mains, and swap desserts halfway through, all with a small shake of her head.

“Hey, did you want to join me and Hen at Harry Potter World when he visits in a couple of weeks? I know you’ve always wanted to go.”

“Oh Ted, I wouldn’t want to intrude-”

“Rebecca, c’mon. You wouldn’t be.”

“Only if you’re sure?”

“Of course.”

“And you’ll let me get Henry a wand?”

“I’m not allowed to say no, am I?”

“Absolutely not.”

“Fine. But we’re buying you dinner afterwards.”

“Deal.” Rebecca agreed with a smile.

“How are the happy couple doing?” Jade asked, clearing plates. Rebecca sniggered into her glass.

“Wonderful, thank you Jade, that was beautiful.”

“Thanks Jade. I’ll need to have a word with our Nate the Great though. Calling us a couple,” he scoffed, “absurd.”

“Crazy.” Rebecca laughed.

“Hmmm.” Jade frowned, “crazy.”

“Hey Michelle, Henry’s just getting changed, he’ll be out in a minute.”

“No rush, you guys having fun?”

“Oh yeah, he’s having a great time hanging out with the team. That coaching from Jamie is gonna go a long way when his team starts back in September.”

“Great news! How was Harry Potter world?”

“Pretty cool, Hen had a great time.”

“I hear you took Rebecca?”

“Did he tell you that?”

“Sent me a few pictures earlier. You look cute together, I’m really happy for you.”

“Thanks. Wait, no - Michelle, we’re not dating? What makes you think that we are?”

“Are you kidding? Ted, the pictures speak for themselves, hon! And like I said, you look really, really great together.”

“Can you send me the pictures please?”

“Sure, hang on a sec-” there’s a pause on the call while Michelle forwards the photos,

“Oh.” Ted breathed softly.

“You see?”

“But we’re not dating.”

“Really? Wow. Ok. I’m sorry If I made you feel uncomfortable.” They fell into silence, Ted still looking at the images on his phone.

“You really think that’s what it looks like?” He asked quietly.

“Ted, honey, we were together a long time. I know what you look like when you’re in love.”

“Hmm.”

“You didn’t know?”

“Guess not. Must have snuck up on me.”

“Love does that sometimes. And Rebecca?”

“What about her?”

“Do you think she knows? Or loves you too?”

“Honestly Michelle, I have no idea.”

“Maybe you should speak to her.” As Ted went to respond, Henry came bounding in to speak to his mom.

“Mom! We had the most amazing day! Rebecca is so cool, she got me a wand from the giftshop and she said we can go again when it’s all decorated for Christmas and she’s going to take me to see a show at the theatre!”

“That’s so cool sweetheart, I bet you and dad will have a lot of fun.” Ted zoned out of their conversation, lost in his own thoughts.

"Mr Lasso, I really need to insist that you sit down while we assess you. The nurses station is calling your emergency contact, and I'm going to arrange for some x-rays shortly."

"There's really no need, doc. I'm perfectly fine."

"He said you were annoying as fuck, he wasn't wrong."

"Sorry, who?"

"I'm Roy Kent's sister, Sara O'Sullivan. Right, says here your emergency contact is Rebecca Welton. We'll get her here as soon as possible and check over your results." Ted grumbled under his breath, "what happened?"

"We called off training because of the weather, it was too wet and slippery. I figured I'd meet Rebecca at a shareholder meeting, but I got taken out by a Deliveroo rider."

"Some of those riders need a new fucking career. And he really did a number on you, the ambulance was called because you were unconscious so I have to make sure you still have all your fucking facilties."

"Wow, you're definitely Royo's sister."

"I get that a lot." Ted smiled and acquiesced, holding up his hands in defeat.

"Alright, alright doc, you got me. I will await further instructions like a good patient."

"Where is he, I need to know right now - where is Theodore Lasso? Which room? Through here?" Rebecca Welton at a reception desk with zero information is a force to be reckoned with, Sara O'Sullivan had decided. She heard the commotion from three wards away.

"Ms Welton? Dr. O'Sullivan - Roy's sister?"

"Sara? It's so good to see you again. Thank god you're here, no one will tell me where Ted is, or what's going on? Was it a car? He never looks the right bloody way. I'll kill him myself if the car didn't succeed."

"He's fine, really. A bit of a bump on the head, but he's fine. I had no idea you were a couple - Roy always tells me the boring stuff like who took a knock in training - like I'm professionally bound to give a shit. I never get the good, juicy details like who Isaac is dating, or you!"

"But we're not dating?"

"He has you listed as his emergency contact?"

"I'm sure friends have friends listed all the time."

"Less often than you might think, actually. Unless you've known them like, the majority of your life, or you're family."

"Oh."

"Anyway, Ted's absolutely fine. Exactly as Roy described him so I take that as a good sign."

"Oh thank god. Could you imagine me having to break the news to his mother?"

"I'll take you through to him, no need to be alarming any mothers." Dr O'Sullivan led Rebecca through the corridors and into a monitoring ward where Ted sat up in bed doodling in his notebook.

"Boss! I'm sorry, I told 'em there was no need to bother you but the good doctor here is as stubborn as her brother."

"Absolute nonsense, Ted! You're bloody lucky Sara was working today," she bustled around him, openly looking him over for visible wounds.

"I'll leave you two to it while I just chase up the last of Ted's results." Sara gave Rebecca a knowing nod and left them to it.

"I really am sorry, Rebecca, I tried to tell them not to call you -"

"Ted, why the fuck am I your emergency contact?" She watched him intently. He had no answer for her. "That is like… wife level shit, Ted! I don't understand why you're in a foreign country, and your emergency contact is not the man you've known since you were kids? What if something serious had happened? What if you'd been really hurt and I didn't have the right information?"

"You know my blood type?"

"O negative."

"That ain't one of the common ones. But you know that it's mine. Distinguishable scars?"

"On your right knee and elbow."

"From?"

"Quad bike accident when you were 19."

"You know more about me than either you think you do, or you care to admit. I put you as my emergency contact, Rebecca, because you're my emergency everything." In the doorway, Dr O'Sullivan cleared her throat,

"Ted? Got all your results back clear. Everything is fine, no damage caused by the bike courier."

"A fucking bike courier, Ted?!" Rebecca rolled her eyes.

"Great, doc. So I can go?"

"You can. Watch out for headaches for the next few days, but other than that, you're free to go." She handed him the signed paperwork for discharge, "Lovely to see you again Ms Welton. Take care."

"Thanks Sara, see you soon." Rebecca picked up her bag and coat, "Ted, car's outside."

They sat in silence back to Richmond.

"Rebecca, darling! How lovely to see you!" Rebecca grimaced, her wine halfway to her mouth,

"Tish. Hi."

"How have you been? It's been so long since you went marching out of my house all red faced and cross with me!" Rebecca bit her tongue so hard she thought it might bleed.

"Well you were pedalling that bullshit, Tish. I'm not quite sure what you expected me to say or do?" Rebecca was about to go in again, but was saved by the affable American walking towards her.

"Hey, Becca, your mum said she needs you."

"Thanks Ted."

"Well bullshit or not dear, it looks like it all worked out in the end? What a delightful couple you are!"

"For godsake, why on earth do we keep getting this? Tish, Ted and I are not a couple."

"What on earth do you mean you’re not? Of course you are! The signs are all there - weren’t you listening to me Rebecca, dear?" The elder woman was off, "Of course you weren’t, you were too busy being dismissive of me. If you’d have heard me out then you would have known!"

"The bloody signs? Upside down and drenched? Thunder and lightning? What the fuck was all that supposed to mean?"

"The signs are never crystal clear, Rebecca darling."

"Stop calling me darling, and stop going on about stupid signs that than be manipulated so that even a child can misinterpret them! You were not clear, the signs were not there and I fully maintain that you are a fucking fraud." The woman's eyes widened as Rebecca grew more venomous.

"I… I.. I'll leave you to it."

"You do that, Tish. And if you come near me again with anymore of your bullshit you will fucking regret it." Tish fumbled her way away from Rebecca,

"Hey now, what was all that about?" Ted asked, his voice laced with concern.

"My mother needs me, does she not?"

"Yeah, yeah she does. I tell you what, you sort out Debs, and I'll be waiting here with more wine and you can tell me all about poor Tish."

"There's no such thing as poor Tish, Ted." Rebecca rolled her eyes but did as Ted asked.

By the time her mother's garden party was winding down, Rebecca was certain Ted would have gone home. He'd been long abandoned after all. Instead, as she entered the conservatory, she saw him sitting and talking with the somewhat unusual combination of Tish and the local vicar.

"I'm just leaving dear, no need to snap my head off again." Tish sighed, collecting her bag.

"I need to be off as well," the vicar smiled, "may I see you out, Tish?" They both said their goodbyes and left Rebecca and Ted alone. He handed her a large glass of wine.

"Spill, Faith Hill." Her anger dissipated, Rebecca sat down heavily.

"It's nothing, Ted. Just a wild misunderstanding between a skeptic and a fraudulent psychic."

"Well that's the best kind, please go on." She settled back in the chair alongside him,

"If you insist. I went to see Tish months ago, at my mother's insistence. The reading was… not successful. She made all sorts of ridiculous claims that have not and will not come true. It was a shambles, and I felt humiliated."

"What were the claims?"

"Umm, the first one was about a green matchbook. Which, at first, I took to mean the one from Sam's restaurant." She looked a little ashamed.

"You mean, this one?" Ted pulled it from his pocket, Rebecca stared,

"Yes," she whispered.

"And the next?"

"She said something about a shite in nining armour. Which didn't even make sense, and then I saw John Wingsnight and he used that extract phrase… but otherwise, total horseshit."

"You gotta look at these things a little differently, Becca. It's probably not literal or as clear cut - John used the phrase but he's in the past, Sam gave you the matchbook but he's in your past. Has anyone you know used the phrase correctly when talking to you?" Rebecca wracked her mind,

"Only you," she laughed a little, reminded of the darts game in the pub.

"What else?"

"Thunder and lightning and me."

"Mean anything?"

"Roy told me once that I shouldn't settle for fine, falling in love should feel like being struck by lightning."

"Wise man. Was there anything else?"

"That I would be upside-down and drenched, but safe."

"Well that one's easy, right? Amsterdam and your boat fella?"

"I suppose… but nothing happened?"

"And maybe that's the point? The things you have linked so far, you've linked to exes. Maybe that's the link, these are where you've come from, lightning is where they're leading to?" Rebecca took a long drink of wine and turned to Ted, incredulous.

"Ted, that's insane."

"Is it though? What else links all of those things?" She looked at him intently, her eyes drawn to where their hands were almost touching on the sofa cushions next to her, "go on." He urged.

"You?" She muttered, confused. He bit back a wide grin,

"I have a matchbox like you. I told you I was white knighting. I was with you in Amsterdam, trying to reach you - trying to reach out to you." He explained. "You saw the messages, in the end?" She nodded. "Becca, I know you're sick of everyone assuming that we're a couple. I don't know about you, but all it does is make me wonder why we're not. I'd very much like to kiss you?" She'd already moved closer to him, instinctively and turned to face him.

"Yes, Ted." She breathed, letting him cup her cheek and kiss her softly. She let out a little sigh and he fought the urge to chuckle at her realisation. He broke the kiss first, leaving her still leaning into him. Her eyes grew wide,

"What's up?"

"Lightning."

"Well I'm glad you think so, boss." She beamed at him and reached out to pull him into another kiss. As they sat with their drinks and their thoughts, the sounds from Deborah's garden party reaching the conservatory, she turned to Ted again.

"Feels like I might owe Tish an apology," she murmured. "There was one more prediction though."

"Hmm?" Ted queried, his hand running through her hair as she leaned back into his shoulder.

"She said I'd be a mother. But I can't, I even went to the damn doctor to check." He kissed her temple,

"There're a lot more ways to become a mother honey, did'ya ever think of that?" The tiny gasp let him know that she certainly hadn't.

"Have you got a plus one for the engagement party babes?" Keeley asked from the sofa, sparkly pen in hand.

"Yes please, love. If that's OK. Although, actually it won't make a difference to your numbers."

"You've lost me?"

"Ted will be my plus one."

"Oh that's cute, at least neither of you will be alone." Rebecca frowned, putting down her own notebook.

"Keeley, he's my plus one because he's my plus one?"

"Oh babe, I know. I know. You shouldn't feel like you're doing each other a favour. It's a lovely thing to do for a friend, really."

"You're not understanding me, Ted and I are together?" Keeley stared at her for what felt like an eternity, before breaking out into peals of laughter.

"Oh my god!" She giggled, deliriously, "That's the fucking funniest thing I've ever heard!" Rebecca sat back in her chair and let Keeley laugh and laugh.

"It's true."

"Nahhhh come on? You’ve both been denying it up and down Richmond for ages. We get it, we’ll stop teasing you about it, now you stop bullshitting me."

"I'm not bullshitting you, I promise."

"Yeah, OK babe. Whatevs." Keeley giggled again, waving Rebecca’s comments off. Rebecca rolled her eyes and smiled, leaving her best friend to her ignorance.

"Keeley doesn't believe we're together." She laughed as Ted sat on the bed watching her get ready for the party.

"Aww, poor girl has been burned before." He grinned, watching Rebecca pick out an underwear set.

"I know, but considering how long she's been angling for this-" She'd moved to stand in front of Ted as she spoke and he reached up to undo her towel and let it fall to the floor,

"This? This is what she's been angling for?" He asked, his voice low. Rebecca laughed softly,

"Yes, I think given half a chance this is exactly what Keeley Jones would like."

"She's a woman of exceptional taste." He murmured, looking her over as if he hadn't spent recent weeks learning every inch of her body.

They were predictably late to the party.

"Where have you two been?!"

"Sorry darling, got caught up. You look gorgeous."

"Aww thanks babe, you too. Wow, you look like you've been royally railed though!" Keeley beamed, hugging them both. As she pulled away, she saw the eyebrow wiggle Ted gave Rebecca and froze. "No!"

"I did tell you."

"No!"

"Hate to ruin your chances, Keels." Ted grinned apologetically.

"Who said anything about that?" Rebecca teased, "If I were to ever dip into the lady pool, it would definitely be with Keeley." Keeley watched the conversion back and forth in shock.

"Are you two for real right now?"

"Sure are, Pablo Escobar"

"Really?"

"Really really." The squeal echoed through the venue.

"Oh my godddddd! Roy, Roy babe over here! Ted and Rebecca are together. Like, together together!"

"Fucksake, I just lost 50 quid to Beard."

"I've lost 40 to Bumbercatch."

"100 to Tartt."

"50 to Will."

"I lost to Will too."

"And me."

"And me!"

"I just lost 250 to Higgins." Will grumbled, handing over his accumulated cash.

FIN

#ted lasso #ted lasso fanfiction #ted lasso fic #tedbecca #ted and rebecca #ted x rebecca #rebecca x ted #rebecca welton #tedbecca prompt party

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dancingsunflowers-ocs · 1 year

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↳ for @daughter-of-melpomene/@starlit-epiphany for their birthday!! 🥳🎁🎂

Parker Holloway x Noah “Puck” Puckerman

Rosaline Craven x Ginevra “Ginny” Weasley

Genesis Welton x James T. Kirk x Spock

Andrew “Mack” Mackenzie x Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce

Ilya Dramir x Kaz Brekker

Esther St. Claire x Enid Sinclair x Wednesday Addams

#others ocs #ocappreciation #ocapp #queerocs #toalltheocsivelovedbefore #ochub #original character #harry potter oc #tw harry potter #tw hp #star trek oc #glee oc #grishaverse oc #wednesday oc #addams family oc #occentral #allaboutocs #ocfairygodmother

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daughter-of-melpomene · 8 months

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oc masterlist — comedy media

𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 & 𝐭𝐞𝐝’𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞/𝐛𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐬 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲.

name: cheryl “cher” johnston. fic: if i could turn back time. pronouns: she/her. ship: ted “theodore” logan. faceclaim: holland roden.

𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐥𝐲𝐧 𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞-𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞.

name: nicholas “nickey” bauer. fic: paper rings. pronouns: he/him. ship: jake peralta. faceclaim: jeremy jordan.

𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫.

name: evangeline “evie” young. fic: teach me how to love. pronouns: she/her. ship: niles crane. faceclaim: gemma chan.

𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬.

name: victoria “ria” santos. fic: i’ll be there for you. pronouns: she/her. ship: joey tribbiani. faceclaim: ana de armas.

𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐞.

name: audrey beiste. fic: cardigan. pronouns: she/her. ship: finn hudson. faceclaim: maddie baillio.

name: leo cooper. fic: cardigan. pronouns: he/him. ship: artie abrams. faceclaim: rudy pankow.

name: parker holloway. fic: tough love. pronouns: they/them. ship: noah “puck” puckerman. faceclaim: emma mackey.

name: bruno keeley. fic: cardigan. pronouns: he/him. ship: mike chang. faceclaim: chance perdomo.

name: ivy kekoa. fic: let me be your star. pronouns: she/her. ship: sam evans. faceclaim: auli’i cravalho.

name: bailey taylor. fic: cardigan. pronouns: she/her. ship: tina cohen-chang. faceclaim: meg donnelly.

name: mara yang. fic: always sing. pronouns: she/her. ship: quinn fabray. faceclaim: chase sui wonders.

𝐣𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐢: 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞.

name: marnie hoffman (avatar name: diana deathnote). fic: fun and games. pronouns: she/her. ship: anthony “fridge” johnson. faceclaim: ariela barer (avatar faceclaim: alicia vikander).

𝐦*𝐚*𝐬*𝐡.

name: andrew “mack” mackenzie. fic: how to save a life. pronouns: he/him. ship: benjamin franklin “hawkeye” pierce. faceclaim: aaron tveit.

𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨.

name: william “will” welton. fic: london boy. pronouns: he/him. ship: ted lasso. faceclaim: ewan mcgregor.

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In 2017, a writer named Sinclair Jenkins published an essay for the white supremacist website American Renaissance titled “From Wide-Eyed Liberal to Race Realist,” which described a series of “political awakenings” that he had experienced.

Jenkins wrote that his radicalization began in the Navy, where it angered him to see “blacks” be mean to his fellow white sailors. Later, in graduate school, he grew disgusted over the “ingrained culture of anti-white hatred” in academia. “Also, once I began paying attention to the news, I started seeing why so many people in my hometown took a dim view of blacks,” wrote Jenkins, who noted that he grew up somewhere in Appalachia. “After Ferguson and Baltimore, I understood that pumping money into the ghetto would never fix things.” Later, he said, he discovered writers like John Derbyshire and Anne Coulter, who shared his distaste for immigrants, and websites like American Renaissance and VDare, which shared his firmly held belief in the “biological foundations to race,” and helped shape his white nationalist worldview.

Near the end of the article, Jenkins noted that he was a teacher, an audacious admission to make in a white supremacist publication.

But “Sinclair Jenkins,” HuffPost has now confirmed, is really a pseudonym for Benjamin Welton, a 33-year-old Boston University history PhD candidate who, until this week, taught English, social studies and computer science at Star Academy, an elementary school in Massachusetts. When HuffPost contacted the school for comment, Welton was put on leave, and was fired shortly before this article was published.

For years, he has also worked as a freelance writer for major media outlets, including The Atlantic and Vice, for whom he published articles about esoteric spy and detective novels. He also wrote pieces for the The Daily Caller and The Weekly Standard, which let him make his racist sympathies clear in print.

He was meanwhile using multiple pen names to secretly author fascist screeds online, in some cases advocating violence to establish a whites-only ethnostate.

“No mercy for our enemies. Do not weep, for they are not human,” Welton wrote in a pseudonymous social media post on March 31, seven months into his job as an elementary school teacher. “Treat those who want to abolish ‘whiteness’ with the same venom if not more. They deserve medieval punishments.”

Like many conservatives, Welton has expressed anger about the teaching of “critical race theory” in American schools. Last August, shortly before he began teaching at the Star Academy, he tweeted under a pseudonym that a return to American greatness “requires defunding critical race theory.” It’s clear from his pseudonymous writings where his real objection lies: criticism of white people.

“I now try to inject race realism into my working life,” he wrote as Jenkins in the 2017 American Renaissance article. “When I teach my students or write papers, I refuse to engage in cultural Marxism or in anti-white rhetoric.”

A group of anti-fascist researchers, the Anonymous Comrades Collective, figured out Welton’s double life and shared the details with HuffPost. Many nameless fascists today lead double lives, hiding behind avatars to promote their noxious beliefs online while holding down respectable day jobs in education, military, law enforcement, medicine or the government. But leading an extremist life online carries the risk of exposure and the fear that one day soon it may all come crashing down — something it appears Welton may have anticipated.

Welton did not respond to HuffPost’s repeated requests for comment. After emailing and direct-messaging him last week, he deleted all of his pseudonymous social media accounts on Twitter, Poa.st and Gab — all of which he used to spew racist invective — along with his LinkedIn profile, SoundCloud account, two Substacks, a BlogSpot page, and an online magazine he’d recently launched for fascist fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

But the content of those pages was already saved and archived by the Anonymous Comrades Collective, who earlier this month showed HuffPost evidence they had collected indicating that Welton was not only the man behind the bylines “Sinclair Jenkins,” but also “Jake Bowyer” and “Elias Kingston.” His writing had started to generate interest among major figures on the far right.

Welton’s career as a teacher didn’t begin at Star Academy. He has taught at the University of Vermont and Boston University during his postgraduate studies.

On his since-deleted LinkedIn page, Welton claimed to be currently “teaching grades two through five” at Star Academy, leading “seven classes a day, both online and in-person.”

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#benjamin welton #ben welton #fascism #white supremacy #racism #sinclair jenkins #american is a racist country #white nationalism #hiding in plain sight #education #conservatism

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tag 9 people to know more about their interests, hobbies, etc.

I was tagged by @anistonjen! thank you love, sorry it took me so long!

MUSIC fav genre? probably pop fav artist? idk but i've been listening to a lot of george ezra right now fav song? "can't help falling in love" comes to mind, but it changes all the time most listened song recently? "precious love" song currently stuck in your head? "last christmas" fav lyrics? "If I, If I knew back then What I know right now I'd do it all again The same, someway, somehow"

BOOKS fav book genre? thriller and romance fav writer? don't take i have one yet, yikes fav book? hmmm maybe "ties", by domenico starnone fav book series? the only i've ever read were "the rosie project" and "the rosie effect", so let's say that comfort book? "love letters of great men" maybe perfect book to read on a rainy day? any one! fav characters? amy dunne, rosie, bernadette fox 5 quotes from your fav book that you know by heart? don't know any by heart

TV AND MOVIES fav tv/movie genre? romcom fav movie? "benjamin button" comfort movie? "about time" movie you watch every year? "matilda" fav tv show? right now it's definitely "ted lasso" comfort tv show? "the big c" most rewatched tv show? "united states of tara" ultimate otp? there's too many! 5 fav characters? sabrina fairchild, elinor dashwood, rebecca welton, moira rose, daisy fuller

tagging (can’t think of 9): @scullay @queencalanthes @danielkaluuya @lucifersmorningstar @womenkilling - also feel free to completely ignore me

#god this was hard #i'll change every answer by the end of the day ahskasj #i was tagged

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I posted 1 356 times in 2021

181 posts created (13%)

1175 posts reblogged (87%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 6.5 posts.

I added 1 545 tags in 2021

#art - 387 posts

#hp - 248 posts

#* - 188 posts

#the 100 - 153 posts

#severus snape - 132 posts

#ted lasso - 114 posts

#ask ail - 84 posts

#rebecca welton - 80 posts

#caos - 80 posts

#clarke griffin - 79 posts

Longest Tag: 131 characters

#people who think school math didn't shape their brains have never tried to teach someone who hasn't developed logical reasoning yet

My Top Posts in 2021

Look who’s back! Yes, the food stash chapter is finally here. :D

Special shot-out to @hklnvgl and @thatawfulsnapeboy. Your support means a lot and has played an important part in how much I’ve enjoyed writing this chapter.

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Tag Game

Rules: Spell out your url with song titles, then tag as many people as there are letters in your url.

No one tagged me, but I stumbled upon it and thought it'd be fun!

Alone, by Halsey.

In the End, by Linkin Park.

Let Me Down, by Alec Benjamin.

En el tiempo equivocado, by Amaral.

Cabecita loca, by Amaral.

(nothing to see here 👀)

19 días y 500 noches, by Joaquín Sabina.

21 Guns, by Green Day.

Tagging @supermarketcrayons, @hklnvgl,

@itslucyluna, @hayalee8, @thatawfulsnapeboy, @lacuaimaesa and @mariagvogel.

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Moodboard: Peggy Carter.

No, you move.

54 notes • Posted 2021-05-12 15:04:06 GMT

Your tags:

#HP #Art #Severus Snape #I love the trope of a character meeting their younger self

Would you write it then?

(I'm definitely teasing you again because I can't help myself - feel free to ignore my I-think-I'm-funny ask)

Also take care dear, you're the best <3

You're the worst... but also the best. ¬¬

You know what? I hadn't really thought about Severus in this context before, but I did spend a long time daydreaming about my two main characters from other fic getting to know their younger selves, so I'm going to steal and adapt some ideas to indulge us both.

Kid!Sev travels to adult!Sev's time. They do not get along.

Kid!Sev is a little feral thing and that's something you don't want other people to see when you're a respected and feared professor. It doesn't help half the members of the Order find his younger self cute (I've just been reading about a fic set in the Second War, so that's where my mind went).

Fear not, Severus, Sirius doesn't find any of your versions cute. You both agree on this (uh oh...).

Harry doesn't even know what to think about the whole thing. Ron's right when he says tiny Sev will grow to be the same git that mocks them in the classroom. Hermione is also right when she says this is just a kid who's alone and confused. Harry knows what that's like —no one tells the kid anything, either. (It's up to you whether Harry's already seen Snape's childhood memories by then.) In any case, Harry's olive branch is the first one kid Snape accepts —it helps Harry catches him wandering the house after a nightmare and, instead of sending him to bed or telling the others, he makes hot cocoa and tells him about Hogwarts' secret passages.

Yeah, okay, they're all at Grimmauld Place. What the hell is a coherent timeline.

Lupin tries to connect and fails, that's it. Adult Snape smirks a lot when he sees this. At those moments, he almost likes the brat.

He does not like the brat when he latches himself to the Bratty Trio.

Of course Snape fears his younger self will somehow let the others know secrets from his past. Who wouldn't be, really.

Sev is plainly scared of his adult self, not that he'd ever admit it. There's a weird glint in his eye most of the time and he won't tell young Sev anything about what's happened in the future/past/whatever. Sev's sure he'd tell himself all he needed to know, especially where his mum and Tobias are. Adult Severus is content to ignore him, though, and kid Severus doesn't like who he reminds him of. No, Sev isn't scared, he is angry.

Did I leave anything out? Feel free to add your own thoughts, dear.

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@urupotter asked for an AU where Gryffindor Tom Riddle sought power by waging war in support of Muggle-borns and dark creatures. Lily gets involved to her detriment.

(I headcanon Riddle as still getting sorted into Slytherin and seeing a chance to gain power for himself when he learns about the prejudice and marginalised sectors in wizarding society. However, these details are left up to you as a reader —I just saw an opportunity to write the following scene. Hope you like it!)

There was no front door to push —that was the first thing Lily noticed— and only darkness greeted her inside. She found him in the kitchen, such a mundane place to die. Numb, she stumbled her way forward and kneeled down beside the corpse that used to be her best friend a lifetime ago.

It was her fault.

A sob escaped through her lips and a crack split the deadly silence somewhere in the distance. Her hands reached out to touch him and she drew them back before they could. They reached out again —pale, sickly, gaunt. In fact, they reminded her of him. That time, her fingers did brush against Severus’s cheeks. He was freezing and she knew how much he would hate that.

This cold was her doing.

It was also her Lord’s doing. Lily had begged him to spare Severus and he had promised he would… if he was given the full prophecy. She should have known Severus would never betray Dumbledore. After all, she had been the one to warn Lord Voldemort in the first place. She had cautioned him against accepting Severus in their midst. She had known he would only ever be loyal to Dumbledore… and to her.

She had done this.

She came closer and took his head to rest it on her lap. It was heavy, damp. She fixed her eyes on his mouth, forever stiffened into a rictus. She then pushed back a lock of hair, a tenderer gesture than she had offered him in life. And she brushed it again and again, with frantic fingers, following the wild beating of her heart and the endless flow of her tears. He was not the first casualty of the war, but he was the first one that made her hate their fight.

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Literature and Philosophy

MA IN LITERARY STUDIES

Literature and Philosophy (EN71021A): Course Outline Spring 2019

Tutor: Julia Ng

Teaching Mode: 2-hour seminar

Seminar Wednesday 9-11

St James Hatcham G02

NB: Please acquire a print copy of Walter Benjamin’s Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. J. Osborne (Verso, 1998/2009), as we will be studying this text in its entirety. Other materials for this course will be posted to the course’s learn.gold page.

Week 1, Wednesday 16

January – Introduction; “intention” in Brentano and Husserl

Introductory discussion

Franz Brentano, “The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena,” in Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint [1874], trans. A. C. Rancurello, D. B. Terrell and L. L. McAlister (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1995), Bk. 2, chap. 1, pp. 59-77.

Edmund Husserl, “Philosophy as a Rigorous Science," in Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, trans. Quentin Lauer (Harper & Row, 1965), section on “Naturalistic Philosophy,” pp. 79-122.

Week 2, Wednesday 23th January – Husserl

Edmund Husserl, “Philosophy as a Rigorous Science," in Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, trans. Quentin Lauer (Harper & Row, 1965), excerpt from “Historicism and Weltanschauung Philosophy,” pp. 122-129.

Edmund Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, I, trans. F. Kersten (Martinus Nijhoff, 1983), §§87-90, 93-95.

Week 3, Wednesday 30th January – Benjamin

Benjamin, OGT, “Epistemo-Critical Prologue”

References

Plato, Symposium

Scheler, “On the Tragic”

Wek 4, Wednesday 6th February – Benjamin

Benjamin, OGT, “Trauerspiel and Tragedy,“ I

References

Schmitt, Political Theology

Gryphius, Leo Armenius

Calderon, Life is a Dream

Week 5, Wednesday 13th February – Benjamin

Benjamin, OGT, “Trauerspiel and Tragedy,“ II

References

Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Lukács, Soul and Forms

Rosenzweig, The Star of Redemption

Scheler, “On the Tragic”

Benjamin, “Fate and Character”; “Toward the Critique of Violence”

Week 6, Wednesday 20th February

Tutorial Week – No seminar

Week 7, Wednesday 27th February – Benjamin

Benjamin, OGT, “Trauerspiel and Tragedy,“ III; „Allegory and Trauerspiel,“ I

References

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Panofsky and Saxl on Dürer’s Melancholia I

Giehlow on Melancholia I; The Humanist Interpretation of Hieroglyphs

Warburg

Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia”

Week 8, Wednesday 6th March – Benjamin

Benjamin, OGT, “Allegory and Trauerspiel,“ II and III

References

Benjamin, “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man”; “The Role of Language in Trauerspiel and Tragedy”; “Trauerspiel and Tragedy”

Gryphius, Leo Armenius

Week 9, Wednesday 13th March – Adorno

Adorno, “The Actuality of Philosophy” (May 2, 1931), in Telos 31 (1977), 120-133.

Adorno, “The Idea of Natural History” (1932), in Telos 60 (1984), 111-124.

Week 10, Wednesday 20th March – Adorno

Adorno, “III.2 World Spirit and Natural History,” in Negative Dialectics, trans. E.B. Ashton, Continuum, 1973, pp. 300-360.

Week 11, Wednesday 27th March – Conclusion

General discussion

Preparatory Reading

Gryphius, Leo Armenius

Calderon, Life Is A Dream

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Hofmannsthal, The Tower

Further Reading

Benjamin

On Language as Such and on the Language of Man (1916)

The Role of Language in Trauerspiel and Tragedy (1916)

Trauerspiel and Tragedy (1916)

Fate and Character (1919)

Toward the Critique of Violence (1921)

Calderon's El mayor monstrue, los celos and Hebbel's Herodus and Mariamne (1923)

General

Adorno, Theodor. "Portrait of Walter Benjamin," in: Prisms. Trans. Samuel and Shierry Weber. MIT Press, 1981.

Adorno, Theodor. Against Epistemology: A Metacritique. Trans. Willis Domingo. Oxford: Blackwell, 1982.

Adorno, Theodor, and Walter Benjamin. The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940. Ed. Henri Lonitz. Trans. Nicholas Walker. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999.

Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Stanford UP, 1998.

Cascardi, Anthony J. "Comedia and Trauerspiel: On Benjamin and Calderón." Comparative Drama 16:1 (1982), 1-11.

Cobb-Stevens, Richard. “Husserl on Eidetic Intuition and Historical Interpretation,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1992): 261–75.

Comay, Rebecca. "Mourning Work and Play," in Research in Phenomenology 23 (1993), pp. 105-130.

Drummond, John. “Husserl on the Ways to the Performance of the Reduction,” Man and World 8 (1975): 47–69.

Drummond, John. “The Structure of Intentionality,” in The New Husserl, ed. D. Welton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003), 65–92.

Derrida, Jacques. "Force of Law."

Fenves, Peter. "Marx, Mourning, Messianity," in: Hent de Vries/Samuel Weber (Hg.): Violence, Identity and Self-Determination, Stanford, 1997, 253–270.

Fenves, Peter. "Tragedy and Prophecy in Benjamin’s 'Origin of the German Mourning Play,'" in: Arresting Language. From Leibniz to Benjamin, Stanford UP, 2001, 227–248.

Foster, Roger. Adorno: The Recovery of Experience. SUNY Press, 2007.

Freud, Sigmund. "Mourning and Melancholia," The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, XIV. The Hogarth Press, 1957, pp. 237-258.

Friedlander, Eli. "On the Musical Gathering of Echoes of the Voice: Walter Benjamin on Opera and the Trauerspiel." The Opera Quarterly, vol. 21 no. 4 (2005), pp. 631-646.

Geulen, Eva. The End of Art : Readings in a Rumor after Hegel. Stanford University Press, 2006.

Giehlow, Karl, and Robin Raybould. The Humanist Interpretation of Hieroglyphs in the Allegorical Studies of the Renaissance with a Focus on the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I. Brill, 2015.

Hamacher, Werner. "Guilt History."

Hanssen, Beatrice. Walter Benjamin's Other History : of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels. University of California Press, 1998.

Hanssen, Beatrice. "Philosophy at Its Origin: Walter Benjamin’s Prologue to the 'Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels,'" in: Modern Language Notes 110 (1995), 809–833.

Haverkampf, Hans-Erhard. Benjamin in Frankfurt : Die Zentralen Jahre 1922-1932. Societäts-Verlag, 2016.

Helmling, Steven. "Constellation and Critique: Adorno's Constellation, Benjamin's Dialectical Image." Postmodern Culture 14:1 (2003).

Johnson, Barbara, The Wake of Deconstruction, Cambridge, Mass, 1994.

Johnson, Christopher D. “Configuring the Baroque: Warburg and Benjamin.” Culture, Theory and Critique, vol. 57, no. 2, 2016, pp. 142–165.

Kantorowicz, Ernst H. The King's Two Bodies : a Study in Mediaeval Political Theology. Princeton University Press, 1997.

Klibansky, Raymond; Panofsky, Erwin; Saxl, Fritz. Saturn and Melancholy : Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art. Basic Books, 1964.

Lacan, Jacques. "Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet," in: Shoshana Felman (ed.): Literature and Psychoanalysis. The Question of Reading: Otherwise, Baltimore, 1982, 11–52.

Lindner, Burkhardt. "Habilitationsakte Benjamin. Über ein 'akademisches Trauerspiel' und über ein Vorkapitel der "Frankfurter Schule" (Horkheimer, Adorno)/"Walter Benjamins's attempt of a Habilitation. On an 'academic Trauerspiel' and on other preliminaries of the "Frankfurter Schule" (Horkheimer, Adorno)." In: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 14.53 (1984): 147-166.

Lukács, György. Soul and Form. MIT Press, 1978.

Lukács, György. Theory of the Novel.

Marin, Louis. Food for Thought. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

McFarland, James. “Presentation.” Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History. Fordham University Press, 2012, pp. 67-102 (Chapter 2).

McLaughlin, Kevin. "Benjamin's Barbarism." The Germanic Review: Literture, Culture, Theory, 81:1 (2006), 4-20.

Menke, Christoph, and James. Phillips. Tragic Play : Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett. Columbia University Press, 2009.

Merback, Mitchell B. Perfection's Therapy : an Essay on Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I. Zone Books, 2017.

Miller, J. Hillis. »The Two Allegories«, in: Morton Bloomfield (ed.): Allegory, Myth and Symbol, Cambridge, 1981, 355–370.

Mininger, J. D., and Jason Michael Peck. German Aesthetics : Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno. Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Nägele, Rainer. Theater, Theory, and Speculation: Walter Benjamin and the Scenes of Modernity, Baltimore, 1991.

Newman, Jane O. Benjamin's Library: modernity, nation, and the Baroque. Cornell UP, 2011.

Newman, Jane O. "Tragedy and 'Trauerspiel' for the (Post-)Westphalian Age." In: Renaissance Drama 40 (2012), pp. 197-208.

Newman, Jane. “Enchantment in Times of War: Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin, and the Secularization Thesis.” Representations, vol. 105, no. 105, 2009, pp. 133-0_4.

Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Pensky, Max. Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning. U Mass Press, 1993.

Plato, Symposium.

Rosenzweig, Franz, and Barbara Ellen Galli. The Star of Redemption. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

Scheler, Max. "On the Tragic." CrossCurrents 4.2 (1954), 178-191.

Schmitt, Carl, et al. Hamlet or Hecuba : the Intrusion of the Time into the Play. Telos Press, 2009.

Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology : Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Szondi, Peter. An Essay on the Tragic. Stanford University Press, 2002.

Weber, Samuel. Benjamin's -Abilities. Harvard University Press, 2008.

Willard, Dallas. “The Paradox of Logical Psychologism: Husserl’s Way Out,” American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1972): 94–100.

Woodfield, Richard (ed.) Art history as cultural history: Warburg's projects. G+B Arts International, 2000.

Learning Outcomes

- You will have a grasp of the place of literature in the modern Continental philosophy tradition.

- You will have a good understanding of how this tradition challenges and transforms Classical philosophical conceptions of literature.

- You will be able to expound and analyse the textual and conceptual styles of the three key thinkers on the course.

- You will have a sound grasp of the literature of and on both the broad relationship between literature and philosophy, and the three specific thinkers addressed on the module.

- You will be able to use the ideas and texts explored in the module to inform your readings in literary and cultural texts.

Assessment Criteria

- Students should show a clear command of traditional conceptions of the literary in the history of philosophy, and of how the modern Continental tradition challenges these.

- Students should show a detailed critical knowledge of at least one of the module’s key thinkers’ ideas.

- Students should show a knowledge and capacity to use a good range of secondary literature on both general issues in the field and on the specific thinkers and texts they address.

- Students should be able to read the relevant texts from both literary critical and conceptual perspectives.

- Students should show an awareness of the relevance of the issues and texts studied on the course to contemporary debates in literary theory.

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Warped Tour, 2001

Dates:

June 22: Peoria, AZ

June 23: Las Vegas, NV

June 24: Fresno, CA

June 27: Chula Vista, CA

June 28: Ventura, CA

June 29: L.A., CA

June 30: San Francisco, CA

July 1: Lake Tahoe, NV

July 2: Boise, ID

July 3, George, Washington

July 5: Calgary, AB

July 6: Bozeman, MT

July 7: Salt Lake City, UT

July 8: Brighton, CO

July 10: Bonner Springs, KS

July 11: Maryland Heights, MO

July 12: Noblesville, IN

July 13: Milwaukee, WI

July 14: Somerset, WI

July 15: Tinley Park, IL

July 17: Sparta, KY

July 18: Antioch, TN

July 19: Little Rock, AR

July 20: Dallas, TX

July 21: Selma, TX

July 22: The Woodlands, TX

July 23: Corpus Christi, TX

July 24: New Orleans, LA

July 25: Atlanta, GA

July 26: Charlotte, NC

July 27: Orlando, FL

July 28: Pompano Beach, FL

July 29: Tampa, FL

July 31: Tampa, FL

August 1: Virginia Beach, VA

August 2: Pittsburgh, PA

August 3: Camden, NJ

August 4: New York, NY

August 5: Asbury Park, NJ

August 7: Cleveland, OH

August 8: Buffalo, NY

August 9: Boston, MA

August 10: Montreal, QC

August 11: Toronto, ON

August 12: Detroit, MI

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La derecha afirmativa

Por Keith Preston

Traducción de C.D. Trueba

Presentación de Keith Preston en el H.L. Menchken Club del 4 de noviembre de 2017.

Hablar de las complicadas ramas de diferentes ideologías puede ser muchas veces tedioso y ciertamente si se trata de la “Derecha Alternativa” (N.d.T.: Alt-Right es un término utilizado en el mundo de la ciencia política angloparlante para delimitar una nueva tendencia que intenta actualizar y unir a diversas corrientes consideradas históricamente como “derecha”, desde el libertarianismo hasta el nacionalsocialismo/fascismo, como respuesta a la “nueva izquierda” de corte progresista o liberal) puede complicarse aún más debido a la abundancia de corrientes con dicha etiqueta. Recuerdo que en mi última presentación hablé de la tradición anarquista de derecha, tradición muy enraizada en el esoterismo y que es muy desconocida aún entre aquellas tendencias marginales. La Derecha Alternativa es muy similar en el sentido que posee demasiadas subdivisiones oscuras en sus adentros, aunque últimamente hayan saltado a la fama, o infamia gracias a la propaganda que le dan por sus oponentes. Algunos de los representantes que hemos escuchado durante esta conferencia han ayudado a aclarar algunas de las potenciales definiciones sobre lo que es la Derecha Alternativa. Dado que es éste el tema de mi presentación he decidido analizarla un poco más a fondo para aclarar las dudas que existan.

¿Qué es la Derecha Alternativa?

La derecha alternativa se define en sentido amplio como una unión difusa y variada de ideologías, movimientos y tendencias que difirieren de alguna manera o se oponen directamente al llamado movimiento conservador “convencional”. Definiré al movimiento conservador de esta manera: todos aquellos que tienen los ideales del partido Republicano de los Estados Unidos o que siguen a medios como Fox News, el National Review o el Weekly Standard. Podríamos decir que existe una “Derecha Alternativa” difusa y una “específica” más allá de lo que he dicho hasta aquí.

La “Derecha Alternativa” difusa de la que hablo es cualquier postura de derecha que se opone a la alianza Republicana neo-conservadora, la cual incluye desde votantes de Donald Trump y todo lo que se llama “alt-lite” (N.d.T.: lite sería definido por “poco fuerte” o “débil), pero también la nueva derecha, la derecha radical, la derecha populista, el iluminismo oscurantista, los identitarios, neo-reaccionarios, activistas de derechos masculinos, nacionalistas civiles, nacionalistas económicos, nacionalistas del Sur de Estados Unidos, nacionalistas blancos, paleo-conservadores, anarco-derechistas, libertarios de derecha (paleolibertarios), socialistas de derecha, neo-monarquicos, Satanistas, seguidores de la Nueva Derecha Europea, Duginistas, Eurasianos, Nacional-bolcheviques, teóricos de la conspiración, y por supuesto, fascistas y nacionalsocialistas, todos ellos englobados en círculos de la Derecha Alternativa.

En 2016 todos eran de Derecha Alternativa

Bajo esta definición, desde Steve Bannon o Milo Yannopolous serían Derecha Alternativa, así como el tabloide The Daily Stormer o el Partido Tradicionalista de los Trabajadores. De hecho, las tendencias ideológicas son tan diversas como las propias personas que han asumido el título de Derecha Alternativa. Por ejemplo, Steve Bannon dijo en 2016 durante la campaña presidencial de Donald Trump que deseaba convertir al periódico digital Breitbart en la voz de la Derecha Alternativa. Sin embargo, he encontrado también a neo-nazis propiamente que se definen como “Derecha Alternativa” igualmente.

Una definición más específica vendría a caracterizar lo propio de la Derecha Alternativa como una serie de tendencias hacia la identidad, historia y tradiciones europeas, y donde se consideraría a Europa y América del Norte por extensión, como parte de una sociedad occidental específica desarrollada por europeos y, más claramente, por pueblos cristianos. Consecuentemente, la Derecha Alternativa tiende a criticar ideas o políticas como el multiculturalismo, la migración masiva y lo que se llama “lo políticamente correcto” mucho más de que lo harían los círculos conservadores convencionales. Esto contrasta con las posiciones de la izquierda, las cuales se han vuelto cada día más liberales y que reducen al legado, la historia y la cultura occidental a nada más que opresión, racismo, seximos, homofobia, clasismo, antisemitismo, islamofobia, xenofobia, patriarcado, jerarquía, nativismo, heterosexualismo, especismo y una serie de “ismos” y “fobias” considerados por dicha posición como factores que definen a Occidente. Seguramente, las otras civilizaciones jamás han experimentado ninguno de esos fenómenos.

De esta manera, la Derecha Alternativa yace en claro contraste frente al conservadurismo convencional y sus tres aspectos: primero, se opone a los “halcones” militaristas que apoyan el intervencionismo internacional para promover el modelo occidental de democracia liberal en el mundo y que, a mi punto de vista, favorece a la industria armamentista y al presupuesto del Pentágono. Segundo, su fijación por las políticas económicas que consisten en reducción de impuestos, algo que favorece a los negocios de la clase corporativa. Tercero, el conservadurismo social de tipo religioso, opuesto al aborto o al matrimonio homosexual, pero que resta importancia o simplemente ignora los problemas civilizacionales o culturales en cualquier sentido. Por ejemplo, los medios católicos o protestantes ven con buenos ojos la migración masiva ya que serían futuros conversos o vendrían a llenar iglesias que se han visto vaciadas de fieles por la continua secularización de la sociedad. Es una práctica común en el mundo evangélico protestante adoptar niños del tercer mundo, de una manera muy parecida a lo que hacen celebridades y estrellas como Madonna o Angelina Jolie.

Naturalmente ya existe mucha conflictividad entre la Derecha Alternativa y el conservadurismo tradicional, donde estos últimos han optado por atacar o denunciar a los primeros con argumentos esencialmente parecidos a los de la izquierda o de los liberales. La agencia Associated Press describía a la Derecha Alternativa en un manual de políticas de sus redactores de esta manera:

“La ‘derecha alternativa’ o ‘alternativa de derecha’ es el nombre con el que se etiquetan algunos supremacistas y nacionalistas blancos para refererirse a sí mismos y a su ideología, la cual tiene como objetivo preservar la raza blanca en los Estados Unidos, a la par de defender otras posturas tradicionalmente conservadoras como limitar el intervencionismo del Estado, bajar los impuestos e imponer estricta obediencia a la ley. El movimiento ha sido descrito como una mezcla de racismo, nacionalismo blanco y populismo…. Crítica el “multiculturalismo” y los derechos de los no-blancos, las mujeres, los judíos, los musulmanes, los homosexuales, los inmigrantes y otras minorías, y sus miembros rechazan el ideal democrático estadounidense de igualdad de todos ante la ley sin importar su credo, sexo, origen étnico o raza” (John Daniszewski, Associated Press, 26 de noviembre de 2016).

La cita es de Associated Press, y sin embargo no creo que sería raro encontrar algo así en las páginas del New Yorker, The Atlantic o del Informe de Inteligencia del Southern Poverty Law Center. Y, sin embargo, también podría salir en las páginas del National Review, del Weekly Standard, del Federalist o en un video de la Prager University.

Otro ejemplo que puedo citar es un escrito del filósofo conservador Nathanael Blake que apareció en The Federalist donde afirma que “el cristianismo y la filosofía grecorromana, y no la raza, son las bases de la civilización occidental”, y donde acusa a la Derecha Conservadora de atacar al legado de la civilización occidental. Este tipo de problemas son los que constituyen un punto grande de divergencia entre los conservadores culturales y la derecha racialista. David French, del National Review, llama a los seguidores de la Derecha Alternativa “aspirantes a fascistas” y denuncia “su protagonismo en el dialogo político nacional”. Supongo que la diferencia entre las posturas de David French y las de la izquierda sería que estos últimos llaman “fascistas” directamente a la Derecha Alternativa, y no “aspirantes”. Seguramente es esto lo que separa a la Derecha Convencional de la izquierda hoy por hoy.

“Aspirantes a fascistas”

En el Weekly Standard, Benjamin Welton caracteriza a la Derecha Alternativa, como “una fuerza muy heterogénea” que “le da la vuelta al moralismo de izquierda y convierte la etiqueta de ‘racista’, ‘homófobo’ o ‘sexista’ en una medalla de honor”. Debo decir por experiencia propia que los argumentos de Welton son ciertos. Ian Tuttle escribió en el National Review de abril de 2016 que:

“La derecha alternativa evangeliza ya desde hace algunos meses a través de su presencia antisemita y racista en el internet, pero para Allum Bokhari y Milo Yiannopolos, ellos serían nada más que provocadores graciosos, valientes defensores de la civilización occidental, intelectuales atrevidos… y un montón de neonazis planeando la Solución Final 2.0, aunque estos últimos sean solo una minoría despreciada por todos”.

Jeffrey Tucker, escritor libertario de la Fundación para la Educación económica, describe a la Derecha Alternativa como:

La derecha alternativa “hereda aquella vieja y temida tradición que va desde Hegel a Carlyle, Spengler a Madison Grant, de Othmar Spann a Giovanni Gentile y a los discursos de Trump”. Tucker añade que los seguidores de la Derecha Alternativa miran al pasado “a lo que ellos piensan fue una Edad de Oro cuando las élites gobernaban y los peones obedecían” y consideran que “la identidad es todo y su pérdida es el más grande crimen inimaginable”. Cualesquiera que sean las posturas de cualquier persona sobre Trump, creo que estaremos de acuerdo en que es muy dudoso que éste haya sacado su inspiración de Hegel.

En The Federalist, la feminista libertaria Cathy Young criticaba un articulo del Radix Journal sobre el aborto donde se llamaba a los pro-vidas como “disgénicos” porque promueven “reproducirse hasta a la mujer más tonta e irresponsable”, así que no solo bastaría estar a favor del aborto, sino que se debe tomar dicha posición por “razones correctas” como el “derecho a decidir” frente a “malas razones” como la práctica eugenésica. Esta línea de pensamiento se ajusta a los posicionamientos comunes de la izquierda que insiste que los motivos e intenciones, y no las ideas y consecuencias, son importantes, y que son la guía través de la cual se puede emitir un juicio moral sobre cada individuo.

Otro interesante aspecto de estas críticas es que los conservadores convencionales atacan a la Derecha Alternativa con terminología propia de la izquierda, como racista, xenófobo, fascista, etc., pero que no ha evitado que el conservadurismo tradicional califique a la Alt Right como izquierdista. En el encuentro anual de este año (2017) del Comité de Acción Política Conservadora, Dan Schneider, actual director ejecutivo de la Unión Conservadora América, que organiza dicho evento, criticaba a la Derecha Alternativa como “una siniestra organización que está tratando de infiltrarse en nuestras filas” a la vez que insistía que “no debemos dejarnos engañar ni timar” por ella, y que:

“No son más que una caterva variada de fascistas de izquierda, antisemitas, racistas, sexistas que odian a la constitución, al libre mercado, al pluralismo y desprecian todo lo que nosotros creemos”.

Retórica similar que se escucha en la izquierda radical al advertir sobre la supuesta infiltración fascista en organizaciones de ese signo político. En círculos de izquierda radical y maoísta se denomina “complot fascista” a una supuesta vil conspiración para infiltrar movimientos revolucionarios y llevarlos hacia el fascismo. Irónicamente, dicha conspiración suena demasiado similar a la retórica tradicional antisemita sobre cómo los judíos supuestamente se infiltran y manipulan todo lo que tocan, como instituciones y demás para llevar adelante supuestos complots. Aparentemente la izquierda radical y el conservadurismo convencional han desarrollado cada uno su propia “teoría de la conspiración fascista” como contraparte a la “conspiración judía” de la ultraderecha, y podríamos entonces denominarla “los protocolos de los sabios de Thule”.

Jeff Goldestein, en The Federalist del 6 de septiembre de 2016 sugiere que “la Derecha Alternativa emula a la Nueva Izquierda, al ser un movimiento a la par de Black Lives Matter, La Raza, el Consejo de Relaciones Islamo-americanas y otros productos del marxismo cultural”.

¿Reflejo de sí mismos?

“La Derecha Alternativa es un movimiento europeo de ultraderecha que yace contrapuesto al liberalismo clásico sobre el que se fundó nuestro país, y que la izquierda ha calificado como ‘derecha’, lo que quiere decir, la ‘derecha europea’ está encuadrada en un espectro político diferente a la nuestra. Nuestra ‘derecha’ –conservadurismo o liberalismo clásico- está claramente definida, no importa cuántas veces la izquierda quiera decir lo contrario. Lo nuestro es el constitucionalismo que incorpora al federalismo, al republicanismo, a la igualdad legal y la separación de poderes”.

Estos ejemplos representan más o menos la retórica del conservadurismo convencional utilizada para pintar a la Derecha Alternativa como izquierdistas o calificarla de fascistas al tiempo que aclaran que el verdadero fascismo es de izquierda. El argumento general de los conservadores tradicionales afirma que la verdadera derecha está enraizada en ideas de la ilustración que se pueden encontrar en la Declaración de la Independencia o en la veneración de los Padres Fundadores de los Estados Unidos, a la vez que la Constitución sería una especie de biblia secular. Paralelamente se considera a los Estados Unidos una “nación proposicional” derivada del “judeo-cristianismo” sin igual en su historia, cultura o tradiciones a la de otros países. Aquello que es “conservador” se define únicamente en el “límite al Estado”, la llamada “libre empresa”, el “individualismo” y otras abstracciones poco definidas, así como preferencias en “políticas basadas en una fuerte defensa nacional” (eufemismo para la agenda política internacional del neo-conservadurismo). Otras políticas de centro derecha entran en esta categoría, tales como recortes a los impuestos, oposición al programa de sanidad Obamacare, oposición a la acción afirmativa, al control de armas, al aborto o al matrimonio homosexual, así como apoyar el uso de cupones escolares y otras ideas similares.

Dichas preferencias se coronan con lemas como “los demócratas son los verdaderos racistas” o acusaciones dudosas o simplemente falsas como que “Martin Luther King era conservador”, que los conservadores son los verdaderos amigos del feminismo y de los homosexuales por oponerse al “fascismo islámico”. Los demócratas aparecen como fascistas y antisemitas por supuestamente tener posiciones pro-islámicas o porque parte de la izquierda radical apoya a Palestina. Algunos extremistas del conservadurismo convencional como Dinesh D’Souza (N.d.T.: cineasta indio-estadounidense conocido por sus teorías conspirativas) podrían incluso ser capaces de decir que los demócratas crucificaron a Cristo.

Los representantes del “Conservadurismo y cia.” no se limitan a no hacer nada cuando la libre expresión o la libertad académica son atacadas en nombre de lo políticamente correcto, pues son selectivos sobre qué defender o no. Defender lo políticamente incorrecto para ellos no aplica en casos como el de Norman Finkelstein (N.d.T.: autor de La Industria del Holocausto), y en cambio defenderán la migración legal como método para contener la ilegal, dejando claro que para ellos el problema es únicamente el rompimiento de leyes. Una característica clásica del conservadurismo tradicional y lo que lo diferencia de la Derecha Alternativa es su propia falta de seriedad o de solidez filosófica o intelectual.

En cambio, la Derecha Alternativa propone un movimiento meta-político por lo que los objetivos específicos en su seno varían enormemente. No creo que es posible definir los objetivos hipotéticos de un partido de derecha alternativa precisamente por la diversidad que demuestran. Sin embargo, la Derecha Alternativa es mucho más seria en cuanto a ideas que el conservadurismo convencional no parece interesarse, como el conflicto demográfico y las dificultades que conlleva el cambio poblacional, o entender la realidad de los conflictos de clase, culturales y civilizacionales. Los conservadores parecen no entender que el modelo de democracia liberal occidental existe por las particulares bases culturales y las circunstancias históricas de occidente, y que dicho modelo no puede ser aplicado fácilmente afuera de éste.

Termino mi presentación con las observaciones del profesor George Hawley de la Universidad de Alabama, quien diría que la Derecha Alternativa representa una amenaza aún mayor al progresismo que lo que podría ser el conservadurismo convencional. Estoy de acuerdo en esto, pero quiero puntualizar que esto es verdad porque los conservadores tradicionales no representan amenaza alguna contra el liberalismo. Añadiría que más allá de una amenaza al Partido Democrático de los Estados Unidos, a los medios convencionales, a la clase corporativa y a la elite cultural, el conservadurismo es más bien un socio de estos. La Derecha Alternativa al menos propone ideas que representan una amenaza ideológica a la izquierda, aun siendo que éste movimiento es demasiado pequeño para constituir un desafío político real, al menos en esta época.

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