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Jim Jones + Addictions
Before starting abusing drugs in 1971, he mostly took medication to treat his known ailments, even though it is also known he was already using prescription drugs like Darvon for migraines. Even then, he often took more than the recommended dosage.
His known medication before 1971 was Insulin for his diabetes (diagnosed in 1954, along with high blood pressure), and Nitroglycerin for his heart.
Sometime around 1971, he started to heavily abuse drugs like Amphetamines, Quaaludes, and later liquid Valium and Morphine, Pentorbarbital, Percodan, Oxycodone, …That same year he also started wearing sunglasses at times, his drugs use being one of the reasons.
He often mixed his pills with alcohol, generally Vodka, Whiskey or Cognac, an habit he kept up until the end in Jonestown.
There are reports he was using cocaine and heroin at some point, but there are no other details about it, beside the testimony of Neva Sly Hargrave and Tim Carter (who mentioned only Heroin).
The drug he certainly abused the most though was Amphetamines (not to be confused with Methamphetamine). He took it to stay awake, often working 20-hour days or even more, and get up in the morning. His known paranoia was then fueled even more by the drug intake. People in the congregation had no idea of his addiction and the majority thought the short and long time side effects of the drug were due to some chronic illness. Among the side effects he experienced : quicker reaction time, feeling of energy, chronic trouble sleeping, dry mouth, headache, hostility, severe anxiety, increased heart rate, hypertension, paranoia, violent behavior, convulsions, loss of coordination, obsessive behavior.
A side effect he did not seem to experience with Amphetamine abuse was loss of appetite. Amphetamines can be used as appetite suppressants and in diet pills, but he often talked about food and how he had to try to resist it. In 1972 he made a few references to fasting to lose some weight quickly, and in 1974, he said he can get into a “food problem” because it keeps his mind from thinking. Food was mentioned by Stephan as another addiction for his father, just like drugs.
Quaaludes and Pentorbarbital were used to sleep at night. If he doubled the dosage of Amphetamine, he actually tripled the recommended dosage to sleep. At high doses Pentorbarbital can cause mental confusion, irritability, paranoid or suicidal ideation and impair judgment, and coordination.
Once in Jonestown he relied more and more on Valium for his anxiety. In February 1978, he was prescribed antibiotics for his cough (which later resulted in a lung infection),Terramycin, Erythromycin and Ampicillin. As with all medications, he also abused them, and natural defenses can be affected by their excessive use. Around September 1978, he started using Elavil and Placidyl for depression, both by injection.
At the time of his death, a lethal dose of Pentorbarbital was found in his body as shown in the toxicology report from his autopsy:
The Cult That Died by George Klineman:
Jim occasionally suffered a condition speed freak call being “over amped.” Sounds would be exaggerated; a car’s horn was enough to drive him up the walls. He would get wild-eyes and threaten to attack people who annoyed him, but guards always held him back before he did any harm. One time at the Temple in Los Angeles, Jim Jones had taken a bunch of pills — he selected them by color — and the locomotive inside him had built up such a head of steam, the boiler was ready to explode. He had to walk off all that energy. Jones and others walked out a side door on to South Alvarado Street. Father was rushing and everyone in his group had to walk faster than normal, to keep up with him. Suddenly he stopped. He turned around and push the guards away.
“Are you alright, Father?”
“Did you hear that?”
”Hear what?”
“Did you hear the baby frog croaking?”
Raven by Tim Reiterman :
“Marceline became concerned about this new source of friction and psychological problems. It came to a head once when she grabbed the stash from his medicine chest and, while Jones struggled with her, flushed his drugs down the toilet.”
Jim Jones Jr. :
“Once after I went to Georgetown I had to come back with somebody from the Guyanese government who wanted to do an inspection [of Jonestown], and also talk to Jim. We get there, and no Jim. I go to his cottage, and he’s lying there passed out from drugs. So here I am, dragging my father into the shower and standing in there with him, trying to get him in shape to go out and talk to the guest.”
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At some point I should probably draw the rest of the Happy Mediums. Asher does actually have bandmates--Justin Derulo (no relation), Raven Hargrave (aka xXxRaveGrave69xXx), and Sky. Justin fucks like a steam train, idolizes Guy Fieri, and is the bassist. Raven is Asher's lesbian ex girlfriend, extremely goth, a nurse, the van driver, and a drummer. Sky works the keyboard. No one in the band has ever seen their real face, and they like it that way. Sky replaced the former triangle player, Norman, who got kicked out for being generally annoying and wiping the Guy Fieri signature off of Justin's bass. He's fine now, he has a soloist career--and a vendetta.
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Another One Bites The Dust!
Okay, so Crewel was one I thought would be interesting, but had NO idea it would give me a whole other concept for an AU for Golden Dreams. I guess look out for that one this summer, maybe. I mean... I took notes.
A beautifully written story of friendship, discovery, myths, and magic that the London Times called "reminiscent of fantasy greats such as Philip Pullman and Neil Gaiman." Legends say that the island of Joya was once a place where songbirds sang in every tree and the islanders were free to come and go as they pleased. That was before the harsh-ruling Governor arrived, and ravens drove out the native birds. Now there are no songbirds, and the people are forbidden to travel beyond the forest that separates them from the rest of the island. But for Isabella, the legends of her island home have always seemed like more than just stories. And when a series of mysterious events shakes the community, it's Isabella--daughter to the island's only mapmaker--who will lead a party of explorers into the forest in search of answers. As the group ventures deeper and deeper into the island, dark secrets begin to surface, and the legends Isabella has listened to all these years show signs of coming to life. Debut novelist Kiran Millwood Hargrave draws on the cultural folklore of the Canary Islands in this richly told story of a girl's quest to map her own place in a world that legends alone have shaped. Advance Praise: " R]eminiscent of fantasy greats such as Philip Pullman and Neil Gaiman." -- The London Times
There's my next one. Keeping myself accountable has gotten me this far. I'm gonna keep on chugging!
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Raven and Wally at the fair
#Wally west#raven hargrave#on a date#couples#kid flash#dark phoenix#my art#dc comics#friendlynaborhoodnuisance#flashfam
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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔦𝔢𝔫 ℭ. ℌ𝔞𝔯𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔳𝔢
( 𝔒𝔭𝔢𝔫 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔟𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔮𝔲𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔶 )
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Fave Five: Queer Nordic Fiction The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Norwegian Historical) The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember (Norse YA Fantasy reimagining of "The Little Mermaid")
#Carly Heath#Danish#Greenlandic#Icelandic#Julia Ember#Kiran Millwood Hargrave#Last Night in Nuuk#Mats Strandberg#Miss Iceland#Niviaq Korneliussen#Norse#Norway#Norwegian#Sara Bergmark#T. Kingfisher#The Engelsfors series#The Mercies#The Raven and the Reindeer#The Reckless Kind#The Seafarer&039;s Kiss
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All I want to do is to travel and read ✈️
• The Sin Eaters Daughter / Melinda Salisbury
• The Raven Boys / Maggie Stiefvater
• The Girl of Ink and Stars / Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Swallows and Amazons / Arthur Ransome
•Collins French Dictionary
#books#book#travel#wanderlust#reading#travel and read#bags#the sin eater's daughter#trc#the raven boys#the girl of ink and stars#swallows and amazons#dictionary#French#Collins dictionaries#melinda salisbury#maggie stiefvater#kiran millwood hargrave#arthur ransome#photos#photography#my photos#books to read#writingg-girl
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Do you have the raven cycle fics recommendation? <3
why yes i do !! sorry for taking so long to respond to this i scrolled so far through my ao3 history to answer lol 😅 (also they're all predominantly pynch & some have background bluesey)
1. i will humbly present my own raven cycle fic it starts right now (currently 66k) which is an in progress new girl au :-)) i promise i will update soon 🙏
2. finding that love song by LydiaStJames (190k) - i am a hoe for a good band au and this one is GREAT
3. 'tis the damn season by tamquams (20k) - fake dating holiday season wonderfulness
4. in gardens all wet with rain by hollyanneg (13k) - fantasy au! masquerade ball! psychic adam!
5. never knock by burn_it_slow (27k) - perfect amount and type of angst (with a happy ending)
6. the weight you carry by hargrave (4k) - this has one of my favorite adam hcs and i reread it all the time
7. unless you wanna come along? by tamquams (3 fics, roughly 20k total) - i looooved adam and ronan's relationship in this so so so much
8. the rocky road to dublin by KellieAltogether (19k) - pub owning ronan in a small irish town was something i never knew i needed
9. the best is yet to be by charlie_mou (11k) - a bunch of outside perspectives on pynch being married without actually being married, very very sweet and fluffy
10. just to be quiet by sksai (141k) - ronan and adam have a psychic bond and even though this is a long fic i think i read it in 2 days so. there’s that.
i have so so many more i'm sure, but here's a lil list to get u started :)
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Working at the Renaissance Faire is supposed to be a fun, easy weekend job for Adam Parrish. He helps run the blacksmith booth, he minds his own business, he makes a few extra dollars along the way. However, nothing is ever simple wherever the infuriating, dangerously attractive Ronan Lynch is involved.
AKA the gang does Renfest, with a slight twist at the end.
#pynch#my fic#idk what else to tag this tbh#this fic isn't meant to be serious just have fun with it
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For the Fandom Ask Game: The Raven Cycle, Red Vs. Blue, and the Cosmere (feel free to narrow this down to just one series if you need/want), please?
The Raven Cycle
I'm not even going to try to make this explainable to someone who hasn't read the books. Apologies for the incoherence.
favorite character: Richard Campbell Gansey the Third.
least favorite character: Barrington Whelk, devoid of virtually any good traits and holder of several awful ones. Joseph Kavinsky, partially because of his (to me) utterly inexplicable popularity with the fandom, partially because of who he is as a person.
brOTP: Gansey and Ronan. The Gangsey (Gansey, Ronan, Adam, Blue, Noah, and Henry) as a whole.
OTP: Gansey/Blue.
OT3: Not a thing for me.
NOTP: Ronan/Kavinsky. For so many reasons.
favorite storyline: One of my favorite, if not my very favorite recurring element is one or more characters coming to the aid of another, often in a way the other character didn't anticipate -- Ronan facing Adam's dad, Adam saving Ronan, Ronan and Gansey showing up at court for Adam, everyone looking for Blue when she's at Jesse's, everyone showing up when Gansey's underground at the estate, everyone refusing to hurt Adam when he's possessed, etc.
least favorite storyline: I think more could have been done with the demon, frankly.
what I wish had happened but didn’t: I wish there had been more exploration into the "king voice" thing.
what happened that I wish hadn’t: You can try to tell me they all forgot about Noah at the end, but i won't believe you.
Red vs Blue
... Yeah, this isn't going to make a whole lot of sense, either.
favorite character: Leonard Church. Or, more specifically, Alpha!Church and Epsilon!Church, who are effectively the same person. Not including the Director, who is also Leonard Church, and in some ways the same as Alpha and Epsilon, but also not really.
least favorite character: Malcolm Hargraves.
brOTP: Church and Carolina. Almost a literal brOTP.
OTP: Church/Tex and Carolina/York.
OT3: Not a thing.
NOTP: Some ships that are popular in the fandom, but i don't feel strongly negative about any canon ships.
favorite storyline: The Chorus arc is probably my favorite.
least favorite storyline: Well, i stopped watching sometime in season 15. I don't think it's terrible, but it lost my interest and never regained it.
what I wish had happened but didn’t: I would have liked to have seen more of the other AI fragments, especially like what we saw with Epsilon in seasons 12 and 13. A lot more AI bullet time!
what happened that I wish hadn’t: Eh, nothing i feel strongly about.
The Cosmere
Gonna restrict this to The Stormlight Archive.
favorite character: Shallan, followed closely by Kaladin.
least favorite character: Oh, who to pick? There's quite a list. I'll go with Sadeas, but all the prologues have built up Gavilar to be almost as bad (or possibly even worse!).
brOTP: Kaladin and Adolin.
OTP: Shallan/Adolin.
OT3: Nope.
NOTP: Same as above, nothing canon (at the moment) comes to mind.
favorite storyline: Oh, what to pick? I love a lot of things about all of the books, but i think there's something special about Kaladin's arc in the first book. If i could draw or animate or compose music, i would love to do something for the moment where he and the rest of Bridge Four decide to go back for the Kholin army. Just, incredible.
least favorite storyline: Not really a thing.
what I wish had happened but didn’t: Can't think of anything, offhand.
what happened that I wish hadn’t: Poor Elhokar should have had a chance to become a better king. (Not that i think it's bad from a narrative perspective or anything, but the poor guy deserved so much better).
Thanks for asking!
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Books read in 2021 so far
*denotes a reread
Authority by Jeff Vandermeer, finished 05/01/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Familiars by Stacey Halls, finished 06/01/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, finished 07/01/2021 ★ ★ ★
Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer, finished 09/01/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu, finished 13/01/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, finished 16/01/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, finished 20/01/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, finished 22/01/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson, finshed 24/01/2021 ★ ★ ★
The Princess Diarist* by Carrie Fisher, finished 27/01/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell, finished 30/01/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, finished 05/02/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, finished 14/02/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton, finished 27/02/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, finished 04/03/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Color Purple by Alice Walker, finished 08/03/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, finished 16/03/2021 ★ ★ ★
Wilder Girls by Rory Power, finished 17/03/2021 ★ ★ ★
The Pisces by Melissa Broder, finished 26/03/2021 ★ ★
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, finished 30/03/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey, finished 31/03/2021 ★ ★ ★
Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue, finished 13/04/2021 ★ ★ ★
Luster by Raven Leilani, finished 23/04/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Maurice by E.M. Forster, finished 06/05/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Idiot by Elif Batuman, finished 08/05/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, finished 09/05/2021 ★ ★ ★
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents by Lemony Snicket, finished 13/05/2021 ★ ★ ★
Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami, finished 17/05/2021 ★ ★ ★
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, finished 21/05/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
You Will Get Through This Night by Daniel Howell, finished 04/06/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, finished 04/06/2021 ★ ★ ★
Felicity by Mary Oliver, finished 17/06/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer, finished 22/06/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James, finished 02/07/2021 ★ ★
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson, finished 03/07/2021 ★ ★ ★
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, finished 07/07/2021 ★ ★ ★
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland* by Lewis Carroll, finished 09/07/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley, finished 10/07/2021 ★ ★ ★
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, finished 27/07/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo, finished 28/07/2021 ★ ★ ★
The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson, finished 30/07/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, finished 01/08/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, finished 11/08/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell, finished 17/08/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo, finished 19/08/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts, finished 22/08/2021 ★ ★ ★
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, finished 29/08/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, finished 02/09/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez, finished 07/09/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, finished 20/09/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, finished 07/10/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon, finished 17/10/2021 ★ ★ ★
1984 by George Orwell, finished 24/10/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante, finished 26/10/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Haunting Season by Bridget Collins, Laura Purcell, Elizabeth Macneal, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Jess Kidd, Natasha Pulley, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, and Andrew Michael Hurley, finished 01/11/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, finished 01/11/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo, finished 08/11/2021 ★ ★ ★
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, finished 16/11/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
Coraline* by Neil Gaiman, finished 16/11/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman, finished 18/11/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, finished 25/11/2021 ★ ★ ★
The Foundling by Stacey Halls, finished 09/12/2021 ★ ★ ★
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong, finished 10/12/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, finished 14/12/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★
The Story of the Lost Child, by Elena Ferrante, finished 17/12/2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Raven Hargrave
#raven hargrave#dark phoenix#a sweet girl#not really tho#but she is great#and beautiful#for more info on the hargrave sisters go to missmachine's blog#missmachine#my art#head shot#friendlynaborhoodnuisance
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Bookworm Asks: 1, 22, 24, and 25!!💚
hi amanda!!! thanks for the ask!!!! this is a lot so ill add a read more
1. What are you reading right now and what do you think of it?
Im reading the ebook of "The Once and Future Witches" by Alix E. Harrow and I'm listening to the audiobook of "The Mercies" by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and I started both within the past day because I just finished reading Alice Hoffman's Magic Lessons trilogy (rereading Rules of Magic). I love witchcraft stories because who Doesn't Love Strong Women and Magic but it is weird that I have now read several in a row..... magic?
22. Any books you were surprised to end up liking?
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. It's an enemies to lovers fake dating coworkers trope and it shouldn't be as Phenomenal as it was for a straight white people hating each other book and yet it had me in a FIT . click here to read my Goodreads review of it.
24. Favorite Book Title
Not exactly sure if this means just a title that's awesome or the title of my favorite book but either way the answer is "The Starless Sea" by Erin Morgenstern. i love this book so so much and its nonsensical and metaphorical and allegorical and lovely and it makes me ache
25. What books do you read over and over again?
i don't reread things very often but I do reread when a sequel or show is coming out so that I can remember what happened before and I have reread the Rick Riordan books many times, the Raven Cycle books, and Six of Crows
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Hi there!
[Sorry if you did receive this ask already and just didn't get round to answering it yet but there seems to be a problem with ppl receiving my asks of late so I thought I'd send it again]
Do you have any recommendations for queer scandinavian literature? Not necessarily YA. Thanks!
Not sure what qualifies as Scandinavian literature for you (e.g. origin of author or setting or what) but these are all either set in or inspired by Scandinavia, and the last one is originally Swedish, so that one definitely qualifies.
The Seafarer’s Kiss and The Navigator’s Touch by Julia Ember
The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath
The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Engelsfors series by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren (Swedish)
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