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belle-keys · 1 year
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Litfic by Women of Colour for starters: 10 Recommendations
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Yellowface by RF Kuang
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Violeta by Isabel Allende
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
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Welcome :3
Hiya, I'm Aidan, I'm an autistic nonbinary transfem person (ey/them atm) and I reaaaally like Celeste, and I presume you do too, as you're on my blog. Or maybe you came here from my main (@aidanbutampersand) cause I posted about it, but I only know one person who has ever mentioned Celeste from Tumblr (hi theo), so you're probably on this blog for approximately three seconds before you go lose focus and go read about reptiles for four hours and realise you missed lunch. You better not miss lunch. GO EAT SILLY BILLY.
Anyway, this is my sideblog about Celeste :D I'll probably use it to post about random maps I'm playing, cool clears or golden runs I do, or tech explanations that I think other people can benefit from. From time to time I might do explanations of entire rooms on the Celeste Hard List, or explanations of difficult or chokepoint gameplay in easier rooms/maps.
This blog will probably have a lot of spoilers for a lot of random maps, so be warned for that. Also, if you need help with specific rooms in vanilla celeste or easy modded maps, I can probably help, but learny maps, maps with custom mechanics or very difficult maps are probably out of my jurisdiction, with some exceptions. Alternatively, if you just wanna chat about Celeste, I'm chronically online so uh I will probably see it pretty quickly.
(you can't message as a sideblog afaik so you can message my main or send me an ask for my discord)
MY CELESTE CLEARS RANKED (my opinion)
1. MOCE // CPVL by isabelle (2*)
2. Darkmoon Ruins by Cabob and Ru (1*)
3. Forward Facility by uhm i fogor
4. Everlasting Farewell by idk how to spell their name it's like luna or luma
5. Summit D Side by Monika
bigots, te/rfs, exclusionists, anti-neopronoun, zionist, racist, etc blogs dni. also pls don't send me nsfw stuff
Anyway I'll probably post pretty soon so uh look out for that haha. seeya around :3
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bermudianabroad · 3 months
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2023 Reading Roundup
Everything what I read in 2023
I read a whole bunch.
Heartily Recommend Visceral Bleh Reread *Audiobook*
Fiction
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (where is the fucking humidity in your swamp, Delia??)
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Lot by Bryan Washington
Mr. Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell (but everyone is called Thomas)
Verity by Colleen Hoover (awful but wacky and hilariously awful)
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Animorphs #24 The Suspicion by KA Applegate (a trip)
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Island of Forgetting by Jasmine Sealy
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Trio by Johanna Hedman
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Silence by Shusaku Endo
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Babel by RF Kuang (was so disappointed by this one)
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
Island by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen
The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani
Must I Go by Yiyun Li
The 1,000 Year Old Boy by Ross Welford
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow
The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
Yellowface by RF Kuang
The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
Game Misconduct by Ari Baran
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (sorry Naomi :/ )
The Foot of the Cherry Tree by Ali Parker
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Twilight World by Werner Herzog
Wild by Kristen Hannah
*The Fraud by Zadie Smith*
The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham (weirdly, one of the best depictions of a marriage I’ve read)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abdulhawa
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
Animorphs: The Hork-Bajir Chronicles by KA Applegate
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Animorphs #13 The Change by KA Applegate
Animorphs #14 The Unknown by KA Applegate
Animorphs #20 The Discovery by KA Applegate (snuck in two more under the wire… #20 is when shit REALLY kicks off. From there it gets darker and darker).
Poetry
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
Women of the Harlen Renaissance (Anthology) by Various
The Analog Sea Review no. 4 by Various
The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Non-Fiction
Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick
Atlas of Abandoned Places by Oliver Smith
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth Century London by Vic Gatrell
The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance by Geoff White (fully available as a podcast)
The Entangling Net: Alaska’s Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Stories by Leslie Leyland Fields (very niche but fascinating. Transcribed interviews)
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H.
Freedom by Margaret Atwood (just excerpts from novels repackaged)
*Born a Crime by Trevor Noah* (Noah’s narration is superb)
The Slavic Myths by Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak (was expecting stories, but it was mostly academic essays)
Manga, Comics, Graphic Novels
Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco
The Way of the House-Husband, vol. 1 by Kousuke Oono
SAGA vol. 1-6 by Fiona Staples and Brian K Vaughan
Top of the Top:
Born a Crime was probably my favourite non ficition, and most of that probably is due to Trevor Noah's narration skills. It was very entertaining and heartfelt.
Less uplifting but just as gripping in a different way was Empire of Pain. Excellent book that went deep into the why and what and hows of Purdue Pharma. Anger inducing.
Lazarus Heist is great and available as a podcast. The book is more or less the podcast word for word.
Fictionwise: I read Trust at the start of the year and it was a bit soon to declare as favourite of the year, but it's stil made the final cut. Just very imaginative and intriguing. Just my kind of MetaFiction. Clever without being cleverclever.
Demon Copperhead I read right off the back of Empire of Pain so maybe that coloured my experience. I've not read any Dickens so loads of references no doubt flew past me, but the language was acrobatic and zingy. I loved it.
Wrapped up the year on a high with North Woods. That was so unexpected and entertaining. Again with the playful language, memorable characters and a unique approach to tying all the various stories together. One that sticks in the mind and makes the writer in me wonder how I can replicate his style (with my own personal twist of course.)
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npdclaraoswald · 4 months
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4, 11, and 14 for the book asks (if they haven't been asked already!) :D
4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?
I haven't found any new ones that I'd immediately call auto-buy authors after just one book, but I read AM McLemore and RF Kuang for the first time this year and have several other books from both of them on my tbr. And it's a bit more difficult to get a feel on comic writers right away since it is such a collaborative medium, but I really like what I've seen from Chris Claremont, Eve Ewing, G Willow Williams, and Emily Kim
11. What was your favorite book that's been out for a while, but that you just now read?
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer translated by Shaun Whiteside is oldest 5 star read I've had this year, having come out in 1963, but I also loved The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982), and all of the Discworld books I read this year, the most recent of which was published posthumously in 2015.
14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?
Well the only thing I have that I've started so far is Frankenstein, but my tbr for the rest of December includes Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa (picking this one up from the library today); Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa; The Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas; When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb; You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat; Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman by Greg Grandin; Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke; You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor and Justina Matthewson; Green Arrow/Black Canary vol 3: A League of Their Own by Judd Winick, Wayne Faucher, Mike Norton, Robin Riggs, and Diego Barreto; Sideways vol 1: Steppin' Out by Justin Jordan, Dan Didio, and Kenneth Rocafort; Batman and the Outsiders vol 2: The Snare by Chuck Dixon, Carlos Rodriguez, Julián López, and Ryan Benjamin; and Static Shock vol 1: Supercharged by Scott McDaniel, John Rozum, and Marc Bernardin
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blxopium · 7 months
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august reading wrap up
highlights
the hacienda by isabel cañas -- ★★★★★
lovable main character, hot priest, forbidden love, rebecca inspired, and beautiful writing. what more could you ask for? this book truly set me up to be a lover of this author and all future projects isabel produces. cannot wait to get my hands on 'vampires of el norte" next.
babel by rf kuang -- ★★★★★
lets start by saying that anything rf kuang has written is just an automatic five stars. but not out of pure bias (though i love her work), she genuinely is just stunning in everything she chooses to pursue. this, obviously, is my opinion. babel is an amazing story, and i genuinely wish i could reread for the first time.
percy jackson and the olympians -- ★★★★★
this is based on purely bias and nostalgia. i reread the first five books due to the announcement to show. like every other pjo fan (we're so predictable). surprisingly, the series still holds up extremely well even as i age. i cannot wait for the show. glad i set aside time to just read these because they were such a blast from the past.
jazz by toni morrison -- ★★★★★
the back of this book was the reason i read it. "a man shoots his teenaged lover and then his wife goes to her funeral with a knife intending to scar her. and so sets a story of love and obsession." what made this five stars - despite being written by toni morrison - is the way she went about telling this story. like jazz music, where everyone is ocnversing and interrrupting and changing the way the song unfolds to beautiful and memorable. such is toni morrison's writing in this book. a new perspective, a new character that ties everything in, the narrator, the way the city seems alive and character of itself. i adored this book.
other star reads + their ratings:
woman, eating by claire kohda -- ★★★★☆ frankenstein by mary shelly -- ★★★★☆ alone with you in the ether by olivie blake -- ★★★★★ imaginary girls by nova ren suma -- ★★★☆☆ blood over bright haven by m.l. wang -- ★★★★★ book lovers by emily henry -- ★★★☆☆ marrow by trisha wolfe, brynne weaver -- ★★★☆☆ the lovely bones by alice bold -- ★★★★☆ these violent delights by micah nemerever -- ★★★★☆
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thequibblah · 1 year
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hello, book asks 6, 12 and 17 please and thank you <3
6. Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?
oh was there ever... the force of such beauty by barbara bourland, babel by rf kuang, reluctant immortals by gwendolyn kiste, strike the zither by joan he, best of friends by kamila shamsie, and she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan all come to mind
12. Any books that disappointed you?
doe ur tryna get me axed... but yes. house of hunger by alexis henderson, the thursday murder club by richard osman, foul lady fortune by chloe gong, groupies by sarah priscus, when women were dragons by kelly barnhill, cover story by susan rigetti, i guess i live here now by claire ahn, ghosts by dolly alderton, how to fake it in hollywood by ava wilder, funny you should ask by elissa sussman, the cartographers by peng shepherd, anatomy by dana schwartz, one italian summer by rebecca serle, and you've reached sam by dustin thao
17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?
also yes!! a declaration of the rights of magicians by hg parry, the last true poets of the sea by julia drake, a lady for a duke by alexis hall, nsfw by isabel kaplan, the marriage portrait by maggie o'farrell, our crooked hearts by melissa albert, the echo wife by sarah gailey, the hop by diana clarke, thank you for listening by julia whelan, star eater by kerstin hall, a certain hunger by chelsea g. summers, the view was exhausting by mikaella clements & onjuli datta, the honeys by ryan la sala, for the throne by hannah whitten, a dowry of blood by s.t. gibson, the girl who fell beneath the sea by axie oh, all our hidden gifts by caroline o'donaghue, little thieves by margaret owen, vespertine by margaret rogerson, and half a soul by olivia atwater — lots of new to me authors this year, and many of them are now auto-buys!!
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drewzeitlin · 11 hours
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Kansas City Royals Starting Lineup 3-28-24
Here is the Kansas City Royals lineup for their game against the Minnesota Twins on Thursday, March 28, 2024. First pitch 4:10 ET
Garcia 3B
Witt Jr. SS
Pasquantino 1B
Perez C
Melendez LF
Renfroe RF
Frazier 2B
Velazquez DH
Isabel CF
Ragans SP
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fiveflatcutie · 1 month
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2024 Reads
Here’s everything I read throughout the year along with my ratings and some of my favorite quotes from them. Feel free to also send me your recommendations! 📚
Reading tally: 34 books
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Books I read:
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (3.5/5)
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas (3.75/5)
Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas (4/5)
Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas (4.5/5)
Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas (5/5)
Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas (4.75/5)
Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas (6/5)
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (3/5)
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (4.25/5)
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (4.5/5)
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas (4/5)
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas (4.5/5)
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas (5/5)
House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas (5/5)
House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas (4.5/5)
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston (4.25/5)
Book Lovers by Emily Henry (4.5/5)
Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross (4/5)
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (4.5/5)
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo (4.75/5)
The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent (4.75/5)
The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent (4.5/5)
Love Redesigned by Lauren Asher (4.75/5)
Bride by Ali Hazelwood (3.5/5)
When The Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker (6/5)
Exception to the Rule by Christina Lauren (4/5)
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (4/5)
Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong (4.5/5)
The Poppy War by RF Kuang (5/5)
What The River Knows by Isabel Ibanez (4/5)
A Fate Inked In Blood by Danielle L. Jensen (4.75/5)
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata (3.75/5)
House of Beating Wings by Olivia Wildenstein (3.75/5)
House of Pounding Hearts by Olivia Wildenstein (4/5)
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loveisbraveandwild · 3 months
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hiiii!! when you hear that someone is ‘well read’ which books do you think of? i’m trying to read more/diverse books and i would appreciate some recs!!!
ooo this is a good question but not something i think abt a lot. i think well read is just someone who reads diverse books and i dont put l any weight on literary or classic titles. some authors i recommend if you’re trying to diversify ur shelf: joshua whitehead, angie thomas, bernardine evaristo, etaf rum, angela davis, malinda lo, isabel wilkerson, sim kern, leslie feinberg, rf kuang, and jennifer finney boylan!!
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elecmon · 3 years
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Team 3 -> Team 2 stack!!
(Powered up + powered down colors for team 3)
Not sure about keeping them as “Team #” but squad doesn’t entirely fit right either? 🤔
@/Gentei_sozai on twitter has the cutest draw the squad pose bases 🥺💖
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shellwanders · 2 years
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12 Must-Visit Restaurant in Leyte
12 Must-Visit Restaurant in Leyte
Leyte, island, one of the Visayan group in the central Philippines, lying east of Cebu and Bohol across the Camotes Sea. It lies southwest of the island of Samar, with which it is linked by a 7,093-foot (2,162-metre) bridge (completed in 1973) across the narrow San Juanico Strait – Wikipedia 12 Must-Visit Restaurant in Leyte You can locate these restaurants from the western part to the southern…
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I'm deciding to respond to this in a separate post because I do not want to derail the original intentions of the post with my thoughts. You can read the article in the original post here and I recommend that you do before reading what I have to say about it in my post.
I think this article has the best of intentions, and like the tweets the writer critiques and admonishes for blowing things out of proportion and becoming biased, I think unfortunately that is what this article has done in turn. Often times, this is just the very nature of discussing hot topics and sensitive issues in online circles and even offline. What Isabel did was perhaps in good faith but needs to be recognized as a faux pas. People are sensitive to this sort of anonymity for a reason as it is weaponized by T*RFS and other anti trans groups on the regular.
I'm rather appalled at the stance posed by this article, questioning what harm would it do if there was another piece of transphobic media in a space that is supposed to be more welcoming of transness? What harm would it do? It would welcome more transphobia well intentioned or otherwise. What's to stop others from making insensitive short stories under the guise of good faith? What's to stop a wave of Sci Fi writers from flooding the scene with wombyn ideologies? Isn't there enough transphobic, homophobic, sexist and racist writers no matter the genre? But it's okay to excuse more of them because they could potentially be closeted?
Personally I feel this is an asinine take. I feel to allow for a margin of error especially with the mask of anonymity is just allowing for people to stick their xenophobic, transphobic, and potentially fetishizing fingers into places that are attempting to make themselves safe for other marginalized people. This isn't to say that there shouldn't be room for discussion of gender like Isabel attempted to do, and I think it was a very brave and brash move for her to make that her FIRST publication as her new attempted identity. However, her downfall is not single-handedly the fault of the twitter users that speculated her identity. She took a bat to a hornet's nest and then was shocked when she was stung.
I do not wish her harm and I do not think she deserved the level of backlash she got. I do think that she was misguided, and perhaps should have thought twice about making such a reactionary and problematic meme the title of her first work. That alone is a red flag and especially for someone with so little information behind them. It's really bizarre to me how one can cry out that they were shot when they were the one holding the gun to their foot. Perhaps "cancel culture" is a bit out of control on some level, of that I will concede, but did Isabel really live in such a bubble as not to expect potential backlash?
If this article was meant to put to rest the discussion around this whole debacle, it failed. To me this is further stirring of the pot when really Isabel should be left to heal and mend her relationship with her identity after the fall out of this nightmare. This opens the door for further dissection of her behavior, her motives, and what it means to be closeted and the way people handle transness and their expression of gender. Something that really spoke out to me is Isabel's comment about being sniffed out as potentially not being a woman because she didn't know how to write women and how that notion was potentially transphobic. I am a trans man. I will never claim to know how to write cis men, nor can I truly say I know how to write trans men either. I barely know what it's like to be trans and that is from my own perspective. Every woman is different, trans or otherwise, and there is no definitive way to write one gender or any for that matter.
I feel that this was a perfect storm of an inexperienced writer being published with potentially internalized transphobia working through that transphobic ideology on a grand stage for all to see. No one could have possibly predicted the outcome in full, but it would be foolish to say that none of it was truly expected. Ignorance is still ignorance, even if it's coming from those who are marginalized. We can forgive and we can move on but to give people passes simply because they are on the side of those downtrodden leaves room for others to cry wolf. I wish the best for Isabel, and hope she can recover and be something more of what she wants to be, but it needs to be recognized she made a mistake. A good-hearted mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.
I will say that yes, Twitter and other sites are very good at tearing it's users apart and keeping some sort of pecking order. I will admit that online queer spaces are becoming notorious for eating themselves alive and measuring and monitoring all behaviors to make us all seem more consumable and easy to categorize. There is huge issue to be taken with the way queer spaces shove identities in boxes where there should be room for expression and error. Where is the line? When do we call something a mockery or satire? Where does good faith end and malice begin and who gets to make that call? This may not be answered for a long time now, and things like this may continue to harm people, but perhaps there should be lessons taught to help people distance themselves from online dog fights like this. Maybe there should be resources to help oneself guard against backlash like this. It's a tricky rope to walk along, since so much of this borders on censorship, suppression of discussion and the ability to defend groups against those that would seek to disguise in order to push harmful agendas.
I don't know. The only thing we can say for certain is that a writer tried in good faith to express her conflict with her identity, the horror of what it would mean to have gender weaponized and exploited in literal combat, and ended up fighting a battle that ultimately could have taken her own life. What's worse is that she got to see the true face of her peers, and watched as they tore her apart from behind the curtain. That must have been very hard to stomach and I applaud her for seeking help. I hope she's able to recover, and wherever she goes from here I only hope that it's up.
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Morning skippy, the woman in the video shown greeting the RF at Prince Louis christening is the Archbishops diocese, Rev Dr Isabelle Hamley, chaplain. Im not certain she is the same woman as in the brown dress outside westminster abbey?. What do you think? Similar, i agree but Im not sure. Im currently researching to see if dr hamley is or was pregnant to help clarify if it was here outside the abbey. The Info is hard to find. 
Thank you so much.  Interesting.....I'm not sure either.....😁❤️❤️❤️❤️
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buddaimond · 6 years
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Robert Pattinson’s Favourite Movies: 15 Titles the Actor Wants You to See *as of June 2018
1. One flew over the cuckoo's nest (1975)
“A lot of that kind of ‘putting your middle finger up to the world’ attitude — not that I really have that, but…I used to be so timid, and that was one of those films that [helped me break out], by pretending to be Randle,” Pattinson told Rotten Tomatoes.
2. Breathless (1961)
Like many film lovers before him, Pattinson cites Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” as the movie that got him fascinated by the director and the French New Wave. The actor calls the movie “one of the best [representations] of the relationship between women and men.”
3. The exorcist (1973)
Most people love “The Exorcist” because of its scares, but Pattinson names it one of his favorite movies of all time for one reason: Linda Blair. “[I choose] ‘The Exorcist’ because I love Linda Blair,” Pattinson told Rotten Tomatoes. “She’s my ideal woman.”
4. Julia (2008)
Erick Zonca’s crime thriller stars Tilda Swinton as an alcoholic who becomes entangled in a plan to kidnap one of her fellow A.A. member’s son from his wealthy grandfather. Pattinson refers to Swinton’s work as “one of the great performances” and lamets the fact the movie is “kind of criminally underseen.”
5. Headhunters (2012)
Before breaking out in the U.S. with “The Imitation Game,” Morten Tyldum directed Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the action thriller “Headhunters.” “It’s an insane chase movie that goes very, very, very dark,” Pattinson told Rotten Tomatoes. “I love it when a story, when you really break down someone’s essence, and that is their fatal flaw. It’s just so simple.”
6. The devils (1971)
Ken Russell’s controversial “The Devils” is one of Pattinson’s favorite movies to revisit. “I love his movies,” Pattinson said of the director. “A lot of [his films are] performance-based; all these directors get these incredible performances. Oliver Reed in ‘The Devils’ is unreal. That could literally play now and it would still be subversive.”
7. The beat that my heart skipped (2005)
Pattinson holds Romain Duris’ performance in Jacques Audiard’s “The Beat That My Heart Skipped” in high regard. “Watching his performance was kind of like, ‘That is a performance which I would love to get anywhere close to,'” Pattinson said about watching the movie as a teenager.
8. Arizona Dream (1993)
Emir Kusturica’s “Arizona Dream” features the pairing of Johnny Depp and Vincent Gallo, and Pattinson said he couldn’t get enough of watching their chemistry. “It was also another early influence,” Pattinson told Rotten Tomatoes. “I love Gallo’s performance when he’s talking about how all the greatest actors have New York accents, and he’s demonstrating to Johnny Depp’s character how to order drinks as a true New Yorker. It’s funny.”
9. Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Pattinson envies Jean-Paul Belmondo for being the coolest actor who ever lived. In addition to “Breathless,” the actor names Belmondo and Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou” as one of his favorites. “He’s cooler than Bogart!” Pattinson said.
10. Ivan's XTC (2002)
Bernard Rose’s “ivan’s xtc.” is an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” that went largely unnoticed at the box office, but Pattinson says it’s one of his favorites. “It’s amazing,” Pattinson said. “Danny Huston should have gotten nominated for an Oscar for it. It’s about an agent in Hollywood, and it’s kind of a dumb movie before Huston comes in, and then literally is the best example of one performance elevating a movie.”
11. First name: Carmen (1983)
Pattinson’s love of Jean-Luc Godard continues with “First Name: Carmen,” which won the Golden Lion at the 1983 Venice Film Festival. “Halfway through, it turns into the most heartbreaking, serious thing that you’ve ever seen — out of nowhere!” Pattinson told Rotten Tomatoes. “You’re suddenly so attached to these characters.”
12. Le souffle (2001)
“It’s a fucking amazing movie,” Pattinson said of Damien Odoul’s coming-of-age movie. “I think it’s kind of quite related to ‘Good Time’ as well. It’s just incredibly, beautifully shot.”
13. Corky Romano (2001)
The Chris Kattan–starring “Corky Romano” was a notorious box-office flop, but that hasn’t stopped Pattinson from loving it all these years. “Literally, that’s one of the only films I’ve pissed my pants at,” Pattinson said. “Like, I actually pissed my pants.”
14. White Material (2009)
One of the reasons Pattinson jumped at the chance to star in Claire Denis’ upcoming science-fiction movie “High-Life” is because he’s long admired her movies. He told the LA Times the Isabelle Huppert–starring “White Material” inspired him as an actor. “I love a lot of Claire Denis’ stuff,” he explained. “I can’t think of a better word than ‘singular.'”
15. The lovers on the bridge (1991)
Leos Carax is another foreign director Pattinson credits as inspiring him as an actor. The actor picked “The Lovers on the Bridge” as his favorite Carax title when speaking to the LA Times. “I like a lot of English-language movies from the ’70s, which everybody likes, but among more recent films, for some reason, a lot of French movies,” he said. “They’re more operatic. They’re not afraid to be emotionally operatic. I like that.”
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Rob’s favourite movies list updated every year :
Robert Pattinson’s Five Favorite Films with Rotten Tomatoes (Aug.2017)
Deep Breath, Damien Odoul, 2001
Arizona Dream, Emir Kusturica, 1993
Julia, Erick Zonka, 2009
The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Jacques Audiard, 2005
Headhunters, Morten Tyldum, 2012
Ryan Fujitani (from Rotten Tomatoes): Just for the fun of it, I want to tell you what you picked last time. In 2008, you picked One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Exorcist, the Godard film Prénom Carmen, Corky Romano, and then you picked Ivans XTC, the Danny Huston film.
Robert Pattinson: I mean, to be honest, that’s probably still pretty close to what my five favorite films would be. I was just watching Corky Romano again. [laughs]
RF: And actually, when you talked about Godard last time, you also mentioned Arizona Dream, and you specifically talked about ordering drinks the way Vincent Gallo does as well. It’s clearly something that stuck with you.
Pattinson: [laughs] That’s how little I’ve developed in 10 years. I’m exactly the same.
Rob’s favourite five shared with Le Cinema Club during Cannes (May 2017)
Jimmy P. , Arnaud Desplechin, 2013
Embrace of the Serpent, Ciro Guerra, 2015
Vengeance Is Mine, Shōhei Imamura, 1979
Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar-wai, 1990
Come and See, Elem Klimov, 1985
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From the article (published on 22.06.2018), the compiled list of 15 movies Rob recommends, 10 were previously mentioned to Rotten Tomatoes, and these 5 are new ones, and I am going to include my guess on these new additions:
2. Breathless (1961) - Research with Kristen’s role as Jean Seberg
6. The Devils (1971) - Research for his role in The Lighthouse, or just admire the director
12. Le souffle (2001) - Research for Good Time
14. White Material (2009) - Research for High Life
15. The Lovers on The Bridge (1991) - Very french, Juliette Binoche, interesting director, need I say more?
Another interesting note, his other old favourite Pierrot le Fou (1965)  whose main actor Jean-Paul Belmondo (Rob: “He’s cooler than Bogart!”) is the co-lead of Jean Seberg in Breathless (1961). AND Breathless’ director Jean-Luc Godard also directed Pierrot le Fou (1965) and First name: Carmen (1983) on his list  . Rob has admired Godard for a very long time  (LA Time). Small web of connections huh?
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Silence--as a methodological problem, a conceptual paradox, and a definitional premise--has been widely discussed by lesbian historians. In her exploration of female homosexuality and modern culture, The Apparitional Lesbian, Terry Castle refers to women who desired other women in the past as ghosts. She observes:
"The lesbian is never with us, it seems, but always somewhere else: in the shadows, in the margins, hidden from history, out of sight, out of mind, a wanderer in the dusk, a lost soul, a tragic mistake, a pale denizen of the night. She is far away and she is dire. (She has seldom seemed as accessible, for instance, as her ingratiating twin brother, the male homosexual.)[11]
Castle's primary aim in her own work is to 'bring the lesbian back into focus', and this has been the implicit or explicit goal of much lesbian historiography in recent decades. Influenced by the gay liberation rhetoric of visibility, historians of sexuality have tended to focus on and value those forms of same-sex desire which can be seen or heard. Less scholarly attention, however, has been devoted to analysing the meanings and nature of the silence surrounding lesbianism.
Anna Clark considers the operational mechanisms of silence in her recent work on 'twilight moments'. Clark suggests that the concept of 'twilight' might be employed by historians of sexuality 'as a metaphor for those sexual practices and desires that societies prohibit by law or custom but that people pursue anyhow, whether in secret or as an open secret.'[12] In relation to nineteenth-century lesbian history, she argues:
"In contrast to male homosexuality, which was frequently subject to hostile stereotypes, legal sanctions, and medical discourses, allusions to lesbianism were vague and often confused, although not uncritical. As Vicinus writes of desire between women, 'recognition and denial went hand in hand.' The Victorians' inability to define or articulate lesbianism did not prevent their regarding it through this twilight haze as shameful desires."[13]
Silence in this context, then, articulated a need for secrecy and a sense of shame surrounding same-sex desire between women. As Isabel Hull has argued in her work on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German sexuality, 'one should be wary of confusing silence with tolerance'.[14]
Clark notes that while Michel Foucault influentially demonstrated the mechanisms by which discourse shaped sexual identities in the past, he failed to fully consider the operations of silence:
"The twilight metaphor can help refine our understanding of sexual discourses. Foucault rightly revealed how the nineteenth-century proliferation of legal, medical, psychiatric, and sexological discourses shaped sexual identities. But his stress on the power of discourse overshadowed another dynamic of sexual language--the power of silence and secrecy. To be sure, he acknowledged that some words could not be spoken, but he did not fully explore the power relations of sexual discourse: who had the authority to deploy sexual discourses.”[15]
Graham Willett also draws attention to the difficulties of analysing the sexual repression apparent in 1950s' Australia through a Foucauldian lens. Referring to the work of Ruth Ford and Garry Wotherspoon on this decade, Willett claims:
"Both Ford and Wotherspoon reply explicitly upon the Foucauldian notion that, as Ford puts it, 'discourse and mechanisms of repression are prohibitive and generative at once, as repression produces the object it aims to deny.' In this chapter, I wish to argue, on the contrary, that, far from witnessing the emergence of a new, public, homosexual subject, the 1950s saw, instead, a period of repression and silencing and that this actually prevented the emergence of a public homosexuality until well into the 1960s.”[16]
Willett rightly notes that, in certain circumstances, repression does not inevitably produce the prohibited subject. For the generative mechanism to operate, the subject must be produced through a prohibitive discourse, but if that prohibition is articulated through silence, a new discursive subject cannot be formed. In order to make sense of this process, therefore, we must consider silence as a disciplinary mechanism in itself. [...]
The silence surrounding female same-sex desire had a very distinct quality in mid-twentieth century [New South Wales]. While British and US lesbian historians have noted the taboos surrounding discussion of female same-sex desire in their respective countries, a rich literature in both national contexts attests to the occasional outbursts of debate which framed the subject--for example during the obscenity trails surrounding the publication of Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928, or the McCarthyite witch-hunts in the United States in the late 1940s and 1950s.[17] However, stricter censorship laws, press conventions and the pervasive cultural influence of the Catholic Church (amongst other factors) created a very different climate in Australia, in which no such scandals reached the public ear. In 1969, academic and literary critic RF Brissenden noted that until recently there had been a tacit agreement amongst the press not to mention homosexuality, and this assertion is supported by press surveys which demonstrate the almost complete silence of the Australian press on the subject of female homosexuality.[18] To a certain extent, this reflects a common experience of male and female homosexuals in Australia, However, the different legislative frameworks which governed male and female homosexuality--explicitly penalising sexual acts between men while policing desire between women in subtler ways--created different contexts for the discussion of lesbianism and male homosexuality. Graham Willett has argued that, in the case of lesbians in the 1950s, 'the silencing regime was, if anything, even more rigorous and around which there seems to have been very little popular "common sense" discourse'.[19] This silence has been interpreted by contemporaries, and to some extent by historians, as evidence of greater tolerance toward female homosexuality. [...] However, this mechanism of silence policed lesbianism in different ways, preventing the formation of lesbian subcultures and identities and forcing women, through lack of choice, into acceptable patterns of femininity such as conventional marriage and motherhood.
Unnamed Desires: A Sydney Lesbian History, Rebecca Jennings, 2015.
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liuet replied to your post “Anyone have book recommendations for me?  Looking for any combination...”
Have you read the Riverside series by Ellen Kushner or Tremontaine? Also the Shadow Campaigns series by Django Wexler, The Poppy War by RF Kuang, Daughter of Exile by Isabel Glass, Masks and Shadows by Stephanie Burgis, and the Shades of Magic series by VE Scwab...
I HAVE read the Riverside series!  God, those books were formative.  I love me a psychologically damaged rake to this day.  Surprising no one at all, my favorite in the Poppy War was Jiang.  And the Shades of Magic books!!  Magical pirates!  It hardly gets better than magical pirates.  <3
The rest are all brand new to me!  Filling up my library holds list is the best feeling!  Thank you!  <3
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