#so many middle aged ladies named Lois…

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#who would win in a fite #polls #malcolm in the middle #Lois Wilkerson #Lois Malcolm in the middle #one piece #cat burglar nami #one piece nami #so many middle aged ladies named Lois…

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So to start off, here are some mini-bios of people who I’ll be talking about! This is going to be a long post, but it will make it easier to understand my future posts if you don’t know some of these people. I’m covering: Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, Francis Kinloch, Lois Manoël de Vègobre, Johannes Von Müller, Charles Victor de Bonstetten, Alleyne Fitzherbert 1st Baron, St. Helens, and Thomas Gray.

John Laurens: You might’ve heard of him if you listen to Hamilton. John Laurens was born in Charleston, South Carolina. His father was Henry Laurens, a prominent South Carolinian who co-owned the largest slave trading house in North America, “Austin and Laurens.” Yeah. He pretty much was a terrible father and a terrible person. He would later become president of the congressional congress. His mother was named Eleanor Laurens. Her death when John was 16 marked a significantly traumatic event in his life, however in general, John Laurens was very well acquainted with death. He was the fourth child born in his family, but he was the oldest by the time he was four years old, his older siblings all dying at young ages. One can only speculate how these early losses affected young John, or Jack, as his family called him.

John was most likely tutored at a young age. He grew up in very privileged circumstances certainly, as his father was one of the most well-known and rich South Carolinians of the time. 

As John grew up, he became very studious and serious. His father viewed him as the most promising child of the Laurens children, and prayed he would not fall prey to gambling or women. At nearly thirteen, we find our first piece of evidence suggesting John Laurens might be gay. His father Henry Laurens writes, “Master Jack is too closely wedded to his studies to think about any of the Miss Nannies I would not have such a sound in his Ear for a Crown…” In other words, Henry Laurens noticed his son’s unusual lack of interest in girls. Of course, one could read it as a passing comment on how studious his son was, or just thankfulness that Henry’s ‘best’ son didn’t seem to be ‘tempted’ in any way, but this does still confirm that as a young teenager, (and some point out that this is the time when many boys go through puberty, and therefore discover their sexual interests,) John was NOT interested in ladies. 

As John grew even older, his father decided the time was ripe for some education in Europe. Some speculation has occurred that right before John left for Europe he painted a collection known as Pope Brown Collection of South Carolina Natural History. It contains 32 paintings of natural organisms, including many types of birds and plants. This is not confirmed, but it is of interest to many that John Laurens was a very good artist, and probably quite interested in art. Many have heard of the (in)famous turtle drawings John did. In truth, though John did draw the soft-shelled turtle for naturalist Alexander Garden, he most likely did not have an uncommon affection for that particular animal.

So, John soon found himself on a boat to Europe with his younger brothers, Henry jr. and James, known as Jemmy. They eventually settled in Geneva, staying with a family friend. 

But before we even get to Geneva, it is worth noting a passage from a letter by Henry Laurens. This was written while John was briefly enrolled in a school in London. While complaining about the many crimes and indulgences of the city, he mentions “…and every black and execrable Crime had gain’d in the City is equally astonishing and shocking.” Now this simply could be another thrown in crime in the long list that precedes this, but in those those days ‘black crime’ was sometimes a code for homosexuality. So was John exposed to homosexuality in London the way Hamilton was at Nevis? This could provide some context for his later relationship with Francis Kinloch.

In 1772, the Laurens boys arrived in Geneva. John studied a multitude of subjects, and polished up his French. While he fretted about finding his brothers proper schools, his Uncle James Laurens was concerned about a different aspect of his time. Geneva, which had been a theocracy at one point, was now very open to new, more secular ways of thinking. John assured his Uncle that he was not influenced by any of his teachers not being ‘classically’ Christian. But it may not be a coincidence that the place where John most likely had his first homosexual relationship was a place more open to new types of thinking and concepts, especially in terms of religion.

What exactly was this first relationship? To establish some context, we must return briefly to Charlestown, South Carolina. The Kinloch family lived there and did know the Laurens’s. The name ‘Kinloch’ appears in some of Henry Laurens’s papers, and apparently Francis Kinloch’s sister made John ruffles for his travels to Europe. But in 1774, as John was dutifully studying in Geneva, his father wrote to him “From a hint which Waag dropped at Bath tis expected by the freinds of the young Eatonian that he will find a freind in you at Genevé, tho none of ‘em have Said a word to me on the Subject.” This “freind” is in fact Francis Kinloch, so it may be that he and John had met before. 

John and Francis became very good friends along with one of Laurens’s tutors, Luis de Manoel de Vegobre. There is little documentation of the Kinloch-Laurens relationship whilst the latter was in Geneva, but once they were separated many letters were exchanged, several quite romantic sounding. What is quite possibly the most passionate line Laurens ever wrote to a lover is contained at the end of a letter to Francis. “We may differ in our political sentiments my dear Kinloch but I shall always love you for the knowledge I have of your Heart.” Kinloch was a loyalist, influenced by his guardian Thomas Boone, while John Laurens was obviously a patriot and the two debated hotly via letters. 

Another aspect that must be looked at when considering the Laurens-Kinloch relationship is the amount of trust in the relationship. The level of trust is apparent when we see John first express his abolitionist views in a letter to Kinloch,  “I could talk much with you my Dear Friend upon this Subject,” says John, referring to slavery. “and I know your generous Soul would despise and sacrifice Interest to establish the Happiness of so large a Part of the inhabitants of our Soil_  if as some pretend, but I am persuaded more thro’ interest, than from Conviction, the Culture of the Ground with us cannot be carried on without African Slaves, Let us fly it as a hateful Country_ and say ubi Libertas ibi Patria…” Kinloch responded that he supported the ideas, but did not see how fellow Southerners would adopt them. This only illustrates more clearly that though there were serious conflicts, theirs was a loving and trusting relationship. 

When John was forced to leave Geneva, (and he did want to stay… one wonders if Kinloch had something to do with this. It may have been other reasons, like that John felt freer from his father or enjoyed his rich social life.) he wrote a plaintive letter to Kinloch, telling him, “If my Letter is a little confused, dont be surprised at it, for I am quite like a creature in [a] new world…” 

  However, as if John hadn’t lost enough family in his mere nineteen years, his brother Jemmy lost his life that summer. The boy had apparently tried to jump to John’s window and had fractured his skull. John was with his brother through the horrible night. He wrote to his uncle James, “At some Intervals he had his Senses, so far as to be able to answer singe Questions, to beckon me, to form his Lips to kiss me, but for the most part he was delirious and frequently unable to articulate. Puking, Convulsions near very violent, and latterly so gentle as to be scarcely perceived, or deserve the Name, ensued, and Nature yielded.” It is notable that soon after this, John Laurens sent a letter to Francis Kinloch, whom he hadn’t corresponded with since late the year before, 1774. This again illustrates that though the relationship was not flawless or without conflict, Laurens trusted and confided in his friend/lover.

Now studying law at Middle Temple, John received an extremely upsetting letter from Francis Kinloch. Apparently Kinloch was ready to move on from their romance. He starts the letter with an almost deceptively affectionate opening, “Whatever may be your idea of my manner of thinking in political affairs, don’t let that hinder you from telling me yours, and I promise to be as free with you: we hold too fast by one anothers hearts, my dear Laurens, to be afraid of exposing our several opinions to each other.” But Kinloch signs the letter “be certain I shall never forget you.” Apparently John  saw this as Kinloch being done with him, and as a result did something that would change his life forever.

One of Henry Laurens’s business partners, William Manning, was in London the same time as John, and apparently young Laurens came to call occasionally and enjoyed the company of Manning’s children. This is where he met Martha Manning. There is one piece of evidence to suggest that they were courting for a time, however all we know for sure is that Martha became pregnant around the time the last Kinloch letter reached John, and John Laurens was forced to marry the woman, certainly not because he loved her. “Pity has obliged me to marry.” John  wrote to his uncle. It could be that if they were courting prior to the pregnancy, the relationship was one-sided, or was an attempt for John be seen as straight. 

Though John was now married, he was yearning to leave his unhappy marriage and fight for America. An ardent patriot and abolitionist, he longed to go overseas and join the army. Henry Laurens tried his best to hinder his son’s want, but found that John was no longer a child he could bend to his will. So, John boarded a ship to America, not knowing, and possibly not caring, that he was leaving his wife behind. 

Henry Laurens, being a very prominent Carolinian and future president of the Continental Congress, managed to get his son an excellent position as Aide-de-Camp to general George Washington, though John was not officially appointed the position until October 6th or 7th. He joined the staff in August 1777, and met Alexander Hamilton, a man who would change his life forever.

Alexander Hamilton:

In quite a contrast to John Laurens’s privileged, if morbid childhood, future Founding Father Alexander Hamilton was born out of wedlock on the tiny island of St Croix to Rachel Facuette and James Hamilton in either the year 1755 or 1757. (There is great debate over his birth year. Hamilton himself used 1757, but a large amount of evidence from his childhood points to 1755. For time’s sake, we will use 1755.) Hamilton adored books and writing, but was hindered in his intellectual dreams by the grim circumstances he was brought up in. 

Hamilton had a single brother, James, also born out of wedlock. When Hamilton was 12 his mother died of smallpox, quite common at the time. Alexander was also sick, however he recovered, albeit he always had health problems most likely connected to the early brush with mortality.

Where Alexander grew up, blacks outnumbered whites by a ratio of nearly 8:1, so there was existential tension in the air, a constant fear of sugar plantation owners that the slaves would revolt. Indeed, the slave owners were so cruel to their slaves that things Hamilton witnessed as a child appear to have given him a permanent pessimism about human nature. In addition to the rich white landowners and enslaved blacks, there was a population of poor whites and criminals. St. Croix was a place where outcasts in society at the time were sent as well. This included people accused of sodomy (homosexuality). Ron Chernow writes in his biography of Alexander Hamilton, “Hamilton had certainly been exposed to homosexuality as a boy, since many ‘sodomites’ were transported to the Caribbean along with thieves, pickpockets, and others deemed undesirable.” This may explain why Hamilton seemed more at ease with his sexuality than Laurens, who grew up in a more strict, to say the least, household.

After his mother’s untimely death, Alexander and his brother lived with their cousin Peter Lytton. Unfortunately, very soon after the arrangement began, Peter took his own life, leaving the boys with practically no place to go. 

Alexander managed to get a job clerking for a prominent businessman. It is no stretch to assume that this is where Hamilton began his economic studies. While Alexander managed to get a good job, his brother was stuck being a carpenter and competing with others for work. Ron Chernow points out that this is again an example of Hamilton’s superior intellect pulling him out of ditches.

When Alexander was seventeen, a horrible storm shook the island of St. Croix. Hamilton wrote a beautiful and moving account of the hurricane, and this led to people raising enough money for him to enroll in King’s College in New York City. 

Louis Manoël de Vegobre:

A Swiss lawyer who met Francis Kinloch and John Laurens while in Geneva. His early life is pretty elusive, as he does not even have a wikipedia page. He was a math teacher, and John Laurens’s math tutor. John Laurens taught him English, and both Kinloch and Laurens seem to have taught Vegobre to love America, as he grew despairing when he heard about the challenges of the war in America. The book, Evolution of a Federalist: William Loughton Smith of Charleston (1758-1812) says of Vegobre, “When the first rumblings reached Europe, de Vegobre wrote Laurens: ‘Poor America!—you cannot believe how much me heart is moved on its account; you, and after you Kinloch have raised in my mind such a concern for your native country! I am as much affected for what happens to it, as if I were an American…. English friends, I will, I will see you in your country, before I die!’”

Vegobre was likely in a romantic relationship with Kinloch. He wrote to John Laurens in December 1774: “Let me tell you what are these pleasures whose you are the first cause.  I began to understand speaken; I read Spectator, Clarissa, Milton and Shakespear, besides some philophical books.  Never, never in my life I have been so well entertained as I am when I read Milton; and why?  First, for Poet’s excellency, and secondly and chiefly because I read it with Kinloch.  My beloved, my dearest friend is Kinloch; how happy am I, when I teach him some part of natural Philosophy, when I read with him both English and French Poets, when I talk with him about various matters plainly and heartily as with a friend!  Let me say again: Kinloch is my beloved, my dearest friend.”

Charles Victor de Bonstetten (Karl Victor von Bonstetten in German):

A writer from Switzerland, he was educated partly in Geneva, where he would develop the liberal beliefs that alarmed his father enough to make him return to Bern, where Bonstetten was born. He introduced the people of the Ticino Valley to potatoes.

He appears to have had a romance with Johannes Von Müller and Thomas Gray (I will be posting about the Gray- Bonstetten relationship very soon)

Johannes Von Müller:

A historian who’s life goal was to compile a giant master history book on Switzerland. He was a teacher of Greek, and later appointed office by Napoleon himself. He wrote many history books, and traveled throughout Europe throughout his life. 

Letter from Müller to Bonstetten: “Any mistakes I may make in the future will be your fault; that is only if you neglect your letter-writing – your friendship can never grow cold – might I let myself be surprised by a passion. Tell me why I love you more as time passes. You are now incessantly in me and around me. My dearest friend, how much better it is to think of you than to live with the others! How is it possible to desecrate a heart that is consecrated to you? I need you more than ever; over and above these immutable, laudable plans for a useful life and an immortal name I have forsworn everything that is considered to be pleasant and delightful – not only pleasure but love, not only revels, but good living, not only greed, but ambition. B. is everything to me, you make all my battles easy and all abstinence sweet. Thus you live in my mind and especially in my heart. You write to me often, but it does not seem enough to me; you often address only the historian, and do not embrace your friend often enough.” 

Thomas Gray:

I stumbled upon this man while researching Bonstetten and Müller. I came upon the book My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries. I saw that one of the essays in the book was entitled Thomas Gray & Charles- Victor de Bonstetten. Intrigued, I clicked on the essay, and then from there I somehow managed to find the archive of a full biography of Gray. Thomas Gray was an English poet. He was/is pretty famous, but not super well-known, partially because he did not publish much in his lifetime. Thomas Gray’s childhood was marred with sadness. He had nearly a dozen siblings, but none except him lived past babyhood. He stayed with his mother once he had left his father, who was abusive. He was born in 1716 and died in 1771.

Francis Kinloch: 

John Laurens’s first boyfriend. He was also born in Charleston (then Charles Town) and educated at Eton College. After this he went to Geneva, where he met John Laurens. He later hosted what I call Kinloch’s Gay Retreat, in which he had Johannes Von Müller, Charles Victor de Bonstetten, and Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron, St. Helens stay with him.

Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron, St. Helens:

I haven’t been able to find anything gay about him except he was apparently lord of the bedchamber for George III, and find words.info says this about lord of the bedchamber: “A Lord of the Bedchamber's duties consisted of assisting the King with his dressing, waiting on him when he ate in private, guarding access to him in his bedchamber and closet and providing companionship.” So… possible? Maybe, but King George III also had like 20 other Lords of the Bedchamber. Also fun fact: Mt. St. Helens is named after him!

Hope this was informative!

#Alleyne Fitzherbert #Francis Kinloch #John Laurens #Thomas Gray #Johannes Von Müller #Charles Victor de Bonstetten #Alexander Hamilton #This will kinda be the basis for most of what I post #Kinloch's Gay Retreat #King George III #queer history #1700s

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BDRPWriMo Task #21: 10+ Characters I’d Like To See

For task #21,  I always do a list of 10+ characters I have in my head that I’m considering playing, and then a second list of 10+ I want to see but don’t have muse for myself. But! This year I actually don’t have 10 of each, I only have like 3 characters in mind to eventually pickup so I’m gonna mention those and then my list of characters I really want to see!

Characters McKala Would Like To Play

1. Lyria - FC: Jodie Whittaker  

Lyria is probably going to be my labors characters, or I may do the labors twice for a total of 12 if I can get to a good place mentally irl for 12. Or I gotta start killing people off muahaha. Anyway, I have a great story for Lyria and I can’t wait to bring her here!

2. Paulette [Ho/Takei/Mirzadeh] FC: Maggie Q or Levy Tran; OR Ishihara Satomi OR Tala Ashe or Sarah Shahi or Laleh Pourkarim

So! Kit and I are talking about bringing the Bimbettes from Beauty and The Beast in eventually. I’ll be oldest sister Paulette, Kit is baby sis Laurette, and we just need middle sister Claudette! I’ll likely be getting Lyria first so this will be several months out. But I wanted to mention it here. This is the Google Doc where we’re started planning -- we have a cool story so far, we’d love a third sister to join us!

We have fc picked out we like equally for the sisters to be Iranian-French, Japanese-French, or Vietnamese-French. If we don’t get a bite in a month or so, we’ll settle on ethnicity ourselves no problem, but as of now we’ve got lots of options!

3.  Kidagakash “Kida” Nedakh -- FC: Jessica Mauboy or Aaradhna

I really like the idea of Kida’s fc being indigenous, especially Australia and Oceania indigenous.

Characters Y’all Should Play - with a FC idea

Gaston and Art Framagucci (FC Suggestions: So many)

Look, this is 100% selfish but come play Franny’s 40-year-old-plus himbo big brothers! Some suggestions: Tom Ellis, Todd Grinnell, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Mison, Josh Duhamel, Richard Armitage, and John Krasinki.

Tallulah Robinson (FC Suggestions: include Mary Kate Wiles, Alina Kovalenko, Kate Mara)

Join the Robinson fam ahhhh

Olivia Da Silva (FC Suggestion: Marina Nery)

I made this skeleton woowoo! Come play an Avaloran character! A young sorceress honing her craft! Worldbuild Avalor with me, yaaaay! I put Brazilian-preferred on the skeleton for fc suggestions because the Avalor we’ve crafted in game is a bilingual society in South America with Portuguese and Spanish influence about equally. It’s not requiiired, like you can change her last name to be Spanish and not Portuguese, but!

Professor Guadalupe “Lupe” Mendoza (FC Suggestions by Mckala: Gina Torres, Charo Bogarin, Jessica Alba, Velina Hsau Houston, Lana Parrilla)

COME PLAY A COOL AVALORAN WOOOO

Join me in Avalor world! Lupe Mendoza is so cooool, she’s a professor, a scholar, a genius, a really cool lady forced to flee Avalor because of the new dictatorship.

Jasmine (FC Suggestions by Mckala: So Many. Including Claudia Doumit,  Njoud Al Shammari, Dalal Aldoub,  Adila Sedraïa, Sonita Alizadeh)

I’m honestly shook Jasmine’s not taken yet y’all! She’s a great character, you can go so many diff directions with her and HEL-LO worldbuilding!

Li Shang (FC idea: Shawn Dou)

Y’all how do we not have all the Mulan characters yet??? But I would pay someone physical money for a Li Shang ahhhhh

Free URL for you - thetimes-theyare-ashangin

ADDITIONALLY, just fcs I straight up am DYING to see

tbh anybody my dear friend Natalie has made icons or gifs for 

anybody in this tag

Pisay Pao [Cambodian]

Maika Harper [Canadian Inuit, tattoos, just a cutie!!!]

Chella Man [deaf, Jewish, Chinese, genderqueer]

Heather White [Mohawk, Nakoda Sioux]

Gil Birmingham [Comanche, age diverse]

Odiseas Georgiadis

Đoàn Thế Lân [Vietnamese]

Elfira Loy [Malaysian + Javanese, I made dang near 400 gifs of this cutie and someone else made almost 60]

Naomi Watanabe [Taiwanese, Japanese, body diverse!]

Jaz Sinclair

Ashley Blaine Featherson

Gurung Diipa [Nepalese]

Jewelliana Palencia [Afro-Guatemalan]

Noel Wells [ quarter Mexican, half Tunisian, a quarter Unspecified]

Efrain Ruales [Ecuadorian]

Natasha Liu Bordizzo [Chinese-white]

Kulap Vilaysack [Lao - she was almost my Franny fc, she was gonna be Lao, but I went with Elodie Yung and made her Cambodian instead ]

Liv Hewson [ginger, AND nonbinary!]

Angel Chow-Toun [ ¾ French Guianan [Afro French Guianan, Chinese, Indian, Italian, Possibly Other], and ¼ Puerto Rican]

Ziruza Tasmagambetova [Kazakh - she was my Lena de Spell fc, but thankfully she was picked up by Ashley before I could get her so that knocked one character off my miles long list of ones I want!! thank goodness!! And I don’t really have another muse for her. So!!! I wanted to share her with all y’all]

Lily Maroune [ Senegalese, Mauritanian, Lebanese, and French ]

Zazie Beetz

Quincy Fouse

Mahershala Ali

Debbie Sath [Cambodian-Salvadoran, lmao make Franny not the only Cambodian in town 2k19]

Taylor T [Korean, body diverse!]

Alina Serban [Romani!]

Jesus Castro [Mexican-Romani]

Rotana Tarabzouni (Saudi)

Enkhijin Tseveendash [Mongolian]

Ser Anzoategui [Argentinian, Paraguayan, nonbinary!]

Dorian Electra [genderfluid]

Kaiit [Papuan]

Rinrada Thurapan [Thai, trans]

Phí Quỳnh Anh [Vietnamese]

Star Slade [Vietnamese and Metis]

Zahid Ahmed [Pakistani]

Hanan Tarq [Ethiopian-Yemeni]

Naomi Osaka [Japanese-Haitian]

Mozhdah Jamalzadah [Afghan]

Iko Uwais [Indonesian]

Alisa Allapachi [Thai]

Sivan Alyra Rose [Chiricahua Apache and Afro-Puerto Rican / Creole and she/her/they/them

Jennifer Pudavick (Metis)

Marline Yan   [ Cambodian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, and Indian ]

#bdrpwrimomckala

[lgbtqreads]

After so many years of LGBTQIAP+ lit struggling for recognition, it’s been pretty killer to watch literary news this year, and to watch it get more mainstream multimedia recognition than ever. And since I think at any given time, we could all use some good news about the progress of LGBTQIAP+ books in publishing, here’s to highlighting some (but not even all!) of this year’s biggest successes in mainstream media:

Picture Books

Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love was named one of Amazon’s best Children’s Books of the year for ages 3-5 and one of the Best Children’s Books of 2018 by New York Public Library, Time, and School Library Journal, as well as a Notable Children’s Book by The New York Times

Middle Grade

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender was named one of Booklist‘s Top 10 First Novels for Youth: 2018, a Malka Penn Award Honor Book,  and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal

Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake was a recommended title for the 2019 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children and was named one of the Best Children’s Books of 2018 by New York Public Library and Chicago  Public Library, and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and NPR

Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell was named one of the Best Children’s Books of 2018 by New York Public Library and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal

Young Adult

*Graphic novels listed separately below

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour was awarded the Printz

The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller won The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book

Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert won the Stonewall Award

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee received a Stonewall Honor and made the 2018 Top Ten Best Fiction list by YALSA

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal

The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal and was named among the Best YA of 2018 for Feeding Imaginations by Kirkus

Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli hit the New York Times bestseller list, was named Best Young Adult Fiction by Goodreads voters, and was named among the Best YA Romances of 2018 by Kirkus

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named among the Best Historical YA of 2018 by Kirkus

What If It’s Us? by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera was optioned for film, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen, Amazon, Bustle, Paste, B&N Teen Blog, and New York Public Library, and a Best Audiobook of 2018 by Audible

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List Top Ten for Winter 2018-19

Sadie by Courtney Summers hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Publishers Weekly Best YA of 2018, one of Booklist’s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and NPR, a Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library, a Best YA Mystery and Thriller of 2018 by Kirkus, a Best Audiobook of 2018 by Google Play, and a Best YA of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog,  Paste, Amazon, and The Boston Globe

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen, Amazon, School Library Journal, New York Public Library, B&N Teen Blog, and one of Booklist‘s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, as well as the Best YA of the Year by Paste

Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram was a finalist for the Morris Award and named a Publishers Weekly Best YA of 2018, a Best YA of 2018 by The Boston Globe, New York Public Library, Time, Amazon, and B&N Teen Blog, and among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli released as a feature film called Love, Simon

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth released as a feature film

Black Wings Beating by Alex London was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen and Paste and a Best YA Fantasy of 2018 by Kirkus

People Like Us by Dana Mele was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen

The Beauty that Remains by Ashley Woodfolk was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen and Bustle, and the Best YA Debut of 2018 by Paste

Ship It by Britta Lundin was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen

Camryn Garrett, author of 2019’s Full Disclosure, was named one of Teen Vogue‘s 21 Under 21 Class of 2018

Pulp by Robin Talley was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List Top Ten for Winter 2018-19 and included among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library and the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste

The Disasters by MK England was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List Top Ten for Winter 2018-19

Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List for Winter 2018-19

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List for Winter 2018-19

This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List for Winter 2018-19

Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore was named one of Tor.com Reviewers’ Best Books of 2018, a Best YA Fantasy of 2018 by Kirkus, a Best YA of 2018 by The Boston Globe, and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal

Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman was named one of Booklist’s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, among the Best YA Books of 2018 About Speaking Your Truth by Kirkus, and a Best YA of 2018 by New York Public Library, B&N Teen Blog, and Paste

Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner was named a Best YA of 2018 by New York Public Library

Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert was named a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library, Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore Family and Self by Kirkus, and Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog

A Room Away From the Wolves by Nova Ren Suma was named a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and NPR and a Best YA of 2018 by Bustle and Paste 

Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake was named among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library and Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson was named among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library and a Best YA of 2018 by The Boston Globe

Odd One Out by Nic Stone was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR and among the Best YAs of 2018 by The Boston Globe and Paste

The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in LA) by Amy Spalding was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, a Best YA Romance of 2018 by Kirkus, and among the Best YAs of 2018 by The Boston Globe and Paste

The Spy With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste and B&N Teen Blog and among the Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2018 by Tablet

A Blade so Black by L.L. McKinney was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste

Home and Away by Candice Montgomery was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and Paste and among the Best YA Mysteries and Thrillers of 2018 by Kirkus

Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste

For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste

Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and Paste and among the Best YA Books of 2018 About Speaking Your Truth by Kirkus

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by The Boston Globe and Paste

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kheryn Callender was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Bustle and B&N Teen Blog and a Best YA Romance of 2018 by Kirkus

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Bustle

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog

Final Draft by Riley Redgate was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and the Best YA Romances of 2018 by Kirkus

Running With Lions by Julian Winters was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog

The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and a Best YA Romance of 2018 by Kirkus

Jack of Hearts (and other parts) was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog

Unbroken ed. by Marieke Nijkamp was named among the Best YAs of 2018 that Feed Imaginations by Kirkus

Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones was named among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia is a Junior Library Guild selection

Romance

Rend by Roan Parrish was named a Best Romance of the Year by Amazon

Time Was by Ian McDonald was named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Public Library

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR

Contemporary and Historical Adult Fiction

Less by Andrew Sean Greer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

John Rechy received the 2017 Robert Kirsch Award

White Houses by Amy Bloom was named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Public Library

Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR

The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara was named one of the Best Debuts of 2018 by Entertainment Weekly

Sugar Run by Mesha Maren was named to the January 2019 Indie Next List

SFF

Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel

The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novella

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey was nominated for a a Nebula Award for Best Novella

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado was a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado is being developed into an FX series

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez is being developed into a TV series

Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller was named a Publishers Weekly Best SF/Fantasy/Horror of 2018 and a Kirkus Best Sci Fi and Fantasy of 2018

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg was named a Best Historical Fiction of 2018 , a Best Debut Fiction of 2018 by Kirkus, and among “10 More Great Debuts” by Entertainment Weekly, a supplement to their list of the 10 Best Debuts of the 2018

The Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard was named one of Tor.com Reviewers’ Best Books of 2018

The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson was named one of Tor.com Reviewers’ Best Books of 2018

Vengeful by V.E. Schwab was named Best Science Fiction by Goodreads voters

Nonfiction

Garrard Conley’s memoir, Boy Erased, was released as a feature film and hit the New York Times bestseller list

I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya was named among the Best YA Books of 2018 About Speaking Your Truth by Kirkus

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee was named a Best Book by TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, The A.V. Club, Book Riot, PopSugar, The Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch,Library Journal,Bustle, Christian Science Monitor,Shelf Awareness, Tor.com, Chicago Public Library, Entropy Magazine,The Chicago Review of Books, The Coil, iBooks, and Washington Independent Review of Books, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

Poetry

Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by New York Public Library

Graphic Novels

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR

My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame, translated by Anne Ishii, was named among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus

Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu was a finalist for the Morris Award and named one of Booklist’s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, a Best YA of 2018 by New York Public Library and The Boston Globe, and among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang was named a Best YA of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Amazon, New York Public Library, School Library Journal, NPR, and The Boston Globe

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden was named a Publishers Weekly Best YA of 2018 and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal

For lists of the best queer books of 2018, check out these on BookRiot and Autostraddle!

Good News Roundup of LGBTQ Reads, 2018 Edition After so many years of LGBTQIAP+ lit struggling for recognition, it's been pretty killer to watch literary news this year, and to watch it get more mainstream multimedia recognition than ever.

#A Blade so Black #Adam Garnet Jones #Adam Silvera #Adrienne Kisner #Akemi Dawn Bowman #Alexander Chee #Aliette de Bodard #Amazon #Amberlough #Amy Bloom #Amy Spalding #Andre Norton Award #Andrew Sean Greer #Anger is a Gift #Anna-Marie McLemore #Ashley Herring Blake #Ashley Poston #Ashley Woodfolk #B&N Teen Blog #Becky Albertalli #Before I Let Go #Bingo Love #Blanca & Roja #Boy Erased #Britta Lundin #Bustle #Candice Montgomery #Carmen Maria Machado #Carnegie Medal #Check Please

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Be My Lois Lane (Marichat May) Chapter 2: Greek

Okay, so I know the prompt is actually "Greek AU", but this is already an AU, so uh... This is what I've got XD

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"Dude! Did you see?"

Nino shoved a newspaper into Adrien's hands before he had fully turned his chair to face him.

"See what?" Adrien flattened the paper on the counter of his dressing room vanity and the question answered itself.

"I got a picture of Chat Noir in action! And it made the front page! Look, that's my name right there!"

Adrien stared at his face looking back at him. How had he missed Nino with a camera? He had never been photographed this close, this clearly before. He had been so careful for the past year. If he had been paying attention, he could have turned so his back was to the camera easily enough.

"I found out I actually know the girl he saved. She's my girlfriend's best friend."

She was the problem. Something about her had caught his attention and kept it. It wasn't how done she was with the villain; he had encountered that attitude often enough. It wasn't her cute outfit or stunningly blue eyes; he worked in fashion, surrounded by pretty people in pretty clothes. But for some reason, he hadn't been looking for cameras as he saved her.

"So? What do you think?"

Adrien looked up and smiled. He could be happy for his friend and freak out simultaneously. "I think I need to take you out for celebratory drinks when this fashion show is over."

Nino chatted away about the picture for a bit longer before he had to leave to set up his camera equipment for the show that night. He reached for the paper to take it with him. Adrien dropped his hand down on it, pinning it in place.

"Actually, can I keep this copy?"

Nino's grin was contagious. "Sure, bro. I grabbed a few. I'm kinda flattered you like it that much."

Adrien looked down at the woman clinging to him in the picture, her eyes shut and nose scrunched up, but her arms holding strong around him.

"I think you really captured them."

Nino left, and Adrien leaned his elbow on the counter, staring at the hero action shot. What was it about the lady in his arms?

And was there any way to see her again?

&&

"It's too late to disguise yourself now, M."

Marinette had wrapped a scarf around her head, worn a giant, bulky sweater to hide her shape, and had sunglasses on inside the newspaper office. They were sitting in the conference room, stirring their coffees and waiting for everyone else to show up for the weekly morning staff meeting where Marinette and a couple other interns were to be officially promoted.

"If Nino didn't recognize me before handing the picture off to your boss, then this should be the perfect disguise. No one at the paper has to know that 'Chat Noir saves young woman' is me."

Alya plucked Marinette's sunglasses off her face and tucked them in the pocket of her flannel. "I dunno, you've got a pretty noticeable face. And it's good publicity for the paper, too. You know, the place that signs your paycheck?"

"But it's my face! Don't I get to control when and how my face is used?"

"Did you read what you signed when you started working here? They can use our image or likeness at any point so long as it reflects well on the paper, basically."

Marinette groaned. "I knew that joining you in journalism until I get my clothing lines off the ground was a bad idea."

"Well, it's too late now. In a few minutes, you'll be Marinette Dupain-Cheng: Junior Fashion Reporter."

"Yeah, such a giant leap up from fact checker and coffee fetcher."

"You do fetch a mean coffee."

Marinette walked over to fiddle with her basket of muffins in the center of the table refreshments table. "You, Junior Super Hero Reporter; Foreign Hero Activity, abused your power over us lowly interns, and once we're equals and I'm settled at my desk, I'm making sure the whole office knows of your cruelty."

"Equals in job description only," Alya said. "I have seniority on my side, still."

Bridgette, the head of the paper, poked her head in the conference room. "Marinette? Could you come with me for a moment?"

Marinette exchanged a look with Alya before following Bridgette down the hall to her office. Marinette's heart dropped when Bridgette closed the door.

"How are you doing?" Bridgette asked, gesturing for Marinette to sit in the chair across her desk.

"Fine. A little embarrassed that Nino managed to get a picture of one of my most embarrassing moments."

Bridgette waved a hand at that. "You did nothing embarrassing. The man in the spandex suit made to look like a banana peel, on the other hand, he should feel embarrassed." She frowned and leaned forward. "But you're okay? You're not hurt? An experience like that can be really scary. If you need some time off-"

"Oh, no, I'm fine, really!" She slid her headscarf down around her neck. "May I ask you a question?"

"Of course," Bridgette said.

"Is something else wrong? Because I get the feeling something else is wrong."

Bridgette smiled, but there was something behind it that added to the feeling that something was about to happen. "That's what I like about you, Dupain-Cheng. You're quick. You have excellent instincts. You follow your gut. That's why I knew, even with minimal writing experience, that you would be a good fit here." She paused to take a breath. "I have some bad news, some kinda-nice news, and something to try to make up for the bad news."

Marinette's heart, which had been sinking since Bridgette called her away, settled with a dull thunk deep in her gut. "I'm not getting promoted to Junior Fashion Reporter, am I?"

&&

Marinette lowered herself into her seat next to Alya and did her best not to give in to the desire to just slump forward and let her upper body dangle over her knees like a limp cloth doll. It wasn't even eight in the morning and already she felt drained.

"What happened?" Alya whispered as Bridgette started the meeting. Marinette shook her head and turned to stare at the front of the room, absorbing nothing.

"-And welcome to the staff, our newest Junior Reporter, Chloe Bourgeois. She will be in the Fashion Department. I am also-"

A blonde woman with a ponytail (and too much attitude for anyone over the age of fifteen) stood, cutting Bridgette off in the middle of her sentence. "Hello! I'm sure most of you know who I am, but for any of you who are new to town, I am Chloe Bourgeois, the daughter of the mayor. Of Paris. My father has always been a great supporter of the press, and I hope to continue to support his vision for how the Daily Planet can improve in-"

"Thank you, Chloe," Bridgette said, slapping her hand down on the podium but with a tense smile firmly pasted across her face. "As I was saying, please congratulate our very own Marinette Dupain-Cheng. Her hard work, dedication, and proven writing skill have earned her the position of Junior Reporter in our award-winning Superhero Department."

Marinette had the feeling that the skills Bridgette listed had less to do with how Bridgette saw her, and more with what she saw Chloe to be lacking.

When the meeting ended, Marinette mechanically collected the baskets that had held her muffins. Other interns and reporters congratulated her, and she did her best to respond like she didn't have a small tornado ripping through the landscape of her mind. She was working her way through another awkward, "Thank you, I'm excited to contribute," when a hand latched onto her arm, pulling her away and shouting something to the person with whom Marinette had been talking.

"M! What is going on?"

Marinette looked around and found she was in a supply closet with Alya. "I didn't know we had so many types of pens."

Alya looked around the room, then back at Marinette. "You were an intern. You were never sent to grab stuff from this supply closet?"

"I guess not."

Alya shook her head, then pushed her glasses back into place. "Marinette, what happened to your promotion? Who is this Chloe girl who has your job?"

Marinette laughed, finally, fully coming back to herself. "'My job.' Oh, Alya, I have a feeling I'm going to miss the intern days."

"Girl!"

Marinette sighed. "Okay, this is off the record, and you can't let anyone know you know. Especially Bridgette. Okay?"

Alya tucked her pen behind her ear and stuck her phone in her back pocket. The Alya gesture of 'I'm not writing anything down or recording it. This is between us.’

"The mayor called in a lot of favors to get his precious little girl her dream job. So the Fashion Reporter job was taken, and they don't have the budget for two Junior Reporters in Fashion right now. Because of the timing of the Chat Noir picture, Bridgette and Nadja decided it would be best to give me the promotion, even if it's not the department I want. I'm now the official reporter on all things Chat Noir."

"Aw, Marinette." Alya threw her arms around her. "That sucks! I know how much you wanted this, how hard you worked for it."

Marinette hugged her back, resting her head on Alya's shoulder for a few seconds. "Thanks. It's not all bad, though. You and I get to work in the same department. Nadja is a family friend, so I already know how my boss acts and thinks. And..."

Alya pulled away, squinting at the lighter tone Marinette had taken. "And?"

"And Bridgette felt a little guilty, and wants to make sure I stay until a position opens up in Fashion, so I negotiated a slightly bigger raise than she originally offered. I make almost as much as you, now."

Alya fist bumped her. "Alright! Good for you, girl."

Marinette shrugged but smiled. "Thanks. I guess I'm just doing what I can with what I've got."

Alya hugged her again. "Well, I'm glad it's not all bad. But, would you turn down a little cheering up anyway?"

Marinette shook her head. "I don't trust your definition of 'cheering up,' Alya Cesaire. I'm still bruised from 'cheering up' Alix last month."

"Really?" Alya pulled something from her pocket. "What if I said we could spend the evening looking at some individuals who could put Greek gods to shame?"

#marichatmay2019 #miraculous ladybug #marichat #chat noir #adrien agreste #marinette dupain-cheng #marichat may #superhero/reporter au #Be My Lois Lane #my writing #events

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Let's Talk About: Carl Foutley and Hoodsey

(Disclaimer: The following is a non-profit unprofessional blog post written by an unprofessional blog poster. All purported facts and statement are little more than the subjective, biased opinion of said blog poster. In other words, don’t take anything I say too seriously.

"Let's Talk About" is a series of articles focused on individual character or characters and their development and commentary throughout the work in question. THIS IS NOT A REVIEW OF THE WORK, but rather what the character says about the world around them.  If you wish to read a strict review, please click on the link to read it. My reviews focus more on the purely technical aspects of the work. There are bad characters with good messages. There are good characters with bad messages and so on and so forth. Thank you.

Author’s Note: Okay, this is going to be a weird one. Originally, I wanted to do a review of As Told By Ginger, one of my favorite childhood shows and cartoon I sincerely hope people get to watch. But, thanks to Paramount, the studio that owns Nickelodeon and, by proxy, ATBG, trying to buy the official releases of this show have been a nightmare! While Paramount ‘has’ released DVDs of the show, they are very sparse and leave out way too many episodes. Even attempts to upload episodes to Youtube have been shut down by Paramount. For some reason, Nickelodeon refuses to sell episodes of the show digitally through venues like Amazon or itunes. As such, I’m going to be skipping over my review of this show and focusing on a topic near and dear to my heart.)

Let's Talk About: Carl Foutley and Hoodsey

As Told By Ginger is probably one of my favorite childhood shows growing up. The characters felt real. The situations were relatable and the humor was on point.

For those who don’t know, As Told By Ginger was a Nickelodeon Cartoon that ran through the 2000’s that depicted the everyday life of Ginger Foutley, a middle school student who tries to get through her day to day  by writing in her journal. It was a simple premise but executed spectacularly thanks to the animation studio of Klasky Csupo (who also did other shows such as Rugrats, the Wild Thornberrys and Rocket Power).

While Ginger would be dealing with her problem (such as a cute boy who’s using her to get a good grade in Chemistry class or helping her friends, Dodie Biship and Macie Lightfoot, with a problem), her younger brother who was in Elementary School, Carl Foutley, and Dodie’s younger brother, Robert Joseph “Hoodsey” Bishop, would be getting into trouble.

In his Doghouse (a memory Carl holds onto in hopes his runaway dog, Monster, will return), he and Hoodsey create ideas to swindle his classmates. Carl and Hoodsey would usually have their own subplot where in Carl hatches a scheme to get money, get revenge or attempt to get his petrified eyeball away from Blake Gripling.

See, producers and executives are a bit wary to catering to a single demographic. In ATBG’s case, catering to girls. (To be fair, even in the original pilot Carl and Hoodsey were there). As such, while Ginger and Dodie were doing “girly” or “feminine” things, Carl and Hoodsey were doing “boy” things and had the share of the gross out humor.

It’d be easy for Carl and Hoodsey just to be the comic relief. Their material is funny and they break up a lot of the dramatic moments with their antics. But as the series progressed, I began to realize that the show runners were doing a lot more with the two than I realized.

For example, I thought there was a strong sense of “children during the face of mortality”.  When Hoodsey and Dodie’s grandmother dies in “Losing Nana Bishop”, Hoodsey has a different reaction from the rest of his family. See, while Dodie, his father and his mother are all grief stricken with the loss of his grandmother,  Hoodsey isn’t. And he feels weird about it, saying “But I don’t feel sad, Carl.”. A child realizing their apathetic towards their own relation’s death is a strangely mature arc to go through. Hoodsey eventually comes around saying he will miss her but in his own way stating “I’ll never look at blue foam or a raisin and not remember how Nana used to laugh at me and pinch my cheek really hard."

This happens earlier in the series. Carl begins a sort of May-December Romance with Maude, an elderly lady he meets at a nursing home. (To be fair, it’s said that these feelings only come from Carl and Maude doesn’t return his feelings but finds him entertaining company). As Carl prepares to propose to her, Maude dies and Carl has to deal with it.

But the biggest impact was during No Hope for Courtney, when Carl realizes Ms. Gordon has retired because Carl pulled a prank too far and traumatized her. Because of that, Carl does everything he can to get her back. Eventually, he wins her over. However, the night before class, Carl wakes up and calls out her name. The next day, it’s revealed that Ms. Gordon died in her sleep. (This was done as a tribute to her voice actress Kathleen Freeman passing away). The final shot is Carl crying over her death.

Religion is also a big part of the show (which is surprising, given that this was a Nickelodeon show meant for children). Carl is an atheist, but it’s only really mentioned in passing when Ginger nearly dies from a burst appendix.

In contrast, Hoodsey is seen more as the more religious of the duo, if not necessarily the more moral. What I mean is that Hoodsey is as willing, if not more so, to get into much trouble as Carl is but Hoodsey does believe in a divine power. We get glimpses of this. When Carl and Hoodsey get Mrs. Gripling’s money so Hoodsey can pretend to be a homeless boy for her (Mrs. Gripling was trying to become the head of a social club and did so by faking to do actual charity work), Hoodsey argues they should give the money back, stating "when the big guy sends me a message, I try to pay attention." In “Losing Nana Bishop”, Hoodsey says that their grandmother is somewhere in “that great big bingo hall in the sky”.

Normally, Christianity vs Atheism debates are reserved for the internet Youtube videos or conservative propaganda pieces. In fact, there’s a scenario you could see how Carl would argue with Hoodsey about religion.Instead, the writers of the show establish this through a clever and subversive way.

Hoodsey believes in Santa Claus while Carl does not. The two get into an argument about how ‘real’ Santa is, with Hoodsey being so devoted to Santa he breaks his friendship with Carl.

Eventually the two bury the hatchet and decide they’re better off laughing at things such as neon signs of reindeer pissing.

"Sure you're cool hanging with a non-believer?" Carl asks Hoodsey.

"To each his own and all that," Hoodsey replies.

What led to Carl’s jadedness towards Santa Claus, Carl replies "Something stupid. I think I used to wish my dad would come home for the Holidays or something like that". This is a reference to the fact that his birth father left his family when he was young.

In the world of sitcoms and cartoons, the showrunners sometimes depict various family units and how they contrast with one another. Carl’s family had a Single mother, Lois Foutley, and Ginger. He was the only male character in the house and the youngest child.

Through the 90’s most shows had nuclear, if dysfunctional, families with a mother and father and multiple children. Even if the sons were often trouble makers, they had father figures to look up to. Bud Bundy had Al, Chris Griffin had Peter, Eric Forman had Red, Bobby Hill had Hank and Bart Simpson had Homer.

Hoodsey, whose parents are still together and haven’t separated, even makes a side comment to Carl "You see how complicated having two parents can be?"

To be fair, as time went on other cartoons and cartoon characters have commented on divorce. Sharon Spitz from Braceface, Pepper Ann Pearson from Pepper Ann, Sammy "Squid" Dullard from Rocket Power, Will Vandom from W.I.T.C.H. and Tino Tonitini from the Weekenders are all products of divorced/separated couples. But whereas their mothers they stay with are considered embarrassing, overprotective, smothering, or strict, the absent father figure is usually idolized and admired, even with their actual presences hidden or built up. For the first times we hear about them, we never actually "see" what Pepper Ann's father and Tino's father looked like until later in the series after they're mentioned.

It's also implied that the absent father figure is the better off or the richer of the two households with a "cool" profession. Pepper Ann's father is a pilot, Squid's father is an executive, Will's father is seen driving a sports car (implying he's wealthy) and Sharon Spitz's father is a rock star. As such, it's seen as an idolization of the absent father figure. "My dad's not here because he's busy being cool somewhere else".

Then, we finally get hints of who Ginger’s father is.

In "Hello Stranger", Ginger gets a congratulations letter for graduating Elementary School (an event, as her friend Darren mentions, that happened ages ago) from her father. Ginger invites her father to attend her poetry reading only for him not to show up. Lois decides to send flowers to Ginger and has them written to be from Ginger's Father (even though he had nothing to do with them). Ginger sees through the guise but thanks her mother anyway.

When we do finally meet Ginger's Father, Jonas, the truth is finally revealed: he is a mall Santa who can't be bothered to make it to her daughter's poetry reading. It's also implied he's not well off financially. "I'm sort of a Jack of all trades and Master of none" he says in a later episode.

When Carl and Jonas do meet on Christmas Day, Hoodsey inadvertently stages a meeting between them, Carl, meets him with scorn and hatred. He even says "My Mom always warned me about getting in a car with a total stranger." Jonas gives Carl a globe full of peanuts, not knowing that Carl is violently allergic to them.

The show doesn't mince words; Jonas Foutley is a deadbeat dad who doesn't know his own children and his attempts to be there fall flat. (To be fair, the show gave him redeeming values such as giving GInger good advice or having him wrestle rogue attacking turkeys).

Ginger and Carl have very different reactions to their birth father. Ginger attempts to get Jonas back into her life as much as possible while Carl wants nothing to do with him.

Consider how strange that is. Ginger, the older female child, idolizes her father while Carl despises him. Carl instead attempts to help Dr. Dave, a recurring character and co-worker of his mother, help woo Lois. Carl who’s the younger child instead feels more comfortable with his step father while Ginger, who would be older and would have more memories of her father leaving her, is dedicated to making her father a part of her life as much as possible.

It’s interesting to see how he, who is barely entering middle school not only wants to embrace his potential new father, but harbors resentment against his birth father. He even goes so far as to address him as Jonas while calling Dr. Dave Dad. Carl even accuses Jonas of conspiring to ruin Lois and Dave's wedding!

In one of the final episodes of the season, Carl helps Lois find a new house. Lois decides to indulge Carl's gross out side and shows off houses that she thinks Carl would like before settling on a real house. Except, throughout the episode, Carl dismisses each of the houses and commits himself to finding an actual home.

When Lois asks why Carl is acting out of character, Carl responds.

"It's my last duty as Man of the House before Dave steps into the role", he says.

Think about that. Carl, despite admitting he loved the creepy and gross houses Lois showed him, decides to take the responsibility of house hunting seriously because he considers it the last duty "as man of the house" before Dave comes in. He is deliberately choosing to step away from his own selfish desires and deciding to 'act like a man'. Not masculine as in gaining muscles or beating up people or acting as an authority figure, but doing something as simple as helping his mother and changing his attitude and behavior.

Consider the context: Carl favors Dr. Dave, a step-father, despite Dave not being his birth father and him acting squeamish and cowardly, more of a man than his actual parent. Why? Because Dave is there and helps his family while Jonas, Carl's birthfather, has been mainly absent from his childhood.

So naturally, Carl's viewpoint of masculinity and manhood are changed. Rather than being assertive of muscular, it's simply being there and supporting his family when he can.

That's strangely profound in a child.

It feels like Carl’s arc is that of maturity. But through the series, attempts into forcing Carl to mature all fail. Ms. Gordo and George (a strict boy scout who uses military training to straighten out Carl), all fail. Attempts to force Carl to destroy the dog house, his secret lair and his nostalgia into hoping his long lost pet, Monster, will come back fail. Even when a classmate tricks Carl into growing up fails. But instead, Carl chooses by his own accord when he's finally ready to destroy his dog house. He chooses to turn his back against pranking. He chooses to help his mother out with the wedding and move.

(It should also be mentioned that Carl was willing to let his dog house be destroyed when George blackmails Carl that by leaving he would cast the blame on Ginger whose program is failing). Then, on Lois’ wedding day, Monster, the dog Carl has been waiting to come back, returns to him.

In some ways, Carl’s story is a view of masculinity but through the lens of grade school boy. Through this sense of jadedness, we see a boy who’s grown weary of the world but works through it by being as gross and angry as possible. But instead of pursing masculinity as a form of power or revenge fantasy, he views it as an aiding tool and someone who genuinely wants to help (even if that help causes more trouble than aids).

Tress MacNille is a voice acting professional who’s shown her merit through shows such as the Simpsons, Futurama and other works. But it’s with Hoodsey that she embodies a character and gives said character real depth. But it’s Jeannie Elias who absolutely delivers as Carl (she also played Botley in Jumpstart 3rd grade adventures).  It’s not uncommon for female voice performers to voice young boys (this is done for a variety of reasons as animated shows can go on for years and female actresses tend to ‘sound’ younger than male ones), but Elias performance while holding a scratchy voice manages to convey anger, sadness, humor and cunning at all the right times. Kudos to her.

The series ends, showing an Adult Ginger reading her book to a group of her adult friends as well as Darren with their child. Hoodsey and Carl are seen sitting next to each other.

Though, there is one detail I do find funny. In an episode, Carl says "I can see Me and Hoodsey being friends 30 Years from now".

I guess some friendships do last a lifetime after all.

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While there are many things excellent aspects of Chalion Series by Lois McMaster Bujold, I’m going to focus on two. First is the theology. While the political structure of the fantasy land in this series is based on medieval Spain, the religion resembles nothing that I know of. The characters worship five gods. The Father, Mother, Son and Daughter all have a part in the orderly life of Chalion, with each laying claim to a season, certain objects, and the stages of an ordinary life. For example, the Daughter’s season is spring, her colour is blue, and the religious orders established in her name focus on education. 

However, those of you who were paying attention will have noticed that I only named four Gods. The fifth is the Bastard, whose domain is chaos and happenings out of season. Born from a love affair between the Mother and a Demon, the Bastard is in charge of those who don’t fit into the rigid structure of feudal life - the orphans, the cripples, the mad and the queer. In everyday life you hope that the Bastard has nothing to do with you - but he’ll be there for you when the other Gods have nothing to offer.

The protagonists of both novels above are (or have potential to be) “saints” - those who have surrendered their will to the Gods in a moment of desperation, and so can be used by the Gods to exert influence on the world. Which brings me to the second thing I love about this series.

I read the second book, The Paladin of Souls, first. The main character is Ista,  who has just been cured of a magical madness by the events of the first book. She finds herself thrust into sanity without anything to show for her life, with her family either dead or grown and moved away. Taking one of the few routes to adventure open to a lady of her age and position, she decides to go on a pilgrimage. What she wanted was freedom for responsibilities. What she got was something much more meaningful.

There’s something really rare and wonderful about a grieving, middle-aged widow getting to be not just the protagonist, but the capital-H Hero, dealing with war and magic, saving the day. Ista is so bitter about the hand life has dealt her, but in the end love and compassion grow in her despite herself. The majority of Bujold characters are fantastic, but Ista is something special.

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Spotify, SoundCloud, or Pandora? Spotify

is your room messy or clean? It’s actually clean right now.

what color are your eyes? Brown

do you like your name? why? Not really. Like, it sounds pretty and fitting when I meet other people with it, but for me personally it always just sounds kind of “meh” and boring compared to other names that I love.

what is your relationship status? Single for life.

describe your personality in 3 words or less: caring, introspective, loyal

what color hair do you have? Red

what kind of car do you drive? color? It’s blue and has two doors. That’s literally all I can tell you about it because I honestly don’t pay much attention.

where do you shop? Nowhere in particular.

how would you describe your style? Ideally, classic and comfortable

favorite social media account? Tumblr

what size bed do you have? Twin

any siblings? Yes, one younger sister

if you can live anywhere in the world where would it be? why? Paris, because I’ve visited twice and absolutely adore it.

favorite snapchat filter? There was a black and white one ages ago that made me look like I was in a film noir, so that one.

favorite makeup brand(s): I don’t really wear makeup anymore and never had a favorite anyways, so I don’t know.

how many times a week do you shower? It kind of varies.

favorite tv show? Brooklyn 99!! I also love Graham Norton, Broadchurch, Good Behavior, Victoria, and Trial & Error

shoe size? I honestly have no idea.

how tall are you? 5′5″

sandals or sneakers? Sneakers

do you go to the gym? No

describe your dream date: I don’t know about specifics, but my dream date would go well and we would laugh a lot. Maybe over coffee or while doing some fun activity.

how much money do you have in your wallet at the moment? I think I have like $80 right now?

what color socks are you wearing? I’m not wearing socks.

how many pillows do you sleep with? One, usually. Sometimes two.

do you have a job? what do you do? Not currently.

how many friends do you have? I have Laurel and maybe 3 or 4 other people who would talk to me if I texted them. I don’t really have any friends right now, though.

whats the worst thing you have ever done? I’ve done a lot of horrible things that I still cringe over and regret, but I can’t think of what the worst is.

whats your favorite candle scent? There was an apple pie candle that I used around Christmas that I really loved, but I don’t really have a favorite.

3 favorite boy names: Daniel, William, Damon

3 favorite girl names: Katherine, Elizabeth, Charlotte

favorite actor? Cary Grant, William Powell, David Tennant

favorite actress? Myrna Loy, Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Jenna Coleman, Keira Knightley, Viola Davis

who is your celebrity crush? Andy Samberg. I specifically put off watching B99 for years because he’s so my type™ that I just knew it would happen but I finally gave in a few months ago and there’s no going back now.

favorite movie? The Thin Man, Roman Holiday, Hidden Figures, Hannibal, The Big Sleep, Angels & Demons, Libeled Lady

do you read a lot? whats your favorite book? I’m trying to read more often but my favorite is still “The Sky is Everywhere” by Jandy Nelson followed by anything by the Brontë sisters.

money or brains? Brains

do you have a nickname? what is it? Nic

how many times have you been to the hospital? For myself, zero. To see other people, only two or three times.

top 10 favorite songs: La vie en rose - Edith Piaf, Moon River - Audrey Hepburn/Henry Mancini, In the Grey - The Good Mad, Volare - Dean Martin, Me & the Rhythm - Selena Gomez, Cheek to Cheek, The Lady is a Tramp - Frank Sinatra, White Coats - Foxes, Leaving the City - Joanna Newsom, Into You - Ariana Grande

do you take any medications daily? No

what is your skin type? (oily, dry, etc) Depends on the weather, but it’s mostly oily.

what is your biggest fear? Being unhappy forever.

how many kids do you want? Zero

whats your go to hair style? Lately, a braid or bun.

what type of house do you live in? (big, small, etc) Big? It’s two stories and we don’t use half of it, hence why my mom wants to move.

who is your role model? Selena Gomez

what was the last compliment you received? No idea

what was the last text you sent? I’m too lazy to check, idk

how old were you when you found out santa wasn’t real? I can’t even remember. Probably around second grade?

what is your dream car? I literally could not care less.

opinion on smoking? I personally have no interest but you do you.

do you go to college? I did for a quarter and a half before dropping out because I was miserable.

what is your dream job? No idea

would you rather live in rural areas or the suburbs? Either is fine

do you take shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels? It depends on where the hotel is (cool city, etc), usually, but yes.

do you have freckles? Yes

do you smile for pictures? Yes

how many pictures do you have on your phone? Thousands. Way, way, waaaaay too many.

have you ever peed in the woods? Maybe on a roadtrip as a kid?

do you still watch cartoons? No

do you prefer chicken nuggets from Wendy’s or McDonalds? Neither

Favorite dipping sauce? Honey mustard

what do you wear to bed? Sweatpants or pajama bottoms and whatever top I feel like wearing

have you ever won a spelling bee? I’ve never participated in one

what are your hobbies? Baking, watching TV? I want to take up painting.

can you draw? Somewhat

do you play an instrument? I played flute in middle school band, but no.

what was the last concert you saw? Selena Gomez last May

tea or coffee? Coffee

Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts? Starbucks

do you want to get married? Maybe

what is your crush’s first and last initial? I don’t have one

are you going to change your last name when you get married? Maybe? My last name is weird so if it sounds cooler then definitely.

what color looks best on you? Blue or purple usually? I don’t know

do you miss anyone right now? Yeah

do you sleep with your door open or closed? Closed

do you believe in ghosts? Not really

what is your biggest pet peeve? People who are rude, especially to waiters and customer service-type people.

last person you called: My grandparents.

favorite ice cream flavor? Vanilla, red velvet cake, or salted caramel

regular oreos or golden oreos? Regular

chocolate or rainbow sprinkles? I don’t really have a preference.

what shirt are you wearing? A white t-shirt with Audrey Hepburn on it.

what is your phone background? A painting of some flowers.

are you outgoing or shy? Usually shy.

do you like it when people play with your hair? Yeah

do you like your neighbors? I like one of them, but I don’t really know any of the others. The one I like and know has lived two doors down almost as long as we’ve been in our house, but everyone else that we used to be friends with has moved.

do you wash your face? at night? in the morning? Yes, but infrequently just because I’m super lazy. My skin definitely pays the price for that.

have you ever been high?  No

have you ever been drunk? No

last thing you ate? A donut.

favorite lyrics right now: The entirety of Moon River, probably. I rewatched Breakfast at Tiffany’s again last night so it’s been stuck in my head all day.

summer or winter? Summer

day or night? Night

dark, milk, or white chocolate? Dark or milk

favorite month? June/July or December, I think.

what is your zodiac sign? Aries

who was the last person you cried in front of? My mom and sister, but it was laugh-crying.

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With a canopy date of Might-June 1949, the Inexperienced Lantern # 38 went on sale in america. And it was the final time he did it, as a result of the collection starring Alan Scott, the primary Inexperienced Lantern, was canceled. We have no idea the actual causes, which could possibly be low gross sales or an editorial determination, however the reality is that it should have been a shock for the artistic groups as a result of there was a script ready for the Inexperienced Lantern # 39 that would not see the sunshine till it was launched, in a particular means, within the Inexperienced Lantern Vol. 2 # 88, in March 1972. The good lack of this collection is that it was the one one starred by the great Alan Scott, a personality who loved monumental reputation within the decade of the 40s and that, regardless of having appeared in a handful of titles in subsequent many years, has not returned to have the identical standing within the DC Universe.

Cowl of the Inexperienced Lantern # 38

collection of Inexperienced Lantern, the primary quantity of a DC superhero with a inexperienced energy ring, started its editorial journey in September 1941, simply over a yr after the character's debut, in July 1940, within the pages of All -American Comics # 16, one in every of l the unique anthological headers subsequent to Motion, Detective, Extra Enjoyable, All-Star and Journey. The success of the character was such that a number of months later he made the leap to All-Star Comics # 2, the quantity previous to the creation of the Justice Society, the place the good heroes of the second gathered to type the primary group of superheroes , of which Inexperienced Lantern, Alan Scott, was a part of being probably the most highly effective.

Alan Scott starred in 17 covers of All-American Comics (# 16-32) and 6 different All-Star Comcis (# 2-7) alongside together with his teammates earlier than the debut of his personal collection, turning into the fourth superhero to have his personal header, solely after Superman, Batman and Flash, anticipating a yr to Marvel Lady. This isn’t a trivial challenge, as many different well-known characters from DC didn’t have the identical luck till a few years later, reminiscent of Aquaman, El Espectro, Dr. Destiny, Inexperienced Arrow, Hawkman and Sandman, amongst many others, who have been members of the Golden Age and whose readers needed to wait till the 60s or extra in some instances, to have their very own adventures in hand. Thus, the truth that Inexperienced Lantern had his collection was a synonym of the success of the character and its good reception amongst followers.

First look of Alan Scott.

That first difficulty, written by Invoice Finger and drawn by Martin Nodell, the creators and similar authors who had been counting their adventures for a yr, counted within the first two pages the origin of the hero, already narrated in his debut, as a refresh for brand spanking new readers. They narrated that the origin of the facility of the lantern was in a meteorite that fell in historic China, inflicting inexperienced flames that spoke of a prophecy that learn: “3 times I’ll burn inexperienced (kind of, it stated in its unique model” 3 times shall I flame inexperienced “) the primary will convey dying, the second will deliver life and the third will convey energy”. And the primary type manifested itself by scary a bloodbath. A person named Chang, keen on studying books of magic and sorcery, manufactured a lamp with the stays of the meteorite. Some neighbors, fearful that the inexperienced flames prompted a disaster of their city, killed Chang to cease manipulating the fabric, simply when it started to shine, killing with its inexperienced mild all current.

The second a part of the prophecy was fulfilled years later, in an asylum in America, the place an worker discovered her within the rubbish of the environment of the middle. A guard advisable that he give it to an insane previous man who appreciated to construct metallic lanterns. And this one, when he completed reworking the traditional Chinese language lamp right into a lamp for railway staff, acquired a brand new flash that healed his thoughts and gave him a brand new life. Stunned, he left the asylum completely satisfied. And the third a part of that prophecy was fulfilled with our Alan, a younger engineer, who survived the disaster of a bridge detachment simply as his practice handed by way of it, because of the facility of the lantern, whose flames acknowledged him as the person capable of carry the sunshine and obtain the facility. Then, guided by the facility of the mysterious lamp that emanates a inexperienced sentient mild, Alan constructed a hoop to focus the inexperienced power. And he acquired the powers of flying, super-speed, power, crossing objects and used them to go after a constructor that had induced the accident as a result of his firm, rival to Scott's, needed to obtain the federal government's competence to construct the bridge. As a curiosity, we should add that after taking the corrupt to justice and make him signal a confession, he fell lifeless. Alan interpreted it as that he had not been capable of bear repentance earlier than the load of the victims he had triggered. A dramatic and onerous flip, which I have no idea if immediately can be allowed.

Cowl of Inexperienced Lantern # 1.

All these occasions happened in All-American Comics # 16 and have been summarized, as I stated earlier than, in two pages in Inexperienced Lantern # 1. The adventures of Alan, already dressed from the final vignette of his debut historical past together with his attribute go well with, continued from All-American Comics # 17 and had more room from his personal collection, which included in his first installment 4 brief tales. It must be famous that the header had reinforcement tales, the preferred being Harrigan Hop, among the best pilots of all time who lived adventures of conflict, espionage and exploits throughout World Struggle II. Additionally the comedian duo Mutt & Jeff had their area within the pages of Inexperienced Lantern. The adventures of this Inexperienced Lantern revolved round investigations of Alan himself, who labored in a broadcasting studio referred to as Apex Broadcasting Co. (which ultimately turned referred to as Radio Station WXYZ) pursuing injustices. He was an investigative journalist, however totally different from Clark Kent and Lois Lane, since he didn’t signal reviews in a newspaper, however gave information by means of the microphone. It thwarted the plans of corrupt and criminals who sought to profit on the expense of others. It was a collection of the style of the crime novel, so in vogue within the 40s, however with the distinction of its powers, which made it capable of fly, cross partitions and be resistant to all firearms.

However not solely fought organized crime within the streets, but in addition starred in a cartoon nearer to science fiction, as was the Inexperienced Lantern # 10. A quantity that has gone unnoticed all through historical past, however that was the comedian through which debuted one of many biggest villains of the DC universe: Vandal Savage. That's proper, many may have forgotten that Savage, the person who has lived by means of the historical past of humanity, debuted as an enemy of the unique Inexperienced Lantern. In that first journey, the immense potential of the character was already glimpsed, which was revealed for the primary time as an immortal man who over the centuries (and millennia) had occupied positions of energy and developed nice plans for the destruction of kingdoms. It was the second when he revealed himself as Pharaoh Khufu, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, William I the Conqueror, adviser to the Spanish King Philip II, Napoleon and Otto Von Bismarck. And he claimed to be bored and need that america would lose the struggle through which he was already immersed. He got here to occupy a place within the American Congress, supplanting the id of Alan Scott's companion, Doiby Dickles, and even embarrassing the hero, confused by the kind of enemy he confronted. Lastly he cornered him in a cave, which was his lair, after having allowed him to do one thing to discover a second to assault, and together with his ring he despatched it underground making a gap at his ft.

Cowl of Inexperienced Lantern # 10, first look of Vandal Savage.

However it was not his finish, clearly. He reappeared in All-Star Comics # 37 together with different enemies of the JSA. And the remaining is the story of a personality greater than charismatic. Vandal Savage was the primary transcendent villain within the historical past of Inexperienced Lantern. Till then, he had confronted villains of a single story, mobsters, thieves, corrupt businessmen and Nazis. Clearly, being within the time of World Struggle II, Alan Scott was additionally enlisted to stay adventures on the battlefield.

That quantity # 10 was written by Alfred Bester, in his second participation within the collection. Invoice Finger wrote the primary 5 points and the seventh, leaving his mark on the plotline of the tales. Good previous Invoice was a scriptwriter who completely developed arguments very influenced by detective literature, the crime novel and the struggle towards crime. Completely any comedian of Inexperienced Lantern throughout this stage might have been starred by Batman, as a result of it solely differed within the powers that the character used, the best way to execute the arrest of the villains, utilizing the facility ring as an alternative of the batcinturón. In fact, this was the theme of comics within the 40s. Science fiction, magic, sorcery and the number of epic tales that at this time occupy the majority of the collection have been developed through the years, rising in complexity, however within the Golden Age the whole lot was rising. Within the collection of the primigenia DC the tales of the road prevailed, the alien threats, of monstrous enemies would arrive. That is the tone that makes this collection of Inexperienced Lantern totally different to every thing that got here from the transforming of the franchise within the 60s.

Alfred Bester wrote 16 points and was additionally the creator, together with Paul Reinman, of Solomon Grundy within the pages of All American Comics # 61, in October 1944, the place he had his first confrontation with Inexperienced Lantern. Bester was an writer, primarily, of histories of anthologies, since he labored in 22 deliveries of All American Comics, in 4 of Journey and different so lots of All Humorous Comics, like extra excellent works. Its stage in Inexperienced Lantern supposed its distinctive work within the head of a singular personage. His imprint on the character is vital, as he not solely added to the villains Savage and Grundy, but in addition designed the oath of the Inexperienced Lanterns, making it start with “the darkest night time, the brightest day.” For Alan Scott, regardless of not belonging to the corps of area cops, an idea launched with Hal Jordan, already recited these phrases whereas recharging his ring within the energy battery of his flashlight. Bester stood out from the 50s as a author of science fiction tales, his most well-known work being The Demolished Man, The Man Demolished, a novel serielizada in three elements within the journal Galaxy Science Fiction.

Martin Nodell, creator of the Inexperienced Lantern Alan Scott.

For his half, Martin Nodell, who was the genuine creator of the character, who designed his idea and origin earlier than DC appointed screenwriter Invoice Finger to provide the beginning sign and that he wrote the primary scripts, he remained as titular cartoonist throughout 26 of the 38 numbers that lasted the collection, getting to write down a few of them. In DC he additionally drew the covers of Flash Comics numbers # 50-54 and # 56-61. He was an excellent cartoonist, he got here to work in Well timed Comics as illustrator of covers of Captain America, Marvel Tales, Sub-Mariner and different titles. In response to many sources consulted within the community, it’s stated that he didn’t all the time signal his works and the shortage of credit of the time makes it troublesome to quantify the quantity of his work. When he briefly left the comics, superior the 50s, he devoted himself to promoting illustration. He retired definitively within the 70s, time through which he got here to attract for the horror magazines Nightmare and Psycho, from the Skywald publishing home. Within the 80s he collaborated sporadically with DC, within the All-Star Squadron Annual # three and within the 50th anniversary of Inexperienced Lantern, in 1991.

Martin Nodell was the daddy of Inexperienced Lantern and the primary villains throughout his time in entrance of the collection. A type of that transcended a number of numbers was The Gambler. A personality of brief route, solely 5 appearances, which gave fairly a recreation. It was a villain who was a grasp of disguise and had a weapon, a Derringer gun, with which he fired hearth, fuel, stay bullets and numerous forms of ammunition. He based mostly the theme of his crimes on recreation and recreation phrases. He debuted at quantity # 12, in a chapter that started instantly with the narration of his origin. An trustworthy man, named Steven Sharpe, of father and grandfather gamers, who tried to point out his girlfriend his honesty however she rejected him and left with a lottery winner. Indignant, he returned house when he risked his life throwing himself into the water to save lots of a toddler from drowning, however he realized that it was a doll. So he got here to the concept solely idiots danger their lives. And when he witnessed an accident involving an armored automotive carrying cash, Sharpe collected the payments that fell from the again and swore that from then on he would take all he might. In all his appearances he performed with the entanglements and deceptions to get away with it, however logically Inexperienced Lantern ended up being extra intelligent.

One other villain who had his first look on this collection was Sportsmaster. Though the character of Lawrence 'Crusher' Crock debuted in All-American Comics # 85, the hand of John Broome and Irwin Hasen was in Inexperienced Lantern # 28 the primary time he appeared as Sportsmaster. This can be a character to whom I’ve a particular affection, particularly since I noticed his appearances on the tv collection Younger Justice. He has a whole lot of potential as a pacesetter of legal organizations. His sports activities expertise, virtually superhuman, targeted on evil make him an distinctive road villain. It solely had one look, however it was in an incredible story referred to as The tips of Sportsmaster. In it the athlete, who allegedly died in his debut story by a fall at excessive altitude throughout his encounter with Inexperienced Lantern, assaulted, masked, a jewellery by which was Alan Scott with Doiby Dickles, utilizing a boomerang to steal a necklace and throwing an explosive tennis ball within the entrance. Later he kidnapped a well-known lady who was delivering a valuable gold cup in a stadium utilizing skis hooked up to a helicopter. Alan saved the lady and found that these expertise might solely be Crusher Crock. After investigating that his grave was not his corpse, however his good friend, kidnapped whereas fleeing the opposite try. Later he got here to kidnap the woman and requested for an change, the cup for his freedom, Alan managed to save lots of the woman and the villain fell knocked again into the water, however he didn’t die. Like Vandal Savage, it’s one other character who has develop into a villain of the DC universe, with out belonging to the gallery of any hero, however who started dealing with the unique Inexperienced Lantern.

One other that appeared for the primary time As soon as on this collection was Sargon The Sorcerer, created by John B. Wentworth and Howard Purcell in All-American # 26, in 1941, a mystical character, belonging to the Darkish DC, set in tales of magic and sorcery. He was a member of the primary Darkish Justice League, a gaggle that debuted in Swamp Factor # 50, in a coven led by John Constantin within the midst of Disaster in Infinite Lands, together with Zatara, Zatanna, Mento, Baron Winters, Dr. Occult and the Constantin himself. Its presence in Inexperienced Lantern was as a consequence of a historical past of complement within the quantity # 37, purpose why they didn’t cross his methods.

Along with the named personages, of the aspect of the villains, Inexperienced Lantern counted on two essential allies: Doiby Dickles and Streak the Marvel Canine. The primary was his sidekick, though it was not like Robin or Speedy, was a brief, street-speaking man, who accompanied Alan Scott in all his adventures from the primary problem. He was a taxi driver who responded to the trustworthy character, good friend of the great, with whom individuals, let's say regular, might get to determine. Though he had no powers, no go well with or particular weapons, in lots of instances he exchanged punches with some teams of thugs. The second, the canine, was mascot of the protagonist from # 30 and, curiously, starred in his personal comics through which the hero was a secondary character. Lets say that his position was the germ of Rex's idea, the police canine. Regardless of being in 1948 on the time of its creation, on the finish of the Golden Age, the tone of its comics virtually responded extra to that of the Silver Age. He was additionally an ancestor of Krypto, who is aware of if it served as inspiration. It was created by Robert Kanigher and Alex Toth and got here to star in 4 of the final seven covers of the collection, the final being considered one of them.

Incomprehensibly for us as we speak, this excellent collection, considerably tone totally different with respect to the opposite comics of the DC of the 40s, it was canceled. His protagonist, who throughout that decade got here to seem frequently in three collection, continued showing till # 102 of All-American Comics and All-Star Comics # 57 in 1951, surviving two extra years to his collection, earlier than sticking twelve within the limbo and return in The Flash # 137, that historic second for the DC Universe, it was the primary comedian through which they started to talk clearly defining Earth 1 and Earth 2. By the best way, he returned together with his colleagues from the Justice Society chasing Vandal Savage. From then on, Alan Scott continued his journey linked virtually solely to the JSA. The majority of his appearances because the 60s have been decreased to group collection such because the JSA of Goyer and Johns, the Justice Society of America that succeeded him, Trinity, Infinity Inc., All Star Squadron, 52 and Earth 2, Earth 2, that collection of the New 52 that modified his sexual tendencies to show him into the brazenly homosexual superhero of that new universe. Nevertheless it didn’t cease being a merely anecdotal element, because it has not transcended to the present continuity.

As we now have named at the start of the article, in Inexperienced Lantern vol. 2 # 88, a narrative that ought to have been a part of Inexperienced Lantern # 39 was included. Every installment of the unique collection consisted of three or 4 brief tales of the superhero and a few different characters. For that hypothetical quantity that was by no means revealed, there was already a ready story that needed to wait 23 years for readers to take pleasure in it. Drawn by Carmine Infantino, within the credit doesn’t seem the identify of the scriptwriter, though the remainder of that quantity was written by John Broome, who was the writer of 11 of the final numbers of the unique collection, purpose why it’s understood that it was additionally liable for that final story of Alan Scott because the protagonist Inexperienced Lantern.

That story is titled The Menace of the Marching Toys and it's about how Alan Scott takes two boys to the circus, as a part of the prize for profitable a tolerance contest. There they have been attacked by dwelling puppets led by Tin Soldier, which turned out to be a personality just like Toyman, Winslow Schott, created in Superman vol. 2 # 13 by Don Cameron and Ed Dobrotka.

And earlier than giving option to my companion Raúl Gutiérrez, who needed to dedicate a couple of phrases to the character of Alan Scott, I need to cease for a second to speak about his go well with. His spectacular go well with. And I've all the time favored, nevertheless ostentatious, with that purple cloak with lapels, pink shirt, inexperienced pants and belt and black masks. Please, a lot better than the poly spatial of all of the others (excluding Man Gardner's unsurpassable jacket, in fact).

This collection was compiled by DC Comics in two volumes referred to as Golden Age Inexperienced Lantern Archives # 1 -two. In a format with which they launched materials from the 30s and 40s. To Spain got here the references to the primary years of Superman and Batman however I feel these are usually not. And in that case, please, have somebody right me.

I didn’t have a magic lamp, however a flashlight, and was a genius, by Raúl Gutiérrez Martínez

Once I noticed that my nice pal and good friend Víctor José Rodríguez was organizing a celebration for all excessive on the matter of Alan Scott, the primary inexperienced lantern, I couldn’t assist however be a part of the initiative. And is that, Alan Scott, like so many different characters of the magnificent and fantastic Golden Age, is a type of ideas that laid the foundations of the superheroic comedian we all know at the moment, though at the moment no one would see it coming.

The characters of that point so filled with concepts, creativity and a particular style for marvel, we might discover a bit of naive and outdated as we speak, however we should not overlook that they emerged when there was no comparability with anything , when the superheroic comedian was in its infancy, and when you can not even speak about a superhero style as such within the cartoon, however solely comedian books, there have been people who have been performed by demigods, outlaws of the Wild West America and even fashions and youngsters from Institute. All these characters conceived at the moment so preterite concerning the superheroic gender as we all know it at present, have advanced by leaps and bounds decade by decade, reworking each their preliminary ideas that, if at present we put the unique concept with the present one in a mirror, one in entrance of the opposite, it’s troublesome to seek out any resemblance.

This occurs even with Superman, Marvel Lady or Batman, the sacred deceit trinity, however maybe that factor is much more palpable and putting with Alan Scott. And that’s, Alan Scott was the primary Inexperienced Lantern, however not a Inexperienced Lantern. Thus, his lantern didn’t come from the planet Oa, nor had it been delivered to him by the guards, nor did it make him a part of a galactic police drive. His lantern was joined to him by magical causes, and gave him some powers additionally based mostly on the desire, however with out Scott having to reply for its use earlier than any larger entity, past which they type their concepts, rules and convictions, parts ferreous that each true hero should all the time take into account in order by no means to lose sight of the sunshine that guides him on the best way.

My specific expertise with Alan Scott is just not very granada, the truth is that I’ve learn rather more about any later Inexperienced Lantern (this time sure, all of them members of the Inexperienced Lantern Corps) than about Scott himself, however he all the time caught my consideration. I met him for the primary time within the big Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, a play during which the looks and position of Scott in her was little greater than testimonial, however influential sufficient that in my head (for that one then, that of a sixteen-year-old boy who found his love for comics because of phrase of mouth and pages like this, whose entrances he devoured with avidity) one thing won’t match. If this Alan Scott was a Inexperienced Lantern, why didn’t he gown in a extra comparable option to Hal Jordan or the remainder of the Corps? A priori, I assumed that this was merely on account of a change in aesthetics resembling that to a larger or lesser extent all superheroes have suffered over the many years, however it was greater than that, far more.

Quickly, via the analysis I did on the Web, that community of networks that has helped us a lot that we’ve grown up studying comics and with Web in our houses, I found that it was one other character, the Inexperienced Lantern of the Golden Age that had little or nothing to do with Hal Jordan and his subsequent successors. On this approach, the truth that this character had even much less to do together with his legacy successor than the Clark Kent, the Bruce Wayne of that point or Jay Garrick with Barry Allen or Wally West I used to be inexorably interested in him … with a I craved that I might solely absolutely fulfill till I learn the JSA of Geoff Johns, the writer who so nicely understands the evolution of superheroes from the conception of those to virtually our days, placing Alan Scott on the entrance line of battle, since for that he was one of many founding members of the Justice Society of America, the primary group of superheroes in historical past, and the one which after the Second World Struggle, served as inspiration for the next Justice League. [19659003]

Johns used the Scott of the Golden Age and as an alternative of creating it evolve and switch it into a personality extra typical of the 21st century, it positioned a Scott who had lived the majority of his adventures within the fifties in at present's world, a world that by no means absolutely understood or understood. On this approach, Geoff Johns informed us the difficult relationship of Alan Scott together with his companions, and even together with his youngsters, turning into one in every of them a harmful villain, though maybe not as harmful because the American authorities, which in 1951 struck out Scott. as an ally of communism, a purple terror that was on the verge of ending with the purest heroes which have ever populated the Earth.

Thus, Alan Scott appeared to us as a person out of his time, a time when he was making an attempt to adapt Hardly, demonstrating that with love and understanding for the emotions of others and oneself, every little thing is feasible, turning into Scott one of many first bisexual characters of the superheroic comedian, which nobody would have believed attainable for a personality conceived within the 40's. So, completely satisfied seventy-year anniversary on the finish of your unique collection, of that previous quantity one among Inexperienced Lantern, I hope to dedicate a couple of phrases to you inside three many years, once we have fun The century of that finish, and your idea, energy and magic lantern shine as brightly and greenly as the primary day.

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Robert Joseph “Hoodsey” Bishop Bio + Tags + Headcanons

Name: Robert Joseph Bishop Nicknames: Hoodsey, Hoods Age: 19; Can Change Birthday: March 15th Sign: Pisces Gender: Cis Male Pronouns: He/Him Sexuality: Homosexual Demiromantic Monogamous; Moderately Sexual Hair: Naturally Blond, slowly fading to brown Eyes: Pale Blue Skin: Pale Tan Height: 5′4″ Weight: 158 lbs Faceclaim: Jeremy Allen White Piercings: Mostly does play piercings with needles/strings/ribbons Tattoos: None Scars: A hole from a missing molar on the top right, a deep slice on the inside of his left thumb, a thin but long scar on his left forearm, a large almost knotted scar on his right wrist where the bone broke through once, and two holes (entry/exit wounds) on his left calf. Most of these injuries were sustained with Carl.

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Religion: Raised Christian, Agnostic Allegiance: Carl Foutley

Family: David Charles Bishop (Father, Alive); Joann Bishop (Mother, Alive); Deirdre Hortense “Dodie” Bishop (Sister, Alive); Nana Bishop (Grandmother, Deceased)

Pets: Rock The Rock Rockson (Pet Rock)

Personality: Gullible, submissive, helpful, sweet, misguided, loyal, mama’s boy, devoted, selfless, compassionate, empathetic, artistic, intuitive, gentle, gross, squeamish, fearful, paranoid, too trusting, romantic, unconditionally generous (especially to Carl), easily embarrassed, socially awkward, follower, scapegoat, eats feelings, expressive, worrywart

Likes: Carl Foutley, bugs, frogs, any kind of fried food, his van, dogs, sugary sodas, gore, dismembered body parts, the petrified eyeball, pranking his sister and/or Blake Gripling, journalism

Dislikes: Blake Gripling, Pandering, Megalomaniacs, Brandon Higsby (his monkey’s cool though), Losing, When Carl doesn’t listen to him, being the butt of the joke, being naked around most people (Carl’s cool but he’d trust him with anything)

Can Do: Drive, play exactly three cords on a bass guitar, film things, watch horror movies, eat ungodly amounts of food, ignore everything for a project

Can’t Do: Handle secondhand embarrassment, allow Carl to get them hurt, kill something, take cough syrup, think for himself

Mental Health Diagnosis:

Schizotypal Personality Disorder: Hoodsey often has a hard time being followed when he speaks, or doesn’t make sense. He believes he has an extra sense of when he and Carl are going too far, or when they might get hurt. He also claimed to be able to completely understand Carl without speaking. He seeks isolation from most people, if only because Carl is the only person that understands him and nurtures his confidence.

Avoidant Personality Disorder: When not with Carl, he is incredibly shy and fears ridicule. All he wants is to be comfortable in his own skin but he’s so afraid without someone to give him orders.

Dependant Personality Disorder: Most people consider him to be constantly clinging to Carl, and they are rarely apart from one another. Most of his decisions are made exclusively after consulting Carl, or by Carl himself.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Often times, especially alone, he is so anxious to the point of chewing his nails or biting the skin off of his lips.

Physical Health Diagnosis:

Asthma: Sports had always been hard for him in school, and he was diagnosed with asthma shortly before middle school. He always carries his inhaler on him, and when he doesn’t have it, usually Carl has a spare for him.

Overweight: His pretty constant intake of everything has left him a bit overweight for his height. It doesn’t help his asthma all that much, and makes exercising a little more difficult.

Fears: Being abandoned, competitive situations, large crowds, being stalked/killed

Positive Traits: Gentle, loyal, optimistic, eager to please

Negative Traits: Gullible, easily embarrassed, shy, bottles up his feelings for Carl

Quirks: Always up for pranking others; uses his van as a trash can most of the time; always writes things down to remember them but misplaces the notes or doesn’t remember what it was supposed to remind him of; has a playlist on his iPod that is only What’s New Pussycat, It’s Not Unusual, and Never Gonna Give You Up for when he and Carl are in the mood to bother everyone.

Tends To: Follow Carl’s word above all else; fears his mother’s wrath and tries to do right by her and Carl at the same time; hide his feelings for Carl and thinks he’s slick but everyone else knows; Always have his phone, iPod, keys, wallet and inhaler in the same pocket

History: Hoodsey was two weeks late to his own birthday, he came out fairly healthy, if not a bit larger than he should have. Dodie was not stoked to have a little brother, but Hoodsey was always a sweet, clingy child. A natural-born follower, he did exactly what his mom said until he started Kindergarten.

The fateful day he met Carl Foutley changed everything. His attention, his clinginess, was divided between his mother and Carl. While he often tried to stop Carl in his mad bids for fame, fortune, and the truly gross, he let himself be steamrolled into everything after a mild fuss was put up. Over the years, he and Carl only grew closer.

Hoodsey strongly dislikes Blake Gripling, and while he will not quite admit it to himself, it’s only half because he’s annoying. The other half is definitely jealousy. Occasionally when his mother lets him go to concerts and things, he and Carl live in the back of his 1997 Chevrolet Astro.

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Tags List - Personal

Broke As A Junkie But I Have A Good Time (Hoodsey) I’m Pretty Sure My Mom Doesn’t Like This (Hoodsey’s IC Posts) The Purple Hoodie The Purple Hoodie Or The Purple Hoodie? (Hoodsey’s Closet) Oh Dude! (Hoodsey’s Stuff) Yes Yes Yes! (Hoodsey’s Desires) Gross Dude (Hoodsey’s Aesthetic) Never Have To Feed It (Rock The Rock Rockson Tag) It Was Just Never Gonna Give You Up On Repeat (Hoodsey’s Music) Thinking Is A Dangerous Past Time (Hoodsey Musings) Snips Snails And Puppy Dog Tails (Hoodsey Headcanons)

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Tastefully Tasteless (Hoodsey And Blake Gripling) At Least Let The Monkey Have Fun (Hoodsey And Brandon Higsby) My Best Friend’s Hot (Hoodsey And Carl Foutley) She’s Like A Princess In A Tower (Hoodsey And Courtney Gripling) Can I Have The Headgear When You’re Done? (Hoodsey And Darren Patterson) You’re Not A Lady You’re Nothing But A Sister (Hoodsey And Dodie Bishop) Kind Of Like A Sister To Me (Hoodsey And Ginger Foutley) Mother/Jailer (Hoodsey And Joann Bishop) The Mother I Never Had (Hoodsey And Lois Foutley) Weird In A Different Way (Hoodsey And Macie Lightfoot) May She Rest Knowing The Worms Have Eaten Her Corpse (Hoodsey And Maude) Mean Girls (Hoodsey And Mipsy Mipson) Mean Girls 2: Fucking Furious (Hoodsey And Miranda Killgallen) Bandaid Queen (Hoodsey And Noelle Sussman) A Dweeb’s Workhorse (Hoodsey And Winston)

Tags List - With X - OC

None At This Time

Tags List - With X - Crossover

A Little Crazy Is OK As Long As Nobody Says Any Dirty Words (With Jerome Valeska)

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Verses - In-World

Someone Once Told Me The Grass Is Much Greener (Hoodsey’s Elementary Verse)

Already thick as thieves with Carl, Hoodsey is very much his go-to yes-man and best friend. He was so happy just to have a friend that he’d almost do anything for Carl. By first grade, he knew the feeling of being truly wanted by someone.

Everything Is Alright (Hoodsey’s Middle School Verse)

His schoolwork suffered greatly in Middle School and he skipped more often. When his mother found out he was grounded for three months, and when he was finally out of solitary confinement, he stayed at the Foutley’s for over a week.

Partner In Crime (Hoodsey’s High School Verse)

Hoodsey handled a lot of AP classes because of his mom, as well as band and his photojournalism club/classes. Between school, extra curriculars, and his time with Carl, he was pretty busy and stressed. For two weeks during his Senior year, he ended up in the hospital because he had a nervous breakdown. Being away from Carl and not allowed visitors was almost harder on him.

Brain Stew (Hoodsey’s College Verse)

Finally being out of his parents’ house for college, Hoodsey goes a little wild when he finally realizes that he is free. Anything goes, and he wants to try as many things as he can. He’s going to film school.

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AU Verses

Running Up That Hill (Hoodsey’s ABO AU)

Hoodsey is an Omega that probably takes way too many scent blockers and heat suppressants. His mother is so controlling that she is still hoping that there is some way to get her son and daughter to switch secondary sexes.

Admitting Guilt (Hoodsey’s Deadman Wonderland AU)

After being neutralized and turned into an Undertaker, Hoodsey stayed mostly to himself. He can’t remember much beyond his turning. All he knows is that he lost something, and he wants to get it back.

Green Around The Gills (Demon!Hoodsey AU)

A lesser demon of Envy, Hoodsey has a tendency to cling onto one person and leech off of their emotions. He loves to provoke people with misunderstandings the most.

A Caged Bird Sings (Mer!Hoodsey AU)

Hoodsey is a Royal Gramma Fish, kept in a tank at an aquarium. He sings a sad song all night long in hopes that someone will come and let him out, though most people tend to ignore him. On land he loses his sense of taste.

Not A Fun Job (Hoodsey’s Repo! The Genetic Opera AU)

A backdoor Gentern, Hoodsey administers illegal Zydrate to patients of Carl’s. He isn’t entirely sure why he has to wear the dress.

And Everything You Touch Shall Be Destroyed (Vampire!Hoodsey AU)

Hoodsey was turned late one night while walking back home from work. His van was out of commission, and the second that he was grabbed, he was sure he was being mugged. Being so sweet, he was allowed to go after feeding the vampire, who came back night after night to see him and feed from him. They are very good friends, and Hoodsey was eventually turned to keep him from dying due to stomach cancer.

He’s A Good Dog Blake (Werewolf!Hoodsey AU)

Hoodsey didn’t quite understand that when he was bitten by a weird dog while walking home from Carl’s one night that his life would change forever. Ever since, he has found a way to use his powers for the betterment of the two of them, even if it has made him more aggressive and territorial.

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None At This Time

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Open Starters

None At This Time

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Headcanon Posts

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Physical Traits Of Your Muse

Detailed Profile Tag

Bold Your Muse’s Aesthetic (Spooky Edition)

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Revisiting the Classics: The Top 10 Must-See Early Hollywood Films

While I was growing up my parents didn’t let me watch a lot of TV. I didn’t even discover the Disney Channel until I was approaching middle school. Instead, they brought me up on classic old Hollywood films. My parents wanted me to know the films, actors, songs, and dances that they themselves were brought up on (my dad was born in 1931 and my mom was born in 1947). The films of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s are what lit up my family’s TV screen most frequently during my childhood. Even today, nothing can top the fondness I have for old movies and for the comfort they bring me.

In the age of Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, HBO, etc. it is so easy to get caught up in the latest releases. I am completely guilty of binge watching an entire series the day it gets released (Shout out to Stranger Things & The Crown). While so many people know of the big Hollywood names of today I have found that not many know of the Old Hollywood superstars like Barbara Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers, Carol Lombard, Katherine Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman. Hollywood both past and present still has its dark side. Women still face inequality and sexual harassment. There is still a severe underrepresentation of WOC in film and TV. But despite the shortcomings of the industry I nevertheless feel an intrigue, appreciation, and even nostalgia for Old Hollywood films and actors. The women of the time were powerhouses on and off the screen. All of the women mentioned above were nominees or winners of the Award for Best Actress. And, all of those women are in the films I’ve listed below.

And so, I give you a list of my 10 favorite films from the 30s-50s in the hopes that it might inspire your next binge-watch.

A musical rom-com. In 2007 the American Film Industry ranks this film at the 5th greatest motion picture of all time. Need I say anything else?

This is a motion picture about motion pictures. The tap dancing, the singing, the acting, the sets, and the costumes are phenomenal.

Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor star in the film.

It almost makes you want to Sing in the Rain.

The Lady Eve is a comedy staring the beautiful Barbara Stanwyck who plays opposite Henry Fonda (Jane Fonda’s father). Stanwyck plays a con artist who falls for a naïve, honest, and shy man (Fonda). Their relationships ends when he finds out about her dishonest ways and in an effort to get back at him she disguises herself as the “Lady Eve.” Hilarity ensues. The Library of Congress selected this film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

This film “chronicles the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.”  The film is heartwarming, hilarious, and heartbreaking and boasts a PHENOMENAL cast of actresses including Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Gail Patrick, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Ann Miller, and Andrea Leeds.

One word. Iconic.

This partnership produced 10 movies and is one of the most famous dance duos of all time. They sing, they dance, they act and although I have a personal favorite I recommend watching them all from the first to the last.

Screwball comedy. It’s completely ridiculous and ridiculously wonderful. Carol Lombard plays a wealthy Park Avenue socialite who hires a down-and-out man (William Powell) to be the family’s butler in order to spite her stuck up sister. She falls completely in-love with him.

Drama ensues when it is discovered that Godfrey the butler is not quite who he says he is.

This film was also deemed “culturally significant” by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Reservation.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, this film is widely accepted as one of the greatest ever made. In this thriller James Stewart plays a professional photographer with a broken leg who watches his neighbors through his apartment window while is confined to a wheelchair. He soon becomes suspicious that one of his neighbors murdered his own wife and decides to investigate with the help of Grace Kelly who plays Stewart’s girlfriend in the film.

This CLASSIC film stars Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman and takes place during World War 2 in Casablanca.

The film won the academy award for best picture and is still considered one of the greatest films of all time.

“Here’s lookin at you, kid”

Another screwball comedy featuring William Powell. This one also stars Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy.

The tale involves love, marriage, fake marriage, a newspaper, fly-fishing, and lots of drama.

Libeled Lady was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Starring Judy Garland, this musical film tells the tale of a family in the early 1900s living in St. Louis.

Bringing Up Baby is my favorite Katherine Hepburn film. It certainly doesn’t hurt that Cary Grant stars opposite Hepburn. *Swoon*

This dynamic pairing produced a phenomenal screwball comedy about a Paleontologist (Grant) who is trying to complete his Brontosaraus skeleton for his museum. He gets hopelessly mixed up in all kinds of shenanigans (car theft, leopards, bone hunting, dress ripping) with a nutty but loyal Susan Vance (Hepburn).

This is the last movie on the list but it’s probably my favorite.

If you’ve gotten through this list and are hungry for more I also recommend these:

Dinner at 8

Desk Set

The Philadelphia Story

All of the Marx Brother’s films

To Catch A Thief

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2017 in Review

Necessarily incomplete, mostly for my personal record. I will probably regret this.

MOVIES

10.  mother!

Got to a screening late, had to sit in the third show, could barely tell what was happening and spent most of the movie staring at J. Law’s flared nostrils. An ideal viewing experience.

9.     Personal Shopper

Nothing captures the purposeful emptiness of spending time online like Kristen Stewart texting a ghost.

8.     Get Out

I kept telling my dad this movie was funny to get him to see it, not realizing he didn’t already know it was a horror movie. Afterwards, he texted me, “that was not a comedy!” Feels like that’s enough a metaphor. Daniel Kaluuya for best actor.

7.     Star Wars: The Last Jedi

A Star Wars movie about loving Star Wars movies, which means loving the epic, silly struggle between good and epic, loving the spiral staircase that is John Williams’s force theme, loving it when character always do the coolest possible thing followed by the next coolest possible thing, loving dumb furry creatures and sarcastic slimy ones, loving it when characters kiss when you want them to kiss, loving the hundred-million-dollar sandbox of it all. After the constricted dance steps of The Force Awakens and Rogue One, give me this bleeding freestyle any day.

6.     Phantom Thread

Finally, proof that everyone in a serious relationship has lost it.

5.     Call Me By Your Name

I refuse to believe that being stuck in rural Italy would be anything other than deadly boring and if my father insisted on turning everything into a lecture on classical art, I would run away. Also, there’s a contrast between the book (vague on the details of place and time, vividly specific on matters of sex) and the film (more contextually specific, sexier, but less horny than the original). Also, who am I kidding, I was moved and unsettled by the force of the thing. *Michael Stuhlbarg voice* Pray you get a chance to fall in love like this.

4.     Dunkirk

Having your tense, churning, clanking, thrumming, score transform into Elgar right when the beautiful, imperiled young heroes are reading a stirring speech (and Tom Hardy is heroically sacrificing himself in what looks like the middle of a Turner painting) is a level of craft so deft if feels like cheating, but it works.

3.     BPM

A film about a community in danger that acts as both a memorial to and rallying cry for that community. Uncompromising, accommodating, queer in the best way, BPM makes you want to cry and go dancing at the same time.

2.     Columbus

The kind of movie that makes you want to get in a car and keep driving until you find something beautiful, it has stuck and expanded in my memory ever since I saw it over the summer. Like the architecture that looms large in the setting, the plot can feel uncomfortably schematic – John Cho wants to leave and gets  stuck, Haley Lu Richardson is stuck and gets to leave. The question is how people live within, and blur the edges of, those confines. John Cho has a winning, curdled decency; Haley Lu Richardson gives the hardest kind of performance, in that she often seems unaware of her character’s own wants. I’d watch her quietly assemble dinner for hours on end.

1.     Lady Bird  

A movie that feels less plotted and more prefigured – every fight between Lady Bird has happened before, every high school landmark lumbers by with inevitability, every boy disappoints in the way you expect. What redeems all this? Paying attention, which is also love, in this movie’s pseudo-religious sense. Between Lady Bird and Marion, between Lady Bird and Julie, between Lady Bird and Sacramento. Watch people closely, as Greta Gerwig does, and they reveal glimmers of themselves (I know so little, and yet everything, about Stephen McKinley Henderson’s drama teacher from a few moments that feel perfect, in the sense of contained, past-tense completeness). It’ll all so ordinary. Fall in love with it.

Honorable mentions: Regina Hall’s speech about friendship in Girls Trip, Sally Hawkins tracing a droplet with her finger in The Shape of Water, Meryl Streep on the phone in The Post, Cara Delevingne in Valerian, Rihanna in Valerian, the part where the ghost jumped off the building in A Ghost Story, the fact that Power Rangers was surprisingly good, the soldier who gasps as Diana whips out her hair in the trenches in Wonder Woman, Ansel Elgort’s jacket in Baby Driver, whenever anyone tried to explain anything in Alien: Covenant, Elisabeth Moss in The Square, Anh Seo-hyun feeding Okja in Okja, Lois Smith being in movies, the kids eating ice cream in The Florida Project, the Game of Thrones joke in Logan Lucky, Vella Lovell in The Big Sick, and finally, most preciously, the moment in Home Again where Reese Witherspoon kissed Michael Sheen and someone in my theater shouted “she’s not feeling it!”

TELEVISION

10.  The Good Doctor

Listen, he’s a good doctor.

9.     Riverdale

They’re hot. They’re angsty. They do drugs that look like Pixy-Stix. They never seem to do homework. They love to hook-up in weird locations. They have terrible taste in karaoke songs. They love hair dye, and a well-defined eyebrow. They have really hot parents. They’re TV teens! I love it.

8.     Insecure

This is just to say that I am far too invested in Molly’s happiness as a person. I would also like to view a full season of Due North.

7.     American Vandal

From Alex Trimboli to Christa Carlyle, the best names on TV are on this show. Also the best reenactments, and somehow the most incisive take on what fuels, and results from TV’s true-crime obsession. Jimmy Tatro mumbling!

6.     Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

More shows should take the opportunity to explode in their third seasons, rocket forward at full speed, diagnose their main characters, and give Josh Groban wonderful, unexplainable cameos.

5.     Alias Grace

A show that conjured a performance for the ages out of Sarah Gadon and somehow made Zachary Levi palatable as a dramatic actor, this miracle of collaboration between Mary Harron and Sarah Polley is all the better for being binged. Down it in an afternoon, think of Grace under her black veil, daring you to disbelieve her, for years to come.

4.     Twin Peaks: The Return

A show that drove nostalgia into itself like a knife to the chest. Totally absurd. The best revival/exorcism yet on TV.

3.     Please Like Me

“Sorry about your life.” “I’m sorry about your life.” In a time when things tend to peter out, what a final season, in which everything goes to shit and then some. Maybe TV’s most prickly comedy, Please Like Me’s heart is of the “stumble along and keep going” sort and never does it test itself as much as it did with this bleak, pastel final statement.

2.     The Leftovers

Do you believe Nora Durst’s story? Sometimes I do. Sometimes I think it sounds ridiculous. Sometimes I relax in the comfortable, academic premise that it only matters that Kevin does. It’s a haunting idea, though, this image of world even emptier than The Leftovers’s own, where it’s possible to wander for untold time in darkness. Carrie Coon’s description of it is a kind of journey to the underworld – we’re there with her, maybe, and then we make it back, maybe. The trick of The Leftovers is the wound’s never fully healed.

1.     Halt and Catch Fire

The world changes. People sorta don’t.

Honorable mentions: the twist in The Good Place, the Taylor Swift demon character in Neo Yokio, Claire Foy on The Crown, Vanessa Kirby on The Crown, the stand-up in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Cristin Milioti in Black Mirror, the televised Academy Awards ceremony, the weeks when Netflix didn’t release new TV shows I had to watch, Girls’s “American Bitch,” the fact that Adam Driver is both in Girls and Star Wars, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys performances on The Americans (and life in Brooklyn), the moments in Game of Thrones that were good enough to make me stop thinking about what people would write about Game of Thrones, season 2 of The Magicians’s resistance to any sort of plot logic, Jane the Virgin’s narrator, Nicole Kidman at therapy on Big Little Lies, Reese Witherspoon’s production of Avenue Q in Big Little Lies, Alexis Bledel holding things in The Handmaid’s Tale, Maggie Gyllenhaal directing porn in The Deuce, Alison Brie’s terrible Russian accent in Glow, Maya Rudolph in Big Mouth, Cush Jumbo miming oral sex with a pen in court in The Good Fight, the calming experience of watching new episodes of Superstore and Great News on Fridays, Eden Sher in The Middle, the fake books they make up for Younger, and Rihanna livestreaming herself watching Bates Motel.

THEATER

10.  Indecent

History, identity, community all mangled together in something that’s both excavation and revivification. I’m so mad I didn’t get to see it with my mom.

9.     Mary Jane

A nightmare that goes from bad to worse, which Carrie Coon performed with the endurance of a saint.

8.     SpongeBob SquarePants

Highlights: The tap number, the Fiddler on the Roof joke, the many uses of pool noodles, David Zinn’s design in general, the arms, the volcano setpiece, the fact that somehow I kept laughing for two-and-a-half hours at something SpongeBob SquarePants. Tina Landau, you’re a hero.

7.     Hello, Dolly!

I had a wonderful viewing experience like this, in that I sat alone on an aisle next to an older gay man who turned to me right when the curtain came down on the first act and said, “man, we love Bette.” (Shout out to any and all gags involving the whale.)

6.     Groundhog Day

Proof you can dig deeper into the material you’re adapting and still find more. Sometimes, the funniest gags come out of old-fashioned repetition. Andy Karl has the Rolex-like ability to make it all speed by without revealing any of the ticks, and then wallop you in the second act.  

5.     The Glass Menagerie

A lot of unconventional ideas piled onto each other that go so far into strange territory that they loop back around to being immediate. Maybe distant to some, but enough to unsettle me. I can still smell the onstage rain.

4.     The Wolves

A sign of a good play is probably that you remain invested in the characters long after you see it, and I’m going to spend so much time worrying about all the girls on the soccer team in The Wolves for the rest of my life.

3.     The Band’s Visit

Katrina Lenk has a gorgeous voice. Tony Shalhoub is restrained to the point that he could move his baton with nanometer accuracy. The songs are transporting. But most of all, The Band’s Visit manages to capture loneliness better than nearly any musical I’ve seen. Everyone, audience included, experiences something together, and then it all, slowly, both lingers and drifts apart.

2.     A Doll’s House, Part 2

What, you think I wasn’t going to include a play with a Laurie Metcalf performance? ADHP2 is perhaps clever to a fault in its set-up, but in the right hands, it turns into something both funny and moving – a story about what it takes to become a complete person, in or outside the influence of other people. Nora’s monologue about living in silence near the end is the full of the kind of simple statements that are so hard to act, and so brilliant when done just right.

1.     The Antipodes

Both an extended meditation on what it means to run out of stories and a brutal subtweet of Los Angeles, The Antipodes is my kind of play, in that it’s mostly people talking, Josh Charles is involved and very disgruntled, and everyone eats a lot of take out.

Honorable mentions: the music in Sunday in the Park With George, the pies in Sweeney Todd, the ensemble of Come From Away, seeing Dave Malloy in The Great Comet of 1812, Alex Newell’s “Mama Will Provide” in Once on This Island, Cate Blanchet having fun in The Present, Imelda Staunton in the NTLive Follies, Michael Urie in Torch Song, Patti LuPone’s accent(s) in War Paint, Ashley Park in KPOP, and Gleb.

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12 Finest Films of 2017, From ‘Dunkirk’ to ‘Name Me by Your Identify’ (Images)

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2017 was a powerful 12 months for cinema, with achievements that may be measured on many yardsticks: It was the 12 months a Surprise Lady obtained to rock the seemingly unassailable superhero style, the 12 months a black sketch comic grew to become a massively worthwhile writer-director, and the 12 months when Tiffany Haddish ascended to the comedy cosmos. Company filmmaking could proceed to choke Hollywood (and a Disney-Fox merger is not excellent news in that division), however this was a 12 months when there was at all times one thing to suggest, whether or not it was blasting to the massive display or streaming to a smaller one.

The runners-up (alphabetically) “Seaside Rats,” “Blade Runner 2049,” “BPM,” “The Florida Undertaking,” “God’s Personal Nation,” “Commencement,” “I, Tonya,” “Ingrid Goes West,” “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” “Phantom Thread,” “Professor Marston and the Surprise Ladies,” “Sieranevada.”

10. “My Comfortable Household”  At the moment streaming on Netflix, this import from Georgia options one of many 12 months’s strongest performances: Ia Shugliasvili stars as Manana, a spouse and mom residing in an overcrowded Tbilisi house along with her dad and mom, husband, and grownup kids. She shocks all of them by shifting out and getting her personal place on this highly effective and infrequently darkly humorous character examine.

9. “Dunkirk” and “Detroit”  Amidst the popcorn fluff of summer time, we obtained two auteurist movies that dropped audiences into the center of historic brutality. Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” was a suspenseful, staccato WWII story offered from quite a lot of views, whereas Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit” was a hard-to-watch horror-show about police brutality in 1967 that rang all too true in 2017 America. Each movies had been illuminating, visceral experiences.

8. “Private Shopper”  This very up to date ghost story — the place are these texts coming from, and the way not too long ago had been they despatched? — reteamed Kristen Stewart with director Olivier Assayas, who beforehand guided her via the acclaimed “Clouds of Sils Maria.” Stewart is rarely lower than sensible as a millennial medium who’s as trapped between life and dying as she is caught between profession paths.

7. “Brad’s Standing” and “The Meyerowitz Tales (New and Chosen)”  Mike White and Noah Baumbach strengthened their reputations as two of the main voices of graying white Gen X-ers with these hilarious and heartbreaking character research of middle-aged males going through regrets, paths not taken, and the angst of sending your child off to varsity. Adam Sandler (in “Meyerowitz”) and Ben Stiller (in each motion pictures) are given the chance to supply a few of their most heartfelt, grownup performing.

6. “Marjorie Prime”  Lois Smith’s heartbreaking efficiency deserves discover, however there’s much more to this poignant and provocative take a look at the top of life and the way we regularly change into the unreliable narrators of our personal lives. The extraordinary ensemble additionally options Jon Hamm, Geena Davis and Tim Robbins, all beneath the delicate and humane path of Michael Almereyda (adapting the play by Jordan Harrison).

5. “Get Out”  It’s an excellent horror film that follows the Blumhouse guidelines — most scares on as few units as doable — however this chiller is a lot extra. Making his debut as writer-director, Jordan Peele crafts a prickly, hilarious and terrifying metaphor for American life in 2017; what Ira Levin did for feminism with “The Stepford Wives,” Peele does right here for #BlackLivesMatter.

4. “Their Most interesting”  Of the three Dunkirk motion pictures I noticed this 12 months, this one’s my favourite. Not like so most of the valentines to filmmaking we’ve seen recently, this one cannily sends up its topic — wartime propaganda motion pictures — whereas telling a narrative that pushes all the identical buttons. (It’s as stirring, humorous, romantic and poignant as something turned out by the Battle Workplace.) Gemma Arterton shines as a copywriter who will get promoted to the photographs, and Invoice Nighy is, as at all times, a charmingly roguish ham, but it surely’s Sam Claflin who makes probably the most of his meatiest position to this point, proving he’s greater than only a YA crush object.

3. “The Form of Water”  A hauntingly lovely salute to simply about all the pieces that’s come out of the Hollywood dream manufacturing unit — from monster motion pictures to silents to musicals — and the most effective film Guillermo del Toro has made since “Pan’s Labyrinth.” Sally Hawkins suffuses her mute character with longing, Richard Jenkins upends gay-best-friend clichés, and the great thing about 1962 design hides males’s ugliest impulses on this breathtaking creature-feature romance.

2. “Woman Chicken”  Greta Gerwig has been dazzling art-house audiences for years in automobiles like “Frances Ha” (which she co-wrote) and “Damsels in Misery,” however nobody was fairly ready for the way pretty or heartfelt her solo debut as writer-director can be. Saoirse Ronan dazzles anew on this good and unsentimental coming-of-age story, and Lucas Hedges and Timothée Chalamet present key help as boys who cross her path, but it surely’s Laurie Metcalf’s brusquely humorous flip as a frazzled mother that enables this stage and TV legend a uncommon probability to shine on the motion pictures.

1. “Name Me By Your Identify”  Past love is awkward, and it entails plenty of second-guessing and misreading of indicators and badly hidden obsession. Films don’t normally get that half proper, however Luca Guadagnino’s 1983-set story of a teen and his barely older crush traverses the terrain of the inexperienced coronary heart with subtlety and sensitivity. James Ivory’s script (from the novel by André Aciman) and the 2 astonishing lead performances by Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer make this a romance to recollect.

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La Times: Mary Tyler Moore, beloved TV icon who symbolized the independent career woman, dies at 80

Comfortably single and unafraid to stand up to her gruff newsroom boss, Mary Richards splashed onto television screens at a time when feminism was still putting down roots in America, a woman who charged through the working day with equal parts humor and raw independence.

Mary Tyler Moore’s character charmed TV watchers, earned the actress Emmy nominations and became a potent symbol of womanhood in the 1970s. The actress and her television character became so entwined that Moore became a role model for women who sought to challenge the conventions of marriage and family.

“She wasn’t married. She wasn’t looking to get married. At no point did the series end in a happy ending with her finding a husband — which seemed to be the course you had to take as a woman,” former First Lady Michelle Obama said in an interview in August. As a young girl, Obama said, she drew inspiration from the character.

Moore died Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. from cardiopulmonary arrest after being hospitalized with pneumonia. She was 80.

In a career that began as Happy Hotpoint, the dancing and singing 3-inch pixie in Hotpoint appliance commercials on “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” in 1955 when she was 18, Moore went on to star in television and films and on Broadway.

In 1981, she received an Academy Award nomination for best actress for her portrayal of the emotionally cold mother in “Ordinary People,” the Robert Redford-directed drama about an upper-middle-class family dealing with the death of a teen-age son in a boating accident and the attempted suicide of their surviving son.

In a statement Wednesday, Redford said he admired Moore for taking such a role.

“The courage she displayed in taking on a role darker than anything she had ever done was brave and enormously powerful,” he said.

The unsympathetic, nearly-bloodless role was a departure for Moore, who remains best-known for her light and sunny touch in two classic situation comedies that together earned her six Emmy Awards.

Moore was still largely unknown when she was cast as Laura Petrie, the suburban housewife and mother of a young son opposite Dick Van Dyke’s TV comedy writer husband Rob on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”

The acclaimed sitcom, which aired on CBS from 1961 to 1966, earned Moore her first two Emmys and made her a star.

Her Capri-pants-wearing Laura brought something new to the traditional sitcom role of wife and mother: youthful sex appeal.

As Carl Reiner, the series’ creator, said of Rob and Laura in a 2004 TV Guide interview: “These were two people who really liked each other.”

Moore agreed, saying: “We brought romance to comedy, and, yes, Rob and Laura had sex!”

Van Dyke often praised Moore’s abilities as a comedic actress — one who has been credited with turning crying into a comedic art form and memorably got her toe stuck in a hotel room bathtub faucet in one episode.

“She was one of the few who could maintain her femininity and be funny at the same time,” Van Dyke said in a 1998 interview with the Archive of American Television. “You have to go as far back as Carole Lombard or Myrna Loy to find someone who could play it that well and still be tremendously appealing as a woman.”

After the Van Dyke show ended in 1966, Moore starred as Holly Golightly in a problem-plagued Broadway musical version of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” that producer David Merrick closed after four previews in New York.

Moore also played Julie Andrews’ roommate in the hit flapper-era comedy-musical movie “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in 1967. But her budding film career, which included playing a nun opposite Elvis Presley’s ghetto doctor in “Change of Habit,” was less than stellar.

She was reunited with Van Dyke in a 1969 musical-variety TV special, a critical and ratings success that spurred CBS to offer her a commitment to do her own half-hour comedy series.

Moore and her second husband, TV executive Grant Tinker, created MTM Enterprises, their own independent TV production company, whose logo — in a takeoff on MGM’s roaring lion — was a meowing orange kitten.

Tinker hired writers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to create and produce “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which debuted on CBS in 1970 and made TV history.

The series, featuring Moore as Mary Richards, a single woman in her 30s who lands a job as an associate producer in a Minneapolis TV newsroom, won 29 Emmys during its seven-year run.

Four of those Emmys went to Moore, whose character became a symbol of the independent 1970s career woman.

As Ed Asner’s lovably gruff and rumpled Lou Grant tells her when she applies for a job in the newsroom at WJM-TV: “You know what? You’ve got spunk. I hate spunk.”

 Ellen DeGeneres, who later invited Moore to play herself in several episodes of the sitcom “Ellen,” said she was an admirer of both Moore and her alter ego. “Mary Tyler Moore changed the world for all women,” she tweeted after Moore’s death became public.

In the wake of the success of  “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” the MTM empire grew to include series such as “The Bob Newhart Show,” “Rhoda,” “Lou Grant,” “Remington Steele,” “WKRP in Cincinnati,” “Hill Street Blues” and “St. Elsewhere.”

After “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” left the air in 1977, Moore failed with two TV comedy variety shows within the next two years.

But she scored on Broadway, winning a special Tony Award in 1980 for her performance as the quadriplegic lead character in the Broadway revival of “Whose Life Is It Anyway?” — a part originally written for a man.

In 1993, Moore won her seventh Emmy, for her supporting role as the ruthless owner of a 1940s Tennessee adoption agency in the Lifetime cable drama “Stolen Babies.”

Her two returns to the sitcom format in the mid- and late ’80s — “Mary” and “Annie McGuire” — were short-lived, as was the 1995 newspaper drama “New York News,” on which she played the autocratic editor of a tabloid newspaper.

In the years after “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” she dealt with a series of personal problems and tragedies.

In 1978, her younger sister, Elizabeth, died of a drug overdose. In 1980, Richie, her 24-year-old son from her first marriage, fatally shot himself in what was ruled an accident. And in 1992, Moore’s brother John, a recovering alcoholic, died after a long battle with kidney cancer.

In the mid-’80s, Moore checked into the Betty Ford Center to seek treatment for alcoholism.

In a 1986 interview with Maclean’s magazine, Moore said: “I am glad I was able to be a kind of role model for other women who identified with my ladylike qualities, who were then able to say, ‘Well, if Mary can admit she had a problem with alcohol, then maybe I can too.’ ”

Asner said he treasured the years he worked alongside Moore.

“I will never be able to repay her for the blessings that she gave me,” he said in a tweet.

Moore was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on Dec. 29, 1936. Her father was a clerk for Consolidated Edison who worked at the Southern California Gas Co. after the family moved to Los Angeles in 1945.

Moore began taking dance classes while in grade school and appeared in recitals. She continued to take dance lessons and perform through her years at Immaculate Heart High School, where she dreamed of dancing her way to stardom.

In her autobiography, Moore described her strict Catholic father as “undemonstrative” and her more fun-loving mother as an alcoholic. As a result, Moore spent half the time living with her parents and the other half living with her aunt and grandmother.

“It was not an ideal home life,” she said in a 1999 interview with the Ottawa Citizen, noting that, even if her mom and dad “weren’t the best of parents,” they had the best sense of humor.

“Thank God, I was not abused in any way, but I was seeking approval of some sort, in many different ways,” she said. “For me, it turned out to be a pat on the back for entertaining people.”

She was 18 and five months from graduating from high school in 1955 when she met 27-year-old Dick Meeker, an Ocean Spray cranberry products salesman, who had moved into a small apartment in the house next door to her parents’ home.

They were married two months after she graduated, and their son Richie was born the following year.

As a working mother, Moore found jobs dancing in the chorus of “The Eddie Fisher Show” and other TV variety shows, and appeared in commercials.

Her first regular acting role came in 1959 when she played Sam, the sultry-voiced telephone operator on the David Janssen TV series “Richard Diamond, Private Detective” — an uncredited role in which no more than her legs or an extreme close-up of her mouth were seen on screen.

Publicity for the show played up the mysterious Sam. But, Moore wrote in her book, when she asked for more money, she was replaced by another anonymous actress after 13 episodes.

After her stint as Sam, Moore played small parts in TV series such as “77 Sunset Strip,” “Hawaiian Eye,” “Bourbon Street Beat” and “Riverboat.”

She auditioned to replace Sherry Jackson as Danny Thomas’ grown-up daughter on his popular sitcom, but missed landing the part by a nose: her own.

“Here’s the reason you didn’t get the part,” she later recalled the famously large-nosed Thomas telling her: “With a nose like yours, no one would believe you’re my daughter.”

Two years later, when Thomas, executive producer Sheldon Leonard and Reiner were looking for someone to play the wife in Van Dyke’s new TV series, Thomas said: “Who was the kid we liked so much last year, the one with the three names and the funny nose?”

Moore, whose first marriage ended in divorce in 1961, married Tinker in 1962. They were divorced in 1981. In 1983,  she married Dr. Robert Levine, a Manhattan cardiologist.

 She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1969 and later served as the international chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

In 2012, she received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

McLellan is a former Times staff writer.

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La Times: Mary Tyler Moore, beloved TV icon who symbolized the independent career woman, dies at 80

Comfortably single and unafraid to stand up to her gruff newsroom boss, Mary Richards splashed onto television screens at a time when feminism was still putting down roots in America, a woman who charged through the working day with equal parts humor and raw independence.

Mary Tyler Moore’s character charmed TV watchers, earned the actress Emmy nominations and became a potent symbol of womanhood in the 1970s. The actress and her television character became so entwined that Moore became a role model for women who sought to challenge the conventions of marriage and family.

“She wasn’t married. She wasn’t looking to get married. At no point did the series end in a happy ending with her finding a husband — which seemed to be the course you had to take as a woman,” former First Lady Michelle Obama said in an interview in August. As a young girl, Obama said, she drew inspiration from the character.

Moore died Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. from cardiopulmonary arrest after being hospitalized with pneumonia. She was 80.

In a career that began as Happy Hotpoint, the dancing and singing 3-inch pixie in Hotpoint appliance commercials on “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” in 1955 when she was 18, Moore went on to star in television and films and on Broadway.

In 1981, she received an Academy Award nomination for best actress for her portrayal of the emotionally cold mother in “Ordinary People,” the Robert Redford-directed drama about an upper-middle-class family dealing with the death of a teen-age son in a boating accident and the attempted suicide of their surviving son.

In a statement Wednesday, Redford said he admired Moore for taking such a role.

“The courage she displayed in taking on a role darker than anything she had ever done was brave and enormously powerful,” he said.

The unsympathetic, nearly-bloodless role was a departure for Moore, who remains best-known for her light and sunny touch in two classic situation comedies that together earned her six Emmy Awards.

Moore was still largely unknown when she was cast as Laura Petrie, the suburban housewife and mother of a young son opposite Dick Van Dyke’s TV comedy writer husband Rob on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”

The acclaimed sitcom, which aired on CBS from 1961 to 1966, earned Moore her first two Emmys and made her a star.

Her Capri-pants-wearing Laura brought something new to the traditional sitcom role of wife and mother: youthful sex appeal.

As Carl Reiner, the series’ creator, said of Rob and Laura in a 2004 TV Guide interview: “These were two people who really liked each other.”

Moore agreed, saying: “We brought romance to comedy, and, yes, Rob and Laura had sex!”

Van Dyke often praised Moore’s abilities as a comedic actress — one who has been credited with turning crying into a comedic art form and memorably got her toe stuck in a hotel room bathtub faucet in one episode.

“She was one of the few who could maintain her femininity and be funny at the same time,” Van Dyke said in a 1998 interview with the Archive of American Television. “You have to go as far back as Carole Lombard or Myrna Loy to find someone who could play it that well and still be tremendously appealing as a woman.”

After the Van Dyke show ended in 1966, Moore starred as Holly Golightly in a problem-plagued Broadway musical version of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” that producer David Merrick closed after four previews in New York.

Moore also played Julie Andrews’ roommate in the hit flapper-era comedy-musical movie “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in 1967. But her budding film career, which included playing a nun opposite Elvis Presley’s ghetto doctor in “Change of Habit,” was less than stellar.

She was reunited with Van Dyke in a 1969 musical-variety TV special, a critical and ratings success that spurred CBS to offer her a commitment to do her own half-hour comedy series.

Moore and her second husband, TV executive Grant Tinker, created MTM Enterprises, their own independent TV production company, whose logo — in a takeoff on MGM’s roaring lion — was a meowing orange kitten.

Tinker hired writers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to create and produce “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which debuted on CBS in 1970 and made TV history.

The series, featuring Moore as Mary Richards, a single woman in her 30s who lands a job as an associate producer in a Minneapolis TV newsroom, won 29 Emmys during its seven-year run.

Four of those Emmys went to Moore, whose character became a symbol of the independent 1970s career woman.

As Ed Asner’s lovably gruff and rumpled Lou Grant tells her when she applies for a job in the newsroom at WJM-TV: “You know what? You’ve got spunk. I hate spunk.”

 Ellen DeGeneres, who later invited Moore to play herself in several episodes of the sitcom “Ellen,” said she was an admirer of both Moore and her alter ego. “Mary Tyler Moore changed the world for all women,” she tweeted after Moore’s death became public.

In the wake of the success of  “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” the MTM empire grew to include series such as “The Bob Newhart Show,” “Rhoda,” “Lou Grant,” “Remington Steele,” “WKRP in Cincinnati,” “Hill Street Blues” and “St. Elsewhere.”

After “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” left the air in 1977, Moore failed with two TV comedy variety shows within the next two years.

But she scored on Broadway, winning a special Tony Award in 1980 for her performance as the quadriplegic lead character in the Broadway revival of “Whose Life Is It Anyway?” — a part originally written for a man.

In 1993, Moore won her seventh Emmy, for her supporting role as the ruthless owner of a 1940s Tennessee adoption agency in the Lifetime cable drama “Stolen Babies.”

Her two returns to the sitcom format in the mid- and late ’80s — “Mary” and “Annie McGuire” — were short-lived, as was the 1995 newspaper drama “New York News,” on which she played the autocratic editor of a tabloid newspaper.

In the years after “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” she dealt with a series of personal problems and tragedies.

In 1978, her younger sister, Elizabeth, died of a drug overdose. In 1980, Richie, her 24-year-old son from her first marriage, fatally shot himself in what was ruled an accident. And in 1992, Moore’s brother John, a recovering alcoholic, died after a long battle with kidney cancer.

In the mid-’80s, Moore checked into the Betty Ford Center to seek treatment for alcoholism.

In a 1986 interview with Maclean’s magazine, Moore said: “I am glad I was able to be a kind of role model for other women who identified with my ladylike qualities, who were then able to say, ‘Well, if Mary can admit she had a problem with alcohol, then maybe I can too.’ ”

Asner said he treasured the years he worked alongside Moore.

“I will never be able to repay her for the blessings that she gave me,” he said in a tweet.

Moore was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on Dec. 29, 1936. Her father was a clerk for Consolidated Edison who worked at the Southern California Gas Co. after the family moved to Los Angeles in 1945.

Moore began taking dance classes while in grade school and appeared in recitals. She continued to take dance lessons and perform through her years at Immaculate Heart High School, where she dreamed of dancing her way to stardom.

In her autobiography, Moore described her strict Catholic father as “undemonstrative” and her more fun-loving mother as an alcoholic. As a result, Moore spent half the time living with her parents and the other half living with her aunt and grandmother.

“It was not an ideal home life,” she said in a 1999 interview with the Ottawa Citizen, noting that, even if her mom and dad “weren’t the best of parents,” they had the best sense of humor.

“Thank God, I was not abused in any way, but I was seeking approval of some sort, in many different ways,” she said. “For me, it turned out to be a pat on the back for entertaining people.”

She was 18 and five months from graduating from high school in 1955 when she met 27-year-old Dick Meeker, an Ocean Spray cranberry products salesman, who had moved into a small apartment in the house next door to her parents’ home.

They were married two months after she graduated, and their son Richie was born the following year.

As a working mother, Moore found jobs dancing in the chorus of “The Eddie Fisher Show” and other TV variety shows, and appeared in commercials.

Her first regular acting role came in 1959 when she played Sam, the sultry-voiced telephone operator on the David Janssen TV series “Richard Diamond, Private Detective” — an uncredited role in which no more than her legs or an extreme close-up of her mouth were seen on screen.

Publicity for the show played up the mysterious Sam. But, Moore wrote in her book, when she asked for more money, she was replaced by another anonymous actress after 13 episodes.

After her stint as Sam, Moore played small parts in TV series such as “77 Sunset Strip,” “Hawaiian Eye,” “Bourbon Street Beat” and “Riverboat.”

She auditioned to replace Sherry Jackson as Danny Thomas’ grown-up daughter on his popular sitcom, but missed landing the part by a nose: her own.

“Here’s the reason you didn’t get the part,” she later recalled the famously large-nosed Thomas telling her: “With a nose like yours, no one would believe you’re my daughter.”

Two years later, when Thomas, executive producer Sheldon Leonard and Reiner were looking for someone to play the wife in Van Dyke’s new TV series, Thomas said: “Who was the kid we liked so much last year, the one with the three names and the funny nose?”

Moore, whose first marriage ended in divorce in 1961, married Tinker in 1962. They were divorced in 1981. In 1983,  she married Dr. Robert Levine, a Manhattan cardiologist.

 She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1969 and later served as the international chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

In 2012, she received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

McLellan is a former Times staff writer.

[email protected]

ALSO:

‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’ is back on CBS in living color

Butch Trucks, Allman Brothers Band co-founder, dies at 69

Howard Kaufman, manager for the Eagles, Aerosmith and Stevie Nicks, dies at 79

Miguel Ferrer, star of ‘RoboCop,’ ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ and ‘Twin Peaks,’ dies at 61

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3:45 p.m.: This article was updated with reaction to Moore’s death. 

12:50 p.m.: This article was updated throughout with additional details and background.

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La Times: Mary Tyler Moore, beloved TV icon who symbolized the independent career woman, dies at 80

Comfortably single and unafraid to stand up to her gruff newsroom boss, Mary Richards splashed onto television screens at a time when feminism was still putting down roots in America, a woman who charged through the working day with equal parts humor and raw independence.

Mary Tyler Moore’s character charmed TV watchers, earned the actress Emmy nominations and became a potent symbol of womanhood in the 1970s. The actress and her television character became so entwined that Moore became a role model for women who sought to challenge the conventions of marriage and family.

“She wasn’t married. She wasn’t looking to get married. At no point did the series end in a happy ending with her finding a husband — which seemed to be the course you had to take as a woman,” former First Lady Michelle Obama said in an interview in August. As a young girl, Obama said, she drew inspiration from the character.

Moore died Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. from cardiopulmonary arrest after being hospitalized with pneumonia. She was 80.

In a career that began as Happy Hotpoint, the dancing and singing 3-inch pixie in Hotpoint appliance commercials on “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” in 1955 when she was 18, Moore went on to star in television and films and on Broadway.

In 1981, she received an Academy Award nomination for best actress for her portrayal of the emotionally cold mother in “Ordinary People,” the Robert Redford-directed drama about an upper-middle-class family dealing with the death of a teen-age son in a boating accident and the attempted suicide of their surviving son.

In a statement Wednesday, Redford said he admired Moore for taking such a role.

“The courage she displayed in taking on a role darker than anything she had ever done was brave and enormously powerful,” he said.

The unsympathetic, nearly-bloodless role was a departure for Moore, who remains best-known for her light and sunny touch in two classic situation comedies that together earned her six Emmy Awards.

Moore was still largely unknown when she was cast as Laura Petrie, the suburban housewife and mother of a young son opposite Dick Van Dyke’s TV comedy writer husband Rob on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”

The acclaimed sitcom, which aired on CBS from 1961 to 1966, earned Moore her first two Emmys and made her a star.

Her Capri-pants-wearing Laura brought something new to the traditional sitcom role of wife and mother: youthful sex appeal.

As Carl Reiner, the series’ creator, said of Rob and Laura in a 2004 TV Guide interview: “These were two people who really liked each other.”

Moore agreed, saying: “We brought romance to comedy, and, yes, Rob and Laura had sex!”

Van Dyke often praised Moore’s abilities as a comedic actress — one who has been credited with turning crying into a comedic art form and memorably got her toe stuck in a hotel room bathtub faucet in one episode.

“She was one of the few who could maintain her femininity and be funny at the same time,” Van Dyke said in a 1998 interview with the Archive of American Television. “You have to go as far back as Carole Lombard or Myrna Loy to find someone who could play it that well and still be tremendously appealing as a woman.”

After the Van Dyke show ended in 1966, Moore starred as Holly Golightly in a problem-plagued Broadway musical version of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” that producer David Merrick closed after four previews in New York.

Moore also played Julie Andrews’ roommate in the hit flapper-era comedy-musical movie “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in 1967. But her budding film career, which included playing a nun opposite Elvis Presley’s ghetto doctor in “Change of Habit,” was less than stellar.

She was reunited with Van Dyke in a 1969 musical-variety TV special, a critical and ratings success that spurred CBS to offer her a commitment to do her own half-hour comedy series.

Moore and her second husband, TV executive Grant Tinker, created MTM Enterprises, their own independent TV production company, whose logo — in a takeoff on MGM’s roaring lion — was a meowing orange kitten.

Tinker hired writers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to create and produce “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which debuted on CBS in 1970 and made TV history.

The series, featuring Moore as Mary Richards, a single woman in her 30s who lands a job as an associate producer in a Minneapolis TV newsroom, won 29 Emmys during its seven-year run.

Four of those Emmys went to Moore, whose character became a symbol of the independent 1970s career woman.

As Ed Asner’s lovably gruff and rumpled Lou Grant tells her when she applies for a job in the newsroom at WJM-TV: “You know what? You’ve got spunk. I hate spunk.”

 Ellen DeGeneres, who later invited Moore to play herself in several episodes of the sitcom “Ellen,” said she was an admirer of both Moore and her alter ego. “Mary Tyler Moore changed the world for all women,” she tweeted after Moore’s death became public.

In the wake of the success of  “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” the MTM empire grew to include series such as “The Bob Newhart Show,” “Rhoda,” “Lou Grant,” “Remington Steele,” “WKRP in Cincinnati,” “Hill Street Blues” and “St. Elsewhere.”

After “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” left the air in 1977, Moore failed with two TV comedy variety shows within the next two years.

But she scored on Broadway, winning a special Tony Award in 1980 for her performance as the quadriplegic lead character in the Broadway revival of “Whose Life Is It Anyway?” — a part originally written for a man.

In 1993, Moore won her seventh Emmy, for her supporting role as the ruthless owner of a 1940s Tennessee adoption agency in the Lifetime cable drama “Stolen Babies.”

Her two returns to the sitcom format in the mid- and late ’80s — “Mary” and “Annie McGuire” — were short-lived, as was the 1995 newspaper drama “New York News,” on which she played the autocratic editor of a tabloid newspaper.

In the years after “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” she dealt with a series of personal problems and tragedies.

In 1978, her younger sister, Elizabeth, died of a drug overdose. In 1980, Richie, her 24-year-old son from her first marriage, fatally shot himself in what was ruled an accident. And in 1992, Moore’s brother John, a recovering alcoholic, died after a long battle with kidney cancer.

In the mid-’80s, Moore checked into the Betty Ford Center to seek treatment for alcoholism.

In a 1986 interview with Maclean’s magazine, Moore said: “I am glad I was able to be a kind of role model for other women who identified with my ladylike qualities, who were then able to say, ‘Well, if Mary can admit she had a problem with alcohol, then maybe I can too.’ ”

Asner said he treasured the years he worked alongside Moore.

“I will never be able to repay her for the blessings that she gave me,” he said in a tweet.

Moore was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on Dec. 29, 1936. Her father was a clerk for Consolidated Edison who worked at the Southern California Gas Co. after the family moved to Los Angeles in 1945.

Moore began taking dance classes while in grade school and appeared in recitals. She continued to take dance lessons and perform through her years at Immaculate Heart High School, where she dreamed of dancing her way to stardom.

In her autobiography, Moore described her strict Catholic father as “undemonstrative” and her more fun-loving mother as an alcoholic. As a result, Moore spent half the time living with her parents and the other half living with her aunt and grandmother.

“It was not an ideal home life,” she said in a 1999 interview with the Ottawa Citizen, noting that, even if her mom and dad “weren’t the best of parents,” they had the best sense of humor.

“Thank God, I was not abused in any way, but I was seeking approval of some sort, in many different ways,” she said. “For me, it turned out to be a pat on the back for entertaining people.”

She was 18 and five months from graduating from high school in 1955 when she met 27-year-old Dick Meeker, an Ocean Spray cranberry products salesman, who had moved into a small apartment in the house next door to her parents’ home.

They were married two months after she graduated, and their son Richie was born the following year.

As a working mother, Moore found jobs dancing in the chorus of “The Eddie Fisher Show” and other TV variety shows, and appeared in commercials.

Her first regular acting role came in 1959 when she played Sam, the sultry-voiced telephone operator on the David Janssen TV series “Richard Diamond, Private Detective” — an uncredited role in which no more than her legs or an extreme close-up of her mouth were seen on screen.

Publicity for the show played up the mysterious Sam. But, Moore wrote in her book, when she asked for more money, she was replaced by another anonymous actress after 13 episodes.

After her stint as Sam, Moore played small parts in TV series such as “77 Sunset Strip,” “Hawaiian Eye,” “Bourbon Street Beat” and “Riverboat.”

She auditioned to replace Sherry Jackson as Danny Thomas’ grown-up daughter on his popular sitcom, but missed landing the part by a nose: her own.

“Here’s the reason you didn’t get the part,” she later recalled the famously large-nosed Thomas telling her: “With a nose like yours, no one would believe you’re my daughter.”

Two years later, when Thomas, executive producer Sheldon Leonard and Reiner were looking for someone to play the wife in Van Dyke’s new TV series, Thomas said: “Who was the kid we liked so much last year, the one with the three names and the funny nose?”

Moore, whose first marriage ended in divorce in 1961, married Tinker in 1962. They were divorced in 1981. In 1983,  she married Dr. Robert Levine, a Manhattan cardiologist.

 She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1969 and later served as the international chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

In 2012, she received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

McLellan is a former Times staff writer.

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3:45 p.m.: This article was updated with reaction to Moore’s death. 

12:50 p.m.: This article was updated throughout with additional details and background.

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