#Jonathan Edelstein

[keystonepublishing]

The Purim of the Philosophers by Jonathan Edelstein

Jonathan Edelstein has cropped-up in this blog for several times now, and not without good reason. I knew him from almost a decade ago on an internet forum and his stories - short and long-form - have captivated me by their depth and ingenuity.

So no surprise, I decided to bind yet another short fiction of his. After my first two binds of his work, I actually made a promise to myself to bind two more stories of Jonathan's before the year closes out.

One of them was Of Letters They Are Made, and the other is this: The Purim of the Philosophers.

Set in an alternate France where the Albigensian Crusade went unfinished, the Languedoc is its own kingdom, and the political situation is still explosive, The Purim of the Philosophers tells of a Jewish official sent by the Languedoc king to the city of Marseilles to quell tensions between the Jewish communities, all while the French north is gearing up for another war with the south...

Now, while this all sounds fascinating, I doubt I will remember all the background context in 20 years' time. That was why I decided to write a preface to explain the bewildering history of the region, balancing out the need to explain history with the constraints of a small page.

To be honest, I think there is enough historic oddness about southern France to make an original compendium, but I digress.

As with previous binds, I have a love for filling in pages with images that capture the feel and mood of the story, and this bind is no exception.

Additionally, parts of the tale is told in the form of letter correspondence between the Jewish official and his son, which I formatted using the 1475 Humanistica Cursiva font. I love the old-timiness of the letters so much that I eventually used it for multiple other things in this book, including the chapter headers and title strip.

The main body text is Alegreya, with a large drop cap of Harrington colored red to give an impression of illuminated manuscripts.

And as always with me, I added-in a comments section to preserve what people thought and discussed of this story when it was first published on alternatehistory.com.

But after all of that, I still feel like giving the background stuff of this tale more justice. So with some consultation from the author, I put-in two more sections denoting the main characters of the story and their real-life counterparts, as well as minor Jewish, French, and Occitan terms that were sprinkled throughout the book.

I have to say, it was quite an experience Googling up which terms meant what to a faith that is not really known to the general public east of India. I think I learned more about Judaism in the last 3 weeks than I ever had in the last 5 years, or even 10!

All in all, this bind was one of the more easier ones to make. I would have made this quicker if not for stuff at work and home delaying progress for a bit. I so wish I could make more than 1-2 books a month, but better to have those 1-2 books than no books at all.

#my bookbinds #bookbinding #fanbinding #jonathan edelstein #The Purim of the Philosophers #alternate history #short story

[dear-indies]

HERE ARE THE ACTORS FROM THE LIST:

Annie Wood – WGA/SAG/AFTRA Actor/Writer/Artist

Ari Frenkel – SAG Actor / Filmmaker

Barbara Heller – SAG Actor writer producer

Becky Tahel – PGA, SAG-E Producer, Writer, Actress

Brett Gelman – Actor and Writer

Caryn Osofsky – SAG SAG actress and director

Chava Floryn – Filmmaker/Actress Twin Rose Media

Chuck Slavin – SAG-AFTRA Actor

Daniella Rabbani – SAG AFTRA AEA Actor

David Lipper – SAG Actor, writer, director, producer

Debra Messing – SAG/AFTRA Actor/Producer

Ellie Kadosh – Actress

Elon Gold – WGA SAG/AFTRA Comedian/Actor/Writer

Emmanuelle Chriqui – SAG Actor

Geoffrey Cantor – SAG-AFTRA Actor

Guri Weinberg – SAG/AFTRA Actor

Hope Levy – Sag Aftra Actress

Iddo Goldberg – SAG Actor

Jack Plotnick – SAG/AFTRA Actor

James Beaman – SAG/AFTRA Actor/Writer

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jerry Weil – SAG-AFTRA Actor

Jodi Fleisher – SAG/Aftra Actor

Joey Jupiter-Levin – SAG/Aftra Fi-Core Actress

Jordan Roberts – SAG-AFTRA Actor & Producer, Content Creator

Judy Gols – Sag/Aftra, WGA, Actors Equity

Julianna Margulies – SAG-AFTRA Actor

Justin Arnold – SAG-AFTRA Actor

Kadia Saraf – SAG and WGA-E Actor and Writer

Kimberly Wallis- SAG/AFTRA Actor

Lee Broda – SAG and PGA Producer and actress

Lisa Edelstein – SAG/AFTRA, DGA, WGA Actor, director, writer

Lori Alan SAG-AFTRA – Actress/producer/writer

M.J. Kang – WGA, SAG-AFTRA Writer, Actor

Mark Feuerstein – SAG, DGA, WGA Actor

Mark Pellegrino – SAG Actor

Matt Ritter – SAG Screenwriter/Producer/Actor

Melissa Center – Actor, Filmmaker

Michael Rapaport – Actor/Disruptor

Moran Atias – SAG Actress producer

Noam Ash – Writer, actor

Rena Strober – Sag-Aftra Actor

Sam Feuer – SAG/AFTRA Actor/Producer

Sami Kolko – SAG AFTRA Actor / Producer

Sari Sanchez – SAG-AFTRA Actor/ Writer

Seth Rudetsky – Sag/Aftra, WGA East Actor, radio host, writer, musician

Shani Atias – SAG AFTRA Actress

Sheer Aviram – Actress / Writer / Director

Susan Rudick- SAG-AFTRA Actor

Tara Strong – SAG/ACTRA Actress

Terry Serpico – SAG AFTRA, WGAE Actor, Writer,Director

Tovah Feldshuh – SAG-AFTRA-EQUITY ACTOR

Tracy-Ann Oberman – Actor

Yahm Steinberg – Actor

Yuval David – SAGAFTRA, AEA Actor, Director, Journalist

#rph #rpc #fc help #banned fc

[jewishcissiekj]

Welcome to the DC Comics JewShowdown!

In which 32 Jewish DC characters (the ones who matter) will battle it out in a who-can-eat-the-most-maror-without-water competition. Or just vote for your favorite ig

(Don't try to zoom in on this thing, I'll be listing off the contestants here, the quality in this is awful, and I stretched the pics out so far to fit the frame so they're plain ugly)

I'll be starting off with 16 matches (Oh fuck) and progress from there. Here are the starting matches:

Albert Rothstein Vs. Alice Cohen II Barbara Gordon/Batgirl (DC Super Hero Girls TV Series) Vs. Barry Allen (DCEU) Benjamin Gruener/Reaper I Vs. Bruce Wayne Cissie King-Jones/Arrowette (formerly) Vs. Michael Schorr Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl (Watchmen) Vs. Wesley Dodds/Sandman I Beth Kane/Alice Vs. Eric Cohen Eric Strauss Vs. Frieda Goren Gim Allon Vs. Booster Gold/Michael Carter (ignore my typo in the image) Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) Vs. Jesus of Nazareth (New Earth) Harleen Quinzel Vs. Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen) Katherine Kane Vs. Morris Edelstein/Morgan Edge (Earth-One) Miriam Bätzel/Miri Marvel (DC Bombshells) Vs. Moyshe Nakhman Myndi Mayer Vs. Nyssa Raatko Rachel Goldman/Sublime (Wildstorm) Vs. Rory Regan Sebastian Ives Vs. Ursula Zandt (Watchmen) Willow Zimmerman Vs. Zatanna Zatara (DC Bombshells)

This will be split into 4 rounds each divided in two (hence the two sides), and a final round. there's gonna be a day to vote for each poll, and you can find all of them in the #DC Jewish tournament tag. Starting with Round 1A, the first 8 matches I'll post all in one batch, and so on (I think it'll be clearer once I post them) I. I'll post the entirety of round 1A once this post reaches 10 notes bc I'm anxious and I need to know there is an audience, and 10 notes in enough for me. I'll post round 1B once the voting for round 1A will be closed, and do the same for the rest.

some explanations for some characters that might not seem like they fit here: All but three characters here were listed as Jews (I am Jewish, I can say that) in the DC Database category page and I've made sure there's a source to that (DCEU Barry calling himself a Jewish Boy, DC Superhero Girls Babs being in a Happy Hanukka post from the show's account, etc). The three characters that weren't are Bruce Wayne (Jewish by association with Kate Kane bc her writers don't know how Judaism works and once made her dad Jewish which would make his sister, Bruce's mom Jewish and make him Jewish), Booster Gold (confirmed to be Jewish by Jeff Katz, a Booster Gold writer, on Twitter) and Cissie King-Jones (I decided she's Jewish, and it's my poll, so shut up), and I have explanations for them all.

Enjoy!

#DC Jewish tournament #dc comics #atom smasher #alice cohen #jumblr #i think #barbara gordon #barry allen #benjamin gruener #bruce wayne #cissie king jones #mike schorr #beth kane #eric cohen #dan dreiberg #wesley dodds #eric strauss #frieda goren #colossal boy #booster gold #hal jordan #jesus christ #harley quinn #dr manhattan #kate kane #morgan edge #miri marvel #mary marvel #moyshe nakhman #myndi mayer

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 37 charges related to alleged mishandling of classified documents.

Trump’s lawyers asked for a jury trial during the former president’s arraignment Tuesday at a federal courthouse in Miami. “We most certainly enter a plea of not guilty,” Trump attorney Todd Blanche told the Judge.

During the hearing, Trump sat hunched over with his arms crossed and a scowl on his face. He did not speak.

Trump’s aide and co-defendant, Walt Nauta, was also arrested, fingerprinted and processed. He had an initial appearance Tuesday but will not be arraigned until June 27.

Here’s what else happened at Tuesday’s hearing, which ended after roughly 45 minutes:

• Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman ruled that Trump could not communicate with Nauta about the case. The Judge also told prosecutors to make a list of potential witnesses that Trump can’t communicate with about the case – except through counsel.

• The Judge did not, however, place any travel restrictions on either defendant.

• The Justice Department recommended that both Trump and Nauta be released with no financial or special conditions. Prosecutor David Harbach said that, “the government does not view either defendant as a flight risk.”

• Goodman began the hearing thanking “the entire law enforcement community” for their work on Tuesday.

• Before the arraignment hearing, deputy marshals booked the former president and took electronic copies of his fingerprints. They did not take a mugshot of Trump since he is easily recognizable. The booking process took about 10 minutes.

The criminal charges in the Justice Department’s classified documents case escalates the legal jeopardy surrounding the 2024 GOP front-runner. Special counsel Jack Smith attended Tuesday’s arraignment.

Trump faces 37 felony counts, alleging he illegally retained national defense information and that he concealed documents in violation of witness-tampering laws in the Justice Department’s probe into the materials.

Trump left his Doral resort in his motorcade Tuesday along with Nauta, who was traveling in a separate vehicle. As he got in his vehicle, a bystander asked Trump how he was feeling. Trump said “great” and waved.

On his social media, Trump posted before heading to court that it was “ONE OF THE SADDEST DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. WE ARE A NATION IN DECLINE!!!”

Tuesday’s hearing will kickstart what will likely be a winding, dramatic judicial process, with criminal and appeal proceedings that may play out for years. US District Judge Aileen Cannon – a Trump nominee whose decision last year to order a third-party review of an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago was widely criticized and overturned by a conservative appeals court – has been assigned the case.

WHAT TUESDAY’S HEARING IS ABOUT

Attorneys Todd Blanche and Chris Kise represented Trump in court for the arraignment. However, the role Kise will play going forward is unclear, and he was sidelined during last year’s litigation over the Mar-a-Lago search amid Trump team infighting.

Another Trump attorney, Alina Habba, spoke outside the courthouse ahead of Trump’s arraignment, saying that the former president was “defiant.”

Habba ridiculed what she called a “two-tiered system of justice” and called the indictment an “unapologetic weaponization of the criminal justice system.”

The Justice Department’s counterintelligence chief Jay Bratt, who has been a key player in the documents probe so far, also attended Tuesday’s hearing, along with prosecutors Harbach and Julie Edelstein.

SERIOUSNESS OF THE CHARGES

Before last week’s federal indictment, Trump also faced criminal charges brought by New York City’s local prosecutors for an alleged hush money scheme in the 2016 campaign in which Trump is accused of falsifying business records.

The new charges in the DOJ documents case are drastically more serious and present the possibility of several years in prison if Trump is ultimately convicted.

Thirty-one counts that Trump faces are for willful retention of national defense information, a charge that does not turn on whether the documents are classified. In addition to the obstruction conspiracy, he also faces four counts related to the concealment of the documents, as well as a false statements charge.

“In a case like this, obstruction and tampering help prove the main charge, that the defendant willfully engaged in the charged conduct,” said David Aaron, a former federal prosecutor in espionage section of the DOJ’s national security division and a current senior counsel at Perkins Coie. “Those facts could also affect how a judge, the jury, or the public views the case and could substantially affect sentencing.”

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

Now that Tuesday’s hearing is in the rearview mirror, the case will enter a legal grind of pretrial proceedings, including likely disputes over what evidence is put before a jury and whether the case should be thrown out altogether before going to trial. The Trump team will have plenty of opportunity to drag things out – potentially until after the 2024 election.

One major x-factor in the prosecution of the case is its assignment to Cannon, who sits in Ft. Pierce, Florida, but who is part of the pool of judges who are randomly cases filed in West Palm Beach, where the new indictment was brought.

“There are few things more powerful than a district judge in a federal case,” said Alan Rozenshtein, a former attorney in the DOJ National Security Division who is now a University of Minnesota law school professor. “She could – if she wanted to – cause huge problems for the prosecution. Would they be existential problems? Probably not.”

Cannon’s approach to last year’s Trump lawsuit challenging the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search raised eyebrows among legal experts across the ideological spectrum for how she appeared to bend over backward to create special legal rules in favor of the former president. Her rationale for why such a review was necessary was torn apart by a panel of right-leaning appellate judges, including two Trump appointees, on the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals last December.

“She got so banged up by the 11th Circuit that she might be ultra-cautious,” Kel McClanahan, a national security lawyer and an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School, told CNN. “We just don’t know.”

#us politics #news #cnn politics #donald trump #republicans #conservatives #classified documents #classified documents probe #mar a largo #florida #department of justice #jack smith #Todd Blanche #Walt Nauta #Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman #David Harbach #Judge Aileen Cannon #Chris Kise #Alina Habba #Jay Bratt #Julie Edelstein #David Aaron #Alan Rozenshtein #11th US Circuit Court of Appeals #Kel McClanahan #2023

[barebevil]

its fun to experience how deeply jewish the show house md is even house the character is deeply jewish in the subtext and youre having so much fun thinking about it all until you end up on lisa edelsteins wikipedia page which tells you that she signed the letter denouncing jonathan glazer for his oscar speech. bruh its rough out here

#house md #yiddish #oy vey the delights and disappointments seesawing across my heart is wearing a very deep groove into the meat

[derekfoxwit]

The Best Picture Oscar My Way (1980-1999)

Here’s Part 2 of Best Picture My Way (as started here). All information about my approach with this category can be found on that linked first part.

For convenience sake, I’ll relay this message. Only the films I add onto here as nominees will have listed nominated producers next to the movie’s title. (Here’s the Wikipedia page for the rest.)

1980

The Empire Strikes Back - Gary Kurtz

Raging Bull

The Elephant Man

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Ordinary People

1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Das Boot - Gunter Rohrbach; Michael Bittins

Reds

On the Golden Pond

Chariots of Fire

1982

Tootsie

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Fitzcarraldo - Werner Herzog; Willi Segler; Lucki Stipetic

Missing

Gandhi

1983

Fanny and Alexander - Jorn Donner

Terms of Endearment

Scarface - Martin Bregman

Mender Mercies

The Right Stuff

1984

Amadeus (still)

The Terminator - Gale Anne Hurd

Love Streams - Yoram Globus; Menahem Golan

Ghostbusters - Ivan Reitman

A Passage to India

1985

Back to the Future - Neil Canton; Bob Gale

The Color Purple

After Hours - Robert F. Colesberry; Griffin Dunne; Amy Robinson

Ran - Masato Hara; Serge Silberman

Witness

1986

Platoon (still)

Misery - Rob Reiner; Andrew Scheinman

Hannah and Her Sisters

A Room with a View

Blue Velvet - Fred C. Caruso

1987

The Last Emperor (still)

The Princess Bride - Rob Reiner; Andrew Scheinman

Broadcast News

Moonstruck

Fatal Attraction

1988

Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Frank Marshall; Robert Watts

Rain Man

Dangerous Liaisons

Mississippi Burning

The Last Temptation of Christ - Barbara De Fina

1989

Do The Right Thing - Spike Lee

Driving Miss Daisy

Dead Poets Society

My Left Foot

Cinema Paradiso - Giovanna Romagnoli

1990

Goodfellas

Dances with Wolves

Edward Scissorhands - Tim Burton; Denise Di Novi

Ghost

The Godfather Part III

1991

The Silence of the Lambs (still)

Thelma & Louise - Ridley Scott

Beauty and the Beast

Boyz in the Hood - Steve Nicolaides

JFK

1992

Unforgiven (still)

A Few Good Men

Malcolm X - Spike Lee; Marvin Worth

Reservoir Dogs - Lawrence Bender; Harvey Keitel

Aladdin - Ron Clements; John Musker

1993

Schindler’s List (still)

The Piano

Philadelphia - Jonathan Demme; Edward Saxon

In The Name of the Father

The Fugitive

1994

The Lion King - Don Hahn

Forrest Gump

Pulp Fiction

The Shawshank Redemption

Eat Drink Man Woman - Kong Hsu; Li-Kong Hsu

1995

Toy Story - Bonnie Arnold; Ralph Guggenheim

Se7en - Phyllis Carlyle; Arnold Kopelson

The Postman (Il Postino)

Before Sunrise - Anne Walker-McBay

Braveheart

1996

Fargo

Trainspotting - Andrew Macdonald

Secrets & Lies

Jerry Maguire

The English Patient

1997

Titanic (still)

Good Will Hunting

L.A. Confidential

Princess Mononoke - Toshio Suzuki

Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson; Lloyd Levin; John S. Lyons; JoAnne Sellar

Lost Highway - Deepak Nayar; Tom Sternberg; Mary Sweeney

As Good as It Gets

The Full Monty

1998

Saving Private Ryan

Life is Beautiful

The Thin Red Line

The Big Lebowski - Joel and Ethan Coen

Mulan - Pam Coats

Central Station - Arthur Cohn; Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre; Robert Redford; Walter Salles

The Truman Show - Edward S. Feldman; Andrew Niccol; Scott Rudin; Adam Schroeder

Rushmore - Barry Mendel; Paul Schiff

Shakespeare in Love

1999

The Matrix - Joel Silver

American Beauty

The Green Mile

The Sixth Sense

Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson; JoAnne Sellar

The Straight Story - Neal Edelstein; Mary Sweeney

Man on the Moon - Danny DeVito; Michael Shamberg; Stacey Sher

Being John Malkovich - Steve Golin; Vincent Landay; Sandy Stern; Michael Stipe

#cinema #academy award #oscars #award show #alternative #animation #film #movies #I'm officially insane #international cinema #hollywood #the matrix #coen brothers #steven spielberg #disney #martin scorsese #robert zemeckis

[thevibraniumveterans]

MCU’S PHASE 4 WINNERS AT THE SATURN AWARDS 2022

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Best Superhero Film

Best Supporting Actor in a Film:Benedict Wong

Best Music in a Film:Danny Elfman

Best Film Visual / Special Effects:Janek Sirrs, Theo Bialek, Erik Winquist, Alexis Wajbrot, Olivier Dumont

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Best Actor in a Film:Simu Liu

Best Supporting Actress in a Film: Awkwafina

Best Film Producer Designer:Sue Chan

Best Music in a Film:Joel P. West

Best Film Costume:Kym Barrett

Best Film Visual / Special Effects:Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker, Dan Oliver

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Actor in a Film Tom Holland

Best Actress in a Film:Zendaya

Best Supporting Actor in a Film:Alfred Molina

Best Supporting Actress in a Film: Marisa Tomei 

Best Film Direction:Jon Watts

Best Film Writing:Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers

Best Film Editing:Jeffrey Ford, Leigh Folsom

Best Film Visual / Special Effects:Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein, Dan Sudick

Thor: Love and Thunder

Best Make-Up in a Film:Matteo Silvi, Adam Johansen

Best Film Costume:Mayes C. Rubeo

The Eternals

Best Film Costume: Sammy Sheldon

What If?

Best Animated Series:

Loki

Best Fantasy Series: (Streaming)

Best Actor in a Streaming Series Tom Hiddleston

Best Guest Starring Performance in a Streaming Series:  Jonathan Majors

WandaVision

Best Fantasy Series: (Streaming)

Best Actress in a Streaming Series: Elizabeth Olsen

Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Series:Kathryn Hahn

Hawkeye

Best Limited Event Series: (Streaming)

Best Guest Starring Performance in a Streaming Series:  Tony Dalton

Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Streaming Series  Hailee Steinfeld

Ms. Marvel

Best Limited Event Series: (Streaming)

 Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Streaming Series :     Iman Vellani 

Moon Knight

Best Limited Event Series: (Streaming)

Best Actor in a Streaming Series:Oscar Isaac 

 Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Series Ethan Hawke

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Best Actor in a Streaming Series:Anthony Mackie

#mcu #saturn awards #mcu phase 4 #dsmom #benedict cumberbatch #mcu wong #scatlottr #simu liu #awkwafina #smnwh #tom holland #zendaya #tlat #mcu thor #chris hemsworth #the eternals #harry styles #loki series #tom hiddleston #wandavision series #elizabeth olsen #hawkeye series #jeremy renner #moon knight series #oscar isaac hernandez estrada #ms marvel series #iman vellani #tfatws #anthony mackie #mcu what if

[eduardomarin90]

IDEO and a Story of Design from Dress Code on Vimeo.

A exclusive look behind the curtain at IDEO, the global design firm, who for 40 years (and counting) has changed the way we think about design.

Production Company: Dress Code (dresscodeny.com)

Director: Dan Covert

Executive Producer: Brad Edelstein Head of Post Production & Operations: Tara Rose Stromberg Head of Production: Amy Dempsey Producer: Sheree Shu Production Manager: Cheng Liu

Cinematography: Joe Victorine Additional Cinematography: Jon Hokanson

Editor: Dan Covert Assistant Editor: Nick Stromberg Art Director: Elena Chudoba Design: Elena Chudoba, Brooke Bamford, Rasmus Löwenbrååt Animation: Vincenzo Lodigiani Color: Daniel Orentlicher

Archival Research: Richard Kroll Production Coordinator: Jonathan Dontchev

Music + Sound: YouTooCanWoo Location Sound: Matteo Liberatore, Donny Tam

Photos: Dirk Ahlgrim, Dennis Boyle, Tiffany Knight, IDEO

[lasthq]

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the following faceclaims and roles are now available:

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melissa barrera + guard

jessie mei li + scavenger

rudy pankow + farm hand

lee ji-eun + armourer

sarah snook + groundskeeper

idris elba + scout

archie renaux + scavenger

david castañeda + maintenance

baifern pimchanok + server

lisa edelstein + nurse

gong yoo + cook

matthew gray gubler + nurse

morena baccarin + doctor

cody christian + scavenger

nicholas galitzine + gatherer

sean kaufman + care assistant

jon bernthal + guard

#lastunfollow #lastactivity

[emzeciorrr]

I ❤ NY from Dress Code on Vimeo.

A short film about Milton Glaser, the creator of the famous I Heart NY symbol and his struggle to find love for the city in a trying time.

Credits:

Starring: Milton Glaser Production Company: Dress Code Director: Andre Andreev Executive Producer: Andre Andreev, Dan Covert, Brad Edelstein Head of Production: Tara Rose Stromberg Supervising Producer: Amy Dempsey Screenwriter: Dan Covert Cinematographer: Christian Haberkern Editor: Andre Andreev, Mike Cook Composer: David Perlick-Molinari, Derek Muro, Zach Abramson Audio Post Production: YOUTOOCANWOO Location Sound: Matteo Liberatore Additional Camera: Connor Lawson Production Supervisor: Jonathan Dontchev Production Coordinator: Nick Stromberg

—

Official Selection:

Tribeca Int. Film Festival Sarasota Int. Film Festival Seattle Int. Film Festival Nashville Int. Film Festival Marfa Int. Film Festival Maui Int. Film Festival San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Winner:

Webby Awards Jury Prize for Shortform Documentary

[keystonepublishing]

Of Letters They Are Made by Jonathan Edelstein

Ever since I started fanbinding, this short story has been on my to-turn-into-a-book list for months.

I can only hope I have done the story justice!

To those who have been with this blog for a while, you may have seen Jonathan Edelstein as a recurring writer whose short stories I like to bind. This is another one of his works: Of Letters They Are Made.

Set in an alternate earth in the city of Samarkand (or as it was called before by it's older name, Marakanda) the short story has a unique vibe that lends it a melancholic quality. So when I started this project, I wanted to do something different than the usual binds.

What resulted was the first sewn board binding I ever made!

Turns out, a lot of the bookbinding process was a lot easier if the covers acted like signatures. Easier to flip through too! The downside is that the covers aren't protecting the top and bottom edges as much, so I'll see if I can experiment with binding bigger covers in proportion to the textblock soon.

I also decided to make a change to the half-title. After looking at (and thinking of) several magazine designs, I decided to try making the half-title look like a magazine cover. So I searched for some Central Asian city walls, changed the colors, and plopped it in! Result: words aren't popping-up as much as I'd like - gotta bold them in the future.

As you can see, there's a lot of blue themes in this bind. Of Letters They Are Made has a specific vibe that can't really be expressed in a generic fantasy or historical picture. So I opted to use actual Samarkand monuments and tilework for both the covers and interior ornamentation.

And since the old city is really blue in imagery, I decided to use blue endpapers and blue colors for chapter headings, numbers, and opening words. It took some time to balance out the interior minimalism vs. the colorful vibrancy of the covers and specific pages, but I think the end result is a good balance.

And as always, I added-in a comments section so the responses and discussions between the readers and author are also preserved from digital dust.

All in all, it took 2 weeks to make this bind. I'm already thinking of making some changes to the author copy of this book, but as it is I am happy this work is now complete!

#my bookbinds #bookbinding #fanbinding #Jonathan Edelstein #Of Letters They Are Made #short story

[thedpu]

“Demme creates an overlapping texture that evokes the late Robert Altman's films, at once focused and bursting at the seams. And this family drama unfolds in a larger extended family in which racial and cultural barriers have dissolved. The father's second wife, played by Anna Deavere Smith, is African American, and so is Rachel's fiance, Tunde Adebimpe, the lead singer of the band "TV on the Radio."

Late in the film, there's a lengthy musical sequence featuring world musicians as well as Robin Hitchcock and Sister Carol East. I've heard people say that sequence is self-indulgent. It's indulgent, true, but the self has nothing to do with it. Shakespeare's comedies end with songs and dances, and Demme must have felt he needed the celebratory communal interlude to offset the central story, which is bleak and ragged and unfinished.

Debra Winger plays Kym and Rachel's mother, Abby, and when we see her again on screen, it's hard not to smile. She's family. But Abby turns out to be painfully limited, and with Winger on the role, we feel Kym's disappointment acutely. I don't mean Winger is disappointing. The performance is stunning with its layer of maternal warmth over a layer of fear. I mean, when Winger's face hardens and becomes mask-like, it evokes feelings we've all had when people we love didn't rise to comfort us. I don't think I've seen a movie with this mixture of desolation and fullness. "Rachel Getting Married" is a masterpiece.” - David Edelstein

[pensivehastur]

Thoughts on Edelgard, Napoléon, and Paulo Abacar

Edelgard reminds me of no character more than Paulo Abacar from Jonathan Edelstein’s alternate history webnovel Malê Rising (started in 2012), which I strongly recommend reading (this post mostly relates to the 1840-1854 arc, which is covered by the first 12 pages of the thread.).  

Malê Rising’s premise is that the Malê Rebellion, a revolt of Brazilian Muslim slaves and freedmen, does well enough under the leadership of Paulo Abacar that the Brazilian government buys them off by exiling them to Africa, where they take over the western part of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1840, overthrowing Sultan Ali bin Bello (who flees to Adamawa) and establish the Sokoto Republic, a radical ideological state based on Islamic liberation theology, and Jacobin republicanism, with the ultimate goal of creating a state strong enough to suppress the slave trade and slavery and spread liberty through conquest.  

Although the First Sokoto Republic is nominally a republic lead by a council of ministers, among them economics minister Joao de Silva (the leader of a more secular and democratic faction), war minister Amilcar Said (the leader an authoritarian faction, who wants to build a new caliphate through “Jacobin jihad”), and education minister Nana Asma’u, the daughter of the founder of the overthrown Sokoto Caliphate and Bello’s aunt, who prefers peaceful expansion. Abacar occasionally overrides the council, though, when he feels it is necessary.

In 1843, he allies with the British Empire, agreeing to become their proxy in the Cockpit of Africa in exchange for money for the construction of mills and foundries.  In 1849, he invades the slaver empire of Dahomey (and the city-states of the Borgu peoples, who happened to be in the way.).

Although Dahomey is defeated, Abacar is killed in the siege of Dahomey’s capital, Abomey, after which the British take over Dahomey, the Borgu chiefs reassert their independence, and Amilcar Said establishes himself as emir over most of the Sokoto Republic’s territory, with the exception of a rump republic led by Joao de Silva around the cities of Ilorin and Jebba.

How do I say that they are similar?

1. Both Abacar and Edelgard had a deeply traumatic period in their teenage years when they were brutalised and when they saw many people they cared about die, and then resolve to never let anything like what they had gone through happen to them ever again. (In Abacar's case, it was being a slave in Brazil, where the majority of slaves historically died within the first decade of their service, after which he comitted to do everything in his power to abolish slavery and the slave trade.)

2. Both believe in spreading liberty through conquest. (Abacar adds "like Napoleon".) Additionally, both believe that they will win in the long term even if their state collapses and they die, which they view as a probable outcome. Paulo Abacar is not fazed when he hears that Sokoto's economy can only last for three more years without outside support, and that even with the help of the Royal Navy, the Sokoto Republic would still have a coin flip's chance of making it through the next decade. He believes that as long as his ideology exists, his people have tasted freedom, and the slaver empires are destroyed, it will be impossible for the injustices of the past to continue. "Prometheus gave fire to humanity, and for this was cast down by the gods and punished, but the gods could not take fire away from humanity; Napoleon spread liberalism through Europe before being defeated, and was cast as foreign and abhorrent, but his ideas took root and sprang forth again in 1848.”

3. Both believe in Imam Shafi’i’s maxim that “knowledge without action is arrogance”, although of course Edelgard has never heard of Shafi’i.  However, in Edelgard’s case, this (¾ of the time) results in her downfall, as she acts too quickly and with insufficient consideration.

4. Both of them intend to create a centralised and meritocratic system of government, but initially give military elites and members of the local nobility who are willing to support them power in government (Large parts of Sokoto are still ruled by local emirs, chiefs, and so forth until 1847, and many of said emirs and chiefs retain power as governors even afterwards.)

5. Both are willing to make compromises in the name of expanding righteousness.  Abacar uses the tactics of slave-catchesrs agaisnt the French army in the Napoleonic war, becomes a member of the militia of the same country that kept him as a slave, and later agrees to become Britain’s enforcer in the Cockpit of Africa in exchange for money and guns.

Additionally, the relations of Abacar to the other two great reformers of the Cockpit of Africa are echoed in FE3H.

El-Hadj Umar Tall, the Tukulor Caliph, used to be respected by Abacar, but they break with each other after the establishment of the Sokoto Republic, and then Tall (who previously was just trying to be an enlightened absolute monarch who helped the underclasses like Usman dan Fodio) turned into a reactionary primarily motivated by wanting Abacar's head on a pike for heresy and apostasy. Abacar, however, still believes that Tall is a good ruler and inspired, and even despite knowing that a confrontation that leaves only one of them alive is inevitable (or would be if Abacar was not killed in Dahomey), tells Tall that he should at least eliminate slavery if he wantsto walk the path of righteousness, which Tall accepts.

As for his relationship with Ali bin Bello, who he overthrew in his coup that established the first Sokoto Republic :

Abacar : I'll work with you so long as you free the slaves and respect the Rights of Man and Citizen.

Bello : NO

Abacar : [coups Bello, who escapes to Adamawa, which fights an inconclusive war against Sokoto]

Bello [to the Sultan of Adamawa] : I DEMAND that you free the slaves and respect human rights in your new territories

Sultan of Adamawa : [exiles Bello to Kanem Bornu]

Abacar : WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU BELIEVED THAT 3 YEARS AGO????

Bello : [founds a sect who believe that politics is too inherently backstabby to mix with religion, gets politically involved anyway, gets exiled to Arabia, gets captured by the Saudis, talks his way out]

Of course, there are quite a lot of differences, too!

Most notably, Abacar is deeply religious, and his belief is intensified by oppression, while Edelgard's faith is broken. These are diametrically opposed…

Or are they? It has been speculated on the FE reddit that, for Edelgard, belief that she is on the wrong side of history has replaced her religious belief, and what is Abacar's view of God but a force guiding the world to righteousness?  Abacar believes that a ruler or thinker of any or no religion can be righteous so long as they value liberty, that old customs that are unjust must be destroyed, and that over-commitment to orthodoxy is a political straightjacket.

Another difference is that, while Abacar refuses any title, Edelgard declares herself to be an Emperor.  This is partially a result of different political socialisation (there does not appear to be a republican tradition in the FE3H world that Edelgard knows about, while Abacar is inspired by America, France, Haiti, and Paraguay, at a very minimum, Edelgard is the rightful heir to a monarchy, and the person Abacar tries to set himself up as a successor to (Usman dan Fodio) never took political title), and partially a result of their different ages (remember that Abacar spent 30 years traveling the world, learning, thinking, healing, and writing poetry before becoming leader of the Malê, while Edelgard becomes leader of Adrestia only a few years after being freed from dubstepper captivity.)

Oh, and Abacar dies in his first major confrontation with a regional power, namely Dahomey, while on the offensive, in a battle that his forces win. Edelgard, in 3 out of 4 paths, ends up with her back to the wall and lashes out. The other one is the one in which she wins.  The only time we see Abacar with his back to the wall is in 1808, during the Peninsular War, when he is in his early 20s and has only recently escaped from slavery.  This is when he uses the tactics of Bahian slave-catchers against a French spy, because to be able to use a skill in pursuit of liberty and not do so is arrogant ;  however, by the time he leads Sokoto in his 50s, he is somewhat less willing to use bad means to pursue good ends.

(also, Abacar is 5'3" or 5’4”, wears a red uniform [based on a Peninsular War era British uniform] when on campaign after 1843, is depicted in platform boots in a now-deleted artwork, and there's also a cargo cult rebellion in Brazil in the 1850s that believes that he held the flaming sword of Allah and that after his death he used it to fight against the gods of slavers in Heaven.)

Although the Sokoto Republic collapsed after little more than a decade, Abacarism became a major force in Malê Rising.  The jajis (traveling religious teachers) spread Abacarist Islam to the Yoruba peoples, who united with the Ilorin Republic into the Oyo Alliance, which was strong enough to exact concessions from the British Empire, as was the Sokoto Empirate, which, despite falling to authoritarianism, retained many of the practices which made the original Sokoto Republic strong, and on the hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the First Sokoto Republic, the Emirate was overthrown and the Second Sokoto Republic lasts to the present day.  Although Abacar never came close to his dream of a Nijeriyya Republic stretching from Futa Jallon to Ouaddai, many of the states in that region, like the Tukulor Caliphate, the Adamawa Emirate, and the Kanem Bornu Empire, developed and centralised in response to the Sokoto Republic, limiting European colonialism, and resulting in a more prosperous Africa as a whole.  Abacarism spread as far as Indonesia, and would inspire other reformist ideologies like Belloism.  And, eventually, many of the states in the area unite into an EU-style democratic supranational entity.  

P.S. :  Although this might seem like Adrestian propaganda, I actually think Claude would probably be the best ruler of the three, even though he’s a SOB. (If Edelgard had spent a decade travelling, thinking, and writing, like Abacar did, before taking over Adrestia, it might be different.) However, Edelgard’s war was necessary to prompt reform.  If Fodlan had continued as it did, it likely would have ended up being colonised.  

Also, read Malê Rising! It's really, really good, not just by the standards of alternate history, but by the standards of fiction in general.

#edelgard #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #Malê Rising #Jonathan Edelstein #FOR ALLAH AND THE MALÊ #alternate history

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Attack of the Hollywood Cliches. Quick Review.

The sort of thing you would watch on a sick day/night in the mid 2000s after wolfing down whatever pizza had been left over from the night before.

Rob Lowe hosts this random Netflix comedy special, aiming at the myriad of Hollywood cliches in modern cinema. A production like this is the very definition of mildly entertaining. A surprisingly robust list of star names,# Film Twitter pundits and behind the camera talent go on a whistle-stop tour of some well-known film making tropes and standards. At an hour-long, there is far too much packed…

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#Alice Mathias #Andie MacDowell #Andrew Garfield #Anna Bogutskaya #Anna Smith #David Edelstein #Florence Pugh #Helen O&039;Hara #Jack Howard #James King #John August #Jonathan Ross #Keith Lucas #Kenneth Lucas #Kim Newman #Mark Strong #Richard E. Grant #Ricky Kelehar #Rob Lowe #Robert Englund #Sam Hargrave #Sanjeev Bhaskar #Sean Doherty

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✨about me✨

name: pati/melody

pronouns: they/them

my favorite things atm: death note, neverland (specifically the ouat version)

other stuff i like: mystic messenger, spy x family, memes, historical dress making, drawing & painting (visual art in general, both traditional and digital), sculpting (though i don’t rly post about that and i’m very much still a beginner; mostly with polymer clay btw), writing, fandoms in general (and obv especially my fandoms), book binding, black butler, fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood, yuri!!! on ice, re:zero, momo: little devil, encanto, toyko ghoul, bungou stray dogs, the disastrous life of saiki k, die edelstein trilogie/the ruby red trilogy by kerstin gier, dracula daily, my hero academia, the fake movie goncharov (1973), once upon a time, fantasy life, blood fest (2018)

current main blorbos: misa amane, peter pan (ouat), wendy darling (ouat), regina mills, felix (ouat)

other blorbos: sebastian michaelis, grelle sutcliff, light yagami, undertaker, l lawliet, mello/mihael keehl, near/nate river, mina harker, jonathan harker, lucy westenra and all of her suitors, o!ciel phantomhive, katya (goncharov), jane darling, yuelia, noelia, olivia pescado, daemon helbourne, tinkerbell (most versions), killian jones/hook, wendy darling (especially from the book “straight on till morning”), loid forger, yor briar, linda (death note), katsuki bakugou

if you want to get to know me better as a person, look at this pinterest board i made specifically for that purpose

link to my art tag

go check out the death note bracket i’m running over at @death-note-bracket !!! and don’t forget to vote for your faves!!!

ships i like:

death note: lawlight, meronia, nearly mellodramattic, L/light/misa (lawlightmane), remisa, lawmane, fem!yagamane

my hero academia: togachako, bakudeku, meilissa, shigadabi, todoina, erasermic, momojirou, stainmight

dracula: jonmina, mina/lucy, holmward

black butler: sebagni, sebagrelle, undergrell, sebamey

goncharov: gonchrey, katya/sofia

once upon a time: swan queen, captain swan, swanfire, panlix, mulan/aurora, darling pan (but only in certain au’s), mad archer

spy x family: twiyor, maybe damianya? but not as much

other: peter pan/jane darling (return to neverland), kazurei (buddy daddies), darling pan (peter pan & certain adaptations), dax/sam (blood fest)

recent ask memes:

none atm lol

#moi #fandoms

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Superman: The Complete Animated Series will be released on Blu-ray (with Digital) on October 12 via Warner Bros. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the show, which ran for three seasons on Kids' WB between 1996 and 2000.

Update: The release has been pushed back to October 26 due to production delays.

Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, Alan Burnett, and Glen Murakami produced the series following the success of Batman: The Animated Series. It stars Tim Daly as Clark Kent/Superman, Dana Delany as Lois Lane, David Kaufman as Jimmy Olsen, and Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor.

Series regulars include Lauren Tom (Angela Chen), Victor Brandt (Professor Hamilton), Corey Burton (Brainiac), Joseph Bologna (Dan Turpin), George Dzundza (Perry White), Brad Garrett (Bibbo Bibbowski), Shelley Fabares (Martha Kent), Joanna Cassidy (Maggie Sawyer), Lisa Edelstein (Mercy Graves), Mike Farrell (Jonathan Kent), and Michael Ironside (Darkseid).

The six-disc set contains all 54 episodes remastered in high definition from the original 35mm Interpositive sources and original audio masters. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

“Mxyzpixilated” video commentary by producer Bruce Timm, producer/writer Paul Dini, director Dan Riba, and moderator Jason Hillhouse

“Stolen Memories” audio commentary by producers Bruce Timm, Paul Dini and Alan Burnett, director Curt Geda, and art director/producer Glen Murakami.

“The Last Son of Krypton - Part 1” audio commentary by producers Bruce Timm, Paul Dini and Alan Burnett, director Dan Riba, and art director/producer Glen Murakami

“The Main Man - Part 2” audio commentary by producers Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, director Dan Riba, and art director/producer Glen Murakami

Superman: Timeless Icon - Interviews with producers Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, director Dan Riba, writer Bob Goodman, casting/dialogue director Andrea Romano, and actors Tim Daly and Clancy Brown (new)

Superman: Learning to Fly featurette with producers Paul Dini, Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett, art director/producer Glen Murakami, and directors Dan Riba and James Tucker.

Building the Mythology: Superman's Supporting Cast featurette with producers Paul Dini, Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett, art director/producer Glen Murakami, and directors Dan Riba and James Tucker

Menaces of Metropolis: Behind the Villains of Superman featurette with producers Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett and Paul Dini, directors James Tucker and Dan Riba, and casting/dialogue director Andrea Romano

The Despot Darkseid: A Villain Worthy of Superman featurette with producers Paul Dini, Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett, art director/producer Glen Murakami, writers Rich Fogel and Stan Berkowitz, director James Tucker, and Cal State Northridge’s Charles Hatfield

A Little Piece of Trivia featurette

As the planet Krypton is destroyed, its leader, Jor-El, secures his infant son, Kal-El, in a rocket that will transport him to Earth. There, as Clark Kent, he discovers the truth about his interplanetary heritage and assumes the identity of Superman in the city of Metropolis.

Pre-order Superman: The Complete Animated Series from Amazon.

#superman #superman the animated series #superman: the animated series #dc comics #tim daly #dana delany #david kaufman #clancy brown #dvd #gift #michael ironside #clark kent #lex luthor #darkseid #lois lane