#Margaret Cox

[beepbeepdespair]

The Room as Vines (modern/everyone's fine aus in places)

heads up i only know the events of games one and two rn so maybe ill do more in the future when ive played the others idk. for now have this lmao. btw jonah and arthur are my headcanon names for the protagonist and a.s. if youre wondering

jonah sliding down a banister in arthur's manor while arthur laughs uncontrollably: "we're all going to hell... goodbye!"

arthur's body suddenly appearing in the seance room: "hi welcome to chili's"

jonah, holding flowers: "hey babe happy one year" arthur: "...i'm 27"

margaret filming the circle on a group holiday: "say colorado!" arthur running past to get to the ice cream van: "I'M A GIRAFFE"

seance room again, jonah: "arthur? arthur? oh my fuckin god he fuckin dead"

arthur learning about de montfaucon's research: "oh my god he on s games mode"

arthur: "im nuts about these nuts. but you know what im also nuts about? my close good friends" *the circle gather round him* "my close good friends :D"

dr beckett and de montfaucon: *fighting over where lucy should go* lucy: "can i get a waffle? can i PLEASE get a waffle"

simon: "i should have left you on that street corner where you were standing" arthur: "but ya DIDN'T"

arthur leaving the circle: "when there's too much drama at school all you gotta do is walk aWaYyAYYYyaYyy"

margaret pointing at arthur and jonah being gay™️: "what the fuck is this allowed"

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[charliethomascoxuniverse]

I just started a rewatch of Boardwalk Empire for the first time in over 4 years and, man, but I am dying over how young Charlie feels as Owen Sleater after having recently watched Kin. 😭

I mean, just look at his boyish little face!! 🥺💗

And I was listening to the audio commentary for the scene where Owen and Margaret first sleep together and, remember when she bit him on the neck and he smiled? 🤭🔥

Apparently they were worried Margaret didn’t appear aggressive enough, so Charlie suggested she bite him. 👀

And...now I can’t stop thinking about that. Can’t imagine why. 🥴 *fans self*

#my random ramblings #owen sleater #margaret shroeder #charlie cox #kelly macdonald #boardwalk empire #kissing

[justbusterkeaton]

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Today, President Joe Biden signed the continuing resolution that will give lawmakers another week to finalize appropriations bills. Lawmakers will continue to hash out the legislation that will fund the government. 

Republicans have been stalling the appropriations bills for months. In addition to inserting their own extremist cultural demands in the measures, they have demanded budget cuts to address the fact that the government spends far more money than it brings in. 

As soon as Mike Johnson (R-LA) became House speaker, he called for a “debt commission” to address the growing budget deficit. This struck fear into the hearts of those eager to protect Social Security and Medicare, because when Johnson chaired the far-right Republican Study Committee in 2020, it called for cutting those popular programs by raising the age of eligibility, lowering cost-of-living adjustments, and reducing benefits for retirees whose annual income is higher than $85,000. Lawmakers don’t want to take on such unpopular proposals, so setting up a commission might be a workaround.

Last month, the House Budget Committee advanced legislation that would create such a commission. The chair of the House Budget Committee, Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX), told reporters that Speaker Johnson was “100% committed to this commission” and wanted to attach it to the final appropriations legislation for fiscal year 2024, the laws currently being hammered out.

Congress has not yet agreed to this proposed commission, and a recent Data for Progress poll showed that 70% of voters reject the idea of it. 

This week, a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a nonprofit think tank that focuses on tax policy, suggested that the cost of tax cuts should be factored into any discussions about the budget deficit. 

In 2017 the Trump tax cuts slashed the top corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and reined in taxation for foreign profits. The ITEP report looked at the first five years the law was in effect. It concluded that in that time, most profitable corporations paid “considerably less” than 21% because of loopholes and special breaks the law either left in place or introduced. 

From 2018 through 2022, 342 companies in the study paid an average effective income tax rate of just 14.1%. Nearly a quarter of those companies—87 of them—paid effective tax rates of under 10%. Fifty-five of them (16% of the 342 companies), including T-Mobile, DISH Network, Netflix, General Motors, AT&T, Bank of America, Citigroup, FedEx, Molson Coors, and Nike, paid effective tax rates of less than 5%.

Twenty-three corporations, all of them profitable, paid no federal tax over the five year period. One hundred and nine corporations paid no federal tax in at least one of the five years. 

The Guardian’s Adam Lowenstein noted yesterday that several corporations that paid the lowest taxes are steered by chief executive officers who are leading advocates of “stakeholder capitalism.” This concept revises the idea that corporations should focus on the best interests of their shareholders to argue that corporations must also take care of the workers, suppliers, consumers, and communities affected by the corporation. 

The idea that corporate leaders should take responsibility for the community rather than paying taxes to the government so the community can take care of itself is eerily reminiscent of the argument of late-nineteenth-century industrialists. 

When Republicans invented national taxation to meet the extraordinary needs of the Civil War, they immediately instituted a progressive federal income tax because, as Representative Justin Smith Morrill (R-VT) said, “The weight [of taxation] must be distributed equally, not upon each man an equal amount, but a tax proportionate to his ability to pay.” 

But the wartime income tax expired in 1872, and the rise of industry made a few men spectacularly wealthy. Quickly, those men came to believe they, rather than the government, should direct the country’s development. 

In June 1889, steel magnate Andrew Carnegie published what became known as the “Gospel of Wealth” in the popular magazine North American Review. Carnegie explained that “great inequality…[and]...the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few” were “not only beneficial, but essential to…future progress.” And, Carnegie asked, “What is the proper mode of administering wealth after the laws upon which civilization is founded have thrown it into the hands of the few?”

Rather than paying higher wages or contributing to a social safety net—which would “encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy,” Carnegie wrote—the man of fortune should “consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer…in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community—the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.”  

“[T]his wealth, passing through the hands of the few, can be made a much more potent force for the elevation of our race than if distributed in small sums to the people themselves,” Carnegie wrote. “Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among themselves in trifling amounts through the course of many years.”

Here in the present, Republicans want to extend the Trump tax cuts after their scheduled end in 2025, a plan that would cost $4 trillion over a decade even without the deeper cuts to the corporate tax rate Trump has called for if he is reelected. Biden has called for preserving the 2017 tax cuts only for those who make less than $400,000 a year and permitting the rest to expire. He has also called for higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, which would generate more than $2 trillion. 

Losing the revenue part of the budget equation and focusing only on spending cuts seems to reflect a society like the one the late-nineteenth-century industrialists embraced, in which a few wealthy leaders get to decide how to direct the nation’s wealth.   

[LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN: MARCH 1, 2024]

Heather Cox Richardson

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“The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.” —Margaret Halsey, novelist (13 Feb 1910-1997)

#poverty #trickle down economics #corrupt GOP #Letters From An American #heather cox richardson #ecoomy #wealth #“debt commission” #corporations #Margaret Halsey #government for the people

[enemiesandlovers]

Shut your mouth, baby, stand and deliver. Holy hands, will they make me a sinner?

#margaret x owen #owen sleater #margaret schroeder #margaret thompson #boardwalk empire #owen sleater edit #bempire edit #charlie cox #kelly macdonald #procrastination works in mysterious ways

[unproduciblesmackdown]

a few collected odds & ends here with a relevant to our purposes tweet:

What a night! What a show! What a company! @corbinbleu is a next level dancer. @will_roland steals many a scene. Plus, the gal who played Kramer’s girlfriend that heckles Jerry is in the show, and hilarious. Highly recommend #SummerStock at @GoodspeedMusicl pic.twitter.com/eheKeF7A2n

— Vinnie Penn (@VinniePenn) July 10, 2023

then the like little model mockup of a set design for blocking

obviously like Hey Who's That off to the sides, since orville is gonna be one of the few (if not only) characters hanging around in a suit

also this glimpse of the, idk, Design Wall Of Inspiration / Cohesion / Wip Ideas / Giving You An Idea Of The Gist Of It All, ft. what looks like costume design for jane up top, maybe margaret wingate in the middle, then gloria's dresses (& then joe, probably)

#the cited gal being veanne cox the principal actor for margaret wingate; orville's mother; the villain; Hilarious #looked that up via goog but also could've ctrl+f'd the cast & crew page on goodspeed's site for ''seinfeld'' #summer stock #orville wingate #will roland #someone go there. in the connecticut. in the goodspeed opera house #mondays and tuesdays are off days but now's your chance babey #whoops didn't expect that first line to be Large Font but that works #there was also an actor's [being sung Happy Birthday] video ft. all your singing castmates going hehe (elaborate harmonizing) #wherein we might hear will laugh towards the end lol but you know

[ruleof3bobby]

WILDLIFE (2018) Grade: B- 

It's a good character study with excellent visuals. It was shot beautifully. Has a good pace to it even though it's a slow story. The plot is nothing new but I liked the ending. 

#Wildlife #2018 #B #Drama Films #Marriage #Family Drama #Paul Dano #Based on a Book #Fire #Ed Oxenbould #Jake Gyllenhaal #Carey Mulligan #Zoe Margaret Colletti #Bill Camp #Darryl Cox #Montana #Husband Wife

[movie--posters]

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[adamwatchesmovies]

Strange but True (2019)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

There are so many movies out there. You can understand why someone would latch onto a new idea or story. Here’s the thing. Sometimes, it isn’t that no one’s thought of your premise before; it’s that no one’s been stupid enough to push through with it. This is the case with 2019's Strange but True.

Still reeling from the death of her son five years ago, Charlene Chase (Amy Ryan) doesn't know what to think when his girlfriend, Melissa (Margaret Qualley), announces she’s 36 weeks pregnant with Ronnie's baby. Ronnie’s younger brother, Philip (Nick Robinson) starts wondering if maybe there isn’t some truth to the story.

The premise is so outlandish, your mind begins thinking of all the ways Melissa could've become pregnant. Aliens? some kind of demonic ritual? an elaborate ruse? Basically, anything but the most obvious and stupidest possibility: impregnated by a ghost. Normally, you’d be right along for the ride as Charlene begins investigating but she’s insufferable. You hate her right away and grief or not, you dislike her more with every scene. Her first assumption is that Melissa somehow got doctors to extract sperm from Ronnie (Connor Jessup), had them frozen and then impregnated herself years later for… reasons. I’ve heard of playing the long con but even the Count of Monte Cristo would’ve given up with this one. It makes no sense, even with Melissa's dubious mental state. You don’t subscribe to the idea of something paranormal either. Or maybe you will. The tense intro scene where Philip is desperately running away from someone - or something - tells you this movie’s all about the thrills.

But this movie is NOT about thrills or any kind of horror. Well, except when it is but for the most part, this is a much weepier film than you’d expect from the setup. Ronnie’s accidental death caused his parents to divorce. It obviously did a number on Melissa, who swears she’s never been with another man but him (oooooooh!). Philip had big dreams but without his big brother, he soon gave up on them. Even Gail (Blythe Danner) and Bill (Brian Cox), the kindly old couple who agree to harbor Melissa, spend much time confessing their sadness over never being able to conceive. All the flashbacks to the night of the accident should make your heart as heavy as theirs, but you don’t care. All you want to know is how dumb this movie’s mystery is going to get.

If the rest of the film was poorly conceived, it’s got nothing on the conclusion. Melissa’s baby did not come from Ronnie’s ghost. She was drugged and raped by Bill. Luckily for him, she’s gullible enough to believe in a supernatural explanation. Eventually, his luck runs out, however. Gail discovers what happened and one thing leads to another until she dies. He tries to cover up his crimes by going kill-crazy but gives up and offs himself. The truth never comes out. Melissa and the Chase family warmly welcome the baby into their lives. There are some deeply sinister implications with that ending. What’s the moral of this movie supposed to be?

Although Strange But True becomes hideously misguided towards the end, the performances are pretty good. Amy Ryan excels at being loathsome. I also must credit it for keeping the audience engaged all the way through. This makes it one of the worst films of 2019 but among the upper end of the bottom 10. (October 25, 2020)

#strange but true #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #rowan athale #eric garcia #amy ryan #nick robinson #margaret qualley #connor jessup #blythe danner #brian cox #greg kinnear #2019 movies #2019 films

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[coffeeandacig]

HUGE M*A*S*H NEWS!

Direct of the MASH Matters Facebook Page

M*A*S*H: THE COMEDY THAT CHANGED TELEVISION, AN ALL-NEW TWO-HOUR CELEBRATION OF TELEVISION’S MOST INFLUENTIAL SITCOM

NEW ORIGINAL SPECIAL AIRS MONDAY, JANUARY 1, ON FOX

Featuring New Interviews with Cast Members Alan Alda, Gary Burghoff,

William Christopher, Jamie Farr, Mike Farrell, Wayne Rogers and Loretta Swit,

as well as Original Series Executive Producers Gene Reynolds and Burt Metcalfe

Plus Rarely-Seen Archival Interviews with Writer/Producer Larry Gelbart,

and Stars Larry Linville, Harry Morgan, McLean Stevenson and David Ogden Stiers

In the all-new two-hour special, M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television, premiering Monday, January 1 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX, join the men and women who made M*A*S*H as they celebrate one of the most beloved, enduringly popular, often quoted and influential comedies ever created.

As the definitive look at the 14-time Emmy-winning television classic, the special centers around new interviews with original cast members Alan Alda (Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce), Gary Burghoff (Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly), William Christopher (Father Francis Mulcahy), Jamie Farr (Cpl./Sgt. Maxwell Q. "Max" Klinger), Mike Farrell (Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt), Wayne Rogers (Capt. "Trapper" John McIntyre) and Loretta Swit (Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan) and series executive producers Gene Reynolds and Burt Metcalfe. In these intimate, highly personal remembrances, the creation and evolution of the show’s iconic characters are revealed, alongside rare and never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage, photos and stories.

Writer/producer Larry Gelbart, as well as additional series stars Larry Linville (Maj. Frank Burns), Harry Morgan (Col. Sherman T. Potter), McLean Stevenson (Lt. Col. Henry Blake) and David Ogden Stiers (Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III) are remembered through a vibrant collection of clips from the series as well as in rarely-seen archival interviews. With unique experiences, observations and memories from 11 seasons of M*A*S*H, this special will make audiences laugh, touch their heartstrings, and leave them on a nostalgic high while celebrating the sustained brilliance of the iconic sitcom.

“M*A*S*H is not only a great television series, it is a cultural phenomenon. It has made multiple generations of viewers laugh, cry and think, often in the same episode,” said Executive Producers John Scheinfeld and Andy Kaplan. “We are excited to team with FOX to create this unprecedented window into an innovative television classic.”

"M*A*S*H is among the most iconic sitcoms in the annals of television history. It's a timeless show that comedically captures the 4077th medical corps and how they managed to maintain their sanity while saving lives on the front lines of the Korean War,” said Dan Harrison, EVP, Program Planning & Content Strategy, FOX Entertainment. “Larry Gelbart, Gene Reynolds and Burt Metcalfe brought this incredible comedy to life thanks to their ensemble cast led by the incomparable Alan Alda. FOX is proud to celebrate the landmark achievements of one of the best comedies ever created."

The M*A*S*H two-and-a-half-hour series finale that first aired on CBS in 1983 remains the highest rated telecast in television history, delivering an incredible 77 audience share and 60.2 rating. To-date, the show has never left the air, continuously running in syndication, on basic cable and now streaming on Hulu. The series was produced by 20th Television.

M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television is directed by John Scheinfeld (Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback, The U.S. vs. John Lennon and What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat & Tears?) with Scheinfeld and Andy Kaplan as Executive Producers.

Viewers can watch M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television next day on Hulu, Fox.com, On Demand and FOX Entertainment’s streaming platform, Tubi. On Demand is available for customers of Cox Contour TV, DIRECTV, DISH, fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, Optimum, Spectrum, Verizon FiOS, XFINITY, YouTube TV and many more.

#m*a*s*h #mash #mash 4077 #m*a*s*h 4077 #hawkeye pierce #mash4077 #alan alda #trapper john mcintyre #mike farrell #wayne rogers

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[yakumtsaki]

-Oh Sunset, I'm so lucky to be in a loving relationship with such a kind, loyal and non-criminally insane person such as yourself!

You're so on the money, buddy, the only thing you missed was 'sexually repelled by cousins'.

-I CAN'T DO THIS, TYLER, YOU'RE SUFFOCATING ME -I'm sorry! Also my name is Ty! -I KNOW BUT IT'S A STUPID NAME AND I'M NOT CALLING YOU THAT

She's right, Ty, and to top it off your last name isn't Union, it's like you're not even trying!

Bruh.. This chain of interactions from the hugging to the insulting to the making out took place in about 1 minute, I can't believe Stacy and Julian of all couples produced Sunset. Why can't you be more like your parents?? They were my cutest, healthiest couple ever!!

-They only thing they cared about having sex 50 a times a day! Aunt June basically raised me!!

Omg I'm looking at the pics of the spare updates I never posted because I suck and YA SHE DID, that explains so much, June is truly the platonic ideal of the hot-batshit combo.

Speaking of batshit-

-And hot!

If you say so, Barth is putting the moves on Marla Biggs, whomst we last saw when June (there she is again) used her to dump Erik-

-Yes, and that one wolf whistle from June turned me gay for all eternity, so don't even bother!

-UGH. So I guess I have no choice..

-..but to sleep with another one of my second cousins! -Oh Barth, I can't believe this is finally happening!!! -I know, Cyan, it took way too long!

We've been here for a week.

-Don't worry, nothing will interrupt this magical moment-WHAT THE FUCK I'M BEING CHEATED ON GOTTA RUN SORRY CYAN CATCH YOU LATER

Ok apparently I was laughing too hard to take a decent pic, but yes, BARTHOLOMEW CAUGHT HIS COUSIN 'CHEATING' ON HIM AS HE WAS HOOKING UP WITH HIS OTHER COUSIN. I HATE MY GAME.

-AND I HATE YOU, SUNSET. YOU BROKE MY HEART -FUCK YOU, BARTHOLOMEW, I'M NOT GONNA BE PART OF YOUR SECOND COUSIN HAREM -I HOPE YOU DROWN IN THE POOL -This was so beautiful, Sunset, I think I'm falling in love with you💙 -GET OUT OF HERE, TYLER -It's Ty! -NO ONE CARES, ASSHOLE -DON'T TALK TO TYLER LIKE THAT -That's not my name! -IT IS NOW, SHUT UP

I gotta hand it to Ty, he's in it to win it, whatever it is one could possibly 'win' when it comes to Sunset.

-Oh Sunset, you're the queen of my heart! -Gross!🥰

-Aw baby, I love spending all our awake time woohooing and doing nothing interesting, huhu!🌞 -It really is the best, thanks to your horrific LTW we don't even have to try! It's so awful people are bound to vote for us just to watch the trainwreck!

Ya I wish I had a counter-argument but you two really have this thing figured out, even I wanna watch me have a mental breakdown trying to raise your 6 asshole kids.

-Our kids are not gonna be assholes!🌞

LOL YA OK MEADOW, whatever helps you sleep at night.

-Meadow and Felina are not the only ones with a perfect relationship! Britannicus and I are also deeply in love!! I'm writing a novel about it as we speak!!!

Jimmy no offense but I literally forgot you live here and I can barely remember who Britannicus is half the time.

-THE PARTY HAS ARRIVED

Oh Britannicus here you are, thank God, you're so indispensable to this legacy!

-All you main-houser bitches look down on me but I have a lot to offer!! I'm grandpa Gunther's heir!!!

Of course you are, now give us the pizza so the people who matter don't die.

-I'll show you! I'll show you all!! >:(

Yes yes, it's been lovely catching up-

-and now it's time to get serious and break Cyan and Barth up! Hit us with your best shot, Marg, we've been on a winning streak lately with those matches, please don't go back to Cyn's leftovers.

-Got you, say no more..

-Here's Kennedy Cox!

MARGARET

-Well it's very hard to find someone Cyneswith hasn't banged!

Ok ya that's very true but Cyan is understandably like 😬 so let's try this again, here's another dollar.

-Alright, you didn't want Cyneswith leftovers..

-How about Sandy the Zombie leftovers??

I hope I don't have to explain to you why that's SO MUCH WORSE

-And I hope I don't have to explain to you that you get what you pay for when you give a dollar for a date!

Fucking touche, Marg, get out of here.

And now for another sequence of events so absolutely ridic I'm just gonna describe it with no dialogue:

So I send Cyan inside to check the college directory thing and see what available bachelors we might booty call up, but there's no one that I like for her so I send her back out to ask Margaret for another dollar date-

-once outside, we find BRITANNICUS SERENADING BARTHOLOMEW, to which Cyan has no reaction as she's probably too shocked-

-poor dumbass loved up Jimmy has no clue and is inside getting high-

-Cyan asks Marg for another date as Barth is performing the Second Cousin Vagina Monologues-

-Margaret gives us Neon Vest Zomb AGAIN and I'm like wtf-

-at which point Britannicus, who just one moment ago was serenading Barth, WOLF WHISTLES AT CYAN-

-CAUSING BARTH TO FEEL CHEATED ON AND DUMP HER

-BETRAYED BY MY OWN BLOOD TWICE IN ONE DAY! OH, THE SHAME!

BARTH SHUT UP. BRITANNICUS WHAT. THE. HELL

-I told you! >:D

Ok you know what, at least with this I feel we have peaked and there is simply no way the situation in this house can get more insane and degenerate-

-Think again!

NO FUCKING WAY. NO. SPICE WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU'RE DATING ELDERLY GOOD WITCH, I SPECIFICALLY FOUND YOU A GF TO KEEP YOU OUT OF THIS BS

-I know but there's something almost genetically inherited drawing me to Cyan! -Yes, It's almost like our parents were into each other but there was some invisible force separating them!

YA THAT WAS THE LAWS OF NATURE

-Oh please, it was the extended family mod and we no longer have to function under its oppression!

NOTHING IN THIS HOUSE IS REMOTELY FUNCTIONING. You know what, enjoy this while it lasts because I'm breaking every single one of you mofos up, istg I feel like I'm fighting the Hydra, I chop one semi-incestuous head off and two others pop up. WELL I'LL WIN LIKE HERACLES

I'd like to end this disgusting update with this image of the rose Ty left for Sunset next to the flaming shitbag Neon Vest Zombie left for Cyan. What is this world coming to that men no longer appreciate you cheating on them with 2 of your cousins during a date?? Chivalry is dead!

#unions #gen 4 #ts2 #long post

[15-lizards]

Giving you quotes based on the ASOIAF family you feel most connected to

Baratheon: “If you’re raised with an angry man in your house, there will always be an angry man in your house. You will find him even when he is not there”- Catherine Lacey

“Isn’t all that rage so ugly? And isn’t it mine, still? Good god, isn’t it mine?”- Ashe Vernon

“There are teeth marks on everything he loves.”- Yusef Komunyakaa

Targaryen: “I am homesick for a place I am not even sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. My soul understood”- Melissa Cox

“The relief of giving in to destruction”-Franz Kafka

“I didn’t feel at home in life”- Anne Sexton

Greyjoy: “I was never a child / I was pulled right out of the sea / and the salt, it never left my body”- Chelsea Wolfe

“I’m abandoning everything! Everything! And that way I won’t be abandoned.”- Clarice Lispector

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”- George Orwell

Stark: “I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, to wanting.”- Margaret Atwood

“What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.”- Sarah Kane

“Suffering feels religious if you do it right”- Chelsea Hodson

Tully: “Memory is punishment.”- Frank Bidart

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”- Emily Dickinson

“What cannot be said will be wept”- Sappho

Lannister: “Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.”- Ivan Turgenev

“Mother / Eat me and give birth to me again/ This time around I’ll make you proud”- Maia Baia

“My rot is as hungry as me. & when God asks me about love, I will always respond with cruelty.”- Yves Olade

Martell: “You are addicted to what you cannot possess.”- Frank Bidart

“When are you gonna get over that? When When When?”- Kara Walker

“But he, that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.”- Anne Brontë

Tyrell: “Come on, dance with me. The earth is spinning. We can’t just stand on it.”- Dino Ahmetović

“I never again shall tell you what I think. I shall be sweet and crafty, soft and sly.”- Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Lust is so inadequate, and loving exhausts me.”- Anne Sexton

#ASOIAF #game of thrones #one day I will web weave but for now here are some quotes #spent way too long on this #I Baratheon blogged and was inspired #so tragic so delicious #also no arryns cause it is so hard to catch a vibe from them I’m sorry

[bestiarium]

The Gumberoo [American folktales]

This creature was among the fantastic and weird monsters from the ‘tall tales’ that early American loggers would often tell each other. The Gumberoo, as the creature was called, resembles a large rotund bear with a smooth, black skin. This skin is taut and has a rubbery texture and it is incredibly resilient: it is extremely difficult to wound a Gumberoo, for attacks and projectiles simply bounce off it. In fact, it is said that even bullets simply bounce right back, often hitting the hunter who shot them. Its chin is adorned with beard-like bristles. But it is not impossible to kill one of these creatures, since they have one vital weakness: a Gumberoo is highly flammable. If one of these beasts comes into contact with open fire, it will spontaneously explode (it is said that during wildfires in the large cedar forests, you can sometimes hear explosions from dying Gumberoos).

The creatures make their homes in large burnt-out cedar trees in the North American Pacific Coast region. Their anatomy is weirdly stretchy, as they can devour an entire horse in one meal. This gives them an awkward distended look but it doesn’t bother the beasts. 

Henry Tryon, in his 1939 book on the American fearsome critters, gives a very different account of these creatures. In this interpretation, the Gumberoo is still a very round animal with hairless black skin, but the bearlike characteristics have made way for long monkey-like forearms and a small head without a neck. This Gumberoo has three rear legs and eight additional legs around its middle. It is a highly agile creature that can swing from tree branches without much effort, and can also roll around at incredible speeds. It retains its highly explosive properties.

The description of a creature that resembles a hairless bear makes me wonder if stories of the Gumberoo might have been inspired by sightings of real bears that were hairless because of a disease or condition. Many ‘tall tales’ (as the genre came to be known) were meant to be fiction, but I don’t exclude the possibility that some were stories of real animals that were simply exaggerated and twisted until they became fantasy. In any case, the Gumberoo is a kind of cryptid today.  

Sources: Cox, W. T., 1910, Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, Press of Judd & Detweiler, Washington D. C., USA. Which you can read here. Tryon, H. H., 1939, Fearsome Critters, Idlewald Press, New York, USA. Which you can read here. (image source 1: Richard Svensson) (image source 2: Margaret Tryon, illustration for ‘Fearsome Critters’)

#mythical creatures #monsters #creatures #American folktales #American tall tales

[louisironson]

tv asks: Frasier, Seinfeld, MASH

all righty here we go!

Frasier

favorite character: niles and lilith are honestly tied, which is pretty impressive given that niles is in almost every episode and lilith shows up once a season max

funniest character: once again i have to give it to niles just because dhp’s sense of delivery and physical comedy is unmatched

best-looking character: ROZ AND LILITH don’t make me choose

3 favorite ships: niles/daphne forever obviouslyyyy, i can always go for roz/lilith, and just for fun frasier/cam winston they’re goofy

least favorite character: gertrude moon. let’s be honest daphne’s whole extended family. side note isn’t it wild that daphne’s dad is brian cox

least favorite ship: frasier/roz is just so boring to me. the show got it right they fuck once and go “huh nope never again”

reason why i watch it: i really do find it to be a smart and engaging show! it’s well-regarded for a reason and it’s because all of the writers very clearly were dedicated to their craft. shout out joe keenan ily joe keenan

why i started watching it: i like watching gay episodes of older shows and it turns out i really, really liked the matchmaker, and i just kept watching it, then ski lodge, then the doctor is out, and finally i said to myself “i should just be watching this whole show actually”. and i was right

Seinfeld

favorite character: i think i have to go with george on this one his specific brand of Being just rings so true. he sucks he’s doodoo and it’s very fun

funniest character: probably george again. he just hits my funny bone idk what to tell you

best-looking character: elaine! have you seen her.

3 favorite ships: the idea of having “ships” for this show full of the worst people in the worst relationships is a little laughable but george/any man is funny enough for me to consider

least favorite character: this one’s tough because most of the annoying characters are one-offs and so you don’t have time to resent their presence; they’re purely functional. sometimes they lean a little hard with newman

least favorite ship: the inverse of george/any man, which is of course jerry/any woman. he doesn’t deserve any of them, and i’m including elaine

reason why i watch it: i love shows full of people who suck and seinfeld got that shit right in an era where we were supposed to like our tv leads a lot more. for a show that’s hailed as being “about nothing” it’s somehow both mundane and full of plots that you could not get anywhere else. every time i think about the junior mint i just go. what the fuck.

why i started watching it: seinfeld is my one of my dad’s special interests so i was indoctrinated young

M*A*S*H

favorite character: benjamin franklin “hawkeye” pierce has quickly worked his way into my heart

funniest character: hawkeye again but tbh honorable mention to frank because something about him is just so stupid and goofy and it’s really hitting me lately. aw nertz you know

best-looking character: what was the one episode with radar and like the nurse who liked bach. i seem to remember her being exactly my type lol. and margaret

3 favorite ships: hawkeye really does need to fuck men. for enrichment. hunnihawk is classic, as is piercintyre, and my eyes have been opened to hawkeye/sidney. i wish i could talk about more women but i don’t want margaret to have to deal with any of these men and i haven’t met helen whitfield yet so i can’t speak to her. and there are sadly not nearly as many women on this show. its biggest flaw i’d say

least favorite character: i really don’t have one in mind they all generally work very effectively. i suppose that i think flagg is less fun to hate than, say, frank, but they serve very different purposes so i don’t mind that i react to them differently—flagg is recurring, not a regular, so it’s right that he’s best in small doses. is this enough of an answer

least favorite ship: cannot get behind hawkeye/radar. that’s literally his aunt you guys

reason why i watch it: i feel like it’s boring that i keep answering “it’s a really good and compelling piece of television” but why do you watch tv shows. because they’re good and you like them. that and i do suppose i like to see how gay of a sentence hawkeye can say without being questioned. (CAPTAIN SODOM??)

why i started watching it: it’s a classic of all classics. i’ve been on a real 70s sitcom kick and for whatever reason i was watching ones that were far far worse than mash and i was like i could be watching mash. so i did

#frasier #mash #seinfeld #asks #anonymous