#Michigan authors

[stormgambit]

Review: Ghostly Tales of Michigan's Manistee National Forest by Roger Meyer

Recently while I was working on a hot summer day my mind drifted off to thoughts of my favorite season, fall. I then decided to put a whole bunch of haunted Michigan and spooky books on hold, because I am a librarian. Well, I bit off a bit more than I could chew and I only managed to read one of those books and that book was Ghostly Tales of Michigan’s Manistee National Forest by Roger Meyer. My…

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#books #Camping #Halloween #I am a librarian #Michigan Authors #Real Ghost Stories #Spooky Reads

[emmapalova]

Michigan Authors at Holland Art in the Park on Aug. 6

Find your next favorite read at Holland Art in the Park on Aug. 6 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

By Emma Palova I will be at Art in the Park in Holland on Aug. 6 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. along with other authors. We will be located along Central near the corner of 10th in booths 205 & 206. You can listen to some of these authors talk about their books on For the Love of Books Podcast at http://emmapalova123.podbean.com https://emmapalova123.podbean.com/ These authors represent a wide variety…

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#Art in the Park #Michigan authors #The Lost Town

[lcmccomics]

Ever hear about the Michigan Dogman? An enormous wolfy cryptid with a howl that makes your blood run cold? Stories of them run amuck through Midwestern lore, and I can't think of a beauty more fitting to come nosing around in my story ‘Wolves.’ Who ever said there can be only ONE species of werewolf?

#werewolf #werewolf art #michigan dogman #cryptid #cryptid art #graphic novel #original art #digital art #procreate #character design #artists on tumblr #author #writers on tumblr #ocs #oc #horror #fiction #supernatural #paranormal #comic art #comics #comic books #web comic #monster #beast of gevaudan #beast of bray road #spooky #spooky season #full moon #shapeshifter

[girl-in-the-mirrorbluenight]

I do sometimes feel like being a pre-hatchetfield fan does make me a bit of a fandom old at the ripe age of (almost) 25 lol. Even though I was not an actual original fan (pretty close though) I do feel like at least my youtube comments are mostly people who got into starkid as teens and young adults in the past couple or years, even the people who are around my age (or older) a lot of them discovered starkid through firebringer or hatchetfield. But my secret is I have an older sister so I got a look into some of that stuff a little bit before some of my peers who were the oldest children which is why I've been a starkid fan since I was 11 lol

#starkid #also there's like TRUE og fans who were at Michigan at the time and thats like a very small amount of people for obvious reasons #but as for the online fandom there was a first wave who watched avpm on youtube and i didnt get in on it until avps was already out so im a #little behind therr #i dont think it matters when you started though i dont gatekeep whos a ''real fan'' as long as you like their stuff #its just funny to be seen as like some sort of starkid authority to some people cuz ive been around for so long i was like 12 singing #granger danger lol

[godsquad]

i rewatched swan song last night also and it’s been so long that i truly kind of did forget how insane that episode is both as a pseudo series finale and just as like. an in-universe phenomenon

#the devil went up to michigan looking for a soul to steal #the viceroy of heaven is a teenage boy and the author of the new new testament is an alcoholic #a portal to hell opens in the american midwest and no one else on earth notices a thing

[dykefaggotry]

anyone else feel violent whenever they have to deal w the us medical insurance system or

#if i have to say or hear the phrase prior authorization one more time..... #irritated bc my diabetic supplies were canceled bc of 'lack of prior authorization' #call my insurance and they approved that on the 12th...... the company sending my supplies canceled the supplies on the 25th #i'm like......... bestie it's not matching up! #so now i have to call them and also message my doctor AGAIN and im so irritated i hate michigan's system for diabetes #bc in illinois i could just pick it up at the pharmacy #but here i have to jump through 20 hoops and go through a separate entity entirely it's so fucking aggravating

[detroitlib]

View of the Constance Fenimore Woolson memorial tablet on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Printed on front: "Tablet in memory of Constance Fenimore Woolson. Authoress of 'Anne, the Mackinac Island story.'" Printed on back: "G.H. Wickman, Mackinac Island, Mich. Made in U.S.A. Genuine Curteich-Chicago 'C.T. Art-Colortone' post card (reg. U.S. Pat. Off.)"

Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

#constance fenimore woolson #memorial #author #mackinac island #g.h. wickman #michigan #michigan history #curteich #curt teich & co. #colortone #postcards #vintage postcards #tablet #authoress #detroit public library

[xechoecho88x]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Welcome To The Table - Ben Brainard (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Michigan & Ohio (Welcome To The Table), Michigan & Minnesota (Welcome To The Table), Michigan & The Midwest (Welcome To The Table) Characters: Michigan (Welcome To The Table), Ohio (Welcome To The Table), Minnesota (Welcome To The Table), Indiana (Welcome To The Table), Wisconsin (Welcome To The Table), Illinois (Welcome To The Table), Iowa (Welcome To The Table), North Dakota (Welcome To The Table), South Dakota (Welcome To The Table) Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Fainting, Overworking, Observant Ohio, Minnesota has medical knowledge, No beta we die like that guy that Florida ate the face of, Swearing, self destructive tendencies, semi unreliable narrator, Like not fully unreliable, But Michigan doesn't realize what he's doing isn't healthy, Michigan's also secretly a softie, sorry I don't make the rules - Freeform, actually i do, But That's Not the Point Summary:

Michigan has been avoiding the rest of the Midwest states. They decide to crash his evening to get to the bottom of this, and to spend some much needed time together. Has Michigan merely been brushing them off or is there a deeper, more concerning reason?

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“What the fuck are you doing in my house?”

Wisconsin scoffed, “That’s no way to greet your fellow states.”

Michigan gritted his teeth, “Right. Hello, how are you? What the fuck are you doing in my house?”

#wttt #wttsh #welcome to the table #wttt michigan #wttt midwest #wttt ohio #wttt minnesota #wttt indiana #wttt iowa #wttt wisconsin #wttt illinois #wttt south dakota #wttt north dakota #is the author projecting? nahh #okay maybe a little #fanfiction #i hope you guys like it lol

[themichigangayly]

“Tomorrow is tomorrow. Over there is over there. And here and now is not a bad place and time to be, especially when so much of the unknown is beautiful.” - Ryka Aoki

Who is Ryka Aoki?

• A Japanese-American transgender woman, professor, poet, composer, martial arts instructor, and Executive Director of Dissonance Press.

• She creates an intimate multi-genre collection of poems, stories, and essays with “Seasonal Velocities.” The book journeys through love and abuse in the trans experience and what it is to be human.

#ryka aoki #aapi #asian american pacific islander #asian american authors #Asian American #japanese american #Japanese #the michigan gayly #lgbtq+ #lgbtq pride #the michigan gayly: lgbtq+ issues #trans woman #asian trans #trans woman of color #transgender women #trans women #poetry #poem #poems #poet #writer #lgbtqia #trans

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023. HELL FOLLOWED WITH US by Andrew Joseph White.

#books of 2023 #books #book photography #hell followed with us #andrew joseph white #trying to 'if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all' about this going in lmao #i was very stoked by the premise and by the bioweapon and body horror #and the cover art slaps #however: #i have it on good authority that i uh. might not jive with it #and given who the agent is i have Trepidations lolsob #BUT!: I bought it from a cute bookstore i always visit in michigan when i'm there so that counts for something!! #they needed help and i Tried #anyway happy pride y'all #fingers crossed that i get a singular driscoll vibe out of this cuz if i do we'll call it a win XD

[hiding-all-the-bodies]

That awkward moment when you're trying to write the next Great American Novel (TM) but you read back what you wrote and you realize it's basically just Where The Crawdads Sing but set at a Carnival in Michigan.

#Where the crawdads sing #writing #novel #author #fiction #Michigan #carnival #ferris wheel #next great american novel #writers block #writer things

[evanderlfragoso]

More after-storm pics.

#winter storm #winter #ice photography #ice #nature #Michigan #writer #artist #author #art #life

[cchapsticck]

UNTITLED RECORDING ca. 1987-1988 (6187 words) by cchapsticck Chapters: 3/13 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Characters: Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington, Jeff (Stranger Things), Gareth (Stranger Things), Unnamed Freak (Stranger Things), Robin Buckley, incidental OCs Additional Tags: Eddie Munson Lives, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Alternate Universe - Rock Band, Recreational Drug Use, Gay Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Neurodivergent Eddie Munson, Period-Typical Homophobia, Period Typical Attitudes, Internalized Homophobia, Vignette Narrative Structure, Eddie Munson POV, Character Study, Relationship Study, Discussions of Parental Neglect, Self Referential Homophobic Language, In This House We Handwave Away The Vecna Situation Conclusion, Friends With Benefits, Friends With Benefits To Lovers But No One's Saying It, Implied/Referenced Parental Death Series: Part 1 of METALHEAD Summary:

Gareth’s tolerance for his theatrics runs at a deficit on a normal day but he’s half drunk so all he gets is like half a punch that mostly just clips him in the back of the neck and a mumbled “dickhead” in retaliation before he just pulls another can out of the sixer from the Stop-n-Go.

They’re standing around in the wet parking lot of an overnight truck stop somewhere outside Winchester and it’s like 3 in the tit fucking morning where everyone’s starting to get that kind of tired where you’re wide awake and your body starts to get all shivery and just carries on without you but Gareth and Phil are dead set on finishing the beer so they’re standing around under a leaky awning while it pisses rain and honestly? He’s been having a great time.

Steve’s sitting on the curb, beer dangling from his fingers between his legs with his Members-Only-looking jacket and Eddie’s Anthrax shirt and his hair stuck to his forehead all stupid from the rain while his gaze darts between Gareth and Eddie, clearly a little unsure if Gareth is actually going to be like. Mad about it. And he absolutely could stick around and make problems for fun but there’s still like 3 hours of driving to South Bend and he’s not excited about the prospect of enduring the 31 traffic hungover.

#steddie #steddie fics #steddie fic #steve x eddie #steve x eddie fanfic #steveddie #steve harrington #steddie fanfiction #eddie munson #stranger things fic #stranger things fanfiction #next up on metalhead your author complains about south michigan and as much fluff as one can muster under these homophobic circumstances #its cute i promise probably #fic: metalhead

[kdsburneraccount]

Demeco Ryans becoming the Texans HC really is coming full circle considering he played on that team...

#frank reich too bc he was apparently the first qb for the panthers #i think that's quite neat #earlier today i watched this vid from like 2011 where someone was interviewing demeco abt how he keeps calm and stuff #interesting content #wonder what the 49ers now do at dc... fangio? jk unless #rip that one ao3 author who wrote a fic w demeco ryans you would've loved the video (and the hire) #anyways #head coaching carousel going crazy we got sean payton to the broncos #which i didn't expect but. cool. jim harbaugh win a natty for michigan challenge (hard) #nfl #rpf mention

[thoughtportal]

Development incentives for the proposed $1.5 billion District Detroit buildout came under heavy criticism Monday night during the first public hearing for a Transformational Brownfield valued at $616 million over 35 years.

Nearly two dozen people offered questions or comments on the project and incentives during the two-hour virtual public hearing for the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority. The authority's board is scheduled to vote Wednesday on the Transformational Brownfield request, which is the largest of the nearly $800 million in planned incentives, tax breaks and reimbursements for the project over the three and a half decades.

The project, a collaborative development by the Ilitch organization's Olympia Development of Michigan and megadeveloper Stephen Ross's Related Cos., calls for 10 new buildings or rehabs. The developers say the project is not possible without the incentives.

Nearly all public comments Monday were negative and opposed to the brownfield incentives. Because the meeting was conducted over Zoom, full names for all of those who spoke were not available.

“We shouldn’t be giving Olympia any money because five to six years ago you came to us, promising a thriving neighborhood already, and you failed to deliver on those promises," said Detroit resident Landis Spencer.

Another commenter, "Caleb," who identified himself as a member of the Detroit chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, said he has a lot of problems with the development proposal and the incentives.

“The Ilitches have proven time and time again, especially from the last time the city gave them money, that they will not keep to their promises and only build to help their own self interests," he said, "like when they built Little Caesars Arena and left all buildings surrounding it completely unused and barren."

For their part, representatives for Olympia and Related Cos. emphasized Monday how 20% of the project's nearly 700 apartments would be set aside at "deeply affordable" rent levels for Detroiters making no more than about $31,000 per year as an individual and $45,000 for a family of four.

Those below-market rents are a reason why the project needs the development incentives to be financially viable, representatives have explained.

"We are about trying to make a difference in the lives of people in Detroit," Keith Bradford, president of Olympia Development of Michigan, said during the virtual meeting.

Yet resident Theo Pride of the Detroit People's Platform said during the hearing that the proposed affordable rents would still not be affordable enough for many Detroiters.

More:More details emerge for $1.5B District Detroit buildout and incentives

More:3 new office buildings would be unique to Detroit, have more amenities, developers say

The project, he said, “will hurt majority Black Detroit — period. It will displace Black people while redistributing resources from the Black public to private white pocketbooks.”

The requested Transformational Brownfield incentive would be a state-level tax capture for the project valued at $616 million over 35 years.

The Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority could vote Wednesday to approve the brownfield request and forward it to Detroit City Council.

If the council then gives its approval in March, a final vote on the brownfield could come in April from the Michigan Strategic Fund, and groundbreaking for the first proposed building — a 17-story office building at 2200 Woodward, in front of Comerica Park — could happen in July.

The developers also are partners on a separate yet related project to build the $250 million University of Michigan Center for Innovation in Detroit.

#article #DDA #Detroit #local government #detroit dsa #dsa #democratic socialists of america #Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority #michigan #city council meeting #city council

[lifebypoetry]

Remembering 9-11 21 Years Later

Poet and journalist Leslie McGraw will release the second edition of her debut poetry collection, “Emergencies of the Heart”  on Friday, September 2, 2022. 

Every generation of Americans has at least one moment where young adults are faced with the worst and best of humanity on a national scale. McGraw captures the feelings in those moments in Emergencies of the Heart.

"In Emergencies of the Heart, poet Leslie McGraw transforms her grief, anger, and confusion over the 9/11 attacks into some measure of comfort, clarity, and grace, through poems that insist on the indomitability of the human spirit. A generosity of heart pervades these poems that urge us to connect—whether it be to the beloved, to family, or to the larger human community. Because ultimately, as McGraw’s poems attest, the only true response to the emergencies of the heart is love. A heartfelt, courageous debut." –Angela Narciso Torres, RHINO Poetry senior editor and author of What Happens is Neither and Blood Orange.

This special 21st-anniversary memorial edition includes some updates and new poems, as well as a timely foreword dedicated to the 267 Black Americans who were killed during the attacks at the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

The collection is available for pre-order now at www.blackmusepublishing.com

#new book #poet #author #poetry #Ann Arbor #Michigan #Michigan poet #writer #emergencies of the heart