#Patricia Morrisons husband

[adharafirenze]

Some of my gifs of the beautiful Dave Vanian <33 I got all of these from the young ones episode that they were in called nasty!

#dave vanian #Patricia Morrisons husband #the young ones #the damned #he’s so gorgeous #I love his dancing

[littlequeenies]

Patricia Julia Brose was born on May 10, 1949, in New York City, the daughter of Laura and Bill Ballinger, a writer of mystery stories.

At age 12, Brose was placed in a foster home because of her mother’s barbiturate addiction.

She went to San Marcos Senior High high school in Santa Barbara, and Pepperdine University college in LA.

Julia began snorting cocaine at 18 while she was dancing at the famous Whiskey a Go Go in Los Angeles. It was there she met John Densmore of The Doors, in 1967. He recalls: "This girl had LRP: Long Range Potential. Her name was Julia Brose, and her father … was remarried to a bubbly blonde who supposedy looked like Julia's real mother. Apparently the real mother drank quite a bit… Julia and I consummated our brand-new relationship that night. There were no male blue balls in the sixties!"

In 1968 she was working in the A & R department of Liberty Records.

By 1969 Julia got pregnant and John didn't know what to do, he recalls: "…on the way back to LA, Julia hit me with the news she was pregnant! Everything was great with us, and now she was pregnant! I didn't want to be a husband yet, let alone a father! I could tell by the look in Julia's eyes that she was hoping I'd say "Let's have it". I couldn't believe it – I was numb. I had asked now and then if Julia was using any kind of birth control, but in 1969, the assumption was that it was the girl's responsability, and we had little dialogue on the subject. Now we had a major problem. I was loaded with so much shame about sex, being raised a Catholic, I didn't inquire how it happened. Was it an accident? I didn't know. But I knew I was incensed. I didn't want a kid and I could tell she did." They didn't know what to do, and in the end John Densmore found a doctor and Julia agreed. They went to Mexico where abortions could be done and it was a place where The Doors could play as well. The doctor and the nurse of the hospital were very nice, and they came in the room where abortions were practised. "There was one of those tables with the stirrups at the end to hold up the patient's legs. Julia must have noticed them, 'cause she started crying. Before we came to Mexico she'd agreed it was the best thing to do. Her tears were like daggers in my heart".

Some months later, John asked Julia to marry, and she agreed. In October 1970 they exchanged rings in hte Pacific Palidases. Robby and Lynn Krieger where the best man and bridesmaid. Jim Morrison sang “Bridal Chorus" at their wedding, but the marriage was short lived.

Her mother died of an overdose in 1972 aged 47.

After five years of marriage Julia left Densmore for Berry Oakley, the bassist for the Allman Brothers band. When she was six months pregnant, he died in a motorcycle accident on November 1972. On March 30, 1973, their son Berry Duane Oakley was born. His godfather is The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger.

As a single mother in ther 20s, she turned to heroin to cope with the loss of both her mother and Berry.

In 1976 she married Chuck Negron, the singer for Three Dog Night. They both developed major heroin addictions.

By 1977, the year Julia Brose and Chuck Negron had their son Charles, Negron devoted his life to being a junkie. She herself snorted heroin in the delivery room before Charle's birth, according to Mother Jones magazine, they both did it. To pay for his habits, Chuck eventually sold everything he owned, including all of his gold albums. "Bit by bit, everything eroded," says Julia. "We took loans against the house, and eventually our telephone and power lines were turned off."

He blew through millions of dollars chasing the highs and she may have been worse. "When Chuck is asked if he ever knew anyone worse than him, he usually says me," admits Julia, a recovering drug addict. "But we had a great marriage because every drug we got was split 50-50." They were married 12 years.

She overdosed twice in her life, waking up in a hospital bed feeling like she’d been run over by a fleet of trucks. She lived.

Julia lost her sister Connie to an overdose in 1984, which prompted her to sober up and leave her husband in 1985, and she checked herself at Cedars hospital. Then she went to school and worked as a drug counselor for decades.

Julia is certified as an Addiction Specialist since 1990, supervising and training residential addiction treatment staff.

By the mid-2000s, she had become a prominent advocate of “harm reduction,” which emphasizes making illicit drug use safer so users may seek treatment.

On 2013 her youngest son was in life support because of an overdose, but luckily he went in recovery. As for 2013, she was a co-founder of “Moms United to end the War on Drugs” and a Board Member of “A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing”) and lived in Sarasota, FL.

On 2015 she moved to Venice, Los Angeles, where she is devoted to her advocacy work in what’s known as “harm reduction.’’

On July 2017, her son’s fiancé overdosed, leaving an 8-year-old without a mother.

In 2017 she made headlines when she took issue with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio at a town hall meeting in Manatee County on the opioid epidemic. She is an advocate for making illegal drug use safe in hopes that users will seek treatment. She runs the “Suncoast Harm Reduction Project,” which is a small group of volunteers who pass out Naloxone to addicts to counterattack opioid overdoses. Manatee County has the highest overdose rate in Florida. In 2014, according to Mother Jones magazine, there were 644 community programs in the nation that distributed free Naloxone and Florida had only one person doing it: Brose.

Julia finds herself driving to Manatee County too much as part of her group and says it is “ground zero’’ for drug overdoses, even worse than Los Angeles, where she used to live.

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[villiersterrace]

Hey!! I saw your comment on my Andrew Eldritch memes, I can’t answer you on my page, I guess my tumblrs broken lol-

the post is mainly a joke, but, Patricia Morrison was apart of the sisters of mercy and she helped Andrew not push himself and she helped steer him away from drink and drugs, but, Andrew didn’t pay Patricia for some of the work she did with him on their albums. I can’t remember which albums he didn’t pay her on but I believe he might’ve not payed her on Floodland. Patricia also says the last thing Andrew said to her was ‘I don’t need you anymore’. Patricia was quite sad about what he said to her I believe.

Also, Patricia Morrison married a huge goth/punk singer, Dave Vanian (who she’s had her and his only child ever with, and is still married to him, and they’ve been married for nearly 30 years) and she said that Andrew would cry at her about how jealous he was of her husband, she also said she felt he just wanted her attention.

So Patricia left the sister, I guess she didn’t want to put up with Andrew, but she’s signed some papers which mean she doesn’t have to talk about why she left the sister.

I appreciate you’re comment, I love explaining things to people that are interested in my knowledge <33 don’t answer if you don’t feel like it, and definitely make you’re own opinion on Andrew <33 hope you have a great day!! Stay safe and look after yourself <333333

Thank you for the reply!

[nellygwyn]

BOOK RECS

Okay, so lots of people wanted this and so, I am compiling a list of my favourite books (both fiction and non-fiction), books that I recommend you read as soon as humanly possible. In the meantime, I’ll be pinning this post to the top of my blog (once I work out how to do that lmao) so it will be accessible for old and new followers. I’m going to order this list thematically, I think, just to keep everything tidy and orderly. Of course, a lot of this list will consist of historical fiction and historical non-fiction because that’s what I read primarily and thus, that’s where my bias is, but I promise to try and spice it up just a little bit. 

Favourite fiction books of all time:

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock // Imogen Hermes Gowar

Sense and Sensibility // Jane Austen

Slammerkin // Emma Donoghue 

Remarkable Creatures // Tracy Chevalier

Life Mask // Emma Donoghue

His Dark Materials // Philip Pullman (this includes the follow-up series The Book of Dust)

Emma // Jane Austen

The Miniaturist // Jessie Burton

Girl, Woman, Other // Bernadine Evaristo 

Jane Eyre // Charlotte Brontë

Persuasion // Jane Austen

Girl with a Pearl Earring // Tracy Chevalier

The Silent Companions // Laura Purcell

Tess of the d’Urbervilles // Thomas Hardy

Northanger Abbey // Jane Austen

The Chronicles of Narnia // C.S. Lewis

Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen

Goodnight, Mr Tom // Michelle Magorian

The French Lieutenant’s Woman // John Fowles 

The Butcher’s Hook // Janet Ellis 

Mansfield Park // Jane Austen

The All Souls Trilogy // Deborah Harkness

The Railway Children // Edith Nesbit

Favourite non-fiction books of all time

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman // Robert Massie

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King // Antonia Fraser

Madame de Pompadour // Nancy Mitford

The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach // Matthew Dennison 

Black and British: A Forgotten History // David Olusoga

Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court // Lucy Worsley 

Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, the Fifth Wife of Henry VIII // Gareth Russell

King Charles II // Antonia Fraser

Casanova’s Women // Judith Summers

Marie Antoinette: The Journey // Antonia Fraser

Mrs. Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King // Claire Tomalin

Jane Austen at Home // Lucy Worsley

Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames // Lara Maiklem

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth // Anna Keay

The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill // Christopher Hibbert

Nell Gwynn: A Biography // Charles Beauclerk

Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters // Patricia Pierce

Georgian London: Into the Streets // Lucy Inglis

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart // Sarah Fraser

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match // Wendy Moore

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from the Stone Age to the Silver Screen // Greg Jenner

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum // Kathryn Hughes

Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey // Nicola Tallis

Favourite books about the history of sex and/or sex work

The Origins of Sex: A History of First Sexual Revolution // Faramerz Dabhoiwala 

Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris // Nina Kushner

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore // Julie Peakman

Courtesans // Katie Hickman

The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in mid-Nineteenth Century England

Madams, Bawds, and Brothel Keepers // Fergus Linnane

The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital // Dan Cruickshank 

A Curious History of Sex // Kate Lister

Sex and Punishment: 4000 Years of Judging Desire // Eric Berkowitz

Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray // Barbara White

Rent Boys: A History from Ancient Times to Present // Michael Hone

Celeste // Roland Perry

Sex and the Gender Revolution // Randolph Trumbach

The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex // Julie Peakman

LGBT+ fiction I love*

The Confessions of the Fox // Jordy Rosenberg 

As Meat Loves Salt // Maria Mccann

Bone China // Laura Purcell

Brideshead Revisited // Evelyn Waugh

The Confessions of Frannie Langton // Sara Collins

The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle // Neil Blackmore

Orlando // Virginia Woolf

Tipping the Velvet // Sarah Waters

She Rises // Kate Worsley

The Mercies // Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit // Jeanette Winterson

Maurice // E.M Forster

Frankisstein: A Love Story // Jeanette Winterson

If I Was Your Girl // Meredith Russo 

The Well of Loneliness // Radclyffe Hall 

* fyi, Life Mask and Girl, Woman, Other are also LGBT+ fiction

Classics I haven’t already mentioned (including children’s classics)

Far From the Madding Crowd // Thomas Hardy 

I Capture the Castle // Dodie Smith 

Vanity Fair // William Makepeace Thackeray 

Wuthering Heights // Emily Brontë

The Blazing World // Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

Murder on the Orient Express // Agatha Christie 

Great Expectations // Charles Dickens

North and South // Elizabeth Gaskell

Evelina // Frances Burney

Death on the Nile // Agatha Christie

The Monk // Matthew Lewis

Frankenstein // Mary Shelley

Vilette // Charlotte Brontë

The Mayor of Casterbridge // Thomas Hardy

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall // Anne Brontë

Vile Bodies // Evelyn Waugh

Beloved // Toni Morrison 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd // Agatha Christie

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling // Henry Fielding

A Room With a View // E.M. Forster

Silas Marner // George Eliot 

Jude the Obscure // Thomas Hardy

My Man Jeeves // P.G. Wodehouse

Lady Audley’s Secret // Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Middlemarch // George Eliot

Little Women // Louisa May Alcott

Children of the New Forest // Frederick Marryat

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings // Maya Angelou 

Rebecca // Daphne du Maurier

Alice in Wonderland // Lewis Carroll

The Wind in the Willows // Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina // Leo Tolstoy

Howard’s End // E.M. Forster

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 // Sue Townsend

Even more fiction recommendations

The Darling Strumpet // Gillian Bagwell

The Wolf Hall trilogy // Hilary Mantel

The Illumination of Ursula Flight // Anne-Marie Crowhurst

Queenie // Candace Carty-Williams

Forever Amber // Kathleen Winsor

The Corset // Laura Purcell

Love in Colour // Bolu Babalola

Artemisia // Alexandra Lapierre

Blackberry and Wild Rose // Sonia Velton

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories // Angela Carter

The Languedoc trilogy // Kate Mosse

Longbourn // Jo Baker

A Skinful of Shadows // Frances Hardinge

The Black Moth // Georgette Heyer

The Far Pavilions // M.M Kaye

The Essex Serpent // Sarah Perry

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // Taylor Jenkins Reid

Cavalier Queen // Fiona Mountain 

The Winter Palace // Eva Stachniak

Friday’s Child // Georgette Heyer

Falling Angels // Tracy Chevalier

Little // Edward Carey

Chocolat // Joanne Harris 

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street // Natasha Pulley 

My Sister, the Serial Killer // Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Convenient Marriage // Georgette Heyer

Katie Mulholland // Catherine Cookson

Restoration // Rose Tremain

Meat Market // Juno Dawson

Lady on the Coin // Margaret Campbell Bowes

In the Company of the Courtesan // Sarah Dunant

The Crimson Petal and the White // Michel Faber

A Place of Greater Safety // Hilary Mantel 

The Little Shop of Found Things // Paula Brackston

The Improbability of Love // Hannah Rothschild

The Murder Most Unladylike series // Robin Stevens

Dark Angels // Karleen Koen

The Words in My Hand // Guinevere Glasfurd

Time’s Convert // Deborah Harkness

The Collector // John Fowles

Vivaldi’s Virgins // Barbara Quick

The Foundling // Stacey Halls

The Phantom Tree // Nicola Cornick

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle // Stuart Turton

Golden Hill // Francis Spufford

Assorted non-fiction not yet mentioned

The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World // Deborah Cadbury

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History to the Italian Renaissance // Catherine Fletcher

All the King's Women: Love, Sex, and Politics in the life of Charles II // Derek Jackson

Mozart’s Women // Jane Glover

Scandalous Liaisons: Charles II and His Court // R.E. Pritchard

Matilda: Queen, Empress, Warrior // Catherine Hanley 

Black Tudors // Miranda Kaufman 

To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape // Charles Spencer

1666: Plague, War and Hellfire // Rebecca Rideal

Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen // Alison Plowden

Catherine of Braganza: Charles II's Restoration Queen // Sarah-Beth Watkins

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses // Helen Rappaport

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 // Stella Tillyard 

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir // Michael Bundock

Black London: Life Before Emancipation // Gretchen Gerzina

In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815

The King’s Mistress: Scandal, Intrigue and the True Story of the Woman who Stole the Heart of George I // Claudia Gold

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson // Paula Byrne

The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England // Amanda Vickery

Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding School, 1939-1979 // Ysenda Maxtone Graham 

Fanny Burney: A Biography // Claire Harman

Aphra Behn: A Secret Life // Janet Todd

The Imperial Harem: Women and the Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire // Leslie Peirce

The Fall of the House of Byron // Emily Brand

The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough // Ophelia Field

Night-Walking: A Nocturnal History of London // Matthew Beaumont, Will Self

Jane Austen: A Life // Claire Tomalin

Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton // Flora Fraser

Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the 18th Century // John Brewer

Henrietta Howard: King’s Mistress, Queen’s Servant // Tracy Borman

City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London // Tom Almeroth-Williams

Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion // Anne Somerset 

Charlotte Brontë: A Life // Claire Harman 

Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe // Anthony Summers

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day // Peter Ackroyd 

Elizabeth I and Her Circle // Susan Doran

African Europeans: An Untold History // Olivette Otele 

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives // Daisy Hay

How to Create the Perfect Wife // Wendy Moore

The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough // Hugo Vickers

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn // Eric Ives

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy // Barbara Ehrenreich

A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie // Kathryn Harkup 

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II // Linda Porter

Female Husbands: A Trans History // Jen Manion

Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day // Anne Somerset

Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country // Edward Parnell 

A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles // Ned Palmer

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine // Lindsey Fitzharris

Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages // Ann Baer

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York // Anne de Courcy

The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc // Suzannah Lipscomb

The Daughters of the Winter Queen // Nancy Goldstone

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency // Bea Koch

Bess of Hardwick // Mary S. Lovell

The Royal Art of Poison // Eleanor Herman 

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte, and the Hanoverians // Janice Hadlow

Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football; How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment // Lee Jackson

Favourite books about current social/political issues (?? for lack of a better term)

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power // Lola Olufemi

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Worker Rights // Molly Smith, Juno Mac

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race // Reni Eddo-Lodge

Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows // Christine Burns

Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism // Alison Phipps

Trans Like Me: A Journey For All Of Us // C.N Lester

Brit(Ish): On Race, Identity, and Belonging // Afua Hirsch 

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution // Dan Hicks

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living // Jes M. Baker

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot // Mikki Kendall

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial // Deborah Lipstadt

Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape // Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman

Don’t Touch My Hair // Emma Dabiri

Sister Outsider // Audre Lorde 

Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen // Amrou Al-Kadhi

Trans Power // Juno Roche

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons // Imani Perry

The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment // Amelia Gentleman

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You // Sofie Hagen

Diaries, memoirs & letters

The Diary of a Young Girl // Anne Frank

Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust // Renia Spiegel 

Writing Home // Alan Bennett

The Diary of Samuel Pepys // Samuel Pepys

Histoire de Ma Vie // Giacomo Casanova

Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger // Nigel Slater

London Journal, 1762-1763 // James Boswell

The Diary of a Bookseller // Shaun Blythell 

Jane Austen’s Letters // edited by Deidre la Faye

H is for Hawk // Helen Mcdonald 

The Salt Path // Raynor Winn

The Glitter and the Gold // Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough

Journals and Letters // Fanny Burney

Educated // Tara Westover

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading // Lucy Mangan

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? // Jeanette Winterson

A Dutiful Boy // Mohsin Zaidi

Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler // Christine Keeler

800 Years of Women’s Letters // edited by Olga Kenyon

Istanbul // Orhan Pamuk

Henry and June // Anaïs Nin

Historical romance (this is a short list because I’m still fairly new to this genre)

The Bridgerton series // Julia Quinn

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover // Sarah Mclean

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake // Sarah Mclean

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics // Olivia Waite

That Could Be Enough // Alyssa Cole

Unveiled // Courtney Milan

The Craft of Love // EE Ottoman

The Maiden Lane series // Elizabeth Hoyt

An Extraordinary Union // Alyssa Cole

Slightly Dangerous // Mary Balogh

Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance // Jennieke Cohen

A Fashionable Indulgence // KJ Charles

#the only categories not on here are plays and poetry #just bc this post would be even longer! #you can ask me for my favourite playwrights/poets separately tho

[citylightsbooks]

5 Questions with Patricia Engel, Author of Infinite Country

Patricia Engel is the author of The Veins of the Ocean, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; It's Not Love, It's Just Paris, winner of the International Latino Book Award; and Vida, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards, New York Times Notable Book, and winner of Colombia's national book award, the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories appear in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. Born to Colombian parents, Patricia teaches creative writing at the University of Miami. 

Patricia Engel is joined by Roberto Lovato, Jean Guerrero, and Juliana Delgado Lopera to celebrate the launch of her new novel Infinite Country, published by Simon & Schuster, in our City Lights LIVE! discussion series on Thursday, March 18th

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Where are you writing to us from?

I'm at my apartment in Miami, which has been my home base for the past seventeen years.

What’s kept you sane during the pandemic?

Gratitude for my good health and stability amid so much chaos and uncertainty. On the daily, it's long walks, sunlight, checking in with my husband, family and friends, sharing laughter and finding small reasons to celebrate life.

What are 3 books you always recommend to people?

Here are three by incredible Colombian writers: Oblivion (El olvido que seremos) by Hector Abad Faciolince, The Bitch (La perra) by Pilar Quintana, and Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco.

Which writers, artists, and others influence your work in general, and this book, specifically?

My general influences are those that arrived earliest in my life: Albert Camus, Anais Nin, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Laura Restrepo, Maryse Condé, and Pablo Neruda, to name a few. With Infinite Country, I wanted to write a slim, compressed novel that spanned years, decades, and generations, but still felt urgent, like a single held breath. Books that I admire that accomplish that are Sula by Toni Morrison, In the Beginning was the Sea by Tómas González, Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, The Lover by Marguerite Duras, and Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector.

If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

This is one of my quiet dreams. I'm not sure where I would open it but I would probably name it after one of my childhood cats, Camus. Certain bestsellers, because I would likely push them on every customer, would be Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat and Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

#5questions #PatriciaEngel #InfiniteCountry #SimonandSchuster #fiction #RobertoLovato #JeanGuerrero #JulianaDelgadoLopero #CityLights

[xxvorpalxx]

A bit of truth to this meme. Dave Vanian is Patricia Morrison's husband and Andrew Eldritch is her ex.

#vorpalmeme #patricia morrison #dave vanian #the damned #andrew eldritch #sisters of mercy #nick cave #nick cave and the bad seeds #robert smith #the cure #south park goth kids #south park #goth #gothic #goth rock #80s music #meme #tumblr memes #memes #goth memes #goth meme #dank memes #dankmemes #celebrity crush #crush

[papermoonloveslucy]

LIZ’S MOTHER HAS SECOND THOUGHTS

September 3, 1948

“Liz’s Mother Has Second Thoughts” (aka “Mother’s Surprise”) is episode #7 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on September 3, 1948.

Synopsis ~ Liz's mother Adele Elliott is all set to marry Houston oil man Dan Carson, but suddenly gets cold feet.

This episode was written by the series’ original writers, before the characters changed their name from Cugat to Cooper. It was also before Jell-O came aboard to sponsor the show and before the regular cast featured Bea Benadaret and Gale Gordon as the Atterburys. 

“My Favorite Husband” was based on the novels Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage (1940) and Outside Eden (1945) by Isabel Scott Rorick, which had previously been adapted into the film Are Husbands Necessary? (1942). “My Favorite Husband” was first broadcast as a one-time special on July 5, 1948. Lucille Ball and Lee Bowman played the characters of Liz and George Cugat, and a positive response to this broadcast convinced CBS to launch “My Favorite Husband” as a series. Bowman was not available Richard Denning was cast as George. On January 7, 1949, confusion with bandleader Xavier Cugat prompted a name change to Cooper. On this same episode Jell-O became its sponsor. A total of 124 episodes of the program aired from July 23, 1948 through March 31, 1951. After about ten episodes had been written, writers Fox and Davenport departed and three new writers took over – Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh, and head writer/producer Jess Oppenheimer. In March 1949 Gale Gordon took over the existing role of George's boss, Rudolph Atterbury, and Bea Benaderet was added as his wife, Iris. CBS brought “My Favorite Husband” to television in 1953, starring Joan Caulfield and Barry Nelson as Liz and George Coope. The television version ran two-and-a-half seasons, from September 1953 through December 1955, running concurrently with “I Love Lucy.” It was produced live at CBS Television City for most of its run, until switching to film for a truncated third season filmed (ironically) at Desilu and recasting Liz Cooper with Vanessa Brown.

MAIN CAST

Lucille Ball (Liz Cugat) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. “My Favorite Husband” eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon.

Richard Denning (George Cugat) was born Louis Albert Heindrich Denninger Jr., in Poughkeepsie, New York. When he was 18 months old, his family moved to Los Angeles. Plans called for him to take over his father's garment manufacturing business, but he developed an interest in acting. Denning enlisted in the US Navy during World War II. He is best known for his  roles in various science fiction and horror films of the 1950s. Although he teamed with Lucille Ball on radio in “My Favorite Husband,” the two never acted together on screen. While “I Love Lucy” was on the air, he was seen on another CBS TV series, “Mr. & Mrs. North.” From 1968 to 1980 he played the Governor on “Hawaii 5-0″, his final role. He died in 1998 at age 84.

Bob LeMond (Announcer) also served as the announcer for the pilot episode of “I Love Lucy”. When the long-lost pilot was finally discovered in 1990, a few moments of the opening narration were damaged and lost, so LeMond – fifty years later – recreated the narration for the CBS special and subsequent DVD release.

GUEST CAST

John Hiestand also played the role of Cory Cartwright on the series. He served as the announcer for the radio show “Let George Do It” from 1946 to 1950. In 1955 he did an episode of “Our Miss Brooks” opposite Gale Gordon. 

William Johnstone is best known for his voice work as the title character on “The Shadow” from 1938 to 1943, replacing Lucille Ball’s friend Orson Welles. He played John Jacob Astor in the 1953 film Titanic.

Sarah Selby (Louise Elliott, Liz’s Mother) started as a radio actress and made her screen debut voicing Prissy the Elephant in Walt Disney’s Dumbo (1941). When “My Favorite Husband” transferred to television (without Ball, who was then two years into “I Love Lucy”), Selby appeared in an episode as a maid (above right). She also appeared on “I Love Lucy” as Dorothy Cook in “The Matchmaker” (ILL S4;E4) - the trapped ‘fly’ to Sam Carter’s ‘spider’. She is perhaps best known for her recurring role as a storekeeper on TV’s “Gunsmoke” from 1961 to 1972.

In other episodes of the series, Mrs. Elliott’s first name is Adele. 

THE EPISODE

ANNOUNCER: “This is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Cugat - the record of a happy marriage. Two people who live together - and like it!” 

As the episode opens, Liz and George are packing their suitcases to visit her mother in the country for the weekend. George cannot drive with Liz because he has a board meeting but will join her later. They wonder what announcement Mother has to make and remember her last big announcement - sponsoring a wrestler named the Hawk. George promises to forcibly remove any new wrestlers!  Liz laughs at the idea. 

GEORGE: “Obviously you’ve never heard of Gorgeous George.” LIZ: (romantically) “You ARE gorgeous, George.”

George is referring to George Raymond Wagner (1915–63), known as Gorgeous George because of his blonde hair. He was mentioned on “I Love Lucy” in “Pioneer Women” (ILL S1;E25) and “Ricky’s Movie Offer” (ILL S4;E6).

Looking to pack her swimsuit, George chides Liz for it being too much too skimpy.

LIZ: “You’re too prudish.” GEORGE: “You’re too nudish.”

On “I Love Lucy” Ricky also was unhappy about the size of Lucy’s swimsuit. In “Off To Florida” (ILL S6;E6) Ricky at first thinks Lucy’s new swimsuit is for Little Ricky! Lucy also buys a swimsuit that Ricky feels is too revealing when shopping for their California trip in “Getting Ready”(ILL S4;E11).  The subject will be broached again on “My Favorite Husband” in “Liz Learns To Swim” in June 1950.

Greeting her mother Liz quickly tries to guess her big news.

LIZ: “Chickasaw Indian tap dancing?”   MOTHER: “Chickasaw Indian tap dancing? Hmmm... I wonder whether they teach that at Arthur Murray?” LIZ: “We’re not talking about Arthur Murray.”

Although Liz is being facetious about the tap dancing, there really is a Chickasaw tribe of indigenous Americans. The are mainly found in the Southwestern United States.

LUCY: “Arthur Morton is no Arthur Murray.”

Arthur Murray is also quite real. He taught dance and franchised his dancing schools starting in 1925. He was mentioned on “I Love Lucy” in “The Young Fans” (ILL S1;E20. above). The song “Cuban Pete,” which Ricky sang in “The Diet” (ILL S1;E4) , includes the line "And Cuban Pete don’t teach you in a hurry, like Arthur Murray.”  Murray will be mentioned again on “My Favorite Husband” in “Dancing Lessons” (June 1950). 

Mother finally breaks the news: she is getting married.  Liz’s knees buckle!  His name is Daniel Carson from Houston, Texas, an oil tycoon. 

Although it is not stated whether Liz’s father is dead or just divorced from Louise, absent fathers will be a continuing theme in Lucille Ball’s career, just as it was in her real life due to her father’s sudden death when she was just four. Like Liz, Lucy Ricardo will have an independent (and somewhat quirky) mother, but no father. Lucys Carmichael, Carter, and Barker all have children, but deceased husbands and fathers.

 Asking more about her mother’s intended, Mother compares him (loosely) to a movie star. 

MOTHER: “He’s just like Gary Cooper.  Well... they’re both men.” 

Gary Cooper (1901-61) was mentioned three times on “I Love Lucy”. Lucy Ricardo disguised herself as the monosyllabic actor for the benefit of Carolyn Appleby in “Lucy and Harpo Marx” (ILL S4;E28). 

Mother met Carson when they both were buying tickets to a Randolph Scott picture. 

Since then, they’ve corresponded. 

“My Dear Louise. Howdy. Love Dan. PS: Will you marry me?”

Although no specific film title is mentioned, Mother and Mr. Carson were probably attending Albuquerque, which opened in February 1948, around when Liz says her mother traveled there. The film starred future “I Love Lucy” player Irving Bacon (Ethel’s father Will Potter). Coincidentally, Lucille Ball did two films with Randolph Scott: Follow the Fleet (1936) and Roberta (1935). 

George arrives at Mother’s. Liz refuses to tell him Mother’s secret, so George gets even by saying that he has a secret, too. He teases her that it has something to do with Myra Ponsenby and a hayride. 

Myra Ponsenby is George’s old flame. The character originated in the original George and Liz Cugat stories by Isabel Scott Rorick. Myra was played by Patricia Morrison (above right) in the 1942 film Are Husbands Necessary? and the character is mentioned and featured on several radio episodes before the name change to Cooper. 

Dan arrives for dinner. Mother introduces Liz and George. Dan admires George’s strong handshake. After dinner (or “grub” or “chuck” as he refers to meals), Dan reveals that he bought his oil-filled property for $650,000 from the local Indians and reveals that he has an 18 year-old horse named Shotgun. 

LIZ: “Do you feed him or load him?”

The doorbell rings and Dan’s friend Slim enters. Slim is going to be the best man at the wedding. Slim gives Mother a gift - he is going to provide all the music for the wedding. He introduces the ‘Sons of the Singing Sagebrush’ who sing “You Are My Sunshine” and “I’m a-Headin’ for the Last Round-Up”.  They finish up with a western version of “Oh, Promise Me.”  

DAN: “Lu is loco for the Sons, ain’t ya, Lu?”

"You Are My Sunshine" was popularized by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell in 1939. Davis was a country music singer and Louisiana governor from 1944–1948 and 1960–1964. “Oh, Promise Me” is an 1887 art song by Reginald de Koven and Clement Scott. Viv Bagley (Vivian Vance) sang it when Lucy Carmichael’s sister got married in “Lucy’s Sister Pays a Visit” (TLS S1;E15) and it was also sung in a 1972 episode of “Here’s Lucy.” 

Liz’s mother decides that she needs to get out of the wedding just when Carson gets a telegram that his horse Shotgun is ill. Dan leaves Mother a box of dirt and departs. 

LIZ: “It’ll make a nice Christmas present for people who don’t have dirt.” 

Before George can break the news to Mother that Dan has gone, Liz reveals that it was her who sent the telegram! 

In a bedtime coda, the Cugats declare their love for one another. Liz ends her protestations of love with “Would you get up and get me a glass of water?”  He does. 

In real-life however, the story was quite different. Desi Arnaz told columnist Earl Carroll that on their wedding night in 1940, Desi asked Lucy to get out of bed and get him a glass of water, which she did without a word. Next morning, however, Lucy spoke up: “Listen, you - the next time you want a glass of water you get it yourself!’”

LIZ: “Goodnight, Cuddle Puddle.” GEORGE: “Goodnight, Little Drip.”

TRIVIA

Two days after this episode was broadcast (September 5, 1948) The Amarillo News reported:

Lucille Ball, who once worked! as a chorus girl at Columbia for $50 a week, goes back to the studio at a six-figure salary for Miss Grant Took Richmond. Just before Columbia fired her, she was the foil for the Three Stooges. Lucille says today: "Columbia fired me because there wasn't anything left for the Three Stooges to hit me with."

Her new airshow, "My Favorite Husband," based on the Mr. and Mrs. George Cugat characters, is one of Hollywood's best fall prospects. Richard Denning plays the husband. When someone asked Lucille's husband, Desi Arnaz why he wasn't doing the show with her, he cracked: "I guess I'm not the type.”

Not only does this item promote Lucille Ball’s upcoming film (filming began in March 1949), but it hints that Lucy and Desi were not happy about CBS not allowing Desi to play her husband on radio. After the original George Cugat, Lee Bowman, was unavailable, Lucy pitched Desi for the role, but CBS insisted on the more ‘believable’ Richard Denning. 

#My Favorite Husband #Lucille Ball #Richard Denning #I Love Lucy #CBS #Radio #Miss Grant Takes Richmond #Oh Promise Me #Gary Cooper #Albuquerque #Arthur Murray #You Are My Sunshine #Gorgeous George #Sarah Selby #Bob LeMond

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An AfroFuturism Conversation with Tananarive Due VERY IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING THE LOCATION: The address can be confusing. YOU ARE GOING TO ENTER THE BUILDING AT THE INTERSECTION OF DECATUR STREET AND COLLINS STREET. DOWNLOAD THE DIRECTIONS AND MAP here - http://umff.com/cinefestdirections.pdf This ticket included in your AfroFuturism festival pass. TANANARIVE DUE joining us remotely for the inaugural AfroFuturism Festival for an "AFROFUTURISM CONVERSATION WITH TANANARIVE DUE." Tananarive Due is a former Cosby Chair in the Humanities at Spelman College (2012-2014), where she taught screenwriting, creative writing and journalism. She also teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles. The American Book Award winner and NAACP Image Award recipient is the author of twelve novels and a civil rights memoir. In 2010, she was inducted into the Medill School of Journalism's Hall of Achievement at Northwestern University. Due's novella “Ghost Summer,” published in the 2008 anthology The Ancestors , received the 2008 Kindred Award from the Carl Brandon Society, and her short fiction has appeared in best-of-the-year anthologies of science fiction and fantasy. Due is a leading voice in black speculative fiction; a paper on Due's work recently was presented at the College Language Association (CLA) Conference. Her first short story collection, Ghost Summer, will be published by Prime Books in June of 2015. Due collaborates on the Tennyson Hardwick mystery series with her husband, author Steven Barnes, in partnership with actor Blair Underwood. Due also wrote The Black Rose , a historical novel about the life of Madam C.J. Walker, based on the research of Alex Haley – and Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights , which she co-authored with her mother, the late civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due. Freedom in the Family was named 2003's Best Civil Rights Memoir by Black Issues Book Review . (Patricia Stephens Due took part in the nation's first “Jail-In” in 1960, spending 49 days in jail in Tallahassee, Florida, after a sit-in at a Woolworth lunch counter.) In 2004, alongside such luminaries as Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison, Due received the “New Voice in Literature Award” at the Yari Yari Pamberi conference co-sponsored by New York University's Institute of African-American Affairs and African Studies Program and the Organization of Women Writers of Africa. Due has a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University and an M.A. in English literature from the University of Leeds, England, where she specialized in Nigerian literature as a Rotary Foundation Scholar. In addition to VONA, Due has taught at the Hurston-Wright Foundation's Writers' Week and the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop. As a screenwriter, she is a member of the Writers' Guild of America (WGA). Due and her husband, Steven Barnes, met at a speculative fiction conference at Clark Atlanta University in 1997. Due lives in Southern California with Barnes and their son, Jason. Her writing blog is at www.tananarivedue.wordpress.com . Her website is atwww.tananarivedue.com . Kitchen Table Lit Book Club Favorite Tananarive Due!!

An AfroFuturism Conversation with TANANARIVE DUE - Host By Urban Mediamakers - https://www.facebook.com/urban.filmmakers/

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Happy birthday Dave! I think you’re wonderful <3

#dave vanian #the damned #top of the pops #happy birthday #got these from the Eloise top of the pops performance #I love him #he’s so cute #Patricia Morrisons husband

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Some Books I Read in School:

Americanah x Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Speak x Laurie Halse Anderson

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings x Maya Angelou

Thirteen Reasons Why x Jay Asher

Fun Home x Alison Bechdel

Great Speeches by Native Americans x Bob Blaisdell

Tangerine x Edward Bloor

The Souls of Black Folk x W.E.B Du Bois

Wuthering Heights x Emily Bronte

Blacks x Gwendolyn Brooks

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame x Charles Bukowski

Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way x Charles Bukowski

You Get So Alone x Charles Bukowski

The Best Small Fictions x Robert Olen Butler

In Cold Blood x Truman Capote

Black Voices x Abraham Chapman

The Perks of Being a Wallflower x Stephen Chbosky

The Beauty of the Husband x Anne Carson

Alphabet x Inger Christensen

Canterbury Tales x Geoffrey Chaucer

Great Speeches by African Americans x James Daley

The Virgin Suicides x Jeffrey Eugenides 

Confrontations with the Reaper x Fred Feldman

The Great Gatsby x F. Scott Fitzgerald

If I Stay x Gayle Forman

Lais of Marie de France x Marie de France

The Schreber Case x Sigmund Freud

The “Wolfman” and Other Cases x Sigmund Freud

Memoirs of a Geisha x Arthur Golden

Backpack Literature: an Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing 4th ed. x X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia

The Fault in Our Stars x John Green

Looking for Alaska x John Green

Paper Towns x John Green

N*gg** x Dick Gregory

Introduction to Buddhism x G. K. Gyatso

True Love x Thich Nhat Hanh

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man x Steve Harvey

The Scarlet Letter x Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Farewell to Arms x Ernest Hemingway

The Outsiders x S.E. Hinton

Solar Storms x Linda Hogan

The Iliad x Homer

The Odyssey x Homer

Farewell to Manzanar x Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston

Tea x Velina Hasu Houston

Humanimal x Bhanu Kapil

Flowers for Algernon x Daniel Keyes

Intensity x Dean Koontz

Velocity x Dean Koontz

To Kill a Mockingbird x Harper Lee

The Realm of Possibility x David Levithan

The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death x Steven Luper

Blood x Shane McCrae

Moby Dick x Herman Melville

Twilight Series x Stephenie Meyer

The Crucible x Arthur Miller

A Mercy x Toni Morrison

Recyclopedia x Harryette Mullen

What Makes Law: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law x Liam Murphy

The Fuck Up x Arthur Nersesian 

What Mama Said x Osonye Tess Onwueme

My Year of Meats x Ruth Ozeki

A Child Called It: One Child’s Courage to Survive x Dave Pelzer

Freak the Mighty x Rodman Philbrick

The Bell Jar x Sylvia Plath

Anthem x Ayn Rand

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children x Ransom Riggs

Growing Up Native American x Patricia Riley

Housekeeping x Marilynne Robinson

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America x Tricia Rose

Harry Potter Series x J.K. Rowling

Holes x Louis Sachar

The Catcher in the Rye x J. D. Salinger

Between Shades of Gray x Ruta Sepetys

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter x Seth Grahame-Smith

Hamlet x William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream x William Shakespeare

Othello x William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet x William Shakespeare

Taming of the Shrew x William Shakespeare

The Tempest x William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night x William Shakespeare

The Rose that Grew From Concrete x Tupac Shakur

A Series of Unfortunate Events series x Lemony Snicket

Go Ask Alice x Beatrice Sparks

A Walk to Remember x Nicholas Sparks

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer x Jack Spicer

Maniac Magee x Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl x Jerry Spinelli

Of Mice and Men x John Steinbeck

Dracula x Bram Stoker

Gulliver’s Travels x Jonathan Swift

The Hobbit x J. R. R. Tolkien 

Slaughterhouse-Five x Kurt Vonnegut

Meridian x Alice Walker

Charlotte’s Web x E.B. White

The Picture of Dorian Gray x Oscar Wilde

Black Boy x Richard Wright

12 Million Black Voices x Richard Wright

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest x Karen Tei Yamashita

The Book Thief x Markus Zusak

#theonesicanremember

[lycorogue]

Who Wants to Meet My OCs? (Part 1 - Creating Worlds)

Okay, so I wanted to do this for months now, but was always too lazy to just sit down and do it. Well, I’m feeling motivated now, so let’s give it a whirl.

I’d like to introduce each of you to my OCs with their own individual posts. You are more than welcome to AMA about them or send me asks requesting for a specific character to answer. I want YOU to know more about them, because that helps ME learn more about them. :D The thing, though, is I’d also like to let you guys know the IRL background for each character. I’d LOVE to let you guys in on the process of how I came up with these OCs in the first place. So I’m starting my Meet My OCs series with exactly that: a break-down on how I came up with them. I’ll be posting a new one every Sunday for the next few months. It became quite lengthy though, which is why I’m splitting them up into a mini-series. However, if you really don’t care, and wish to just jump to the info posts for the characters themselves, you can check out my first character intro: Willow Driver If you ARE interested in my character creation process, feel free to check below the break, and thank you for indulging me. :) 

My main OCs come from one of two places, both of which includes role playing. I guess that means I can’t discover a character for a full-length story unless I’ve ran around in their skin for a few months...

For this first part of the series, I’m going to start large: introducing the main Inspiration Spring for my OCs and the worlds they live in.

Those two worlds/stories are: 

1) Gyateara

2) Glitches

The second part of my series will talk more about the IRL origins for my Gyateara characters. And the third part will explain where my Glitches characters came from.

Then I’ll get into the actual character intros.

But first: the worlds!

Gyateara

The characters for Gyateara are (mostly) from D&D campaigns. This original world of mine (of which I’m still painfully building) is your classic High Fantasy/Tolkien-esque/D&D setting. However, Gyateara itself refers to the world a series of not-necessarily-interconnecting stories will take place on. There may even be multiple book series written within the overall Gyateara universe. Much like how Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are all the Ender Series, meanwhile Ender’s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant are all the Shadow Series (following Bean), but they are both series within the overall Enderverse. Buuuuut, I’ll have to FINISH CREATING THE WORLD before I think of anything that in-depth.

My original inspiration for Gyateara was the Xbox game Fable, way back in 2005. I sort of took the world build around the country of Albion in that game, added in some Hyrule from the Legend of Zelda franchise, sprinkled in Feudal Japan as presented in the anime InuYasha, and finished off with a dash of Gaea from the anime The Vision of Escaflowne. Once I mixed that hodge-podge pot of environments and world-builds together, I poured it out into the half-baked cake that became The Northern Isles. This was the main setting for my failed first NaNoWriMo attempt: The Race for Destiny. (The story is so bad, you guys! TT^TT) 

As years crawled along, I got introduced to the webcomic Order of the Stick (which is excellent and still going, btw). Strip #273 started a mini-series called The Crayons of Time, which told the world creation story. It also discussed the four main pantheons; which were typically the Main Four that D&D players use if they don’t want to put in the effort to create their own gods. The Northern Gods are the Norse pantheon, Eastern Gods are the Greek pantheon, Southern Gods are the Chinese Zodiac, and Western Gods are the ones created for D&D and presented in the Player’s Handbook. The gods battled each other frequently, and so they went to the four directions, promised not to really intervene with the other regions, and kind of ignored each other.

I LOVED this concept, and wove it into my world, where there are multiple pantheons, much like there was IRL, except, Gyateara’s gods are KNOWN to be real, but they don’t intervene outside their region of rule, so it’s rare for non-travelers to even know of the other gods/pantheons.

I’ll have to dedicate time to go more in-depth with Gyateara and it’s build in the future.

Glitches

While Gyateara refers to the world, and not the intended stories themselves, Glitches very much refers to one intended series/saga. I envision it as a large-cast project I’d love to one day create as a webcomic. Sadly, I can barely draw stick figures, and I have yet to accomplish the task of writing a comic script. I’ve written movie scripts before, but not comic scripts. I did debate waving the white flag and just going with my trusty skill as an amateur novelist, but Glitches just seems like such a visual story to me. Which is probably why I have multiple character images for Glitches, but not so much for my Gyateara characters.

Glitches actually originated as a message board play-by-post role play game.

Back in 2012, my husband and I rewatched the TV series X-Men: Evolution. Hubby loved how the show re-imagined a lot of the canonical X-Men characters, and decided he wanted to host a role play game using that universe. Hubby wondered what the Evolution characters would be like as adults in this universe. More importantly, he wondered what THEIR CHILDREN would be like. So he started up the game we titled X-Future. 

In the RP, each player got to pick a parent off of a list Hubby provided and regularly updated. Then, because life is random, Hubby rolled on a chart to determine the second parent for the player’s character. Once that’s figured out, Hubby rolled on yet another chart to see what powers the character inherited. The player then had fairly free-rein to create from that moment on. Sadly, most of the parental pairings were suuuuuper random, and the players not THAT creative, and so we had a LOT of “one night stand souvenir” kids. Regardless, the actual character creations, development, and interactions were fairly good.

In fact, after a solid year or so of playing on X-Future, I realized I loved our overall story so much that I wanted more than just our players to experience it. At first, I attempted to just rewrite our game sessions as story chapters. It... got long and messy, especially when I tried to go back and re-organize the order of the posts. We... didn’t focus on continuity and timelines as much as we should have in those early sessions.... Nearly 70,000 words and 14 chapters in, and I had only recapped the first couple months of the game. 

Perhaps someday I’ll attempt to continue (and complete) the project, but for right now it’s just too much for me to work on with everything else.

Eventually, while working on my rewrite project, I realized I wanted to polish things up, tweak others, and kind of just go down my own storytelling road. That’s when I decided I wanted to take some of the more prominent characters from X-Future and drop them in an original, non-X-Men-related, story.

For whatever reason, I pictured X-Future as being a sort of baby cyberpunk environment. Not as extreme as say Ghost in the Shell, or Blade Runner, or Johnny Mnemonic, or Æon Flux or anything like that. It’s more like the cusp of cyberpunk, like the world just as it’s transitioning into a cyberpunk one. Because of this, I thought that instead of “mutants”, my characters would be called “glitches.”

I talked a bit more about the world of Glitches in three posts back in November:

Generic History of the World

Explaining The GRID: Part 1

Explaining The GRID: Part 2

The Characters

Alright, now that you know a bit about the worlds and the IRL inspiration for them, how about the characters I’ll be introducing you to in this series?

From Gyateara:

Amara Yori

Jolene Crisslebalm

Natalie [last name TBD]

Connor [last name TBD]

From Glitches:

Willow Driver

Amelia “Lia” Mordeaux [last name not set]

Patricia “Trish” Morrison

Chayse LeBeau [last name TBD]

Matteo [last name TBD]

Emily [last name TBD]

Ryder [last name TBD]

Keahi [last name TBD]

Cody [last name TBD]

Ignatius “Iggy” [last name TBD]

I’d also like for you guys to meet Devon St. James from Glitches, but he’s actually my friend’s OC for X-Future, and I haven’t received permission to officially include him in Glitches yet. Likewise, I would LOOOOOOVE to include the characters Lucas and Lincoln from X-Future, but the player who created them specifically requested that he is the only one who writes them. So, sadly, they will not be making the transition into Glitches. 

Also, all of those “Last name to be determined” for Glitches is because they all still have their Marvel Canon last names right now. I still have to tweak those.

Matteo, Emily, Ryder, Keahi, Cody, and Ignatius were all originally Marvel-owned X-Men canon characters that were parents and/or mentors for the characters within X-Future. While I reworked their looks, personalities, backstory, and even their powers a bit, I only focused on new first names. Eventually I’ll figure out their last names...

Chayse and Lia have their fathers’ last names, and their fathers are X-Men canon characters, and so I still have to tweak their last names as well.

As for the “Last name to be determined” for those two Gyateara characters? Well, they’re from “The Race for Destiny”. That failed NaNo project I talked about above. One of the failures was that I never really put in the effort to come up with last names for them... so I’ll need to work on that as well.

Phew... that... was a lot. Thank you so much for reading through it all!

Next up, further IRL creation stories for my Gyateara characters.

#writing #LycoRogue Writing #OCs #Meet My OCs #world creation #IRL inspiration #IRL creation #writing process #long post #Gyateara #Glitches #series post #1 of 17? #LycoRogue original

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Funeral Service for the late Petrona Delores Strachan- Taylor aged 71 years, of Croton Road off Faith Avenue will be held on Sunday March 22nd, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. at Good News Seventh Day Adventist Church, Flamingo Gardens.  Officiating will be Pastor Bradley Sturrup assisted by other ministers of the Gospel.  Interment will follow in Lakeview Memorial Gardens, John F. Kennedy Drive. Left to cherish her fond memories are her Husband: Wellington Alexander Taylor; Mother In-law: Winnifred Roxberry-Taylor of Dunmore Long Island; Daughters: Caroline Mackey, Lea Taylor-Mims of Waldoft Maryland & Jeannette Taylor; Sons: Pedro Deveaux, Van Mackey (Son In-law), Roderick Mims of Waldoft Maryland (Son Inlaw); Sisters: Bernadette Rolle, Janet Strachan of Virginia, USA and Monica Davis (adopted Sister); Brothers: Joel, Patrick, Archie & Shawn Strachan, Larry Miller, Michael & Roger Rolle (Free Port Grand Bahama) & Anthony Mott-Strachan; Grand Children: Ebonique Taylor, Vanneisha, Veronique, Vanessa, Van Jr. Mackey, Pedricka, Brianna, Pedranique, Daniya, Pedraney, Gabriel Deveaux & Prescott Newton. Great Grand Child: Tiffonya Deveaux; Sisters In-law: Faith Rolle, Jessica Mott of Ft. Lauderdale, Capprio Miller, Maria Wallace & Caramae Taylor of Dunmore Long Island. Aunts: Paula Bell & Rosemary Williams of Miami, Florida Uncles: Arlington Morrison & Buster Morley of Hollywood, Florida Nieces: Natasha Forbes, Melissa & Tquavia Rolle, Desiree Wilson, Samantha Jagassar-Strachan, Tanya & Josely Strachan. Nephews: Robert Taylor, Noel Forbes, Christopher Turnquest, Elkino, Michael Jr. & Trevor Rolle, Desmond & Deangelo Wilson, Dakota & Skyler Mott-Strachan, Kendrick, Vanderez, Lamard & Quemard Strachan. Grand Nieces: Riley & Rnaye Taylor, Jeremea Knowles, Demetria, Jahmine & Shemeka. Grand Nephews: Tranai Rolle, Raheem, Robert Jr & Rashano Taylor, Jarett Knowles & AJ Relatives and Friends: Prescola King, Eleanor Newbold, Lydia Armaly, Sharon Dorsett, Donnalee Munroe, Carolyn Williams, Bernadette Rahming, Elaine, Garth, Tony, Ross, Ted, Shawn, Leslie, Neil, Shandoo, France & Peron King, Patricia Bain, Yvette Ingraham, Tanya Braynen & Alexis King. Paige Joseph, Orpheus, Ferry, Pete & Kendal Ingraham, Desmond Greenslade, Betty Mosley, Opal Adderley, Pam, Jeremy & Lavardo Russell, Ruth, Rodney & Joel Strachan, Gayle Dunn, Henery Wiggins, Pearl Rahming & Family, Agnes Roker & Family, Sophia Mott & Family. Erica Gibson-Ferguson & Family, Cynthia Fowler & Family, Angela Mckenzie & Family, Joeanne Poitier & Family, Charlamae Fobes, Monique Melbourne, Sandra Miller, Garvy Storr, Sam Neely, Hercules Seymour, Theresa Ingraham & Shanice & Willington Taylor Jr. Host of other relative and friends including the, Strachan, Moncur, Kings, Seymour & Taylor families. The members of Real Harvest Seventh-day Adventist Church, The Ranfurly Home for Children & The former staff of Russell’s Department Store.   Friends may pay their last respects at Bethel Brothers Morticians & Crematorium, #44 Nassau Street on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and at the Church on Sunday from 12:00 noon until service time.   The post Petrona Delores Strachan- Taylor | Funeral Service appeared first on The Nassau Guardian. source https://thenassauguardian.com/2020/03/19/petrona-delores-strachan-taylor-funeral-service/

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Murder in Lehigh Valley Keith Morrison Investigates March 5 on ID

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[undervideobanner] On December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son Alex disappeared without a trace from their home in Catasauqua, Pa. Patricia Rorrer, the ex-girlfriend of Katrinak’s husband, was convicted of the murders and has maintained her innocence for 20 years while serving life behind bars. Today, her attorney says not only was his client wrongfully convicted, but she was framed. An appeal pending in Pennsylvania Superior Court that includes allegations of a frame-up, coercion by the District Attorney’s office, misidentification of a witness and evidence tampering, all of which the state vehemently denies. Veteran journalist and “Dateline NBC” correspondent Keith Morrison revisits the crimes in an all-new special “MURDER IN LEHIGH VALLEY: KEITH MORRISON INVESTIGATES,” airing Sunday, March 5 with back-to-back premieres at 8/7c and 9/8c, and features an exclusive phone interview in which Rorrer speaks out from prison for the first time ever. [undervideotext]

Murder in Lehigh Valley Keith Morrison Investigates March 5 on ID originated at http://ift.tt/2daJ7Bb

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Here’s some of my damned gifs <33 I got all of these from the YouTube video called ‘The Damned - New Rose (Live at Eventim Apollo, London - October 29, 2022)’

Enjoy <333

#the damned #dave vanian #captain sensible #the cool guy that broke onto stage #Dave became really dad-ish #he tells the security to let the guy go #then tells them to be gentle #and when he first sees the guy he says ‘where’d you come from’ #such a cutie #Patricia Morrisons husband #my gifs

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Happy birthday to my beautiful darling Patricia Morrison <333

Some of my favorite pictures of the goth mama (some of which are with the goth papa)

#happy birthday Patricia #patricia morrison #the gun club #the damned #her husband #Dave Vanian #goth mama and papa #my parents #the sisters of mercy

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Glitches - The GRID (part 2)

Apparently I’m spending my day off now gushing on and on about my original work in a series of posts.

You can thank @cyhyr for this. If you don’t know why, you can check her ask here. The woman has opened the flood gates and I fear she knows not what she’s done.

In my last installment, I discussed what The GRID was, what the “species” of Glitches were, and demonstrated how the GRID works via 6 X-Men universe characters I re-worked into originals.

Now to do the same with the actual original characters. 

FULL DISCLOSURE: While Lia, Willow, and Trish are all my characters, Chayse was created by my husband, who gave me full permission to use him in Glitches. Devon, on the other hand, was created by Cyhyr’s husband Ronoxym. While the two of us have one major co-writing project centered around Willow and Devon, and we have two more centered around Devon and Trish where it’s more of a writer’s exchange, Ron has not given me official permission to utilize Devon should Glitches ever become something I try to market. Devon will be removed from Glitches if I am never given that permission and/or if Ronoxym requests I don’t use his OC.

Working with the assumption that I will be given permission and/or Ron will come on as a co-author of Glitches, Devon remains one of the main five teenage characters.

To see how these powerhouses would be registered within The GRID, check below the break.

The Teenage OCs: All five of these main characters started their lives as OCs created for an X-Men universe RPG. Their Glitches counterparts are almost an exact adaptation of these RPG characters.

Chayse is the son of Emily and Ryder. Lia is the daughter of Keahi and Cody. Since I haven’t figured out the last names of any of these adult characters, these two teens also currently have no last name. 

Chayse: Registration: Evoker-Mind-Beast triple Hybrid; Evoker Class: Energy Charmer; Mind Class: Silver-Tongue; Beast Class: enhanced endurance; Beast Hybrid Element: neon-green eye color

Chayse basically has both parents’ mutations, and at an evolved level. His body is capable of withstanding extra kinetic energy. This allows him to power up his own cells to jump higher, run faster and farther, hit harder, withstand more blunt-force impact, and - towards the start of the actual Glitches story - he learns that he can build up enough kinetic energy to vibrate his body between atoms; allowing him to phase through objects or turn himself essentially invisible. The evolution of his mother’s powers is offset by a lowered control of his father’s Silver-Tongue ability. It’s more of a heightened charisma sort of thing than an actual hypnosis.

Amelia “Lia”: Registration: Evoker-Beast-Tweaker-Mind Super-Hybrid; Evoker Class: Earth Summoner; Norm-Beast Multi-Class: enhanced endurance, and elemental immunity; Tweaker Class: Elemental; Mind Class: limited telekinesis

So, I’m not sure how I can get it to naturally come up in the story and have it really impact anything, but technically speaking: Lia’s a clone. Cody’s powers activated when his sperm impregnated Keahi, but since the embryo was nurtured with Keahi’s blood, and didn’t derive from Cody’s, it was Keahi that was inadvertently cloned. Since it wasn’t an intentional Soul Split, Lia matured naturally like any other embryo, which also included some residual DNA from her father. This evolved Keahi’s powers. Lia manipulates magma instead of just granite. Instead of Keahi’s reflexive granite armor, Lia’s reflexes turn her into living lava with an obsidian skin encasement. She is fully immune to being burned - even when fully encased in molten rock - and cannot be smothered by ash, volcanic toxic fumes, or smoke. She can create magma balls she can use offensively, or melt rocks into magma. She can also rapidly cool magma into rock in order to create things like pumice, granite, obsidian, etc. Much like her mother, there is a LOT to unpack with her powers.

Willow Driver: Registration: Mind-Mage-Beast Hybrid; Mind Multi-Class: Illusionist, Telekinetic, Telepath; Mage Class: plane-hopper; Beast Hybrid elements: silver-white hair and aquamarine eyes.

Willow’s main ability is to create illusions. She uses elements of telepathy and telekinesis to do this. She can manipulate the receptors in someone’s brain so that the illusion can be interacted with using all five senses. This resulted in people originally classifying her as a God-Level hybrid evoker, since every illusion she created seemed 100% real. The manipulation of the brain receptors are the telepathic element, but the telekinetic also kicks in to levitate someone to make things like stairs seem real. The ability to use telekinetic or telepathic powers outside of her illusions was only recently discovered at the start of the main Glitches story line. She is also technically considered a plane-hopper since she can astral-project, as well as linger on the astral plane. Her physical body doesn’t move, and in fact falls unconscious while she’s astral-projected. She can also “walk around” someone’s memories by subconsciously projecting them as an illusion within the astral-plane. Much like the Silver-Tongue ability, there are restrictions to her powers that I won’t go into detail about here.

Patricia “Trish” Morrison: Registration: Evoker-Beast Hybrid; Evoker Class: Fire Summoner; Beast Class: elemental immunity; Beast Hybrid element: flame-orange eye color

Much like Iggy, Trish has elemental immunity to fire. She can’t be harmed by it either through burning, heat, or smothering. There is a crucial difference between Iggy’s fire-charming and Trish’s fire-summoning. While Iggy can’t create fire, but he can manipulate it into shapes and even manipulate the density so fire can be tangible, Trish is the opposite. She can create fire - and even typically encases herself in flames - but she can’t manipulate it’s shape or density. She does still have the ability to increase or decrease the size of the fire, however, regardless of the amount of fuel feeding the flame.

Devon St. James: Registration: Evoker-Tweaker Hybrid; Evoker Class: Fire-Charmer; Tweaker Multi-Class: Morpher and regeneration

Devon’s Evoker abilities are exactly that of Iggy’s: can manipulate the size, shape, and density of fire, but he cannot create it. He also doesn’t have the added benefit of elemental immunity. He can be burnt by fire, or smothered by smoke. He can work around those downsides though. First, his fire charming allows him to also bend the heat of fire away from his skin. Fire he’s not concentrating on though, will be able to burn him. His other work around is his morphing ability. He can change the structure of his body via touch. His skin absorbs a bit of someone’s DNA, allowing his body to accept it as his own: allowing him to alter his own body to look and sound like the person he touched. There’s a lot of potential with this power, but that’s for another post. The added benefit of his morphing ability is that, since his cells are built to be changed on a whim, he has the side-effect ability of regeneration. So if his lungs are damaged from smoke, he can regenerate the tissue in order to keep breathing. If he loses a limb, the same applies. It takes a lot of energy to regenerate, so it is possible to drain him to the point where he can’t do so. On the flipside, if it takes him long enough to die, he can recover from normally fatal wounds. If this power were ever confirmed, he’d technically be added to the Mage Species under the Immortal class.

I think shifting Devon to Glitches accidentally made him more badass than he actually is. XD

Anyway, that’s all for this installment. I need to pretend I’m actually doing something productive today. Especially since I just spent about five hours talking about Glitches instead of cleaning my home or working on my NaNo story.... 

#Glitches #LycoRogue writing #original writing #The GRID #character builds #classifying characters #classifying powers #teen characters #Chayse #Lia #Willow #Trish #Devon #former RPG characters #my characters #my husband's character #Ronoxym's character #opened a can of worms #they're not as OP as they sound