"I saw the signs, but I guess I thought she would pull through anyway. I'm so sorry, Carl -- I don't know what to say, I don't know how you could ever forgive me."
"Now now, no one is to blame here."
"Have you heard from her at all?"
"No, nothing."
"And no idea of where she would go, who she would contact?"
"No."
"--But it's okay," Carl continued. He smiled as he walked towards Irene, who was gently rocking baby Layla.
"How?" she asked the floor.
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The Force of July (Abraham Lincoln Carlyle, Lady Liberty, Majory Victory, Mayflower, Silent Majority, and Sparkler) got in a lethal battle with Task Force X (The Suicide Squad) in Suicide Squad 27# (cover date May, 1989). The conflict saw the murder of Abraham Lincoln Carlyle, Mayflower, and Sparkler. ("The Janus Directive 2: Scattermove", Suicide Squad 27#, Comic, Event)
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Onyx Soul: Dana Carlisle, Half-Blood Siren (2001)
The 'Bastard' son of a Siren and her human lover, Dana is frowned upon by most of Gravesend, only being accepted by the Carson-Harlow siblings, as the rest of the town would like to get rid of him.
"Did your brothers leave you all by yourself, that's a risky move."
Name
Full Legal Name: Dana Ariel Hadley Carlisle
First Name: Dana
Meaning: From a surname that is of unknown origin
Pronunciation: DAY-na
Origin: English
Middle Name(s): Ariel, Hadley
Meaning(s): Ariel: Means 'Lion of God' in Hebrew, from ''Ari' meaning 'Lion' and ''El' meaning 'God'
Hadley: From an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning 'Heather field' in Old English
Pronunciation: EHR-ee-al/AR-ee-al, HAD-lee
Origin: Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Polish, Biblical, Biblical Greek. English
Surname: Carlisle
Meaning: From the name of a city in northern England
Pronunciation: KAHR-liel
Origin: English
Aliases: Dan Carlyle, Ariel Hadley
Nicknames: Dan, Ana, D.C, Ari
Titles: Mr
Characteristics
Age: 23
Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns
Race: 1/2 Siren 1/2 Human
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: White
Birth Date: 28th August 1978
Sexuality: Bisexual
Religion: Raised following the 'Water Spirit'
Native Language: English
Spoken Languages: English, (some) Spanish, (Some) French
Relationship Status: Single (Has a crush on both Phoenix and Navy)
Astrological Sign: Virgo
Face Claim: Jack Black
Geographical Characteristics
Birthplace: Gravesend
Current Residence: Gravesend
Have They Been Beyond The Veil: Yes
Appearance
Height: 5'6" / 168 cm
Weight: [Data Redacted]
Eye Colour: Brown
Hair Colour: Brown
Hair Dye: None
Body Hair: Hairy
Facial Hair: Full Beard
Tattoos: None
Piercings: None
Scars: gills hidden as scars when above water
Clothing Style: Beach shorts, graphic T-shirts
Health and Fitness
Allergies: None
Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Social drinker
Illnesses/Disorders: None permanent, gets gill infections if he swims in fresh-water
Medications: Takes pills to prevent infections and to make sure he can breathe for longer underwater
Any Specific Diet: None
Relationships
Affiliated Groups: None
Friends: Hayden Harlow, Phoenix Carson, Navy Carson-Harlow, Harley Yancy
Enemies: None, but the whole town seems to hate him
Mentor: Daniyah Carlisle
Significant Other: None
Previous Partners: None of Note
Parents: Abraham Maus (46, Father), Daniyah Carlisle (48, Mother)
Parents-In-Law: None
Siblings: None
Siblings-In-Law: None
Nieces & Nephews: None
Children: None
Children-In-Law: None
Grandkids: None
Other Notable Relatives: None
Notes
Occupation: Construction (Works with Hayden & Phoenix)
Tropes: (Purely speculative)
Apparently Human Merfolk: Dana's half human, so he looks the most like a human being when above water.
Ear Fins: When below water
Fish People: when below water, though he still looks somewhat-human in comparison to pure-blood sirens
Sirens are Mermaids
Super Not-Drowning Skills: Due to being half human, Dana can only last 48 hours below water
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Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for February 20
Tozer in the Morning
Wondering Worship
The third stage of true worship is wonder. Here the mind ceases to understand and goes over to a kind of delightful astonishment. Carlyle said that worship is ?transcendent wonder,? a degree of wonder without limit and beyond expression. That kind of worship is found throughout the Bible (though it is only fair to say that the lesser degrees of worship are found there also). Abraham fell on his face in holy wonderment as God spoke to him. Moses hid his face before the presence of God in the burning bush. Paul could hardly tell whether he was in or out of the body when he was allowed to see the unspeakable glories of the third heaven. When John saw Jesus walking among His churches, he fell at His feet as dead. We cite these as a examples; the list is long in the Biblical record. It may be said that such experiences as these are highly unusual and can be no criterion for the plain Christian today. This is true, but only of the external circumstances; the spiritual content of the experiences is unchanging and is found alike wherever true believers are found. it is always true that an encounter with God brings wonderment and awe. The pages of Christian biography are sweet with the testimonies of enraptured worshipers who met God in intimate experience and could find no words to express all they felt and saw and heard. Christian hymnody takes us where the efforts of common prose break down, and brings the wings of poetic feeling to the aid of the wondering saint. Open an old hymnal and turn to the sections on worship and the divine perfections and you will see the part that wonder has played in worship through the centuries. But wonder is not yet the last nor highest element in worship. The soaring saint has one more mountain peak to clear before he has reached the rarefied air of purest worship. He must adore.
Tozer in the Evening
Appointed to Be Eternal Fruit-Bearers
. . . No man is ever the same after God has laid His hand upon him. He will have certain marks, and though they are not easy to detect perhaps we may cautiously name a few. . .
Another mark of the Spirit's working is a mighty moral discontent. In spite of our effort to make sinners think they are unhappy the fact is that wherever social and health conditions permit the masses of mankind enjoy themselves very much. Sin has its pleasures (Hebrews 12:25) and the vast majority of human beings have a whale of a time living. The conscience is a bit of a pest but most persons manage to strike a truce with it quite early in life and are not troubled much by it thereafter.
It takes a work of God in a man to sour him on the world and to turn him against himself; yet until this has happened to him he is psychologically unable to repent and believe. Any degree of contentment with the world's moral standards or his own lack of holiness successfully blocks off the flow of faith into the man's heart. Esau's fatal flaw was moral complacency; Jacob's only virtue was his bitter discontent.
Again before a man can be saved he must feel a consuming spiritual hunger. Anyone who lives close to the hearts of men knows that there is little spiritual hunger among them. Religion, pious talk, yes; but not real hunger. Where a hungry heart is found we may be sure that God was there first. ''Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you . . .'' (John 15:16)
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“SPOT THE DIFFERENCE” is the flip/side on @fuckedup's forthcoming 7” titled ‘Show Friends’ (11/7 @mergerecords) & it finds the veteran Toronto-based quintet of Damian Abraham, Jonah Falco, Mike Haliechuk, Sandy Miranda & Josh Zucker waxing upon “incremental change & compromise” across a sub-3 min burst of the Clash meets the Mats AltPunk.
“RIDING IN THE RAIN” is the second single from @ronniestone.coffin’s forthcoming LP titled ‘Ride Again’ (2/2 @feeltriprecords) & it finds the New York City-based artist feeling “trapped as the world changes around you” while riding across 4 synth_poppin mins of cinematically cool, giddily crystalline & Cars-esque NüWave.
“THE DICE MAN WILL BECOME” is a choice cut from @theserfs’ recently released LP titled ‘Half Eaten By Dogs’ (@troubleinmindrecords) & it finds the Cincinnati-based trio of vocalists/multi-instrumentalists Dylan McCartney, Dakota Carlyle & Andie Luman linking up w/ guitarist Luke Cornett to bring a bouncy 4 min bout of new_waving PostPunk.
@yeahrs_ are back w/ a brand new standalone single titled “SMOKESCREEN” & it finds the Berlin-based quartet bringing the grunge_gothing goods across 3 mins of moodily charged, pedal_gazed & melancholically malaise’d AltRawk… that final third push tho!!!
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"De nada sirve al hombre lamentarse de los tiempos en que vive. Lo único bueno que puede hacer es intentar mejorarlos".
Thomas Carlyle
Lo que está ya está hecho. Si es para bien, se consolida y se toma de modelo si es preciso. Si no es así, se intenta no cometer y proyectarlo de tal forma que su percepción sea mejor.
Pasa como con los pensamientos: Cuando no fluyen, se estancan. Cuando no fluyen, se hacen bucle, una espiral finita de la que resulta complicado evadirse.
"Orage Nocturne à Cefalù" | 1800 | Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe
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John Linnell - Selfportrait - ca. 1860
oil on canvas, Height: 91.1 cm (35.8 in) Edit this at Wikidata; Width: 70.2 cm (27.6 in)
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London, UK
John Linnell (16 June 1792 – 20 January 1882) was an English engraver, and portrait and landscape painter. He was a naturalist and a rival to the artist John Constable. He had a taste for Northern European art of the Renaissance, particularly Albrecht Dürer. He also associated with the amateur artist Edward Thomas Daniell, and with William Blake, to whom he introduced the painter and writer Samuel Palmer and others of the Ancients.
John Linnell was born in Bloomsbury, London on 16 June 1792. where his father was a carver and gilder. He was in contact with artists from an early age, and by the age of ten was drawing and selling portraits in chalk and pencil. His first art teacher was the American-born artist Benjamin West, and he spent a year in the house of the painter John Varley, where William Hunt and William Mulready were also pupils, and made the acquaintance of Shelley, Godwin and others. In 1805 he was admitted to study at the Royal Academy, where he obtained medals for drawing, modelling and sculpture. He was trained as an engraver, and executed a transcript of Varley's "Burial of Saul."
In 1808, the 16-year-old Linnell moved into Mulready's house, whose wife had accused him of infidelity with both other women and boys. Linnell's association with Mulready may have caused the breakup of Mulready's marriage.
In later life Linnell occupied himself with the burin, publishing, in 1833, a series of outlines from Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, and, in 1840, superintending the issue of a selection of plates from the pictures in Buckingham Palace, one of them, a Titian landscape, which he engraved in mezzotint. At first he supported himself mainly by miniature painting and execution of larger portraits, such as the likenesses of Mulready, Richard Whately, Peel and Thomas Carlyle. Several of his portraits he engraved in line and mezzotint.
He painted many subjects like the "St John Preaching," the "Covenant of Abraham," and the "Journey to Emmaus," in which, while the landscape is usually prominent the figures are of sufficient importance to supply the title of the work. But it is mainly in connexion with paintings of pure landscapes that his name is known. His works commonly deal with some scene of typical uneventful English landscape, which is made impressive by a gorgeous effect of sunrise or sunset. They are full of true poetic feeling, and are rich and glowing in colour.
Linnell commanded large prices for his pictures, and about 1850 he purchased a property at Redhill, Surrey, where he lived till his death on 20 January 1882, painting with unabated powers until within the last few years of his life. He devoted himself to painting landscapes notably of the North Downs and Kentish Weald. His leisure was occupied with a study of the Bible in the original, and he published several pamphlets and treatises of Biblical criticism. Linnell was one of the best friends and kindest patrons of William Blake. He gave him the two largest commissions he received for single series of designs—£150 for drawings and engravings of The Inventions to the Book of Job, and a like sum for those illustrative of Dante Aligheri.
He was a friend of the painter Edward Thomas Daniell. A blue plaque commemorates Linnell at Old Wyldes' at North End, Hampstead. The plaque mentions that William Blake stayed with Linnell as his guest.
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All You Need to Know About Matchups!
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Hi y'all!
This account is solely for matchups for several different fandoms. That means requests for imagines, oneshots, headcanons, etc. will NOT be taken.
Here are some basic things to know about requesting a matchup!
Unless otherwise specified for a certain fandom, a request yields one romantic pairing AND one friendship pairing as well as information on why I think you work well with the individuals I choose. Of course, if you only wish to receive either just the romantic matchup or just the friendship matchup, just let me know!
You can request matchups for several different fandoms at once! For each fandom you request, I will match you up with one romantic partner and one friend unless you request differently.
You can ask to exclude any character(s)!
Where can I request a matchup?
Requests can be made in the MATCHUP REQUESTS/ASK ME ANYTHING tab.
What do I need to include in my request?
Required
Fandom(s)
Your gender and/or pronouns
Your sexual orientation and/or preferences
Description of personality
Optional (but definitely helps me out!)
Description of appearance
Hobbies
Personality alignment (Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, Hogwarts House, etc.)
What you would look for in a partner and/or friend
Any other information you think would be helpful – the more you provide, the more I can work with!
Now with that out of the way, onto the fandoms!
Listed directly below is a shortlist of all the fandoms I take requests for as well as some extra information as needed.
Disclaimers
If a title is in italics, it means that while I feel comfortable providing matchups for this show, I have not watched every season. If a character drastically changes after a certain point, I may not be aware. The last season I watched of these shows will be included in parentheses.
All movies/shows based on novels will most likely focus on the on-screen adaptations of characters.
SHOWS
The 100 (6)
Good Omens
The Good Place (3)
Lucifer (4)
On My Block
Parks and Recreation (4)
Prodigal Son (1)
Sherlock
Space Force
Supernatural (14)
The Walking Dead (8)
MOVIES
Clueless
The Greatest Showman
Harry Potter -- Unless specified in request, will entail 2 sets of matchups as a student (Golden Trio and Marauders eras respectively)
The Hunger Games
Marvel Cinematic Universe -- Unless age is specified, underage characters will NOT be available for romantic matchups
BROADWAY
Anastasia
Beetlejuice
Carrie (2012 Off-Broadway)
Hadestown
Hamilton
Les Misérables
The Phantom of the Opera
Six
VIDEO GAMES
Detroit: Become Human
Red Dead Redemption 2
What’s below the cut?
A masterlist of characters in each fandom that will be considered for each request (unless marked with an asterisk (*), all characters are assumed to be available for both romantic AND friendly matchups while names marked with an asterisk are only available for friendly matchups). Listed alphabetically by first name.
Don’t be afraid to tell me about a typo!
Any questions? Just want to talk? You can also use the MATCHUP REQUESTS/ASK ME ANYTHING tab to get ahold of me!
SHOWS
Bellamy Blake
Clarke Griffin
Echo
Finn Collins
Harper McIntyre
Jasper Jordan
Johnathan “John” Murphy
Jordan Green
Lexa
Lincoln
Marcus Kane
Monty Green
Octavia Blake
Raven Reyes
Roan
Wells Jaha
Aziraphale
Anathema Device
Crowley
Newton Pulsifer
Mme. Tracy*
Witchfinder Sgt. Shadwell*
Chidi Anagonye
Eleanor Shellstrop
Jason Mendoza
Michael*
Tahani Al-Jamil
Amenadiel
Det. Chloe Decker
Det. Daniel “Dan” Espinoza
Ella Lopez
Eve
Dr. Linda Martin*
Lucifer Morningstar
Mazikeen “Maze”
Cesar Diaz
Jamal Turner
Jasmine Flores
Monsé Finnie
Oscar “Spooky” Diaz
Ruben “Ruby” Martinez Jr.
Andrew “Andy” Dwyer
Ann Perkins
April Ludgate
Benjamin “Ben” Wyatt
Christopher “Chris” Traeger
Donna Meagle*
Gerald “Jerry” Gergich*
Jean-Ralphio Saperstein*
Leslie Knope
Ronald “Ron” Swanson*
Ainsley Whitly
Det. Dani Powell
Edrisa Tanaka
Lt. Gil Arroyo
Det. James “JT” Tarmel
Jessica Whitly
Malcolm Bright
DI Greg Lestrade
Mrs. Hudson*
James “Jim” Moriarty
Dr. John Watson
Mary Morstan*
Molly Hooper
Mycroft Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Dr. Adrian Mallory*
Capt. Angela Ali
Brig. Gen. Bradley Gregory*
Dr. Chan Kaifang
Duncan Tabner
Erin Naird
F. Tony Scarapiducci
Kelly King
Maggie Naird*
Gen. Mark Naird*
Abbie “Bela” Talbot*
Adam Milligan
Alex Jones
Balthazar
Benjamin “Benny” Lafitte
Castiel
Charlene “Charlie” Bradbury
Claire Novak
Crowley
Dean Winchester
Sheriff Donna Hanscum
Eileen Leahy
Ellen Harvelle*
Gabriel
Garth Fitzgerald IV
Jack Kline
Jessica “Jess” Moore*
Joanna “Jo” Harvelle
Sheriff Jody Mills*
John Winchester
Kaia Nieves
Kevin Tran
Lucifer
Meg Masters
Michael “Mick” Davies
Patience Turner
Robert “Bobby” Singer*
Rowena MacLeod
Rufus Turner*
Samuel “Sam” Winchester
Aaron
Abraham Ford
Andrea*
Beth Greene
Carl Grimes*
Carol Peletier*
Dale Horvath*
Daryl Dixon
Dwight
Enid*
Eugene Porter*
King Ezekiel*
Father Gabriel Stokes
Glenn Rhee
Hershel Greene*
Maggie Greene
Michonne
Morgan Jones*
Negan Smith
Paul “Jesus” Rovia
Rick Grimes
Rosita Espinosa
Sasha Williams
Tara Chambler
Tyreese Williams
MOVIES
Cher Horowitz
Dionne Davenport
Josh Lucas
Tai Frasier
Travis Birkenstock
Anne Wheeler
Charity Barnum
Jenny Lind
Lettie Lutz*
Phillip Carlyle
Phineas “P.T.” Barnum
W.D. Wheeler
Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody*
Albus Dumbledore*
Arthur Weasley*
Cedric Diggory
Cho Chang
Draco Malfoy
Fleur Delacour
Fred Weasley
George Weasley
Ginevra “Ginny” Weasley
Harry Potter
Hermione Granger
James Potter
Lily Evans
Luna Lovegood
Minerva McGonagall*
Molly Weasley*
Neville Longbottom
Nymphadora Tonks*
Oliver Wood
Remus Lupin
Ronald “Ron” Weasley
Rubeus Hagrid*
Severus Snape
Sirius Black
Viktor Krum
Cinna
Effie Trinket*
Finnick Odair
Gale Hawthorne
Haymitch Abernathy*
Johanna Mason
Katniss Everdeen
Peeta Mellark
Anthony “Tony” Stark -- Iron Man
Dr. Bruce Banner -- Hulk
Carol Danvers -- Captain Marvel
Dr. Christine Palmer*
Clint Barton -- Hawkeye
Drax the Destroyer*
Edward “Ned” Leeds
Gamora
Groot*
Harold “Happy” Hogan*
Dr. Henry “Hank” Pym*\
Hope van Dyne -- Wasp
Sgt. James “Bucky” Barnes -- Winter Soldier
Col. James “Rhodey” Rhodes -- War Machine
Loki Laufeyson
Luis*
Mantis*
Dr. Margaret “Peggy” Carter*
Cdr. Maria Hill*
May Parker*
Lord M’Baku
Michelle “MJ” Jones
Nakia
Natasha Romanoff -- Black Widow
Nebula*
Col. Nicholas “Nick” Fury*
Okoye
Peter Parker -- Spider-Man
Peter Quill -- Star-Lord
Agt. Phillip “Phil” Coulson*
Pietro Maximoff -- Quicksilver
Rocket*
Samuel “Sam” Wilson -- Falcon
Scott Lang -- Ant-Man
Shuri
Dr. Stephen Strange
Steven “Steve” Rogers -- Captain America
King T’Challa -- Black Panther
Thor Odinson
Valkyrie
Virginia “Pepper” Potts
Vision
Wanda Maximoff -- Scarlet Witch
W’Kabi
Wong*
Yelena Belova
Yondu Udonta*
BROADWAY
Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov
Dimitri Sudayev
Gleb Vaganov
Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch*
Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna*
Vladimir “Vlad” Popov*
Adam Maitland
Barbara Maitland
Beetlejuice*
Delia Schlimmer
Lydia Deetz*
Carrie White
Christine “Chris” Hargensen
Susan “Sue” Snell
Thomas “Tommy” Ross
Eurydice
Hades
Hermes*
Orpheus
Persephone
Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
Angelica Schuyler
Elizabeth “Eliza” Schuyler
George Washington
Hercules Mulligan
James Madison
John Laurens
Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler
Maria Reynolds
Marquis de Lafayette
Philip Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Cosette
Enjolras
Éponine Thénardier
Fantine
Insp. Javert
Jean Valjean
Marius Pontmercy
Carlotta Giudicelli*
Christine Daaé
Erik “The Phantom”
Mme. Giry*
Meg Giry
Raoul de Chagny
Anna of Cleves
Anne Boleyn
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine Parr
Jane Seymour
Katherine Howard
VIDEO GAMES
Carl Manfred*
Chloe
Det. Chris Miller*
Connor
Elijah Kamski
Lt. Hank Anderson*
Capt. Jeffrey Fowler*
Josh
Kara
Leo Manfred
Lucy*
Luther
Markus
North
Rose Chapman*
Simon
Abigail Roberts
Arthur Morgan
Beau Gray*
Charles Smith
Daniël “Dutch” Van der Linde
Eagle Flies
Hosea Matthews*
Javier Escuella
Johnathan “John” Marston Sr.
Josiah Trelawny
Karen Jones
Kieran Duffy
Leonard “Lenny” Summers
Marion “Bill” Williamson
Mary-Beth Gaskill
Micah Bell
Molly O’Shea
Penelope Braithwaite*
Rev. Orville Swanson*
Sadie Adler
Sean MacGuire
Simon Pearson*
Tilly Jackson
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A PANTHEIST IN THE MIX
The purpose of this posting is to review, in a few words, the effect of Ralph Waldo Emerson – known to his acquaintances as Waldo – on the Transcendentalist movement in the US. This account will be spotty but hopefully cover the importance of Emerson in advancing and, at times, inhibiting federalist values. He initially set out to do his work in religious venues – he trained to be a minister – but in time he left that behind.
Probably his most utilized stage was that of an essayist. Originally, his efforts usually appeared as lectures that he then converted into written form. His overall messages portrayed him as a champion of individualism and as a social critic. As such, he portrayed an uncanny ability to foresee developments as he repeatedly set out to dispense good advice in relation to countervailing societal forces.
In that effort, he described how and why those forces did what they did. For that, he enjoyed an expansive audience that grew not just across the nation but extended into Europe. From his 1500 or so lectures, one can find the core of his thinking in the first two published collections of his essays, those being Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844). A few of his well-known essays include “The Over-Soul”, “Circles”, “Experience”, “The Poet”, “Self-Reliance”, and his most famous piece, “Nature”.
And underlying his main themes was his transcendent view and reliance on the role of intuition in determining one’s knowledge and the direction one takes in life.[1] As a cited source puts it, using Emerson’s words,
… he explicitly identifies Transcendentalism as a form of philosophical Idealism. Emerson wrote:
As thinkers, mankind have ever been divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final, and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell…Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude. Everything real is self-existent. Everything divine shares the self-existence of Deity…[Kant showed] there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by way of experience, but through which experience was acquired; that these were intuitions of the mind itself; and he denominated them Transcendental forms.[2]
On more political topics, he espoused the potential of the individual and of his/her freedom to seek those potentials. This individualism should not be seen as the one seen in the twenty-first century. It was more a concern for the integrity of a person and his/her challenge to overcome his/her weaknesses or other obstacles in life.
And in true Romantic spirit, he extoled the virtues of nature. Some would consider his philosophic bent to eventually become a pantheist or pandeist. He is quoted as saying, “In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.”[3] His political contributions gained steam during the Civil War years.
An antislavery person, he initially shied away from entering that arena. But probably as a reaction to the number of his friends and family members being outspoken critics of the institution, he eventually joined the fray. Besides a series of lectures opposing slavery in 1837, he began taking a more active role in 1844.
Beyond giving speeches, he hosted John Brown in his home in Concord.[4] During the war he met with Abraham Lincoln and upon meeting him, changed his estimation of the President. His initial concern with Lincoln was that he was not as committed to ending slavery as he was in saving the Union. His face-to-face meeting convinced him that his judgement was not accurate and became one of Lincoln’s great admirers.
So, on the pro-federalist side of the ledger, Emerson strove toward inclusion of blacks into the political partnership of the nation. In that, he had no hesitation in promoting his belief in the need for a civil war and seemed to consider it as a rebirth of the nation. On the not so federalist end of the scale was Emerson’s attraction to Thomas Carlyle. Apparently, the Scot had a profound effect on Emerson.
As alluded to earlier in this blog, Carlyle was a strong proponent of the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon “race.” In this, one can sense an exclusionary trait and the degree to which Emerson shared this belief is not clear. Emerson wished for Carlyle to visit America and served as a sort of agent for the historian on this side of the ocean. The two kept up an ongoing correspondence until Carlyle died in 1881.[5]
In this blogger’s opinion, Emerson did much to secularize American thought. His opposition to slavery helped bring an end to that scourge on American federalism. His travels, both domestic and in Europe, led him to meet just about everyone of any note in the literary as well as the political world of his time. Early on, while living in St. Augustine, Florida, he even met a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Achille Murat. They became close friends as they discussed the heady topics of the day such as religion, philosophy, sociology, and politics.[6]
That stay in Florida was where Emerson witnessed slavery firsthand and noted that on one of his outings to a Bible Society meeting, there was a slave auction taking place nearby. He is quoted as expressing, “One ear therefore heard the glad tidings of great joy, whilst the other was regaled with ‘Going, gentlemen, going!”[7]
The history of Emerson’s time and his influence betray much of American culture of the 1800s. While his family’s background spanned the European experience in North America up to his time, he helped further define what the espoused political values of his countrymen should be. In his efforts, he was more a force for liberating the prevailing federalist thought than adding to its parochialism. In that, he helped Transcendentalism as a movement stay true to the nation’s basic moral stand in defining its political proclivities.
Eventually given the title, Sage of Concord, he is judged to have upgraded the art of lecturing. Reported are the later thinkers and writers who were influenced by Emerson’s work, and they include William James – who happened to be Emerson’s godson – and Nietzsche. And despite his anti-establishment religious turn, he is credited by some as having a great influence on American theology. With the focus this posting gives this great American lecturer/essayist, the blog ends its review of the Romantic/Transcendentalist movement in the US.
[1] David Boersema, “American Philosophy,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Peer-Reviewed Academic Resource (n.d.), accessed September 20, 2021, https://iep.utm.edu/american/#H2 .
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal entry, April 7, 1840.
[4] Len Gougeon, Virtue’s Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010).
[5] Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995).
[6] Peter S. Field, Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
[7] Richardson, Emerson, 76.
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"We should get up."
"I wish we could stay in bed forever."
"I have a meeting with Sir Reginald today, he may ask about your graduate thesis defence."
"We should get up," she agreed.
"But under protest," she added.
"Duly noted."
Carl took a quick look at himself before getting dressed. He was happy! Life with Lydia was just what he needed to process Isabella's passing. Any moral implications about their relationship left his body entirely; he was convinced Lydia was sent to him from above, and he had no doubt that she would stay with him until he was to reunite with Isabella.
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in case you were needing it, here is my attempt at creating a comprehensive, mostly chronological list of every song sufjan stevens wrote/released as a solo act
A Sun Came
We Are What You Say
A Winner Needs a Wand
Rake
Siamese Twins
Demetrius
Dumb I Sound
Wordsworth’s Ridge
Belly Button
Rice Pudding
A Loverless Bed (Without Remission)
Godzuki
Super Sexy Woman
The Oracle Said Wander
Happy Birthday
Jason
Kill
Ya Leil
A Sun Came
Satan’s Saxophones
Eye of the Beholder
All Delighted People
8.21: A Blue Bunny Compilation
Woman at the Well
Far Physician’s Son
Seen Unseen
Damascus
Enjoy Your Rabbit
Year of the Asthmatic Cat
Year of the Monkey
Year of the Rat
Year of the Ox
Year of the Boar
Year of the Tiger
Year of the Snake
Year of the Sheep
Year of the Rooster
Year of the Dragon
Year of the Rabbit
Year of the Dog
Year of the Horse
Year of Our Lord
To Spirit Back the Mews
God’ll Ne’er Let You Down
Bushwick Junkie
I Can’t Even Life My Head
Michigan
Flint
All Good Naysayers
For the Widows in Paradise
Say Yes! To M!ch!gan!
The Upper Peninsula
Tahquamenon Falls
Holland
Detroit
Romulus
Alanson, Crooked River
Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
They Also Mourn
Oh God, Where Are You Now?
Redford
Vito’s Ordination Song
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Marching Band
Pickerel Lake
Niagara Falls
Presidents and Magistrates
Wolverine
Hope Isn’t a Word
Borderline
Metaphysics for Beginners
How Can the Stone Remain?
Seven Swans
All the Trees
The Dress Looks Nice on You
In the Devil’s Territory
To Be Alone with You
Abraham
Sister
Size Too Small
We Won’t Need Legs to Stand
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
He Woke Me Up Again
Seven Swans
The Transfiguration
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I Went Dancing with My Sister
Waste of What Your Kids Won’t Have
Illinois
Concerning the UFO Sighting
The Black Hawk War
Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Jacksonville
A Short Reprise
Decatur
One Last “Whoo-Hoo!”
Go! Chicago! Go! Yeah!
Casimir Pulaski Day
To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region
The Man of Metropolis
Prairie Fire That Wanders About
A Conjunction of Drones
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades
They Are Night Zombies!!
Let’s Hear That String Part Again
In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man
The Seer’s Tower
The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders
Riffs and Variations
Out of Egypt
NPR single
The Lord God Bird
The Avalanche
The Avalanche
Dear Mr. Supercomputer
Adlai Stevenson
The Vivian Girls
The Henney Buggy Band
Saul Bellow
Carlyle Lake
Springfield
The Mistress Witch from McClure
Kaskaskia River
Inaugural Pop Music
No Man’s Land
The Palm Sunday Tornado
The Pick-Up
The Perpetual Self
For Clyde Tombaugh
Pittsfield
The Undivided Self
Mews Too
Opie’s Funeral Song
Songs for Christmas
---I
We’re Goin’ to the Country!
It’s Christmas! Let’s Be Glad!
---II
Put The Lights On The Tree
Only at Christmas Time
---III
Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance!
That Was the Worst Christmas Ever
Ding! Dong!
All the King’s Horns
---IV
Hey Guys! It’s Christmas Time!
Did I Make You Cry on Christmas? (Well, You Deserved It!)
The Incarnation
---V
Get Behind Me, Santa!
Christmas in July
Jupiter Winter
Sister Winter
Star of Wonder
The Winter Solstice
The Believer
In the Words of the Governor
The BQE
Prelude on the Esplanade
Introductory Fanfare for the Hooper Heroes
Movement I: In the Countenance of Kings
Movement II: Sleeping Invader
Interlude I: Dream Sequence in Subi Circumnavigation
Movement III: Linear Tableau with Intersecting Surprise
Movement IV: Traffic Shock
Movement V: Self-Organizing Emergent Patterns
Interlude II: Subi Power Waltz
Interlude III: Invisible Accidents
Movement VI: Isorhythmic Night Dance with Interchanges
Movement VII (Finale): The Emperor of Centrifuge
Postlude: Critical Mass
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The Sleeping Red Wolves
Single: Sofia’s Song
All Delighted People
All Delighted People
Enchanting Ghost
Heirloom
From the Mouth of Gabriel
The Owl and the Tanager
Arnika
Djohariah
Side D
The Age of Adz
Futile Devices
Too Much
Age of Adz
I Walked
Now That I’m Older
Get Real, Get Right
Bad Communication
Vesuvius
All for Myself
I Want to Be Well
Impossible Soul
Silver & Gold
---VI
Lumberjack Christmas
The Midnight Clear
St. Benjamin the Bearded One
Barcarola
---VII
Christmas Woman
Happy Family Christmas
Mysteries of the Christmas Mist
Behold! The Birth of Man, the Face of Glory
Ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling
Mr. Frosty Man
Make Haste to See the Baby
Eternal Happiness or Woe
I Am Santa’s Helper
Even the Earth Will Perish
---VIII
Christmas in the Room
Particle Physics
The Child with the Star on His Head
---IX
X-mas Spirit Catcher
---X
Happy Karma Christmas
Justice Delivers Its Death
Christmas Unicorn
Carrie & Lowell
Death with Dignity
Should Have Known Better
All of Me Wants All of You
Drawn to the Blood
Eugene
Fourth of July
The Only Thing
Carrie & Lowell
John My Beloved
No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Blue Bucket of Gold
One Night Stand #1
Harsh Noise
Exploding Whale single
The Greatest Gift
Wallowa Lake Monster
The Greatest Gift
The Hidden River of My Life
City of Roses
CMBYN Singles
Mystery of Love
Visions of Gideon
Tonya Harding single
Lonely Man of Winter single
The Ascension
Make Me An Offer I Cannot Refuse
Run Away with Me
Video Game
Lamentations
Tell Me You Love Me
Die Happy
Ativan
Ursa Major
Landslide
Gilgamesh
Death Star
Goodbye to All That
Sugar
The Ascension
America
Live Only
Majesty Snowbird
The 50 States Song
Many Guides
Maple River
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10th drawing in the series of warm up sketches of DC’s latinxs and hispanic characters, and this time is the turn of SPARKLER, who as far as I could find, was DC’s first hispanic teen hero.
SPARKLER was a part of the superhero team Force of July, who as you can guess by that name, was a US patriotic team, who in secret was controlled by the evil government organization A.S.A. (maybe some of you know them from the Black Lightning TV show). The Force of July got some heroes with names as cringe worthy as the team name suggests: we’ve got Major Victory (their leader), government liaisons Abraham Lincoln Carlyle and B. Eric Blairman, and team members Lady Liberty (dressed as the Statue of Liberty), Mayflower (like an english pilgrim), Silent Majority (sigh) and, of course, SPARKLER.
The thing about SPARKLER though is that, we never knew his name, just that he was hispanic (I’m assuming he was born in the US, but couldn’t find any sign of nationality or heritage), and besides flying, his power set included light manipulation in the form of beams and, get this, fireworks (hence the name). So basically, he was Jubilee before Jubilee -although far less cool looking- (”fun” fact: SPARKLER died the same month that Jubilee debuted in 1989, apparently there’s only room for one fireworks themed superhero in mainstream comics).
Now, this team was something of a constant presence in the 80′s: they fought against the Outsiders and, since they were A.S.A. sponsored, were part of the large “secret organizations” community in the DCU, which ended up being it’s doom. In an crossover called “The Janus Directive”, villain organization Kobra manipulated the different secret organizations of the DCU so they would fight each other, and that marked the end of Force of July; most of it’s members were killed, including SPARKLER, at the hands of Doctor Light due to it’s well known aversion of teen heroes.
There was another iteration of Force of July (called Freedom’s Ring), but SPARKLER -or it’s monicker- never returned.
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BALIOC’S READING LIST, 2019 EDITION
This list counts only published books, consumed in published-book format, that I read for the first time and finished. No rereads, nothing abandoned halfway through, no Internet detritus of any kind, etc. Also no children’s picture books.
1. In a Time of Treason, David Keck
2. A King In Cobwebs, David Keck
3. War In Human Civilization, Azar Gat
4. The Kingdom of Copper, S. A. Chakraborty
5. The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, Winifred Fallers Sullivan
6. The Winter of the Witch, Katherine Arden
7. Out of the Silent Planet, C. S. Lewis
8. Perelandra, C. S. Lewis
9. The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis
10. Underlord, Will Wight
11. The Devil-Wives of Li Fong, E. Hoffman Price
12. How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States, Daniel Immerwahr
13. The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie
14. The Rage of Dragons, Evan Winter
15. The Bird King, G. Willow Wilson
16. A Betrayal In Winter, Daniel Abraham
17. An Autumn War, Daniel Abraham
18. The Price of Spring, Daniel Abraham
19. Chartism, Thomas Carlyle
20. Impro: Improvisation and the Theater, Keith Johnstone
21. A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
22. Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett
23. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest Stats, James C. Scott
24. The Ruin of Kings, Jenn Lyons
25. Ship of Smoke and Steel, Django Wexler
26. Pan, Knut Hamsun
27. The Unbound Empire, Melissa Caruso
28. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation For Failure, Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
29. Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri
30. Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson
31. A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay
32. The Riddle-Master of Hed, Patricia McKillip
33. Heir of Sea and Fire, Patricia McKillip
34. Harpist In the Wind, Patricia McKillip
35. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, Francis Fukuyama
36. Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire
37. The Witchwood Crown, Tad Williams
38. Empire of Grass, Tad Williams
39. Ten Restaurants That Changed America, Paul Freedman
40. The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon
41. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith
42. Wyrms, Orson Scott Card
43. Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman
44. The Axe and the Throne, M. D. Ireman
45. The Sun King, Nancy Mitford
46. The Demons of King Solomon, various (ed. Aaron J. French)
47. Towards a New Socialism, W. Paul Cockshott & Allin F. Cottrell
48. The Oracle Glass, Judith Merkle Riley
49. The Orphans of Raspay, Lois McMaster Bujold
50. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness In the West, Cormac McCarthy
51. Lent, Jo Walton
52. Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone
53. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah
54. The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
55. The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism, Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski
56. Turning Darkness Into Light, Marie Brennan
57. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
58. The Initiate Brother, Sean Russell
59. Gatherer of Clouds, Sean Russell
60. Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, Mary Eberstadt
61. The New Achilles, Christian Cameron
62. World Without End, Sean Russell
63. Sea Without a Shore, Sean Russell
64. Uncrowned, Will Wight
65. A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation, Tim Hannigan
66. The Vagrant, Peter Newman
67. Jade War, Fonda Lee
68. The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith
69. The Hod King, Josiah Bancroft
70. The Name of All Things, Jenn Lyons
71. Cold Iron, Miles Cameron [Christian Cameron]
72. Dark Forge, Miles Cameron [Christian Cameron]
73. Emily of New Moon, Lucy Maude Montgomery
74. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, Ben Mcintyre
75. The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
76. Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico, David Bowles
77. Flowers In the Mirror, Li Ruzhen
78. Bright Steel, Miles Cameron [Christian Cameron]
79. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Dave Grossman
80. That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis
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Plausible works of improving nonfiction consumed in 2019: 19
Works consumed in 2019 by women: 24
Works consumed in 2019 by men: 55
Works consumed in 2018 by both men and women: 1
Balioc’s Choice Award, fiction division: Lent
>>>> Honorable mention: A Betrayal in Winter et al
Balioc’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
>>>> Honorable mention: War In Human Civilization
Cultural Heritage Award For “Holy Crap This Will Fuck You Up”: The Great Divorce
Cultural Heritage Award For “This Will Not Fuck You Up Nearly as Much as the Author Thinks It Will, or Maybe I Was Just In a Cranky Un-Receptive Frame of Mind”: That Hideous Strength
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A year of progress, I think. This is probably About Enough Reading. More nonfiction than before, although not enough (and too many things that I wanted to be Really Enlightening turned out to be duds). More literary classics too. A lot of modern genre fiction that was pretty-good-but-definitely-not-great.
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What are some names Carlisle uses throughout the years? Carl, to be close to his real name? Some variety of Charles (but never Charles itself for Esme’s sake)? Something off the wall?
Canonically it sounds like he’s literally just always used Carlisle Cullen (or at least something Cullen), since Esme, Edward and Rosalie all knew him/of him in their human lives as Dr. Cullen. Which… is maybe not the brightest idea, but names can be important to people, a huge part of their identities. I could sort of understand this guy who never really wanted to be a vampire and is clinging to as much of his humanity as he can seeing keeping the name he had as a human as a way to do that. He probably just told anyone who questioned it that “It’s a family name, I’m Carlisle Cullen VI, and most of us have been doctors,” but with his family now and the birth of the internet he’s going to have to be more creative/careful.I think he’s tried Carl/Karl but it didn’t really “fit” him well, it didn’t feel right. “Lyle” worked a little better. He’s definitely used “Carlyle” to at least throw off the spelling if anyone’s looking. Sometimes he uses Carlisle/Carlyle as a last name, and either “Cullen” as a first name (works better in the modern era) or just some really unmemorable first name like John, William, etc as a first name. I headcanon his father’s name was Abraham (as a nod to the vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing and also the Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac–with Carlisle being the “Isaac”), and their relationship was. . . not great, so he doesn’t use that name, and wouldn’t use Charles for similar reasons. He will sometimes be Carlisle Platt or Cullen Platt, or borrow other last names from someone else in the family. In many cases he’ll use Carlisle as his “middle” name, but then tell his colleagues he prefers to go by his middle name. So in official records he might be listed as, say, “Thomas C. Cullen” but everyone who works with him calls him “Carlisle” at his request. That way he gets to use his name, but it won’t be super obvious to anyone googling him later. In the most recent move c. 2018, he started work as Dr. Lyle Carr.
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