#emma willard

[antis-hero]

Rewriting Emma Willard: Female Education—Not Feminism

Today is the 237th anniversary of Emma Willard's birth—happy birthday Mrs. Willard!

Emma Hart Willard was born on February 23, 1787, in Berlin, Connecticut. She became one of the most influential women in early American history—even being praised by a few of the country’s Founding Fathers—because of her work to open more formal educational opportunities to women and girls. Founder Thomas Jefferson received a letter from her on the topic of her petitions for female education, to which he wrote a short response stating: “…the subject is of great importance and of lamentable deficiency in this country…” and he was “…happy to see it brought before the public so ably and eloquently by mrs Willard, to whom he tenders his respectful salutations, and best wishes for success…”. John Adams, wrote back to her as well, telling her that “The Female Moiety of Mankind, deserved as much honour Esteem, and Respect, as the Male. The duties of Allegiance and Obedience, are reciprocal in a family; as well as in the State—and similar limitations, and Restrictions are applicable to both”. Her crowning achievement is the Troy Female Seminary, in Troy, New York, which is known as the Emma Willard School today. To keep this post brief, I’ll skip most of the biographical information and get to her motivations.

According to her great-great grandson, Amherst Professor Edward S. Belt, her motivations were “…rooted in patriotism and duty to country”, which fits with her own statements. In her “Plan for Improving Female Education” she appeals to the New York legislature by pointing out that encouraging and funding formal education for women, as they did for men, should be part of the government’s duty, as, to her, it would “…promote the present and future prosperity of the nation…”. She continued: “…it is through the mothers, that the government can control the characters of its future citizens, to form them such as will ensure their country's prosperity”. Here is not only a good example of Willard’s patriotism, but her belief in what we call Republican Motherhood: a popular concept in early American history that argued that women could support republican government as good mothers who prepared the next generation to be good citizens like her and their father. This concept was also behind the actions of her younger sister, Almira Lincoln Phelps, who supported Willard’s advocacy for women’s education and became a teacher herself.

However, though she is known as an advocate for women’s rights, Willard was not an advocate of women’s suffrage (while her sister was vocally opposed to it). In fact, one of her students was a young Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who once asked her if she would lend her support to the suffrage movement, to which Willard declined. In reading what people today have written about Willard, I see many argue that she did this strategically to avoid jeopardizing efforts to educate women and that she must have been secretly supportive of votes for women. This sort of thinking has been said about her appeals to God, patriotism, and choice in logic in her “Plan for Improving Female Education” as well. This idea is incorrect, however: Emma Willard was not a secret feminist who was restricted by her time, she was simply not a feminist. In an 1848 letter to the first leader of the French Second Republic, Jacques-Charles Dupont de l’Eure, on the creation of a new French government after the French Revolution of 1848, she argues that female influence was a valuable force that could and should be harnessed to be used in politics, but that a “wise politician” should “guard against it becoming an opposing force”.

Her plan, which she begins with the statement “…I maintain, in direct opposition to the Socialists…”, first states that the only natural government is found within the family unit. In keeping with that tradition, Willard came up with the idea of a body of female representatives that focused on issues that were proper for them, listing “commerce, war, and foreign relations” as subjects that would not be covered by the female group. Instead, she charges the female council with the tasks of the “religious, moral, and intellectual training” of children and the community, the care of the poor, the promotion of public morality, and the education of women beyond primary school. She ended her letter with the statement that her plan respected the union of the sexes and God. I recommend reading the letter yourself if you want to better understand her views, but it’s clear from this that Willard does not fit with our or her time’s standard for feminists, as she doesn’t believe in the same sort of equality that feminists do/did. I wouldn’t call her an anti-feminist, or true anti-suffragist, either, as she didn’t participate in these movements and her ideas are much different than what I see in antis. Whether we like it or not, Emma Willard was not a feminist, and to try and rewrite her as such erases a part of her, and other women’s, story.

Links to her work:

“Plan for Improving Female Education”, 1819.

History of the United States, or Republic of America, 1847.

Letter to Dupont de l'Eure, April 1848. Found on page 246 of Volume II.

#emma willard #history

[melishatweedy]

MISTAH TWEEDEH!: A life he wished for but didn’t get:

Willard Tweedy, a simple man, a farm, a wife, a brew and a shotgun.

Little is really said in the books about his life. However his family have been chicken farmers for generations - as we see in the film and the books - and he wants to continue egg farming, it’s all he’s ever known. We see in Mrs Tweedy’s Chicken Pies for the Soul that his uncle was killed by a chicken, which is his first glimpse of knowing the chickens are more than just “stupid creatures”. I feel like this is his only real “smart” moment. He built a fucking pie machine and didn’t know what it was. Like mate.. name’s on the boxes surely..

He’s clearly in love with Melisha, we see it in their wedding photo, the way he speaks to her, the way he questions his own sanity for her. Man’s devoted and I don’t blame him lol. There’s the slight emotional abuse with the name calling, but I absolutely hate it when they say she’s physically abusive etc.. She’s not. Yes she kicked his arse but she’s not physically abusive. Also, there’s hints that there’s still that spark between them, and I stand by my point that they were in love at one point, and they married for love (and a business prospect). (I also love the theory of the him being her beard.)

He’s clearly the comic relief of the first film, similar to Dr Fry in the second. However he’s not just the poor little abused husband people make him out to be. He’s in fact worse than Melisha to the chickens. You see him kicking and throwing ginger into “solitary confinement”, which in the real world a chicken would last mear hours -if that- before dying. He also picks them up by the neck, whereas we see Melisha (apart from handling Edwina, but she was about to be killed) picking them up by their bodies (CR:DOTN). No wonder they’re not laying eggs, they’re being handled in such ways! ALSO HE PUT A LIVE CHICKEN IN THE PIE MACHINE BOY I SWEAR TO GOD-

Anyway, my conclusion: he comes from a poor background, a farmers background and that’s all he knows, it’s all he’s ever known. He’s just as bad as Melisha when it comes to the chickens. He’s most likely seen how his father and grandfather treated the chickens and carried it on. Learnt behaviour. They’re both as bad as each other but he’s maaainly the reason the chickens aren’t laying any eggs. My theory is that after their divorce he remained in Yorkshire but moved away, has a little flat and is a farmhand on another farm, as it’s probably all he has experience wise. Hope your little flat is cosy, king!

#I do really love this character I promise #i really enjoyed studying him !! go king #i just hate to see people baby him #he’s a grown clay man #i don’t baby melisha she can be an evil cow #mrs tweedy #chicken run #melisha tweedy #chicken run: dawn of the nugget #mr tweedy #willard tweedy #emma’s chicken run degree

[booksteaandcrying]

MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA

Didi’s of desiblr tell me if this school especially @azure-cherie @chaand-sifaarish , because I know you will do tarot or something and that is HELPFUL

#literally my dream #Best school #close to my home too #Like miss porters sure #Emma Willard I can deal with uou #But Madeira…? #It’s perfext #Desiblr #didi talks

[findingschool]

Trường Emma Willard School

Được thành lập vào năm 1814, Emma Willard School là trường nội trú và ngoại trú dành cho nữ sinh có truyền thống lâu đời, đồng thời cũng là một trong những trường trung học lâu đời nhất tại Mỹ.

#Emma Willard School #findingschool #study abroad

[king-plutos-typewriter]

Now you see me, now you don't

Listened to "Ghost" by Confetti and I had a vision.

Behold my children! I drew this like almost a year ago now but forgot to post it.

#writing #the thaumaturge world #ttw #writeblr #jude #jude blane #my oc #writers #winsor kane #willard czar #emilola ganizani #israel annesley #izzie annesley #emmy ganizani #emma ganizani #jude lyall blane #winsor #my ocs #my oc art #my oc stuff #my oc character #my ocs <3 #ghost #ghostcore #haunted #horror-esque #this image has secrets #*sticks my hands in the alt text*

[potato-lord-but-not]

2023 Art Battle Masterpost

BRINGING THIS BACK BB ITS THE ANUAL BATTLE TO THE DEATH !!

I’ll start making polls tomorrow so enjoy this sneak peak while ya wait !!

Round 1

LEFT BRACKET:

Cluster vs Celestial Bis

Jon Sims vs Homoerotic Sword Moment

Gwen vs Danny

Sun & Moon vs Ode to Intimacy

Jack Met vs Siblings

Frankenstein vs Nick Bears in Trees

Will Wood vs William Woodiam

Ineffable Husbands vs Death of the Author

Bi Vampire vs 6up 5oh Moist

Mac vs Eclipse Sapphics

Yellow Wills vs Todd & Dirk

Dirk Gently vs DnD Bears in Trees

Gonzalez vs Hobie

Nick & Charlie vs Ode to Hunger

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde vs Rincewind

Tighnari vs Krummi

RIGHT BRACKET:

Me vs The Hottest Bisexuals

Maladict vs Irradiated

August vs Blue Wills

My Wife vs Will Doodles

Ankh-Morpork Streets vs Mike Crew

Crowley vs Purple Wills

Tiffany vs Gay Wizard

Shatter vs Adora

Mostly Harmless vs Dorian Gray

H2G2 Designs vs Demon & Angel

Moist & Adora vs Pink Wills

Pavitr vs Willard

Ankh-Morpork Polycule vs Emma &lt;3

Trans Zombie vs Gay Yearning

Moist vs Vimes

Pav vs Jhariah

Round 2

Celestial Bis vs Homoerotic Sword Gays

Gwen vs Ode to Intimacy

Siblings vs Frankenstein

Will Wood vs Death of the Author

6up 5oh Moist vs Eclipse Sapphics

Yellow Wills vs Dirk Gently

Hobie vs Ode to Hunger

Rincewind vs Tighnari

Hottest Bisexuals vs Irradiated

Blue Wills vs My Wife

Ankh Morpork Streets vs Purple Wills

Tiffany vs Shatter

Mostly Harmless vs Demon & Angel

Moist & Adora vs Pavitr

Ankh Morpork Polycule vs Gay Yearning

Moist vs Pav

Round 3

Homoerotic Sword Moment vs Ode to Intimacy

Siblings vs Death of the Author

6up 5oh Moist vs Dirk Gently

Ode to Hunger vs Rincewind

Hottest Bisexuals vs Blue Wills

Ankh Morpork Streets vs Shatter

Demon & Angel vs Moist & Adora

Gay Yearning vs Pav

Round 4

Ode to Intimacy vs Death of the Author

Dirk Gently vs Ode to Hunger

Hottest Bisexuals vs Ankh Morpork Streets

Moist & Adora vs Gay Yearning

Round 5

Ode to Intimacy vs Ode to Hunger

Ankh Morpork Streest vs Gay Yearning

FINAL ROUND

Ankh Morpork Streets vs Ode to Hunger

OUR WINNER !!

ANKH MORPORK STREETS IS THE ART OF 2023 ‼️‼️

thanks for voting girlies ;^)

#YEAHHHH BB #not that you can actually see the damn pics but whagever #the gomens vs will merch is gonna be THE hardest one I can feel it #art battle 2023

[publicdomainreview]

Susan Schulten on the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today: https://t.co/Jo1Tzs0rPI #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024

[todaysdocument]

Telegram to President Woodrow Wilson from Jane Addams and Other Women Regarding the Deportation of Emmeline Pankhurst

Record Group 85: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service Series: Subject and Policy Files File Unit: Appeal of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst for admittance for visit, English Suffragette

This telegram petitioned the Department of Labor and their decision to deport Emmeline Pankhurst, a British suffragette. The authors wanted the board to reconsider and maintain "America's devotion to liberty."

Telegram The White House, Washington 6 PO.FD. 283 139 extra 10:25 p.m. Sa, Chicago, Ill., October 18, 1913. The President. Whereas, the Associated Press reports to the American public that Mrs. Pankhurst's deportation has been ordered by the board of inquiry at Ellis Island and, Whereas, such action is in direct violation of the traditions and customs of the United States which has always been hospitable to the political offenders and revolutionists of all nations, and, Whereas, our sister republic, France, is at the present moment sheltering Christabel Pankhurst, Now, therefore, be it resolved: That we, the undersigned women of Chicago, protest against this flagrant violation of our long established public policy, and, Be it further resolved: That we respectively petition the Department of Labor in reviewing the case of this distinguished English woman to reconsider the decision of the Board of Inquiry and to admit Mrs. Pankhurst; thus maintaining the high traditions of America's devotion to liberty and right of free speech. (Signed) Jane Addams, Louise DeKoven Bowen, Mary Rozette Smith, Mary McDowell, Margaret Dreier Robins, Harriet Taylor Treadwell, President Chicago Political Equality League; Margaret A. Haley, Business Representative Chicago Teachers' Federation; Ida L. M. Furstman, President Chicago Teachers' Federation; Mrs. Harriet S. Thompson, Director Chicago Political Equality League; Edith A. Phelps, Anna Nichols, Laura Dainty Pelham,

Telegram The White House, Washington 6 PO. Sheet 2- Chicago, Ill., Octo. 18, 1913. to the President. Stella Miles Franklin, Kathleen Hamill, Mary Foulke Morrisson, Anna Monroe, Edith Wyatt, Caroline Packard, Leonora Pease, Secretary Socialist Women's League; Mrs. L. Brackett Bishop, Marion M. Griffin, Margaret B. Dobyne, Mary E. Galvin, Judith W. Loewenthal, Agnes Nestor, E. Beatrix Dauchy, Belle Squire, Anna Willard Timneus, Emma Steghagen, Grace Wilbur Trout, Florence Holbrook, Catharine Goggin, Mary Anderson, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Esther Dresden, President Young Women's Suffrage Association; Amy Walker, Francis Harden, Anna Harden, Catharine Goggin, Mary V. Donoghue, Wilma Rhinesmith, Julia Donoghue, Serina Hayes, May E. Brown.

#archivesgov #1910s #women's suffrage #suffragette #emmeline pankhurst #jane adams #October 18 #1913

[alldancersaretalented]

Dancers that won both finals and titles in the same year at TDA:

Minis:

2014: Kayla Mak (Westchester Dance Academy)

2015: Avery Gay (Master Ballet Academy)

2019: Crystal Huang (The Rock Center For Dance)

2021: Kelsie Jacobson (Larkin Dance Studio)

2021: Kya Massimino (Stars Dance Studio)

2023: Malia Scott (Larkin Dance Studio)

Juniors:

2012: D'Angelo Castro (Dance Town)

2014: Emma Sutherland (Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Center)

2017: Brady Farrar (Stars Dance Studio)

2018: Ava Wagner (Larkin Dance Studio)

2018: Kiarra Waidelich (The Rock Center For Dance)

2019: Keagan Capps (The Pointe PAC)

2021: Cami Vorhees (Evolve Dance Complex)

2021: Crystal Huang (The Rock Center For Dance)

Teens:

2022: Kylee Casares (Stars Dance Studio)

2023: Fiona Wu (Yoko's Dance)

2014: Julian Elia (Elite Danceworx)

2015: Payton Johnson (Jean Leigh Academy of Dance)

2019: Ruby Castro (Dance Town)

2021: Brady Farrar (Stars Dance Studio)

Seniors:

2023: Crystal Huang (The Rock Center For Dance)

2023: Ian Stegeman (Woodbury Dance)

2011: Bianca Melchior (Elite Danceworx)

2012: Jenna Johnson (CSPAS)

2016: Taylor Sieve (Larkin Dance Studio)

2017: Simrin Player (Club Dance Studio)

2018: Morgan Higgins (Denise Wall Dance Energy)

2018: Lucy Vallely (Westside Dance Project)

2019: D'Angelo Castro (Dance Town)

2019: Findlay McConnell (Elite Danceworx)

2019: Vivian Ruiz (Stars Dance Studio)

2021: Jaxon Willard (CSPAS)

2021: Alex Shulman (Danceology)

2022: Brianna Keingetti (Columbia PAC)

2023: Sam Fine (Stars Dance Studio)

#dance #tda #dancers #talent

[alliluyevas]

for my beloved followers interested in mormon polygamy name discourse, i have compiled and presented a list of the children of four different 19th century mormon polygamist men, ranging from 30 to 66 children. I included middle names when I could find them and the children are listed in chronological order of their birth.

Brigham Young:

Elizabeth, Vilate, Joseph Angell, Brigham Jr., Mary Ann, Emma Alice, Luna Caroline, John Willard, Brigham Heber, Edward Partridge, Oscar Brigham, Hyrum, Joseph, Moroni, Mary Eliza, Ella Elizabeth, Alva, Alma, Fanny Decker, Emily Augusta, Marinda Hyde, Clarissa Maria, Jeanette Richards, Zina Presendia, Evelyn Louisa, Hyrum Smith, Caroline Partridge, Ernest Irving, Nabby Howe, Willard, Eudora Lovina, Mahonri Moriancumer, Emmeline Amanda, Shamira, Alfales, Brigham Morris, Phoebe Louisa, Jedediah Grant, Arta DeChrista, Joseph Don Carlos, Louisa Wells, Susa Amelia, Lorenzo Dow, Miriam, Albert Jeddie, Feramorz Little, Alonzo, Josephine, Clarissa Hamilton, Charlotte Tallula, Ruth, Phineas Howe, Lura, Daniel Wells, Rhoda Mabel, Adella, and Fanny van Cott

Heber Kimball: 

Judith Marvin, William Henry, Helen Mar, Roswell Heber, Heber Parley, David Patten, Adelbert, Charles Spaulding, Henry, Brigham Willard, Sarah Helen, David, Margaret Jane, Abraham Alonzo, Isaac, Solomon Farnham, Samuel Chase, David Orson, Prescinda Celestia, Murray Gould, David Heber, Joseph Smith, Augusta, Cornelia Christine, John Heber, William Gheen, Susannah, Samuel Heber, Joseph Smith, Harriet, Newel Whitney, Willard Heber, Jacob Reese, Jonathan Golden, Horace Heber, Rosalia, Albert Heber, Lydia Holmes, Jedediah Heber, Hyrum Heber, Enoch Heber, Peter, Daniel Heber, Ann Spaulding, Sarah Maria, Jeremiah Heber, Mary Melvina, Andrew, Alice Ann, Eliza, James Heber, Joshua Heber, Washington, Mary Margaret, Moroni Heber, Sarah Gheen, Joshua Heber, Eugene, Wilford Alfonzo, Franklin Heber, Lorenzo Heber, Abbie Sarah

Joseph F. Smith:

Mercy Josephine, Sarah Ellen, Mary Sophronia, Leonora, Hyrum Mack, Donette, Joseph Richards, Alvin Fielding, Heber John, Joseph Fielding Jr., Alfred Jason, Rhoda Ann, David Asael, Edna Melissa, Minerva, Albert Jesse, George Carlos, Alice, Robert, Julina Clarissa, Willard Richards, Elias Wesley, John Schwartz, Franklin Richards, Emma, Emily Jane, Lucy Mack, Calvin Schwartz, Zina, Rachael, Jeanetta, Samuel Schwartz, Andrew Kimball, Ruth, Edith Eleanor, James Schwartz, Jesse Kimball, Asenath, Martha, Agnes, Silas Schwartz, Fielding Kimball, and Royal Grant

Parley Pratt:

Parley Parker Jr., Nathan, Olivia Thankful, Susan, Moroni Llewellyn, Alma, Helaman, Nephi, Julia Houston, Belinda Marden, Cornelia, Agatha, Abinadi, Lucy, Ether, Mormon, Mosiah, Malona, Lehi Lee, Henriette, Marian, Omner, Teancum, Mary Wood, Moroni Walker, Phoebe Soper, Isabella Eleanor, Sarah Elizabeth, Evelyn, Mathoni

also who had the best name taste and who had the worst

#i dont know whether parley pratt nerfing literally every single one of his sons except nathan with a terrible name or heber kimball naming #almost all of his sons after himself is worse. lol #HK didn't have as many just batshit insane names but he was also terminally uncreative and had the most repeat names between siblings #including TWO sets of living siblings with the same exact full name which is demonic #i would argue that Joseph F. Smith probably had the best taste in names. he was a generation younger so i guess they settled down a bit

[antis-hero]

Emma Willard’s “Picture of Nations or Perspective Sketch of the Course of Empire”, 1836.

Link to the larger version

#emma willard #history

[beedrill55]

I have other headcanons

New Melisha and Fry stuff let's go

Melisha and Willard's was an arranged marriage. He loved her, but she didn't love him back. I also headcanon that she never had relationships prior to her marriage with Willard.

When she met Fry she fell in love for the first time. At first, she didn't even understand she was in love, she coulnd't believe it.

Fry was insecure about his appearance until he met Melisha. He gained more confidence from her compliments.

Fry had a girlfriend during some of his university years, but they broke up after two years.

Melisha likes rings and Fry sometimes buys her an expensive ring for her.

Since in my AU they are actually in love, Melisha hates when someone accuses her of being a gold digger, and Fry hates when people think that Melisha is just a trophy wife. They truly love each other in my fiction (too bad they didn't go that route in the actual movie).

Melisha will never admit it, but she loves hugging her husband while sleeping.

When Melisha told Fry about what happened in the first movie, he tried to help her using his psychology degree. He felt bad for her and wanted her to feel better. He is a very supportive husband and he is always there for Melisha.

Regarding Melisha's daughters, Emma Jane looks like her mother a lot, with the same blue eyes and tall height. Her hair is slightly lighter than Melisha and Willard's. Little Vanessa looks more like Fry, with the same dark and curly hair and a similar skin tone.

My grammar sucks.

#chicken run #chicken run 2 #dr. fry #melisha tweedy

[fuffette]

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Invisibility: A Manifesto by Audrey Szasz Bunny by Mona Awad Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš One Hundred Shadows by Jungeun Hwang Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto Whale by Myeong-Kwan Cheon The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald The Overstory by Richard Powers Poison by Kathryn Harrison Bitter Orange by Fuller, Claire We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Fowler, Karen Joy The Edible Woman by Atwood, Margaret A School for Fools by Sokolov, Sasha Ferdydurke by Gombrowicz, Witold The Iliac Crest by Rivera Garza, Cristina Paris Peasant by Aragon, Louis The Making of a Marchioness by Burnett, Frances Hodgson Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Semple, Maria Hell by Barbusse, Henri The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Letts, Billie Find Me by Berg, Laura van den * Big Swiss by Beagin, Jen Mariana by Dickens, Monica The Lime Works by Bernhard, Thomas Dead Souls by Gogol, Nikolai Gargoyles by Bernhard, Thomas The Pachinko Parlour by Dusapin, Elisa Shua Lolly Willowes by Warner, Sylvia Townsend Rebecca by du Maurier, Daphne The Hearing Trumpet by Carrington, Leonora Jane Eyre by Brontë, Charlotte The Savage Detectives by Bolaño, Roberto Solitude: A Novel of Catalonia by Català, Víctor Almond by Sohn Won-Pyung My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Moshfegh, Ottessa Heaven by Kawakami, Mieko Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo Convenience Store Woman by Murata, Sayaka Iza's Ballad by Szabó, Magda The Door by Szabó, Magda Phantom Limb by Berry, Lucinda The Night Journal by Crook, Elizabeth Faces in the Water by Frame, Janet Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Abgaryan, Narine The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Bronsky, Alina Eileen by Moshfegh, Ottessa I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Moore, Lorrie The Stationery Shop by Kamali, Marjan Breasts and Eggs by Kawakami, Mieko Milkman by Burns, Anna The Maid by Prose, Nita The Guest by Cline, Emma Hang the Moon by Walls, Jeannette The Secret of Ventriloquism by Padgett, Jon The Salt Line by Jones, Holly Goddard Perdido Street Station by Miéville, China The Accursed by Oates, Joyce Carol Occupy Me by Sullivan, Tricia Poison Study by Snyder, Maria V. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Fox, Hester Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Fawcett, Heather Skylark by Kosztolányi, Dezső Blue of Noon by Bataille, Georges Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fern, Fanny The Vegetarian by Han Kang Nadja by Breton, André Exquisite Corpse by Brite, Poppy Z. Ice by Kavan, Anna Kallocain by Boye, Karin Palimpsest by Valente, Catherynne M. Elena Knows by Piñeiro, Claudia Landor's Tower: Or Imaginary Conversations by Sinclair, Iain The Birthday Party by Mauvignier, Laurent The Magnolia Palace by Davis, Fiona Memories of the Future by Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund Under a Glass Bell by Nin, Anaïs Sugar by McFadden, Bernice L. Vintage Cisneros by Cisneros, Sandra Raising Hope by Willard, Katie Chodleros de Laclos Les Liasions Dangereuses by Various Daddy-Long-Legs by Webster, Jean Local Anaesthetic by Grass, Günter Don't Stop the Carnival by Wouk, Herman Confessions of Felix Krull by Mann, Thomas The House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith Radiant Terminus by Volodine, Antoine Shanghai Girls by See, Lisa The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Mikhail (Translator: Mirra Ginsburg) Owlish by Tse, Dorothy

undue influence by anita brookner slip of a fish by amy arnold beside myself by ann morgan blue ticket by sophie mackintosh nostalgia by mircea cartarescu I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Crane, Marisa

#saved

[thequietabsolute]

Top Artists — Medium Term (6 months)

Felbm

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hemlock

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Bob Dylan

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The Clientele

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Van Morrison

Pink Floyd

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Sun Kil Moon

Maxine Funke

Fairport Convention

that spotify stats page

Top Tracks — Long Term (years)

Calla — Canary Room

4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170: IV. Morgen! — Richard Strauss, Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch

6 Melodies, Op. 4 - 6 melodies, Op. 5: Allegretto — Fanny Mendelssohn, Beatrice Rauchs

Long Before Us — Rachel Grimes

Sandalwood I — Jonny Greenwood

Stabat Mater: 1. Stabat Mater — Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

Thaïs / Act 2: Méditation — Jules Massenet, Joshua Bell, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton

Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4 — Antonín Dvořák, Alisa Weilerstein, Anna Polonsky

Elegy No. 1 in D Major — Giovanni Bottesini, Andrew Burashko, Joel Quarrington

The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan (Arr. for Cello and Piano) — Camille Saint-Saëns, Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott

Julie With - 2004 Digital Remaster — Brian Eno

wallingford bossa — hemlock

Fantasiestücke, Op. 73: No. 1, Zart und mit Ausdruck — Robert Schumann, Sol Gabetta, Hélène Grimaud

By This River - 2004 Digital Remaster — Brian Eno

Just When You Need Yourself Most — Oberhofer

Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro — Giacomo Puccini, Renée Fleming, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Bleecker Street — Simon & Garfunkel

House of Woodcock — Jonny Greenwood

Shaker — Acetone

All The Time — Acetone

Jazz Suite No. 2: VI. Waltz II — Dmitri Shostakovich, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35: II. The Kalendar Prince (Excerpt) — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Riccardo Muti, Philadelphia Orchestra

Christine — Canary Room

Me at the Museum, You in the Wintergardens — Tiny Ruins

Valse sentimentale, Op. 51, No. 6 — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Josef Sakonov, London Festival Orchestra

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor": II. Adagio un poco mosso — Ludwig van Beethoven, Wilhelm Kempff, Berliner Philharmoniker, Ferdinand Leitner

Deux Arabesques, L. 66, CD 74: I. Première Arabesque — Claude Debussy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Green Bus — The Innocence Mission

Lucida — Thomas Bartlett

Introduction et Allegro, M. 46 — Maurice Ravel, Oxalys

Two Thousand and Seventeen — Four Tet

When It Rains — Felbm

Lake Effect — Canary Room

Candy Says — The Velvet Underground

Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48: II. Valse — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitayenko

Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6, Heft II: No. 14, Zart und singend — Robert Schumann, Jonathan Biss

Magnolia — J.J. Cale

day one — hemlock

Return From The Ice — Acetone

Requiem in D minor, K.626: 6. Benedictus — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Bonney, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Willard White, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

River — Terry Reid

Where Should I Meet You? — Canary Room

This Night Has Opened My Eyes - 2011 Remaster — The Smiths

Brother — Vashti Bunyan

Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude — Johann Sebastian Bach, Yo-Yo Ma

Sweeten Your Eyes — The Clientele

Knickerbocker Holiday: September Song (Arr. by Paul Bateman) — Kurt Weill, Daniel Hope, Jacques Ammon, Zürcher Kammerorchester

Funicular — Felbm

Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332: II. Adagio — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jenő Jandó

Sensuela — Column

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[bio-occultist]

Emma Willard, The Temple of Time

Temple of Time, detail

[hyunjinniebaby]

July 21, 2022

i just finished The Devil All The Time by Donald Ray Pollock today. here are some lines from the book that i wrote down !!

TW: mentions of death (including suicide & homocide), gun violence, corpses, and an ableist use of the word “cripple.” please proceed with caution.

what i’m saying is that when it comes right down to it, everybody suffers in the end.

he might have killed the girl, then cut them boys up and scattered them. the one in the wheelchair would have been easy pickings, and everybody knows that other one didn’t have sense enough to pour piss out of a boot.

rich people always thought you wanted what they had

thank you, god, for giving me the strength to keep my hands off henry dunlap’s fat fucking neck and let the son of a bitch have everything he wants in life, though i got to confess, lord, i sure wouldn’t mind seeing him choke on it someday.

it had been nearly 14 years since they had buried helen and fled south. they didn’t even bother to change their names anymore.

he was certain those days they spent in cincinnati among the tall buildings and crowded streets before she took the fever were the happiest ones of her life. his, too, for that matter.

then they drove up and down the dull streets of lewisburg until midnight listening to the radio fade in and out and blowing off about what they were going to do after high school, until their voices turned as rough as gravel from all the smoke and whiskey and grandiose plans of the future.

he had killed half of the fifth of whiskey before he finally noticed that the cripple’s face was crawling with ants.

why could the police throw a man in jail just because he didn’t have any money or an address? what if he didn’t want any goddamn money or a fucking address? where was all this freedom they bragged about?

he remembered everything. it was as if he resurrected them every time he brought out the box, stirred them awake and allowed them to do their own kind of singing.

showing her the gun, he swore that he was going to plug the two bastards who had set them up; but then he went down the street and sat on a bench in a park the rest of the day thinking about killing himself instead.

it reminded carl of one of those paintings of mary with the baby jesus, the way sandy was looking down at the model with a sweet, innocent look on her face, a look that he had been able to occasionally catch that first year or two, but then was gone forever.

two young boys, maybe nine or ten years old, came speeding around the corner on bicycles just as he smeared a gob of gray gunk on the seat of the bench. they both waved to him and smiled when he looked up. just for a second, they made him wish, as they flew by pumping their legs and laughing as if they didn’t have a care in the world, that he was somebody else.

and suddenly he realized, as he stood once again in his fathers church, that willard had needed to go wherever charlotte went, so that he could keep on looking after her. all these years, arvin had despised him for what he done, as if he didn’t give a damn what happened to his boy after she died. then he thought about the ride back from the cemetery, and willard’s talk about visiting emma and coal creek. It had never occurred to him before, but that was as close as his father could get to telling him that he was leaving, too, and that he was sorry. “maybe stay for a while,” willard had said that day. “you’ll like it there.”

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