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bitter69uk · 6 months

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Born on this day: British artist Joseph Henry Lynch (28 October 1911 – 16 January 1989), far better known simply as “J H Lynch”. When it comes to kitsch mid-twentieth century art, his only rivals are Vladimir Tretchikoff and of course the Keanes. No home is complete without a framed print of Lynch’s mass-produced idealized portraits of bouffant-haired, false-eyelashed temptresses like Tina, Woodland Goddess, Water Nymph or Autumn Leaves (pictured). If you go to a vintage furniture flea market and there are NO J H Lynch prints on offer, walk out immediately!

#j h lynch #jh lynch #kitsch #lobotomy room #mid twentieth century #retro #bad taste #shock value #mass produced art #bouffant hair #vintage smut #false eyelashes

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startwithsunset · 8 months

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J H Lynch (1911 - 1989)

#J H Lynch

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hairymoths · 2 months

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We saw you across the bar, and we really hate your vibe, now fuck off

#hairymoths #fanart #the raven cycle #ronan lynch #art #maggie stiefvater #the raven boys #the dreamer trilogy #jordan hennessy #hennessy #j hennessy #jordan h #greywaren #call down the hawk #mister impossible #hmoth

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letterboxd-loggd · 3 months

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Inland Empire (2006) David Lynch

February 3rd 2024

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heavencasteel420 · 1 year

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(Petty venting ahead.)

I totally see why other people ship R*nance; their S4 team-up is fun (when Robin isn’t trying to push Sta*cy) and they have good chemistry. I’m also not such an exclusively Jancy shipper that I can’t enjoy fic/art for other Nancy (or Jonathan) ships and, although I want them to stay together in canon, there are ways that they could do a R*nance ending (overt or stealth) that I would be on board with. (In contrast, there is one Sta*cy ending that they could do that would make me go “I still hate this but it kind of works.”) Still, it is so hard to find R*nance fic that fits the following criteria:

Nancy is either bi/pan OR it’s an AU where she’s been a lesbian the whole time and it impacts the narrative accordingly (i.e., the author isn’t positing that Nancy, in canon, has never actually been attracted to Jonathan or Steve—I appreciate that other people find this interpretation meaningful, but I simply do not vibe with it);

If it’s an AU, it has enough connection to the source material that I don’t feel like I’m reading original fic where everyone has the names of ST characters for some reason (just a general preference);

Nancy is not a popular mean girl who needs to be humbled (presented with backhanded sympathy for her internalized homophobia or no);

The fic doesn’t go too far the other way and make Nancy a 100% well-adjusted and endlessly supportive Mom Friend (honestly, I’m pretty flexible on this one, because it’s much less common and doesn’t give me bad-adaptation-of-Emma vibes);

Similarly, the fic finds a happy medium between making Robin an uwu baby useless lesbian (and kind of infantilized due to implied autism) and an overly wise and together lesbian mentor (not terribly interesting story-wise, plus if she’s still eighteen, how together can she be?);

Unless it’s an AU where Jancy never happened or happened a lot differently, Nancy’s bond with Jonathan is acknowledged as important (even if they parted on bad terms and could no longer be friends, it’s bizarre to act like they had a casual, run-of-the-mill high school relationship) and definitely not dismissed as trivial next to her relationships with Steve or frickin’ Eddie;

The author genuinely likes Jonathan (“I don’t hate him but [long list of ways Jonathan annoys the author]” doesn’t count), lets him be upset about the break-up without villainizing him (or sets things up so that it’s plausible he’s relatively unbothered), and shows a decent level of awareness of who he is as a character (i.e., not reducing him to just being stoned all the time or getting basic details wrong) OR just leaves him out of it;

Maybe takes it easy on the amount of page-time dedicated to Steve/St*ddie;

Doesn’t have Joyce cheerily tell Nancy that she seems happier with Robin than she ever did with Jonathan (Jonathan could be way shittier as a boyfriend and a son, and that would still be an incredibly cruel thing to do, but the specific circumstances take it into Sharp Objects territory) (if Nancy is a lesbian in the story and Joyce knows it and she means that Nancy seems happier because she can be herself, that’s different);

Decent spelling/grammar/style/formatting (not a specific problem with this ship, just fic in general).

Nobody’s obligated to do anything of these things for what’s ultimately a fun hobby, and most of my pet peeves run the gamut from “totally inoffensive” to “slightly mean-spirited but not bigoted” to “unfortunate implications but I think the author means well.” I understand the utility, too, of downplaying ships you don’t favor or using an ex character as the bad guy to create the kind of narrative you want. It’s just slim pickings for someone who thinks they’re cute together but isn’t into all that shit.

#not trying to single out this ship either #because god knows there’s st*ddie fics that villainize Nancy and even Jonathan #(I kind of like when jancy are together in those fics and subtly bullying Steve for being dyslexic or whatever)#(like Tommy and Carol 2.0)#(it’s stupid but also very funny)#and st*nathan and j*rgyle fics that are too unsympathetic to Nancy or get her wrong #and even a h*llcheer fic that bizarrely had Jason as a good guy but Jonathan as a bad guy #WHY #say what you like about jonathan but he’s not fresh off of leading a fucking lynch mob

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depress03xpress0 · 11 days

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Learning The Alphabet With Malevolent: Day 18

A is for: AOUGHHHHHHHHH and Arthur, obviously

B is for: Bath :)/Bathtub:D

C is for: Cannibalism

D is for: Dreamlands

E is for: Entity

F is for: Fuck :)

G is for: Gold

H is for: Hole/Holes

I is for: I have your Fucking eyes

J is for: John

K is for: Kayne

L is for: Live, laugh, and Lynch Larson/ Lighter

M is for: Move!

N is for: Noel

O is for: Oscar

P is for: Prison Pits

Q is for: Queerplatonic

R is for:

#malevolent podcast #malevolent #learn the alphabet #malevolent spoilers #most tagged word/words gets added

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south-of-heaven · 28 days

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Masterlist

Requests are closed

Rules

A

AJ Styles

Asuka

Andrade

Alexa Bliss

A to Z - Aleister & Zelina

B

Bayley

Brollins

Becky Lynch

BRE

Bianca Belair

Brandi Rhodes

Brody - Brandi & Cody

Baylor - Bayley & Finn

Browsey - Ronda & Travis

Brie Bella

Beth Phoenix

Brody King

C

Cody Rhodes

Charlotte Flair

Chyna

Cheddie - Chyna & Eddie

Carmella

Candice LerRae

Claudio Castagnoli/Cesaro

D

Damian Priest

Damage CTRL

Dakota Kai

Drew McIntyre

Dominik Mysterio

Dexter Lumis

E

Edge

Eddie Guerrero

F

Four Horsewomen - WWE Four Horsewomen - UFC

Finn Balor

G

Glowish - Naomi & Jimmy

H

House of Black

I

Iyo Sky

Indi Hartwell

InDex - Indi & Dexter

J

Judgement Day

Jessamyn Duke

Jon Moxley

Jey Uso

Jimmy Uso

Jade Cargill

Julia Hart

Jeff Hardy

K

Karl Anderson

Kairi Sane

Karrion Kross

L

Lita

Lyra Valkyria

Liv Morgan (No longer writing for)

Liv 4 Brutality

M

Mia Yim

Marina Shafir

Moriguez - Liv & Raquel

Malakai/Aleister Black

Moxuette - Jon & Renee

N

Natalya Neidhart

Nikki Bella

Naomi

O

P

Phoenix-Edge - Beth & Edge

Q

Queen of Harts - Shayna & Nattie

R

Rhea Ripley

Rhuddy - Rhea & Buddy

Ronda Rousey

Renee Paquette

Ruby Riott/Soho

Roman Reigns

Ronattie - Ronda & Nattie

RnR - Rhea & Raquel

Raquel Rodriguez

S

Shayna Baszler

Starkszler - Shayna & Zoey

Sheamus

Stephanie McMahon

Sonya Deville

Scarlett Bordeaux

Scarrion - Scarlett & Karrion

Saraya Knight

Sasha Banks

T

Triple H

The Big Three - Jade, Bianca, & Naomi

Trish Stratus

Team Bestie - Lita & Trish

The Rated R Couple - Lita & Edge

Troey - Trish & Zoey

Toni Storm

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Zelina Vega

Zekota - Zelina & Dakota

Zoey Stark

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todaysdocument · 10 months

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The DC branch of the NAACP brought lynching statistics to the attention of President Wilson on July 1, 1918.

“[African Americans might] ask if it were worth while to send their sons and brothers to make the world safe for democracy when America, their home, is not safe for them . . . “

Record Group 60: General Records of the Department of Justice Series: Straight Numerical Files File Unit: 158260

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[[left aligned]]NATIONAL OFFICERS

President:

MR. MOORFIELD STOREY

Vice-Presidents:

ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE

REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES

BISHOP JOHN HURST

JOHN E. MILHOLLAND

MARY WHITE OVINGTON

OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD

Chairman, Board of Directors:

MAJOR J. E. SPINGARN

Treasurer:

OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD

Director of Publications and Research

DR. W. E.B. DUBOIS

Secretary

JOHN R. SHILLADY

Field Secretary:

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON [[left aligned]]

[[centered]]The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

OFFICIAL ORGAN

THE CRISIS

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS

70 FIFTH AVENUE

NEW YORK CITY

WASHINGTON, D.C. [[centered]]

July 1, 1918

The President,

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

The District of Columbia Branch, National Association for the Advancement of colored People, numbering upwards of 7,000 members in the District of Columbia, respectfully invites your attention to the attached clipping from the Washington Post giving authoritative figures for lynchings in the United States for the past six months. Issued at a time when it appears that the fury of the German blow may fall at any time upon American troops, these figures will not be happy reading to the thousand of colored Americans whose sons and brothers will help to stem this blow. A people less loyal than those represented by this Association would ask many questions upon reading these figures. They would ask if it were worth while to send their sons and brothers to make the world safe for democracy when America, their home, is not safe for them; if the lynching of women is a fair sample of the treatment they may expect from the nation which was (and rightfully) shocked beyond expression by the execution of Miss Cavell; if this great government really includes them in its laudable program for world betterment. Finally, they would want to know if the President, speaking the demands of this country for freedom for the oppressed peoples of distant lands, either knew or cared whether his words were being compared by the civilized world with the attached record of unpunished and unrebuked lawlessness.

This Association believes, Mr. President, that you owe it to

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yourself to express your disapprobation pf the lynching of colored men and women. We gather from the press that you are to deliver a speech on the 4th of July. May we suggest that this would be a fitting time to include in your remarks some assurance of your belief that the lynching of colored people should no longer be tolerated in this country.

Respectfully.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BRANCH

National Association for the Advancement of colored People

By: Archibald H. Grimke (Signed)

President

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Archibald H. Grimke

Washington, D.C.

Calls attention from Wash.Post giving authoritative figures for lynchings in the U.S.A.

Fitts Herron

(The article from the Washington Post)

Tuskegee, Ala., June 30 -- Thirty-five Persons were lynched in the United States in the first six months of this year, according to announcement by the division or records and research of Tuskegee Institute.

The total exceeds by 21 the lynchings for the six months of 1917 and by 10 the number during a similar period in 1916.

Thirty-four of the 35 persons lynched were negroes. Three negro women were included in the list.

Eight lynchings occurred in each of the States of Georgia and Louisiana, seven in Texas, four in Tennessee, two in Mississippi and on in each of the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina and South Carolina.

#archivesgov #July 1 #1918 #1910s #Wilson administration #World War I #WWI #lynching #NAACP #Black history #African American history

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jacensolodjo · 11 months

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The Alphabet of Inadequate Language

A is for Auschwitz, where more than a million were gassed and then burned into ash. The word that could speak for everything that follows. A is for ARBEIT MACHT FREI, the words on the gates of Auschwitz. WORK MAKES YOU FREE. Except that the phrase is untranslatable, like so much else. A is for Atrocity. A is for Armenian Genocide, words that are illegal to say aloud in Turkey. A is for Atom bomb. B is for Buchenwald, where my father and my uncle were imprisoned yet did not die. B is for Bergen-Belsen, where Anne Frank did die. B is for Belzec, where half a million were murdered. B is for Babyn Yar, the ravine and largest-known mass grave. B is for Birkenau, the “sister” to Auschwitz. C is for Concentration Camp. C is for Crematoria. C is for Collaboration. C is for Communism. C is for Churchill. C is for Cambodia. C is for Children. One and a half million murdered children. Also the Hidden Children, and the Child Survivors. D is for Dictator. D is for Dachau. D is for Death Camp. D is for Death’s Head Insignia. D is for Deutschland. D is for Denial.

E is for Eichmann. E is for Extermination. E is for Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing squads. E is for Ethnic Cleansing. E is for Euphemism. F is for Final Solution. F is for Führer. F is for Fatherland. F is for Forgetting, which both is and is not the opposite of Remembering. G is for Gestapo. G is for Gas Chamber. G is for Goering. G is for Germany. G is for Ghetto. G is for Genocide. H is for Holocaust. H is for Hitler. H is for Himmler. H is for Höss. H is for Homosexual. H is for Hutu. H is for Hiroshima. I is for Identity Card. I is for Immigrant. I is for Ideology. I is for I Don’t Know How to Go On like This but I Cannot Stop Because the Words Keep Coming. J is for Jew. J is for Jude. J is for Jehovah’s Witnesses. J is for JEDEM DAS SEINE, words on the gate of Buchenwald. TO EACH HIS DUE. K is for Kristallnacht. K is for Khmer Rouge and for Killing Fields. K is for Konzentrationslager. L is for Lager. L is for Lynching. L is for Liquidation. As in, the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Lodz Ghetto and the Vilna Ghetto, where my mother and her parents were forced to live before they escaped to a hiding place in the Polish countryside. M is for Mengele. M is for Mauthausen. M is for Maidanek. M is for Murder, Memory, Massacre, Motherland. N is for Nuclear Bomb and Neutron Bomb. N is for Nagasaki. N is for Neighbors, the ones who hid Jews and the ones who denounced Jews or denounced other neighbors for hiding Jews. N is for Nuremberg. The place of the trials. The place of a nearly impossible quest for justice. N is for Nazi. O is for Oven. O is for Other. P is for Pogrom. P is for Prisoner. P is for Parade. P is for Ponary, the forest near Vilna where 100,000 Jews were executed. P is for Poland, once home to more than 2 million Jews. P is for Perished. Q is for Quarantine. Q is for Questions That Have No Answer. R is for Reich. R is for Roma, whose numberless dead have never fully been mourned. R is for Rwanda. R is for Romania, the birthplace of my father’s father and the citizenship that saved my father’s life. R is for Relocation. R is for Refugee. R is for Roosevelt. S is for SS, for Stormtrooper. S is for Shoah. S is for Sachsenhausen and for Sobibor. S is for Stalin and for Synagogue and for Soap. S is for Sola, the ash-filled river at the edges of Auschwitz. S is for Sonderkommando, the special detail of prisoners forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria. S is for Selektion. S is for Stolpersteine and for Secrets. S is for Silence. T is for Treblinka. T is for Theresienstadt. T is for Tattoo. T is for Twins, whom Mengele chose for special experiments. T is for the Thousand-Year Reich, for Terror, Trauma, Tenacity. T is for Tutsi. U is for Uprising. U is for Underground. U is for Über Alles. U is for U-boat. U is for Undesirable. U is for Understatement. V is for Vichy. V is for Victory. V is for Victim. V is for Vanquished. V is for Vietnam, the name of a country. V is for Veteran.

W is for Warsaw. W is for Wehrmacht. W is for War, and War, and War. X is for X. For everything that cannot be expressed in words, for each and every name of the dead that may have been forgotten. X is for Xenophobia, fear of the stranger, the Other. Y is for Yiddish, the almost-lost language. Y is for You, the one reading this alphabet and all the ones yet to be born. Z is for Zyklon B, the gas used to murder millions of men, women, and children in Auschwitz.

Now go back to the beginning. See under: A.

Survivor Cafe by Elizabeth Rosner

#intergenerational trauma #survivor cafe #elizabeth rosner #holocaust mention #anti communism tag #genocide mention #long post

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blackfemmecharacterdependency · 1 year

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Black Femme Character Dependency Dark Skin Directory || Entertainers Pt. 1 (A-N)

For the purposes of this list and on this page, whenever I say “dark skinned,” I mean a traditional brown crayon or darker. I grew up around Black people, so the words “dark skinned” do not mean the same thing to me as it do to some nonblacks.

*I am attempting to redo this list that will not show up for some reason...

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#BFCD Dark Skin December #BFCD Masterlist #BFCD DS Directory #Black Actresses and Female Entertainers Masterlist #Black Women in Entertainment #Flooding Your Dash with Black Lady Face #A-Z #Tags Masterlist #Masterlist #List will be updated as needed #BFCD Dark Skin December 2022

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bitter69uk · 1 year

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Born on this day: happy 66th birthday to the wondrous Cindy Wilson (née Cynthia Leigh Wilson, 28 February 1957), one of the founding members of essential post-punk band the B-52’s! For me, Wilson’s dissonant science fiction anti-harmonies with co-vocalist Kate Pierson are one of the defining sounds of 1980s American New Wave music! I especially treasure Wilson’s lead vocals on tracks “Hero Worship” and “Give Me Back My Man.” She also, of course, has exemplary taste in beehive wigs. Pictured: Wilson – looking like a J H Lynch painting come to life – photographed by Lynn Goldsmith.

#the b-52's #b-52s #cindy wilson #lynn goldsmith #j h lynch #lobotomy room #post punk #new wave #bouffant wig #beehive wig #athens georgia

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startwithsunset · 7 months

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J H Lynch (1911 - 1989)

#J H Lynch

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conradscrime · 1 year

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The Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore

December 13, 2022

Harry and Harriette Moore got married on Christmas Day, 1926 and moved into Harriette’s family home in the fall of 1927. Harry worked as an educator and Harriette worked as a former teacher and became an insurance broker.

In 1927, Harry was promoted to principal at the local Titusville Colored School. Harry taught the ninth grade, and the school was racially segregated like most schools at the time. Harry’s first year teaching was actually closed early by the local school board due to the system’s systemic discrimination against black children.

Harry and Harriette had their first daughter, born in 1928 and moved out of Harriette’s family home and into their own home, in Mims, Florida, given to them by Harriette’s parents. The home was on an acre of land. The couple had their second daughter in 1930. In 1931, Harriette returned to her teaching career and worked at the same school Harry worked at.

Harry was committed to making a difference and being an activist. In 1934, Harry founded the Brevard County, Florida, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter. He served as the NAACP’s first Executive Secretary in the state of Florida. This NAACP chapter worked towards creating equal pay for equal work for teachers of any race, fighting to get lynchings prosecuted and attempted to allow black people the right to vote.

However, Harry’s activism was very controversial within his county, as the county was white-dominated. In 1946, Harry’s activism caused both him and his wife to be fired from their jobs by authorities. After being fired, Harry became a full time employee of the NAACP.

On Christmas night, 1951, the Moores were celebrating Christmas and their 25th wedding anniversary. Later in the night when the couple retreated to their bedroom, a bomb exploded which injured both Harry and Harriette but left their daughter unharmed (the other daughter is not mentioned).

The bomb was made from dynamite and had been placed directly under Harry and Harriette’s bedroom floor. Both Moores were rushed to the closest hospital that would treat African Americans which was located in Sanford, Florida which was almost 30 miles away from the Moore home. Harry died while being transported to the hospital and Harriette died nine days later from her injuries.

Many people believe the only reason the Moores were targeted was due to Harry’s activism in the community. Since the murder there have been five separate criminal investigations completed.

The first criminal investigation was done by the FBI and began on the night of the explosion, ending in 1955. The second investigation was done by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office and the Brevard County State Attorney’s Office in 1978.

The third investigation happened in 1991 by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE). The fourth investigation was done in 2004 by the Florida Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights. In 2008, the FBI investigated again as part of the Department of Justice’s “Cold Case Initiative.”

Through the five different criminal investigations, four different subjects were implicated in the bombing. All four were known to be high up members of the Ku Klux Klan in the central region of Florida. The first subject, a man named Earl J. Brooklyn, had a reputation for being violent and was actually expelled from a Klavern of the KKK in Georgia for engaging in unsanctioned acts of violence.

Earl J. Brooklyn apparently had floor plans of the Moore home and was recruiting people to help him in the bombing. The second person involved, Tillman H. “Curley” Belvin was also a violent member of the KKK and was close friends with Earl J. Brooklyn.

Joseph Cox, was also involved and was implicated by another KKK member, Edward L. Spivey. Spivey had actually implicated Cox in a deathbed confession while he was dying from cancer in 1978.

Joseph Cox had actually taken his own life in 1952, one day after he was confronted by the FBI. Both Earl J. Brooklyn and Tillman H. Belvin died while the FBI was working on their initial investigation. Belvin died of natural causes in August 1952. Brooklyn died from natural causes on Christmas Day 1952, exactly one year to the day of the Moore murders.

No arrests were ever made in the case as all 4 members died. The investigation revealed that Harry’s activism made him a target to the KKK. The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division closed the file in 2011.

The next morning after the bombing, December 26, 1951, angry men in black neighbourhoods were going around spreading the word of the bombing. Many men and women, still in their night clothes, walked through the streets protesting. Many of these people knew Harry Moore personally and were angry at this racist attack.

The murders of Harry and Harriette Moore caused nationwide protests. President Harry S Truman and Governor Fuller Warren both received telegrams and letters in protest of the murders. In New York City on January 5, 1952, Jackie Robinson held a memorial service which brought 3000 mourners. The NAACP also held a memorial service in March 1952 in the Madison Square Garden. About 15,000 were in attendance and people like Langston Hughes came to give respects.

In 1952, Harry Moore was posthumously awarded the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal. In 1999, the Moores home became an Historical Heritage Landmark of the State of Florida. Brevard County’s local government christened the “Harry T. and Harriette Moore Memorial Park and Interpretive Center.”

#solved #murder #homicide #civil #rights #movement #racism #true crime #Crime #florida

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denimbex1986 · 10 months

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'Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s best and most revealing work. It’s a profoundly unnerving story told with a traditionalist’s eye towards craftsmanship and muscular, cinematic imagination. Here, Nolan treats one of the most contested legacies of the 20th century – that of J Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy), the “father of the atomic bomb” – as a mathematical puzzle to be solved.

In 1943, at the behest of Major General Leslie Groves (Matt Damon), Oppenheimer became director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, the Manhattan Project’s New Mexico site for attempting to successfully build an atomic bomb. Oppenheimer, at first, was driven by moral imperative: he feared deeply, as a Jewish man, about what would happen if the Nazis were to develop a weapon of such deadly capability (that a non-Jewish actor has taken on a role in which identity plays such a central role is, in this light, somewhat strange).

Following Hitler’s defeat, Oppenheimer continued to support the bomb’s deployment in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, convinced that such hellish destruction would not only bring an end to the war in the Pacific, but to all wars. Historians have since disputed the idea that the bombs were in any way necessary for Japan’s surrender (the real turning point, it seems, was the threat of Soviet invasion). And Oppenheimer’s own utopian vision was swiftly dismantled by fellow scientist Edward Teller (Benny Safdie) and the chair of the US Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr), who pushed forward with the creation of the H-bomb, a thousand times deadlier in its scope.

Oppenheimer attempted, in vain, to halt the subsequent nuclear arms race between the US and the Soviet Union. He was promptly silenced using one of America’s most cherished tools of political oppression – anti-Communist hysteria. He was attacked for his personal associations with the Communist Party, through his brother Frank (Dylan Arnold), wife Kitty (Emily Blunt), and ex-lover Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh). It was an act of pure, public humiliation.

Nolan observes each of these chapters with sickly wonder, as Jennifer Lame’s editing work and Ludwig Göransson’s clattering score lend Oppenheimer a frightening momentum. The film is constructed in a way that allows its audience to comprehend, on an intellectual level, the profound power and chaos that led its central character to see himself as the “Death, destroyer of worlds” of Hindu scripture. I’m not sure, however, that it burrows deeper than that – into that profound, emotional space that can be both overwhelming and difficult to verbalise. It’s a little too conscious of itself, and the ways cinema crafts its own reality. Throughout, the film teases an unheard conversation between Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein (Tom Conti), its inevitable reveal delivered in the same tone as the solution to the teleportation trick in Nolan’s own The Prestige.

But the prioritisation of cleverness in Oppenheimer isn’t necessarily a criticism of Nolan – more a testament to who he is as an artist. The detonation of the A-bomb, during its first test in the New Mexico desert, is depicted as booming tufts of flame in extreme close-up, coupled with enraptured onlookers. You sense its primal force, the kind of untapped power that led Oppenheimer to view himself as a kind of American Prometheus (also the title of a 2005 biography Nolan drew heavily from). But contrast that, perhaps, with how David Lynch approached the same A-bomb test in his 2017 limited series Twin Peaks: The Return. Lynch drew the camera in, slowly, confronting us with the full-scale of the weapon’s destruction, while sucking us into its very centre, damning us through its inescapability. Nolan’s A-bomb is wondrous until we consider its context; Lynch’s A-bomb is pure nightmare.

The film’s non-linear structure (de rigueur for the Tenet and Inception filmmaker), with each timeline beautifully lensed by Hoyte van Hoytema in either colour or black and white, lends a little more focus to Oppenheimer’s post-war betrayal than it does to the blossoming of his guilt. Large swathes of the film play out as political thriller, the fuel in its engine being Downey Jr’s titanic colouring of Strauss, all boorishness and manipulative charm.

But Nolan is still committed to understanding the innerworkings of his subject. Here’s a man deep in denial. When confronted with photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he averts his gaze. Its horrors rumble (literally) in his peripheral vision, only clear to him when he imagines such brutality inflicted on the white Americans celebrating his “victory” in Los Alamos. Murphy creates his own devastating fission: brilliance torn apart by arrogance. Scene by scene, the light behind his eyes starts to dim. He even has sex the same way he builds bombs. After his extramarital affair turns sour, his wife Kitty chastises him: “You don’t get to commit a sin and then make us all feel sorry when there are consequences.” In Oppenheimer, a man’s private, internal, and political lives are strung together, each a component of the great equation that defines a man’s soul.'

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randomestfandoms-ocs · 11 months

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Glee OC Masterlist ( J-Z)

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Name: Jaci Jones

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Sofia Wiley

Love Interest: Artie Abrams

Name: Jason Del Monico

Story: All Or Nothing

Face claim: Ross Lynch

Love Interest: Mercedes Jones

Name: Jeanette Jameson

Story: Multi

Face claim: Alyson Reed

Name: Jeremy St James

Story: Corner Of The Sky

Face claim: Joshua Bassett

Love Interest: Sebastian Smythe, Rory Flanagan, Marley Rose

Name: Johanna Berry

Story: John Hughes Movie

Face claim: Joey King

Love Interest: Camilo Ayers

Name: Johanna St James

Story: Multi

Face claim: Kate Reinders

Love Interest: Chad Channing

Name: Josh St James

Story: Multi

Face claim: Zac Efron

Love Interest: Nell Baker

Name: Josie St James

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Lily Rose Depp

Name: Joy Schuester

Story: By Its Very Definition

Face claim: Lili Reinhart

Love Interest: Noah Puckerman, Brittany Pierce, Mike Chang, Sebastian Smythe, eventual Sam Evans

Summary: Joy Schuester knew what glee was - how could she not? Her dad never shut up about the good old days, his glory years at McKinley High. He even named her after something his old coach would say - by its very definition, glee is about opening yourself up to joy. Big whoop, she’d never really cared. Really she was just interested in cheer, drama club, and dancing around her room while singing along to Taylor Swift. But then her dad takes over the glee club and Joy has no choice but to join. She expected the showtunes, the divas, and even her dad’s white guy rapping. She didn’t, however, expect to fall in love, and she definitely didn’t expect to find herself caught in the middle of a war between her coach and her dad.

Name: June Harris

Story: All Rhodes Lead Home

Faceclaim: Hailee Steinfeld

Love Interest: Jesse St. James

Name: Kendall Pierce

Story: Songs Of The Heart

Face claim: Meg Donnelly

Love Interest: Mike Chang

Summary: Maybe it was her age. Maybe it was the special Pierce… intelligence. Maybe it was just that she was a better person than most students at McKinley High. But whatever it was, Kendall Pierce didn’t understand why she couldn’t cheer and sing. She didn’t understand why Quinn Fabray was so insistent that she not join Glee, or why the New Directions were so suspicious of her “intentions”. She loved to sing and she loved to cheer, it should have been simple. But when Quinn Fabray suddenly joins the club, with her sister and Santana in tow, Kendall starts to realize that nothing about high school is as simple as it seems.

Name: Lilibeth Anderson

Story: Teenage Dream

Face claim: Olivia Rodrigo

Love Interest: Marley Rose

Name: Lindsay Wright

Story: Multi

Face claim: Brittany Snow

Love Interest: Amelie Kline

Name: Logan Hayes

Story: Dream Maker

Face claim: KJ Apa

Name: Mac Hudson

Story: Breakthrough

Face claim: Charles Gillespie

Love Interest: Betty Fabray

Name: Mandy Abrams

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Liana Liberato

Name: Marilyn Pillsbury

Story: Life Can Be Beautiful

Face claim: Madelaine Petsch

Love Interest: Brittany Pierce, eventual Quinn Fabray, possibly Quinn Fabray & Sam Evans

Summary: When Marilyn Pillsbury was ten, her mother died. When she was twelve, her dad was arrested. When she was thirteen, she moved in with her aunt Emma. And when she was fourteen, she started at William McKinley High School. And she was nothing but the weird guidance counsellor’s weird niece. But then, after a fateful encounter with three Cheerios in the girls’ bathroom, Lyn finds herself being dragged into the spotlight. She becomes a Cheerio, she’s hot and popular and the school loves her, she’s everything she ever wanted to be. And when Quinn joins the glee club, Marilyn is right beside her with Brittany and Santana; finally she can do what she really loves without fearing the consequence. She’s on top of the world, life is beautiful. And then she finds out that Quinn is pregnant, and she has to make a choice. Will she seize the opportunity to rise to the very top, or will she stay loyal to the girl who brought her up from the lowest of lows?

Name: Mark Carter

Story: Multi

Face claim: Bart Johnson

Name: Maureen Morton

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Renee Rapp

Love Interest: Quinn Fabray

Name: May Taylor

Story: All Rhodes Lead Home

Face claim: Hailee Steinfeld

Love Interest: Mike Chang

Name: Melissa Carlson

Story: Brutal

Face claim: Kaitlyn Dever

Name: Melody Naccarelli

Story: Multi

Face claim: Brenna D’Amico

Love Interest: N/A, sometimes Jeremy St James

Name: Mia Rose

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Lily Collins

Name: Millie Kindell

Story: Corner Of The Sky [ & others ]

Face claim: Anna Camp

Love Interest: Jesse St James

Name: Natalie Astor

Story: Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl

Face claim: Maia Mitchell

Name: Nell Baker

Story: Multi

Face claim: Anne Hathaway

Love Interest: Josh St James

Name: Paige Callahan

Story: Brutal

Face claim: Zendaya

Name: Robyn Del Monico

Story: All Or Nothing

Face claim: Olivia Holt

Name: Roman Kline

Story: Somewhere Only We Know [ & others ]

Face claim: Aaron Tveit

Love Interest: Cooper Anderson & Ash Astor

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Name: Roxie Flores

Story: The Greatest Star

Face claim: Camila Mendes

Love Interest: Noah Puckerman, Sebastian Smythe, eventual Sam Evans

Summary: Rosalind Flores was used to living in Quinn Fabray’s shadow. Quinn was the head Cheerio, even though Roxie was the better cheerleader; Quinn got the boys, even though she had a stick up her ass; Quinn had the friends - lackeys, even though she treated them like dirt. And then Mr. Schuester takes over the Glee Club and Roxie sees a refuge from her life as Quinn’s understudy. And it’s great. Sure, Rachel is as obsessed with being number one as Quinn, but Roxie loves to sing and she’s really, genuinely happy. It’s everything she hoped for; it’s perfect. And then Quinn Fabray walks into the choir room and Roxie’s sanctuary collapses around her.

Name: Sadie Berry

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Ciara Bravo

Name: Savannah Evans

Story: Rumour Has It

Face claim: Dove Cameron

Love Interest: Valeria Ramírez & Bobby Seurat

Summary: The first thing that the Evans siblings learned when they moved to Lima was that rumours spread much faster than they did back home. The second thing that they learned was how to lie. And lie they did. They were just three siblings; their financial struggles were because of their dad’s job; they absolutely most definitely didn’t have another sister who’d been in the hospital for as long as they’d been in Ohio. And everyone believed them. Right up until Rachel Berry sees Sam hugging some blonde girl outside of a motel and drags the entire glee club on a witch hunt that ends with them meeting the Evans siblings in their motel room. All of the Evans siblings. Even Savannah, Sam’s twin and best kept secret who, rumour has it, it about to start at McKinley High.

Name: Sutton Reeves

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Emma Watson

Name: Tally Boyer

Story: Brutal

Face claim: Haley Lu Richardson

Name: Tommy Walker

Story: Breakthrough

Face claim: Jeremy Shada

Name: Trisha Kent

Story: Brutal

Face claim: Cassie Scerbo

Name: Valeria Ramírez

Story: Rumour Has It

Face claim: Sofia Carson

Love Interest: Savannah Evans & Bobby Seurat

Name: Xander Smythe

Story: Breakthrough

Face claim: Joe Keery

Love Interest: Betty Fabray

Name: Zoe Giardi

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Grace Van Dien

Love Interest: Mike Chang

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Learning The Alphabet With Malevolent: Day 26 (Last day)

A is for: AOUGHHHHHHHHH and Arthur, obviously

B is for: Bath :)/Bathtub:D

C is for: Cannibalism

D is for: Dreamlands

E is for: Entity

F is for: Fuck :)

G is for: Gold

H is for: Hole/Holes

I is for: I have your Fucking eyes

J is for: John

K is for: Kayne

L is for: Live, laugh, and Lynch Larson/ Lighter

M is for: Move!

N is for: Noel

O is for: Oscar

P is for: Prison Pits

Q is for: Queerplatonic

R is for: Right, Arthur !

S is for: Shut Up!

T is for: This to shall pass

U is for: Undefeated

V is for: Vanguard

W is for: Whimpering

X is for: Xenophobia(I’m looking at you Lovecraft!)

Y is for: Yellow

Z is for: Zero days since divorce

[Now, in true Kayne fashion I shall destroy the evidence by sending it to “Spain”]

[Blow it up, Gerald]

#malevolent #malevolent podcast #learn the alphabet #malevolent spoilers #most tagged word/words gets added #Thanks to all who participated #A clap to you

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