#saffi nation

[annikasevenshots]

"why do you make so many sad edits?"

i have a doctor's appointment to try and get myself antidepressants tomorrow so draw your own conclusions

#currently speedrunning through all emotions available to man before i eat my emotion dampeners #rest in peace my ability to feel #no more sad edits for saffi nation once i'm on meds :'( #tw medication

[kuronousag1]

My body count in fics keep increasing. Sorry Argenti nation.

Fic fic fic

Fic inspiration 🙌 (go follow saffi she's great and a good friend)

#ao3 #honkai #ao3 writer #honkai star rail #aha aeon #aha aeon of elation #ao3 link #argenti hsr #argenti #idrila

[townofcadence]

Muse Information - Saffron Seileán

Directory | Character List

Basic Information:

Full Name: Saffron Seileán (Sh-eyl-yan)

Nicknames: Saffy-Taffy, Saff

Age: 26

Date of Birth: He doesn't really celebrate (July 21st)

Nationality: American

Accent: American, but voice sound is a little uneven because he has anxiety speaking. kinda a so-cali accent almost underneath that

Blood Type: B

Pronouns: He/Him or They/them

Sexuality: He knows he's gay, but he's questioning if he might be bi

Relationship Status: Single [crush on Jace]

Occupation: Florist and Owner of flower shop The Flower Trellis

Physical Traits:

Height: 5’7” (170.18 cm)

Weight: 267 Lbs. (121.11 kg)

Eye Color(s): red

Hair Color(s): a cool green, with brighter warm green

Notable Features: two toned hair in cool and warm greens, with a pair of square wire-frame glasses. he has a prosthetic hand with a wood patterned design and almost consistently muddy work boots. his overalls have a small frog on the pocket, as well as lillipads for pockets. he has tattooes on his left bicep, and on his neck, and a link cuffed earring of a flower pot and forget-me-nots on one ear, and a green fern on the other. he often wears a shift with mushrooms on the sleeves.

Nature: anxious, gentle, nuturing, timid, outdoorsy

Art Ref (will be updated when possible):

#Saffron #Muse Information #mobilefriendly #Saffron Seileán

[queermtl]

QUEER MTL THINGS TO DO: November 2023

The temperature may get colder in November, but Montréal’s LGBTQ+ scene continues to heat up! This month, Montréal is stuffed to the brim with events, parties and unique experiences painted in all the colours of the LGBTQ+ rainbow. From drag to community, circuit to underground, here’s some of our picks for the best LGBTQ+ things to do in the city. For further announcements, including those not announced at time of publication, follow QueerMTL on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr! Got an event coming up? DM it our way! En français : https://www.mtl.org/fr/experience/queer-mtl-quoi-faire

ÉVÉNEMENTS / EVENTS

Mercredi 1er novembre / Wednesday, November 1

🤡 CLOWN Playshop with Ander Wayne, Studio Mange Mes Pieds 💻 QueerTech hosts the QT Qonference, Cirque Éloize ✍️ HommeHomo presents Drink & Draw, Bar Le Cocktail ✍️ Queer Sip & Draw, Blue Dog Motel 🎶 P!nk with Grouplove, Centre Bell

Jeudi 2 novembre / Thursday, November 2

💻 QueerTech hosts the QT Qonference, Cirque Éloize 🎨 Art Battle Montréal, Bar La Shop 🎶 P!nk with Grouplove, Centre Bell

Vendredi 3 novembre / Friday, November 3

🎶 Blonde Redhead with Bibi Club, Le Studio TD 🎶 Depeche Mode with DIIV, Centre Bell

Samedi 4 novembre / Saturday, November 4

✊ Festival Jouissif Montréal hosts La Garçonnière Marché Kinky, L’Étage 🤗 À Corps Consentants—ÀCC hosts Nuances of Giving & Receiving—A Practice of Consent, White Wall Studio 🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra 📚 LGBTQ+ Books Celebration Event, L’Euguélionne 

Dimanche 5 novembre / Sunday, November 5

🎉 La gailaxie ligue d’improvisation, Cabaret Mado 😆 A Very Pretentious Comedy Show #11 with Kyra Carleton, Brad MacDonald, Monica Hamburg, Estelle Davis, Carmina Berbari Daou, Leslie Simpliciano-Szigeti and Viveth K, The Diving Bell Social Club

Lundi 6 novembre / Monday, November 6

🤗 Jam d’impro contact, en mixité choisie, White Wall Studio ✍️ Trivia Mondays hosted by Bambi Dextrous, Diving Bell Social Club

Mardi 7 novembre / Tuesday, November 7

😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal

Mercredi 8 novembre / Wednesday, November 8

🤡 CLOWN Playshop with Ander Wayne, Studio Mange Mes Pieds ✍️ Queer Sip & Draw, Blue Dog Motel

Jeudi 9 novembre / Thursday, November 9

🎶 Jeremy Dutcher, Beanfield Theatre 🎭 Cabaret Queer with Tracy Trash, Pascale Picard, Ruby Doll, Grant Canyon, Rocio Vadillo et Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli, Mimi Cherry, Derek Wood and Saffi Watson, Cabaret Mado

Vendredi 10 novembre / Friday, November 10

🎶 Hannah Georgas with Ten Kills the Pack, Petit Campus

Samedi 11 novembre / Saturday, November 11

📚 The Violet Hour Book Club reads Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Care Porter, Archives gaies du Québec 🛼 Rollerville MTL hosts the Cinquième Roll Out—Roller Disco, Arena St-Louis

Lundi 13 novembre / Monday, November 13

✍️ Trivia Mondays hosted by Bambi Dextrous, Diving Bell Social Club

Mardi 14 novembre / Tuesday, November 14

😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal

Mercredi 15 novembre / Wednesday, November 15

🫦 SASSITUDE Playshop with Ander Wayne, Studio Mange Mes Pieds ✍️ Queer Sip & Draw, Blue Dog Motel

Jeudi 16 novembre / Thursday, November 16

🎥 Image+Nation festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal, various locations (check program listings at image-nation.org)

Vendredi 17 novembre / Friday, November 17

🎥 Image+Nation festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal, various locations (check program listings at image-nation.org)

Samedi 18 novembre / Saturday, November 18

👠 The House of Old Navy presents The Candy Shop Kiki Ball, Location TBC 👚 Queer Clothing Swap, BMP Co-op 🏳️‍🌈 exChange: ingergenerational dialogue through making art, MAC Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal 🎥 Image+Nation festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal, various locations (check program listings at image-nation.org)

Dimanche 19 novembre / Sunday, November 19

🎥 Image+Nation festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal, various locations (check program listings at image-nation.org)

Lundi 20 novembre / Monday, November 20

✍️ Trivia Mondays hosted by Bambi Dextrous, Diving Bell Social Club 🎥 Image+Nation festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal, various locations (check program listings at image-nation.org)

Mardi 21 novembre / Tuesday, November 21

😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal 🎥 Image+Nation festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal, various locations (check program listings at image-nation.org)

Mercredi 22 novembre / Wedneseday, November 22

🎶 Pierre Lapointe, Théâtre de la Ville Longueuil ✍️ Queer Sip & Draw, Blue Dog Motel 🎥 Image+Nation festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal, various locations (check program listings at image-nation.org)

Jeudi 23 novembre / Thursday, November 23

🎥 Image+Nation festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal, various locations (check program listings at image-nation.org)

Vendredi 24 novembre / Friday, November 24

🎥 Image+Nation festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal, various locations (check program listings at image-nation.org)

Samedi 25 novembre / Saturday, November 25

🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra 🎥 Image+Nation festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal, various locations (check program listings at image-nation.org)

Dimanche 26 novembre / Sunday, November 26

🎥 Image+Nation festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal, various locations (check program listings at image-nation.org)

Lundi 27 novembre / Monday, November 27

✍️ Trivia Mondays hosted by Bambi Dextrous, Diving Bell Social Club

Mardi 28 novembre / Tuesday, November 28

😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal

Mercredi 29 novembre / Wednesday, November 29

🎶 Mariah Carey, Bell Centre ✍️ Queer Sip & Draw, Blue Dog Motel

Jeudi 30 novembre / Thursday, November 30

📚 Violet Hour celebrates 5 years with readings from Suzette Mayr, Daniel Allen Cox and Katia Grubisic, Casa d’Italia

FESTIVITÉS / PARTIES

Jeudi 9 novembre / Thursday, November 9

🥳 Dirty Pop Party with J-Line, Mosez Jones, Mint Simon and Alex Mick, Wheel Club

Vendredi 10 novembre / Friday, November 10

🥳 Cerise Noire with DJ JT, Bar Notre-Dame-Des-Quilles

Samedi 11 novembre / Saturday, November 11

🥳 MPU hosts Génération MPU ✨ 15e Anniversaire with Kiki Coe, Sisi Superstar, Petula Claque and DJs Montag, Frantastik and Jeffany, Le Belmont

Vendredi 24 novembre / Friday, November 24

🥳 Agent Malory presents ARMAGUIDOUNE, Cabaret Berlin 🥳 Psychedelic Babylon presents Equilibrium with AVALON and PHAXE, Secret Location

Samedi 25 novembre / Saturday, November 25

🥳 Virtualis presents CYBERCULT with Dopamyne, No Police, Corinita, Pretty Privilege, Haze, H1bou, Hotfit and more, Secret Location

DES SPORTS

🛼 Rollerville MTL hosts the Cinquième Roll Out—Roller Disco, Saturday, November 11, 2023, Arena St-Louis

💪 From the Ground Up: Strength Training for Newbs, Punks and Weirdos with Nadine Forde runs November 18-December 2, 2023, StudioEd

👯 Tango/Salsa Queer holds lessons every Saturday, visit queertangomtl.com for information or contact [email protected] or call [phone] for prices and signup information.

👠 Twice a month on every second Tuesday, Bring It! hosts an OTA night of ballroom and vogue with commentator and DJ. Follow their Instagram for dates and details.

🚲 Montréal Queer Bike Polo meet on Thursdays, with details on Instagram

🎾 Ligue de dimanche meet at the Parc Louis-Riel tennis courts every Sunday

🤠 Club Bolo—Danse Country Montréal meet on Fridays at the Association sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud

🏐 Les Ratons-Chasseurs (Montréal’s LGBTA dodgeball group) holds regular events. Keep an eye on their Facebook for upcoming opportunities to join in and play. 

🕹Montréal Gaymers hosts regular gatherings including board game nights and gaming gatherings. Check their Facebook for what’s next!

🏃🏾Join the Out-Run run and workout club for people relating to the queer / sapphic experience. Details on their Instagram!

🐦 Bird lovers should keep their eye on Queer Birders' regularly scheduled birdwatching events and excursions. Join the Facebook group and get those binoculars at the ready.

DRAG

Montréal’s vibrant drag community features several regularly-scheduled nights hosted by local luminaries, each featuring guest performers. Check venue websites for full line-ups!

Mercredi 1er novembre / Wednesday, November 1

👑 Queen of the Damned with Moxxi Hollow and Flex Ryder, Cabaret Mado 👑 Drag Race Brazil viewing party with Muz’Emma and Mob Dafok, District Video Lounge

Jeudi 2 novembre / Thursday, November 2

👑 Girls’ Night Out—Édition Cochonnes with Krystella Fame, Aizysse Baga, Celes and Rawxy, Cabaret Mado 👑 Butterfly de nuit with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail

Vendredi 3 novembre / Friday, November 3

👑 Quebec City’s Les Vegans du Genre host Proud Bitch Party—Fièr.e.s Salop.e.s en fête with Aizysse Baga, Walter Ego, Lolita Stars, Val the Freak, Chris de Cave, Skandal, Nicky Gee, The Dramaqueer, Cismon Genderfuck and George-Édouard, Café Cléopatra 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Cabaret Mado 👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Samedi 4 novembre / Saturday, November 4

👑 Bonne Fête Uma Gahd with Uma Gahd and Selma Gahd, Bar Le Cocktail 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Cabaret Mado 👑 Jimmy Moore personnifie Taylor Swift, Cabaret Mado 👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail 

Dimanche 5 novembre / Sunday, November 5

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Kiara, Bobépine and Velma Jones, Cabaret Mado

Mardi 7 novembre / Tuesday, November 7

👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby, Cabaret Mado

Mercredi 8 novembre / Wednesday, November 8

👑 Karma (1989 Version) with EmmÖtional Damage, Taylor De Vil, Kitana and Ad’horrible, Cabaret Mado 👑 Drag Race Brazil viewing party with Muz’Emma and Mob Dafok, District Video Lounge

Jeudi 9 novembre / Thursday, November 9

👑 Butterfly de nuit with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail

Vendredi 10 novembre / Friday, November 10

👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Cabaret Mado 👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Samedi 11 novembre / Saturday, November 11

👑 Queb Drag Race 2 : DEMI FINALE, Théâtre La Comédie de Montréal 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Cabaret Mado 👑 Jimmy Moore personnifie Madonna, Cabaret Mado 👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail 👑 Dalida pour toujours with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Dimanche 12 novembre / Sunday, November 12

👑 Le Brunch aux folles with Misty Waterfalls, Lady Boom-Boom and Crystal Starz, Social Verdun 👑 Le Souper aux folles with Misty Waterfalls, Lady Boom-Boom and Crystal Starz, Social Verdun 👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Lady Boom Boom, Sasha Baga and EmmÖtional Damage, Cabaret Mado

Mardi 14 novembre / Tuesday, November 14

👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby, Cabaret Mado 👑 Coeur de velours, Bar Le Cocktail

Mercredi 15 novembre / Wednesday, November 15

👑 Drag Race Brazil viewing party with Muz’Emma and Mob Dafok, District Video Lounge

Jeudi 16 novembre / Thursday, November 16

👑 Unikorn Presents: Canada’s Drag Race Season 4 Premiere Viewing Party with Denim and Sisi Superstar, Le National 👑 Sashalicious with Sasha Baga, Velma Jones, Misty Waterfalls and La Drag On-Fly, Cabaret Mado 👑 Butterfly de nuit with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail

Vendredi 17 novembre / Friday, November 17

👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Cabaret Mado 👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Samedi 18 novembre / Saturday, November 18

👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Cabaret Mado 👑 Jimmy Moore personnifie Adele, Cabaret Mado 👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail 👑 Chouchoune presents Ginette Reno—La Quête, Bar Le Cocktail

Dimanche 19 novembre / Sunday, November 19

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Pétula Claque, Kelly Torrieli and Misty Waterfalls, Cabaret Mado

Mardi 21 novembre / Tuesday, November 21

👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby, Cabaret Mado

Mercredi 22 novembre / Wedneseday, November 22

👑 Drag Race Brazil viewing party with Muz’Emma and Mob Dafok, District Video Lounge

Jeudi 23 novembre / Thursday, November 23

💄 BMP DRAG Workshop + Show, BMP Co-op 👑 Trashilaz with Aizysse Baga, Cabaret Mado 👑 Butterfly de nuit with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail

Vendredi 24 novembre / Friday, November 24

👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Cabaret Mado 👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Samedi 25 novembre / Saturday, November 25

👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Cabaret Mado 👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail

Dimanche 26 novembre / Sunday, November 26

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Ruby Doll, Victoire de Rockwell and Marla Deer, Cabaret Mado

Mardi 28 novembre / Tuesday, November 28

👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby, Cabaret Mado

Mercredi 29 novembre / Wednesday, November 29

👑 Crystal Starz présente: Céline, encore un soir, Cabaret Mado 👑 Drag Race Brazil viewing party with Muz’Emma and Mob Dafok, District Video Lounge

Jeudi 30 novembre / Thursday, November 30

👑 Butterfly de nuit with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail

#mtlmoments #lgbttravel #2slgbtq #drag #montreal #queermtl #lgbtq #nightlife #thingstodo #events

[hntedhouse]

TRIGGERS: toxic relationships, mentions of addiction / drugs / overdose, death

basics.

full name. saffron lake ( formerly saffron barton ; has since returned to using her maiden name ) nickname(s). saff ( okay ), saffie ( absolutely never ) gender. cis woman pronouns. she/her age. thirty - three marital status. widowed hometown. pittsburgh, pennsylvania occupation. owner of secondhand style clothing boutique

biography.

saffron lake was born and raised in the pittsburgh, pennsylvania. she’s the middle child of three with one older brother and one younger sister. her parents are adventurous, free - spirited people who own and operate an antique store located on the ground floor of the building that saffron grew up in. most of her childhood memories are of totally spontaneous road trips, camping in national parks, and snatching up last call tickets to the local weekend sports games. ( so, yes, big long - suffering pirates + steelers fan here. )

growing up covered in love and positivity but receiving no lessons whatsoever in responsibility or self - discipline led to some practical issues for saffron and her siblings. they attended public school on and off throughout the years because of all the traveling. homeschooling was supposed to fill in the gaps while they were on the road, but truthfully that hardly ever happened. despite falling pretty far behind in her classes more than once, saffron was usually able to keep up her grades even though things like math and science were never what truly held her interest. 

she wanted to attend fashion school, but when she explained her dream of one day opening her own clothing boutique to her guidance counselor, a business degree was recommended instead and so saffron took business classes at a local college in pittsburgh.

her first serious relationship starts while she’s in college when she meets a guy. jody barton is the lead singer of an up - and - coming rock band that was starting to see some success by the time she graduated with her bachelor’s degree in business management. rather than going on to open a clothing boutique, though, saffron elopes with jody right out of college and begins traveling around with the band.

their relationship was never very healthy and it really only got worse as the band became more and more famous + successful. he was terrible at managing the huge sums of cash that seemed to roll in nonstop, he got caught cheating with groupies more than once, and the occasional drug habit that she had always kind of knew about but chose to look the other way from was becoming harder and harder to ignore. they were fighting constantly behind closed doors, but in front of the cameras that seemed to follow them everywhere, the couple never failed to slap on their perfect moody pouts and darker - hued coordinated outfits, ensuring their reputation as ‘ rock and roll’s next it couple ’ was safe and sound.

until jody overdoses. he was on tour overseas with his band when his manager called their house in seattle and dropped the news on her. they had been married for a little less than five years at that point. everything he had went to saffron and she didn’t even wait until the funeral was over to start getting rid of stuff. she sold off the big stuff that she didn’t want, donated some of the smaller things, and took everything else with her when she moved out of their house and returned to her hometown.

her plan was to reattach her roots to pittsburgh, repair her relationships with her immediate family who she had mostly drifted away from, and maybe dip into the money that’s still rolling in from her husband’s accounts to finally open a clothing boutique, but struggling to deal with the grief ( and all of the other complex emotions that seeped in with the loss of someone she once loved, but probably didn’t anymore by the time he passed ) had taken a bit of a toll on her. she went into rehab for an addiction to prescription pain meds, and once she had completed the program saffron just didn’t want to be in pittsburgh anymore.

wanting to go someplace new ( and where reporters wouldn’t think to look for her so they could beg for a comment on jody’s death or the dissolution of his band which soon followed ), saffron traveled around for a little bit before landing in chile and immediately falling in love with the secondhand style clothing store. she signed her lease within days of arriving in the country and she’s been here ever since, so about four years now. she came into ownership of the store about year ago and although it takes up most of her time nowadays, she’s happy and feels like her life is finally on track. 

wanted connections.

tbd. :)

#smhqintro

[saint-moro]

Okay Saffi Nation, considering this interview, how do you think things will turn out for Seven and Raffi by the end of season 3?

#seven x raffi #saffi #raffi x seven #star trek picard #that interview gave me SO much anxiety that seven and raffi's relationship is dead in the water #living in hope but expecting to be underwhelmed #jeri and michelle's chemistry though!!!

[brookston]

Holidays 5.19

Holidays

Abdominal Cancer Day

Agender Pride Day

Air Defense Force Day (Armenia)

Boys and Girls Club Day

Celebrate Your Elected Officials Day

Circus Day

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Cultivating Connectedness Day

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EMS Health, Wellness, & Resilience Day

Father’s Day (Tonga)

519 Day (Canada)

Frankinmas (UK)

Greek Genocide Remembrance Day

Hepatitis Testing Day

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Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (Christian; Saint)

Jodi Picoult (Writerism)

Lag B’Omer (a.k.a. Scholar’s Day; Judaism) [18 Iyar]

Lorraine Hansberry (Writerism)

Maria Bernarda Bütler (Christian; Saint)

Nora Ephron (Writerism)

The Pardon of Saint Ives (France)

Peter Celestine, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Pudentiana (Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church)

Pudentiana and Pudens (Christian; Martyrs)

Richard Larter (Artology)

Christian Liturgical Holidays

7th Sunday after Easter [50 Days after Easter] (a.k.a. …

Bread and Cheese Day (Gloucestershire, UK)

Hvitasunnudagur (Iceland; sleeping in on Whitsunday is detrimental to your health, but monsters are asleep through the day and can be taken by surprise) 

Pentecost

Pingstdagen (Sweden)

Romeria del Rocia (Huelva, Spain)

Rurali (Romania)

Tweede Pinksterdag (Netherlands)

Whit Sunday

Whitsuntide

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 139 [34 of 72]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 23 of 60)

Premieres

Ain’t That Ducky (WB LT Cartoon; 1945)

Alien: Covenant (Film; 2017)

Anti-Cats (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1950)

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (Film; 1958)

Beverly Hills Cop II (Film; 1987)

Braveheart (Film; 1995)

The Da Vinci Code (Film; 2006)

Die Hard with a Vengeance (Film; 1995)

Dinosaur (Film; 2000)

Donald’s Cousin Gus (Disney Cartoon; 1939)

Do the Right Thing (Film; 1989)

Electricity, Electricity (Science Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1979)

Fahrenheit 451 (Film; 2018)

Fast X (Film; 2023) [F&F #10]

Glee (TV Series; 2009)

Goin’ to Heaven on a Mule (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)

Gulliver Mickey (Disney Cartoon; 1934)

Happy Birthday, sung by Marilyn Monroe to JFK (Song; 1962)

Honky Chateau, by Elton John (Album; 1972)

Hot for Hollywood (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman (Novel; 2010)

The Implosion Conspiracy, by Louis Sizer (Novel; 1973)

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Film; 2023)

It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot, by DMX (Album; 1998)

King Rat, by James Clavell (Novel; 1962)

Letter from the Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King Jr. (Open Letter; 1963)

Nick’s Coffee Pot (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

A Night Without Armor, by Jewel Kilcher (Poetry Book; 1998)

Of Feline Bondage (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)

Over the Hedge (Animated Film; 2006)

Peck Your Own Home (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)

Play, by Moby (Album; 1999)

Polar Pests (Chilly Willy; 1958)

Pollyanna (Film; 1960)

The President’s Lady, by Irving Stone (Biographical Novel; 1952)

Primitive Pluto (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Puss in Boots (ComiColor Cartoon; 1934)

Quit Playing Games (With My Heart), by the Backstreet Boys (Song; 1997)

Rabbit Fire (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

Reducing Creme (Ub Iwerks MGM Cartoon; 1934)

Road House (Film; 1989)

Road Trip (Film; 2000)

The Room on the Roof, by Ruskin Bond (Novel; 1956)

Rufus Wainwright, by Rufus Wainwright (Album; 1998)

The Saint and the Templar Treasure, by Graham Weaver (Novel; 1979) [Saint #48]

Save the Last Dance for Me, recorded by The Drifters (Song; 1960)

Shrek 2 (Animated Film; 2004)

Silly Science (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)

So, by Peter Gabriel (Album; 1985)

Some Gave All, by Billy Ray Cyrus (Album; 1992)

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (Film; 1999)

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Film; 2005)

Symphony No. 3 in C Minor (a.k.a. The Organ Symphony), by Camille Saint-Saëns (Symphony; 1886)

The Thick Of It (UK TV Series; 2005)

Tree Cornered Tweety (WB MM Cartoon; 1956)

Turnstiles, by Billy Joel (Album; 1976)

The Virgin Suicides (Film; 2000)

Wotta Nitemare (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)

Today’s Name Days

Ivo, Kuno, Yvonne (Austria)

Rajko, Teofil, Urban (Croatia)

Ivona (Czech Republic)

Potentiana (Denmark)

Emilie, Emma, Miili, Milja, Milla, Milli (Estonia)

Amalia, Emilia, Emma, Emmi, Mila, Milja, Milka, Milla (Finland)

Célestin, Erwan, Yves (France)

Ivo, Kuno, Yvonne (Germany)

Magdalini, Marylena, Menandros, Patrick, Theognostos, Theoktistos (Greece)

Ivó, Milán (Hungary)

Ivo, Ivonne, Pietro (Italy)

Lita, Sibilla, Teika, Venda, Venta (Latvia)

Celestinas, Gilvinas, Tauras (Lithuania)

Torje, Torjus, Truls (Norway)

Augustyn, Celestyn, Iwo, Mikołaj, Pękosław, Piotr, Potencjana (Poland)

Patrichie (România)

Varvara (Russia)

Gertrúda (Slovakia)

Adolfo, Celestino, Ivo, Pedro (Spain)

Alrik, Maj, Majken (Sweden)

Pollyanna (Ukraine)

Dumont, Duncan, Dunstan, Indigo, Ivar, Ives, Wright, Yves (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 140 of 2024; 226 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 20 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ji-Si), Day 12 (Gui-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 11 Iyar 5784

Islamic: 11 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 20 Magenta; Sixday [20 of 30]

Julian: 6 May 2024

Moon: 87%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 27 Caesar (5th Month) [Alexander Severus]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 62 of 92)

Week: 3rd Full Week of May

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 30 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 5.19

Holidays

Abdominal Cancer Day

Agender Pride Day

Air Defense Force Day (Armenia)

Boys and Girls Club Day

Celebrate Your Elected Officials Day

Circus Day

Commemoration of Atatürk (Turkey)

Cultivating Connectedness Day

Dark Day (New England)

EMS Health, Wellness, & Resilience Day

Father’s Day (Tonga)

519 Day (Canada)

Frankinmas (UK)

Greek Genocide Remembrance Day

Hepatitis Testing Day

Hồ Chí Minh Day (Vietnam)

International Car Wash Day

International Chicken Flying Meet

International Day for the Unreached

International Day of Action Against Bullying in Nursing & Midwifery

International Pwoermd Day

International Stair Descend Day

Irene Asteroid Day

Kirkland's Warbler Day

Malcolm X Day

May Ray Day

Monk’s Hood Flower Day

Mother’s Day (Kyrgyzstan)

NAFO Day

National Accounts Receivable Appreciation Day

National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

National Barber Mental Health Awareness Day

National Caesar Day (Canada)

National Chi Day

National Cleavage Day

National Emergency Services for Children Day

National Frog Jumping Jubilee Day

National Mechanical Dry Eye Day

National Medical Nutrition Action Day

National Scooter Day

National Send a Nude Day

National Work From Home Day (UK)

Neighbor Day (Rhode Island)

Outdoor Classroom Day

Overshoot Day (Canada)

Personal Support Worker Day (Canada)

Phi Day

Pink Shirt Day (New Zealand)

Plant Something Day

Pontian Genocide Remembrance Day

Praia Municipal Day (Cape Verde)

Retired Greyhound Day

Royal Ploughing Ceremony (Cambodia)

Saffie’s Day

SAP Global Appreciation Day

Schizencephaly Awareness Day

Scouts’ Day (Croatia)

Send a Letter Day

Shepherd’s Crook Day (French Republic)

Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day

Stepmothers Day

Tar Miriel Day

Tolosa Asteroid Day

Walk Safely to School Day (Australia)

Wear Your Life Jacket to Work Day

World Autoimmune Arthritis Day

World Breastmilk Donation Day

World Family Doctor Day

World Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Day

World Plant a Vegetable Garden Day

Youth and Sports Day (Turkey)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Devil's Food Cake Day

National Chicken Schnitzel Day

Samuel Smith Salute

Independence & Related Days

Day of Independence (War of National Liberation began; Turkey, 1919)

Praia Municipal Day (Cape Verde)

Tonga Islands (Annexed by UK; 1900)

3rd Sunday in May

Aunt's Day [3rd Sunday]

Bay to Breakers Race Day (San Francisco, California) [3rd Sunday]

Commemoration Day of Fallen Soldiers (Finland) [3rd Sunday]

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions by the Soviet Regime (Ukraine) [3rd Sunday]

Father’s Day (Tonga) [3rd Sunday]

Flower Day (Michigan) [3rd Sunday]

I Am An American Day [3rd Sunday]

International AIDS Candlelight Memorial [3rd Sunday]

International Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise [3rd Sunday]

My Other Mother's Day [3rd Sunday]

National Famine Memorial Day (Ireland) [3rd Sunday]

Neighbor Day (Rhode Island) [Sunday before Memorial Day Weekend]

No Menthol Day [3rd Sunday]

Peace Day [3rd Sunday]

Ride a Unicycle Day [3rd Sunday]

Rural Life Sunday (Canada) [3rd Sunday]

Soil Stewardship Day [3rd Sunday]

Stepmother's Day [3rd Sunday]

Take Your Parents to the Playground Day [3rd Sunday]

World Baking Day [3rd Sunday]

World Pastry Day [3rd Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning May 19 (3rd Full Week)

Emergency Medical Services Week (thru 5.25)

Healthcare Documentation Integrity Week (thru 5.25)

International Heritage Breeds Week (thru 5.25) [3rd Week]

Medical Transciptionist Week (thru 5.25) [3rd Week]

National Backyard Week (thru 5.25) [Week before Memorial Day]

National EMS Week (thru 5.25) [3rd Full Week]

National Eosinophil Awareness Week (thru 5.25) [3rd Week]

National Healthcare Documentation Integrity Week (thru 5.25)

National New Friends, Old Friends Week (thru 5.25) [3rd Week]

National Peo Week (thru 5.25) [3rd Full Week]

National Public Works Week (thru 5.25) [3rd Full Week]

National Safe Sun Week (thru 5.25)

National Travel & Tourism Week (thru 5.25)

National Unicycle Week (thru 5.25) [Begins on 3rd Sunday]

Older Americans Mental Health Week (thru 5.25) [Last Full Week]

World Schizophrenia Awareness Week (thru 5.25)

Festivals Beginning May 19, 2024

Bay to Breakers Race Day (San Francisco, California) [3rd Sunday]

PollerWiesen Festival (Dortmund, Germany)

Feast Days

Alexander Severus (Positivist; Saint)

Bolognese Sauce Devouring Day (Pastafarian)

Buddha’s Birthday (Buddhism) (a.k.a. …

Buddha’s Birthday (Hong Kong)

Buddho Purnima (Bangladesh, India)

Burkhan Bagshiin Ikh Düitsen Ödör (Mongolia)

Dia do Buda (Macau)

Festa das Flores (Brazil)

Fódàn (China)

Guódìng Fúdàn Jié (Taiwan)

Guànfú Huì (Pouring on the Buddha Congregational Assembly; China)

Sukka Tansin II (South Korea)

Vesak Day (Singapore, Sri Lanka)

Visak Bochea (Cambodia)

Visakha Puja (Thailand)

Waisak (Indonesia)

Wesak Day (Malaysia)

Wěidà de Wèisāi-jié Huā-jié Wěidà de Mǎnyuè (Great Vesak Day Flower Festival Full Moon of Flower Moon; China)

Wèisāi jié (Vesak Day; China)

Yùfú Jié (Bathing [Purifying] Buddha Festival; China)

Calocerus (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Celestine V, pope (Christian; Saint)

Claude Vignon (Artology)

Crispin of Viterbo (Christian; Saint)

Dance to Mark the Third of January (Shamanism)

Dunstan of Canterbury (Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church; commemoration, Anglicanism)

Erastus Salisbury Field (Artology)

Fats Waller Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Feast of Neith (Greco-Egyptian Goddess of Weaving; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Henry (Muppetism)

Hlin’s Blot (Pagan)

Homepalooza (The Simpsons)

Ivo of Kermartin (Christian; Saint)

Jacob Jordaens (Artology)

Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (Christian; Saint)

Jodi Picoult (Writerism)

Lag B’Omer (a.k.a. Scholar’s Day; Judaism) [18 Iyar]

Lorraine Hansberry (Writerism)

Maria Bernarda Bütler (Christian; Saint)

Nora Ephron (Writerism)

The Pardon of Saint Ives (France)

Peter Celestine, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Pudentiana (Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church)

Pudentiana and Pudens (Christian; Martyrs)

Richard Larter (Artology)

Christian Liturgical Holidays

7th Sunday after Easter [50 Days after Easter] (a.k.a. …

Bread and Cheese Day (Gloucestershire, UK)

Hvitasunnudagur (Iceland; sleeping in on Whitsunday is detrimental to your health, but monsters are asleep through the day and can be taken by surprise) 

Pentecost

Pingstdagen (Sweden)

Romeria del Rocia (Huelva, Spain)

Rurali (Romania)

Tweede Pinksterdag (Netherlands)

Whit Sunday

Whitsuntide

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 139 [34 of 72]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 23 of 60)

Premieres

Ain’t That Ducky (WB LT Cartoon; 1945)

Alien: Covenant (Film; 2017)

Anti-Cats (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1950)

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (Film; 1958)

Beverly Hills Cop II (Film; 1987)

Braveheart (Film; 1995)

The Da Vinci Code (Film; 2006)

Die Hard with a Vengeance (Film; 1995)

Dinosaur (Film; 2000)

Donald’s Cousin Gus (Disney Cartoon; 1939)

Do the Right Thing (Film; 1989)

Electricity, Electricity (Science Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1979)

Fahrenheit 451 (Film; 2018)

Fast X (Film; 2023) [F&F #10]

Glee (TV Series; 2009)

Goin’ to Heaven on a Mule (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)

Gulliver Mickey (Disney Cartoon; 1934)

Happy Birthday, sung by Marilyn Monroe to JFK (Song; 1962)

Honky Chateau, by Elton John (Album; 1972)

Hot for Hollywood (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman (Novel; 2010)

The Implosion Conspiracy, by Louis Sizer (Novel; 1973)

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Film; 2023)

It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot, by DMX (Album; 1998)

King Rat, by James Clavell (Novel; 1962)

Letter from the Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King Jr. (Open Letter; 1963)

Nick’s Coffee Pot (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

A Night Without Armor, by Jewel Kilcher (Poetry Book; 1998)

Of Feline Bondage (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)

Over the Hedge (Animated Film; 2006)

Peck Your Own Home (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)

Play, by Moby (Album; 1999)

Polar Pests (Chilly Willy; 1958)

Pollyanna (Film; 1960)

The President’s Lady, by Irving Stone (Biographical Novel; 1952)

Primitive Pluto (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Puss in Boots (ComiColor Cartoon; 1934)

Quit Playing Games (With My Heart), by the Backstreet Boys (Song; 1997)

Rabbit Fire (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

Reducing Creme (Ub Iwerks MGM Cartoon; 1934)

Road House (Film; 1989)

Road Trip (Film; 2000)

The Room on the Roof, by Ruskin Bond (Novel; 1956)

Rufus Wainwright, by Rufus Wainwright (Album; 1998)

The Saint and the Templar Treasure, by Graham Weaver (Novel; 1979) [Saint #48]

Save the Last Dance for Me, recorded by The Drifters (Song; 1960)

Shrek 2 (Animated Film; 2004)

Silly Science (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)

So, by Peter Gabriel (Album; 1985)

Some Gave All, by Billy Ray Cyrus (Album; 1992)

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (Film; 1999)

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Film; 2005)

Symphony No. 3 in C Minor (a.k.a. The Organ Symphony), by Camille Saint-Saëns (Symphony; 1886)

The Thick Of It (UK TV Series; 2005)

Tree Cornered Tweety (WB MM Cartoon; 1956)

Turnstiles, by Billy Joel (Album; 1976)

The Virgin Suicides (Film; 2000)

Wotta Nitemare (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)

Today’s Name Days

Ivo, Kuno, Yvonne (Austria)

Rajko, Teofil, Urban (Croatia)

Ivona (Czech Republic)

Potentiana (Denmark)

Emilie, Emma, Miili, Milja, Milla, Milli (Estonia)

Amalia, Emilia, Emma, Emmi, Mila, Milja, Milka, Milla (Finland)

Célestin, Erwan, Yves (France)

Ivo, Kuno, Yvonne (Germany)

Magdalini, Marylena, Menandros, Patrick, Theognostos, Theoktistos (Greece)

Ivó, Milán (Hungary)

Ivo, Ivonne, Pietro (Italy)

Lita, Sibilla, Teika, Venda, Venta (Latvia)

Celestinas, Gilvinas, Tauras (Lithuania)

Torje, Torjus, Truls (Norway)

Augustyn, Celestyn, Iwo, Mikołaj, Pękosław, Piotr, Potencjana (Poland)

Patrichie (România)

Varvara (Russia)

Gertrúda (Slovakia)

Adolfo, Celestino, Ivo, Pedro (Spain)

Alrik, Maj, Majken (Sweden)

Pollyanna (Ukraine)

Dumont, Duncan, Dunstan, Indigo, Ivar, Ives, Wright, Yves (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 140 of 2024; 226 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 20 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ji-Si), Day 12 (Gui-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 11 Iyar 5784

Islamic: 11 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 20 Magenta; Sixday [20 of 30]

Julian: 6 May 2024

Moon: 87%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 27 Caesar (5th Month) [Alexander Severus]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 62 of 92)

Week: 3rd Full Week of May

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 30 of 31)

#Holidays

[graziadiocenterilpostino]

Alumni Spotlight: Alessandra Balzani

1. You are from Forlì. Can you tell us a little bit about your hometown and what makes it special? What do you miss the most?

Several years ago, I was told by an American student who was studying in Forlì that my hometown is part of a quest in the videogame Assassin’s Creed 2, and since then I always start with that little fun fact whenever I’m asked where I’m from. It works surprisingly well! As someone who was born and raised there, this is extremely funny, because Forlì is actually known for several historical reasons: Caterina Sforza, Dante, and Mussolini, for example, all have ties to my hometown. Piazza Saffi, the main and incredibly beautiful city square, is more than a thousand years old, and every time the city embarks on any type of public works they inevitably stumble upon some ancient Roman finds. The historical city center is definitely one of my favorite things about Forlì: the piazzas with the weekly open-air market, the colorful buildings, the San Domenico Museum, the public park where you can feed ducks, my old high school, even the dreadful sanpietrini (cobblestones). It’s a city that feels small enough to be able to travel on foot or by bike, but also continuously expanding and well connected to anything you might need. You can get to Bologna in less than an hour, the beach in about 45 minutes, the mountains are less than 2 hours away,  and you can even cross the border into another country in about an hour, as San Marino is very close too! Is this starting to sound like an ad? Ha. Locals have plenty to complain about Forlì too, but from the perspective of an expat, it is a lovely town. I mostly miss its vibrant colors and the food, obviously.

2. For the past 2 years you have been working for the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies. What kind of work do you do there?

I’m the Instructional Program Coordinator for the Clorinda Donato Center. I assist the Director, Dr. Clorinda Donato, and Associate Director, Manuel Romero, with various tasks such as creating new Translation classes (for example Audiovisual Translation and Localization), organizing guest lectures (in February 2023 we had Dr. Diana Roig Sanz from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya come to teach three lectures on Digital Humanities), coordinating events and conferences (we had a Translation panel at the 57th Comparative World Literature Conference), and editing our translation journal, Translation Becomes Eclectic. Since last year we have been translating articles and books from Italian into English as part of different collaborations with Italian university professors. The Center is a great institution within CSULB, as our goal is to establish our campus as one of the main points of reference for Translation Studies in California (and hopefully at some point in the whole Nation!).

I am also a lecturer of Translation Studies, I have taught TRST 201—Meaning in Transit; TRST 301—Ethics, Theory, and Practice; ITAL 460—Exploring Italian Translation; FREN 460—The Art of Translation; FREN 316—Introduction to Inverse Translation English-French. This coming Fall I’ll be teaching TRST 201 and FREN 315—Intro to Direct Translation French-English.

3. Can you tell us more about Translation Becomes Eclectic? What is a translation journal?

Translation Becomes Eclectic is a journal of Translation and Intercomprehension Studies that features work done by our translation students at CSULB! Its first volume was published in 2019, its second volume in 2021, and the third is currently in the works. This publication not only displays the incredible achievements of the students who take our classes, such as RGR 603—Theory and Practice of Literary Translation, FREN 460, and ITAL 460, but it also shows the professionalizing and hands-on qualities of our teaching. Students can indicate their entry into this journal on their resumes as a first experience translating. The journal is not language specific, as we offer multiple classes that are open to multiple language pairs, and we pride ourselves in favoring the exploration of Translation Studies to students of all majors. Students can choose different text types as well, which they translate and get corrected by their professors during the course of the semester, and ultimately the Donato Center acts as the editing team to prepare these texts for publication. We still have copies of Vol.2 available, if anyone should be interested, they can email me at [email protected] to get a free copy.

4. How is teaching translation compared to a foreign language? Is there a lot of overlap? Are there any interesting challenges you face in teaching one compared to the other?

Teaching translation is very different compared to teaching a foreign language because translation does not solely happen on a purely linguistic level, but on cultural, historical, and semantical levels too. Students of translation should be already quite fluent in the languages they work with, but they must acquire an ethnorelative and critical perspective when approaching a text. TRST 301, our introductory class, focuses on translation theory and aims at making students understand how to read a source text and think critically about how to convert it to their target language. I’ve taught language classes for all levels—English to ages from kindergarten to high school, Italian to college level students—and I have always focused on making the main grammar elements needed to ensure communication easily understandable and usable. The goal in most language classes—at the 100/200 level at least—should be communication, so students will have a more superficial understanding of the language, while in translation classes they will have to dig very deep. The main challenge when it comes to teaching translation is making people understand the difference between word-for-word and sense-for-sense translation, and that there are no absolutes when it comes to this discipline, which can be frustrating. I won’t say that literal translation is always wrong, or that machine translation should never be used, but students have to learn how to use these strategies and tools, and oftentimes they think they know already.

5. Is there any advice you have for someone visiting Italy? What are the must-see locations?

What’s great about Italy is that you don’t need to visit the big cities to have an amazing vacation. Any town will have amazing food, lovely people, and plenty of history to show! I could talk a lot about what to see in Italy, but I’ll stick to my main recommendations: I love Rome. Walking down the street in between the Fori Imperiali and the Colosseo gives me chills every time, I love feeling surrounded by history. Just outside the city, i Castelli Romani also provide great spots for strolling, wine tasting, and eating. Another great city is Florence, which I call “the unofficial American colony” because in the city center only English is spoken, and a lot of people have an American accent. The architecture and art of Florence, however, are amazing. It is also very walkable, and you can get there by train and see a lot of it in a day. The Duomo and Palazzo Pitti’s gardens are must-see. Now my advice would be to not do all the major cities in one go, but to enjoy the smaller Italian realities. If you want to go to Florence, rent a car and see more of the Tuscan countryside. If you land in Milan, Bergamo and Cremona are two beautiful cities very close to it. The trains don’t always run on time, but you can go everywhere with them. Lastly: eat. Everything. Don’t worry about the scales or your ideal beach body, the food is divine (and healthier than here).

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National Theatre of Scotland flies the flag for human rights

National Theatre of Scotland flies the flag for human rights | Schoolkids will perform a special show for local community #Scotland #Theatre #HumanRights

National Theatre of Scotland is set to take part in a nationwide celebration project for human rights. Choreographer and facilitator Saffy Setohy and dance artist Joanna Young have been creating a new performance celebrating the art of protest with P5 & P6 pupils from St Teresa’s Primary School in North Glasgow. They have been running weekly creative workshops in the school as part of Fly The…

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#Human Rights #Schools #Scotland

[lonely-night]

saffi nation how are we doing? still breathing?

#star trek picard #spoilers #saffi #raffi x seven #seven x raffi #seven of nine #raffi musiker #i need to lie down #see ya in heaven #rambling tag

[annikasevenshots]

to recap

No Man's Land

Seven: [...] More than that, he adores her in a way I didn't even know was possible. I've never felt anything like what he felt for Helena.

Raffi: True love, huh?

Seven: He almost let her go when they first met. She wanted more but he wasn't having it. One day he just surrendered, made her the centre of his universe, and to hear him tell it every moment after that was filled with wonder and joy and purpose and all the things life is supposed to be about. Can you imagine losing that?

Raffi: I can't imagine having it.

...

Raffi: I didn't come here for Ebla or the Rangers. I came for you.

Seven: I know.

Raffi: So don't push me away. You're safe here, I promise. You don't have to solve all the universe's problems alone.

Seven: You're not the first person to tell me that.

Raffi: I don't want to be the first. I just want to be the last.

Seven: Where the hell did you come from?

Raffi: Let's get back to the ship.

Seven: No, not yet. Stay here with me. Under the stars.

...

Seven: Sometimes when we're together I can almost... glimpse something in the distance, a possibility. Something different and it scares the hell out of me.

...

Seven: You're a lot, Raffi. You're willing to go all in here and I don't know if I can do that... yet.

Raffi: So we have a conversation. That's what people do when they're scared and they care about each other.

Seven: That's when I usually run.

...

Seven: It's been years since I sat still long enough to actually think about... you know.

Raffi: I think I do.

Seven: I find commitment —

Raffi: Suffocating?

Seven: Baffling. But it would be nice to have, no, to create something worth sacrificing eternity for.

...

Raffi: I know what I want here. I'm not sure you do yet. But it's okay, there's no rush. What these two people had, Gillan and Helena, takes commitment. And for that, you have to at least believe that it's possible.

Seven: I'm at least willing to suspend my disbelief.

Raffi: So let that be enough for now. We don't have to figure it all out tonight. You know where I am and where I'll be.

Seven: So we go slow. One moment at a time.

Ep1:

Raffi: She has me wanting... something more.

Ep2:

Raffi: You're also married. Looks like someone worked out their commitment issues?

Ep3:

Raffi: Why do you look so relaxed? You're never relaxed.

...

Seven: My girlfriend and I were looking to capture an image.

Ep4:

Seven: Raffi, you lost someone, and losing him was not your fault.

Ep5:

Seven: You're being careless.

Raffi: And you're being too goddamn careful!

...

Seven: I know you. You need a target. You wanna set your feet and fight.

Raffi: And all you wanna do is run away.

Seven: That's right. Because something that's not moving is vulnerable.

...

Seven: I've got your back, you've got mine, right?

Ep6:

Raffi: There's a lot of baggage with those Borg implants. It's nice to see her travel light for a while.

Ep7:

Raffi: Our pain is beautiful and tragic and everyone loves hearing about it.

Seven: Absolutely.

Raffi: Plus, we're the main event. Now, Jurati and Rios? They're like a side story.

Seven: And obviously, you know how the main story ends.

Raffi: What, you mean once we're through all this shit? Well, the premonition I'm having is us. Old. And we sit on park benches, tripping teenagers on those floaty things with our canes.

Seven: I'm better at it than you.

Raffi: Of course.

...

Raffi: You haven't touched your coffee. You never don't touch your coffee.

Ep8:

Seven: I don't know, Raffi, I'm not Borg.

Raffi: But you're Seven.

Seven: And who is that, exactly, to you?

...

Raffi: Wow, that's incredibly spot-on.

Seven: Can you not? That I can access her, it's not impressive. You could just be a little bit less happy that I'm defective.

Raffi: I'm gonna try to not take you personally right now —

Seven: You manipulate. Everyone has to be exactly where Raffi wants them to. You think we don't see it, but we all do.

Ep9:

Raffi: You really would make a great captain. When we get out of this —

Seven: We're not getting out of this.

Raffi: Nope, probably not.

...

Seven: I've been this, I've been Seven much longer than I was ever Annika. It was just nice to be ordinary.

Raffi: Well, that's impossible. Because no matter how you come, Borg or human, you are the most extraordinary person I know.

You know, all your life, you've been running from these, from this. And I can't help but wonder how much more you'd be capable of, how much more you could be... if you just stopped.

...

Seven: I'm myself.

—

...and THAT has been the build up this entire season leading up to episode 10. they played the long game and it... worked. the pacing is immaculate and i'm so excited to see what all their hard work — their baggage and arguments and trust and tenderness this entire season — will bring them for the finale.

#we made it #saffi nation #we really made it #seven of nine #raffi musiker #raffi x seven #saffi #r/7 #seven x raffi #raffi/seven #seven/raffi #star trek picard #pre-finale recap #star trek picard no man's land #s2e1 #s2e2 #s2e3 #s2e4 #s2e5 #s2e6 #s2e7 #s2e8 #s2e9 #picard spoilers

[treason-and-plot]

REPLIES TO LIAM & STEPHANIE

@windermeresimblr

I hope Pongo can run away and avoid the nasty scene. Liam not so much. I know Stephanie is not a good person, at least not when Liam the Leech is around, but I do feel bad for her that he's running around with one of his students instead of being an adult and divorcing her.

Liam is a spineless jelly-fish with a victim mentality; it’s almost as if Stephanie hand-picked him! But I still hope that this story arc shed a bit of light on their relationship and why he stays with her.

@muses-circle

Not gonna lie, I cackled. Full out evil cackle of glee. Stephanie's a horrible, manipulative person, but Liam's a scared little boy who can't adult if his life depended on it. (And right now, it really might!)

Yes it’s hard to decide who has the most issues! 

@sweetnovember77

Liam lied and cheated. Therefore, Stephanie has a perfectly valid reason to be discourteous. 😅

She is only speculating at this point though...and I get the feeling she has accused Liam before!  

@nocturnalazure

Please tell me this is the beginning of the end. That's the best thing that could happen to either of them!

@wannabecatwriter​

He's in danger.

@justanothersimsblog​

Yessssss!! I want to see flames

@kscriba​

I'm feeling a little apprehensive that I can't see whether she's holding anything in her other hand... O.O

Lol I didn’t notice that at all! I should have given her an axe or something!

@nectar-cellar​

oh boy...

@dynastiasimss​

aaaahhhh!! 😆🍿🍿🍿

@streetlightaurora​

Either she's going to leave or murder him. I just hope she doesn't find Saffy.

@dandylion240​

Uh oh I Liam was better off with Steph not knowing or suspecting he found someone else.

I think she’d be the type to constantly accuse him of being with someone else, even if she had no proof or cause!

@nectar-cellar​

at least this might be the end of their toxic dynamic? :(

@sweetnovember77​

Stephanie, look at yourself! You are a perpetrator, not a victim! Liam, can you call a sim domestic violence national hotline? Your “wife” needs help!

@muses-circle​

Oh dear 🍿 I really hope she doesn't find out who the othet woman is.... That said, I'm afraid this is gonna fuel Liam's delusions about loving Saffy.

She probably doesn’t really believe that Liam would be foolhardy enough to cheat on her...or that any other woman would want him! And as far as him loving Saffy goes, the delusion is definitely real!

@simsloveaffairreblogs​

Wow! So this is what he’s been dealing with? This is a topic that doesn’t get addressed often (as it relates to men). I hope he finds the courage to finally get out of this relationship.

Liam’s situation is horrible, and as you say it’s not often talked about when men are the victims- it’s like it’s a taboo subject. I really wanted to explore that. And thank you so much for the reblog!

@dynastiasimss​

I snorted at the "next poem" line, this dude is the worst 😅

LOL!! His domestic situation must be such rich fodder! 

@lilsisterg​

Emotional blackmail ... messy situation 😢😢

@windermeresimblr​

Please tell me Liam is going to call a doctor. Even if she's doing this to manipulate him, she still tried to very severely hurt herself, and clearly needs help. It's the bare minimum.

@nocturnalazure​

🤦‍♀️

@dearsimmies​

Oh my, now I feel sorry for Liam. I thought he was just a cheating dumbass but there's a reason behind it. I'm not sure he's courage enough to break up with Stephanie and help her seek treatment... So I guess he's going to be trapped in this toxic relationship for a long time :( hope I'm wrong

It’s hard not to feel sorry for Liam...Stephanie seems to be a very manipulative, toxic person. He’s definitely not a courageous or take-charge kind of guy either, so I sadly don’t have high hopes that anything is going to change for either of them in the near future. But you never know, sometimes Sims, and people, can surprise you!

@streetlightaurora​

Well, I didn't see that coming. I was thinking at first she was trying to manipulate him until I realized that she really was off the balcony. They're a mess. 😬

I’m still thinking that she was trying to manipulate him, and knew full well he would save her as @parystrange​ suggests! And yeah definitely such a terrible, toxic mess!

@justanothersimsblog​

Wooow, that was super dramatic

I had a lot of fun with that scene, I must say!

@drudragonrose​

This manipulative cunt!

@muses-circle​

Sweet maker, these two. I just.... Saffy, honey, run for your damn life. Liam isn't gonna leave his manipulative wife, he will always be stuck because a part of him wants to be there, and when you DO toss him aside, he will probably try the same thing as Stephanie just did.

Agreed, it seems extremely unlikely that he would ever have the balls to leave, or the smarts to realise exactly how he’s being manipulated...but if he ever did, well, the fact he may behave just like Stephanie is an interesting angle that hadn’t occurred to me! Hmmm! (makes notes)

@wannabecatwriter​

Oh no, she's that kind of person. Once fear doesn't work on him, she'll use emotional manipulation. Shame.

YES!!! once he told her to hit him and she knew he wasn’t scared of her anymore she had to come up with a new tactic! Such a cold, hard, calculating person.

@parystrange​

I think she knew that Liam would grab her, and I'm fairly sure she knew she was in zero danger. She's just a manipulative bitch.

@celtysims​

She's worse than I thought, and yet somehow I'm not surprised she'd resort to emotional abuse too.

I have been doing research into narcissists and something that stuck with me was the assertion that narcissists become even darker and more manipulative once they realise their victims aren’t scared of them anymore...they don’t want to lose the puppet that they’ve been controlling! So their ‘master stroke’ is often to threaten to hurt themselves, or to threaten suicide.   

@sweetnovember77​

I guess leaving a narcissistic relationship/marriage is likely to be one of the hardest things you’ll ever do. Stephanie seems to depend on Liam emotionally and psychologically. How draining. I would imagine that Liam needs psychological help too.

You said it, Char! Stephanie is the textbook narcissist. I don’t know if Liam is ready though yet to seek help...he relies heavily on Saffy to be his escape at this point.

@nectar-cellar​

OMG? STEPHANIE :(

@dynastiasimss​

oh... my... god 😬 None of this is good! At all!

@dynastiasimss​

(I mean, of course, these terrible people, not your writing, which is as always, fabulous and making me wanna jump through my screen and give them a piece of my mind xD)

Awww thank you Beautiful Jeski! Right back atcha!

@flethro​

Ughh, I can feel the toxicity from here. Very sad situation. 😔

@mysimsloveaffair​

This is insane. They both need help. This feels like such a hopeless situation.

#replies

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

Wasn’t her mum an aristo or aristo-adjacent?  

Emma Weymouth's mother is often described as a socialite. From the DM before the big wedding,

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2304840/Britains-black-Marchioness-upwardly-mobile-family.html

Emma’s mother was born Eileen Patience Pike in Brighton to an able seaman and his wife. In 1961, aged just 17 and a hairdresser in Weymouth, Dorset, she married Ian McQuiston, a 25-year-old sales rep.

Six months later, in March 1962, and by now living in Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire, she gave birth to a son, Ian, in Southampton. Samantha Jane followed in November 1964. It is not known when the couple split up, but, at some point, Mrs McQuiston decided to reinvent herself. Eileen Patience was consigned to history and Suzanna Louize (sic) was born. She was impossibly beautiful in those days: Suzanna Louize suited her better.

By the early Eighties, Suzanna Louize had become part of a bohemian crowd of wealthy Londoners and foreigners living in the city — Iranians, Nigerians, and other exotic nationalities — who gathered at each other’s houses to drink and discuss art, poetry and the like.

Usually, she brought along her daughter, Samantha. One woman who was a regular at the gatherings remembers the pair well. ‘I’m afraid I rather disapproved of Suzanna,’ she says.

‘I didn’t think it was proper for a mother to be going out for the night with her daughter. ‘Suzanna was stunningly beautiful, a real head turner, but she dressed in very provocative clothes — it was very mutton dressed as lamb. Samantha looked quite old-fashioned next to her.

‘Nowadays, it would bring to mind Saffy and Edina in Absolutely Fabulous. Later, I heard Suzanna had hooked up with a very rich Nigerian and I wasn’t surprised, given her beauty.’

Indeed, it was possibly at one of these gatherings that Suzanna met Oxford-educated Ladi Jadesimi, then a chartered accountant who lived part of the time in London with his Nigerian wife, Alero, at their house on The Bishops Avenue in Hampstead, the so-called ‘Millionaires’ Row’ (this was the Eighties, when there weren’t many millionaires). ...

A member of Nigerian high society who knows the family, says: ‘Ladi is a good-looking, charming man. He’s not gregarious, but quiet and thoughtful.

‘He’s one of the richest men in Nigeria. He owns lots of companies and has properties all over the place. A lot of businessmen in Nigeria are corrupt, but Ladi is totally straight.

‘He’s a good man but his Achilles heel is women. He’s rather a womaniser and likes blondes, which doesn’t go down very well with Nigerian women. So it’s easy to see why he fell for Suzanna. I understand that Ladi is now separated from his wife, though fairly amicably, but I believe they were together when he had the affair with Suzanna.’

It's actually Emma's half-brother Ian who is aristo adjacent. When she was four, he married Lady Silvy Thynn, Emma's future husband's half aunt lololol. 

Emma, who was a bridesmaid at the wedding, used to see her future husband at family gatherings. She was living in London with her mother and sister and attended Queen’s Gate School, where she was head girl, and then studied history of art at University College London.

It wasn’t until she bumped into Ceawlin at Soho House, a private members’ club in London, 18 months ago, that they began a relationship.

lololol

[leoalcrights]

ELEANOR ‘LEO’ ALBRIGHT -- YATES TASK 003

BASICS

Full Name: Eleanor Amara Albright

Meaning of Name: “bright, shining one” and “everlasting”

Nickname: Leo

Birth Date: September 3rd, 1999

Astrological Sign and Details: Virgo…. It tracks j look at her

Birth Place: Taxi in The Bronx, NY

Age: 20…...or 21 (idk the timeline bye)

Nationality: American

Race: Biracial (half-black, half-white)

Hair Color: Dark brown

Hair Style: Curly

Distinct Features of Face: Sharp jaw, tiny freckles across nose and cheeks, thick eyebrows

Glasses or Contacts: Tortoiseshell eyeglasses, but she usually just wears contacts 

Eye Color: Dark brown

Scars or Distinguishing Marks: Scar on her calf from high school from a championship soccer game

Build or Body Type: Tall and slim

Height: 5’10

Weight: 130lbs

Speech Patterns: Very clear speech, articulate 

Gestures: Tends to rub her eyes when she’s tired or stressed, talks with her hands when very excited or enthusiastic

Weakness: Prone to falling cold/appearing apathetic and shutting down

FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD

Mother: Harriet Albright (adoptive)

Father: Lucas Albright (adoptive)

Mother’s Occupation: Manhattan socialite

Father’s Occupation: Senator for the state of New York

Family Finances: Very well off, hailing much from old money

Birth Order: Youngest

Brothers: James Albright (deceased)

Sisters: Darby Albright

Other Close Family: Seraphina ‘Saffie’ Albright, Georgina Albright

Best Friend: Henry Marin Peters, Lydia Radcliffe, Felix Lesser

Other Friends: Anita de Jesus, Orpheus Rivera, Greyson Byrne, Carmen Peck, Florian Henneberg, Syre Salinger, Parker Hassan, Ellie Aldenkamp, Tanner Isaacs, Thalia Winter

Enemies: Fitz Montgomery (rip) 

Pets: None

Home Life During Childhood: Very bad <3 spent much of her life equating attention to love, being toted around New York social events like a new handbag only for her parents to pretend she didn’t exist when they arrived back home at their penthouse that looked more like a museum than a home. Darby and Leo were close as children but were quickly pitted against each other when James died. Not only was James no longer around to mediate their squabbles, but the girls were also instantly always competing for their parents’ attention and approval until Leo ultimately won the fight and dipped at 14 to go to boarding school in Connecticut

Town or City Name(s) Where They’ve Live: Manhattan, NY, The Bronx, NY, Fairfield, CT, Preaker, VT

What Did His, Her or Their Bedroom Look Like: Something straight of Ralph Lauren catalog, all designed by New York interior designers. There were few personal touches due to Leo mainly living in Connecticut all throughout her years in high school except when she would be home on holiday breaks

Any Sports or Clubs: Soccer & Newspaper (EIC) in high school, Newspaper & a small book club at Yates

Favorite Toy or Game: Rummy 500 or UNO

Schooling: Knollwood Prep (graduated, valedictorian), Yates University (current)

Favorite Subject: English, but has a penchant for math as well

Popular or Loner: Popular

Important Experiences or Events: After a New York event with her parents around Christmastime, her parents went from laughing and bragging about her to essentially becoming robots once in the car; this was the first time she realized their love was conditional. James’ death. That night at her friend’s lake house after she graduated high school. Watching her father smear concealer under her mother’s eyes before the Met Gala after he insisted that the makeup artist wasn’t doing enough to “hide it”. Leaving Darby.

Religion and beliefs: Raised Christian, independently agnostic

PERSONAL

Bad Habits: Overworking herself, cracking her knuckles, not sleeping enough or sleeping too much

Good Habits: On top of things (typically), exercising

Best Characteristic: Independence & loyalty

Worst Characteristic: Tendency to be aloof & self-absorbed

Worst Memory: The day James died

Best Memory: Staying up late watching movies at Christmas with Darby and James

Proud of: All she’s done for herself, maintaining a perfect image

Embarrassed by: Her fear of standing up to her father, her mother, previously her sister

Attitude: Realist, hesitant existentialist

Fears: Ending up like her father

Secrets: She forged a suicide note for her friend who drowned after he fell into a lake after ODing and she didn’t save him out of fear of the bad press and her father

Regrets: Leaving her sister

Feels Vulnerable When: Anyone brings up her brother, tests her stone-cold facade

Short Term Goals and Hopes: Make as good a life for herself right now as she can, succeed in school + wherever else she puts her efforts

Long Term Goals and Hopes: Live independently and successfully in a profession she 

Sexuality: Demisexual 

Exercise Routine: No specific routine, but tends to go on runs at least 4 days of the week

Day or Night Person: Prefers the night, but likes to wake up early

Introvert or Extrovert: Introvert but forced extrovert

Optimist or Pessimist: Realist, but closer to pessimist than an optimist

LIKES AND PREFERENCES

Music: Frank Ocean, The Cure, The Smiths, Taylor Swift’s folklore (i said what i said), Bon Iver

Foods: Dried seaweed, spaghetti & meatballs, blueberry muffins

Drinks: Rum & Coke, other than that water and earl grey tea

Animals: Fox

Color: Midnight blue

Clothing: Very simple and classic casual or country-club chic (not like vineyard vines tho like old ralph lauren)

Jewelry: very minimal, diamond earrings, a silver ring on her left ring finger 

TV Shows: Criminal Minds (leo 100% is in love w/ mgg), SNL, Twin Peaks

Movies: The Social Network, The Imitation Game, Up

Greatest Want: Her parents’ unconditional love tbh

Greatest Need: To realize she’s never gonna get it and she’s gotta find it within herself x

LIFESTYLE

Most Cherished Possession: Anything that was her brother’s

Married Before: no

Significant Other Before: dated Felix Lesser for 6 months 

Children: none

Relationship with Family: strained but improving w/ her sister 

Dream Career: Journalist (preferably investigative), but she’s planning on working for some Fortune 500 company

Dream Life: Travel the world w/ a companion (romantic or platonic) and go on as many ~adventures~ as she can

Love Life: a mess <3

Hobbies: writing stupid little short stories, running, used to play piano and if there’s one around, she’ll go play like one of the three songs she remembers

Guilty Pleasure: chocolate (particularly chocolate cupcakes)

Talents or Skills: basic piano skill, she’s really fast, weirdly good at solving equations, honestly a decent cook

Intelligence Level: high

#task. #yatestask003 #YUUUUUUUh

[dcrbyalbright]

YATES UNIVERSITY || TASK 003

BASICS

Full Name: Darby Jane Albright

Meaning of Name: “Deer”. Her parents couldn’t agree on whether to name her Darby or Jane for the first few weeks of her life and her father won so now only her mother calls her Jane when she’s had a few Xanax 

Nickname: Darbs

Birth Date: December 11, 1999

Astrological Sign and Details: Saggiterrorist. Tbh it speaks for itself.

Birth Place: A hospital in Manhattan, New York.

Age: 21

Nationality: American

Race: White

Hair Color: Light brown.

Hair Style: Usually wavy and tangled, she frequently forgets to brush it.

Distinct Features of Face: Large blue eyes

Glasses or Contacts: NAh

Eye Color: Light blue

Scars or Distinguishing Marks: White scars on her left knee from when she fell down the stairs on molly and landed on broken glass, more on the palm from where she aught herself

Build or Body Type: Slim, tall.

Height: 5′7

Weight: 114

Speech Patterns: She falls into a vocal fry when she’s drunk but otherwise she has a clear speech pattern

Gestures: Talks with her hands when she’s excited, runs her hand through her hair often

Weakness: Her impulsivity 

FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD

Mother: Harriet Albright

Father: Lucas Albright

Mother’s Occupation: Unemployed alcoholic socialite

Father’s Occupation: US Senator for the state of New York

Family Finances: Verrrrrrry very wealthy. Her mother’s family were oil tycoons and Lucas has old money as well. 

Birth Order: Middle child

Brothers: James Albright (deceased)

Sisters: Eleanor “Leo” Albright

Other Close Family: Saffie Albright, and her aunt on her mother’s side, Georgina Albright. She’s considered kind of like the eccentric of the family, has never had a job and blows her inheritance away traveling the world and paying for psychics. Darby ran away to Georgina’s apartment frequently as a child and would sit and listen to her stories about shamans while Georgina pounded Negronis.

Best Friend: Anita de Jesus, Syre Salinger, Ellie Aldenkamp.

Other Friends: Drew Upston, Orpheus Rivera

Enemies: Formerly Leo lmao. Saf is on thin ice.

Pets: Her parents never let her have one but freshman year she had a goldfish named Billy Joel that died after a week.

Home Life During Childhood: Uhhhhh TERRIBLE. Her parents never liked her and James was always the family favorite. Darby was the rebellious one, and after her brother died things ust fell apart. Leo left, and suddenly Darby was all on her own to deal with her cold, strict father and her mother’s drug abuse. Darby started popping her mom’s pills during this time and no one even noticed the girl slipping into addiction until she made a drunken toast as a benefit party detailing everyone in the room she had hooked up with. After that, her father just pretended like Darby didn’t exist.

Town or City Name(s) Where They’ve Lived: New York, Amsterdam (briefly, after she took a a semester off)

What Did His, Her or Their Bedroom Look Like: A mix of expensive mid-century modern furniture all chosen carefully by New York’s top interior decorator and sprinkles of her rebellion. Clothes everywhere, her antique dressed paper-mached with magazine clippings, music spilling out of a record player she hauled from the antique collection in their basement. Drugs hidden in various shoes and secret hiding spaces in between books. Towering stacks of novels and literary works.

Any Sports or Clubs: She was on the cheerleading team briefly but got kicked off when she was found doing whippets in hr private school bathroom and nearly got expelled 

Favorite Toy or Game: She actually liked Monopoly she’s secretly competitive as hell

Schooling: Private schools that she excelled even though she rarely attended class

Favorite Subject: English

Popular or Loner: Popular

Important Experiences or Events: Her brother’s death, watching her mom’s addiction, Leo leaving her.

Health Problems: A drug addiction that she’s precariously sober from

Religion and beliefs: Raised going to church even though neither her or her father believe in anything but it Looks Good yknow

PERSONAL

Bad Habits: Biting her nails, not brushing her hair, shoplifting things she doesnt need and could pay for

Best Characteristic: Charming

Worst Characteristic: Stubborn

Worst Memory: The day James died in the hospital

Best Memory: Probably running around Central Park playing hide and seek with James and Leo.

Proud of: Her sobriety, her spot as he debate team captain at Yates

Embarrassed by: Her lack of ability to commit to anything, whether that’s a person or sobriety

Driving Style: Erratic, as she never formerly learned how to drive but instead taught herself (NY kids yknow)

Attitude: Pessimistic, nihilistic

Fears: Ending up like her mother

Secrets: The hit and run her and Anita were responsible for, the death she inadvertently caused when she shared bad drugs with her dealer last year. 

Regrets: Her tense relationship with her sister all these years

Feels Vulnerable When: She feels out of control, when her past is brought up, when people try to get her to open up

Short Term Goals and Hopes: uhhhh I guess just keep passing her classes? Lmao she’s just trying to graduate

Long Term Goals and Hopes: Can’t picture herself living in five years but if she does she wants to finally write a novel

Sexuality: Pansexual

Day or Night Person: Night person

Introvert or Extrovert: Extrovert

Optimist or Pessimist: Pessimist

LIKES AND PREFERENCES

Music: Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel (cheesy ik), Neil Young. Anything her brother used to play for her

Foods: Twizzlers

Drinks: Gin and tonic

Color: Very very very light blue

Jewelry: the vintage rings Georgina brings to her whenever she visits

Greatest Want: No one look at her she just wants to be loved

Greatest Need: Uh to find stability lmao

LIFESTYLE

Favorite Possession: Her record player

Married Before: Nah

Children: NO

Relationship with Family: Tense and critical

Car: Does not have one

Dream Career: Unemployed woman who lounges around all day while men bring her things and she writes occasionally to great fanfare

Love Life: A MESS she keeps falling for people who like someone else someone hold her :/ secretly she always goes for unavailable people

Hobbies: Making “collages”, reading, writing, fucking people from Tinder

Talents or Skills: Uh she can open champagne with a sword??

#listen i deleted like half the questions it was too much lmao #death tw #drugs tw #alcohol tw