#sixsmith

[detournementsmineurs]

"Philomena" de Stephen Frears (2013) - adapté de l'histoire vraie de Philomena Lee et de son fils Michael A. Hess rapportée par le journaliste britannique Martin Sixsmith dans son livre "The Lost Child of Philomena" (2009) - avec Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Michelle Fairley, Anna Maxwell Martin, Mare Winningham, Peter Hermann et Sean Mahon, février 2024.

#films #Biopic #spirit #hommage #Frears #Lee #Hess #Sixsmith #Dench #Coogan #Clark #Fairley #MaxwellMartin #Winningham #Hermann #Mahon

[bodhranwriting]

Me: Hey, I created a character.

Audience: oh, we really like this character! 🥰

Me: oh they’re liked in the narrative too! That’s great! It means I’m doing something right. 😊

Me:

Me;

Me: So, is it more upsetting if they’re kidnapped or just beaten up ‘cause I am not letting a cheap source of tension and horror go to waste here.

#arcane skies #queer #writeblr #funny #writing #deaf #Sixsmith buddy #you’re never gonna believe it

[iceforcutie]

Honestly, Sixsmith, as ridiculous as that thing makes you look,

I don't believe I've ever seen anything more beautiful.

#cloud atlas #ben whishaw #james darcy #robert frobisher #rufus sixsmith

[earthquakerampage]

Realised I needed to share this parallel <3

#love actually #cloud atlas #frobisher and sixsmith ☹️ #web weaving #mine #ben whishaw #the themes of reincarnation chefs kiss #edit #i love to make my silly little edits but this one was too emotional not to post

[sheiladelaney]

Robert Frobisher’s letter to Rufus Sixsmith, in six languages. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, 2004. 

#*mine #cloud atlas #david mitchell #robert frobisher #rufus sixsmith #frobisher x sixsmith #literature #translations #novels #litedit

[lecter-lioncourt]

#I've had sooooo many URLs over the years too lmao #I'll list a few I remember having #glaciercoast rogers-and-barnes castiels-fading-grace frobisher-and-sixsmith lannister-lecter #mine

[lancialote]

Sweetheart, what have you done to us?

(august 2023)

Do not repost without credits

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#lancialote #graphics #cloud atlas #fanart #robert frobisher #rufus sixsmith #frobisher x sixsmith

[vanajinn]

Here’s a (cropped) version of an absolutely lovely commission done by my very very very talented friend Cyan - with my beloved Frobisher and Sixsmith ♡ 

Cyan currently has commissions open to fund his transition. Please do consider helping out a great artist and a great friend! You can contact them on Twitter or on Instagram. 

#vanajin.txt #cloud atlas #robert frobisher #rufus sixsmith #frobisher x sixsmith

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: BBC News

Published: Feb 25, 2023

Four pupils have been suspended from a West Yorkshire secondary school after a copy of the Quran was damaged by students.

Wednesday's incident at Wakefield's Kettlethorpe High School happened when a copy of the Islamic text was brought in by a Year 10 pupil.

Head teacher Tudor Griffiths said the book remained intact and there was "no malicious intent" from those involved.

He held a meeting with concerned community leaders on Friday.

Independent councillor for Wakefield East, Akef Akbar, called the meeting after being contacted by people calling for more information.

He said reports the Quran had been burnt or destroyed were untrue, and he had inspected the book himself during the meeting.

Mr Akbar said he had been told the book had been taken to school as a dare by a pupil who lost while playing a Call of Duty videogame with other students.

While at the school it sustained a slight tear to the cover and smears of dirt on some of the pages.

Mr Akbar said he understood it had been kicked around on the school premises - a claim denied by the school.

Head teacher Mr Griffiths said in a statement: "We would like to reassure all our community that the holy book remains fully intact and that our initial enquiries indicate there was no malicious intent by those involved.

"However, we have made it very clear that their actions did not treat the Quran with the respect it should have, so those involved have been suspended and we will be working with them to ensure they understand why their actions were unacceptable.

"This morning, we met with our local Muslim community leaders, local councillors and police to share all the information we currently know, the action taken and the immediate steps we have taken to reinforce the values and behaviour we expect from every member of this school community to ensure that all religions are respected."

A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police said they were "liaising" with the school.

"Initial enquiries have confirmed minor damage was caused to the text and officers are continuing to work closely with the school," they added.

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Well, it's good to know the book's safe, even if the children aren't.

/s

"their actions did not treat the Quran with the respect it should have"

This is completely chilling. This obliges non-believers in a secular country to comply with fundamentalist Islamic law.

--

The mother resembles a hostage.

--

By: Ben Sixsmith

Published: Feb 26, 2023

In 2021, a teacher was suspended from a school in Batley, Yorkshire for showing pupils a caricature of Muhammad during a religious studies lesson. Protests from aggrieved Muslims were fierce. The teacher went into hiding, and has never emerged again — doubtless remembering the fate of Samuel Paty, the French teacher who was killed for a similar “crime”. 

Wakefield is seven miles from Batley. In Kettlethorpe High School, in the city, four boys have been suspended. Their sin? Causing slight cosmetic damage to a copy of the Quran — with, as their headteacher states, “no malicious intent by those involved”.

Slightly damaging a book — and a book, no less, that the students had purchased themselves — is grounds for suspension now? It sure is, but not because the authorities at Kettlethorpe High School are iron disciplinarians but because they are trying to appease a mob of activists.

Apparently, one of the pupils brought the Quran into school after losing a bet. (This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me but kids make odd decisions.) According to the school’s investigation, it appears that one of the students dropped the book after being collided with. It also picked up a smudge of dirt — which will surprise no one who is familiar with the hygiene of teenage boys.

Somehow, rumours spread. Activists came to believe that the Quran had been kicked or spat on, which inflamed a “huge uproar” in the Muslim community. Some even suggested that the Quran had been torn up in front of Muslim students.

Had that taken place it would have been deplorable. (Just as if a Bible had been torn up in front of Christian students, or a Torah in front of Jewish students.) As far as I can tell, though, there is no evidence that it did.

But activists were unsatisfied — elected officials among them. Usman Ali, for example, a local Labour councillor, announced that the Quran had been “desecrated” and that the school, the police and local authorities should be taking “swift and appropriate action to deal with this grave situation”. “We all need to work together to make sure that this terrible provocation does not set back community relations,” Ali wrote — blissfully unaware that the people endangering community relations were those, like him, who were treating an incident of teenage rambunctiousness like a school shooting.

The school, after liaising with the police — because of course the police have nothing better to do than investigating slight cosmetic damage to a book — and “community leaders” — whoever the hell they are — suspended the boys.

Independent councillor Akef Akbar is playing the peacemaker in this situation. He has emphasised that “absolutely nobody should engage in any violence”, and that the kids who have been suspended should be “protected and safeguarded”. Well, that’s good. 

But while I think Mr Akbar is sincere in his desire to stabilise community relations, the premises he works from need interrogating. He is asking local Muslims to be magnanimous enough to tolerate an outrageous provocation — when in reality it was a non-event that should not have caused a scandal to begin with.

In one video released on his Facebook page, he addresses Wakefield residents alongside a woman who he introduces as the mother of the boy who brought the Quran into school. The boy, it turns out, was “highly autistic” — yet more reason to sympathise with him! But while Akbar is preaching peace — certainly better than the alternative — he is still behaving as if the boy committed some sort of monstrous crime. He was “rightfully expelled”, he says. His mother has “of course shown her remorse”. “Of course”! What do you mean “of course”!? Why should she feel remorse because her son brought a book into school?

Akbar tells us that the autistic boy has been receiving death threats and threats to beat him up. You might think this would be cause for fierce condemnation. “Passions do flare,” says Akbar, “And sometimes we let them out in the wrong manner.” Passions do flare? We’re talking about death threats — not someone using the f-word. Imagine the uproar if a Muslim child received death threats and a white politician shrugged “passions do flare”.

“The mother has had to inform the police,” Akbar says, but “to her credit” she doesn’t want the children to be prosecuted. Why shouldn’t she?

Again, I think that Mr Akbar is doing the right thing according to his values. But we should not accept a preposterous situation in which a child handling a book with some degree of carelessness is framed as a more grave misdeed than sending death threats. That Muslims view the Quran with great reverence is entirely their right. But in a secular society they cannot expect everyone else to do the same.

The school, meanwhile, has betrayed its students — hanging them out to dry to appease hair trigger sensitivities. That at least one of them was heavily autistic rubs home the base cowardice and irresponsibility of adults who should have been standing up for kids. 

Somehow, Britain has adopted de facto blasphemy laws. They don’t even have to be formalised. In one town, a teacher had to flee for his life for the crime of showing a picture. In another, just down the road, four kids were kicked out of school and showered with death threats for the crime of dropping a book. This cannot be allowed to continue.

==

The religion of peace being peaceful again. It's horrific and dystopian that this manufactured "scandal" is being taken in any way seriously, not to mention outright lying to the kids that they did something, not just wrong, but awful, and punishing them for a fictitious crime, solely in order to placate the violent monster of Islamic fragility.

Islam no longer needs to slam planes into buildings in first world countries. It need not breed terror as an aggressor, when it can do so playing the role of the oppressed victim, and have people willingly bend to its demands to console hurt feelings.

Call it a "slippery slope" fallacy if you like, but it's not out of bounds to trace this back at least to the Satanic Verses affair, as it set both precedent and expectations that the entire world, not just the devout, was subject to Islamic blasphemy proscriptions. At the crucial moment, the west blinked, and in that moment, the game changed.

“I feel as if I have been plunged, like Alice, into the world beyond the looking glass, where nonsense is the only available sense. And I wonder if I’ll ever be able to climb back through.”

-- Salman Rushdie

It's easy to forget that the UK has had a Conservative Party government since 2010.

#Kettlethorpe High School #Ben Sixsmith #Islam #quran #blasphemy #death threats #blasphemy laws #islamic violence #quran desecration #hurting religious sentiments #religious sentiments #hair trigger #islamic fragility #threats of violence #religion of peace #religion of violence #religion #this is islam #religion is a mental illness

[aoitakumi8148]

“Two guys can’t love each other.”

#Aoi Takumi #blog #my gifs #Cloud Atlas #2012 #Robert Frobisher #Rufus Sixsmith #/ #Ben Whishaw #James D'Arcy #// #The Catcher Was a Spy #2018 #memories #Morris Berg #/// #Paul Rudd

[arcticdementor]

(link)

#twitter #ben sixsmith

[bodhranwriting]

#writeblr #writing #deaf #arcane skies #queer #fantasy #i’m writing a book #steampunk

[bodhrancomedy]

I love when you write a character who doesn’t change.

1835

Six slipped onto the busiest pub he could and left his coat and his subtlety at the door.

1881

Sixsmith put down his drink and exhaled heavily. "Well, 'm off."

Emmett eyed him. "Where to?"

"Gonna kick over a rock an' see which way the worms wriggle. Dun't wait up. You'll know if it goes wrong."

#funny #writing #writeblr #i’m writing a book

[silverslipstream]

Nine People Tag!

Working through the last of my tag game mentions! I was tagged in this one by @starlitcrossroads, @sm-writes-chaos and @yesireadbooks, so thanks to them! All right, let's get this underway.

Last Song - Linger by The Cranberries

Last Movie - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Yes, it was my twelfth rewatch. Comfort movies gotta comfort - it's been a rough couple of months.)

Currently Reading - Just finished Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. I've been on a bit of a YA novel binge recently.

Last Thing I Searched For Writing Purposes - 'height of Jupiter-synchronous orbit.' For anyone wondering, it's 90,151 kilometers (56,029 miles)

Three Ships - I'll admit, I'm not much of a shipper, but eh, why not.

Robert Frobisher and Rufus Sixsmith from Cloud Atlas

Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan from Harry Potter

Horza and Yalson from Consider Phlebas

Currently Craving - a big plate of nachos with melted cheese, chili and salsa dip...

Currently Consuming - water.

Current Obsession - as previously mentioned, I rewatched Undergrads again recently, an animated college sitcom that aired on MTV in 2001, was hardly advertised, and developed a huge cult following in Canada through years of reuns on the Teletoon Channel. I could talk about it for hours, but I can't let myself, so I wont. :)

I won't tag anyone specific, so consider this an open invitation for anyone who'd like to take part!

#writeblr #writeblr community #tag game #nine people tag #about the writer

[the-funtime-autocrat]

Say what you like about Joe Rogan but when he tired of the juvenile content of The Man Show and Fear Factor he made a lot of interesting, innovative interviews. Stern couldn’t find a middle ground between crass sensationalism and milquetoast maundering. Now, forums and podcasts are full of ex-admirers complaining that he forgot to entertain them. In this, Howard Stern has become a striking representative of elite baby boomers, whose iconoclastic and cynical attitudes have been mutating into moralism and hysteria as the thunk thunk thunk of the bottom of a scythe approaches. They spent decades mocking the dinosaurs who came before them — but now they are the dinosaurs.

Ben Sixsmith, “Howard Stern and Boomer Decline” (October 29th 2022).

#Current State of Affairs #Moralism #Social Decay

[edward-little]

17 for the fic writer asks!!

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

i mean. i already wrote a jsamn au dkjfhghkdj

i have thrown some spaghetti at the wall wrt a cloud atlas au ? but in that case it would be less following the book plot, substituting character for character (UNLESS i focus only on letters from zedelghem. hickey frobisher gibson sixsmith crozier ayres jfj jocasta hodge the trombonist frobisher gets into a fight with) and more taking the general concept of recurrence through multiple narratives and worked out different original plots. it would be So fucking complicated so it would probably be better to limit it to 3 plotlines (even though that would ruin the theme of 6s).

anyway there's also the extremely niche musicologist au i sometimes start talking about out of nowhere.