A Crooked Mile

An inspiration/spitballing/writing blog for Lord Lastborn, A Crooked Mile, and other works-in-progress by yours truly. Mav, she/her or they/them, as many years as hours in a day (with one for good luck).

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Just when I thought to resign myself to never finishing anything, another idea crops up. We’ll see.

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DORÉ, Gustave (1832-1883)

Angelica meets with a hermit (Illustration for Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso) 1868 engraving Ed. Orig. Lic. Ed.

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“Great wings shall come, great silent, silent wings…Good-bye. All’s one. All’s one. All’s one.”

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Mystery solved! He is every bit as poncy as the gifset suggested. I’m delighted.

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Title: To Make It Right Fandom: Overwatch Pairing: Jesse McCree/Hanzo Shimada Rating: T Warnings: Some violence. Alcohol use. Word Count: 3 113 Summary: McCree’s never fancied a fella who didn’t make him worry some. Excerpt By now, McCree’s grown used to following Hanzo’s lead. He’s silent as snow and quick as a rattlesnake. And he has a mind for the layout of facilities like these. The cameras will have spotted them, but it doesn’t matter. Got what they came for. It’s a momentary distraction to think that the fate of the world rests, from time to time, on keeping ahold of a microchip smaller than his thumbnail. In a pinch, one or the other of them could swallow it to keep Talon from getting their paws on it. Not that he’s here to save the world, exactly. Even back in the day, running with Reyes, that wasn’t so much the plan. Mostly the plan had been “maybe don’t rot in a max security prison ‘til the trumpets sound.” Which, for a patented Jesse McCree Plan, hadn’t been so bad. For now, he’s tailing Hanzo. Ain’t a bad place to be. The view don’t smart too bad, neither. Harder to enjoy when he’s worried as all this, but worry seems to come with the territory. He’s never fancied a fella who didn’t make him worry some. Hanzo makes him worry a whole heap. He’ll still be worried once they group back up with the others. When they settle back in at HQ. Secrets are easy to spot. Hanzo’s got plenty swimming around in that handsome noggin of his, and he holds on hard. McCree doesn’t mind staying out of it. But that don’t make it easy.

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Fire and Ice by sheer-madness

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Commission for a wonderful (and patient!) @space-bysshe! Their Ardost Belastiot, His Imperial Majesty, High King of Orphell, and Isaretta Ré,  Her Imperial Majesty, High Queen of Orphell. (I took a great pleasure in drawing such beautiful and interesting characters! <3)

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I have literally been screaming with delight since I saw this. I expect to continue to scream for the rest of the day. Thank you so much for your excellent work! 10/10 would commission again. ♥♥♥♥

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I think a lot about my responsibility as a writer to write diversely. I worry about it. And I think the thing that I’m going to have to accept is that somewhere along the way, I’m probably going to fuck up. I’ll be careful, and I’ll do my homework, but I think it’s also important to write without being so afraid of getting it wrong. It could happen. And when/if it does, it’s as much my responsibility to own it and grow. I think sometimes when writing about diversity, it’s easy to fall into that trap of wanting to get it right 100% of the time, and thinking that making mistakes somehow makes you into absolute garbage. But the way out of it, I think, is to accept the possibility that you might get it wrong, and accept your mistakes when they happen. Don’t get ignorant. Get wise and get better.

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Destiny Owusu Photographed by Oye Diran

Photographer: @Oye_Diran Model: @ohwawa Stylist: @OliviaMarieg Mua: @moshoodat

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Britain’s Biggest Secret - The Black Victorians

Pictured above is the Higdon family. This photograph was taken in the year 1898 in Britain. That is all we know about them.

Who were the Black Victorians? Mainstream history has virtually erased them from our minds and history books. We have been filled with images of slavery in America and across the world, but why is it that this chapter in black history was skipped? Why isn’t it equally common knowledge that in the midst of all of that darkness there was light, also.

Never before seen photos were uncovered, giving us over 200 images of glances into our past. Many of the photos did not include names or any details whatsoever, cloaking these people in mystery for all of time.

At one point in history, people of color were included in high society and walked the cobbled streets of Britain. The women wore intricate, voluminous gowns and wore their hair in curls and chignons. The men in suits and fair business. This may not have been the case for all black people in Britain, but for some it was. 

The Victorian Era was ruled under Queen Victoria, an era that is described as an opulent culture, although there were underlying bouts of poverty and child labor. History would like you to believe that black people didn’t arrive in Britain until 1948 during “The Empire Windrush”, when many Jamaican descendants entered the country, but that is not so. There has been proof to suggest otherwise. There is documentation that proves that it wasn’t uncommon to see black faces at a Shakespeare show. We’ve been there all along, humming softly in the background.

These images prove that you can’t take mainstream history at face value. Take the time to look behind the curtain and uncover OUR history. It’s as if our ancestors are just waiting for us to seek them out.

Who were the Black Victorians?

To see more of these images check out this video reel. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mwrYUzPqI

Happy Black History Month.

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‘Antimony (The White Powder)’ [Digital] by Marcela Bolívar from her feature in beautiful.bizarre issue 012 

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by Luc Desmarchelier

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“May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.

Sappho, Fragments (via vauxhallandi)

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Sir Olaf in a kingdom of wraiths and ghosts. Kay Nielsen (1896-1957) watercolor for In Powder and Crinoline, 1913.

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Will o’ the Wisp, 30min. spitpaint, Photoshop CS6