Lumbering Jill

Pictures of land girls and lumber jills. Talks on storytelling. Comics on how to keep going. Tartan. This blog is a catalogue of my writing and research process.

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Female archers competing at the London Olympics. 1908.

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African American flappers and Jazz Age women

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HOLY SHIT I HAVE NEVER SEEN BLACK FLAPPERS BEFORE!

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There were many fabulous African American flappers. No wonder - it was African American musicians who put the Jazz in “The Jazz Age”! The Charleston dance iteself, which so epitomizes the era, made its debut in the all-Black musical “Runnin’ Wild”, and no one danced that flapper number better than Josephine Baker…save possibly for fellow Black artist Florence Mills, who claimed credit for inventing it (she said she debuted it in her “Plantation Revue” in the early 20s, developing it from a dance popular among slaves). The Charleston song was written by Black composer James P Johnson. Without women and girls like those above, the 1920s would never have roared.

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I love the Jazz Age. And so much fiction erases us, but we were there leading the way.

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Hedy Lamarr (at that time, Kiesler) at her family’s home in Vienna

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#can we talk about how she was married to an overbearing Nazi who didn’t let her out of the house???#and then she escaped#and gave them the finger by devising equipment to use against the Nazis in WW2#because#how was she real#how (via ninnieamee)

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“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.”

 Neil Gaiman (via jaynestown)

It's actually amazing how many stories there are like this and it makes it feel not so stupid to spend all my time thinking about how to do this and teaching other people what I know about how to do this. 

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The danger of a single story

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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WOMEN: please wear high heels unless you don’t know how to walk in high heels in which case stay home and softly gnaw on bottles of shampoo

also please show no less than 64.87% of your boob and no more than 27.94%

stop having arms

when people ask you to smile, blowjob them

my tummy itches make that stop

i will think of new problems for you to have tomorrow

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Flora had always dreamed of being a soldier. While other girls of her age and standing spent their time sewing, painting and dreaming of their wedding day, Flora read and reread Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade, wondering what it would be like to be ‘Storm’d at with shot and shell’. She spent long hours on horseback, galloping through the rolling Suffolk countryside imagining that she was rushing into battle against the Russians at Balaklava, all the while perfecting her field skills by shooting rabbits. Not even a governess nor a stint at finishing school could curb her adventurous nature.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2161051/Front-line-Flora-Remarkable-story-Western-woman-enlist-fight-First-World-War.html

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INTERNMENT CAMPS on the ISLE of MAN Introduction Even before the outbreak of WWII, the War Office had worked out a plan to take care of enemy aliens, should war break out. It grouped them into categories based on rank and position. The first known as Category 'A' was allocated to officers and gentlemen who could afford to pay their mess bills while the second 'B' was for other ranks. This system failed because of the sheer numbers of aliens involved and had to be replaced with another

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"A Plot Outline in Six Acts" by Michael Neff : The Six Act Two-Goal Novel

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This seems to be footage of a farm form the air - but I'm not sure

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This small segment about New Zealand Land Girls summarises exactly why I want my book to be at least partially narrated by an object - there is something about the material things that survive us, they are imbued with stories.

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Photo of the WTC memorial statue

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