At the Bottom of the Box was Hope

Things are heating up for the summer as we get ready to get in Good Trouble with old friends and new July 17-19. Tuesday night the Trump regime announced plans to send "election monitors" to six states—Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Virginia—before their primary elections this summer.

This is the latest attack on voting rights from the regime, and this time it's focussed on deep-blue states that are likely to elect Democrats, and swing states where the mid term elections could determine control of Congress.

To get ready, we’re teaming up with the ACLU to offer a special virtual Know Your Voting Rights training on Monday, July 13th at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT as part of the Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action. Join us.

Things are heating up for the summer as we get ready to get in Good Trouble with old friends and new July 17-19. Tuesday night the Trump regime announced plans to send "election monitors" to six states—Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Virginia—before their primary elections this summer.

This is the latest attack on voting rights from the regime, and this time it's focussed on deep-blue states that are likely to elect Democrats, and swing states where the mid term elections could determine control of Congress.

To get ready, we’re teaming up with the ACLU to offer a special virtual Know Your Voting Rights training on Monday, July 13th at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT as part of the Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action. Join us.

Things are heating up for the summer as we get ready to get in Good Trouble with old friends and new July 17-19. Tuesday night the Trump regime announced plans to send "election monitors" to six states—Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Virginia—before their primary elections this summer.

This is the latest attack on voting rights from the regime, and this time it's focussed on deep-blue states that are likely to elect Democrats, and swing states where the mid term elections could determine control of Congress.

To get ready, we’re teaming up with the ACLU to offer a special virtual Know Your Voting Rights training on Monday, July 13th at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT as part of the Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action. Join us.

🚨Safety Alert Australia

If you rely on a hidden phone for your safety, be aware that Australia’s new emergency warning system, AusAlert, can send alerts that override silent and “Do Not Disturb” settings.

If safe to do so, turn off any hidden device before the scheduled test and only switch it back on after the test period has ended.

Here we have:

Tooka-like flowers

Green Daises

a Poppy (also Tooka-like)

Moon “Bells”

Purple tiny ones

Vie the NYT:

Mateja Laar

Wife of Adinui Kryze and Matriarch of Clan Kryze alongside him. Mother of Satine, Meera and Bo-Katan Kryze.

Close ups under the cut

If Mock Orange gives me nothing else, it will have given me a chance to write the line "cuck the sith lord" which has been with me since the earliest drafts:

A selection of photos from photographer Charles Fréger’s “Wilder Mann”, a visual catalog of the “savage” archetype as it exists in European folk traditions.

“These images, like archetypes, half-man half-beast, animal or vegetable, resurface from the  depths of time on the occasion of ritualistic, pagan or religious festivals, celebrating the cycle of the seasons, the fat days, carnival or the eve of Easter. In the common fund of the European rural societies, these characters or emblematic animals represented protective figures or symbols of fertility. Today they evoke an imaginary, impulsive and physical world where everyone perceives an ancestral relationship with nature where the springs of our animality and sometimes the regressive desire inherent in some of our behaviors emerge.”

I love the depth and breathe of the characters and the materials used to create them. Fur, straw, seeds, leaves and a host of other natural materials evoke the distinctly natural (some would say, primal) role these creatures play in European folk mythology. Many of these characters and the traditions they’re part of are explicitly pagan, still evolving personages dating back to a pre-Christian Europe.   

You can also see the way these folkloric costumes influence character design across every single narrative genre from films to video games. If you’re a costume designer, concept artist, or animator attempting to create something dramatically primal, I can think of a few better places to start for visual inspiration than Fréger’s book. 

Photos + copyright belongs to Charles Fréger in their entirety. Quoted section from the website of Charles Fréger.

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