Feral Millennial

In America, she adopted the name Eve Adams — a playful nod to her androgyny, invoking the biblical Adam and Eve — and wore men’s clothing.

“She was a vibrant activist, who was daring. She had an androgynous appearance, which immediately identified her as a lesbian,” said Jonathan Ned Katz, author of The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams. “Wearing pants for women was just unthinkable in the time period.”

Adams soon immersed herself in New York’s anarchist circles, befriending prominent Jewish anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. She worked as a traveling saleswoman for leftist publications including Mother Earth, activities that landed her on the Bureau of Investigation’s watch list during the First Red Scare.

In 1923, Adams published Lesbian Love, a collection of essays about the romantic lives of dozens of women in Greenwich Village. Katz described the book as far ahead of its time.

“The word “lesbian” was not used much. It was like a dirty word at the time, so you didn’t say it out loud,” Katz said. “Here she was, putting it on a book jacket.”

Two years later, Adams opened Eve’s Hangout in Greenwich Village. The underground tearoom became a rare refuge where lesbian women could socialize openly.

But the haven proved short-lived. In 1926, an undercover detective named Margaret Leonard visited Eve’s Hangout, where she met Adams. The following day, the two attended a play in Times Square together. Adams gave Leonard a copy of Lesbian Love — evidence of “obscenity” that prosecutors later used against her — and Leonard alleged Adams made sexual advances toward her during the taxi ride to the theater.

Adams was convicted and spent 18 months in jail before the United States deported her to Poland.

She settled in Paris, where she began a relationship with Jewish cabaret singer Hella Olstein Soldner. In 1943, the two women were arrested and sent to the Drancy internment camp. From there, they were deported to Auschwitz, where both were murdered.

Eve in Paris

Antartica Penguin brooches from the Wild and Wonderful collection by Mikimoto, 2022

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day 11

‘pigecorn’

Event by @azulaweek

I was so excited when I read this prompt cuz I absolutely love anything that has to do with birds especially cool fictional ones so I got to work real fast. I found out static makes my drawings look 100x better (in my eyes at least) so I’ll be abusing that 👍

I was thinking of making the phoenix blue to reflect her blue fire but I preferred the red, orange and yellow colour palette.

I feel like Zuko would lose his shit after her bird dies forgetting it’ll just come back lol

I also made this cuz being a bird mom comes with its sacrifices and that sacrifice is sleep: (inspired after my cat who always kneads my mom’s hair before sleep)

Imagine she comes out of her room with the wildest hair imaginable lmao

My friend's rendition:

Recipient of a third-degree burn in front of witnesses. IE, "I won't take that shit from a man dressed like a ghostbuster"= "Gostbuster" or "Buster"

A distinctive personal feature or quirk. IE, "Have you noticed how that new guy is always eating bell peppers?" = "Peppers", or "That chick has a massive forehead" = "Forehead".

An embarrassing thing you said or did. IE, "Did you seriously call Dale "Dad"?" = "Junior", "Baby boy", "Sport"

A game of name-mutation telephone. IE, "Donny Clyde" = "Bonnie 'n' Clyde" = "Bonnie" = "Bon-bon".

Irony. IE, calling a tall person "short stack" or a particularly dour person "sunshine".

A 'wrong place wrong time' one-off incident. IE, "He spilled oil on his pants and had to borrow a pair that were way too big and Jim saw him with the waistband pulled up to his nipples and called him 'Parachute'"

A batman-style origin story but not in a cool way: "One time she hit a deer with the company car and when she called the boss to tell her she was crying so hard we thought she was dying" = "Bambi"

The incredibly rare 'admiration' nickname, bourne only once a millennia under the light of the blood moon: "We saw him lift a truck once so now we call him 'iron man'"

+ How Nicknames Stick:

Your fate is determined by The Counsel

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With Zuko completely disgraced and Iroh a non-threat, the biggest potential threat to Azula's "right to the throne" actually comes from another quarter. If Ozai remarried or took a concubine, their children might threaten Azula's position, especially if they were male. Ozai might even desire a male heir and favor one over Azula. Azula would still have 14 years and many accomplishments on them, but this would still be more dangerous than "traitor Zuko" making his return to grace. However, since Ozai seems to have shown little interest in having more children in the many years since Ursa left, this is strictly a hypothetical threat.

Without these hypothetical half siblings of Azula, Ozai is essentially stuck with her as his heir. Aside from the disgraced Zuko, Ozai has no one other to choose, even if he wanted. There might be some distant relatives of the royal family available, but they would have weak claims and Ozai would have to be truly desperate to choose them over his own, prodigious daughter.

Azula's status as the next Firelord is thus essentially secure at the beginning of Book 2. All she needs to do is keep breathing, not screw up in an absolutely horrific way, and not get her only potential competitor back into her father's favor. Even if she wants the throne, she already essentially has it in the bag. It doesn't make sense for her to do anything particularly crazy or desperate to secure it, or even really expend much energy or thought on an already "solved" problem.

Azula: *literally spins her crowning achievement in s2 into giving up the throne for her brother and then the first half of s3 into keeping him there*

(Like, idk what to tell you guys, even the pants-on-head stupid conspiracy of "Azula wanted a fall-guy in case Aang was alive" doesn't work because, uh, "failing to kill the Avatar" is just kind of another day ending in "-y" in the Fire Nation at that point. If she didn't bring Zuko home and Aang showed up, she'd get away with it with a shrug and "he's a cockroach" excuse to Ozai and that would have been the end of it.

Flag Spaffing Cunt vs Count Binface

It's not without precedent. In 1997, the Conservative MP for Tatton and all round tosspot, Neil Hamilton, had a scandal in which he received money for taking easy questions. His constituents loathed him. 1997 was the year of the general election in which Labour and Lib Dem candidates would stand against the Tories in what was considered a very safe Tory seat. But then BBC War Correspondent Martin Bell announced he would stand as an Independent candidate running only on two policies: he wasn't Neil Hamilton and he would only stand for one term. The Labour and Lib Dem candidates withdrew leaving Neil running only against Martin.

Martin Bell won that election with a majority of over 11,000 votes and a swing to Independent of 48% away from the Conservatives.

Defeated, Neil Hamilton was ejected from the Conservative party and fucked around until 2011, when he joined UKIP, the party that gave us Brexit run by...you guessed it...the cunt that's now running against a bin.

Martin Bell served one term, as promised, and vacated the seat in 2001 at that General Election. He went to another constituency where another Tory MP had been accused of dodgy dealings. He didn't win, but he did come 2nd, after which Mr Bell retired from politics saying that "winning one and losing one is not a bad record for an amateur."

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)