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J.C. Manto

@mantoldn.bsky.social
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unapocalyptic designer, poet & librettist, who believes art is still cheaper than therapy. child of the moon. hobbit. cat lady. shakespeare nerd. theatre geek. perfume obsessed. cosplayer.

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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 10/03/2024
“And though she be but little, she is fierce.” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) #ShakespeareSunday #WomensHistoryMonth  #EYESONRAFAH #BisanOwda
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
Dearest readers, Penelope Featherington went to a ball last night, did not dance once, but shared a flask of Whisky with one James Fraser and one Lord John William Grey who, according to rumours exchanged more than just one awkward glance. Yours truly, Lady Whistledown
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
super bowl massacre the media reports hostages were rescued in rafah crowd cheers obviously if you advertise it well you can slaughter refugees live on super bowl sunday buffalo chicken wing genocide commercial law well played touchdown rest in silence #SuperBowlMassacre #Rafah
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
Dear Israel Apologists:
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Israel demanding that everyone condemn the Hamas attack is like a gang of people punching a man in the face over and over and then demanding that everyone condemn him for hurting their hands. The Hamas attack was the natural result of Israel's abuses upon the Palestinian people.
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
Throwback to when Chiyo and Curry were tiny. #Caturday
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
I did it. I DID IT I DID IT I DID IT. I finished reading a book. It’s been a while since I could. It’s still hard to focus and I still get distracted a lot but it felt so good to dive into words again and not sit in front of a screen. Baby steps. But steps.
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
I have long stopped doing New Year resolutions but I’ll be trying a detox January this year. - No meat - No sugar - No shopping - No TV Instead I’ll be walking, reading, drawing and taking care of myself. I need it.
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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
But, soft! what day is this? RJ 3.4 #ShakespeareSunday
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
“Time travels in diverse paces with diverse persons.” (As You Like It) #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho
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Philipp Bobrowski @autorlekt.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
"Gib Frodo den Ring zurück! Miau!"
Katze sitzt vor Fernseher und blickt Boromir in die Augen.
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
“and sing the merry songs of peace to all his neighbors” (Henry 8) Happy Christmas #ShakespeareSunday family! You’re what makes every Sunday merry! 🫶
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
I am reading Noor Hindi’s poems at the moment, she’s a palestinian american poet and her words are so powerful! 🇵🇸
Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying
BY NOOR HINDI
Colonizers write about flowers.
I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies.
I want to be like those poets who care about the moon.
Palestinians don't see the moon from jail cells and prisons.
It's so beautiful, the moon.
They're so beautiful, the flowers.
I pick flowers for my dead father when I'm sad.
He watches Al Jazeera all day.
I wish Jessica would stop texting me Happy Ramadan.
I know I'm American because when I walk into a room
something dies.
Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound.
When I die, I promise to haunt you forever.
One day, I'll write about the flowers like we own them.
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
For all like me still in search of Christmas gifts or holiday reading, here’s a wonderful list of books to understand Palestine. Fiction, SciFi, Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction, whatever you fancy. Support Palestinian writers and spread their stories! 🇵🇸 lithub.com/40-books-to-...
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40 Books to Understand Palestine
In the last 38 days, more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. Another 190 have been killed by Israeli army fire and settler violence in the West Bank. Tens of t…
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
“Cry to be heard, as ’twere from heaven to earth” (Hamlet) #ShakespeareSunday
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
“Hey, Robin, jolly Robin” (Twelfth Night) #ShakespeareSunday #RobinWilliams
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
“So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.” (Hamlet) #ShakespeareSunday
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Rewatching The Bear and I would do anything for her! Also yes, that’s how we watch TV here. My cat’s a junkie.
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Omg it’s awful!!!
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
6️⃣ Niche Perfume advent calender. Today’s probe: Wolf Brothers Goat Inspiration: Scent of MOUNTAINS’ DRESSES, DREAMS and OBSESSIONS. I discovered this in a small perfumery in Trieste. I’m obsessed. It’s wild, deep and has a pleasant darkness. I’d f* a bear if he wore this. ;)
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
5️⃣ Niche Perfume advent calender. Today’s probe: L’Artisan Parfumeur Passage D’Enfer Extreme Inspiration: Hell’s Passage, made heavenly. This is actually really good! I love incense perfume and there’s some lily underneath. Wouldn’t buy a bottle, but I enjoy it.
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
4️⃣ Niche Perfume advent calender. Today’s probe: Etat Libre d’Orange Experimentum Crucis Inspiration: Isaac Newton if he was hit by a rose instead. Or thousands of roses. Rose perfumes just don’t work for me. It’s a nice one, but I can’t bear it. Gives me a rose headache.
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
3️⃣ Niche Perfume advent calender. Today’s probe: Imaginary Authors Cape Heartache. Inspiration: Philip Sava’s expedition to the Pacific Northwest. Well, it’s really just pine, strawberry and smoke. Very comforting and warm. I get bonfire in the woods, a hug, a longing. Nice!
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
“His beard was as white as snow” (Hamlet) #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho60 #BernardCribbins
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
My baby girl is 9 months old already! 🥲
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
2️⃣ Niche Perfume advent calender. Today’s probe: Initio Rehab. Inspiration: “An ecstatic return to the pleasure of perfume.” Idk. Rehab is pleasant enough, warm, spicy, but it’s not really anything beyond that. Like something from a drugstore shelf. Pretty. Good. But trivial.
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
1️⃣ Niche Perfume advent calender. Today’s probe: Schwarzlose Berlin Rausch by Véronique Nyberg. Inspiration: The ecstasy of a Berlin night. Oud perfumes are a hit or miss on me. This one is a hit. It starts out very vanilla, then the full body of smoky, peppery oud wins! Love!
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Picture perfect London day, breakfast at Dishoom with my friend Nina, Guildhall Christmas Market, tea shopping and now off to Bridge Theatre to watch Guys and Dolls. One of the good days!
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
“For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th’ hand,” (Troilus and Cressida) #ShakespeareSunday #SixFeetUnder
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Can’t quite believe it, but have been in a relationship for 12 years. Happy anniversary @autorlekt.bsky.social!
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Happy #DoctorWho Day to all who are celebrating. He’s getting me through my annual November depression at the moment. Bless him!
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
King dies. (Hamlet) #ShakespeareSunday #TheHobbit
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Thunder and lightning. (The Tempest) #ShakespeareSunday
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Pointing at Oswald. (King Lear) #ShakespeareSunday
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Hollow Crown Fans @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Today's #ShakespeareSunday has been chosen by @LazarusTheatre: STAGE DIRECTIONS!
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Toby Stephens News 🔱 @tobysnews.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Enter Orsino, Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords; Musicians attending. (Twelfth Night) #ShakespeareSunday #TwelfthNight #TobyStephens
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Exit pursued by a bear. (The Winter’s Tale) #ShakespeareSunday
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
If you watch one thing today, let it be this!
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Kathy Write Now @kathywritenow.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
My grief lies all within; and these external manners of laments are merely shadows to the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortured soul. – Richard II A4,S1 #ShakespeareSunday 🎭 Theme Love & Loss
Image of The Bear (TV Show). The head chef sitting on a counter in the kitchen.
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Maggie Smith Page @maggieficent.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
»My love to love is love but to disgrace it, for I have heard it is a life in death, that laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath.« (Venus&Adonis) #otd in 1995 Maggie Smith’s first husband and father of her sons Chris and Toby, Sir Robert Stephens died. #ShakespeareSunday #TheatreSky
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Toby Stephens News 🔱 @tobysnews.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
“My grief lies all within, and these external manners of laments are merely shadows to the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortur’d soul.” (Richard II) #ShakespeareSunday #BlackSails #TobyStephens
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ベアちゃん🎗️ @kojikohai.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
"And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale.” - As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 7 #ShakespeareSunday
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FeistyEnglishTeacher @flower-power.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. Romeo&Juliet 3.2 #ShakespeareSunday #Art
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A Paladin’s Venture @apaladinsventure.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
“Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.” - Sonnet 64 #ShakespeareSunday 🎭 ‘Love & Loss’ 📸 Up 🎞️ #shakespeare #pixarup
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
“O piteous spectacle! O bloody times! Whiles lions war and battle for their dens, poor harmless lambs abide their enmity. Weep, wretched man; I’ll aid thee tear for tear” (Henry VI Part 3) #ShakespeareSunday #CeasefireInGazaNOW
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
“Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words […], stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;” (King John) #ShakespeareSunday 📸 Mohammad Salem
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
My taste defined in 4 SHOWS - Six Feet Under - Black Mirror - Black Sails - This Is Us 4 MOVIES - Dead Poets Society - The Shape of Water - Lord of The Rings (all 3 😛) - The Truman Show 4 ARTISTS - The National - Jim Steinman - The Killers - Julia Mosley
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
“Treason! Treason!” (Hamlet) #ShakespeareSunday #TobyStephens
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J.C. Manto @mantoldn.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Holy Smokes. I might have a new favourite niche perfume label. Min New York makes mindblowing scents. I can’t even describe the effect, it’s building a whole landscape in your mind and pulls your aura towards it. I went to the moon today. It’s weird and beautiful there.
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