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  • August Birthday Writing Challenge Example 08/01/2025

    August Birthday Writing Challenge Example https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1223660370 audio https://www.tumblr.com/richardmurrayhumblr/791603876662001664/written-by-richard-murray-hddeviant-biround pdf https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Biround-Mornings-1229347827 Crliterature challenge https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/August-Birthday-Writing-Cha

  • Where is Farmer Ted now? 08/01/2025

    Where is Farmer Ted now? https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1223573348 Audio https://www.tumblr.com/richardmurrayhumblr/791612681299869696/where-are-they-now-farmer-ted-sixteen-candles CRliterature challenge https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Where-Are-They-Now-Farmer-Ted-Sixteen-Candles-1216942649 forum post https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11753-where-are-they-no

  • Thoughts to "Adaptation" from Jess of the Shire

    Thoughts to "Adaptation" from Jess of the Shirt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Bpgmt1NuQ my comment excellent video, I concur, judgement of faithful comparison is used negative. Yes, religion is the problem, the thing read again isn't sacre sanct. To your point, the echo chamber structure of the modern world wide web, and how people collaborate in the echo chambers, makes the solitary

  • WATN: Frozone - The Incredibles

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/WATN-Frozone-The-Incredibles-1360242837 CONTENT Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group. Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @CRLiterature in reporting on some of our favorite fictional unknowns by writing fun fan fictions based on popular films and television shows 📽️📺 Ponder pop culture’s most per

  • Cat Nights

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Cat-Nights-1363463941 IMAGE EMBED CODE CONTENT For the Cat Nights challenge of @color-me-club 🌅 Cat Nights: August 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":805,\"chars\":4660}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_F

  • August 2026 Contest: Cat Nights

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/August-2026-Contest-Cat-Nights-1359936387 CONTENT 🌅 Cat Nights: August 2026 Contest 🌅 Brought to you by: Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like making a ticket for a

  • #BlackHistory337 6 : Fictional Slave Narratives

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/BlackHistory337-6-Fictional-Slave-Narratives-1348180919 CONTENT #BlackHistory337 is about the time outside the 28 days designated as Black History Month, an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of the Black community during the other 337 days of the year. Let's continue learning all year long, because history doesn't stop when February ends. F

  • CENTO Series episode 115

    CENTO Series episode 115   But a monster I am, let it not be said. So a vigilant statue I remain Warm and full of dreams. https://www.deviantart.com/midn1ghtink/art/The-Importance-of-Being-Jack-NaPo24-7-1039850067   wishing I am not in the very town I had none of my seventeen-year-old worries seem to wished to escape. https://www.deviantart.com/starrystarrysky7267/a

  • What is the heritage of the Black Descended of Enslaved and what cultures does it allow?

    My entire life I always heard a complaint from many black people whose forebears were enslaved to non blacks which sums up to , all or ninety nine percent of Black people need to do this one thing. And I thought and still think that absolute communalism, that catholicism, misses what our enslaved forebears went through or what gifts they gave us. The heritage is one where we are not bound to any l

  • behind the scenes tombstone

    behind the scenes tombstone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX8rxvXVVfw One way or another, Americans have to deal with the West and its glorious, sordid, sadistic past…we fought lawnessness to create an even more lawless law, one that excused and perpetuated genocide. Even today, this gun-obsessed nation that we love remains mired in a dilemma centered on pistols and rifles with romantic t

  • Being present shouldn't accept lies to the past

    I comprehend positive thinking but the past is real. Black people have to start saying a simple truth. Blacks after centuries of being terrorized by whites in the lands that will become the united state of America while nonviolently protesting, earned the allowance of whites to make money. Said protesting was within a war, between phenotypical groups commonly called today Blacks and non Blacks[Whi

  • Star Wars Playboy 1983

    I share these photos because they remind me of how modern media's ways are not knew merely faster, more bionic.            In 1983, Rolling Stone featured a playful “Beach Day” photo shoot with the Star Wars cast to promote Return of the Jedi. Shot at Stinson Beach, California, Carrie Fisher posed in her iconic Leia bikini alongside Darth Vader, Ewoks,

  • Happening Today

    Nollywood Animated Films

    1. Malika: Warrior Queen Pilot (2019) Director: Roye Okupe Studio: YouNeek Studios Malika: Warrior Queen transports viewers to 15th-century West Africa, where Queen Malika must defend her vast empire from internal betrayal and external threats, including the formidable Ming Dynasty. This film masterfully blends historical elements with fantasy, featuring dragons, mystical relics, and epic

  • National Association of Black Bookstores Officially Launches

    From @Troy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK BOOKSTORES OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES TO CHAMPION BLACK LITERARY CULTURE Sacramento, CA (August 4, 2025) — Inspired by the legacy of the country's first Black-owned bookstores and the remarkable individuals behind them, the official launch of the National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2) took place today. As a

  • Malhwie the image scrambler

    Malhwie the image scrambler My reasoning was to help the adult art group.  https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/493-malhwie/  

  • 1800s Black Statian Fiction -FREE TO READ

    1800s Black Statian Fiction  Growing up in the home of my parents I had from a child 1800s Black Literature. and I read it and it shaped my thinking towards media. One of the reasons why I don't get excited about white fiction largely is because I was raised with a more honest comprehension of Black Fiction, which most black people when children are not. And to be blunt, not sacred but secula

  • WHy Freedom? Open call for African Filmmakers

    OPEN CALL for African Filmmakers: WHY FREEDOM? (Africa Edition)🎬🌍 Submit by August 12th 2025 https://mydocubox.org/ In partnership with THE WHY, DOCUBOX EADFF is calling on filmmakers across the continent to pitch short documentaries (5–15 min) that explore freedom, from your perspective, in the context you know best. Political, personal, social, economic, or environmental — all

  • Me Maplelized 08/08/2018

    Me Maplelized 08/08/2018   I finished the Maple Story MApleize me contest entry. Enjoy the coloring pages to my entry, if you are part of my email newsletter. If you go for it, you still have a solid day in time, please share. Here is the link to my entry.  https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Me-Maplelized-758393673?ga_submit_new=10%3A1533699970    For the record, the

  • CENTO Series episode 116

    CENTO Series episode 116   motionless horror covering the wall made of decay and desire your love in  the emptiness of silence https://www.deviantart.com/lorian-aindal/art/Honeycomb-Delight-1039551796   blooming in me with beautiful tenebrae I drag it out to commit atrocities swallowing the light with toothed jaws selection from  ivers of misguided paths https

  • The Eight Times till Cat Nights begins Good News

    A POEM TO HONOR the ninth night a witch turns into a cat, which is the beginning of Cat Nights August 17th, The eight days before a witch can turn into a cat and turn back   A Seventeenth Witch It was a quiet morning, in an eighth seventeenth Miss Sarah, a witch, had a really long day A witch, that she is, that she is The clouds full from night dings, all seem calm un

  • Summer Bank Centennial PostCard/Wellington Wells 08/10/2018

    Summer Bank Centennial PostCard/Wellington Wells 08/10/2018   My Wellington Wells We happy few postcard entry is set. Do you know the references? The competition still has time to submit if you are interested. https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Summer-Bank-Centennial-PostCard-Wellington-Wells-758711598?ga_submit_new=10%3A1533870702 Original Posting https://aalbc.com/

  • The problem with List - Black 100 Films from the Black Movie Hall of Fame

    I have said multiple times, I find labels are rarely well thought out in the USA, The list of 100 best black films by a supposed black organization [has to be financed and populated by blacks to be a black organization] includes films, not even directed or written by blacks.    6. “Claudine” (1974)  - directed by a nonblack man, and I like Claudine 10. “Carmen Jones” (1954) - based on

  • Hajime Miura (clinched his eigth title)– 3A World YoYo Champion – World YoYo Contest 2025

    Hajime Miura (clinched his eigth title)– 3A World YoYo Champion – World YoYo Contest 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDkv-vkml1Q     interview https://www.instagram.com/worldyoyocontest/p/DMseSGwIbPw/?img_index=3 his yoyo https://yoyorecreation.jp/team/243

  • Interpretations of the Black experience aren't divisive or multivisive but honest

    All human populations in humanity have the problem of groups inside said populations having dissimilar interpretations of the past. The black populace in the usa, second only to the first peoples of the usa , have a very hard time with this, and it is expected. It isn't easy coming to a consensus when you are dominated by another people or have differing views on moving forward.    MY CO

  • Moonlight and MAwazo 2025 summer contest ends august 31st 2025

    https://www.moonlightandmawazo.com/submissions Work must be submitted in PDF format via the website. The submission must range between 1,500 and 7,500 words. Submissions must be in Times New Roman, double-spaced and 12-point font. Anything outside of this range will be automatically disqualified. Broken files or non-PDF files will not be judged. You may submit up to 3 story entries. Each sub

  • Mammoth pictures sage 32 12th screenwriting contest final deadline october 29th 2025

    Mammoth pictures sage 32 submissions open winners announced January 30th  maybe pinnochio Mammoth pictures sage 32 submissions open winners announced January 30th  submission https://www.stage32.com/happy-writers/contests/12th-Annual-Search-for-New-Blood-Screenwriting-Contest Important Dates to Be Aware Of Super Early Bird Deadline: August 14th, 2025 Early Bird Deadli

  • Tananarive Due + Steven Barnes The Three Lies of Writing Horror

    I will try and post a video if something is made public.    Forum post Tananarive Due teaching and giving an excerpt - Black Literature - African American Literature Book Club     Now for anyone writing a book or screenplay, this is a great opportunity to learn from Tananarive Due, writer of the Reformatory and the cowriter of the Twilight Zone episode " A Small Town"

  • Bois Caïman from Chevelin Pierre

    Bois Caïman (Aug. 1791) is remembered as a secret night gathering of enslaved people in northern Haiti where they vowed to fight for freedom. Led by figures like Cécile Fatiman (often written “Fatima”), it’s widely seen as the spark of the Haitian Revolution the only successful slave uprising, which led to Haiti’s independence in 1804. In this artwork, Fatiman stands with a ritual knife and a blac

  • Superhero Movies a Duet with jesterbell + nerdrotic

    Superhero movies are dead and it may be a good thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3KaHmnXJuo my comment I wish you would had mentioned Blade. It all started with Blade, as Stan Lee said, a not well known comic book , that did great for a Black Thespian. And from that the industry jumped in, but it was fresh. The reality is no film genre dies. People say Westerns are dead, but they are

  • European Castles truth + the X bows from shadversity

    Movies have LIED to you about what’s INSIDE castles Interesing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aIW6PvjGqs     IN AMENDMENT Elements of architecture CONSTRUCTION What is cement? a binder, in the past limestone, today the most commercially used is Portland cement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement What is plaster? a binder + water [ binder is cement] it is meant

  • CENTO Series episode 117

    CENTO Series episode 117   shall razing my stones turns my rot coiled about nightmares moonlight https://www.deviantart.com/lucienrising/art/What-Didn-t-Kill-Me-1039938337   i must say goodbye inside the utter center my pen in the other hand in the cathedral https://www.deviantart.com/anthony-ryan/art/letting-go-988791480   IN AMENDMENT Ce

  • Experience between Cruise side Cavill

    MY THOUGHTS the one word I didn't see in the post or comments is experience and that to me is the point cruise made to cavill. you can be young and studied but you need experience for these stunts. Jackie chan nor Tom cruise jumped off of buildings in the new first of fury or risky business... they both grew through experience, yes training, yes studying, yes conditioning,  but experience mat

  • Do Theaters need to be owned by the Film Makers again?

    ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Flopped at the Box Office, but It’s Breaking Records on Streaming Platforms I think what this shows is the theater business model is in trouble.  I quote the article Even though the film did not perform well in theaters, it’s finding new life on streaming. On Disney+, Captain America: Brave New World has stayed in the Top 10 in the U.S. for an impressive 56

  • Shannon the Blackfish with MAyowa's World

    Shannon Sharpe's Anti-Blackness was His First Downfall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIABN6WQx4Q     my comment You saw it coming:)  I enjoyed listening to a black womens voice speak of Shannon's dialog:)  Exactly, from white written "Immitation of Life" to Black written " Devil in a blue dress" by walter Mosely or even better "Passing" by Nella Larsen or some shor

  • Cat Nights GOOD NEWS CALENDAR

    Cat Nights begin on August 17th - display any text or art concerning cats. <Cat Nights begin on August 17. This term harks back to the days when people believed in witches. A rather obscure old Irish legend said that a witch could turn herself into a cat eight times, but on the ninth time (August 17), she couldn’t regain her human form. This bit of folklore also gives us the saying, “A cat has

  • Terminus 3 from MVMedia initially published August 17th 2025

    Terminus 3 from MVMedia @Milton initially published August 17th 2025 The ATLiens are back! Twenty-two speculative fiction stories from some of Metro Atlanta's best Black Speculative Fiction authors. You'll never see the ATL the same way again!    https://www.mvmediaatl.com/product-page/terminus-3

  • Between The Tide

    Between The Tide from Richard Murray / @HDdeviant / @richardmurrayhumblr   Somewhere, between the tide Somewhere, waiting for life My idol grasps, on cocoa sands And wait for the bliss, that come playing   Somewhere, between the tide She's there, waiting for life Since I can't hide, like snails will try Then straight, to her arms I'd come playing   It'

  • AKA Contrarian Birthday

    @aka Contrarian thoughts when 91 , remember her well and if you never knew her read on and be inspired. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11759-reflections/   my comment https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11759-reflections/#findComment-75452  

  • The Nyotenda 08/20/2014

    The Nyotenda 08/20/2014   The Nyotenda A continuation of an 80s adventure classic by Richard Murray Book 2 - JIHI Synopsis An adventure of Ethel, from an Ethiopian village a small distance from Addis Abeba barely known, starting with a simple old arcade game through dangers in space ending beyond the aspirations found in any game. Complete Screnplay plus com

  • FIYAH's SINNERS SAINTS HAINTS exclusive issue submission started 2025

    FIYAH's SINNERS SAINTS HAINTS exclusive issue submission   Here at FIYAH, it’s no secret that we LOVE horror—and y’all are damn good at writing it! Inspired by the film SINNERS, we want to celebrate the Southern Gothic renaissance with a special issue. From August 20th to August 31st, FIYAH is accepting submissions for SINNERS, SAINTS, AND HAINTS. This issue is exclusive to reprinte

  • Anime + Play NYC 2026

    Anime NYC https://animenyc.com/ Anime NYC is the largest anime convention on the East Coast, in the biggest city in the US! Bringing together 150K fans from around the world for four days of excitement, it showcases the best of Japanese pop culture with unique exhibits, exclusive screenings and experiences, and appearances by top creators from Japan and beyond. AUG. 20 – 23, 2026 THURSDAY: 1 PM –

  • What if What if 08/21/2021

    What if What if 08/21/2021   Was asked by someone online, the following is my answer   Its fine. I rarely hate any art. I never say any art is bad. No artists is trying to make bad work. So, an artist may fail to achieve what they wanted in terms of audience response or I may dislike a works aspects but it wasn't for lack of trying. .... I will specify a question. IF the

  • CENTO Series episode 118

    CENTO Series episode 118   Me in the sky For a few minutes, a midday night, of the sun. https://www.deviantart.com/mysticalpoet/art/Eclipse-1040341342   the fruits of your wickedness as my broken, patchwork soul and all but you was dead because insidious little lies https://www.deviantart.com/ink-singer/art/liar-liar-liar-afire-1039215153   IN AMEN

  • Der Tchrumpfs 08/24/2018

    Der Tchrumpfs 08/24/2018   Der Tchrumpfs little people in orange, no humans can see by Richard Murray Book 6 - Richard Murray Short Story Collection Synopsis A massive world , four years old, in a little patch of white mushrooms, from little people in oragne. None of us know where to pinpoint or find them in humanity. Introducing, Der Tchrumpfs book page h

  • Der Tchrumpfs 08/24/2018

    Der Tchrumpfs 08/24/2018   Der Tchrumpfs Nederlandse versie door Richard Murray Boek 5 - Richard Murray Short Story Collection Synopsis Een gigantische wereld in een klein stukje witte paddenstoelen. Geen van ons weet waar hij moet lokaliseren of vinden in onze kleurrijke wereld. Introductie, Der Tchrumpfs   book page https://www.kobo.com/nl/nl/ebook/

  • Sudowoodo at the Library in the poster

    My Sudowoodo  do you see him in the poster below? https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Sudowoodo-at-the-Library-submit-to-charity-1214090375   Library Project Poster from @goldenemotions https://www.deviantart.com/goldenemotions/art/Library-Project-Poster-1233375459 Here is the library, the goal of the charity https://discord.com/channels/61

  • Mary Ann Ozurumba birthday

    Some of her artwork https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2598&type=status her linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-ann-ozurumba-465110183/ cover image referral https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-ann-ozurumba-465110183/overlay/1635545996092/single-media-viewer?type=IMAGE&profileId=ACoAACtDz40BSK4J0CaazR8-tlgQRGNyZMtaJX4&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage

  • The Two Statians

    The government of the USA is at a time demanding change. The population in it, requires changes not merely in personel, but in the structure of the bureaucracy. In times like these for any government all the agendas/powers/impotencies/attempts/failures to manipulate the system will lead to a result most , whether they like it or not, will have to live with.    MY COMMENT  @aka Contr

  • Ask Eddie August 28th 2025 film noir foundation

    Ask Eddie August 28th 2025 LINK https://www.tumblr.com/communities/filmnoirpigeons/post/793249785900630016/in-case-you-missed-it-last-night-on-facebookfnf VIDEO https://www.tumblr.com/filmnoirfoundation/793249397131657216/in-case-you-missed-it-last-night-on-facebookfnf MY COMMENT Vincent + IDa Lupino in suspense  Fletcher - sorry wrong number https://archive.org/details

  • My Extended Reply to "Who will solve Black cinema’s marketing crisis?" from Maya S Cade

    MY SUMMARY REPLY There have been a slew of modern Black box office failures. Who (or what) will solve Black cinema’s (marketing) crisis? How many film productions are following Sinners guidelines?  What is up with all the trauma in Black film/media? I ask anyone Black who feels to much trauma is in Black media, what books with stories with Black heroes in mythical or fantastical w

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