Daria Somers

@darias.bsky.social

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Opera singer. L.A. born & raised, Brooklyn experience. Fantasy novels, genre TV, progressive politics. She/her.

Caroline Dhavernas, a brunette in her early twenties, sits on her floor and picks up a red wax lion with a smooshed face, eyeing it with trepidation
A sophisticated, middle aged Black man in a black sweater sits in a therapist's office surrounded by books. He says "that's perfectly normal." Then the brass bookend on his desk that's shaped like a reading monkey turns to the camera and reiterates "perfectly normal!" Cut to a young brunette woman looking askance at it.
The geek trio of Sam, Neal, and Bill from Freaks and Geeks walking down the school hallway. Neal tells Sam "You've seen Star Wars twenty-seven times."
Poster for the movie Heartbreakers featuring a sexy Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sigourney Weaver and a smiling Gene Hackman in a kitschy bow tie with a cigarette
Tweet from Sergio Olmos @MrOlmos Police at UCLA are wearing gas masks, moving pro-Palestinian demonstrators back from a section of the permitter. Counter-protestors have left the area. No visible arrests so far. 0:09 ESPAIAA 3:12 AM 01 May 24
Tweet from UCLA Anthony Cabassa ✪ @AnthonyCabassa_ 2:43am order issued to begin moving toward Pro Palestine encampment, Pro Israel chants "USA! USA! USA!” As police move in. 2:47 AM - 01 May 24
Tweets from acatwithnews @ACatWithNe... 51m : Despite police presence here at UCLA, counter protesters still attacking the Gaza solidarity encampment. One of them just said a racial epithet for black people. 0:55 acatwithnews @ACatWithN... . 28m⠀ The police line at UCLA is about 60 feet away from where any interactions are between counter protesters and the encampment. One CHP Officer has so many pads. CHP officers have zip ties as part of their kit.
Tweet from acatwithnews @ACatWithNews LAPD is here, saying that they will be coming to form a skirmish line between the two groups. Pro-Israel crowd chanting USA. 0:13 1:45 AM - 01 May 24 At UCLA, pro-Israel demonstrators just threw a barricade that they'd taken. It hit a man who is photographing.
Tweet by Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe It has been nearly 4 hours since this violence has erupted. Multiple assaults. Security ran away. I am just now hearing sirens. Partial quote tweet of Zach Seidl @ZachSeidlLA . 44m Statement regarding this evening's incident at UCLA: "The Mayor has spoken to Chancellor Block and Chief Choi. LAPD is responding immedia... 1:33 AM - 01 May 24
Tweet from Sergio Olmos @MrOlmos Counter-protestors at UCLA descended on pro-Palestinian demonstration to fight and tease down the encampment. It's a full on brawl. men are walking toward the fence trying to tear it down. Counter protestors are throwing things at them, including glass bottles in some cases. 0:29 HIACH 1:20 AM - 01 May 24
Tweet by Jack Ross @mothercity pro Palestine folks are taking their own people to hospitals because they say @UCLA PD won't let EMS in. "Which means our camp has treated 100+ people so far for medical injuries including tear gas pepper spray head injuries from projectiles fireworks burns shock... 1:07 AM ...and irritants that have temporarily blinded people sometimes repeatedly"
Tweet from Teresa Watanabe @TeresaWatanabe Pro-Israel counterprotestors started tearing down @UCLA encampment barriers and screamed "Second nakba!" referring to the mass displacement & dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Per @latimes @safinazzal on the scene with another video:
Anthony Cabassa ✪ @AnthonyCabassa_ UCLA : this is the hired security that was earlier separating both factions, as you can see, they're on the sidelines, watching, still on the clock but unable to do nothing as @UCLA has ordered them to stand down. Violence ensues. 1:15 12:42 AM - 01 May 24
Daily Bruin DB @dailybruin At around 10:55 p.m., private security told a Daily Bruin reporter to call LAPD. As of 12:51 a.m., Daily Bruin reporters in Dickson Plaza cannot identify any police on the scene. 12:53 AM 01 May 24
Matthew Lewis Royer (he/him/his) @TheMatthewRoyer I just called UCPD for a statement on the ongoing violence in Dickson Court. The response: "No, absolutely not." They hung up before I could ask another question. • 11:55 PM 30 Apr 24
Jack Ross @mothercity Zionists now pushing hard against encampment blockade and there is a gas visibly being sprayed 12:04 AM - 01 May 24
Tweet from Teresa Watanabe @Teresa Watanabe Getting texts from terrified @UCLA students in the pro-Palestinian encampment, which is under attack by pro-Israel counterprotesters. "This is urgent. Please. It's getting bad. No police." 12:50 AM - 01 May 24
Tweet by Jack Ross @mothercity That's how it started. We were all quickly drenched in chemical spray - smelled like skunk. But there were multiple kinds of sprays! Some had eyes burning. Some were coughing. I smelled like skunk. Kept getting hit with mysterious liquid droplets. I was doing an interview when the masked men arrived. Also, the protesters were not fighting back. They had a policy to not engage. That went on for a very long while. Heated clashing really began in earnest about an hour in. Until then, it was Zionists trying to crash barricades and protesters holding the line, not responding
Tweet by Jack Ross @mothercity To reporters writing this up: this was a unilateral, surprise attack by Zionists. Encampment residents were eating lentils and sitting around. Suddenly reports of men in plastic white masks at the gates. Then poles thrown. Shouts of GET DOWN... skunk spray... 1:52 AM - 01 May 24 People all around me were hacking and crying from gas. A firework - a massive firework - flew over our heads and exploded. Im talking dodger stadium sized firework. BOOM.
Why Are Your Poems so Dark? BY LINDA PASTAN Isn't the moon dark too, most of the time? And doesn't the white page seem unfinished without the dark stain of alphabets? When God demanded light, he didn't banish darkness. Instead he invented ebony and crows and that small mole on your left cheekbone. Or did you mean to ask "Why are you sad so often?" Ask the moon. Ask what it has witnessed.
Black and white photo of barbed wire with white text in a whimsical font. Text says often the most respectable thing to do is to yell.
A colorful nebula with text over it that says pussies unite
I don’t mean to hate the sparrows. I don’t mean to close my eyes and see fire, a flood of concrete, leaflets the size of grotesque snow. I don’t mean to rehearse evacuation that isn’t mine: from the grocery store to the house, from the house to the river, from the river to the airport. Here are the rules. There is a road and it’s gone now. There is a sea and you can’t drink its water. How far can you carry a toddler? A middle-aged dog? How far can you go in sixty-five seconds? Eleven? If you have a favorite flower, now’s the time to redact it. If you have a mother, now’s the time to move her to the basement. If you don’t have a basement? I don’t mean to profit from this poem but I do. I don’t mean to say I but I do. Here are the rules. The rules are redacted.
Spiral notebook paper with the name Alan Rickman in caps at the top. Numerous quotes are handwritten in various colors of pen. 1 I'm sorry. I've been talking to a bunch of fourteen-year-olds. Forgive me if I patronize you. 2 The process starts with saying yes rather than saying no 3 You realize you're scraping around for subtext… and there isn't any. That's the point. (on Harry Potter) 4 Question: When do you find the character? Answer: If it's very good writing, the character will find you 5 It's about letting a text react to who I am 6 Acting is accurate listening 7 On Private Lives: The creative pleasure for me was finding I was playing an 11-year-old. 8 The whole process is about daring to be ridiculous 9 Surprise yourself 10 It's a bizarre balancing act between what your mind can imagine and how inadequate you are 11 If you're going to be actors, it's just as much
The exterior of a Berlin sidewalk cafe with a red awning and ivy draped over the facade. On the wall next to the seating area is a chalkboard with a handwritten menu. Next to that below a window with closed blinds is a red half-size door mostly covered by a numeral 2 spraypainted in white with a thick black border. The door and surrounding frame and walls are covered with numerous smaller tags in various colors. On the red patch of wall below the menu a prim looking black tag from Ali Baba features prominently.