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In college, I did a lot of digging into my family history and there are quite a few interesting characters on both my mom and dad's sides. I opened that project up again and oh man do I have a lot of amazing things that I missed from when I first started this genealogy thing.

First of all, this is Farleigh Hungerford Castle, my ancestral home on my dad's side.

Much of the buildings are in ruins, but the chapel (picture 4) still stands after being reconstructed in 1779. It was all built up by my ancestor Sir Walter Hungerford after he inherited the original manor which was constructed in the 1380s.

Sir Walter led a very fascinating life. His father Thomas Hungerford was the first recorded Speaker of the House of Commons and Walter received the same title as well as those of Sheriff of Wiltshire and Dorset. He served under three Kings of England - Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. It was under Henry V that he gained a reputation as a skilled warrior, fighting alongside the king during the Battle of Agincourt as well as the Siege of Rouen. He was made a Knight of the Garter and eventually Steward of the King's Household and Treasurer of England. When Henry V died in 1422, Sir Walter was executor of his will and one of the men placed in charge of the infant Henry VI.

Sir Walter died at the age of 71 and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral. He and his wife Catherine Peverell had four children, and I am descended from their daughter, Elizabeth Courtenay.

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At least they're addressing these things, but these pilot books are so stupid. Not to mention BSH was not marked as a pilot book so why TF did they only give it five chapters? How the hell are we supposed to start a book without any assurance it's actually going to be a finished product and not a complete waste of time?

I can't wait for Candlelight Games to finally launch so I can get rid of this stupid app once and for all.

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At this point, please buy us.

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How can we even trust that we're going to get complete books now?

What's the incentive to start a new book if there's a possibility that PB isn't even going to finish it?

What is the point of reading Choices in 2025?

Well, this is interesting. Best Served Haute seems to end with only chapter 5 and its ending is even more peculiar.

!!!Warning for major spoilers for yet unreleased chapter!!!

This is the very final dialogue (ERROR is the MC) after which the book abruptly ends:

Sooo... I guess no happy ending in this book. Andy gets ahold of the messages between the MC and LI and reveals your revenge act to Sasha. MC gets fired on sight, no story for Finn, end of story.

Also, there's no dirty thirty, only an option to extend your first kiss.

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Thanks for tagging me @somin-yin !!

last song: Nate Smith and Avril Lavigne - Can You Die From a Broken Heart?

favourite colour: rose gold

last book: Red, White and Royal Blue

last movie: The Merry Gentlemen on Netflix (Chad Michael Murray is still my man!)

last show: Chicago Fire

sweet/spicy/savoury: savory usually, but right now I would kill for some chocolate pudding

relationship status: single

last thing I googled: The Edmund FitzGerald

current obsession: Dragon Age Veilguard

looking forward to: Getting over Covid

tagging: @cashweasel and anyone else who wants to play. Imma go back to sleeping these flu meds off

thank you for the tag @ginger-lover-maybe-emo <3

last song: cry baby, the neighborhood.

favourite colour: i cherish them all.

last book: girl interrupted, susanna kaysen.

last movie: conclave [2024].

last show: three body problem [2024].

sweet/spicy/savoury: depends on my mood tbh.

relationship status: single and not ready to mingle.

last thing i googled: carlos diehz.

current obsession: playing gacha games 🤕 and reading yuri 🙂‍↕️

looking forward to: passing my exams, finishing my fics & gifs, travelling to places, learning a new language.

tagging: @taemcains @kundaquarius

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Finished the Viktor piece in time for his birthday!

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Anonymously - or not - tell me what passage, fic, line of narration, or anything you remember me by as a writer.

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And my bonus Rook, Kieran but looking more like his father, the Hero of Fereldan.

I used my holiday bonus to upgrade my computer and finally got to play Veilguard this weekend while sick with Covid for the first time. Hal "Rook" Laidir is finally reporting for duty!

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I used my holiday bonus to upgrade my computer and finally got to play Veilguard this weekend while sick with Covid for the first time. Hal "Rook" Laidir is finally reporting for duty!

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He was also set to marry royalty. in the 50's, Lee was engaged to Henriette Agnes von Rosen, a Countess he met at a nightclub who's dad did not like Lee and tried to break them up several times, even going as far as to have PIs follow him around. Lee had to also get permission from the King of Sweden to marry Agnes (which he did get because the king was a friend) but he broke the engagement off right before the wedding because he wanted her to have a more stable life than to be married to an actor. Right after that breakup, he landed the role that made him famous; Dracula.

Sir Christopher Lee met Rasputin's assassins, saw the last guillotine execution, hunted Nazis, recorded a heavy metal album, spoke 9 languages, was Ian Fleming's cousin (James Bond) & was the only actor in “The Lord of the Rings” to have met J.R.R. Tolkien

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A portion of people within this fandom are really letting their discomfort with asexual people and virginity show.

I hate to break it to you, but there are people who make it to adulthood as virgins (and it isn't inherently tied to being religious.).

I need you guys to breathe and be realistic for 5 minutes, and also realize the implications of your exclamation about how impossible you find Lucanis being a virgin is. Maybe it's not within your scope of focus, but yes, it happens.

No, I don't care that he's a Crow. He specifically tells you that seduction is Illario's thing.

Yes, you can read romance and be in love with the idea (and even long for it for yourself!) and still not take that jump.

Sex is not casual for everyone. Casual sex is not for everyone.

Please sit with that before you guffaw and call it impossible.

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It's Christmas today and lil bro said all he wanted was for us all to play DnD as a family. My mom (his mother married our dad after a nasty divorce) had never played before but she surprised him by getting herself a dice set and learning the rules of the game. She's going to play with us this weekend. He's excited. As DM, I have a bad feeling about it.

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i think it's very important for ya'll to know that lucanis wiggles his toes when he drinks his coffee.

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My brother made me watch Arcane with him and these two were so sweet on each other I can't!

sleepless nights

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Something people don't tell you about antidepressants is how long they take to start working after you've been off them for a while.

I've been on Prozac for years and wanted to detox so my doctor gave me the okay to stop taking them. Then of course I went back into my depressive / anxious state again and had to go back on the meds.

Here's the thing. SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) like Prozac usually take about 6 weeks to start working because they're slowly changing your brain chemistry and rewiring you by increasing your serotonin levels, which is supposed to help improve depression, anxiety, sleep, and even bipolar disorder and OCD.

I went off Prozac for a year and it's no longer working for me now that I'm taking it again. It's been over three months. Instead of having my normal positive energy back, I've gained twenty lbs and I'm moody as hell - anxious and snapping at people all the time like a Bridezilla who just got red wine spilled on her white dress.

Moral of the story; don't go off antidepressants unless you're absolutely sure you won't be needing them anymore.

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Just messing around with the CC after finishing Origins for the hundredth time and my god I can't believe how perfectly I was able to recreate my favorite Warden.

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TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.

via ift.tt