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brookstonalmanac · 7 months ago

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Events 4.22

1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil (discovery of Brazil). 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas. 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg. 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity. 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency. 1876 – The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. 1889 – At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000. 1898 – Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000. 1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens. 1915 – World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres. 1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. 1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater. 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea. 1944 – World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station. 1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape. 1945 – World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army. 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces. 1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong. 1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins. 1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world. 1969 – The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta. 1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated. 1974 – Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board. 1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic. 1992 – A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206. 1993 – Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham. 2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record. 2016 – The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming. 2020 – Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.

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masmccarth · 4 years ago

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Since I’ll be here, I suppose I might as well contribute in someway to the camp and lend out my services.

I’m planning on doing an etiquette class/session/whatever you want to call it. I’m going to go over proper dining etiquette, manners, etc. It won’t be fun and I will more than likely be yelling at you if you eat with the wrong fork, but at least you will walk away being able to dine at a 5-star restaurant without embarrassing your date. I’m sure some, if not all of you, can benefit from some manners. We may live in Lima, but we don’t have to act like it.

Now, that all being said, can’t wait to spend my summer with all of you instead of being on a beach sipping cocktails.

#sqevent #[ event ] camp mckinley

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enchantedjordan · 4 years ago

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Hello witches, wizards and muggles!

Are you a fan of books? Comic books? Magazines? Well I’m glad to say that if you answered yes to any of those options, you can share the love with me and any other fellow bookworms at the Camp McKinley Book Club/Book Swap!

Just bring along a book or other readable medium you like, give us a little run down on why you love it so much and then do a switch-a-roo with someone else’s favorite and once you’re done, gives the group your feedback!

I will of course be bringing along Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince and I can not wait to see what you guys bring to the metaphorical table!

#sqevent #event. camp mckinley

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free-and-to-none-accountable · 2 years ago

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Posted on July 8, 2022 by Douglas P. Marsh

"The strike was called November 9th, 1903. … The whole state of Colorado was in revolt.” – Mother Jones

It’s well known how, in 1905, the famous “Big” Bill Haywood helped found the Industrial Workers of the World in Chicago with Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, Eugene V. Debs and others. Fewer know that Colorado – specifically the Colorado Labor Wars – was where Haywood and several other wobbly founders forged bonds of solidarity among miners and learned the pitfalls of business unionism. Or, that it’s where Haywood ran for governor, albeit from inside an Idaho jail cell.

And very few know that Colorado’s most successful strike took place under IWW leadership, during an overlooked surge in the union’s influence between 1927 and 1928.

Western Federation of Miners and the founding of the IWW

Approaching the turn of the 20th century, in the American West’s mining industry, big Capitalists were putting the squeeze on Labor and conditions were increasingly mean. Workers from Idaho, Montana and Colorado began organizing and, in 1893, would form the Western Federation of Miners.

WFM’s initial strikes took place in Colorado, with Cripple Creek’s first miner’s strike of 1894, and after that, in Leadville in 1896-1897. Haywood joined the WFM in 1896 as did another of IWW’s earliest members, Adolphus S. Embree, in 1899.

In Idaho, 1899, mine workers, armed and masked, hijacked a train and blew up mining equipment belonging to operators that refused to sign a WFM contract. The equipment was targeted because it was at the cutting edge in mining technology of the time and thus extremely expensive.

The event terrified bosses on both sides of the national border. At the time, Haywood was also in Idaho, while Embree was farther north in British Columbia, Canada, both mining precious metals. Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg declared martial law, convincing President McKinley to deploy soldiers and detaining over a thousand men in a barn without trial.

By 1903, tensions would erupt into what is now remembered as the Colorado Labor War, where employers brought against workers the most systematic use of violence in U.S. labor history. In the face of brutal suppression, miners executed multiple coordinated direct actions in at least six mining towns throughout the state in 1903 and 1904.

Galvanized in these and other struggles in the region, radical factions within the WFM sent delegates to Chicago in June of 1905 to help found a new organization to compete with the American Federation of Labor in uniting workers from different industries.

The IWW was founded as AFL’s radical alternative – staunchly international and anti-capitalist – fiercely critical of the AFL’s privileging skilled labor and its tolerance of nativist sentiments.

Back in Idaho, Steunenberg was assassinated in a bombing outside his Caldwell residence in late December, 1905.

Colorado and the IWW’s early years

The IWW’s second convention, in 1906, began in open conflict and concluded in schism.

As with many revolutionary organizations, the IWW was internally divided from the outset. Many members drawn from the AFL brought the federation’s reformist tendencies, while WFM dual-carders (workers affiliated with two unions) included members with more conservative beliefs.

“The struggle for control of the organization formed the Second convention into two camps. The majority vote of the convention was in the revolutionary camp. … On the adjournment of the convention the old officials seized the general headquarters, and with the aid of detectives and police held the same, compelling the revolutionists to open up new offices,” – Vincent St. John

A few months after the convention, “Big” Bill Haywood was arrested in Denver at WMF headquarters and transported to Idaho, where he was accused of orchestrating the assassination of former governor Steunenberg. From his Boise jail cell, he won over 16,000 votes for governor of Colorado on the Socialist Party of Colorado ticket while designing WFM posters and reading Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”. By the end of 1907, the WFM would cut ties with IWW, Haywood would leave the WFM in 1908.

Dual-carding wobblies were likely involved in continuing labor disputes in Colorado, including the infamous Ludlow Massacre of 1914. The IWW had held free speech rallies in Denver in 1912 and 1913, and A.S. Embree was seen during the long strike (1910-1914) which preceded the massacre and other events of the Colorado Coal War.

In 1916, IWW leadership determined to wage a major campaign, authorizing “an appropriation of $2,000.00 be made for organizing the miners of California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Utah, Idaho,” (Proceedings of the Tenth Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World. Chicago, 1916, page 61). Embree and another wobbly, Frank Little, were two of the external organizers sent to the field. They arrived to find the IWW forgotten to most miners and a united front among bosses and government agencies.

The Mountain West and the Fall of the IWW

“Guns, revolvers, machine guns came to Bisbee as they did to the front in France. ‘Shoot them back into the mines,’ said the bosses,”.

“Then on July 12th, 1,086 strikers and their sympathizers were herded at the point of guns into cattle cars in which cattle had recently been and which had not yet been cleaned out; they were herded into these box cars, especially made ready, and taken into the desert. Here they were left … without food or water to die,”- Mother Jones

The United States entered World War I in the spring of 1917. Early that summer, workers with IWW Local 800, fighting for better conditions in Arizona’s copper mines, were ready for action. A.S. Embree had been organizing miners operating out of Bisbee, with another IWW leader coordinating from Phoenix. Just before the strike, the Phoenix offices were moved to Salt Lake City, and Embree was cut off.

Though over 2,000 workers joined the Bisbee strike, a posse of even more assembled on behalf of the bosses and selected 1,200 deportees to load onto a train, later to be dumped in the desert over a hundred miles away. They were held in Columbus, New Mexico for over two months by federal troops who had been on the hunt for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.

It was the largest deportation in U.S. labor history.

After release, A.S. Embree would travel north to copper mine strikes in Butte, Montana where IWW organizer Frank Little was lynched, on August 1, 1917. Little was the second of three early IWW martyrs along with Joe Hill, an IWW songwriter, organizer, and activist executed by firing squad in Utah, in 1915, and Wesley Everest, a former Serviceman and Lumberjack who was lynched by a mob while defending his union hall following the 1919 Seattle General Strike.

Embree had earned a reputation in subsequent strikes in and around Montana as IWW’s “ablest tactician” while also returning to Tucson, Arizona to face down incitement of riot charges over events at Bisbee. He was targeted by federal agents from 1917-1920 who provided evidence to prosecutors in Idaho, where he was sent to state prison from 1921 to 1924 on charges of, so-called, “criminal syndicalism.”

Disrupting the copper industry during war-time production led in part to the federal government’s overwhelming and devastating attacks on the IWW. These began on September 5, 1917, when state and local forces initiated raids against IWW offices, as well as private residences of the union’s leaders, all across the U.S.

In the end over 150 wobblies were arrested and charged under the then new Espionage Act. IWW co-founder Eugene V. Debs would be arrested in June of 1918 and sent to prison in April 1919 for speaking publicly against the war, “Big Bill” Haywood fled to Russia in 1921, where he would die seven years later at the age of 59.

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greatworldwar2 · 4 years ago

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• U.S Army Nurse Corps

The United States Army Nurse Corps (AN or ANC) was formally established by the U.S. Congress in 1901. 96% of the 670,000 wounded soldiers and sailors who made it to a field hospital staffed by nurses and doctors survived their injuries. By the end of the war, the Army and Army Air Forces (AAF) had 54,000 nurses and the Navy 11,000—all women.

Nurses served in Washington's Army during the Revolutionary War. Although the women who tended the sick and wounded during the Revolutionary War were not nurses as known in the modern sense, they blazed the trail for later generations when, in 1873, civilian hospitals in America began operating recognized schools of nursing. Professionalization was a dominant theme during the Progressive Era, because it valued expertise and hierarchy over ad-hoc volunteering in the name of civic duty. The Army Nurse Corps became a permanent corps of the Medical Department under the Army Reorganization Act (31 Stat. 753) on February 2nd, 1901. Nurses were appointed in the Regular Army for a three-year period, although nurses were not actually commissioned as officers in the Regular Army until forty-six years later-on in April 1947. The number of nurses on active duty hovered around 100 in the years after the creation of the corps, with the two largest groups serving at the general hospital at the Presidio in San Francisco and at the First Reserve hospital in Manila. In World War I (American participation from 1917–18) the military recruited 20,000 registered nurses (all women) for military and navy duty in 58 military hospitals; they helped staff 47 ambulance companies that operated on the Western Front. More than 10,000 served overseas, while 5,400 nurses enrolled in the Army's new School of Nursing.

Demobilization reduced the two corps to skeleton units designed to be expanded should a new war take place. Eligibility at this time included being female, white, unmarried, volunteer, and a graduate from a civilian nursing school. In 1920, Army Nurse Corps personnel received officer-equivalent ranks and wore Army rank insignia on their uniforms. However, they did not receive equivalent pay and were not considered part of the US Army. At the start of the war in December 1941, there were fewer than 1,000 nurses in the Army Nurse Corps and 700 in the Navy Nurse Corps. All were women. Due to the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, the United States entered the Pacific part of World War II. Along with this military effort was the work of the Flying Tigers in Kunming, China, under Claire Chennault. Nurses were thus needed in China to serve the U.S. Army. These nurses were recruited among the Chinese nurses residing in China, particularly the English-speaking nurses that fled Hong Kong (a British colony) to free China due to the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong on December 8th, 1941.

Only a few African American nurses were admitted to the Army Nurse Corps. Mabel Keaton Staupers, who worked for the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses with help from Eleanor Roosevelt, pressured the Army to admit African American nurses in 1941. The first black nurse admitted to the program was Della H. Raney who was commissioned as a second lieutenant in April of 1941. The limit on black nurses was 48 in 1941 and they were mostly segregated from white nurses and soldiers. In 1943, the Army set a limit on black nurses to 160. That same year, the first African American medical unit, the 25th Station Hospital Unit, was deployed overseas to Liberia. Later, nurses were deployed to Burma, where they treated black soldiers. African American nurses also served in China, Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines, England and in the US where they treated prisoners of war. Some 217 black nurses served in all-black Army medical units.

Throughout 1941 the United States had responded to the increasing tensions in the Far East by deploying more troops in the Philippines. The number of Army nurses stationed on the islands grew proportionately to more than one hundred. Most nurses worked at Sternberg General Hospital in Manila and at Fort McKinley, 7 miles outside the city. However, a few nurses were at Fort Stotsenberg, 75 miles north of Manila, and two worked at Camp John Hay, located 200 miles to the north in the mountains. Several nurses worked on the island of Corregidor. Six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, there were 12,000 nurses on duty in the Army Nurse Corps. Few of them had previous military experience, and the majority reported for duty ignorant of Army methods and protocol. Only in July 1943 did Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, Commanding General, Army Service Forces, authorize a formal four-week training course for all newly commissioned Army nurses. This program stressed Army organization; military customs and courtesies; field sanitation; defense against air, chemical, and mechanized attack; personnel administration; military requisitions and correspondence, and property responsibility. From July 1943 through September 1945 approximately 27,330 newly inducted nurses graduated from fifteen Army training centers. More than 2,000 nurses trained in a six-month course designed to teach them how to administer inhalation anesthesia, blood and blood derivatives, and oxygen therapy as well as how to recognize, prevent, and treat shock. In December 1943 the U.S. War Department decided that there were enough nurses in the Army Nurse Corps to meet both existing and anticipated future demands on the Army. Consequently, the Army instructed the American Red Cross, which throughout the war had been responsible for the recruitment of nurses for the Army Nurse Corps, to stop recruiting. The Red Cross sent telegrams to local volunteer committees in every state advising them to discontinue their sustained drive to enlist nurses.

In November 1942 the United States invaded North Africa to link with British forces in the North Africa campaign. The Army nurses who participated in the North African invasion at first had little conception of the realities of battle and were unfamiliar with military procedures. One nurse at the Arzew hospital became so incensed at snipers firing into the windows of the hospital and endangering the patients that she had to be forcibly restrained from going outside to "give them a piece of her mind." Nurses serving at the front in North Africa became expert at meeting the challenges of combat while caring for incoming patients. In February 1943 when news reached the 77th Evacuation Hospital bivouacked near Tebessa that the German Army had broken through the Kasserine Pass, staff members packed up and moved their 150 patients sixty miles to a safer bivouac. Within twelve hours a new hospital was fully operational and received another 500 casualties. During the Allied counterattack from mid-April through May 1943, which captured northern Tunisia, the 77th treated 4,577 soldiers within a 45-day period. The nurses' performance during the North African invasion taught the Army several lessons that it applied to the invasions of Sicily and southern Italy. Commanding officers noticed that nurses acclimated quickly to difficult and dangerous conditions with a minimum of complaints.

Their efficiency and professional accomplishments made them essential members of the field armies. The presence of nurses at the front improved the morale of all fighting men because soldiers realized that they would receive skilled care in the event they were wounded. Hospitalized men recovered sooner when nurses cared for them. Troops in the field figured that "if the nurses can take it, then we can." U.S. and British troops invaded Sicily on July 9th, 1943, and nurses of the 10th Field Hospital and the 11th Evacuation Hospital arrived on the island three days later. There they were greeted by German Stuka dive bombers which forced them into slit trenches and foxholes during the first few days. Other nurses scheduled to support the invading U.S. Seventh Army had to wait nine days for transport, which was in short supply during the first week of the invasion. Continuous periods of bad weather caused one of the most famous incidents in Nurse Corps history. On November 8th, 1943, a C-54 ferrying thirteen flight nurses and thirteen medical technicians (corpsmen) of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron from Sicily to Bari on the east coast of Italy ran into severe weather. The plane lost radio contact, the compass failed, and the pilot became disoriented in the storm. Icing finally forced the plane down in the Albanian mountains far behind German lines. Partisan guerrillas found the Americans and took them to a nearby farmhouse. That night the flight crew set fire to the plane to conceal traces of their presence in the area. In bitterly cold weather and blinding snowstorms, the small band made a hazardous, two-month journey covering 800 miles. The escapees suffered from frostbite, dysentery, jaundice, and pneumonia, but all the nurses except three who were separated from the main body of the group arrived safely. Throughout February and March, medical installations on the beachhead continued to receive direct hits. On March 29th, 1944 the 56th Evacuation Hospital was shelled, leaving 3 officers, 1 nurse, 14 enlisted men, and 19 patients wounded and 4 patients killed. Whenever the air raid sirens at Anzio sounded, those patients who could put on their steel helmets and crawled under their cots to avoid flying shrapnel. Nurses and corpsmen lifted others to the ground. Patients whose condition rendered them immovable became very nervous, and nurses ignored the danger to stay with them. A later observer explained that the medical detachment at Anzio was "part of a front that had no back. medical installations earned it the nickname "Hell's Half Acre." Many soldiers believed that they were safer in their frontline foxholes than they would be in the hospitals.

By June 1945 the number of Army nurses in the European theater of the war reached a peak of 17,345. The first nurses to arrive in Normandy were members of the 42d and 45th Field Hospitals and the 91st and 128th Evacuation Hospitals. They landed on the beachhead four days after the initial invasion in June 1944. The nurses' experiences in the European theater varied widely, depending upon their assignments. The experiences of those assigned to the 12th Evacuation Hospital reflected that diversity. Unit members sailed for England in January 1943. After several moves they arrived on the east coast of England in May 1944. There they participated in the buildup for the Allied invasion of the Continent by establishing a tent hospital and preparing for the expected influx of casualties. In early June they watched hundreds of Allied planes fly overhead to prepare the way for the invasion. The 12th Evacuation Hospital deployed to France in July, arriving in Normandy in August. By that time most of the heavy casualties incurred during the first weeks of the invasion had already been evacuated to England. Throughout August Allied forces pushed the German Briny eastward through France toward the Siegfried Line. The front moved rapidly; high numbers of casualties occurred only in pockets of resistance and were handled by other evacuation hospitals. In mid-September the Allies met the German defenses at the Siegfried Line, and casualties mounted. The 12th established operations at Bonneval, where it admitted 1,260 patients in less than one month. The nurses of the 12th moved eleven times in two years. After each relocation they had to prepare a sanitary, comfortable hospital capable of handling large numbers of critically wounded or sick patients. Their experience alternated between periods of exhausting activity and intense boredom. They had to be flexible, innovative, quick-thinking, patient, adaptable, and highly skilled. Nurses frequently demonstrated their ability to remain calm in unpredictable and dangerous situations. For example, flight nurse Reba Z. Whittle's C-47 was caught by flak and crashed behind enemy lines in September 1944. Every member of the crew, including Whittle, was wounded. The Germans provided their prisoners with medical care and upon their recovery incarcerated them in Stalag IXC. Whittle's captors allowed her to nurse other POWs throughout her captivity. Whittle was held as a prisoner of war for five months until her release in January 1945.

After American and British forces repulsed this last German offensive, medical units accompanied the Allied forces into Germany. In newly conquered, hostile territory the nurses experienced new pressures. Third Army nurses noticed that the deeper the Americans went into Germany, the more openly hostile German civilians became. Near Darmstadt, the hospital had to be guarded at all times. According to one nurse, German civilians looked at the nurses "with actual hatred in their eyes—and children throw stones at ambulances and spit at jeeps." The final push into central Germany cost the western Allies heavy casualties and required medical units to work under great pressure. The 44th Evacuation Hospital admitted 1,348 patients from the 3d Armored Division during one 56-hour period in mid-April. Casualties also came in from the 9th Infantry, engaged in clearing out the area north of the Harz Mountains. This expect and many like it were how nurses in the European theater experienced the final days of WW2 in Europe. With over 8 million soldiers and airmen, the needs were more than double those of World War I. Hundreds of new military hospitals were constructed for the expected flow of casualties. Fearing a massive wave of combat casualties once Japan was invaded in late 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called on Congress early in 1945 for permission to draft nurses. However, with the rapid collapse of Germany early in 1945, and the limitation of the war in the Pacific to a few islands, the draft was not needed and was never enacted.

There is no single comprehensive history of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, nor is there a volume in the official United States Army in World War II series that deals with this corps. The best approach to learning more about Army nurses during World War II is to read the relatively few individual memoirs which have been published over the years. The following are among the best. In From Nightingale to Eagle: An Army Nurses History (1973), GI Nightingale: The Story of an American Army Nurse (1945). In Jungle Angel: Bataan Remembered (1988) and many other stories which detail the experience of these brave women near the frontline fighting to keep men alive. Members of the Army Nurse Corps served in Theaters all over the world. They often had to live and work under trying conditions, treating others and suffering themselves from tropical illnesses and diseases, adapting to different climatic conditions. Moreover, Nurses had to cope with inadequate supplies and lack of adapted Theater clothing. Some came under fire, others were taken prisoner, and many had narrow escapes. Deaths were unavoidable, due to hazardous duty. In total, over 59,000 Nurses served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War 2.

#world war 2 #second world war #world war ii #wwii #military history #history #us army #nursing #nurses #womens history #women's history month #american history

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theroyalsims · 4 years ago

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ANYA AND STERLING REUNITE FOR YOUTH TENNIS CAMP

Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess was joined by tennis champ Sterling Guildford this morning for the Brindleton Youth Tennis Camp.

Her Royal Highness attended as the Royal Patron of the Brindleton Tennis and Croquet Club. Along with Simbledon Champ Guildford, she also met coaches Aiko Mckinley and Henrik Volisto. The four reportedly had a meaningful and fruitful discussion about future collaborations of the Brindleton Tennis and Croquet Club and the various youth tennis teams from different schools all across the country.

The day included several friendly matches among the present teams, as well as an inspirational talk and a demo game from the Champ himself. Even The Crown Princess gave in to the coaxing and joined in on the fun and played a match with some of the students.

People couldn’t help but notice how well Sterling and The Crown Princess seem to get on. Of course, the two have met a few times before. The first time was at last year’s Simbledon when HRH handed Sterling his Championship Trophy. Their second “meeting” (cough, first date, cough), was a few weeks later at the court followed by tea at a nearby café. The two haven’t been seen together since, but the photos taken today clearly show that they have remained quite friendly. They even greeted each other with a casual kiss on the cheek, and sat together for most of the event, chatting and enjoying the matches.

Onlookers say that the two just seem to be so in sync with each other. They even inadvertently matched each other’s outfit! Her Royal Highness wore a blue v-neck jumper, white trainers and black yoga pants, while Sterling also wore a blue, long-sleeved, zip-up jumper, black athletic pants and white trainers. Talk about #twinning! Which brings us the question: why aren’t these two dating again? If rumours are to be believed, Stirling is definitely still pining for the Crown Princess. Oh, right. Princess Eleanore isn’t a big fan of the two going out.

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tgastaff · 4 years ago

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Congratulations and welcome to The Glee Academy. Mason McCarthy will be placed in dorm room 200. As soon as you send in your account link I’ll add you to the masterlist.

THE IC INFORMATION CHARACTER NAME: Mason McCarthy FC: Billy Lewis Jr PRONOUNS/GENDER: cis male he/him CHARACTER AGE: 23 BIRTHDAY/BIRTH ORDER/SIBLING INFO: youngest sibling CHARACTER ROLE: submissive KINKS: ANTI-KINKS:

CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY:

The McCarthy family is a musical family. They are also a competitive family. Individually, Mason’s parents are highly successful in the industry on their own and by the time he was born, they had partnerships together as well. When he was old enough to hold a tune and keep time, he was put on stage. There was a cute family band that he grew up performing in, and he was encouraged to take every opportunity to shine and perform. As a celebrity of sorts, he hosted galas and charity events for his parents, but mostly for clout and publicity. He liked to help, but he was raised to look good and to feel superior. He has always been a trophy that knows how to win trophies. He never felt bad about being a trophy though, he liked feeling like he did well. He liked being on top. He liked being a little snobby. It was assumed that he would become a Dominant because of his success and he was given the world.

Despite that, if you got to know him it was pretty obvious that he was going to be a Submissive. He had always done everything he could to submit to his parent’s will and he even let his twin sister boss him around. He was always the first person to volunteer, he did everything. And he won everything. If it wasn’t him, it was Madison. Especially when it came to performing or cheerleading. Growing up, he was on the cheerleading squad and took his interest into cheerleading summer camp as well. The twins have been on the cover of cheerleading magazines over a dozen times. Their faces are well known in the sports community, as well as the musical circles because of their parents and their own singing endeavors. Mason has also excelled in gymnastics, dance, singing, and art. All of these things he started being schooled for at as young of an age as possible. The word pedigree is fitting.

After he turned 13 and was marked a submissive for sure, his parents kept up his education and training in the arts in order to make sure that he was still the best that he could be. Even a submissive McCarthy could continue to make a name for themselves, potentially even after being claimed-- and the right claim that would allow him to continue to show off and win awards for his family name would be more likely to come if he was the best of the best at what he did. From 13 to 18 all he did was train in the arts.

When he turned 18, he started to let people use him to vent their needs. His twin sister bossed him around from birth, even before they were marked. His parents are just as domineering. All it takes is a strong personality and he’s on his knees, even if it doesn’t always end well for him. No isn’t in his vocabulary, so despite being at his absolute tipping point, when his parents “suggested” that he transfer to McKinley, he got right on it and found something that he could do to get there.

IS THERE ANYTHING YOU HAVE IN MIND FOR YOUR CHARACTER OR WOULD LIKE THEM TO DO?: dance club and cheerleading

#mason mccarthy rp #glee rp #glee twins rp #glee smut rp #glee au rp #tga admin #accepted

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shiverandqueeef · 4 years ago

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i was tagged by @klingdell and @ahoswhiskers to answer 50 questions (under the cut) 🤗

what is the color of your hairbrush? uh i got three: teal plastic, purple plastic, and wooden

name a food you never eat? bacon or asparagus. which means the time i was served bacon wrapped asparagus and made to eat it out of politeness was an event from which i have yet to recover

are you typically too warm or too cold? both

what were you doing 45 mins ago? reading

what’s your favorite candy bar? crunchie

have you ever been to a professional sports game? four or five canucks games but that shit is expensive

what is the last thing you said out loud? goodnight

what is your favorite ice cream? coffee, green tea, cherry, pistachio

what was the last thing you had to drink? water

do you like your wallet? yeah its really soft leather

what is the last thing you ate? eggplant/green tomato curry

did you buy any new clothes last weekend? yeah actually

what’s the last sporting event you watched? leave me alone im in morning

what is your favorite flavor of popcorn? popcorn comes in flavours?

who is the last person you sent a text message to? i don’t have a phone

ever go camping? all the time as a kid (and i loved it) but it’s been years

do you take vitamins? in theory

do you regularly attend a place of worship? im an atheist

do you have a tan? i live in vancouver. it’s september.

do you prefer chinese or pizza? depends

do you drink your soda through a straw? what kind of masochistic nonsense .... ???

what color socks do you usually wear? socks are of the devil

do you ever drive above the speed limit? often 10-20 km yeah

what terrifies you? failure. also success. the inescapable forward momentum of being alive

look to your left, what do you see? my cat

what chore do you hate most? washing the floors

what do you think of when you hear an australian accent? my friend who firmly believes its the sexiest accent but like...only on women

what’s your favorite soda? coke zero

do you go in a fast food place or just hit the drive thru? drive through

what’s your favorite number? hmm don’t know

who’s the last person you talked to? older brother

favorite cut of beef? the less tender but more flavourful cuts

last song you listened to? radha kaise na jale from Lagaan

last book you read? Offside by Sean Avery & Micheal Mckinley

favorite day of the week? not really sure tbh

can you say the alphabet backwards? not well

how do you like your coffee? as a flavouring agent for my warm milk

favorite pair of shoes? what’s with all the footwear based questions?

time you normally get up? bold of you to assume im capable of a regular sleep schedule

what do you prefer, sunrise or sunsets? sunrise

how many blankets on your bed? depends

describe your kitchen plates? numerous

describe your kitchen at the moment? messy

do you have a favorite alcoholic drink? im an alcoholic so like yes but no

do you play cards? i would everyday if i could

what color is your car? black ish?

can you change a tire? not without crying

your favorite state? South Canada aka Minnesota

favorite job you’ve had? baker at COBS

i tag: @stargazing-fangirl @kazam90 @churchofrileytanev and @brockachu

#ask meme #tagged #about me #mystuff #asks

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sq-events · 4 years ago

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Paint, chalk and macaroni necklaces OH MY!

Art is in the air at McKinley Summer Camp this week. Students are setting up booths to showcase their work and running workshops for all different art mediums so there is plenty of new things to try! Whether you want to give knitting a try, paint a portrait or make jewelry out of pasta - there’s a little something for everyone.

HOW IT WORKS

This week long event will be a week of inspiration, creativity and ART ART ART!!!

We’re talking AESTHETIC POSTS and MOODBOARDS! They can be about your character, or their relationships with others. They can be made in photoshop, hand drawn, journaling art or even just compiling a bunch of images into a tumblr post. Anything goes, so have at it!

Please link each moodboard/aesthetic into the channel in the discord.

You have until midnight Saturday to participate if you want to.

All entries will get themselves a point! You can make as many aesthetic posts or mood-boards that you want and every one linked in the discord will get you a point. Points everywhere!

Good luck, Status Quo!

#sqevent #arting around

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brookstonalmanac · 2 years ago

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Events 4.22

1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil. 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas. 1601–1900 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg. 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity. 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency. 1876 – The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. 1889 – At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000. 1898 – Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000. 1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens. 1915 – World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres. 1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. 1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater. 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea. 1944 – World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station. 1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape. 1945 – World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army. 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces. 1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong. 1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins. 1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world. 1969 – The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta. 1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated. 1974 – Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board. 1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic. 1992 – A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206. 1993 – Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham. 2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record. 2016 – The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming. 2020 – Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.

#Events

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rosecorcoranwrites · 5 years ago

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True Life Adventure Reading List

All synopses are taken from either the Flagstaff Public Library catalog, Novelist.com, or my own fevered imagination.

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

Beryl Markham spent most of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix―she became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America and the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic.

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Forced to cut the rope that attached him Joe Simpson, who had fallen off an ice ledge, Simon Yate’s returns to his Andean base camp consumed by guilt. Meanwhile, Simpson, who had miraculously survived, must deal with injuries, starvation and frostbite in an effort to make his own journey back to the camp before Yates leaves.

View from the Summit by Edmund Hillary

The remarkable memoir of Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with Tenzing Norgay, was one of the first men to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.

Touching My Father's Soul : A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay

Told by the son of Tenzing Norgay, Touching My Father's Soul is the first modern account of the Everest experience from the unheard voice of its indigenous people, revealing a fascinating and profound world that few--even many who have made it to the top--have ever seen.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body is found by a moose hunter. How Chris McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board by Bethany Hamilton

The teenage surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack in 2003 describes how she has coped with this life-altering event with the help of her faith, the changes in her life, and her return to the sport she loves.

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda

Hero profiles T.E. Lawrence—soldier, strategist, scholar, and adventurer—discussing his Oxford education, contradictory nature, and role in uniting the Arab tribes against Turkish adversaries.

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Six scientists risk their lives on a 4,300 miles journey aboard a raft to test a theory about the origin of the Polynesians

Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.

Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves by Arthur Burton

Bass Reeves, who had spent his early life as a slave, became a lawman exceptionally adept at apprehending fugitives and outlaws; his life story reads like a larger-than-life drama of the Wild West.

The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles Lindbergh

Lindbergh takes readers on an extraordinary journey, bringing to life the thrill and peril of his 1927 trans-Atlantic travel in a single-engine plane.

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author's own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett's final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle.

A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell

During World War I, Bell worked her way up from spy to army major to become one of the most powerful woman in the British Empire. After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, she was instrumental in drawing the borders that define the region today, including creating an independent Iraq.

In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

After their ship is sunk by an eighty-ton sperm whale, the twenty-man crew of the Essex attempted to make the 3,000-mile-back to land in three tiny boats, as one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease, and fear.

Longitude : The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

Longitude is the of John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building a clock that would keep precise time at sea, as well as a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clock making.

Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint- Exupéry

The experiences and philosophy of French airline pilot—and author of The Little Prince—Saint- Exupéry, whose flying career began in 1926 and ended when his plane disappeared in 1944.

#book lists #book list #adventure books #adventure book list #reading list #reading lists #adventure reading list #true life adventure #nonfiction #nonfiction books #booklr #bookblr #summer reading #summer reading program #summer reading challenge #real life adventure #exploration

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klaineccfanficlibrary · 6 years ago

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I’m looking for some lengthy fics to read. I’m going to be traveling. I’m honestly not to picky, I love pretty much all Kurt and blaines, I just love a good long one I can get lost in for a while. If you get a chance I’d love to see if you have anything for me! PS. You are amazing for keeping this alive and running for everyone, I want to sent you cookies❤️

Here you go, Nonnie! These are the longest Klaine stories I’ve been able to find. I wish you safe travels and happy reading :-) Hugs, Marjan

Keep my heart captive, set me free by @keepmyheartcaptive

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 479,467

D/s AU - Kurt Hummel had always dreamed of a fairy-tale bond, a perfect, kind and caring Dom. Blaine Anderson had always dreamed of someone who stands out from the boring crowd, someone real, and pure. When their worlds collide, will either of them get what they had dreamed of?

Dalton by @cpcoulter-com (WIP but already several books’ worth of reading material)

Rating: Teen and Up

Word Count: 442,058

Summary: Post-Furt: Spinning off from Glee, Kurt begins an entirely new chapter in his life at Dalton Academy for Boys. Blaine, Wes, David and the boys of Windsor House make his life, for better or worse, far more eventful than he imagined.

Another Time, Another Place by @klaineitupanotch

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 418,542

Summary: What if Kurt had met Blaine a year earlier? How would his life have changed? In his sophomore year, during the spring, Kurt Hummel ends up by chance meeting a charming young man named Blaine Anderson, who turns out to be in his own Glee club. The two begin down the road of becoming friends and then the journey that their relationship takes them. Will they be able to face any problems ahead? No matter what they may be?

What Brings Us Closer Together by @CrazedLunatic

Trigger Warning: mention of suspected rape

Rating: Teen and Up

Word Count: 411,177

Summary: When Kurt is attacked, Blaine instantly leaves college to take care of him. With one decision, their entire relationship is changed and their futures reshaped. It also makes everyone around them realize just how close they really are. AU.

In Want of Magic by @trufflemores

Rating: Teen and Up

Word Count: 353,426

Summary: 3.01-4.01. “I just want my senior year to be magic.”

It’s Not Just a Stomach Ache by DreamingisBelieving

Rating: Teen and Up

Word Count: 333,895

Summary: No, Blaine didn’t have cancer. This stuff doesn’t happen to seventeen year old boys and definitely not Kurt Hummel’s boyfriend, who was full of life and joy and would go out of his way to do anything for anybody, whether that be an old lady crossing the street or a misguided teen like himself. Cancer was suppose to be reserved for old men and women who were going to develop health problems anyway, not Blaine Anderson, someone who wasn’t even legally an adult yet.

Beautiful Mess by WildHurricane

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: 290,793

Summary: What do you say when your very straight friend tells you he wants to know what it’s like to kiss a guy and all you want to say is “kiss me”.Kurt is secretly in love with his best friend Blaine. He’s recently figured out he’s gay, but hasn’t told anyone. Especially not Blaine. Or his girlfriend.Blaine is confused and in denial about why he wants to kiss Kurt. He’s not gay. He has a long line of girlfriends to prove that.Both are scared what it will do to their friendship if the other finds out.

A Mafia Romance by YaDiva (WIP)

Trigger Warning: violence, drug use, heavy BDSM. Heed the warnings.

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: 287,179

Summary: Blaine is the son of a powerful crime boss. He has no intentions of joining the family business, especially since he finally has a gorgeous boyfriend named Kurt, but everyone else has other ideas. When Kurt gets caught in the middle, Blaine’s true nature is unleashed. Like father, like son. Dark!Blaine. Features sex, violence, drug references, and heavy BDSM themes.

Weave Your Magic by @lilyvandersteen (WIP)

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 277,377

Summary: This is an AU in which Blaine and Kurt never met in high school. Blaine is an elementary school teacher and the author of several picture books. Kurt is a former child actor and now a men’s wear designer, who writes thrillers under a pseudonym. They meet at a book fair.

Bound for Glory by CleverBoots (Amberlovesocean) (sequel: Days of Glory)

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 265599

Summary: Kurt is assaulted after singing at a school dance and is left for dead, thrown aboard an empty train car at the railroad freight yard to hide the crime.He wakes up to find he’s been tossed off the car somewhere in an Oregon logging camp, 2500 miles from home. A curly-haired kid named Blaine finds Kurt and protects him by hiding him in his cabin and teaching him how to survive.

Hell & High Water by mmerainbows

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: 243,826

Summary: Kurt counted the days even though no one else did anymore, and for what, he didn’t know. His dad died eight years ago, and he had no other family to speak of. His days were monotonous and thankless as he hunted for the community he lived in. Long gone were the days when he could dabble in music and fashion because that world no longer existed, and without those things - who was Kurt Hummel really? Until the day an emergency transmission is received and what Kurt is forced to reconsider what is existing and what is truly living.

Pavarotti’s Legacy by misskaterinab

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: 241,699

Summary: This is a journey through Kurt and Blaine’s relationship, through MY eyes, from approximately season 2, episode 20, through the future. There’s a lot of canon and a lot of not - things I felt should happen, things I thought shouldn’t’ve happened that I wanted to fix, and just stuff I made up that sounded good to me :) Enjoy the fluff and Klainebows I will present to you.

Immutability and Other Sins by @fabfemmeboy (Series)

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 673,851for the entire series

Summary: This is an AU that spans from the late 1950s to just shy of modern-day. With the exception of the prologue, it goes in order. It begins in the fall of 1959 at Dalton Academy and follows the trajectory of the American gay experience through our not-always-so-happy couple. While the central story series is Klaine, there are some genfic stories on the side, set in the same universe and timeframe. Mostly because, as I planned out the main story, I kept coming back to all the ways in which the members of New Directions would be different 50 years ago, how many ways their worlds would be unfamiliar or more limited than we think of today. For all politicians seem to talk about what a great time the 1950s were, they weren’t for a lot of people.

Wake Me Up Inside Trilogy by @mrscriss2012 (Series)

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 581,997for the entire series

Summary: Kurt Hummel is a shy, insecure fifteen year old. Blaine Anderson is a thirty one year old musician. When their worlds collide, Blaine discovers he’s powerless to resist the lure of Kurt’s eyes and his exquisite voice, and Kurt begins a journey of awakening. *There is a large passage of time in this story meaning no illegal happenings!*

Westerville Abbey by @hkvoyage (WIP, but fully written and updated twice a week)

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 223,725

Summary: Blaine is the second son of the earl of Westerville, and is considered the spare heir. After his 18th birthday, he attends the London Season to fulfill his duty of finding a wife. He soon realizes he is more attracted to the new footman. Kurt, who has just arrived at Westerville Abbey to work alongside his father, becomes equally as smitten with the earl’s youngest son. Will Blaine and Kurt be able to overcome their class differences in 1910s England? Will their forbidden love survive WW1? A Downton Abbey inspired historical Klaine AU.

Take Me Over by @lady-divine-writes (WIP)

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: 221,841

Summary: Kurt’s life isn’t at all what he wanted. He is stuck in an unexpected relationship with his dreams almost permanently on hold and a job he took mostly out of desperation. But a trip to L.A. to get the autograph of his favorite television star might just change his entire life - but will it change for the better?

Butterfly Wings by @hkvoyage

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 212,446

Summary: A fashion blog started at University launched Blaine Anderson’s fortune and fame. As Vogue’s new editor-in-chief, he is struggling to find an original angle for an upcoming issue. Kurt Hummel has recently arrived in New York City after finishing high school, and is having no luck building a musical theater career, so he decides to explore another passion of his: fashion. He applies for an internship at Vogue, and Isabelle sees in him the perfect fresh face to liven up the magazine, and convinces him to try out as a model. Kurt meets Blaine, and in spite of their 10-year age difference, sparks fly. Can they overcome misunderstandings and sabotage to find their happily-ever-after? Klaine model AU.

New To McKinley by Gingerkid2010

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: 209,417

Summary: Blaine is new to McKinley. He meets Brittany and they quickly become best friends. She convinces him to join glee club, where he meets Kurt…

Three Words/To Build a Home by Balletismyobsession

Warning: Major Character Death

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 207,758

Summary: When a simple illness becomes more than either of them could have ever imagined, Kurt and Blaine learn what it means to be strong. With three words, everything changes.

Near Misses by flaming_muse

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: 205,536

Summary: Kurt and Blaine could easily not have met on a staircase in high school. They could have met a few years later in college instead.

#Klaine fanfiction #long fics #fic finder #Anonymous

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djbcadventures · 6 years ago

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March/April 2019 Networking Calendar

Spring forward with opportunities to grow your business, look for new job opportunities, or to learn skills. Here are some events to network at in March and April in the Columbus area.

MARCH

March 1 - CYP Cares Networking for a Cause Panel (7:30AM; Rev1 Ventures: 1275 Kinnear Rd., Northwest Columbus; http://www.cypclub.com) PPD to March 15 due to Scheduling Conflict with Venue - Whitehall Career Fair - previously rescheduled from February 1 (2-3:30PM: Whitehall-Yearling High School students ONLY; 3:30-6PM; Students and Adults; Whitehall-Yearling High School: 675 S. Yearling Rd., Whitehall; http://www.whitehallareachamber.org) (Closest Bus - # 2 East Main/North High)

March 5 - DANG Networking Social and Pie Throwing Contest (6PM; Dublin Entrepreneurial Center: 565 Metro Place South, Dublin; http://www.chrisborja.com) (Bus - # 33 Henderson/Dublin Metro)

March 6 - Hilliard Women in Business Luncheon (11:30AM; The Reception House at Raymond Memorial by Schmidt’s: 3860 Trabue Road, West Columbus; http://www.hilliardchamber.org) (Bus - # 5 W 5th-Trabue/Refugee) - Bexley State of the Community (6PM; Cassingham Elementary School: 250 S. Cassingham Rd., Bexley; http://www.bexley.org) - Tri-Village Women in Business After Hours (6PM; Hudson 29: 1600 W. Lane Ave., Upper Arlington; http://chamberpartnership.org) (Closest Bus - # 3 Northwest/Harrisburg)

March 7 - AMA Happy Hour (5:30PM; Grass Skirt Tiki Room: 105 N. Grant Ave., Discovery District; http://www.columbusama.org) (Bus - # 7 Mount Vernon, 10 East/West Broad, or # 11 Bryden/Maize)

March 12 - NetworkDublin! Business Breakfast (7:30AM; Panera Bread: 875 Bethel Rd., Northwest Columbus; http://www.dublinchamber.org) - Westerville Quarterly Membership Luncheon - City of Westerville Update (11:15AM; The Medallion Club: 5000 Club Drive, Westerville; http://www.westervillechamber.com) - Bexley Women in Business (6PM; Piccadilly: 2501 E. Main St., Bexley; http://www.bexleyareachamber.org) (Bus - # 2 East Main/North High) - Grandview Heights State of the City (6PM; The Grand Event Center: 820 Goodale Blvd., Grandview Heights; http://www.grandviewheights.org) (Bus - # 3 Northwest/Harrisburg, # 22 OSU/Rickenbacker, or # 31 Hudson)

March 13 - Whitehall State of the City (5:30PM; Wasserstrom: 4470 E. Broad St., Whitehall) (Bus - # 10 East/West Broad) - Diversity Chamber of Central Ohio (6PM; White Horse Vapor: 35 E. 5th Ave., Italian Village; http://www.diversitycolumbus.org) (Bus - # 1, 2, or 2L)

March 14 - Tri-Village Luncheon (11:30AM; La Tavola: 1664 W. 1st Ave., Grandview Heights; http://chamberpartnership.org) (Closest Bus - # 5 W 5th/Refugee or # 31 Hudson) (NOTE: Seating LIMITED to 60 People) - GETDOT Networking (5:30PM; Fado Irish Pub and Kitchen: 6642 Riverside Drive, Dublin; http://www.getdotnetworking.org) - Westerville Business After-Hours (5:30PM; Adena Corporation: 774 Park Meadow Rd., Westerville; http://www.westervillechamber.com) - CYP Club Networking Night (6PM; Worthington Gardens: 5146 N. High St., Clintonville; http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 2, 2L, 11, 33, or 34) - Dublin State of the City (6PM; The Exchange at Bridge Park: 6520 Riverside Drive, Dublin; http://www.dublinohiousa.gov) (Bus - # 33 Henderson/Dublin Metro) - Gahanna State of the City (6PM; Olde Gahanna Sanctuary: 82 N. High St., Gahanna; http://www.gahannaareachamber.com or http://www.gahanna.gov) (Bus - # 25 Brice; next closest bus is # 24 Hamilton)

March 15 - Breakfast with Business First, hosted by the Greater Columbus Sports Commission (7AM; Otterbein University Clements Center: 180 Center St., Westerville; http://www.columbusbusinessfirst.com) - CYP Cares Networking for a Cause Panel (7:30AM; Rev1 Ventures: 1275 Kinnear Rd., Northwest Columbus; http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 31 Hudson) (NOTE: SOLD OUT/At Capacity) - Creative Mornings Columbus: Water (8:30AM; Franklin Park Conservatory Wells Barn: 1851 E. Broad St., Franklin Park; https://creativemornings.com/cities/clb) (Bus - # 10 East/West Broad) - Hilliard Chamber Annual Meeting (11:30AM; Heritage Golf Club: 3525 Heritage Club Drive, Hilliard; http://www.hilliardchamber.org) (Bus - # 32 North Broadway/Hilliard)

March 19 - CYP Club Conversations and Coffee (7:30AM; Crimson Cup Innovation Lab: 700 Alum Creek Drive, Near East Side; http://www.cypclub.com) (Closest Bus - # 2 East Main/North High or # 11 Bryden/Maize) - Westerville Lunch & Learn (Noon; Westerville Chamber: 99 Commerce Park Drive, Suite A, Westerville; http://www.westervillechamber.com) - Dublin Business After-Hours (5:30PM; Columbus Marriott Northwest: 5605 Blazer Parkway, Dublin; http://www.dublinchamber.org) (Bus - # 21 Hilliard-Rome) - Westerville Area Networking Group (6PM; Meza Wine Shop: 48 N. State St., Westerville)

March 20 - Get It Done Day! (8AM; Sparkspace: 300 Marconi Blvd., Arena District; http://www.sparkspace.com) (Bus - # 3, 5, 6, 8, or 9) - Marketing Mastery Club (8:30AM; Hopewell Works: 136 E. Chestnut St., Downtown Columbus; http://www.marketingfunwithmike.com) (Closest Bus - # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 2L, CBUS, or CMAX) - Dublin Women in Business Luncheon (11:30AM; Fado Irish Kitchen and Pub: 6642 Riverside Drive, Dublin; http://www.dublinchamber.org) - Bexley Networking Luncheon (12:30PM; Home2Suites: 412 E. Main St., Discovery District; http://www.bexleyareachamber.org) (Bus - # 2 East Main/North High) - CYP Club Entrepreneurs and Innovators (6PM; North High Brewing: 1288 N. High St., Weinland Park; http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 1 Kenny/Livingston or # 2 East Main/North High)

March 21 - Dublin Lunch & Learn (11:30AM; Dublin Chamber of Commerce: 129 S. High St., Dublin; http://www.dublinchamber.org) (Closest Bus - # 33 Henderson/Dublin Metro) - Franklinton Board of Trade Luncheon (11:30AM; Station 67: 379 West Broad Street, Franklinton; http://franklintonboardoftrade.org/) (Bus - # 10 East/West Broad or # 12 McKinley/Fields) - Westerville State of the Community (6:30PM; The Point at Otterbein University: 60 Collegeview Rd., Westerville; http://www.westerville.org or http://www.westervillechamber.org) (Closest Bus - CMAX to Polaris/Africa) - Cover Letter/Resume Workshop (7PM; Bexley Public Library: 2411 E. Main St., Bexley; http://www.bexleylibrary.org or http://www.jfscolumbus.org) (Bus - # 2 East Main/North High)

March 26 - Job Transition Group: Maximizing Library Resources in Your Job Search (6:30PM; Improving: 1 Easton Oval, Suite 175, Northeast Columbus; http://www.columbusama.org) (Bus - # 7 Mount Vernon/Easton, # 23 James/Stelzer, or # 32 North Broadway)

March 27 - Hilliard State of the City (6PM; City of Hilliard Municipal Building: 3800 Municipal Way, Hilliard; http://www.hilliardohio.gov) (Bus - # 21 Hilliard-Rome or # 32 North Broadway/Hilliard)

March 28 - Dublin YP Lunch Bunch (11:30AM; Amaze Escape Games: 989 N. 4th St., Italian Village; http://www.dublinchamber.org) (Bus - # 4 Indianola/Lockbourne, # 12 McKinley/Fields, or the CBUS) - Bexley Chamber After-Hours (5:30PM; G. Michael’s: 595 S. 3rd St., German Village; http://www.bexleyareachamber.org) (Closest Bus - # 1, 4, 5, 8, or CBUS)

APRIL

April 2 - Dublin YP Coffee Connections (9AM; Barry’s Bagels: 5760 Frantz Rd., Dublin; http://www.dublinchamber.org) (Bus - # 21 Hilliard-Rome) - DANG Networking Social and Pie Throwing Contest (6PM; Dublin Entrepreneurial Center: 565 Metro Place South, Dublin; http://www.chrisborja.com) (Bus - # 33 Henderson/Dublin Metro)

April 4 - AMA Happy Hour (5:30PM; The Crest: 2855 Indianola Ave., Clintonville; http://www.columbusama.org) (Bus - # 4 Indianola/Lockbourne)

April 5 - CYP Cares Networking for a Cause Panel (7:30AM; Rev1 Ventures: 1275 Kinnear Rd., Northwest Columbus; http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 31 Hudson)

April 10 - Volunteer UA Expo (10AM; Upper Arlington Public Library Main Branch: 2800 Tremont Rd., Upper Arlington; http://www.ualibrary.org) (Closest Bus - # 3 Northwest/Harrisburg, and during PM drive only # 13 Arlington/1st) - Diversity Chamber of Central Ohio (6PM; Ohio History Connection: 800 E. 17th Ave., Linden; http://www.diversitycolumbus.org)

April 11 - Gahanna Business Builder Luncheon with Michael Rudd (11:30AM; LaNavona: 154 N. Hamilton Rd., Gahanna; http://www.gahannaareachamber.com) (Bus - # 24 Hamilton or # 25 Brice) - Tri-Village Monthly Luncheon (11:30AM; Marshall’s: 1105 W. 1st Ave., Grandview Heights; http://chamberpartnership.org) (Bus - # 31 Hudson) - CYP Networking Night (5PM; The Diamond Cellar: 6280 Sawmill Rd., Dublin/Northwest Columbus; http://www.cypclub.com (Bus - # 33)

April 13 - The Free Press Backyard Fundraiser (Noon; Columbus Free Press: 1021 E. Broad St., Olde Towne East; http://www.columbusfreepress.com) (Bus - # 10 East/West Broad) - The Free Press Second Saturday Salon (6:30PM; Columbus Free Press: 1021 E. Broad St., Olde Towne East; http://www.columbusfreepress.com) (Bus - # 10 East/West Broad)

April 16 - CYP Club Conversations and Coffee (7:30AM; Crimson Cup Innovation Lab: 700 Alum Creek Drive, Near East Side; http://www.cypclub.com) (Closest Bus - # 2 or 11) - Westerville Lunch & Learn (Noon; Westerville Chamber: 99 Commerce Park Drive, Suite A, Westerville; http://www.westervillechamber.com) - Dublin Business After Hours (5:30PM; Civista Bank: 6400 Perimeter Loop Drive, Dublin; http://www.dublinchamber.org)

April 17 - Marketing Mastery Club (8:30AM; Hopewell Works: 136 E. Chestnut St., Downtown Columbus; http://www.marketingfunwithmike.com) (Closest Bus - # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 2L, CBUS, or CMAX) - ABC6 Job Boot Camp (11AM; The Columbus Metropolitan Library - Main Branch: 96 S. Grant Ave., Discovery District; http://www.abc6onyourside.com) (Bus - # 10 East/West Broad or # 11 Bryden/Maize) - Westerville Women in Business Luncheon (11:15AM; Nationwide Hotel and Conference Center: 100 Green Meadows Drive South, Lewis Center; http://www.westervillechamber.com) - Bexley Networking Luncheon (12:30PM; Grain + Grape: 2780 E. Main St., Eastmoor; http://www.bexleyareachamber.org) (Bus - # 2 East Main/North High)

April 18 - Dublin Lunch & Learn (11:30AM; Dublin Chamber: 129 S. High St., Dublin; http://www.dublinchamber.org) (Bus - # 33) - Franklinton Networking Luncheon (11:30AM; The Jubilee Museum: 57 S. Grubb St., Franklinton; http://www.franklintonboardoftrade.org) (Bus - # 10 or 12) - GETDOT Networking (5:30PM; The Bogey: 6013 Glick Rd., Dublin; http://www.getdotnetworking.org) - Westerville Business After Hours (5:30PM; First Commonwealth Bank: 6156 Highland Lakes Ave., Westerville; http://www.westervillechamber.com)

April 19 - Breakfast with Business First (7AM; Revolution Group at High Bank Distillery: 1051 Goodale Blvd., Grandview Heights; http://www.columbusbusinessfirst.com) (Closest Bus - # 3 Northwest/Harrisburg) - Creative Mornings Columbus: Inclusive with “Rock Doc” Dr. Randhir Sharma (8:30AM; SmartColumbus Innovation Center: 170 Civic Center Drive, Downtown Columbus; https://creativemornings.com/cities/clb) (Closest Bus - # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, or the CBUS)

April 23 - NetworkDublin! Business Breakfast (7:30AM; Vine and Tap: 55 S. High St., Dublin; http://www.dublinchamber.org) (Bus - # 33 Henderson/Dublin Metro) - The Path to Homeownership (5:30PM; BrewDog Franklinton: 463 W. Town St., Franklinton; http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 3, 6, or 9)

April 25 - Clintonville Business After Hours (4:30PM; Lineage Brewing: 2971 N. High St., Clintonville; http://www.clintonvillechamber.com) (Bus - # 2) - CYP Club Entrepreneurs and Innovators (6PM; North High Brewing: 1288 N. High St., Weinland Park; http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 1 or 2) April 26 - 6 Secrets to Building a Stronger Brand (8AM; The Nest Co-Working: 1245 S. Sunbury Rd., Westerville; http://www.columbusypweek.com or https://nawbocbus.org)

April 29-May 4 - Columbus YP Week (Click here to view the week-long schedule)

May 1-4 - COSI Sci-Fest (Click here to view the week-long schedule)

April 29 - Columbus YP Week Kickoff Party (5:30PM; Columbus Idea Foundry: 421 W. State St., Franklinton; https://www.columbusypweek.com) (Closest Bus - # 3, 6, 9, 10, or 12)

April 30 - The Diversity and Inclusion Panel (7:30AM; Crimson Cup Innovation Lab: 700 Alum Creek Drive, Near East Side; http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 2 or 11) - Speed Networking with the Better Business Bureau of Central Ohio (7:30AM; Rev1 Ventures: 1275 Kinnear Rd., 5th by Northwest; http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 31) - Easton Job Fair (12PM; Columbus Marriott - Airport: 1375 N. Cassady Ave., Northeast Columbus; http://www.jfscolumbus.org or http://www.eastontowncenter.com) (Bus - # 7 Mount Vernon/Easton) - LINC Headshot Happy Hour (5:30PM; Seventh Son Brewing: 1101 N. 4th St., Italian Village; http://www.columbusypweek.com) (Bus - # 4 or 12)

May 1 - Waffles, Women, and Work: Navigating Careers in Public Work Like Leslie Knope (8AM; Leadership Education Center - Room 130, Page Hall at The Ohio State University: 1810 College Road North, University District; http://www.columbusypweek.com) (Closest Bus - # 1, 2, or 31) - Whitehall Networking Lunch: A Safer Whitehall (11:30AM; Victory Ministries: 3964 E. Main St., Whitehall; http://www.whitehallareachamber.org) (Bus - # 2) - Margarita Mixes and Website Fixes (3PM; Buckeye Interactive: 8000 Walton Parkway, New Albany; http://www.gahannaareachamber.com) - The Path to Homeownership (5:30PM; BrewDog Franklinton: 463 W. Town St., Franklinton; http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 3, 6, or 9) - From this Moment On: Navigating Purpose to Your Process (6PM; Blockfort: 162 N. 6th St., Discovery District; http://www.femergy.org or http://www.columbusypweek.com) (Bus - # 7 or 11)

May 2 - The Executive Luncheon (11:30AM; J.Liu: 6880 N. High St., Worthington; http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 2L North High/Polaris Parkway) - AMA Happy Hour (5:30PM; Cosecha Cocina: 987 N. 4th St., Italian Village; http://columbusama.org) (Bus - 4 or 12) - Columbus YP Week CYP Cares Volunteer Expo (5:30PM; Dave & Buster’s: 3665 Park Mill Run Drive, Hilliard; https://www.columbusypweek.com or http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 32 North Broadway/Hilliard) - Everyone Starts Somewhere (6PM; Jeffrey Mansion: 165 N. Parkview Ave., Bexley; http://www.bexleyareachamber.org) - Taste of Westerville (6PM; The Lakes Golf and Country Club: 6740 Worthington Rd., Westerville; http://www.westervillechamber.com) (Note - Event May Be Sold Out)

May 3 - CYP Cares Networking for a Cause Panel (7:30AM; Rev1 Ventures: 1275 Kinnear Rd., Northwest Columbus; http://www.cypclub.com) (Bus - # 31 Hudson)

April 29-May 5 - Columbus YP Week (Various Locations; More Information Coming Soon; https://www.columbusypweek.com/)

May 1-4 - COSI Science Festival (Various Locations; http://cosiscifest.org)

#networking101 #bexley #dublinohio🍀#dublin #gahanna #whitehall #westerville #franklin park #franklinparkcmh #cmwater #cmclb #bwbf #choosehilliard #hilliard #grandview #upper arlington #franklinton #lewis center

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Diego Pacheco: Canelo-GGG III Is Special To Me

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Published: September 13, 2002

Super-Middleweight sensation recalls signing for Hearn ahead of Vegas outing

Diego Pacheco is ready to deliver on the big stage again – and does so on the undercard of a he goes for his first title against Enrique Collazo on the undercard of the trilogy clash between Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night (September 17). The event, presented by Matchroom, Canelo Promotions and GGG Promotions, will broadcast live on DAZN Pay-Per-View in the U.S. and Canada as well as around the world on DAZN (excluding Mexico, Latin America, and Kazakhstan).

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Pacheco (15-0 12 KOs) has been imperious in the paid ranks and after winning his first ten round contest by forcing Raul Ortega to retire after four rounds in Guadalajara in June, and now meets Collazo for the vacant WBC USNBC Silver strap in his first bout with a belt on the line. Canelo is the king of the Super-Middleweight division, and this is the second time that Pacheco has fought on the undercard of the Mexican superstar in February 2021 in Miami. Alvarez employed Pacheco for sparring ahead of his clash with Briton Callum Smith in December 2020 due to their similar size, and Pacheco impressed the champion, who’s trilogy clash with fierce foe Golovkin has special significance for Pacheco. “On the date of Canelo-GGG II, that’s the day that I signed my contract with Eddie Hearn and Matchroom,” said Pacheco. “This has brought back so many memories and I’m honored to be on the card. I’m so grateful for where I am, and I just want to make the most of these opportunities. “I was part of Canelo’s camp for the Callum Smith fight in San Antonio, and I was meant to be on the undercard too, but I got sick in the build-up. I got in trouble too because I didn’t want to tell anyone at first that I was sick because I really wanted to fight on the card, but I could have got Canelo sick and COVID was around then so I had to stop training and I couldn’t fight. So, it’s great to be here now. “Canelo is so strong. Even blocking or parrying his jabs, you can feel the power, his hands are like rocks. I was told I was only going to spar three rounds with Canelo, but then after three I was looking good, and I was moving well, and it was good for him, so it was ‘let’s do one more’ and ‘let’s do one more’. “We did six rounds and then I went back in again, so that made me feel good and working with David Benavidez is great for me, I’m doing lots of rounds with him and it’s all boosting my confidence. I’m a big GGG fan but I think that Canelo takes the third one.” Pacheco’s clash with Collazo is part of a huge night of action in Vegas, topped by the epic trilogy battle between Canelo and Golovkin. The co-main fight stars Super-Flyweight sensation Jesse Rodriguez defending his WBC World title against Israel Gonzalez, there’s fireworks promised as Ali Akhmedov and Gabriel Rosado will clash for the IBF North American Super-Middleweight title and Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams fights for his second pro title as he takes on Kieron Conway for the vacant WBA International Middleweight title. Three more young talents complete the stacked card, as Marc Castro appears on his fifth Canelo undercard against Kevin Montiel Mendoza, Aaron Aponte mixes it up against Canelo Promotions’ unbeaten prospect Fernando Molina also over eight and Anthony Herrera gets the chance to bounce back to winning ways on the biggest stage as he takes on Delvin McKinley. All that action leads into the third installment of the classic modern rivalry between Canelo and Golovkin, with the Mexican king putting his undisputed Super-Middleweight crown on the line against Kazakhstan's reigning WBA and IBF Middleweight ruler in the most anticipated match up of 2022.

(Featured Photo: Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Boxing)

#HF #Deigo Pacheco #Canelo Alvarez #Gennadiy Golovkin #Matchroom Boxing #DAZN

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captainvoyager · 3 years ago

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Hold My Hand In The Shadows

Sometime after Michael

Another weekend with another parent out of town. This time it was Judy Fabray who left Lima to go see her sister. Quinn was given some money, a hug before school, and a smile as Judy told her to behave while she was away.

“I always forget how swanky your place is, Q,” Santana said as the three made their way inside after glee practice.

“Judy really took ‘don’t get mad, get everything’ to heart in the divorce,” Quinn noted as they all hung their jackets up.

“Smart woman,” Santana laughed as they toed their shoes off before moving farther into the house.

They bypassed the rest of the house and headed directly up to Quinn’s bedroom. There were mixes between the life Quinn had created early in high school - trophies from cheer camp and photos of her in her Cheerios uniform - mixed with more recent things - some books bought after she found out about Yale and photos with that missing uniform among them.

“New sheets?” Brittany asked after she and Santana dropped their bags by her closet door.

“I put them on this morning,” Quinn admitted.

Quinn and Brittany had been Skyping from bed last night so Quinn could help Brittany with some history homework. The last few weeks they had been doing their homework together at one of their houses but Santana had to go to the hospital to play doctor’s daughter last night for an event and Brittany and Quinn had mothers who wanted them home for dinner.

“It’s a nice touch.” Santana took Quinn’s hand as they moved to sit on the bed.

Brittany moved to sit in Quinn’s desk chair with her long legs propped up on the end of the bed, Santana and Quinn sat facing her. For a moment no one said anything as they relaxed from another day of having to roam the halls of McKinley.

“You know, all day today I really watched the two of you,” Quinn said. “I’m used to seeing the two of you touch or be close to each other. I don’t know. You two just look good together.”

“We’re adorable as hell,” Santana said seriously.

“I almost took your hand in Glee,” Brittany admitted as she looked at Santana and Quinn on the bed. “But we never talked about what our nights together meant and I didn’t want to overstep and make you feel like one of those furry little animals with their legs caught in a trap."

“I don't feel trapped,” Quinn promised. She smiled when Santana reached for her right hand with her left. Their fingers laced together like they had been holding hands for years inside of just a few weeks.

“What do you feel?” Santana asked.

“Happy mostly,” Quinn said. “I never thought about being in a relationship with a woman much less two but whatever the last few weeks have been amazing. I’ve been really happy."

Santana leaned over to press a kiss to Quinn’s jaw while her hand reached out to press Brittany's ankle to touch them both at the same time. “Ours in private, best friends with the hottest couple at McKinley in public?”

“You’re alright with that?” Quinn asked Brittany.

“You aren’t Santana,” Brittany said as she played with her fingers in her lap. “This isn’t like junior year when … this isn’t junior year. Or before Finn … this isn’t that either. Santana and I being a couple in public and you being ours in private, it makes sense.” She bit her bottom lip before going on. “I don’t like it but there is no way I can’t protect both of you if this comes out. I can’t even protect Santana from all the comments and we’re together 90% of the day.”

“You don’t have to protect me, B,” Santana spoke in a soft voice. She was always grateful to Brittany for telling people off when they made a comment but it was easier day by day to tune the comments out all together. “The comments have pretty much stopped and I’m usually with you or Q.”

“I might not be a cheerleader anymore but my bitch face hasn’t withered completely.” Quinn smiled at Brittany to try and get her not to be so hard on herself.

“If you want to be out to glee or the school as into girls, you should. And if you don’t, I get it. But even as awesome as we all are, we won’t manage to convince even the glee club this is normal,” Santana sighed. Another hidden relationship. At least this one was semi by choice.

“There is nothing normal about us,” Brittany cracked a smile. “We’re too awesome for normal."

“The only people with their heads out of their asses enough to pick up on something are us, maybe Mercedes. So hiding in plain sight should be easy,” Santana reasoned.

“Everyone knows how into each other you two are. They aren’t going to be looking for anything,” Quinn nodded. The plan was simple enough to work. No real lying or misdirection needed.

“Are you alright with Santana basically slapping the girlfriend label on you?” Brittany asked.

“Santana never did have a subtle bone in her body,” Quinn rolled her eyes. She looked down at her and Santana’s joined hands then to Santana’s hand on Brittany’s ankle. The last few weeks of discovering just how unbreakable their bond had become was pretty wonderful. “I’m comfortable with being your girlfriend if you’ll have me."

“Duh,” Brittany flashed a brilliant smile. “But like no sharing outside of the three of us right? Because I can hold Santana back from a lot of things, but I’m not sure if you slept with Puck again I’d be able to hold her off from castrating him."

“No sharing outside the three of us,” Quinn confirmed.

Santana got a dark look in her eyes as her mind flashed to the idea of Quinn sleeping with anyone else right now. “It might be considered a public service."

“Leave Puck alone,” Quinn rolled her eyes before pausing to think about her relationship with him. “I’ve walked down that path too many times to willingly go down it again,” she whispered as she traced her thumb over the peaks and valleys of Santana’s knuckles. “I tried to sleep with him again to get pregnant and he turned me down. Before this. Before us. Before we did anything."

“Quinn,” Santana and Brittany both whispered together.

“Shelby was back and Beth was back. And I wanted her back. I wanted her back so badly. And then that plan failed, so I switched gears. I switched gears and I thought if we did it once we could do it again.” Quinn couldn’t look up at them for the judgment she was sure would be in their eyes. “Long and messy story short, Puck was the smarter one between us."

“He does care about you,” Brittany said with a bittersweet smile.

“And then a few weeks later I was lying between the two of you and it felt right. It felt like the me I was before I wasn’t me anymore was coming back. I’m done with Puck. I’m done hurting people because of mistakes I made,” Quinn vowed.

“Hey,” Santana wrapped Quinn up in a sideways hug. She didn’t have the judgment in her eyes Quinn so feared when she turned her head. “We all have done things we wish we hadn’t. You and me are masters are fucking up, then trying to fix it and somehow making it worse. But Beth is with Shelby, Puck and you are done, and you have me and Britts. That doesn’t mean the hurt goes away."

“You aren’t just a collection of the bad things you’ve done,” Brittany moved to the side of the bed to sit in front of Quinn. “You’re all the awesome things too. The funny things, the smart things.“

“You two are going to make me cry,” Quinn said as her eyes shut tightly.

“Girlfriends do that to each other sometimes,” Santana said while leaning over to kiss her temple.

The room fell into a quiet state as each of the three took a moment to process the conversation they just had. Brittany ran her fingers up and down Quinn’s forearm as Quinn and Santana kept holding hands. Suddenly a soft chin broke the quiet of the room. Brittany moved back to the chair where she had left her phone.

“Mike needs to change our dance hangout to tomorrow afternoon.” Brittany looked up from her phone to Santana and Quinn. “Can you drop me off at the studio at five? He can take me home after?” She asked Santana.

Santana nodded even as she rolled her eyes. “We can go get dinner after we drop her off?” She offered to Quinn as both shifted to lay on the bed facing Brittany.

“Are you asking me on a date?” Quinn smiled as she rolled a little to bump their hips together.

“Pretty sure we just established we’re dating,” Santana chuckled.

“Doesn’t mean a girl doesn’t like to be asked out,” Quinn pointed out.

“Fine,” Santana rolled her eyes. “Q, you wanna go on a date with me while our girlfriend grinds on Boy Chang?”

“I’d love to,” Quinn answered before she leaned over to kiss Santana.

“We’re not grinding on each other,” Brittany laughed at Santana’s characterization of her and Mike’s dancing. “We’re working on some things that could be used to apply for college if he or I decide to go that route."

“Oh right, college,” Santana said as she made a face. “We have to figure that out."

Quinn moved closer to Santana, her arm sliding around her waist. “I’m going to Yale,” She whispered.

“You’re going to Yale,” Santana whispered. “And every math department in the country wants Britt to apply.”

In August when they all sat for their SAT’s, Brittany managed a perfect score on her math and a near perfect score on her English section. They made her take it two more times before they would believe she wasn’t cheating in some way. Every math department in the country wanted her. Though her parents refused to allow them to whisk her away to college campuses until she was done with high school.

“I really like Tisch and the Courant Institute is great too,” Brittany admitted. “But it would mean I’m in New York City while Quinn is in New Haven.”

“It’s like two hours by train between New Haven and New York,” Santana said. She might have spent a good deal of her lunch the day that Quinn told them she was going to Yale figuring out how to get between the two.

“What about you?” Quinn moved to rest her chin against Santana’s shoulder. “Which school gets Santana Lopez?"

“I promised my parents even if I want to go into entertainment I’d go to college for something more practical,” Santana said. “NYU has a great pre-law program and Columbia has a top business program. I’ll apply to those two and then some smaller ones in the city as backups."

“You aren’t going to need a safety school,” Brittany promised. “You’re third in our class.”

Santana blushed as she slowly let Brittany’s optimism convince her. “Living with you in New York would be cool. And when Quinn graces us on the weekends we’ll be ready."

“Trains run both ways,” Quinn pointed out.

“You’ll be in a dorm with a roommate,” Santana countered. “We’ll be in an apartment with a big bed and a clothing optional policy."

“Oh I like that policy,” Brittany said happily.

“We have months before we have to think about the logistics of New Haven to New York,” Quinn reminded. “I rather enjoy nights like this until we’re moving away from Lima.“

“You’re right,” Santana finally nodded.

“We’ll figure it out. We always do for things we really want,” Brittany said. She moved to lay on the bed, Quinn turning on her side to let Brittany be the big spoon as they faced Santana.

“You two look good all cuddled up like that,” Santana said as she looked over at her girlfriends as they laid together.

“No one can say you don’t have a type,” Brittany teased.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Santana said with a playful look.

“No idea at all.” Quinn reached out to twist a lock of Brittany’s fair hair around her finger before doing the same to her own.

“You picked boys like sports cars. You went with whatever you looked best leaning against,” Brittany pointed out with a laugh. “But with girls you totally have a type.”

“Whatever,” Santana snorted. “I’m everyone’s type."

“Ours at least,” Quinn teased. She stretched her arm out to rub her hand over Santana’s thigh.

“I’m so glad we’re not going to a party tonight,” Brittany said. “I mean some of them are fun but I’d rather just hang out with the two of you tonight. Because then I can do this all I want.”

Brittany nudged Quinn’s shoulder with her hand until Quinn turned in her arms. Brittany smiled as she brushed their lips together. She smiled into the kiss as Quinn deepened it. When they kissed it was rarely with the same battle for control that played out when Santana and Quinn kissed each other. It was a slower push and pull that was needed just as much as any battle of wills.

Santana watched the pair instead of joining in. She watched the way Brittany and Quinn smiled into their kisses; the way hands felt to Quinn’s hip as she tugged her a bit closer. Laying there just watching she suddenly understood just why the boys that bought her and Brittany dinner so they could watch the pair make out did. Watching might not be as good as doing but it had a charm all of its own.

“Enjoying the show?” Brittany asked with a bright smile when she and Quinn finally pulled away from each other.

“Always,” Santana nodded.

“Next month for Valentine’s, will you two let me plan something? I know there is some public stuff Santana and I will do and I am totally happy to let you both plan some stuff for me, but I want to plan what the three of us do,” Brittany looked between her two girlfriends.

“I haven’t really gotten a great Valentine’s day before,” Quinn admitted. “I’d be happy to let you take the lead."

“I have a few things already in mind for both of you but if you want to plan our night, I’m all for it,” Santana smiled.

“Awesome,” Brittany leaned over Quinn to kiss Santana before leaning back to kiss Quinn.

#uht verse #glee #santana lopez #unholy trinity #brittany s pierce #quinn fabray

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