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WRITTEN BY KATHERINE DIAZ VILLEGAS

I don’t remember my beginning with books, but that may have been because they’ve simply just always been a part of me. I do, however, remember my many trips to the library where I would run around pulling out any and every book that piqued my interest until the stacks threatened to fall over. It wasn’t a need to escape that lead me to books, but my curiosity.

Books are so special because through words, an author can paint any realm, person or thing into existence. Storytelling has been the traditional method of passing down history and legends since the beginning, through cave drawings to sharing tales around a fire to hieroglyphics. Once stories passed on by word-of-mouth were officially transcribed, they soon became one of the most prized possessions one could own. Books have always had the responsibility to pass on information and ideas. With them, human beings have been able to learn, grow and create.

Film enthusiasts may argue that human beings need visualization to understand a story, but I disagree. The bond a reader has with a book is one of the most transcendent relationships one could ever have. No matter how words and phrases are written and arranged, not everyone will interpret them the same way. Though the story is written the same, each reader is different and will be affected by that story in an unparalleled way. Just because the author writes the sky is blue or that the valley was vast, how a reader visualizes or connects with that small bit of context creates a world of its own. Understanding the thoughts of a character and their reasoning behind it creates a genuine bond — one that is responsible for bringing so many beloved characters to life.

A book’s limits go as far as the reader’s imagination. No matter the genre, books awaken the brain in a way that pushes us to understand and imagine for ourselves. As the protagonist and characters grow, so does the reader.

In films, which are only possible with the effort of countless people and departments, the story only lasts an hour or two. Even in series, there’s still a certain type of limitation regarding time. Whenever films are adapted from books, more likely than not, you’ll enjoy reading the book even more than seeing the film. This is because there are more details and context in books. There’s no budget or post-production, producers or actors — there’s only the author, the story and the reader. Stripping away rules and opinions leads to the possibility to dream and create.

I’ve read well over a 1,000 books and never thought I would have a favorite until I stumbled upon “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern. To me, this book was the puzzle that I never knew I needed to solve. It pushed what I had expected from novels and stories to a rich dream, interlacing past and present with a parade of characters each too extraordinary to not be known.

Books today are not a tool of the past, they’re ever-evolving. They will forever be a sort of dependency we’ll have. Like history, books are survivors that will live another day to tell their tale.

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Written by Mikael Trench

Films, historically speaking, are still very young forms of storytelling, with the first films ever made released during the 19th century. It’s easy to see why this art form is looked down upon by so many compared to books. Growing up, older generations warned us about the dangers of too much screen time. Equally likely is the chance your elders recommend to read instead. While literature has its perks, filmmaking is the superior storytelling medium.

What makes the art of filmmaking more admirable is the act of restraint. Books can tell any story featuring any ideas the author can imagine. While this gives books a distinct sense of escapism, films must be more inventive. Since films create fantastic scenes with budgetary limitations, filmmakers must find ways to balance these elements. From “Mary Poppins”(1964) to “Avatar” (2009), there’s bound to be a few films you admire for their ability to create mesmerizing illusions. The ability for filmmakers to work through these difficulties allows for an even greater appreciation of this craft.

Films can throw whatever visuals they want at us, but if the storytelling itself is no good, then there’s little to care about. What makes films stronger in this area is the variety of ways they tell their stories. Books allow little room for how they present their worlds other than blatantly putting it on the page for the reader to imagine. While that interpretation does add to the experience, there is still an element of disconnect that can leave some feeling underwhelmed.

From the birth of cinema, silent films always found ways to incorporate traditional literary storytelling techniques in a visual manner that allowed the audience to become far more engrossed in the experience than simply reading words. This not only offered for more enthralling moments to be made, but also for filmmaking to transcend the storytelling mold and become something far more universal. Storytelling in film must be inventive to be effective.

The legendary montage from the first 10 minutes of “Up” (2009) is a breathtaking piece of filmmaking. The animation and musical score visualize the couple’s story better than any words could. Regardless of culture or background, anyone could watch this sequence and comprehend the story while also getting wrapped up in the emotional context. It’s a testament to the craft put into every frame that makes up a film.

Films can achieve greater legacies than the books they are based on. Countless films from “The Shawshank Redemption”(1994) to “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) have surpassed their literary counterparts. These films differ heavily from their books, but no one seems to care. They were crafted with such ingenuity that audiences are more inspired by the big screen adaptations.

Films and books are two different works of art. Both have the power to allow us to escape into worlds we can only imagine. But filmmaking took the essence of storytelling and brought it to new and exciting heights before our very eyes. Whether they make us laugh, cry, scream or think, you can bet that a dedicated team is working their hardest to make those scenes last a lifetime.

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The story behind Microsoft and Google working together on Edge

#390 — May 8, 2019

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🚀 Frontend Focus

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Inside Microsoft’s Surprise Decision to Work with Google on its Edge Browser — The story behind how Microsoft made “that monumental decision” to use Chromium as the new foundation for their browser.

Tom Warren

Why, How, and When to Use Semantic HTML and ARIA — Other than the obvious answer of 'always' 😉.. A look over the benefits of using HTML and ARIA, why starting with semantic HTML is the way to go, and why ARIA ought to come in as a last resort.

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Microsoft Is Building Internet Explorer Into Its New Chromium Edge — The new Edge Chromium browser will feature an “IE Mode”, allowing the loading of old sites (like ancient internal pages) directly in Edge using the Internet Explorer rendering engine.

Tom Warren

▶  SVG Will Save Us — Sarah Drasner champions SVG as “a flexible medium for building performant sites”, showing lots of great examples and demos.

PerfMatters

🆕 BROWSER UPDATES

After a 15-year hiatus Microsoft returns to the macOS browser space. A preview of the new Chromium-powered Edge is now available.

Mozilla released Firefox 66.0.4, fixing an issue which disabled add-ons.

Here are the release notes for Safari Technology Preview 81.

A round up of deprecations and removals in Chrome 75 to help you plan.

"We somehow got away with our plan to kill IE6 without facing any meaningful corrective action."

___ Chris Zacharias, founder of imgix and ex-YouTuber, in A Conspiracy to Kill IE6, where he shares his story of how, some ten years ago, a small team of devs "conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it."

Googlebot Goes Evergreen — The spider that Google uses to crawl sites for its index is now using the latest Chromium rendering engine so things like Web Components and ES6 are now supported.

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📘 Tutorials

Hybrid Lazy Loading: A Progressive Migration To Native Lazy Loading — Learn how you can progressively replace your JavaScript-driven lazy loading with its native alternative — thanks to hybrid lazy loading.

Andrea Verlicchi

How to Create Chained Bulletpoint Lists with CSS, BBC News-Style — Reverse engineering a neat HTML list effect, as used by the BBC. Even Plaice has followed up by turning this idea into a Web Component too.

Peter Cooper

Making the Move from jQuery to Vue — A long time jQuery user discusses the migration to Vue, providing a guide for those with “years of jQuery experience" that "want to see how things can be done with Vue”.

Raymond Camden

How to Deploy And Scale A WordPress App with Azure Database for MySQL

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How to Create a Multi-Line Text Background Effect — A look at creating a hover underline effect that works when your text spans multiple lines.

Claudia Romano

Dark Mode Support in WebKit — Runs through how to make use of the color-scheme property in Safari.

Timothy Hatcher (WebKit)

Create a Responsive Grid Layout with No Media Queries, using CSS Grid

Andy Bell

Build Your Own Radio Streaming App with Howler.js

Gaurav Agrawal

🔧 Code and Tools

CSS Transform Playground — A neat browser-based visualiser for seeing both 2D and 3D CSS transform functions in action. This is really neat, well presented, and useful if, like me, you struggle to remember which way round all the various dimensions are.

Jorge Moreno

Brevis: A CSS Toolkit for Scale — A CSS-only, rules-based framework built with brevity in mind and promises a lot of things you won't need like no preprocessors, no JavaScript, no npm and so on.

Daniel Zilli

A CSS Only Starfox Arwing — An impressive little demo ...and yes you can do a barrel roll.

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Glide: A Dependency-Free ES6 Slider and Carousel — A lightweight, flexible and fast straightforward slider. Demo here.

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@thepcthoftorment / from [here]

He let out a good ‘oof’ when h felt someone bumping into him, arms wrapping around their waist automatically before he realized it was Konani and falling to her hips and then springing them away, aware of his wife and annoyed over it. He let her go, blood thrumming through his veins as his wife asked him about it and he played it off like it was nothing. It was nearly ten minutes later, ten minutes too late, in his opinion, that he was able to walk away from Galina and make his way down the halls, trying to find Konani.

When he finally did find her, alone and sequestered in a locker room, he couldn’t help but slam the door and lock it, smirking at her as he crowded her, pulling her closer by her hips before thoroughly kissing her, biting her lower lip before pulling away.

“What was that about?” He whispers, knowing exactly what and wanting her to admit t it.

[sylnyylyudynaarchived-blog]

The summer air is hot, stifling and he can feel beads of sweat slowly dripping down his body. He’s wearing next to nothing, only very loose shorts resting lightly on his hips, sliding down alongside the drops of sweat due to the temperature. He’s stuck in his office, papers sticking to one another on his desk as he leans against his door, watching the female in front of him. He can feel the handle of the door pressing into his spine as he looks the female’s body up and down, eyebrow arched as his lips curl upwards into a small smirk. The woman in front of him is barely wearing anything herself, but he’s not surprised seeing as he had called her in from working out. She’s been in the same room as him for five minutes, silent and, what he likes to think of as pouting as he lets out a small huff of laughter.

“Lookin’ good, Lynch,” he grins, watching for redness on the enticing woman in front of him.

@ofdisarmhers → starter

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@lasskickcr / from [here]

His eyes widen when he hears the sniffles and then the tears, wondering what could possibly wrong with Becky for her to be crying instead of laughing and smiling like he’s used to seeing her. He didn’t want to play the game, and he knew that Becky probably didn’t want to either, but crying? It left him confused. And when she said it wasn’t him, well, he was thankful, he couldn’t help but sigh in relief, his body relaxing completely.

“Are ya alright?” He ask Becky few seconds later, shifting on the spot as he feels awkward over everything. He doesn’t know if he’s supposed to comfort her or stay still or what, and it causes him to be in limbo, the urge to comfort the female there but the knowledge of whether it’d be accepted, not.

“Do ya, uh, need me to turn ‘round and walk ’way or somethin’?” He asks, stepping forward a little before pausing in his steps and waiting awkwardly for Becky’s response.

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@rcbuild // [here]

He had woken up slowly, his head pounding and his eyes sore, and he let out a small groan, raising his hands to wipe his face before pausing. Frowning, he opened his eyes slowly and looked at his hand, blinking wearily at the ring on his finger that made him confused.

“The hell,” he mumbles to himself, moving his hand further away from his face and narrowing his eyes, shaking his head lightly before sitting up in the bed, trying to piece through what he last remembered to the current morning, since he hasn’t been married since his divorce.

Except...nothing is coming up, and that scares him. His brow furrows as he tries to think about what happened, jumping out of his skin when he hears the door open.

“The hell,” he mumbles again when he sees Rollins walking out.

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@thecompetitor // [here]

He hums softly in response when he hears Alicia’s words, smiling softly when he notices her own smile, heart pounding heavily in his chest. He doesn’t spend a whole lot of time with the woman because of work - even though they work at the same bloody company - and he’s glad to spend any amount of time with this female. And even though this thing between them started as a game, he doesn’t know how, but it’s changed, become something more, and it’s thrilling for him.

He could admit, having the woman in his arms was providing him a comfort he didn’t think he would ever have and he knew he would need to respond soon, but he couldn’t find the words, for once. He doesn’t know for how long he’s remained silent but eventually, he shifts his position a bit and holds onto the woman a little more tightly before kissing the top of her head. “I have no complaints about keeping ya here all night,” he grins, innuendo lacing his words but being very serious about his statement.

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@scltwaterroom → sc

For once, he’s nowhere near the strip joint or the auto shop, instead needing a rather large cup of ‘joe (heh) to get through the next few hours with extremely upset sisters. He’s standing in line when he hears the whispers begin, and he has to look around with a frown before noticing one of his old high school friends and beckoning them over.

“The hell?” He whispers, before the phone is pointed in his direction, video of -- he growls here, shaking his head, rolling his eyes and grabbing the phone and throwing it at the cushioned wall, getting the attention of everyone due to the loud ‘thump’ that occurred. Briefly, he notices the female that was center of attention in the room and he smiles softly before glaring.

“Honestly, people. We’re better than that,” he snaps, before walkin’ away, trying to ignore the familiar sight of drugs going into someone’s body, of someone using, of the feeling he used to have when he used, back before his entire life went to hell.

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@hellfirebound → sc

He’s walking his two little sisters to school when he comes upon the man, arching an eyebrow silently. Everyone knows the man, or at least, about the man, about how he disappears, how he never spends his nights alone. Joe, admittedly, doesn’t have anything against the man, especially since he barely knows him, so he nods lightly when he passes him, eyes widening when he hears his sisters ask the one question no one wants to ever be around when asked:

“Why do people always call him a whore?” 

“What is a whore?” Joe groans, flaming red before shaking his head and grabbing his sister’s arms and taking them off to the side, smiling apologetically at the older man.

[sylnyylyudynaarchived-blog]

The sweat between their two bodies makes everything slippery and as Paul finds himself gripping on the back of Nicole’s neck as he pounds himself inside of her, thrusting continuously as moans break forth from their mouths before he leans forward and takes her. She tastes heavenly, and it’s been too long since he’s seen her. Normally, they wouldn’t even do this, not without waiting for a time that they can break away and spend quality time with one another afterwards but she had come over as a surprise, in something as simple as a fucking trench coat (and hot, so very hot). He hadn’t let either of them get very far before she was bent over his favorite couch and he was pounding her for the life of himself. Of course, they took a quick break before ending up on a table, and then stairs, and finally, in his bed. He was thankful Stephanie was gone for the day, and as he continued to spend time with the woman he loved, he could barely hear the front door open and his name being called over the combined moans of himself and Nicole.

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@queenofhartsxo / from [here]

The moment it came out of his mouth, he wanted to yank the words back in, force them down, swallow them whole and hope she knew for one moment that he didn’t mean them. But the way her lip trembled, her voice quivered, he knew that those words destroyed whatever relationship they had, holding onto the fragile line between them. He couldn’t look away from the mess he had caused, though he wanted to. He finds himself opening and closing his mouth, the shock that was running through him easing before he finally looks away and shakes his head.

“Ya know I don’t,” he whispers, licking his hips as his own eyes water, and he steps forward, the urge to stroke her cheek high. He doesn’t though, doesn’t believe he’s allowed. Doesn’t believe she would want him to. “I’m sorry,” he says, voice breaking. 

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@monumxntvl → starter they didn’t ask for but this has been plotted.

He’s walking down the hall of the arena, bag around his shoulder as he plays on his phone. He’s vaguely paying attention to where he’s going, but mostly, he’s drafting a text to Reigns, tapping out words to send out before erasing them, wondering how much of a pussy his words make him seem. He sighs once more as his thumb erases his most recent set of words, frowning when he briefly hears Jey and Jimmy talking ahead of him.

He doesn’t think anything of it though, especially when he hears about Roman’s ex, instead, going to focus on his texts once more. This thing between them isn’t exactly new, but it’s not -- it’s still exciting and thrilling, and Seth feels his heart beating heavily in his chest at the thought of the thing between them.

📱[text - ro - sent]; how about tonight

He sends out the text quickly, biting on his lower lip before shrugging, jumping in spot and grinning.

📱[text - ro - sent]; Meet you at the motel, go on a quiet date?

He sends out the next text before setting his phone inside of his pocket, knowing if he keeps holding it, it’ll be all he focuses on for a while.

[sylnyylyudynaarchived-blog]

💋 + 5 @ HHH

send for a kiss → accepting // @ofdisarmhers / On the neck.

His eyes flutter close as a small moan escapes his mouth. He’s trying to be silent, as silent as he can be in the circumstances, of course. He can feel the woman in front of him, and he tries not to make any sudden movements, the closet they’re in tight enough as it is. He hates the fact that they’re even in a closet in the first place, but he shouldn’t be surprised, since they were pretty much making out getting hard and heavy in an open hallway.

“You’re going to kill me,” he whispers softly, watching as numerous people pass by the slightly opened door of the closet. His eyes trail towards the redheaded woman in front of him and he looks down briefly, arms grasping Becky’s hips and bringing her closer. He almost thinks it’s a wrong move, the way his breathing becomes heavier, but he quickly loses thought when he feels her lips on his neck, wondering how long she’s know about his sensitive area.

His fingers squeeze at her hips as he moves towards the door, attempting to close it. He doesn’t get far, though, not when Becky’s wrapped around him and he smirks softly before killing two birds with one stone by picking the female up and leaning her against the door, closing it in the process. He presses against her, gulping at the feeling of him pressed against her. “Seriously going to kill me,” he whispers.

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👪 with Joelle?

christmas symbols meme → accepting✓ @snowballinrollins👪 Our muses go to the mall to sit on santas lap! (you would, ash!)

She’s between them both, holding them by the hand, partially to keep track of them while in the mall, partially because she doesn’t want to let them go any time soon. Joe can’t help but chuckle as she begins swinging between them, excitement getting to her as she finally notices Santa. He has a smile on his face as she drags the two of them towards the closest spot available, and he looks towards Colby with a bigger grin, shaking his head. ‘Remember, this was your idea,” he states, pulling Joelle back as she nearly collides with someone. He doesn’t mind, of course, in fact, he’s thrilled that colby suggested this, but he also worries that maybe the other man won’t like the excitement that comes with it.

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🎄 / with babies and all that stuff!

christmas symbols meme → accepting✓@sleighbvlla🎄 Our muses decorate a christmas tree together!

They were exhausted, which was expected since Nicole had just given birth and it had only been a few weeks since. They were even more exhausted, because they also had to handle Joelle, who was a little bit jealous, and Christmas shopping and so much family in between everything else. Despite all of the hectic moments in their lives though, Joe couldn’t help but look over to Nicole and smile. She was in front of their tree with the double cradle that Joe’s cousins had made them, rocking it and gently singing christmas songs to the babes, ornament in hand and gifts on the floor. He couldn’t help but feel so proud with his family, that he felt himself getting red, until Joelle came up to him and hugged him with a smile on her own face. “We’re a beautiful family, tam’a,” she whispers.

[sylnyylyudynaarchived-blog]

He’s not backstage at Smackdown often, preferring to trust Shane with the mechanics of that brand instead of himself, but it’s been a while since he’s seen Nicole and he misses her. Sure, he misses fucking her, since she’s such a lovely person to have on top of him as he’s buried deep inside of her, but he can also admit that he just misses her in general. Which is why he’s making his way to the place he knows she’ll be at, and hopefully alone, since he doesn’t want to make any excuses for having to see her. He knows he’s hard in his pants at the thought of seeing her, but he’s thankful that his pants are loose and no one is able to tell, to wonder, to gossip. By the time he makes it to the room, he knocks on the door, leaning against the wall and crossing his legs at the ankles, grin on his face.

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