#11-twain

[hazelbaja]

[bigassbowlingballhead]

Do country music fans every attack male country artists for speaking out about social issues or just... the women?

[bojackson54]

If Jesus Came Back Today, What Would He Say to America?

He wasn’t who they expected him to be. He said things they didn’t expect him to say. In a dramatic passage from the Book of Revelation, John described Jesus as the Alpha and Omega and the King of Kings; but let’s not forget that he had a very different role when he first came to earth. Isaiah 53 portrays a man who was rejected and spurned by the very people he came to save. While he was here on…

[sbcdh]

"You saw it?"

"For a second. Yeah. I saw one."

"Start at the beginning."

"Hoo. Okay. Uhhh... It was 77. I think. I was air force. Or, hypnoengineering support staff contracted to help out around St. Louis."

"That's how you came into your supply of JVH-1"

"It was JVH-11 actually, and yeah, the fuckin, uh- the requisitions officer at Scott was an old buddy of mine. We used to fuck around in college before I, you know-"

"Yes I understand."

"I worked records for Sears-Roebuck, I had all the accounting expertise, as well as a ready supply of LSD."

"How did you start?"

"Oh it was easy at first. Really just selling off phials of the new experimental stuff to finance guys. They'd go nuts for the stuff, pay top dollar for it too. Hell, I could get 100$ for a milliliter. Made it easy to keep my contacts bought in and re-invested. Honestly I don't think the req office would even know that we were skimming if they weren't in on it.

But, you know how it is with hypnoregulation. Transchronological market data is worth it's weight in diamond. It started with the odd photo of a 2q-week readout, then biometric data, then, uh- then. Well, we decided to try it ourselves."

"You attempted full sub-finantial emmanation?"

"No no god no, what're you nuts? No, see. We figured if one person can meld their brain with the market, we just had to get as close as we could to that guy, and mark the twain, hypnologically speaking."

"Mark the twain?"

"Yeah, see, okay. A plutophant in full emmanation isn't like us. We exist at a single point in time, an R1 rational market actor. But they exist in multiple points in time, back in 77, I think the government could hit R6 with that analogue tech. Most people can hit R2 with a single hit of JVH-1, with practice you can hit R3, but anything higher than R3 takes a pretty serious support team. But here's the thing, I had a whole cadre of co-implicated members of a military grade hypnoengineering support team. All we needed was the space."

"The warehouse. Schaeffer Marble and Tile was it?"

"Bingo. See here's the thing. You know why the government had to start building those special regulation temples? It's not just for security. Once you crack the R6 barrier, Plutophants start leaving what's called a wake. You know, like a fuckin, uh, like a boat. They're imperceptible to normal people, but if you have sensitive enough instruments or, say, a person in the edge of sub-market emmanation.

See the government didn't know at the time, but if you balanced the drugs just right, and kept someone right on the edge of R4, you could actually read the plutophant's interpretations by their wake rather than their direct neurofeedback. It's not nearly as precise, but if you have a good team and you know what to look for, you can get some really, really valuable market data that way."

"And your co-worker?"

"You mean Mills? Fuck. Yeah...Mills. Right."

"Take your time."

"No, no I'm good. It's... It's uh, It's dangerous. Brains aren't meant to take that much JVH-11 all at once. We could stay on R4, but what we didn't have was a recovery team, or a medical team, or recon team. It was me, Mills, Israel, Connaught, and Marsh. The five of us were the only ones in the soup. Bruso was running the machines and Lasker was monitoring the readout."

"Can you tell us what happened?"

"Yeah. Yeah. It was a normal intrusion. Hypnogrid emmanation is pretty simple with our tech and support. Sedation was all green, hypnoinduction was green. Smooth as silk. Landed about 40 minutes from our work location. We had the codes from the IRSAW people that morning, all we had to do was maintain hypnoinduction for 40 minutes while traversing the colon and we'd be able to-"

"I'm sorry, colon?"

"Oh come on. Colon. Collective Unconscious. Col-Un. Colon."

"I- of course. Continue."

"Hey, have you ever been on a dive before?"

"Can we focus on your statement?"

"It's important. I need to know if this next bit is gonna make sense to you or not."

"I've undergone basic anti-intrusion training standard for IRS investigation task force officers."

"So you've done safe dives. White room? Castle training? Putting up the wall? All that jazz?"

"That's correct."

"Did they ever tell you why it's dangerous to perform off-site hypnoincursion in meta-unstsble hypnospace?"

"They did."

"Well they're lying...don't look at me like that. I'm not bullshitting you. They're lying...there's...there's shit out there okay? There's things out there."

"Mills?"

"Yeah. Mills. Uh..."

"Take your time."

"Yeah yeah. Quit interruptin me. Mills... Uh, yeah so we were T-Plus 30 into the dive. Bruso gives us a heads up that some hypnoflora is headed our way, but can't get a read on mass. Says we should steer clear, but we are so close. Israel had handled some hypnoflora before, so we weren't worried. But it was... I dunno. I can't explain."

"Do your best."

"Like. Okay. Meta-unstsble dives are fucked. They're acid trips. The St. Louis hypnoscape already doesn't look normal, but Scott Base looked like some kinda bastard lovechild of a medieval castle and a seashell, all twisting up into itself. The streets were a chessboard, and all the streetlights we're these tall kinda mannequin lookin' things holding a tiny sun in their hand. Everything is fucked, it's all topsy turvy. But it's okay, because it's meta-unstable hypnospace, its not SUPPOSED to be normal. And then there was a Red Sock."

"Like for the feet?"

"No. Like. In the middle of this fucked up dreamscape, there's suddenly a batter for the Boston Red Sox. He's standing there, maybe 50 feet away. He's got a bat in one hand and a mitt in the other, and he's just kinda walking towards us. Nobody really knew what to do. It didn't look dangerous, but something wasn't right. It didn't fit. We just kinda stood there, looking at the thing. Israel starts talking to Bruso, asking him what to do. Suddenly, Bruso is screaming at us, telling us to book it. He's screaming into the com, telling us to prepare for de-emmanation. Nobody knows what's happening. Israel is suddenly standing between Mills and the Red Sock, and..."

"Any information you can recall could be of use."

"It's...it's mostly feeling at this point. You ever been having a normal dream? Like, a good, normal dream? And suddenly you realize that something is really, really wrong? There's signs. For me? It's that the lights go out. Suddenly day turns to night, and something about this batter just makes me want to curl up and hide. Suddenly, moving through the world is like trying to swim through molasses. I try to run, but nothing moves, and everything is dark. The world is shifting. There's shadows under the bathroom door that can't be happening. A man who looks like Jesus. An old and terrible house and an old man with no name whose face I can't remember. The batter swings at Mills and she just...vanishes. Shes gone. Bruso pulls us out a second later."

"So this, batter killed Ms. Mills?"

"No."

"No?"

"No. We get out, she's comatose. Whatever that thing did to her, she was still in hypnospace. I gave her a hot shot of barbiturates. Her brain activity slowed to R0 after about 90 seconds."

[unripe-lemon]

Since i know no one will see this:

1 note and i will email my therapist

ok so for this one,, like since then i have emailed my therapist?? that counts right????? tbh i dont even know what to talk abt anymore, but i do have a session with her so dw

2 notes and ill put my laundry away

ugh….. stupid. internet.. making me do things that will make my life easier…. gugh yeah i put my laundry away!!!!! everyone clap now

5 notes and ill try to brush my teeth more often

ok so like for this one i found this video https://youtu.be/pvutTiPY7q8?si=PASnBmUXZ0xiHzWM imma sing this song to myself every tike i dont feel like brushing my teeth

6 notes and ill try to put on cream for my dermatitis (anxiety hives!!! yayyy!!!!) more often

just did it hehe :) tho it is getting a little worse and my kitten scratched me on top of it 😭

10 notes and ill attempt to learn my timestables

11 notes and ill study for my exams

my exams are over!!!! so idk what to do for this one? maybe ill go do my homework instead

20 notes and ill try to go one day without using my pc/phone

30 notes and ill vaccum (more bc we just adopted kittens) my room entirely

40 notes and ill try to explain my depression to my mom again

50 notes and ill clean my locker out at school

imma do this tmr!!!

i forgot 😭 someone remind me

80 notes and ill fix the posters that are falling off of my wall and are probably going to rip soon

doing this rn! taking dinner break

100 notes and ill REALLY unpack everything with my therapist

maybe tmr?

we talked about medication and kittens, also exams so like success??

200 notes and ill ask my mom if we can go to my go and get! me! medicated!

ill discuss w therapist tmr

discussed with therapist, we are now getting the conversation started with my mom and are going to see what my gp says after that!! :) ty to everyone in the notes rooting for meds

300 notes and ill re organise my bookshelf

400 notes and ill clean all of the mold off of my wall

damn 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 ion wannaaaaaaaa

this is a weekend activity tbh, and idk if its even going to BE this weekend :P

500 notes and ill clean the mold off of my roof

600 notes and ill try sewing some new clothes

i crocheted a scarf!!! does that count?

700 notes and ill buy some new shoes

800 notes and ill check out dnd club at school (im scared)

900 notes and ill come up with more goals

edit: bro……. 😭

so im gonna take my time w these bc there is a lot to go thru!! i will try my best to remember to update!!! ty for notes :)

- random internet stranger

edit 2: WTF 1000 NOTES GUYS CHILL

ok so like i have to come up with more goals now???

1500 and ill start taking study notes with a study method (rb with study method that is your fav eg cornell method)

1700 and ill attempt to hype myself up enough to eat at school (long story, germs)

2000 notes and ill start whatever book wins this poll:

[asiwassayingimnotgay]

top 11 hardest bsd abilities to discover (not listed in order)

(might contain some spoilers)

Dazai (No Longer Human). To begin with, my man had to find someone with a ability. (Probably like, 1/1,000,000 people) And then touch them, if Dazai was a normal guy, and not the demon prodigy, he 100% wouldn't have known he had this ability

Yosano (Thou Shalt Not Die). How'd she even discover this? There's very few scenarios where someone would be half dead, and I doubt that any normal person would be able to discover that they had a ability like this. There's still a chance, but it's very small.

Fitzgerald (The Great Fitzgerald). Imagine, you're a middle class man, normal life, normal income, nothing crazy about your life. How the hell do you find out you become stronger when you spend money. We've seen Fitzgerald not activate his ability when he causally spends, how the hell did you activate it then???

Muishitaro (The Perfect Crime). I- How does a normal person, commit enough crimes to find out that, no they're not getting away with these crimes because they're lucky, they're actually using a ability that erases their crime.

Ace (Madness of the Jewel Kings). Could just be a me thing but, I don't think I've ever met someone with debt slaves. Much less anyone who can convert their debt slaves lifespan into jewels. You either gotta be insane, or have plot armor to find out about this ability

Mark Twain (Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer). You have to be fucking enlisted to find out you have this ability, because there's no way a normal person's gonna have a sniper with them (unless you're in the United States.... Wait-)

Fukuzawa (All Men are Created Equal). This is the same logic as Dazai, there's probably not that many ability users, as you'd have to collect enough ability users to realize "oh, my subordinates get full control over their abilities", also what qualifies as the agencies entrance exam? Is it even necessary?

Pushkin (A Feast in Time of Plague). How the hell do you manage to "coincidentally" find out that you have an ability that affects 2 people with a virus, and that if one of those 2 people don't die, both the people will die from having their organs eaten. You have to be insane or a serial killer to find that ability.

Yukito (Another). I'm genuinely curious on how many mysteries this guy had to solve to be able to find out that the killer in the mysteries always, 100%, without fail, dies after the mysterys been solved. That is extremely and annoyingly specific.

Kajii (Lemon). The whole ass reason I made this post, who the fuck is "conveniently" creating lemon shaped bombs, there's no way he found out this ability through normal means. Was one of his friends a terrorist with a lemon kink? Because that's the only reasonable explanation that he's finding out this ability. Either that or, he's got a big food kink and makes bombs shaped as food during his spare time. There's no fucking way, a normal guy with an office job is finding out they have an ability like that. Atsushi's the main character? Nah, this man has way more plot armor. Because the stars, universe, solar system, and plantes had to align for him to find out about his ability

Ranpo (✨Ultra Deduction✨) please help im being threatened . I mean, he could always be a genius or whatever but... Sure.

[kunikiiida-kuuun]

BSD Locations- Yokohama Visit 2024 - Part 3

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4

11. Water Guardian Square (S2EP17)

This square is very close to the ship Hikawa Maru. It was hard to get a good picture because the sun was so bright lol. This is where Kouyou attacks Atsushi and takes Kyouka with back with her. Then Kunikida comes up with Kenji and delivers the most insane English Dub voice line™ I guess lmao.

After that the guild members landed from the sky and somehow managed to get all of them. I still find it funny that they were just airdropped directly onto this harbor lmao. It seemed like a popular spot for gatherings tho!!

12. Zou no Hana Park (BSD Ending 1 & 2)

A short walk from Yamashita Park. There were many of those little elephants guys around the area, but only one of our little penguin fella. It was right outside what seemed to be a clothing store though, which I ran into first, even before I got to the main bridge area so I had to go back around to get a picture lol.

13. Yokohama Customs Building (S1EP9)

Right across the street from Zou no Hana Park! It is also known as "Queen's Tower" one of Yokohama's famous Three Towers.

14. Shinkou Bridge

Fitzgerald attacks Atsushi and Kyouka and tries to capture Atsushi. This bridge shows up on the way from Zou no Hana Park and when I recognized the bridge it was kinda funny.

15. Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse (S1EP9)

It gave me the feel of a museum but it's actually a shopping mall. There were many restaurants and stores inside and it was packed during lunchtime!

16. Shinkou Circle Walk (BSD Movie: Dead Apple, BSD Opening S3)

I was expecting it to be red. I'm gonna assume Kenji's battle with his ability during Dead Apple ruined it so bad, they had to rebuild the entire thing again and they changed it to silver.

17. Cosmo Clock 21 (S1EP9)

It's kinda sorta close to the Shinkou Circle walk. The entire area is like a mini amusement park!! There were so many games and other rides too which seemed so much fun!! I went on the ferris wheel only, and the ticket was 1,000 yen for a 15 minute ride. It is apparently the world's largest ferris wheel with a clock function!

18. Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Arts (S1EP9)

I walked around the museum trying to look for the entrance to match the picture and it turned out I just went around in a circle lol

19. Nihon-Odori Station (S2EP20)

Atsushi jumps off Moby Dick and Dazai rescues him from Mark Twain and they temporarily hide here. Honestly I kinda forgot how I got here...I think I boarded the train from Minato Mirai station to get to this station...

That's the end of Part 3! Stay tuned for the next part ✨

[queer-ragnelle]

What are some of the weirdest stories/books/movies etc you've encountered in your Arthuriana journey? Whatever weird might mean to you (good/bad/unsettling/unexpected/surreal/goofy)

Hi anon!

This is honestly a tough thing to answer because what even constitutes a weird Arthurian retelling? They're all pretty weird haha! But I definitely have a few that come to mind

The French film Perceval (1978) is super weird in a great way! It's shot on a stage with painted backgrounds and metallic trees and structures for the set. Real horses are brought on. A troupe of bards provide diegetic music, playing instruments and singing a narration of events on screen while also acting as characters in their own right (such as the jester Kay throws into the fire). Perceval and Gauvain narrate their own stories in third person at times too. It's surreal! It's as if Perceval's world is "fake," since his mother has kept him isolated for so long, it's a distorted view of reality. This is the closest adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes's Story of the Grail I can think of, it's nearly word-for-word, BUT! They removed the racism and antisemitism. Two thumbs up! The ending is bananas. There's no describing it, you just have to watch. You can download this movie from my MEGA drive or it can be watched for free on Tubi! (Content warning for nudity and some gore.)

The film Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) is my favorite adaptation of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The main character Tom works for NASA developing an android named Hermes. Through a comedy of errors, both Tom and Hermes end up launched into space at the speed of light, traveling through time, and crash land in Camelot, 508AD. Mordred mistakes Tom for a monster (due to his space suit and orb-shaped helmet) but Tom quickly wins Arthur's trust and allowed to hang out. He meets Sandy, a girl who thinks her dad has been transformed into a goose, and together with her and a page named Clarance, works to return home. It's exceedingly silly. I much prefer the character Tom (and Hermes, who is identical in appearance to Tom and jousts for him) to Sir Boss in the Connecticut Yankee film from 1949 with Bing Crosby. Tom's gun is funnier than the original as it's more like a science-fiction laser that blows things up. He also has a magnet ray he uses to draw armored knights where he wants. Not a good film, but goofy and fun. You can download this movie from my MEGA drive! (No content warnings, it's a family movie!)

The film Excalibur (1981) obviously has to make this list. Coincidentally, it's mostly for Percival again. The Grail Quest segment accounts for just 20 minutes of the entire film, but it feels like eons. And it's So Weird. It's safe to call it horror. Percival meets struggle after struggle, encountering many dead comrades along the way, raving mad townspeople struggling to survive, Morgan and Mordred attempting to steer him wrong. He's eventually hung from a tree and has a vision of God's voice. (Hallucination or real?) The dead knight dangling above him sways and his spurs cut Percival free. From there he runs into Uriens and holds him as he dies, struck down by miscreant knights. Percival eventually achieves the grail, obviously, but it's not until he's pushed the absolute limits. It's probably one of my favorite sequences in film ever. 11/10. You can download this from my MEGA drive! (Content warning for nudity, rape, gore, and incest.)

As for books, I recommend The Modern Arthur Trilogy by Peter David. The first one is Arthur running for mayor of NYC, the second one is President of the United States, and the third one he sort of becomes a god. It's wild. Other characters include Guinevere, Lancelot, Morgan le Fay, Mordred, Percival, Merlin, and of course the Lake of the Lake. The sequels randomly add Gilgamesh and Enkidu (and later Noah, like the guy with an ark in the Bible??) and it's all very strange indeed. The first book is definitely the best but Gilgamesh/Enkidu were pretty freaky (affectionate) so I did enjoy that, although the whole premise of book two is...meh. I listened to the graphic audio books which were awesome, the sound effect of Arthur falling down the subway stairs in full armor is worth every penny. (Content warning for incest, murder, cannibalism, racism, and terrorism)

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Day 11 of Regressuary

Theme: Games

Charachters: Berry and @theogclownboy Zeek

Fandom: Helluva Boss

Summary: Berry learns to adapt her games to include Zeek who regresses younger than her.

Authors Note: Due to my cramps I cant sit down properly, meaning I also cant sit down at my pc properly to edit this fic with its dialouge colors. Im sorry but for the next few days I most likely wont be able to do so. I also apologize for how rushed these may seem, im having a bit of brain fog and don't wanna fall behind too much on these fics. Please be sure to like and reblog my stuff if you like it as it helps support my blog and spread my stuff to more people!

"Zeekie!"

Berry shouted out instantly as she saw Zeek, she had heard a bit about him from her friend Roxie but now Queen Bee had set up a playdate for the two of them! Once Bee dropped her off she put down her plushie peppermint to check out what Zeek was doing. He waved once he saw Berry walk over to him, right now he was playing with his toy train-set right now. Berry plopped down next to him and looked on intently. "Are you playing trains? That exciting I love trains! Do you like trains? Ooh I always wanted to be on a train before! Wait-no I wanna be a conductor of a train! Just for one day because it'll be super awesome and fun and I can ask for tickets and-" Berry began to ramble at 100 words a minute before seeing the confused look on Zeeks face. She stopped her ongoing line of thought and chuckled. "Oh-oopsies, sorry I forgot to slow down a little." "Uhm das otay...I like my twains! Dey go choo-choo!" Zeek said happily as he scooted them around the track. It didnt take long for Berry to get bored of just watching him push the train around and around though and she instead went over to the games corner and pulled a board game out, plopping it on top of the tracks and blocking the train. "Ok thats getting boring! Lets play this! Its super-duper easy and its really fun and not boring!" She said as she got on the floor and unpacked the game board and pieces. "Wait! I wanna play wif my twains though!" Zeek started to protest but Berry cut him off. "We can play trains later! Lets play this fun boardgame first!" She said as she finally set everything off and read the rules out loud.

After a long list of rules and explanations of how to play the game she points to Zeek who already doesn't seem to be having much fun. "Okay! You get to pick one of these lil pieces and thats who you get to play as!" She said as she held out the small box of little figures. Zeek grabbed one shaped like a bunny. "Ooh I wan dis one! It jus wike bunny!" Berry shook her head taking it from him. "Wait! You can't use that piece, that for another square! You gotta pick another one." She said as she pointed to one of the squares that had a bunny on it. Zeek huffed. "Buh buh I wanna play as th' bunny! I don't wanna use dese oder pieces!" He whined already not liking this game. It seemed way to strict and complicated for him. "Aw cmon theres lot of other cool ones in here! Like look you can be a cool suit dude! He kinda looks like a spy! I wanna be this girl with the cool skateboard!" She said excitedly, but once she realized that Zeek started the pout she just put down his piece on the board. "Uhm....o-okay! Thats okay i'll just choose this piece for you! Okay now we roll the dice! Here you can go first!." She said as she held out 2 dice to Zeek. Zeek, although frustrated took it from her and rolled the dice, getting a 10. "Okay now you get to cross this street and move 10 squares!" Berry said as she pushed the board towards him, now excited he was participating. "Um okay..." Zeek mumbled as he pretended that his piece was walking up the street. That is until his imagination got the best of him and he started moving towards the other place on the board. "Deres a fawm! My guy is goin dere instead!" He said as he walked his piece onto the farm square. Berry tried taking the piece from him but he pulled back. "No!" He said as he continued to pretend that his piece was on the farm petting the animals. "Buh thas not how you play Zeekie! You can't just go anywhere on the board!" Berry protested now getting frustrated. But Zeek was even more angry than she was. "Why not!?" He asked as he crossed his arms and huffed. "Because its apart of the rules! I read them all out, Zeekie!" She whined. Zeek stuck his tounge out and blew a raspberry as he threw his piece down. "I hate da wules! Its bowin and dis game is bowin! I hate dis game!" He said before he stormed off to play with his other toys. Berry tried to call back for him but it was too late. She sighed and threw her piece onto the board. What was she doing wrong? The game was fun for her but....Zeek didn't seem to understand it much....maybe these rules were too complicated for him? Perhaps she could make some adjustments that way they could both have fun...

A little bit later Berry had coaxed Zeek into coming back to playing with her, this time promising that she made the game 1000000000000000x more fun. "Okay now pick a charachter! Any one you want including the bunny!" She said. "I can pick da bunny?" Zeek asked hesitantly. Berry nodded proudly in response before picking her own piece and placing it on the board. Okay where do you wanna go? She asked. Zeek was confused. "I dont hab ta woll dat dice fingy?" "Nope! You just go wherever you wanna! And make your bunny have lots of fun!" She said happily, her tail began to wag once Zeek seemed to light up and moved his bunny to the amusement park spot. The two ended up playing Berry's new game for almost an hour! It was like dollhouse but with a board and pieces! Turns out even with a few edits to the rules the two could still have fun together.

Art by @theogclownboy

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[hazelbaja]

Five days of intense intramurals culminated in a rewarding day. Grateful to secure second place in the singing contest, I poured my heart into the performance. Proud of my efforts and celebrating alongside the formidable VICIOUS VIPERS, who also won the 2ND RUNNER UP🏆Congratulations to the VICIOUS VIPERS, fellow second placers, and a big shoutout to all the champions in different games. 🏆❤

[zamansiler]

"Şu anda kaç yaşında olursanız olun. Başarı için veya istediğiniz şeyin peşinden gitmek için asla çok genç veya çok yaşlı değilsiniz. İşte farklı yaşlarda büyük işler başarmış kişilerin kısa bir listesi

1) Helen Keller, 19 aylıkken sağır ve kör oldu. Ancak bu onu durdurmadı. Bachelor of Arts derecesi alan ilk sağır ve kör kişiydi.

2) Mozart klavye ve kemanda zaten yetenekliydi; 5 yaşından itibaren beste yapmaya başladı

. 3) Shirley Temple, "Bright Eyes" filminde film yıldızı olduğunda 6 yaşındaydı.

4) Anne Frank, Anne Frank'ın günlüğünü yazdığında 12 yaşındaydı.

5) Magnus Carlsen 13 yaşında satranç büyükustası oldu.

6) Nadia Comăneci, 14 yaşındayken Olimpiyatlarda yedi tam 10.0 puan alan ve üç altın madalya kazanan bir Rumen jimnastikçiydi.

7) Tenzin Gyatso, Kasım 1950'de, 15 yaşındayken resmen 14. Dalai Lama olarak tanındı.

8) Futbolun süperstarı Pele, Brezilya ile 1958'de Dünya Kupası'nı kazandığında 17 yaşındaydı.

9) Elvis 19 yaşındayken bir süperstardı.

10) John Lennon 20 yaşındaydı ve Paul Mcartney, Beatles 1961'de ilk konserini verdiğinde 18 yaşındaydı.

11) Jesse Owens, 1936'da Berlin'de 4 altın madalya kazandığında 22 yaşındaydı.

12) Beethoven 23 yaşındayken piyano virtüözüydü.

13) Issac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'yı 24 yaşında yazdı.

14) Roger Bannister, 4 dakikalık mil rekorunu kırdığında 25 yaşındaydı.

15) Albert Einstein, görelilik kuramını yazdığında 26 yaşındaydı

. 16) Lance E. Armstrong, Tour de France'ı kazandığında 27 yaşındaydı.

17) Michelangelo, 28 yaşındayken en büyük heykellerden ikisi olan "Davut" ve "Pieta"yı yarattı.

18) Büyük İskender, 29 yaşına geldiğinde antik çağın en büyük imparatorluklarından birini yaratmıştı. dünya

19) JK Rowling, Harry Potter'ın ilk taslağını bitirdiğinde 30 yaşındaydı.

20) Amelia Earhart, Atlas Okyanusu'nu tek başına geçen ilk kadın olduğunda 31 yaşındaydı.

21) Oprah, türünün en yüksek reytingli programı haline gelen talk show'una başladığında 32 yaşındaydı.

22) Edmund Hillary, Everest Dağı'na tırmanan ilk erkek olduğunda 33 yaşındaydı.

23) Martin Luther King Jr., "Bir Rüya Görüyorum" konuşmasını yazdığında 34 yaşındaydı.

24) Marie Curie, Fizik dalında Nobel Ödülü'ne aday gösterildiğinde 35 yaşındaydı

. 25) Wright kardeşler, Orville (32) ve Wilbur (36), dünyanın ilk başarılı uçağını icat ettiler ve inşa ettiler ve ilk kontrollü, motorlu ve sürdürülebilir havadan ağır insan uçuşunu gerçekleştirdiler.

26) Vincent Van Gogh, neredeyse hiç tanınmadan öldüğünde 37 yaşındaydı, ancak bugün resimleri milyonlarca dolar değerinde.

27) Neil Armstrong, Ay'a ilk ayak basan insan olduğunda 38 yaşındaydı.

28) Mark Twain, "Tom Sawyer'ın Maceraları"nı yazdığında 40, "Huckleberry Finn'in Maceraları"nı yazdığında ise 49 yaşındaydı.

29) Kristof Kolomb, Amerika'yı keşfettiğinde 41 yaşındaydı.

30) Rosa Parks, otobüs şoförünün beyaz bir yolcuya yer açmak için koltuğunu vermesini söylemesine uymayı reddettiğinde 42 yaşındaydı.

31) John F. Kennedy, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Başkanı olduğunda 43 yaşındaydı

. 32) Henry Ford, Ford T piyasaya çıktığında 45 yaşındaydı.

33) Suzanne Collins, "Açlık Oyunları"nı yazdığında 46 yaşındaydı

. 34) Charles Darwin, Türlerin Kökeni adlı kitabı piyasaya çıktığında 50 yaşındaydı.

35) Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa'yı çizdiğinde 51 yaşındaydı.

36) Abraham Lincoln, başkan olduğunda 52 yaşındaydı.

37) Ray Kroc McDonald's Franchise'ını satın aldığında ve bunu benzeri görülmemiş seviyelere taşıdığında 53 yaşındaydı.

38) Dr. Seuss "Şapkalı Kedi"yi yazdığında 54 yaşındaydı.

40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, 2009 yılında US Airways Flight 1549'u Hudson Nehri'nde başarıyla suya indirdiğinde 57 yaşındaydı. Uçaktaki 155 yolcunun tamamı hayatta kaldı.

41) Albay Harland Sanders, KFC Franchise'ını kurduğunda 61 yaşındaydı.

42) JRR Tolkien, Yüzüklerin Efendisi kitapları çıktığında 62 yaşındaydı

. 43) Ronald Reagan, ABD Başkanı olduğunda 69 yaşındaydı.

44) Jack Lalane, 70 yaşında kelepçelendi, zincirlendi ve 70 kürekli tekneyi çekti.

45) Nelson Mandela, Başkan olduğunda 76 yaşındaydı”

— Pablo

[riverkingmarley]

Kinda can’t believe I did it.

Years ago I discovered a website called royal road where I would read power fantasy’s to kill time. While there I read a story called Super Minion that I liked because I have always liked that type of power set. The summer of last year I found another story on royal road that mentioned it was inspired by Super Minion, which was inspired by worm.

A few days after that I was working as an extra for the first time. It was for a Shania Twain music video and due to an organizing mishap they had us wait for ten hours before they could film our part. While waiting there I googled around to find out what worm was and started reading it. I got four arcs in before I couldn’t take it anymore and ended up looking up some spoilers (sorry wormblr). I loved it and haven’t gone a single day without thinking about it since.

This book has been really special to me. It inspired me to do the first bit of creative writing I’ve done outside of school. I feel like I’ve learned so much about writing and what makes a book good.

I’m learning disabled and I’ve always struggled a lot with reading. I hated it when I was a kid. When I was around 11-13 I discovered the Percy Jackson books and fell in love with them. Worm is the second time a series has captivated me to that extent. I think I’ll be reading a lot more in the future and it’s thanks to this book.

[justforbooks]

Jeannette Charles

The Queen’s most famous lookalike, who enjoyed a long career in film and television thanks to their uncanny resemblance

In 1972, Jeannette Charles was in her mid-40s and settling down to life in an Essex village, having returned, with her husband, Ken, from Libya. They had been living there for some years, but left following the army coup led by Muammar Gaddafi.

On reading about the artist Jane Thornhill in a local newspaper, Charles decided to commission a painting of herself for her husband’s birthday. Thornhill asked whether she could submit it for the Royal Academy’s summer exhibition in London, but when she did, the venerable institution returned the picture, believing it to be a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and having been told by Buckingham Palace that the monarch had not sat for it.

The resulting publicity began a new chapter in the life of Charles, who would spend the next 40 years as the Queen’s most famous lookalike, and who has died aged 96. She appeared on British television and in Hollywood films, alongside stars such as Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley and Mike Myers, and also modelled for Spitting Image when the satirical TV show was making the Queen’s puppet.

Charles said of her uncanny resemblance to the monarch, whom she never met: “We both have the same bone structure, so the same style of makeup and hairdressing suits us best. But I’m 2 inches shorter than her, so my clothes wouldn’t always look well on her and vice versa.”

She also made personal appearances – opening shops, handing out gifts with the flamboyant piano virtuoso Liberace and presenting a silver disc to the rock group Queen – and Muhammad Ali put in a special request to have a photograph taken with her. Commercials kept her busy, too, but Charles insisted: “I am not an actress. I only do the one role.”

Her first job as the Queen was posing for a London Weekly Advertiser poster that featured her reading a paper, with a stuffed corgi at her feet. However, London Transport, which was due to display it on buses and Tube trains, objected and never used it. Charles said it was a lesson: “too real … a little vulgar”. She insisted she was a staunch royalist, and told the Guardian in 2022: “I would never do anything that reflected badly on the monarch or myself. Over the years, I’ve turned down large sums to pose for Page 3-type pictures and insisted I should never be introduced as the Queen when making appearances.”

Jeannette was born in London, 18 months after Princess Elizabeth, to Yetta (nee Wonsoff), who was Dutch, of Polish descent, and Alfred Clark, a chef, later restaurateur, and was brought up in Perivale, Middlesex. Her resemblance to the future monarch was spotted when she was still a child. She recalled: “On a trip to Greenwich when I was 11 or 12, a photographer asked if he could use me in some shots, saying, ‘She looks like Princess Elizabeth.’ Later, I’d draw crowds, especially abroad, and sometimes had to run away.”

After leaving Wembley high school, she took a job as a secretary and spent evenings acting with an amateur group in Acton. She dreamed of acting professionally, and passed an audition to train at Rada, but could not afford the fees. Instead, she emigrated to the US at the age of 24 and settled in Midland, Texas.

While working there as an au pair, she met Ken Charles, a British oil drilling engineer with BP. His work took him to Canada – where they married in Alberta in 1957 – and then to South America and Libya.

They returned to Britain in 1969 and, when regal fame came to Charles, she found herself travelling the world again. At home, her early screen appearances were in the sketch shows Rutland Weekend Television (1975), with Eric Idle and Neil Innes, Spike Milligan’s Q series (from 1976 to 1980), and Not the Nine O’Clock News (1980). She was also in sitcoms such as Mind Your Language (1978) and Never the Twain (1990), and jetted to the US for a 1977 appearance on Saturday Night Live.

When Hollywood came calling, she put on the royal tiara to appear in National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985). In The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), she was seen flat on her back with Nielsen on top of her as they slide down a royal banqueting table – when his inept detective believes the Queen is about to be assassinated and jumps to her rescue. For Charles, another highlight of filming that wacky movie was being invited to Presley’s trailer for lunch. “We became good friends,” she said.

She was back in Hollywood for The Parent Trap (1998), with Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson, and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), when she mistook its star, Myers, for a crew electrician on first meeting him.

Alongside chat shows, corporate events, fete openings and other appearances, she appeared in Motörhead’s music video promoting their version of the Sex Pistols song God Save the Queen in 2000.

Charles’s autobiography, The Queen & I, was published in 1986.

Her husband died in 1997. She is survived by their three children, David, Peter and Carol, and her sister, Delinda.

🔔 Jeannette Dorothea Louise Charles, lookalike, born 15 October 1927; died 2 June 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[ometochtli2rabbit]

13.0.12.4.8

joj[5] LAMAT/Q'ANIEL - junlajun[11] MUWAN

galactic tone: empowerment/the center

sun sign: STAR| rabbit/yellow[blue]/south

ask for abundance in all relations - MAYA

macuilli[5] - TOCHTLI [rabbit]

Tlazolteotl | Mayahuel

itzthotli[black hawk]

lord of the night: Centeotl

trecena[5]: Itzlacoliuhqui

x: macuilli [5]- toxcatl - NAHUA

depicted is Macuiltochtli [five-rabbit] who is the patron of feather- mosaic workers. In order to do the beautiful work done by these artisans, you must have a great sense of design and TOUCH:

Divinyls: I Touch Myself

Depeche Mode: Personal Jesus & Fly on the Windscreen

Joan Jett: Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh, Yeah!)

Dan Hill: Sometimes When We Touch

Tammy Wynette: Sometimes When We Touch

Samantha Fox: Touch Me (I Want Your Body)

Hall & Oates: Out of Touch

Sarah Mclachlan: Touch

Grateful Dead: Touch of Grey

Heart: Lighter Touch

MC Hammer: U Can't Touch This

RAYE: Please Don't Touch

Daft Punk: Touch It

Susan Sarandon: Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me

R.E.M.: Just A Touch

Ariana Grande: Touch It

Squeeze: Out of Touch

Katseye: Touch

Natalie Cole: Touch Me

Judas Priest: Touch of Evil

Lady Gaga: Applause

The Killers: Losing Touch

Carpenters: Touch Me When We're Dancing

Mudhoney: Touch Me I'm Sick

Shania Twain: If You Wanna Touch Her, Ask!

Journey: Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

Buck Owens: Touch Me

Britney Spears: Touch of My Hand

Midnight Star: Midas Touch

Genesis: Invisible Touch

Peter Gabriel: I Have the Touch

Blood, Sweat & Tears: Touch Me

AC/DC: Touch Too Much

Indigo Girls: Touch Me Fall

Earth, Wind & Fire: Touch

Mariah Carey: Touch My Body

Rick Springfield: Human Touch

Alanis Morissette: Human Touch

Bruce Springsteen: Human Touch

The Cars: Touch and Go

Cher: Touch and Go

Robert Palmer: Keep in Touch

Soundgarden: Touch Me

Juice Newton: Touch Me

Willie Nelson: Touch Me

Dolly Parton: The Tender Touch of Love & The Last One to Touch Me & Touch Your Woman

The Rolling Stones: Losing My Touch

The Doors: Not to Touch the Earth

Diana Ross: Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand) & Touch

Big Youth: Touch Me in the Morning

Nina Simone: The Human Touch

George Harrison: Soft Touch

Prince: Touch Me

Buzzcocks: Why Can't I Touch It?

[pkmn-bah]

Say "Yo!" to Mewtwo, the Genetic Pokemon!

General stuff:

1. Name: Mewtwo, Two, Gen, Embry, Mander, Alien, Mutant, Duri, Eiji, Jiro, Katherine, Kenji, Shinji, Yuji, Axolin, Arlo, Choji, Dirce, Duo, Duessa, Ferdia, Fuji, Futao, Niki, Niko, Nino, Rua, Twain

2. Pronouns: she/her, he/him, they/them, it/its, experi/experiment, lab/labs, sci/science, axo/axolotl, salam/salamander, newt/newts, eer/eerie, mut/mutant, freak/freaks, two/twos, ali/alien, zi/zir, vey/vem

3. Species: Mewtwo, mutant, alien, human

4. Source: Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen

5. Gender identity / sex: boyflux, genderflor, ferveiley, ignotusgender, dencomphic, alienfreak

6. Sexual / romantic attraction: ambiamorous, heterosexual, orchidromantic, polyromantic

7. Gender expression: dressing androgynous fem leaning

8. Role: researcher, archivist, overseer, protector

9. Sign-off: 💜, 👽, 🍆, 🛸, 🧬, 🧪, ⚗️

10. Face claim:

💜_💜_💜

Additional stuff:

11. Age: 20-25

12. Alterhuman identity: mewtwokin, mewlink, alienkin, salamaderhearted, mutantkin

13. Aesthetic: labcore, science academia, biopunk, medicalcore

14. Favourite things:

• Hobbies: card games, cosplay, acroyoga, music

• Objects: spoons, sketch pad, bag of cotton balls, plush lizard, markers, spectacles

• Colors: han purple, harvard crimson, harvest gold, heather purple

15. Random facts: uses big words to impress listeners, can't remember dreams, uses a catchphrase, refuses to wear shoes

16. Voice claim

Be aware that headmate could form differently than described!

[silverwings22]

Caught in the Crosshairs: Chapter Master List

1: Time of Dying: Three Days Grace 2: Monsters: Katie Sky 3: Mama Said Knock You Out: Five Finger Death Punch 4: Talk Dirty To Me: Jason Derulo 5: You're Mine: Disturbed 6: In My Head: Jason Derulo 7: Never Enough: Loren Allred 8: Bruises and Bitemarks: Good with Grenades 9: Feels Like This: Maisie Peters 10: Hey Jealousy: Gin Blossoms 11: How To Save A Life: The Fray 12: Shivers: Ed Sheeran 13: Feel Invincible: Skillet 14: Leave Out All The Rest: Linkin Park 15: Falling Inside the Black: Skillet 16: Enemy: Imagine Dragons 17: Flesh: Simon Curtis 18: Warrior: Beth Crowley 19: Heathens: 21 Pilots 20: Marry Me: Train 21: I'm Jealous: Shania Twain 22: Bad Blood: Taylor Swift 23: Impossible: Shontelle 24: When I Was Me: Imagine Dragons 25: This is Gospel: Panic at the Disco 26: Taking Over Me: Evanescence 27: You're Going Down: Sick Puppies 28: Sound of Surviving: Nichole Nordeman 29: Let the Bad Times Roll: The Offspring 30: Kryptonite: 3 Doors Down 31: Love the Way You Lie Part 2: Eminem ft Rhianna 32: Follow You Down: Shinedown 33: Everything Burns: Anastacia ft Ben Moody 34: Die From a Broken Heart: Maddie and Tae 35: Whispers in the Dark: Skillet 36: Lights: Ellie Goulding 37: Die For You: Starset 38: Anthem of the Angels: Breaking Benjamin 39: Without You: Breaking Benjamin 40: Dark on Me: Starset 41: Hands: Jewel 42: Shatter Me: Lindsey Sterling 43: Dead Man Walking: Jelly Roll 44: Control: Halsey 45: In My Daughter's Eyes: Martina McBride 46: Planet Zero: Shinedown 47: All Around Me: Flyleaf 48: What You Want: Evanescence

I've Hit the Text Limit: Part 2!