#16 Martie 2023

[ciochinaflorin]

75 I 2023. STÂNCILE ASCUNSE [Iuda 1.12 I Faptele Apostolilor 27.27–29, 40-41]

75 I 2023. STÂNCILE ASCUNSE I Podcast I Pasaje Biblice : Iuda 1 : 12 I Faptele Apostolilor 27 : 27 – 29, 40 – 41 I Meditaţii din Cuvânt I Cezareea I Reşiţa I 16 Martie 2023 I Falșii credincioși sunt comparați în primul rând cu „stâncile ascunse”. Apostolul Iuda i-a avertizat pe creștini despre pericolul reprezentat de falșii credincioși … care se aflau printre ei. (more…) “”

[densi-mber]

There Will Always be Work

“Kens, how would you feel about staying at a private villa, with a beautiful view of the ocean, a personal chef, and a media center with all expenses paid?” Deeks asked Kensi, running down from their bedroom to where Kensi sat in the kitchen.

“What’s the catch?” she responded with a suspicious look, getting up to meet him.

“There aren’t any. Kip just bought a new place a few hours away and he’s offering to let us break it in.”

“That’s awfully considerate of him.”

“Well, he’s a millionaire and feels indebted to me for some legal advice I gave him a while back,” Deeks explained. He sidled up to Kensi, and drew her into his arms. “So what do you say? Next month we’re not on rotation for the third weekend. It’d be the perfect chance to get away for a couple days.”

“It does sound nice,” Kensi agreed, shaking her head slightly. “But I don’t know that we should go so far away. Something might happen and it would take hours to get back.”

“Yeah, something could always happen,” Deeks said, some of his enthusiasm dissipating in the face of Kensi’s response. “Let someone else take care of the emergency for once. It would be nice to actually make plans and not cancel them or have to leave early. I mean, I’m pretty sure that last social even we’ve actually attended without being called into work was Kat’s wedding. We can’t even finish a dinner out without Nell calling us in.”

“It’s not funny, Deeks.”

“Good, cause I’m not trying to be funny. I’m completely serious. We deserve to have breaks and vacations from our extremely stressful, dangerous, time-consuming jobs,” he said, trying to reign in some of his frustration. Somewhere during the discussion, his hands had migrated from Kensi’s waist to cross over his chest.

She took a few steps back, looking vaguely exasperated, but still dismissive.

“You didn’t care about that a few years ago. Like when you were undercover,” she pointed out. “I didn’t see you for months at a time.”

“Yeah, that was then. Things change. We’ve changed. A few years ago, we weren’t a couple. I haven’t done a long cover since we’ve been together.”

Kensi inhaled deeply, pressing her lips together before she replied. “Deeks, you knew what you were signing up for when we started dating. This is our life and we just have to accept that. We’re not like other couples. We have a responsibility to the people we protect and that trumps everything else.”

Deeks stared at Kensi for a moment; he’d known she valued her job more than almost anything, but they’d never laid it out quite so plainly.

“It shouldn’t. Otherwise what’s the point of any of this?” he said, frustration giving way to anger. He regretted it the second hurt flashed across Kensi’s face.

“Well, maybe when you figure that out, you can come find me,” she said, snatching her jacket off the back of a chair. She gave him a challenging look, but he stood his ground, and after a moment, she pushed past him.

“Damn it,” he hissed as the front door slammed shut behind her.

***

A/N: I know this is somewhat similar to arguments they have in “Silo” and “A Line in the Sand”, but I see this as a possible moment building up to those episodes.

[labyrinthofstreams]

Jewish musicians of the 1960s

✡︎ Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941)

✡︎ Lesley Gore (born Lesley Sue Goldstein; May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015)

✡︎ Leonard Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016)

✡︎ Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942)

✡︎ Marty Balin (born Martyn Jerel Buchwald; January 30, 1942 – September 27, 2018) and Jorma Kaukonen (born December 23, 1940) of Jefferson Airplane

✡︎ Robby Krieger (born January 8, 1946) of The Doors

✡︎ Paul Simon (born October 13, 1941) and Art Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) of Simon & Garfunkel

✡︎ Phil Ochs (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976)

✡︎ Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen; September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974) of The Mamas & The Papas

✡︎ Mary (December 28, 1948 – January 19, 2024) and Elizabeth Weiss (born November 27, 1946) of The Shangri-Las

✡︎ Neil Diamond (born January 24, 1941)

✡︎ Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951)

✡︎ Robbie Robertson (born Jaime Royal Robertson; July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) of The Band

✡︎ Gary Hirsh (March 9, 1940 – August 17, 2021), Barry Melton (born June 14, 1947), Joseph Allen "Country Joe" McDonald (born January 1, 1942), and David Cohen (born August 4, 1942) of Country Joe and the Fish

✡︎ Manfred Mann (born Manfred Sepse Lubowitz; October 21, 1940)

[httpiastri]

PERFECTLY FINE – Y/N PROFILE

full name: y/n harper

date of birth: june 3rd, 2005

birthplace: cambridge, england

family members: william harper (father); sarah harper (mother)

teams: prema racing (2020-2023), campos racing (2024-now)

driver academy: red bull junior team (2019-now)

instagram: yourusername

best friends: jak crawford, dino beganovic, pepe marti

racing record:

2020 italian f4 championship – third place (six podiums; two wins)

2021 formula regional european championship – fifth place (four podiums; one win)

2022 formula regional european championship – second place (nine podiums; three wins)

2023 fia formula 3 championship – second place (five podiums; three wins)

2024 fia formula 2 championship – ongoing

trivia:

– y/n harper is the only child of four-time world champion william harper. her father was a ferrari driver for a total of eleven years and won his first two titles with the italian team in 2007 and 2008, before moving on to drive for red bull. there, he won his second championship in 2010 – only to move back to ferrari and take his last title with them the following season. as of early 2021, he's the head of the ferrari driver academy.

– y/n began karting at the age of seven, starting off with being coached by her father but later moving on to getting a trainer of her own. she joined the red bull junior team for her last year of karting and has stayed in the academy ever since.

– american f2 driver jak crawford joined the junior team one year later, and he and y/n found each other instantly. the two have been best friends, as well as neighbors, since then.

– y/n began being romantically involved with teammate paul aron during the summer break of the 2022 freca season. however, the pair split up almost a year later. she then started dating ferrari academy driver oliver bearman in late july 2023.

– y/n was homeschooled between ages 14 and 16 so that she could focus more on her driving.

– besides racing, her interests include skiing, baking, reading, and journaling.

– despite often being held back by her own performance anxiety and imposter syndrome, she is very set on and clear about her goal; getting into formula one. she has claimed that she will never truly be satisfied until she stands on the top step of the podium after an f1 race like her father did so many times.

series masterlist

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

A U.S. Marine with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, moves through a simulated mine field during Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) 3-23 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, April 16, 2023.

(Photo by Lance Cpl. Justin J. Marty)

[ferrarisbabygirl]

HI I WANNA TALK ABOUT YOUR TAAAGGGGS

YES YES YES YOURE EXACTLY RIGHT!!

This is a PROCESS

This is going to take YEARS but it is ALREADY WORKING!

It has WORKED more than ANYTHING ELSE THATS BEEN TRIED

we just need TIME

you’re so fucking right i’m screaming omg

i honestly love you so much for this post!! i usually find so hard to talk about f1 academy and have been on a few discussions on whether it is/will work - was called many names on twitter when i dared say that max was wrong in suggesting the cars needed to be faster lmao - so it's incredible to find someone who seems to get it.

f1 academy is a baby little series. just to put it in perspective 2024 is its second year and the first fully televised year... many point out to the girl's age being "too high for f4" and don't realize that this is the problem, in 2023 we simply didn't have that many 14, 15 or 16 year old girls ready to step up to single seaters for the first time that's why the age started so high and f1a's own karting program is what's changing this.

like you said in the post so many of the girls are leaving f1 academy with a much better career than they started and that is so important. just like not every f4, f3 or even f2 guy will reach f1 not every f1 academy girl will reach other single seat categories in the road to f1 and that's ok. lola lovinfosse, nerea marti and carrie schriner are some of the competitors who will be graduating from f1a with maybe not the most luxurious careers but with careers in a field they love and connections for future teams and sponsors.

i really think those who say "f1 academy isn't working" are either ignorant to the fact or choose to ignore their work in the champions of the future championship and in other areas of karting

tldr: i love f1 academy and believe in their potential so so so much it's insane <3

[bg-sparrow]

mcfly july 2023 || day 25 Timebomb

xv.

Marty squirmed when his evil counterpart dropped the watch in his lap.

“We’re on the same side of the mirror,” No Pines Marty said. “Every clock you’ve laid eyes on has been counting down to the moment you become me.”

Marty froze. They were all digital; he wouldn’t notice the seconds winding backward.

Restaurant – 12:56.

Bank – 9:17. 

(He wasn’t seeing things when it changed to 9:16; he thought part of the “8” was burned out.)

Microwave – 2:00.

 Now – 00:01:15.

“I’ll never be you,” Marty spat. “You let the Doc die.”

“No,” No Pines Marty admonished with a chuckle. “You did.”

[beardedmrbean]

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. and his wife are both charged with physically and emotionally abusing their teen daughter, officials announced Monday. 

Small, a 50-year-old Democrat, and his wife, La’Quetta Small, 47, are charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said. Marty Small is also charged with third-degree terroristic threats, third-degree aggravated assault and disorderly persons simple assault. 

La’Quetta Small, who is the superintendent of the Atlantic City Public Schools, is also charged with disorderly persons simple assault. 

Investigators said the Smalls physically and emotionally abused their daughter on multiple occasions between December 2023 and January 2024 when she was 15 and 16 years old. During one incident, Small struck his daughter several times in the head with a broom, causing her to lose consciousness, according to investigators. 

During another incident in which they were arguing, Small continuously threatened to hurt his daughter by “earth slamming” her down the stairs, grabbing her head, throwing her to the ground and smacking the weave out of her head, investigators said. During another incident, Small punched his daughter repeatedly in her legs causing bruising, according to officials. 

La’Quetta Small at one point allegedly punched her daughter multiple times on her chest, leaving bruising. During another incident, La’Quetta Small dragged her daughter by her hair and struck her with a belt on her shoulders, leaving marks, investigators said. She also allegedly punched her daughter in the mouth during an argument. 

Reached by text Monday, Mayor Small refused to comment on the charges and directed NBC Philadelphia to his attorney, who didn’t immediately comment.

La’Quetta Small didn’t immediately comment on the charges.

Atlantic City's spokesperson on Monday declined to comment on the allegations and directed all questions to the mayor's attorney.

Mayor Small’s home was searched back on March 28. On April 1, Small, his wife and their daughter attended an Atlantic City news conference in which the mayor said he had “nothing to hide.” He also denied rumors that his daughter was pregnant and that his wife struck her while his son filmed the assault.

Small also discussed the arrest of Atlantic City High School principal Constance Days-Chapman on charges that she did not notify the proper authorities when a student told her that they were being “emotionally and physically abused by the juvenile’s parents.”

The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office’s Special Victims Unit investigated the case. If you have any further information, please call the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office at 609-909-7800.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The Bezzle excerpt (Part V)

I'm on tour with my new novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT in SAN DIEGO (Feb 22, Mysterious Galaxy). After that, it's LA (Saturday night, with Adam Conover), Seattle (Monday, with Neal Stephenson), then Portland, Phoenix and more!

I'm out on tour with my new novel, The Bezzle, a cyberpunk revenge thriller about Marty Hench, a two-fisted forensic accountant, and a guerrilla war he wages on a prison-tech provider that treats incarcerated people as assets to be strip-mined:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/22/self-censorship/#acab

As part of the promotion for the book, I've been serializing an excerpt: Chapter 14, in which Marty takes on a side-quest to recover the stolen royalties of one-time funk star Stephon Magner (AKA Steve Soul) which were stolen by his scumbag manager and then sold on to an even scummier sample-licensing clearinghouse.

Today, I bring you part five, in which Marty's simple cross-referencing project is violently altered by an encounter with the criminal gangs of the LA Sheriffs Deputy departments, a real crime-syndicate whose reign of terror continues to this day:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-17/dozens-of-lasd-deputies-ordered-to-show-suspected-gang-tattoos-reveal-others-who-have-them

I'm posting this installment en route to San Diego, where I'll be appearing tonight at Mysterious Galaxy

https://www.mystgalaxy.com/22224Doctorow

From there, it's back to LA, where I'm appearing on Saturday evening with Adam Conover at Vromans:

https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Cory-Doctorow-discusses-The-Bezzle

And then on Monday I'll be at Third Place Books with Neal Stephenson:

https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/cory-doctorow

From there, I'm off to Portland, Phoenix, Tucson and points further:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

Here's part one of the serial:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/17/the-steve-soul-caper/#lead-singer-disease

Part two:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/19/crad-kilodney-was-an-outlier/#copyright-termination

Part three:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/20/fore/#lawyer-up

Part four:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#poacher-turned-keeper

And now, part five!

The storefront had an old break room with a first-­aid kit, and a bathroom with a sink. I sponged myself clean in the mirror, ate two expired Aleves and three 200 mg expired Tylenols out of the kit. The ass was ripped most of the way out of my pants, so I moved my wallet to my front pocket, which my massage therapist had been nagging at me to do for years.

I opened the door more carefully this time and limped out into the parking lot. My rental—­a little red Civic—­was the only car left in the parking lot, except for a rusted junker with no tires that was the perennial sentry of its farthest corner.

I bipped the doors open with my fob, checked the back seat, then slid inside. I checked my reflection in the rearview mirror and winced, which pulled at my bruises and set blood oozing from my lip and cheekbone again, which made me wince harder. I was already halfway to Quasimodo and I tried to remember if there was a 7-­Eleven on the route home where I could buy a couple of bags of frozen peas for the swelling.

I reset the mirror and backed out of my spot. The pain was increasing. They’d have Advil at the 7-­Eleven, and I’d remembered where there was one on the way back to my Airbnb.

As I waited for a red light at Eagle Rock and Colorado Boulevard, I watched as a homeless man labored across the road with his shopping cart. I was still watching him when I realized the light had been green for some time and had just toggled yellow. I made the turn and headed up Colorado, but I was barely a hundred yards down the road when I heard a siren blat and saw the police lights. I checked my mirrors and saw the LASD cruiser directly behind me, racing right up to my bumper, slowing only at the very last moment. The cruiser’s high beams blinked insistently and the siren whooped.

I pulled over.

I waited while the officer slowly got out of his car and walked to my driver’s-­side window. I kept my hands at ten and two. The officer tapped my window and made a roll-­down motion, so I hit the button, moving slowly, putting my hand back.

I got a light in my face, squinting and thus reopening my cheekbone and lip.

“Everything all right, sir?”

“Yes,” I said, feeling the blood ooze down my chin. “I was beaten up,” I said, stating the obvious.

“That is unfortunate,” the officer said. “License and registration.”

I got my driver’s license out of my wallet and found the rental papers in the glove box and handed them over. He crunched back to his cruiser and I watched him in the side mirror. He’d left his cruiser’s headlights on and in the glare it was hard to tell, but it looked like there was another cop in the car whom he was conferring with. After a long delay, he came back.

“Step out of the car, please.”

I did. He turned me around and had me plant my hands on the hood, kicked my feet apart, and roughly frisked me, getting his hand inside the rent in the seat of my pants and patting my boxer shorts and giving my balls a hard squeeze.

“Sir, do you know why I stopped you?”

“I don’t,” I said.

“You proceeded unsafely through a traffic signal. Have you been drinking, sir?”

“I haven’t.”

“Have you consumed any cannabis or other drugs?”

“I haven’t.”

He turned me around and shone his light in my eyes. “If I search your car, am I gonna find any drugs?”

“No, sir.”

“Because I am gonna search that car and if I do find drugs and you’ve been lying to me, this is gonna be a lot worse than it needs to be.”

I didn’t dignify that with a response. My head hurt. My face hurt. My back hurt. This was a bullshit stop.

I expected the deputy’s partner to get out of the cruiser while my tormentor tossed the rental car, but he stayed put. I did, too. Obviously. I wasn’t going to take off on foot. I’m a forensic accountant, not a gang kid getting fifteen minutes of fame on Cops.

He spent long enough on the rental that I started to worry. Who knew what some previous driver might have shoved between the seats? But after pulling out the floor mats and tossing them onto the grassy verge beside the car, he finally stood up.

“All right, sir. I’m going to go and get a breathalyzer test. You can refuse it and I will then suspend your license for twenty-­ four hours. I will arrest you for a suspected DUI and bring you in for a blood test. If you fail that test, you will be subject to additional criminal penalties. Do you understand me?”

He had old coffee on his breath. My face hurt. “I’ll take a test.”

Back to the cruiser. It had been half an hour at least. Once the breathalyzer was done—­fifteen minutes, if memory served—­I could go to the 7-­Eleven for painkillers and frozen peas. I decided I’d add a six-­pack, I was so tired. My face hurt. I knew that mouthing off to this cop wouldn’t make things go faster, quite the opposite, but as he took his leisurely time coming back to me, I was hard-­pressed not to.

I blew. “May I sit down?” I asked. “My face hurts.”

He didn’t bother to look up from his phone. “Stay where you are, sir.”

I stood. My face hurt. Time crawled. Finally, the breathalyzer beeped. He held it up and squinted at it, then used his phone to light up its face.

When he did, his sleeve rode up and revealed the “998” tattoo on his forearm. Suddenly, I didn’t care so much about the pain in my face.

The cop looked at me. He was an older guy, but quite a silver fox, in a Clooneyoid sort of way. Had the same smile lines at the corners of his lips and eyes. But on him, they looked mean. Dangerous. A man who would smile at you while he beat your face in.

“All right, sir,” he said. “I’m going to write you a citation for reckless driving and you will be free to go.” He smiled. “Thank you for your cooperation.” It sounded like “fuck you.”

Back to the cruiser again. When he was done writing, he switched off his headlights, and the bubble light inside the car lit up his partner. Heavyset. Smiling. Excellent teeth. He gave me the same look as he had just before kicking me in the ribs. I gasped involuntarily and my ribs burned. His smile got bigger.

The Clooneyoid deputy returned with my ticket. I looked at it and then I realized he’d said “reckless driving”—­not “dangerous driving.” This was a summons, not a citation. For a misdemeanor. Two points off my license and I’d have to go to court. Depending on the judge, I could be in for fines or even a jail sentence.

Clooneyoid saw me figuring this out and he smiled, too. Everyone was having a great time tonight except for poor old Marty Hench.

“See you in court, sir,” he said.

I exercised extreme care on the drive to the 7-­Eleven, even backing out of my parking spot and reparking so that I was perfectly centered between the white lines. The clerk didn’t bat an eye at my hamburger face. I gave myself five minutes to bury my bruises in the frozen peas before I backed out and drove the rest of the way to my Airbnb.

I drove five under the limit the whole way, and when I got out of my rental, I looked long and hard up and down the street for an LA Sheriff’s Department cruiser.

ETA: Here's part six!

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[rustbeltjessie]

Dear You,

It’s the middle of April, aka Poetry (Writing) Month, which means all I care about right now is poetry. But really, all I ever care about is poetry. By which I mean I care about life. Like the other week, being out with my queer and trans friends at the Queer Youth Assemble rally, and how we were all dressed up in our Most Gender finery, all of us chorusing to each other: “Dude, girl, you look fabulous.” Like how every time my partner and I drive past a house that still has a Dan Kelly sign in the yard—even though he motherfuckin’ lost—my partner says “looo-ser” and I make a fart noise. That is poetry. Like sitting in my backyard and watching squirrels leap and roll around in unbridled squirrely joy. Like sitting in my backyard and all the sounds: two sparrows flying so low overhead I can hear the soft whirr of their wings; the kids down the street shooting hoops, thump thump squeak thud swish. That is poetry. Like driving to the grocery store and seeing a van with “Grilled Cheese Mobile” stenciled on the back. Like cooking dinner while listening to my favorite radio station, and the DJ playing two of my all-time favorite songs in a row: The Replacements, “Can’t Hardly Wait,” followed by The English Beat, “Save it for Later.” Even my kids waking up at the buttcrack of dawn today, and waking me and their dad up, too, and how I’ve been slightly bleary all day and the world feels worn around the edges. To quote Marty Cain: Motherfucker that is poetry.

—Jessie Lynn McMains, from “That Is Poetry” (Reckless Chants at Substack, April 16, 2023)

[miyamorana]

Miya's 2023 Fanfic Recs Part 4

Here are all the cool, complete fics I’ve read this year. Separated into 5 posts because there’s nearly a hundred of them.

PART 4: VIDEO GAMES, MOVIES AND BOOKS (16)

Back to the Future (3)

Baldur's Gate 3 (1)

D&D: Honor Among Thieves (1)

Dragon Age (6)

Harry Potter (2)

Percy Jackson & Related Fandoms (3)

Part 1: Boku no Hero Academia (33) Part 2: Other Anime and Cartoons (20) Part 3: Television (16) Part 5: Crossovers (11)

Fandom: Back to the Future Title: Muscle Memory Authors: irisbleufic, leaper182 Pairing: Emmett “Doc” Brown/Marty McFly Rating: Explicit Word Count: 62,600 Summary: “Then why were we kissing, Doc?” Marty demanded. “I think I’d remember kissing you before actually kissing you!”

Fandom: Back to the Future Title: it is the dawn; time has shifted Author: Edgebug Pairing: Emmett “Doc” Brown/Marty McFly Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Word Count: 16,184 Summary: The flux capacitor shakes, screams, explodes. Marty and Doc deal with the aftermath.

Fandom: Back to the Future Title: A Matter of Time Author: breakaway71 Pairing: Emmett “Doc” Brown/Marty McFly Rating: General Audiences Word Count: 14,096 Summary: Marty is going to save Doc’s life, and if Doc won’t let him do it the easy way, if he’s so determined to stick to his damn principles and never read Marty’s note, well then, Marty’s going to do it the only other way he has left.

One day at a time.

-

(or: Marty returns to 1985 only to find that his best friend is gone and everyone in his family are strangers to him. Obviously, the only thing left for him to do is fix the time machine and go back to 1955. Easier said than done, of course.)

Fandom: Baldur’s Gate 3 Title: Devil’s Tongue Author: ushauz Pairing: Astarion/Wyll Rating: Mature Word Count: 6,554 Summary: Actor Feat: Your Charisma increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. Your Proficiency Bonus is also doubled for Deception and Performance checks.

A devil’s magic, as it turns out, involves a lot of lying to make it work. Wyll works overtime to perfect it.

Fandom: D&D: Honor Among Thieves Title: vicious mockery Author: andthentheybow Pairing: Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar, Simon Aumar/Doric Rating: Mature Word Count: 4195 Summary: “He doesn’t use magic,” Doric says, jutting her chin toward Edgin. Holga makes a noise that might be described as a grunt. Simon nods and takes another bite of stew. “Is it another tragic backstory thing?“

Simon looks like he’s about to speak through a mouthful of stew, then thinks better of it and swallows first. “Don’t ask me.” Doric gives him a look and turns to Holga.

“I don’t know,” Holga says. “Probably.”

Five times Edgin actually uses magic, and one time he doesn’t.

Fandom: Dragon Age (Dragon Age II) Title: Paper and Cotton Author: calligraphypenn Pairing: Anders/Fenris Rating: Teen Word Count: 14,835 Summary: Over the centuries, there developed in the Circle of Magi a tradition of showing affection, regard and intent through the giving of small, practical trinkets. It became a way to dodge any suspicion from the Circle authorities–who could object to the gift of some paper, or a single coin? In which Fenris is a practical elf, and accidentally tells Anders through tokens that he likes him VERY MUCH. But (at first) Fenris has no idea, and Anders is daily more baffled and suspicious. As seen on Tumblr, and now with lovely art by AO3 user Prudabaga.

Fandom: Dragon Age (Dragon Age II) Title: Chances Are Author: calligraphypenn Pairing: Anders/Fenris Rating: Teen Word Count: 9,065 Summary: Anders knows what it’s like, being hunted. When Fenris isolates himself in his mansion and keeps his health issues to himself, Anders puts aside their enmity to help him. As seen on Tumblr.

Fandom: Dragon Age (Dragon Age II, Dragon Age Origins: Awakening) Title: All of Me Author: Nikki66 Pairing: Anders/Fenris Rating: Explicit Word Count: 135,099 Summary: When Fenris learns he possesses magic, his life is forever changed. His friends support him, but can he cope with becoming his own greatest enemy? Salvation is just a mage away.

Fandom: Dragon Age (Dragon Agee II, Dragon Age: Inquisition) Title: Overthinking It Author: Starla-Nell (Princess_Nell) Pairing: Fenris/Dorian Pavus Rating: Explicit Word Count: 25,513 Summary: Fenris joins the Inquisition and meets Dorian. Somehow, they don’t kill each other. Wait, they’re friends? Wait they -? Oh. Oh, my.

Fandom: Dragon Age (Dragon Age II, Dragon Age Origins, Dragon Age Origins: Awakening) Title: Paths Cross  Author: Starla-Nell (Princess_Nell)  Pairing: Alistair/Bethany Hawke Rating: Teen Word Count: 4,149 Summary: Written for the Prompt: Alistair/Bethany Would love fics about these two adorable people crossing paths! AUs welcome, fluff and sweetness strongly preferred. No non-con, please.

Fandom: Dragon Age (Dragon Age: Inquisition) Title: A Herald Named Desire Author: ushauz Pairing: Male Adaar/Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus Rating: Unrated Word Count: 360,894 Series: Part 1 of Tales of Desire (Words: 396,552��- Works: 3) Summary: In which ‘Adaar’ is totally not a desire demon from the Fade, because Haven is a camp filled with Templars. Also morals and mortals are both confusing, and he would really just like to go home now please.

Fandom: Harry Potter Title: Left of the Line  Author: JoWithTheFlow Pairing: None Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Word Count: 18,646 Summary: It started, as many things did, with Cedric. They had been stronger when they worked together, a Hufflepuff and a Gryffindor, embodying the best traits of their house each and using them to fight and win against the spider in the maze. It had been the seed of an idea that bloomed in Harry’s fifth year—the Houses were stronger together. To survive, he needed not just bravery, but hard work, wisdom, and resourcefulness too.

It wasn’t just about him, either. They all needed each other. 

Fandom: Harry Potter Title: Forever, preferably Author: JoWithTheFlow Pairing: Harry Potter/Tom Riddle Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Word Count: 67,690 Summary: There was another student here.

Tom recognized him vaguely—while transfer students were not necessarily uncommon due to the war, they were rare enough to at least make an impression. This particular transfer student was in his year, sorted into Ravenclaw after an impressively long hat stall. He looked like he might be descended from the Potter line, but he did not share the surname so his lineage was of no particular interest to Tom. Nothing about him was of particular interest to Tom, in fact, and yet here he stood, holding the book that Tom had come here to find.

It would be a good time to turn away. The Restricted Section was restricted for a reason—only books documenting extremely dangerous or extremely advanced magic were stored here.

Tom’s feet, however, suddenly felt as if they were made of lead. It wasn’t magic keeping him tied down, but something far more mysterious like curiosity or even fate. In any case, the delay was all it took for the Ravenclaw to lift his chin and meet Tom’s eyes.

This Ravenclaw, Tom realized, had eyes as blindingly green as the Killing Curse.

Fandom: Percy Jackson & Related Fandoms Title: Be Sure to Tip Your Waiter (For He’s On His Last Dime) Author: inkncoffee Pairing: None Rating: Teen Word Count: 4,515 Series: Part 1 of Three and a Half Stars (Words: 10,085 - Works: 2) Summary: Being a demigod doesn’t pay too well (or, you know, at all) so Percy gets a job at a local restaurant. When girls ask him to switch tables with them to escape getting hit on by creepy guys, he always agrees. He’s in for a bit of a surprise one night when he recognizes one of the creepy guys.

Fandom: Percy Jackson Title: Spare the Rod Author: GwendolynStacy Pairing: None Rating: Teen Word Count: 11,980 Summary: After the war against Kronos, Nico is cursed with obedience by Demeter. Unable to leave the camp or tell anybody about his dilemma, Nico’s only hope is for somebody to figure out what has happened. Too bad nobody at camp knows him well enough to tell that something’s wrong.

Fandom: Percy Jackson & Related Fandoms Title: if you need, come build your home in me Author: yrbeecharmer Pairing: Nico di Angelo/Will Solace Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Word Count: 326,495 Series: Part 1 of so collect your scars and wear them well (Words: 344,991 - Works: 4) Summary: Even though the world keeps falling down around him, Will Solace can’t seem to help but keep growing up.

(A series rewrite starting with the events of Titan’s Curse)

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BBC said Russian fighter pilot tried to shoot down RAF surveillance plane RC-135 in September 2022

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 09/16/2023 - 10:00am Military

A Russian Su-27 fighter pilot allegedly tried to shoot down a Royal British Air Force (RAF) RC-135 Rivet Joint surveillance aircraft, according to the BBC broadcaster.

One of the two Russian Su-27 fighters that followed an unarmed RC-135 reconnaissance plane of the Royal Air Force “sped” a missile into international airspace off the coast of Crimea annexed on September 29, 2022, the former British Defense Minister said weeks after the incident.

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London accepted Moscow's explanation at the time that the "release" of the missile was a technical malfunction, former Defense Minister Ben Wallace said in a statement to the House of Commons.

It seems that the pilot believed he had received authorization to fire, which he did twice. The first missile would have missed the target, unlike the official version given by Russia last September, which mentioned a "technical malfunction".

Three important Western defense sources would have confirmed to the BBC that Russian communications were intercepted and that they tell a very different story.

On September 29, 2022, the RAF (Royal Air Force) RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft was carrying out a surveillance mission over the Black Sea when it encountered two Russian Su-27 fighters. Only one of the two pilots fired an air-to-air missile, apparently following an ambiguous order from its ground controller. The words received by the pilots were, according to a source quoted by the BBC, "You have the target". The missile was successfully launched, but did not reach the target. It is, therefore, a failure and not a malfunction.

The Russian pilot was then reprimanded by his colleague on the second plane, who did not interpret the order in the same way. Despite this exchange, the first pilot fired a second missile, which fell from the wing - suggesting that the weapon was defective or that the launch was aborted.

Leaked confidential materials and two anonymous U.S. defense officers released details of the "misinterpreted" instructions to the New York Times earlier this year.

The British Ministry of Defense, which refused to disclose details of the intercepted communications, classified the NYT report as "false, manipulated or both".

“Our intention has always been to protect the safety of our operations, avoid unnecessary escalations and inform the public and the international community,” a spokesman for the British Ministry of Defense told the BBC in response to the latest revelations.

The BBC noted that London was reluctant to provide details of the near accident in order to avoid an escalation with Russia and keep its information collection capabilities secret.

Since the incident, RAF surveillance flights have been escorted by Eurofighter Typhoon jets armed with air-to-air missiles.

Tags: Military AviationRAF - Royal Air Force/Royal Air ForceRC-135 Rivet JointRussiaSu-27 Flanker

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Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Daytona Airshow and FIDAE. He has work published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work throughout the world of aviation.

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Marty Friedman Reunite With MEGADETH In Tokyo

Marty Friedman joined the for three songs, "Countdown To Extinction", "Tornado Of Souls" and "Symphony Of Destruction". Pro-shot video of their full show can be viewed below.

February 27, 2023 @ Budokan, Tokyo Personnel: Dave Mustaine - guitars, lead vocals Kiko Loureiro - guitars, backing vocals James LoMenzo - bass, backing vocals Dirk Verbeuren - drums Marty Friedman (as the special guest) - guitars

Setlist: 01. "Hangar 18" 02. "Dread And The Fugitive Mind" 03. "The Threat Is Real" 04. "Angry Again" 05. "Soldier On!" 06. "Sweating Bullets" 07. "Trust" 08. "Conquer Or Die!" 09. "Dystopia" 10. "A Tout Le Monde" 11. "Countdown To Extinction" (with Marty Friedman) 12. "Tornado Of Souls" (with Marty Friedman) 13. "Symphony Of Destruction" (with Marty Friedman) 14. "We'll Be Back" 15. "Peace Sells" Encore: 16. "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due"

External links: WOWOW (Japan) / Driift Live (Overseas)

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47ème compétition mondiale des métiers WorldSkills : les Bourguignons-Francs-Comtois à l’honneur

Les finales mondiales de la 47ème édition de la compétition des métiers WorldSkills France se sont déroulées du 10 au 15 septembre 2024 à Lyon. Willy Bourgeois, Vice-Président de la Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté en charge des lycées, de l’offre de formation, de l’apprentissage et de l’orientation, Frédéric Poncet, Conseiller régional délégué en charge de l’orientation, et Océane Godard, Conseillère régionale, participaient à cet événement pour soutenir l’équipe régionale. La 47ème édition des WorldSkills s’est achevée dimanche soir au Groupama Stadium de Lyon. Cette compétition, qui s’apparente à des Jeux olympiques des métiers réservés aux moins de 23 ans, voit s’affronter des jeunes du monde entier dans leur discipline respective. On y élit ainsi le champion du monde des jeunes boulangers, des peintres en bâtiment, ou des web-designers… Présente en nombre, la Chine a survolé le concours, en remportant 36 médailles d’or sur 66 possibles. L’équipe de France comptait cinq Bourguignons-Franc-Comtois. Tous les cinq sont ressortis du stade lyonnais avec la médaille d’excellence autour du cou ! Ils étaient soutenus avec enthousiasme par leur famille, mais aussi par leurs formateurs des lycées professionnels et centres de formation d’apprentis (CFA), ainsi que par leurs coachs au sein des entreprises. Pas moins de 140 personnes ont ainsi fait bloc à Lyon pour représenter la Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Durant les trois jours de compétition, l’équipe régionale des métiers n’a pas démérité, s’appuyant sur sa forte cohésion et sa solidarité. Véritable aventure collective pour les jeunes mais également tremplin professionnel, les compétitions des métiers sont un rendez-vous incomparable pour mettre en avant la richesse des compétences professionnelles et les talents de jeunes passionnés. La Région Bourgogne Franche Comté a accompagné l’équipe régionale des métiers depuis sa sélection lors du salon Explore les métiers, les 15 et 16 mars 2023 à Dijon, jusqu’aux compétitions nationales de septembre 2023, puis à ces compétitions internationales 2024. Le Conseil régional a ainsi organisé leur préparation physique et mentale avec 3 coachs sportifs et des regroupements afin de faire naître un collectif qui s’est révélé aussi enthousiaste que solidaire. Les lauréats en médaille d'excellence aux compétitions mondiales des métiers : Basile MENASSOL, CAO (Doubs), François MARTY et Thomas BEUCHOT, intégration robotique (Côte-d’Or), Raphaël CARVALHO et Sébastien LACROIX, mécatronique (Jura). Read the full article

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