#A. M. Schiff

[dame-de-pique]

Newmans Park, Nienstedten, Hamburg by A. M. Schiff, c.1920

[tatmanblue]

EDDA SPHYNX 04626 prb20- by Andreas Muhl Via Flickr: Multi Purpose Offshore Vessel, NOK Burg 09.01.2024.

[gilverrwrites]

Castiel NSFW Headcanons

Pairing: Castiel / GN!Reader

Rating: M/18+

Please remember: to give yourself time to rest.

Warning: Very brief mention of non/dub-con. Cas is kinda pervy and I love that for him.

Wants to and will deliver the most excellent and diligent aftercare, but you have to be vocal and specific about it. Communication is good, tell him what you need, and he will do it, everytime.

Actually prefers receiving oral over giving. Don’t get it twisted, he thoroughly enjoys the effect it has on you, and will do it over and over for you, but it’s a sensory thing. There’s just so many particles, and molecules on his tongue, it can be overwhelming.

Incidentally like A++ when it comes to dirty talk. He doesn’t really have a filter so he will have no problem telling you what he likes, how he’s feeling. Will check on you aften.

Does that feel good? Do you enjoy when I touch you like this? You look so beautiful when you cum for me. I love the way you feel around me.

However, until/unless you teach him the slang terms and how to use them, he will refer to most body parts by their anatomical names.

Is a top, but is very open to experimentation. Is happy to and enjoys bottoming/being pegged.

A switch, with predominately dom tendances.

Taking charge comes easily to him, and he can be very impatient/intolerant of having his orders disobeyed. Bratty behavior can be fun for him, if you’re into that sort of thing, but prefers service subs who will do as told and do it well. But does not like to be the boss all the time. He likes it when you top him, especially for slow, sensual sex.  If you’re more experienced than him and can show him new positions or foreplay.

On the subject of positions, top 3: Face-off, cowgirl, and seashell.

Art by Emily Schiff-Slater

Will ask/scold you to keep your eyes open and look at him frequently. Really enjoys watching your expressions/reactions, particularly your eyes.

Doesn’t like to restrain you with ropes and the likes, but does like using his body and/or his grace to pin you down and have his way with you.

Let him hold you down, get nice and deep inside, then look up at him with glazed eyes and let out a whimper; he may just cum on the spot.

Can and will go for hours if you let him, stamina is not an issue for him.

Especially for cock-warming. On the rare occasion he has downtime, he will happily spend all day with you on his lap, cock inside you just idly chatting, examining and teasing you as you gradually get more wound up and needy for him.

His wings and the space around their base (in between the shoulder blades) are highly sensitive. Just the brush of your finger is enough to get him riled up.

You have to inform him that it’s found upon to discuss your sex life unprompted with other people. Unless that doesn’t bother you.

Dean: Where the hell were you man?!? We’ve been prayin’! Cas: I heard you. I was busy engaging in coitus with [name]. ____ Sam: Cas I’m trying to explain something here, what is so important on your phone? Cas: [name] has sent me a photograph of their [redacted], I am uncertain of the best way to respond.

Does not particularly like sexting, as he finds it hard to concisely convey his thoughts through text. BUT he does get a thrill out of seeing and having your nudes be so easily accessible and for his eyes only.

Seldom masturbates but does watch a lot of porn. It’s for “research” in “understanding humans”. Totally not for inspiration.

If you suggest making your own DIY porn, he will jump on it. There may be some technical teething issues, but he is determined not to let that stop you. Would film it from the nightstand of something, not POV as he still wants to get lost in the moment and not have to worry about filming you from just the right angle.

Secretly a voyeur. Prior to any sexual/romantic relationship he may have ‘accidentally’ popped up and caught a glimpse (or more) of you, or his other human acquaintances getting their rocks of (be they alone, or with other people). During any relationship he likes watching you touch yourself, sometimes he’ll ask you to let loose and do it however you like, sometimes he prefers a more guided approach. So, telling you, where to touch, how much pressure, if and when you can reach your climax.

And of course, frottage/thigh riding. Watching you grind on him, per instruction, until you cum makes him giddy.

Very much enjoys a good cream pie. Typically, he’s not really into (his own) cum, it’s sticky and messy. But he cannot deny the rush of pride he feels when he see’s his own cum seeping out of you.  

Is often commando, it just feels more freeing, and allows for easer access. Yes he could just use his angel mojo, but there’s something more fun and a little sordid about doing it himself, or better yet, having undress him.

Same goes for you. He prefers stripping you by hand. It allows him more time to touch you, to feel your soft skin under his, to tease all the points of you that he knows makes you squirm.

[libraryofloveletters]

Hi, for your 6000 celebration (congratulations btw) could you pls write Daniel Riccardo x Hamilton!sister!reader soft launch where Lewis doesn't know until they post about it and he kinda freaks out a little bit, thank you and congratulations again 😁

I really liked how this one turned out // all photos are from instagram and/or pinterest -- face claim: naomi schiff - @naomischiff on instagram!

off limits.. sorta?

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ynhamilton: lover of all things mercedes

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mercadesamgf1: love when you come visit yn! 

danielricciardo: does that mean mclaren too ?

↪️ynhamilton: wrong M team Danny boy 

↪️danielricciardo: we use merc engines soooo 

lewishamilton: love you sis

lh44fan: you look so pretty this weekend!!

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ynhamilton: racing runs in the family 

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danielricciardo: can’t get me away from the car 

ynhamilton: worst caption ever 

↪️danielricciardo: please hush 

landonorris: yn posted a similar photo, are you copying her? 

↪️ynhamilton: he is 

↪️danielricciardo: I am not 

dr3fan: not lando calling them out 

lewis44: yn and dan interacting with each other so much is… sketchy ?? What’s going on ? 

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lewis44: I knew it!!

↪️landonorris: me too 

lewishamilton: this was now how I expected to find out you were seeing someone yn. 

↪️ynhamilton: you always says it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission lew <333

dn3fan: I want what they have!!!!

danielricciardo: thanks for not using ugly pics of me babe 

↪️ynhamilton: keep those for your birthday lover boy 

lnxdr34: the lando comment, the lewis comment, the daniel comment my head and heart are exploding!!!!!!!!

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Painting, 1894, American.

By Anders Zorn.

Portraying Freida Schiff in a pale pink evening dress.

Met Museum.

[unfug-bilder]

Lautes Mimimi aus Dresden schallt (wieder einmal) durch den Mediendschungel.

Was mich dabei irgendwie wundert:

Alle kennen die dortigen Hochwasser 2002, 2013, 2021 und 2023. Warum? Weil es auch da lautes Mimimi gab. Und die örtliche Bevölkerung hat sie alle erlebt.

Nun sollte man ja meinen, die sächsische Landesregierung habe seitdem bestimmt einiges getan, um ihr "Juwel" zu schützen.

Das scheint aber ganz und gar nicht der Fall zu sein. Wenn ihr euch die Mühe macht, nur nach Bildern zu "Hochwasser Dresden" ohne Jahreszahl zu googeln, dann findet ihr dieselben Orte, oft sogar dieselben Schiffe mit vergleichbaren Elbpegeln aus den o.a. Jahren.

Kurz: Die Stadt Dresden hat nicht nur ihre Brücken nicht gewartet (von repariert redet ja keiner mehr), sondern sich auch um den Hochwasserschutz in den letzten 22 Jahren offenbar NULL gekümmert. Und die CDU-Landesregierung, deren Staatskanzlei nicht nur keine 50 m vom Elbufer entfernt liegt *, sondern auch unmittelbar neben den Resten der Carolabrücke, hat ihnen nicht reingeredet, obwohl sie es wußten.

(*) "der BLICK ist so toll!"

Ausschnitt aus Google Maps:

Die Liste der Oberbürgermeister von Dresden seit 1990 habe ich aus Wikipedia auskopiert.

Wenn ihr also irgendwo lautes Mimimi aus der "Opferstadt" lest, dann zuckt mit den Schultern und klickt euch schnell woanders hin. Die lernen es da sowieso nicht mehr.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

SEP 22, 2023

The Senate has confirmed three top defense leaders. Last night it confirmed Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr. to replace Army General Mark A. Milley as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when he retires at the end of the month. Today, it confirmed General Randy A. George as Army chief of staff and General Eric M. Smith as Marine Corps commandant.

The Senate filled the positions at the top of our military by working around the hold extremist senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has put on more than 300 military promotions, allegedly because he objects to the government’s policy of providing leave and travel allowance for service members who have to travel to obtain abortions. 

Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post focused on the House Republicans today, though, when she wrote: “The GOP completely gone off its rocker—incapable of passing House spending, ranting and raving at AG, cooking up ludicrous and baseless impeachment, unable to greet Zelensky with joint session. This is not normal. This is egregious. You'd think the reporting would reflect it.”

Indeed, the House Republicans remain unable even to agree to talk about funding the government, let alone actually passing the appropriations bills Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) agreed to four months ago. Today, right-wing extremists in the House blocked a procedural vote over a Pentagon funding bill, keeping what is normally an easily passed bipartisan bill from even reaching the floor for debate. McCarthy acknowledged to reporters that he is frustrated. “This is a whole new concept of individuals who just want to burn the whole place down. It doesn’t work.”

The extremists do indeed appear unconcerned about the effects of their refusal to fund the government, and since they have the five or six votes they need to sink the measures McCarthy wants to pass with only Republican votes, this handful of representatives are the ones deciding whether the government will shut down. 

McCarthy could pass clean funding bills through the House whenever he wishes, but he refuses. To do so would mean working with Democrats, and that would spark a vote to throw him out of the speakership. And so, rather than keep the members in Washington, D.C., to work on the appropriations bills over the weekend, McCarthy recognized he did not have the votes he needs and sent them home.

The extremists are bolstered by former president Donald Trump, who posted on his social media platform today that the Republicans in Congress “can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden’s weaponized Government…. This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other Patriots. They failed on the debt limit, but they must not fail now. Use the power of the purse and defend the Country!” 

Experts say shutting down the government would not, in fact, end the former president’s legal troubles, but he is actually doing more than that here: he is trying to assert dominance over the country. As Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said: “Let’s be clear about what the former president is saying here. House Republicans should shut down the government unless the prosecutions against him are shut down. He would deny paychecks to millions of working families & devastate the US economy, all in the service of himself.”

Extremist leader Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) responded to Trump’s statement with his own: “Trump Opposes the Continuing Resolution” to fund the government,” he wrote. “Hold the line.” Ron Filipkowski of MeidasTouch noted: “House Republicans refuse to fund the government to protect Donald Trump.” 

Trump’s accusation that President Biden is weaponizing the Justice Department against him and others who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election is the opposite of what has really happened. Not only has Biden stayed scrupulously out of the Justice Department’s business—leaving in place the Trump-appointed leader of the investigation into Biden’s son Hunter, for example—but also we received more proof yesterday that it was Trump, not Biden, who weaponized the Justice Department against his enemies. 

Nora Dennehy, who abruptly resigned from former special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, explained in her confirmation hearing to Connecticut’s state supreme court yesterday that she quit because Trump’s Department of Justice was tainted by politics. Before joining the probe, she said, “I had been taught and spent my entire career at [the] Department of Justice conducting any investigation in an objective and apolitical manner.” 

But Trump and his loyalists expected Durham’s investigation to prove that there was a “deep state” conspiracy against him, and then–attorney general William Barr seemed to be working to support that fantasy, even though there was no evidence of it (as shown by the fact the investigation ultimately fizzled). Barr was, she thought, violating DOJ guidelines in his public comments about the investigation and in his consideration of releasing an interim report before the 2020 election.

“I simply couldn’t be part of it,” Dannehy said. “So I resigned.”

The resistance of the extremists to McCarthy’s leadership is spilling over into foreign affairs as well. Today, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky was in Washington, D.C., where he met with President Biden at the White House and with leaders at the Pentagon, and spoke to a closed-door session for the Senate. But he did not speak to the House of Representatives. While McCarthy met with him privately, the speaker maintained that “we just didn’t have time” for him to address the House. 

As part of their demands, House extremists want to cut funding for Ukraine’s defense. This would, of course, work to strengthen Russian president Vladimir Putin’s hand in his war against Ukraine. Earlier this month, former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan told MSNBC that it is “absolutely essential” to Putin that Trump win back the White House in 2024. “I think it is Putin's main lifeline in order to find some way to salvage what has been a debacle in Ukraine for him," Brennan said. "If Trump is able to return to the White House...Putin could have a like-minded individual that he can work with, detrimental to U.S. interests certainly and detrimental to Western interests overall.” The intelligence community assesses that Putin worked to help Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections, and is pushing pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine propaganda now.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III assured Zelensky that the U.S. will continue to support Ukraine and work with allies and partners to make sure it has the weapons it needs. Lara Seligman of Politico reported today that the Pentagon will continue to fund Ukraine operations even if there is a government shutdown. Military activities deemed crucial to national security can be exempted from being shuttered during a government shutdown.

And finally, 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch announced today that he will be stepping down as chair of his media empire, including both Fox Corporation, which includes the Fox News Channel (FNC), and News Corporation, which owns the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, among other newspapers. In 1996 the Australian-born mogul launched the Fox News Channel with media specialist Roger Ailes, who had packaged Republican presidential nominee Richard Nixon in 1968 by presenting him to audiences in highly scripted television appearances. 

The Fox News Channel initially presented news from a conservative viewpoint, but over time its opinion shows, delivered as if they were news, came to dominate the channel. Those shows presented a simple narrative in which Americans—overwhelmingly white and rural—wanted the government to leave them alone but “socialists” who wanted social welfare programs demanded their tax dollars. Isolated in the fantasy world of FNC, its viewers became such fanatic adherents to right-wing politics that FNC wholeheartedly trumpeted Trump’s Big Lie after he lost the 2020 presidential election because viewers turned away from FNC when some of its personalities acknowledged that Biden had won..

Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America, said today that “Murdoch created a uniquely destructive force in American democracy and public life, one that ushered in an era of division where racist and post-truth politics thrive.”  Margaret Sullivan, formerly the Washington Post’s media critic, wrote in The Guardian that FNC was “a shameless propaganda outfit, reaping massive profits even as it attacked core democratic values such as tolerance, truth and fair elections.” Murdoch, she wrote, wreaked “untold havoc on American democracy.”

Murdoch sees it differently. In his resignation letter, he attacked “bureaucracies” who wanted to “silence those who would question their provenance and purpose” and “elites” who “have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class.” “Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth,” he wrote. 

Forbes estimates that their media empire has enabled Murdoch and his family to amass a fortune of more than $17 billion.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[rebootgrimm]

Brands that are Pro-Israel under cut!!! Boycott them!!

Accenture

AccuWeather

ActionIQ

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AirBnB

Alaska Air

AllianceBernstein

Allianz

Amazon

Amdocs

American Airlines

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American Wire Group

Amwell

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Apple

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ArentFox Schiff

Ariel

Atlassian

Authentic Brands

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Bloomberg

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Bounty

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CareTrust REIT

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Chanel

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General Catalyst

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[twwpress]

Weekly Press Briefing #97: April 28th - May 4th

Welcome back to the Weekly Press Briefing, where we bring you highlights from The West Wing fandom each week, including new fics, ongoing challenges, and more! This briefing covers all things posted from April 28 - May 4, 2024. Did we miss something? Let us know; you can find our contact info at the bottom of this briefing!

Challenges/Prompts:

There are no open challenges or events on our radar this week. Do you have a challenge or event you’d like us to promote or know of one we’re missing? Be sure to get in touch with us! Contact info is at the bottom of this briefing.

This Week in Canon:

Welcome back to This Week in Canon, where we revisit moments in The West Wing that occurred on these dates during the show’s run.

Season 1, Episode 20: Mandatory Minimums aired on May 3, 2000.

Season 2, Episode 20: The Fall’s Gonna Kill You aired on May 2, 2001.

Season 3, Episode 18: Enemies Foreign and Domestic aired on May 1, 2002.

Season 4, Episode 21: Life on Mars aired on April 30, 2003.

Season 5, Episode 20: Talking Points aired on April 28, 2004.

Season 7, Episode 20: The Last Hurrah aired on April 30, 2006.

Photos/Videos:

Here’s what was posted from April 28 - May 4:

Allison Janney posted a promo video for Dule Hill’s new PBS show, The Expressway (and Bradley Whitford did too!). 

Allison Janney posted stills and video from the season finale of Palm Royale.

Amy Landecker posted a photo of herself and Brad with Luci Baines Johnson, former president Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughter, in Texas. 

Dule Hill posted photos of himself in D.C. advocating for the arts with The Creative Coalition. 

Josh Malina posted a photo of himself with his parents’ Omer counter. 

Josh Malina posted a clip of himself from The West Wing doing an unnecessary trick with a phone receiver. 

Marlee Matlin posted a photo of herself and her husband with their new granddaughter. 

Mary McCormack posted a fun fact from behind the scenes of The West Wing. 

Peter James Smith posted a photo of himself and the cast of Nora with Allison Janney and I, Tonya screenwriter Steven Rogers. 

Peter James Smith posted photos of himself and his castmates from the set of the play he’s in, Nora. 

Richard Schiff posted stills from The Good Doctor shouting out guest star (and his daughter) Ruby Kelley. 

Rob Lowe posted a photo of himself with horses while filming on location. 

Donna Moss Daily: April 28 | April 29 | April 30 | May 1 | May 2 | May 3 | May 4

Daily Josh Lyman: April 28 | April 29 | April 30 | May 1 | May 2 | May 3 | May 4

No Context BWhit: April 28 | April 29 | April 30 | May 1 | May 2 | May 3 | May 4

@twwarchive: April 29 | May 1 | May 3 | May 4

Fics:

Presenting your weekly roundup of fics posted in the tag for The West Wing on Archive of Our Own. 

Josh/Donna

Somebody loved by Shinyrosa | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

Fairytale Ending? by Tyrols | Not Rated | Josh Lymn/Donna Moss | In Progress

Other Pairings/Gen Fic

The Weight We Carry Is Love by piratequeenofgreenthings | Rated T | Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet | In Progress

An Intriguing Variable by silasfinch for justdreaming88 | Ellie Bartlet/Original Female Character(s) | In Progress

The Race by Goochie0014 | Rated M | No Characters/Pairings Listed | Complete

Multiple Pairings

War & Peace by miabicicletta for krazykitkat, onekisstotakewithme | Rated T | Danny Concannon/C. J. Cregg, Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Andrea Wyatt/Toby Ziegler, Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet | In Progress

THE WEEKLY PRESS BRIEFING TEAM CAN BE REACHED VIA THE FOLLOWING METHODS:

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Email: weeklypressbriefing@gmail.com

Feel free to let us know if we missed something, if you have an event you’d like us to promote, or if you have an item that you’d like included in the next briefing!

xx, What’s next?

[daughterofhecata]

Reading List 2023

Ocean Vuong: Night Sky With Exit Wounds

Alena Mornštajnová: Hana

Wolfgang Benz: Theresienstadt. Ein Geschichte von Täuschung und Vernichtung.

Jáchym Topol: Die Teufelswerkstatt [org. title: Chladnou zemí]

Ocean Vuong: Time is a Mother

Richard Siken: Crush

Ben Nevis: Die Drei ??? Die Yacht des Verrats

Frank Wedekind: Frühlings Erwachen (reread)

James Ellroy: Die Schwarze Dahlie [org. title: The Black Dahlia]

André Marx: Die Drei ??? und der Puppenmacher

Evelyn Boyd: Rocky Beach Crimes #2. Mord unter Palmen.

Peter Hallama: Nationale Helden und jüdische Opfer. Tschechische Repräsentationen des Holocaust.

Brigitte Johanna Henkel-Waidhofer: Die Drei ??? Späte Rache

Kim Newman: Professor Moriarty. The Hound of the D‘Urbervilles. (reread)

Vera Schiff: The Theresienstadt Deception. The Concentration Camp the Nazis Created to Deceive the World.

Evelyn Boyd: Rocky Beach Crimes #2. Mord unter Palmen. (reread)

Josef Bor: Die verlassene Puppe [org. title: Opuštěná panenka]

Kari Erlhoff: Rocky Beach Crimes #1. Tödliche Törtchen.

Susanna Partsch: Wer klaute die Mona Lisa? Die berühmtesten Kunstdiebstähle der Welt.

Kathy Reichs: Virals #1. Tote können nicht mehr reden. [org. title: Virals] (reread)

Arthur Schnitzler: Reigen (reread)

Evelyn Boyd: Die Drei ??? Teuflisches Foul

Faye Kellerman: Der Zorn sei dein Ende [org. title: The Hunt]

J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye

Władysław Szlengel: Was ich den Toten las [org. title: Co czytałem umarłym]

Hanna Krall: Dem Herrgott Zuvorkommen [org. title: Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem]

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed

Thomas Mann: Der Tod in Venedig

James Oswald: Natural Causes. An Inspector McLean Novel.

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar (reread)

Christoph Dittert: Die Drei ??? Melodie der Rache

Maria Rolnikaitė: Mein Tagebuch [org. title: Ja dolžna rasskazat']

Mark Thompson: Leatherfolk. Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice.

James Baldwin: Giovanni‘s Room

Christopher Tauber, Hanna Wenzel: Rocky Beach. Eine Interpretation.

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun

Jonathan Kellerman: Unnatural History. An Alex Delaware Novel.

Robert Arthur: Die Drei ??? und die Geisterinsel. [org. title: The Three Investigators in the Secret of Skeleton Island]

Evelyn Boyd: Rocky Beach Crimes #3. Eiskalter Rausch.

André Marx: Die Drei ??? Labyrinth der Götter

John Barth: Lost in the Funhouse

Langston Hughes: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes.

Claude McKay: Harlem Shadows. The Poems of Claude McKay.

Jonathan Kellerman: Exit. Ein Alex Delaware Roman. [org. title: Devil‘s Waltz. An Alex Delaware Novel.] (reread)

David Henry Hwang: M Butterfly

James Oswald: The Book of Souls. An Inspector McLean Novel.

Jonathan Kellerman: Time Bomb. An Alex Delaware Novel. (reread)

Manuela Günter: Überleben schreiben. Zur Autobiographik der Shoah.

Birgit Kröhle: Geschichte und Geschichten. Die literarische Verarbeitung von Auschwitz-Erlebnissen.

Alexander F. Spreng: Der Fluch (reread)

Sibylle Schmidt: Zeugenschaft. Ethische und politische Dimensionen.

Sibylle Schmidt: Ethik und Episteme der Zeugenschaft

Kari Erlhoff & Christoph Dittert: Die Drei ??? und die Salztote

Jeanette McCurdy: I‘m Glad My Mom Died

E.T.A. Hoffmann: Der Sandmann

Hendrik Buchna: Die Drei ??? Drehbuch der Täuschung

Michael Scott: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #2. The Magician. (reread)

Alain Locke: The New Negro

Mascha Kaléko: Großstadtliebe. Lyrische Stenogramme.

Marco Sonnleitner: Die Drei ??? Der Tag der Toten

Georg Heym: Gedichte [herausgegeben von Stephan Hermlin]

Rose Ausländer: Hinter allen Worten. Gedichte. [herausgegeben von Helmut Braun]

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

Paul Celan: Ausgewählte Gedichte. Zwei Reden. [herausgegeben von Günther Busch]

Rich Cohen: Lake Shore Drive [org. title: Lake Effect]

Jan T. Gross: Neighbors. The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland.

Kathy Reichs: Virals #2. Nur die Tote kennt die Wahrheit. [org. title: Seizure]

Jonathan Kellerman: Bones. An Alex Delaware Novel. (reread)

Akwaeke Emezi: You made a Fool of Death with your Beauty

Friedrich Schiller: Maria Stuart

Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho

Christian Handel: Die Hexenwald-Chroniken #2. Palast aus Gold und Tränen.

Maurice Leblanc: Arsène Lupin und der Schatz der Könige von Frankreich [org. title: L'Aiguille creuse]

E.T.A. Hoffmann: Nussknacker und Mausekönig

Marco Sonnleitner: Die Drei ??? Panik im Park

Ben Nevis: Die Drei ??? Tal des Schreckens

Michael Borlik: Ihr mich auch

Robert Arthur: Die Drei ??? und der grüne Geist [org. title: Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Green Ghost]

Barbara Köhler: Niemands Frau. Gesänge.

Christoph Dittert: Die Drei ??? Hotel der Diebe

Cornelia Funke: Tintenwelt #4. Die Farbe der Rache.

DNF:

Thomas Ziebula: Paul Stainer #1. Der rote Judas.

Faye Kellerman: Mord im Garten Eden [org. title: The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights]

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So I did some research on which silver and bronze age writers were behind certain Lex Luthor stories, and assigned them in this list:

Jerry Siegel

Adventure Comics #271 "How Luthor Met Superboy",

Superboy #86 "The Army of Living Kryptonite Men",

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #23 "The Curse of Lena Thorul",

Superman #149 "The Death of Superman",

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #64-65 (with Jack Schiff & Leo Dorfman)

Otto Binder

Superboy #121 "Jor-El's Visit to Earth",

Superboy #139 "The Town that Hated Superboy"

Edmond Hamilton

Superman #164 "The Showdown Between Superman and Luthor",

Superman #168 "Luthor -- Super-Hero!",

Action Comics #318 "The Death of Luthor!",

Superman #175 "Clark Kent's Brother"

Leo Dorfman

Action Comics #295 "The Girl With the X-Ray Mind",

Action Comics #296-298,

Adventure Comics #387-388 "Lex Luthor's Outlaw Nephew",

Action Comics #332 "The Super-Revenge of Lex Luthor",

Action Comics #363-365,

Action Comics #417-418 "The Conspiracy Of The Crime-Lords"

Len Wein

Superman #248 "The Man Who Murdered the Earth"

Elizabeth M. Smith

Action Comics #486 "Hero for a Day"

Elliot Maggin

Superman #286 "The Parasite's Power Play",

The Joker #7,

Superman #292 "The Luthor Nobody Knows",

Superman Annual #9,

DC Comics Presents Annual #4 "Welcome to Luthorcon III!",

Superman #416 "The Einstein Connection"

Cary Bates

World's Finest #189-190 "The Man With Superman's Heart",

Action Comics #407 "The Fiend in the Fortress of Solitude",

Action Comics #318 "Luthor's Hammer of Hate!",

DC Special Series #5,

Action Comics #510-512,

Action Comics #544 "Luthor Unleashed!", Superman #385-386,

Superman Annual #12

Martin Pasko

Action Comics #500,

Superman Family #214 "The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor"

Marv Wolfman

DC Comics Presents Annual #1

Misc:

Heroes Against Hunger - Various Writers

I was actually rather surprised by some of this. Finding out that Leo Dorfman wrote the Action Comics #363-365 "Leper from Krypton" arc, indicates he's actually been quite influential on Mark Waid, in my opinion. (And I definitely think that Cary Bates in particular influenced Grant Morrison. Bates' stuff ranges in quality a little, but the higher end stuff is fantastic.) I also didn't remember that it was Siegel who introduced Lena, and I was shocked to find out he co-wrote that mad Lex/Lois romance in earth-64.

And I didn't list every story, obviously. I just tracked down ones that were memorable to me for one reason or another.

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Magui recently unfollowed Naomi schiff, the sky reporter. They all got together at GP spain for a event. Lissie Mackintosh dropped that tiktok of them, which she deleted afterwards. M followed her then but Naomi never followed her back👀.

Naomi smart move.

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[draconigen-studios]

Lynix (Schiffsklasse)

Schiffe der Lynix Klasse haben eine stromlinienförmige, kompakte Bauweise, die darauf ausgelegt ist, sowohl im Weltraum als auch in der Atmosphäre verschiedener Planeten, hohe Geschwindigkeiten zu erreichen. Sie bestehen aus leichten und widerstandsfähigen Materialien wie Titanlegierungen oder speziellen Verbundstoffen, die eine hohe Festigkeit bei minimalem Gewicht bieten.

Daten:

Daten Besatzung 3 - 17 Personen Länge 105 Meter Volk Skaáhurii Modell Lynix Mk-1 Technologie Syn-Tech Atmosphärenflug geeignet Ja Antriebsart Syn-Tech Partikelstrahl und Impulsstrahltriebwerk Hangerplätze für 2 Kleine Shuttles am Heck Bewaffnung 4 modulare Geschütztürme und 6 feste modulare Waffelslots

Das Raumschiff ist mit einem fortschrittlichen Syn-Tech Partikelstrahl-Antriebssystem ausgestattet, sowie konventionellen Impulsstrahltriebwerken für den Einsatz in der Atmosphäre.  Bewaffnung:   Schiffe dieser Art können mit vielen verschiedenen Waffen modular ausgerüstet werden. Darunter zählen unter anderem, aber nicht ausschließlich Raketenwerfer, Railguns, Partikelkanonen und viele Weitere. Die Schützen werden zudem von einem leistungsstarken Zielcomputer unterstützt, der dazu konzipiert wurde, schnelle und präzise Angriffe durchzuführen, während sich das Schiff in Bewegung befindet.    

Technologie und Sensoren:  

Das Schiff ist mit Lang- als auch Kurzstreckensensoren ausgerüstet, welche vor allem zum Aufspüren von Schiffen als auch Bodentruppen entwickelt wurden. Diese sind in der Lage bis zu 150 m tief in Felsboden einzudringen und ein exaktes 3D Modell des Terrains zu generieren, die zwischen organisch und anorganisch unterscheiden können.  So ermöglicht es der Crew umfassende Berichte über die Umgebung zu erstellen, noch bevor diese betreten wird.     

Manövrierfähigkeit:   

Die Manövrierfähigkeit der Schiffe ist entscheidend für die militärische Einsatzfähigkeit. Es verfügt über agile Steuerflächen/-triebwerke, die schnelle Kursänderungen und hohe Wendigkeit sowohl im Vakuum als auch der Atmosphäre eines Planeten  ermöglichen.  Besatzung: Die minimale Besatzung beträgt 3 Personen, bestehend aus einem Piloten, einem Navigator und einem Technischen Crewmitglied.

Die maximale Besatzungsgröße beträgt 17 Personen, was der maximalen Anzahl an Quartierplätzen entspricht.   

Die Quartiere:

Die Lynixklasse besitzt insgesamt 4 Quartiere mit jeweils Platz für 4 Besatzungsmitglieder und ein Kommandantenquartier, das neben den Schlaf und Aufbewahrungsmöglichkeit auch einen Schreibtisch sowie Kommunikationsausrüstung und einen kleinen Besprechungstisch besitzt.     

Räumlichkeiten:

4 x Quartiere a 4 Betten

1 x Kommandantenquartier

1 x Labor/Krankenzimmer

1 x Waffenkammer

1 × Besprechungsraum

1 x Mannschaftsraum mit Küche

4 x Multifunktions-/lagerraum

1 x Hanger mit Platz für 2 Shuttles

[the-avaricious-meddler]

Mr Cards M. Cartes Herr Karten

M. Navires Herr Schiffe

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Ayşegül Sarıca (1935-2023)

Ayşegül Sarıca was born in Istanbul in 1935. She began learning piano from Ferdi Statzer at the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory. After finishing school, she went to Paris in 1951, and studied piano with Lucette Descaves and chamber music with Pierre Pasquier at the National Conservatory in Paris. After graduating conservatory in 1953, Sarıca worked with Marguerite Long. In 1959, Sarıca won the “Prix de la Ville de Paris” at the M. Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition.

She has given many concerts with famous conductors such as Karel Ancerl, Pierre Dervaux, Anatole Fistoulari, Louis Fourestier, Gotthold Lessing and Heinz Walberg in many countries: England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Russia, Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, Egypt, Tunis, Algeria, Iran, UAE, China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia. Since 1968, Sarıca has been a soloist of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra. She received the title of the State Artist in 1971. In 1974, she received the “Chevalier de I′Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” from the French Ministry of Culture. Sarıca has also given numerous recitals with many virtuosos such as Christian Ferras, Andre Navarra, Heinrich Schiff and Alexander Rudin.

In 1991, Sarıca played Cemal Reşit Rey’s “Kâtibim” with the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hikmet Şimşek. It was recorded onto the disc. Among her CDs are: violin-piano sonatas of Grieg, Debussy and Frank (with violinist Ayla Erduran); Mozart’s Symphony No.15 and No.23 (with Ankara Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Gürer Aykal); Beethoven’s Concerto No.3 and No.4 (with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra) and Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor (with Bilkent Symphony Orchestra). In addition, her recitals were also recorded onto the disc, which is including Moments Musicaux series.

Between 1991 and 2000, Sarıca taught master courses to students in the Faculty of Music and Stage Arts at Bilkent University. Since 1999, she has taught master and doctoral courses to students in the Institute of Advanced Research on Music at Istanbul Technical University. In 2006, Sarıca was awarded the “Merit of Honor" in music by the Istanbul Culture and Art Foundation. She has served as a jury member in numerous international piano contests.

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Natural Healers: Music and Nature - Blog 7

Music and nature, to me, are both artistic and beautiful. The sounds of nature, such as trees blowing in the winds, waves crashing along the shore, and birds chirping, are just some of the sounds that replicate music in nature. Pairing both nature and music together can have therapeutic effects, and I often find myself sitting or walking in nature with headphones on when I have a long or challenging day, but I also enjoy doing this when I am having a great day! No matter what, nature and music are intertwined and benefit one’s mental health.

Scientifically music has been proven to have therapeutic properties and has been proven to help heal disorders, including cerebral palsy and brain injuries, all by interacting with and stimulating our brains (Trimble and Hesdorffer, 2017). Similarly, nature has also been scientifically proven to improve our mental health. Spending time in nature and absorbing the beautiful sounds that nature creates has led to improved brain activity and ability, has aided in sleep, and influences more physical activity (Jimenez et al., 2021). I would completely agree with these studies, as a run or walk in nature with rhythmic music is so motivating and invigorating!

To dive into the music world, nature in music is prevalent in many songs, and one of the most well-known songs related to nature is “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong. Armstrong interprets nature by describing “trees of green, and clouds of white,” and with his descriptions, he mentions how wonderful our world is from a natural aspect. Music, in my opinion, is another method of storytelling that allows for history and science to be passed down, as well as cultural aspects! Songs related to nature can describe to people around the world what their environments look like, which can take a positive or a negative route. On a more negative yet necessary note, Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” uses music to convey the issues with the world, ranging from violence in the form of wars to violence against the environment. He explains that animals, like elephants and whales, and plants, such as flowering fields, are struggling and crying out to us due to the destruction we have caused. Music can tell positive and negative stories about nature, share history, connect to our emotional sides, and heal our mental health. Nature can also tell stories, benefit our mental health, and create music itself!

I am constantly listening to music and music from various genres! There is music for every mood that I am in, and it can help explain the emotions I feel. Some of my best memories of music are when I listen outside in the summer, lying on the beach in the sun! I often long of those times, especially in the cold winter months. Other memories include listening to music on long drives while I admire the beautiful fall colours on the side of the road.

Music and nature have significantly impacted my life and are most definitely intertwined! I am excited to read about everyone’s experiences with nature and music.

References

Jimenez, M. P., DeVille, N. V., Elliott, E. G., Schiff, J. E., Wilt, G. E., Hart, J. E., James, P. (2021). Associations between Nature Exposure and Health: A Review of the Evidence. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(9), 4790. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094790

Trimble, M., Hesdorffer, D. (2017). Music and the brain: the neuroscience of music and musical appreciation. BJPsych international, 14(2), 28–31. https://doi.org/10.1192/s2056474000001720