#Al Fess

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Al Fess

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Nova Amour

Obra de al fess

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[mxtantrights]

day court! reader and Azriel hash it out (mostly)

"If you are keeping something from me still, now is the time to fess up." you say.

Azriel turns to you with a look. Sharing a bottle of aged ale with the shadow singer wasn't on your list of things for today. But honestly the day just happened to spiral this way.

First you woke up late. So you missed a meeting you were supposed to attend. But Helion, being ever so nice, sent over the notes so that you could review.

And then you spilled water all over said notes when you were reading over them. So you had to try to remember them off the top of your head and rewrite them.

Then you almost missed lunch because of that. Which meant for four hours you were really hungry and angry at the same time which is not a good combination.

Lastly Azriel showed up at your door, with no words just his big black wings and his perfect hair and a bottle of ale.

So you invited him inside.

Now here you are, laying on the floor looking up through the glass ceiling at the stars. And passing a bottle back and forth with a male you weren't sure you could trust.

"You're one to talk." he says, at you wanting honesty from him.

"Okay then," you sit up and face him "Stability advisor is a made up role, I'm Helion's niece."

Azriel looks at you for a moment. Then he smirks. "I knew you two acted similarly, I just thought he was rubbing off on you."

"I fear it's the genetics." you answer jokingly.

"I didn't want you to leave for personal reasons." Azriel speaks. He looks away from you.

You find that when he's about to tell the truth, he does that. He looks away. Like he either can't stand to do it, or has trouble doing it.

"Those being..." you trail off.

"My guilt for how I treated you when I first met you, and after. I wanted to find a way to make it up to you." he answers.

You hold up the bottle of ale, "Consider this part of you 'making up for it'."

[blues824]

Happy Birthday!

Could I request Azul, Kalim, Jamil and Malleus with an s/o who's the queen of mages?

I am going to say Fem!Reader for this one.

Azul Ashengrotto 

He first found out that you were the Queen of all Mages not because of your royal air, but because of the fact that you were able to merely snap and all the contracts he had made burned up. You didn’t accumulate blot either, and while he overblotted you managed to kick his ass without flinching.

Then you confided in him that no one besides Crowley and the professors knew of your title. If you had asked him at the beginning of the year, he totally would have extorted that information just so he had the Queen of Mages under his thumb. However, he was a changed cecaelia. He is surprised, and a little nervous, but you say that he has nothing to worry about.

Kalim Al-Asim

Also had no idea at first, and he still doesn’t really know what it means. If you were the queen of all mages, then are you the queen of all magic itself? Or the queen of fairies? Or the queen of everyone? He has too many questions to ask, so you better be prepared to answer each one that belongs to his child-like curiosity. 

When Jamil was using his magic on him, you could see it, so you would use your (much more powerful) magic to reverse it and get Kalim out of his control. The poor Housewarden had no idea what was going on, and he was often left with blank moments in his memory. You would continue to use your magic to fill him in on those moments and fill in those blanks.

Jamil Viper

He was wondering why his hypnosis was not working on Kalim when he noticed that your eye color would change sometimes as well. That’s when he noticed that you were interfering with his plan. During his overblot as well, you just teleported everyone back to Scarabia. However, since you were a queen, you refused to hurt Jamil.

In the infirmary, you fessed up and told him that you were the crowned Queen of Mages, thus making you the #1 most powerful mage in Twisted Wonderland. He was surprised, but everything started connecting itself. To say that he felt betrayed would be an understatement, but you brought up the point that he betrayed the person that considered him his best friend.

Malleus Draconia

Let’s be honest, he already knew. You were way more powerful than he was, and you were the #1 most powerful mage, ahead of his own grandmother. He could sense it; your aura basically reeked of power. Instead of you bowing down to him, he bowed down to you. His two knights were in pure shock as they watched both him and Lilia bow down and pay homage to you.

Often, you both can be found around the campus, arm in arm as you observe the many gargoyles that NRC has to offer. You’ve even used your magic to create one for Malleus for his birthday, and it was the best gift that anyone had ever given him in his 178 years of life. He makes sure that it is polished by him and him alone.

[woso-fan13]

Whumptober 2023: 18 (Barca)

No. 18: “I tend to deflect when I’m feeling threatened.”

Blindfold | Tortured For Information | “Hit them harder.”

“Tell me the truth, darn it,” Mapi says harshly. There’s an angry expression on her face, her eyes hard. It’s so unlike her. 

You can’t speak, only shaking your head frantically in response. 

“Tell me, now,” she demands. 

Still, you can’t find the words. Your mouth is opening and closing, trying to force yourself to speak. 

She slams her hand on the table in front of you, making you jump. 

“Just fess up, it’ll make this whole thing easier.”

You look around, trying to find an escape. You think that you’ll be able to make it to the doorway without her catching up, but you’ll have to move now. Jumping to your feet, you run. As you move, you hear Mapi curse before chasing you. 

“You’re only getting yourself into more trouble,” she warns, her footsteps getting closer. 

In a stroke of luck, the elevator door opens and Alexia steps out just as the two of you are approaching. Seeing your Captain, you relax. 

“Al, help,” you beg, “Mapi’s trying to kill me.”

You’re breathless and clearly distraught. Alexia stops you as you run by, pulling you behind her. Now, she stands- fully in Captain mode- between the two of you. She doesn’t even need to say anything, simply fixing Mapi with a look. 

“I’m not, I promise,” she pauses, “I wasn’t trying to kill her at least, just hurt her.”

This clearly doesn’t help her case, she notices, as Alexia’s arm tightens around you. 

“It’s not what it sounds like.”

“So explain,” Alexia says sternly. 

“She- she,” Mapi’s struggling to get the words out, “she took my cookie.”

Alexia freezes for a moment, trying to process what she just heard. 

“She ate your cookie?” she clarifies. 

Mapi nods. 

“That’s a pretty serious allegation. Y/N, anything to say for yourself.”

“I didn’t know it was Mapi’s, I wouldn’t have eaten it. I thought it was an extra one.”

“Well, Y/N, you know you still can’t take what’s not yours. I have no choice but to surrender you to the proper authorities for your punishment.”

Alexia ignores your pleas as she directs you to stand in front of Mapi. The older woman has a wicked look in her eye. With Alexia keeping a firm hold on your shoulders, Mapi begins your punishment- her fingers attacking the most ticklish spots on your body. Before long, you’re shrieking in laughter, begging her to stop and apologizing for taking her cookie. 

[jessicas-pi]

This Is Getting Out of Hand Now There Are Two of ALL of Them or How to Train Your Mythosaur for the wip ask game please

This Is Getting Out of Hand Now There Are Two of ALL of Them (formerly titled *weird al intensifies* as a reference to his song I Think I'm A Clone Now) is an AU where the entire Ghost crew gets sent back in time to pivotal points in their past selves' lives!

Hera goes back to when her mother died.

Kanan goes back to Order 66 on Kaller.

Ezra goes back to when his parents were taken.

Sabine goes back to when she was left for dead.

Zeb goes back to the aftermath of Lasan.

Chopper does not go back in time because the galaxy could not survive two of him.

They all take on new names (that are sly references on my part to the things they were named after--e.g. Hera takes on the name Juno--tragically i have not figured out one for Zeb as i have no idea what he was named after, if he was named after anything) and adopt their past selves in one way or another. Emotional reunions abound as they all reunite with each other once more.

(Also, Hera was still pregnant with Jacen when she went back in time, so Jacen is there too! He's around the same age as past!Sabine and past!Ezra. Jacen knows about the time travel.)

They do not tell their past selves that they are them from the future. Past!Kanan figured it out because of their Force-presences, past!Hera caught on when future!Hera and future!Kanan reunited, and past!Zeb eventally caught on, but past!Ezra and past!Sabine are entirely clueless.

there's also a lot of matchmaking shenanigans. Future!Hera and future!Kanan are trying to set their past selves up together. Past!Sabine is certain that if only she can get her "cousin" and Ezra's "older brother" to 'fess up to their feelings and tie the knot, she can aggressively family-zone past!Ezra and he'll get over his crush (and therefore also get over his jealousy-fueled beef with Jacen, who is very aware of the irony of the situation but keeps his mouth shut and plays along because he thrives on chaos.) Future!Zeb and past!Zeb commiserate over the ridiculous nonsense of it all but still sometimes team up to lock past!Kanan and past!Hera in a closet together. it doesn't work. it never works.

(Unbeknownst to everyone, past!Kanan and past!Hera are actually already a couple and are just keeping it secret to mess with everyone.)

Chaos abounds. Things are fixed. Neither of the Kanans die. There is no purrgilling. All is happily ever after.

The End

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https://bit.ly/3Ac2KW1 im sorry i cant send it better... :( my phone messesup discord attatchments so i cant send discord links!!!! i hope this one makes you feel al ittle safer...

still not, just fess up and quit being anon if you really wanna send photos

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Al Fess

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Nova Amour Obra de al fess

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Todo sobre como matar al unicornio blanco

Isabel Coixet: Un amor

Au suivant Tout nu dans ma serviette qui me servait de pagne J'avais le rouge au front et le savon à la main Au suivant au suivant! J'avais juste vingt ans et nous étions cent vingt A être le suivant de celui qu'on suivait Au suivant au suivant! J'avais juste vingt ans et je me déniaisais Au bordel ambulant d'une armée en campagne Au suivant au suivant! Moi j'aurais bien aimé un peu plus de tendresse Ou alors un sourire ou bien avoir le temps Au suivant au suivant! Ce ne fut pas Waterloo mais ce ne fut pas Arcole Ce fut l'heure où l'on regrette d'avoir manqué l'école Au suivant au suivant! Mais je jure que d'entendre cet adjudant de mes fesses C'est des coups à vous faire des armées d'impuissants Au suivant au suivant!t Je jure sur la tête de ma première vérole Que cette voix depuis je l'entends tout le temps Au suivant au suivant! Cette voix qui sentait l'ail et le mauvais alcool C'est la voix des nations et c'est la voix du sang Au suivant au suivant! Et depuis chaque femme à l'heure de succomber Entre mes bras trop maigres semble me murmurer Au suivant au suivant! Tous les suivants du monde devraient se donner la main Voilà ce que la nuit je crie dans mon délire Au suivant au suivant! Et quand je ne délire pas j'en arrive à me dire Qu'il est plus humiliant d'être suivi que suivant Au suivant au suivant! Un jour je me ferai cul-de-jatte ou bonne sur ou pendu Enfin un de ces machins où je ne serai jamais plus Au suivant au suivant!

Au suivant au suivant!

Au suivant au suivant!

Jacques Brel

[solovedreidue]

David Daily, Directory of Mollusks

Cruditès e lumache con polenta

Il Gianni della Giuditta gestisce la vecchia trattoria del padre, quella dove lavora la Fagiana, che li ha conosciuti bene, lui e il padre.

Era ed è una via di mezzo tra un bocciodromo e un circolo ARCI (con buona pace del Bandelli), ma lui ci ha messo quell'insegna "Bistrot Jéan" che la Fagiana, appena l'ha vista, ha riso per una settimana.

È così che ora si gioca a briscola e si bestemmia nel Bistrot e le tette di madame la Fagiana pare che sian profumate Chanel.

Il Gianni ha provato a dare anche un'aggiornata al menù inserendo delle "cruditès del Quiberon" e lo dice sempre con quell'arrotare la "r" che viene fuori una pronuncia un po' parmigiana e un po' come parla il Luigi forcella (forcella minuscolo perchè non è il cognome, fa il ciclista), ma che con il francese non c'entra nulla. Però lui è contento quando può pronunciarla e sorride tronfio.

La prima volta che hanno mangiato le ostriche il commento più interessante è stato proprio quello del forcella che ha sentenziato: "oh, ma pare di ciucciar la figa", tutti giù a ridere e a mangiare ostriche e poi la sera a leccar fighe per fare i paragoni.

Che poi, manco a dirlo, il Gianni l'ha leccata alla Fagiana, l'ha baciata e le ha detto "senti com'è", mentre la premeva al muro e la schiacciava negli impeti che piacciono a lei. E anche loro, belli a rider porco.

Ma è durata poco la storia delle cruditès, perchè poi si è tornati subito a mangiare rane, lumache con polenta, salmì e robe che d'estate fanno afa anche nello stomaco, ma quello è il cibo di Sborrate, se vuoi l'insalata la prendi nell'orto e la mangi a casa, con le carote, la cipolla, le erbette, le patate i cornetti e la carne è gratis solo quando fai i pompini o lecchi le fesse, che ti pare di mangiarla, ma resta lì, gonfia.

Però al Gianni il pallino resta lì, tra il leccar la figa e il mangiar snob fino a renderlo per tutti "il Gianni Scic".

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Anche per Antony Bourdain l'associazione vien da sè: first pussy, come il forcella.

“Monsiuer Saint Jour (the oyster fisher), on hearing this – as if challenging his American passengers – inquired in his thick Girondais accent, if any of us would care to try an oyster. My parents hesitated. I doubt they’d realized they might actually have to eat one of the raw, slimy things we were currently floating over. My little brother recoiled in horror. But I, in the proudest moment of my young life, stood up smartly, grinning with defiance, and volunteered to be the first. And in that unforgettably sweet moment of my personal history, that moment still more alive for me than so many of the other ‘firsts’ which followed – first pussy, first joint, first day in high school, first published book, or any other thing – I attained glory. Monsieur Saint-Jour beckoned me over to the gunwale, where he leaned over, reached down until his head nearly disappeared underwater, and emerged holding a single silt-encrusted oyster, huge and irregularly shaped, in his rough, claw like fist. With a snubby, rust covered oyster knife, he popped the thing open and handed it to me, everyone watching now, my little brother shrinking away from this glistening, vaguely sexual-looking object, still dripping and nearly alive. I took it in my hand, tilted the shell back into my mouth as instructed by the by now beaming Monsieur Saint-Jour, and with one bite and a slurp, wolfed it down. It tasted seawater… of brine and flesh… and somehow… of the future. I’d not only survived – I’d enjoyed. This, I knew, was the magic I had until now only dimly and spitefully aware of. I was hooked. My parents’ shudders, my little brother’s expression of unrestrained revulsion and amazement only reinforced the sense that I had, somehow, become a man. I had had an adventure, tasted forbidden fruit, and everything that followed in my life – the food, the long and often stupid and self-destructive chase for the next thing, whether it was drugs or sex or some other new sensation – would all stem from this moment. I’d learned something. Viscerally, instinctively, spiritually – even in some precursive way, sexually – and there was no turning back. The genie was out of the bottle."

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Napul'è

Visitare in religioso silenzio la Galleria Borbonica, e a un certo punto udire la voce di un ragazzo che urla al suo amico: rint'a fess' 'e mamm't!

[ljones41]

Favorite DISNEY STUDIOS Live Action Movies

Below is a list of my favorite live-action movies from the Walt Disney Studios.  This list is in chronological order:

FAVORITE DISNEY STUDIOS LIVE ACTION MOVIES

“Treasure Island (1950) - This adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 adventure novel starred Robert Newton and Bobby Driscoll.  Byron Haskin directed.

“Davy Crockett and the River Pirates” (1956) - Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen starred in this prequel to the 1955 movie, “Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier”.  Norman Foster directed.

“The Parent Trap (1961) - Hayley Mills starred in this first version of Disney’s film about long-lost twins who scheme to reconcile their divorced parents.  Co-starring Maureen O’Hara and Brian Keith, the movie was written and directed by David Swift.

“Mary Poppins” (1964) - Oscar winner Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke starred in this award-winning musical adaptation of P.L. Travers series of novellas about a magical British nanny.  Robert Stevenson directed.

“That Darn Cat” (1965) - Hayley Mills and Dean Jones starred in this comedic adaptation of Gordon and Mildred Gordon’s 1963 novel, “Undercover Cat”.  Robert Stevenson directed.

“The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin” (1967) - Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette and Bryan Russell starred in this adaptation of Lowell S. Hawley‘s 1963 novel, “By the Great Horn Spoon!“.  James Neilson directed.

“Blackbeard’s Ghost” (1968) - Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette starred in this comedy adaptation of Ben Stahl’s 1965 novel.  Robert Stevenson directed.

“The Love Bug” (1968-69) - Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson and Buddy Hackett starred in an adaptation of “Car, Boy, Girl", Gordon Buford’s story about a magical Volkswagen.  Robert Stevenson directed.

“Bedknobs and Broomsticks” (1971) - Angela Landsbury and David Tomlinson starred in this musical adaptation of Mary Norton’s children books, 1944′s “The Magic Bedknob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons” and 1947′s “Bonfires and Broomsticks”.  Robert Stevenson directed.

“The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance” (1978) - Brock Peters starred in this Civil War adventure about a black Union soldier and escaped prisoner of war, who helps five wealthy Northern children being held hostage from Confederate soldiers escape from their captors.  Russ Mayberry directed.

“Dick Tracy” (1990) - Warren Beatty directed and starred in this adaptation of the 1930s comic strip created by Chester Gould.  Oscar nominee Al Pacino, Glenne Headly and Madonna co-starred.

“The Rocketeer” (1991) - Bill Campbell starred in this adaptation of the superhero comic book series created by Dave Stevens.  Directed by Joe Johnston, the movie co-starred Jennifer Connelly, Timothy Dalton and Alan Arkin.

“The Adventures of Huck Finn” (1993) - Elijah Wood and Courtney B. Vance starred in this adaptation of Mark Twain’s 1884 novel, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.  The movie was written and directed by Stephen Sommers.

“The Three Musketeers” (1993) - Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O’Donnell, Charlie Sheen and Oliver Platt starred in this loose adaptation of Alexandre Dumas père‘s 1844 novel.  Stephen Herek directed.

“Pirates of the Caribbean:  The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003) - Johnny Depp starred in the first film of the supernatural swashbuckler film series that was based on a Disney Park attraction.  Directed by Gore Verbinski, the movie co-starred Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and Geoffrey Rush.

“National Treasure” (2004) - Nicholas Cage starred in the first adventure movie in this film series about a historian and treasure hunter.  Directed by Jon Turtelbaub, the movie co-starred Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean and Jon Voight.

“Pirates of the Caribbean:  Dead Man’s Chest” (2006) - Johnny Depp starred in the second movie of the supernatural swashbuckler film series that was based on the Disney Park attraction.  Directed by Gore Verbinski, the movie co-starred Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and Bill Nighy.

“National Treasure 2:  Book of Secrets” (2007) - Nicholas Cage starred in the second adventure movie in this film series about a historian and treasure hunter.  Directed by Jon Turtelbaub, the movie co-starred Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Ed Harris and Helen Mirren.

“Prince of Persia:  The Sands of Time” (2010) - Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton and Ben Kingsley starred in this action-adventure adaptation of Jordan Mechner’s video game series.  Mike Newell directed.

“Saving Mr. Banks” (2013) - Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks starred in this biopic about conflict between author P.L. Travers and filmmaker Walt Disney over the development of the 1964 movie, “Mary Poppins”.  John Lee Hancock directed.

“Tomorrowland” (2015) - George Clooney, Britt Robertson and Hugh Laurie starred in science-fiction adventure about a disillusioned scientist and a teenage science enthusiast embarking on a trip to a futuristic alternate dimension.  Brad Bird directed and co-wrote with Damon Lindelof.

“Cruella” (2021) - Emma Stone starred as the titular character in this crime comedy about the villainess from Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians”.  Directed by Craig Gillespie, the movie co-starred Emma Thompson, Joel Fry and Paul Walter Hauser.

Do you have any favorite Disney live-action movies?  What are they?

[sapphia]

Things are about to get said about Dan Harmon again, as he is the co-creator of Rick and Morty with a less-than-clean reputation of his own. If you haven't read his account of what he did to Megan Ganz, it's a good, thoughtful read that I would recommend checking out. (FYI: Ganz accepted this account of what happened and his apology).

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“I was attracted to an employee. I really want to be really careful about that language because a huge part of the problem is a culture of feeling things that you think are unique and significant because they are happening to you and saying things like ‘I had feelings for’ and ‘I fell for’ and all these things. The most clinical way I can put it in fessing up to my crimes is that I was attracted to a writer I had power over because I was a showrunner, and I knew enough to know that these feelings were bad news.

“That was easy enough to know. I knew that they ran the risk of undercutting people’s faith in my judgement, her faith in her talent, the other writers’ respect for me, the entire production, the audience. I knew I wasn’t doing anybody any favors by feeling these things, and so I did the cowardly, easiest, laziest thing you can do with feelings like that and didn’t deal with them and in not dealing with them I made everybody else deal with them, especially her. Flirty, creepy, everything other than overt enough to constitute betraying your live-in girlfriend who you’re going home to every night, who is actually smart enough and respectful enough to ask you, ‘Do you have feelings for that young writer that you’re talking about, that you’re paying all this attention to?’ and saying to her, ‘No,’ because the trick is if you lie to yourself, you can lie to everybody. It’s really easy.

“And so that’s what I continued to do, telling myself and anybody that threatened to confront me with it that if you thought what I was doing was creepy or sexist or unprofessional it was because you were sexist or jealous. I was supporting this person. I’m a mentor. I’m a feminist. It’s your problem, not mine. You’re the one who actually is seeing things through that lens.

“And so I let myself keep doing it, and it’s not as if this person didn’t repeatedly communicate to me the idea that what I was doing was divesting her of a recourse to integrity. I just didn’t hear it because it didn’t profit me to hear it, and this was, after all, happening to me, right? After a season of playing it that way, I broke up with my girlfriend, who I had lied to the whole time, while lying to myself. Lied to her about why I was breaking up with her because I thought that would make having inappropriate feelings for a co-worker appropriate if I wasn’t involved.

“I want you to be the one to examine this, and every step of the way decide for yourself where I’m making mistakes. I don’t want to explain to you what I’ve learned. I want you to look at this, and I want it to sound relatively unremarkable to you because that’s the danger. I broke up with my girlfriend, and then I went right full steam into creeping on my employee. Now it was even less appropriate, after all. Now I wasn’t in danger of being a bad person. After that season, I got overt about my feelings after it wrapped. I said ‘I love you,’ and she said the same thing she had been saying the entire time, in one language or another, ‘Please, don’t you understand that focusing on me like this, preferring me like this, liking me like this, I can’t say no to it, and when you do it, it makes me unable to know whether I’m good at my job.’

“And because I finally got to the point where I said to her ‘I love you,’ because that’s what I thought it was when you target somebody for two years. And it was therefore rejected that way, I was humiliated. So, I continued to do the cowardly thing. I continued to do the selfish thing. Now I wanted to teach her a lesson. I wanted to show her that if she didn’t like being liked in that way then, oh boy, she should get over herself. After all, if you’re just going to be a writer then this is how ‘just writers’ get treated. And that was probably the darkest of it all. I’m going to assume when she tweets about it and refers to ‘trauma’ that’s probably it. I drank. I took pills. I crushed on her and resented her for not reciprocating it, and the entire time I was the one writing her paychecks and in control of whether she stayed or went and whether she felt good about herself or not, and said horrible things. Just treated her cruelly, pointedly, things I would never, ever would have done if she had been male and if I had never had those feelings for her.

“And I lied to myself the entire time about it. And I lost my job. I ruined my show. I betrayed the audience. I destroyed everything, and I damaged her internal compass. And I moved on. I’ve never done it before and I will never do it again, but I certainly wouldn’t have been able to do it if I had any respect for women. On a fundamental level, I was thinking about them as different creatures. I was thinking about the ones that I liked as having some special role in my life, and I did it all by not thinking about it. So, I just want to say, in addition to obviously being sorry, but that’s really not the important thing, I want to say I did it by not thinking about it, and I got away with it by not thinking about it. And if she hadn’t mentioned something on Twitter, I would have continued to not have to think about it, although I did walk around with my stomach in knots about it, but I wouldn’t have had to talk about it.

“The last and most important thing I can say is just think about it. No matter who you are at work, no matter where you work, in what field you’re in, no matter what position you have over, under, or side-by-side with somebody, just think about it. Because if you don’t think about it, you’re going to get away with not thinking about it, and you can cause a lot of damage that is technically legal and hurts everybody.

“And I think we’re living in a good time right now because we’re not gonna to get away with it anymore. If we can make it part of our culture that we think about it and possibly talk about it, then maybe we can get to a better place where that stuff doesn’t happen.

“So that’s it. Please don’t hurt her. Please don’t make this worse on anybody but me.”

[nightbringer24]

Reading the Osprey Campaldino book and there’s a very good part on heraldry in Italy.

Heraldry was already developed in Florence by the 1230s, and by the end of the century so well established that in the Divine Comedy Dante often refers to individuals or lineages simply by their coat-of-arms. The tinctures of Dante’s own - party per pale, or and sable, a fess argent - followed a distinctly territorial pattern. Indeed, anyone looking at a fully equipped Florentine man-at-arms in 1289 would not only understand from his armorial bearings to which family he belonged, but also in which part of the city he lived. ‘Or and sable’ were common in the area around the church of San Martino al Vescovo, territorial connections with the once Imperial-controlled bishopric leading several kinships to adopt the tinctures of the Imperial arms: ‘or, an eagle displayed sable’. Families of more recent origin, or lesser social standing, appear to have attached themselves heraldically to their more prestigious neighbours. The Giugni, once if the shadow of the Nerli, took on the latter’s tinctures of ‘or, gules and argent’: ‘pally argent and gules, a fess or’ for the Nerli; ‘gules, three bullocks hooves argent, a chief or’ for the Giugni. Significantly, when the Nerli moved to the Oltrarno sesto in the first half of the 13th century, their new neighbours the Frescobaldi adopted arms similar to the Giugni’s, substituting the hooves with chess-rooks.

And to show I’m not being mean about this, I’ll show some of the devices that I could make for this.

Dante’s shield at Campaldino

The Imperial arms

The arms of the Nerli

The arms of the Frescobaldi.

I couldn’t do the ones for the Giugni. Drawshields doesn’t have hooves as a device yet.