#Amanda Richardson

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REVIEW PARTY: Cruel Kings di Amanda Richardson

Cari Sognatori, Rosanna ha letto il primo volume della serie Heartless Royal di Amanda Richardson, pubblicata dalla Heartbeat Edizioni per la collana Loverdose. Vi ricordiamo che l’autrice sarà presente all’evento RARE 2023 di Firenze!! SERIE: Heartless Royal vol 1 GENERE: Dark Romance, Harem Reverse, Enemies to love DATA DI USCITA: 7 settembre 2023 Link d’acquisto Ebook / Trama Tutti sussurrano…

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Savage Hate by Amanda Richardson (Savage Hearts book 1): Review

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Summary

Lennon Rose, Silas, Jude and Damon graduated from high school in small town Greythorn. Graduation night, Lennon changed Silas/Jude/Damon's life for the worse. 10 years later, Lennon comes back to Greythorn after catching her fiancee fucking his assistant from behind. She starts working as a receptionist at local tattoo studio, Savage Ink, since she has basically nothing but the clothes on her back and she's desperate for a job. She takes the job knowing it's owned by Silas, Jude, and Damon -- who happen to be three of the nation's most coveted tattoo artists. She learns the darker side of their mission and gets tangled in their tangled web of secrets, violence, and small town drama with local cult, Church of Rapture.

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Lennon Rose

I think Lennon is a very interesting character. Her parents seemingly felt like being parents when she was born but then changed their minds. They let her fend for herself for her whole life, essentially. Yes, she had access to their fortune in theory. But she didn't get any attention, love, or kindness from her parents. She claims that she ate out of garbage cans when her parents up and left on vacations.

After fleeing her shithead fiancee in NYC and a lot of therapy, Lennon enters Savage Ink studios ready to start fresh and learn other parts of her that she's suppressed out of survival instinct.

Silas/Jude/Damon

I feel like Richardson didn't really get too much into each of the men in this book all too much. Maybe Jude/Damon a bit? I'd be interested to see what the other 2 books in the series feature. Nevertheless, these men are dark and scary and HOT AS HELL!!!

Fun little fact about Jude:

...even though he has zero ink on his body, his cock is covered in tats. And there are several piercings along the top in a row, neatly spaced out. Seven. There are seven. Like a ladder.

It can be difficult to introduce 4 characters simultaneously so I expect the other books to build off of each other. Fingers crossed!

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10000000/10 WOULD RECOMMEND

Holy hell y'all the spice is off the charts!!! The scene where her ex shows up at the studio begging for her back IS IT! IT'S THE ANSWER!

Wright: What, you're going to enact revenge by fucking this guy in front of me? Lennon: No. I'm not going to fuck him. I'm going to fuck all three of them. Damon: Be quiet as we fuck the shit out of your ex-fiance, or we will find a very inconvenient place to tattoo you. 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

I know this is going to haunt him forever -- just like the image of him fucking Darcy is going to haunt me forever. Tit for tat -- except, instead of a tat, it's going to be three guys fucking me at once.

Need I say more? At 247 pages, this is a quick read that packs a goddamn punch. RUN DON'T WALK.

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Textile Art 'Mrs Sinkins' Amanda Richardson (British, Cornwall)

Other artist's works: https://amandarichardsonartist.com/

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S.V. Dáte at HuffPost:

The adage is old enough to have been lampooned in the title of Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel: “It can’t happen here.” That “it” back then was an imagined fascist takeover of the United States. Writing 13 years after Benito Mussolini seized power in Italy, barely a year after Adolf Hitler installed himself as dictator of Germany and just before Francisco Franco and his Nationalists overthrew the Spanish republic, Lewis spelled out in dystopian detail how it, indeed, could well have happened in America, too. Nine decades later, that “it” is also what dozens of Republican donors, campaign consultants, pollsters and others interviewed by HuffPost say cannot possibly happen. They scoff at any analogy between former President Donald Trump, a man they support with varying degrees of enthusiasm, and the infamous dictators of the past. They insist that worries about Trump remaking the country as an autocracy are overwrought and designed solely to keep a Democrat in the White House.

“This will be a short period in history and we will swing right back to the middle,” said Hugh Culverhouse, a Miami lawyer who so far has given $500,000 toward Trump’s reelection effort. While authoritarianism experts and democracy advocates hope Culverhouse is right, they worry – deeply – that he is not. It is, of course, impossible to know for certain what a second Trump presidency might bring or whether, should he manage to seize absolute power, his rule would come anywhere close to the depravity of the tyrants of the last century.

Still, no other presidential nominee in United States history has behaved with the contempt for democracy that Trump has already demonstrated or even hinted at the sorts of autocratic actions Trump promises if he is returned to power. As he seeks to regain the White House, Trump has suggested terminating the Constitution and has accused those who have criticized him of committing “treason.” He has vowed to destroy the bureaucracy that might serve as a check on his power and promised to pardon his followers who took part in his Jan. 6, 2021, attempt to remain in office despite his election loss, which authoritarianism experts describe as an attempted auto-golpe, or self-coup. He has even pledged to round up upwards of 20 million people — one in every 15 U.S. residents — for deportation. “The idea that this couldn’t happen here is a fantasy,” warned Heather Cox Richardson, a Boston College history professor. Despite the ominous echoes from the not-so-distant past, though, Trump supporters say there is no comparison — that Congress and the Supreme Court would never permit a rogue president to exceed his authority or try to stay in office beyond his term, and that American institutions are too strong for a president to break. “I think it’s a silly premise,” said Mike Davis, a former Senate Judiciary Committee lawyer and now a vocal Trump supporter. He offers as proof the fact that Trump, in the end, voluntarily boarded Marine 1 the morning of Jan. 20, 2021, to vacate the White House. “Trump left office.”

Davis, however, neglects to mention that Trump only left office voluntarily because his attempt to overturn his election loss two weeks earlier — which wounded 140 police officers and led to the deaths of five ― had failed. To Amanda Carpenter, once an aide to Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and now with the nonprofit United to Protect Democracy, such views are yet more examples of the general “failure of imagination” when assessing the risks Trump would pose should voters choose to return him to the White House despite his previous attempt to end American democracy. Carpenter said she fails to understand how Republicans can believe that Trump will abide by laws and the Constitution this time around. “Normalcy bias? Willful blindness? These are the same people who believe Trump is just about to have a policy-focused campaign with a new tone,” she said. “Wish-casting is the most generous explanation.”

‘The Last Real Vote You Ever Get’

Trump’s campaign did not respond to HuffPost’s queries for this story. Instead, his allies complain that critics’ comparisons of him to Hitler sparked the two assassination attempts against him this summer. Trump himself has said criticisms of his actions leading up to and on Jan. 6, 2021, and characterizations of him as a “threat to democracy” have led to the attempts on his life. “The Rhetoric, Lies, as exemplified by the false statements made by Comrade Kamala Harris during the rigged and highly partisan ABC Debate, and all of the ridiculous lawsuits specifically designed to inflict damage on Joe’s, then Kamala’s, Political Opponent, ME, has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust. Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!” he wrote in a social media post earlier this month. Clearly, there is no comparison between Trump’s actions to date and those of Germany’s Austrian-born dictator who sparked the bloodiest war in human history and is responsible for the genocide of 6 million Jews and millions of others. Yet it does not require much imagination to think of scenarios in which Trump could try to remain in office beyond the prescribed four years — merely using his past behavior in several adjacent scenarios as a template. As president, he suggested that because so much of his term had been consumed dealing with a federal probe into his willing acceptance of Russian help to win in 2016 and then his impeachment by the House over his attempted extortion of Ukraine to cheat in the 2020 election, he actually deserved a third term in office.

As president, he had launched a probe based on his conspiracy theory that migrants in this country had illegally voted en masse in the 2016 election for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. That task force, headed by Vice President Mike Pence, was quietly shut down when it could find zero evidence for his claims. As president, he routinely accused those who criticized him or who defied his orders as having committed “treason,” and frequently pointed out that the punishment for treason was death. As president, when polls in the summer of 2020 showed he was likely to lose to Democrat Joe Biden, Trump raised the possibility of postponing the November election because of the COVID pandemic. And as president, even after Pence and congressional leaders blocked the Jan. 6 coup attempt, Trump took meetings in the Oval Office with those advocating he declare martial law to remain in power. Carpenter and others point out that those in the White House and the administration who had checked Trump’s worst autocratic impulses during his first term — among them former chief of staff John Kelly, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, White House lawyers Pat Cipollone and Pat Philbin and, on Jan. 6, Pence himself — will not be anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a second Trump term. Instead, Trump will almost certainly be surrounded by those whose first loyalty is to him personally, not to the Constitution.

[...] Now, as then, he sees Republican donors and elites not particularly liking the “radical nationalist movement” that Trump has consolidated. “Establishment conservatives … don’t like this movement and think it might be dangerous, but know that otherwise, they can’t get votes for their agenda, and working with the radical movement might be a way of getting those votes, so they take the chance,” he said. For the German industrialists, that meant becoming party to Nazi death camps and the subsequent destruction of much of the country by the end of World War II. “They did not want, and certainly did not foresee, the other consequences,” Hett said. [...]

‘America’s Hitler’

Godwin’s Law notwithstanding, among the first wave of Americans to see in Trump some of the same qualities as Nazi Germany’s “führer,” back in 2016 when Trump was still just the developer-turned-game show host who had improbably won the Republican nomination, was JD Vance. “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?” Vance wrote to a law school classmate. Vance later won election to the U.S. Senate thanks to Trump’s endorsement in the 2022 Ohio Republican primary, is now Trump’s running mate, and years ago repudiated that and all of his other criticisms of Trump. Nevertheless, the remainder of that 2016 campaign, followed by Trump’s four years in office and especially the years since Jan. 6, have only added to the Hitler comparison data points.

Hitler demonized communists. He embraced the use of violence as a political tool with his Sturmabteilung “Brownshirts” militia and eventually the dreaded “SS” Schutzstaffel secret police force. He was lazy and undisciplined, and gave long, meandering speeches to tens of thousands of his adoring followers. Trump has also begun labeling all who oppose him as “Marxists” and “communists.” He praises, even salutes, the Jan. 6 rioters convicted of assaulting police officers. When, as the sitting president, he was asked to denounce the Proud Boys militia group, he instead instructed them to “stand back and stand by,” as if he were their leader. He rarely made it to the West Wing before noon or bothered to read briefing material. His typical rally speech clocks in at an hour and a half and, in recent years, has become increasingly incoherent.

S.V. Dáte’s HuffPost story entitled “It Can’t Happen Here, Right? RIGHT???” is a must-read look into the fascist hellscape our country will head to if Donald Trump gets elected again.

Read the full story at HuffPost.

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The cast of Will Trent for Season Three

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Is this a British thing? Now, Amanda has returned to TV in the Dave mockumentary series Meet The Richardsons, and in episode seven of the fifth series, plays an exaggerated version of herself.

Because now people are all up in arms thinking it was real and it's not and between this and Staged ... for fuck's sake can't we all just watch reruns of I Dream of Jeannie or something?

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The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) Tony Richardson

March 23rd 2024

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The Best Jewelry At The 2023 SAG Awards

The Best Jewelry At The 2023 SAG Awards

With the NAACP Image Awards and the PGA Awards both on last Saturday night, awards season is in full swing and with that brings more glamour and dramatic jewels. From ‘Euphoria’ star Zendaya’s not one but two Bulgari high jewelry looks to Emily Blunt’s divine Serpenti ruby and diamond-adorned necklace, scroll down to see our picks for the best celebrity jewelry at the 2023 SAG Awards. You can…

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The terminology used for Humphrey’s palace is revealing. Several writers insist that he called it ‘Bella Court’, although apparently with little foundation. It seems to have been known as ‘the Pleasaunce’ (‘placentia’) during Gloucester’s lifetime, as letters patent dated ‘at his manor of Plaisance’ in 1445 attest, and it is referred to as such throughout Queen Margaret’s building accounts for 1447. The term was used from the later fourteenth century for relatively intimate buildings detached from main ranges and intended for use by a lord’s favoured circle. Perhaps the most notable example of this is type of building is the ‘Pleasaunce’ at Kenilworth, Warwickshire, fashioned for Henry V around 1414. This was a moated islet, approached, like Greenwich, by water, and accommodating a timber pavilion comprising a hall and chambers. Indeed, Gloucester may have intended deliberately to emulate Henry’s idyllic retreat, just as Bedford had replicated their brother’s ‘pleasaunce’ at Fulbroke, also using brick rather than timber.

Amanda Richardson, "Greenwich's first royal landscape: the lost palace and park of Humphrey of Gloucester" Southern History, 34, 2012.

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Convictions by Vertex Photography https://flic.kr/p/2o8iBC4

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being a fan of british celebrities is such a fucking challenge lately 🙃