#Caroline's home with the nanny

[fallstaticexit]

Double date night with Celeste's old hunting buddy, Juno and her wife, Vivienne.

[kittynotakitty-blog]

A reminder of the allegations against Neil Gaiman, as shared by Hire Survivors Hollywood, a non-profit group who support survivors of sexual assault. These survivors aren’t just “the victims”: they have names and stories, and their voices deserve to be heard.

Scarlett, who worked as a nanny for Gaiman’s children, revealed that he sexually assaulted her in 2022 when she was 22 and he was 61, initiating an ongoing non-consensual sexual relationship.

K, who met Gaiman at a book signing in 2003 when she was 18 and he was in his mid-40s, describes a similar pattern of rape and sexual assault after they began a sexual relationship two years later.

Caroline Wallner, who worked on Gaiman’s property, revealed that he coerced her into sex by threatening her job and housing, and that he used explicit images and sexual demands to exert control over her.

Julia Hobsbawm was forced to fight off an assault by him in her London home in 1986.

Claire, who came forward anonymously in a podcast series, shared that Gaiman assaulted her during a book tour in the US in 2013. Gaiman took her to a room on his tour bus, got on top of her, kissed her, and groped her under her dress. In a 2022 phone call recording, Gaiman can be heard apologizing for his behavior, and offering $60,000 as a “tax-free gift” to cover the cost of a decade of therapy.

[brucewaynehater101]

Just a warning, this au strays a bit close to NSFW territory in that it does talk about Sex Workers, but it does not mention or describe anything specific, mostly just discussing how they operate and some dangers they may face working in Gothem.

So, we all know that Tim would do a lot for the mission right? More than most people would. I mean, just look at Brucequest or the fact he came back after his 16th birthday or his first few months as Robin when he was basically Bruce's nanny. He also has many false life's he can slip into at the drop of a hat such as Alvin Draper or Caroline Hill. So why not add one more to those personas? A woman named Jane Doe, a sex worker who works just outside Crime Alley who everyone knows and knows everyone, but no one truly knows her nor have they ever seen her face, if she even is a woman as she uses all pronouns to get just a little more mystery added to them. Their outfit is constantly changing but also very specific, a short and highly attractive dress that doesn't look cheap and a full face mask in the style of Venetian Carnival Masks, Volto design specifically so that it covers his full face but shows striking blue eyes. Those he has colored contacts that he switches around constantly.

The reason that Tim does this is simple. Information. While Jason may be able to ask the sex workers under his protection questions, they wouldn't be as open with him as they would another sex worker. Tim can get information from them, the clients, the shop owners of the area, the homeless, anyone and everyone who is often on the street or connected to it that none of the other Bats would ever be able to get. And through his... services he gets a lot of information about up coming things thanks to a special discount everyone knows about. If you tell Jane a secret they don't already know, you get 10% off his services. Tell him 2 and you get 20%. So on and so forth, but it has to be things that Tim didn't already know and he's more than happy to hear about which rouges are hiring at the moment and when they stop hiring, after all, what easier way to predict when they are gunna do stuff than by when they get new henchmen?

A lot is known about Jane Doe, yet also nothing is known. Jane doesn't keep any of the money he makes, giving it to the other girls and often extra as well. No one knows where she keeps getting 100s of dollars to just *give* them but she does. Jane has three brothers, a sister, and a father but no mother. They don't know their names, simply knowing them as N, H, C, R, and B. Whoever they are, they're a well off family but they aren't good to Jane, bad enough that Jane feels safer on the corners of Gothem than the comfort of her home. They know from "funny" stories he tells about his family or via them asking about scars he forgets misses when he covers himself in makeup (there are so many, what have they done to you child?) And him always telling something close to the truth.

They know that N is his oldest brother and the only one who cared about him for a long time, who helped him and was the first person who ever made him feel truly happy. They also know that N took something very precious from Jane Doe without Jane's permission and shattered their trust in N. Tim never told them what was taken or that it was Robin, but in a profession like the one he shares with them, they all come to the same conclusion about what was taken and why Jane might seek comfort in this line of work.

They know that H is also his older brother and has hurt Jane often. They know that the slight scar on his neck he covers with a choker or makeup was made by H, as was the bullet scar in his leg. He laughed about that one, telling his friends how H had set down one of his guns after cleaning it, R picked it up and accidentally fired it, and it bounced twice before going clean through Tim's leg. He laughs about how mad H was at both of them and how he yelled at them to not tell B or else, using a mocking tone and laughter that only causes the others to glance at eachother in worry over their friend. Tim makes sure to reassure them that he got to the blood before it dried so it wasn't to hard to clean up. Tim may have read it as anger in Jason's voice when he said to not tell, but actually it was panic and worry about Tim's wound and how Bruce would react.

They don't know much about C, only that she managed to escape the hell hole known as Gothem and lives in another country. Sometimes she comes back for visits and Jane is always very excited when she does.

The other Sex Workers don't like R. They know that R has either threatened Jane with sharp objects or actually harmed her with them many times but has never gotten in trouble for it. Any time Tim has some left over injuries from patrol, he plays it off as either R or H getting agressive with him again and tries to calm them by saying, "oh come on. Both of them have only tried to *actually* kill me twice! It's fine guys, they won't seriously injure me." While having 5 stitches in his arm.

Jane doesn't talk about their Dad much, always getting quiet and looking away when he's brought up. They ask if B has ever hit him and Jane says, "he doesn't hit me anymore." And all of them want to kill him. They want to kill all of them (except maybe C) and bury their bodies where they'll never be found.

Of course, none of the Bats know about Tim's other nightly activities and where he gets his info from, simply shrugging and moving along. Tim is terrified of any of them accidentally finding out. But unfortunately that day could be coming soon as one of the workers goes to The Red Hood and grabs him by the jacket saying, "you're supposed to protect us right? That's what you promised us, isn't it? Saftey? Well one of the others, Jane, is in deep trouble. Their family is gunna *kill* them. Do whatever you need to do to keep Jane safe from those monsters, we'll tell you what we know, but stop them before she's just another dead body in Gothem Harbor. Do we need to pay you? We'll pay you however much it takes for you to make them pay."

This does remind me of a few fics that go over Tim's "Caroline" identity combined with the idea that Bruce was worse to Tim during his Robin years. Some fics do go into Tim having to go so far as actually having sex with people while some don't.

There are also a few fics of Tim going undercover in Crime Alley as a stripper, cocktail server, sex worker, or other when Red Hood finds out and loses his shit.

The idea of Tim using a fake identity to vent about his family issues is a really cool concept! It would allow him to see how the actions done against him were shit and not okay. He may have the mindset that his trauma is fine because it happened to him, but the separation of identities may help start that realization process. I'm also all here for the identity shenanigans of someone trying to save Jane from her family and accidentally going to one of the people who's hurt them. Lovely amounts of mixed emotions there.

This fic/AU would need to be careful to address both the trauma of Tim selling himself at such a young age as well as still treat sex workers with respect, individuality, and care. It would also be cool to see how the inner workings of the sex industry may be affected by Gotham (such as rogues, toxins, corruption, wealth disparity/poverty, etc).

But yeah! Lots to explore in this AU. I wonder if Tim, in this one, cares about pronouns or gender identity. Does he enjoy crossdressing, does he experiment with his gender identity, and does he make distinctions? I think it would be cool to indicate he's closer agender but is fine with whatever. I like to imagine, in this AU, that he simply doesn't care what gender identity he's perceived as unless that identity needs a specific gender.

Anyways, I am curious about how Red Hood reacts to his characterization by Jane. I wonder if she seems to be wary or distant from him before he finds out that's Tim. Hopefully, Jason tries not to take Jane's hesitance personally. Just because Red Hood is established as a protector doesn't mean that Jane would trust him. They may have their own reasons/experiences not to that has nothing to do with the anti-hero.

[devilslittlemonsterxx]

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How they met Princess!Reader

Steve Harrington:

Steve and Princess have known each other since they were kids, their parents being friends and business partners.

Their first meeting was a play date their parents organised when they were about six years old. Princess was shy and Steve was instantly infatuated by her and her pretty dresses. He didn't dare say no when she timidly asked if he wanted to have a tea party.

"Do you want to have a tea party?" She asked, looking up at him through her lashes and fidgeting with her hands behind her back.

"Yeah!" Steve nodded enthusiastically, delighted when her eyes lit up excitedly.

Damon Salvatore:

The first time Damon saw Princess, she was crying. He had just arrived in Mystic Falls, leaving flowers at his mother's grave when he spotted her.

She was wearing a floor length summer dress, white with little pink flowers.

She was draped over a headstone, her face buried in her arms as she sobbed, her body shaking from the force of her sorrow.

The first time Princess saw Damon was at the founders party with Caroline Forbes on his arm. They caught each other's eye and the two strangers smiled politely at the other.

After that, it was like he was everywhere. She could always see him from the corner of her eye or feel his presence poking at the edges of her mind.

The first time they talked was at the 50's decade dance.

"Hi" He said, walking over to her with a drink in his hand.

"Hi" She said, a little breathless. This was the closest she had ever seen the man up lose. He was awfully handsome.

"Damon Salvatore" He said, offering his hand. She told him her name, taking his hand in her own. "A pretty name for a beautiful girl"

Remus Lupin:

The first time Remus met Princess was the morning after his first full moon at Hogwarts. He had been completely passed out, only waking when something put pressure on a wound he had gained from the night before. He groaned, his muscle twitching away from whatever was pushing on it.

"Sorry!" She squeaked as his eyes fluttered open, pulling away her hand, which held a damp cloth.

"Am I dreaming?" He asked himself weakly as he stared at the beautiful face hovering over his.

"No?" She giggled, confused, her eyebrows drawn together.

"Oh"

George Weasley:

George met Princess during his 6th year when she came to Hogwarts with the rest of the Beauxbatons students for the tri-wizard tournament.

She was easily the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

When they were told of the yule ball, George instantly knew he wanted to ask Princess. He just didn't know how. He spent days and nights thinking up extravagant ways to ask her, including having fireworks go off to spell out the question for him.

Eventually, he decided to just go up to her and ask her nicely with a rose.

"Hello" He said confidently, though when she turned and her pretty eyes looked at him imploringly, his confidence dwindled just a little. But he straightened his back and shook the doubts away. "I was hoping you'd like to go to the yule ball? With me?"

"Oui" She smiled, taking the rose delicately between her fingers and bringing it up to her nose.

"Oui? That means yes, right?" He asked, his cheeks flushing when she giggled and nodded her head. "OK, that's brilliant!"

Aaron Hotchner:

Princess and Hotch first met when she came in for an interview to be Jack's nanny. She had come into his home in a pretty lavender dress and a beautiful, shy smile decorating her face.

He instantly liked her. She was soft spoken, patient and had a background in nursing. She was perfect. And the way she was with Jack just solidified the fact.

[hughiecampbelle]

Succession Preference: Tattooed Baby Sibling

Requested: Hi! Hope you are well! Idk if you're taking requests atm, feel free to ignore this if so! But I was thinking of a preference for The Roy Siblings. In which the reader would be their baby sibling, but they have A LOT of tattoos and maybe how the family reacts to them or or how they deal with that part of their sibling? - anon

A/N: I love this!!! I only have about 30, so idk if I qualify as tattooed person just yet lol, but picturing this is fantastic! Thank you for requesting my love!!! Feedback is always appreciated 💜💜💜

Connor comes from a different generation. He's not used to seeing tattoos in the professional world. Knowing this, you keep yourself pretty covered until you can't. It's at Caroline's wedding you shed some layers, letting your skin show in the heat. He's taken aback. He knew you had a few, but you're covered now. You catch him staring, unsure of his emotions, ready to defend yourself like always: they won't stop you from getting a job, they're a freedom of expression and art, they make you feel more at home in your body, some are just funny and others far more sentimental, that it's your money and you can spend it however you want, etc. Instead though, he just gives you a small smile. "I like the one by your elbow, kiddo." He has a lot of questions, like what does it feel like to get them and why you gravitate towards them when others, like him, feel no need. He knows you get enough judgment from your mother and father. He's your biggest brother, he loves you no matter what.

Kendall doesn't really understand them. Like Connor, he has questions, though you're often reverting back to your childhood self when you answer them: totally defensive. You're busy showing them off to Kerry when you catch his attention. There are a few fresh ones, still raised and irritated. It makes his skin hurt just looking at it. You're completely covered now, working on filling in the gaps. He doesn't see the appeal. He thought, like most "phases", you'd grow out of it, but these things are permanent. Forever. It's a big commitment he could never make. What if he likes something today and hates it tomorrow? You assure him you've never felt that way, but if you ever do, it's something you liked once and that's enough. He makes some not so great remarks about professionalism and what happens when you get older, but they're all out of big brother concern. Eventually you tell him that they've never affected your ability to get a job and that they'll look cool just like they do now when you're older. End of discussion. He doesn't hate them, but he doesn't think they're great either, especially you being his baby sibling. He'll never approve.

Shiv has always wanted to get a matching tattoo with you. Something small, delicate, tasteful, probably on her ankle. You make plans for this, but it never happens. You can never agree on what you want. You urge her to hurry up since you're running out of space. She loves them, she thinks they're really cool and also a huge middle finger to your father. You're always eager to show her the newest ones. She wouldn't expect anything less from you. You've been drawing on yourself since you could hold a marker. Every time you came home from school covered in ink your father would order either one of your siblings or one of the nannies to scrub you til skin came off. He barked that this was unacceptable behavior, but it never stopped you from doing it again. Now look at you. She doesn't hold the same fears or beliefs as your brothers. She's under the belief that if it makes you happy, truly happy, and it doesn't kill Logan, then it's fine. Why should anyone try to stop you? It's a tattoo, that's all.

Roman is the least bothered by them. Why would he care? It's not his body. He calls Connor and Kendall old men for being so uptight about it. Does he make fun of you to no end about them? Of course. Oh no y/n, a Chipotle bag threw up all over you! Looks like you've still got some unused space right. . . there. Where's Waldo am I right? If I can find the end of the maze do I get a prize? He has a habit of poking fresh tattoos and feigning ignorance, too. How am I supposed to know what's new and what's not? He also loves to point out new ones to your mother and father, who both despise them. Oops, did I do that? He runs away before you can hit him. He understands, while also an aesthetic thing, it's about pain, too. There's something satisfying about the needle that you can't get anywhere else. That noise, the constant poking, the radiating ache. He gets it. You all have to do what you gotta do to get by. A need to go back, this inner wanting for the pain again. It's socially acceptable and you get permanent art to go along with it. Win-win.

[morningbloodystar]

dadifer HELP ME

ive fallen for Nanny Ashtoreth 😔 and I can't get up 😔

can you make her look at me 💕💕 just once 💕 💕 please 💕💕

Ro, darling, this is the millionth time you've claimed to be in love with an iteration of my Serpent.

Go home, drink some wine, and stare at pictures of your... Caroline Forbes, was it?

Yes, go stare at her. She's less taken (and fictional but I'll let you live your life.)

[pearcecallahan]

→ INTRODUCING PEARCE CALLAHAN

in character

Name: Pearce Callahan

Faceclaim: Ben Barnes

Gender & Pronouns: Cismale & He/Him

Age: 40

Birthday: March 3, 1984

Occupation: Psychologist

Neighborhood: Wrightsville Beach

Sexuality: Heterosexual

biography

Pearce Callahan was born March 3, 1984 to Caroline and William Callahan in London, England. Being the first of the Callahan children, he was their absolute pride and joy. It wasn’t until he was five when his parents decided to start to add to their family and eventually, he ended up with two brothers and two sisters, all of which is he more than protective of and he even stepped in as somewhat of a third parent and it wasn’t as though his parents were bad parents or neglectful but it was just that taking care of five children was a lot for a stay at home mother. He never minded helping anyways.

Growing up as the oldest of five siblings, Pearce knew that there was always going to be that expectation that whatever he did with his life, he was going to have to do something that would encourage the rest of his siblings to do the same thing. He’d been so sure he was going to be a writer, having enjoyed it quite a bit and even being pretty good at it, but after taking a psychology class as an elective course, he knew that he was destined to help people with their trauma and whatever else they wanted to work through. So, his major quickly shifted from creative writing to Psychology.

And that’s where he met he met his first wife, Veronica. She was everything to him and it was love at first sight. He knew that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her and that’s why he ended up proposing before he even finished his masters degree. The two lived in a small apartment, him working as a psychologist and Veronica working as a nanny. His clientele built up slowly but surely. Apparently not fast enough for Veronica and she decided to sleep with one of the single dads she was being a nanny for. A man who had more money than he did but one he was sure didn’t love her the way that he did. Still, the money was what mattered to her at the end of the day and not the feelings that Pearce had for her.

So, despite everything that he would be leaving behind, he found that it was best to move to the states and that’s how he landed himself in Wilmington at the age of thirty. He started out practicing under someone else but eventually, after building his clients up, he opened his own office in wrightsville beach not too far from where he lives.

Pearce managed to find some friends to surround himself with the moment he found himself in town and that was the encouragement he needed to confirm that he’d fully made the right choice by leaving everything he’d ever known behind.

random facts

he can play the piano

he's huge on selfcare and has a skincare routine, and also takes regular bubble baths

still does a little bit of writing but nothing publishable

big fan of boba tea

[spacecadet-ticklesinspace]

Ticklish Understanding

Summary: After a visit at work from his girls, Barnum learns something interesting about young Philip Carlyle ❤️

(Thank you @lottie-lokisdottir for your help and suggestions ❤️ I loved getting to write this :) Enjoy! 😁)

"Goodbye girls! I'll see you at home!"

"Bye daddy!"

Barnum closed the office door. "I swear, those girls get smarter and smarter everyday."

"You have a couple geniuses on your hands Barnum." Philip shuffled some papers. "One day, they'll even outsmart you."

"And then they'll outsmart you Mr. Carlyle." Barnum winked at his young friend before stepping back to his desk. "The man who knows everything outsmarted by the two greatest girls ever."

"I don't know everything," Philip responded with a blush.

"Oho really?"

"I'm serious Barnum."

The older man leaned against his desk. "Name one thing the great Philip Carlyle doesn't know."

"Well for starters, how to deal with with your insufferable extravagance," Philip teased. "And that thing you do with your daughters."

P.T's eyebrows furrowed his eyebrows together. "What thing?"

"That thing you were doing earlier."

"Ah yes, because that it narrows it down."

Philip rolled his eyes. "That thing you were doing earlier where you would squeeze them and they would laugh and squeal."

Barnum thought back over the events of the day and tried to deduce what he was talking about. An image flickered into his mind of Caroline and Helen giggling under him as he squeezed their sides. "Tickling?"

"Is that what you call it?" Philip asked.

The older man scoffed. "You're joking."

Philip shook his head. "Nope.

A strange look came over PT's face. "You genuinely don't know what tickling is?"

The look his friend was giving him made Philip suspicious. "Am I supposed too?"

In a moment of passion, Barnum slapped the desk before standing and making his way over to the younger man's desk. "You don't know what tickling is?"

Philip jumped. "Sheesh Barnum, I already told you, didn't I?"

"I just can't believe it."

Philip set aside his papers and turned to his friend as he leaned against the side of his desk. There was no use trying to work when he wouldn't let this go.

"I thought it was the duty of every parent to pass that knowledge on to their child. My mother, bless her, gave that knowledge to me before she died and I in turn gave it to my kids. Even Charity's parents gave it to her and you know what they're like."

"Sorry tickling wasn't included in my parents training."

"Did your parents even hold you wrong?"

"No, they left that up to the Nanny." Philip used the pen in his hands to motion to the mountain of paperwork on the desk. "Are we done?"

"No."

The younger man groaned and pinched the bridge of his nose.

Barnum tapped his shoulder and stood. "Humor me for a minute."

"But what about our work?"

"The work can wait."

Philip sighed and stood. When Barnum got an idea in his head, there was no stopping him. He had learned it was better to go along with it than try to argue.

Barnum positioned them in front of the couch. "Now, you are aware that in the body, there are nerves that allow you to feel things, correct?"

"Yes, like I can feel the clothes on my back. Are we done?"

Barnum held up a hand. "Patience. Now many of those nerves signal there is something wrong. For example, if you were to stick your hand on that stove back there, your nerves would tell you what?"

"To get my hand away."

"Correct---."

"What does this have to do with tickling?"

"You'll see." Barnum grabbed one of Philip's arms. "Now, it's not just pain that the nerves feel, it's also weight and pressure, correct?"

The younger man shrugged. "I guess."

"To give an example." Barnum wrapped his hand around Philip's wrist and gently pressed his thumb into his wrist. "You can feel the weight of my hand and the pressure of my thumb."

"Again, what does this have to do with tickling?"

"This is all leading up to the same point if you'll just let me get there."

After another sigh, Philip motioned with his free hand for him to continue.

"Thank you. The biggest point I'm trying to make is that the nerves register or feel different things and they don't always have the same response to what they're feeling. So if I were to squeeze, your nerves would detect pressure, pain, or a tickle." Barnum emphasized his last point with a squeeze to Philip's side.

The younger man squealed and pulled his side in the opposite direction. A strange shock had gone up his side. It hadn't hurt, it had just felt so odd and made him nervous. Yet it also made him desperately want to laugh and squirm. "What the. . ."

"Of course, since you can find these nerves all over your body, you can be ticklish just about anywhere."

"What? Wow!"

In one motion, Barnum was sitting down on the couch with Philip in his lap.

The younger man blushed at the position he was in. "Barnum!"

"I understand it can be a bit overwhelming your first time," PT soothed as he wrapped his arms around his young friend. "However, you can grow to love it."

"Love what?"

"Tickling."

"That feeling when you squeezed my side?"

"Yes."

"That's tickling?"

"Yes."

"And people love it?"

"Yes?"

"Why?"

Barnum shrugged as he repositioned them both into a more reclined position. "Stress relief, bonding."

"Embarrassing more like it."

"You had one squeeze Philip. How can you say it's embarrassing?"

"Why am I sitting in your lap?"

"You're never to old for a cuddle. Besides, this is how I usually do it with my daughters."

"Who I am five times the size of!"

Barnum scoffed. "Please, you're not that big. Besides, it's part of the bonding."

"I can bond with you just fine from the couch."

"I have to be able to reach you."

"You can reach me from the couch."

Barnum grinned. "I also think it's funny to watch you get so flustered."

Philip sighed. "You're insufferable."

"May I continue, please?"

"Fine."

"Thank you." Barnum ruffled Philip's hair. "Now, like I mentioned earlier, the nerves spread to different parts of the body meaning you can be ticklish anywhere."

"Really?"

"Yep." Barnum squeezed the different spots as he listed them. "Areas like your stomach. Your hips. Your ribs. Even your armpits."

The reactions Philip's gave were priceless. He quickly turned into a squealing, squirming mess in Barnum's lap. Very undignified from his usual appearance.

Barnum loved seeing the bright smile on his face and hearing the child-like laughter filling the office. The older man paused his tickles long enough to give his friend's cheek a friendly pinch. "You're actually adorable when you're not being a pompous little businessman."

Philip growled and turned his face away. "You're such a jerk!"

"A loving jerk though." PT rested his chin on Philip's shoulder. "But you know what the best thing about tickles is?"

"That Ihi'll behe getting revenge later."

"No, the best thing about tickles is that you don't have to use your hands."

"Wh-what?"

"You can use your nose." Barnum rubbed his nose against Philip's neck.

Philip squeaked and turtled.

"You can use your chin." Barnum switched to rubbing his chin against his neck.

"Ah!"

"You can use your lips." The older man peppered a few kisses into Philip's neck.

The blush on the younger man's face darkened significantly. "Barnum!"

"Or, you can use your breath." Barnum blew a raspberry into Philip's neck.

"SQUEE!" Then the younger man snorted.

"That was very undignified of you Mr. Carlyle." P.T pinched his side. "But I'll let it slide."

Philip squeaked then leaned against the older man. "That's the last tihime Ihi let you explain anything toho mehe!"

"Now I know what to do when you get to uptight." PT ruffled his hair again. "A few side squeezes and you're your smiley self again."

Philip growled again. "I'm so getting yohou bahack."

"I'll look out for it." Barnum released Philip from the tickle hug, but the younger man didn't get up right away. "I thought you were desperate to finish your paperwork Mr. Carlyle?"

"In a minute."

"Oh really?"

Philip quickly squeezed Barnum's sides. "Revenge is more important."

The older man let out a few chuckles, but his sides weren't much of a hot spot. He quickly grabbed his younger friend's hands and wrapped him in another hug. "One thing you need to learn about tickling Phil. If you want to get back at someone who attacked you first, aim for their weaker spots."

Philip rolled his eyes. "How am I supposed to know them if you won't let me find them!"

PT Barnum pinched along Philip's sides. "Where's the fun in that?"

With another squeal, the younger man squirmed to the side and and accidentally tipped himself over.

"You alright?"

"Yehes. No thanks to yohou."

"Aww, don't be such a party pooper Phil." Barnum stood. "You lost your first tickle fight, but there will be others."

The younger man bolted upright. "Others?"

"Of course. Especially since your tickle tolerance is so low." The older man tapped his chin. "Hmm, maybe it would be a good idea to have a daily tickle time until you get your stamina up to where it needs to be. Say, maybe I can get the rest of the circus to join in."

Philip flopped back on to the couch. "You don't even subject your own children to that kind of torture!"

"Not all of my kids."

Philip turned to Barnum and gave him a strange look.

The older man winked. "You're the special exception child."

Those words washed over Philip as he stared at the man in front of him. He wasn't sure when he became the Barnum's adoptive son, but he found himself okay with it. He didn't have the greatest childhood, despite what it looked on the outside, and here, he had a home of people who cared.

"Come on Sonny." PT turned back to his desk. "Back to work."

With his back turned, Philip took a small pillow from the couch and chucked it at Barnum. It landed square in the center of his back, causing the older man to stop.

PT slowly turned to look at his young friend grinning on the couch then down to the pillow laying on the floor. "So that is how you want to play. Very undignified indeed."

"You sound like my father."

"How dare you insult me with such comparisons!"

That brought a smile to Philip's face."

"Just for that horrendous comparison, you shall be sentenced to a pillow attack."

In the blink of an eye, both men had a pillow in their hands and were facing off from opposite sides of the room.

A moment later, the two charged forward leaving a trail of feathers in their wake.

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Have y'all been under a rock??? No one in these comments ever heard of Robert Strong, Martha Moxley, Eliza Cooney or Mary Catherine Richardson Kennedy? Why do folks think that even Obama nixed this guy from consideration for his EPA? Here's a brief overview but ask yourselves why don't you already know these FACTS:

>Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express for at least 2 trips

>“Listen, I’ve said this from the beginning. I’m not a church boy. I am not running like that. I said in my—I had a very, very rambunctious youth,” (he was a middle aged man on drugs and traveling the world as Robert Strong) he said. “I said in my announcement speech that I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they—if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world.

>April 20th 2023 Billy Baldwin on X: "This is Mary Richardson Kennedy. Robert Kennedy’s 2nd wife and mother to four of his six children. She was an incredible woman. A wonderful mother, wife and activist. Sadly she is no longer with us. She cried on my shoulder about Bobby numerous times at their former home on Bedford Road, my former home on Chestnut Ridge Road, at the Canaan Ridge School and the Saw Mill Club. If Bobby were half a man she would still be alive today. It will all come out. His campaign will be over in weeks. If these walls could talk."

>January 29th 2025 Billy Baldwin on X:

"Bobby Kennedy was my friend. Our friendship didn't end when he abandoned his political integrity for Trump. It ended when his lovely wife Mary died. Had he protected her during that difficult time she might still be with us. And as his cousin Caroline stated, he's a 'predator.'" 6:32 PM · Jan 29, 2025

>He repeatedly lied about his alias: "Robert Strong" and the "catalog" until DJ Vlad cornered him: 43+ mistresses while married to Mary and he cataloged them by sexual act so she would find the list.

>All the women including the NANNY Eliza Cooney tell the same story about Robert Strong's  unwanted advances.

>For young Eliza: under the kitchen table, in her bedroom with a request that she apply Kiehl’s lotion to his back & in the kitchen pantry until he was stopped by a workman.

>A heroin addict who eats the rat's eyes first.

>Not to mention decapitating the whale, the central park bear and other animal abuses.

>A man who repeatedly lies about his voice

>Organic TESTOSTERONE:

"When Kennedy emerged as a candidate for president, in April 2023, his body and face had become transfigured by what he has called a regimen of “organic testosterone.” Kennedy showed off his unusually puffy body in campaign workouts, going shirtless in an infamous push-up video. “I mean, he’s unrecognizable,” says a family intimate who has known him for decades. “It’s like a body-snatching thing."

>"When Kennedy was married to his second wife, Mary Richardson, he was known to text other damning images to friends as well—of nude women. Those friends assumed Kennedy himself had taken the pictures, but they didn’t know whether the subjects had consented to having their genitalia photographed, let alone shared with other people. When one friend lost his phone, he panicked that somebody might discover the images."

>Under oath he told a judge that he has cognitive problems specifically Short & long-term memory issues.

>The TRAGIC story of Martha Moxley & cousin Michael Skakel

>His 30 day stint in a non-USA jail prison

>The list goes on & on. He's always been a fraud.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Caroline Orr Bueno at Weaponized Spaces:

Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly buried a report last week — produced by their own experts — warning that the risk of measles is higher in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lower. It’s just the latest in a series of moves from federal health agencies that suggest major changes are underway now that an anti-vaccine activist is leading the nation’s health agenda. Asked by ProPublica why the CDC withheld the new report, the agency replied in a written statement that there was nothing to learn from the report and that the agency still believes that vaccination is the best way to prevent measles. But the statement didn’t end there, nor did it offer a recommendation that everyone should get vaccinated. “The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” the statement said, echoing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s own language about vaccination, which diverges sharply from how federal health agencies have historically talked about vaccination — as a public health issue, not a personal one. An HHS communications director confirmed that this language reflects the position of the new leadership, saying that “Secretary Kennedy believes the decision to vaccinate is a personal one.” But the truth is, when it comes to public health, there really isn’t such a thing as a “personal” or “individual” choice — because every choice we make as individuals has implications for the health of those around us. Framing vaccination as an issue of “personal choice” disregards the fact that choosing not to get vaccinated ultimately strips other people of their personal choice to stay healthy or to live a normal life. It’s important to keep in mind that the people choosing not to get vaccinated — the ones depriving others of the choice to stay healthy and disease-free — are, for the most part, healthy adults, while those who are put at risk by these decisions are generally either very young (infants), very old, pregnant, or immunocompromised/immunosuppressed. Take, for example, the story of a 9-month old baby girl whose choice to avoid preventable childhood illnesses was taken away from her by someone who made the choice to skip out on a routine vaccine. There’s a short, high-risk window of time between about 6-8 months through 12 months after birth when babies lose the immunity for chickenpox conferred by their mother in the womb but are still too young to receive the first shot in the vaccine series that prevents chickenpox. This window of time used to be much higher-risk before the chickenpox vaccine started eliminating the disease nationwide. Now, although it is still best to be cautious during that time period, the chances of running into someone with chickenpox are pretty low for the average American, and so most parents can breathe a sigh of relief, even with the knowledge that their infant hasn’t yet received the protection of the vaccine.

During this time, it’s generally advised to continue taking extra precautions like avoiding close contact with anyone who may not have immunity to chickenpox and shingles. In this case, the parents of the 9-month-old infant were already heeding that advice — and more — because at the time, the COVID pandemic was still raging. There were no play dates, showers, or mommy-and-me events; no babysitters or nannies coming into the home; no family gatherings where everyone passed the baby around to admire her. At the time this infant had her unfortunate encounter with a vaccine-preventable disease, she had spent the weeks prior in her home, with only her mother and father, who are both immune to the disease. The only exception was a trip to the grocery store down the street, and the time spent on the sidewalk in her stroller on the way there. While in the store, the parents avoided other shoppers and never brought their baby into the same aisle as another shopper, primarily because of their fears of COVID, not chickenpox. [...] Babies and young children aren’t the only ones who suffer the consequences of people choosing not to get vaccinated. In order for vaccination to work effectively, there must be a healthy immune system to produce an immune response to the vaccine and confer the associated protection from disease. Elderly folks, people who have autoimmune diseases, and people who are undergoing certain types of cancer treatment or living with HIV can’t rely on their own immune systems to produce the response needed to protect them from disease. That’s why they have to rely on the rest of us to make responsible decisions about our own health as well as the health and well-being of those around us. One of the major ways we can protect people like this is by choosing to get vaccinated, knowing that we ourselves may not be at a heightened risk of becoming infected with a vaccine preventable disease or suffering from the severe consequences of one — but also knowing that we’ll never be able to know which of our friends, family, neighbors, or just those people we see every week at the grocery store, may be relying on us to protect them. In the US, conservatives are most likely to view vaccination as a personal choice. And that makes sense, given that they tend to place a high value on individual liberty and having the freedom to make decisions without government or anyone else telling them what to do. But those same individuals also place a high value on things like personal responsibility and self-sufficiency — and that’s where their position on vaccinations starts to fall apart.

Framing vaccination as a “personal choice” issue is normalizing anti-vaxxer sentiments.

[nityarawal]

4/4/2025

How Do We Grow?

Morning Songs

How Many Ways

Can We Weaponise

Mom

Mothers For Liberty

Love

And Miss

Estranged

Little Ones

How Many Ways

Can You Weaponise

Mum

Ivana Fell

Down The Stairs

But We

Forgive Everyone

How Many Ways

Can You Weaponise

Mum

Of Course

She Protests

To Get Her

Beloveds

How Many

Ways Can You

Weaponise Mum

Lilly Got A Restraining

Order From

Her Highschool

Allegedly It Wasn't

Lilly

Who Had A Conflict

Of Interest

Molesting

Bourne Kids'

But The Bullies

Of The Administration

Beth Bourne

We Fell For You

Just A Mommy

Reachin' Out

Terrorised

By Tranny Soldiers

Just Like Beloved

Elon

And Tesla Friends

Davis College

Once So Bio

Diverse

It Was Our

Co-Housing

Platform

That Modelled

Farm Life Retirement

Gardens Connecting

Every Plot

With Food

The Peeps Came

To Me

No Money

Need A Miracle

Seems Like

Gaslighting

A Comitted Realtor

I Am

Attended

Every Meeting

And Took My

Folks To Visit

Davis Campus

To Study

Students

Don't Appreciate

My Son

Being Drafted

For AI

Intelligence

Management

When He's Not Done

With Homeschool

Don't Appreciate

My Son

Being Coveted

By The Nanny

Of A Charter

School

Don't Appreciate

Isha

Being Headhunted

From Age Five

An Einstein

Indeed

Hands Off My

Child

For Intellectual

Property

Isha's Kindergarten

Teacher

Miss Caroline

Thought He Was

Einstein

She Followed

Me

To TM Lectures

She Said She'd

Learn

To Be Like Isha

Ashley Dean's

And Richard Beall 

We Hosted

To Make Maharishi

School Grow

We Didn't Know

That Springly Waller

Johnson

Was Recruiting For 

Cambridge 

At M.S.A.E.

To Make A Killin'

We Didn't Know

That Candace

Badgett

Hated Us So

We Didn't Know

Ranis'

Not Just Me

Sterile Swedish

Godmother

Accident Prone

But Pack Of

Disgruntled

With Sugar

Daddy

Cobwebbed

Monsters

We Didn't Know

The Depth

Of Miss Piggy's

Need

We Didn't Know

The Depth

Of Mrs. Piggy's

Greed

Now We Know

So Settle Everything

Square Up

So Neuralink

Must Be Closed

Now We Know

How Davis

Tortured Monkeys

Now We Know

How Davis

Tortures

Kids

Now We Know

Now We Saw

Now We Share

Now We Grow

Mrs. Beth Bourne

How Do We

Rebirth These 

Junkies

Of Courts

No Frontal Coretex

Left

Pandering To Judges

Fettishes

How Do We Heal

How Do We Love

These Broken Children

Pandering

To The Courts

How Do We Heal

How Do We Love

Little Lilly

Vivian

And Every Hopeless

Cause

How Do We Heal

How Do We Love

Our Kids Aren't

For You

We Birthed Them

For Grander

Stuff

How Do We Love

How Do We Heal

Beth Bourne

Kai And I

Would Like

To Give You

A Cyberbeast 

Drill

How Do We

Love

How Do We

Grow

How Do We

Manage

Our Children's

Troubled

Souls

Eloning

Home

Peace, Love, Eternally,

Nitya Nella Davigo Azam Moezzi Huntley Rawal 

Encinitasbeachhome.com 

[sundayshorrorshow]

Sunday Watches: Chucky (S1 E2)

Rating: 🩸🩸🩸🩸/5

Synopsis: After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin.

Welcome back besties for the resties!

So, we first open episode two to a vintage looking flashback of a young Charles Lee Ray on Halloween. There is this WONDERFUL vintage Halloween song playing in the background, it makes me happy stim. Anyway Charles is looking through his candy, as children do, when he comes across an apple. He picks it up only to realize that there is a razor blade in it. O-okay....?? He slowly brings the apple up to his mouth, knowing what's in it but he stops short. Thank God, he's smart. Just kidding he chomps down on the thing and smiles as his mouth bleeds. Yay....

We cut to present day, Jake is listening to Devon's wonderful podcast called Hackenslash. Devon explains that in Hackensack everyone is obsessed with Halloween and that violence always spikes on Halloween in the town.

Jake is in the car with his uncle, his uncle's wife and his cousin. He's coming back to school after the events. We see more of Junior's dad being a perfectionist and forcing that upon Junior. Everyone is talking about what happened to Jake's father and Oliver, one of his bullies, invites him to a Halloween party. Fun! I love underaged drinking! That's sarcasm by the way.

Junior and Lexy talk shit about Jake and how creepy the doll was. They then argue about her Halloween costume because, young love y'know? Devon talks to Jake in the hallway, Devon says he's sorry for his loss. Typical stuff.

Now, what's Chucky up to you might ask? Well back at Jake's uncle's house he starts messing with the maid. Yes, they have a maid. The maid messes with Jake's journal for a second before spraying Chucky in the face with cleaner, she's gonna regret that. In the kitchen she realizes all the knifes are blade up in the dishwasher. Chucky, being a petty little fucker, pushes her into the dishwasher and she gets a mouth full of knives.

Jake and Junior get home from school. Jake tries being helpful but it makes Junior crash out. They go into the kitchen, unaware that his maid is dead on the floor. Jake finally sees the maid and he's like "oh shit...call 911" y'know as normal people do. Junior is traumatized and his family is all like "she was like part of the family" only to know NOTHING about her. Right...part of the family...

The cop starts talking like Jake did something to the nanny. The parents get mad once Junior is brought into it and so they take off. AND NOW WE GET MY FAVORITE INTERACTION EVER! Chucky's sitting on the bed reading Jake's journal when Jake comes in-

"What the fuck did you do?!"

Chucky: "I didn't do it."

"What?!"

Chucky: "Swear to God, I didn't kill her."

Chucky then says Jake isn't good at writing, he should stick to sculpture. He's trying to get Jake to like and trust him. Chucky brings up how he has a 'queer kid' he actually has two but that's besides the point. He reassures Jake that he only wants to kill people who have it coming. His next target, Lexy. Jake says no.

Junior hears his parents talking about Jake. Jake also hears. When Junior walks into Jake's room he sees that Lexy's social media is pulled up on Jake's computer. Junior tells Jake to stay away from Lexy and then Junior hears Jake telling Chucky to leave her alone, Chucky punches him.

At Lexy's house her little sister Caroline is drawing a very detailed picture of Chucky. Lexy's parents drag her, especially her mother. Lexy says her sister barely knows she exsist. I'm saying this because one, Caroline is a comfort character to me and two Caroline seems to be autistic coded. I am autistic and I saw alot of similarities between me and her and other people seem to feel the same way.

Devon's mom, the cop, tells Devon about Junior's house keeper. His mother asks if Jake's father ever hurt him because he's gay. Devon is like "what are we talking about?" And then she leaves. Devon then leaves for the party. Jake finds out that Chucky is missing.

Chucky is on the move dressed up as, Hello Kitty. Or really he's just wearing a Hello Kitty mask which is SUPER ICONIC. He goes to this lady's house asking about a party, she tells him about the one Lexy is at and in return he gives her an apple...with a razor blade in it. What it is with bro and the razor blade apples?

At the party Jake and Devon get locked in a closet for a game of "seven minutes in hell" how original. Meanwhile, Chucky finds Caroline playing a video game. Caroline tells Chucky that he's really good at the game, he's like "you too fam, you too" he also says she has potential and that killing is good clean fun for the family. Caroline says that her mother says killing is bad, Chucky is like "man fuck your mother" and Caroline says her mother says swearing is bad and Chucky is like "man fuck your mother twice" he doesn't actually say that, I'm giving you the Sunday translation.

Chucky finds Lexy and Junior making out and he tries stabbing her through the bed. Chucky bro has terrible timing. Back in the closet Devon asks Jake what's wrong. Jake doesn't tell him. After they get out of the closet everyone sees what Lexy's costume is...and it's Jake's dead father. Damn. Jake is super upset, obviously. Jake confronts Lexy only to find Chucky behind her. He gets Chucky and leaves.

Back at the house. Chucky apologizes for hitting Jake. He also knows about Lexy's costume. He talks again about how some people just deserve to die. Jake takes Chucky's knife from him and Chucky is super happy about it. Aaaaand...that's episode two.

[readingforsanity]

Fool Me Once | Harlan Coben | Published 2016 | *SPOILERS*

Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya's husband, Joe - who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband - and herself.

Maya Burkett, nee Stern, is a former Army captain and helicopter pilot. After an event that occurred during one of her deployments is leaked via a man known simply as Corey the Whistle, who allows whistle blowers to come forward with pertinent infomation anonymously and he leaks it to the world, she is given an honorable discharge and heads home to begin her life as a civilian.

Married into the wealthy and prominent Burkett family, her husband Joe, and she are parents to 2-year-old Lily, and live in New York City, and she begins working as a teacher at an airport, while Lily spends her time with her nanny, a friend of the family, Isabella.

However, Joe is brutally murdered in Central Park, and Maya witnessed the event. She claims that two men, in dark clothing and ski masks, attempted to rob them. After Joe was shot twice, she took off at a run in order to get away from the assailants.

Directly after the funeral, Maya is given a nanny cam from her best friend, Eileen. Eileen knows that Maya doesn't trust anyone with her child, and thus decided it would be a good idea to give her a digital picture frame masked as a nanny cam. However, a few days after the funeral, Maya is terrified to see her husband on the video, playing with their daughter.

Wondering if Joe had somehow faked his death or if someone is messing with her, she shows the video to Isabella. She claims that she doesn't see anything on the video, and when Maya turns her back, something she shouldn't have done in hindsight, Isabella attacks her with pepper spray, before running off.

Maya is reeling from the after effects of the pepper spray when she is confronted by the detective on Joe's case. He explains to her that the same gun used in Joe's murder was the same one used in her older sister, Claire's murder, that took place a few months ago. Maya further reels from this news, and she begins to wonder what the connection is.

After Isabella attacked her, Maya begin placing Lily in a daycare center that she had toured before Joe wanted to hire Isabella, whose own mother had been in his nanny growing up, and she begins to investigate both Claire and Joe's murders on her own.

Ultimately, she comes face to face with Corey the Whistle himself, who had been tailing her. He explains that Claire had come to him, begging him not to release the remainder of the audio tape that would further implicate Maya in her actions overseas, and in exchange, she began performing investigative work for him on the Burkett family. Maya understands now that somehow her sister and husband's murders were connected in more ways than one.

When she gets wind of payments being made to a man named Tom Douglass for the last several years, Maya begins looking into that angle. When she arrives at the Douglass home, his wife explains that she knows nothing about his private investigative work that he had been performing since his release from the military, and that she couldn't be more help. But Maya is able to connect him to another Burkett death: that of Andrew Burkett when he had been 17 years old. He had been partying on a yacht with Joe and their younger sister, Caroline, along with other friends from their prominent school outside of Philadelphia, on their way to Bermuda, when he had supposedly fallen overboard. He was reported missing and his body had been found nearly 24 hours after he had fallen in. Tom Douglass had been the man in charge with the Coast Guard for that death.

At one point, Joe had explained to Maya that Andrew's death hadn't been an accident, that he had committed suicide, and Maya believes that the family began paying off Tom Douglass in order to tell everyone that it was an accident as opposed to a suicide to protect themselves and their businesses.

Maya reaches out to the school in Philadelphia, after finding out that another student the same age as Andrew had also died shortly before Andrew did, and the headmaster provided to Maya that Andrew and the other student, Theo, had been roommates and Theo had died from alcohol poisoning. When Maya meets with his widowed mother, she explains that her late husband believed that Andrew's suicide was due to guilt.

Maya later learns that this is true: She was able to get in touch with another of the students who had been on the yacht, who had been living in a recovery center for various drug and alcohol issues, and he explained that Theo had been hazed by Joe and Andrew and himself, and they had carried him into the basement of the school, and began pouring alcohol down his throat until it killed him. Joe and Andrew were able to put his body somewhere that it would be found later, which it was by a custodian of the school. After returning to school after it's required weeklong closure, Joe returned but Andrew didn't, instead choosing to remain in therapy in order to get better. Christopher Swain also explains that at some point, Joe had also beat a child so badly with a bat that it cracked his skull, and after losing to another male student for a female's attention, set the room he had been in on fire and that he had barely made it out alive.

When she leaves the recovery center, she is approached by a white van and a group of men, one armed, attempted to kidnap her. But she was able to get away with the gun that she had kept hidden. In the end, she realizes now who is responsible for her sister's death. She meets with her brother-in-law, Eddie, who had been married to Claire and who hasn't been doing well since her death, but has been involved in helping Maya, and arranges for him to pick up her daughter from daycare. Afterwards, she heads to the address where Isabella has been hiding out at since their incident.

She confronts both Isabella and her brother, Hector, and realizes that the two of them were the ones who had set up the video in which Maya thought she had saw Joe. Hector, who was similar in build, played the body double while a photoshop expert placed his face over Hector's. It makes sense to Maya, since her daughter knew Hector and would go to him openly without issue. Isabella claims it is because their mother told them that she had killed Joe.

She is then confronted by Shane, one of her best friends, who says he has been tracking her. Ultimately, she confesses that the reason she has been experiencing such awful PTSD isn't because of the fact that civilians had died but because she doesn't. Two of their men had been calling for help, and instead of waiting for word to go ahead and shoot the SUV that had been barreling down on them, she told Shane that they had given the okay and shot down the vehicle, which had been filled with all civilians and no enemies, and the two men were able to be rescued, injured but alive.

Next on her list was to confront the Burkett family. She sits down in their massive home, waiting for them to return and confronts them after confessing to Shane that she had killed Joe. Joe had been responsible for her sister's death, and she had come to that realization when she returned home. She noticed that one the guns she kept in her gunsafe had recently been used, since it hadn't been cleaned directly after it had been fired, something she was meticulous about. She switched the guns, putting the unregistered one in a secret compartment in the gun safe, placing it's twin inside of the actual safe itself.

She explains to Judith Burkett, the matriarch of the remaining family members, that Joe had been responsible for Andrew's death, and acting as if she wasn't aware of this, she begins to try to reason with Maya. But, Neil, the youngest brother, decides to take matters into his own hands: he shoots her three times in the chest. But, what neither of them know, is that with the help of Corey the Whistle's faithful employee, the entire thing had been played live.

25 years later, Shane and Eileen meet again at the hospital, where Lily has just become a mother for the first time. Her husband is military, something that Shane believes Maya would have loved. Lily had been raised by Eddie, alongside with her cousins. Eddie remarried a woman named Selina 10 years after Claire's death. Lily smiles at Shane and tells him that they had named their newborn daughter, Maya.

[darthjess-book-reviews]

REVIEW: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

SUMMARY (provided by Goodreads)

A wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.

Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.

Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body.

Then, Teddy’s artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force.

Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it’s too late.

MY REVIEW: 4/5 stars

My friend made me read this book, and even though it's totally not the kind of book I normally read, I was very surprised with how much I enjoyed this.

Honestly, the quality of this book is probably closer to 3 stars, but my enjoyment level was 4 stars. I was at the edge of my seat for most of the book, and it was a really fun read overall! It was a good thriller, but it wasn't so scary that I couldn't read it when I was home alone. Just not home alone at night.

I do have to clarify, even though I enjoyed the plot of this book and it was very exciting, there were aspects to it that I didn't love and were kind of uncomfortable. There was a trans aspect to this book, and while I think it made the plot more interesting, I'm concerned that for the author it may have not been coming from a very good place. From a political standpoint, I feel like a book like this might even be harmful for people in the trans community. I'm definitely curious to know how trans people who have read this book feel about it.

[feltheavy]

❛  please don't go, i can't handle losing you too.  ❜ (To Caroline)

Caroline turns around at the sound of footsteps entering her otherwise silent home. The smell of Maggie coasts into the room before the voice begs for the blonde to stay. A soft sigh comes from her lips as Caroline puts the dish towel down from doing the last of the dishes in her family home, wanting to keep things tidy for when she comes back 【 it doesn't matter anyway; she'd be deep cleaning the moment she comes back anyway. 】 When Alaric offered her to go with him, it was a no-brainer. Not because she cared deeply about Alaric but because of those beautiful 72-hour-old girls to whom she had given life for him. Their tiny faces had been etched into her brain from staring at them for hours.

❝ I have to go. . . ❞ Caroline starts off by taking a few steps toward the brunette. This was the only way out of this small town. Caroline had never thought she'd leave Mystic Falls, Virginia. She has seen so many people fall victim to the pattern of small-town life. Everyone says they will go, yet less than 1% actually do. Caroline had always dreamed big, and while vampirism has taken things from her. It has also given her things, like her freedom. I can't leave those girls with Alaric. He has no nanny or anything.

Caroline had tried to distance herself from the babies that had been in her womb. But she couldn't do that as it wasn't in her nature. She had grown close to them, even going as far as reading college textbooks to them while they were in the womb. ❝ You could come with us. ❞ the offer slips from her lips without much thought being given to it.

         𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐒𝐊 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐆 & 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐒

[thrashntreasure]

Ep111 Slippy the Welsh Kangaroo w/ Caroline Sheen! (West End!)

Winds in the east, there's a mist coming in, an episode's brewin', about to begin with none other than West End legend, Caroline Sheen! (Say what?! *faints*) This week, the superlatively fantaslistic Caroline joins AW and guest co-host, Jean-Paul Yovanoff, in A Perfect Circle with their hit album 'Mer de Noms' before conjuring up a wickedly good time with The Witches of Eastwick. Plus, we chat trips to Australia, Home and Away Vs Neighbours, Superhero Nannies, Animal Studies, and heaps more in this hilariously magical episode!

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