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orthodoxydaily · 9 months ago

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Saints&Reading: Thursday, February 22, 2024

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THE HOLY MARTYR NICEPHOROS OF ANTIOCH (ca 257)

The Holy Martyr Nicephoros (Nikēphóros) lived in the city of Syrian Antioch, as well as presbyter Sapricius, with whom Nikephoros was so close that they were considered brothers. One day they quarreled because of some disagreement, and their former friendship changed into enmity and hate.

After a certain time Nikephoros came to his senses, repented of his sin and more than once asked Sapricius, through mutual friends, to forgive him. Sapricius, however, did not wish to forgive him. Nikephoros then went to his former friend and fervently asked forgiveness, but Sapricius was adamant.

At this time the emperors Valerian (253-259) and Gallius (260-268) began to persecute Christians, and one of the first brought before the court was the priest Sapricius. He firmly confessed himself a Christian, underwent tortures for his faith and was condemned to death by beheading with a sword. As they led Sapricius to execution, Nikephoros tearfully implored his forgiveness saying, “O martyr of Christ, forgive me if I have sinned against you in any way.”

The priest Sapricius remained stubborn, and even as he approached death he refused to forgive his fellow Christian. Seeing the hardness of his heart, the Lord withdrew His blessing from Sapricius, and would not let him receive the crown of martyrdom. At the last moment, he suddenly became afraid of death and agreed to offer sacrifice to idols. In vain did Saint Nikephoros urge Sapricius not to lose his reward through apostasy, since he already stood on the threshold of the heavenly Kingdom.

Saint Nikephoros then said to the executioner, “I am a Christian, and I believe in our Lord Jesus Christ. Execute me in place of Sapricius.” The executioners reported this to the governor. He decided to free Sapricius, and to behead Nikephoros in his place. Thus did Saint Nikephoros inherit the Kingdom and receive a martyr’s crown.

SAINT INNOCENT, BISHOP OF IRKUTSK (1731)

Saint Innocent, the first Bishop of Irkutsk, reposed on November 27, 1731. But because the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God is commemorated on that day, his Feast Day is celebrated on November 26.

After the Saint's death, his persecutors received their just retribution. Archimandrite Anthony was discredited in Beijing as unorthodox. He was returned to St. Petersburg, deposed and imprisoned. Soon afterward, the Vice-Governor of Irkutsk was executed for his crimes.

In 1764, the body of Saint Innocent was discovered to be incorrupt during restoration work on the Ascension Monastery’s Tikhvin church. Many miracles occurred not only at Irkutsk, but also in the remote places of Siberia, for those who turned to the Saint in prayer.

In 1783, there was a great fire at Ascension Monastery. Everything that could burn was burnt. However, the old wooden temple, where the Saint's body rested, remained unharmed.

On February 9, 1805, the Most Holy Synod decided to uncover the Hierarch's relics and to number him among the Saints.

On February 2, 1831, the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord, His Grace Bishop Benjamin took Vladyka's holy relics from his tomb and placed them in the midst of the Tikhvin church, and then he served the Divine Liturgy before them. A week later, on February 9, the Hierarch's relics were solemnly transferred from the Tikhvin church to the Ascension Cathedral in a Cross Procession with the wonderworking Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.

In the twenties of the XX century, a period of persecution by the new godless authorities against Christians began. The Superior of Ascension Monastery was arrested, along with other hierarchs of Siberia. In 1921, the Saint's relics were subjected to a sacrilegious medical examination, after which they were taken from the orphaned Monastery, and then they disappeared for a long time.

In 1990, in one of the churches of the city of Yaroslavl, Saint Innocent's relics were discovered in a utility room. A medical examination showed that the body, which was not touched by decay, was that of Saint Innocent. His holy relics were returned to Irkutsk, and today they rest in Znamensky Monastery.

Saint Innocent, the first Bishop of Irkutsk is commemorated on November 26 (the day of his repose), February 9 (the discovery of his relics in 1805), June 10 (Synaxis of the Saints of Siberia), September 2 (the return of his relics to Irkutsk in 1990), on October 10 (Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia), and on the third Sunday after Pentecost (Synaxis of the Saints of St. Petersburg).

Source: Orthodox Church in America_OCA

1 PETER 4:12-5:5

12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; 13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people's matters. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter. 17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 Now "If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?" 19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.

1 The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; 3 nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock; 4 and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away. 5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."

MARK 12:38-44

38 Then He said to them in His teaching, "Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces, 39 the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts, 40 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation. 41 Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much. 42 Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans. 43 So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury; 44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.

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measuringbliss · 10 months ago

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Spider-Man Comics Read-through Masterpost (The Eighties)

See previous masterpost for more information

Notes:

-The list is a WIP. Numbers will be corrected. Maybe. Someday. When I get to it.

-Eras are divided by artists, but I kept the division by story arc first and foremost.

The Wolfman Era (Part 2)

053 Enter Swarm (SSM 35-37): Here 054 Schizoid Man and Spider Lizard (SSM 38-40): Here 055 Man Hunt (ASM 201-203, WI v1 19): Here 056 The Frightful Four (SSM 41-43): Here 057 Black Cat Always Lands On Her Feet (ASM 204-206): Here

The O'Neil Era

058 Somebody is Killing Them All! (SSM 44-45, SSM Ann 2): Here 059 The Prophecy of Madame Web (ASM 207-212): Here 060 What If Gwen Stacy Had Lived (ASM 213, Ann 14, WI 24): Here 061 Prowler and Belladonna (SSM 46-48): Here 062 Enter The Smuggler (SSM 49-52): Here 063 Then We Shall Both Be Betrayed (ASM 214-216): Here 064 Wig Snatched (SSM 53-58, SSM Ann 3): P1 P2 065 Mud Thing (ASM 217-218): Here 066 Prison Break (ASM 219-222): Here 067 ARMS!!! (ASM 223-225, Ann 15, WI v1 30): Here

BONUS: Marvel Team-Up 2 (#36-79): Here

The Stern Era

68 Beetle, Gibbon (SSM 59-60): Here 69 Harry's Back! (SSM 61-68): Here 70 But the Cat Came Back (ASM 226-228, Smokescreen 01): Here 71 Nothing Can Stop The Juggernaut (ASM 229-232, Ann 16, Savage Land): Here 72 Silvermane Dies (SSM 69-71): Here 73 Brand Corporation and Tarantula (ASM 233-237): Here 74 Octopus and Owl (SSM 72-77): Here 75 First Hobgoblin (ASM 238-239): Here 76 The Final Battle (SSM 78-80): Here 77 Vulture, Wings of Vengeance (ASM 240-243, Ann 17): Here 78 Stalkers in the Shadows (SSM 81-83): Here 79 Search For The Green Goblin Formula (ASM 244-245): Here 80 Hobgoblin's Return and Spider-Kittens (SSM 84-86): Here 81 The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man (ASM 246-248): Here 82 Secrets, Confessions and Endings (ASM 249-251, SM&PP 01): Here

BONUS: Marvel Team-Up 3 (#80-129): Here

The DeFalco Era 83 Unmasked (SSM 87-89): Here 84 Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Here 85 Homecoming (ASM 252-255): Here 86 Spidey and Black Cat vs The Answer (SSM 90-93): Here 87 Puma (ASM 256-258, Ann 18): Here 88 Cloak and Dagger vs Silvermane (SSM 94-97)

[check out book] 89 Return of Hobgoblin (ASM 259-262) 90 First Spot (SSM 98-100) 91 Untitled (ASM 263-267, ASM Ann 19) 92 Web of Spider-Man (WSM 1-3) 93 Untitled (SSM 101-104) 94 United We Fall (SSM 105-106) 95 Arms and the Man (WSM 4-5) 96 Spider-Man vs The Firelord (ASM 269-272)

[end of book] 139 Death of Jean DeWolff (SSM 107-110) 140 Secret Wars II (SWII 1-9, ASM 268, 273-274, WSM 6, SSM 111) 141 Local (Super) Hero (WSM 7-9, WSM Ann 1) 142 Peter Parker, Vigilante and Victim (WSM 10-12) 143 Untitled (SSM 112-114) 144 Hobgoblin Unmasked (ASM 275-278) 145 All That Glitters (WSM 13-15) 146 Things Fall Apart (SSM 115-117) 147 Ace (SSM Ann 5-6) 148 Missing In Action (WSM 16-19) 149 Silver Sable, Sinister Syndicate (ASM 279-283, ASM Ann 20)

The Michelinie Era

150 Roxxon, England - Ireland with Joy Mercado (WSM 20-22,WSM Ann 2) 151 Untitled (SSM 118-124) 152 Gang War (ASM 284-288) 153 Untitled (WSM 23-28, SMvW 1) 154 Wrecking Havoc (SSM 125-126) 155 Hobgoblin Revealed (ASM 289, WSM 29-30) 156 Spider Slayers (ASM 290-292, ASM Ann 21) 157 Untitled (SSM 127-130, SSM Ann 7) 158 Kraven's Last Hunt (ASM 293-294, WSM 31-32, SSM 131-132) 159 Mad Dog Ward (ASM 295, WSM 33, SSM 133) 160 Doctor Octopus Recovers (ASM 296-297) 161 Return of the Sin Eater (SSM 134-136) 162 Untitled (WSM 34-39, WSM Ann 3) 163 Return of Tarantula (SSM 137-138) 164 Chance (ASM 298-300) 165 Cult of Love (WSM 40-43) 166 Fifth Reich (ASM 301-303) 167 Spider-Man meets Tombstone (SSM 139-142) 168 Reunion (WSM 44, IH 349) 169 The Evolutionary War (Marvel Annuals 1988) 170 Untitled (WSM 45-46) 171 Untitled (ASM 304-314) 172 Lobo Brothers Gang War (SSM 143-154, WSM 47-55) 173 Return of Venom (ASM 315-317) 174 Scorpion (ASM 318-319) 175 Atlantis Attack (Marvel Annuals 1989) 176 The Assassin Nation Plot (ASM 320-325, WI v2 4) 177 Skin Deep (WSM 56-58) 178 Untitled (SSM 155-157)

Recommendations: First Half | Second Half

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can-of-pringles · 1 year ago

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Thanks for the tag!

1) How many works do you have on A03?

2) What’s your total AO3 word count?

221,276

3) What fandoms do you write for?

The band Ghost, Good Omens, The Sandman, Marvel, Stranger Things, Arcane, Star Wars, originally Moomins.

4) What are your top five fics by kudos?

Similarities: 281

Truths Revealed: 259

Beginnings: 86

Confessions: 82

Not to be Forgotten: 59

5) Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I always do (within reason) I want to show my readers how much their comments mean to me and that I'm paying attention to their support.

6) What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Hmm... I don't typically write stuff with no happy endings, or they're part of a series that will eventually lead to a happy ending. I guess I'll say Not to be Forgotten for this, even though it's a prequel to Similarities, it ends on an angsty cliffhanger ending from what I remember.

7) What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

The majority of them have happy endings. It's hard to pick just one. I guess Three's A Magic Number.

8) Do you get hate on fics?

I haven't before. I don't think my fics get enough attention in general to receive hate.

9) Do you write smut? If so, what kinds?

No. It's not my thing. However, I am slightly getting out of my comfort zone and writing a little more spicy ish makeout scenes and things like that. And I slightly have "references" to things y'know that people can piece together. But I don't write smut.

10) Do you write crossovers?

Not usually. The last time I wrote a typical crossover was I believe Missing Man: Peter Maximoff which was my X-Men and Wandavision AU crossover.

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No. I've had OCs and posts stolen before but I've gotten it handled.

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I'm aware of.

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No.

14) What’s your all time favorite ship?

Call me a cheater but Arith and Iriel.

15) What’s a WIP that you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

:| My Multiverse Sisters AU. I gave up on it.

16) What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue, writing emotions, and symbolism I think?

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

I'm not that good at describing scenes or making my fics long but I'm working on it.

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I do it when I think it's important in some way. I usually add the translations in the bottom note.

19) First fandom you wrote for?

I think it was Gravity Falls a long time ago. Don't go looking for it you won't be able to find it anyway.

20) Favorite fic you’ve written?

Hmmmm... I have multiple. Beginnings (Rewrite), When I'm Alone with You, King and Lionheart, Compromise, Dappled Sunlight, Similarities, Only For Tonight, Not to be Forgotten, Look After, Slow Dance

Tagging: @practically-an-x-man , @anamelessfool , @nebulousfishgills

20 Questions for Fic Writers Game

Tagged by @jo-harrington. Thank you!

1) How many works do you have on A03?

According to AO3, 195. However I do know it’s more since I have made a few drabble compilation. Someday I’ll reorganize everything.

2) What's your total AO3 word count?

686,641

3) What fandoms do you write for?

Baldur’s Gate 3, Stranger Things, Marvel/MCU, Star Wars, The Magnificent Seven, M*A*S*H, Good Omens, and a scattering of other fandoms here and there.

4) What are your top five fics by kudos?

Skipping Drabble/Headcanon compilations

I Want It All (Astarion x Ace!Tav)

Life Is Inevitable Like That (Ineffable Husbands)

Trust Me (Poe Dameron x Reader)

An Unspoken Thing (Doctor Strange x Reader)

Questions (Ineffable Husbands)

5) Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I respond to most of them, or at least try to. I think it’s important to building a community, which is what I hope I encourage. Also as a way to show that yes, I did read it and yes, commenting does matter.

6) What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

What If…Loki Lost His Love?

I don’t do major character death or angst in general. It’s just not what I’m looking for in fics, but I actually think I did a good job on this one.

7) What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Most of them? They’re basically all one-shots with happy conclusions. I think if my recent stuff, probably I Want It All.

8) Do you get hate on fics?

I did get one “kill yourself” message a few years ago, but it was just one person on anon. The reception to basically all of my fics have been positive.

9) Do you write smut? If so, what kinds?

I’ve written some smut. I’ve done a couple of Kinktobers and some for Clone Wars. I think the best way I can describe the way I write smut is “sensual”? And it’s a little rougher. Idk, somebody better versed than me could describe it better.

10) Do you write crossovers?

Not really

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I did have a few of my Poe Dameron fics stolen a few years back, but I messaged them and they quickly deleted the fic. That all being said, if anybody notices my works being stolen or copied, please let me know.

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that anyone has told me.

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

My sister and I have talked about it, but no.

14) What's your all time favorite ship?

Ineffable Husbands

15) What's a WIP that you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

*glances at all WIPs I already have published and drawers full of WIPs saved on my computer*

What are you a cop?

16) What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue, characterization and emotions. At least that’s what people have told me.

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

Prose. I’m still working on getting more creative with my descriptions. I could also really get better at scene setting in general.

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I’m not against it, but use it wisely.

If you want to reader to understand what is being said, write it out in the language of the fic. This isn’t a movie. Putting a translation at the bottom of the chapter or in the middle of the sentence makes it sloppy. Instead type out “they said in X language, “___”.

However if you want a character to hear something being said in a different language and they don’t understand it, then type it out of you want.

19) First fandom you wrote for?

Unpublished? Harry Potter

Published? Sherlock (no you can’t read it)

20) Favorite fic you've written?

Don’t make me pick. I’ve written so much and I have a soft spot for so many for a variety of reasons. If you want to send me a fic title and ask me about it, I’ll gladly answer any questions you want.

Tagging @leighsartworks216, @kittttycakes, @can-of-pringles, @flapjacques and anybody else who wants to join in!

#about pringles

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laannie0803 · 4 years ago

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La reina Rhaella Targaryen fue hija del rey Jaehaerys II Targaryen y su hermana esposa, la reina Shaera Targaryen. A instancias de su padre, se convirtió en esposa de su hermano Aerys.

Cuando era aún una princesa, sus damas de compañ��a incluían a Joanna Lannister y a la madre del príncipe Doran Martell. Joanna había llegado a la capital en 259 d.C. para asistir a la coronación de Jaehaerys II Targaryen y se quedó como doncella de la princesa Rhaella.

Antes de casarse, la princesa Rhaella estaba locamente enamorada de Ser Bonifer Hasty, quien llevó su prenda y ganó un torneo, nombrándola Reina del Amor y la Belleza. Tuvieron un breve pero apasionado romance hasta que Ser Bonifer fue considerado de muy bajo nacimiento para una princesa Targaryen.

Por instancia de una bruja de los bosques amiga de Jenny de Piedrasviejas, el entonces príncipe Jaehaerys decidió casar a sus hijos adolescentes; el rey Aegon V, en desacuerdo, se lavó las manos frustrado. De acuerdo con Ser Barristan Selmy, no había afecto entre Aerys y Rhaella en el día de su matrimonio.

Tras la Tragedia de Refugio Estival, ocurrida en 259 d.C. y donde murieron el rey Aegon V y su hijo mayor, el príncipe Duncan el Pequeño, Aerys se convirtió en el príncipe heredero, con Rhaella como su futura reina. El mismo día de la tragedia, Rhaella dio a luz a su primer hijo, Rhaegar. Aerys y Rhaella eran jóvenes y se anticipó que tendrían muchos hijos, cuestión de vital importancia en ese momento, cuando los posibles herederos de la Casa Targaryen habían disminuido a un número alarmante.

El matrimonio entre Rhaella y Aerys fue muy infeliz. Aunque Rhaella hacía la vista gorda a la mayoría de las infidelidades de su esposo, la reina no podía soportar que convirtiera a sus doncellas en sus amantes. La relación entre el rey y la reina se hizo aún más tensa al ser Rhaella incapaz de dar a Aerys más hijos. La reina Rhaella tuvo abortos involuntarios en 263 y 264 d.C., seguido por la princesa Shaena, nacida muerta en 267 d.C. El príncipe Daeron, nacido en 269 d.C., sobrevivió sólo medio año. Luego vino otro niño nacido muerto en 270 d.C., otro aborto involuntario en 271 d.C. y el príncipe Aegon, nacido dos meses prematuro en 272 d.C. y muerto al año siguiente. Al principio, el rey consoló a Rhaella en su dolor pero con el tiempo su compasión se volvió sospecha. Para 270 d.C., el rey Aerys II había decidido que la reina le era infiel y que esa era la razón de que no pudiera darle otro hijo; afirmó que ninguno de los niños nacidos muertos, abortos y bebés muertos habían sido engendrados por él.

A partir de entonces, Aerys II prohibió a Rhaella salir del Torreón de Maegor y decretó que dos septas compartirían su cama cada noche para que la reina permaneciera fiel a sus votos.

Durante los años siguientes el comportamiento del rey Aerys II se hizo cada vez más errático, aunque pareció disminuir en 274 d.C. cuando la reina Rhaella dio a luz a un hijo. Tan profunda fue la alegría de Aerys que pareció restaurar su antiguo carácter. Sin embargo, el príncipe Jaehaerys murió más tarde ese mismo año, sumiendo a Aerys en la desesperación. En su rabia decidió que la nodriza del príncipe era la culpable de su muerte y decapitó a la mujer. No mucho tiempo después Aerys anunció que Jaehaerys había sido envenenado por su propia amante, la joven y bonita hija de uno de sus caballeros. El rey hizo torturar a la muchacha y a todos sus parientes; antes de morir todos confesaron el asesinato aunque los detalles de sus confesiones no coincidían.

En 275 d.C. el rey Aerys ayunó durante quince días e hizo una "caminata de arrepentimiento" por toda la ciudad hasta el Gran Septo de Baelor para orar con el Septón Supremo. A su regreso, el rey anunció que en adelante sólo dormiría con su legítima esposa, la reina Rhaella. Esta nueva fidelidad fue aparentemente bien recibida por la Madre pues al año siguiente la reina Rhaella dio al rey otro hijo. El príncipe Viserys, nacido en 276 d.C., era pequeño pero robusto y más hermoso que cualquier niño que Desembarco del Rey hubiera visto nunca. No obstante, el nacimiento del príncipe Viserys no logró cambiar el comportamiento del rey; se volvió aun más obsesivo y temeroso, llegando a poner caballeros de la Guardia Real para cuidar que nadie tocara al bebé sin su consentimiento, ni siquiera la reina Rhaella.

En 280 d.C., cuando el príncipe Rhaegar volvió a la Fortaleza Roja para presentar a sus padres a su primera hija, la princesa Rhaenys, la reina Rhaella acogió al bebé con cariño mientras que el rey Aerys se rehusó a tocar o sostener a la niña, quejándose de que "olía a dorniense".

En años posteriores, la relación entre Rhaella y su esposo se deterioró. Sólo dormían juntos cuando Aerys había ejecutado y quemado a alguna persona; Jaime Lannister recordaba que quemar a alguien siempre excitaba a Aerys. La última vez fue cuando Aerys quemó a Lord Qarlton Chelsted; Ser Jaime escuchó a Rhaella llorar mientras era abusada. Al día siguiente fue enviada a Rocadragón para escapar del inminente sitio de Desembarco del Rey por los rebeldes durante la Guerra del Usurpador. Sus doncellas dijeron que había hematomas, marcas de mordidas y arañazos por todo el cuerpo de la reina.

En Rocadragón la reina se enteró que estaba embarazada. Cuando la capital cayó dos semanas después, ella, su hijo nonato y el pequeño príncipe Viserys eran los últimos sobrevivientes conocidos de la Dinastía Targaryen. Cuando se tuvieron noticias sobre el saqueo de Desembarco del Rey, Rhaella proclamó rey a Viserys. La reina pasó todo su embarazo en Rocadragón, donde dio a luz a su segunda hija, Daenerys. Murió poco después del estrés producido por el parto.

No tengo mucho que decir, ella merecía una vida mejor que estar con un hombre sin amor y que cada vez se volvía mas violento, mas paranoico y mas salvaje. Al menos tiene el consuelo de que su hija y su posible nieto lucharan por el trono que les corresponde, al final ella sembró el futuro de la Casa Targaryen.

Queen Rhaella Targaryen was the daughter of King Jaehaerys II Targaryen and her sister wife Queen Shaera Targaryen. At the urging of her father, she became the wife of her brother Aerys.

When she was still a princess, her ladies-in-waiting included Joanna Lannister and Prince Doran Martell's mother. Joanna had arrived in the capital in A.D. 259. to attend the coronation of Jaehaerys II Targaryen and stayed as princess Rhaella's maiden.

Before getting married, Princess Rhaella was madly in love with Ser Bonifer Hasty, who wore her garment and won a tournament, naming her Queen of Love and Beauty. They had a brief but passionate romance until Ser Bonifer was considered a very low birth to a Targaryen princess.

At the behest of a forest witch friend of Jenny of Oldstones, then-Prince Jaehaerys decided to marry his teenage children; King Aegon V, in disagreement, washed his hands in frustration. According to Ser Barristan Selmy, there was no affection between Aerys and Rhaella on the day of their marriage.

After the Summer Refuge Tragedy, which occurred in 259 AD. and where King Aegon V and his eldest son Prince Duncan the Younger died, Aerys became the crown prince, with Rhaella as his future queen. On the day of the tragedy, Rhaella gave birth to her first child, Rhaegar. Aerys and Rhaella were young and it was anticipated that they would have many children, a matter of vital importance at the time, when the possible heirs to the Targaryen House had dwindled to an alarming number.

The marriage between Rhaella and Aerys was very unhappy. Although Rhaella turned a blind eye to most of her husband's infidelities, the queen could not bear to make her maids her lovers. The relationship between the king and queen was further strained as Rhaella was unable to give Aerys more children. Queen Rhaella had miscarriages in 263 and 264 AD, followed by Princess Shaena, stillborn in 267 AD. Prince Daeron, born in 269 AD, survived only half a year. Then came another child born dead in A.D. 270, another miscarriage in A.D. 271. and Prince Aegon, born two months premature in 272 A.D. and died the following year. At first, the king comforted Rhaella in his pain but over time his compassion became suspicious. By 270 AD, King Aerys II had decided that the queen was unfaithful to him and that this was the reason why he could not give her another child; She claimed that none of the stillborn children, abortions, and stillbirths had been fathered by her.

Thereafter, Aerys II prohibited Rhaella from leaving the Maegor Keep and decreed that two septas would share their bed each night so that the queen remained faithful to her vows.

During the following years, the behavior of King Aerys II became increasingly erratic, although it seemed to decrease in 274 AD. when Queen Rhaella gave birth to a son. So deep was Aerys' joy that she seemed to restore her former character. However, Prince Jaehaerys died later that same year, plunging Aerys into despair. In his rage he decided that the prince's nurse was to blame for his death and beheaded the woman. Not long afterward Aerys announced that Jaehaerys had been poisoned by his own lover, the pretty young daughter of one of his knights. The king tortured the girl and all her relatives; Before dying, everyone confessed to the murder, although the details of their confessions did not match.

In 275 A.D. King Aerys fasted for fifteen days and made a "walk of repentance" throughout the city to the Great Sept of Baelor to pray with the Supreme Septum. Upon his return, the king announced that he would henceforth only sleep with his legitimate wife, Queen Rhaella. This new fidelity was apparently well received by the Mother because the following year Queen Rhaella gave the king another son. Prince Viserys, born AD 276, was small but robust and more handsome than any child King's Landing had ever seen. However, the birth of Prince Viserys failed to change the behavior of the king; He became even more obsessive and fearful, even going so far as to put knights of the Royal Guard to see that no one touched the baby without his consent, not even Queen Rhaella.

In 280 AD, when Prince Rhaegar returned to the Red Fort to introduce his parents to their first daughter, Princess Rhaenys, Queen Rhaella welcomed the baby fondly while King Aerys refused to touch or hold the girl, complaining that "it smelled of Dorniense".

In later years, the relationship between Rhaella and her husband deteriorated. They only slept together when Aerys had executed and burned someone; Jaime Lannister recalled that burning someone always turned Aerys on. The last time was when Aerys burned Lord Qarlton Chelsted; Ser Jaime heard Rhaella cry as she was abused. The next day, she was sent to Dragonstone to escape the imminent King's Landing site by the rebels during the Usurper's War. Her maids said there were bruises, bite marks, and scratches all over the queen's body.

In Dragonstone the queen found out she was pregnant. When the capital fell two weeks later, she, her unborn son, and little Prince Viserys were the last known survivors of the Targaryen Dynasty. When news of the looting of King's Landing was heard, Rhaella proclaimed Viserys king. The queen spent her entire pregnancy on Dragonstone, where she gave birth to her second daughter, Daenerys. She died shortly after the stress of childbirth.

I do not have much to say, she deserved a better life than to be with a man without love and who became more and more violent, more paranoid and wilder. At least she has the consolation that her daughter and her possible grandson fought for their rightful throne, in the end she sowed the future of House Targaryen.

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andthatisnotfake · 6 years ago

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The Royal Romance Survey III - results

Thanks to all the 413 people who answered this survey! Top results are under the read more and you can see all the results here. You can also check the results for the previous surveys here and here.

Since many questions were optional, I’m putting the number of people who voted in each in parenthesis next to the category title. Also, keep in mind that most questions allowed for multiple answers, which is why the percentages add to much more than 100%.

THE BASICS

Your MC’s face (413)

1. Face 3 (43.1%)

2. Face 4 (22%)

3. Face 5 (17.9%)

4. Face 1 (10.9%)

5. Face 2 (10.4%)

6. Face 6 (5.6%)

MC’s name (259)

1. Riley (the default - 19.3%)

Other popular names: Ava, Diana, Emma

(My favorite: Iris West)

Who’s your prince? (413)

1. White prince (49.4%)

2. Asian prince (48.4%)

3. Black prince (11.4%)

What’s the name of your prince? (315)

1. Liam (the default - 89.57%)

No other name was popular, most didn’t repeat at all.

(My favorite: Charming)

Who did you marry (413)

1. Liam (50.6%)

2. Drake (30.8%)

3. Maxwell (21.8%)

4. Hana (16.2%)

HAIR AND OUTFITS

Favorite MC hair (413)

1. Number 10 - Wavy Ombre (43.1%)

2. Number 9 - Braided Bangs (39.7%)

3. Number 13 - Braided updo (27.6%)

4. Number 3 - Sidebun updo (20.3%)

5. Number 15 - Medium straight (19.1%)

Favorite MC outfit (413)

1. Number 33 - Dynasty of Love (54.2%)

2. Number 23 - Burning Desire (42.6%)

3. Number 30 - Fairy Tale Romance (37.3%)

4. Number 1 - Green with Envy (35.4%)

5. Number 2 - Tough Love (31.2%)

Favorite outfit worn by a LI (413)

1. Number 17 - Maxwell’s Squid Suit (49.6%)

2. Number 18 - Hana’s costume ball dress (48.4%)

3. Number 21 - Hana’s black and red dress (45.5%)

4. Number 4 - Liam’s white outfit (41.4%)

5. Number 2 - Liam’s red sweater (40.4%)

Honorable mentions to number 5, Liam’s winter coat, and number 20, Hana’s winter outfit, which got 40.2% each.

Favorite outfit by another character (413)

1. Number 8 - Olivia’s costume ball dress (61.7%)

2. Number 5 - Olivia’s coronation dress (51.8%)

3. Number 12 - Madeleine’s white dress (34.9%)

4. Number 17 - Bertrand’s costume ball suit (30.8%)

5. Number 20 - Penelope’s winter outfit (28.8%)

CHARACTERS

Favorite male character (413)

1. Maxwell (71.4%)

2. Liam (66.1%)

3. Drake (44.8%)

4. Bertrand (20.6%)

5. Bastien (12.8%)

(My favorite responses: ‘none’ and ‘my corgi’)

Least favorite male character (413)

1. Neville (82.3%)

2. Justin/Anton (51.1%)

3. Tariq (43.6%)

4. King Constantine (30.5%)

5. Drake (24.2%)

(My favorite response: the paparazzi guy)

Favorite female character (413)

1. Olivia (87.4%)

2. MC (73.4%)

3. Hana (67.6%)

4. Penelope (30.8%)

5. Kiara (30.3%)

Least favorite female character (413)

1. Lorelai (54.9%)

2. Madeleine (37.8%)

3. Mara (35.8%)

4. Gladys (31.2%)

5. Queen Regina (22.8%)

Animal adoptions (413)

Animal names (297)

Aside from the default names, some of my favorites were:

Bertrand, Cinnabun, and Cheddar for the corgi (always love a B99 reference);

Beyoncé and Loki for the horse;

Sugar/Spice, Artemis/Apollo, and Leia/Luke for the pandas (there were many more great ones, you guys are awesome!).

RELATIONSHIPS

Favorite MC ship (413)

1. MC x Liam (62.5%)

2. MC x Drake (44.1%)

3. MC x Hana (35.8%)

4. MC x Olivia (35.6%)

5. MC x Maxwell (34.1%)

I must confess I was impressed by the 29 people who put MC x Leo and the 17 people who put MC x Madeleine. Fanfiction?

Favorite ships not involving MC (413)

1. Liam x Olivia (49.2%)

2. Penelope x Ezekyel (40.9%)

3. Liam x Drake (37.5%)

4. Drake x Olivia (35.6%)

5. Bertrand x Savannah (33.9%)

The amount of Penelope x Ezekyel fans surprised me. I really didn’t think they were that popular.

Also, the power of fanfiction, am I right?

Oh, and for the record, my favorite answer was ‘Hana x being a lesbian’.

Favorite friendship/Bromance (413)

1. MC x Maxwell (74.8%)

2. MC x Olivia (72.9%)

3. Liam x Drake (68.8%)

4. MC x Hana (62%)

5. Drake x Maxwell (53.5%)

My favorite answer: Merlin & Morgana

CHAPTERS AND SCENES

Favorite chapters of books 1 and 2 (413)

1. The Beaumont Bash (43.8%)

2. Ascension (34.4%)

3. Back to the Big Apple (31%)

4. A Monumental Night (30.8%)

5. The Brothers Beaumont (23.4%)

Favorite chapters of book 3 (413)

1. Happily ever after (77%)

2. Taken (53.5%)

3. A Warm Reception (42.4%)

4. You Are Cordially Invited (40.4%)

5. What Happens in Vegas (34.4%)

Favorite romantic diamond scene (387)

1. Honeymoon sex (58.9%)

2. Private afternoon on the beach with your spouse (53.7%)

3. Sex with your LI in the safehouse (50.9%)

4. Balcony scene in your duchy (49.9%)

5. Sex with your LI during the Gala (47.5%)

Favorite non-romantic diamond scene (378)

1. Hearing everyone’s toasts during the wedding (46.8%)

2. Camping with the gang (42.1%)

3. Coney Island with the gang (41.8%)

4. Drake’s birthday celebration (39.7%)

5. Spa with the gang (39.4%)

Honorable mentions to the cronut run (38.1%) and the truth or dare during the Beaumont bash (36.2%).

What did you name your duchy? (413)

1. Valtoria (the default, 66.58%)

Other popular names: Stormholt and Lesbos

My favorite answers: Chicken, Cordonia, Daniel Heney, Drake’s Ass, Eden, Genovia, Ho’s Island, Huerta.

Cutest/Most romantic moment (147)

Many were mentioned, but mostly eloping with Drake, meteor shower with Drake, all the proposals (especially Liam’s) and, of course, the wedding itself.

Funniest moment (122)

Again many different answers, but most of them involving Maxwell. Honorable mentions to Olivia roasting Drake and Hana imitating anyone.

Most surprising moment (107)

Once more varied answers. Some of the most mentioned were Constantine being the one behind the blackmail, Drake getting shot, the end of book 1, the Anton reveal, Glady’s betrayal.

Best comeback/one-liner (80)

Lots of mentions to Drake roasting Madeleine, anything Olivia says, ‘just-in time’, ‘release the kraken’ and, mostly ‘if you can breathe, you can stand, and if you can stand, you can fight’.

Did you have the fling during the bachalorette party? (413)

1. No (79.7%)

2. Yes, with Drake (9.4%)

3. Yes, with Liam (8.7%)

4. Yes, with Maxwell (6.1%)

5. Yes, with Hana (2.7%)

Did you get closure with anyone during the bachelorette party? (413)

1. No (50.1%)

2. Yes, with Liam (31.7%)

3. Yes, with Drake (17.9%)

4. Yes, with Maxwell / Yes, with Hana (5.8% each)

Who was your maid of honor?

1. Hana (51.8%)

2. Olivia (35.1%)

3. Maxwell (29.1%)

4. Kiara / Penelope (2.4% each)

Who was your ring bearer (413)

1. The corgi (41.4%)

2. Bartie (39.5%)

3. The Cordonian kids (31.2%)

Which of the presents did you buy (413)

1. The book for Liam (64.6%)

2. The statue for Maxwell (62.2%)

3. The whiskey box for Drake (58.4%)

4. The telescope for Hana (53.8%)

Did you ask Bertrand to walk down the aisle with you? (413)

1. Yes (94.9%)

2. No, I walked by myself (7.5%)

FANDOM AND YOU

Which country are you from (269)

1. USA (54.27%) - including the answers US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, ‘America lol’ and ‘America sigh’.

2. Brazil (7.06%) - including the answers ‘me and my ass are Brazilian’and ‘Brazil ZIL ZIL’ (which made me laugh because I’m Brazilian myself and I totally got that reference!)

3. Australia (4.09%)

4. Canada (3.34%)

5. England (2.97%)

How old are you? (390)

What’s your gender? (393)

What’s your sexual orientation? (381)

How often do you buy diamond scenes? (406)

Do you spend more diamonds on outfits or scenes? (407)

How do you participate of the fandom?

1. I like and/or reblog posts on Tumblr (89.6%)

2. I read fanfiction (59.5%)

3. I post about it on Tumblr (59%)

4. I have a Tumblr dedicated only to TRR/Choices (48.3%)

5. I write fanfiction (28.9%)

That’s all, folks! Thanks again to everyone who answered the survey!

#The Royal Romance #TRR #playchoices #King Liam #Drake Walker #Maxwell Beaumont #Hana Lee #Olivia Nevrakis #long post #survey #fandom

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522 Things I'm not allowed to do at Hogwarts

Numbers 195-292

195. Mrs. Norris does not like playing with blast-ended skrewts.

196. Sneaking slugs into Ron's food is not funny. He does not like being reminded of his incident.

197. Trying to out-argue a Slytherin will lead to no good.

198. Despite popular belief, Hufflepuffs are not soft and squishy. Do not treat them as such.

199. I am not the wicked witch of the west.

200. -I will not refer to Professor Umbridge as such either.

201. I will not melt if water is poured over me.

202. -Neither will Professor Umbridge.

203. I do not have a Cyberman Patronus.

204. I am not a Wirn animagus, either.

205. I will not ask Aragog if he came from Metabelis III.

206. -Or if he has any pretty blue crystals.

207. "Nessie is actually a cyborg created by the Zygons" is not an appropriate thing to say in Care of Magical Creatures Class.

208. While it is appropriate to refer to Voldemort as "Master" while in his service, Voldemort and The Master are not one and the same.

209. I cannot substitute Prydonian robes for my Hogwarts uniform.

210. -Nor can my winter scarf be longer than standard issue.

211. I cannot attempt to recreate the Key to Time in Transfiguration class.

212. -Or transform a pepper pot into a Dalek.

213. Lucius Malfoy is not my "sugar daddy" and I will not claim he is.

214. -That goes double when Draco Malfoy is within earshot.

215. A time turner is not a flux capacitator, and I should therefore not install one in any Muggle cars.

216. "To conquer the earth with an army of flying monkeys" is not an appropriate career choice.

217. I will not levitate everywhere in a big pink bubble.

218. My professors have neither the time, nor the inclination to hear about what I did with six boxes of Sugar Quills.

219. No part of the school uniform is edible.

220. -Not allowed to make any part of the school uniform edible.

221. Not allowed to take house points from firsties for "being too goddamned short".

222. Never, ever, attempt to correct Professor Moody about anything.

223. I must not refer to Headmaster Dumbledore as "Mum".

224. -Nor Professor Snape.

225. Not allowed to use silencing charms on my Professors.

226. -Not allowed to use silencing charms my Prefects.

227. -Not allowed to use silencing charms, period.

228. Not allowed to prophesy the end of the world more than once.

229. Will not offer to sell Hagrid new creatures.

230. -Especially not if I actually have them.

231. Madame Hooch's name is just that, a name. Will not ask her to share.

232. -Also will not ask her to fly under the influence.

233. Will not try to recreate the Whomping Willow in herbology class.

234. Astronomy class will not cause me to be abducted by aliens.

235. Will not charm Hermione's time turner to rotate every half-hour.

236. If the thought of a spell makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it.

237. I am not allowed to charm the words Ferret Boy onto Dracos forehead.

238. I will not sell tickets to get into the Chamber of Secrets.

239. Especially if it is only a one-way ticket.

240. Singing 99 Bottles of Potion on the wall non-stop repeatedly will result in a detention.

241. Playgirl and Playboy are not on the reading list for muggle studies.

242. Woad and other camoflage/body paints are not needed for DADA.

243. I may not challenge prefects to meet me on the Quidditch field, at dawn.

244. I shouldn't throw Fanged-Frisbees in the Great Hall.

245. I shouldn't use Photoshop to create incriminating photos of my house prefects or tutors.

246. I should not confess to crimes that took place before I was born, even if I have access to a time turner.

247. I should not show up at the front gate wearing part of another houses uniform, messily drunk.

248. -Even if my prefect did it.

249. I will not only wear "Wizard hat, open robe & tie" and call it an authorized uniform.

250. Teaching exchange students to taunt other Hufflepuffs is not nice.

251. When detained by dementors, I do not have a right to a strip search.

252. Do not dare first years to eat bugs. They will always do it.

253. I will not refer to McGonagall as "the cat-girl.

254. - Nor will I attempt to stop her transformation part way through.

255. - The same goes for Hermione.

256. I will not hand red shirts to the new DADA professor and claim that they're the standard uniform for the position.

257. I will not use invisibility charms on anyone's clothing.

258. I will not enchant the Golden Snitch to fly up the nearest fan's nose.

259. I do not know the Avada Kedavra curse, and pretending I do to people who annoy me is not funny, no matter how much they injure themselves diving for cover.

260. I will not test my Potions assigments by spiking Snape's drink with them.

261. - Especially not all of them at once.

262. I will not try to hock off my old piercing as "priceless Muggle artifacts."

263. I will not claim my X-Files tapes are "Auror Training Videos.

264. It doesn't matter if he is going on vacation; I will not comment about how the Minister of Magic is "packing.

265. The Giant Squid is not to be referred to as 'my lord Cthulhu', nor am I allowed to sacrifice first years to it on the new moon.

266. I will not attempt to set up a mobile phone mast on the Astronomy Tower.

267. - Likewise the satellite dish.

268. The Slytherin Gift to Virgins is fictional, and I should not be asking Draco Malfoy or any of the other Slytherin boys if they've mastered it yet.

269. The Muggles known as George W. Bush and Donald Trump are not related to or working for Lord Voldemort in any way and I am to stop insinuating that they are.

270. I will stop sending Professor Snape forged love notes that appear to be from Professor Lupin.

271. I will stop asking Professor Lupin exactly what goes on between him and Professor Snape when he brings him the Wolfsbane potion every month.

272. Luna Lovegood does not have pointed ears, nor is she to be addressed as 'Galadriel'.

273. Lucius Malfoy also does not have pointed ears, nor is he to be addressed as 'Haldir'.

274. Professor Snape definitely does not have pointed ears, and under no circumstances is he to be addressed as 'Spock'.

275. I will stop substituting Professor Lupin's Wolfsbane with Polyjuice Potion containing hairs from Mrs. Norris.

276. I am not to stare at the Great Hall ceiling during dinner in the winter and cry 'My god, it's full of stars!'

277. I am not to sing 'We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz!' when sent to the Headmaster's office'.

278. - I am definitely not to sing it accompanied by the house elves acting as a backing group.

279. -Especially not with kazoos.

280. The research and manufacture of mind-altering substances will not gain me extra credit in Potions.

281. I am not able to see the Grim Reaper, nor am I to claim that he is standing by the Headmaster, tapping an hourglass and looking at him impatiently. Or, for that matter, Harry Potter.

282. When being interrogated by a member of staff, I am not to wave my hand and announce 'These are not the droids you are looking for'.

283. Thestrals do not resemble the Muggle toys known as 'My Little Pony'.

284. I am not to hold my wand in the air before casting spells and shout 'I... GOT... THE... POWER!'

285. I am not a Vampire Slayer and Professor Lupin is not my Watcher.

286. -I am not to attempt to stake Professor Snape.

287. When Death Eaters are attacking Hogsmeade, I shall not point at the Dark Mark and shout 'To the Batmobile, Robin!'

288. - Or 'Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, THUNDERCATS, HO!'

289. Professor Flitwick is not to be referred to as the 'Dungeon Master'.

290. I will not try to convert my housemates to Christianity.

291. -Or Wicca.

292. -This does not mean that my religious rights are being violated.

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everlarkficquestions · 7 years ago

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Sunday Stumped Day 20

It’s another Sunday Stumped Day.

Sometimes we straight out get stumped. So each week on Sunday we’ll post of a list of asks that we need your help on.

If you have an answer to any of these shoot us a message/ask/reply with the Post number and the fic number and we’ll add it and give you a shout out with our thanks. Any links you can provide will also be super helpful.

Thanks!

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248. everlarklucaya said to everlarkficquestions:

Okay so I'm looking for a fanfic that I don't remember the title of but it was like a growing back together one where Katniss and Peeta went to the beach in district 4 and someone tried to shoot Katniss and Peeta hit his head and then all of his memories came back?

249. virgosupremacy said to everlarkficquestions:

could you help me find a post-mj fic where katniss and peeta get together and she starts taking queen anne's lace or something herbal as a contraceptive?

250. ktanissevrdeen said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi hi hi are there any fics where katniss and peeta are still living in 12 when the bombing happens? Also, are there any fics where katniss and peeta are still regular citizens during the rebellion? Like they're not the ones that go into the games and start the rebellion but it still happens? Thanks!!!!!

POSSIBLY!

Hero of the Story by atetheredmind (s_e_irvine)

Thank you @joaquinablog!

The Grass is Always Greener by icbiwf

Thank you @gabzep!

251. everythingisprettygood said to everlarkficquestions:

Any where Peeta sees Katniss and Gale kiss?

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The Lover and the Best Friend by writersblock700

Thank you @sunsetsrmydreams!

252. slytherin-larrie said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi, I'm looking for a fix where Katniss is pregnant during Catching Fire/Mockingjay. I remember that when she arrived in district 13, the doctors there removed her baby for its protection or something? and they (possibly) lie to Katniss telling her the baby dies and she doesn't find out for awhile and the baby turns out to be alive and okay and after awhile she takes it to her compartment with her mum and prim and looks after her daughter?? I read it ages ago and can't find it :(

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More Than Words by OfPearlsAndShoelaces

Thank you @geekymoviemom and @andthisisthewonder!

253. sunsetsrmydreams said to everlarkficquestions:

I cannot remember the name of the fic where before they send Peeta and Katniss into the Quell, they put Peeta and some others in a victors program that implants them with mind control devices and Portia is in Peeta's head. He makes it to 13 and confesses to Katniss that sometimes he can't control himself.

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Swingsets by lollercakes

Thank you @eggplant8 and @jennagill!

254. thankyouthgproject said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi, I'm looking for a story where katniss has to decide if peeta should lose his leg or not after an accident. Once he's awake and doing physio he gets really angry at katniss and tells her she's useless and she runs away. Katniss also gets jealous with his relationship with the physio (Lavinia?). Pleaseeee help!

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Two Wrongs by JLaLa

Thank you @smartalexy!

255. everythingisprettygood said to everlarkficquestions:

Hello! Are there any where Gale comes back to District 12 after the war and wants Katniss to go to District 2 with him/his family? Thanks! Love this page

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You Look So Good in Love by peetabreadgirl

Thank you @peetabreadgirl!

256. wheresoulsmeetbodies said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi, I am looking for a fic where Katniss and Peeta are dating in high school but then they break up right after graduation. They are at a graduation party and they sneak into the woods to be alone, but then they break up and Katniss runs away from him. Any ideas? Thank you!

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Black and Blue by hutchhitched

Thank you @hutchhitched!

257. fangirlingoverquotes said to everlarkficquestions:

Hey! Do you know some cute fics/oneshots in which Haymitch's really cute with toastbaby's and acts like their grandfather? Thanks!!!

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The Grandmentor by silvercistern

Thank you @eggplant8!

258. thatgirlisahurricane said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi! Do you know any fics based upon Grace and Tommy's storyline in the first season of "Peaky Blinders"? Thanks in advance.

259. prettyshirleyann said to everlarkficquestions:

hey! your blog is so helpful and I was wondering if there are any fics wherein katniss and peeta are not together but have a baby or they've kinda seperated and are dividing their time because of their child. Thanks! <3

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The Match and the Rock by HPfanonezillion

Thank you @booksrockmyface!

260. mellarkkeverdeen said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi, I'm looking for a one shot where peeta is divorced and has a kid with someone else, he and katniss are together and katniss is pregnant with his child, they have a weekend alone and then delly/Madge drops off his child and katniss is upset?

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Somewhere in the Middle by SassyEverlarking

Thank you @keytomykingdom!

261. youmakemyheartpanic said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi! First of all, I just love this page and it has helped me finding a lot of my favourite fanfics to date. I was looking for a fic I read on FanFiction.Net. It was set during Mockingjay, but the only thing I distinctively recall is that KP were watching kids from the medical ward as requested by Prim during the bombings to D13. Thanks!

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Have Heart, My Dear by monroeslittle

Thank you @sunsetsrmydreams!

262. emmmmma25-blog said to everlarkficquestions:

any find involving the Jabberjay scene in CF? Like reversals where Peeta gets caught in the hour, or Katniss hears Peeta's screams??

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By Your Side by geekymoviemom

Thank you @geekymoviemom!

263. liabelen10 said to everlarkficquestions:

Caste System! everlark, please. thnx

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Know That Your Place Is With Me by titania522

Thank you @arabeth-thea!

264. seafinnickeyes said to everlarkficquestions:

Hey hello. I don't know if you guys can help me with this, but i'm asking all same. Did you know any everlark fanfic with a great amount of gadge as well? It can be of any type, but preferably complete and set in Panem.

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The Bride Swap by titania522

Thank you @titaniasfics!

265. jobanana7 said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi guys I can't get hold of this drabble and I can't remember the title but, it has a gif on it and is k and p on vacation and k is going to tell p she's pregnant and she has a call with prim whose dating Rory and is babysitting the toast baby girl... And that's as much as I remembered, do you think you can help??? Thank you so much !!!

266. jobanana7 said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi, I was hoping you'd help me find this drabble of k and p on a vacation and k is going to tell p she's pregnant, and k calls prim and she's (prim) babysitting the toast baby girl and there's a gif of feet on a bed entwined together... As always thanks!!

267. craftydiva0828 said to everlarkficquestions:

Looking for a fic where in the first chapter Katniss remarks about of course the "star crossed lovers" would end in front of an audience because that's how they started. The scene has all the remaining victors going their separate ways, including Peeta.

268. winkrookie said to everlarkficquestions:

fics with young toastbaby boy?

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The Many and Varied Adventures of Young Fletcher Mellark by Silvercistern

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The Synchronicity Universe by Everlark_Pearl

Thank you @jennagill!

269. bellemelody-blog said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi! I was was reading story written by kismet4891 "Careless wishes". I wonder maybe it is possible to find something similar, with another reality or dream in story. When a hero can understand that everything is going differently not how it suppose to be. I just fall in love with this story!

270. adarnalways said to everlarkficquestions:

Is there any everlark fic where katniss is more open with her feelings towards peeta and proves to everyone including gale that peeta is the one she loves proudly?

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The Other Mockingjay by MockingJayFlyingFree

Thank you @jennagill!

271. hellaeverlark said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi I am trying to remember a fic that I read where Peeta burns bread in his house so he stays with Katniss for a few days and then they go into his house again and kiss in the smoke. I was wondering if you knew of it?

272. thankyouthgproject said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi I read a fic a while ago but can't remember the name of it. Katniss, prim and her mum move to this residence sorta place and K gets a lifeguard job and eventually meets Peeta. They end up becoming friends and enter a triathlon sorta thing and K has to teach P how to swim and he nearly dies?? TYSM!

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Under the Setting Sun by janerey

Thank you @icbiwf!

273. addygal39 said to everlarkficquestions:

I'm trying to find the name of fic where Katniss lives with Haymitch(?) after the death of her parents. peeta sees her walking one day and takes her home in his carriage. They form a friendship, fall in love and decide to get married but he dissapears only to turn up a long while later after having been sent off to war. They see eachother by accident at a party/gathering and he explains that he didn't willingly leave her but was sent off. Thanks for any help you can provide :)

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Peeta and I by Lulubee1234

Thank you @aynako808!

274. devfame said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi, I remember a while back I read a fanfic where Katniss goes to district 7 (post-mockingjay). She visits Johanna and ends up spending a week or so with her. They bond, go hunting, Katniss sees a moose for the first time. I believe that Johanna got over her fear of water and now lives by a lake. She also leaves food on the doorsteps of some houses. Sorry if this information isn't much help I can only remember bits and bobs - For all I know it's been deleted. Thanks in advance :D

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An Evergreen Forest - bodylikeabattleaxe

Thank you @kdlovehg!

275. adarnalways said to everlarkficquestions:

Hey do you have any fic where katniss gets to see how peeta gets tortured and It breaks her?

276. stickymooniverse said to everlarkficquestions:

I don't know the name of this fic or where to find it. Katniss and Peeta in college. Katniss was raised by her uncle Snow (I think). He was (was killed) and she inherited a lot of money, buys a fancy apartment. She uses drugs sporadically, goes to Peeta's family for Christmas. They date. Etc. I'm not crazy, right? Oh also Gale is her weed connection but has a crush. She's not into it

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Lost and Wandering by Bemac

Thank you @icbiwf!

277. hellaeverlark said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi! I am looking for a fanfiction I read a while ago about Katniss and Peeta growing back together after the war. The scene I remember most is that their first kiss was in Peeta's bedroom, which was filled with smoke because he burnt some bread. Hope you can find it! Thank you so much:))

278. silent-movements said to everlarkficquestions:

Looking for a fic/drabble that was about a lot of the characters were in and that peeta was a knight? And katniss was probably an archer and they were at the last boss when peeta died because of using a potion too early and they all failed to clear the game? Thanks!

280. lysen5972 said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi again, thanks for the help last week. i am now wondering about another fic. In this one there is a separate revolt in district 12 (started i think when they tried to send the peacekeepers that had started lives in 12 away) and there is somekind of trial where katniss and others are being prosecuted because they don't want to follow the new regime and district 13s new law. Any ideas which it could be? Thanks for the help

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The Avalanche and Little Pebbles by Dyce

Thank you @eggplant8 and @icbiwf!

281. hellaeverlark said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi! I love your site, and I was wondering if you know any fics that take place during Catching Fire and go into more depth about Peeta's reaction to Katniss suggesting they get married. I have been looking for fics about this for ever and I wanted to ask if you knew some! Thanks a bunch:))

282. adarnalways said to everlarkficquestions:

Hi.... First of all I want to let you know you are doing an amazing job.. So thank you and second I wanted to ask if you know any fics where peeta sparks the rebellion and snow gets angry with peeta, not katniss!

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Either Way by bellissimaanima

Thank you @tsweetyumi!

283. intensely-melodramatic said to everlarkficquestions:

Ok so I’m looking for an AU fic set in college and Katniss and peeta meet through mutual friends and at one point she spills coffee on him. Later in the story she sings in front of the group which I think includes Finnick and gale etc and peeta is super impressed. I’m sorry I know this is a bit random and all over the place

284. intensely-melodramatic said to everlarkficquestions:

I have another one, Peeta and katniss have a baby but she keeps the pregnancy from him and the baby Years later. Katniss gets kicked out along with her daughter from her mums home and moves in with peeta who is a teacher. Can you find this one?

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Masters of Porn: The Systematic Promotion of Sexual Deviance

June 6, 2012 —

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Dr. Lasha Darkmoon

Alfred Kinsey, Time Magazine cover, 1953: “The only unnatural act is that which you cannot perform.”

It comes as a big shock to learn that two of the fathers of the Sexual Revolution were both sexual perverts with an evangelical mission in life: to infect society with their wacky ideas and turn the world into a vast masturbatorium.

I refer to the 2oth century’s premier sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956) and his notorious contemporary, cult psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957).

Steeped in the dangerous claptrap of the fraudulent Freud—see here and here—both Kinsey and Reich enthusiastically embraced the laissez-faire Freudian philosophy: “I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life”. Like their Viennese mentor, they would have been only too pleased to add, “If only Americans knew—we are bringing them the plague!”

According to Freud and his followers, anti-Semitism was a universal pathology which had its roots in sexual repression. Its cure lay in “sexual liberation”. The theory, in its crudest and simplest form, amounted to this: instead of picking on the Jews, why not just chill out and have sex?

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The underlying assumption here is that sex is the great liberator and that all political and economic frustrations can be alleviated by sexual activity—particularly by obsessive and addictive sex. People who spend all their waking hours in search of sexual stimulation are obviously unfit to organize pogroms, mount bloody revolutions, or become a threat to the rich and powerful.

This, in a nutshell, was the philosophy of Wilhelm Reich, high priest of the “masturbation industry”, to borrow a phrase from E. Michael Jones’s magisterial work Libido Dominandi, where Kinsey and Reich are both discussed in great detail.

Sex, according to the philosophers of the Sexual Revolution inspired by Reich, is to be the panacea for all society’s problems: the new opium of the people. If people cannot have bread, let them eat cake. If they cannot have jobs, security, fulfillment, and a valid purpose in life, let them have sex as a substitute. If nothing else, recreational sex will provide a useful distraction and give people something to do.

The Case Against Reich

A compulsive masturbator himself, Reich believed that masturbation was a useful tool in producing “well-balanced” individuals without religious hang-ups or anti-Semitic attitudes. His major finding (hereand here) was that masturbation and the religious life were incompatible, which is why he advocated masturbation as the most effective means of eradicating the religious instinct—which he regarded as the ultimate evil. “What Reich discovered was a fundamental truth of sexual politics, one discovered by the Catholic Church long ago, “Dr E. Michael Jones comments. “Either masturbation destroys your prayer life, or prayer destroys your ability to enjoy masturbation. The two forms of activity are psychically mutually exclusive.” (See here, p. 259) Like many other psychoanalysts, Reich is known to have masturbated his female patients in therapeutic sessions. “The pleasure of living and the pleasure of orgasm are identical,” he pontificated, thereby equating infinite happiness with the provision of an infinite number of orgasms.

Reich was, by his own account, not only a compulsive masturbator from early childhood but a self-confessed pervert with wide-ranging sexual interests. Beginning sexual activity at the early age of four with a maidservant whose pubic hair he was allowed to play with, he went on to seduce the family cook at eleven-and-a-half. While still a small boy, he had begun to take an unhealthy interest in farm animals and could be seen prowling around the stables where he “stimulated mares by inserting whip handles in their vaginas.” At 15 he began visiting brothels where his insatiable appetites made him the talk of the town. Here he is in his Autobiography describing his uncontrollable libido:

Was it the atmosphere, the clothing, the red lights, the provocative nakedness, the smell of whores—I don’t know! I was pure sensual lust. I ceased to be. I was all penis! I bit, scratched, thrust, and the girl had quite a time with me! I thought I would have to crawl inside her…

Nursing an incestuous passion for his mother, he would snoop on her having sex with the family tutor. “I need a woman,” he wrote in his journal, “who is both mother and whore.” Once he was tempted to break into his mother’s room, while she was engaged in sex with his tutor, and demand to be part of a threesome:

I heard them kissing, whispering, and the horrible creaking of the bed in which my mother lay. Ten feet away stood her own child, a witness to her disgrace…. All I remember of that catastrophic night is that I wanted to rush into the room, but was held back by the thought: they might kill you!… I crept back to bed, without hope of consolation, my youthful spirit broken! For the first time, a deep feeling of misfortune and of having been abandoned overcame me…. [I even thought of] breaking in on them and demanding that she have intercourse with me too (shame!), threatening that otherwise I would tell Father.

As it turns out, he did inform his father about his mother’s infidelities, conveniently omitting to mention his own incestuous desires for his mother. His disloyalty to her in becoming an informer, combined with the brutal ill-treatment she was to receive from her tyrannical husband Leon, finally drove his mother to suicide. She swallowed a pint of Lysol, a common domestic cleaning fluid, and died in agony. Another account fills in the bizarre background details to this family saga: “She swallowed one poison after another, while Leon continued to beat her as she died” (emphasis added).

Wilhelm Reich, her son, the famous psychoanalyst-to-be, was only 13 at the time.

This is the man who went on to become, like his equally perverted contemporary Alfred Kinsey, one of the godfathers of the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s.

From the likes of Kinsey and Reich, the easily duped Americans were to receive instructions on how to conduct themselves sexually.

(For corroborative details, see Wilhelm Reich [pdf download])

As part of the neo-Freudian school of psychoanlysts, Reich received the enthusiastic support of a number of psychiatrists and writers, many of them part of the Jewish psychoanalytic sub-culture that was so important to erecting a powerful critique of Western culture, reaching its peak influence in the post-WWII era: Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Adorno, Horkheimer, Alexander Lowen, Stanley Keleman, Moshe Feldenkreis, Ida Rolf, Paul Goodman, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Saul Bellow, Fritz Perls and Arthur Janov (see here and here).

Jewish Porn star Richard Pacheco, who had wanted to become a rabbi at one stage and had even applied for admission to a seminary, was an ardent admirer of Reich whose books he read from cover to cover. Reich apparently influenced his final decision to become a porn star rather than a rabbi. Like his mentor, Pacheco was also an unabashed masturbator. When asked if he still watched pornographic movies now that he had retired from acting and become a senior citizen, he replied with disarming candor, “Occasionally I’ll toss one on for masturbation if my wife ain’t around.”

In 1954, at the height of the McCarthy era, Reich was imprisoned on a charge of medical fraud for trying to promote and sell “orgone boxes”. Slightly smaller than telephone boxes, these were little compartments that patients were told to sit in for short periods to soak up “cosmic rays”. These would reportedly reinvigorate them sexually, cure impotence and cancer, and act as an antidote to radiation poisoning from UFOs which (according to Reich) had secretly invaded the earth. (See here)

While interviewing Einstein, Reich told the great man in confidence that most people considered him (Reich) mad. Einstein replied dryly, “I can believe that.”

The Case against Kinsey

It comes as no surprise to learn that Kinsey, like Reich, was also an avid consumer of pornography, even going so far as to photograph his own penison several occasions and getting his wife to act in home-made porn movies. His favorite boast was that his Institute’s collection of pornography was the second largest in the world, the largest being housed at the Vatican. A malicious lie, it turned out, since it was easy enough to prove that the Vatican was entirely porn free. (See “The Case Against Kinsey”, here)

It has to be emphasized that Alfred Kinsey, though born and brought up as a Christian, was not only an atheist with a lifelong hatred of Christianity in general and the Catholic church in particular, but was also a Zionist and Shabbat goy who owed his spectacular success entirely to organized Jewry. His fraudulent research, designed to make deviancy appear to be the norm, was generously funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and other Jewish-dominated organizations. (pp. 340–341). “By the time it cut him off in 1954,” E. Michael Jones tells us, “the Rockefeller Foundation had poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the coffers of the Kinsey Institute.”

The only reason they decided to stop the funding is that by this time the Institute, anxious to retain its squeaky clean image, could no longer take the risk of being associated with Kinsey. His shady criminal activities with a predatory homosexual pedophile, a pervert who had molested and tortured 800 children, suddenly made Kinsey persona non grata (see E. Michael Jones, Libido Dominandi, pp. 327–337).

A sexual pervert of the kinkiest kind, Kinsey once inserted a toothbrush into his urethra and had himself filmed, subsequently adding this gem to his porn collection. Himself a homosexual with an avid interest in little boys, he would make a point of measuring the penis, both recumbent and erect, of every male he interviewed while conducting his “research”. Why? One can only guess.

A year before he died, Kinsey sliced off the foreskin of his penis with a pocket knife—a crude attempt at self-circumcision. No one has been able to figure out why he did this. Kinsey’s death, however, has been ascribed to his sexual proclivities.

Dr. Judith Reisman writes:

An early adherent and advocate of masturbation, Kinsey suffered an untimely death due, at least in part, to ‘orchitis,’ a lethal infection in his testicles that followed years of orgiastic self-abuse.

The New York Times, owned by the Sulzberger family and known to be America’s foremost organ of left/liberal propaganda, did its best (like the Rockefeller Foundation) to promote Kinsey and turn his name into a household word. Indeed, it comes as no surprise to learn that Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, was actually on the board of trustees for the Rockefeller Foundation all during the time it was approving money for Kinsey’s dubious experiments (see here, p. 340).

Kinsey’s most vocal critic and nemesis, Dr. Judith Reisman, has this to say about the Kinsey-Rockefeller connection:

The Rockefeller Foundation was the major funding source for Kinsey, even though it had ample, repeated warning from noted statisticians and social scientists that Kinsey’s pseudo-science was a hoax….

Kinsey is second only to Darwin in the secular pantheon, and a lot of people recognize that exposing Kinsey’s lies is a major assault on the Sexual Revolution and a threat to the sexual license they enjoy….

Kinsey claimed to have proven, based upon the deviant samples used in his research, that 95 percent of American men engaged in deviant sex and thus were sex offenders….

Kinsey believed that all sex was legitimate—pedophilia, bestiality, incest, adultery, prostitution, group sex, transvestitism, sadomasochism—and he worked to overthrow all laws prohibiting any of these perversions. (See here)

Kinsey went out of his way to interview the dregs of society, frequenting slums, gay bars, brothels and prisons. From these interviews he formed sweeping generalizations about the sexual habits of society in general. His methodology, you could say, was outrageous. In Gary, Indiana, for example, he collected 71 case histories, all of them based on interviews with Black female prostitutes. Taking note of what these women told him, Kinsey was apparently happy to conclude that the average White American housewife was a cat in heat—sexually adventurous in the extreme! American psychologist Abraham Maslow put it mildly when he said, “The whole basis for Kinsey’s statistics was proven to be shaky.” (See here, p. 322 and p. 324)

Dr E. Michael Jones is as convinced as Dr Judith Reisman that Kinsey was far more than just an impudent fraud, he was in fact a criminal: a blackmailer (p. 330 ff), a perverted pornographer, and a pedophile who masturbated little children as part of his so-called “research”.

One four-year-old was “specifically manipulated” for twenty-four hours around the clock. This child achieved twenty-six orgasms in this time period. Another eleven-month-old infant had fourteen “orgasms”, according to the Kinseyan definition, in a period of thirty-eight minutes, or one orgasm every 2.7 minutes. (E. Michael Jones, Degenerate Moderns, p. 106)

It cannot be stressed too strongly that all this criminal activity was supported by generous grants from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Kinsey Institute, still flourishing at Indiana University. Waxing eloquent with indignation, Jones’s devastating conclusion is that Americans have to all intents and purposes been led over the cliff like Gadarene swine by Kinsey and his corrupt supporters:

The Rockefeller family was not above supporting illegal activities to attain their ends. … They were willing to use psychological warfare against their fellow Americans. … Sex was part of the arsenal of psychological warfare, and the Rockefellers’ interest in supporting Professor Kinsey of Indiana University gave every indication that they were planning to use that weapon in dealing with new enemies. (p. 313) …

The Kinsey Institute was now in the pornography business and the Rockefeller Foundation was footing the bill . … the Rockefellers were [now] funding the filming of the molestation of children. (p. 336) …

The Rockefellers were interested in social engineering through the manipulation of sexuality, and the Kinsey Report was the vehicle which would make that possible in the near future, with the collaboration of a supine mass media culture. (p. 341)

If Kinsey is still a national hero today, the ultimate authority on all things sexual, we have to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for this remarkable public relations stunt.

The bizarre private lives of sex researchers who dupe millions of people into buying their books—and enthusiastically adopting their mad, bad, and dangerous ideas—simply beggars belief.

Sexual Perversion is good for you: The case of The Independent

Here is another representative of the elite intelligentsia, British prize-winning author Howard Jacobson, who happens coincidentally to be Jewish. He, too, would be proud to wear a T-shirt sporting the slogan: SEXUAL PERVERSION IS GOOD FOR YOU!

Prizewinning author Howard Jacobson puts in a good word for sexual perversion:

It is only when we explore the outer boundaries of our sexual desires that we become most fully human. We are all sick in our way….When he wasn’t looking at pornography or writing The Trial, Kafka visited brothels. I am glad for his sake and for literature’s that he did. I feel about prostitution as I do about pornography—that a man ought to avail himself of whatever is on offer…

We grow a little freer when we read De Sade’s One Thousand Days of Sodom, though we know we cannot live up to its lawlessness….We must find the space to think, and where possible to act, rebelliously, refusing all attempts to confine us to the hell of the normative…

We are strange creatures, part angels of reflection, part beasts that claw the earth. It is too cruel that an accidental species as peculiar as we are should ever have been made to think there is a right way and a wrong way of conducting ourselves sexually, as though there were some divine pattern we were framed to follow. I don’t say that giving ourselves over to the demoniacal, or just the deviant, will necessarily make us happy … but the straight and narrow has never yet made anyone anything but miserable. — Howard Jacobson, In Praise of Perversion. (Emphasis added)

According to this unabashed advocate of sexual perversion, being sexually normal is “hell”. Add spice to your life by making use of prostitutes and pornography. A man, after all, “ought to avail himself of whatever is on offer.”

Howard Jacobson is a Jewish writer who has written novels in which sexual perversion always plays a predominant part. For example, in his novel Peeping Tom he gives us voyeurism; in The Act of Love he dishes up generous dollops of fetishism. All Jacobson’s heroes, like Philip Roth’s Portnoy, are devout masturbators. Jerking off, you could say, is their substitute for religion.

Jacobson’s article advocating perversion was published in a newspaper in which he has appeared as a regular columnist for many years. The same British newspaper, the Independent, has also published for many years the articles of another Jewish writer known as Johann Hari who shows an equal aptitude for sexual perversion. In 2002 Hari wrote an infamous article for the Guardian, Forbidden Love, in which he had put in a good word for incest.

A self-confessed plagiarist, Hari received the Orwell Prize fraudulently in 2008 with the full backing of his newspaper editor who vouched for his veracity. He was forced to return the prize in 2011 when the full extent of his plagiarisms and other duplicities became apparent. For example, he had made up many stories for the Independent, including African atrocities, passing off fiction as fact. Later on, to make matters worse, this gay rights activist and mincing homosexual was to be outed as a writer of gay incest porn.

Now consider this bizarre coincidence: two Jewish writers, both vocal advocates of sexual perversion, receive major literary awards in quick succession (in 2008 and 2010), thereby giving an air of legitimacy and glamor to sexual perversion.

If you’re repelled by the idea of having gay sex with your brother, don’t upset yourself needlessly by reading Hari’s How my little brother learned to be a whore, written under the secret pen name of “David Rose”.

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Now try and connect the dots here: during the many years that these two Jewish writers, Howard Jacobson and Johann Hari, both of them enthusiasts for deviant sexuality, had been regular columnists for the Independent, the editor of that newspaper was also a Jew: one Simon Kelner.

And now for the Big Surprise: the Independent is also Jewish-owned!

Here, then, is the pattern: Jewish columnists pushing sexual perversion, Jewish editor encouraging sexual perversion by publishing their articles, and Jewish newspaper tycoon presiding over the same edifice of sexual perversion by making it all possible by his ownership of the newspaper.

Who owns the Independent?

Step forward Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev, listed in Forbes magazine in May 2008 as the 358th richest person in the world. Estimated fortune: $3.1 billion. Mr Lebedev, a Russian oligarch, ran away from Russia with billions of rubles under his belt when Vladimir Putin came to power and decided to claw back some of the ill-gotten wealth that a small number of mega rich Jews had filched from the Russian treasury.

On 25 March 2010, Lebedev bought the Independent for a nominal fee of £1, with the derisory token sum of £9.25m to be paid a few months later.

This reminds me of that other Russian oligarch, convicted crook Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who in 1995 rigged an auction in which he managed to steal Russia’s largest oil company, Yukos, reportedly worth $40 billion, for the laughably small sum of $300 million—a mere fraction of its value. (See here)

How do they do it?

The Case of Frank Kameny

Founding father of the gay rights movement in America, Jewish pornographer and perversion promoter Frank Kameny was the main force behind pressuring the American Psychiatric Association (in 1973) into reclassifying homosexual activities as “normal sex”. Hitherto regarded as a socially destructive mental disease that was curable, homosexuality was now given the green light and reclassified as a normal and healthy “alternative lifestyle”.

Here is Kameny saying nice things about sexual perversion:

If something which someone arbitrarily defines as a ‘sexual perversion’ provides happiness for consenting adult participants, then its enjoyment is enshrined in basic Americanism. So let us have more and better enjoyment of more and better sexual perversions, by whatever definition, by more and more consenting adults. We will all be the better off thereby. And that will be Americanism in action…

Having given his imprimatur to sexual perversion in general, Kameny then gives bestiality his blessings. He himself is not particularly keen on having sex with dogs, he tells us, but he sees no reason why other people shouldn’t have sex with the family pet if that’s what turns them on:

Bestiality is not my thing. But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. As long as the animal doesn’t mind (and the animal rarely does), I don’t mind, and I don’t see why anyone else should. (See here).

How can Kameny be so sure animals “don’t mind”? Has he asked them? No, he casually assumes they will be delighted. Had he studied the Babylonian Talmud, he might have been astonished to learn that bestiality was forbidden to a woman at all times, though it was permissible for men under certain circumstances—a clear case of double standards. “If a woman allows herself to be made the subject thereof, whether naturally or not, she is guilty. But if a man commits bestiality, he is liable only for a connection in a natural manner, but not otherwise.” (Scroll down to picture of Talmud, page 55a, here).

To clarify: For a woman, sex with an animal is wrong at all times, whether the sex is natural or unnatural. For a man, on the other hand, sex with an animal is wrong only when the sex is “natural”. It’s NOT wrong when the sex is unnatural! Figure that out for yourself. I confess I am stumped.

We’ve all heard of Jewish chutzpah, but it comes as a surprise to learn that this famous gay rights icon Kameny has the cheek to condemn God Almighty for his prudish homophobia. Wagging his finger at the God of the Bible, Kameny describes him as “a sinful homophobic bigot who needs to repent.”

Sigh. That’s the trouble with God. If he’d been less bigoted, he would have allowed Adam and Steve to have sex—and make babies.

It comes as even a greater surprise to learn that President Obama recently conferred the supreme honor on this bestiality-supporting Jewish paragon of sexual perversion by rolling out the red carpet for him at the White House, actually shaking his hand and congratulating him on the remarkable benefits he had bestowed on mankind.

At a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) reception held at the Oval Office in June, 2009, President Obama congratulated Frank Kameny, gay rights pioneer and promoter of sexual perversion, for his outstanding contributions to society. “We are proud of you, Frank,” he said, “and we are grateful to you for your leadership.” (See here)

Jews Dominate the American Porn Industry: The Case of Reuben Sturman

Let’s approach this subject from another angle now by asking a simple question: What group dominates the systematic promotion and dissemination of pornography in society? What group can therefore be held responsible for the mass contamination of minds that takes place on a daily basis in Hollywood movies, television shows, magazines, newspapers, and advertising?

We shall now consider this question as objectively as possible, relying only on established facts from the most reputable sources. No source could be more reputable than academic historian Dr Nathan Abrams, world authority on Jewish pornography. I have therefore relied heavily on Dr Abrams. His classic article on Jewish dominance in the porn industry, jewishquarterly.org /issuearchive/articled325.html?articleid=38 (now a hijacked site) Triple-exthnics, was published in the winter edition, 2004, of the prestigious Jewish Quarterly.

From 1890 onwards, the main peddlers of inflammatory erotica in America were immigrant Jews of German and East European origin. In the postwar era, America’s most notorious pornographer was a Jew: Reuben Sturman, known as the ‘Walt Disney of Porn’.

By the end of the 1960s, Sturman ranked at the top end of adult magazine distributors and by the mid-70s he owned over 200 adult bookstores, including updated versions of the traditional peepshow booth.

This involved a hole in the partition wall of the booth, through which a pervert would thrust his erect penis, allowing an anonymous individual on the other side of the partition to fellate him discreetly without being seen. The hole in the wall, for some reason, is called a “glory hole”. And its inventor was almost certainly a degenerate Jew associated with Sturman and his sleaze factory.

Convicted of tax evasion and other crimes, Sturman was to die in prison in 1997, surrounded by a stack of his own pornographic magazines. His son David continued the family tradition of constructing “glory holes” across America for the delectation of millions.

If I focus here on the sordid aspects of the peephole, it is not out of prurience but because I wish to draw attention to the fact that Jewish-dominated Hollywood during the next few years has thought it perfectly legitimate to introduce the glory hole into the average American home, which includes children, as a normal and healthy ingredient of family entertainment.

The same people who try so hard to squeeze tears out of the eyes of the public with Holocaust movies such as Schindler’s List, are also, it seems, doing their best to contaminate the minds of the public with movies like Sex Drive, Serial Mom, Jackass Number Two, and other such excursions into the sleazy world of lavatorial lust.

Family entertainment has now been reduced to nasty and scurrilous scenarios such as this: lurkers hanging around urinals hunting for sex, heavy breathers in cubicles with their pants round their ankles, lesbians thrusting their breasts through portholes cut in female washroom walls, female voyeurs invading male washrooms and looking through a peephole only to have their eyes injured by a rampant penis rearing up at the other side, deadly snakes sinking their fangs into tumescent organs thrust though same peephole—and other such abominations too depressing to mention. (See list here.)

It’s worth noting that all this gross indecency continued unchecked without the American government lifting a finger to intervene. There was no attempt to rein in the smut merchants or restrain them from defecating on the cherished values of Christian America. It’s almost as if the ruling classes wanted to see their “huddled masses” turn into salivating perverts.

The reason for this laissez-faire attitude to the systematic demoralization of Christian America is not hard to identify. It clearly lay in the fact that America’s former elite, the WASPs, had already capitulated to the rising Jewish elite. They had been debased and corrupted themselves by the polluted mental atmosphere in which they lived, a psychosphere created by the philosemitic media and Hollywood. One could hardly expect these victims of moral decay to clean out the Augean stables of America, given that they were themselves accustomed to wallow in the same filth and feculence. When the Good Shepherds are up the creek without a paddle, what hope for the good sheeple?

The link between pornography and sex crime

According to Rabbi Samuel Dresner, an orthodox Jew (born 1923 in Chicago), the rootless Jews who ran Hollywood and were behind the lucrative porn industry were all “despoilers of morality and corrupters of culture.” Indeed, Jewish history for Rabbi Dresner was “one long battle against sexual deviancy.” (See when site is repaired jewishquarterly.org /issuearchive/articled325.html?articleid=38 [now a hijacked site] and here)

Ted Bundy, Serial Killer: In an interview with his prison psychologist, James C. Dobson, Bundy confessed to the murder of over a hundred young women. Agonizing over his life-long addiction to pornography, he revealed how it had fueled his compulsive behavior. “I’ve lived in prison for a long time now,” the serial killer confided, “and I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence. Without exception, every one of them was deeply involved in pornography—deeply consumed by his addiction.” (See here). Homosexual serial killer Gary Bishop was equally candid in revealing that porn had turned him into a sex killer. “Pornography was a determining factor in my downfall,” he admitted.

Perhaps the most chilling and persuasive porn-made-me-into-a-sex-killer story is that of Thomas Schiro of Evansville, Indiana, whose obsession with pornography from the age of six onward—accompanied by compulsive masturbation 10-12 times a day—led him into a spree of sex crimes in the 1970s and early 80s. “The one thing that remained constant in Schiro’s slide toward the ultimate violation was his constant use of pornography,” Dr E. Michael Jones reports. “It was the gas that fueled his obsession.” (Libido Dominandi, p. 569).

“Exposure to erotica has no impact on moral character….. The increased availability of explicit sexual materials has been accompanied by a decrease in the incidence of sexual crime…. There is no evidence to date that exposure to explicit sexual materials plays a significant role in the causation of delinquent or criminal behavior.” (The Lockhart Commission Report on Pornography. Quoted here, p. 558)

In an ideal world, there would be no need or place for pornography. Porn is a toxic product of dystopia. Any government that permits it is under the dominion of evil.

Dr Lasha Darkmoon (email her) is an academic with higher degrees in Classics. She is also a poet and translator. Her articles can be read here, her poetry here.

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2012/06/06/portraits-of-masters-of-porn-the-systematic-promotion-of-recreational-sex-sexual-callousness-and-sexual-deviancy/

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Maine Constitutional Convention, The Debates Resolutions and Other Proceedings, 1820

Page 5: Constitution of Maine.

We the people of Maine, in order to establish justice, ensure tranquility, provide for our mutual defense, promote our common welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings or Liberty, acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording us an opportunity so favorable to the design; and imploring his aid and direction in its accomplishment, do agree to form ourselves into a free and independent State, by the style and title of the State of Maine, and do ordain and establish the following Constitution for the government of the same.

Page 52: Judge Ames, of Bath, wished to give some reasons for calling in the committees to vote on the subject. It is a matter of comparative indifference to me, said he, what is the name or style of the State. But it is apparent that a deep interest is taken in this question, and the members of the committees will be desirous of expressing an opinion upon it. They compose a part of this Convention as much as the members now present. I therefore consider it the duty of the Convention to give them an opportunity of acting on important subjects, and that no question should have been taken on this subject, until they were present to act with the Convention. I was desirous of having it postponed, to give them the privilege of debating, and voting upon it; and I think it strictly proper, that they should be called in for that purpose. It is a matter of importance to them and to the people of Maine. I therefore, move, that after the close of the debate on this subject, and before the final question is taken, the several committees be called in.

Page 100: It is very evident that there is a strong desire in this Convention, and with the people of Maine, to respect corporate rights, or in other words, to adhere to town representation; and I confess I am among those who think favorably of the principle. And throwing away the fractions, which there may be over and above the number required to send one member, before they can send a second, is one means of reducing the representation. And if it is said that large towns will lose large fractions—so will small towns lose large fractions, before they can be entitled to a representative, but by classing with other towns. And the large towns may much sooner outgrow the inconvenience than a smaller one. And as I believe a more liberal representation is also desired by a portion of this Convention, with a view of getting ride of apportioning the representatives on counties, as well as to limit the number at three hundred, instead of two hundred, I will move to strike out all the second section, after the fifth line, (“the amendment.”)

Page 106: These principles are diometrically opposed.—It is impossible to preserve corporate representation to its extent; restrict the number within any reasonable limits, and at the same time preserve to the people an equal representation.—How is it to be done? How are these three favorite plans, at cross purposes with each other, to be accomplished to the satisfaction of the people of Maine? Are gentlemen prepared to give up the limitation? Will any member hazard his reputation by providing that each town may elect a representative, that the plantations shall be represented in some way, and the large towns have their representatives increased in proportion to their numbers? A representation, thus predicated, would give to your first House, more than three hundred members, and this number would be constantly increasing until the House would bear more the character of a mob, than a legislative assembly. Will you proved for such a House, pay them rom the public treasury, and thus treble your State Tax? Gentlemen say, that people value their rights more than their money—it is an honorable thought. But if their rights and privileges can be preserved consistently with economy, they will hold us answerable for every needless expense.—And after all, to what does this corporate right amount? Is there not something of prejudice in it? And shall a small town having five hundred inhabitants, claim a representative, when in a large one, it requires two thousand to derive the same privilege? This, instead of a corporate right, becomes a corporate wrong. This mode would do great injustice to the large towns. You take from them an equal representation and compel them to pay according to their property.—Is it right that Portland should pay a larger tax than the county of Washington, and should elect only one third as many members, and that the county of Washington should have the benefit of their diminution? The course adopted by the committee is a compromise of these opposite principles.—As far as possible, we have limited the number, preserved an equality in the different sections of the State, and secured to the towns their accustomed privileges.

Page 134: Will the people of Maine support this? Will not the free voters murmur and complain? I will venture to say they will. And although their murmurings may be still and low at first, it would increase to the voice of thunder at the polls, when the Constitution is before them, and by its rejection make themselves heard at the second session of this Convention.

Page 247: Resolved, That Mr. Treble, of Cumberland, Mr. Thacher, jun. of York, Judge Ames, of Lincoln, Mr. Jarvis, of Hancock, Mr. Burgin, of Washington, Mr. Gage, of Kennebeck, Mr. Virgin, of Oxford, Mr. Colburn, of Somerset, and Mr. Stetson, of Penobscot, be a committee to prepare an address, in behalf of the Convention, to the people of Maine, to be distributed with the constitution submitted to the people.

Page 259: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Convention be authorized and required, to procure to be printed, a sufficient number of the copies of the constitution and the address to the people of Maine, and distribute, as soon as may be, one copy to the selectmen of each town, and the assessors of each district or plantation; one to each clerk of the several towns and plantations, and one to each of the members of the Convention; and also to cause the same to be published in the several newspapers printed within the district.

Page 277: The first of these papers is an account of the two earliest Conventions which were held in Maine on the subject of Separation. It is extracted from the “Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society,” vol. 4, page 25, et. seq. and although the author’s name does not appear, his authority is doubtless to be relied on, or it would not have obtained a place in those collections. Notwithstanding the subject died away, after these unsuccessful efforts, with the expiration of the Convention in 1787 or 8, it appears again to have been revived, so early as 1791, when memorials were gotten up and presented to the Legislature in the winter session of 1792. The question was there considered a very serious one, and ended in a recommendation to the people of Maine to vote on the subject at their town meetings in May ensuing—when they decided against it. It was not however, suffered long to sleep, as will be seen by the documents relating to the Conventions held at Portland in 1793 and 1794, which were among the papers of the late Judge Dummer, who was secretary of the last mentioned Convention, the proceedings of which, it is believed, have never before been published. This Convention, it appears, was adjourned from June to October, and from October to June 28th, 1795, when an “Address” was prepared and signed by “William Horsham, President,” and attested by “Salmon Chase, Secretary, pro tem. in the absence of Mr. Dummer,” which makes a pamphlet of 31 pages. They therein request the people to “consider the subject at their annual meeting in April next,” and adjourned to receive the votes. What was the issue of this request of the adjourned meeting, we have no records to show. Many subsequent trials were made to effect a separation, prior to the Brunswick Convention in 1816; but they all proved abortive, until the late experiment, which has been made at a most favorable period—the effects of which will be such, we sincerely hope, as to dispel the apprehensions of the most cautious, and realize the anticipations of the most sanguine.

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