#Day 105/366

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Sunday Morning Cyclist 105-366 2024 by Daniel Dewan Via Flickr: A woman rides her bicycle along Bank Street at Gladstone Avenue. Sunday April 14 2024.

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I made a post a while ago from an ask, requesting essays about butch and femme, the femme part was a reblog, I think it deserves its own post on Femme Appreciation Day!

So, a lot of books I enjoy are collections of essays, therefore, here are some recommendations for books, and some of my favourite (femme) essays from them, that you can read and they might help you understand femme better.

from the books I recommend probably the most:

- ABOUT FEMME:

The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader - edited by Joan Nestle:

Flamboyance and fortitude: An introduction - pages 13-20

Of Althea and Flaxie - pages 54-55

Letter to a fifties femme from a stone butch - pages 102-108 (trigger warning for S.A., police brutality, general violence and suicide mention)

The Femme Question - pages 138 - 146

The Butch-femme Question - pages 208-219

What we're rollin' around in bed with: Sexual silences in feminism - A conversation toward ending them - pages 243-253

The Femme Tapes - pages 254-267

Roles? I don't know anyone who's "playing": A letter to my femme sisters - pages 268-269

Old Femme - page 331

Femme-inism - posts 362-366

Femme-dyke - pages 378-383

Reclaiming femme... again - pages 388-389

I Love Butches - pages 420-422

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme - edited by Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman:

Never Be Hungry Again - pages 53-55

Looking Straight At You - pages 70-75

Between My Fingers - pages 105-106 [femme and disability]

FEMME SHARK MANIFESTO - pages 244-248

Hats Off - pages 264-266

*Making intelligible the controversies over femme identities: A functionalist approach to conceptualizing the subversive meanings of femme genders - Heidi M. Levitt & Kathleen M. Collins

Honourable mentions**:

S/HE - Minnie Bruce Pratt

My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage - Barrie Jean Borich

*this one is an article

**I mention these because though they're not explicit "THIS IS WHAT'S FEMME" they're rich in femme representation and femme perspective, so keep that in mind as you read, if you read them.

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366 Days of Killian Jones [105/366]

[chris-sales-belly-ring]

Day 105:

My 365 Days of Music idea completely went to shit this year, LOL!

So, I'll make myself do a 366 Days of Music Playlist next year and actually commit to it!

[julialametta]

one a day 366/105

"green" / Rekawinkel / Austria / ©Julia Lametta

[joeypotterdaily]

105/366 days of joey potter 6x16- that was then

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Cagliari - Duomo - XIII sec. e Pisa - Duomo - 1118

I possedimenti sardi della Repubblica marinara di Pisa spiegano le affinità fra le due cattedrali: allo stesso modo l’arte europea risente della radice latina della sua storia.

La storia della letteratura romana è costituita da due fili: la rivisitazione della cultura greca e la narrazione della storia della repubblica e dell’impero.

Di seguito le tappe più importanti:

a. C.

754 - 504 Re di Roma. Numa Pompilio fonda il Pontifex Maximus. Sotto il regno di Tullio Ostilio gli Orazi sconfiggono i Curiazi, campioni di Alba Longa. Anco Marzio estende il territorio e costruisce il Ponte Sublicio per unire gli insediamenti urbani con il Palatino. Tarquinio Prisco, primo re etrusco, ne introduce la cultura (anche i goliardici fescennini) e realizza la Cloaca Massima, Servio Tullio riorganizza l’esercito e la società in centurie determinate dalla ricchezza. Fine della monarchia con Tarquinio il Superbo cacciato anche grazie al coraggio di Muzio Scevola. Primi consoli Bruto e Collatino.

496 - Vittoria sui Latini e su Tarquinio il Superbo al Lago Regillo

494 - La plebe sull’Aventino. Discorso di Menenio Agrippa

493 - Foedus Cassianum con i Latini: coinvolgere le elitè dei popoli sconfitti è sempre stata la strategia romana.

477 - La gens Fabia sconfitta sul fiume Cremera dai Veienti

449 - XII Tabulae

445 - la Lex Canuleia consente il matrimonio fra patrizi e plebei

431 - Cincinnato dittatore sconfigge Volsci ed Equi

396 - Furio Camillo conquista Veio

390 - i Galli Senoni di Brenno (“Vae victis”) saccheggiano Roma, ma Furio Camillo li sconfigge.

366 - Leggi Liciniae - Sextiae: primo console plebeo. Per l’espansione della repubblica era necessario che Roma superasse l’impostazione di società fondata sulle gentes.

321 - i Romani sono sconfitti dai Sanniti e sottoposti alle Forche Caudine. I Romani introducono nel proprio armamento il giavellotto: ogni sconfitta li porta a migliorare la tattica militare che in questo caso si traduce nella vittoria sui Sanniti nel 290.

295 - i Romani sconfiggono Galli, Sanniti ed altre popolazioni dell’Italia centrale nella battaglia del Sentino.

272 - A Benevento i Romani sconfiggono Pirro e dominano la Magna Grecia benché la cultura greca, attraverso il Circolo scipionico, penetra a Roma nonostante l’avversione dei difensori del mos maiorum.

241 - Dopo la battaglia delle Egadi, alla fine della prima guerra punica, i Romani conquistano la Sicilia.

240 - Livio Andronico rappresenta il primo dramma in latino e traduce Iliade ed Odissea.

219 - 202 - Bellum Poenicum (Nevio)

219 - Annibale espugna Sagunto e provoca i Romani alla Seconda guerra punica.

216 - Annibale, varcate le Alpi, sconfigge i Romani a Canne, ma viene logorato da Quinto Fabio Massimo.

202 - Scipione l’Africano vince Annibale a Zama e pone termine alla seconda guerra punica.

III - II sec. - Aulularia, Miles Gloriosus ed altre opere tipiche della “commedia dell’arte” latina di Plauto che creano maschere, personaggi tipici come il servus currens.

II sec. - Annales (Ennio) dalle origini al 171 a. C.

197 - Filippo V di Macedonia viene sconfitto. La cultura greca entra a Roma.

163 - Il punitore di se stesso (Terenzio), improntato alla commedia ellenistica di Menandro

160 - De agri cultura (Catone)

146 - Scipione l’Emiliano distrugge Cartagine al termine della terza guerra punica

133 - Assassinio di Tiberio Gracco

121 - Morte di Tiberio Gracco. La proletarizzazione della plebe secoli è causata dall’incapacità di realizzare riforme agrarie efficaci e dalla conseguenza creazione di latifondi in mano a patrizi e cavalieri. Questo crea un esercito di professionisti costituti da masse di cittadini dipendenti dai donativi dei generali e crea quindi le basi per l’ascesa di figure come Mario, Pompeo ed Antonio (populares) in diretta concorrenza con la classe senatoria rappresentata da Silla, Cicerone, Bruto e Ottaviano (optimates).

105 - Mario sconfigge Giugurta

101 - Mario sconfigge i Cimbri ai Campi Raudii

86 - 79 Dopo la guerra civile fra gli Optimates di Silla e Pompeo e i Populares di Mario, dittatura di Silla

I sec.

De rerum natura (Lucrezio)

È dolce, mentre nel grande mare i venti sconvolgono le acque, guardare dalla terra la grande fatica di un altro; non perché il tormento di qualcuno sia un giocondo piacere, ma perché è dolce vedere da quali mali tu stesso sia immune. Dolce è anche contemplare grandi contese di guerra apprestate nei campi senza che tu partecipi al pericolo. Ma nulla è più piacevole che star saldo sulle serene regioni elevate, ben fortificate dalla dottrina dei sapienti, donde tu possa volgere lo sguardo laggiù, verso gli altri, e vederli errare qua e là e cercare, andando alla ventura, la via della vita, gareggiare d'ingegno, rivaleggiare di nobiltà, adoprarsi notte e giorno con soverchiante fatica per assurgere a somma ricchezza e impadronirsi del potere.

73 - Ribellione di Spartaco a Capua

70 - Verrine (Cicerone)

62 - Pro Archia (Cicerone)

Haec studia adulescentiam agunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis rebus perfugium ac solacium praebent

60 - Primo triumvirato. Catilinarie (Cicerone)

Quousque tandem, Catilina, abutere patientia nostra?

Carmi (Catullo). Catullo è un esponente dei poeti neoterici, avversi all'epica e attenti ai brevi componimenti ellenistici che si concentrano sui dettagli (es. il passero di Lesbia).

Sulla tomba del fratello

Di gente in gente, di mare in mare ho viaggiato, / o fratello, e giungo a questa cerimonia funeraria / per consegnarti il dono supremo di morte / e per parlare invano con le tue ceneri mute, / poiché la sorte mi ha rapito te, proprio te, / o infelice fratello precocemente strappato al mio affetto. / E ora queste offerte, che io porgo, come comanda l’antico / rito degli avi, dono dolente per la cerimonia, gradisci; sono madide di molto pianto fraterno; / e ti saluto per sempre, o fratello, addio.

Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus, / advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias, / ut te postremo donarem munere mortis et mutam nequiquam adloquęrer cinęrem.

“Non ho per niente voglia di piacerti, o Cesare, né m'importa di saperti bianco o nero”

"Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior"

52 - Pro Milone (Cicerone)

51 - De re publica (Cicerone) che include il Somnium Scipionis

50 - De bello gallico (Cesare)

48 - Battaglia di Farsalo. De bello civili (Cesare)

44 - Idi di marzo

[Secondo la pronuncia del latino restitutuum, “Ave Caesar” era “Aue Kàesar”]

43 - Secondo triumvirato. La congiura di Catilina (Sallustio). Filippiche di Cicerone contro Antonio i cui sicari, proprio quell’anno, lo assassinano.

42 - Bucoliche (Virgilio), raccolta di canti di tipo ellenistico (Callimaco, Teocrito), improntati allo spirito agreste dell'ideologia augustea, ma anche attenti a raccontare il dolore delle espropriazioni successive alle guerre civili.

Titiro, tu che riposi sotto l’ombra di un alto faggio, intoni sull'esile flauto una melodia silvestre: noi lasciamo i territori della patria e i dolci campi, noi abbandoniamo la patria; tu o Titiro, rilassato all’ombra insegni alle selve a risuonare il nome della bella Amarillide.

Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi silvestrem tenui musam meditaris avena; nos patriae finis et dulcia linquimus arva; nos patriam fugimus; tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra, formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas.

Oh Muse sicule, alziamo un poco il tono del canto: non a tutti piacciono gli arbusti e le umili tamerici; se cantiamo le selve, le selve siano degne di un console.

Sicelides Musae, paulo maiora canamus; non omnis arbusta iuvant humilesque myricae: si canimus silvas, silve sint consule dignae.

Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori

40 - La guerra di Giugurta (Sallustio)

31 - Ottaviano e Agrippa sconfiggono Antonio e Cleopatra ad Azio

27 - a. C. - 68 d. C. Dinastia Giulio - Claudia (Augusto, Tiberio, Claudio, Nerone)

Eneide (Virgilio), unione fra la componente iliadica ("arma") e quella odisseica ("la pietas di Enea"), poema lasciato incompiuto da Virgilio, ma pubblicato per volere di Augusto. Crea un legame fra la storia di Troia, la maledizione della cartaginese Didone, l'approdo sulle coste italiche.

Narro delle imprese di guerra, del primo troiano che arrivò in Italia sulle coste di Lavinio per volontà del destino. Sballottato per molto tempo sia per mare sia sulla terraferma per voler degli dei; per colpa di Giunone soffrì tanto anche durante le battaglie. Finché fondò una città che diede casa ai Penati origini dei troiani e dei romani.

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram, multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem inferretque deos Latio; genus unde Latinum Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.

Rari nantes in gurgitte vasto

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae

Auri sacra fames

Una salus victis, nullam sperare salutem

Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos

[Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces]

27 - 14 d. C. Ad urbe condita (Livio)

23 - 13 - Odi (Orazio)

Vedi come si innalza bianco di neve il Soratte, e gli alberi sofferenti non reggono più il peso e si rapprendono i fiumi per il gelo acuto. Dissolvi il freddo, mettendo legna sul fuoco con larghezza, e versa generosamente vino di quattro anni dall’anfora sabina, Taliarco. Il resto lascialo agli dei che, appena placano i venti in lotta sul mare in burrasca, ecco che non si muovono più i cipressi e i vecchi ontani. Non chiederti cosa sarà domani, e tutti i giorni che la sorte ti darà segnali tra gli utili, e non disprezzare, ragazzo, i dolci amori e le danze, finché ti è ancora lontana la vecchiaia fastidiosa. Adesso frequenta il Campo Marzio, le piazze e i lievi sussurri la sera all’appuntamento, e il riso agognato della tua ragazza che viene dall’angolo più segreto a tradirla, e il pegno strappato al braccio e al dito che appena resiste.

Vides ut alta stet niue candidum Soracte nec iam sustineant onus silvae laborantes geluque flumina constiterint acuto?

Odi profanum vulgus, et arceo

Ho innalzato un monumento più duraturo del bronzo e più elevato della mole regale delle piramidi, che non la pioggia corrosiva, non l'Aquilone impetuoso potrebbe distruggere o l'innumerevole serie degli anni e la fuga dei tempi.

Non tutto morirò e molta parte di me eviterà Libitina: continuamente io crescerò mantenuto in vita dalla lode dei posteri, finché il Pontefice salirà il Campidoglio con la vergine silenziosa.

Exegi aere perennium

Non omnis moriar

Ut pictura poesis

[esistono poesie che come i quadri sono belle viste da lontano e altre da vicino]

Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit

Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus [in occasione della morte di Cleopatra]

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

d. C.

I sec.

Favole (Fedro)

Epigrammi (Marziale)

8 - Metamorfosi (Ovidio)

9 - Publio Quintilio Varo sconfitto a Teutoburgo

60 - Satyricon (Petronio)

61 - 65 - Pharsalia (Lucano)

64 - Dialoghi (Seneca)

Ars longa, vita brevis

Non esiste vento favorevole per il marinaio che non sa dove andare

È l’animo che devi cambiare, non il cielo sotto cui vivi

68 - 96 Anno dei quattro imperatori. Dinastia Flavia

79 - Eruzione di Pompei

93 - Silvae (Stazio)

II sec. - Metamorfosi (Apuleio)

Satire (Giovenale)

96 - Nerva imperatore

97 - 110 Epistolario (Plinio il Giovane)

98 - Traiano imperatore

105 - Historiae (Tacito)

117 - 192 Dinastia Antonina (Adriano, Antonino Pio, Marco Aurelio, Lucio Vero, Commodo)

193 - Pertinace, poi Settimo Severo imperatore

119 - 122 Le vite dei Cesari (Svetonio)

212 - Geta, poi Caracalla imperatore. Caracalla concede la cittadinanza a tutto l’Impero.

270 - nella crisi del terzo secolo, si distinguono le vittorie militari di Aureliano che costruisce le mura omonime in città: il fatto che non ve ne fossero dà l’idea di un impero in declino.

293 - Diocleziano introduce la Tetrarchia

312 - Costantino sconfigge Massenzio al ponte Milvio

313 - Editto di Milano

378 - Valente sconfitto ad Adrianopoli dai Goti

387 - Exameron (Ambrogio)

380 - 392 - Storie (Ammiano Marcellino)

396 - Teodosio divide l’Impero

398 - Confessioni (Agostino)

Vulgata (Girolamo)

V sec. - De bello gothico (Claudiano)

476 - Deposizione di Romolo Augustolo da parte di Odoacre

[aspiring-holistic-otaku]

Ramble#12 - Delinquency

This month's episode is on delinquent manga, a pretty dope but unfortunately pretty dead genre. That may just be my underexposure speaking but it seems to me that the delinquent pipeline seems to get dryer and dryer every year.

I was hoping to find a bunch of new rad delinquent manga this month but honestly it was a pretty weak month for reads but nonetheless let's get into it

top 5 delinquent manga read this month:

#5) Wolf Guy: Ookami no Monshou by Tabata Yoshiaki (complete with 117 chapters, I only got 56)

Just gotta say right off the bat, even though I haven't finished either wolf guy or akumetsu by the same author I very much prefer akumetsu [spoken on before in ramble#4, Mystery, Madness & Mayhem]

Regardless the premise here in wolf guy, is basically that there's this guy that turns into something wolf like (yes a werewolf) and how his nature seems to attract bad news

My main problem with the series is how much they ask you to suspend your belief as the students are in middle school and are closer to terrorism than delinquency, it gets very very wild, a little too wild for me, fairly solid art but I would warn folks to approach with major caution if they decide to pick this up

#4) OUT by tatsuya iguchi (ongoing with 206 English chapters)

Basically the story here is a dude just got out of juvie and has to avoid trouble so he moves out of town to the sticks, and if that had played out well for him there'd be no story here. So ofc one of the first things that happens is him getting into a fight with the VP of the top gang in the area.

Luckily delinquents tend to respect guts and nobody else was around so that played out well enough for him except now he's wrapped up in the arguments of the local gangs who are on the brink of war.

My main problem with OUT is that the camaraderie usually present in delinquent manga is almost non-existent here, no vibes, just violence. I will say it's got pretty decent art, and a number of pretty neat spreads.

#3) Bakuon Rettou by Tsutomu Takahashi (complete with 105 chapters, I read 46)

Basically this one dude just didn't like boredom or the normal life or something so he got involved in a biker gang as if extracurricular activities didn't exist or something.

We follow this guy through his outward and internal changes as he gets deeper and deeper into the gang.

I was really excited to get to this because of the author but I was pretty disappointed in the end, maybe because I only got halfway but at least they had the same old beautiful art I had expected.

#2) Tokyo Revengers by Ken Wakui (complete with 279 chapters + an anime)

Fairly popular so you may have heard of it, the story goes that the main character goes back in time to save his crush by joining the gang that kills her in the future, with the goal of becoming their leader so he can prevent his crush's death.

not gonna lie I really dug it in the beginning, the premise was a two punch combo of things I loved, I mean time travel + delinquency? In any case idk my love for it just petered out, then the ending was a bit wack, crazy style on almost every character tho.

#1) Durarara!! story by Ryougo Narita and art by Akiyo Satorigi

Best thing I read this month, a bit surprised since I'd already watched the anime way back when but it was still super great.

The story is that a young lad named mikado ryuugamine moves to the big city of ikebukuro for high school in an attempt to shake off his normal day to day life. He meets up with his childhood best friend masaomi kida who shows him around town and gives him all the details of strange tales, urban myths and living legends.

The story is broken up into durarara, durarara saika arc, durarara yellow scarves arc & durarara re; dollars each about 20 - 30 chapters long

top 5 delinquent manga read ever: (I go off cuff for these so no transcript, but dude trust me)

#5) Kyou kara ore wa!! by Hiroyuki Nishimori (366 chapters)

#4) Beelzebub by Ryuuhei Tamura (252 chapters)

#3) Holyland by Kouji Mori (182 chapters)

#2) Rookies by Morita masanori (233 chapters)

#1) Clover by Tetsuhiro Hirakawa (401 chapters)

honourable mention: great teacher onizuka gto

thanks for listening, if you'd like to see specific scores my anilist is in the link above and additionally there's a small off cuff part 2 in the episode where I talk a little bit more about what I like about the delinquent genre

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Commons Vote

On: Budget Responsibility Bill: Committee: Amendment 9

Ayes: 109 (96.3% Con, 1.8% DUP, 0.9% Lab, 0.9% Ind) Noes: 366 (97.8% Lab, 1.9% Ind, 0.3% SDLP) Absent: ~175

Day's business papers: 2024-9-4

Likely Referenced Bill: Budget Responsibility Bill

Description: A Bill to impose duties on the Treasury and the Office for Budget Responsibility in respect of the announcement of fiscally significant measures.

Originating house: Commons Current house: Commons Bill Stage: 3rd reading

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Conservative (105 votes)

Alan Mak Alberto Costa Alex Burghart Alicia Kearns Alison Griffiths Andrew Bowie Andrew Griffith Andrew Mitchell Andrew Murrison Andrew Rosindell Andrew Snowden Aphra Brandreth Ashley Fox Ben Obese-Jecty Ben Spencer Bernard Jenkin Blake Stephenson Bob Blackman Bradley Thomas Caroline Dinenage Caroline Johnson Charlie Dewhirst Chris Philp Claire Coutinho Damian Hinds Danny Kruger David Davis David Mundell David Reed David Simmonds Desmond Swayne Edward Argar Gagan Mohindra Gareth Bacon Gareth Davies Gavin Williamson Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Geoffrey Cox George Freeman Graham Stuart Greg Smith Gregory Stafford Harriet Cross Harriett Baldwin Helen Whately Iain Duncan Smith Jack Rankin James Cartlidge James Cleverly James Wild Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Wright Jerome Mayhew Joe Robertson John Cooper John Glen John Hayes John Lamont John Whittingdale Joy Morrissey Julia Lopez Karen Bradley Katie Lam Kemi Badenoch Kevin Hollinrake Kieran Mullan Kit Malthouse Lewis Cocking Lincoln Jopp Louie French Luke Evans Mark Francois Mark Garnier Mark Pritchard Martin Vickers Matt Vickers Mel Stride Mike Wood Mims Davies Neil Hudson Neil O'Brien Neil Shastri-Hurst Nick Timothy Nigel Huddleston Oliver Dowden Patrick Spencer Peter Bedford Peter Fortune Rebecca Harris Rebecca Paul Rebecca Smith Richard Fuller Richard Holden Robbie Moore Robert Jenrick Saqib Bhatti Sarah Bool Shivani Raja Simon Hoare Steve Barclay Stuart Andrew Suella Braverman Tom Tugendhat Victoria Atkins Wendy Morton

Democratic Unionist Party (2 votes)

Gavin Robinson Jim Shannon

Labour (1 vote)

Julia Buckley

Independent (1 vote)

Iqbal Mohamed

Noes

Labour (358 votes)

Abena Oppong-Asare Abtisam Mohamed Adam Jogee Adam Thompson Afzal Khan Al Carns Alan Campbell Alan Gemmell Alan Strickland Alex Baker Alex Ballinger Alex Barros-Curtis Alex Davies-Jones Alex Mayer Alex McIntyre Alex Norris Alice Macdonald Alison Hume Alison McGovern Alison Taylor Alistair Strathern Allison Gardner Amanda Hack Amanda Martin Andrew Cooper Andrew Gwynne Andrew Lewin Andrew Pakes Andrew Ranger Andrew Western Andy MacNae Andy McDonald Andy Slaughter Angela Eagle Anna Dixon Anna Gelderd Anna McMorrin Anna Turley Anneliese Dodds Anneliese Midgley Antonia Bance Ashley Dalton Baggy Shanker Bambos Charalambous Barry Gardiner Bayo Alaba Beccy Cooper Becky Gittins Ben Coleman Ben Goldsborough Bill Esterson Blair McDougall Brian Leishman Callum Anderson Calvin Bailey Cat Smith Catherine Atkinson Catherine Fookes Catherine McKinnell Catherine West Charlotte Nichols Chi Onwurah Chris Curtis Chris Elmore Chris Hinchliff Chris Kane Chris McDonald Chris Murray Chris Vince Chris Ward Chris Webb Christian Wakeford Claire Hazelgrove Claire Hughes Clive Betts Clive Efford Clive Lewis Connor Naismith Connor Rand Damien Egan Dan Aldridge Dan Carden Dan Tomlinson Daniel Francis Daniel Zeichner Danny Beales Darren Jones Darren Paffey Dave Robertson David Baines David Burton-Sampson David Pinto-Duschinsky David Smith David Taylor Dawn Butler Debbie Abrahams Deirdre Costigan Derek Twigg Diana Johnson Douglas Alexander Douglas McAllister Elaine Stewart Ellie Reeves Elsie Blundell Emily Darlington Emily Thornberry Emma Foody Emma Hardy Emma Lewell-Buck Emma Reynolds Euan Stainbank Fabian Hamilton Feryal Clark Fleur Anderson Florence Eshalomi Frank McNally Fred Thomas Gareth Snell Gareth Thomas Gen Kitchen Georgia Gould Gill Furniss Gill German Gordon McKee Graeme Downie Graham Stringer Grahame Morris Gregor Poynton Gurinder Singh Josan Harpreet Uppal Heidi Alexander Helen Hayes Helena Dollimore Henry Tufnell Hilary Benn Ian Lavery Ian Murray Imogen Walker Irene Campbell Jack Abbott Jacob Collier Jade Botterill Jake Richards James Asser James Frith James Murray James Naish Jas Athwal Jayne Kirkham Jeevun Sandher Jeff Smith Jen Craft Jenny Riddell-Carpenter Jess Asato Jess Phillips Jessica Morden Jessica Toale Jim Dickson Jim McMahon Jo Platt Jo Stevens Jo White Joani Reid Jodie Gosling Joe Morris Johanna Baxter John Grady John Healey John Slinger John Whitby Jon Pearce Jon Trickett Jonathan Brash Jonathan Davies Jonathan Hinder Josh Dean Josh Fenton-Glynn Josh MacAlister Josh Newbury Josh Simons Julia Buckley Julie Minns Juliet Campbell Justin Madders Kanishka Narayan Karin Smyth Karl Turner Kate Dearden Kate Osamor Kate Osborne Katie White Katrina Murray Kevin Bonavia Kevin McKenna Kim Johnson Kim Leadbeater Kirith Entwistle Kirsteen Sullivan Kirsty McNeill Laura Kyrke-Smith Lauren Edwards Lauren Sullivan Laurence Turner Lee Barron Lee Pitcher Leigh Ingham Lewis Atkinson Liam Byrne Liam Conlon Lilian Greenwood Lillian Jones Linsey Farnsworth Liz Kendall Liz Twist Lizzi Collinge Lloyd Hatton Lola McEvoy Louise Haigh Louise Jones Lucy Powell Lucy Rigby Luke Akehurst Luke Charters Luke Murphy Luke Myer Luke Pollard Margaret Mullane Maria Eagle Marie Tidball Mark Ferguson Mark Hendrick Mark Sewards Mark Tami Markus Campbell-Savours Marsha De Cordova Martin McCluskey Martin Rhodes Mary Glindon Matt Bishop Matt Rodda Matt Turmaine Matt Western Matthew Patrick Maureen Burke Maya Ellis Meg Hillier Melanie Onn Melanie Ward Miatta Fahnbulleh Michael Payne Michael Shanks Michael Wheeler Michelle Scrogham Michelle Welsh Mike Amesbury Mike Reader Mike Tapp Mohammad Yasin Nadia Whittome Natalie Fleet Natasha Irons Naushabah Khan Navendu Mishra Neil Coyle Neil Duncan-Jordan Nesil Caliskan Nia Griffith Nicholas Dakin Nick Smith Nick Thomas-Symonds Noah Law Oliver Ryan Olivia Bailey Olivia Blake Pam Cox Pamela Nash Pat McFadden Patricia Ferguson Patrick Hurley Paul Davies Paul Foster Paul Waugh Paula Barker Paulette Hamilton Perran Moon Peter Dowd Peter Kyle Peter Lamb Peter Prinsley Peter Swallow Phil Brickell Polly Billington Preet Kaur Gill

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[theshoegirldiaries]

A Year Of Shoes

Day 105/366 @irregularchoiceshoes 'Pin Yin'. It took me a while to find panda heels that suited me, this pair (and the black version), I returned as I just wasn't 100% sure about them.

[jchriscook]

Day #105/366: Painting with Bubbles

[cursedcapt]

Day 105 of 366 Faith makes things possible, not easy. This life will be hard, cold, cruel and never fair nor easy but faith, hope, and love make it worth it.

[mellianakdewi]

Day 105 of 366

Acceptance brings patience.

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As of 13 June 2022, Ukrainian authorities said that 1,316 bodies had been uncovered in Kyiv Oblast including Bucha since the Russian withdrawal. The same day seven more victims were also recovered from a forest grave. Two of them had their hands tied behind the back and had gunshot wounds to the knees, which local police said indicated torture. On 29 June the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights documented the unlawful killings, including summary executions, of at least 50 civilians in Bucha. The human rights agency also verified that at least 482 residential buildings had been damaged or destroyed in the towns of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel between 24 February and 31 March. In December 2022 the number was updated to at least 73 with an additional 105 deaths being investigated. On 8 August 2022, officials released a count of civilian deaths in the town of Bucha alone: 458 bodies, 419 with signs of shooting, torture, or violent trauma, and 39 apparently of natural causes but being scrutinized for their relationship to the Russian occupation. 366 were male, 86 female, and five of indiscernible gender due to their condition. Nine were children. 50 bodies remained unidentified, along with body parts and ash.

Bucha massacre - Wikipedia

[abigail-pent]

OK, as promised long ago: my Cassiopeia theory.

Essentially, I’m pretty sure she is still alive, and here’s a long-form exploration of why I think this, accompanied by a full catalogue of everything we know about her.

(1) We know that the skills you learn from the Lyctor trial in Cassiopeia’s lab is what Palamedes calls “the hideous corpse”: tethering a fully intact spirit to a body that loses its integrity (GTN p. 366).

(2) We know that Pal employs this technique, or something very closely related to this technique, to successfully tether his spirit to his body (HTN chapter 33).

(3) We know that Cassiopeia’s body is torn apart by ghosts after physically entering the River and using theorems while physically submerged (HTN p. 97). 

Proposition One: If Pal can use Cassy’s technique to successfully tether his spirit to his body, which is then torn to pieces, I see no reason why Cassy herself could not have done the same, before she is also torn to pieces. Also: it’s an interesting parallel, and I refuse to believe it isn’t on purpose.

(4) Cassiopeia loved to cook (HTN p. 231), leading me to believe that the scrap of recipe that Abigail finds on HTN p. 130, which references Nigella in a defensive sort of manner, was probably written by Cassiopeia. Immediately after finding this, Abigail says she “may be able to call the writer’s ghost” and also says: 

(4a) “I mean, there’s the issue of whether the Lyctor in question is even dead.”

(4b) “I am not even certain where [Lyctors] go. Do Lyctors enter the River? Do Lyctors pass as we pass? I don’t know where they wait.”

Proposition Two: this is tazmuir directly suggesting that Cassiopeia is not dead, and that other Lyctors can be called back from wherever they have been waiting -- which, in Augustine’s and Ulysses’ cases, are on the other side of the stoma --  by a sufficiently talented speaker to the dead. 

(5) Cassiopeia was awake and performing necromancy in the River the first time she was physically submerged in it (HTN p. 156). And yet she didn’t get torn apart by ghosts until later. This may be why HTN Chapter 7 has a 6th House skull on it -- this is the chapter where Harrow, Ianthe, Mercy, and John physically travel in the River -- and I feel strongly that the chapter would have had a different House’s skull attached to it if we weren’t supposed to be thinking specifically about Cassiopeia at this time. Certainly if the bits we learn about Cassy in this chapter are just red herrings or colorful backstory, it wouldn’t necessarily warrant a 6th house skull for the chapter. It feels like a strong hint.

(6) Augustine considers Cassiopeia to be his superior re: spirit expertise. He says he’s a generalist, implying she was the specialist. So she can out-spirit the Fifth House. He says she was “unravelled” and that she “disappeared” but not that she has died (HTN p. 171). In fact, nobody ever directly says she died, only that she was physically torn apart. Mercy says she saw the spirits “[seize] her legs and arms” (HTN p. 105) but not actually that she died.

(7) Cassiopeia had a large ceramics collection (HTN p. 105).

(8) Cassy is a super lightweight (HTN p. 268).

(9) Anastasia was working closely with Cassiopeia as she studied to try and achieve Lyctorhood (HTN p. 482). If she nearly got it right after studying with/under Cassy, then it’s possible that Cassy came to understand perfect Lyctorhood, but only after having killed Nigella. This, in my opinion, is the sort of thing that might make a person fake their own death to remove themselves from service, especially as Cassy has been described as extremely protective of Nigella (HTN p. 279).

(10) Cassiopeia and Anastasia together created Teacher to be a soul melange (GTN p. 368). Is this the same thing as the “Sixth installation” referenced at Cytherea’s funeral (HTN p. 122)? The existence of this “installation” implies the presence of both Valancy and Anastasia. So it’s possible that Valancy was working on the soul melange too. The other possibility is that they had some other project going, that we don’t know anything else about yet.

(11) Cassiopeia was “brilliant and sensible and careful” and figured out that blood wards are actually cell wards and appears to have been the most scientifically minded of all of the original Lyctors, and arguably the most powerful of them.

So what does this all add up to? I just don’t believe that brilliant, sensible, careful Cassy, the spirit specialist, would have failed to use her own techniques to keep her soul tethered to her body. And yes, her body was torn to pieces, but there’s precedent for the recovery of the soul after this, and in fact the narrative sort of begs us to look at the parallel between her and Pal and to conclude that she isn’t actually dead. I think she had plenty of motive to do everything she could to stop working for John, who she almost certainly knew had betrayed her and Nigella, even if she wasn’t sure exactly how. I don’t know what all she was working on, besides the soul melange -- though undoubtedly she worked on many things -- but at the end of the day, there are too many extant question marks surrounding her work for me to believe we’ve closed the book on her and everything we can learn from her. 

[w0-2013-365]

105-20

watching tv (the kennedys)