#Eli is so so klein….

[shinnyshining]

Mobius Chibi 🐍🖤💚

[sophietv]

Kaylor Timeline BEFORE VSFS 2013

It's a thread I did on my Twitter that I'll transfer here.

Once again, I used amazing Tumblr posts to do it. So I'll credit them as we go (If I need to do something else tell me, I'm new to the Tumblr etiquette).

So the official story is that Taylor and Karlie crossed path a couple of times without interacting and met for the first time at the Victoria Secret Fashion Show in 2013 🤔

Well they met A LOT of times and interacted before actually 😅

Let's see the Timeline before that VSFS in 2013!

***I'll edit this post as I find new interactions (because I feel like I'll find a lot of them) I'll add this 🆕 beside new additions and dates when it was added at the end of the post.

First meeting!

So what motivated my thread in the first place is this Interview Taylor did in 2014 with Andrew Bevan of Teen Vogue.

Here's the YouTube Link (X)

But here's the most important part of that interview:

He is saying that he introduced Karlie and Emma Stone to Taylor!!

Ok we know that Taylor met Emma at the 2008 Young Hollywood Award.

I don't think though that he is talking about that event. Because he says that he congratulated her for her cover.

Taylor did two covers with Teen Vogue, one in 2009 and one in 2011.

Following the Timeline and everything it's most likely the March 2009 one:

EDIT:

Thanks to this Anon! (X)

A magazine cover is planned 2-8 months in advance, up to a year for major celebrities.

The Young Hollywood Award was on late April 2008 and the cover was for March 2009 so it make sense.

So it's most likely that Taylor met karlie for the first time at the same event she met Emma for the first time.

🆕 Really cute fact.

On the Cover of that magazine, Taylor wears a dress from the Calvin Klein Spring 2009 show. (X)

Guess who walked that runway??

Karlie! (X)

I exceeded the limit of picture so click on the (X) to see the posts.

Tommy Hilfiger spring 2010 collection:

Septembre 16th 2009 Taylor attends the Tommy Hilfiger Spring Show during New York Fashion Week. (X)

Karlie was there too! (X)

In this post, you can see videos of Taylor watching Karlie on the runway: (X)

Here's the YouTube video : (X)

🆕Met Gala 2010:

They were both at the Met Gala in 2010

🆕In Milan together

Although they were not at the same Fashion Show (that we know) Taylor and Karlie were in Milan at the same time during the Fashion Week.

Another interesting facts. This could explain the "1958" reference of Timeless:

Thanks to Izg on Twitter for giving me this!!

Roberto Cavalli 40th Anniversary Party:

Septembre 30th 2010

Taylor and Karlie attends the Roberto Cavalli 40th Anniversary party in Paris.

Met Gala 2011:

May 2nd 2011

Karlie and Taylor both attend the Met Gala:

This is also the first time that we have confirmation of an interaction between them:

Thanks to that amazing post! (X)

Karlie said in Teen Vogue that they joked about having a baking date.

Rodarte Spring 2012 fashion show:

Septembre 13th 2011

Taylor attend Rodarte Spring 2012 fashion show where Karlie walks.

Here's a link to the video (X)

Vogue Febuary 2012:

January 17th 2012

Taylor mentions Karlie in her Vogue interview: "I love Karlie Kloss! I Want to bake cookies with her!"

And this quote, made history.

Karlie answers the same day:

Vogue Fashion's Night Out:

August 2012

Thanks to this post (X)

Taylor and Karlie star in the same commercial about Vogue Fashion Night Out:

Thanks to @hairpinraindrop for the video

Karlie and Taylor were present at the event too on Septembre 6th 2012

Paris 2012:

Septembre 30th 2012

Karlie walks the runway for Jean-Paul Gauthier in Paris:

Taylor is in Paris at the same time to film the Begin Again MV:

Funny Koincidence(?), I went back and watch that MV again, and look at the opening scene!

The Love Lock Bridge!!!

Elie Saab Spring Summer 2013 show:

Octobre 3rd 2012

Taylor is still in Paris and attends The Paris Fashion Week (X) at a fashion show where I'm pretty sure Karlie walked (I'm still searching for photos/videos).

But we know that Karlie was at the Paris Fashion Week too! (Thanks Astra!)

Here's a video:

🆕Met Gala 2013

They were also both at the Met Gala in 2013. Wich was in May.

So there you have it! All of Kaylor interaction BEFORE the 2013 VSFS!

This explains the timing of it all.

Because they allegedly met at the 2013 Victoria Secret Fashion Show in Novembre.

But as we know, Taylor moved to New York because Karlie asked her:

Timestamp 1:23

And people believe that she moved there after their Big Sur trip in March 2014.

Actually. Back in January 2014, Taylor was already looking to buy an appartment near Karlie's:

And she actually bought her Tribeca oenthouse in February.

Thanks to Bigsurlor for this!!

So they definitly knew each other before 2013!

Edit August 19 2023: Met Gala 2010, Milan trip together and Met Gala 2013 and the appartment hunting

Edit August 27th 2023: the Calvin Klein Spring 2009 dress section

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Queer Books Coming Out January 2024

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ Tentacle Wonderland by Reese Morrison 🧡 Cupid’s Revenge by Wibke Brueggemann 💛 Okay, Cupid by Mason Deaver 💚 Soren by Miranda Page & Lina Ganef 💙 Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia 💜 Stars and Soil by Dax Murray ❤️ Deep Sounding Chaos by Adrian J. Smith & Neen Cohen 🧡 Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments by Hema Sukumar 💛 Evergreen by Devin Greenlee 💙 Matsdotter and Adrastus (Adventures in Levena #2) by Aelina Isaacs 💜 Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu Vol. 3 by Meng Xi Shi and Me Mimo 🌈 Destined by Jen Carter

❤️ Her Spell That Binds Me by Luna Oblonsky 🧡 Her Mechanic Bear Mate (Crescent Lake Bears #3) by Arizona Tape 💛 That Bitter Sting by Melissa Polk 💚 Bioluminescence by Toni Duarte 💙 Lucky Bounce by Cait Nary 💜 Don’t Want You Like A Best Friend by Emma R. Alban ❤️ Bachelorette Number Twelve by Jae 🧡 How to Share a Cat and Other Life Lessons by Evelyn Fenn 💛 A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing by Amy Allen 💙 Bound by Kate Hawthorne 💜 Moonbreak by Lise MacTague 🌈 Falling All In by Laina Villeneuve

❤️ Murder on Castaway Island by Alicia Gael 🧡 The Butler's Vessel by S. Rodman 💛 Tadek and the Princess by Alexandra Rowland 💚 Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney 💙 Amid Our Lines by Zarah Detand 💜 Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa ❤️ A Doctor’s Touch by A.A. Fairview 🧡 So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole 💛 Never Be a Saint by Mark Runte 💙 Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook 💜 Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife by Eric Schlich 🌈 City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter

❤️ Enthralled by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron 🧡 Knight of Staria by Iris Foxglove 💛 The Storm Gathers by Maelan Holladay 💚 Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang Vol. 2 by Priest 💙 Fence: Redemption SC by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad 💜 Dreamer by Kris Bryant ❤️ Not Just Friends by Jordan Meadows 🧡 Winter's Spell by Ursula Klein 💛 Two is a Pattern by Emily Waters 💙 All Things Beautiful by Alaina Erdell 💜 Curse of Souls by Niranjan 🌈 Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

❤️ The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson 🧡 Curse of the Dragon Shadow by Selina A. Fenech 💛 No Shelter But The Stars by Virginia Black 💚 Shards of Trust by Fox Beckman 💙 My Fair Brady by Brian D Kennedy 💜 The Summer Queen (The Buried and the Bound #2) by Rochelle Hassan ❤️ A Luminous Heart by Cailee Francis 🧡 To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods #1) by Elizabeth May 💛 Out of Our League by Dahlia Adler and Jennifer Iacopelli 💙 Earth and Water by J.L. Gribble 💜 Rend Me, The Wayward Knight by Mary Vanalstine 🌈 Prince of Endless Tides by Ben Alderson

❤️ Sweet Wicked Thing by Jessie Walker 🧡 Ocean’s Blood by Thelma Mantey 💛 Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms by Sarah Wallace and S.O. Callahan 💚 A Reckless Oath by Kaylie Smith 💙 Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter 💜 Faded Moon by T.L. Morgan ❤️ Game On by Amy Aislin 🧡 The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers 💛 The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland 💙 Spark of Wrath by E.M. Lindsey 💜 Honeybloods by I.S. Belle 🌈 Love Me At My Worst by Adrian J. Smith

[most-screwed-by-writers-tourney]

Already got a list of the ships for the ULTIMATE fucked up ship tournament done. Hopefully will start it in two weeks or so. This is a list of the ships:

1. The Darkling and Alina, The Grisha Trilogy

2. Batman and The Riddler, The Batman 2022

3. stu and billy from scream

4. Vriska and Terezifrom homestuck

5. light and l from death note

6. Dirk Strider and Jake English from Homestuck,

7. Vio and Shadow Link from the Four Swords manga

8. Emilio Murkmere x Tobias Schenien from Ghost Eyes

9. Oswald x Ed from Gotham

10. Anna Croft/ Yu Junghyeok (orv)

11. Dimitri/Edelgard - Fire Emblem Three Houses

12. Will Graham and Hannibal, Hannibal

13. yoonbum x sangwoo, killing stalking

14. Starscream and Megatron, from the Transformers franchise

15. Mukuro Ikusaba/Junko Enoshima from Dangan Ronpa

16. Ladd Russo and Lua Klein from Baccano!

17. Daida and Miranjo from Ousama Ranking

18. Shizuo and Izaya from Durarara!!

19. theresa x otto, honkai impact

20. dorian x fem! inquisitor, dragon age

21. renee x huey from baccano

22. nanami x touga, revolutionary girl Utena

23. madoka and homura, puella magi madoka magica

24. (Ronan Lynch x Joseph Kavinksy) - The Raven Cycle

25. Seishirou and Subaru from Tokyo Babylon/X

26. Misaki/Satou, Welcome to the NHK

27. Bakugou and Deku (My Hero Academia)

28. Akito and Shigure, Fruits Basket

29. House and Wilson, House MD

30. Scarlet and Chase, I’m the Grim Reaper

31. Jong-woo and Moon-jo, Strangers from Hell

32. Moon-young and Gang-tae, It’s Okay to Not Be Okay

33. Medea and Helio, Your Throne

34. Celty and Shinra, Durarara

35. Akira and Ryo, Devilman

36. Yoshino and Kirishima, Raise wa Tanin Ga ii

37. Chateau and Ryang-ha, Love of Kill

38. Satoko and Shinpei, Hotaru no Yomeiri

39. Clarice and Hannibal, Silence of the Lambs

40. He Yan and Fu Shenxing, Who is the Prey

41. Cain/Owen from Promise of Wizard / Mahoyaku

42. Texas/Lappland from Arknights.

43. Jeongmin and Siyun, Dreaming Freedom

44. Han Chae-ah and Park Yunsu, Trapped

45. akane kurashiki/junpei tenmyouji from zero escape

46. Juri/Shiori (from Revolutionary Girl Utena)

47. Jackie/Shauna, Yellowjackets)

48. Cassandra/Rapunzel from the Tangled series

49. Damien and Elena from vampire diaries

50. Kristoph/Phoenix, Ace Attorney

51. Juice and Chibs, Sons of Anarchy

52. Utena/Anthy from the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena.

53. Cutthroat x Swindler, from Akudama Drive.

54. Yuno Gasai x Yukkiteru Amano from Mirai Nikki

55. Sal/Syakesan x Wadanohara from Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea.

56. Jeremy and the SQUIP, Be More Chill

57. Ian Grimm and Poppy Li, Mythic Quest

58. Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis De Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire

59. fuuma and kamui from clamp's x/1999

60. Victor and Eli, Vicious

61. Elisabeth and Der Tod, Elisabeth

62. Rudolf and Der Tod, Elisabeth

63. Veronica Sawyer and J.D, Heathers

64. Akechi Goro × Persona 5 protagonist (Akira Kurusu/Ren Amamiya)

65. Hondomachi and Fukuda, ID: Invaded

66. Harley Quinn and the Joker, DC

67. Christine and Erik, Phantom of the Opera

68. Lisa Reisert and Jackson Rippner, Red Eye

69. Valeta and Reinhart, I Failed to Oust the Villain

70. Light Yagami and Misa Amane, Death Note

71. Sumire and Hakubo, Toilet Bound Hanako Kun

72. Mika Harima and Seiji Yagiri, Durarara!!

73. Emma Wilson and Yohan Lee, My Deepest Secret

74. Sarah and Jareth, Labyrinth

75. Addie LaRue and Luc, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

76. Ja Yoon and The Nobleman, The Witch, Part One: Subversion

77. Makima and Denji, Chainsaw Man

78. Kyoko and Katsuya, Fruits Basket

79. Mrs. De Winter and Maxim, Rebecca

80. Mutsuki Tooru and Urie Kuku, Tokyo Ghoul

81. Victor and Elizabeth, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

82. Constanta, Magdalena, and Alexei and Dracula, A Dowry of Blood

83. Ha-im and Geunhu, Never Ending Darling

84. Frank Cotton & Julia Cotton - Hellraiser (1987)

85. Yuki Cross & Kaname Kuran, Vampire Knight

86. Johann and Sasha, The Double Agent

87. Sian and Yul, Secret Alliance

88. Charlize and Dylan, The Taming of the Tyrant

89. Lin and Dosung, 340 Days

90. Makishima Shougo & Shinya Kougami from PSYCHOPASS.

91. Charlotte Willmore x Lizzie Wells, from The Perfection (2018).

92. “Hikaru”/Yoshiki from The Summer hikaru Died,

93. Dolph Laserhawk x Alex Taylor from Captain Laserhawk

94. Dolph Laserhawk x Rayman from Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix

95. Yuuji Itadori x Mahito from Jujitsu Kaisen

96. (luo binghe x shen qingqiu) from scum villain's self saving system.

97. Heaven Official's Blessing. Ships He Xuan and Shi Qingxuan.

98. Ives and Boyd from Ravenous 1999

99. Eve and Vilanelle, Killing Eve

100. Sephiroth/Cloud (FF7 Compilation)

101. Clary and Jace from the Mortal Instruments

102. Rika Sasaki/Yoshiyuki Terada, Cardcaptor Sakura,

103. Veralidaine Sarrasri/Numair Salmalín, from the Immortals Quartet

104. Eli/Oskar, Let the Right One In (2008).

105. Lavan Firestorm/Kalira, Brightly Burning

106. Lapis/Jasper (Steven Universe

107. PearlescentMoon/SMajor, the Life Series

108. Christine/Erik (Phantom Takarazuka)

109. The Brain/Julia (Animaniacs 2020)

110. Sterek, Teen Wolf

111. Jonathan Sims/Elias Bouchard, The Magnus Archives

112. Fyodor and Nikolai, Bungo Stray Dogs

113. Beatrice and Battler, Beabato, from "Umineko”

114. Father Paul/Riley Flynn; Midnight Mass

115. Edward Teach/Izzy Hands; Our Flag Means Death;

116. Batman/Joker

117. Cesare Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia - The Borgias

118. Dean/Sam Winchester from Supernatural

119. Vegas/Pete (Kinnporsche: The Series)

120. Hitori Uzune and Nanaki Kazuaki from Hatoful Boyfriends.

121. Lanze/Bluepool and Anan from Beauty and the Beasts

122. Blade and Dan Heng from Honkai Star Rail

123. Spike and Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

124. Isaac and Finn, I’m Dating a Psychopath

125. Lenore and Annabelle, Nevermore

126. Estelle and Khalid, From a Knight to a Lady

127. Layla and Matthias, Cry or Better Yet Beg

128. Hyuna and Luka, Alien Stage

129. Karuto and Lily, Dear my Living Dead

130. Andrew and Ashley Graves, Coffin of Andy and Leyley

131. Lydia Deetz/Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

132. Harrow and gideon from gideon the ninth/Locked Tomb

133. Cathy x Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)

134. Felix x Ollie (Saltburn)

135. Grace Chastity x Max Jaegerman, Nerdy Prudes Must Die

136. Mikoto and Haijin, Tsuiraku JK to Haijin Kyoushi

137. Eucenielle and Tes, I Hold the Tyrant’s Heart

138. Claire and Balt, The East Wind of the Altas

139. Usui and Misaki, Maid Sama

140. Sebastian Michaelis and Ciel Phantomhive, Black Butler

141. Dabi x Hawks from My Hero Academia

142. Alice “Daisy” Tonner/Basira Hussain, The Magnus Archives

143. Naruto and Sasuke, from Naruto

144. Byleth Eisner / Jeritza von Hrym from fire emblem three houses

145. Akira x keisuke from togainu no chi (nitro+chiral game)

146. Lucy Gray Baird and Coriolanus Snow, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

147. Elias and Chise, The Ancient Magus Bride

148. Gendo and Yui Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion

149. Punpun and Aiko, Goodnight Punpun

150. Sang-hyun and Tae-ju, Thirst

151. Hawa and Adam, The Guy Upstairs

152. Satoru Fujnuma and Gaku Yashiro, Erased

153. Root and Sameen Shaw, Person of Interest

154. The Doctor and the master, Doctor Who

155. Juliette and Warner, Shatter Me

156. Ich and Mrs Danvers, Rebecca das Musical

157. Kokichi Ouma and Shuichi Saihara, Danganronpa V3

158. Roxy and Velma, Chicago

159. Griffith and Guts, Berserk

160. Creed and Train, Black Cat

161. Torso and Mutsuki, Tokyo ghoul

162. Vash and Knives, Trigun

163. Sweeney Tod and Mrs Lovett, Sweeney Tod

164. Kuroi and Mashiro, Thou Dhall Not Die

165. Amy and Nick, Gone Girl

166. India and Charlie Stoker, Stoker

167. Pig and Runt, Disco Pigs

168. Anakin and Padme, Star Wars

169. Chloe and Kairos, I Shall Kill That Sweet Devil

170. Jung and Seol, Cheese in the Trap

171. Anthy and Akio Ohtori, Revolutionary Girl Utena

172. Feyre and Rhysand, A Court of Thrones and Roses

173. Lelouch and Suzaku, Code Geass

174. Mikiya and Shiki, Garden of Sinners

175. Gatsby and Daisy, The Great Gatsby

176. Ivan and Till, Alien Stage

177. Sylar and Elle Bishop, Heroes

178. Helena and Demetrius, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

179. V and Rika, Mystic Messenger

180. Yukari and George, Paradise Kiss

[qqueenofhades]

I know you've probably gotten this question a lot, but what books do you recommend as an entry to American politics? I just turned 18 (a week after the midterms 😭) and I've tried to keep up with politics but quite frankly I was homeschooled and my mom is super conservative/conspiracy theorist, so I've never had any political influence besides Far-right and Chronically Online Leftist. I want to be able to make informed decisions but there's so much out there I don't even know where to start. Any book recommendations you have about politics, conspiracies, social issues, or otherwise related would be helpful!! (P.s. if you've already made this list and I missed it, feel free to just link back to that! I know you're busy)

Marginalized History and Narratives

A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, by Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz

An African American and Latinx History of the United States, by Paul Ortiz

How To Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel Immerwahr

American Military and Imperialism

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, by Rachel Maddow

Blowout, by Rachel Maddow

Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico, by Ed Morales

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein

What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It, by Trish Woods and Bobby Muller

American Racism & White Supremacy Past and Present

Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution, by Elie Mystal

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi

White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, by Robert P. Jones

A Field Guide to White Supremacy, ed. Kathleen Belew and Ramon A. Gutierrez

Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity, by Donald Yacovone

Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, and Climate Change

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent, by Sarah Kendzior

Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power, by Anna Merlan

Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, by Christopher Leonard

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--And Themselves, by Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change, by Geoff Dembicki

[introvrt]

🎰👁

── paige asked for a list of five randomly generated ships !

KALI CORMIER & VALDA KLEIN : i... love this. these two trust fund babies wreaking havoc? you know i love valda already, now i feel like i need this.

BASH HUDSON & JADA BAILEY : i like this one too? the fact that jada got the one age appropriate guy i have, please. but there's something in this one... i like it, headstrong woman with her shit together, sweetheart single dad who really doesn't.

CLOVER MULLEN & TATUM HART : i feel like this would be cute... them meeting at a party! they're pretty different i think, tatum being super lively and clover being as laid back as can be, which would be fun to explore.

NIKO REID & DRAKE WILDE : i know i just gave you niko but you're about to get him again because this would be so good and i know it. they'd be so funny??

ELIAS BATES & EZRA DRISCOLL : listen... a weirdo that's never serious is right up eli's alley, that's all i gotta say. he's a little weirdo. elias coming into his family money and needing an accountant? or one of the bates kids being a fan of ezra's podcast? why do i love this one too?

[fennel-tea-and-nightshade]

"Götter sind so archig!"

"..Sweet?"

"Und so asozial!"

"...Sweet"

"Sie verletzten so viele Mortals!"

"....Sweet"

"Privlaged fucks die ihre Power abusen!"

"Sweet das macht Eli wortwörtlich auch. Sie ist ein privileged fuck die ihre power abused."

".... Nein Eli ist mein kleines meow meow-"

[reisegruppekaenguru]

Buckle up and seat belts on - Erkundungstour K'gari Island

Heute haben wir, auf Leas dringendes Anraten hin, eine Bustour mit vielen kleinen Stops auf K'gari Island unternommen. Um schon einmal einen kurzen Ausblick zu skizzieren: "K'gari" ist ein Wort aus der Sprache der australischen Ureinwohner, bedeutet "Paradies" und genau das haben wir auch vorgefunden.

Unser Start war aber zunächst etwas beschwerlich, denn eine Tagestour hieß sehr sehr früh aufstehen. Um halb 6 (!!) starteten wir mit Snacks und Schwimmsachen bepackten Rucksäcken Richtung Rainbowbeach. Nach fast 2h Fahrt erreichten wir unser Ziel und wechselten in den inseltauglichen Bus, denn K'gari ist 98% Sand und 2% Stein. Und dann konnte die wilde und huckelige Fahrt losgehen. Wir düsten mit 80 Sachen einen unendlich erscheinenden Strand entlang, dabei wurde für Priele oder ähnliches kaum gebremst. Gestoppt wurde an einem alten Schiffswrack, bunten Hügeln und dem Vormittagshighlight, dem Eli Creek. Aus Mangel an Beschreibungskunst nennen wir es mal einen zauberhaften kleinen Fluss. Nach dem Mittagessen ging es dann auf dem direkten Wege zum Tageshighlight dem Lake Mc Kenzie. Ein glasklarer, blauer See mit unglaublich weißem Sand. Da haben wir uns eine Runde Schwimmen nicht entgehen lassen. Direkter Weg war dabei eigentlich so eine Sache, der war zwar wirklich direkt, aber sowas von ruckelig und voll von Hüpfern, dass die Strandtour Wackelein schon fast in Vergessenheit geraten sind. Mit unserem Tourguide Cameron hat das ganze aber echt mega Spaß gemacht. Der Dude hatte sein Fahrzeug echt im Griff. Am Ende noch kurz durch den einzigartigen Regenwald der Insel spaziert und uns viel zu einheimischen Gewächsen erzählen lassen, krasse Bäume haben die da.

Auf dem Rückweg hatten wir uns schon so ans Ruckeln gewöhnt, dass einige sogar ein kleines Schläfchen eingeschoben haben.

Kurze Zusammenfassung: Der Tag war wirklich wunderbar! Tolles Wetter, ganz viel gesehen und mal wieder nur nette Leute.

PS: Wie ihr vllt erahnt habt war "seat belts on" also wirklich dringend notwendig ;)

[tea-cat-arts]

Ya, these are enough designs for me to start drawing the brain rot comics out. If you haven’t seen part 1 and want to, here’s the link. If you just want a quick run down of this AU: Flame Chasers + whoever’s convenient for me get reborn into Teyvat, most of them get their Honkai memories back. Mobius is a professor at the academia, Klein is her assistant, Su is a doctor at the academia, and Kevin is also there just trying to figure out wtf is happening. Also Mobius built a couple of clone babies. Anyways-

Elysia

No one in this fandom knows why there’s elf’s in Genshin or what they really are, but they exist so Ely gets to keep her pointy ears

Grew up in Snezhnaya and started making herself a menace to the government even before she got her memories back

She started as a small town news reporter, and the Fatui were not fans of how honest she was about reporting their dealings

They tried to arrest her a couple times, so she decided to flee the country and become an even bigger menace to the Fatui

She got hired as a reporter by the Steambird, so now she get to travel the world and write things to cause problems on purpose

Ely got her memories back around this time (I’m gonna say she was in like her mid 20s) and decided to take advantage of her position and try and dig up as much info as possible to find her fellow flame chasers, leading her to

Eden

Eden has family in both Fontaine and Liyue, so she grew up traveling between the two nations

She’s well versed in both Western and Peking/Beijing Opera, and the music she produced combines elements from both

In her teens, she was scouted by Alice, and pretty quickly rose to stardom after that

Despite making bank, Eden doesn’t really keep most of money. She donates large portions of her salary to charities and makes an effort to support smaller artists and businesses

Within Teyvat’s music industry, she’s kinda a godsend for lesser known performers as she’ll often invite them to play the opening acts at her concerts

Even before she fully got her memories back, she was delighted to be in a world that was able to appreciate art again

When she got back her memories, she started incorporating musical motifs and costumes elements from the PE into her performances. It was mostly for herself and to pay tribute to her old life. She didn’t really expect anything to come out of it, but you can imagine her reaction when Ely showed up in the front row of one of her concerts

After that, Ely became her marketing manager, and they worked together to sneak PE symbols into their publications as sort of a rallying sign for the other flame chasers

And ya, that’s all I’ve got for now. Probably gonna start working on comics once the Genshin servers are back up and I can just take screenshots from in game for the backgrounds

[fandomfiish]

Choices books RO's I picked Masterlist

Since I've successfully got my ass hauled back to playing choices (Due to It lives within, in a span of two days I already finished ILITW and started TE ... again. And I thought it'll be nice to share the RO's/LI's I've picked throughout the books, granted I haven't played all books yet so this will definitely be edited and updated as time goes on. Note: I haven't finished most of these books, just wanted to add which LI I picked.

Freshman series -  Zig Ortega || MC: Claire

The Crown and the Flame - Dominic

Most Wanted - Dave Reyes

Rules of Engagement - Blake Yasuda

Endless Summer - Jake Mackenzie

#LoveHacks - Ben Park

The Royal Romance/Heir - Maxwell Beaumont

Hero - Grayson Prescott || MC: Flynn Hudson

Highschool Story - Michael Reginald Harisson || MC: Klein Montgomery

Highschool Story: Class Act – Ajay  || MC: Kirby

It lives in the woods - Lucas Thomas || MC: Von Franco

It lives Beneath - Parker Shaw || MC: Seifer

It lives within - Lincoln Mcquoid || MC: Shohei Kim

Red Carpet Diaries - Matt Rodriguez/Seth Levine || MC: Jovia

Perfect Match - Hayden Young/Damien Nazario || MC: Liam Prescott

Bloodbound - Jax Natsuo/Adrian Raine || MC: Elise Sinclaire

Veil of Secrets – Flynn O’Malley || MC: Alex Thompson

America's Most Eligible - Unnamed Stranger/ Han|| MC: Isaiah Park / Han

Desire & Decorum – Ernest Sinclaire || MC: Ms. Camilla

Across the Void – Meridian / Zekei

Big Sky Country – Sawyer || MC: Thomas Jenkins

The Elementalists – Beckett Harrington || MC: Ike Eagleson

A Courtesan of Rome – Marc Antony

The Heist: Monaco - Fabien Ahmad || MC: Stiles Lee

Ride or Die: A Bad Boy Romance - Colt Kaneko

Open Heart - Bryce Lahela / Rafelo Avelero || MC: Dr. Cryx Montero

Passport to Romance – Ahmed Khabbaz

Wishful Thinking – Jaime Lewis

Nightbound – Nik Ryder || MC: Dwight Park

Platinum – Avery Wilshire

Sunkissed - Nate

Bachelorette Party – Ash Tanaka

Mother of the Year – Thomas Mendes

Save the Date – Simon Hendricks  

The Royal Masquerade – Hunter Fierro/Kayden Vescovi

With Every Heartbeat – Dakota Winchester

Blades of Light and Shadow – Aerin Valleros

Distant Shores - Edward || MC: Christopher Bang

Queen B – Professor Kingsley

My Two First Loves – Noah Harris

Rising Tides – Robin Tora

Foreign Affairs – Tatum Mendoza

Laws of Attraction – Gabe Ricci

Shipwrecked – Brendan Fraiser

Wake the Dead – Eli Sipes

Crimes of Passion – Trystan Thorne/Luke Watanabe

[beatrice-reden-official]

Ok ok so

Half Life 1: Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist who graduated from MIT has his first day at Black Mesa. He got in due to his closeness with another scientist, Dr. Issac Kleiner.

Anyways so Gordon is tasked with pushing the crystal they have recently gotten from a border world (read: a world that is between dimensions) called Xen into an anti-mass spectrometer. The experiment goes totally wrong, and portals from Xen begin opening up, allowing aliens to come through and swarm the facility.

Soon after, the HECU Marines (a special taskforce called for when the scientists REALLY fuck up), so on top of fighting the aliens, Gordon has to fight the military as well. He moves through Black Mesa, eventually getting to a scientist who send him through a portal to Xen so he can kill the Nilanth, which is an alien who has a seperate race of aliens called Vortigaunts enslaved and tbh isn't very lore important. Gordon kills the Nilanth, then G-man shows up and gives Gordon a job then puts him in stasis.

(Barney (security guard), Gina, and Colette (scientists) are also fighting through Black Mesa, and Adrian (soldier) is fighting the scientists and guards but Blue Shift (Barney), Opposing Force (Adrian) and Decay (Gina and Colette) are all dubiously canon, especially Opposing Force)

Half Life 1: After the portal to Xen is opened, the Combine (a warlike alien race that takes over worlds, enslave and kill the inhabitants, strip the planet of its resources, and moves on) are alerted to Earth's existence and in seven hours have taken over Earth. Dr. Wallace Breen, former administrator of Black Mesa, negotiates Earth's surrender with the Combine. Twenty years later, Gordon returns, arriving in City 17 which is where all his former co-workers are (that survived, that is)

He meets with Barney who is working as a Metrocop (metrocops are humans that choose to work for the Combine for extra rations and safety. It's hard to tell them apart from a Civil Protection officer which are - as far as I can tell - modified humans with most of the "humaness" stripped away)

ANYWAYS BACK ON TRACK Barney brings Gordon into a back room and tells Dr. Kleiner that Gordon's back. He then tells Gordon to go to Kleiner's lab, but as he is getting there he is caught and beaten up but Alyx saves him. She then leads him to Kleiner's lab and explains what happened while he was gone. In Kleiner's lab Gordon gets his HEV suit back, and Kleiner tries to teleport both Gordon and Alyx to Black Mesa East (no relation to the nuked Black Mesa). Alyx gets there, but Dr. Kleiner's pet headcrab Lamarr messes up the teleporter as Gordon is in it so he has to go on a river route.

After he goes through the river, he arrives at Black Mesa East and meets Eli Vance and also Judith Mossman (who hates him. She is very jealous of him) and they talk for a bit, Gordon gets a new weapon (the Gravity Gun, he can fling people and things around with it) and also plays with Alyx's robot D0g, then Black Mesa East gets raided so Gordon has to go to Ravenholm (We don't go to Ravenholm)

In Ravenholm Gordon is surrounded by headcrab zombies and has to kill the with giant saw blades fires with the gravity Gun, until the only actual person there (Father Grigori) gives him a shotgun. Father Grigory seems chill but he sacrifices himself right before Gordon leaves so. Yeah.

Gordon then goes on a roadtrip. Then he has to do parkour so he doesn't get killed by antlions. (Antlions don't like when you walk on the sand) Luckily a friendly Vortigaunt gives him a pheromone ball so the antlions like him. So he has to lead them out of where they were.

Gordon then goes to the very scary Combine jail called Nova Prospekt to try to save Eli. Turns out he's not there! Gordon meets with Alyx again, and they both find out that Judith was working with Dr. Breen the whole time. Judith then takes Eli to the Citadel (Where Breen is)

Alyx and Gordon teleport back to Kleiner's lab only to find out they have been stuck in a loop for a whole week, and Nova Prospekt blew up and everyone's going crazy (in a good way). Alyx stays with Kleiner and Gordon finds Barney and the two start beating people up. They get to the Citadel and Gordon gets inside. Gordon fights all the way to Dr. Breen's office, and goes inside (captured). Dr. Breen then basically says he wants Eli and Alyx gone and that makes Judith mad because she wanted Eli safe so she blows up Breen's communicator, and then frees the three. Gordon chases Breen to the top of the Citadel, Breen dies and everyone gets out and the Citadel blows up.

There is also Episode 2 and HL: Alyx but. I need a break

Holy fucking shit that is so much lore/pos

[renee-writer]

Baby Girl Chapter 66

AO3

“It was just a perinatal exam. I should have been with her but, has a lot to do at work and it was a standard checkup, nothing major. Lots to do at work, getting ready to take off a while to be with the baby. We are having a boy, Jacob Eli, after both our fathers. I should have been with her!” Noah Klein wails, his head ending up on his crossed arms. Jamie can’t imagine his grief. His job is to protect his wife and child. He can’t help feel he has failed them.

 

“Mr. Klein, you can’t blame yourself. The more information you can give us, the better our chances of finding Sara. Is there anyone you know who would want to hurt Sara?”

 

“Hurt her! No she is the sweetest, most giving person… The baby! Are they after the baby?”

 

“That is a possibility we are exploring. Do you know anyone who recently lost a child?”

 

He looks blankly at him for a moment. Then shakes his head. “No one. You will find them, right? Find them and bring them home?”

 

“We will do our best.”

 

“This is depressing. I found fifty-five ladies who lost babies due to stillbirth or late miscarriage in the Glasgow area, over the last few months. Sending the list to you.  Other then the NIH clinic and both being almost at term, our two ladies, seem to have nothing in common Sara attended temple and Robin the Catholic church. Sarah was at home, Robin works as a lawyer.  It doesn’t seem they have crossed paths. “ She updated them all.

 

Geillis, having talked to Mr. Nevins, found out they are having a girl, so not even the gender of the children are the same. The advanced state of pregnancy is the only linking factor.

 

“Two possibilities,” John says, heading to the glass board he will be writing on, “either this unsub is after the children, either wanting a specific gender or one of each or he/ she has a need to act sexually or violently on pregnant ladies. “

 

“Or both. Use them and sell or discard, the babies after.” Murtagh says sadly.

 

“We need to try to narrow it down, if we can, before giving the profile. Anything at the scene.”

 

“We sent the CCV footage to Claire.” John answers Geillis.

 

“Going through it now. It seems both Sara and Robin arrived at the same time. Oh…”

 

“What is it Baby Girl?”

 

“Black van, plate covered, obscured by something, pulled up the same time they left. A lady, face covered by a large brimmed hat, looking quite pregnant, comes out, says something to them, not able to tell what, oh, they both walk over to the van and are dragged in. Sending the footage to you.”

 

“A man. We have a team “

 

“A confident one,” Murtagh adds to what John said, “ to abduct them both at the same time.”

 

“Either desperate or not there first time.” Jamie replies.

 

“Claire?”

 

“On it. Looking for other pregnant woman abductions.” She moves over her keyboard like a concert pianist. “Oh bullocks! Three others, over the last two years, all over Scotland and England.. Two in England, one here.”

 

“Their statuses?” Jamie asks.

 

They watch her bite her lip. “All three bodies found, minus their babies. The COD listed was bleeding out caused by crude C-sections.” She sadly says.

 

“So they are after the babies. Time for the profile.”

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[entdeckertouren-blog]

Stockholm: Fotographiska

Heute haben wir uns einen langen Nachmittag im Fotographiska gegönnt. Dieses Museum für Fotographiekunst gibt es auch in New York und Berlin. Hier ist es in einem schönen alten Backsteingebäude, vermutlich ehemals ein Handelshaus, am Wasser untergebracht.

Wir haben Werke gesehen von

Shepard Fairey,

sehr interessante Videoinstallationen von Eli Eli und Marcos Kay,

Und sehr aussagekräftige, geschichtenerzählende Bilder des Prix Pictet Human.

Wir haben es sehr genossen.

Zum Abschluss gab es noch Kaffee im dazugehörenden Restaurant in einem sehr, sehr schönen dunklem Stil. Noch dazu gab es große Fenster mit "What a View"

Quer durch Södermalm ging es dann zurück in unser Appartement.

Noch ein paar Gedanken zu diesem Stadtteil, was wir auf langen Spaziergängen ausgiebig erkundet haben:

Es gibt hier viele hohe Neubauten, Wohnsilos könnte man auch sagen. Sie wirken aber gar nicht so, weil alles grün ist. Jeder Innenhof hat Blumenflächen, die täglich gepflegt werden. Jede unbebaute Fläche hat wunderbar verwinkelte Spielplätze, Bänke, Beete. Ständig fragten wir uns, wo denn die Autos seien?? Die sieht man hier einfach nicht! Nirgendwo parkende Autoreihen. Stattdessen Fahrradschuppen und E-Roller Parkplätze.

Überall sind auch größere Parks mit Spiel -und Picknickplätzen. Eigentlich an jeder Ecke, mit Treppen und Pfaden verbunden. Und Bänke, unzählige Bänke. Und Schaukeln:

Außerdem wird hier so viel gerannt, dass es auffällt. Alle möglichen Menschen joggen. Zu jeder Tageszeit, manche schnell, manche mit Gewichtswesten, manche langsam und gemächlich.

Und noch was: Hier liegt kein Müll. Ich habe Kolonnen von Müllsammler*innen gesehen, die jedes noch so kleine Fitzelchen einsammeln.

Zu all dem passt, dass man es hier als Raucherin wirklich schwer hat. Rauchen ist verpönt. Schweden will bis zum Jahr 2025 "rauchfrei" werden. Sie sind auf dem besten Weg, würde ich sagen. Ob das Snussen besser ist, darüber wird auch hier gestritten. Aber rauchende Menschen habe ich im Vergleich zu Deutschland sehr wenig gesehen.

Healthy. Das Wort beschreibt für mich Södermalm, vielleicht ganz Stockholm, vielleicht Schweden. Ich weiss nicht genau, ob ich diesem Bild trauen kann, oder warum es sich nicht restlos nur gut anfühlt. Vielleicht weil es eben auch "brav" erscheint.

Morgen geht es dann weiter. Nach Mora am Siljansee. Bei genauerem Lesen der Beschreibung des hastig gebuchten Hauses habe ich entdeckt, das wir ein Haus am/im - Achtung- Tomteland gebucht haben! Im Weihnachtsmannland! Bleibt gespannt :)

[fairysbookshelf]

Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood

Book Stats:

Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐(5/5)

Spice Rating:🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️(4/5)

Tropes: Forced Proximity, Hookup before Context

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Review:

*Disclaimer- Most people know I am a ride or die Ali Hazelwood fan(she is a auto buy author of mine), and I typically don't review-review her books, but this one is very different then her typical books so I figured I would share my thoughts about it!*

Ru is your average socially awkward girl. Doesn't do good in large crowds, not good at expressing feelings, and can't fully comprehend what she wants. Her job at Klein lets her have financial stability that she craved as a kid while also allowing her to continue research and work with her couple of close friends. Which is all fine and dandy, until Harkness investment firm comes and buys out Klein's loan. Eli happens to work for said firm, and was suppose to be one of Ru's "One and done" hookup's. Now they are toeing the line with their relationship.

Where to even begin? As much as I LOVE Hazelwood's general Rom-Comy book style, This one may just be my favorite.

This book deals with a unlikeable main character. Now I know what your thinking, how bad can she really be? I just don't think she fits on the same line up as the other heroine the author has written. Think your typical nerd problems multiplied by 10 with a true side of trauma. She has layers to her, she is not effortlessly beautiful(a complaint I hear a lot about Hazelwood's books), She is not always great at communicating. I can see why many people may not feel she is not the best female lead.

Now, Eli on the other hand is your perfect golden retriever. He knows and understands where Ru is and meets her in every way. Yes, he is a little basic, but I honestly think that is what our MC needs in this situation.

They have great chemistry, and I love that they started in a rom-comy way, but their relationship is different than that. It's very raw.

Now, let's talk about the big thing-There is A LOT more steamy scenes in this book than normal(Which I think is main people's issue with it) and to that I say, not every relationship looks the same. Both of these characters are more complex than your typical billionaire and science weapon. They are COMPLEX. Hence why I think this type of relationship works for them. It starts and makes sense for both of them from where they are in life. And yes, while I do think smut may not be Miss Hazelwood's strong suit, I do believe it's a lot better than what's out there.

This book is NOT for your rom-com fluffy girlies. It's for your readers who enjoy emotional, character growth pushing, complex characters, and of course a healthy dose of smut romances. If your looking for a romcom novel like the one the author typically writes, this is not the book for you.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

There are a bunch of still-living Holocaust survivors like Stephen Kapos and Marione Ingram marching and speaking out for Palestine now.

Hajo Meyer survived Auschwitz and regularly compared Zionists to Nazis.

Marek Edelman was a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and in his later years he wrote an open letter to the Palestinian resistance, urging them to never give up and that he saw his own struggle for liberation mirrored in theirs.

Hedy Epstein was a survivor who was viciously smeared for her support of Palestinian human rights. In fact, all these ACTUAL HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS were attacked by members of the zionist establishment, including Elie Wiesel.

Some antizionist Jewish authors have written truly excellent books about how the Holocaust directly fed into zionism and the colonization of Palestine. Of course there’s Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky’s “On Palestine” that examines how Nazism and the Holocaust fed directly into the colonization of Palestine.

Naomi Klein’s stellar “Doppelgänger” devotes its last quarter to the “mirroring” between Nazis and Zionists. She dives into how the Nazis defined themselves against who they thought Jews were, exactly how white supremacist colonialists have always positioned themselves as the opposite of the people they seek to dehumanize and oppress, and how Israel has mimicked this so thoroughly - down to taking on the iconography of Nazism. She also discusses how the Jewish Labor Bund and leftist Jewish leaders, most of whom were antizionist and diasporist, were almost all killed by the Nazis.

I especially identified with Klein’s being disheartened by realization that, while some Jews like her took the phrase “Never Again” to mean that we who’ve been through such extreme horrors and survived have an obligation to use our trauma and loss to spare others the same fate, others took “Never Again” to mean for Jews only - “Never Again because now we have Israel.” I guess I’m fortunate that despite the zionist bullshit I was taught, the Holocaust is precisely why I have been involved in antizionist activism since 2013 or so. You can’t see or learn about Palestine without seeing the clearest of parallels.

The thing that's never made sense to me is the "Holocaust inversion" talking point and the idea that we are "moralizing" the Holocaust as something you're supposed to learn from which like aside from the fact that israel's entire pr is that it needs to exist because of the Holocaust, I really don't understand how feeling empathy based on past experiences is like... a moralizing action?

Even those who don't feel empathy, they still like... have the universal idea that you shouldn't do bad things onto other people. When you consider that yeah, when you live in the world, you experience terrible things and you relate those terrible things to other terrible things happening in the world. That's just what everyone does. Whenever I hear things happening to indigenous Turtle Islanders I always relate it back to Palestine. When I hear about violence happening to Black people, I think "Ah it must be terrifying" and I think back to my own family members and friends who were killed by Israel. When i think of antiBlackness in arab spaces, i relate it back to the occupation and compare myself to the occupation on whether or not im inflicting the same pain i and my family endure onto others. It's just how you experience the world. No one is asking you to "learn" from the Holocaust, people are just asking you to apply empathy.

A universal example is that you don't really understand the grief of losing a loved one until you yourself lose a loved one. And when you encounter a person who lost a loved one as well, you relate to them in a unique way that you wouldn't have without having that experience of grief before. It's not a moralizing experience, it's just... an experience. An awful one but you don't *learn* anything from it.

So it always confounds me that there's such vehement pushback against the idea that what Palestinians are going through is similar to the Holocaust because it's not like we're making light of the Holocaust? It's that we are asking you, a zionist (in this case one who is Jewish specifically), to acknowledge that there are similarities between the way Palestinians are treated and the ways Jews, Roma, and multiple other people were treated during the Holocaust. It's that we're relegated to second class status, we are considered lesser, we are confined to ghettos, we have our livelihoods stolen from us, we have weapons tested on us, we're survielled like we are dangerous monsters and we experience systematic segregation. And now we are experiencing mass slaughter campaigns within our concentration camps. But what's the issue? Are you offended that Palestinians can even remotely understand the terrible violence that Jews experienced in the Holocaust? Or are you denying that Palestinians are experiencing those things??

People always bring up like "Oh you don't understand what exactly happened during the Holocaust, you're just using it as a stand in for "a very bad thing"" and that's like... never made sense either because what does that mean? I'm not... using the Holocaust out of nowhere, I'm using it because Israel tells US, PALESTINIANS, that we need to be kicked out and raped and tortured *because* of the Holocaust. When us, Palestinians, ask you to feel empathy for us based on what you experienced during the Holocaust, we aren't just pulling it out of thin air, we are using a zionist talking point and pointing out the flaws. "Does experiencing a Holocaust allow you to conduct massacres and unbelievable violence onto other people?" and "Why are we paying for the terrible crimes of Europeans? Why is this our fault that we must suffer for it, as you, a zionist, insist we must?"

It's just so confusing how people would take offense at feeling empathy for Palestinians. We aren't denying the awful, awful genocide of the Holocaust, nor are we "making light of it..." but if you believe that comparing what Palestinians go through is making light of the Holocaust, then you must think that what we are going through is not bad at all.