#Elio crossroads

[valentines-and-frostbite]

More Elio bc I hate him in a loving way.

All the art pieces you see me referencing belong to @croxovergoddess , I only drew the pieces of Elio!

I still gotta do this for Mascara and Blake, lol :P

[valentines-and-frostbite]

The babeeeee

Love him 💖💖

Elio✨

@ball-jointed-dragon's fankid of my OCs Jimmy and Nick ⬇️

[leoisstillalive]

all 1980s to 1990s grid because i am fascinated by these crazy men. they were all very queer and very strange, i wish they were better documented in videographic form.

anyways enjoy (was the josef leberer one a little niche? fbdjsb)

[ladypiscesmoon]

Q&A Timothée Chalamet & Armie Hammer part 1

I decided to post the first part of the Q&A today, because there were over 60 questions about them and I haven’t finished all of them yet. So don’t despair if you don’t see your question here: it will be in part 2. I will post the second part as soon as I can. This week I have a busy week. I did my best to do this as fast as I could.

I haven’t been able to take photos from all the cards, but i will make a separate post about the decks I used this time.

Q: does Tim really have the patience to wait on Kylie’s timeline? Does she has enough info to blackmail Tim publicly because he loves Armie?

A:Fairy tale Lenormand:

Anchor (stability, restraint, security, resilience, durability, laying foundations, Rider(message of satisfaction, achieving goals), crossroads (choices are foundation of all things, choice hold us down), ship( a safe journey, feeling restrained from exploration)

Prism oracle: comfort,love,pain, reflection

I feel that Tim was really sitting this one out, because breaking the terms of the contract would have cost him a lot of money and I think he has lost money already for not fulfilling the things he had agreed upon. (Like apparearences, events, more sightings, even more pda). It pains him, but he knows he has mainly himself to blame for this mess. He knows he has to reflect and talk time to make important changes in his life. I think they are really over this time, eventually Kylie has to let him go. As for exposing him and Armie I don’t think she will.

Q: is a cmbyn sequel happening soon?

A: energetically I don’t feel it is, even though a script seems to be written. Unless Luca takes a different direction with it, like for example the different stages in Elio’s life, like he said he wanted to,maybe Oliver only finding in the end. But he said he wanted a sequel with both Armie and Timmy.

Soon, is a very vague concept, and Tarot is not really good for timing, because energy changes all the time.

I pulled: but take it with a grain of salt as ever (see photo 1)

Q: Armie told the story about their first rehearsal for cmbyn when Timmy and him kissed and Luca stopped them and asked them to do it again with more passion.how did the first kiss feel for them? How did the second kiss feel?

A:

Q:how was Armie’s and Tim’s first time when they slept together? Who initiated it?did either of them regret it?

Q: see photo 2. It seems to me both were overwhelmed the first time.its almost like they lost control.the urge to keep kissing too strong to stop. Timmy particularly was overthinking it, trying to preserve some boundaries. Armie lost control and was not thinking, only later. I heard: it’s like coming home. There was a third party, maybe on both ends at the time.especially Armie but we all know that now. A big mess, but the feeling for each other was strong as ever.

About the timing: tricky. It could have happened during or after filming beautiful boy. But please, don’t come at me, timing is difficult!

Who initiated it? See photo 3

Like I said I think it just happened.like when you want to kiss someone and you don’t remember afterwards who took the initiative.

Timmy felt like he had met the one. Armie was running away from his feelings. He had a real fear of intimacy, a lot of ego issues (also mentioned in the podcast)but he was never really cutting the cord between them, trying to pull Timmy back.

Q: does Timmy ever think that he doesn’t deserve Armie because he left him when he needed him the most, and that he does PR for his career and cannot even mention Armie?

A: dark mirror oracle/prism oracle: revenge/sweetness, triumph of lies/frustration, sacrifice/ death, peaceful among thorns/ anxiety

Both Tim and Armie have done things for their career. Armie has also done things for PR. It’s part of being a Hollywood star. They just have to talk with each other about boundaries. Timmy would love to mention Armie, but I don’t think Armie wanted that. That may be different in future.

Timmy was really frustrated and angry when everything came out. Armie had left him in the dark and it stung big time. They have a tendency to hurt each other, especially when they are not communicating or communicating properly. As we often see with Twin flames.

You have to take in consideration that this a man Timmy really adores and looks up to. His hero in a sense. He fell from his pedestal. But he loves him, although it took him a while to recover from it.

We all make mistakes, it’s how we deal with it that counts.

Q: can Timmy leave Armie for his career?

A: prism oracle; Hapiness, ghost.

He obviously could. If they don’t find a way back to each other he might. But I feel he wouldn’t leave him for his career, if he end up leaving him it’s because they can’t make it work.

Q: how Armie felt when Timmy told him he loved him for the first time?

A: frightened and delighted at the same time. I feel this has happened before he completed the journey he’s talking about in the podcast. He couldn’t really deal with it, didn’t think he was worth it.

And yes, there is it again: the twin flame card. They have a whole journey together and separated as well. See photo 4

Q: what’s going on with the outing? Are we ever going to see them as a couple?

This question was asked multiple times, sometimes a bit different phrased or worded. I answered it once. Lots of people asked if it was going to be this year.

A: will we ever see them: see photograph 5.

They haven’t seen each other since September last year I think. So, since they weren’t together, there was no outing.

Yes, if they change their behaviour and make it work, we might see them in future. Prediction: I’m not gonna make one, because if something happens you will say; you predicted it wrongly.

I FEEL that they will work it out sooner or later. So don’t give up, I still think we are gonna see them again. I just don’t know when exactly.

Q: are they still in love with each other? See photo 6

They are, but they have many things they have to work on. Mainly boundaries and communication. And AGAIN the twin flame card

Q: is Armie the first male crush for Timmy?

A: prism oracle: consciousness, rejection, peace, reflection

I don’t want to speculate on someone’s sexuality but it feels like gender is not a big deal for Timmy. I see at least one other male, but I think it didn’t end well. Let’s say he wasn’t surprised when he fell for Armie.

Q: are they exclusive (committed)?

A: both of them, but especially Armie were frustrated and jealous of others, or pr situations. Armie distanced himself and tried other things I think, but he really wasn’t happy about it. This time they want to be exclusive if they can work it out.

Q: will they have a joint holiday or trip? This question was also asked multiple times.

A: queen of wands, 8 of wands

They would like to, but probably there are some obstacles. People may say they can’t or object.They have to make quick decisions about it. It could be just a place to meet up for now, later in Summer maybe there are chances for a longer period together.

Q: when will Armie (and the kids) return to LA permanently?

A: see photo 7 but again take it with a grain of salt

Q: will Timmy get another “beard” this year?

A: 6 of wands, 2 of wands reversed

It doesn’t look like it, at least he doesn’t want one and tries to stand up for himself

Q: will Armie have a clarifying talk, interview, podcast etc this year?

A: obviously I can’t claim I predicted this, since we all know he did talk about his journey in Tyler’s podcast. I often felt he would in the end, or maybe just hoped he would and I’m thrilled that he did.

Q: will they have a joint project this year?

A: fairy tale Lenormand: rider(energy, passion, speed, activity,news, messages), house (homeestablishment, safety, tradition, custom, privacy, conservation), bouquet(flattery, social life,pleasantness, cordiality, etiquette, appreciation), scythe (accidents, hasty decisions, danger, a warning, speed, reckoning)

A: they love to work together again, but I feel they have to focus on their private lives first, making it difficult to decide now. If they would I think it would be too soon, maybe even discovered by accident and give complications. They might talk about what they want to do together in future.

Q: how does Armie deal with Timmy’s “adventures”

A: I hope I understand correctly that by adventures you mean the rumours about him and girls and the PR with Kylie?

Last time I checked both Armie and Timmy were hurting each other. Mainly because they didn’t discuss boundaries. See photo 8 for what I pulled for Armie.at first he distanced himself and have his own “adventures” but these two has a hard time letting each other go

Q: will Elizabeth do anything to disrupt their relation?

A:2 of swords reversed, temperance, 7 of cups, 9 of pentacles

She will not be happy if they are together again. She thought they were done. She will continue to be petty, like trying to use the kids, preventing Armie to go away too far or too much, I don’t feel anything major at the moment. She might be paid, or is going to be paid in future. She wants Armie back, still. Not because she loves him, but because she is jealous about him moving on.

*alleged/for entertainment purposes

[resolutepath]

“plots please” for elio and aventurine and/or sigewinne and neuvillette ~

ELIO & AVENTURINE.

These two, the dynamic that never leaves my brain space because they are so interesting...

AT THE CROSSROADS, TAKE A LEFT. YOU'LL KNOW WHEN IT IS. I think it would be neat to explore the possibility of Elio offering a script to Aventurine. Not because he expects him to follow it but mostly so that he can see the capacity of Elio's vision. It's the final confirmation Aventurine is dealing with Destiny's Slave.

CALL IT OBSERVATION IF YOU WILL, A COMPANION FOR THE ROAD. Aventurine gains Elio as a companion in one of his more established vessels. Its twofold, Elio proving that he can pass unnoticed if he wishes it so his appearing is significant but also perhaps seeing how Aventurine works too. Even working together as the situation calls for it.

THESE ABILITIES WE HAVE ALWAYS COME AT A COST. Elio and Aventurine further into the friendship actually having a moment to talk about the weight that accompanies what they use. The price of a gift. It's a removal of some armour in a way but it is also finding empathy is one with similar experiences.

SIGEWINNE & NEUVILLETTE.

This may be added to via dm after 4.7 drops and I get more on Sigewinne just because my brain is like that and is currently simmering on her human-like traits however in the mean time:

HYDRO DRAGON, HYDRO DRAGON PLEASE FCKIN REST. Neuvillette is under the weather either through overwork or adjusting to his new responsibilities and the melusines know it. In the end a sneaky Sedene sends a missive to Sigewinne in a hope the nurse can talk some sense into the Iudex.

THIS IS WHERE I'M NEEDED. Now I did read something that was like Sigewinne had been at the Fortress since it had been built and honestly what if that was a point of contention. Mostly from a caring perspective I imagine from Neuvillette given the climate of thoughts around Melusines but I think it would be neat to explore that.

WHAT HAS HE BEEN TEACHING YOU? Neuvillette and Sigewinne catch up following the Archon quest where Neuvillette has heard about Sigewinne and her stun gun usage. Wriothesley has a lot to answer for.

[cynsualc829]

The WBGO Kids Jazz Concert Series brings world-renowned jazz musicians to concert halls and venues throughout New York and New Jersey. These concerts give young listeners the chance to discover the enjoyment of jazz, improvisation and musical collaboration.

At this concert, GRAMMY® nominated Cuban jazz pianist Elio Villafranca performs “Standing by the Crossroads” with his quartet. This piece speaks about his life, growing up in the small town of San Luis, Pinar del Rio, surrounded by Congolese drums, educated in Russian classical music, while falling in love with jazz. With a relaxed, kid-friendly atmosphere, it’s the perfect way to introduce your child (or your whole family) to the art of jazz.

[ao3feed-cmbyn]

L'arrangement (The Rewrite) Part 2: Delectation

by Kayelcy

Oliver is finally at a place of peace and free to pursue happiness on his own terms. Elio and Marzia have reached a crossroads in their marriage. A separation promises the chance to come to terms with where their lives are. And as Elio realizes the true cost getting what he wants will he be willing to pay that price?

Words: 1822, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of L'arrangement

Fandoms: Call Me By Your Name - All Media Types, Call Me by Your Name - André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Samuel Perlman, Annella Perlman, Chiara (Call Me By Your Name), Mafalda (Call Me by Your Name)

Relationships: Oliver/Elio Perlman, Marzia/Elio Perlman

Additional Tags: POV First Person, References to Canon, Post-Pandemic, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/25141582

[bookish2597]

Most Amazing Books to Read

We've seen these rundowns previously - from Amazon to the Telegraph to Time Magazine and past. A lot of people have arrangements of the 100 best books ever, the 100 books you should peruse, and on. What's more, flawlessly, in spite of cover, they are on the whole unique. The magnificent subjectivity of workmanship implies that no two of these rundowns ought to ever be actually indistinguishable. So this is our own, our uncommon snowflake of a rundown, conceived out of our enthusiasm for books. We kept it to fiction this time. A portion of the normal works of art are there, close by some progressively contemporary passage. There is some sci-fi, some YA, or more all else, some remarkable stories.

Do any of the included titles stun you? Is it true that you are shocked by any oversights? Tell us what makes the cut for your main 100 books.

The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale—which offers a nerve racking picture of an America under extremist principle—was a touchstone well before it turned into a hit TV arrangement, yet that additional perceivability implies much more individuals are envisioning this spin-off, over 30 years really taking shape.

Moved by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie

Carly Simon (the free-soul pop star) and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (the monitored previous First Lady) had an improbable fellowship, no doubt. Be that as it may, they met on Martha's Vineyard one summer, and the relationship developed into something the two ladies appreciated. In this journal, Simon expounds on the distinctions and likenesses that made for a one of a kind and paramount kinship.

The Water Dancer: A Novel

This first novel from the honor winning writer Coates, writer of the 2015 marvel Between the World and Me, pursues a youngster naturally introduced to desperate conditions yet presented with a remarkable power. It's a ground-breaking anecdote about what we can accomplish for ourselves and for our families in a world with which we're always at chances.

Red at the Bone: A Novel

The most recent from the National Book Award-winning writer of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming, this thin, ground-breaking novel jumps crosswise over time to recount to the account of a young lady in New York in 2001 and her mom 16 years sooner. Infrequently has such untidy, disturbing, and human story been told with such style.

Fantastic Union: Stories

At the point when a few creators move, the way of life moves with them, following each turn and change in their work with intense intrigue. Zadie Smith is one of those authors, and her first short story accumulation will be all the rage this fall. This volume assembles eleven fresh out of the plastic new sorts out with a portion of her recently distributed work.

Discover Me: A Novel

The account of Elio and Oliver—which started in Call Me By Your Name—proceeds in this continuation, which vows to be similarly as delicate, destroying, and arousing. We get a very long time later on when Sami, Elio's dad, visits him in Rome. In transit, he has a brush with destiny that changes his sentimental life until the end of time. Elio, presently an expert piano player, before long moves to Paris and has his very own issue. In the mean time, Oliver's life as an American teacher appears to be dull, and he recollects a late spring quite a while in the past, feeling a dismantle to a previous darling.

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

While the consequential convulsions of the #MeToo development will change our reality for a considerable length of time to come, this book—by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnists revealed the dim history of Harvey Weinstein's inappropriate behavior—graphs its beginnings and their very own unfathomable adventure to revealing a story many idea could never be told.

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Arienne Brodeur's shocking diary is the sort of obvious story that makes you wonder for what reason we'd ever need fiction. Starting during her adolescence in a bohemian Cape Cod, the gimlet-looked at book recounts to the tale of her mom's everything expending issue and how Brodeur herself turned into an accessory to a falsehood that increased than anybody could have envisioned. It's a flawlessly composed, thoroughly charming story dissimilar to any we've perused previously—and will doubtlessly be one of the most discussed books of the year.

Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu

In this beguiling, zippy history of Palm Beach, Les Standiford graphs the goal's fortune from its establishing during the 1800s to the present day. The majority of the well-known Palm Beach characters, from Henry Flagler to Addison Mizner and Marjorie Merriweather Post, are available for a romping, enlightening exercise in land, American history, and recent developments.

Metropolitan Stories: A Novel

Christine Coulson went through 25 years working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, so it's no big surprise her presentation novel is set in the background at the admired establishment. This arrangement of vignettes goes past what an easygoing guest to the historical center may see and offers a clever, agreeable take a gander at the exquisite and now and then unhinged world that exists with its dividers.

Precious stone Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief

It would be sufficient just to peruse the diary of one of the world's most notorious gem hoodlums, yet how might we oppose "Jewel" Doris Payne, who has said she found out about how to take the absolute best by perusing Town and Country? Her journal has everything, from her noteworthy accounts of experiencing childhood in Depression-period West Virginia to her most prominent heists, jail breaks, and endless other shimmering undertakings.

There's nothing we at T&C love in excess of a book about a private academy embarrassment. In any case, this most recent from Kevin Wilson, creator of The Family Fang, just utilizes that awesome thought as a bouncing off point for a confused, enchanting, and thoroughly engaging tale about fellowship, family, and the things we need individuals to think about us. Goodness, and furthermore individuals who can light themselves ablaze.

Year of the Monkey

Patti Smith's most recent diary is a thoughtful take a gander at her time of solo meandering in 2016. That year, obviously, brought monstrous political and social change to the nation, and Smith records it in her own expressive manner, alongside unique Polaroid photography. The American ordinance is covered with "excursion diaries," however on the off chance that there's a voice we'd need to add to that sort, it would be Smith, whose effortlessness and savvy reasoning is an appreciated analgesic during circumstances such as the present.

Up close and personal: The Art of Human Connection

Simon and Schuster

Brian Grazer, the Academy Award-winning maker behind films like A Beautiful Mind—composed this most recent book about the specialty of human association. Utilizing entrancing models from his own ritzy encounters with any semblance of Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Spike Lee, Grazer discloses how to augment your effect on others by rediscovering a range of abilities about us all as of now have.

Sontag: Her Life and Work

In this doorstop of an account, Benjamin Moser—who has composed for T&C about his subject—jumps profound into the life of Susan Sontag who, in spite of being one of the world's most unmistakable educated people, has never been as altogether considered as she is here. This 800 or more page book, which discovers its subject at urgent crossroads in history from the Cuban Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall, probably won't be light perusing, however it's unquestionably fundamental.

Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me)

You may know Gary Janetti from his extremely interesting royals-centered Instagram account, yet in this book he shares an alternate (yet likewise comical) side of himself. These papers investigate his fantasies of turning into a cleanser star, the battle of aching for an unattainable associate, and fantasies of impressive achievement and the vengeance it would permit are certain to fulfill Janetti's military of fans and enroll in excess of a couple of newcomers.

The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York

Tom Roston's book about Windows on the World—the impressive diner that sat on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center—doesn't simply diagram the amazing opening and sad part of the arrangement feasting foundation. It additionally tells the ritzy, down to business story of current eating, American coarseness, and the stuff to make it in the hardest town on the planet.

The International Best-Dressed List: The Official Story

Since it propelled in 1940, the International Best-Dressed List has been the wellspring of amusement, interest, and shock among a portion of the world's most dominant—and sharp looking—individuals. In this official volume, list-attendant (and T&C giver) Amy Fine Collins uncovers the entrancing history of how the rundown became, what it implies, and the mind blowing lengths individuals have gone to be get themselves included.

This Tender Land: A Novel

Atria Books

This epic experience story pursues four runaway vagrants getting away from their grim conditions at a loathsome school in 1930s Minnesota. What pursues is a progression of contacting, convincing touches of destiny that take the children—and anybody tailing them—to sudden and energizing spots.

Antoni in the Kitchen

Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You may definitely know Antoni Porowski as the hunky nourishment and wine master on the Netflix arrangement Queer Eye. If not, this cookbook—the writer's first—shares his trademark simple to-pursue plans with an eye for sustenance that is perfect for both engaging and Instagramming.

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Life Isn't Everything.: Mike Nichols, as recollected by 150 of his dearest companions.

A large portion of us know Mike Nichols from his work—films like The Graduate, Heartburn, and Working Girl or plays including The Odd Couple, Annie, and Death of a Salesman. In this very much built memoir—told in the style of an oral history—individuals who really knew Nichols recall the man himself and remind us what a transcending figure he was in work as well as in life also.

Destined to Party, Forced to Work: 21st Century Hospitality

A-rundown party organizer Bronson Van Wyck is best known for tossing incredible

[ao3feed-elioxoliver]

Ulliva Vineyards

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2EFR11Z

by Erato_Muse

Oliver and his wife inherit a Virginia vineyard, and travel to Northern Italy to learn about viticulture at Perlman Vineyards in the small town of Crema. Their son, Elio, is gay and relatively at ease with his sexuality. Oliver is gay, closeted, secretly hooking up with strangers, and haunted by the memory of his abusive father. Falling for Elio brings Oliver to a crossroads between his past, and his future.

Words: 13807, Chapters: 4/4, Language: English

Fandoms: Call Me By Your Name - All Media Types, Call Me by Your Name - André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Oliver (Call Me by Your Name), Elio Perlman, Marzia (Call Me By Your Name), Annella Perlman, Samuel Perlman, Anchise (Call Me By Your Name), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)

Relationships: Oliver/Elio Perlman

Additional Tags: vineyards, Refugees, Migrant Labor, The Discreet Charms of the Bourgeosie, Elio is 18

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2EFR11Z

[tara-mna]

Decided to do Tabletoptober, using this prompt list by @revisitnormal and sending that to my friends each day. Now that I've sent them the final day, I'm gonna shove it all into one post.

All this stuff is canon to my homebrew setting, Aleitse. Most of it is set in the Tyran Kingdom, with Periplanisi (a fey colony mostly cut off from the feywild) to the north and the Shakhte Federation (the only Underdark faction that maintains a surface presence) to the south.

Day 1: Heroes' Gluttony

This spell is a corruption of Heroes' Feast. First made by the order of a cruel duke, this spell creates an enthralling feast. The unfortunate victims eat for hours and days without rest, until either they die or the curse is broken.

Day 2: Hall of Heaven

Deep in the Underdark, in the grand palace of Valestra, is the one place where sunlight shines free. Mirrored tunnels travel miles from the surface to bring sunlight to a vast cavern known as the Hall of Heaven. It is a place of worship for those that still trust the gods, even so far from their light.

Day 3: The Divine Decree

The monarch of the Tyran Kingdom is chosen by the will of Tyr himself. His voice speaks clear to every cleric of his kingdom, declaring the name of the one who shall inherit the throne. This is the Divine Decree, first heard when Tyr spoke a kingdom into existence. He is Law, and his word is supreme. Even the bones and body of the earth bend to his command.

Day 4: The Tree of a Thousand Fruits

Hidden at the heart of the Feywild is an ever-bright glade, empty save for a grand tree. The Tree of a Thousand Fruits is resplendent, its majesty tended to by the various nature gods. Within it is knowledge of all things, and it imparts a glimpse of understanding to those that accept its gifts.

Day 5: Cleaving Blade

This greatsword courses with the energy of rivers and winds, ancient trees and crossroads. It is never built, not forged or enchanted. Instead, a fortunate adventurer will find it at the junction of two rivers or the crack that becomes a ravine, anywhere where one has been split into two. It remembers its past, and its wielder can call back its former glory.

Day 6: Duskblade

The paladins of Lathander hold their oath above all else, and one who breaks that oath is exiled from their Order. There is, however, a chance at redemption for these oathbreakers: the Duskblade. Accepting this cursed blade begins a trial that ends in death or redemption. The wielder cannot set the glaive down and it slowly drains their life, giving them only a few months to prove themself. Lathander himself watches anyone who wields the blade, and only he can break its curse.

Day 7: Pluck

Invented by a cunning thief adept in the arcane, Pluck is a simple spell that lets you quickly grab things from afar. You target an object up to 60 feet away, and it flies through the air into your hands. Popular among criminals, it's often used to snag a key off a jailer or disarm an enemy mid-combat.

Day 8: Circle

The runes that determine the destination of a teleportation circle are part of a complex language, derived from old Draconic. The basic function of the runes is always the same, but circle-scribes take great pride in developing a signature style. The various cultures of Aleitse craft circles differently: the fey of Periplanisi define where the destination is not, while the ancient Elians sought to use only a single rune, and the dwarves of Shakhte carve their runes into songs.

Day 9: The Lake

The lake is placid, perfectly still. It should be peaceful, serene, but you can feel it too, can't you? The rage, simmering deep within you, within it. You want to shout, to let this hatred pour out of you and back into the lake, but you can't. Not yet. The lake is perfectly still, but a single drop of water, a single ripple across its surface, and all that rage will come flooding out.

Day 10: Crown and Elios

Little is known about Crown, not even its location, but an Elian text speaks of four warriors being sent from Thrin to Aleitse to end a war. The arrival of these four warranted an order for the construction of 5 legions, totalling 15,000 automata, but while Elios was clearly expecting a grand battle it's unclear if it ever happened. Surely we would have found some record of it by now?
- Grand Archivist Alistair, on the fall of Elios

Day 11: The God of Rest

His kindness is felt in many ways: the warmth of the campfire as you lay to rest, and the softness of the blanket you lay on; the innkeeper that welcomes you in after a weary day, and the quiet moment that follows as that day ends; the scars of battle being forgotten in dreams, and the pain fading day after day. All things must rest, even the sun and the stars, and all rest is blessed by his divinity.

Day 12: Storm Song

The bardic magics were all born from a singular source, the primordial Storm Song. Now, a select few can learn to channel that ancient energy to great effect. Storm Song is a versatile spell, capable of producing a variety of powerful effects, but controlling it is a demanding and difficult task.

Day 13: Follyfond Coin

Follyfond coins are dangerous and powerful trinkets, given out by trickster gods as curses and boons in equal measure. When flipped, the coin pushes luck to its limit whether for good or ill. Using it is simple: you make a request, call heads or tails, and flip the coin. If you guess right your request is granted, but if you guess wrong then prepare for dire consequences.

Day 14: Drift

Drift is a simple spell, but no the less useful for it. It calms rapids and moves still water, allowing the target of the spell to drift calmly along in their desired direction. Lasting a full day, the spell is extremely useful for long travels as it ensures that even the roughest seas pose no risk.

Day 15: The Seventh Star

Known by many names across many worlds, the Seventh Star heralds its arrival with a blinding yellow light. It lends its aid to scholars and researchers, apathetic to morality and law, through strange visions and dreams. Some believe it to be a disguised god, others think it's something older and more esoteric, a primordial entity that remembers the birth of the gods.

Day 16: Bon's Nifty Necklace

Bon the alchemist is a career criminal with a wide variety of tools at her disposal, but one of her favourites is her necklace. It's enchanted to appear nonmagical but it's made of a cloth that unravels into a extradimensional space, akin to a Portable Hole. The space is two feet wide and ten deep, big enough to hold her tools and any ill-gotten gains, and it's helped her get away from quite a few heists without getting caught.

Day 17: Zulvhir the Firstborn

The archdragons of Aleitse were, if they're to be believed, the first creatures to see the land and the stars. Zulvhir holds the title of Firstborn, older than any other, and while the others die and are reborn he is truly immortal. As he was the First, so too shall he be the Last, and it is only in the shadow of a starless sky that he will die.

Day 18: The Legions

The Tyran Kingdom maintains a small standing army of four legions, one for each of the four largest cities. In peacetime each legion consists of only 71 soldiers, but in wartime the lower ranks are filled out for a total of 611 soldiers. A general leads each legion, commanding their soldiers as they see fit, only outranked by the king. This structure allows the legions to respond quickly to anything that threatens their city, but discourages cooperation on a larger scale.

Day 19: The Shakhte Federation

The Shakhte Federation owns a pair of cities, Podgor'ye and Torgovaya. These two cities act as the sole connection between the surface and the Underdark, enabling trade above and below the surface. Most metals and gems originate from the Underdark, passing through Podgor'ye, Torgovaya, and Tochka to make its way to the Tyran Kingdom and Periplánisi.

Day 20:

Two tolls were demanded: flesh and mind. One was paid, one was not. It will be paid in full. The pact was made, the promise fulfilled, and the cost was clear.

Day 21: The Revelry

A loose group of bards and musicians, the Revelry travels Aleitse with stories and songs of fantasy and adventure. When they pass through a city there's a great festival, lasting just under a week before they head out again.

Day 22: Bottle of Holding

This small bottle looks no different to your ordinary potion flask, but it is actually connected by a portal to a vault, enabling it to hold up to 25 doses of a single type of potion. You can, as a bonus action while holding the bottle, command it to drain or fill completely. Due to using teleportation magic rather than an extradimensional space, the Bottle of Holding is safe to store in Heward's Handy Haversack and other such extradimensional spaces.

Day 23: The Solstice of Planes

Records from 2500 years ago speak of the Arcane Equinox, a day in which magic surged to immense power, enabling many great feats that would now be impossible. Looking back 2500 years further, there are rare mentions of the Immaterial Solstice, as well as the prediction of a Solstice of Planes 5000 years in the future. Now, that date approaches in less than a year, and some are preparing to celebrate what may be a day of great importance.

Day 24: Body and Mind

Ancient tomes speak of two groups that aimed to become dragons: one focused on perfecting a draconic body, the other a draconic mind. The former group were based in a city on the western coast of Dracolimni, and through their research they developed a ritual that would turn them into dragons. The ritual was flawed, missing some key element, and so instead of dragons they created the dragonborn. Nothing is known about the latter group.

Day 25: Ironbark Blades

In the Feywild there exists a forest of trees with bark stronger than any steel. Due to the fey aversion to cold iron, many feywild warriors wield weapons carved from the bark of these trees, known as Ironbark blades. These blades are lighter than usual while still being as sturdy as a standard steel sword.

Day 26: The Questing House

The Adventurer's Guild in the Tyran Kingdom is run from the Questing House, a vast hall where heroes come to take quests and claim rewards. There are tables scattered about, free to use for anything from food and drink to surgeries, and the centerpiece of the hall is a long arena that sits ten feet lower than the rest of the room. The Guildleader takes that title through a trial by combat, and their duty is to step in if ever there is too great a threat.

Day 27: Feywild Dawn

The position of the sun in the Feywild is not a function of time but of place: as you travel the sun may rise and set as normal, but if you stand still the sun will never move. Thus, many of the fey courts are named after the time of day, such as the Dawn and Midnight Courts. Dawn courts are the grandest of all the courts, and archfey are born in glades bathed in dawn's light.

Day 28: Cold Iron Crown

This jagged iron crown was commissioned by Constantine Petraius, champion of the Fourth Legion of the Tyran Kingdom, 190 years ago during the war against Periplanisi. It was an evil and twisted thing. The crown burned the blood of fey, turned their skin to stone, and tore at their very souls. Constantine was driven to madness by its relentless hatred, nigh unkillable with its aid, and his bloodlust only ended when the Raven Queen herself cut his head from his shoulders.

Day 29: Jaina

A young half elf raised in Hazeldenn, Jaina took up hunting to earn money for her and her sister. A local bandit crew recruited her with the promise of wealth enough to never have to hunt again. Her first attempt at highway robbery ended with her arrest, unfortunately. Only a day after, Hazeldenn was beset by gnolls, and she fought them until she was forced to flee. Now, she helps out with rebuilding the town.

Day 30: Plane's Blood

Devils, being creatures of Law, are born through contracts. Demons, on the other hand, are born of Plane's Blood. This is the name given to the blood of a Demon Lord of a plane of the Abyss, and it is a powerful and deadly thing. A sip can burn through a person's tongue, and even diluted it stings your throat and mouth. If even a single drop is spilled in the Lord's plane it will birth a demon, and in the heat of battle hundreds might be born.

Day 31: King's Mask

One of the major flaws of illusion magic is the incorporeal nature of it, and so a bard developed a simple spell to help sell his illusions. King's Mask enabled him to transform his outfit to match his illusions, and sometimes even forgo illusions entirely. This spell is versatile, able to transform threadbare clothes into an outfit rivalling the king's or vice versa.

[resfebxr]

While Grovyle was reluctant to leave the stranger like this,it was also obvious his assistance wasn’t wanted and thus found himself at a crossroad. It was the mention of Pokemon that did it for him and he finally relented, bitting back a sigh. He would only stress him further if he kept pushing. “ Very well, but please take care. Keep the apple. “ And just as quickly as he came he was leaving, no parting words to be heard.

And then, Elio can’t help but stress that he’s upset the stranger. He shrinks into himself, just holding the apple in his hands. He can’t help but feel even worse, he should’ve been nicer. He was being bad, and that wasn’t good.

“I’m.. I’m so - sorry..” But it seemed he was too far away..

[keratomblog]

Brick pločice - trend koji ne želimo zaobići

Prije nekog vremena pisali smo o trendu metro pločica. U interijerima i eksterijerima. Sjećate li se priče o njima? Izvorno su dizajnirane 1904. godine za novu podzemnu željeznicu u NY, dimenzija 10 x 20 cm. Njihov kasniji razvoj i nedavni comeback morali su pronaći mjesto u našim tekstovima…

Danas nešto, na prvu onako…slično. A opet, za estete i zaljubljenike u interijere i keramiku, ni približno! 

Riječ je o tzv. Brick pločicama. Dakle, keramici koja svojom dimenzijom ali dijelom i načinom slaganja podsjeća na klasičnu opeku. Pri tome pričamo o dimenzijama 7,5 x 30 cm, 6 x 24 cm, 6 x 37 cm,...

Brick keramiku danas nude svi renomirani brandovi!

E sad, naravno da sve nije tako jednostavno; mogućnosti slaganja koje ovakve dimenzije nude su, bez pretjerivanja, zaista neograničene.

Krenut ćemo od onog klasičnog. Kroz fotografije ćemo vam pokazati i slaganje pod različitim kutom, a onda vas pokušat inspirirati za hrabri iskorak i kombinaciju nekoliko različitih boja. I načina slaganja.

Marazzi Lume, ABK Crossroad ili Elios Victory linije samo su neke od puno njih, u koje ćete se zaljubiti kroz našu galeriju fotografija.

Ukoliko igrate na sigurno, posložite pločice horizontalno, prateći fugu ili smičući pločice. Na pola ili na trećine. Ili nepravilno, čime se također dobije određeni šarm i razigranost, ukoliko takvo nešto tražite.

Ovako jednostavno i pomalo klasično slaganje trpi i detalje: nasumično ubacivanje drugih boja, uzoraka ili različite završne obrade: mat, reljefno ili trodimenzionalna.

Zanimljivi format Brick keramike svoje mjesto nalazi češće na zidnim, vertikalnim površinama, nego na podnim. Jedan od načina slaganja na zidu je i potpuno vertikalno nizanje, opet u varijantama smicanja ili praćenja fuga. Na ovaj način se čak vizualno može izduljiti zid, odnosno naglasiti vertikalnost.

I podove i zidove je osvojio način slaganja kojeg poznajemo kao riblju kost. Brick je na ovaj način i doživio najveću primjenu, jer je jedan tako uobičajen format razigrao površine.

Generalno, gotovo svaka keramička pločica nudi ovako različite načine slaganja, pogotovo kombiniranja boja. Ipak, iz nekog razloga tek se pločica kodnog imena Brick odvažila i pokazala nam se u toliko različitih kombinacija. Grupiranje više različitih nijansi iste boje, kombinacija mat i sjajnih pločica, ali i „miksanje“ horizontalnog i vertikalnog slaganja.

Nadamo se da ste dobili želju i inspiraciju poigrati se ovom keramikom neiscrpnih mogućnosti. Možda sami napravite neku kombinaciju i varijantu koju nismo ni spomenuli?! Sretno!

[mostlycharlie]

Hi (: what do you make of the the san clemente syndrome? i didnt really get what it means and what it represent for Oliver and Elio...

Hi! This is gonna be super long so bear with me.

So the poet explains that he thought of the “San Clemente Syndrome” during his time in Thailand, where he suddenly felt attracted to the whole country (men, women, men who looked like women and women who looked like men). It’s not so sudden, actually, he went there for that specific reason. He had a clear picture in his head of what he would find there; once arrived, though, he says that despite trying to connect with the natives and vice versa, he couldn’t help but feel like they didn’t have a single thing in common. He felt totally stranded.From this moment on, what he says he experienced is a perfect mirror of everything we’ve read up to this point that happened between Elio and Oliver: “You decide it was all a mistake, that it was all in your head. Then you dig a bit deeper and you find that you still desire them, but you don’t know what it is exactly you want from them, or what they seem to want from you. […] You’re ready to pack up and go back to Rome because all of these touch-and-go signals are driving you mad. But then something suddenly clicks, like a secret underground passageway, and you realize that, just like you, they are desperate and aching for you as well”. The poet describes this experience as something that turned him inside out because it was “the sum of everything I’d been in my life. What I wanted, what I didn’t know I wanted, what I didn’t want to know I wanted, what I’d always known I wanted”.(No wonder Elio says this is his favorite poem).This is where the poet says he started to think about the Basilica of San Clemente. The structure of the Church is a three-tiered complex of buildings: the present, medieval Basilica is built on the ruins of the ancient basilica, a building that was already the residence of a Roman patrician; this residence was in turn built on the ruins of Roman buildings from the post-Neronian era. At a fourth, deeper level, there are even traces of older Roman buildings. The Basilica of San Clemente wouldn’t be what it is today without everything that lies underneath; it would be a total different Church.The poet describes the San Clemente Syndrome as a nebulous feeling that explained his entire life to him: the understanding that “There is no rock bottom, there is no first anything, no last anything, just layers and secret passageways and interlocking chambers”. As for what this represents for Oliver and Elio, a few pages later Elio says: “I began to wonder what all this talk of San Clemente had to do with us – how we move through time, how time moves through us, how we change and keep changing and come back to the same. In a month or so from now, when I’d revisite Rome, being here tonight with Oliver would seem totally unreal, as though it had happened to an entirely different me”.Elio can only describe what he felt for Oliver as “Oliver was Oliver. He’s more myself than I am”. Later in life, he defines him “an early milepost of sort, a fork in the road”; Elio knows Oliver changed him forever, and he briefly wonders “what turn my life would have taken had someone else shown up instead?”. He agrees that “I would never be who I am today, I would have become someone else”. He then wonders who that someone else is today: “Is he happier? Would I like him, would he like me, would either of us understand why the other became who he is, would either be surprised to learn that each of us had in fact run into an Oliver of one sort of another?”. This is the San Clemente Syndrome: to reconcile with the knowledge that every single part of us is what makes us us. The roads taken and the ones not taken. The parts we had forgotten, the parts we hide from the world, the parts we reveal, the parts we don’t understand and the ones we do, the person we are with our families and friends and the person that no one knows but us, the person we are when we desire another body next to us and who we are when we crave to be alone in the world, and above all who we are when “every part of us seems miles and centuries apart and each swears it bears our name”.Every crossroad we take in life, every person we meet, is a potential turning point. Not everything/everyone is, but some things/people are. Every single one of us can pinpoint those moments, “If I had never met that person, if I had never done that trip, if I had never lived that thing, or made that decision, I wouldn’t be the person I am today”. We would be another person, not necessarily happier or sadder, just different. Elio even reflects “without Oliver I wouldn’t have gone to Rome, but I might have gone elsewhere. Wouldn’t have known the first thing about San Clemente, but I might have discovered something else which I’d missed out on and might never know about. I wouldn’t be who I am today, I would have become someone else”.We are nothing but the sum of everything that happened to us. Oliver ended up marrying another person, and Elio will probably do the same thing one day. Oliver wasn’t even the first time Elio desired a man, and he surely wasn’t the last. Does this make him unimportant? Or less relevant than, say, a spouse?You could never locate the first brick of the Basilica of San Clemente, nor the last. “Like the subconscious”, the poet says, “like love, like memory, like time itself, like every single one of us, the Church is built on the ruins of subsequent restorations. There is no rock bottom, there is no first and no last anything”.Oliver wasn’t the first or the last, but he was a fundamental pillar nonetheless and will forever remain so, because he’s part of those layers and chambers and secret passageways that make Elio Elio.

[audreyhheart]

Hi, I've loved all your posts regarding CMBYN but I wanted to talk u something else, I haven't read the book but I read something along that Elio comes to realize that he's bisexual after meeting Oliver, but my question is if you consider that Oliver was at that point sure about his sexuality? maybe you'd said he experienced with men before? He was with Chiara and married a woman, but he said about his family being against he being gay, so you think he tries to force himself to be "bisexual"?

In the book Elio already knows he’s attracted to men by the time he meets Oliver. Three years earlier he almost follows another boy into a movie house, and he shares a flirtation with one of Professor Perlman’s students, Oliver’s predecessor, Maynard. 

It’s implied that Oliver has had relationships with men and that he’s at a crossroads in his life. “For you, however you think of it, it’s still fun and games, which it should be. For me it’s something else which I haven’t figured out, and the fact that I can’t scares me.”

Yes, Oliver’s family was against homosexuality but so was virtually every other family in the 80s. This was a non-sequitur to me.  

I think Oliver was bisexual. I read nothing false in his attraction to women. I think the choice in the end came down to children. There was no avenue in the 80s for a man to build a family with another man.

It’s no accident that when they meet again years later, Oliver’s sons are roughly the same age that Elio was when they met. Aciman deliberately draws our eye to the parallel. I think Oliver’s love for Elio was reborn in his love for his sons.      

[sicilyisland-blog]

Oggi ci spostiamo a Scicli, città barocca della Val di Noto. Scicli è uno dei centri Patrimonio dell'Umanità nella lista dell’ heritage dell’UNESCO. Elio Vittorini scrive così di Scicli nel suo romanzo incompiuto "Le città del mondo": «La città di Scicli sorge all'incrocio di tre valloni, con case da ogni parte su per i dirupi, una grande piazza in basso a cavallo di una fiumara, e antichi fabbricati ecclesiastici che coronano in più punti, come acropoli barocche, il semicerchio delle altitudini…». Dalla dominazione Araba della prima metà del XII secolo a quella Normanna e poi Aragonese dal 1283 al 1742, Scicli ha conosciuto il suo massimo splendore nell’epoca del Tardo Barocco, come documentato dai suoi palazzi storici. Della serie TV RAI Il commissario Montalbano (1999-in corso) e Il giovane Montalbano (2012-2015), tratte dai romanzi e racconti di Andrea Camilleri, il palazzo del commissariato di Vigata è in realtà il municipio di Scicli e la stanza del questore Luca Bonetti Alderighi è nello specifico l'ufficio del sindaco di Scicli. Una città di una bellezza intramontabile ✨ . . Today we move to Scicli, a baroque city in the Val di Noto. Scicli is one of the World Heritage centers on the UNESCO heritage list. Elio Vittorini thus writes about Scicli in his unfinished novel "The cities of the world": "The city of Scicli stands at the crossroads of three valleys, with houses on each side up the cliffs, a large square at the bottom straddling a river , and ancient ecclesiastical buildings that crown the semicircle of the altitudes in several points, like baroque acropolis». From the Arab domination of the first half of the twelfth century to the Norman and then the Aragonese from 1283 to 1742, Scicli experienced its greatest splendor in the Late Baroque period, as documented by its historic buildings. From the TV series RAI Commissioner Montalbano (1999-in progress) and Il giovane Montalbano (2012-2015), taken from the novels and short stories by Andrea Camilleri, the Vigata police station is actually the town hall of Scicli and the quaestor's room Luca Bonetti Alderighi is specifically the office of the mayor of Scicli. A city of timeless beauty ✨ (presso Scicli) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwRzV-mAcdf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11ini5s5e2wkq

[owyheestar]

Elio

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