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mar3ggiata · 1 month

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professional help, c15. The Viper.

simon riley x original character.

trigger warnings: violence, sexual assault, mentions of rape, trauma, sexual themes, swearing, use of alcohol and drugs.

song to listen to when reading this: Don Raffaè, Fabrizio de Andrè

abstract: it's Simon. here I am talking to Jude again, this time it gets too far, the police are involved… no just kidding (I wish someone would just take her away, believe me). also is anyone gonna tell her to stop using this bloody dialect of hers? it sound stupid anyways and I can't understand a word she says. bye.

T'agg ditt Salvo, è venuto a trovarmi a danza, io dovevo mangiare e gli ho chiesto se voleva cenare. Poi avrei portato fuori il cane e mi ha detto che era pericoloso da sola e mi ha accompagnato'. She was in her bathroom in her underwear, painting her toenails while on the phone with Salvo. She usually did this to make her feet seem more normal, she hated the blisters and calluses from wearing pointe shoes. If she didn't hurry up she would be late for work. She told him the Lieutenant had visited her after ballet class and since she needed to eat, she invited him out. Then, he suggested they'd walk the dog together since it was getting late. 'Fra, te non hai capito questo chi è', Salvo insisted. He was very surprised to hear that Lieutenant Riley, the one he briefly met years ago was going out and having dinner with his friend. Going out in general, really. 'Non ha famiglia, glieli hanno uccisi tutti, è una macchina da guerra, io e i colleghi avevam paura.' He told her back before he even met her, he heard stories about him. That a mission had gone sideways for him and his whole family had been killed (she felt terribly bad for asking about it). He told her that he was a killing machine, that him and his teammates feared him. She put away her nail polish. 'Salvo agg capit…Jinx lascia!' She said while trying to get a hold of her dog who stole her slippers. She sensed she was about to leave and decided to make it impossible for her to get ready in peace. She told her friend Simon had been actually nice the night before, she had to give him that. He kept going on saying few ever saw him without his mask on, that it was some kind of unspoken rule and he would get annoyed if someone tried to take it off, that he had survived hell and so on. She didn't tell him he ate a burger in front of her.

She asked if he was married, he said he had never saw him even speak with a woman that wasn't a coworker, that he probably lived a quite secluded life. She said she believed him. It's not a big deal, she said, but he got my fake name. Salvo paused. He won't know about… the other stuff, Alba. You're fine, he can't possibly know. She finished getting ready, and got to the base. She had an easy day ahead, she would start many of her appointments on zoom, some of her patients were deployed all over the world. Christmas is in a few weeks as well, she thought. It made her sad. She remembered Christmas dinners and parties very well in Italy, they had lots of traditions, they used to play board games and drink and eat together… She still did that by herself, unfortunately Jinx didn't know how to play cards. Salvo was still in Korea and she didn't think he would be back in time to see her. He would visit Italy and celebrate there, she thought. She sent him a message on the way to the car, to tell her about his plans for New Years.

She got to the base and when she turned the corner to get to the office she stopped. Simon. In front of her door. Except, she didn't smile this time. One time, I appreciate, two times, you're kind and caring, what's up now? To confirm her thought that something wasn't right, as soon as he saw her, Simon started walking towards her. What did I do now, do I need to run? He was wearing a black tight shirt and cameo trousers, his boots heavy on the ground. He looked scary, she even took a step back when she saw him coming towards her. He was as scary as an avalanche. It was so weird, now he saw him as he really was. A soldier, a man of war. He killed for a living, he wasn't her new little friend. Are you gonna kill me as well?

'Let's go' he said when he approached her. 'What? I have patients', she replied, he went past her at this point and turned the corner. I'm not following you Simon. What is he on about? He stopped when he noticed she wasn't behind him. 'Alba, let's go, you're not working today.' He insisted, and she just got more annoyed. 'No.' She kept a straight face and crossed her arms. 'And don't fucking call me that.' She hissed. She was confused, to say the least. He scoffed and took a step towards her. Why do you have to make things difficult now, I'm just trying to do my job. And yes, I am calling you by your pretty name since I can't get it out of my head. She took a step back, away from him. Was she afraid of him? He felt a burning pressure in his chest. He took a deep breath and relaxed his shoulders to seem less intimidating. Does she think he would hurt her like that other soldier did a year ago? If she only knew how much he thought about her, last night. She couldn't imagine how much time he lied awake, one arm between his head and the pillow, thinking so hard about her he felt his brain melting. Her lashes. Her voice. Her nails, the rosy colour of her cheeks.

'Laswell ordered me to come get you. She wants to see you.' He spoke with his voice soft, gently scrunching down to make up for those 30 centimetres that divided their eyes. Just come with me. He saw her relax, her expression softening. Still, she was frowning in confusion. 'My patients…', she looked like a confused little kid, she looked like when you do your maths homework with your dad at the kitchen table and you're tired and heartbroken and you're not getting any of the maths. He figured bossing her around wasn't really the way to win her heart. 'Already taken care of.' She had a white turtleneck on. With that, her blonde, silky hair, her translucent eyes piercing through his soul, she looked like an angel. She looked like a cloud, like an elf, the Lord of the Rings ones. 'You could have fucking told me earlier.' There she was.

He sighed and took off with her trough the corridor. 'What's going on?' she asked, and he didn't reply. 'If you don't answer I'm gonna fucking scream', she was nearly running, to keep up with him and he quite liked seeing her mad. 'She's gonna tell you.' He quickly glanced down at her. Her makeup looked different but he could not really pinpoint why. It made her whole face look brighter. They walked to Laswell's office, took the lift in silence. She smelled nice. Tangerines, flowers. It was a fresh smell. He opened the door of the office for her. Inside, Captain Price, Laswell, Calvin Klein Handsome Boy and Scotland were in the room staring at her. Her and the Lieutenant behind her. They looked like they were about to yell 'Surprise!' and balloons would appear and they would eat cake. Or they were just waiting for her and Simon to arrive cause they were invited for dinner. Or maybe they were going to play hide and seek until one of them found her and had the pleasure to kill her while the others watched. She felt Simon's presence behind her, she was too concentrated scanning the room but she could swear he gently pushed her back to make her get inside the room. 'Jude, thanks for coming, I'm sorry for making you skip your appointments.' Kate smiled and indicated she sat down at her desk. She was not gonna sit down. She took a step foreword and waited her to speak, her arms stiff at her sides, back straight. What's going on. Why the meeting, why this many people.

'Jude, Ghost told me about your theory. The crater.' Her eyes shot up at the captain, how spoke from beside the window. She looked at him 'Did he?' She whispered, then she looked at Simon, or better in the situation, Ghost, who was standing at her right. He was standing legs spread and arms crossed. Traitor. I told you not to say anything. She was ready to apologise for interfering. She shouldn't have trusted him. She had to change her job for sure, she had to leave again. She messed up too bad this time, she managed to mess up the only good thing about her life… Now this really wasn't a comfortable situation for Simon either. He had some explaining to do. He went to see the captain the night before and told him everything. 'I don't know if she's right to be honest. The crater is there and it's a good natural hiding spot for sure. I don't know if it's good enough intel', he had said. Price had thought for a few seconds. 'Listen Simon, I trust your judgement. I don't want to know where and when you talked to her, but we have a job to do…' he tried to interrupt, but he kept going. 'No, no don't worry, I don't want to know about your personal life, to be honest it would be nice to see you settle down and she really is a nice girl…'

'Sir, I-'

'The thing is, if she's wrong and this was all a little game we could waste time, lose our target and put our men at risk.' He managed to investigate further and found out Jude was right, again. Jude 2 - Ghost 0. He briefed his teammates that morning, who asked how he got that information and in which setting he spoke to Jude, which he replied was classified. They looked at him and they knew he was hiding something. He didn't even want to know what they thought. 'Yes, you see, we have a camp, headquarters near Al-Jareena, a few soldiers are still there. Yesterday night, after I was informed about what you found I sent them in the desert, they stopped…' he got close to the table and indicated the map that was placed in the middle '…about here.' She moved closer to the table. 'I sent two drones ahead. They found the crater, about two miles from where the cars had stopped.' He was typing on the keyboard of a laptop. He showed her the screen, she could see the video tape that the drones had recorded. It was in night vision, she couldn't see well, but the image was mostly clear. He spoke again while the video played. 'You see, there are snipers here… and all the way here…and when they got close to the centre…' he stopped, but she understood.

She could see buildings, tents. A camp. She could see people moving around, she could see a campfire. Guns. Then she spotted it. On the side of a tent. She looked up at the captain, her eyes bright with excitement. She could fucking cry in that moment. The viper print on the tent, eyes bright red. Khorram's troops were inside the crater.

notes: translation: 'Ti ho detto, è venuto a trovarmi a danza, io dovevo mangiare e gli ho chiesto se voleva cenare. Poi avrei portato fuori il cane e mi ha detto che era pericoloso da sola e mi ha accompagnato'. means 'I told you, he came to see me at ballet, i needed to eat and i asked him if he wanted to have dinner. Then I would have walked the dog and he said it was dangerous to go alone and he came with me.' 'Fra, te non hai capito questo chi è' means 'Bro, you don't understand who this is'. Fra is the abbreviated version of 'fratello' which means brother. When two are really close is common to call each other fra, boy of girl we don't care, even because it's a funny word, it's fake gangsta slang. I call my girlfriends fra all the time. 'Salvo agg capit…Jinx lascia!' means 'Salvo, I got it…Jinx let it go'.

notes: one of alba's perfumes is disumano by morph. (disumano means non human).

notes: can you tell I'm back at uni, I'm posting again lol

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bagsofbones63 · 10 months

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The Boar and the Bat

This the first story I had ever written for myself so it being my first post makes sense. It features my OCs Avalanche and El Vacío (real names to be revealed later) Hope you enjoy.

"A-va-lanche, A-va-lanche, A-val-lanche!" The chant crescendoed as a hulking figure entered the arena. The chant devolved into a cacophony of cheers while the boar wrestler slowly made his way to the ring. He wanted nothing more than to wave back at the crowd and thank them for their excitement but he knew that would betray the arrogant and brash character his agent had concocted for him. Instead, he paused in front of the ring and flexed for the crowd before winking at a group of fans. "People love a flirt," his agent would always tell him. The way the fans suffered a group fainting spell only validated that statement.

He rolled into the ring and took center stage before flexing again. Wearing only a mask and a pair of wrestling trunks, nothing was left to the imagination. Personally, he would have preferred something warmer, his white chest and arm fur only did so much to keep him warm, but his agent insisted that this was the best outfit for him. "Sex sells" she would say. The slow decrescendo of cheers signaled that it was time for him to take his spot on the side of the ring and wait for his opponent. He leaned on the ropes and tried to present a relaxed, almost bored disposition. In actuality he was beyond excited; the mix of cold and anticipation was causing goosebumps to erupt all over his skin. He wondered who he would be fighting; the producers never told the wrestlers who their opponents were. He thought it was some odd attempt to keep them on their toes.

Silence fell over the arena as everyone awaited the reveal of Avalanche's challenger. Several seconds passed but, still, there was no sign of his opponent. Confused murmurs from the crowd began to overtake the room. "A no show? Really?" He thought. Knowing he couldn't let the dead air continue, Avalanche made his way to the center of the ring. "Looks like I scared him off, didn't I!" He shouted.

"YEAH!" The crowed shouted in response.

A hearty laugh escaped his barreled chest before he continued. "That just goes to show that he couldn't handle,” He flexed his right arm for emphasis. “The crushing weight,” his left arm followed suit. “Of an Avalan- '' the lights cut out causing him to lose his words. When they came back a new figure was standing atop a turnbuckle in the corner of the ring. The bat wrestler El Vacío had made his entrance.

A brief look of surprise flashed across Avalanche's face before it morphed into a thinly veiled embarrassment as he realized he was still posing. He regained his composure and dropped his arms before adopting a saccharine scowl while he took note of who his opponent was. "Him, really?" Avalanche thought. He had heard of the eccentric newbie wrestler but he hadn't expected to see him in the ring so soon.

"Nice of you to finally join us" Avalanche snarled in an intentionally showy manner. The bat only gave a slight head tilt in response. Avalanche had to admit, the combination of appearing from nowhere, the eerie silence, and the bat's skull mask left him a little anxious. Vacío definitely had a solid gimmick going on.

El Vacío jumped down and stood in front of Avalanche. Avalanche observed his opponent as they began circling one another. First, he noticed his size. El Vacío was much smaller than him. There appeared to be about a 6 inch difference between the 6 foot boar and the bat. Next, he took note of Vacío's outfit. The bat wore a pair of white wrestling trunks over black tights with skeletal legs painted over them. Going up showcased his lithe yet still muscular frame. "He's going to be a fast one," Avalanche thought. His gaze finally reached that bat's mask. Or at least what he thought was a mask. The dark hollow holes where the wrestler's eyes should have been gave the impression that it could really be a skull. Betraying the bat's undead visage were the glimmers of purple light in his hollow eyes. "His costume designer must have had a field day with that mask," Avalanche surmised. Lastly, his eyes locked onto the wings on the bat's back. An unintentional snort escaped him. He hated fliers. They often made matches take forever. It would be nice if he could jump off a rope and catch them in the air, but his girth left him landlocked in matches. Their circular dance ended with both wrestlers adopting their own stances.. Avalanche, arms outstretched, was prepared to charge at Vacío as soon as the bell rang. It was a bit of a stereotype to be a charging boar but the crowd seemed to love it. Opposite of him Vacío stood still and straight with his head tilted at an unnatural and painful looking angle. "This has to be the strangest person I've met," Avalanche thought.

*ding*

The bell signaled the start of Avalanche's charge towards Vacío. On the verge of colliding, Vacío pivoted to the left and dodged the attack. Avalanche spun around to look at his opponent as he collided with the rope. The bat was already in motion, throwing a lightning fast kick at the boar's gut. It wasn't very effective. The kick rebounded off his stomach and left Vacío off balance. Seizing the opportunity, Avalanche grabbed Vacio's leg with an iron grip. He lifted the trapped bat into the air and marched towards the center of the ring. Vacìo didn't even attempt to escape, his body rigid and unmoving. Avalanche presented the bat to the crowd like a dad showing off a caught fish. Cheers were the reward for his big catch.

"Look at this little runt," Avalanche bellowed. "Show's up late and he doesn't even last a minute!" The crowd boos at the bat. "For being a bat he does an awfully good job at playing Oposs-" a kick to the head stunned him out of his sentence. Two other kicks followed causing him to loosen his grip. The fourth kick almost set the bat free. Before a fifth kick could reach Avalanche, he tightened his grip and flung Vacío in the ground. The force of the slam caused the bat to bounce back into the air. Avalanche used this opportunity to send him plummeting to the ground again with a forceful elbow to the gut. Knowing his opponent would be out of commission, Avalanche took the opportunity to flaunt to the crowd. He gestured for the crowd to start cheering and was met with a deafening boom of excitement. He looked down at his opponent, raised his arm, tapped his elbow twice, and performed an elbow drop with the full force of his body. During his descent on Vacío he thought his vision went black. Except it wasn't his vision, the lights had gone out. By the time they were back on his elbow had impacted the floor of the ring with a loud slam. Vacío had vanished in the darkness. A wildfire of gasps spread through the crowd. Avalanche pushed himself up and did a quick 360 to look around the ring. The bat was nowhere to be found. In the corner of his eye he noticed something strange, instead of watching him the crowd was looking up. He directed his upward and spotted the bat hanging upside down on the rafters of the arena. The lights went out again. They came back just in time for Avalanche to see Vacío's foot as it slammed into his head with a sickening crunch. The throbbing pain caused the boar to stagger. Vacío used Avalanche's moment of weakness to spring an additional attack. Vacio jumped onto the boar's face and wrapped his thighs around his head. Vacío then threw his upper body back. The force of the motion caused the boar to lose his balance and tumble forward. The ring shook and a loud boom erupted from Avalanche's crash site. The fall left him gasping for breath as the air was evicted from his lungs. Vacío stood above the temporarily helpless boar and put a foot on his chest as a sign of dominance. He then leaned his head closer to the boar and made a throat slitting gesture across his neck. "This guy is a total freak," Avalanche thought. The lights flickered again and Vacío was gone. A second later the flickering repeated and the boar was greeted with an elbow drop inches from his face. Avalanche rolled and avoided the move by a fraction of a second. He got to his feet before the lights started flickering again. Every flicker resulted in a new attack from a different angle at impossible speeds. Avalanche tried moving in the dark to use Vacío's own gimmick against him but his accuracy with every blow remained flawless. "Of course the bat wrestler would use echolocation in the ring!" He screamed internally. A punch to the head, a knee to the gut, a kick in the side, the barrage of blows were wearing Avalanche down and there was nothing he could do about it. Usually he would solve his issues in the ring with his strong body and brute force but this challenge wasn't one he could overcome with muscles alone. He needed to think laterally.

A strike to the back of Avalanche's leg brought him down to one knee. Screams from the crowd filled the room as it appeared to be the end for Avalanche. Avalanche thought the same until he felt a gust of wind rush past his face. "He missed?" Avalanche questioned. Another strike came for the boar but it only grazed him. Avalanche used the opening created by the bat's blunders to force himself to stand up causing an uproar of excitement from the crowd. The bat missed him again, it was like he was fighting a completely different person. "Is he throwing the match?" Avalanche thought. "No, that makes no sense, it must be something else." A smirk painted his face as he experienced a eureka moment. "Sound! The bat can't echolocate when there's too much sound." His theory was proven correct as Vacío missed several more blows. Avalanche decided his best plan would be to rile up the crowd even more to make his opponent's tactic completely useless. "Look at the tiny bat," Avalanche shouted. "He shows up late to a match, acts like a jobber, and then pulls out this gimmick as soon as he starts losing? Are we going to respect that here?" The crowd boos in response. "Now who's going to put this pathetic little runt in his place?" "Avalanche!" The crowd cheered.

"I can't hear you!"

"AVALANCHE AVALANCHE AVALANCHE!."

With the cover of noise, Avalanche was ready to make his next move. He waited until he caught a glimpse of the bat and charged as soon as the lights went out. The two bodies connected in the darkness and fell to the ground. When the lights came back on, Vacío was pinned under Avalanche's massive frame with no chance to escape. Wanting to make sure the bat had no fight left before the pin, Avalanche grabbed Vacío by the neck and rose from the ground. He lifted Vacío as high as possible before slamming him into the ground causing the ring to shake. Avalanche looked down at his subdued opponent. The lights in Vacío's eyes had dimmed leaving only empty voids behind. He noticed a crack going across the right eye hole and wondered if that had been there before. "Oh shit," Avalanche thought. "Maybe I was a bit too rough. Assuming the bat had a concussion he decided it was best to end the match now with a pin. The boar plopped himself on the bat's chest and held his arms down. It was an unconventional pinning style but it got the job done. Avalanche looked into Vacío's eyes as the countdown started.

"One!"

Closer examination of the eyes revealed that even up close they appeared hollow, like an actual skull.

"Two!"

"I need to tell my agent never let me get put against this guy again." He thought to himself. "He’s one zip code shy of crazyville."

At the start of three Vacío's eyes reignited with a blazing red hue. The sudden display startled Avalanche causing him to loosen his grip on the bat. Vacío used the moment of weakness to break himself out of the boar’s grip and make an attack of opportunity. The bat raked his claws against the boar’s left eye, cutting through the mask and into his skin. Avalanche reacted to the white hot pain by backing away from the bat and raising a hand to protect his eye. Upon contact with the eye he felt a sickening wetness. He watched in horror with his uninjured eye as the bat contorted his body into an uncanny backwards spider position before performing a backwards handspring onto his feet. Avalanche took the opportunity to get to his feet as well, albeit less gracefully. "I got matched with an actual psychopath," Avalanche muttered. With a flicker of the lights Vacío appeared on the top turnbuckle. Knowing another kick was likely, Avalanche raised his hands to intercept the bat's foot on the next flicker. Just as he expected, the bat's foot was just within grabbing distance as the lights came back on. Avalanche lunged for the grapple and managed to grab the bat’s leg with his bloody hand. In retaliation, Vacio flapped his wings and spun forward; the sudden upward force allowed his foot to slip out of the boar’s grasp. The added momentum of the spin added power to the kick as the bat’s heel smashed into the back Avalanche’s head with a bone breaking crunch. The boar stood dazed for several seconds before losing the fight to stay conscious. A thunderous boom followed by a tremor emitted from the ring as Avalanche’s body hit the floor. His lights had gone out for the last time. Vacío stood triumphantly over the boar, for he was the victor.

#furry #wrestling #first story #part one of ?#bat #boar #my ocs #I'm excited to share this #novice writer #it was like 8 pages long in my google doc so IDK if that classifies as a short read or not

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tellthemeerkatsitsfine · 10 months

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It's been a while since I've done a Chortle headlines roundup. I used to do them more regularly, then I did a couple in a row where it was heavy on the post-documentary Russell Brand headlines, and that was so depressing that I cut them out for a while. Let's do a new one. I'll make this one shorter.

Oh for the love of God, Chortle. Please do not make me look at weeks of Ricky Gervais headlines in the leadup to/aftermath of the video release of Armageddon. He could not possibly need the publicity less, for so many reasons. Obviously you shouldn't be a cunt. Everyone who's going to think that already thinks it, everyone else isn't going to change, don't make us fucking read about it.

This looks like a headline that would appear on some sort of parody show. You know, if the BBC hadn't cancelled all its news/topical parody shows in the name of the exact balance mandate that I assume is the subject of that article, though I don't actually know, I'm not clicking on that.

You are doing New Year's Treat wrong, guys. It's supposed to be on New Year's and it's also supposed to have people who are famous (sorry, I'm sure it'll be fun and the people they've cast will be fine, I'm just still mildly annoyed that this year was their one chance to cast John Oliver while he was striking, the stars aligned with him having recently worked with Alex on the Horne Section show, it's gone forever now).

If anyone has the opportunity to see Pierre Novellie's Why Are You Laughing when he tours it next year, I cannot recommend it highly enough. I'm now wishing I had recommended other things less highly in the past, so I could lend more weight to this one. It's amazingly funny, and amazingly well written. It should... I mean, I was thinking it should be a strong contender for the best show (of Edinburgh 2023) award until I heard Ahir Shah's show, and I do now think they made the right choice in giving it to Ahir Shah. But it was the second best Edinburgh 2023 show, of the 40-ish I've heard. It should at least have been nominated.

Can I say something mildly sacrilegious? I'm not sure about this. I am obviously a devotee of Sam Campbell, and my view of Lucy Beaumont has wavered slightly as I've come to realize just how much she's maybe not kidding most of the time, but I do find her very funny. I just think... the proverbial straight man in a comedy group exists for a reason, you know? I don't know how well it'll work to put those two together without someone else to balance it out, they won't have anything to play off. It feels a bit too heavy on Avalan throwing together two fan favoruites from a popular TV show, more than thinking about what pairings would actually work well together. Especially since there doesn't seem to be a planned format or anything. I also don't really think they're as similar as people have suggested.

Having said that, obviously I'm going to listen to this, and I can absolutely picture a scenario in which I finish the first episode and write a glowing post about how I've been proven wildly wrong and concede that I should never have doubted their brilliance. I hope it happens that way.

I know I'm mildly annoyed at him right now, but this show is very good and people should see it if they can. One of my favourite things out of all he's ever done. He did a little preview of bits he's added to it on the latest Bugle episode, and I enjoyed that a lot.

Oh fuck off. No, come on, fuck off. You are not going to force me to engage with whatever the fuck VR is by having Mae Martin do it. It won't work.

...Having said that, is there a way to take a VR set and turn it into nice normal 2D video so I can watch the Mae Martin set? I have no idea if that's possible and I refuse to Google it, no one needs to encourage Mark Zuckerburg. But obviously I want to see what Mae Martin's doing.

I quite enjoyed this little clip. I've never been to Scotland, but this is exactly how I imagine the Edinburgh Festival, I'm currently planning a probably-actually-for-real-this-time trip for Edinburgh 2024, and I will be wildly disappointed if the festival isn't exactly like this.

Weirdly, there was nothing on the Chortle front page about Benjamin Zephaniah dying. He wasn't a comedian or anything, but he had connections to British comedy. I can't lie and say I was incredibly familiar with his work, but I really liked the poems of his that I'd heard and read (I did seek a few out and read them after seeing him on TV, as I quite liked him), and thought he came across very well every time I saw or heard him. And, obviously, 65 is too young and that would be a tragedy even if he weren't a very talented poet.

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sparrow-c · 3 years

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Gorrgaroths, school of talented indeviduals

this is a post about my fantasy schools teachers and how fucking cool they are

Ms/Mx Decess Aurora

pronouns: she/her they/them

teaches: art + design

sexuality: acesexual hetroromantic

dating: lol nobody-

Miss Ivory Moonbright

pronouns: she/her

teaches: biology

sexuality: pansexual, homoromantic

dating: ms bayling

Miss/Mr Nathaniel Bayling

pronouns: he/him she/her

teaches: history

sexuality: acesexual panromantic

dating: ms ivory moonbright

Ms. zakia kheerra

pronouns: she her

teaches: Maths

sexuality; Hetrosexual

Married to: Mr Liam Kheerra

Ms Geila Rodriefa

pronouns: she/her They/Them

teaches: English

sexuality; Lesbian

dating: Ms Stamos

Ms Avalan Stamos

pronouns: They/Them

teaches: Performing arts

sexuality; Bisexual

dating: Ms Rodriefa

mrs solar eclipsa

pronouns: she / they

teaches: astronamy / astrology

sexuality: Bisexual

married to: mrs layla eclipsa (married name)

Mrs Layla Eclipsa

pronouns: they / she

teaches: potions

sexuality: lesbian

married to: mrs solar eclipsa

Mr. danielle moana

pronouns: they / he

teaches: performing arts / music / art

sexuality: abrosexual/biromantic

dating: lmao fuckin nobody

miss. maisey icecrest

pronouns: she/her

teaches: anthropology

sexuality: asexual homoromantic

miss cryon dreamer

pronouns: she/her

teaches: food technology

sexuality: omisexual (prefrence to women)

mr purple

pronouns: he/she/they

teaches: english/history

sexuality: pansexual

The OverSeer

pronouns: he/she/they/it

teaches: everything hes the headmaster

sexuality: omnisexual (preference to men)

#yes these are all picrews sue me #fantasy #oc #lgbtq

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twistedwonderlandimagines · 5 years

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Faerie Fire

I’m doing that story about Divus and Thelnus in the school store that I said I was gonna do last time I posted about the Fantasy Costco. (For any new followers: Thelnus is an old Dwarvish gardener who is like a father figure to Divus.)

Other parts of the Fantasy Costco/Mystery Shop series:

The original headcanons Group Project (Part 1) Group Project (Part 2) Snow and Idia in Fantasy Costco (Introducing John)

Previous Thelnus stories:

Facts on Thelnus Thelnus’s Pies Menthiv

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“Menthiv, what were you thinking going into the Fantasy Costco near closing?”

Divus sighed, averting his eyes from Thelnus’s worried gaze. There was nothing worse than feeling like his father was disappointed in him.

“I really needed components for tomorrow’s exam...”

“Next time I’ll get them for-” Thelnus paused, noting the sudden chill in the air. He’d fought enough supernatural entities in his day to know when something was amiss. “...Menthiv... You run,” Thelnus said, pointing across the fey-themed store. “That direction. Quickly.”

“But I can’t leave you-”

“You can and you will! Move, Divus!”

Giving a direct order was unlike Thelnus, which (Divus decided) meant that this was definitely a dire situation.

Divus did exactly as he was told, racing towards the section of the store dedicated to crystals and amulets. He stopped to catch his breath, wondering if there was anything he could do to help Thelnus when a soft hand grabbed his.

“Hey buddy... Do you need some help?”

A short Elven man stood before him, thin as a twig with snowy-white skin and hair. His lavender eyes were filled with concern for the student.

“Who...?”

“Name’s Jamie Avalan. What are you doing in Faerie Fire? I thought Crowley had finally gotten it through to everyone that the school store is dangerous around closing time.”

“...Faerie Fire?”

“My store. The one before...” Jamie shuddered. “The Fantasy Costco. Eugh. What was John thinking with that dumb name?”

Divus found himself calming down as Jamie spoke. The elf’s voice was quiet and soothing, like the sound of rain pattering on the window. “I didn’t know there was a store before Fantasy Costco.”

“Yep! Made it fey themed. People kept thinking I was a fey too! Which is a common misconception about elves, you know! But nope, I’m just a snow elf,” Jamie said with an enthusiastic smile. Divus got the feeling that he was a bit of a know-it-all, but with Jamie it didn’t really feel as annoying as with other people. “I even named the store after my favorite spell. By the way, do you need a potion for calming emotions? You seem freaked out!”

“No... No, I’m okay...”

“Oh, that’s good,” Jamie looked to Divus’s dorm symbol. “I used to be in Pomefiore when I was a student too. Then I... I saw that thing in the store. And I ended up the new store owner!”

As sweet as Jamie seemed, Divus didn’t have time to entertain the little chatterbox.

“I’m sorry to cut you short here... But I need help! Thelnus-the school gardener-he stayed behind when one of those things showed up!”

Jamie nodded. “That may be bad. Usually when a student sees the Old One, they get marked as the next store owner, but staff members can’t be marked... So...” Jamie started off in the direction Divus came from.

Divus hurried along to catch up with him. “What are you doing?”

“Gonna save Thelnus. Do you wanna tag along?”

“I... I guess?”

Jamie led the way back. They found Thelnus sitting on the ground, with Crowley standing over him. Divus smiled, almost rushing out to greet his adoptive dad when Jamie held out his arm to stop him.

With his other hand, the small snow elf pointed one finger at ‘Crowley,’ firing a Ray of Frost spell directly at its head.

The phantasm disappeared, leaving just the silent Thelnus.

“Looks like the Old One has already been here. That was just a lesser creature disguised as Headmaster Crowley.”

Divus ignored the information, running to his dad. “Dad... Dad, can you hear me?”

“I can hear you, boy! But Berrig and I don’t have any sons...” Thelnus looked up at the ceiling, visibly confused. “Or... Do we have a son?”

“Thelnus... Thelnus, Berrig has been dead for years...”

The old gardener’s eyes widened, staring at him in shock. “Lies! You speak lies!”

Divus’s heart raced in his chest. He couldn’t lose his only parent like this! “No... Dad, you-”

A gloved hand rested on Divus’s shoulder. “I came as fast as I can. Divus, please step away so I might help him,” the real Crowley requested.

“Is he gonna be okay?”

Crowley looked from Divus to Thelnus. “I don’t know.”

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Two weeks later, and it was looking like Thelnus had officially gone senile. Sometimes he forgot the people around him, thinking he was still in his glory days and living with his husband.

He needed Divus’s help in everyday tasks almost all the time... Divus had gone from being the child to being the caretaker in mere hours.

After those two weeks had passed, John (the current school store owner) delivered a message from somebody named Jamie. He explained that Divus may not remember Jamie, but Jamie remembered him.

Crowley made an arrangement: He linked a mirror between the old store and Divus’s dorm. That way Divus could talk to someone who understood Thelnus’s situation, and Jamie didn’t have to be alone. It took an incredible amount of research to create the link, but it seemed to help both of them cope with their situations.

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“You wouldn’t believe the ridiculous antics the fourth years get up to around graduation!” Divus ranted to his best friend Jamie through the mirror.

Jamie smiled weakly, listening happily to Divus’s rant.

“Honestly, I’ll never get that awful stain out of my coat! And Dad refuses to leave his cabin until they’re gone!”

Jamie laughed softly. “Send them to Faerie Fire. It’d be quite the revenge prank!”

Divus chuckled at Jamie’s dark humor. “God, you’re evil!”

Rubbing his eye with his hand, Jamie sighed sadly. “Divus... I wanna be out there with you. In the real world.”

Divus’s eyes softened, and he rested his hand on the mirror. “I’ll get you out of there someday.... I can’t let my best friend be trapped forever.”

“...Divus... Faerie Fire is gonna disappear soon.”

His brow furrowed in confusion. “What do you mean?”

“A student named Sam was marked as the new store owner. When he graduates, John will be trapped in my place, and I... I’ll disappear along with my store.”

Divus was silent... He... He refused to lose Jamie. He’d already lost part of his father’s sanity to that damn store! He wouldn’t let it take his best friend!

“Then I have quite a close deadline, huh?”

“Divus...”

“I won’t let this happen, Jamie! I’m not letting that store take anybody else!”

Jamie only smiled. “Thank you for being my best friend, Divus...” He said as he faded from the mirror.

Divus tapped on the mirror. “Jamie? Come on, please talk to me! ...Jamie...”

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Four weeks later, Mr. S’s Mystery Shop was open for business. And in the corner of the store sat a tombstone, with a framed picture of a snow elf with wisps of white hair and lovely lavender eyes, whose features are forgotten by most as soon as they look away.

Engraved on it were the words: “In memory of Jamie Avalan.”

#jamie is babey #he's a little chatterbox and i love him #man i'm tired #jamie avalan #thelnus #divus crewel #ocs #scenarios #mr s's mystery shop

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hazyheel · 5 years

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AEW All Out Review

Ah, the show that will go down in history as the first huge one of AEW’s hopefully long and illustrious time in the spotlight. All in all, this was a great show. It didn’t get into A territory overall, but a B+ is damn good. There was something for everyone on this show, so I don’t think there was anyone out there who thought it was bad. Tonight, Tony Khan and his team of Vp’s made history. They crowned a their first World Champion, which is kinda symbolic of them staking their claim in the business. Watch out guys, this t-shirt company is taking over the world. There was way too much exciting wrestling to fit here. So I’ll just hop right into this.

21 Woman Casino Battle Royal for #1 contendership to the AEW Women’s Championship: Leva Bates, Pricila Kelly, Nila Rose, Shalandra Royal, Faby Apache. Everyone started by attacking Rose, but she fought them off by herself. She nearly eliminated Bates, but Peter Avalan put some books down so she didn’t get eliminated. Rose beat everyone down and threw them out, including Bates, after she tried to attack Rose with a book. She also took out Peter Avalon when he tried to attack.

Out next was Penelope Ford, Shaza Mackenezie. Big Swol, Britt Baker and Sadie Gibbs. At one point, Baker eliminated Mackenzie by pulling her out by her teeth. Big Swol and Rose squared off with Rose, and showered her with strikes. Rose eventually eliminated Swol with a uranagi on the apron.

Out next, Tenile Dashwood, Brandi Rhodes Bea Priestly, Awesome Kong, and Ivelisse. Everyone naturally teamed up on Kong, while Brandi actually hit some offense on Rose. Meanwhile, Baker and Priestly brawled on the outside. Unfinished business from Fight for the fallen.

Out next, Teal Piper, ODB, Allie, Jazz and Nicole Savoy. Piper hit a bunch of her dad’s offense, as well as a suicide dive. Allie went right after Brandi because of their past business. We also saw the powerhouses of the match face off in the middle of the ring. Awesome Kong, ODB, Nila Rose and Jazz all went face to face. It was right at the end of this phase that Brandi and Kong were eliminated by Baker and Priestly respectively.

And as the final entrant. Mercades Martinez came out. She ran in and destroyed everyone with suplexes and strikes, including a huge one to Rose. The final four were Priestly, Rose, Baker and Martinez. The three smaller women teamed up on Rose, but Priestly was only out for herself. She put everyone on the apron, and Baker gave Martinez a superkick to eliminate her. Baker and Priestly nearly eliminated Rose with knees and huge kicks, but Rose gave them a cartwheel kick. Baker then gave Priestly a canadian destroyer, followed by a vertical suplex to Rose. Priestly then tried to go to the top, but Baker tripped her up and gave her a forearm to take her out. But then Priestly helped Rose get the win by pulling her arm, so Rose got the win.

Grade: C-. Not very good. I’m really not a fan of the Casino Battle Royal stip. I think that all these people coming out at once is confusing and things get a bit too jumbled. There weren’t a huge amount of rivalries to really hold this together, so I didn’t like it that much. Rose was a good choice for the win though, she is an impressive wrestler. But Baker, Priestly and Martinez all impressed, and so did Big Swol and Sadie Gibbs. This brand has a lot of Talent in its women’s division, and I can’t wait to see what they do with it, but this match was killed by it’s stip.

Angelico and Jack Evans vs. Private Party: This was a match I was looking forward to. I haven’t seen Private Party in a straight up tag match yet, so I’m excited to see them. Angelico and Isaiah Kassidy started things up with some grappling. Kassidy got the win in the first interaction, and he was plenty cocky about it, so Evans and Marc Quen tagged in. They both flipped out of each other’s moves, and wrestled mostly to a stalemate until Quen gained the advantage. However, Evans did hit an awesome springboard corkscrew kick to get the advantage back. Evans also showed off his technical ability by locking in a very unique armbar after using a flying approach. We then saw Quen get an awesome hot tag by springing off one side of the ring to the other to get the tag to Kassidy, who took out Angelico with a springboard moonsault to the outside. Private party didn’t stop there, as they hit Evans with a double stomp to the back of the head out of a camal clutch, and then an assisted tornado DDT to Angelico. From there Quen hit a huge shooting star press, but Kassidy was out of position to get the pin, so it was just a near fall. Kassidy tried for another move off the top, but Evans nailed a spider german suplex, and then a huge series of tag team offense from him and Angelico, all for a near fall. They tried to go the top to take out Quen for good, but Private party both met them at the top. Quen then gave Evans a totally botched poison rana off the top, which was scary as shit, so Kassidy gave him a standing poison rana. The then gave Angelico a top rope rana into a cutter for the win.

After the match, everyone shook hands until Angelico and Evans attacked. They locked in submissions on their opponents legs, and walked away yelling about how they were the best.

Grade: B. Good stuff here. Everyone got their offense in, but things weren’t void of psychology. This was a clash of two super cocky teams that believed that they are the best team in the world, so there was bound to be some animosity. I’m glad that Private Party got the win, they definitely deserved it, and the attack afterwards clarified that Angelico and Evans would be heels. Important stuff going into the tag tournament on TV.

Jurassic Express vs. SoCal Uncensored: Jungle Boy and Frankie Kazarian started things off with some fast paced grappling, and ended up going to a stalemate. Kazarian took control, and tagged in Daniels with him. Luchasaurus tagged in as well, and the two started to beat each other down. Marko Stunt was in next, and was incredibly high energy. Jurassic express then gave their opponents suicide dives one at a time. Jungle boy stayed in the ring, and SCU started to work him over. Luchasaurus then tagged in, and absolutely destroyed all of SCU with various kicks and slams. He hit an awesome combo of a hook kick to Daniels, a roundhouse to Scorpio Sky and then a chokeslam and moonsault press to Kazarian. Stunt then gave Kazarian a tornado DDT, assisted by Jungle boy who spun him around, and scored a near fall. SCU fought back into it, as Kazarian gave Luchasaurus a suicide rana, who in turn speared both of his teammates. Sky then gave him a tope con hilo to take out Luchasaurus, and Kazarian hoisted both Jungle boy and Stunt up in a tombstone position. Daniels then gave them the Greatest Meltzer Driver Ever for the win.

Grade: B+. Lots of action here. Just a whole bunch of guys in the ring at one time, hitting a bunch of high spots and impressing everyone as a team. I’m surprised that SCU went over, as Jurassic Express was a much newer team. But it was a pretty good match, mostly a spotfest because they didn’t build a story around it, but it was pretty good.

Kenny Omega vs. Pac: I was shocked when this one came on second, considering the name values involved. But might as well, I was really excited. The two just started by soaking in the cheers of the crowd. Pac disrespected the hell out of Omega in the early goings, and was bending the rules right away. Pac also flipped out of a whole bunch of Omega’s moves early on. The two eventually made their way to the outside, and started a hard hitting brawl where Omega slammed Pacs face into a chair over and over. They both started to throw each other into the barricade and apron’s all the time until they both collapsed. Pac had the advantage, eventually putting Omega back in the ring and giving hit a huge missile dropkick. The two then started to exchange chops back and forth, but Omega eventually put Pac on the outside and nailed a tope con hilo, followed by a brainbuster in the ring for a near fall. Pac fought back into the match, at one point going for a moonsault that Omega caught, and then transitioning into a DDT. Pac then went for a moonsault to the outside to hit Omega, and both his legs nailed the barricade as he came down, which totally looked brutal. The two then got back in the ring, and Pac hit a 450 splash for a near fall. They started to beat the crap out of each other in the middle of the ring again, with Kenny absolutely peppering Pac, who fired right back. Omega then hit a pump kick into the corner, followed by a buckle bomb and then a spinebuster for a near fall. He went to go for a v-trigger, but Pac grabbed the ref and hid behind him. Kenny then fought right through the ref, nailed a V-Trigger, and when he couldn’t hit One Winged Angel, he hit a high angle german suplex for a near fall. The two continued to fight, with both starting to rev up. Pac nailed a slinghot cutter, followed by a pair of german suplexes. Kenny then started to fire up a bit as well, hitting a dragon suplex and a v-trigger for a near fall. He tried for another V-trigger, but Pac nailed him with a series of kicks to the chest and face, only for Omega to hit a high knee anyway, followed by another as they both ran the ropes. Pac then tried for a poison rana, but they botched it and it looked bad. The two weakly started to exchanged strikes, until Omega went for One Winged Angel, but Pac locked in the Rings of Saturn to a standing Omega, and forcing him to pass out for what I genuinely thought was a shock win.

Grade: A. I thought this was a great match for two guys that had no story. They were going at a million miles an hour, countering move after move after move until each guy scored a lucky hit. I was worried after the moonsault botch when Pac seemed to really hurt his legs, but it didn’t seem to detract from anything. I was shocked by the win, although it was Pac’s debut, I though Omega would get a big win going into TV. But Pac had a huge win in this match, and they had a great match, better even than I thought it’d be. Match of the night, and it was on right at the top of the show.

Darby Allin vs. Jimmy Havoc vs. Joey Janela in a Cracker Barrel Clash: Havoc instantly grabbed a staple gun, and while both of his opponents wanted it, he stapled his arm. So, Allin and Janela teamed up on Havoc, and duct taped him to a chair. Then they put thumbtacks in his mouth and taped it shut. Janela then superkicked Allin, and the two started to fight in the ring. Allin gave Janela a flip over stunner, and then a senton to Havoc still sitting on the outside, which destroyed the chair. Janela followed that up with an Emerald Fusion to Allin on the apron, which totally dropped him on his head. Janela and Havoc then brawled, with Janela trying to put Havoc through a table, but Havoc spat the thumbtacks at Janela, and poked him in the eyes. Havoc started to follow up with paper cuts between Janela’s fingers, and stapled him on the forehead. Havoc then sat Janela down in a chair and tried to monkey flip him out of it, but Janela landed on his feet, only to eat a paper cut in the mouth. Janela then countered an acid rainmaker with a brainbuster on the chair, and then gave Allin a huge fucking piledriver through a table. From there, Janela wiffed a moonsault to the outside in brutal fashion, so Havoc nailed him with tray of biscuits. Allin then grabbed a skateboard covered in thumbtacks, and used it to jump on Janela’s back, and nearly got the pin if Havoc hadn’t pulled him out. Allin then gave Havoc a smaller Coffin Drop through a table, and chucked him into the steel stairs. Allin tried to give Havoc another Coffin drop off the top, with a cracker barrel, and onto the stairs, but Havoc dodged so he crashed and burned. Janela then gave Havoc a hangman’s DDT off the top and an elbow drop for a near fall. Havoc then followed up by giving Janela a superplex, and then an Acid Rainmaker into a cracker barrel for the win.

Grade: B+. A hardcore match that was fit for the ages. They destroyed themselves for our entertainment, and I thought it turned out pretty good. I hope that these two can still walk tomorrow, because they took some rough bumps. I’m surprised that Havoc got the win, but I’m totally fine with it. He is super talented, and hopefully he will be important when TV starts up. Allin and Janela impressed too, and I’m excited to see them all sooner rather than later.

Best Friends vs. The Dark Order for a BYE in the AEW World Tag Team Championship tournament: Chuck Taylor started with Stu Grayson, with Grayson quickly getting the advantage and putting him in the corner with Evil Uno. Trent quickly ran in and put the Order on the outside before hugging. Trent and Grayson started to fight each other, with Grayson again coming out on top and beating him down. Trent nearly got the tag, but Grayson pulled Taylor off the apron, and the Order hit an ensiguri into a brainbuster for a near fall. Eventually Taylor got the tag, giving Uno a standing sliced bread and then Grayson a powerbomb, before giving them both a tope con hilo. Best Friends then gave Grayson a pop up german suplex, followed by an Ace Crusher for a near fall. As they continued to fight, Grayson tagged out and gave Taylor a springboard twisting suicide dive which looked awesome. Uno and Grayson continued to destroy Trent in the ring, but he just kept getting up. They went for Fatality, but Taylor pushed Grayson out off the top, and tagged himself in to give a pair of knees to Uno and then a soul food into a half and half suplex. Taylor then nailed Uno with a one legged missile dropkick, and awful lawful to Grayson. They nearly got the win off of that, but Uno pulled Trent out of the pin, and the minions beat down Taylor. The Dark Order hit Fatality for the win.

After the match, The Dark Order continued to beat down Best Friends, and they tried to kidnap Trent, but the lights went out and Orange Cassidy showed up, and gave the minions a suicide dive with his hands in his pockets. The Best Friends then gave him a hug and they all celebrated.

Grade: A-. This was a good tag match with lots of fundamentals. Not much BS until the end, and they had all action. I was really into it, and I thought that The Dark Order was the right winner. Cassidy showing up was a great surprise and definitely popped me. But the match itself was a lot of action and a great way to blow off the feud.

Hikaru Shida vs. Riho for #1 contendership to the AEW Women’s Championship: The two started with some quick grappling and striking, with Shida using her strength advantage and Riho her agility. Shida quickly took control with a brutal high knee, and started to work over the back and the legs. Shida tried to give Riho a superplex to the outside, but Riho hit her onto the apron and gave her a double stomp on the apron which looked rough. Riho then went for a 619, but Shida caught her and locked in a stretch muffler for a submission sequence. Just as Riho looked like she was gaining control, Shida nailed a high knee and put her down. Shida then nailed a deadlift vertical suplex. No matter what Riho tried, Shida kept putting her down. Shida even hit a deadlift superplex for a near fall. Shida tried to follow up as well, but Riho countered with a northern lights suplex. The two then battled to the top rope, where Riho went for a double stomp in the corner, and then knees to the back of the head, only for Shida to answer with a backbreaker. The tow then traded counters and rollups back and forth, until Riho gave a hurricanrana all around Shida and scored a rollup for the win.

After the match, Nila Rose came out to stare down Riho.

Grade: B. Another pretty good match, where it seemed like Riho was going to lose, but she fought back into the match. Shida did not look like she was weak in defeat, but we already know how good Riho is. Riho vs. Rose should be a good main event for the first episode of AEW on TNT. This was good though, just a little too one sided to break into A territory.

Cody vs. Shawn Spears: we started things out with Spears sitting in a chair at the top of the ramp, before folding it up and taking it with him to the ring. Tully Blanchard came out next for Spears’ corner. Cody had a huge entrance with pyro. Brandi, DDP, MJF and Pharoh (who definitely didn’t want to be there) all came down, but MJF stayed in his corner. Before the match started, Cody jumped off the top and attacked Spears, and gave Blanchard a cheap shot as he did. Spears and Cody brawled through the crowd. The match started up right as Cody gave Spears a powerslam on the outside. Spears got control after a low blow to Cody while the ref was yelling at MJF. The two then brawled back into the ring and to the top rope, with Cody nailing Spears with a rana off the top. Cody tried to follow up with a suicide dive, but Spears nailed a back elbow, before nailing him with a pump kick as well. The went back into the ring and delivered blow after blow to one another. The brawled all around, and Spears stole a bottle of water from a fan to spit at Cody. Back in the ring Cody tried to gain control, but Spears sent him into the post and gave him a hangman’s DDT on the apron. Spears then removed Cody’s weight belt, but the ref who was Earl Hebner, made him throw it away, only for Blanchard to give him his belt, and nail Cody in the back with it a couple times. Cody then fired up, ate a belt shot to the chest, and beat down Spears. He nailed a springboard cutter, and an Alabama Slam, followed by the Figure Four, only for Spears to reverse it right away. Cody eventually got to the ropes, but during that time Blanchard helped to increase the the pressure by pulling Spears’ arm. Spears then nailed a death valley driver on the ramp. Cody was nearly counted out, but MJF pulled him closer to the ring to help, and he barely made it back in. The two then stood up to continue the fight, when Cody hit the Cross Roads out of nowhere, but Blanchard distracted the ref. Blanchard and MJF then both got in the ring. MJF threw his scarf at Blanchard, and the two started to lock up, but Spears nailed MJF with a pump kick. Blanchard continued to attack MJF on the outside, which Hebner then tried to handle, only for Arn fucking Anderson to show up and give Spears a spinebuster out of nowhere. He and Blanchard walked out, and we were left with a one on one match. Spears grabbed a chair, but Cody continued to beat him down. Cody grabbed the chair himself, but didn’t use it, he gave Spears the Atomic elbow, a disaster kick into a chair, and then a Cross Roads for the win.

After the match, MJF teased the betrayal, but didn’t do it and hugged Cody, and celebrated heavily.

Grade: A-. This was overbooked, so it wasn’t for everyone, but I think the fun story and the hot crowd was enough to put this in the A territory. We saw a lot of nice story elements, and some nice striking. The match was about how both of them were giving everything that they had to get the win. I have no clue why Arn Anderson came out.

The Lucha Bros vs. the Young Bucks in Escalara de la Meurte for the AAA World Tag Team Championships: Lucha bros got a whole bunch of pyro, while the Bucks came out in deer masks. They started things out by yelling Cero Miedo a whole bunch, and the Bucks spitting their gum at The Lucha Bros, and they were off to the races. The Lucha Bros tried for a double suicide dive, but the bucks threw a ladder at them. Fenix quickly went for a suicide dive over the ladder to wipe everyone out. They then started to duel on the ladder, as Matt Jackson and Pentagon fought over the belts, but Fenxi and Nick gave their opponents rolling cutters off the ladder. Fenix and Nick then fought on the apron, giving each other a pump kick at the same time, only for Matt and Pentagon to spear them through tables on the outside. Not long after, Nick gave Pentagon a twisting suicide dive, followed by Matt giving Fenix four northern lights suplexes, with the last landing on a ladder in the corner. The Lucah Bros then took control with a series of flying offense using just about anything they could find. At one point, Nick went up a ladder to grab the belts, but Fenix pushed it over, so he gave Penta a suicide dive, followed by the same situation from Fenix, but with a moonsault. Penta and Matt then dueled on the top of the ladder, with Penta ending things with a slingblade off the ladder. Nick then gave Pentagon a suicide dive through a ladder, followed by Fenix giving Matt a Canadian destroyer through the ladder. Fenix then set Matt up on a table and went to put him through it off a ladder, but Matt met him there. Penta saved Fenix from a superplex by giving Matt a canadian destroyer through the table. Nick then set Penta up on a table on the outside, while Fenix did the same to Matt. They then looked each other in the eyes, daring each other to do it, and they put their opponents through the tables with stereo splashes. Nick then met Fenix as he set up a ladder bridge, and he gave him a Tornado DDT on the outside. Nick then set up a pair of tables at the foot of the ramp, and met Fenix in the middle of the ring. He was going to powerbomb him into the tables, but Fenix fought out and gave him a superkick, only for Matt to give him a superkick of his own. Penta tried to scale the ladder, but Nick trapped him in a sharpshooter, while Matt put the ladder over his back. Matt then grabbed Fenix in a tombstone as Nick climbed the ladder, and he debated going or the Meltzer driver or getting the belts. Penta superkicked Matt before he could decide, which Tombstoned Fenix, and Penta pushed over the ladder. Nick tried to hit the tables on the outside, but he botched it hard and his foot hit the ropes, nearly crashing headfirst into the floor, and cutting his hand brutally. Matt and Penta fought on the top of the ladder, but Matt unmasked Penta (a little too quick because we totally saw his face), and he fell. Fenix tried to take Matt out with by jumping off the top rope, but Matt nailed him with a superkick, and Penta knocked over the ladder to hang him up in the ropes. The then gave Matt Fear Factor on the ladder bridge to take him out, and then they grabbed the belts for the win.

After the match, two figures in regular masks attacked and started to beat them down. They gave Fenix a doomsday neckbreaker, and unmasked to see LAX! I popped huge.

Grade: A. Car crash of a match. This was insane, just as scary as I thought it would be, even scarier. I thought that they mixed the high spots and their normal stuff really well. I sincerely doubt that Nick will be wrestling on TV soon, he probably broke his arm. It was super scary, and I wish the best to him. But the booking was good, the Lucha Bros got a strong win. And LAX had a perfect debut. I popped hard, I’d completely forgot that they may be coming this way. But this was a great match, nothing more I can say about it.

Adam Page vs. Chris Jericho for the inaugral AEW World Championship: Adam Page road out on a horse, which was cool. They made this feel absolutely huge, which it was. Page quickly showed his strength advantage, and the two started to deliver strike after strike to each other. Jericho quickly tried to get the lion tamer, but Page forced him to the outside and gave him a suicide dive for a near fall. Page tried to nail a shooting star press off the apron, and Jericho caught him with knees to the gut. Page nearly got counted out, but the ref called it as he got on the apron, and Jericho gave him a running forearm that sent him into the barricade. Jericho then pulled Page’s arm through the barricade and kicked it, before ringing the bell himself, which pissed off the ref. Jericho started to work over the arm, and also flipped off the crowd a whole bunch. At one point, Jericho went for a crossbody off the top, but Page rolled through and gave him a fall away slam. Page used that to get control, hitting a samoan drop, a sliding lariat and a shooting star press for a near fall. Jericho then went for the lionsault, but Page met him on the middle rope and gave him a Russian Leg sweep off of it. Jericho got up first though, and locked in the best Walls of Jericho that he has in years, but Page fought out and hit a discus forearm right to the eye, which busted him open. Page followed Jericho to the outside and fought him tooth and nail. Before coming back into the ring, and brought him to the mat. Page started to target the wound a bit, and even gave Jericho a swinging neckbreaker off the top for a near fall. Page took off his elbow pad, and gave him another discus elbow, and tried for a suplex to the outside, but he hung Page up on the ropes instead. Jericho then went for a dropkick off the middle rope to Page on the apron, but Page hit a superkick and then the buckshot lariat, only for Jericho to lock in the Walls of Jericho, but Page made it to the ropes. Jericho even pushed the ref a bit, who totally screamed at him for it, and Page used that to lariat Jericho to the outside and then give him a moonsault. Page threw him back in and went for the Buckshot lariat, but Jericho countered with a codebreaker, only for Jericho to hit a codebreaker, but Hangman kicked out. The two slowly rose to their feet, with Page hitting another rolling elbow, but Jericho got his knees up for a shooting star press. The two then desperately tried to hit their finishers, with Page nailing the deadeye, but Jericho didn’t stay down. Page then hit another Buckshot Lariat, and then he tried for the Deadeye, only for Jericho to backslide out of it. Page went for another discus lariat, which Jericho caught with a Judas Effect for the win! CHRIS JERICHO IS THE FIRST AEW WORLD CHAMPION!!!!!!

Grade: A-. This match started out a bit slow and shaky, but by the end it became the epic that it needed to be. It had a lot to live up to after that ladder match, and while I don’t think it was as good, it certainly was dramatic enough to be great. Jericho was the right call here, although Page is kinda a made man now. As long as they keep up his mystique and keep him at the top of the card, Page is big enough to be a world champion. Jericho is just the right choice, he is a huge name for their first TV show. He deserved the first title, and that’s what he got. Congratulations Jericho, and thank you.

Overall Grade: B+

Predictions: 6/10

Pros: Private Party vs. Evans & Angelico; 6-man tag; pac vs. omega; crackle barrel clash; dark order vs. best friends; riho vs. shida; spears vs. cody; escalara de la meurte; main event

Cons: Casino battle royal; Pharoh was scared and he didn’t deserve that; nick jackson botch (I hope you’re okay)

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All the way from Moldova, modern day Mozart, Andrei Rata, born on July 21st , 1992 has been making his own marks, and own unique style in the trance scene. Andrei Rata known as Andrew Rayel started at a young age developing the passion that he has towards his musical skills. Studying Orchestral music and producing only at the age 13 , Andrew Rayel is a name known for his piano keys, harmony, euphoric, and and mesmerizing sounds. Tune in to Andrew Rayel – Find Your Harmony Radioshow 259 now!

01. Armin van Buuren – Battlefield [Armind] 02. John Grand – Holding On [Euphonic] 03. Somna & Mark Bester & Tara Louise – Leave [Enhanced] 04. Thomas Santosa – Aeon [Eliptical Sun Recordings]

LIGHT SIDE TRACK OF THE WEEK 05. Stevie Krash & HELIX – U&I [KRYTERIA]

06. Cosmic Gate – Feel It [Wake Your Mind] 07. LKX – Kirin [In My Opinion] 08. Rub!k – Dayfall [Reaching Altitude] 09. NWYR x FLRNTN x Darius & FInlay – InterGalactic [Rave Culture] 10. Roman Messer & Ruslan Radriges – Heartbeat [Suanda Music] 11. Farius – Ironcast [Enhanced] 12. HamzeH – Arcade [Interplay] 13. Maratone – Firestorm [Melodic Matters]

FAVORITE OF THE MOMENT 14. Tensteps & That Girl – Hero [Find Your Harmony]

15. Aly & Fila & Denise Rivera – Hymn Of Hope [FSOE] 16. Alan Morris & Fenna Day – Burning Game [Amsterdam Trance]

A BREATH OF AETHER 17. RAM – Ramsterdam (Jorn Van Deynhoven Remix) [A State Of Trance]

18. Adam Taylor – Paradise Found [A State OF Trance] 19. Fonzerelli – Moonlight Party (Greg Downey Remix) [Deep In Thought] 20. Johan Gielen & Starpicker – Sustained [FSOE] 21. Thomas Bronzwaer – Constellation (Luke Bond presents BOND Remix) [A State Of Trance] 22. Armin van Buuren & Avalan – Should I Wait (Armin van Buuren presents Rising Star Remix) [Armind] 23. Andy Moor, Somna & Linney – More Than Love (Craig Connelly Remix) [AVA White] 24. A.R.D.I. – The Road To Freedom [Interplay] 25. AstroFegs – Merekara (Rene Ablaze Remix) [Nocturnal Knights Reworked] 26. Tycoos & Kate Miles – Edge Of Paradise [Suanda Voice] 27. Blue Serigala – Game Over [Monster Neos]

DARK SIDE TRACK OF THE WEEK 28. Hardwell feat. Amba Shepherd – Apollo (Maddix Remix) [Revealed Recordings]

29. Flund & Mehdi Belkadi feat. Dan Picknell – Waiting (Tycoos Remix) [Liquid Emotion] 30. Factor B feat. Cat Martin – Vacancy [Theatre Of The Mind] 31. BiXX – Face Your Fears [Nocturnal Knights] 32. Gareth Emery – Elise (Factor B Remix) [Create Music Group] 33. Yoshi & Razner – A New Beginning [ZYX Music]

CLASSIC SELECTION 34. Tiesto Feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw – Urban Train (Cosmic Gate Remix) [Magik Muzik]

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FAVORITE OF THE MOMENT 14. Tensteps & That Girl – Hero [Find Your Harmony]

15. Aly & Fila & Denise Rivera – Hymn Of Hope [FSOE] 16. Alan Morris & Fenna Day – Burning Game [Amsterdam Trance]

A BREATH OF AETHER 17. RAM – Ramsterdam (Jorn Van Deynhoven Remix) [A State Of Trance]

DARK SIDE TRACK OF THE WEEK 28. Hardwell feat. Amba Shepherd – Apollo (Maddix Remix) [Revealed Recordings]

CLASSIC SELECTION 34. Tiesto Feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw – Urban Train (Cosmic Gate Remix) [Magik Muzik]

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Can former journalist Lee Strobel make a convincing case for miracles?

By Jonathan Merritt, Religion News Service, March 14, 2018

A few years ago, I experienced a miracle at a writing conference outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Following a talk I gave on storytelling, a group of women approached me and one stepped forward: “We have a word from God for you.”

I froze but maintained a cautious smile.

The women explained that they were friends who had met at a church with a long name that had the word “revelatory” in it. It sounded like the type of place that calls its pastor “Apostle” and lets people dance while he preaches. As a Southern Baptist, I’ve always been skeptical of these kind of Christians. Maybe I’m afraid that their Holy Spirit juju might somehow rub off on me, and I’ll have an experience I won’t be able to explain. I know now that the fear is well-founded.

“Can we pray over you and anoint you?” one asked.

Not wanting to be rude, I agreed.

And then it happened. One by one these women told me things about myself that they could not have known--things that I’d never shared with anyone. And then they delivered a message, an encouragement, that I now believe was from God. I shared this story in full in my book “Jesus is Better Than You Imagined,” and it is not the only time I’ve inexplicably encountered transcendence.

I believe in miracles because I’ve experienced them.

But my testimonial is not enough to convince others. Certainly not stalwart skeptics and the non-religious. And that’s where Lee Strobel hopes to contribute to the cause. As the former legal editor of The Chicago Tribune, he has created a cottage industry around investigating Christian claims and making an evidence-based “case” for everything from Jesus’s Resurrection to faith itself.

Strobel’s new book, “The Case for Miracles: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Supernatural,” features a lot of miracle accounts, rational arguments, and a fascinating poll of Americans. I question whether it is effective to judge mystical events by logical standards, so I decided to discuss these matters with Strobel myself.

RNS: Let’s start by defining terms. How do you define a “miracle?”

LS: My two-year investigation of the supernatural blew my mind. But like you, I needed to start out with a meaningful definition of miracles, especially since it’s a term used in many differing ways --- and often flippantly. A lot of philosophers have given it their best shot. Augustine was poetic. He said a miracle is “whatever appears that is difficult or unusual above the hope and power of them who wonder.” Oxford’s Richard Swinburne was straightforward. He called a miracle “an event of an extraordinary kind brought about by a god and of religious significance.”

I prefer the definition offered by the late philosopher Richard L. Purtill: “A miracle is an event (1) brought about by the power of God that is (2) a temporary (3) exception (4) to the ordinary course of nature (5) for the purpose of showing that God has acted in history.”

RNS: You partnered with Barna to conduct a survey for this book. So tell us: do Americans believe in miracles?

LS: Yes, they do--more than I anticipated. Half of Americans (51 percent) said they believe the miracles of the Bible happened as they are described. That’s pretty high in our increasingly skeptical culture. Two out of three (67 percent) said miracles are possible today. Only 15 percent said they aren’t. One sidelight: Republicans are more likely to believe in modern miracles (74 percent) than Democrats (61 percent). I’m not commenting on that--just presenting the facts.

RNS: How many Americans claim to have personally experienced a miracle?

LS: This is where the research really gets interesting. Nearly two out of five US adults (38 percent) said they have had an experience that they can only explain as being a miracle of God. By extrapolation, that means 94,792,000 American adults are convinced that God has performed at least one miracle for them personally. That’s an astonishing number. Now, let’s say 95 percent of those cases are actually astounding coincidences that can be explained through natural means. That would still leave more than 4.7 million miracles, and that’s just in the United States.

“Skeptic” magazine scoffs that supernatural reports are “more common from the uncivilized and uneducated.” Yet another study showed that 55 percent of US physicians said they have seen results in their patients that they would consider miraculous. That’s coming from highly educated professionals trained in medicine, often in very secular settings.

RNS: In your book, you spend a lot of time documenting people who share unexplainable events. It seems to me that this, at least partly, roots your argument in experience rather than evidence. What am I missing?

LS: A person’s experience can have evidential value. However, the evidence is amplified if we also have corroboration in the form of multiple other eyewitnesses who are trustworthy and have no bias or reason to lie; medical tests before and after a supposed healing; or other kinds of more objective facts. I’m as skeptical of miracle claims as the next person. However, I believe they are possible, and I’m willing to examine the evidence in each case to conclude whether it’s actually a misdiagnosis, the placebo effect, fakery, spontaneous remission, or there’s some sort of other natural explanation--or whether it can truly be best described as a divine intervention.

RNS: I’ve heard skeptics often say that to believe in “miracles” would be to deny science because, after all, miracles violate the established and observed laws of nature. How do you respond?

LS: Scottish skeptic David Hume called a miracle “a violation of the laws of nature”--and you can’t violate the laws of nature, right? Hume’s critique is still touted by skeptics today, but my book demonstrates that Hume’s approach is fatally flawed. In fact, philosophers have decimated Hume in recent years, as illustrated by the title of a recent book by a non-Christian scholar published by Oxford University Press: Hume’s Abject Failure.

Actually, miracles are not a violation of the laws of nature. For example, if I drop an apple, the law of gravity tells me it will hit the floor. But if I drop the apple and you reach in and grab it before it hits the floor, you haven’t violated the law of gravity--you’ve merely intervened. And that’s what God does in performing a miracle--he intervenes in the world that he created.

As philosopher William Lane Craig told me, natural laws have implicit ceteris paribus conditions, which is Latin for “all other things being equal.” In other words, natural laws assume that no other natural or supernatural factors are interfering with the operation that the law generally describes.

Craig explained that if there’s a supernatural agent that’s working in the natural world, then the idealized conditions described by the law are no longer in effect. The law isn’t violated because the law has this implicit provision that no outside forces are messing around with the conditions.

RNS: I have friend who often makes decisions based on recurring dreams that they believe are from God. What do you think about that? Can dreams or visions be considered miracles?

LS: The Bible contains about 200 examples of God using dreams and visions to further his plans. I devote an entire chapter to analyzing the supernatural phenomenon of Jesus appearing in dreams of Muslims, usually in countries closed to the gospel.

However, we need to be very careful about dreams; everything must be weighed against scripture. In the cases I cite, there’s some sort of external corroboration--for instance, the dreamer encounters someone in his dream who he has never met, and then he subsequently meets that individual in person--and this individual explains the gospel to them. This kind of external validation is helpful in weighing the legitimacy of dreams and visions.

That said, when you hear story after story of devout Muslims who are encountering the divine Jesus in supernatural ways, and then risking everything to follow him, it’s both jaw-dropping and inspiring. I think this is one of the most exciting parts of the book.

RNS: There are many accounts of miracles, similar to those you cite, but told by people of other faiths. There’s a litany of miracle stories of those who follow the teachings of Buddha or worship Krishna. If I’m going to believe your “evidence,” wouldn’t I have to also conclude that there is something to these stories? Why should I accept the miracle stories of Christians and not the identical stories told by Muslims, Jews, Mormons, and others?

LS: Not all miracle reports are equally credible. For instance, the supposed miracles associated with Buddha or Krishna are shrouded in the mists of history and legend, and are often written by unknown sources and without specific references to historic times and places, so they lack the credibility of historical biblical accounts. The supposed miracles of Muhammad are only in the hadith, which is Islamic tradition that comes hundreds of years after his life and therefore isn’t comparable to the gospels, which were recorded within the first generation when eyewitnesses were still living. The miracles of Mormonism lack credibility because of the unreliability of Joseph Smith and many of his early followers.

In contrast, the key miracle of Jesus--his resurrection from the dead--is corroborated by excellent historical data, as I demonstrate in my book. We have five sources outside the Bible confirming his death. We have a report of the resurrection that has been dated by scholars to within months of his death--too early to be a mere legend. We have an empty tomb that even the opponents of Jesus implicitly conceded was empty. And we have nine ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, affirming the conviction of the disciples that they had encountered the risen Jesus. That’s an avalanche of historical data that isn’t matched by any miracle claims in another any other tradition.

RNS: I believe in miracles because, among other things, I’ve experienced them in my life. But your approach is to make a “case” for them rooted in evidence and logic. Doesn’t this ignore the mysterious nature of the supernatural and the miraculous?

LS: Evidence and experience are both important, which is why I explore both of these components in The Case for Miracles. Your experience of the miraculous may be valid, but it might not be convincing to others. That’s where corroboration comes in. Skeptics--like me a few years back--are much more apt to believe the supernatural when presented with credible reports by unbiased eyewitnesses, medical records, etc. I hope my book will challenge the skepticism of non-believers, while at the same time encouraging and strengthening the faith of Christians. To do that, the more substantiation, the better. Honestly, I don’t think documentation strips away the mystery of miracles--to me, it elicits even more awe and wonder, along with the confidence to share the miraculous reports with others.

RNS: You mention that some churches are embarrassed by the supernatural. How would you advise churches to acknowledge and process when their congregants claim to have experienced a miracle?

LS: I believe many evangelical and mainline churches are embarrassed by the supernatural. They want to be considered respectable by their neighbors and not be conflated with the bizarre antics of some TV faith healers. They crave acceptability, order, and predictability. I can understand this, since there are plenty of charlatans out there to distance ourselves from. But the Holy Spirit cannot be put in a box. He will do as He wishes. We should be open to whatever God may want to do, even when He disrupts our carefully planned world.

Now, when miracle claims are made, I don’t think we should automatically accept them. It’s always wise to scrutinize them--are they consistent with Scripture, are they confirmed or validated by witnesses or medical records, and so forth. The Bible warns us to “test everything…hold on to what is good.” Certainly Catholics have been investigating miracles for centuries when they consider a person for sainthood in their tradition. Similarly, when we see what appears to be a divine work of the Lord--like some of the well-documented miracles in The Case for Miracles--we should not only accept them, but also praise Him for His gracious intervention on behalf of people He so clearly loves.

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