#I made my story’s government have 7 different main family powers that all line up with the continents

[reader-104]

I hate whenever I think I came up with an original idea for a book but then realize it’s just made up of a bunch of elements from different things I’ve read.

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

The Voyage So Far: Water Seven

east blue (1 | 2) || alabasta (1 | 2) || skypiea || water 7 || enies lobby || thriller bark || paramount war (1 | 2) || fishman island || punk hazard || dressrosa (1 | 2) || whole cake island || wano (1 | 2)

i’ve mentioned several times before that the davy back fight is one of my least favorite arcs, mostly because i found it very dragging and tedious when i was reading it, but there are a couple things i really like in it, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, most of them have to do with zoro. i really like his moment here with chopper, and it also showcases his ability to act as more of an authority figure to the crew, which is something that makes a substantial return after enies lobby with the matter of usopp’s return. 

zoro and sanji’s match in the davy back fight is far and away my favorite part of the entire arc. it’s just really fun.

like i said, this arc isn’t a favorite of mine, but i do definitely understand why it’s important to the saga and greater story in a couple different ways. one of them is that it’s just an easy, lighthearted detour that both gives the audience a chance to breathe and the strawhats a chance to showcase just how much they love each other and work well together- which turns into a fucking sledgehammer to the skull in the next arc when that unity is directly threatened. and the other reason this arc is important...

...is because of aokiji.

aokiji’s introductory scene is a brutal showcase of absolute power, and a very clear reminder that the strawhats are still very much little fish in a very, very big pond. all of the strawhats are impacted by this to some degree- it’s how badly they get curb-stomped here that leads luffy to come up with his gears as a way of closing the huge power gap he’s just learned about.

most important, though, are robin and usopp. for robin, this is a stark reminder of the fact that the government will never stop hunting her down; for usopp, who’s less obvious, it’s the seeds of the full-blown inferiority crisis that will later explode with the news about merry. both of their arcs throughout water 7 and enies lobby, essentially the twin emotional backbones of the saga, start right here.

i really like that the other strawhats all fell asleep waiting for robin and luffy to wake up. it calls back to them doing the same when nami was sick before drum, and also it’s just so fucking sweet. 

water seven is my favorite island, full stop. if i was going to live anywhere in one piece’s world, i’d want to live on water seven. it’s just so creatively designed and visually great, with the canals and the tiered city and the massive fountain in the middle. the supporting cast are still one of my favorites, and the culture feels very real and authentic. i just love water seven a lot.

i just said it but it bears repeating- the water seven supporting cast is really good. iceburg, the galley-la shipwrights, franky and his family, kokoro and chimney are all really memorable, and most of them are really likable, too- and cp9, with all their eccentricities, fit in perfectly. water seven’s cast is very interconnected, as well, and their relationships all feel very believable.

all of which, of course, only makes the later treachery hurt all the more.

the atmosphere of water seven is really, really well done. the bad starts slow, with the news that merry is unfixable, and then continues into an accelerating downwards spiral of hopelessness: usopp and luffy’s fight and usopp leaving the crew, robin’s seeming betrayal, the assassination attempt on iceburg, the city and galley-la turning on them as a result, and the agua laguna- it just gets worse and worse and worse.

and then, after they’ve been stomped down about as far as they can go and come out alive anyways, they pick themselves back up again and go to save their friend, because that’s what the strawhat pirates do.

i just really like getting to see these four going feral on the franky family, it’s one of my favorite scenes in this whole arc. in general, i tend to love the moments where luffy specifically gets properly angry, and we get a lot of them in this arc. 

even though the fight between luffy and usopp is genuinely very tense and  fast-paced and would probably be exciting if it were any other two characters fighting, it never really feels anything other than melancholy. i think that’s a testament to just how good oda is at setting the mood of the scene. it’s made very clear, especially through the reactions of the other characters- merry ‘crying’ is fucking heartbreaking- that this is nothing less than a tragedy. 

:(

i think it’s kind of interesting we aren’t shown franky’s face until about halfway into water seven. prior to this, we’re given pretty much only reasons to hate him, with his theft of the strawhats’ money and the franky family beating usopp to shit. but just after this point is when we start getting our first humanizing and sympathetic moments for him, starting when he gets worried and a little frantic when he hears about the attempt on iceburg’s life.

i just really, really like the way some of these water seven action sequences are depicted. they feel very tense and desperate, which matches the general mood of this part of the arc perfectly.

this panel of usopp working on merry always reminds me of the shots of the klabautermann doing the same during skypiea. i’m not sure if it’s even intentional, honestly, but it’s an extra little bit of heartbreak either way.

one piece has a lot of amazing spreads, but this might be one of my favorites for sheer impact. cp9, watching as the city they’ve lived and worked in for years burns down in a fire they set, satisfied by a job well done. it’s almost all in black and white with very little grey, which creates some fantastic contrast, and their pitch-black silhouettes against the nighttime inferno are just striking. 

this entire scene between usopp and franky, as usopp works on the merry and franky gives him advice and tries to make him see its hopeless and they kind of awkwardly, accidentally bond, is probably my favorite in the whole of water seven. it was also the scene that singlehandedly made me love franky as a character.

they have a really good, really enjoyable dynamic, and at the same time the conflict between them is real and understandable, and brought about because they’re both trying to do the right thing.

tom’s workers are one of my favorite little groups of characters in the whole of one piece’s story, and they deserve more appreciation. they’re family!! a little family of broken pieces who worked together to build something really, really amazing. and they still care about each other in the present, even though they got shattered apart so badly and none of them ever really recovered. 

this is a tremendously under-appreciated chopper moment. not only did he carry two full-grown men out of a fire, he even managed to get zoro’s sword and iceburg’s hamster. extremely cool of him.

this is also the exact moment the strawhats’ collective luck begins to turn: chopper saves the day, and nami learns that robin did what she did to protect them, and sanji gets aboard the sea train, and from there it’s a no-brakes train from their very lowest low straight to the triumph at enies lobby.

i love all the shenanigans sanji gets up to with the sea train, i think the whole sequence is absolutely one of his shining moments. it’s always a delight to see sanji get up to Sneaky Bastard Bullshit, and the whole thing is just so fun, which is a dearly needed breath of fresh air after how relentless this arc has been until this point.

robin’s little smile when thinking of luffy and when she joined the strawhats... :( i’ve noticed it’s a recurring trend for strawhats who try to leave the crew to flash back to when they joined as they do. usopp has it earlier this same arc just before leaving, and sanji does it in whole cake island in the sanji vs. luffy chapter. 

i really like how much everyone comes together at the end of water seven leading into enies lobby. after how fractured and fraught things have been throughout the arc, both within and without the strawhat crew, it’s great to see them not only all united again for a common goal, but with a huge group of allies at their backs. 

these three are SUCH a hilarious team, and i would love to see them work together again like this sometime. they’re literally just clowning on the marines all the way up the train, it’s fantastic. 

factually i understand sanji’s aversion to fighting with his hands and his fighting style is very unique and cool and also meaningful to him because he learned from zeff, and also if i remember right it’s implied he learned how to swordfight from the vinsmokes which makes it very reasonable he would want absolutely nothing to do with that skillset 

but speaking purely in terms of stupid idiot lizard brain i think sanji should fight with knives more

this is another of my absolute favorite spreads, and i think what makes it for me is the casual confidence- luffy tells zoro to cut the train, and zoro does, both of them with no doubts at all about zoro’s ability to do so. it really goes to show how far they’ve come from back in east blue when zoro couldn’t even cut luffy out of a metal cage.

there’s something very impactful about the fact that of all the strawhats, robin gets this speech from usopp. usopp, who’s had the worst falling-out with luffy in the series to date, is the one who tells robin: you haven’t left the crew yet, you can’t leave the crew yet, luffy is coming to get you. believe in him. 

franky’s “existing is not a crime” line is one of the most memorable and iconic lines from this entire saga, and for good reason. it sums up one of the main themes of not just this arc but also the series as a whole- the very same idea will come up again for ace during marineford, and in law’s backstory as well. it’s never a crime to just exist, and people should not never be persecuted for their blood or heritage. one piece doesn’t fuck around with its theming, it really doesn’t. 

to be continued next time, with enies lobby!

[jokerfan99]

My Top 10 Favorite Anime Villains (Updated) by DarkChild316

In a different time and a different world, I did a list of “My 10 Favorite Anime Villains”. I am older now, and hopefully much wiser and now thanks to the global pandemic and my new subscriptions to Hulu and Funimation I’ve had the opportunity to go back and revisit so many classic anime that I feel like I should re-do it. Plus I’ve gone back and looked at my previous list and shook my head thinking to myself: “My God man, what in the f**k were you thinking with some of these choices!” So, I’ve gone back and redone the list, now this list is strictly for the men only. If you want to see a list dedicated to my favorite female villains, check out my list of “My Top 10 Favorite Anime Villainesses.” But for this list, here is my updated list of My Top 10 Favorite Anime Villains:

#10. Shishiho Makoto (Rurouni Kenshin): Growing up as a kid, Ruroni Kenshin was one of the first anime I had ever watched, and this guy was someone who I hated with a passion. Looking back at it years later, I realize now what an amazing villain and foil to Kenshin that Makoto was. Unlike a lot of villains on this list, Makoto wasn’t just evil for the sake of being evil, Makoto’s evil came from the worst type of trauma: betrayal! In this case the betrayal came from Makoto’s own government, where Makoto survived not only multiple gunshots, but being doused in oil and burned alive, leaving him in complete and utter agony. What puts Shishio on my list is what he manages to do after surviving death. He compiles an army of the best fighters Japan has to offer and plots to overthrow the entire Meiji Government. While in complete agony. Who else can claim that? Did I also mention he’s topping the list of the best fighters in the show? His swordsmanship is second only to Kenshin himself as he proves in their absolutely epic fight.

#9. Hisoka Morrow (Hunter x Hunter): Hunter x Hunter is a show with several great villains that truly stand out, and while Meruem was memorable, pardon me for believing that Hisoka was the standout villain from that show. A devious killer and master Nen user, Hisoka is driven by little more than his desire to find and kill strong opponents. Be they young children or master criminals, he’ll pursue them to the ends of the Earth with a bloodlust on par with that of a wild predator. Likewise, he doesn’t care what happens to himself or others in this pursuit. Mass civilian casualties, the loss of his own villainous allies or even the loss of his own limbs barely phases him, so long as he gets to fight with someone that tests his limits. As a result, he more often than not embodies chaos incarnate, wreaking havoc in his pursuit of battle and leaving a mountain of corpses behind him. Needless to say, this puts him at odds with the series’ protagonists at regular intervals. Not only do Gon and his friends fit the bill for what he seeks, but they often take on enemies that prove to be exactly what Hisoka is looking for. And yet, this also serves to make him all the more interesting. Where other villains might strike out at the protagonists and heroes immediately, Hisoka schemes, allies himself with and double-crosses people regularly, always finding the best angle to work in order to reach his goals. He may not be a world-ending anime villain on the level of a Meruem with seismic ambitions, but he’s undeniably the most interesting and brilliant villain in Hunter x Hunter to see at work.

#8. Izaya Orihara (Durarara!!): If you think of a list of top anime villains and this guy isn’t one of the first people who comes to mind, please raise your hands so I can have a few words with you in private with no cameras or eyewitnesses. The crazy thing about Izaya is that he doesn’t even realize he’s evil, and that’s what makes him great. He loves humanity; from the depths of his bones he loves us all. This is why he makes it onto my list; he does progressively more cruel acts against humans, putting people in situations that generally lead to their deaths. He is also a master of parkour and highly skilled with a switchblade in his hand (as evident in the above picture), which he generally only uses in dire situations or fights against Shizuo. In short, I absoulutely love this guy. I thoroughly enjoyed the way he manages to manipulate an entire populous, and that’s why he’s more than earned a spot on my list.

#7. Dio Brando (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure): You might have thought it was someone else, but it was me, Dio! All meme-worthy jokes aside, Dio Brando is unquestionably one of the most iconic anime villains of all time and, thanks to his series’ late-blooming popularity outside of Japan thanks largely to the 2012 anime adaptation, one that still feels modern in our minds. Dio is a tenacious bastard that takes advantage of the generosity of the Joestar family to further his own power, being intolerably dickish to Jonathan by constantly tearing him down, trying to make him look bad in front of his dad, spreading rumors to sully his reputation, and sabotaging his relationships. This escalates into killing his dog (his f***ikg dog of all things!), poisoning and later stabbing his adoptive father (I mean WTF!), and becoming a freakin vampire. Even after decapitation, Dio gets his revenge and sets in motion many of the events of the series, making a formal return in Stardust Crusaders as the main villain once again. With raw ambition taken to the extreme, iconic lines, poses, and outfits, incredible abilities from Aztec mask-induced vampirism and the time-stopping power of The World, Dio’s menacing presence towers over his series and over anime as a whole, which makes him MORE than deserving of a spot on my list.

#6. Light Yagami (Death Note): Yes, he’s a VILLAIN, get over yourselves Light Yagami fanboys! Anyway, there are a number of different adjectives and superlatives that could be used to described the lead character of Death Note: Diabolical, calculating, and determined to make the world in his own image all describe Light who was easily the most clever man in  Death Note, as evidenced by the layers upon layers that composed his elaborate plans.  Light started out as a good kid, doing well in school and heading to a bright career in police work like his father. But when he gets possession of the death note, he begins a remarkable descent into a disturbing mastermind who becomes judge, jury, and executioner for the entire world. But what truly makes Light's character stand out remains complicated throughout the story. His ultimate goal is to make the world a happier, safer place; a noble but perhaps misguided goal. His idealism and nobility still shine through when he doesn’t have the Death Note. When he temporarily relinquishes ownership of the death note to throw L off his trail, Light loses all memory of the death note and he reverts to his normal personality. His sense of morality returns and he shows more compassion for those around him. He even refuses to use Misa Amane to get information out of her when L asks him to. These qualities help to create a complex character who ends up being a detestable villain, yet you still kind of root for him to come out of this story as a winner. Light’s progression through the series is marked by his sheer brilliance. He's got a calculated and strategic mind that would make the great philosopher Machiavelli jealous, and the power of the death note adds a callousness that makes him free to use people in whatever way necessary to accomplish his goals. It’s highly entertaining to see his intricate plans play out. But Light’s messiah-like ego is just as big as his brain, and that arrogance ultimately leads to his tragic downfall.

#5. The Major (Hellsing): An evil Nazi Scientist, I know everyone is just rolling their eyes right now thinking I’m reaching for the low-hanging fruit for this one, but just hear me out here. While he may seem like an obvious pick for a list like this, The Major’s goals, however, are somehow far more unhinged than what may first appear. Despite being an impassioned orator and uncompromising strategist willing to sacrifice countless soldiers, the Major himself had no especial loyalty or passion for the cause of Millennium. His sole obsession is to plunge the world into an unending conflict to the point of endangering not only the lives of others but also his own. The Major’s leadership of Millennium, his decades espousing the genocidal ideology of fascists, and subsequent war against the Hellsing organization, the Vatican, and the entire world serve only as a pretext to satiate his insatiable bloodlust. The Major is one of anime’s most insidious villains, a charismatic, nihilistic sociopath driven purely by his sadomasochistic death wish.

#4. Shou Tucker (Fullmetal Alchemist): Now, you may be recalling that in my previous version of this list, I had Envy listed as my choice as my favorite villain from this show. Well after careful reconsideration, I’ve had to reevaluate my decision and give that spot to this creep, because while Envy’s actions were despicable to a point, they PALE in comparison to this guy! He only really appears in one episode if I remember correctly, yet in that one single episode, he made more of an impact then most villains make in a lifetime, which really says a lot about this guy’s character. What was it that made him so memorable you ask? Well, it could have something to do with the fact that this man transmutaed his own dog and daughter to create a talking chimera, which hadn’t been done before, and for what other reason…all in the name of recognition in the world of alchemy! That mere fact alone made this guy the most hated man in all of anime, the fact that he sacrificed his own family for the sake of fame, with absolutely no hint of remorse, made this guy the definition of an absolute living piece of shit and the only thing worse is how the episode ended, but I won’t spoil that one for you if you haven’t seen it.

#3. Gendo Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) Up next is a man competing with the likes of Medusa Gorgon for the title of “Anime’s Worst Parent”, Gendo Ikari, please step up to the front of the congregation. Now Gendo is a man who’s list of atrocities throughout Evangelion is far too many to name, but I’m going to try my best to list them here: You have being actively complicit in the premature instigation of a biblical apocalypse, resulting in a near extinction-level event that caused the death of nearly two-thirds of the human population. Emotionally neglecting his own son Shinji estranging himself from him for over twelve years, only to offer him up as a sacrificial pawn in his bid to artificially bootstrap humanity’s ascent into evolutionary godhood so that he could be reunited with his dead wife. Cloning said wife’s DNA into a harem of emotionally dependent albino ingenues who share a dogged infatuation for their creator. And that’s not even mentioning the horrific emotional abuse and mental manipulation he inflicts on Dr. Ritsuko Akagi and her mother Naoko. All-in-all Gendo is proof positive that love not only has the capacity to overcome any obstacle, but sometimes it can truly make monsters out of us all.

#2. Griffith (Berserk): Griffith did nothing wrong; at least, not by his own drives and ambitions. A peasant who grew to become the leader of his own mercenary band, Griffith was a self-driven man who pursued his desires with unparalleled efficiency. No matter the situation or obstacle, he found a way to overcome them, whether that meant facing down an army of thousands or assassinating a country’s leaders. All the while, he amassed a legion of friends and followers who would follow him to hell and back, caring for him as much or more than he cared for them. As a result, they were dragged down with him when his ambitions saw him imprisoned, tortured and maimed. They cared little though, risking life and limb to save him and help him salvage a life with what he had left. That wasn’t enough for Griffith though. When given the option to become a demon and continue the pursuit of his dreams, he whole-heartedly accepted it; even though it came at the cost of sacrificing the lives of each and every one of his friends and allies. But that wasn’t the worst of it, to further spite the early desertion of Guts, Griffith proceeds to rape Casca, Guts’ love interest, in front of him as Guts is held down by demons. So yes, Griffith did nothing wrong by himself. By everyone else though, he did them the worst of injustices, and continues to do so with each breath he takes, all of which makes him a compelling and infuriating villain.

#1. Johan Liebert (Monster): I’ve covered a wide variety of monsters (pun fully intended) on this list, but THIS monster (again, pun FULLY intended) truly takes the cake when it comes to anime villains. A serial killer who would fit in well in any blockbuster film, Monster told the story of a man who had truly become monstrous; a charismatic, intelligent sociopath with no other goal than to kill everyone else in the world. Johan didn't just kill people, he made other people into monsters just like him. This skill of his corruption is first displayed in his youth, when he used stories to convince the other boys in his orphanage to kill all the staff, and each other. Johan is often compared to Light Yagami of Death Note, but the two couldn’t be any more different. Light's fatal (and genius) flaw is his own ego, which leads him to put his own life above all else, even his goal of changing the world. But Johan has never been afraid of death. Quite the opposite, he welcomes and embraces it, being more than willing to put his own life at risk, and one of his signature traits is how he challenges people to shoot him. Another of Jonah’s signature traits is his skills as a masterful manipulator. Where Light and other on this list had to resort to supernatural means to get what they wanted, Johan just used his own wits and knowledge of human nature. He's easily the most frightening villain on this list because he’s the truest to life villain on this list and he exposes the base human nature of his victims and of human society. Monster's remarkable story was almost entirely due to Johan alone, and it’s why he’s #1 on my list.

So that's my updated list, what did you guys think about it? Love it, hated it? Go on and tell me what you think and let me know who your favorite anime villains are. See you soon!!!

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Not Really a Cinderella Story | Royalty au | Exo | Sehun | Part 12

Masterlist | Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 8.5 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12  Part 13 Part 14 Part 15 [FINAL]

Royalty!AU

Length: 3.2k

Note: uhhhhhh hi, so school ate my life and i have no time anymore but this is finally finished even if its a shorter part also its not edited but when is it ever

I also want to that @haveanotherkpopblog and @theonethatcompletesyou  you have supported me since i first started this fanfic and blog in  general and you guys are my main motivation most of the time and i’m so sorry i can’t update more regularly but I hope you like this

Warnings: nothing really

Pairing: Sehun x Reader

Genre: Fluff/angst

Summary: When a strange string of not so great events somehow and you with a job at the palace punching the wrong people can be not so great.

The tapping of your slippers against the old marble floors was the only sound aside from your breathing as you once again stepped into the ballroom. The murals which decorated the domed ceiling of the cavernous room seemed to be covered with a grey filter, blurring the once bright colours which were now peeling away. You had been in Oclaria’s palace for almost two months now but the image of the forgotten ballroom haunted you as if the spirits of the people who once danced within it were buried in your heart. Ever since you had crossed the border between the two countries it felt as if a thin sheet had been thrown over your eyes, everything felt so familiar yet the sheer fabric only let you see shapes, hiding the details from your eyes.

Soon after entering the palace you quickly learned about the king who had passed, Sehun’s uncle. Long before you or Sehun were born the Queen, whom the King loves dearly, finally was pregnant with a child to the joy of the entire kingdom. Parties were held at every street corner, that is, until the baby was born still and took the Queen’s life with it. Heartbroken, the King locked himself away, sending every courtier back to their own territories and dismissing all the staff, keeping only those necessary to make sure the palace didn’t crumble around them. Nobody heard or saw from the King aside from those few servants, no parties or meeting were held and thus the palace was forgotten. Instead, being taken over by years upon years of dust and cobwebs.

The staff you arrived with easily outnumbered the current ones left by the King five to one, they were given the option to leave or stay when Sehun arrived and much to everyone’s surprise many chose to stay. With that, slowly the palace began to fill up again, more staff were hired, the stables and gardens were restored, and slowly the lords and ladies once again took up their places at court. The palace quickly transformed from the desolate and erie place you arrived to, when the grime was scrubbed away and a new coat of paint was slathered on the walls the palace was beautiful, more so than even the ice palace of Matus. But the ballroom was left untouched along with most of the east wing, which made it your favourite place to spend the long days. Though more often than not, you found yourself spending most of your time alone, the days were never predictable. For a man who was supposed to be preoccupied with learning how to govern a country Sehun sure managed to find a lot of free time. Almost every morning you would wake up to find a gift addressed to you waiting in front of your door from none other than the soon to be king. The gifts ranged from anything as simple as a bouquet of your favourite flowers which as the note explained, he grew in the gardens himself, or a new book for you to read. Sometimes he would to to such extremes as leaving a huge arm chair so plush and cushioned you had no idea how it would fit through your door, and gifting you an entirely new wardrobe full of hand crafted gowns, all with sleeves that would cover to your wrists. When there weren’t gifts there was always a letter left, your name scrawled on the envelope in familiar hand writing asking you to meet later in the day or apologizing and promising to make it up to you if he’s too tied up with work.

His favourite place to go with you was the palace gardens, a maze of paths twisting in between rows of flowers and plants that stretched almost as far as the palace itself. The first time you visited it with him he told you that the previous queen had loved to garden too, so much in fact, that as a wedding gift his uncle had ordered the expansion of the garden to add six different expansions, spring, summer, autumn, winter, day, and night. Over the course of her life the gardens were constructed one by one. Spring which bloomed every year with a myriad of colours in the warm rain, summer which was filled with ponds, a large oak tree with a swing hanging off one of the large branches in the center. Autumn was lined with orchards and other crops, providing endless produce that will last throughout the season and into the winter, speaking of which, winter was a forest of pine and spruce trees, pond in the middle freezing over and creating a skating rink. Day and night were the last two gardens going to be created but as soon as day’s glittering greenhouses and sparkling fountains were completed, the Queen died along with the baby girl they were going to name Luna after the moon which she admired. Overwhelmed by grief, the king had ordered the construction of the Night garden to be stopped and over the years it never resumed and thus fell into disrepair.

One of his other favourite things to do was to steal you away to the palace kitchen under the rouse of cooking a meal together when in reality you usually ended up doing all the work as Sehun played around with whatever weird vegetables he could find. Sometimes you two would wander around the city together, or you two would just sit in each other's company reading in the library. As much as spending time with Sehun made you bubble over with joy and your heart soar it didn’t.

And it all started when he first asked.

“Will you marry me?”

The chuckle in his voice and smile on his face would suggest there was a light heartedness around his question but with one look in his eyes you could see how it was weighing on him. With a seriousness you had never seen before. Jokingly you brushed it off, making some excuse about him snoring to loud but he kept asking. And with each time he asked the seriousness grew no matter how much you turned him down. There was always a nagging at the back of your mind, making your stomach churn with nerves so you kept turning him down.

The fact that most of the palace residents knew of your infatuation wasn't doing much good either. Many of the staff members fawned after your relationship, telling you their endless dreams of finding a significant other that was as sweet as Sehun was to you but as much as the mention of your relationship to the prince made you squirm they weren't the problem. The real problem was the court officials, it was no secret that they were pushing Sehun who had only just been crowned king to get married and for good reason too. He had to solidify his standing as king and the best way to do that was to find and marry a queen so there was always a seemingly endless stream of eligible women in the palace and yet through all their finery he turned them all down. And it was no secret to anyone that you were the reason why. The glares weighed heavy on you like a clock made out of led, and even if you were with Sehun, whether he noticed and chose to ignore it or was simply oblivious to the watching eyes their gazes still found their way deep inside of you. As the little worms of doubt and anxiety buried themselves in the lining of your stomach, arms, legs, and even through your spine and up the back of your neck you firmed your decision. As the seriousness in Sehun’s proposals grew so did the seriousness in your answers, there was no way you could marry him and become queen, he couldn't forgot marrying some rich young lady from a family of power and marry you, some lowborn commoner, it wouldn't be fair to him or the people of his country.

Fortunately the people of Oclaria are much kinder than those of the court. Lord Cha had grown to be much more of a father figure in your life over the past while. Whenever you weren't occupied, which was more often than it may seem, he took you to see the wonder of Oclaria. It was the second largest kingdom on the continent after the freezing plains of Lokya which were bathed in eternal winter that it said to have been cursed by a with centuries ago when the continent had no kingdoms, or kings, or queens. And after so many trips through the large cities with bustling markets and the quiet countryside with hills covered in flowers you had barely even seen a third of it.

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Moonlight filtering through the stained glass windows which lined the walls and creating colourful patterns on the floor was the only thing illuminating the hallway aside from the quickly melting candle you clutched in your hand as you scurried through the hallway. You found yourself in quite similar situations for longer than you can remember at this point, nerves wriggling inside you and refusing you sleep until the early hours of the morning. Books had been the solution to quelling the pent up writhing of your emotions and you had taken refuge in Lord Cha’s private library as he too, was often a stranger to sleep due to reasons unknown. Earlier in the month you had borrowed a book titled ‘Greatest Composers of the Five Continents’ and as interesting as it was, it was incredibly long and you had finally finished it. Feeling ever so enlightened about the history of music in your great world you pushed open the door and stepped into the library. Without looking up from the diary on his lap Lord Cha offered you a wave a greeting which you quickly returned before diving into the shelves of books.

A few moments later after having successfully shelving your borrowed book and grabbing a new one you were settled in the generously stuffed armchair across from him.

“Y/n I wanted to ask you about something,” Lord Cha said as he put the cap back on his pen. He cleared his throat and adjusted his glasses before placing whatever he was writing about on the table side him. “In two days I'm heading back to the territory I'm from, Iyle. It's the largest territory in Oclaria, covering the border to Edesea and all of Oclaria’s southern coast and islands. It's been without a lord for many years since the line died out and I've been put in charge of governing it and I guess what I'm trying to say is that I hope you'll come with me.”

You stared at him blankly for a few moments before clearing your throat. You shifted in your seat as your mind raced, to what you didn't know, but it was flying so fast you couldn't even form a coherent sentence.

“Lord Cha, It sounds amazing- I'd really love to go- but the thing is-” you sputtered out.

“It's okay darling,” he cut you off with a chuckle as he reached over to pour you a cup of tea.

“I really would love to go-”

“I know, it's hard to decide in this moment. You have a lot to consider seeing as you've only just arrived in Oclaria and you'd be leaving the man who you loved enough to follow here for who knows how long as I don't know yet when we will return to the capital,” He smiled at you, “It's a hard decision to make and I don't expect you to make it now,” he straightened his tie and stood up, “We’re leaving at Sunset in two days time, meet us at the southern gate if you wish to come.”

With that he bid you goodnight and returned to his chambers and you returned to yours.

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The darkness of your room didn’t seem dark. You stared at the ceiling, then rolled onto your side and looked out the window, before rolling onto your stomach and burying your face in the pillow. The soft glow of the sunrise was making your room brighter and brighter and with the light came the realization that you hadn’t slept at all the night before. You tossed and turned endlessly because of the nightmare that was your reality at this point in time. Lord Cha had invited you to go with him and you almost agreed on the spot but you hesitated. As much as you wished to escape the empty palace that seemed to be closing farther  in on you every day, trapping you within the confines of the gilded walls and luxury, you couldn’t make the call. A small nagging in your heart which you had been feverishly trying to burry over the past weeks had unearthed itself and halted you from making a decision because if you left, would you ever be able to come back?

The sun had risen when you finally pushed yourself from under the quilt and got dressed, it felt almost mechanical as you went about your daily routine.  You felt empty, why were there no tears? No frustration and indecision? Why were you nothing but a shell?

When the realization finally dawned on you it walls you had created came crashing down all at once and dread filled the pit of your stomach.

No letter came that day, nor did any gifts and you were thankful. A decision hadn’t been reached by the time you drifted into sleep in the late morning and slept the rest of the day away.

The nagging invaded your dreams and filled them with all your unanswered questions.

Should you leave Sehun alone?

Should you leave without telling him?

What if while you’re gone he gives in to the court and marries some noble lady?

Why do you care if he marries a noble woman? He’s a king after all…

Why do you care so much about him?

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You had to make the decision today, your bag was packed and shoved under your bed but would you take it or not?

You were pacing back and forth in your room trying to decide what to do when a knock on your door interrupted you.

“You’re needed in the garden,” the guard said, “please follow me.”

Nodding you trailed behind him as he offered up no more information. The two of you snaked through the familiar halls to the garden, a path you had gotten very familiar with very quickly. Time seemed to slow as you stepped through the glass door and around the rose garden to be met with a beautiful sight. Sehun waiting for you, sun dancing on his face like rays of pure delight as a smile lit up his entire face when he spotted you. The guard who escorted you hung back as he rushed to meet you, grabbing your hand in his own and kissing your cheek lightly. Today something seemed different about him, maybe it was the changing seasons but he seemed lighter than before, like the world wasn’t resting on his shoulders anymore.

“I’ve been waiting for you,” he whispered and instinctively you smiled brightly back at him.

“I hope I didn’t keep you waiting too long,” you said.

He chuckles and clutched your hand tighter, “You’re right on time, we have to go somewhere but first promise me you won’t ask any questions, okay?”

You raised an eyebrow, “Should I be worried?”

“I don’t think so,” he answered pretending to scratch his head which made you laugh, “just trust me.”

You eyed him up and down. Pretending was hard especially since his joy was so infectious, so you nodded and stuck out you pinky which he gratefully took before pulling you after him. You walked for what seemed like only seconds when his hand clutched yours like it was the only thing that mattered. Another twinge was felt in you heart as you spotted a small gazebo which is where he seemed to be headed.

He dropped your hand and stood across from you, you shivered from the loss of the warmth and comfort against your palm, “Sehun, wha-”

“You promised not to ask questions, right?” he said. There was a different tone in his voice now, something between excitement and nervousness, but why? “Just let me talk first.”

You nodded as the atmosphere suddenly changed into something more serious.

“You know I love you right?”

You nodded again.

He took a deep breath, “I know I’ve been asking you this over and over for the past few weeks, and I know you needed time to think but I think a month is enough time to make a decision. Y/n, will you marry me?”

You felt you heart shift, “Sehun…….. No.”

HIs demeanour changed. He was dripping with something you couldn’t place and towering over you even if he was only a few inches taller than you in reality.

“Y/n I’ll give you one more chance, this is the last time I’m going to ask, so what’s your answer!” he asked.

It was as if the whole world had stilled, “No.”

“WHY?!” he exclaimed, latching onto your wrists in desperation, “Tell me why you have to keep turning me down when I love you so much!?”

“No Sehun,” you cried out trying halfheartedly to wrench yourself free from his grasp, “I can’t-I can’t be a queen!”

“WHY?!”

“Because I don’t love you!”

You could see his heart shatter in that very moment as his arms fell to his sides and his eyes went blank, focusing on something in the distance.

“Sehun-”

“LEAVE!” he bellowed, “I don’t want you in my sight!”

No tears fell as he spun away from you and you could do nothing but back away in horror at what you had just done. As you sprinted back into the palace your tears fell freely even if his didn’t because in that moment when the words tumbled from your lips you knew they weren’t true. Even if you had never been sure enough before to say it out loud you always knew deep down. And as soon as you opened your mouth you knew that you did love him, possibly more than he loved you. But now you had broken him beyond repair so you pulled your bag from under your bed and raced out to where Lord Cha said he would be waiting, hoping desperately they hadn’t left yet as the sun was beginning to set.

He didn’t question the tears which were still streaming down your face bus helped you onto a horse before setting off.

When the palace walls disappeared into the darkness behind you, you also felt the last shreds of something inside you snap.

[co-mixed]

TROS: How should Ben’s redemption work?

Minor spoiler warning, but by this point, we’d be surprised if you haven’t heard the news.

Fans of Kylo Ren/Ben Solo did get something they wanted in The Rise of Skywalker. A redemption arc, that not all of us found truly satisfying. Not everyone was sold on that, and it ended in death.

That was both lazy and emotionally empty. Kylo’s scene with Han, him dealing with his memory, is a good start, but him sacrificing his life and losing it is not a great ending.

Ben Solo is a character for this, young generation. He lives in the world his predecessors “left” for him, he blames them for the state it is in. He struggles with himself, and reality surrounding him. In a way, he embodies all three types of storytelling conflicts in one (they define 6 or 7 now, but we’re taking the three main ones). This is why nearly every single person these days can relate to Ben.

Kylo Ren is a comfortable mask, that covers his emotions, but doesn’t truly destroy them.

People look at him in the light of killing Han Solo, but that’s what falls flat in the context of war. It’s war. Rey killed people (stormtroopers, who were like her buddy Finn), buddy Finn kills his former friends, the ones he grew up with. Body count for any of them is quite long. But Ben kills his father, the person he is emotionally attached to, as well as the audience. For us this is a worse crime than killing people you don’t know. I am not defending patricide here, but I will say, that there are cases in which even law sides with the accused. This might not be one of them though, even considering that in the middle of war he was killing an enemy perpetrator.

We don’t even know if his parents forgive him in the end, because none of the ghost cared enough to show up, and drop him a line.

So Ben is very imperfect, like many of us are. He takes one wrong turn after another, sometimes to save his own life, sometimes to prove to himself and the others just how far he’s gone. But does he deserve a second chance?

Who gets a second chance?

My first analogy is Bucky Barnes. Brainwashed by Hydra, forced to carry out various evil deeds, murder people etc. What Marvel does is they redeem him, and leave him to reflect on his mistakes and correct what he can.

Marvel, the guys probably comfortably hanging down the hall, made this choice.

While we can’t say that Ben wasn’t programmed to kill people, we can argue that from a very young age, he was exposed to all kinds of influence. Be it Snoke, Palpatine, or even Dark Side Luke. So he wasn’t entirely in his right mind, especially considering what Dark Side does to people. Imagine if Luke finished his night chat and killed his nephew? And then let’s not forget Rey, who’s killed a bunch of people in the shuttle discovering her lightning, and stabbed Kylo. We just forgive her, because stormtroopers are evil (except are they?).

But that’s just throwing blame around.

Who doesn’t get a second chance?

Let’s see two more examples of redemption arcs, and why exactly this one had to be different.

Natasha Romanoff. Even though Marvel movies seem more lighthearted, they also don’t dismiss death. Natasha jumps on Vormir, because she believes that this is where all her actions were leading her. She knows that to save the world, to save people, someone needs to die. And she chooses to do so, because Hawkeye in her eyes deserves to live more. He has people, he has family, and he has a future despite his recent murder rampage (again, evil people are still people). She does it knowing exactly what she’s doing, and she is not forgotten.

Tony Stark. Again, Tony does the snap, because he has sins to repay for (Ultron, for starters), and he has a family to save and a future to give to his daughter. I know that many people are still hurt that Marvel made this call, and it is a very emotional moment, but death in the MCU, as well as in Marvel Comics, is just a word. No one is gone. Besides, it’s just Earth-199999, and everybody knows that the true canon is the mainstream Earth-616.

So as much as these deaths hurt the fans, they can always dive into more stories, find out what the characters are really like. Learn how many things the movies got different, for example.

You have options, and they don’t include the need to write or read fanfiction, and trick you brain into believing them more than canon. There are movies, and they can be good, but the characters themselves are safe, and if they die, you know it’s Marvel, so there is always hope (usually measured in sales).

Back to Star Wars. Movies are our undeniable canon. So much so that story group has to rewrite everything to fit them. Whatever happens to a character there, stays as concrete history. I don’t know how many people were devastated, and couldn’t move past it for at least a week, but the stories you hear honestly make you question sanity of those responsible. There was a way to not kill off one of the most beloved (and most marketable) characters in the Sequel Trilogy.

Three ways this could go

The main question is What does Ben do after him and Rey defeat Palpatine?

Path 1.

Ben is not a coward, so we immediately dismiss the idea of him running somewhere far far away. He has to face the others, and he has to accept his own evil deeds. The only way for him to disappear is for Rey to convince him to do so. He has no ties to the rebellion, he doesn’t have to show up there. But she wouldn’t want to find out how far the angry mob could go. Besides, no reason to ruin the celebration by bringing that guy everyone hates.

I don’t really believe this would be the best course of action, but it’s possible.

Path 2.

He is still technically the Supreme Leader, so it’s up to him to reform the galaxy. This was not all the fleet the First Order has, they have forces on every conquered planet. There are governments to consider, alliances, etc. This also allows him to free the slaves, and truly finish what Anakin had started.

Then, if he gives up the power to let’s say, senate, there will likely be a trial. And would he defend himself? No. That’s not in his character. Would anyone else do this? Only the Force Ghosts and Rey can truly explain what was all that mess and how he got there. He’s either gonna need one hell of a space lawyer, or a great public speaker, who could convince everyone that the best possible choice is exile (let’s make it a nice one on Naboo). This is where you pull the writer card, and come up with a bunch of excuses as to why death penalty and prison is not an option.

Path 3.

Same as path 2, but he doesn’t give up the power, he represents the First Order, but he creates an Alliance with other planets. He makes a great compelling speech, he surrounds himself with people who are trustworthy, and together they come up with a solution of how to protect the galaxy from wars. It would’ve been a better option, if we didn’t have a time jump, because that would just mean that he’s done it as soon as he got the power, but well, we can’t get everything.

There is a moral side to this path, but how many people in the galaxy really know who Ben Solo (Skywalker) is? If he is prepared to deal with the past, and make up for it, this would be perfect for his actions to truly matter.

You may agree or disagree, and we hope you have better, more logical ideas. If you do, please share them! If you disagree, and have questions, ask away!

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Soulless Riffing: Brainless Wrap-up

I got a supernatural action/romance book series as a gift that’s just riddled with stuff that I hate….and as a steampunk Victorian London action romance story filled with werewolves and vampires…it’s yeah gonna be easy to poke fun at.

I just want to say, it’s totally cool if you like this story or ones like it!  It’s certainly a better caliber than a lot of what I make fun of…however…I can’t help but want to make fun of it.

Over here for the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7+8, 9, 10+11, 12, 13, 14, and Epilogue.

So here are my final thoughts on the book Soulless for those interested in such things:

It’s not good quality but hell, you’re probably not reading magical woman in Victorian times bangs hot werewolf while hitting zombies with an umbrella cause you want really deep themes and tight prose.

Despite my grumblings on Alexia’s Italian prosecution complex and supernaturals as an oppressed race, it’s not really that problematic.  I think it’s a pinch ignorant and unintentionally glib, but dang I’ve seen way worse.

I think the book’s greatest strength and weakness are kinda one in the same, it just depends on your perspective. 

That would be the abiding and consistent frivolousness of it all.  I personally feel as if it hurts the story cause it feels as if there’s no stakes and that the conflict doesn’t matter.  But you can see the appeal.  Even when shit is really going down, it’s not properly stressful or scary.  Humor is never far away, it’s just straight up fluff!

The plot contradicts itself for no apparent reason, it has giant holes, and what sense it does make is highly dependent on every single character (even ones meant to be smart) not having enough brain function to make sentences by themselves.

This is more subjective but the relationship at the center wasn’t great if you ask me. The conflict is all childish, with no suspense that it’ll be a more than chapter long hindrance. The main differences in their personalities are basically on gendered lines, with a little werewolf vs. human culture for color.  Alexia has lower self-esteem, gets sad sometimes, is more likely to be polite, and is more reluctant about a sexual relationship.  Besides that they’re incredibly similar to one another. They’re antagonistic, strong-willed, self-righteous, frivolous, stupid, short-sighted, not self-aware, and have similar politics. They’re so similar when they have an argument they just circle the drain.  Nobody adds anything or learns because they’re just vomiting the same unprocessed, inept perspective at one another.  You’ll never be short on conflict, but it’s all non-arguments about petty bullshit that don’t even manage to be funny.  

For something that’s meant to be fun and frivolous there’s a surprising lack of action and sex. The story wants to both be kinda that virginal ravishment and female empowered libidos at the same time and it just...doesn’t mesh. I honestly feel they should have leaned more on having a horny protag, and just played up feigning confidence, clumsiness, with a bit of uncertainty.  Instead Alexia both wants to both spend a week locked in a cabin fucking this man, but also IS THIS AROUSAL????? WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?!?!?!?!  There is 1 page of a sex scene, the make out scenes were frankly underwhelming and froze the pacing, and Alexia only has 1 proper fight in it all and that’s over by what page 5? LAME!

I feel as if she should’ve leaned more into the cheesy ridiculousness of it all.  Like her umbrella is actually a living familiar (her father’s) who’s perhaps at first begrudgingly working with Alexia.  The umbrella is sarcastic and dramatic but ends up being deeply loyal to Alexia. Named Parry or Saul for parasol?

Her evil family, or maybe a higher up in government is actually connected to the genocide club? DUN DUN DUN!

Queen Victoria seems like a delicate older woman, but in a climactic battle it turns out she can take care of herself and says some dumb nonsensical one liner like, “JUST LIE BACK AND THINK OF ENGLAND!” when she blunderbuss’ the antagonist out a grand window in her castle.

Well…to be fair… I haven’t read the whole series so who knows if that last one happens.

But let me give you a proper Too long; Didn’t read:

On the good side:

It’s easy to read frivolous fun that indulges in the Victorian aesthetic with a supernatural flavor. The opening of the story, I still contend is good. There is genuine friendship tenderness in this story that is lovely.  It doesn’t take itself too seriously, and sprinkles humor throughout.   The lead has sexual agency, women’s libidos are celebrated, and there’s an implication that sex outside of marriage is fine.  It does follow a sensible (if could be improved) pattern of intrigue, romantic development, climax, and conclusion. It’s also written in a particular voice that many would probably enjoy.  The voice is horny, juvenile, and superior both in the respect that Alexia is NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS but also a snotty kinda British superior attitude for being witty enough that your backhanded compliment seemed polite enough that it wasn’t recognized for what it really was.

…Okay so maybe that last line was in itself a backhanded compliment.  I found the voice irritating, but I can understand why it’s attractive to so many young women.  What does any reasonable person want from a young adult novel aimed at young women?

For it to be sexy, silly, that the protagonist is better than the average person and by extension YOU ARE for enjoying her adventures.  And hey listen, young women are shit on ALL THE TIME for all sorts of bullshit.  Women should have these outlets to just briefly, BRIEFLY feel as if they’re smart, powerful, and sexy!  I give a hearty fuck yeah to that!

On the bad side:

There is a caveat I have with what I just said above. Some of the superior tone of Soulless (and it’s not exclusive to this title I assure you) is that some of the superior tone comes down to misogyny, classism, and even a little of what’s appropriate for a GOOD MAN (beyond yanno don’t be shitty.)  I cannot abide by that.

The story’s frivolousness when it comes to serious topics is a disservice.  

It could have easily been more fun.

The story could have also been EASILY molded into a plot that made more sense.

The story has no idea how to be subtle…which helps it feel as if it’s a YA novel.  This novel books itself as adult, but it’s really really, really, really, REALLY a young adult book and it should have been labeled/marketed/etc as such.  I came in expecting a fun saucy novel, but left feeling condensed to by a 16 year old. Like honestly, I feel as if she wrote a young adult novel, her editor wanted a sex scene at the end, so she quick pushed out a page of a tame one, and because of that they felt weird labeling it YA.

But what the hell do I know?

If you want turn your brain off fun and like supernatural Victorian hooey? Go for it!

If you don’t like those things? Be a butthead like me and hate read things for a masochistic thrill.

Did you know there’s a sequel? THIS BAD BOY IS A SERIES AND YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO SUFFER THROUGH SCROLLING PAST MY RIFFS ON THE SEQUEL TOO SOON BUCKO! WOOHOO!

[canaryatlaw]

alright, well today has certainly been interesting. my alarm went off bright and early at 7:30, and though I was tired of course the adrenaline for today’s events kicked in pretty quickly and I was off getting ready. I did my makeup to make sure it was impeccable (and it did turn out really nice) and got my freshly dry cleaned suit on with all its buttons and such. Spent about ten minutes eating breakfast before getting an uber to the juvenile courthouse. I was still feeling kind of tired so I decided it would be a good time to use a piece of my caffeine gum, which starts as like a hard tablet thing then turns into gum as you chew it (kinda like a gumball). So I’m chewing it and I’m like wtf there’s like something hard in the gum??? so I pulled it out and oh, that’s definitely a piece of tooth. great. I have about a billion fillings so I figured it had to be one of those, so the first place i checked was the last one that had gotten done that wasn’t all that stable but it was fine, and it ended up being the last tooth on the top left side of my mouth. Well, not much I can do about it at the moment. I got dropped off at the courthouse around 9:15 and just decided to wait around for a few minutes since it wasn’t terribly cold out rather than find another place to stake out for a bit. so I called my dentist’s office and told them what happened, and they said I could come in today at 11:30 or 2:30, I wasn’t sure I’d make it back from the interview for the 11:30 so we decided on the 2:30. I waited a couple more minutes before going inside and going through security, I swear it was the same sheriff that manned that security check point my first summer there that was so much better than the other ones, but after that first summer I moved and my public transit was closer to the other entrance. but they let me through easily, even though I definitely did set off the metal detector 😂story of my life. so I went up to the 4th floor where their office is and ran to the bathroom by the elevators right outside their actual office to make sure everything was good and kill a few more minutes so I wasn’t too obscenely early. Once I figured it would be a decent time to go in I headed in, the email instruction had said to you know let the receptionist know your name and that you’re here for an interview, except I knew the receptionist, so I didn’t have to do any of that lol. They gave me a standard employment application to fill out (which I’ve filled out for them before) which stated you didn’t have to rewrite any info that was on your resume, you could just write see resume, so that’s a lot less annoying, and to email a reference list in afterwards. So I finished that and gave it back, then a few minutes later the woman I’ve been communicating via email with, who I also know, came and got me to take me back to the conference room, which is in the back of the office, so while we were walking there she was like oh I love your suit that’s so cool, is it custom?? so that was cool to hear, I said it was and that a former employer had decided to get it for all of us and she was like awesome, my husband has a custom suit he loves lol. Once we reached the conference room she walked me in and, unsurprisingly, I knew the two people on the other side of the table that would be interviewing me (so just to keep track, I’ve officially known every person I’ve encountered in the office). One of them was actually in my first interview for being a law clerk way back in 2016 and then she ran the training so I knew her quite well, the other guy I didn’t know that well but I was familiar with him and he said he remembered me so that was a good sign. So they asked me about what my experience working with the office had been so I talked about the unfounded reports and the child death case and the permanency hearings and the interviews ranging between a 4 year old who’s been in her foster home for 3 days and is already calling her foster mother “mom” and wants to stay with her forever, to a 16 year old boy involuntarily in a psych ward which he would be stuck in way past the point of medical necessity (like, two months past when he was cleared after 6 days there) to the point where we had to get a court order for DCFS to place him somewhere else- so really running the gamut of different experiences here. So I talked about some of my other legal experiences like working for my dad (which is always a good one to use because I can bs it pretty freely to fit whatever I need it to be) and at the DV clinic and how I handled dealing with judges and clients and all that good stuff. They asked some question about the majority of the population they serve being African American and why I thought that was, so I said that of course the fact that 95% of parents qualify for a public defender means that the vast majority of them are living in poverty (and sadly a lot of people living in poverty in Chicago are African American), and while poverty itself is not child neglect it makes it a lot more difficult when you have to choose between going to work to feed your family and leaving your 8 and 10 year olds home alone which is child neglect, or not being able to afford a bed for your child, which is child neglect. And of course that while child abuse takes place across all socioeconomic levels, those in poverty are often in positions where their actions could be reported to DCFS a lot easier whereas someone with some social standing would probably be given the benefit of the doubt by not reporting when they see what could be evidence of abuse/neglect. There were a few other questions about using common sense and if I could give an example of how I thought that played into the job, so I talked about how when I was reviewing unfounded reports there was one against a daycare owner that had originally been indicated but was unfounded on appeal because the supposed act of abuse had been fairly minor, but the fact that the owner would treat a small child like that to begin with coupled with the fact that she lied to the parents and lied to the investigators and completely refused to cooperate were all big flags for me that this is not someone who should be entrusted with young children when they are capable of such actions, and how I took steps to ensure something was done about the situation. They wanted to know more about the child death motion so I talked about that and how I had researched it and the ultimate conclusion the judge reached that while he did not grant the motion, we were successful in convincing him he had the power to do what we were requesting, it was just the facts that he found unconvincing which of course we don’t have any control over, so I was still pleased with the outcome. And yeah, lots of questions about handling a high case load and all that good stuff, they had said since they lost a lot of staff they were down to like 3-4 attorneys per courtroom when it used to be more like 5-6 so caseloads had been rising again and that I’d have to be prepared for that. I asked them if they had a timetable as for when they would be making hiring decisions, but they were like oh yeah we have no idea, so still don’t know what to do with that other than wait I guess. So yeah, overall I think it went pretty well, I was confident in pretty much all of my answers and I think my passion for the work really followed through. So when we finished I headed out, it was like 10:40 at this point so I called the dentist office back and asked if the 11:30 was still available and they said it was, so I got an uber pool and rode it downtown to where my dentist is located. So he checked it out and got his little camera pen thing in there so I could see, basically a fairly large part of the tooth/filling had come off revealing the silver filling beneath it, which means it wasn’t a filling that we’ve done over the past 3 years I’ve been here with this dentist, but was something my New York dentist had done. The dentist said it was stable for now though, so we made an appointment for next week to put a crown on it. I took the brown line to the bus and then home which was fairly easy. After changing out of the suit I made some lunch and tried to relax for a bit, watched some Reign and made sure I sent the reference list over. I also started picking at my gel nail polish because once you start doing that it’s really hard to stop, so my nails were not in good shape by the end of the day, but that was okay because once Jess got home we met up at the nail place we’ve been going to and got manicures, and then walked over to main street and got dinner and then ice cream because ice cream is always needed for birthday celebrations, even if it’s slightly delayed. Headed home after that and looked at stuff on my phone for a while trying to figure out what I want to do tomorrow. I’m supposed to (and by that I mean I responded yes on facebook) to this event with Illinois prosecutors and government attorneys where there are a bunch of different government agencies attending and will be possible networking attorneys. And of course part of me is like just suck it up and go it could be helpful, but another part of me knows I’m really not interested in any of the options listed, I don’t want to end up in some random government office, and I highly doubt I could get hired by the SA’s office given my dearth of experience with criminal law in the actual courtroom. The one thing that might’ve been slightly interesting was the office of the inspector general, which I would be interested in as they have a division that works inside DCFS that I would love to work for, but those that are attending are apparently from the office of the executive inspector general, which just means they oversee state operations and such and basically has no connection to the DCFS branch. and I mean, what am I gonna do, hand them my resume and ask them to give it to someone at a totally different office? they’re obviously not going to do that, so at this point I’m seriously doubting going, I really just don’t think there would be anything worth going for, but I guess we’ll see. And yeah, after that I showered and got ready for bed and now I am here and I am definitely ready to pass out, so I will end this here. Goodnight darlings. Congrats on being halfway through the week.

[atamascolily]

First Line Meme

List the first lines of your last 10 published stories (or whatever number you like). Look to see if there are any patterns that you notice yourself, and see if anyone else notices any!

1) As the Millennium Falcon rocketed away from the pull of Tatooine's gravity, Luke Skywalker's tiny X-wing starfighter was right on the freighter's tail. (Suicide Run)

2) "You look tired." ((Never) Too Late To Change)

3) Fire. (Tired of Cleaning Up After You)

4) "Single human Jedi seeks life partner for adventure, romance, and restoration of ancient religious order with strong political ties to New Republic government." (Single Human Jedi Seeks Life Partner)

5) Mara Jade spent five years plotting Luke Skywalker's demise, but when she finally murdered him, it was an accident.  (Resurrection Blues)

6) There's a word in High Alderaani, Leia says, for a man who acts as your father, whether they're related to you by blood or not. (Four Fathers)

7) Calvin is eleven years old in 1997, the summer the Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition hits the local multiplex, and he is instantly smitten. (Star Wars Without the Kissing)

8) Luke had known about the womp rat hive on the edge of Beggar's Canyon for weeks, but between the main 'vaporator breaking right in the middle of harvest, and the monthly ordeal of shipping the harvested water to town, he hadn't managed to get off the farm to deal with it yet. (The Dry Land)

9) The desert was a harsh teacher, but a fair one. (Hidden Springs in the Desert)

10) Luke's not sure why he decides to do the gene test - maybe he just wants tangible proof of his heritage as opposed to the ramblings of an unreliable ghost - but the results, when they come in, leave him reeling.  (Family Matters)

META/COMMENTARY:

I have a love-hate relationship with first lines. On the one hand, they're infinitely important to setting the tone of a piece and engaging the reader; on the other hand, they're a pain in the ass to get right. I spend a lot of time thinking about the perfect lede - the sentence that makes the reader want to keep reading - in my professional writing. I'm not super-neurotic about it in my fics, but it’s something I notice and pay attention to. Sometimes I start a fic with nothing but a good opening line, and other times I have to tweak it until I get something "good enough" that works.  

In general, I want the opening paragraph of my fics to give the reader a good idea of what they're in for. Even if the plot itself is full of twists and turns, or is a bait-and-switch, I want the opening to be consistent with the overall style and tone. So in #6, the opening makes it clear that this piece is about fatherhood and relationships and different ways that can be structured and interpreted; #9 establishes the desert as a major player from the get-go. #4 is very clearly a meta parody about Luke Skywalker's love life in the Legends universe, and #7 is about a budding geek falling in love with Star Wars for the first time and the power of the imagination.

#10 is especially interesting to me because it highlights Luke's desire for "tangible" proof of his heritage, and introduces the "ramblings of an unreliable ghost" as a thing right from the start. Also "reeling" is a great foreshadowing of the tumble Luke will take later on in the fic. I totally didn't notice any this of before, and it's nice to see I can unconsciously synchronize a piece like this even when I'm not deliberately thinking about it.  

Many of my opening lines - most notably #5, and #10 - are designed to hook you in right from the get-go. (They're what I call BAM lines, because that's the sound effect I make at the end of them when I read them aloud.) You want to know how Mara Jade can possibly murder Luke Skywalker by accident and you want to know what the results of Luke's gene test are, because of course you do. I want to know, too, that's why I wrote the fic. If I can get something like this on the page, I know the fic is going to be good.

Less sensational, but still intriguing, are openers like #6 and #8, where you want to hear more about Leia's interpretation of parenthood, and Luke's encounter with the womp rat hive, but they don't make a big show about what they're doing the way that #5 and #10 do.

My writing mentor once told me never to start with a piece of dialogue. Like most writing rules, it's made to be broken, but it's interesting how I apply that to my fic pieces as well as my more professional writing.

I tend to prefer long, involved sentences, so it's fun to see where I try to play against type in my more recent fics by opening with a shorter one!

One advantage that my fics have over my professional articles is the A03 summary, which takes a lot of the pressure off to find the perfect lede. #1 is very simple: it's a description of a scene in ROTJ, and establishes where we are in the narrative of the OT. It's doesn't have to be flashy or fancy because if you're reading the piece, you've already bought the premise in the fic summary, namely that this is an extended character study of Luke Skywalker in that film.

#3 is the same way - it's establishing where we are in The New Rebellion, and referring back to the quote from that novel that serves as the epigraph. It doesn't have to be fancy or establish the premise in itself, because the summary does that for me.

#2 is the only one I read and wonder if I could have done better. It's not a great opening in context, and Luke being tired doesn't much of a role in the fic that follows. But it's not surprising given how fast I wrote the fic. That particular piece might have benefited from a few days in the drawer before publishing, but I was too excited to slow down and pace myself like I usually do. It's adequate, but not exceptional, and that's fine - you can't win them all.

You can see the same principles at work in the openings of my non-Star Wars fics as well. The openings are designed to pique your interest, and I think it still works even if you aren't familiar with the franchise in question:

A) When Steve Rogers arrived at the gym in the basement of SHIELD's DC headquarters, there was a skinny blond kid wailing on one of the punching bags with a wooden sword. (Spar Wars)

B) Tenar woke in the morning with a smile on her lips. (Out of the Wind)

C) It was always entertaining to watch Firouz at work, especially when he was on the verge of a breakthrough. (Two-Part Invention)

D) It happened in the space between heartbeats. (In the Belly of the Beast)

Going back to some of my earliest fics for the Sinbad fandom, it's clear that my opening lines have improved dramatically over the course of the last year. Practice definitely helps!

This was a lot of fun, thanks @teagrl for tagging me!

[pocsuperheroes]

Hi can you tell me some Latona superhero’s from DC Thanks :)

I assume you mean Latina so all go off that but if I’m wrong I’m sorry. And sorry this took so long! 

The Question (Renee Montoya): Originally made to be a cop on Batman: The Animated Series but she migrated to the comics where she eventually became a superhero. She is also one of the most prominent lesbian superheroes in comics which has caused her family to disown her and caused trouble in her job. But she is nothing if not a survivor and BA. Victor Sage, the original Question, picked her to be his successor as he was dying of lung cancer. Renee has also had a romance with Batwoman.

I’d recommend reading

Gotham Central mainly Volume 3 Half a Life ( issues #6–10) where she is outed to the whole police station. 

52 (the series not the relaunch) where she becomes the Question

DC Comics: Bombshells (2015-2017) #45  onward. It’s an alternative universe but its a fun one. I mean Renee gets to fight Nazi’s what not to love.

I haven’t read but I’ve heard is good

The Question # 37

Question: The Five Books of Blood

Question: Pipeline

Detective Comics Annual # 11, 12

Batman Annual 27, 28

The Question # 37

Birds of Prey # 11,12

Convergence :The Question # 1, 2 

More under the cut

Green Lantern (Jessica Cruz): She is a Mexican American who was traumatized after her friends were murdered. This left Jessica Cruz with anxiety issues which would make her role as a Green Lantern hard. Especially since she was forced to accept the ring, unlike most Green Lanterns who accepted it willingly. Even with such hardships she had grown into her role as protector of earth and has formed a strong connection with her fellow Green Lantern, Simon Baz.

Haven’t read but heard is good

Justice League Vol 6-8. (Forever Evil and JL Vol 5 for more context)

DC Super Hero Girls: Spaced Out this is definitely 

Green Lanterns: Rebirth She and Simon Baz team up to.

Aquagirl (Lorena Marquez): She is from San Diego and found herself was submerged with the city after an Earthquake. Instead of dying she found that she could breathe underwater. Lorena then proceeded to help Aquaman locate other survivors and take down the man responsible for this a Scientist named Geist. Eventually, she became the second Aquagirl.

I’d recommend reading

Aquaman #15-20 [2004] This storyline is the first appearance of Lorena (specifically issue #16) and it has been collected in Aquaman (2003-2006): Sub-Diego 

52: #35-40 [2007] these issues are mainly about Steel (Henry Irons) but she helps.

Haven’t read but heard is good

Teen Titans #17-19 [2004]

Aquaman #26-28 [2005]

Teen Titans #34 [2006]

World War III: The Valiant [2007]

Teen Titans #69 and Teen Titans Annual 2009 where she officially joins the Teen Titans.

Teen Titans  #99-100 [2011]

Fire (Beatriz da Costa): She has two main origins that I know of

#1 Her parents were surveyors of the Amazon River Basin. Due to this, she was born among a tribe of people known as the Ge and it was foretold that she would be given powers from the Sky Spirit. Her family was skeptical of this but when she turned 15 she got superpowers which she used to fight crime. She eventually became the head of the Brazilian branch of Wayne Enterprises. 

#2 She started as an amateur model in Brazil before becoming a showgirl, stage performer, and an undercover secret agent for the Brazilian government. An unusual career path to be sure. While working as a secret agent she was caught in a pyroplasmic explosion which gave her fire-based super-human powers

Regardless of the version, she is known for her long stint in the Justice League (mainly the Justice League International) along with her friendships/partnerships with fellow league members Tora (Ice) and Sigrid (Ice Maiden).

I’d recommend reading

Justice League International (1987-1989) #14 onward or Justice League International Vol. 2 and Justice League International Vol. 3 onward

Formerly Known as the Justice League (2003)

Haven’t read but heard is good

Justice League International (2011-2012) Vol. 1: The Signal Masters 

Super Friends #25

Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders/ Kendra Munoz-Saunders): Okay there have been several Hawkgirls who tend to be reincarnations of the first one so it can be a little confusing. Kendra Saunders is the semi-reincarnation of Shiera Hall. Kendra was her Grandniece but when she committed suicide Shiera’s soul walked in but she retained no memory of her previous lives and refused to believe that she was Shiera. Then three years in one line of dialogue in “Hawkman #1” that Kendra’s mom had been a “beautiful Hispanic woman.” While Kendra Munoz-Saunders is from an alternative universe where she a treasure hunter has wings permanently grafted to her back. And she is definitely latina.

Many different kinds of media have embraced Kendra as Latina even though it was a rocky start. Such as DC Superhero Girls and the CW superhero shows.

I’d recommend reading

JSA Secret Files and Origins #1 

DC Comics: Bombshells (2015-2017) #58 onward. In this version, she was raised in a Mexican orphanage.

She makes several appearances in Birds of Prey my favorite is #104. It’s barely any screen time I just find it funny that after dealing with the Secret Six, Oracle gives her with a car a for her troubles.

Haven’t read but heard is good

Earth 2 #2 onward 

Empress (Anita Fite): She is the daughter of Donald Fite, of the All Purpose Enforcement Squad (APES.), and his wife Oshi. Oshi was the daughter of a powerful Voodou priestess. Anita’s grandmother preformed a ritual where she asked the Oya, goddess of the wind, fire, and thunderbolts, to “sponsor” Anita and serve as her “Gros Bon Ange” (Big Guardian Angel).  Anita Fite grew up displaying considerable athletic abilities and learning Vodou from her mother and grandmother. Her mother was killed when she was young by the villain Agua Sin Gaaz. Anita would join the Young Justice team. However, she was written out when her father was killed and her parents reincarnated as babies that she would end up raising. Which isn’t weird at all…

I’d recommend reading

Young Justice #16 onward even if she ends up raising her own parents

Haven’t read but heard is good

She apparently made several minor appearances in the Wonder Girl miniseries in 2007-2008

Wildcat II (Yolanda Montez): Yolanda Montez was born with meta-human powers due to the genetic manipulation and had retractable claws. Yolanda became the god-daughter of Ted Gran (Wildcat I), a close boxing friend of her father, “Mauler” Montez. She died but has made a come back on Earth 2.

Haven’t read but heard is good

Infinity Inc. #12 onward

she makes appearances in Earth 2

Black Orchid (Alba Garcia): A former army private whose arms had been amputated during her time in a magical alternate dimension which gave her powers as Black Orchid. Currently, she is a member of both A.R.G.U.S. and Justice League Dark.

Haven’t read but heard is good

Justice League Dark (2011-2015) Vol. 2: The Books of Magic 

Catwoman (Selina Kyle): Pretty I don’t have to give a backstory on this one. She is half Cuban (as confirmed by Catwoman #81), however, that regularly ignored. But I’m bitter and you can pry her being Cuban from my cold dead hands

I’d recommend reading

Catwoman (1993-2001) #81 

Catwoman (2002-2008) Vol. 1: Trail of the Catwoman onward. There is no mention of her being Latina but it is a good series (would have been better if she was confirmed, Latina)

Wonder Woman (Maria Mendoza): The daughter of a local judge in Peru, she was an activist protesting against the brutal excavation of an ancient holy site.  The man in charge, Armando Guitez, wanted the power of the runes within the site to gain enough strength to rule the world. When he kills Maria’s father is she sneaks onto the site to get revenge but stumbles upon two runes. The second rune, one of light spirits, is accidentally shattered and she is whisked away by the Sun God of the Incan people. She was gifted with magical powers which she uses to defeat Guitez.

She came from a story written by Stan Lee and it’s not that good to be honest (you can watch Linkara’s review here: X) but I’m a sucker for her design and the idea of a Hispanic magical girl Wonder Woman.

I’d recommend reading

Just Imagine: Wonder Woman

Ya'Wara: When she was a child her plane crashed in the Amazon Rainforest but she was saved by the Forest Mother who would then give her special powers so she could protect the forest. She became a member of the Tapirape tribe. She would later go on to join The Others, who wanted to gather the Seven Artefacts of Atlantis to keep them from falling into evil hands. They would split up the relics with Ya'Wara who took the Globe of Transportation.

I’d recommend reading

Aquaman #7 - The Others, Chapter One onward

Aquaman and The Others

These are the one that comes to my mind and there are probably great (or better) ones that didn’t make it to the list. And a few of these characters I’m not super familiar with so there may be mistakes. Also, some of these are or have poor representation (‘big surprise’). Even so, I hope these helped you. 

[stone-man-warrior]

January 23, 2021: 11:34 am:

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https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1352761662068166658

We interrupt this Corona Virus Important Announcement for these words from our sponsors:

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1353030814397829120

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2XO39vz01M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=891zKx2Ffvg

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One more time:

“Patrick Vallance = Hamburger Patty Drapery Cover, Top Rail Overcast Configuration.

We have to go back in time, in Twitter news, take the Way-Back Machine to a time when the words: “Less than ten“ were a standard statement from news media when reports from a “Schul Schut” list of the number of dead was the result of some tragic event.

What used to be the standard “Less than ten” is now the rules are up to “13 to 14 people are going to die every day”.

Mr. SAG Universal Patty of Tommy Burgers on Victory Blvd in San Feranando Valley Vallance, is calling for some: “Sodomy”, “Coke… no! Pepsi… no! Coke!” to happen. The Christian SDA pronounce the word “sodomy” as “soda me”. Is important to know that, is standard, means there is a “Save the Princess” and the one who says “soda-me” is the “Princess”, and is also one of the assassins of a larger group that shows up as a result of “soda me” when spoken by someone playing role of victim.

In English: He needs a distraction, something that will use up a lot of global security and rescue resources, to draw attention into the direction of a controlled environment that happens to also be a fake “Schul Schut” garden variety of tragic events played out by nbc/Universal Studios/Comcast terror actors and engineers of all kinds (Disney Imagineers, because of it’s Britain, and they like castles over there) in effort to stall some sudden interest in the activities of “powerful people” in high places in UK, EU, USA, SA, Canada, nz, Down Under in the Outback, Africa, Amazon, Tesla, the Vatican, and Jim Dunlop humble maker of guitar picks and Cry Baby Wah, and other places, such as Boeing, nasa, and Lockheed Martin.

Patty Vallance seems to be ordering a “Schul Schut” to me.” ~StoneMan 1-22-2021.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi_BHHY5A8M

Customer see’s Cal Worthington and his dog Spot on TV, incredible bargains of new, used cars at Long Beach. Customer buys one of the new ones instead of the one that one seen on TV, that one is not available anymore. Customer registers the new car.

Spot eats customer.

Cal Worthington makes a new commercial with some new used new fresh inventory.

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1353027314750263298

“Long Beach” shows up at the 1:48 minute mark here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_zhBLF1Fu0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfXhf0kfG4E

At the 0:12 mark, some comfort is requested by the Queen.

Rampart Division is there, “Johnny on the Spot” at the 0:13 mark.

Very powerful, and comfortable.

Like the Ottoman Empire was.

It’s about the Children.

At the 0:38 mark, after Rampart is comfortable there propping up the feet of the Throne, then, the big request, babies, lots of babies.... all shapes and sizes... the Queen requires babies, US Citizen babies.

On Saturday night’s, they are on blue plate special at the Church Yard Sale picnic.

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Disclaimer:

Real Police = Officers

Fake Screen Actor Guild Police = Ham = Pigs

Royal Canadian Mounted Police disguised as State Police = RCMP = Pig Farmers = Bring Home the Bacon = Keeps the Pigs in Blanket all nice and cozy so they don‘t get cought kidnapping and raping the babies of the Cal Worthington customer who just registered their new car at the California DMV and was eaten by his dog, Spot.

now, it’s just a state mandated euthanasia administration where citizens are ordered to line up to be put to sleep at the COVID 19 Test Center near you.

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6:03 pm:

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1353126296692387842

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1353122031580147714

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1353117009983250434

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1353112504835203076

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1353103380353323008

This series of Tweets seems to add up to other than what the packaging is saying.

I am seeing the one on top about the mine as the main subject, while the others are there to help terror soldiers read the information in the one about the mine.

All speculation:

The tweet is saying something about the Lithia Motors new car dealerships, seems to be a nation wide subject, as Lithia is very large car dealership.

Key phrasing is in “Fast Tracked”.

The phrasing, when combined with the past two days of very tiny hints about that tweet contained in many other news stories is about “billiards” to say a message in a story about mines.

The phrase “I am feeling a little behind the eight ball” is part of the basis of how the message is presented.

So, to be behind the 8-Ball, is to be shadowed, or, protected, or, otherwise are not in range of a incoming cue ball.

I think the inclusion of Nevada is only there to get the reader to see that there is a game in the message.

“Energy” is power. “Mining” is not clear, could be children, could be a possessive statement, I am seeing the possessive statement use.

“Final Approval” is not a good thing for the subject of the tweet, witch seems to be the Lithia Motors Car Dealerships nation wide. They are all hard core terror cells.

The way it all reads, is what was once in possession of “Democrat” terror control, was taken by Donald Trump terror branding cells.

“Lithia is Under New Management”

(Trump/Benedict Vatican/Boris Johnson Brexit, branding)

... seems to be the headline in an English translation to the Tweet about the Nevada mine.

All speculation, but it seems as though Trump managed to steal away a number of terror holdings from the Democrat leaders.

I could also say what I usually say, that it was in possession of “Britain/Bergoglio/Canadian“ terror cells, and that would also be accurate enough.

Democrat political party controls much of the Britain/Bergoglio terror cells, Canadians, of course, would be the actual people at the Lithia car dealerships who do the murders and trafficking that is done by Lithia Motors, the Democrats run the place from a Command Center position, for marching orders to Rank & File Canadian terror soldiers at terror cells such as Lithia Motors. Looks like Donald Trump stole the car.... dealership.

The tweet says the “Fast Track” happened before Joe took office, so, my read is that Joe cannot “pocket” the proceeds made from the terror trafficking, and the proceeds could include kidnapped children.

The Democrat political party are all Screen Actor Guild members who also run the SAGClubMed terror cells, hundreds of very large medical industry companies and underground operations, and hundreds of thousands of smaller medical associated terror cells. The “AARP Family of Brands” is another way of saying Democrat Political Party, so, when the Democrats do terror comm, they sometimes use drug analogies for updates and marching order shell jargon. That is where the “Fast Track” turns into an “8-Ball” to say the comm about billiards with drugs.

See? simple.

My read about the major difference between Republican and Democrats is that there is no difference between the two, with a few exceptions. They are all SAG members, and are all part of the terror leadership, The difference seems to be that the farther over on the Democrat side you look, the more likely you are to find drug addicts in Government, while the farther you look on the Republican side, the more likely you are to find a lot of Bibles.

Donald Trump is neither Democrat or Republican.

He is “Afterswords”. A completely different animal in the house.

He is SAG, same as the Dems and GOP, but is not one of them.

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7:20 pm:

In other news:

Today and yesterday at Pope Francis Pontifex Twitter account, I read the most offensive Tweets I have seen yet.

The “Text” of the information is very difficult to decode, and explain.

There are signs from MOOG Music in email promotion today the suggest the MOOG synthesizer makers are preparing to target a selection of visual graphic artists for take out. Once the people send in the requested information for a contest they say they are promoting, the Google terror cells will be tracking the people, learning all about them, and then will show up at their homes for COVID 19 murder operations.

I am not going to decode any of it. These Pope Tweets are far too depressing, and hurt to know that there is no one watching the baby, while the Pope is eating them.

The Pontifex account on Twitter has more than 18 million followers, each one is a terror soldier. The way Google/Twitter terror works, is that when a new follower shows up at Pontifex, those people are scrutinized, followed around, spied on and the local church where those people live will be sending assassins eventually. There may be some COVID choice to make, or not, but eventually the new Pontifex follower will become a Christian terror pirate one way, or another way. Either those people already are Christian pirates, or will choose to get and use the required Smart Phone for tracking and spying on others as a murder cell member, or, if they refuse, they will be killed and replaced with a recruit from a nearby place, in USA that would be a recruit from Canada, who takes possession of the victims ID, home, car, Twitter account, voting status, and that persons whole life is consumed and portrayed by the terror pirate recruits.

So, all 18.8 million of them are terror pirates. There is no other way for them to be. The Vatican does not allow any other way to be, and the Screen Actor Guild enforces the rules made by the Vatican, and so does the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who are disguised as State Police in USA. The RCMP are employed by the State Government, paid from Department of Transportation payroll the same as any real police are paid. They are real in every way other than being loyal to USA or Freedom, they are loyal to the British Throne only, ad so are the SAG actors they work alongside with for commanding the Christian terror pirate army of more than 18.8 million pirates who all use Twitter to get their marching orders.

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MOOG Music:

“Moo”

It’s what the cow says on a “See n Say” toy where pull the string after putting the little pointer thing on the farm animal you want to hear.

Cattle G = Steer Gnosis = Heard the Cattle, make lies = Slaughter House 5 Liars = a gruesome movie from the 1970′s, and lie to cover it up.

(the “5″ are from the Thunderbird’s TV puppet show for kids from the 1960′s. The Tracy Family Kids, all are representations of Christian terror family cell members in the neighborhood where you live, everywhere that people live.)

Moog Music. Humble makers of electronic musical instruments. A employee owned company for more than fifty years.

MOOG Music is part of the Democrat specific terror branding. They are stepping up the pace with the Joe Biden Brigade in the fake White House Government.

Please note, that the MOOG Music (house painting) Contest was announced before Joe was inaugurated, then was advanced today.

I suspect the winning selection will contain a lot of Red.

“We are painting the town Red” is a old democrat terror motto from way back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG8_f0HdlMQ

(insert Eddy Grant: “Electric Avenue” video here)

(Tumblr is hijacked, I cannot post the video)

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11:36 pm:

I have to stop doing the Local Update, at least for awhile.

The Local Update is working against what I started doing it for, as a record of neighborhood terror conditions for comparative purposes as compilation over time, and to help preserve my own memory of events, people. vehicles, ways terror bastards do what they do.

The Local Update has taken a wrong turn, into the realm of the “Vigilante Community Watch” arena. That is not what is going on.

So far, it’s super apparent that the Joe Biden Democrats are taking the helm of the Christian Pirate Ship. There is a huge difference in the terror branding that is happening now compared to about two months ago. This week has proven that Joe Biden is driving the pirate boat, and is all over the place, cannot steer the thing.

If you have ever received a notice from a government federal agency where along with the notice there are four pages of information that explanes that the same information is available by request in 52 different languages, and there a few statements that are written in each of the 52 languages, all listed on four pages of the federal notice, that only takes a half page to say, then, that is the people who are fucking with me this past week. It’s not that there are other languages being spoken, it’s an identifiable terror branding component that I am seeing displayed in many ways so far this last few days, a signature style of terror ways that I can see, recognize from the past, and can identify as that of Democrat terror styling.

Too many small details to say here.

It’s obvious that my cries for help to stop the mass murder have been turned against me, and now I am being portrayed as a rogue neighborhood watch person, rather that a captive victim who needs to get some help for myself and other captive victims who are in far worse shape than I am.

So, I need to discontinue the Local Update of conditions on a walk to the mailbox. I can only go outside for a short time otherwise the terror bastards follow me everywhere, try to run me over, shoot at me, poison me with different kinds of airborne gasses, mostly is nitrous oxide, and the terror bastards watch and listen to my front door so that they know when I open the front door to step outside, and then they show up every where I need to be, no matter where I go, or for how long I am there, there will be some terror bastards there to interfere, distract, then attack.

[loose-cannon-aka-mark-barber]

The Triple crown is waiting

العلامات سباعية سابوع وعلامات اخر صور ومكان وزمام وزمان ونظام وجيل شر.كي استنكافي شنكافي ونازوكي وشهبي وشعبي وشبهي وشبابي وشهمي وشلاعي وشري وشيوعي وشيوخي وشحمي وشخا وشحاطي وفي اياديهم وظهورهم واكتافهم 7 شفرات 7 عللية علامات عري عوج عجز عدو عصر علن علق عبق عبث عبد عجب عجل عدل عند عدم عمر عكر عصب عصم عضو عدو عصر ع ف عرف ع علامات عس عس عيان سباعية ع سحارة سجية سمية سريعة سليمة سيحة سمرة سابوعية سباعية سبوع سبورتيه سباعية و

Run the numbers in Sadi

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1082298016 NEW 1073292865 ABOUT 1070877995 OUT 1048211344 ALSO 1038616504 TWO 1034082956 ANY 983649138 UP 975409474 FIRST 923189150 COULD 886891028 OUR 874965041 THEN 872791735 MOST 860964491 SEE 846494292 ME 819570654 SHOULD 814245936 AFTER 802220137 SAID 757996425 YOUR 750769635 VERY 746876416 BETWEEN 744064796 MADE 737658132 MANY 732675942 OVER 715517744 LIKE 709849832 THOSE 691668501 DID 689814257 NOW 679337516 EVEN 677507335 WELL 675415316 WHERE 671644491 MUST 662994536 PEOPLE 658716166 THROUGH 647091198 HOW 630072115 SAME 624529137 WORK 621797228 BEING 616194541 BECAUSE 612321946 MAN 609019192 LIFE 607266209 BEFORE 605166565 EACH 601281917 MUCH 601262291 UNDER 585610545 S 569891879 YEARS 563247544 WAY 559785767 GREAT 557149997 STATE 553386027 BOTH 543776931 USE 535798133 UPON 532434413 OWN 524268424 USED 524065144 HOWEVER 519207264 US 516975345 PART 515815125 GOOD 509939542 WORLD 505870068 MAKE 502804979 THREE 487787199 WHILE 483440546 LONG 477333877 DAY 471012276 WITHOUT 465581954 JUST 454162727 MEN 454094525 GENERAL 450612588 DURING 448173996 ANOTHER 444695376 LITTLE 442854872 FOUND 436617767 HERE 432309508 SYSTEM 428655277 DOES 426675356 DE 424296592 DOWN 422555509 NUMBER 421670920 CASE 416258729 AGAINST 410444403 MIGHT 409560494 STILL 408263128 BACK 406548203 RIGHT 405717045 KNOW 405542218 PLACE 401396238 EVERY 393306866 GOVERNMENT 390643826 TOO 387800392 HIGH 384098421 OLD 383853789 DIFFERENT 381761001 STATES 379406076 TAKE 378659319 YEAR 377400785 POWER 374440251 SINCE 371590865 GIVEN 370958373 GOD 368677508 NEVER 367408537 SOCIAL 362939226 ORDER 360669813 WATER 355340324 THUS 352803269 FORM 352032932 WITHIN 351785120 SMALL 350484848 SHALL 343397728 PUBLIC 342759195 LARGE 342399659 LAW 338265440 COME 337666242 LESS 337388744 CHILDREN 336723802 WAR 335494566 POINT 333858038 CALLED 329762185 AMERICAN 329409247 AGAIN 326183679 OFTEN 325385700 GO 323996019 FEW 321537010 AMONG 321351351 IMPORTANT 318798581 END 318429766 GET 318321184 HOUSE 316642686 SECOND 316484908 THOUGH 315756488 PRESENT 313754008 EXAMPLE 313505718 HIMSELF 311869400 WOMEN 311778830 LAST 310248709 SAY 310063047 LEFT 306802162 FACT 303323018 OFF 302535533 SET 302361340 PER 300402417 YET 298106656 HAND 297264744 CAME 294530569 DEVELOPMENT 292567752 THOUGHT 292090261 ALWAYS 289326176 FAR 288760391 COUNTRY 287858905 YORK 287117910 SCHOOL 286198020 INFORMATION 285127664 GROUP 284672959 FOLLOWING 282890287 THINK 282298331 OTHERS 280160469 POLITICAL 279042950 HUMAN 279027691 HISTORY 277771947 UNITED 275947752 GIVE 275807450 FAMILY 275638251 FIND 274292734 NEED 273479350 FIGURE 273002399 POSSIBLE 272346265 ALTHOUGH 269984217 RATHER 269938951 LATER 269420608 UNIVERSITY 267605414 ONCE 267334111 COURSE 267248526 UNTIL 266946065 SEVERAL 266874027 NATIONAL 265411421 WHOLE 264397495 CHAPTER 263277218 EARLY 262989441 FOUR 262968583 HOME 262557366 MEANS 261935832 THINGS 261491585 PROCESS 261231720 NATURE 258607404 ABOVE 257260161 THEREFORE 256680119 HAVING 256366406 CERTAIN 255354603 CONTROL 254704442 DATA 254114763 NAME 253016135 ACT 252837316 CHANGE 252169887 VALUE 251727013 BODY 251658904 STUDY 251146114 ET 249406150 TABLE 247925745 BECOME 247467268 WHETHER 245964864 CITY 245776687 BOOK 244679041 TAKEN 244444700 SIDE 244375385 TIMES 244274912 AWAY 243726011 C 243374626 KNOWN 242748318 PERIOD 240810310 BEST 239519326 B 239260173 LINE 237500159 AM 236082024 COURT 235765991 JOHN 235323655 DAYS 235135424 PUT 234694082 YOUNG 233692423 SEEN 232791574 COMMON 232507127 PERSON 232353232 EITHER 231828021 LET 231529250 WHY 230806163 LAND 230194244 HEAD 229586755 BUSINESS 228894757 COMPANY 228554181 CHURCH 228296650 WORDS 227368818 EFFECT 227026494 SOCIETY 226962849 AROUND 225965973 BETTER 225159108 NOTHING 224710005 TOOK 224536350 WHITE 223783182 ITSELF 223352412 SOMETHING 223298632 LIGHT 223142561 QUESTION 222529720 ALMOST 222456557 WENT 222172805 INTEREST 221787128 MIND 220137001 NEXT 219433560 LEAST 219366839 LEVEL 217515046 THEMSELVES 216975281 ECONOMIC 216707350 CHILD 214513506 DEATH 214241154 SERVICE 214015710 VIEW 213769776 ACTION 212759202 FIVE 212389943 II 211760644 PRESS 211628967 FATHER 210972103 FURTHER 210653665 LOVE 210137973 RESEARCH 210101214 AREA 209904357 TRUE 209902030 EDUCATION 209865301 SELF 209487136 AGE 208047899 NECESSARY 208018922 SUBJECT 207720288 WANT 207691335 CASES 207684567 EVER 207615532 GOING 207111364 PROBLEM 207066989 FREE 206158509 DONE 205603672 MAKING 204240192 PARTY 203139462 KING 203072868 TOGETHER 202762516 CENTURY 202612948 SECTION 202298684 USING 201536862 POSITION 201281266 TYPE 200474855 RESULT 199933678 HELP 199252187 INDIVIDUAL 199046341 ALREADY 198197475 MATTER 198029580 FULL 197457082 HALF 197368932 VARIOUS 197327756 SENSE 197220509 LOOK 197095972 BASED 197020666 WHOSE 196188708 ENGLISH 195298116 SOUTH 194907298 TOTAL 194645191 CLASS 193633305 BECAME 192781007 PERHAPS 192537809 LONDON 192383215 POLICY 191429651 MEMBERS 190942415 AL 189349849 LOCAL 188970118 ENOUGH 188948038 PARTICULAR 188618420 RATE 188524311 AIR 187006770 ALONG 186532177 MOTHER 186371465 KNOWLEDGE 185412728 FACE 184744335 WORD 184603724 KIND 184534482 OPEN 184266698 TERMS 183434872 ABLE 182787681 MONEY 182729316 EXPERIENCE 182659383 CONDITIONS 182610089 SUPPORT 182544724 LA 182088211 PROBLEMS 182033209 REAL 181565857 BLACK 181542099 LANGUAGE 180585791 RESULTS 180160027 ROOM 179662401 FORCE 179566043 HELD 179077711 LOW 178926877 ACCORDING 178815411 USUALLY 178737795 NORTH 178650422 SHOW 178523179 NIGHT 177813198 TOLD 177717884 SHORT 176858591 FIELD 176569485 REASON 174823900 ASKED 173745399 QUITE 173456485 NOR 173428887 HEALTH 172752751 SPECIAL 172749212 THING 172738438 ANALYSIS 172535798 EYES 172228666 ESPECIALLY 171145125 LORD 169071283 WOMAN 168921413 MAJOR 168841614 SIMILAR 168686666 CARE 168579579 THEORY 168319212 D 167799877 BROUGHT 167509544 WHOM 167398469 OFFICE 166126353 ART 165726241 PRODUCTION 165669185 SOMETIMES 165282667 THIRD 164752523 SHOWN 164618363 BRITISH 164541425 DUE 164237479 INTERNATIONAL 163591875 BEGAN 163262683 SINGLE 163205541 NATURAL 163033916 GOT 162985190 ACCOUNT 162780963 CAUSE 162187677 COMMUNITY 162100278 SAW 161350792 HEART 161254474 SOON 160678206 CHANGES 160538481 STUDIES 159772512 GROUPS 159418843 METHOD 159053948 EVIDENCE 158753663 SEEMS 158520801 GREATER 158013141 REQUIRED 157770281 TRADE 157534593 FOREIGN 155858655 WEST 155720736 CLEAR 155451094 MODEL 155409143 E 155009877 NEAR 154954539 STUDENTS 154638455 PROBABLY 154301146 FRENCH 154091688 GAVE 153925918 INCLUDING 153800374 READ 153605720 ENGLAND 153296679 MATERIAL 153214581 TERM 152976238 PAST 152399625 REPORT 151675470 CONSIDERED 151545059 FUTURE 151100623 HIGHER 150778139 STRUCTURE 150602123 FIG 150377590 AVAILABLE 150037688 WORKING 149602561 FELT 148292456 TELL 148165666 AMOUNT 147854681 REALLY 147420684 FUNCTION 147417217 KEEP 147405178 INDEED 147261279 GROWTH 147031630 MARKET 146995195 NON 146456349 INCREASE 146162071 PERSONAL 146111561 COST 146106969 MEAN 146013228 SURFACE 145677703 KNEW 145643159 IDEA 145406908 LOWER 145218962 NOTE 145170586 PROGRAM 144947729 TREATMENT 144883050 SIX 144460042 FOOD 144138399 T 144097590 CLOSE 144027294 SYSTEMS 143847585 BLOOD 143765938 POPULATION 143726550 CENTRAL 143504901 CHARACTER 143305637 PRESIDENT 143231208 ENERGY 142518230 PROPERTY 142167084 LIVING 141598875 PROVIDE 141554873 SPECIFIC 141363074 SCIENCE 141250014 RETURN 141090661 PRACTICE 140702777 HANDS 140696114 ROLE 140590569 COUNTRIES 140381058 MANAGEMENT 140362524 TOWARD 140324365 SON 140264746 SAYS 140186080 GENERALLY 139841620 INFLUENCE 139632645 PURPOSE 139327457 AMERICA 139130506 RECEIVED 139080046 STRONG 138949457 CALL 138858263 SERVICES 138796737 RIGHTS 138786228 CURRENT 138569643 M 138549303 BELIEVE 138049846 EFFECTS 137897766 LETTER 137746343 X 137589571 LOOKED 137482513 STORY 136788548 FORMS 136468034 SEEMED 136340001 GROUND 136169686 MAIN 135766466 PAPER 135586065 WORKS 134992496 AREAS 134941395 MODERN 134920850 PROVIDED 134897102 MOMENT 134838703 WRITTEN 134806145 SITUATION 134610698 TURN 134505772 FEET 134348666 PLAN 133951245 PARTS 133867316 VALUES 133213477 MOVEMENT 133198779 PRIVATE 132458739 LATE 132159565 SIZE 131691612 UNION 131560771 DESCRIBED 131540958 EAST 131239699 TEST 131231093 DIFFICULT 130577321 FEEL 129516227 RIVER 129050101 POOR 128893459 ATTENTION 128701456 BOOKS 128685076 TOWN 128248209 SPACE 127941942 O 127592144 PRICE 127365117 TURNED 127075437 RULE 126808176 PERCENT 126774559 ACTIVITY 126420735 ACROSS 125969728 PLAY 125848745 BUILDING 125844801 ANYTHING 125837838 PHYSICAL 125807765 CAPITAL 125735242 N 125421809 HARD 125255025 MAKES 125236883 SEA 125103373 CENT 125071257 APPROACH 125032805 PRESSURE 124800018 FINALLY 124762454 MILITARY 124721452 MIDDLE 124608043 SIR 124152316 LONGER 124113646 SPIRIT 123746611 CONTINUED 123662279 BASIS 123422191 ARMY 123310034 RED 122998966 ALONE 122890524 SIMPLE 122864411 BELOW 122666600 SERIES 122648090 SOURCE 122508876 INCREASED 122496287 SENT 122390977 PARTICULARLY 121435155 EARTH 121334649 MONTHS 121167402 DEPARTMENT 121167286 HEARD 121054582 QUESTIONS 120973232 LIKELY 120758940 LOST 120728633 COMPLETE 120475549 BEHIND 120225593 TAKING 119919305 WIFE 119667451 LINES 119425686 OBJECT 119195088 HOURS 119182573 TWENTY 119057697 ESTABLISHED 119035887 COMMITTEE 118868748 RELATED 118838205 RANGE 118834139 TRUTH 118722538 INCOME 118647362 INSTEAD 118485329 BEYOND 118422939 REST 118218918 DEVELOPED 118108656 OUTSIDE 118074170 ORGANIZATION 117575520 RELIGIOUS 117449364 BOARD 117325679 LIVE 117234948 L 117220317 DESIGN 117049361 NEEDS 116865318 PERSONS 116745553 EXCEPT 116721782 AUTHORITY 116697449 PATIENT 116454325 RESPECT 116205867 LATTER 116154349 SURE 116091233 CULTURE 116003133 RELATIONSHIP 115960669 TEN 115708195 METHODS 115683616 FOLLOWED 115410114 WILLIAM 115262883 CONDITION 115246769 POINTS 115158315 ADDITION 115111424 DIRECT 114945752 SEEM 114793384 INDUSTRY 114733976 COLLEGE 114625844 FRIENDS 114335214 BEGINNING 114330225 HUNDRED 114288698 MANNER 114272160 FRONT 114244970 ORIGINAL 114070624 PATIENTS 114060991 APPEAR 113979614 INCLUDE 113661157 SHOWS 113416183 WAYS 113283389 ACTIVITIES 113101457 RELATIONS 112325996 WRITING 112154899 COUNCIL 111961286 DISEASE 111922686 STANDARD 111899749 FIRE 111793160 GERMAN 111778665 FRANCE 111695924 DEGREE 111537970 TOWARDS 111513874 PRODUCED 111503587 LEAVE 111442661 UNDERSTAND 111365730 CELLS 111296827 AVERAGE 111225011 MARCH 111017382 CARRIED 110953787 LENGTH 110823907 DIFFERENCE 110581448 SIMPLY 110224005 NORMAL 110176830 VOL 110098926 QUALITY 110037183 STREET 110013571 RUN 109873076 ANSWER 109738829 MORNING 109646842 LOSS 109639032 DOING 109588230 STAGE 109565790 PAY 109289513 TODAY 108960014 DECISION 108947093 LABOR 108728677 PAGE 108390018 V 108064400 PUBLISHED 107976995 WORKERS 107751613 BANK 107713584 TOP 107686513 WANTED 107546531 JOURNAL 107491373 PASSED 107205319 DOOR 107165852 P 106894432 IMPORTANCE 106610622 WESTERN 106592600 TAX 106424130 INVOLVED 106252318 SOLUTION 106000254 HOPE 105991336 VOICE 105822860 READING 105673771 OBTAINED 105602979 BRING 105435509 PEACE 105430654 NEEDED 105352008 PLACED 105053742 CHIEF 104936898 SPECIES 104777832 ADDED 104772904 EUROPE 104380168 LOOKING 104343071 FACTORS 104238296 LAWS 104226443 BEHAVIOR 104177552 DIE 104147370 RESPONSE 103816451 LED 103672634 ASSOCIATION 103663697 PERFORMANCE 103654915 ROAD 103446400 ISSUE 103420145 CONSIDER 103396986 EQUAL 103238744 LEARNING 103238640 INDIA 103234898 TRAINING 103222916 FORCES 103159527 CUT 103037571 EARLIER 102977377 BASIC 102960618 MEMBER 102879701 FRIEND 102792326 LEAD 102763510 APPEARS 102703030 TYPES 102702549 SCHOOLS 102673006 MUSIC 102628158 JAMES 102601697 TEMPERATURE 102534206 CHRISTIAN 102337125 VOLUME 102231218 KEPT 102131747 REVIEW 102040164 SIGNIFICANT 101999263 J 101980525 FORMER 101846921 MEANING 101764328 ASSOCIATED 101716328 WROTE 101295092 CENTER 100841549 DIRECTION 100827132 EVERYTHING 100209737 JOB 100179458 UNDERSTANDING 100058677 REGION 99947510 BIG 99488298 HOLD 99442715 OPINION 99413974 TEXT 99367890 JUNE 99367805 DATE 99163252 APPLICATION 99149278 AUTHOR 99092074 F 98925228 CELL 98824016 DISTRIBUTION 98801980 FALL 98777178 BECOMES 98769246 WASHINGTON 98704427 LIMITED 98575904 INDIAN 98531340 PRESENCE 98464008 SOUND 98359048 III 98208308 MEETING 98128650 CLEARLY 97843943 EXPECTED 97832275 FEDERAL 97641247 R 97228768 NEARLY 97223334 ED 97120955 EXTENT 97114220 PARENTS 97099001 YES 96899883 IDEAS 96892979 MEDICAL 96691323 OBSERVED 96654419 ACTUALLY 96637249 FINAL 96624825 GEORGE 96604675 MILES 96533288 ELEMENTS 96488567 LIST 96243232 PROJECT 96234298 PRODUCT 96228667 THROUGHOUT 96182381 CHRIST 95948428 DISCUSSION 95836510 APPLIED 95584186 RULES 95446866 PRODUCE 95384159 RELIGION 95336728 DEEP 95321084 OPERATION 95100641 ISSUES 94936661 ELSE 94712154 MASS 94678376 COMING 94643724 DETERMINED 94480905 EUROPEAN 94407549 EVENTS 94350605 SECURITY 94081024 OIL 94078195 FINE 94065909 DISTANCE 94015589 MOVE 93962800 EFFECTIVE 93845257 PAID 93735031 NATION 93534315 STEP 93522951 GIVES 93485484 SUCCESS 93383234 LITERATURE 93086473 PRODUCTS 92985765 NEITHER 92913536 RESOURCES 92890018 FOLLOW 92875751 CROSS 92631653 ASK 92326874 LEVELS 92296964 IMMEDIATELY 92279838 CERTAINLY 92207776 PRINCIPLE 92207363 MORAL 92086790 JULY 91750068 FORMED 91737307 REACHED 91732623 FAITH 91679190 DEAL 91637705 RECENT 91426553 LEGAL 91243628 ADMINISTRATION 91223973 COMES 91173579 MATERIALS 91143958 POTENTIAL 91052860 PRESENTED 90941683 CONGRESS 90923426 CIVIL 90893209 DIRECTLY 90710253 MEET 90681024 MET 90663973 PRINCIPLES 90657731 EXPRESSION 90569415 MYSELF 90480990 BORN 90297418 WIDE 90243089 POST 90205323 JUSTICE 90057247 STRENGTH 90040288 RELATION 90003036 STATEMENT 89976766 FINANCIAL 89946991 DEAD 89942531 LARGER 89837443 CULTURAL 89796487 HISTORICAL 89471481 EXISTENCE 89086621 BUILT 88977072 WEIGHT 88931850 REFERENCE 88812899 FEELING 88796885 ROUND 88680611 REPORTED 88357597 RISK 88332946 APPEARED 88081092 INCLUDED 87961423 SCALE 87945524 INDIVIDUALS 87854335 SUPPLY 87778086 MILLION 87612893 DIFFERENCES 87593624 WRITE 87398762 DOUBT 86837636 HOUR 86782301 INDUSTRIAL 86710235 APRIL 86612130 PRIMARY 86561888 BASE 86517782 LETTERS 86483192 INTERESTS 86405949 NUMBERS 86377548 SEVEN 86326705 PLACES 86150103 WALL 86098266 COMPLEX 86083324 ENTIRE 86075488 TRY 86024314 ARTICLE 86017205 COUNTY 86016942 COSTS 85952250 THINKING 85735136 RECORD 85612085 FLOW 85584876 FOLLOWS 85545433 SUN 85535857 ATTEMPT 85325513 BAD 85320148 INSTANCE 85306493 COMMISSION 85299537 EASILY 85185742 UNIT 85082435 DIED 84913888 GREEN 84883858 CHARLES 84830217 WEEK 84735902 DEMAND 84566589 ACID 84436627 ENVIRONMENT 84401739 PROPER 84248955 TAKES 84145451 POSITIVE 84081928 TALK 83995152 ACTIVE 83964190 IMAGE 83929870 PLANT 83847060 FREEDOM 83831865 LIBRARY 83724358 DARK 83668292 KEY 83552147 MENTIONED 83540627 CO 83487330 SPEAK 83469645 ALLOWED 83426595 WHATEVER 83396786 CONCERNED 83350541 MEASURE 83157475 LIVES 83154557 MERELY 83043351 FEAR 83025936 PARIS 83003865 INDEPENDENT 82973548 HEAT 82916476 CIRCUMSTANCES 82859794 THOMAS 82734020 GIVING 82617922 MASTER 82454164 TRIED 82422379 CHINA 82354191 EYE 82308670 UPPER 82015080 GONE 81987916 ACTUAL 81881900 COLD 81812697 FREQUENTLY 81661621 EIGHT 81515476 ABILITY 81500208 UNLESS 81484257 REGARD 81462519 HENRY 81403955 STATUS 81390371 HEAR 81378760 THOUSAND 81181403 MINUTES 81117083 PARTIES 81116646 STOCK 81089976 STUDENT 81078065 RISE 81063866 ARMS 80956755 FACTOR 80951457 CHARGE 80928075 EASY 80893690 CREATED 80763009 STAND 80686346 STARTED 80515153 CONTENT 80471016 SHARE 80467423 PICTURE 80466092 HERSELF 80318677 AGREEMENT 80276151 REMEMBER 80168659 CONSTANT 80167769 NONE 80150779 POPULAR 80074272 APPROPRIATE 80022252 STYLE 79906426 START 79891984 GOODS 79809435 CONSIDERABLE 79770275 READY 79609735 Y 79536358 OCCUR 79479712 NOTES 79463444 FORWARD 79381233 RATES 79237251 RETURNED 79199231 DEFINED 79139469 CONSTRUCTION 78888353 MINISTER 78885515 USEFUL 78871232 REMAIN 78855958 NATIONS 78827475 ISLAND 78815401 STOOD 78683031 CHOICE 78633933 DISTRICT 78585014 SPEECH 78548997 ECONOMY 78392321 JESUS 78352447 MOVED 78308876 POWERS 78184548 PAUL 78063298 DESIRE 78023132 DIVISION 78010703 BILL 77905466 GERMANY 77889212 HIGHLY 77844910 TASK 77779959 STAFF 77708958 ADDITIONAL 77664573 PROGRESS 77622452 SITE 77606105 REASONS 77424645 SERIOUS 77351744 RE 77257723 GOLD 77223152 BOY 77220366 BROTHER 77196407 REMAINED 77179789 JANUARY 77148384 SORT 76748889 RELATIVE 76673081 PASS 76642270 PREVIOUS 76638735 PAIN 76589902 SEPARATE 76484418 PLANNING 76437277 LAY 76414354 EXCHANGE 76398427 DER 76206810 PROCESSES 76196139 ROBERT 76162406 CRITICAL 76145395 ANIMALS 76126929 ANCIENT 76060198 FUNCTIONS 76050556 OCTOBER 75987271 AUGUST 75950243 SUFFICIENT 75910173 DISCUSSED 75791362 MARRIAGE 75597009 REMAINS 75547626 PROGRAMS 75509847 INTRODUCTION 75350470 EFFORT 75329669 MEMORY 75319047 GIRL 75288361 SOURCES 75269037 INTERNAL 75228149 SOUL 75109866 NEWS 75088462 BED 75087117 LE 75050930 DES 75044809 BROWN 75023376 CAUSED 75022109 CHINESE 75019978 LACK 74862176 HUSBAND 74612454 SEPTEMBER 74566913 LIVED 74523682 LEARN 74450821 COMMAND 74409169 POLITICS 74316154 DECEMBER 74262603 DUTY 74211760 TEACHER 74147301 DAILY 74143745 TECHNOLOGY 74134226 ESSENTIAL 74121670 ALLOW 74009167 BOX 73974790 IRON 73912969 FAILURE 73834492 DECIDED 73604266 CONCEPT 73598965 NOTED 73569863 NAMES 73408991 GETTING 73375416 PATTERN 73371169 AGO 73358573 PHASE 73292544 TEACHERS 73279702 OTHERWISE 73189721 VARIETY 73108031 DETERMINE 73035028 HENCE 72980522 BLUE 72974499 PREPARED 72924152 FIGURES 72916620 CONTACT 72897350 LOT 72894408 H 72827269 CONTINUE 72786692 MEASURES 72774916 HEAVY 72613321 LABOUR 72574389 COMPANIES 72557544 SUGGESTED 72555131 SOUTHERN 72546462 SUBJECTS 72417020 FEATURES 72363939 COMMUNICATION 72359865 FULLY 72304884 OFFICERS 72282982 WISH 72239553 OPPORTUNITY 72227568 COMPUTER 72150984 EXERCISE 72067303 POLICE 72033659 CREATE 72032879 REALITY 71920825 ADD 71846370 WORKED 71844417 LEARNED 71787022 INSIDE 71761839 DESCRIPTION 71716121 TEACHING 71709226 SUMMER 71669834 GAS 71631004 CAR 71566944 SCIENTIFIC 71545578 TITLE 71430817 SOIL 71250643 CLAIM 71229695 OBJECTS 71202828 VILLAGE 71188072 TRYING 71151809 TRADITIONAL 71120417 PROTECTION 71001976 ENTIRELY 71001785 EMPLOYED 70975469 SOVIET 70956695 FIXED 70927704 LADY 70866011 PROVIDES 70820003 EFFORTS 70808999 CAPACITY 70798559 COMPLETELY 70695291 EXPRESSED 70616426 MAJORITY 70452760 IV 70418238 PRINCIPAL 70383823 PURPOSES 70367846 MENTAL 70316772 ACCESS 70273491 SAYING 70213724 RAISED 70194506 REDUCED 70099950 FAMILIES 70068465 CHANGED 69992672 COMPARED 69960215 PRACTICAL 69860667 SUCCESSFUL 69664268 INTERESTING 69655404 CODE 69596496 CAUSES 69543312 INCREASING 69530493 PLANTS 69487892 IMPOSSIBLE 69416389 GROWING 69385925 FACTS 69361489 DEVELOP 69342356 COLOR 69334092 BEGIN 69317502 SOMEONE 69306780 EVENT 69296813 SOMEWHAT 69242663 MONTH 69201284 OFFERED 69064840 NOTICE 69035963 REVOLUTION 68999580 PHILOSOPHY 68932185 LEADING 68886037 SHOWED 68805694 ONES 68802924 AFFAIRS 68716682 BEAUTIFUL 68637744 RELATIVELY 68593730 COVERED 68569446 EMPLOYMENT 68561659 OFFER 68537056 NOVEMBER 68507059 OPERATIONS 68494352 WRONG 68462528 NEGATIVE 68431010 EXAMPLES 68415550 REQUIRE 68399544 ACTS 68321327 ATTACK 68207552 TREE 68119957 ADDRESS 68024298 INSTITUTIONS 67994139 AID 67970418 AFRICA 67945763 DAVID 67869725 PROPOSED 67817278 HALL 67814436 MOTION 67756261 G 67743309 RECEIVE 67739361 TILL 67715750 CARRY 67589761 CONNECTION 67589468 FEMALE 67579818 SERVE 67412909 WEEKS 67337561 STONE 67310166 QUICKLY 67282635 CONSTITUTION 67156640 FORMATION 67087752 EVENING 67063297 RACE 66940365 ANIMAL 66921780 PROCEDURE 66904035 COLLECTION 66607266 ANNUAL 66566187 ROYAL 66531300 SECRETARY 66502317 RICH 66499063 EN 66416081 MALE 66340217 PROFESSIONAL 66329317 GREATEST 66308784 CONTEXT 66145330 TRUST 66094897 UNITS 66087714 TREES 66033516 MARY 66021880 APPEARANCE 65998192 FIRM 65972267 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The Seed

THE SEED Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. https://youtu.be/Bx2bCUCqTxY The Seed https://ccoutreach87.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/1-5-17-the-seed.zip ON VIDEO- . ‘I thought you were one of us!’ .Alice pool closes down .Media bias [who’s doing ‘fake’ news again?] .Mosul- U.N. vote- etc. .ISIS- Shia- Sunni .Protoevangelion .The coming seed [child] .Eve’s child will crush his head .Abrahams son will bless the world .David’s offspring will sit on the throne .Jesus fulfills it all .Ishmael and Isaac .Jesus is the Lion of Judah NEW- In my Galatians study I talked about the promised ‘seed’- Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. God promised to bless the world thru one of the offspring of Abraham. We also saw in my Samuel study that God made a promise to King David that one of his sons would sit on the throne ‘forever’- 2Samuel 7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. These promises were fulfilled thru Christ. The first promise of a coming Messiah was given to Eve in the creation account-Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. We call this the Protoevangelion – meaning the first time we see the good news [gospel]. At the time of Christ they were awaiting for a Messiah who was prophesied to come. Yet they were looking for a deliverer In the natural sense- meaning someone who would save them from the ‘occupation’ of Rome. Yet- Jesus fulfilled the promises in a different way- He told us his kingdom was not like the world’s kingdoms- John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

God made these promises to various people thru out the history of the Old Testament. The main figures he gave these promises to did not understand all of the implications at the time. Abraham obeyed God- yet the promise of a son- Isaac- came to pass thru many trials. David had his struggles as well- yet he did Father Solomon- experienced divisions in his kingdom and family- but yet the one seed- the one child spoken about- was still to come. The first promise foretold that this coming deliverer would ‘bruise his head [satan] and he would bruise his heel’- Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Hmm? Heel? The prophecy was fulfilled at the Cross. Yes- Jesus would indeed suffer a bruise- wound- in this battle. Yet- it was thru this ‘bruising’ that he would fulfill the promise. Yes- he is the seed of Abraham- that would bless the world. He is the Son of David- that would arise to sit on the throne. And he is the woman’s Son- who would suffer an injury- And in doing so- would redeem the world- Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

PAST POSTS [These are my past teachings that relate to today’s video ‘The Seed’] GALATIANS [Links] https://ccoutreach87.com/2016/12/26/galatians-1/ https://ccoutreach87.com/2016/12/30/2nd-samuel-3-homeless-friends/ https://ccoutreach87.com/2017/01/02/galatians-2/ https://ccoutreach87.com/2017/01/10/galatians-3/

https://ccoutreach87.com/hebrews-updated-2015/ https://ccoutreach87.com/john-complete-links-added/ JOHN 19 https://youtu.be/iS9OG-fiBL0 John 19 https://ccoutreach87.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/10-13-16-john-19.zip John 1:36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! ON VIDEO- .Media bias .Yemen rebels shoot at us .Iran nuke deal .My question for Margie Rose? .animal rescue .Voter I.D. laws? .Did dead people vote? .Passover .No broken bones .Gamble for the coat .Final sacrifice .Made damn sure the Pilate washed his hands… NOTE- just a brief note before I post. In the news right now we are seeing- every night- the ‘advance’ on Mosul- a city in Iraq that ISIS took. Why is this- now- a major news story? [Beside the nonstop talk about Trump]. Because it is an effort- by the media- and our country- to change the narrative. Meaning ‘look- we are really attacking- and killing- ISIS’. ISIS has had this city for about 2 years- many of the people in the city see ISIS as their defenders- because they are on the religious side of ISIS- in the division within Islam. The Iraqi govt. forces are not on the side of some of the citizens in Mosul- and the history is when the Iraqis take back a city- with our help- the people are treated like ISIS. So- we- the U.S. – are willing to side with the actual murder of some of the citizens in Mosul- simply because it serves our political purposes leading up to the election. It gets the story on the front lines ‘look- the Obama administration [who Hillary was secretary of state] is really doing a great job fighting ISIS’. Yet- when [if] the city falls- what will happen next? In a year or 2 [or a month after the election in the U.S.] it will either go back to ISIS- or the Iraqis will persecute the citizens [kill] who they see as siding with ISIS. Some in the city sided with them because ISIS gave them a type of government- which they did not have under the American backed Iraqi leadership. So- that’s why you are seeing this as a top story- sad indeed.

PAST LINKS [verses below] NOTE- The proclamation of John ‘Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world’- In Latin the term is Agnus Dei- as a boy we sung this hymn in Catholic church ‘Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world- have mercy on us’. [Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.- this is the full phrase in the Latin – taken from John’s declaration- where the Christian song/chant comes from] JOHNS GOSPEL LINKS- https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/amos-5/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/jesus-christ/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/06/17/father-abraham/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/the-flood/ John 3 https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/the-well-john-4/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/john-5/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/john-6/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/07/09/john-7/ https://ccoutreach87.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/8-10-15-john-14.zip https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/07/16/john-8/ https://youtu.be/f8VpxlYM_kU John 8- ‘who the Son sets free’ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/john-9/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/john-10/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/john-11-the-8th-sign/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/i-found-a-verse/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/08/13/john-12/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/samuel-john-hebrews-review/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/john-13/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/john-14/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/09/04/john-15/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/09/15/john-16/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/09/24/john-17/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/john-18/ I mention Corinthians and Ephesians on today’s video- below are my studies- https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/1st-2nd-corinthians/ https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/ephesians-highlights/

Exodus 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. Numbers 9:12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they [parts] ANTI- CHRIST- [Church Unlimited notes- 2nd- 3rd John] 3John 1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God. https://youtu.be/7dfLhO2HBf8 anti- Christ [2nd, 3rd John] https://ccoutreach87.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/10-23-16-anti-christ-2nd-3rd-jn.zip ON VIDEO [past posts below] .See my Hillary drawing [sorry] .Who is anti-christ? .Some thought Hitler .Apostles relate to the bride .Soteriology .Was John a theological liberal? Mosul .Iraq- Libya .ISIS .Sunni- Shia division .Execution- or human shields- or just murder? .Abortion .Docetism refuted [parts] OBADIAH- Obadiah 1:7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; that they eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him. https://youtu.be/LaG8b0etYK8 Obadiah ON VIDEO- .Peace treaty? .Leaked emails .How to skew the polls .Do I like to lynch Black people? .The 1 dollar cheese story .Homeless stuff .Iran- Yemen- Libya- Syria .The shores of Tripoli .ISIS .Turkey .Britannia ruled the seas- and lost .Mosul NEW- In this small book- 1 chapter- we read of the judgment of God upon Edom. They were a people that felt like they were unstoppable. The alliances they made were their downfall. As I read the book the other night- it made me think about our present situation. Let’s see if I can hit some high points. [parts] NEWS- [Mosul- 3 Americans shot and killed yesterday in Jordan- Wiki leaks reveals real corruption] I mentioned the last few weeks about our actions in Mosul Iraq. The U.S. is backing up the overthrow of this city- for political purposes. I mentioned how the Iraqi troops we are backing are Shia [Muslim division] and some of the population of Mosul are Sunni. Should we be backing up a ‘genocide’- meaning one group [Iraqi Shia] wanting to eliminate another [Sunni]. I saw a report on PBS news- the interviewer brought up the fact that the tanks that are now rolling into Mosul are flying Shia flags. Meaning- they are not there to ‘liberate’ people- but to murder Sunni. I saw another report where the U.S. backed Iraqi troops shot bullets ‘blind’ into a hiding place. The report on U.S. news did not say if women and children were hiding in there- and if they were murdered by U.S. backed troops. The military man that was confronted with the question ‘why are U.S. backed tanks flying Shia flags’- he avoided the question- and used ‘spin’. As of now- its possible women and children have been murdered- with the backup of U.S. power. That’s wrong. 3 of our men were shot and killed in Jordan yesterday- Last year a Jordanian captain shot 2 Americans. In yesterday’s incident the Jordanians claim the U.S. men did not stop at the gate- so they killed them. Yet- there are resentments that our men are there. The U.S. says it is investigating- because we don’t want it to ‘strain relations’. Meaning- yes- it’s possible they murdered our men- but- it’s more important to not have such a bad headline right before the election- because it might make Hillary and her record on foreign policy look bad. So- maybe they simply murdered our men- but- we have more important political things. Our nation is obviously divvied on the election- and it’s shocking to actually see the corruption in our government that was exposed the last few weeks by WIKI leaks. It shows a level of collusion within politics that covers up for those who have connections. The FBI agent who tipped off the Clinton people about an investigation into the emails- broke the law when he did this. The government’s official response was ‘when he tipped Clinton off- he was using his own personal email- so that’s ok’. People have gone to prison for stuff like this- but it is showing you a level of corruption inside our government. This is not simply a ‘Trump- Clinton’ thing- it is a national corruption scandal. [parts] (1143) THE FALL- God puts man in the garden, he gives him only one restriction ‘don’t eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil’ sure enough, he does! The serpent [satan] tempts Eve in 3 areas, the tree is good for food [lust of the flesh] good to look at [eyes] and can make you wise [pride]. In 1st John 2 we see these three areas mentioned as the common categories of all other temptation. These were the same areas the devil used on Jesus in Matthew 4. The temptation to Eve essentially said ‘look at this God of yours! He wont give you the freedom to do anything you want, he is withholding such a good tree from you’ sounds like the philosopher Freud, he taught that the problem with man was Gods restrictions. That if man would cast off the limits that religion imposed upon them, then all would be well. But what man did not know was that these basic limits were for his own good. When man would choose to walk out from under Gods limits, he would suffer for it. In this chapter [Gen. 3] we also see the great prophecy of the child of the woman eventually crushing the serpents head [called the Protoevangelium- Latin] a prophecy about Christ’s future victory at the Cross. God also covers man with animal’s skins, a type of the future sacrifice of Christ on behalf of man. Man tried to cover up with leaves, God said it wont do, so he sacrificed the life of an animal and used the skins as a covering. The wages of sin is death, the price was paid. In Romans chapter 5 Paul will show us that death and sin passed upon all mankind from Adams sinful act, but thru the obedience of one man [Jesus dying on the Cross] righteousness comes to those who believe. This is the basic Christian doctrine of original sin. Some refer to this as the federal head theory of redemption. I believe it’s vital for Christians to have a grasp of this doctrine. In the 19th/20th centuries you had liberal theologians deny the doctrine of Jesus dying on behalf of man. Along with this they also denied that original sin existed. Most believers realized that this denial was heresy and avoided it, but some are playing with the idea again. The bible clearly teaches the substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ on the behalf of man [Isaiah 53] and it is a foundational doctrine for all true believers. To some it seemed unfair to charge God with the doctrine of original sin, and along with it the doctrine of Penal substitution [Christ being punished for us] these are core Christian truths, if people want to deny them, that’s their choice. But to be a Christian in the biblical sense of the word, these truths are necessary, they are part of the foundation of all true Christian churches.

VERSES- Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Genesis 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: Genesis 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. Genesis 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? Genesis 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. Genesis 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? Genesis 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. Genesis 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Genesis 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Genesis 15:2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? Genesis 15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. Genesis 15:4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Genesis 15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. Acts 2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Acts 2:24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. Acts 2:25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: Acts 2:26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: Acts 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Acts 2:28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. Acts 2:29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. Acts 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; Acts 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. Acts 2:32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Acts 2:33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. Acts 2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Acts 2:35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool. Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. Hebrews 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: Hebrews 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Hebrews 11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Hebrews 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Hebrews 11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. Hebrews 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. Hebrews 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Hebrews 11:18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

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The Food Justice Special Edition 2018

“They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.”

-Dinos Christianopoulos-

Several months ago when I started to explore themes for this year’s second annual Food Justice issue there were so many possibilities that I actually felt a bit overwhelmed. The America that we are all living in today is so different than the one of two years ago. America has always had its problems. We have never really been the true beacon of light and hope for the world that we professed to be. I mean how could we be, when we as a nation have always adamantly worked to deny so much of our uglier history. Racism, the genocide of this lands indigenous people, white privilege, nationalistic fervor, misogyny, and homophobia. America has always been dominated by white Christian males seeking greater power. What it unfortunately took to wake us up, was the very broken system of government that those white male forefathers created, our “great Republic.” And electing the first authoritarian fascist in our countries history merely shined a light on our own duplicity of remaining silent for so long.

Whether it is farmer’s taking their own lives because they can’t keep their farms operating click here. Or food prices going up because of inhumane immigration policy click here. Food is ultimately at the epicenter of many of America’s biggest problems. And with most politicians and even many citizens not thinking food based issues are all that important. It has been for the last decade or more the grassroots Food Justice movement’s role to keep so many of these important issues on the front lines of the national dialogue.

While other countries have made bold moves to eliminate food waste to feed it’s people like France click here. The Food Justice movement in this country has realized that to get things done in America one must operate at the local and state level. Maine’s GMO labeling bill is one example, while another more recent is an ordinance passed last week in Austin, Texas that prevents restaurants from disposing of food waste in landfills. It must now be donated to feed the community or be composted click here.

So when I was considering this year’s theme there were so many important issues to choose from. I could have utilized this year’s World Food Day Zero Hunger to end world hunger across the globe in 15 years click here. Or I could have chosen to focus on another important topic, race and land inequity. It was very close to being this year’s theme when I selected the phenomenal Food Justice leader, Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm, as October’s Brain Food Garden Project shero click here.

Ultimately, the place Brain Food Garden Project represents sits at the crossroads of not one but two important movements, Food Justice and Mental Health Peer Advocacy. And with October being a month where so many important days of recognition also merges both of these worlds. Mental Health Awareness Week (Oct. 1-7), World Food Day (Oct. 16), World Mental Health Day (Oct. 10), and National Food Day (Oct. 24). I eventually settled on a topic near and dear to my heart. Read on to learn more.

I would like to end by simply saying that in less than a month on November 6 we as citizens have the opportunity once again to vote for the kind of county we want to live in and more importantly leave behind for our children and their children’s children. I ask that when you step into that voting booth next month, that you add to your list of reasons for selecting a candidate, by thinking of someone you may know living with a mental health concern, or a child or family that you might know that is struggling to put healthy food on their tables for their families, and vote for candidates that will work to also make those people’s lives better. We need to start remembering in our country that we are all in this together.  

A Need for Greater Mental Health Resources and Offering Mental Health First Aid in the Food & Beverage Industry.

Brain Food Garden Project’s theme for this year’s Food Justice issue is a message of giving back to those that have given so much… food and beverage professionals. The modern day Food Justice movement has been fueled by the Food & Beverage Industry. Dedicated men and woman of all cultural, educational and socioeconomic backgrounds have provided staffing for charitable events, taken to the school garden to educate and feed our children, delivered hot meals to the elderly on their off days and so much more. Immigrants as well have not only been at the forefront of growing our food, but also the backbone behind every restaurants success to feed us all. Since the concept of feeding people outside of the home was first conceived in the thermopolia, bouillons and restorators in ancient times. F&B professionals have often been “cheap therapy” and a shoulder to cry on for customers continuing well into the modern world’s trattorias, brasseries, cafes, gastro-pubs and other restaurants of today. These dedicated professionals are an integral part of the human experience.

Taking care of people and feeding them has been at the heart and soul of this industry from its earliest origins. Whether, being at the forefront of revitalizing farmer’s markets in the 70’s or creating the Farm to Table movement in the late 80’s into the early 90’s. The industry has continued to foster community and often embraced many of those that “society” would deem outcasts giving them a seat at the table.

The age of the “celebrity chef”, and these chef’s and restaurateur’s achieving “rock star” celebrity status started a dramatic shift in the ways restaurants are run today. It unfortunately also led to the replacement of the power of human instinct to rule the day and led to a corporate mentality that created their unwillingness to realize that the world and culture was rapidly changing around them, ultimately proving to be one of the industry’s biggest disconnects. While food has become a national and world wide obsession. The very people that keep it alive, dishwashers, assistant servers, servers, kitchen brigades and chefs, bartenders, hosts and font line managers, often have limited to no resources provided to them by their employers when they are under mental distress or experiencing drug and alcohol related issues. Many owners and managers wouldn’t even know what to look for in their employees if they were showing signs of needing assistance. Also there is no understanding of trauma informed practices and many F&B professionals, like other industries, have many employees that come to their jobs with some form of trauma or undergo some form of trauma inflicted while on the job that gets ignored, goes unrecognized, or both such as the recent restaurant industry giants exposed by former employees that joined the rapidly growing #MeToo movement. 

I worked for over 25 years in the F&B profession. I eventually had to leave a business I loved because of the punishing hours, stress inducing climate and the industries inability to understand someone living with manic depression. I am not alone.  If you are a F&B professional that has a mental health story and would like to share it with Brain Food Garden Project. Or if you are a restaurant owner that would like to provide mental health first aid for your team. Please share your stories with us this month with the hashtags #FandBBreakTheStigma and #CandorSavesLives. For more information on Mental Health First Aid click here. For two available industry based mental health resources The Heirloom Foundation click here. And for Chefs With Issues click here.

The Candor Report podcast Interviews Chef Tomei

In Brain Food Garden Project’s second episode of The Candor Report podcast my co-host Sharon Simon and I talked with Chef Tomei about the Food & Beverage Industry and the importance of providing Mental Health First Aid. To listen in to this conversation click here and to continue joining the candid conversation on Facebook after the podcast click here

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The Love Song Of Dril And The Boys

I have not read dril’s book. I cannot read dril’s book. 

Dril Official “Mr. Ten Years” Anniversary Collection compiles 1,500 of the pseudonymous Twitter user’s greatest tweets, and it is simply too funny for me to read for more than a page or two at a time without laughing so hard, I feel physically ill. Ask my family if you don’t believe me. Ask the patrons of the West Babylon Public Library, who have been shooting me dirty looks since I began writing this essay. Every time I crack the book open, I’m seconds away from hitting something like this … 

“hello 911 I need a moat dug around my house immediately” “sir this line is for emergencies only” “Thuis is an emergency moat”

— wint (@dril) May 18, 2014

 … or this …

koko the talking ape.. has been living high on the hog, wasting our tax dollars on high capacity diapers. No more. i will suplex that beast,

— wint (@dril) September 7, 2014

… or this … 

where do girls live

— wint (@dril) October 20, 2010

… and that’s it. Show’s over. “Goodnight Irene,” as Gorilla Monsoon would say. (“I will suplex that beast.”)

Dril’s blend of fist-on-the-table bluster, abject confusion and burned-toast syntax — the style of humor he pioneered, which became the lingua franca of Funny/Weird Twitter in toto — has my number. Like Monty Python’s run-on sketches, non sequiturs and Terry Gilliam animation; like the endless awkward pauses, omnipresent electrical humming and recycled animation of “Space Ghost Coast to Coast”; like Tim and Eric’s garish colors, glitchy video and non-actor stars, dril’s tweets are a new way to be funny, with a rhythm and vocabulary all their own. I love it.

But dril? Dril loves the boys. 

A recurring collective character in dril’s oeuvre, the boys occupy a unique place in his taxonomy, which, thanks to the book’s arrangement of tweets by topic, is easier than ever to get the hang of. For example, girls are mysterious sources of intermingled awe and terror, like the monoliths in “2001.”

ah, So u persecute Jared Fogle just because he has different beliefs? Do Tell. (girls get mad at me) Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it

— wint (@dril) November 1, 2015

Brands are icons of integrity, as admirable as they are untouchable.

just deleted 23,000 tweets at the request of Sbarro. feeling Purified

— wint (@dril) July 5, 2015

The trolls are contemptible pests, an implacable obstacle.

will no longer be livestreaming foreskin restoration process; the trolls who attempted to summon [インプ] (Imps) into the chatroom are to blame

— wint (@dril) February 3, 2012

And then there’s rival Twitter user @DigimonOtis, a class by himself: He is nemesis, the anti-dril.

(reading my latest death threat ) “from the desk of DigimonOtis…” this is bullshit. digimonotis has never owned a desk

— wint (@dril) November 6, 2014

But the boys are on dril’s level. The boys welcome dril with open arms. They share his hopes and fears, his loves and hates. He’s one of the boys.

Just met w/ Boys Lunch Club. Seems to me, That we are very pissed off that teen girls would rather kiss, “Soldier Boy,” than Actual Soldiers

— wint (@dril) May 16, 2016

pleased to report my custom beer tap that makes a dramatic diarrhea noise while filling the glass is a hit with the boys at the fondue club

— wint (@dril) October 16, 2014

best 90s memory is gathering around the old oak tree with the boys and passing around trading cards featuring all of our dads #DamnGood90s

— wint (@dril) April 30, 2013

Crucial to the boys’ appeal is their exclusivity. Like any clique, they’ve invested their aesthetic preferences with moral weight, and those who violate them do so at their peril.

darknet 2002: pics of dead guys in bath tubs, warez darknet 2017: discussions amongst the boys as to which of our acquaintances aren t funny

— wint (@dril) August 11, 2017

me & the booys are riffing on 78 hours of stolen walgreens security cam footage. this guy on here just bought a toilet brush. bitch!! bitch!

— wint (@dril) December 8, 2014

me and the boys have decided that the least gay way of wiping your ass is to dump a quarter bottle of Palmolive Spring Sensations back there

— wint (@dril) September 17, 2016

Dril may be a member in good standing, but membership brings responsibilities as well as privileges.

the boys held an intervention about me “Going hollywood” because i;ve been buying plastic toothpicks now

— wint (@dril) June 1, 2018

THE BOYS: were watching the mr bean episode where you can see his ass. get over here ME: cant. wifes making me watch mr beans holiday (2007)

— wint (@dril) June 14, 2017

If the boys function as dril’s superego, instilling and policing values, they are also his id — an embodiment of his most voracious physical drives.

pussy log 12.29.11: justin unscrewed the knob from the door to the ladies’ room and now the club boys all take turns cradling it

— wint (@dril) December 30, 2011

“Ah!! Lunchtime, Boys!” i snort several lines of Hamburger Helper, tilt my head back and shake with unbearable agony as my head turns purple

— wint (@dril) May 15, 2013

The comedy and tragedy of dril is that he is a man without ego, the mediating force that balances the needs of id and superego. He is perpetually out of balance, careening from excess to shame. He requires the intervention of the boys, the example they set, just to function.

This is why the saga of dril and the boys is a love story — conditional and occasionally unrequited though that love may be. It is poignant because it is impossible to imagine dril living without them any more than Juliet could live without Romeo.

When the lovers are in harmony — when the needs of id, ego and superego are aligned at last — the result is a thing of beauty.

going ape shit at the gym. rotating in full 360 degrees with the boys, flawlessly synchronized

— wint (@dril) November 28, 2017

The boys can be peers, contributing to the good posts for which dril is best known at a level beyond dril’s own imagining.

cant wiat to see what devilish thanksgiving scenarios me and the boys of twitter can conjure up. “The turkey was taken by spiders? ? Whua??”

— wint (@dril) November 24, 2014

Together they can be silent guardians, watchful protectors, dark knights, defending boys both within and outside the circle from the depredations of rival groups.

me & the boys will be holding hands., forming a Covenant Ring, to protest girls who only want to fuck the main pirate from the pirate movies

— wint (@dril) June 4, 2017

the epic shit of 2017; is the boys getting TheSegaPimp fired from his job at The Red Cross for not wishing me a “Happy Halloween”

— wint (@dril) January 2, 2018

the boys are enjoying their fave jukebox when ths sarge steps in SARGE: TURN OFF THE DAMN JUKE BOX! ITS WAR ME: Fuck u sarge. The armys crap

— wint (@dril) July 7, 2015

Not every tweet about the boys made it into the book. This is fitting, as when they’re operating at full force, nothing can contain them. 

thje opening riff of “Life In The Fast Lane” repeats over and over forever while me and the boys shoot at a septic tank with airsoft rifles

— wint (@dril) August 1, 2014

me N’ the boys eating messy sandiwches, sneaking around with big binoculars looking for girls & letting every one know who runs this TJ maxx

— wint (@dril) July 21, 2016

So we come to the crux of the matter. Dril and the boys are the great love story of our time because their insecurities, their mania, are our time’s prime motivators.

Dril and the boys wallow in the same miasma from which all our era’s reactionary movements have emerged — the MAGAs and Pepes, MRAs and incels, GamerGaters and ComicsGaters, Sad Puppies and Proud Boys and all the other doofuses with unwittingly infantilizing sobriquets.

With “the boys,” the humorist behind dril has tapped into the overall vibe in this country that there exists, somewhere out there ― perhaps in a TJ Maxx ― a lost masculine ideal. No one agrees on what it is, least of all dril, whose psyche is as piecemeal as his punctuation. It could be yelling at NFL protesters to stand for the national anthem or screaming at Disney for committing white genocide in the “Star Wars” films. It could be having sex all the time or having no sex at all. It could be respecting the majesty of the law or flouting it or both, depending on whom the law is meant to penalize. It’s the nightmare superego-id hybrid, 10 pounds of Blue Lives Matter shit in a five-pound “Live free or die” bag.

When men fail to live up to the puritanical amorality of the boys, they’re less than men, which is to say — as women have a lifetime to learn — they’re less than human. Such men earn sexualized insults like “betas” and “cucks.” They’re reduced to contemptuous acronyms like “SJWs” and “NPCs.” They make the soy face. They listen to dad rock. This blend of macho aggression and childlike vulnerability cannot be resolved in the real world, where it results in a racist, revanchist, minority party controlling all branches of government and installing sexual predators in every available position of power yet still acting like the David to the Goliath of Me Too, female gamers and the theoretical casting of Idris Elba as James Bond.

me and the boys watching james bond morph into a black guy before our very eyes , and braying at the movie screen like distressed cattle

— wint (@dril) September 4, 2018

Dril and the boys reside in this all-American astral plane where the Large Son–Libtard civil war rages, where misandry is real and must be guarded against with magic spells. We recognize our own reality in their incoherent but nevertheless militant search for reasons to hoot and holler. As such, their romance presents us with an opportunity to convert the problematic into the pleasurable, just as surely as antihero dramas or even halfway decent kink.

In the world of dril and the boys, all the pride and greed and wrath and lust and envy and sloth and gluttony of the movements that have fouled the entire adult lives of multiple generations of Americans can be boiled down to a gaggle of morons screaming about toilets. It’s a beautiful fantasy, and like all fantasies, it’s as romantic as it is remote.

Sean T. Collins has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Esquire and Vulture. He and his partner, the cartoonist Julia Gfrörer, are the co-editors of the art and comics anthology Mirror Mirror II. They live with their children on Long Island in New York.

Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dril-and-the-boys-twitter_us_5bb66529e4b028e1fe3bfd71

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I am a 23 year old male from Texas and I'm shopping around for a new vehicle. I'm stuck between a quad cab dodge ram and a dodge challenger. About how much would I be payin on insurance a month on either of them?

Health insurance transplant patients affordable?

affordable prescription meds. for transplanted patients plus affordable health insurance for same.

Pregnant and scared...?

I just found out I'm pregnant, my boyfriend and I are keeping it and we're planning to get married. I'm 24 yrs old, I'm in serious debt (I have not been able to get this problem resolved for the last couple of years and I'm considering bankruptcy), he doesn't have much of a job either....we're going to try our best with that but I have no idea if I should go through with the bankruptcy or if there's any other option for me. Also, (even worse) I don't have insurance at the moment. My work has open enrollment for health coverage in November (I missed it last year cuz I was out of town) so I don't know what to do there, either. And another problem.....I have yet to tell my parents and theyre gonna kill me. How can I approach/tell them? There are no family members I trust that I can talk to about this and this all really sucks but I really want this baby. Any advice? Please refrain from telling me I'm stupid, because I already know that much, and I'm gonna hear it from my parents.""

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Will my insurance go up for this charge?

Ok so last night me and my buddies were in mcdonalds parking lot, they were drinking beer and i wasn't. i had consumed 1 beer about 1 and a half hours before a started driving. One of my buddies threw a beer bottle out the window and some old lady called the cops. the cops then came when we were sitting in the parking lot eating or burgers and asked me if i have had anything to drink tonight and i said i had 1 beer about 2 hours ago and he said that he's not going to put me under a breathlyzer because he knows i will fail. I had one beer ffs! i am 16 btw. So the two charges i got were underage drinking and having unclosed alcohol in my vehicle for a total cost of $340. So now i have 2 questions do you think the cop was far? and will my insurance go up with those charges""

Best and cheap major health insurance?

Best and cheap major health insurance?

RWD Japanese sports cars that are cheap to insure?

I.E. Not Skylines or 350Z's.

Where can I find cheaper car insurance quotes?

I'm 17 in a few months, have a car, and have been checking insurance quotes.""

""If I'm a registered driver but I'm still with my mom, will her insurance costs go up?""

I'm 16 and I want to get my learner's permit then eventually my license, but I heard that my mom's costs would go up even if I didn't have a car.""

Insurance on a used car verses a new car?

My dad says that if I buy a new car my insurance will double or even more than my insurance on my used car. Is that true?

How much should a Hyundai Sonata lease and insurance be?

I want to lase a 2011 Hyundai Sonata Limited 2.0T fully loaded within the next couple of days. I've totaled it on HyundaiUSA.com and it cam out to $30,195. the dealer said he would he down to $26,795. Their current promotion says you can lease a 2011 Sonata for 199/mo. for 36 months with $2,399 due at signing. I only want it for 24 months with $2,000 down. Any body have any idea what the lease rate or the insurance would be? Anybody whose leased a 2011 Sonata, please provide input. Thank you to everyone who answers!""

Totaled MINI Cooper. How does insurance value it?

I totaled my wife's 2004 MINI Cooper last night. Waiting to hear back from insurance company. NADA and Kelley both list the retail value about the same. Is that what I should expect in terms of the insurance settlement? I want to be prepare when the call me next week.

Car Insurance Toronto: Which car insurance company is cheap ? I am a first time car driver.?

I got a G2 lincence recently. I buy a car. Now i am looking for insurance. can any one recemande which car insurance is cheap. thanks for ur interest.

Car insurance problem!! I need help!!?

I got in a fender bender yesterday. Did a little damage to my car, but just scuffed the ladies bumper. The cops came and gave me a citation for failure to yield. Here's the problem though, I dont really have insurance, i just have cards saying I do from awhile ago. The cops put down that I have insurance. I called the woman later to tell her I wanted to settle the ordeal with cash without making a claim to insurance and shes cool with it. So! My question is...Is the BMV or cops going to find out I didn't really have insurance????(I live in Ohio)""

Insurance and pregnancy?

I had a baby 4 months ago and had insurance from November 2011 until September 2012 ( I canceled as I could no longer afford it.) My husband got a new job and as of January 5th 2013 I will be covered under his plan ( a bit more affordable). The issue is I am pregnant ( very early). Will they consider this pre existing? This was not planned! I has an apt for birth control but my baby got ill and had to pay 3000.00 in medical so I had to push it back and now, I'm pregnant again.""

Which is the cheapest car on the market to insure?

Hello, im currently learning to drive in the uk and looking to buy my first car. I need something that will get me from A to B, and will be as cheap as possibly to run as well as insure as im currently not able to work until my daughter is old enough to attend nursery next year. If anyone could help point me in the right direction as to which car to get it would be most helpful as then i can compare insurance quotes. If it helps, im 24 years old and female. x""

Who are the best and worst car insurance companies?

I'm looking for a new car insurance company and would like to hear other peoples experiences to help me choose. Thanks!

What co. has the best car insurance for teens?

I 18 and want to get my own insurance

What is the easiest and most profitable insurance to sell?

Is life and health a harder sell than p&c? Also what company is best to work for, Aflac, Farmers, Allstate, etc.?""

Fleet Insurance?

Can anyone who has fleet insurance tell me roughly how much would it cost to insure 4 cars for a car rental business. i am doing an a level business studies project and need to know. thanks for your help!!!

How much does commercial auto insurance cost?

I just recently got a job delivering pizza's at papa johns and know that neither the store or my current insurance will cover me if I get into an accident while on the job. Is comm insurance worth it? I heard it was expensive. And would I be covered if another car hits me while I'm on the job?

How much would car insurance be for me? (teen)?

I'm 16. Driving a Honda Accord 2001, with 130,000 miles. I live in the state of Delaware. I'm a male, with about. 3.0 average in school. If you had to guesstimate , how much do you think my insurance would be?""

How can I get car insurance without a guardian?

I live with away from my parents, Im almost 18 but not there yet. How can i get car insurance without having a guardian?""

How much would car insurance be under my dad's policy? Or by itself under my name?

I'll be 21 in September and I'm getting a car really soon. I just have no clue how much the premium is going to cost me. I'm getting an older car. 100,000+ miles. So ...show more""

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Can you get a Drivers License and not have car insurance?

I dont plan to drive, but i do intend to get my license. Is it possible to not have to get car insurance with your license? Idont own any cars as well""

How much will my insurance be on a BMW 114i?

Ow much will my insurance be roughly on a brand new BMW 114i 25K, I'm 17 yrs old and I think this car is a 1.6l, please tell me how much the insurance will be for me, I need a price with and without my parents added to the policy, my address is 2, bd8 0bw. 2012 plate 3/5 door hatchback Petrol""

Cheapest Insurance 1994 Plymouth Sundance?

Anyone know how much is the insurance is? I live in Michigan and anyone know the best insurance companies? Thanks!

Insurance and bmv question?

If I have to show insurance to the bmv and they tell me I have to show the insurace at time i got pulled over do they check with the insurance company to see if you really had insurance at that time?

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Maturnity insurance?

do anyone know of any insurance that cover maturnity that will not cost an arm and a leg. my husband had good insurance and they had a lay off and friday is out last day with that insurance so does anyone know of any insurance for maturnity coverage that would be a great help.

Begginning drivers and insurance?

When a high school student gets a permit, do I have to call the insurance company and add them to the policy? I know it may increase the rate drastically, so what is best to do?""

What would insurance maybe cost per month for a 16 year old that has a mustang gt?

ok say its like an 2001 mustang gt it is black not a bright color i am just getting added to my parents plan im an a student and i live in houston tx

Can i get my own car insurance ?

i am 18 and my mom cant afford to have me on her car insurance can i get my own???

How much is the average costs for running a 125cc motorbike/Moped?

i.e. average insurance/ MOT/ fuel consumption as a provisional Motorcycle license but full driving license. I need this to somewhat give me a idea of commuting benefits of biking to work from zone 4 - 1 London. Thanks in advance

How do I get 1 day car insurance in virginia?

Someone is giving me a car I am picking up in newark and I need one day insurance to drive it back because i dont have money right now since my job doesnt start til 2 weeks from now and its my first job since my car accident 2 months ago. I tried calling elephant because I thought they had 1 day insurance but they keep transferring me to a place that says they dont have it. I dont know who to call

20 and a Marine but auto insurance companie's want to charge me 500$ a month??? HELP?

I just got my license a couple months back i am in the marines and joined when i was 17 and in california it cost 350$ to get your license before you are 18 and i could not afford it. i am a very busy guy and it took time before i could get it. i make 600 every 2 weeks and i am about to get a car i am stationed at camp lejeune NC. for the auto loan i will be paying about 350 to 400 a month. its not that bad i am paying 5 % interest on the loan for 11,500 not that bad for not having any credit. but the insurance companies want to charge me anywhere from 450 to 700 a month i have only looked at a couple companies but it takes forever to fill out the info and some of them do not read my address because i am on a military base so i have to call them and you all no how that goes. so my question is what is a auto insurance companie that will be cheap. i have to get full coverage because of the loan. please only serious answerer's and from personal experience. sorry if i spelled things wrong i am not in a prestige college i am a Marine. but think you for your help and have a great day.""

Is car insurance more expensive when your on a provisional and can i get it for a few months only?

im learning to drive soon and am buying a car to practise in with my friend who can drive for over 3 years. but im confused about insurance. will it cost me more? and will i have to upgrade it once i pass my test? i might only be on the provisional for a few months.

Cancel Geico Insurance Online?

Is it possible to cancel my insurance online?

Health insurance in south carolina?

My husband and I need Medical insurance. I live in SC. Can anyone out there tell me of some companys to contact besides BCBS.

Will this progressive insurance claim raise my rates?

So I was driving along the turnpike here in Oklahoma the other day when I noticed a vibration I was pushing 70mph at the most in my 1998 ford ranger when i noticed this. my truck was valued by the claims adjuster at $5800 As the vibration continued I pulled over and slowed down right then I noticed and felt my tire tread from the rear drivers side fly out and do some damage to the bed the tire still had air in it but when i got out to look my tread had flown completely off along with some other truck pieces. The adjuster said more then likely the belt slipped or snapped or something along those lines the damage total was $2,695.00 less my $500.0 deductible the insurance will pay the remaining balance. it would have totaled out had the repair cost more the 50% of the value of the truck. Now my question will be tricky to answer because everyone has a different driving record I haven't filed a claim sense 2004 I hit a car ! guilty I have had speeding tickets but not sense 2007 I had one guy try and file a claim against me in 2008 he said i backed into him but he didn't carry insurance and had no proof and the claim was never paid out so I'm pretty sure my rates will go up come time for renewal I'm just trying to see by how much? can i call progressive would they tell me? do they even know???? I know that a lot of this depends on your claims trend. this is really the only claim I've filed in yrs and the 2nd one in 4 yrs with this company. that first claim never payed out either.. I'm a 26 yr old male if that helps any..... thanks everyone who contributes""

Online car insurance quote?

My husband and I are looking for ways to cut back spending. We wanted to look for better car insurance rates so we looked online and got a quote that was considerably less (about 700.00 less a year) with the same deductibles and options we already have. My question is ... has anyone done this and had good luck with it? And does this to good to be true rate increase after they real you in? And what is a good company to go with?

Is it true that the older you get the more car insurance you pay?

My father lives in california and received his car insurance bill , he's 80 yr old. within the last year never received a ticket of any kind or was in an accident. and now he's paying more. Does that sound right?""

""What would be a cheap car insurance company for me,19 yrs old?""

I did some quotes but some companies couldn't give me a quote.. don't know why though but I am trying to find out what would be a cheap good company for me. The car I was going to buy was the Pontiac grand am year 2000-2002. If you know anything, please let me know. Thanks!""

""Financed car damaged,no insurance.what to do?!?

long story short... my car cost 7000 to fix and i dont have any insurance. i want to have the finance company to get the car.what happens once they get it? will i have to pay off the loan or just pay for the damages done?

Where can I find out insurance rates for US postal services with letters to the UK?

Each envelope would contain an item worth around the $30 mark, but as they would be going international I want them to be insured. I can find UPS rates, but not USPS rates for insurance.""

How much would car insurance on a 2006 convertible mini cooper cost for a 16 year old boy?

in the state of texas

Do you have to have car insurance? dont answer if you dont live in texas please?

I want to get my drivers license and i dont have a car so therefore i dont have car insurance. Can you get your license without having car insurance? Also would i use there car to drive or do i have to bring a car bc like i said i dont have one? And if i was to use someone elses car would i have to be on there insurance? Because if i have to then thats like saying you cant get a drivers license without a car or car insurance which wouldnt make that much sense. And please dont answer my questions if u dont live in texas

Cheapest car insurance for 18 year old male?

I drive a 1976 Datsun 240z, and I absolutely love it. I had an engine swap (4 cyl turbo) and some aesthetic modifications, and the car is in fantastic shape. Total worth is about $2000. I am 18 years old, living on away from home. I've had my license for less than a year, and have not had any accidents/altercations. I've called Geico, Progressive, Statefarm, etc, and they've all come back with 6 month policies ranging from $4500-$5800. I'm going to pay double, let alone triple, my car's total value for 6 months of insurance. That is ridiculous. I've looked online, and they tell me that Florida's minimum requirement is $10000 of PDL and PIP. What does it mean? Would you recommend it for me? I don't really care if my car is covered. I'll pay for that. I just don't wanna be stuck with a retiree's BMW repair bill or medical bill. Thanks Luke""

Will my insurance company insure my car without the registration?

I'm buying a used car and picking it up and hour away from me. I don't have the bill of sale or registration but I need insurance on it to drive it home. Can they still insure it?

Can my car insurance provider kick me out of grandparents house?

after my mom n sister moved into an apartment downtown ive been living with my grandparents. i have no job, i cant afford school, so i basically just help out around the house since they are in their 80's. recently i was told by my car insurance provider that i had to pay for the insurance for me to be on the grandparents car or move out. the reason i have to move is because apparently im too much of a liability for them, when i haven't even had a car wreck or anything with my own car just a year before. can they legally do this in my state (michigan) or even federally? im 21 not 18 and again ive been driving for a while before i was put on their insurance. oh and the best part about this situation, is that their auto insurance agent is my biological aunt. Can someone help please? They really need me back at my grandparents house.""

Anyone no any cheap insurance companys for new young drivers ?

Anyone no any cheap insurance companys for new young drivers ?

How much will a no insurance and no registration ticket in California cost you also car is in the impound?

How much will a no insurance and no registration ticket in California cost you also car is in the impound?

Will I be able to get health insurance to cover this?

I am about to graduate from college and have not been covered by insurance regularly in many years, for a short time I was on a California county-supported low-income type of insurance program but it automatically runs out every few months if you don't reapply evidently... Anyways, I'm about to graduate and move back to Oregon. I have some kind of hip/tendon injury that I need to go to the doctor for and have checked out...but because I don't have insurance, and this is an old injury already, is there any way I'm going to find health insurance to help me pay for this? Or am I just completely screwed and destined to limp around for the rest of my life??? because there's no forseeable way that I'll be able to afford my own health care any time soon, I'll be paying off my student loans for the next few years. I also doubt that I will be able to find a job that offers health coverage in my field so that's not looking very likely either.""

Where is the cheapest Motorcycle insurance for a Honda CBR500R in Vancouver?

I'm a new rider buying my first bike. I am not really sure which options are available for insurance. I know ICBC has mandatory liability that has to be paid to them, however I'd like to know where the cheapest motorcycle insurance for a CBR500R is. Any help or info would be appreciated - Brad""

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Texas Flooding 2017

Four articles with source links.

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Houston's historically black neighborhoods devastated by flooding, with little safety net

Houston's historically black neighborhoods were hit hard by Hurricane Harvey — and many don't have the safety net that residents in other parts of town can rely on to recover.

Six-year-old Karla Rogers lingered on the sidewalk outside her apartment in the hot sun on Thursday, refusing to go any farther. Her friend had told her there were snakes inside.

Five days earlier, her father had lowered her down from a second-story window into the arms of a Houston police officer standing in chest-deep floodwater that had appeared almost overnight with the arrival of what by then had become Tropical Storm Harvey.

“She’s been devastated ever since,” said Eddie Rogers, who is 50. “My main concern was just getting her out.”

They returned to their public housing complex Thursday afternoon to meet with a FEMA inspector who would do a walkthrough of the three-bedroom, one-bath dwelling and determine if they qualified for financial assistance that would allow them to get a hotel room. When they arrived, the complex was nearly deserted — a lot of other people had gotten help, Rogers said — and the inspector was running late.

They had to walk a mile from the downtown emergency shelter where they had been staying for nearly a week because their Ford Explorer had been flooded out, Rogers said.

“So we can’t get in our car no more?” a wide-eyed Karla asked, her cheeks gleaming with tears.

“No, baby,” he said.

When he picked her up to carry her toward the apartment, she burst into tears and began to shriek: “I’m scared; I don’t want to go!” The inspector had just called and would arrive in 15 minutes.

The scene at Rogers’ apartment complex was playing out all over Houston's Fifth Ward, which has long been a predominantly black neighborhood. First settled by freed slaves in the mid-1800s, the Fifth Ward and nearby neighborhoods were once thriving communities of railroad and industrial workers in the mid-20th century. But the decline of industry in the neighborhood and a lack of government investment helped contribute to rapid deterioration later on.

Not all of the area is known to flood regularly; some newer homes and apartments escaped the waters even during Harvey. FEMA doesn’t consider Rogers’ complex to be in a floodplain even though it backs right up to Buffalo Bayou, a usually slow-moving river that runs through downtown Houston but which swelled to unprecedented levels during the storm.

“This was the big one,” said Rev. James Caldwell, a community advocate who grew up in the Fifth Ward and has lived here for the past 20 years. “This is the first time that I’m aware of in years that this area actually flooded into homes. It floods — the streets turn into rivers, and all that — but the homes themselves are generally safe. This time, it hit homes.”

Compared to other parts of town, the safety net for many of these residents is severely lacking. Rogers and his daughter had moved to their public housing complex just two months earlier from a homeless shelter in League City. He had lost his job and his apartment after divorcing Karla’s mother, and he fought a long custody battle to keep his daughter.

All over the Fifth Ward, the watermark appeared to be waist-deep in the one-story homes. Yards were full of debris and wet carpet. Many residents who had been flooded out were walking to and from their houses each day to a downtown evacuee shelter — about 4 miles away — to get food and a dry place to sleep.

In wealthy neighborhoods, many residents had kayaks and fishing boats to help rescue their neighbors. But that wasn't the case in one apartment complex just north of the Fifth Ward.

Water had gotten up to 18-year-old Kisha Adams’ waist in her family’s one-story apartment before she sought refuge in the upstairs unit with neighbors. But the water kept rising. Then, the breaker box across the parking lot of the rundown complex caught fire, and Adams watched the smoke and flames as she called 911.

She never got through. Helicopters flew overhead and she tried to wave huge flashlights in their direction, but they never stopped. So Adams, her parents and her 1-year-old daughter waited nervously with no power and spoiling food until the water receded. It took two and half days for them to walk safely downstairs.

“We lost everything,” said Adams, a native Houstonian. “Everybody lost everything.”

Just a few doors down, 61-year-old Marilyn Wilson put her head in her hands as neighbors hauled all of her ruined possessions — furniture, clothes, heirlooms, electronics — from her apartment. They wore masks over their faces to protect from a toxic smell that seemed to permeate the area.

Wilson has a number of severe health problems, including diabetes and high blood pressure, and she usually gets around in a wheelchair. After the water receded in her home, she returned to discover all her medical equipment was ruined. That includes a machine that helps her with sleep apnea and a hospital-style electric bed that keeps her elevated since she cannot lie flat. She said Medicare will replace the items for free but that she doesn’t know how long that will take.

“It was hell. It was hell on earth, I’m telling you,” said Wilson as she recalled the experience. “I wouldn’t wish this on anybody because this is devastating.” A retired cafeteria worker, Wilson takes in just $1,000 a month from a combination of social security and retirement income, more than half of which she spends on rent.

Caldwell said Wilson’s story is not an unusual one for the area. Many residents here, including seniors and disabled people, were trapped during the storm and are now facing what seems like an impossible task: rebuilding mostly one-story apartments and finding somewhere else to live in the meantime. They will have to rely on FEMA for aid, and it may take months for that help to come through.

By mid-week, residents across the city were taking first steps in the rebuilding process — ripping out soggy carpet, running big fans to help dry things out — but they appeared much wearier in the Fifth Ward area than wealthier parts of town.

Hundreds of families have been displaced from city-owned public housing complexes that flooded in the wake of Harvey, said Brian Gage, a senior policy adviser for the Houston Housing Authority. Rebuilding will be a long and painful process for people with so few resources, he said while standing inside a cavernous hall at the downtown convention center where Rogers and his daughter had been staying.

About 90 of the 296 units in Rogers' 1950s-era complex had flooded, according to two maintenance men cruising around the complex in a dirt-crusted golf cart.

By Thursday evening, the FEMA inspector had looked at Rogers’ home, and he’d walked with his daughter back to their evacuee shelter. They had hoped that federal aid might come through quickly, but the inspector told him it would be days before they could get back with him.

Even though the situation seemed dire, Rogers appeared calm. He was doing everything for Karla.

“I’ve got to keep fighting. This is my reason to,” he said, gesturing toward her.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/08/31/devastation-houstons-fifth-ward-and-trouble-rebuilding

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Harvey Hit Poor Neighborhoods In Northeast Houston The Hardest

Poor neighborhoods on the northeast side of Houston were hit hard by the floods. But residents say they received little help evacuating, and now they are struggling to get basics like food, water and information.

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547646667/harvey-hit-poor-neighborhoods-in-northeast-houston-the-hardest

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Rockport's most vulnerable are the hardest hit from Harvey

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/08/27/rockports-most-vulnerable-hardest-hit-harvey/606051001

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In Houston’s Fifth Ward, wrong side of the tracks meant devastation

The rain started slow in the Fifth Ward on the night of Aug. 26. It began with a sprinkle before 8, built to a steady rain before 9 and then Harvey exploded. More than 7 inches of rain fell between 9 p.m. and midnight.

By 3 a.m., Hunting Bayou was 2½ feet out of its banks. Just seven blocks or so away, Sharon Lee woke up, put her feet on the floor and discovered an ocean of water was already in her apartment.

“We had to get out,” said the 53-year-old, who was taking care of her five grandchildren that night. “I was scared to death.”

They stepped out the door and into a water-swept hellscape. The strong current took her walker as they made their way to the street, she said.

“The water came swooping in and I was clinging on for dear life,” Lee recounted, her voice heavy with emotion. “Oh, Lord.”

She said two family members took her hands and helped her make it to dry ground at the end of the street.

Just down the road, Craig Wanza’s home made it through the storm largely untouched. The water made it up past his truck and into his yard, but spared his house. The damage, he said, was limited to some roof repairs and a couple of sections of sheet rock.

“All things considered, for the suffering that a lot of people are experiencing,” Wanza said, “I feel blessed, lucky, fortunate, whatever you choose.”

Wanza and Lee live just a mile apart along Lockwood Drive, the same north-south thoroughfare in this impoverished yet iconic neighborhood, where the difference between losing nothing and everything depended on what side of the Union Pacific tracks you lived on.

“The overpass is the cutoff of the flood plain,” Wanza said. “There’s a skating rink, once you top the rail yard and all, that’s where the flood plain technically starts — and it backs up.”

All it took to see the difference was turning off of Lockwood and onto the side streets, lined with apartments, shotgun houses and modest homes.

On the north side, people along Crane Street where Lee lived carried their furniture and their belongings — their lives — outside and then threw them in dumpsters.

“I’ve never seen anything like this, never, never,” said another man, who lives in the same low-slung collection of 1960s apartments that Lee calls home. He refused to give his name, but was eager to talk. “I’ve seen high water, up to the doors, to the car to the truck, but to my roof? In the Fifth Ward? Come on.”

On the south side, residents on Wanza’s largely spared Chew Street cleaned up and picked up. The sun was out and Harvey was gone.

It’s difficult to quantify the devastation the storm wrought across the Houston area. It dropped so much rain, an estimated 30 percent of Harris County’s roughly 1,800 square miles flooded and raised the sea level in Houston’s Ship Channel an astonishing 12 feet, according to the county’s Flood Control District.

Harvey’s wrath hit neighborhoods rich and poor across Houston. On the other end of the city, in West Houston, former Houston Mayor Bill White’s upscale Memorial City house and neighborhood also were badly flooded.

But the pain of recovery will be most acute in places like the Fifth Ward, which has long been one of Houston’s toughest and poorest neighborhoods.

For decades, the Fifth and the Third Ward anchored the city’s African-American community. The Third was home to historically black Texas Southern University, the city’s major black newspaper and the community’s elite, intellectuals and musicians. The Fifth was “the brawn to Third Ward’s brains,” Texas Monthly wrote in a 1976 profile of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who grew up there.

In a subsequent 1979 story headlined “Only the Strong Survive,” the magazine also described the ward was “the heart of the ghetto,” struggling with crime, drugs and joblessness.

Deprived and exploited by segregation, the ward was carved up by freeways in the 1960s and abandoned by many who could afford the suburbs. Crushing poverty remained: On the north side of the Union Pacific tracks, the average household lives on just $22,000 a year; south of the tracks, the figure is just marginally better, $27,000.

Here, many residents live check-to-check with little savings or insurance. Lee is disabled and needs a walker to get around. Her income is her social security disability check — $733 a month, which she fears will be inadequate as they work to start over.

“The struggle is real,” Lee said. “We need help, we need help.”

http://www.mystatesman.com/weather/hurricanes/houston-fifth-ward-wrong-side-the-tracks-meant-devastation/VvCPU2sbRM70RmS2POJEvK