#Llewellyn John Strand

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Okay, so the Strand save? Borked. So I am testing to see if I could just save the lot and the families (like maybe four total) associated with The Strands. A bit more play is required before I can determine it ~*~Officially Fixed~*~ but it’s looking promising so far! Maybe! AHH~!  And if I managed to save even just a bit of this family I am going to happy-cry FOR REAL.  Still going to go forwards with the idea of fast-forwarding Bryn and Syd to college but I wanted to do a like, montage of what their teen years were like.  Very, very tentative hope that I saved them! I don’t think I’ll do a legacy for them, maybe some short story snippets? I have ~*~ideas~*~.

[nightsidewrestling]

D.U.D.E Bios: Honey Di Napoli / Honey Lucifarian (2021)

The Patient Zombie Honey Lucifarian

Same pic as Honey hasn't changed much.

The fifth of the seven, the always tired Honey, obviously, isn't the most energetic woman in the world, but she's energetic enough to choke someone out, including teams and stables full of people by using the power of Sloth. Once she knows you're tired enough to give in, she'll turn you into a zombified version of your former self.

"Oh, so Kirby didn't eat him alive."

Name

Full Legal Name: Honey Oriana Di Napoli

First Name: Honey

Meaning: Simply from the English word 'Honey', ultimately from Old English 'Hunig'.

Pronunciation: HUN-ee

Origin: English

Middle Name: Oriana

Meaning: Possibly derived from Latin 'Aurum' 'Gold' or its derivatives, Spanish 'Oro' or French 'Or'.

Pronunciation: o-RYA-na

Origin: Italian, Spanish

Surname: Di Napoli

Meaning: Means 'From Naples' in Italian

Pronunciation: dee-NA-po-lee

Origin: Italian

Alias: The Patient Zombie, Honey Lucifarian

Reason: Damien went a bit too far with creating Honey, accidentally 'murdering' her before 'reviving' her to make the 'Zombie' known as Honey Lucifarian.

Nicknames: Hon, Ori, Ana

Titles: Miss

Characteristics

Age: 26

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Italian-American

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: October 20th 1995

Symbols: Goats, The Colour Blue (of lighter shades)

Sexuality: Lesbian

Religion: Atheist

Native Language: English

Spoken Languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish

Relationship Status: Single

Astrological Sign: Libra

Theme Song: 'My Own Worst Enemy' - Lit (2013-2015), 'My Own Worst Enemy' - Get Scared (2015-)

Voice Actor: Angie Harmon

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Asbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey

Current Location: Unknown

Hometown: Asbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey

Appearance

Height: 5'6" / 167 cm

Weight: 150 lbs / 68 kg

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Ginger

Hair Dye: One front strand dyed light blue

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2021) 6

Piercings: Lobe Piercings (Both)

Scars: Appendix surgery scar

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: (As of Jan 2021) Damien Lucifarian, Vi Lucifarian, Billie Lucifarian, Geia Lucifarian, Eli Lucifarian, Sara Lucifarian, Yeray Marino, Flo Marino, Bano Marino, Judi Marino, Rino Marino, Nat Marino, Mac Marino, Ros Marino, Zac Marino, 'Monster' Mike, Sakurako, Ash Thunder

Enemies: (As of Jan 2021) Kirby Kingston, Eddie Kingston

Friends: Viola Nye, Bienvenida Marino, Pelageya Winter, Elinor Herbert, Saraid Grady-Sullivan, Natividad Marino, Xanthia Winter

Colleagues: The AEW locker room / Too many to list

Rivals: John Silver, PAC, Marko Stunt, Jungle Boy, Riho

Closest Confidant: Barbara Di Napoli

Mentor: Damien Lucifarian

Significant Other: None

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Kevin Di Napoli (46, Father), Novella Di Napoli (46, Mother, Née Capitani)

Parents-In-Law: None

Siblings: Enrico Di Napoli (23, Brother), Barbara Di Napoli (20, Sister), Walter Di Napoli (17, Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: None

Nieces & Nephews: None

Children: None

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: The Underworld

Trainer: The C.R.C Wrestling School, Damien Lucifarian

Managers: Damien Lucifarian

Wrestlers Managed: None

Debut: 2013

Debut Match: Ida Llewellyn VS Oriana Gould. Oriana won via submission

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: Submission Artist

Stables: The Lucifarians (2014-)

Teams: Post

Regular Moves: Roundhouse Kick, Diving Crossbody, Diving Elbow Drop, Suicide Dive, Step-Up Enzuigiri, Springboard Clothesline, Tilt-A-Whirl Backbreaker, Sitout Suplex Slam, Slingshot Somersault Senton, Naptime (Arm Trap Swinging Neckbreaker)

Finishers: Dirt Nap (Arm Trap Triangle Choke), Lullaby (Fireman's Carry Dropped Into A Knee Lift)

Refers To Fans As: The Slothful, The Slothful Ones, The Apathetic, The Apathetic Ones

Extras

Backstory: The often lazy but willing to participate Honey Di Napoli was raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey with a dream to see herself as a champion at WrestleMania, but upon seeing the way women are treated in American wrestling, specifically the treatment from the McMahon run company, she left to train in the C.R.C wrestling school and ended up meeting Damien and the other girls while there, and through multiple training sessions with the budding stable she decided to join the group. She became 'Sloth' and is the last to have joined the group before they headed to Canada and then ended up in America.

Trivia: Nothing of note so far

[rhetoricandlogic]

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel review – time-travel drama

This ingenious follow-up to Station Eleven finds intimate human interest in a future of moon colonies, pandemics and paranormal investigation

Marcel Theroux

Wed 20 Apr 2022 07.30 BST

Last modified on Fri 22 Apr 2022 17.16 BST

Emily St John Mandel’s 2014 breakout novel, Station Eleven, told the story of a global pandemic that originates in the former Soviet Union and decimates life on Earth. A page-turner with an eerie, elegiac quality, it won the Arthur C Clarke award and was widely praised for its fine storytelling and for the unsettling glimpses it gave of our world plausibly unravelling into chaos and the dystopian existence beyond it. Five years after it came out, and with an HBO adaptation in the pipeline, it acquired an aura of creepy prophecy as Covid-19 made us all fluent in the language of pandemics. What made the book’s apparent prescience doubly strange is that one of Mandel’s hallmarks as a writer is noticing the echoes between apparently chance events: the links between distant characters, motifs from art recurring in life, and the historical echoes of long-separated incidents. The coincidence of a book meaningfully anticipating a current predicament could be one of her novelistic devices.

An interest in complex patterns animates Mandel’s new novel, Sea of Tranquility, though, as in Station Eleven, the naturalism and specificity of its opening gives little idea of the strangeness to come. The story begins in 1912 as a young British immigrant, Edwin St John St Andrew, is embarking on a new life in Canada. He’s one of the so-called “remittance men” – wastrel sons of upper-class British families who were packed off to the colonies on a private income to keep them out of further trouble. One day, as Edwin wanders in the woods of western Canada, he undergoes a paranormal experience whose meaning he cannot begin to fathom.

A few dozen pages on, the scene suddenly shifts and we are plunged into the present. At a concert in New York a composer is playing an old piece of video that seems to show a version of whatever Edwin found in the forest. Now that we’re invested in the mystery, the weirdness can really begin. There are two subsequent interwoven storylines. One unfolds in the 23rd century, where a writer called Olive Llewellyn, who was born and raised on a lunar colony, is visiting Earth on a book tour. The other plot strand takes place 200 years later, when an investigator named after a character in one of Olive Llewellyn’s novels begins to piece together the connections between all these different lives.

We’re reminded that humanity’s resting state is crisis – someone’s world is always ending: that’s the keynote of this book

This summary doesn’t do the book justice, but further exposition would, I think, spoil the novel for readers. Hugely ambitious in scope, yet also intimate and written with a graceful and beguiling fluency, Sea of Tranquility even invokes minor characters from another of Mandel’s previous novels, The Glass Hotel, as it gradually shows how all these incidents and people are part of one vast and fractured world.

Sea of Tranquility continues the good work done by Station Eleven in seducing new readers to speculative fiction. In fact, the book uses many more out-and-out science fiction conceits – space travel, sinister scientific institutions – but with a lightness of touch, as though they are intended to be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye that’s focused on the human dramas at the book’s centre. There’s something simultaneously fresh and old-fashioned in the novel’s comfort with omniscient narration, and its relaxed style that can swoop between the history of a lunar colony and the most intimate moments of a human life. It conveys the vertiginous sense of a reality that transcends a single existence and feels simultaneously poignant, celebratory and uncanny.

One of the quietest yet most compelling sections concerns Olive’s experiences on her book tour. As she promotes her novel, Marienbad, about a pandemic, a real pandemic is devastating the 23rd-century Earth and its lunar colonies. “I’ve never been interested in autofiction,” Olive tells one of her interviewers. This feels like a wink at the reader. It’s hard not to see Olive as a portrait of the author, catapulted to fame by the unexpected success of her novel, baffled and distressed by the sudden topicality of her research into pandemics, and fretting over the quibbles of impatient readers. “‘I was so confused by your book,’ a woman in Dallas said. ‘There were all these strands, narratively speaking, all these characters, and I felt like I was waiting for them to connect, but they didn’t ultimately … It just ended.’”

This sounds like a real – if unfair – criticism of Station Eleven. It also seems to have stung: Mandel goes out of her way to make it not true of Sea of Tranquility, which conscientiously draws together all its threads for an elegant and definitive conclusion.

Also on her tour, Olive gives a lecture about post-apocalyptic literature in which she tries to explain humanity’s fascination with the genre. “I think it’s a kind of narcissism,” she says. “We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.” It sounds plausible, but another explanation is offered, one that is both kinder and more profound. Observing a child’s grave, a character notes that to the child’s parents: “It would have felt like the end of the world.”

Just as Station Eleven seemed ultimately to be about mortality itself and how art allows us to step outside the immediate confines of our existence, Sea of Tranquility reminds us that humanity’s resting state is crisis. Someone’s world is always ending: that is the keynote of this book. And the echoes and callbacks that give it its shape reflect the ways we make our own lives meaningful.

[tachyonpub]

NIGHTMARES again proves Ellen Datlow the most masterful editor of the genre

Ellen Datlow’s NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR continues to garner acclaim.

SUSPENSE MAGAZINE declares the collection as one of the best books of 2016.

In this chilling twenty-first-century companion to the cult classic DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, Ellen Datlow again proves herself the most masterful editor of the genre. She has mined the breadth and depth of ten years of terror, collecting superlative works of established masters and scene-stealing newcomers alike. 

Nicole Michelle of WORLD OF MY IMAGINATION praises the book.

With the short story collection, NIGHTMARES edited by Ellen Datlow, you have a strong collection of short stories that will disturb you long after they are over. It contains twenty four stories and each one unique and disturbing in it's own way. One in particular called, "The Clay Party," I read during my commute home that left me with a queasy stomach that reminded me a bit of the "Donner Party" with an extremely morbid and weird twist.

<snip>

So, Friday the 13th is just next week so if you want to creep yourself out next weekend, I highly recommend purchasing this collection of short stories. It'll definitely stay with you long after it's over (and those are my favorite kind of books!).

(credit: THIS IS HORROR)

The anthology is nominated for the annual THIS IS HORROR Awards.

It’s that time of year again, friends. The This Is Horror Awards 2016 are now open. Please send your votes to awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the subject line ‘Awards 2016’. To cast a vote simply write the category and your vote for each award. You may vote for your top two in each category. For example:

Award 1. First choice 2. Second choice

This is in place in the event that there is a tiebreaker for first place after the votes have been counted.

Novel of the Year

Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay

Experimental Film by Gemma Files

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

Paper Tigers by Damien Angelica Walters

Stranded by Bracken MacLeod

The Fisherman by John Langan

Novella of the Year

Detritus in Love by Mercedes M. Yardley and John Boden

Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw

Noctuidae by Scott Nicolay

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

The Warren by Brian Evenson

X’s For Eyes by Laird Barron

Short Story Collection of the Year

A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson

Ecstatic Inferno by Autumn Christian

Furnace by Livia Llewellyn

Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt

The Lure of Devouring Light by Michael Griffin

The Parts We Play by Stephen Volk

Anthology of the Year

Autumn Cthulhu, edited by Mike Davis

Eternal Frankenstein, edited by Ross E. Lockhart

Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward

Lost Signals, edited by Max Booth III and Lori Michelle

Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow

Peel Back The Skin, edited by Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson

Fiction Magazine of the Year

Apex Magazine

Black Static

Lovecraft eZine

Nightmare Magazine

Strange Aeons

The Dark Magazine

Publisher of the Year

Crystal Lake Publishing

Dark Regions Press

Grey Matter Press

Journalstone

Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing

Word Horde

Fiction Podcast of the Year

Pseudopod

Small Town Horror

Tanis

The Black Tapes

The Other Stories by Hawk & Cleaver

Welcome To Night Vale

Nonfiction Podcast of the Year

Booked. Podcast

Lovecraft eZine Podcast

The Faculty of Horror

The Grim Tidings Podcast

The Horror Show with Brian Keene

The Know Fear Podcast

Voting closes at 12:01am GMT on Monday 23 January 2017.

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

[tindogpodcast]

TDP 917: #Torchwood The Sins of captain John from @Bigfinish

This title was released in January 2020. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until March 31st 2020, and on general sale after this date.

From zombies in Restoration London, to Hell gatecrashing a funeral, rogue Time Agent Captain John Hart leads the universe to rack and ruin in four new adventures written by David Llewellyn.

1. The Restored

Captain John is in Restoration England looking for some gauntlets. There's intrigue in the Tower of London, the dead are walking the streets, and the severed head of Oliver Cromwell has a terrible warning.

2. Escape from Nebazz

Captain John is in a wooden space prison that's under attack by a strange and terrible life form. Also the catering is truly dreadful and Dr Magpie's latest discovery may have got a little out of hand.

3. Peach Blossom Heights

Captains John and Jack find themselves stranded on a world that may be actual paradise - the weather is pleasant, the people are friendly, and the giant stuffed animals only come out at night. There's only one thing the world is missing. No-one has ever explained to any of the population about the birds and the bees. Which is unfortunate.

4. Darker Purposes

Captain John arrives at the funeral of one of the galaxy's richest men. He died without making a will, and his heirs have some very creative ideas about how this can be put to rights involving murder, necromancy and seduction. Sadly, Captain John is only too happy to oblige.

A new Tin Dog Podcast

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This save file seems to be corrupted. I’m keeping a copy so I can return at some point, but for the time being, I’m gonna take a step back from it. Especially with the new update and expansion coming out.  These are some of the last shots I got of the Strand family. Bryn got to be a teen, Arls and Llew got to become adults, and Braith is still an old good girl (she was like a day or two from dying).  Gonna give myself some time to see if the Strands are truly not able to be saved, but might move on to another legacy type. 

[nightsidewrestling]

D.U.D.E Bios: Honey Di Napoli / Honey Lucifarian

The Patient Zombie Honey Lucifarian (2020)

The fifth of the seven, the always tired Honey, obviously, isn't the most energetic woman in the world, but she's energetic enough to choke someone out, including teams and stables full of people by using the power of Sloth. Once she knows you're tired enough to give in, she'll turn you into a zombified version of your former self.

"If anything I envy how long most corpses stay asleep."

Name

Full Legal Name: Honey Oriana Di Napoli

First Name: Honey

Meaning: Simply from the English word 'Honey', ultimately from Old English 'Hunig'

Pronunciation: HUN-ee

Origin: English

Middle Name: Oriana

Meaning: Possibly derived from Latin 'Aurum' 'Gold' or from its derivatives, Spanish 'Oro' or French 'Or'

Pronunciation: o-RYA-na

Origin: Italian, Spanish

Surname: Di Napoli

Meaning: Means 'From Naples' in Italian

Pronunciation: dee-NA-po-lee

Origin: Italian

Alias: The Patient Zombie, Honey Lucifrian

Reason: Damien went a bit too far with creating Honey, accidentally 'murdering' her before 'reviving' her to make the 'Zombie' known as Honey Lucifarian

Nicknames: Hon, Ori, Ana

Titles: Miss

Characteristics

Age: 25

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Italian-American

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: October 20th 1995

Symbols: Goats, the colour blue (of lighter shades)

Sexuality: Lesbian

Religion: Atheist

Native Language: English

Spoken Languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish

Relationship Status: Single

Astrological Sign: Libra

Theme Song: 'My Own Worst Enemy' - Lit (2013-2015), 'My Own Worst Enemy' - Get Scared (2015-)

Voice Actor: Angie Harmon

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Asbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey

Current Location: On the road / Asheville, North Carolina

Hometown: Asbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey

Appearance

Height: 5'6" / 167 cm

Weight: 150 lbs / 68 kg

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Ginger

Hair Dye: One front strand dyed light blue

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 6

Piercings: Lobe piercings (both)

Scars: Appendix surgery scar

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Social Drinker, Doesn't smoke or do drugs

Illnesses/Disorders: None

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: (As of Jan 2020) None

Enemies: (As of Jan 2020) None

Friends: Viola Nye, Bienvenida Marino, Pelageya Winter, Kirby Rhydderch, Elinor Herbert, Saraid Grady-Sullivan, Natividad Marino, Xanthia Winter, Seren Mathieson, Mavourneen Llewellyn, Eadburg McWilliam, Queen MacEntire, Ida Scott

Colleagues: The AEW locker rooms / Too many to list

Rivals: John Silver, PAC, Marko Stunt, Jungle Boy, Riho

Closest Confidant: Barbara Di Napoli

Mentor: Damien Lucifarian

Significant Other: None

Previous Partners: None of note

Parents: Kevin Di Napoli (45, Father), Novella Di Napoli (46, Mother, Née Capitani)

Parents-in-Law: None

Siblings: Enrico Di Napoli (22, Brother), Barbara Di Napoli (19, Sister), Walter Di Napoli (16, Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: None

Nieces & Nephews: None

Children: None

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: The Underworld

Trainer: The C.R.C Wrestling School, Damien Lucifarian

Managers: Damien Lucifarian

Wrestlers Managed: None

Debut: 2013

Debut Match: Ida Llewellyn VS Oriana Gould. Oriana won via submission

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: Submission Artist

Stables: The Lucifarians (2014-)

Teams: Post

Regular Moves: Roundhouse Kick, Diving Crossbody, Diving Elbow Drop, Suicide Dive, Step-Up Enzuigiri, Springboard Clothesline, Tilt-A-Whirl Backbreaker, Sitout Suplex Slam, Slingshot Somersault Senton, Naptime (Arm Trap Swinging Neckbreaker)

Finishers: Dirt Nap (Arm Trap Triangle Choke), Lullaby (Fireman's Carry Dropped Into A Knee Lift)

Refers To Fans As: The Slothful, The Slothful Ones, The Apathetic, The Apathetic Ones

Extras

Backstory: The often lazy but willing to participate Honey Di Napoli was raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey with a dream to see herself as a champion at WrestleMania, but upon seeing the way women are treated in American wrestling, specifically the treatment from the McMahon run company, she left to train in the C.R.C wrestling school and ended up meeting Damien and the other girls while there and through multiple training sessions with the budding stable she decided to join the group. She became 'Sloth' and is the last to have joined the group before they headed to Canada and then ended up in America.

Trivia: Nothing of note so far

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Took the red eye back to Brindleton Bay, where of course it was rainy and chilly.

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Honeymooning in Tartosa, Day 1

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I absolutely love the group projects the schools give the kids, and I love even more that everyone in the family can help out

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Some quick photographic evidence that both Braith and Llew still exist. 

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Not a very snowy winter. 

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~F.*.A.*.L.*.L~

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Day 3, sampling the cuisine!

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Off to Sulani! (Serious props to xldkx for the plane stuff! I use the deco sims all over the place when I need to make a place look busy but don’t feel like herding a bunch of sims just for a couple of pictures.)

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Syd’s childhood years flew by and also I want to check out that friggin’ High School Years EP already