#Manuel Avis

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SIX THE MUSICAL - MODERN!AU: illustration

Lina's family tree 2/2

[momo-de-avis]

Sugestões de livros

Fica aqui para que parem de me mandar ask. Notem que isto não é só coisas que eu li, são também sugestões de colegas e amigos que confio muito.

Reis e rainhas:

Toda a coleção da Temas e Debates de biografias de reis e rainhas

Rainhas Medievais de Portugal de Ana Rodrigues de Oliveira

As Avis, Joana Bouza Serrano

História de Portugal Geral

História de Portugal tanto do Rui Ramos como do José Mattoso, sendo o segundo da Círculo de Leitores portanto só se consulta em biblioteca e sao livros de cabeceira

Grandes Mistérios da História de Portugal, Fátima Mariano

História, Arte e Literatura, Diogo Ramada Curto

História Global de Portugal (autores Vários)

Portugal na Idade Média, Sérgio Luís de Carvalho

História da Vida Privada em Portugal, José Mattoso (vários volumes por épocas, só estou familiarizada com a Idade Medieval)

Breve História de Portugal / Brevíssima História de Portugal (são 2 livros distintos) A. H. de Oliveira Marques

Al-Andalus

Fath Al-Andalus, Marcos Santos

Lisboa Árabe, Sérgio Luís de Carvalho

Portugal na Espanha Árabe, António Borges Coelho

Cristãos Contra Muçulmanos na Idade Média Peninsular, Carlos de Ayala e Isabel Cristina F. Fernandes (Coord.)

História Judaica e Inquisição

História dos Judeus Portugueses, Carsten L. Wilke

Judeus Portugueses, Esther Mucznik

A Perseguição Aos Judeus e Muçulmanos de Portugal - D. Manuel e o Fim da Tolerância Religiosa (1496-1497), François Soyer

Lisboa Judaica, Sérgio Luís de Carvalho

Inquisição e Cristãos Novos, António José Saraiva

História da Inquisição Portuguesa, Giuseppe Marcocci e José Pedro Paiva

História de Lisboa

Rainha dos Mares (Queen of the Sea em inglês), Barry Hatton

Lisboa Desconhecida e Insólita, Anísio Franco

História Gastronómica de Lisboa, Manuel Paquete

Lisboa em 10 Histórias, Joke Langens

Lisboa Revolucionária, Fernando Rosas

Lisboa no Liberalismo, Victor de Sá

Lisboa Manuelina, Helder Carita

Caminhar por Lisboa, Anísio Franco

Segredos de Lisboa, Inês Ribeiro e Raquel Plicarpo

Diário de um Viajante a Lisboa, Henry Fielding

Era das Luzes

O Marquês de Pombal e a sua Época, J. Lúcio de Azevedo

Século XIX

1808, Laurentino Gomes

A Republicanização da Monarquia, Maria de Fátima Bonifácio

Século XX

O Século XX Português (Vários autores)

Portugal Entre a Paz e a Guerra, 1939 - 1945, Fernando Rosas

Curiosidades, assuntos específicos e tópicos nicho:

Portugal Insólito, Joaquim Fernandes

História Global da Alimentação (Vários autores)

Quinas e Castelos, Miguel Metelo de Seixas

They Went to Portugal, Rose Macaulay

Heroinas Portuguesas, Fina d'Armada

O Pequeno Livro do Grande Terramoto, Rui Tavares

(Des)colonização e raça:

Roteiro Histórico de uma Lisboa Africana, Isabel Castro Henriques

Portugal e o Século XX: Estado-Império e a Descolonização, Fernando Tavares Pimenta

Lisboa Africana, Sérgio Luís de Carvalho

Um Mar da Cor na Terra, Miguel Vale de Almeida

Ecos Coloniais: Histórias, Patrimónios e Memórias, de Ana Guardião, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo e Paulo Peixoto

Caderno de Memórias Coloniais, Isabel Figueiredo

Escravidão, Laurentino Gomes

"Modo Português de Estar no Mundo": O luso-tropicalismo e a ideologia colonial portuguesa (1933-1961), Cláudia Castelo

Outras cidades:

Porto Insólito e Desconhecido, Germano da Silva

Cascais, Raquel Henriques da Silva

Qualquer livro da Scala sobre qualquer palácio público, inclusive os da Parques Sintra (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Palácio da Pena, Palácio da Vila, Mosteiro de Alcobaça que eu tenha)

vou atualizando à medida que vou descobrindo livros por aí

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In case anyone is interested, here are some of the historical ships I am more than willing to write:

HOUSE OF TUDOR:

-Henry VII & Elizabeth of York.

-Arthur Tudor & Catherine of Aragon.

-Mary Tudor & Louis XII // Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

(And no, I would rather not receive any Henry VIII related stuff)

HOUSE OF HAPSBURG:

-Maximilian I & Mary of Burgundy // Bianca Maria Sforza (pretty please, ask me to write about this two).

-Charles V & Isabella of Portugal.

HOUSE OF BURGUNDY - VALOIS:

-Philip the Good & Isabella of Portugal.

-Charles Martin (Charles “the Bold”) & Isabelle de Bourbon // Margaret of York.

HOUSE OF AVIS:

-Manuel I & Maria of Aragon.

HOUSE OF YORK:

-Richard of Conisburgh & Anne Mortimer.

-Richard of York & Cecily Neville.

-George of Clarence & Isabel Neville.

HOUSE OF LANCASTER:

-Henry VI & Catherine of France.

-Henry VII & Margaret of Anjou.

OTHERS:

-Matthias Corvinus & Beatrice of Naples.

-Yolande of France & Amadeo IX of Savoy.

-Anne of Brittany & Maximilian I // Louis XII

( This may interest you @catherinemybeloved / @dickon777 )

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#JON SNOW FORTNIGHT EVENT 2023

@asoiafcanonjonsnow

DAY 10: ECHOES OF THE PAST 🗝️📜(2/2) ->

Historical parallels with Medieval bastard Kings.

John I of Portugal

To complete the the previous post of this meta, we're going to dive in the parallels and simmilarities between Jon Snow and John I of Portugal through the following points:

BASTARDY

John I of Portugal also known as John of Avis, was the bastard son of King Peter I of Portugal and Teresa Guille Lourenço, a Galician noblewoman, lady in waiting of Inês de Castro, or according to other sources, the daughter of some Lisbon merchants.

Jon Snow is officially known to be Ned Stark's bastard son, and if we consider R+L=J, he's Prince Rhaegar and Lyanna's son, and as far as we know Jon is still a bastard.

PARENT'S TRAGIC LOVE STORY

John I's father, Peter I of Portugal fell in love with Inês, a lady in waiting and cousin of Constanza Manuel de Villena (Peter's wife).

After Constanza died, they became lovers and they had four children and they wed in secret, but some Portuguese nobles and Peter's father, Afonso IV of Portugal, disliked their relationship because the possible influences of Inês' family. They plotted to kill her, Inés was killed by three of those men and it's said that when Peter became king, he put Inês' corpse in a throne next to him so that the people would swear allegiance to her as queen of Portugal and looked for revenge chasing the ones who killed Inês. John I was born a few years after Inês died when Peter I had an affair with Teresa Lourenço.

Jon's parents, Rhaegar and Lyanna met at the Harrenhal Tourney, in which both participated, Lyanna as the Knight of the Laughing Tree, Aerys sent Rhaegar some men to learn the identity of the mystery knight, so it's likely that Rhaegar figure it out and then crowned her as Queen of Love and Beauty when he won the tourney. They fell in love and run away together, Rhaegar died at the Battle of the Trident during Robert's rebellion and Lyanna died after giving birth to Jon at the Tower of Joy.

BROTHER IS THE KING

After Peter I of Portugal died, he was succeeded by his son with Constanza Manuel de Villena, Ferdinand I, and John held a prominent position during the reign of his brother.

Jon is a brother of the Night's Watch when Robb is proclaimed as King in the North and during his brief reign.

Apart from that it would be argued that Aegon VI fits here too because he's Jon's brother, but Young Griff's identity as Aegon VI is doubtful and he hasn't taken control of Westeros yet.

MILITAR EDUCATION AND CAREER

John was educated by Nuno Freire de Andrade, Master of the Order of Christ, and John became Master of the Order of Avís, one of the most important Orders in Portugal during the Middle Ages, from which he will take his last name.

Jon joined the Night's Watch, which can also be considered a militar order in which chastity is also imposed on its members just like the Order of Avis. Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch has been one of Jon's mentors, so just like John, Jon had the leader of a militar order as a mentor, and then became the head of a militar order.

RELATIONSHIPS/LOVE INTERESTS

While John formed part of the Order of Avis, despite vows of chastity, John had two bastard children with Inês Pires when he was a teenager, Beatrice and Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza.

Jon broke his vows by falling in love and being with Ygritte, even though Jon didn't had children with Ygritte, and Jon has also expressed that he didn't want to have them because of the stigma of being a bastard and the classist Westerosi society.

POLITICAL MATCH MAKER

John was one of the negotiators of the successive marriage projects of his niece and the heiress Beatrice of Portugal, who would end up marrying John I of Castile (Henry II of Castile's son), as a way to seal peace after the Fernandine Wars, in which Ferdinand I tried to overthrow Henry II from the Castilian throne, who became king after killing his legitimate brother Peter I of Castile (who was Ferdinand I's cousin), and was supported by one of Peter I's legitimised bastard children, Constance of Castile.

In the agreements established that each one would independently reign their kingdoms and the offspring of both would inherit Portugal, although if Beatrice died without children, the heirs of her husband would inherit Portugal, and John I of Castile has children from a previous marriage to Eleanor of Aragon (this is important detail for later).

Jon has also arranged a wedding of a familiar during his time as head of the militar institucional, as the Karstarks originated as a cadet branch of the Starks, and there have been intermarriages between the two houses, so we could assume Alys and Jon are distant cousins, such as Alys and Sigorn's wedding.

PROBLEMS OF SUCESSION AND INDEPENDENCE OF THEIR KINGDOMS & THEIR RISE TO KINGSHIP

After the death of Ferdinand I, a succession crisis took place in Portugal between Beatrice, who had no offspring, and the children of Peter I of Portugal with Inés de Castro (who were considered bastards by the Portuguese nobility), and also John revolted at end of 1384 with the support of the commonfolk and the bourgeoisie, and promoted a war to maintain the independence of Portugal, adopting the title of defender of the kingdom, which he achieved by defeating Beatrice and John I of Castile, for which he was crowned king of Portugal, being the first king and founder of the House of Avis.

Due to what happened to John with the fight for the independence of Portugal against another family member, it is most likely that in TWOW when Jon arrives in Winterfell the inheritance problem between the Starklings will have to be solved, and with Robb's will and his position as the older brother and being the one with political experience, supported by the Free Folk, the Mountain Clans and some Northern Noble Houses like the recently created House of Thenn, formed by Alys and Sigorn, Jon will be named king in the North breaking relations with the Iron Throne that is under the control of the Lannisters and the North will be (for the moment) independent again. In addition, the matter of Beatrice and her husband John I of Castile reminds me a bit of the marriage of Sansa and Tyrion, being Tywin's initial plan to get the North under the rule of the Lannisters, although that did not work and the best method was having the Boltons at Winterfell. Plus both Tyrion and John I of Castile have lions in their sigils, although the Castilian lion is purple (or in some media, red) and the Lannister one is golden.

ALLIANCES, MARRIAGE & OFFSPRING/POSSIBLE MARRIAGE (SPECULATIONS)

Like his brother Ferdinand I, John supported Constance's cause, allying with her against John I of Castile, but they were defeated and Constance did not get the Castilian throne, her daughter Catherine of Lancaster married John I of Castile's son, Henry III, and their son was  John II of Castile, thus uniting the two lines of succession of Alfonso XI of Castile.

As well as Peter I of Castile's two eldest surviving daughters married two of Edward III of England's sons (Constance married John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Isabella married Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York), John I of Portugal married Philippa of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's eldest daughter with Blanche of Lancaster, and they had a loving marriage and eight children: Blanche, Afonso, Edward I of Portugal, Peter, Henry, Isabella, John and Ferdinand.

Edward was a poet and writer, his more important books were, on good governance,'The Loyal Counselor', 'Book of Councils', 'Response, being princes, to the infant D. Ferdinand about some complaints he had of his father'; on sports and horsemanship, with educational connotations, 'Teaching book about riding well in any saddle' and "Regiment to learn to play weapons'.

It's very likely that Jon will need to make more alliances to stablish his position as King in The North and preparing for the War for the Dawn and fight against the Others, and one way to do it it would be marrying someone with a prominent influence and a big army.

And although Dany hasn't landed on Westeros yet, due to her army and her influence as queen claimant to the Iron Throne, could be a good ally, and Dany would like to help due to her care for people who are needed, so probably Jon and Dany would join forces and eventually they could fall in love, marry and rule Westeros together.

Plus, if Jon ans Dany have children, one of them could be a poet like Edward I or a music composer and a bookworm like Rhaegar.

CUNNING/KNOWLEDGE

Contemporary writers state John that his position as a master of a religious military order made him an exceptionally learned king for the Middle Ages. His love for knowledge and culture was passed down to his children, who are collectively referred to by Portuguese historians as the illustrious generation, for example, Edward I the Eloquent and Peter were considered as two of the most learned princes of their time, and Henry the Sailor invested heavily in science and in the development of nautical activities.

Although Jon is often seen as a warrior, he has shown interest on knowledge and books too and he has been showing competences and skills for being a good leader and he's cunning good at politics and a good administrator, as he has been proving during his time as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.

DRAGON IMAGERY

John I of Portugal's sigil has some elements that make me link him with Jon, his emblem has a crest with a dragon, which was usually used in the heraldry of the Portuguese Royal family, in which a dragon appears in the Royal crest or two green dragons as the supports of coat of arms, which makes me think of Rhaegal, a green dragon, who was named after Rhaegar and most likely Jon is its dragonrider.

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Guia: Como fazer uma investigação Genealógica em Portugal

É bom ver que anda tanta gente entusiasmada com o relato que a @momo-de-avis tem feito da sua investigação genealógica. Caso queiram aproveitar esse entusiasmo para se juntarem à festa e irem também meter o nariz na vossa história familiar, eu tenho algumas dicas.

Comecem com o que sabem. A maior parte de nós sabe o nome dos pais e dos avós e provavelmente também dos bisavós. Era o meu caso. Sei o nome, data e local de nascimento dos meus pais e avós. Dos meus bisavós só sabia os nomes, excepto de uma, da qual tinha uma cédula onde vinha a sua data de nascimento, naturalidade e o nome dos pais. E esses são precisamente os dados necessários para começar a descobrir mais!

Caso sejam trintões como eu é provável que os vossos bisavós tenham nascido antes de 1910 e foram baptizados e registados nos cadernos paroquiais. Isso é excelente. Na maior parte dos casos é só ir ao caderno de registos de baptismos da paróquia onde eles e chafurdar até encontrarem uma criança com o mesmo nome (normalmente só aparece nome próprio) cujos nomes dos pais correspondam aos nomes que já conhecem. Esses registos vão ter também a naturalidade dos pais, a paroquia onde casaram (se eram casados, caso não fossem a criança é baptizada como "ilegítima" ou "natural"), e os nomes dos avós paternos e maternos. Ao lado costuma também ter averbamentos com a data e local do casamento e morte.

Exemplo de um registo de baptismo da primeira década do século 20, com a ortografia original:

Aos vinte e seis dias do mez de Julho do anno de mil novecentos e três, n’esta egreja parochial de Santo Ildefonso de Montargil, concelho de Ponte de Sôr, Arcebispado d’Evora, baptisei solenemente um individuo do sexo feminino, a quem dei o nome de Custodia, e que nasceu pelas nove horas da manhã do dia vinte e quatro do mês de Abril do corrente anno, no monte das Abertas de Cima d’esta freguesia, filha legitima de Manuel Jerónimo, trabalhadôr, e de Maria Jordôa, empregada no serviço domestico, ambos naturaes d’esta freguesia, onde se receberam e onde são parochianos e moradores no referido monte das Abertas de Cima. Neto paterno de Jeronymo Varela e de Rosaria Maria, e materno de Antonio Prates Jordão e de Augusta Lopes. Foi padrinho Affonso Fortio, casado, proprietario, e madrinha Rosaria Maria, viuva, empregada no serviço domestico, que sei serem os proprios. E para constar lavrei em duplicado este assento para depois ele ser lido e conferido perante os padrinhos, o assignei eu somente porque não sabiam escrever. Era ut supra. Collei sello de cem reis que inutilisei. O Parocho: José Gonçalves da Silva Primo Averbamentos: Nº55 Custodia | Nº1 - Casou com Manuel Jordão no Posto do Registo Civil de Montargil, concelho de Ponte de Sôr em 26 de Dezembro de 1931. Assento nº98 da mesma data. Em vinte seis de Junho de mil novecentos e setenta e três. João Sousa | Nº2 - O casamento a que se refere o averbamento nº1 foi dissolvido por obito do conjuge marido, falecido em 11 de Julho de 1942. Assento nº129 do mesmo mês e ano. Em vinte e seis de Junho de mil novecentos e setenta e três. João Sousa | Nº3 Faleceu em 26 de Agosto de 1984 na freguesia de Arrentela, concelho do Seixal

Caso os vossos bisavós sejam mais novos do que os meus e tenham nascido já depois da revolução republicana, foram já todos registados no Registo Civil. As regras atuais dizem que os registos com mais de 100 anos devem ser entregues pelas conservatórias aos arquivos distritais, mas nem todas estão muito adiantadas com isso. Ou também pode acontecer que o arquivo já tenha o documento mas ainda não esteja digitalizado. Se o arquivo já o tiver podem criar conta na plataforma deles e fazer um pedido de pesquisa, ou um pedido de reprodução, que podem ter ou não custos. Caso não esteja no arquivo têm que pedir no site do registo civil da mesma maneira que se pede uma certidão mais recente. Cada um desses pedidos custa 10€ e convém referir ao fazer o pedido que precisam de saber a naturalidade dos pais, ou que precisam da certidão para efeitos de uma investigação genealógica.

Eu não tenho muita experiência com as certidões do registo civil, nisso a @momo-de-avis pode ajudar um pouco mais porque já pediu algumas. Mas nos cadernos paroquiais, o próximo passo é descobrir o assento de casamento dos pais, se a criança for legítima. Pegando no exemplo acima, a Custódia era filha legítima, o que quer dizer que os pais casaram antes dela nascer, pode até ter sido no dia anterior, por isso, para encontrar o casamento deles é procurar a partir da data de nascimento dela para trás.

Os assentos de casamento são normalmente os mais completos porque havia uma grande preocupação com evitar a bigamia, portanto a identidade dos noivos era cuidadosamente conferida pelos padres.

Como exemplo, o assento de casamento dos pais da Custódia:

Aos vinte e nove dias do mez de Novembro, do anno mil oitocentos e noventa e nove n’esta egreja parochial de Santo Ildefonso de Montargil concelho de Ponte de Sôr, Archidiocese d’Evora na minha presença compareceram os nubentes Manuel Jeronymo, e Maria Jordão, os quaes sei serem os proprios e com todos os papeis do estylo correntes e sem impedimento algum canonico ou civil para o casamento; elle d’edade de vinte e oito annos já completos, solteiro, jornaleiro, natural, baptizado e morador n’esta freguesia, filho legitimo de Jeronymo Varella e de Rosaria Maria, naturaes desta freguesia; ella d’edade de vinte annos já completos, solteira, empregada nos serviços do campo, natural, baptizada e moradora n’esta freguesia, filha legitima de Antonio Prates Jordão e de Augusta Lopes, naturaes d’esta freguesia, os quaes nubentes se receberam por marido e mulher e os unì em Matrimonio procedendo em todo este acto conforme o rito da Santa Madre Egreja Catholica Apostolica Romana e receberam a benção nupcial. A mãe da nubente, viuva de Antonio Prates Jordão assistio ao casamento da sua filha à qual deu todo o seu consentimento para poder contrair o matrimonio com o nubente sendo testemunhas deste consentimento Ruffo Freire d’Andrade, casado, professor d’ensino primario e Antonio Maria Courinha, casado, proprietario, moradores n’esta freguesia. Foram testemunhas presentes que sei serem os proprios Hermengildo Nogueira, casado, lavrador e Luiz Mendes Catharino, casado, proprietario, moradores nesta freguesia. E para constar lavrei em duplicado este assento que depois de ser lido e conferido perante a mãe da conjuge e testemunhas commigo não assignaram por não saberem escrever assignaram a rôgo da mãe da nubente por ter sido dado nas suas presenças o seu ezpresso consentimento as já ditas testemunhas Ruffo Freire d’Andrade e Antonio Maria Courinha. Era ut supra.

Agora sabemos a idade que os pais da Custódia tinham quando casaram é fácil encontrar os seus assentos de baptismo. A partir daqui é ir repetindo os passos. Os óbitos normalmente vêm assinalados nos averbamentos. Ainda não cheguei a nenhum antepassado directo que tenha morrido antes da república, por isso tenho-me fiado nessa informação em vez de pedir a certidão no registo civil. Mas já sei que quando começar a investigar o António Prates Jordão vou ver os registos de óbito de 1899 para trás, uma vez que já tinha morrido quando a filha casou.

Encontrar irmãos dos bisavós, trisavós, etc., é que pode ser mais complicado se era uma família que mudava de paróquia com frequência, ou se os pais não eram casados, mas eu diria que este é um passo opcional quando se faz uma árvore genealógica. Eu pessoalmente gosto de saber e já enterrei imenso tempo a colecionar tios-bisavós como se fossem cromos, mas isso sou eu.

Espero que isto seja útil e se alguém tiver mais alguma pergunta a minha askbox está à vossa espera.

Links úteis:

[mysticarts]

Hiya! I am back, I finished my exams so sorry very much for the absent.

Question:

1. The lackadaisy sequel au your talking about it had me curious, what's going to happen to Nia after Carmen's death and the great depression came. Also is Nia going to be a detective soon? That's sounds intriguing to be honest!

Furthermore is the au going to mainly focus about Nia or are you going to include the Lackadaisy crew (ex; Rocky, Freckle, Ivy, Mitzi and etc.) and the Marigolds? (Mordecai, the savoys, etc.) To me I think they have some connection with Carmen, and I feel like they would have the biggest major effect to their business, due well, stock market crash.

(I could've add Wick and Edmund here but I think these two are just investors to both bootleg business... Edmund said in the comic about Marigold. Idk.. Ouch my memory.) Although that's only my interpretation, I am not a expert at history.

I wonder what you'll plan to do with the main cast? (If not then its okay, hopefully this doesn't pressure you.)

2. Speaking of the main cast! What does Nia thinks about the Lackadaisy? Did she meet one of them or not yet? What does she thinks of she meets Rocky?

3. Victoria or Vicky, does she know Carmen has a daughter? What kind of relationship Carmen has to her boss? Opinions and such.

4. What happens if Carmen's family meets Lucio's family? This isn't cannon btw since I said in a post Lucio turn tore his connections to his family. Amelita and Avis (I know she's dead, but I wanna hc this.) Could get along well, like Amelita rambles a bunch of things like work, family and household while Avid just listens to her smiling. Avis may like the fierceness energy Amelita has lol. (No wonder why Dakila is down bad for her WhEeZ!-)

I don't know how Alexander will interact to Ezekiel, Mayari (Amanda's new name) and Manuel, aka Lucio's sibblings. Seeing how Carmen doesn't like Alexander I can imagine Mayari despise Alexander, if he belittles her, Maya won't hesitate to bite his hands.

Manuel lowkey be intimidated on how cold Alexander is, Ezekiel doesn't like Alexander but he keeps on good manners and he isn't wanting to plan a physical fight with him. (Amelita will pull Ezekiel and Lucio ears if they did.)

That's all, have a good day/night! ^^

Ayyyy, glad ur done with exams! Exam week is starting next week for me, so I'm trying to save my relax time

Well, again, we don't really know when Lackadaisy ends in the universe time, but in this sequel Au it started two years after all of Lackadaisy's events. At this time, Nia is eighteen, a considered adult. In this situation, Nia is tempted to just go live back on the streets like she always did, and just keep herself hidden. However due to Carmen's impact, Nia probably would first thing go too Lucio after Carmen died. When the great depression came, Nia didn't really know what to do, but along that time, Nia just got into college

Im not sure when Nia will become a detective, I'd have to talk to her owner about it. But Nia partly became a detective so she could try and stop gangs killing people like how Carmen died

2. Nia has met Lackadaisy! The people she's closest too are Ivy and mainly Rocky. Mostly because they're both mentally unstable. Nia finds freckle boring, then again, she finds it hilarious when he's scared.

When it comes too the others like Mitzi and Zib, she formed that connection right off of Carmen. Considering Carmen knew Zib and Mitzi since she was around Nia's age, Nia had some small connection to Mitzi that she couldn't really explain. Nia just think Zib Is a funny guy with a saxophone. Again, in this sequel Au, it was just a concept at first, I only made one peice of art for it, it isn't a fully fleged out thing. But the sequel Au if fully developed would probably focus more on Nia's life and truama up till now, how she processes it and navigates life when another load of truama has been dumped on her.

3. Victoria does know about Nia. Victoria again, is running a huge business, she finds no reason too form good connections with her workers. Carmen always thought Victoria was cold on the outside, warm on the inside. Just having a hard shell to protect herself.

4.i do think that they would get along! Avis is very calm and compassionate, she knows how to bring people together. She'd probably be the one hosting the party meet and greet. I feel like she'd really get along with Lucio's sisters.

Elias is also very friendly, if anything. Carmen got most of her bright energy from Elias. He'd probably be laughing loudly with Lucio's dad.

Now, if we're gonna include Irene and Alexander, it'll be weird considering they're the step fam. But Irene is a talker, she'll go on and on about random stories and not stop. If anything, Alexander would try to save face, fail and then get kicked out of the party

Ty for the questions! Feel free to ask more!

[andrewmoocow]

Little Homeworld Life chapter 26: Hostile Takeover (originally posted on June 19, 2023)

AN: It has all come to this. The end begins here. The final episode of Little Homeworld Life is here at last, and after that will be Steven Universe: Snake Eyes. It has been an honor delivering such consistent quality writing to this fandom, and I'll be damned if I don't enjoy doing it again one last time before I finally decide to move onto other stories I've left to dry for too long.

Synopsis: Connie returns home from college just as Black Rutile takes over Little Homeworld and holds the Crystal Gems captive. With their alien friends in danger, the people of Beach City decide to repay the Crystal Gems by joining together to save them from Black Rutile.

Cast:

Grace Rolek as Connie

Noël Wells as Black Rutile

Kimberly Brooks as Jasper, Skinny Jasper, Carnelian, Superfan Rose, Hippie Rose, Shy Rose, Cherry Quartz, Biggs Jasper

Lauren Ash as White Topaz

Amy Sedaris as Teal Zircon

Martha Higerada as Topaz

Della Saba as Aquamarine

Charlyne Yi as Eyeball, Doc, Navy, Leggy, Army

Christine Pedi as Holly Blue Agate

Casey Lee Williams as Cat's Eye

Hayley Kiyoko as Morganite

Jinkx Monsoon as Emerald, Chest Emerald

Melissa Fahn as Demantoid, Eyeball Demantoid

Kari Wahlgren as Pyrope

Jon Wurster as Marty

Shanelle Grey as Sally Grove

Larissa Gallagher as Bluebird Azurite

May Calamawy as Chrome Chalcedony

Susanne Blakeslee as Pietersite

Estelle as Garnet

Michaela Dietz as Amethyst, Famethyst, Tiger's Eye

Deedee Magno-Hall as Pearl, Yellow Pearl, Blue Pearl, Volleyball, Black Pearl Brigade

Shelby Rabara as Peridot, Squaridot

Jennifer Paz as Lapis, Laz, Zuli, Phoenix Lapis

Uzo Aduba as Bismuth

Dee Bradley Baker as Lion, Concretes

Tom Scharpling as Greg

Matthew Moy as Lars, Dante

Kate Micucci as Sadie

Indya Moore as Shep

Enuka Okuma as Rhodonite

Kathleen Fisher as Fluorite

Ashly Burch as Rutile Twins

Erica Luttrell as Padparadscha Sapphire

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Priyanka

Crispin Freeman as Doug

Andrew Kishino as Kevin

Reagan Gomez Preston as Jenny, Kiki

Godfrey as Kofi

Zach Steel as Ronaldo

Brian Posehn as Sour Cream

Lamar Abrams as Buck Dewey

Colton Dunn as Mr. Smiley

Toks Olagundoye as Mayor Nanafua

Joel Hodgson as Bill Dewey

Eugene Cordero as Jamie

Atticus Shaffer as Peedee

Billy Merritt as Mr. Fryman

Kristin Chenoweth as Sheena Synstylae

Nancy Linari as Martha

Brian George as Mr. Frowney

Jackie Buscarino as Vidalia

Aparna Nancherla as Nephrite, Lemon Jade

Ian Jones Quartey as Snowflake Obsidian, Bixbite

Michelle Maryk as Larimar

Auli'i Cravalho as Orange Spodumene

Kimiko Glenn as Blue Chalcedony

Tara Platt as Heaven Cubic Zirconia, Earth Cubic Zirconia

Tara Strong as Grossular Diopside

Phillipa Soo as Chrysocolla

Anika Noni Rose as Watermelon Tourmaline (fusion), Watermelon Tourmaline

Aimee Carrero as Moonstone

Gal Gadot as Desert Glass

Willa Holland as Albite

Maddie Ziegler as Serpentine

Courtenay Taylor as Beryl

Sarah Jessica Parker as Dumortierite

Cavetown as Diaspore

Emily King as Kunzite

Alex Newell as Monazite

Alyson Hannigan as Lavenderine

Avi Roque as Cinnabar

Gina Torres as Andesine

Awkwafina as Kyanite

Allison Janney as Pyrite

Zehra Fazal as Zoisite

Lena Hall as Bloodstone

Jodie Whittaker as Xenotime

Idina Menzel as Amazonite

Halsey as Tanzanite

Mia Barron as Apatite

Sarah Stiles as Spinel

Christine Baranski as Hessonite

Olivia Olson as Citrine, Citrine Twins

Lin-Manuel Miranda as President Eduardo Suarez

Wendie Malick as Vice President Theresa Maxwell

GZA as Major General Wade Grant

Tim Curry as General Lloyd Waller

John Kassir as Reginald Johnson

Stephanie Beatriz as Arleen Suarez

Xolo Mariduena as Huey Suarez

Leslie Grace as Riley Suarez

Pierce Brosnan as Bane Jones

Hugh Jackman as Beckham Jordan

James Monroe Iglehart as Coach Matt Monroe

Karen Fukuhara as Makoto Fuji

Matthew Rhys as Dr. James Brenner

T-Pain as Sam Galley

Christoph Waltz as Francis von Bowling

Rob Paulsen as Mr. Shreds

David Kaye as Collar

Roger Craig Smith as Tank

Alex Hirsch as Lawrence Abrams

Zach Callison as Steven, Onion, Cactus Stevens, Topiary Stevens

Featuring Christopher McDonald as Carl Grove

And Betsy Sodaro as Maureen Grove

--

"It just feels so good to be bad." Black Rutile gloated to the Crystal Gems as she held them prisoner in a makeshift prison. Today had quite possibly been the best day she has ever had on Earth. Black Rutile had now converted multiple Gems to her coalition of rebels, whether by force or through coercion, her enemies were now hers to torment, and their precious Little Homeworld into her newest evil lair. "I haven't felt this utterly delighted to be victorious since the siege of Tweenis 12, I feel like singing! Maestro?"

Amazonite turned on a music player at her master's command, causing Black Rutile to sing a reprise of a familiar song. "Wither the rose! Growing shadows! Sow a world of chaos! Wither the rose! Only highs, no lows! In a world of chaos!"

"Is this really the time to be singing?" Pearl muttered as she tried to break free from her chains.

"Ha!" Black Rutile laughed in response before looking out at her various enforcers. "Come on minions, hurry along! Soon, Beach City will be gone! I could squeeze myself with glee, first the Diamonds and then this galaxy! I really stopped at nothing, gaslighting, terrorism, and lying!" she declared. "Whatever it takes to get revenge, you really can't blame me for trying."

Little Homeworld soon began hovering over Beach City, casting a dark shadow over a large portion of the town while the townies had no idea what was going on. Suddenly, the water holding the Gem village in the air began firing at the humans, making them scurry in fear as Black Rutile finished her song. "Wither the rose! Growing shadows! Sow a world of chaos! Wither the rose! Don't you doze!"

"This planet is basically ours!" Aquamarine sang along.

"We have control over its superpowers!" Eyeball added triumphantly.

"You are helpless to resist!" Holly Blue proclaimed.

"There's no way for you to persist!" Cat's Eye declared.

"Saying sorry just won't cut it!" Cinnabar boomed.

"This universe will be ours, bit by bit!" Andesine stated.

"You thought you could contain us," Black Rutile sang out in victory. "but you can no longer discuss!"

"Genocide, slaughtering, jingoism, in enemy blood, we shall wade!" the seven Gems joined together in harmony. "Rutile Rebels come celebrate, as we make these foolish Crystal Gems fade!" By the time the song ended, Black Rutile looked out at the destruction below her and began making a speech. "People of Beach City, do not look away!" she bellowed to the humans below. "You witness a Rutile's revival, and the birth of her new empire!"

"What do you want now, Black Rutile?!" Lars yelled from below.

"What I want is recognition!" Black Rutile responded. "As you can see, I have officially conquered Little Homeworld and taken the Crystal Gems as my prisoners. The means as to how it can fly can all be blamed on their dear friend, Lapis Lazuli." She looked over at Lapis, who was sitting on the Warp Pad with a blank look on her face. "Despite what the Crystal Gems believed, Little Homeworld was the aspiration of idiots and dreamers! A mere tool to indoctrinate poor, unfortunate Gems who were living lives free of their tyranny. But unfortunately for them, I am far smarter than the average Gem, so I continued planning my revenge for months on end, which leads me today." She then sent out her drones, ready to attack at any moment. "Either surrender to me at once or else your pathetic little town will go bye-bye! Bye-bye."

Down below, Jasper and White Topaz were watching the carnage the entire time, lying in wait for an opportunity to strike back at Black Rutile and save their friends. "So, any idea on how to stop her?" Jasper asked her girlfriend. "I mean, it's just a bunch of us Gems that she could convert at any moment with those Blasters."

"Well, one thing's for certain, Black Rutile has gone too far this time." White Topaz declared. "We kept giving her second chance after second chance, but she always used them to try and destroy us! I've had enough of this! Once we defeat her, she's going straight to Revanche 666 where she belongs!"

"Someone's got leftover issues they need resolving." Teal Zircon added as she popped up behind the two big Gems. "Okay, Topaz and I have spent the last few minutes coming up with a plan."

"If it involves doing something astronomically stupid, then I don't want in." Jasper stopped Teal before she could finish. "What makes you think you could come up with an intelligent plan?"

"Because outside of being the obnoxious but lovable comic relief, I am actually far more observant than you think I am." TZ declared. "Which is why I am 10,000,000,000% certain that my plan will work."

"I'd like to see you try." Jasper scoffed before White Topaz placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Come on honey, just hear her out." White Topaz suggested. Jasper knew she couldn't disappoint her lover, so she relented with a sigh.

"Okay, proceed." Jasper groaned and let Teal explain.

"I say instead of just saving the day ourselves, we team up with the humans to save the world from Black Rutile!" Teal declared proudly. "The people of Beach City have been around us long enough to know what to do in situations like this, and we've gained a few allies over the years to back us up."

"I get what you're saying now." Jasper nodded proudly. "Like him for example!" As if on cue, Dr. James Brenner walked up to the three Gems. "I found him falling to his doom when Black Rutile threw him out. He's her psychologist, ergo, he should know exactly what she's thinking!"

"You are indeed correct, Jasper." Brenner declared. "I have been forced to watch as Black Rutile's schemes took shape, hoping that maybe my advice would get through to her, but alas, my words fell on deaf ears. Perhaps joining forces with all of you can help me redeem myself for being so powerless to help her."

"Great, we have our first recruit!" Teal Zircon cheered while giving the psychologist a hearty slap on the back. "Okay guys, I'll go gather the troops! You two on the other hand will have to find a very special someone."

"Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" Jasper then asked White Topaz.

"I think so Jasp, but Pete Rose?" White Topaz replied oddly, making Jasper raise an eyebrow at such a non-sequitur. "I mean, can we trust him?"

"No, I think Teal means we should fetch Connie!" Jasper yelled. "You and I both know she's been throwing a wrench in Black Rutile's plans multiple times! Her first invasion of Earth, the Steven monster crisis, and the alternate universe business, all of them had Connie involved and she played some role in stopping them all! You see what I'm getting at here?"

"Yeah, I get it now!" White Topaz exclaimed. "To Connie's house!" Just as the two raced off, a small black spy drone was watching the pair and quickly began following them.

--

"Breaking news all the way from Beach City!" Lawrence Abrams announced on the news. "The alien terrorist Black Rutile is once again laying waste to Beach City, and at the same time, our beloved president has been subject to a violent uprising against legions of angry Arnold Clump supporters led by the alt-right Internet personality Reginald Johnson. Are these two events connected? We'll be back after the break with more updates."

"Sweet Manila in the claws of light." Doug Maheswaran gasped in shock as he and Connie watched Black Rutile's invasion on the news. "This is probably something Steven should take care of, right?"

"Hopefully he at least knows what's going on," Connie added as she prepared to reach for her phone, only to hear a knock on the door. "Can someone get that?"

"Don't worry Connie, I'll get it," Priyanka said to her daughter as she opened the door to find Jasper and White Topaz waiting for her outside. "Oh, you must be that Jasper and Topaz who tore apart Beach City."

"You are never going to let go of that." Jasper declared. "Anyways, we need to see your daughter. The world is in danger and we need everyone we can get to save it."

"Right here!" Connie exclaimed while she raced up to the front door with her sword at the ready. "Come on guys, the Crystal Gems need us!"

"Yeah, about that." White Topaz stated nervously. "They kind of broke up because Black Rutile exposed Bismuth for poofing Lapis and is now holding them all hostage at Little Homeworld. Plus, Lapis officially betrayed them to Black Rutile and is helping make Little Homeworld fly. You know what, I think I know of a way to explain this better."

White Topaz then turned her fingers into puppet versions of the Crystal Gems to further go in depth about their situation. "Hey, what's this I hear about Bismuth poofing me and setting me on this path of torment and betrayal?!" her imitation of Lapis complained. "Oh no, the jig is up!" an imitation of Bismuth exclaimed. "Okay, I did poof you, Lapis, but I didn't mean to!"

"Saying you didn't mean it won't save you from me!" the shadow puppet of Lapis yelled before lunging at Bismuth, only for Garnet and Pearl to stop her.

"Top thirty reasons why Bismuth is sorry." The puppet version of Pearl stated. "Number 5 will surprise you."

"Top thirty anime deaths," puppet Lapis continued. "number one: YOUR BUTT RIGHT NOW!"

"I'm just here to be supportive!" a shadow puppet of Amethyst said as she took Lapis and Peridot's side in the tussle, ending with White Topaz making "whoop whoop whoop" sounds as she started twiddling her fingers into a big clump. "And scene!"

"Okay, I'm going to need a refresher here." Priyanka said, shocked at the bizarreness of White Topaz's show. "What does this all mean?"

"Look, the point is that Teal Zircon and all the Gems Black Rutile didn't convert are gathering everyone in Beach City to fight back against Black Rutile, and we believe Connie is the best possible candidate to lead them all." Jasper explained in brief. "If anyone else wishes to join, you're free to come along."

"But what about Steven?" Connie asked. "Surely he'd know what to do in this situation." Suddenly, the tracking drone from earlier emerged from Jasper's hair, making her and White Topaz wonder if it was following them the whole time, and dropped into Connie's hands to deliver a message from Black Rutile.

"Ah, Connie Meka-Leka-Hi-Meka-Hiney-Ho-Swanson, we meet again." The hologram of Black Rutile smirked at her message's intended recipient. "If you are seeing this message, then you're already well aware of my latest revenge scheme and how frequently you've been playing a part in my constant failures. I would kill you and your parents right here and now, but I believe that would be too easy." The very thought of being killed by such a madman unnerved the Maheswarans. "Which is I offer you this challenge! Meet me at the flying Little Homeworld in ninety minutes to face me for the fate of your wretched world, and bring company too. And for an extra challenge, Steven must not get involved in the slightest. Lose, I will kill each and every single one of you. Win?" She let out an evil chuckle. "The only winner will be me, no matter what. Allons-y!"

The drone then shut down and crumbled to pieces of metal in Connie's hand. Despite the threat to her life, it only made her more determined. "Take us to Beach City."

--

Later at Beach City, Teal Zircon was true to her word and had assembled the entirety of its citizens and then some to discuss their plans to stop Black Rutile. Along with all the Gems that escaped Black Rutile's earlier assault, there was the Barriga family and the Off-Colors, Sadie & Shep, the former Cool Kids, the Pizza and Fryman families, Mr. Smiley and Mr. Frowney, Jamie, Kevin, Onion and his friends, Vidalia, Yellowtail, and Sheena Synstylae. In addition, Teal had also managed to get into contact with Bane Jones, Beckham Jordan, Matt Monroe, Makoto Fuji, and Sam Galley. Now, all that was left was Connie and her parents to make their makeshift army complete.

"My my Teal Zircon, you assembled quite an assortment of characters here." Brenner nodded at all the humans and Gems gathered together to stop Black Rutile. "But do you think this will be enough to stop her?"

"Oh, I know so!" Teal yelled excitedly. "You know those kinds of movies and TV shows where there's a team of people who cannot function together, but they pull through regardless? That's what I'm going for here. On our own, we're just a bunch of misfits. But when we're together, now that's something special." Just then, Connie, her parents, Jasper, and White Topaz appeared behind her from a portal created by Lion. "And there's our girl of the hour! Let's give her a hand!"

Everyone began applauding as Connie walked up to Teal Zircon. "Uh, hello everybody, thank you for inviting me to your little get-together. I'm afraid I'm going to need some catching up to do on what's been going on. I don't think a funny little puppet show is enough."

"Then allow me," Brenner said before he spoke to the audience. "As some of you may not know, our 'dear friend' Black Rutile", He put "dear friend" in air-quotes. "has enacted quite possibly her greatest revenge plot yet, and I bore witness to the fruits of her labor overtime as I was assigned to be her criminal psychologist. She has assembled criminal masterminds, bigoted online personalities, more old enemies of the Gems, and forlorn Gems looking for a place to belong. I have tried multiple times to convince her that she wasn't doing the right thing, but she kept ignoring me at every turn."

"Online personalities like who?" Ronaldo raised his hand, making the rest of the crowd turn to him. "You mean Sally Grove? I've had tons of arguments with her about the Gems before."

"Precisely that," James explained. "I have no idea why she is so cruel, but she seemed perfect as one of Black Rutile's top lieutenants, using her social media influence to gather more human followers through the Internet. There is also Francis von Bowling and his cohorts from P.H.A.N.T.O.M, no doubt brought in for their vendetta against the Gems too."

"Well, I'll be." Bane Jones muttered in bemusement while preparing a technologically advanced shotgun.

"In addition, Black Rutile is now joined by this Marty fellow, who claims to have his own grudge because Steven took his son away from him." James continued, giving him strained looks from Greg and Vidalia. "Together, these scoundrels have converted multiple Gems through these strange blasters built to brainwash anyone hit by them!"

"It's because of those blasters Black Rutile took away my crew!" Nephrite sobbed into Biggs Jasper's arms.

"She took out almost the entire Famethyst!" Carnelian added.

"And like, tons of other quartz Gems too." Chest Rose stated. "Me, my sibs, Biggs, Tiger's Eye, and Cherry are the only ones left."

"Hopefully what the Black Pearls said about finding a way to restore them is true." Cherry Quartz nervously said, looking over at the Black Pearl Brigade.

"So, what can we all do?" Beckham Jordan asked. "We're all just a bunch of humans and Gems who have no idea how unprepared we are for this! Heck, I'm just a star basketball player who knows more about how to score a point than fighting battles! What would happen if one of us were to die today? Besides, Steven won't be here to help us!"

"I promise you all, I won't let that happen." Connie declared before unsheathing her sword and holding it to the sky. "The Crystal Temps will defend this planet to the end!"

"Wait, is that what we're calling ourselves?!" Kevin yelled from afar. "Why not something cooler like the Substitute Crystal Gems, or something?!"

"It's very sentimental!" Connie hurriedly replied. "Now who's with me?!"

"I am!" Orange Spodumene yelled while raising her hand.

"I am!" Kofi Pizza and Mr. Fryman shouted in unison.

"And me too!" Sam Galley added excitedly. "Also, just want to get this outta the way, but I have a bit of a crush on Amethyst."

"Me three!" Lavenderine shouted, followed by a wave of excitement from the gathered New Crystal Temps.

"Aw, what the heck, I haven't got that long a lifespan anyways." Kevin resigned himself to the cause. While Connie proudly looked over at the crowd united for a singular purpose, she felt a familiar hand touching her shoulder.

"I'm in too." Priyanka proclaimed, much to her daughter's surprise. "After that hospital incident, I feel like it's time for me to get involved in your Crystal Gem business and be on the frontlines."

"Well, someone's a little eager." Brenner smiled at Priyanka before looking over at Doug. "And what shall you do for this, sir?"

"I think I'll go look into the Sally Grove situation." Doug answered. "Her parents deserve to know that their daughter is basically selling out the human race to Black Rutile. But be sure to call me so I can still join in."

"Black Rutile told me that I have to meet her in ninety minutes," Connie announced while looking at her watch. "Well, this announcement went by quicker than expected. Anyways, let's save the world!" The New Crystal Temps then began cheering for their grand leader.

--

Meanwhile, in the dark void of space, Revanche 666 was now completely abandoned following Cinnabar and Andesine's escape from the prison. Black Pearl guards, Bismuths, and Peridots were locked in cells formerly occupied by members of the Rutile Rebels, surviving on a false hope that someone would come to save them. However, two particular prisoners weren't meant to be there. They just wanted to get in, stop a prison riot, and get out. But fate had other plans.

"How long has it been since we were trapped here by Cinnabar's plotting and my own recklessness?" Hessonite muttered to Citrine as the two languished in their prison cells. "Feels like we've been stranded here for eons."

"It's only been a few weeks, Hessonite." Citrine stated. "But yeah, it really has felt like forever. I mean, it would take a miracle for someone to notice that we're stuck here!" Suddenly, the two heard something crash through the walls. "Well, what do you know?"

"Hey, anybody here?!" Spinel yelled as she and Lemon Jade emerged from a spaceship they just crashed into the prison. "The Diamonds were getting worried that something bad happened!"

"Over here Spinel, over here!" Hessonite yelled to Spinel. "Hello, it's me, Hessonite, and yes, I am exactly who you're looking for."

"Yeah, we haven't seen you guys since you went to stop that prison breakout," Spinel answered while turning her hand into a ventriloquist dummy resembling Yellow Diamond. "Old Yeller was like 'I fear something might've gone horribly wrong on Revanche 666. I need someone to volunteer to investigate.' Luckily, I was there to oblige."

"And I simply got dragged along." Lemon Jade added. "So what did happen?"

"We thought Andesine and her entourage had surrendered, but it was all a ruse she and Cinnabar set up to escape," Citrine explained to the visitors. "Now we're all stuck behind bars with no way to leave, no way of contacting anyone outside this prison, and no way to deactivate our cells. Do either of you have any bright ideas?"

"I got one! I saw this on a TV show once." Spinel replied before she leaned on the wall between Hessonite and Citrine's cells and gave it a hard knock, which somehow forced the destabilizing fields guarding the two to deactivate. "Ey!" she added with two thumbs up. "You can thank me later."

"Finally!" Hessonite sighed with relief while shaking Spinel's hand as she emerged from her cell. "But what about everyone else?"

"Don't worry, I got this," Citrine said as she walked out of her cell and straight to the control room.

"So, where are Cinnabar and Andesine now?" Lemon Jade asked Hessonite.

"The two of them are currently on Earth aiding Black Rutile in whatever harebrained scheme she has now planned," Hessonite stated while the prison staff was released from their cells. "We need to act quickly if we want to stop all of them in their tracks."

"Roger roger, live long and prosper and all that!" Spinel exclaimed. "Come on Jade, let's chew bubblegum and kick some butt! And I'm all out of bubblegum."

"I'm not sure if I'm equipped for a fight, but whatever you say, I'll follow," Lemon said as she, Spinel, Hessonite, and Citrine boarded the ship Spinel crashed earlier and took off for Earth to bring Cinnabar & Andesine to justice.

--

"Ocean Town." Doug muttered to himself as he pulled into Beach City's sister town, easily identified by a sign declaring "STILL NOT ON FIRE." His journey ended at a shabby but homely-looking one-story house where he pulled into the driveway before getting out and knocking on the front door. An overweight, middle-aged fellow with a receding hairline, a barely shaved mustache, and clothes that looked like they haven't been washed in days soon answered. "Hello, is this the Grove residence?"

"What's it to ya?" the fat man said while pulling a half-eaten hot dog out of his pocket to shove in his mouth.

"Doug Maheswaran from Beach City." Doug introduced himself to the man while pulling out his ID. "I'm here to speak about your daughter, Sally."

"Oh good, I thought you were here about the body we found on the train tracks." The man sighed in relief before turning his head to call for someone. "Maureen!"

"What?!" what Doug assumed to be the man's wife hollered back.

"We got a cop here to talk about Sally!" the man replied before letting Doug inside and sitting him down and offering him a drink. "Here, have a shot on me."

"No thanks, I'm good." Doug rejected the offer before a skinny woman hiding her bleached blonde hair in a bandana walked into the living room. "Hello there miss, I'm here to talk to you about your daughter's recent activities."

"Ah yeah, Sally." The woman said as she and her husband sat down on the couch. "I always kept hearing her talk with that alien woman on her whatchacallit….computer. Anyways, my name's Maureen Grove and this is my husband Carl."

"Well, that alien woman is a known bigoted criminal who is plotting to destroy the world." Doug revealed, making Carl and Maureen blankly stare at each other in silence. "Something the matter, you two?"

"Shoulda known our girl would do something like this." Maureen Grove shook her head in shame. "If you think Sally's views were a product of an abusive upbringing or some kind of trauma, I'm afraid you're mistaken, officer. She was diagnosed with kajigger disorder or something."

"Antisocial personality disorder." Carl Grove corrected his wife. "What we're saying is that Sally is just not a pleasant person to be around, especially in this current era of that danged Internet. She thrives on being so smug & self-righteous and making people hate her, yet at the same time she wonders why everyone hates her. And we've tried our best to help her, but she always kept picking on us for stupid reasons! It's absurd, I tells ya!"

"So, she brought this upon herself," Doug said while writing down in his notepad. "Would you care to further elaborate on her behavior?"

"She also had this TubeTube channel that barely had any subscribers because people would rather watch cat videos, let's plays, and those creepy kids' videos," Maureen answered. "But then came that weird monster attack last year, where everything changed forever."

--

"Sally honey, time for dinner!" Carl called for his daughter while knocking on the door. "Mama's making chili cheese dogs tonight!"

"I can buy and sell you, old man!" Sally insulted her father from behind her bedroom door.

"Fair enough, just starve then because I'm a man." Carl casually replied as he walked away. "I swear, we have got to get her a therapist soon." He muttered to himself. "Dropping out of college I can understand, but she desperately needs to do something with her life."

"CARL, GET DOWN HERE!" Maureen shrieked for her husband. "SOMEONE'S INTERRUPTED AMERICAN IDOL!"

"They WHAT?!" Carl bellowed as he charged down the stairs to see what was going on. To his alarm, their TV show was cut off by the sudden appearance of Black Rutile on their television screen as she made a speech.

"Greetings to the civilians of this backwater planet. I am Black Rutile, soon to be supreme ruler of the Gem race." Black Rutile introduced herself to audiences around the world. "I come to you today because you are faced with a crisis that has been right under your noses for thousands of years now, and it can all be blamed on the Crystal Gems."

"Nothing that changing the channel won't fix." Carl declared as he picked up the remote and tried switching to another channel. Unfortunately, Black Rutile was interrupting the programming there, and on every other channel too. "What the Sam Hill is going on here?! Who would believe such malarkey?!"

"They have been living among your people since the dawn of man, and have brought numerous world-ending threats along with." Black Rutile's speech continued on Sally's computer, much to her curiosity. "From loads of monsters that were formerly members of their kind, to insane terraformers that stole the ocean for selfish purposes followed by nearly drowning thousands once they returned the water to Earth, a superweapon made from the remains of their own kind that remains buried under the Earth as we speak, repeated counts of abductions and the near-genocide of all organic life." Despite Black Rutile clearly spreading lies about the Crystal Gems, the desperate TubeTube user felt a special sort of parasocial connection to her. "But now we are faced with a new problem, and it's all thanks to one Gem: Pink Diamond. It's because of her that this monstrosity plaguing the Earth at this moment is running amok and the Crystal Gems have done nothing to stop it, or her for that matter. Should you believe this planet is worth saving, something must be done about the Crystal Gems, or you will suffer the consequences. That will be all."

With the end of Black Rutile's warning, Sally's life was changed forever. Her TubeTube channel was then completely overhauled to benefit from her newfound hatred of the Crystal Gems. They caused so much chaos and destruction, yet they're celebrated as heroes. Sally simply gives her opinion, and she's constantly villainized for it. To her, that simply wasn't fair. But what no one realized about Sally was terrified of growing past her bigoted, misanthropic mindset and becoming a better person because she believed kindness and compassion were signs of weakness. And she despised being weak.

--

"Ever since then, that Black Rutile yutz has been a bad influence on our girl." Carl finished his story. "Sally's been completely off her rocker because of her. Every time we tried setting her up with various lovers, she just kept abusing them. Especially this one feller named Fred who she kept saying had a small di-"

"Anything else I should know before I leave?" Doug asked, cutting off Carl before he could finish. "What other crimes has she committed?"

"What hasn't she committed?" Maureen replied. "Thankfully, she hasn't done anything super serious, but she's also formed lynch mobs online against random people she hates, and cyberbullied her so-called friends away. And let's not forget that she wrote some really disturbing fanfiction!" She cringed in disgust at the thought.

"Right, thank you for your time, Mr. and Mrs. Grove, I promise I'll have your daughter returned home so she can get the help she deserves," Doug said as he got up and prepared to leave, only for Carl to stop him.

"Hey, before you go, officer," Carl said before presenting Doug with a chili cheese dog. "care for a chili cheese dog? Can't save the world on an empty stomach."

"You know what? I'll take it." Doug accepted the dog before pulling out his phone. "Connie, I'll be coming back soon. Is everything ready?"

"Almost, Dad," Connie responded. "Bane Jones helped us get everybody weapons for the big fight. We just need to wait on you now."

--

Elsewhere in Washington D.C., President Eduardo Suarez, his vice president Theresa Maxwell, Wade Grant, Lloyd Waller, and his presidential cabinet remained in hiding from the forces of Reginald Anderson. Having just witnessed his family being held hostage, the White House being overtaken, and one of the secret service agents under his employment brutally beaten to near death, the president was naturally anxious about what to do next. What's more, there's no way he can contact the Crystal Gems at the moment. He was at an utter loss at what to do.

"Never seen Eddy this worked up in ages," Theresa muttered in wonder at her president's nervous pacing. "Last time I've seen him like this was when Clump seemed to have beat him in the polls."

"I wouldn't blame him," Lloyd replied. "Country's in crisis again, plus his family is in grave danger. Poor thing looks like he'll have a panic attack at any moment."

"I'll go have a talk with him," Wade said as he walked over to his chief and put a hand on his shoulder. "Mr. President, are you feeling alright? Do you need anything before we make our decision?"

"No, I'm perfectly fine!" Eduardo exclaimed bravely, a far cry from the nervous front he was just putting up. "I'm willing to give everything for this country, as a good president should!" However, his courageous smile was quickly replaced with an insecure frown. "But what can I do when my family's lives are at stake here? One wrong move and I could lose everything."

"You're right, he's giving us a very tough choice here." Wade nodded when he suddenly got an idea. "Wait, I know!" Whatever he whispered into the president's ear, Eduardo was liking what he was hearing. "You got that?"

"I like what you're saying." Eduardo nodded. "Let's do it." Just then, three men opened the doors to One Observatory Drive and walked in. The first man wore a nice suit and was balding, while his two associates were dressed in a tank top and a collared shirt respectively. "Hello there."

"Greetings Mr. President, my name is Mr. Shreds." Mr. Shreds introduced himself to the president. "These are my two associates, Tank and Collar, and we are here to deliver you to Reginald Johnson so you can relinquish your presidency."

"Just move along now and don't keep us waiting!" Collar said as he and Tank took Eduardo by the arms and guided him to their limo. "Any last words, sir?"

"Yes, I'd like to make a personal request to Reginald." Eduardo nodded. "I'd like to have a public debate with him, face to face."

"As absurd as your request is, I shall grant it," Tank replied begrudgingly, not knowing what he was in for as the limousine drove away.

"So what did you tell him?" Theresa asked Wade as the two worriedly watched Eduardo be taken away.

"You'll see." Wade gave the vice president a knowing smirk.

--

"Making yourselves comfortable, Crystal Gems?" Black Rutile asked her prisoners while paying them one last visit to their cell. "Doesn't matter to me, because I got special plans for you."

"What is it now?" Peridot muttered disdainfully. "Is it about how you're so much better than us because you're not us?"

"Whatever it is, just get it over with already," Bismuth added sadly. "I deserve it for what I put Lapis through."

"Yes, yes you did." Lapis harshly agreed. "You poofed me and then forced me to be the dumb little plaything that you'll always throw away when you don't need me."

"You're still depressed about that?!" Black Rutile groaned in irritation as the brainwashed Emerald pulled up a throne for Black Rutile to sit on. "I'm saying that this could all be avoided if you joined me! Over time, I began to realize that the Rutile Rebels aren't as different from the Crystal Gems as I thought. We all started out as nobodies, did something extraordinary that made us different from the rest of our kin, rose to the top, and earned the respect of the Diamonds, only to have all torn down by a person who didn't even care about them." She declared. "I'll admit, when I first heard about Little Homeworld, I wanted to destroy it so bad, especially when you locked me up here. But after spending some time trapped here, I, ever the opportunist, decided that I could make it into something better!"

"Like turning it into our new secret lair for example!" Aquamarine added.

"And we have your stupid bickering to thank for it!" Eyeball said as all the other Rutile Rebels threw their heads back and laughed.

"What I'm trying to say is that there are special people like us who should run the world, and then there are the disgusting humans who deliver our food and fight our wars." Black Rutile continued. "Which is why I'm offering you this one-time opportunity. Let us work together for once so we can truly bring Gems and humans together in peace and harmony!" To emphasize her point, she turned on a news report documenting the attack on the White House. "Refuse, and I shall make you pay with your lives! Bring out the Disintegrator!"

"Wait, the Disintegrator?!" Bismuth shrieked in terror as Sally walked in with a small, glowing boxlike device in her hands that she set on the table. "I thought that was outlawed eons ago! How did you get one?!"

"You'd be surprised what I can accomplish through mixing Gem technology with human garbage." Black Rutile stated while presenting the device. "For those uninformed, most likely you Amethyst, this was an ancient torture device built to execute criminal Gems by grinding them up into dust and dispersing them in the air in a beautiful yet morbid fashion."

"Curious, most curious." Francis von Bowling nodded with intrigue. "And how does it work exactly?"

"Allow me to demonstrate." Black Rutile responded before presenting a small rock she placed in the Disintegrator. She then turned it on, and the rock was instantly ground up into dust in a terrifying show of the machine's power, leaving the Gems horrified yet not surprised she would use something like that. "That oughta show you for brainwashing us all!"

"You're kidding me?" Pearl scoffed. "You claim we're brainwashing Gems against their and forcing them to join our side when that's literally what you are doing with those devices! Those aren't rejuvenating blasters, they're inculcating blasters! All these new Gems of yours say: "All hail Black Rutile! All hail Black Rutile!", but the Gems we teach would never say anything like that. We didn't force them to come here, they made that choice willingly."

"Kind of like how Lapis willingly joined me after I convinced her of how alone we were in the universe?" Black Rutile retorted, pointing to a sullen Lapis in the darkness. "Or how I convinced Sally Grove here to be a kindred spirit?"

"Yeah, that reminds me," Amethyst asked. "How could you team up with someone that obviously evil? Surely, you must have some tragic reason for doing so, right?"

"No, no tragic reason at all," Sally admitted without a single ounce of empathy in her voice. "I just like being hated. It makes me feel powerful."

"Hatred makes all of us powerful." Holly Blue agreed with Sally, with Cat's Eye by her side with her cat Blake in her arms.

"Very powerful." Cat's Eye agreed.

"Okay, we've had enough taunting, let's get to executing!" Black Rutile declared eagerly as she began choosing which Crystal Gem to disintegrate. However, her choice was pretty easy. "Bismuth, do you volunteer as tribute?"

"Wait, what?!" Bismuth muttered as the brainwashed Demantoid and Pyrope freed her from her shackles to be executed. "You won't get away with this, Black Rutile!"

"As a matter of fact, I've gotten away with it months ago." Black Rutile cruelly sneered while shoving the Disintegrator towards Bismuth. "Now, you might feel a little tingle."

"Lapis, please, I'm sorry!" Bismuth cried out for possibly the last time to Lapis, but she didn't seem to listen. All Lapis could do was turn away in shame. As Bismuth was about to be thrown into the machine and the other Crystal Gems cried for Black Rutile not to do it, the Disintegrator was suddenly stabbed with an epee, causing it to shut down. "What?"

"You!" Black Rutile yelled at Tanzanite for destroying her machine. "I have put hours upon hours into building that, and you made it all for nothing!"

"That's because you've gone too far this time, and I can't do this anymore!" Tanzanite yelled angrily while proceeding to free Bismuth, Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, and Peridot from their restraints. "Brainwashing is one thing, but executing too?"

"Are you seriously trying to talk back to your master?" Black Rutile growled angrily. "You know how Rose lied to you, you know how she left you to die and become part of a planet-destroying abomination against your will! I was there for you, and this is how you repay me?!"

"Yes, the Crystal Gems aren't honest, but their intentions are definitely real." Tanzanite declared firmly, bringing a tear to Pearl's eye before her former student was threatened with Black Rutile's bowie knife.

"Take that back and fight for me, or pay the price." Black Rutile ordered Tanzanite to stand down, and the punk purple Gem meekly did as she was told while Navy raced up to her master's side. "Yes, Ruby?"

"We got humans and enemy Gems at 12:00!" Navy yelled hurriedly.

"Did you tell them I hate them?" Black Rutile asked while turning her bowie knife into her sword. "No matter." With a superhuman leap, Black Rutile bounded out of her lair and landed in front of the New Crystal Temps before striking a pose as she drew her sword. "Well, don't stop on my account."

"Black Rutile, we've come to finally bring you to justice!" Connie declared while raising her sword in the air. "In the name of the Crystal Gems, the planet Earth, and the entire universe, we'll punish you for your crimes. And this time, we'll make it permanent. Do you yield?"

Black Rutile just sneered at Connie's bold declaration and responded with simply "I do not." With a snap of her fingers, the other Rutile Rebels, including a reluctant Tanzanite and Lapis, soon gathered behind her to counter Connie's forces. Just then, however, the Crystal Gems leaped out from behind the Rutile Rebels to join Connie and the others, followed by Spinel, Hessonite, Citrine, and Lemon Jade crashing into Little Homeworld on their ship.

"CRYSTAL GEMS!" Garnet roared while summoning her gauntlets. "Assemble." With that, everyone behind Connie roared as they charged into battle against Black Rutile and her enforcers, along with legions of brainwashed Gems, Concrete warriors, and Cactus & Topiary Stevens once again forced to serve Black Rutile. This was a day unlike any other when humans and Gems alike found themselves united against a common foe for the first time in thousands of years. On that day, everyone in Beach City became a Crystal Gem.

--

"Of course, you would find a way to ruin my plans!" Black Rutile said as she got into an intense swordfight with Connie. The battle for Earth had already gotten off to a rousing start. Bane Jones and Beckham Jordan fought side by side against von Bowling and his men, Kevin and Vidalia were up against Marty in a mechanical war suit, and Lars had a rematch with Emerald, among many other battles. "For too long now, you've always been interfering and you didn't even know it!"

"It's called loyalty Black Rutile, something you would probably never know!" Connie retorted before going in for a stab, only to be blocked by Sally Grove fighting back with a laser sword. "And as for you!"

"Don't even try to preach to me, little girl." Sally taunted in her usual high and mighty fashion. "We all know you would've found a way to call your white savior because you have no other personality outside of being his protector! You're a disgrace to your ethnicity, brat!"

"That's what you think, bullying my daughter like that!" Priyanka retorted with a sword of her own to fight Sally and Black Rutile with. "Apologize to her at once or I will reveal everything your parents told my husband!"

"What do you mean I have to apologize?! She attacked me!" Sally said before she realized what the doctor meant. "Wait, really? Oh no, no no no no!"

"Yeah, they told me some pretty messed up stuff about you," Doug said while putting out his notepad and reading what he had written earlier, making Sally writhe in agony while Black Rutile looked disdainfully at her human charge. "Let's see, abusing everyone around you, including your own parents, refusing to grow beyond your toxic personality while also blaming it on everyone around you, that disturbing fanfiction-"

"It's only disturbing from a certain point of view, having sexual relationships with your family members is perfectly normal in some parts of the world!" Sally only kept digging herself deeper into insanity in her attempts to preserve her image, unaware that Ronaldo had been live-streaming her this entire time, and her reputation was falling apart by the second. "Hey, turn that camera off!"

"No way, this is going to make a killing on Keep Beach City Weird!" Ronaldo laughed mischievously. "Wow, these negative comments expressing how betrayed your viewers must be for how much of a hypocrite you're being are coming in by the dozens."

"It's the same story I've seen so many times." Doug shook his head in disgust as Sally had an utter breakdown in front of the Maheswarans and Black Rutile, who was just as disgusted at how pathetic her partner was. "A fine, upstanding bigot. Your nose is so close to the grindstone, you can't see anything else. Meanwhile, the world changes and grows, and you're blind to it! Ignorant and proud of it too."

"Am I glad that's not me!" Black Rutile scoffed hypocritically as Sally was handcuffed and taken somewhere safe until the battle was over. "Now where were we? Oh yes!" She immediately got right back to her clash with Connie.

--

"So, calming down Lapis." Peridot muttered as she, Jasper, and White Topaz stood in front of Lapis and Phoenix Lapis fighting Laz and Zuli. "Got any ideas?"

"You're her life partner, you should know!" Jasper exclaimed while Laz and Zuli fought for their lives. "Paz, got any bright ideas?"

"I think I might have a good idea of what to do." White Topaz declared. "Bismuth, we need your help!"

"I'm in the middle of something here!" Bismuth replied while she was fighting Andesine and Cinnabar. "Oh, you want me to make up with Lapis, right?"

"Hopefully having her back on our side will turn the tide of battle!" White Topaz suggested, causing Bismuth to knock her two opponents out and walk up to her. "Just say what you need to say and hopefully she'll listen."

"This had better work." Bismuth took a deep breath and yelled "HEY LAPIS, OVER HERE!" The four Lapises then turned to see Bismuth below. "No, not you, the one who hates me!" she corrected herself.

"What do you want now?" Lapis angrily asked as she hovered on the ground.

"Listen Lapis, I know you won't ever forgive me and the other Crystal Gems for what we did to you," Bismuth said. "but I swear, if you listen and understand we didn't know what we did, maybe we can finally start making amends."

"Wait, you mean it?" Lapis's face softened in surprise.

"Yeah, we're still your friends!" White Topaz declared happily.

"And besides, I'm the only one who gets to be all sullen and betrayed here!" Jasper added before reaching her hand out. "Just take my hand."

Lapis started smiling again, bringing smiles to Peridot and White Topaz's faces as well, and began to reach out to Jasper. However, she was quickly interrupted by Cinnabar and Andesine's groups pointing their Rejuvenation Blasters at the Crystal Gems.

"Make another move, and we'll have to reset all of you." Cinnabar declared coldly.

"Now then, any last words?" Andesine smirked.

"I got one," Bismuth stated before raising her fist at Lapis's gem. "Please don't hate me for this again!" With a single punch, Lapis was poofed yet again, this time to save her from being shot with the Rejuvenation Blaster as the Rutile Rebels began opening fire, prompting Bismuth, Jasper, White Topaz, and Peridot to scatter.

"I'll be taking this to reverse-engineer, thank you very much!" Peridot snickered as she robbed Howlite of her Blaster to experiment on and ran away with a maniacal "NYEH-HAHAHAHAHA!"

"After her!" Howlite commanded and raced after Peridot with Dalmatian Jasper, Zoisite, Amber, and Xenotime behind her.

"Check it out, I got a Rejuvenation Blaster!" Peridot said to Squaridot and IQ while presenting the stolen blaster to them. "Maybe we can work together to find a way to use it to get everyone back to normal!"

"That's some good thinking, Peridot." Squaridot complimented the other Peridot's idea before the three geniuses snuck off to get to work.

--

"So it's come to this, Tanzanite, the student versus the master," Pearl said as she took a battle stance, and Tanzanite did the same. "Tell me Tanzanite, why did you join Black Rutile instead of accepting everything as it was? I understand if you felt betrayed by Rose, but this is not a healthy way of coping."

"It's because I just wanted to save everyone from what I suffered," Tanzanite revealed sadly as she clashed with her former mentor. "My friends! My family! Everything I did was for the galaxy, for the Crystal Gems! But it was all for nothing, Pink Diamond used all of us to avoid the consequences of her actions." Despite how much Pearl tried to speak up, Tanzanite kept ranting. "I had to use my skills on friends; on family; Gems that I knew. She controlled us through lies." She then let out a strained and tearful laugh. "Homeworld, no better than the rebels Rose created. I helped terrorize my people! I wanted you to stop it, I had to stop it. I spoke out. I spoke out to Black Rutile, to save everyone from you! But when I did, I only stood with a monster. You chose Pink Diamond." Now, Tanzanite was on the verge of tears as she sobbed into Pearl's chest. "You left me, gave me no choice! The Diamonds wanted to destroy worlds, and they did. Pink destroyed mine."

"Oh, poor dear," Pearl muttered sorrowfully while holding her old student close. "But do you still believe Black Rutile is good for you?"

"I'm not sure if anyone is good for me." Tanzanite sobbed. "I don't know if Black Rutile really cares for me or if she just saw me as a tool."

"Black Rutile never cared for anyone to begin with." Pearl declared before she held Tanzanite's head in her hands. "I'm truly sorry that I made you choose this path, and I promise that there will be no more secrets between us from now on. Is that good?"

"Yeah, but I'm not sure if I can forgive myself for this." Tanzanite agreed just as she felt the business end of a Rejuvenation Blaster pressing the back of her head.

"Another last-minute betrayal, I see." Andesine grinned while preparing to pull the trigger, only for Tanzanite to smack it out of Andesine's hands with her epee before stabbing her in the chest.

"Now look what you made ME do," Tanzanite smirked as she threw what Andesine said when she shattered her back in the red Gem's face before she poofed.

--

"Okay Mr. S, here we are." Mr. Shreds said as he pulled the limo up to the White House and let Eduardo out. "Just make it quick, I'm on a tight schedule here," Eduardo said nothing as he saw his family surrounded by terrorists and Reginald smugly standing by a video camera and a podium.

"Go on Mr. Prez, don't be shy." Reginald mockingly urged Eduardo. "Just say what you need to say."

"That's exactly what I was going to say to you." Eduardo declared before trapping Reginald in a headlock. "NOW!" The SWAT team immediately overwhelmed Reginald's enforcers while Reginald tried his best to fight back, only to be met with a krav maga kick from Theresa, coming straight out of nowhere.

"Did you plan all this?!" Reginald shouted.

"Well, not necessarily," Eduardo replied as Wade and Lloyd came to handcuff Reginald. "It's just that I'm far more quick on my feet than you'll ever be."

"Dad!" Huey and Riley Suarez cried as Theresa freed them from their restraints and hugged their father.

"Oh, mi preciosos, I was so worried," Eduardo said as he hugged them back before seeing Arlene walk towards them as well. "And I surely didn't forget you, my love."

"And you never will," Arleen replied before kissing her husband. And so, the White House was saved, thanks to the president and his quick thinking. Now all he had to do was hope that the Crystal Gems were doing alright.

--

"Must I remind you of my superiority, pretty boy?" Marty taunted Kevin while showing off the capabilities of his war suit. "Face it, hiding behind all these beautiful women won't get you anywhere in life!"

"Yeah, I'm absolutely unequipped for this, but that won't stop me from trying!" Kevin exclaimed before beginning to fight back.

"How could you, Marty?" Vidalia asked her ex-husband. "I knew you were a dirtbag, but selling out the entire human race for what? Just because you're mad we disowned you!"

"Oh yeah, I'm absolutely livid," Marty agreed. "but I'm mostly just here to get even with you guys. I don't give a damn about Black Rutile's whole rebellion business!"

Meanwhile, Bane Jones, Beckham, Makoto, and Matt were all standing back-to-back against Francis von Bowling's men. "So, when this is all over, could I perhaps get an autograph?" Bane asked Beckham. "I'm a huge fan, and I consider it an honor to be fighting for Earth with you."

"I'd be more than happy to." Beckham smiled at the offer.

"Hey boys, can we pick up the pace a bit?!" Makoto said while delivering an upside-down spinning kick to Konstantin, Pavel, and Leo at once.

Above the chaos going on in Little Homeworld, Black Rutile stood atop the whirlybird tower and was not happy with how her forces were losing. "STOOOOOP THEM!" she shrieked angrily while pulling at her hair just as she turned to see Connie, Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Peridot, Bismuth, Jasper, White Topaz, Spinel, Hessonite, and now Tanzanite standing behind her. "You! You ruined everything again! I could've made everything perfect!"

"You didn't want to make things perfect." Tanzanite declared to Black Rutile. "You just hated things the way they are."

"This is your final warning, Black Rutile." Garnet declared. "And this time, we won't be giving you a second chance. You and your minions are headed straight for Revanche 666 after this!"

"Fine, if I can never win, then neither should you!" Black Rutile completely snapped. "Aquamarine, Eyeball, Chrome Chalcedony, to me!"

"Ready as always, Black Rutile!" Aquamarine said as she and Eyeball fused into Bluebird Azurite, while Holly Blue and Cat's Eye arrived to make Chrome Chalcedony.

"And now, for a little surprise!" Bluebird proclaimed.

"I have a little joke for you all." Black Rutile smiled dementedly while grabbing Bluebird's hand. "What do you get when you cross a depressed loner with a society that abandons her and treats her like trash?!"

"That's not a very good joke!" Amethyst replied.

"I'll tell you what you get, you get what you deserve!" Black Rutile shrieked before she and Bluebird merged to form Pietersite, now sporting Black Rutile's new pink cape and red visor in addition to her outfit now looking different to fit Aquamarine's regeneration.

"PIETERSITE LIVES!" Pietersite bellowed loudly for all to hear and cringe in fear. "AND NOW CRYSTAL GEMS, IT IS TIME FOR THE FINAL CURTAIN CALL!"

"I don't think so!" Peridot said as she fired a Rejuvenation Blaster at the two fusions, which they dodged only for the blast to hit one of Nephrite's crew and revert her to normal. "I stole one of those blasters from Howlite and reverse-engineered them to change everyone hit by them back to normal."

"I'm free, I've been freed!" the Nephrite cheered at finally being brought back to her old self.

"What?" Pietersite muttered in horror as the Crystal Gems immediately understood what was going to happen and raced down to solid ground so they can do the same for all the other Gems Black Rutile converted. "No! No no no! Don't do that, I worked so hard!"

"Stop them!" Chrome Chalcedony added as she and Pietersite tried fighting back against the enemy, but as the Crystal Gems' forces grew with every Gem turned back to normal, they were quickly outnumbered.

"Well, we're boned," Apatite muttered as she and Amazonite prepared to leave. "Let's skedaddle!"

"I don't think that'll be necessary," Amazonite replied as she and Apatite found themselves confronted by the entirety of Beach City's population, and they weren't happy.

"Goin' somewhere?" Sheena Synstylae cracked her neck and her knuckles.

"Don't worry, you're not the only ones we'll be punishing," Lars added.

"We'll finally gain an advantage over Black Rutile!" Padparadscha Sapphire exclaimed happily.

Pietersite could barely comprehend what happened, and it was so anticlimactic too. Her forces were subdued, her weapons seized and modified to fix what she had done, and now all that was left of the Rutile Rebels was her, Aquamarine, and Eyeball once again. "Please no, just give me a second chance!"

"Not likely," Lapis said as she summoned a sawblade made of water that sliced Pietersite in half, barely giving her a chance to fight because the Crystal Gems now considered Black Rutile to be that pathetic to not even consider a grander defeat. To seal the deal, Little Homeworld was returned to its rightful place outside of Beach City with help from the Lapis Lazulis.

Black Rutile, Aquamarine, and Eyeball all fell to the ground in defeat, while the rest of the Rutile Rebels were brought together in chains. "I hate happy endings."

"Well, that should about wrap everything up!" Pearl sighed in relief once the dust settled. "Now then, it's off to Revanche 666 you all go!"

"And me too," Tanzanite added, much to Pearl's shock. "Even if I changed my ways, I still need to forgive myself for siding with Black Rutile too."

"Indeed, young Tanzanite." James began one final monologue. "At the end of the day, we are all but individuals crying for fairness in our lives. You won't get everything, but you'll get something. The Crystal Gems finally restore peace, while Black Rutile hopefully realizes how futile her schemes were. In the end, we just need to decide what is fair and what isn't."

"Oh, be quiet!" Black Rutile said as Hessonite and Spinel carted her away to the ship Andesine and Cinnabar hijacked in their prison break, while everyone was left to rejoice.

--

"So, that's all that happened?" Steven asked Connie a few days later over video chat. "Wow, sounds like you had quite the adventure."

"Yeah, and that's not even getting into what happened next," Connie stated. "First, Marty's now on the run from the law and lost everything. Then, Kevin got a key to the city."

"That's a phrase I never expected to hear." Steven laughed. "What else happened?"

"The Crystal Gems have all made up with each other and the Diamonds, and they're getting the therapy they need from Dr. Sucrose, Mr. Ikari, and Dr. Brenner." Connie continued. "Speaking of which, Brenner put Sally Grove under house arrest and is writing a book about the psychology of influencers, Neil Michaels is stuck doing ChikFlix movies to recoup his losses, Francis von Bowling is stuck in prison with Reginald Johnson, the president is still alive, and finally, the Rutile Rebels are all safely behind bars for what they've done. But I kinda doubt they'll stay there for long because evil geniuses are harder to squash than cockroaches."

"Hey, Connie!" Lapis cried while knocking on Connie's window, now back in her Crystal Gem uniform. When Connie peeked her head outside, she could see the other Crystal Gems outside her house. "You got a minute?"

"I'll call you back Steven!" Connie said before hanging up on Steven and racing outside to meet with her alien friends, no doubt to go on another adventure together. In the distance, the Officer was recording everything he saw and sending it to his masters.

--

Meanwhile, on Revanche 666, the prison was restored to order as the Rutile Rebels were locked behind the destabilizing fields in their cells.

"Hey, don't be so bummed out everyone!" Kyanite exclaimed. "We can make prison life fun!"

"Oh be quiet!" Zoisite yelled angrily.

"I did pretend to get sent to prison only to get sent to prison for real!" Amber added. "I'm getting anxious!"

"Hey, is no one going to check up on Black Rutile?" Dalmatian Jasper asked while pointing at Black Rutile sitting calmly in her cell.

"She's looking even mopier than me," Xenotime added worriedly. "I hope she's alright."

Hiding from the endless chatter of Zoisite's team, a restored Emerald, Morganite, Demantoid & Pyrope who were behind bars to repent, Black Rutile gazed emotionlessly at her hand as she wondered how it all came to this. So many months of planning have now gone to waste, once again because of the Gems' human friends. This made her finally ask herself one thing. "Is this still worth it?"

--

This went way longer than I expected, and with way too many characters I put on the cast list that didn't get a line! I've recently found it to be a bad habit of mine, and I hope to remedy that in future stories. I also think I kind of rushed this to be as big as possible while still meeting my deadline. But in the meantime, I hope you all enjoyed these past thirteen weeks and I get to enjoy a break at last and maybe pursuing either a story I haven't written yet or one I still need to finish. But for now, let's see what to come in the finale.

--

"Your Highness, we received another update from Aescul!" a snakelike alien told his master, another snake alien who was far larger and resembled a king cobra, as he received the news from their deep cover agent. "He says now might finally be the time."

"Excellent work, sir." The king cobra alien said to his subordinate while slithering away. "You are dismissed." The cobra then retreated into a mysterious chamber where he met with a shadowy figure towering above him. "It's time for the Gems to enter our contest, great Lapidarist." He declared to the shadow. "Soon, we shall return your children to you."

The shadowy figure began glowing a brilliant white light as it woke up, followed by shimmering with every possible color in existence while laying eyes upon its servant.

--

Featuring Voltaire as King Cobralan Jormagundr

TO BE CONCLUDED IN STEVEN UNIVERSE: SNAKE EYES

A FINALE THREE YEARS IN THE MAKING

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This is more a question for Woo and not for the characters: What does everyone sound like, what are their voices?

// I don't have the most specific voices in mind, but I do have a few general ideas! Nothing super set in stone, so if you've got your own voice headcanons I think they're also valid haha

I imagine Rune having the voice of Kimiko Glenn! Something surprisingly on the higher end of vocal tone- her performance as Lena in Ducktales most resembles how I think she'd sound. Also in this same voiceclip is the voice I'd have in mind for Dielle, Kate Micucci! Her role as Webby in Ducktales I think is a little too energetic for Dielle's normal tone, so she'd probably land closer to her performance as Sadie in Steven Universe.

Malachi's is more up in the air- the closest I have is Mr. Lip Bite himself, Lin-Manuel Miranda's performance of Fenton from, you guessed it, Ducktales once again! His voice sounds a little older than I'd like for Malachi, who's just a teen, but I like the nervous yet enthusiastic energy he brings to the role. Yohann also gets to share a voice headcanon in this clip as Gyro, which is literally the only voice I imagine him with lmao

I'm not sure what voice I'd peg Inigo for though! Maybe Avi Roque's performance as Raine in The Owl House? Though their performance is a bit shy and understated to match the character's personality, so maybe there's more robust options out there to match Inigo's loud personality.

As for NPCs, everything gets a bit more wibbly since I don't really think about them so much! I've joked before about the Guildmaster being voiced by Griffin McElroy, though maybe something more bubbly and friendly? As a kid I always thought Chatot had the voice of Zazu from The Lion King so... I guess I don't have any other ideas on that one lmao. I'm sure that I had an idea for Requiem's voice at some point... Maybe Erin Fitzgerald's performance as Emmeryn from Fire Emblem Awakening? Something ethereal and soothing. And then for recurring cast I guess that just leaves Julius. I based his speaking habits off of my own dad's lmao, I guess something deep but casual? No actual voice headcanons for him outside of that.

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akselinvest.pro pourrait être une arnaque. Nous avons trouvé plusieurs indicateurs à cet égard. akselinvest.pro est un peu faible d'après notre algorithme. La note est attribuée automatiquement en fonction des données que nous pourrions trouver sur le site sur Internet, par exemple si un certificat SSL est utilisé, dans quel pays le site est hébergé et si le site est inscrit sur les listes de spam et de phishing. Bien que nous évaluons le site internet plutôt bas, cela ne signifie pas qu'il s'agit d'une escroquerie ou d'un faux site internet. Comme l'examen se fait automatiquement, la note peut être trop faible ou trop élevée. Nous vous recommandons vérifiez chaque site manuellement vous-même avant d'acheter.

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Le propriétaire du site utilise un service pour cacher son identité dans le WHOIS.

L'entreprise hôte du site a un % élevé d'arnaqueurs et de sites de fraude

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Avis trading.xeodis.co

Pourquoi est-ce que trading.xeodis.co a un score de confiance relativement bas?

trading.xeodis.co pourrait être une arnaque. Nous avons trouvé plusieurs indicateurs à cet égard. La note est attribuée automatiquement en fonction des données que nous pourrions trouver sur le site sur Internet, par exemple si un certificat SSL est utilisé, dans quel pays le site est hébergé et si le site est inscrit sur les listes de spam et de phishing. Bien que nous évaluons le site internet plutôt bas, cela ne signifie pas qu'il s'agit d'une escroquerie ou d'un faux site internet. Comme l'examen se fait automatiquement, la note peut être trop faible ou trop élevée. Nous vous recommandons vérifiez chaque site manuellement vous-même avant d'acheter.

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Ce site est sûr selon DNSFilter.

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Le propriétaire du site utilise un service pour cacher son identité dans le WHOIS.

Selon Tranco, ce site a un faible classement.

Ce site est un site internet à l'intérieur d'un autre site internet

L'entreprise hôte du site a un % élevé d'arnaqueurs et de sites de fraude

Ce site est (très) jeune.

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Avis | Vinicius veut

Juan Manuel Serrano Arce/Getty Images Vinícius est une fois de plus au centre de toutes les critiques, si à un moment donné il a cessé de l'être. Tout cela pour un geste envers les supporters du Real. C'était à la 58e minute que Vinícius portait le score à 0-1 sur penalty. Lors de sa célébration, il a couru vers le groupe et a fait le geste de faire taire les tribunes de la Reale Arena. Quelques…

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Informations clés révélées par Google sur les récentes mises à jour majeures de l’algorithme

Au début de septembre, l’expert en marketing de recherche Barry Schwartz a interviewé le représentant de Google pour la recherche, Danny Sullivan, et a ensuite publié un long résumé de l’interview.

Barry Schwartz est le fondateur de Search Engine Roundtable et le PDG et technologue de RustyBrick. Danny Sullivan, quant à lui, représente Google pour clarifier et expliquer les mises à jour de Google Search, les changements d’algorithme et d’autres sujets connexes pour s’assurer que le public comprend comment fonctionne Google Search et comment s’adapter à ces changements.

Étant donné le contexte professionnel et autoritaire de ces deux personnalités, cette interview est très précieuse pour ceux qui souhaitent comprendre les récentes mises à jour des algorithmes de Google. J’ai lu l’interview et j’ai résumé les points clés pour aider les autres à comprendre plus clairement la direction que Google prend avec ses mises à jour, offrant potentiellement des insights pour des stratégies futures de génération de trafic.

Voici mon résumé et mes réflexions personnelles.

(Je tiens à souligner que ce résumé n’a pas été généré en collant simplement le contenu original dans GPT ; il a été organisé et résumé manuellement, donc vous pouvez le lire en toute confiance.)

Les informations clés sont en gras ; Mes pensées personnelles sont en italique.

Sur la fréquence des mises à jour

Google Search subit environ 5 000 mises à jour par an et introduit périodiquement des « mises à jour majeures » lorsque cela est nécessaire. Ces mises à jour à grande échelle, qui ont un large impact, sont appelées « mises à jour principales ».

Cela signifie que Google Search effectue environ 14 ajustements à son algorithme chaque jour. Cela renforce encore mon avis selon lequel « vous ne devriez pas perdre de temps à essayer de déjouer l’algorithme. » Il est très probable que toute faille partagée en ligne ait déjà été corrigée. (Concentrez votre temps à créer du contenu qui sert vraiment les utilisateurs.)

Récompenser les petits sites indépendants

Les mises à jour principales de Google de mars à août 2024 se sont concentrées sur l’octroi de plus de récompenses aux petits sites indépendants, et Google est loin d’avoir terminé cet effort. Il est prévu que les petits sites indépendants avec du contenu de qualité continueront de bénéficier des futures mises à jour principales.

Les petits sites indépendants sont souvent moins commercialisés, plus nichés et plus personnalisés. Je les considère comme « plus purs » que les grands sites. Il semble que Google vise une plus grande diversité sur le web et repense la manière dont il définit l’« autorité ». Cela a des implications importantes pour ceux qui exploitent des sites indépendants : vous avez choisi un très bon chemin, alors tenez bon.

Que faire lorsque le classement de votre site baisse après une mise à jour de l’algorithme

Google reconnaît que certains sites connaissent des fluctuations de trafic significatives suite à des mises à jour d’algorithme. Le conseil de Sullivan est de « juste vous assurer que vous faites ce qu’il faut pour les utilisateurs » et de rester patient (car les mises à jour sont un processus graduel). Il a également souligné que poursuivre le système de classement de Google est une approche dépassée.

Il est peu probable que chaque mise à jour de l’algorithme soit parfaite, surtout compte tenu de la diversité des sites Web et des utilisateurs. Dans les jeux en ligne, il y a un dicton selon lequel chaque version a son propre « personnage OP », et on peut en dire autant pour Google Search. Peut-être que Danny a donné un conseil plus fondamental : concentrez-vous sur vos utilisateurs, pas sur l’algorithme de Google.

Que signifie un changement de classement ?

Si votre site passe de la première à la deuxième place, l’impact sur le trafic peut être significatif. Mais cela ne signifie pas nécessairement que l’algorithme de Google n’aime pas votre contenu. La réalité est que le contenu mieux classé est probablement également très précieux pour les utilisateurs. L’objectif de Google est de s’assurer que tout le contenu dans les résultats de recherche est utile, ou du moins que chaque utilisateur en bénéficie.

Aucune page n’occupera la première place de recherche pour toujours. Dans le monde hautement compétitif des classements de recherche de haut niveau, la question clé est de savoir si votre contenu est universellement plus précieux pour les utilisateurs recherchant des mots-clés liés. Franchement, ce n’est pas quelque chose que les optimisations techniques ou les astuces peuvent réaliser.

Google ajuste-t-il ses mises à jour pendant le processus de déploiement ?

Certaines mises à jour provoquent des fluctuations significatives de classement et de trafic, mais Google a clairement indiqué qu’il n’ajusterait pas l’algorithme en cours de mise à jour juste à cause de ces fluctuations. Ces mises à jour passent par plusieurs tours d’évaluation et de tests avant d’être déployées, et la seule chose que Google fera est d’étendre la mise à jour à un champ d’application plus large.

Cela semble un peu arrogant, étant donné que Google n’est pas toujours objectivement correct. Cependant, d’un point de vue technique, changer le contenu de la mise à jour en cours de route pourrait introduire des problèmes non testés et créer encore plus de problèmes…

Le fait de remplir le formulaire de retour d’information de Google affecte-t-il le classement de votre site ?

Parfois, lors des mises à jour principales, Google publie un formulaire de retour d’information pour recueillir des entrées des utilisateurs ou des propriétaires de sites sur l’impact de la mise à jour. Le formulaire de retour d’information pour la mise à jour de mars 2024 a reçu 12 000 soumissions liées à 1 300 domaines. Google a clairement indiqué que le fait de soumettre ou non un retour d’information n’affecterait pas le classement de votre site.

Il y a une histoire de quelqu’un qui a soumis le formulaire de retour d’information plus de 1 700 fois pour le même domaine, mais Google a démenti le mythe à plusieurs reprises : il n’y a pas de raccourcis dans le SEO.

Quel type de contenu Google récompense-t-il ?

Sullivan a donné un exemple spécifique, traduit ici :

Un site web de plomberie local ne se classait pas bien pour les sujets de « plomberie locale » dans Google Search. C’était parce que le contenu ressemblait au contenu générique habituel, comme comment réparer un évier. C’était juste du contenu de plombier ordinaire qui n’entraînait probablement pas de conversions.

En revanche, si ce plombier partageait des histoires personnelles et professionnelles sur des problèmes de plomberie dans sa région, ce serait le type de contenu que Google souhaite récompenser.

Ce dialogue illustre clairement que Google cherche à récompenser le contenu ayant des qualités personnelles ou uniques fortes. Le contenu générique semble souvent répétitif et n’inspire pas beaucoup les utilisateurs. Par exemple, l’internet n’a pas besoin de milliers d’articles expliquant « ce qu’est le café » (ni Google ne distribuera du trafic à ceux-ci). Cependant, si un article traite d’une expérience unique dans un café en bord de mer, il est probablement unique et plus digne d’être lu.

Mettre l’accent sur l’expérience de la page

Si vos utilisateurs ont une expérience satisfaisante dès leur arrivée sur votre site (dès la première page), le système de classement de Google essaiera de récompenser votre site. En tant qu’opérateur de site, vous devez prêter une attention particulière aux « Core Web Vitals » de votre site, bien que cela ne soit pas tout.

Ici, un concept est introduit — les Core Web Vitals. Permettez-moi d’expliquer :

Les Core Web Vitals sont un ensemble de métriques clés introduites par Google pour évaluer l’expérience utilisateur d’une page web, en se concentrant sur la performance de chargement, l’interactivité et la stabilité visuelle. Ces métriques sont conçues pour mesurer l’expérience réelle des utilisateurs lorsqu’ils visitent une page, aidant les sites web à optimiser ces aspects pour améliorer la satisfaction des utilisateurs et les classements de recherche. Spécifiquement, les Core Web Vitals comprennent trois métriques principales :

1. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) : Mesure la rapidité avec laquelle le contenu principal d’une page se charge, se référant au temps nécessaire pour que l’élément visible le plus grand de la page se charge. Idéalement, cela devrait se produire dans les 2,5 secondes.

2. First Input Delay (FID) : Mesure l’interactivité d’une page, se référant au délai entre la première interaction de l’utilisateur avec la page (comme cliquer sur un bouton) et la réponse de la page. Idéalement, ce délai devrait être inférieur à 100 millisecondes.

3. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) : Mesure la stabilité visuelle, se référant aux déplacements inattendus dans la mise en page de la page pendant le processus de chargement. Des déplacements plus petits (score CLS inférieur à 0,1) indiquent une meilleure expérience utilisateur.

Ces métriques évaluent de manière complète la qualité de l’expérience utilisateur sur un site web et influencent les facteurs de classement de Google. Ainsi, il est crucial pour les webmasters et les développeurs d’optimiser les Core Web Vitals. Cependant, l’expérience utilisateur ne peut pas toujours être capturée par quelques métriques simples, donc Google encourage les opérateurs de sites à réfléchir davantage aux aspects humains de l’amélioration de l’expérience.

Je crois que les points clés sont la créativité, l’imagination et l’attention aux détails des sentiments des utilisateurs.

Contenu des forums comme Reddit dans les classements de Google

Google est désireux de présenter du contenu des plateformes sociales et des forums (comme Reddit) et continuera de le faire. Cela est dû au fait que ces morceaux d’informations sont souvent plus spécifiques, de niche et peuvent offrir une aide ou des conseils plus clairs aux chercheurs. Parfois, le contenu partagé sur Reddit se classe même plus haut que la source originale, possiblement en raison des mots-clés de recherche et de la fraîcheur du contenu, parmi d’autres facteurs.

Rappelez-vous que si vous avez déjà recherché un scénario très spécifique sur Google, le contenu des forums comme Reddit aurait pu être plus utile car il est souvent centré autour d’un sujet très spécifique et est plus opportun.

Cela montre que la valeur des médias sociaux et des forums réside dans l’offre de fragments de contenu qui abordent des problèmes spécifiques. Lorsque Google détermine que cela est la réponse que les utilisateurs recherchent, ce contenu sera indexé en haut. Cela est une aubaine pour le marketing de contenu UGC, mais assurez-vous que le contenu a vraiment de la valeur.

Sur les gemmes cachées

Google travaille continuellement à améliorer son algorithme afin de mieux identifier et mettre en avant ces « gemmes cachées » pour les utilisateurs, en s’assurant que non seulement les pages hautement classées sont découvertes, mais aussi les sites avec un contenu véritablement précieux et unique.

Dans l’algorithme de recherche de Google, les Gemmes Cachées font généralement référence à des pages qui, bien qu’elles ne soient pas hautement classées ou qu’elles n’aient pas beaucoup de trafic, offrent des informations exceptionnellement de haute qualité et utiles pour les utilisateurs. Ces pages peuvent ne pas avoir de hauts classements en raison d’un manque d’optimisation SEO ou de liens suffisants, mais leur contenu est inestimable pour des requêtes spécifiques ou des besoins des utilisateurs. Il semble que Google prend des mesures actives pour découvrir ces sites.

Sur le SEO Parasitaire

Début 2024, Google a commencé à pénaliser manuellement le comportement SEO Parasitaire et n’a pas l’intention d’implémenter des pénalités automatiques dans un avenir proche.

Dans le SEO Parasitaire, les attaquants trouvent généralement des vulnérabilités sur des sites web légitimes (tels que des sites gouvernementaux, universitaires ou de grandes marques) et exploitent ces vulnérabilités pour télécharger ou intégrer leur propre contenu. Ce contenu peut inclure des liens, du spam ou d’autres cibles SEO. Google semble prudent quant à l’application de pénalités à grande échelle.

Sur le contenu généré par IA

Google a clairement indiqué que le problème clé avec le contenu de faible qualité n’est pas qu’il soit généré par IA, mais qu’il soit produit en masse. Si Google détecte que le contenu est produit en masse à des fins de classement (que ce soit généré par IA ou manuellement), il sera considéré comme une violation de leur politique sur le contenu à grande échelle.

Google souligne à plusieurs reprises qu’il est plus préoccupé par la valeur du contenu pour les utilisateurs, indépendamment de la manière dont il est créé. L’IA peut produire du contenu hautement précieux (Par exemple, un blog généré en utilisant Blogcard — Désolé pour la publicité ; c’est en effet mon produit.), tout comme les humains peuvent générer de grandes quantités de contenu de faible qualité.

La réponse est évidente : pensez à ce que vos utilisateurs veulent et écrivez pour vos utilisateurs, pas juste pour des fins de classement.

Cela conclut le résumé des informations clés (et des réflexions personnelles) basé sur l’interview de Barry Schwartz avec Danny Sullivan.

Les insights de Sullivan me donnent l’impression qu’il est très semblable au chef des opérations dans l’émission télévisée Westworld. Tout comme vous ne pouvez pas contrôler complètement le comportement des « hôtes » dans l’émission, vous ne pouvez pas non plus être certain de la manière dont les résultats d’indexation de Google sont générés. Ils ont établi de nombreuses règles, mais les réponses doivent être trouvées dans le monde réel.

Texte original de l’interview : Search Engine Roundtable

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A Dinastia de Bragança vs A Casa de Bragança: o passagem da história monárquica

Depois de passar por duas das maiores dinastias de Portugal, a dinastia Afonsina e a dinastia de Avis, o país passou por uma crise e tomada de poder: perdeu a sua independência contra Castela na Batalha de Alcântara e foi inaugurada uma nova dinastia espanhola, chamada dinastia Filipina, que governou durante mais de 60 anos e foi derrubada por uma revolução do povo português que proclamou o oitavo duque de Bragança, D. João IV, como o seu rei.

No entanto, como podemos constatar, este novo rei já fazia parte dum longo ducado chamado Casa de Bragança, que, a propósito, seria também o nome da nova dinastia portuguesa, portanto: qual é a origem deste nome e deste ducado? Porque é que a origem deste ducado se chamava Casa de Bragança?

Estas são questões que vão ser respondidas através da revisão da história dos antepassados do país, a dinastia de Avis.

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A dinastia de Avis tem uma linhagem muito rica em cultura, educação e história. A união do seu primeiro rei, D. João I, com D. Filipa de Lencastre deu origem a uma das gerações mais cultas conhecidas e registadas na literatura por Luís Vaz de Camões como “a Ínclita Geração”. Foram os filhos deixados por este casamento, alguns deles reis, que participaram nas explorações e conquistas marítimas, bem como no próspero crescimento económico e cultural do país.

No entanto, também é sabido que os reis da época costumavam ter casos com amantes fora do casamento, e este não foi exceção. D. João I teve filhos bastardos que também tiveram um impacto na história de Portugal, sendo o caso mais conhecido o do seu filho D. Afonso.

D. João I no dia 8 de novembro de 1401, de acordo com o seu condestável Nuno Álvares Pereira, uniu o seu filho com a única filha do seu trabalhador, D. Brites. Pereira já tinha dotado a sua filha de bens como castelos e terras, e D. João tinha feito o mesmo para o seu filho, tendo sido criados os primeiros bens da Casa de Bragança e, finalmente, o ducado. Assim, D. Afonso tornou-se o primeiro Duque de Bragança.

Da mesma forma, as origens deste ducado situam-se entre a dinastia Afonsina e a dinastia de Avis, pois ao ser D. João I filho de D. Pedro I ligou-o diretamente à primeira dinastia de Portugal. Assim, a dinastia de Bragança significou também uma das mais fortes ligações sanguíneas, históricas e culturais do país. Foi assim o nascimento da última dinastia do país.

Esta dinastia teve 14 reis e reinou durante mais de 260 anos, começando com D. João IV, “o Restaurador” e terminando com D. Manuel II, “O Rei Saudade”. Foram anos de crescimento exponencial da moeda e da economia portuguesas, da celebração de acordos de paz com Espanha e de tratados (como o Tratado de Methuen) com Inglaterra, da criação de novos edifícios de ensino (como a Academia Real Portuguesa de História e a Academia Real das Ciências de Lisboa) e de arquitetura cívica (como os primeiros aquedutos), da criação da primeira constituição portuguesa, da abolição da escravatura e da criação duma nova república que pôs fim à monarquia em Portugal.

No entanto, o fim da dinastia de Bragança não significou o fim duma linhagem real e duma família com importância monárquica política, econômica, cultural e histórica do país. Pois, os membros da família de Bragança ainda têm o ducado e o sobrenome desta casa, tendo assim atualmente o duque D. Duarte Pio João Miguel Gabriel Rafael de Bragança, que também é o pretendente ao trono português e que, atualmente, atua na fundação "Manuel II" que se dedica a preservar a língua portuguesa através de projetos culturais, econômicos e políticos que atravessam todos os países lusófonos do mundo.

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Como se pode ver, a história de Portugal é muito antiga, desde os começos duma monarquia até aos dias de hoje, em que ostenta orgulhosa e responsavelmente um nome que essa mesma monarquia lhe deixou. E não só, esta história está marcada nos textos já referidos (Pedro, ou Cru, as crónicas de Fernão Lopes e Os Lusíadas), todos eles precursores de movimentos artísticos e científicos que tiveram impacto na história monárquica do país. E foi, sobretudo, registada internacionalmente para o mundo.

Por isso, a próxima e última publicação será sobre todas as relações (históricas, culturais e literárias) que possamos encontrar sobre estas figuras políticas, factos extraordinários e textos incríveis.

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Glossário

Revolução: movimento da sociedade que busca uma mudança política, econômica ou social.

Antepassado: pessoa que precede a outra numa geração familiar.

Abolição: terminação duma coisa.

Escravatura: privação de liberdade duma pessoa ou animal.

Lusófono: que fala português ou pertence à comunidade portuguesa.

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Referências bibliográficas

Ria Azevedo. (2020, abril 2). História de Portugal- Dinastia de Bragança (AUDIO MELHORADO). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lutru_DRjsQ

Vitorino, J. (2020, setembro 9). A Casa de Bragança, por Joaquim Vitorino. Jornal de Vila de Rei. https://jornaldeviladerei.com/2020/09/09/a-casa-de-braganca/

Porto Editora – Casa de Bragança na Infopédia [em linha]. Porto: Porto Editora. https://www.infopedia.pt/$casa-de-braganca

Porto Editora – Quarta Dinastia na Infopédia [em linha]. Porto: Porto Editora. https://www.infopedia.pt/topicos/dominio-da-cultura/historia-de-portugal/quarta-dinastia

Casa Real. (2023, agosto 19). Casa Real Portuguesa. https://casarealportuguesa.org/casa-real/

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H comme Humilité

Ne pas connaître le cri du kangourou, ni le nom des planètes du système solaire dans le bon ordre (ou le désordre) et moins encore la raison du bleu du ciel. N’avoir aucune certitude sur la meilleure manière d’endormir un bébé, sur ce qu’il doit avoir fait ou ne pas avoir fait dans une journée, une nuit. Ne pas avoir regardé la dernière émission de pédospy à la mode, ni réussi à lire les divers manuels en vogue divulguant leur super kit de super-parentalité. Se tromper parfois sur les posologies des médicaments et ignorer les ruses pour faire aimer les fruits et les légumes. Tant et tant de zones d’ombre, de nouveaux champs et de remises en question quotidiennes ou presque.

Avoir plus appris depuis toi qu’en 30 ans d’avant toi.

Alors, mesdames des crèches, des écoles des parcs à jeux, des discussions impromptues en soirée, dans les transports en commun, aux machines à café : non, j’avoue, je n’ai pas votre assurance, votre aplomb désolant, votre avis sur tout sur moi sur nous, haut et fort, tambours trompettes et mégaphone.

Je crois, qu’en fait, le peu qu’on sait ne vient jamais qu’après-coup.

I. 5 ans

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Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson’s play. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Ma Rainey: Viola Davis Levee: Chadwick Boseman Cutler: Colman Domingo Toledo: Glynn Turman Slow Drag: Michael Potts Irvin: Jeremy Shamos Sturdyvant: Jonny Coyne Dussie Mae: Taylour Paige Sylvester: Dusan Brown Policeman: Joshua Harto Band Singer: Quinn VanAntwerp Ma Rainey’s Dancer: Chloe Davis Ma Rainey’s Dancer: Mayte Natalio Ma Rainey’s Dancer: Johanna Elmina Moise Ma Rainey’s Dancer: Onyxx Noel Ma Rainey’s Dancer: LaWanda Hopkins Ma Rainey’s Dancer: Sierra Stewart Ma Rainey’s Dancer: Malaiyka Reid Ma Rainey’s Dancer: Catherine Foster Laborer (uncredited): Antonio Fierro Chicago Worker (uncredited): Daniel Johnson Film Crew: Director: George C. Wolfe Producer: Denzel Washington Original Music Composer: Branford Marsalis Production Design: Mark Ricker Producer: Dany Wolf Executive Producer: Constanza Romero Costume Designer: Ann Roth Producer: Todd Black Editor: Andrew Mondshein Director of Photography: Tobias A. Schliessler Casting: Avy Kaufman First Assistant Director: Michele Ziegler Second Assistant Director: Xanthus Valan Stunt Coordinator: Chuck Jeffreys Art Direction: James F. Truesdale Set Designer: Travis Kerr Assistant Art Director: Wes Hottman Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara Set Buyer: Paul Bucciarelli Set Decoration: Diana Stoughton Set Decorating Coordinator: Darlene Salinas Script Supervisor: Megan Graham Makeup Department Head: Matiki Anoff Makeup Artist: Sergio Lopez-Rivera Makeup Artist: Sian Richards Makeup Artist: Carl Fullerton Makeup Supervisor: Debi Young Supervising Sound Editor: Skip Lievsay Screenplay: Ruben Santiago-Hudson Prosthetics: Gary Archer Makeup Artist: Rachel Geary Makeup Artist: Bethany Montecalvo Makeup Artist: Bethany Townes Makeup Artist: Jai Williams Supervising Sound Editor: Paul Urmson Theatre Play: August Wilson Visual Effects: John Allegretti Movie Reviews: Manuel São Bento: If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog @ https://www.msbreviews.com Usually, at the end of each year, I prepare my watchlist for the next twelve months. Obviously, no matter how many movies I add to the list, I know dozens of more films will be announced and released throughout the year. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is one of them. I didn’t know a thing about this flick, but it received the always interesting awards buzz, which turned it into a mandatory viewing before Christmas comes around. I went in knowing only one thing: this is Chadwick Boseman’s (Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War) last appearance after he passed away a few months ago. I really didn’t know what to expect from this Netflix’s Oscar-bait, but I was afraid that Boseman’s nomination chances were high only due to what happened in real-life instead of him truly deserving that recognition… Well, I can safely and confidently write that Boseman delivers his career-best interpretation, and it wouldn’t be unfair for him to get tons of awards posthumously. From an impeccable accent to his mind-blowing emotional range, passing through long monologues and uncut takes effortlessly, Boseman is the strong glue that holds everything in place. What seems, at first, a hangout movie (narrative without a clear central plot) turns into a character-study. Levee wants to follow his dreams, do what he does best in his own conditions and with his personal interpretation of music and soul. Boseman incorporates this character seamlessly, delivering a memorable performance that I hope will be remembered as a worthy Oscar winner if this situation ends up becoming true. Even though Boseman is the actor that shines brighter, every single one is absolutely outstanding. Viola Davis shares the main spotlight with him by representing the (real-life) iconic blues singer, Ma Rainey. To be completely honest, I didn’t know who this singer was nor how she impacted soul music. Ruben Santiago-Hudson first feature-film sc...

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⦁ < 2 Timothée 3 : Verset 14

Si je veux repérer un pays ou une région particulière de notre monde, je me sers d’un atlas. Si je veux savoir comment fonctionne un moteur à explosion, je prends un manuel écrit par quelqu’un qui possède cette connaissance. Dans le domaine spirituel ou religieux, c’est moins évident parce que les avis sont très partagés et souvent diamétralement opposés.

Personnellement, j’ai la conviction inébranlable que seuls les Textes Sacrés de la Bible renferment la vérité et qu’elle ne se trouve nulle part ailleurs. Contre les fausses doctrines, les erreurs ou les mensonges en tout genre qui circulent librement dans le monde, le seul antidote est la Parole de Dieu. Nous ne possédons pas d’autres sources de vérité autres que les Écritures, absolument aucune.

Tous les écrits religieux qui existent, et il y en a des tonnes, sont d’inspiration humaine ou diabolique ou le plus souvent des deux. Je suis bien conscient que je ne vais pas me faire que des amis avec une telle affirmation. Cela dit, certains prennent un malin plaisir à répondre qu’on peut faire dire n’importe quoi aux Écritures ce qui est exact si on n’obéit pas de manière très stricte aux règles de l’herméneutique, c’est-à-dire celles qui gèrent l’interprétation d’un texte. Mais par contre, celui qui prend un soin méticuleux dans sa lecture et son étude des Textes Sacrés réduira considérablement les marges d’erreur.

Cependant, il est vrai que certains passages sont particulièrement difficiles à comprendre soit à cause du langage lui-même, soit parce qu’on ne connaît pas le contexte, soit pour une autre raison. Dans ces situations, il existe effectivement plus d’une interprétation possible. Cependant, ce sont pratiquement toujours des points qui sont éclaircis par un autre passage ou alors qui sont secondaires dans le sens qu’ils n’affectent pas la doctrine chrétienne. Par exemple, précédemment, Paul a dit :

Sache bien que dans la période finale de l’histoire, les temps seront difficiles. Les hommes seront (2Timothée 3:1-2).

Puis il donne une longue liste de vices. Les commentateurs sont partagés sur l’identité de ces hommes. Qui sont-ils ? Est-il question de tous les hommes du monde entier ou de ceux qui font partie de la chrétienté, ou s’agit-il plus particulièrement des anciens, des responsables d’Églises comme le contexte semble indiquer ? On ne peut pas être absolument certain, mais les conséquences de l’une ou de l’autre de ces interprétations sont relativement bénignes.

D’autre part, il faut aussi dire que l’Ancien comme le Nouveau Testament contiennent des passages qui sont intentionnellement énigmatiques et Dieu l’a voulu ainsi. C’est par exemple le cas des paraboles de Jésus dont le sens était caché à ceux qui étaient de mauvaise foi, qui cherchaient des prétextes pour accuser Jésus. Quand les disciples ont demandé au Seigneur pourquoi il s’exprimait en paraboles, il leur a répondu :

Vous avez reçu le privilège de connaître les secrets du royaume des cieux, eux ne l’ont pas reçu (Matthieu 13:11).

Les prédictions de l’Ancien Testament étaient un peu comme les paraboles parce que leur sens n’était pas évident. En effet, elles avaient souvent plusieurs applications, une à court ou moyen terme et une autre qui concernait la venue du Messie et la fin des temps. Or les prophètes eux-mêmes ne comprenaient que très vaguement ou même pas du tout ce qu’ils annonçaient pour l’avenir lointain (comparez 1Pierre 1:10-12).

Je continue maintenant à lire dans le chapitre trois de la seconde épître de Paul à Timothée.

Pour toi, reste attaché à tout ce que tu as appris et reçu avec une entière conviction. Tu sais de qui tu l’as appris (2Timothée 3:14).

Au début de cette lettre, Paul a déjà dit à son disciple :

Je garde le souvenir de ta foi sincère, cette foi qui se trouvait déjà chez ta grand-mère Loïs et ta mère Eunice. À présent, elle habite aussi en toi, j’en suis pleinement convaincu (2Timothée 1:5).

Timothée est aux antipodes, à l’opposé des hommes méchants et des prophètes du mensonge contre qui l’apôtre l’a mis en garde. Maintenant, il l’encourage à persévérer dans la bonne voie qui lui a été tracée par les Écritures de l’Ancien Testament et par l’enseignement qu’il a reçu de l’apôtre.

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Je continue le texte.

Qu’il soit fidèlement attaché à la parole certaine, qui est conforme à ce qui lui a été enseigné. Ainsi il sera en mesure d’encourager les autres selon l’enseignement authentique et de réfuter les contradicteurs (Tite 1:9).

Jusqu’à présent, toutes les qualifications que Paul a mentionnées (Tite 1:6-8) mettaient l’accent sur le caractère spirituel et le comportement d’un dirigeant fidèle, sur ce qu’il doit être. Maintenant, il va décrire son ministère, ce qu’il doit faire, c’est-à-dire prêcher, enseigner, défendre et préserver la vérité de la Parole de Dieu.

Celui qui enseigne s’adresse à l’intelligence des auditeurs ; il explique les Écritures afin qu’elles soient comprises. Le prédicateur, lui, s’adresse à la volonté de ceux qui l’écoutent ; il leur proclame la vérité de Dieu afin de les motiver à agir.

Ces deux formes de communication vont généralement de pair et font partie des dons spirituels que le Saint-Esprit accorde selon sa volonté (Romains 12:7; 1Corinthiens 12:28). Cependant, l’exercice de ces dons exige de la maturité spirituelle et de la pratique ; il ne faut donc pas demander à un jeune converti un soir de donner son témoignage, et le lendemain ou presque de prêcher. Non seulement ça fait pas sérieux, mais selon l’apôtre Paul, c’est également l’exposer aux attaques du diable (comparez 1Timothée 3:6).

Ensuite, le dirigeant doit être fidèlement attaché à la parole certaine, c’est-à-dire qu’il adhère sans réserve à la véracité des Écritures. Comme j’ai déjà eu l’occasion de le dire, ses qualifications ne dépendent pas de ses talents naturels, de son éducation, de son bon sens ou de sa sagesse mais de ses dons spirituels et de sa connaissance et compréhension des Écritures. De plus, l’enseignement de la Parole de Dieu doit faire partie intégrante de ses pensées et de sa façon de vivre.

Alors, il sera en mesure d’encourager les autres selon l’enseignement authentique et de réfuter les contradicteurs. Le mot pour encourager veut aussi dire exhorter, défendre. C’est aussi l’un des titres et l’une des caractéristiques du Saint-Esprit selon l’enseignement de Jésus-Christ (Jean 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7).

Le dirigeant doit pouvoir défendre l’enseignement authentique. Ce mot a donné hygiène en français. Il s’agit donc d’un enseignement qui est bon, utile et qui contribue à la santé spirituelle des membres de l’Église.

Le dirigeant-pasteur est convaincu que les Écritures sont la seule source de vérités, que leur obéir n’est pas une option mais une obligation ; il proclame la Parole, insiste, que l’occasion soit favorable ou non, convaincs, réprimande, encourage par son enseignement, avec une patience inlassable (2Timothée 4:2).

Le dirigeant doit également réfuter les contradicteurs, littéralement parler contre ceux qui, d’une manière ou d’une autre, contredisent les Écritures. Ces gens sont particulièrement dangereux quand ils sortent des rangs chrétiens et encore davantage s’ils occupent une position d’autorité dans l’Église, car alors, non seulement ils se disent croyants sans l’être, mais en plus, ils exercent une influence néfaste sur ceux qui les écoutent (comparez Romains 16:17-18).