#Nicola Sanderson

[polarpuppet]

Digital Circus x ROTG Idea!

Manny - Face of the Circus, the Ringleader, and is basically a softer spoken Caine with a moon for a head instead of chatter teeth. He sees the circus members as his children and friends, even if the only one who puts up with him is Jack. Tooth humours him, but clearly doesn’t like him, North is incredibly cautious about him, Bunny doesn’t know what to make of anything yet, and Sandy is…there.

Circus Members

Jack - The oldest circus member yet visibly the youngest. He’s also the welcome wagon for new vict-I mean acts! No one can get a read on him due to his hyper friendly nature and his insane amounts of teasing. Most believe he’s older than he acts and his mind just broke after the years of being here, but no one is quite sure. He’s gone a bit insane over the years, seeing people come and go so much, the smile he wears clearly forced in some moments but won’t drop the act.

He looks like normal Jack, but is a paper doll with scrapbooking eyelets. He can ‘disappear’ by rotating his body to get out of trouble and can glide around the circus with ease. Tends to talk to Manny like an annoying old friend.

Toothania - Obviously takes up Ragatha’s role of the caring older sister/motherly and tends to baby Jack to an almost smothering extent. Jack adores it, and if one of his pranks go badly, he has a habit of hiding behind her. You know, as long as she isn’t the victim of the prank.

She looks like a Skydancer, her arms able to come out of the wings. She does have a base, but it’s in her room since she doesn’t like using it all too much. Like Jack, she can also glide, but not unless she uses her base beforehand.

North - Is the main father figure to the circus members, as well as the muscle for adventures. He tends to be a bit forceful with his affection and has a habit of squeezing anyone he wishes to hug with a death grip. He has wrinkled Jack one too many times.

His appearance is very reminiscent of matryoshka dolls, or nesting eggs. He can hobble around and slide to get where he needs to go. Jack has a bit of hiding things in him and pulling out the most randomest things to save the day in many adventures. If push comes to shove, the other members can hide in him to protect them.

Bunnymund - Is the newest member to the circus. His first meeting with everyone didn’t go very well, him ripping Jack’s arm off as he had a panic/rage attack. Bunny has since chilled out mostly and seems cautious around Jack due to not really knowing how to apologize for what he did and the more he learns about the kid, the more crazed that smile he has grows in his mind. He’s cool with most of the other members, him and North having friendly competitions, him and Tooth generally chilling and relaxing with nice tea, and him venting to Sandy about anything that bothers him.

He looks like a big plush toy bunny, somehow taller than North, even without the ears. He’s very fuzzy and most of the other members love to hug him due to it. Recently a new use for his body had started to warm him up to Jack, and that’s using his soft plush body as a landing pad if the paper doll flies a bit too high and crashes back down. He’s also saved Tooth from a very similar fall.

Sandy - Is not really an active member in the circus. He’s almost always sleeping, or what could be considered sleeping. Jack says he’s the second oldest member, having coke just a little bit after him. When asked more about that time, however, Jack will clam up and not speak about it. Sandy does coke on missions, and even though it seems he’s sleeping through it, Will be an active member of the gang when asked. He’s very close with Jack and seems to be more wary of the other members.

Sandy is made mostly of clouds and can float with ease, his white and fluffy appearance having many yellow and orange undertones, as if the sun is rising behind him. Jack uses his floating to his advantage and to help him glide. Jack is also the only one light enough to chill on his little cloud he tends to sleep fly on. He does love going on adventures, but sleeping through while the others move his cloud is what normally tends to happen.

Pitch abstracted and was a storm cloud, coming in with Sandy together.

I hope you like my ideas! 🤭 If you have anymore, I’d like to hear them!

[cloverpseudonym]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rise of the Guardians (2012), Guardians of Childhood - William Joyce Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Pitch Black/Sanderson Mansnoozie Characters: Sanderson Mansnoozie, E. Aster Bunnymund, Nicholas St. North, Toothiana (Guardians of Childhood), Jack Frost (Guardians of Childhood), Pitch Black (Guardians of Childhood) Additional Tags: blacksand if you squint, rotg secret santa 2023, Implied/Referenced Character Death Summary:

Prompt 45, Silence.

A short look into what the Guardians do on a quiet night.

@rotgsecretsanta

[power-chords]

The Doves Type legend is one of the most enduring in typographic history and probably the most infamous. It’s the story of a typeface and a bitter feud between the two partners of Hammersmith’s celebrated Doves Press, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, leading to the protracted disposal of their unique metal type into London’s River Thames. Starting in 1913 with the initial dumping of the punches and matrices, by the end of January 1917 an increasingly frail Cobden-Sanderson had made hundreds of clandestine trips under cover of darkness to Hammersmith Bridge and systematically thrown 12lb parcels of metal type into the murky depths below. As one person so aptly commented on Twitter recently, this notorious tale bears all the hallmarks of a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

The original Doves Type was crafted by master punchcutter Edward Prince, based on drawings produced by Percy Tiffin of Nicolas Jenson’s pioneering 15th-century Venetian type. William Morris, founder of the Kelmscott Press, had actually developed his own ‘Golden’ type some years before The Doves Press came into being but Doves is held by experts as being more faithful to the original Venetian letterforms.

The Doves Type was commissioned in 1899 and created solely by Prince in 16 pt; it was used in all of the press’s publications including their iconic edition of the King James Bible. Each Doves Press book was beautifully bound and, notes Green, noticeably “stripped of decorative borders and illustration, the elegantly clear & legible type acting alone as visual siren-song.”

By 1908, despite successful Milton prints and the aforementioned Bible, the Press was in dire financial difficulty. Subscribers began melting away after Walker had effectively left in 1906 as the bitter & acrimonious dispute took hold between the partners. On finally dissolving their partnership in 1909, Cobden-Sanderson began attempts to wriggle out of an earlier promise that, should the partnership cease, Walker would receive a fount of type ‘for his own use’. Walker retaliated, issuing a writ insisting that the Press shut down completely and he receive 50% of remaining assets. In 1909, the Press’s only valuable asset was the type.

A compromise was reached, brokered by their exasperated friend Sir Sydney Cockerell, which allowed Cobden-Sanderson uncontrolled use of the type for as long as he lived, at which time it would pass to Emery Walker, if he did not die first.

The thought of ‘his’ typeface being used by anyone else, and in a manner beyond his control, prompted Cobden-Sanderson’s now infamous course of action. Only the Doves Press, run exclusively by him, could be bestowed the honour of printing his type. And so the mission to destroy it, beginning with the punches and matrices on Good Friday 1913, began. On an almost nightly basis from August 1916 the ailing septuagenarian dumped the type into the Thames, wrapped in paper parcels and tied with string; “bequeathed to the river” as he put it in his personal diary. Every piece of this beautiful typeface, more than a ton of metal, was destroyed in a prolonged ritual sacrifice.

—Raised from the dead: The Doves Type story, 2013

After working on a revised digital facsimile Robert Green decided that he would try and find some of the original metal type. Using the sources available, including Cobden-Sanderson's published journals, Mr Green worked out where he thought the type was thrown from the bridge into the Thames.

At low tide, and with a mudlarkers licence, he scoured the Thames foreshore and found three pieces of the original type.

Due to the dangerous nature of the Thames currents and tides a team of professional divers from the Port of London Authority then spent two days looking for more type and a total of 150 pieces were recovered.

—One man's obsession with rediscovering a lost typeface, BBC News, 2015

[blueiscoool]

Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the Thames River

Doves Type was thrown into the water a century ago, following a dispute between its creators.

The depths of the river Thames in London hold many unexpected stories, gleaned from the recovery of prehistoric tools, Roman pottery, medieval jewelry, and much more besides. Yet the tale of the lost (and since recovered) Doves typeface is surely one of the most peculiar.

A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump every piece of this carefully honed metal letterpress type into the river. It was an act of retribution against his business partner, Emery Walker, whom he believed was attempting to swindle him.

The pair had conceived this idiosyncratic Arts and Crafts typeface when they founded the Doves Press in the London’s Hammersmith neighborhood, in 1900. They worked with draftsman Percy Tiffin and master punch-cutter Edward Prince to faithfully recall the Renaissance clarity of 15th-century Venetian fonts, designed by the revolutionary master typographer Nicolas Jensen.

With its extra-wide capital letters, diamond shaped punctuation and unique off-kilter dots on the letter “i,” Doves Type became the press’s hallmark, surpassing fussier typographic attempts by their friend and sometime collaborator, William Morris.

The letterforms only existed as a unique 16pt edition, meaning that when Cobden-Sanderson decided to “bequeath” every single piece of molded lead to the Thames, he effectively destroyed any prospect of the typeface ever being printed again. That might well have been the case, were it not for several individuals and a particularly tenacious graphic designer.

Robert Green first became fascinated with Doves Type in the mid-2000s, scouring printed editions and online facsimiles, to try and faithfully redraw and digitize every line. In 2013, he released the first downloadable version on typespec, but remained dissatisfied. In October 2014, he decided to take to the river to see if he could find any of the original pieces.

Using historical accounts and Cobden-Sanderson’s diaries, he pinpointed the exact spot where the printer had offloaded his wares, from a shadowy spot on Hammersmith bridge. “I’d only been down there 20 minutes and I found three pieces,” he said. “So, I got in touch with the Port of London Authority and they came down to search in a meticulous spiral.” The team of scuba divers used the rather low-tech tools of a bucket and a sieve to sift through the riverbed.

Green managed to recover a total of 151 sorts (the name for individual pieces of type) out of a possible 500,000. “It’s a tiny fraction, but when I was down by the river on my own, for one second it all felt very cosmic,” he said. “It was like Cobden-Sanderson had dropped the type from the bridge and straight into my hands. Time just collapsed.”

The finds have enabled him to further develop his digitized version and has also connected him with official mudlarks (people who search riverbanks for lost treasures, with special permits issued) who have uncovered even more of the type.

Jason Sandy, an architect, author and member of the Society of Thames Mudlarks, found 12 pieces, which he has donated to Emery Walker’s House at 7 Hammersmith Terrace. This private museum was once home to both business partners, and retains its stunning domestic Arts and Crafts interior.

Much like Green, Sandy was captivated by the Doves Type story, and mounted an exhibition at the house that displays hundreds of these salvaged pieces, including those discovered by Green, as well as mudlarks Lucasz Orlinski and Angus McArthur. The show was supplemented by a whole host of Sandy’s other finds, including jewelry and tools. An extant copy of the Doves English Bible is also on display.

“It is not that unusual to find pieces of type in the river,” Sandy said. “Particularly around Fleet Street, where newspaper typesetters would throw pieces in the water when they couldn’t be bothered to put them back in their cases. But this is a legendary story and we mudlarks love a good challenge.” The community is naturally secretive about exactly where and how things are found. For example, Orlinski has worked under the cover of night with a head torch, to search for treasures at his own mysterious spot on the riverbank.

For Sandy, the thrill comes from the discovery of both rare and everyday artifacts, which can lead to an entirely new line of inquiry: “The Thames is very democratic. It gives you a clear picture of what people have been wearing or using over thousands of years. And it’s not carefully curated by a museum. The river gives up these objects randomly, and you experience these amazing stories of ordinary Londoners. It creates a very tangible connection to the past. Every object leads you down a rabbit hole.”

By Holly Black.

[literarilylost]

2024 reading thread

His Face All Red by Emily Caroll (★★★★☆)

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (DNF)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)*

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2) by Rick Riordan (★★★★★)*

The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3) by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)*

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #4) by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)*

The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #5) by Rick Riordan (★★★★★)*

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (★★★★☆)*

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0) by Suzanne Collins (★★★★★)

Comet in Moominland (Mumintrollen #2) by Tove Jansson (★★★★☆)

Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy (★★★★☆)

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (★☆☆☆☆)

An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley (★★★★★)

Tress of the Emerald Sea (Cosmere #28) by Brandon Sanderson (★★★★☆)

Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy (★★★☆☆)

The Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope (★★★★☆)

Desified by Zaynah Din (★★★★☆)

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna (★★★☆☆)

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll (★★★★★)

Smart Phone Smart Photography by Jo Bradford (★★★★☆)

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (★★★★★)

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places by Henry Carroll (★★★★☆)

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People by Henry Carroll (★★★★☆)

Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades by Rick Riordan (★★★☆☆)

Poison by Roald Dahl (★★★☆☆)

The Book of Bill by Alex Hirsch et al. (★★★★☆)

Gravity Falls: Journal 3 by Alex Hirsch et al. (★★★★☆)

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror collected by Jordan Peele (★★☆☆☆)

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (★★★★☆)

Gravity Falls: Lost Legends by Alex Hirsch (★★★☆☆)

Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega (★★★☆☆)

Weyward by Emilia Hart (★★★★★)

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Steifvater (★★★★★)*

The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Steifvater (★★★☆☆)*

Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle #3) by Maggie Steifvater (★★★★★)*

The Raven King (The Raven Cycle #4) by Maggie Steifvater (★★★☆☆)*

Opal (The Raven Cycle #4.5) by Maggie Steifvater (★★★☆☆)*

Call Down the Hawk (The Dreamer Trilogy #1) by Maggie Steifvater (★★★☆☆)

Mister Impossible (The Dreamer Trilogy #2) by Maggie Steifvater (★★★☆☆)

Greywaren (The Dreamer Trilogy #3) by Maggie Steifvater (★★★★☆)

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (★★★★★)

Spear By Nicola Griffith (★★☆☆☆)

The Sea Cloak and Other Stories by Nayrouz Qarmout (★★☆☆☆)

The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila (trans. Matthew Gleeson) (★★★☆☆)

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet #1) by Madeleine L'Engle (★★☆☆☆)

*reread

[beardedmrbean]

A female police officer nicknamed “hot cop” leaked confidential information about Nicola Bulley to her friends and family.

Molly Bury, 28, the former police constable, illegally accessed the Police National Computer database to get intimate updates about the missing mother-of-two’s case, while it was still ongoing, so she could share them with friends and family.

When one friend kept pressing her for more information, Bury, who worked for Lancashire police at the time, said: “I will get in s— if they see me checking.”

When pressed again she added: “I have not checked. I cannot keep checking. I will get into trouble.”

She faced up to two years in jail under sentencing guidelines but was handed six months in prison, suspended for 12 months, after a judge ruled she was “profoundly immature” and “not corrupt”.

Gayle McCoubrey, prosecuting, said the unnamed member of the public contacted police in March 2023, after overhearing Bury’s mother, Andrea Mercer, sharing information about a rape that had occurred in Lancashire.

“She was heard to say, ‘I asked Molly. She checked her police thing and she said it was a rape,’” the court heard.

Police systems then identified that Bury had viewed logs on a police-issued Samsung device while off duty.

Investigations revealed Bury, who was nicknamed “hot cop” by locals after a crime prevention workshop, had been accessing the police logs between October 2019 and March 2023 to share “idle gossip” for ‘‘no policing purpose”.

She also obtained information on the death of a baby, a stabbing and a preplanned arrest of a robbery suspect.

She admitted she had been “stupid and nosey” but insisted she was not “malicious”.

Most of the information was accessed when she was on annual or sick leave.

Bury resigned from the force while under investigation, Lancashire police said.

Had she not already resigned she would have been dismissed, a misconduct hearing last year found.

Bulley, 45, was found dead in the River Wyre at St Michael’s on Wyre in Feb 2023 following a three-week search which provoked wild speculation on social media.

A coroner later concluded she had drowned after accidentally falling into the water while walking her dog.

32 charges of unauthorised access to logs

Bury, a mother-of-one from Accrington in Lancashire, appeared at Chester magistrates’ court and admitted to 32 charges of unauthorised access to police logs.

Police raided Bury’s home and recovered a mobile phone which showed she had sent confidential information about various police incidents.

In October 2019, she sent details about a stabbing incident which she had attended to a friend named Elliott, saying: “The lad from [the] stabbing survived.”

She later sent him further messages saying: “A hit and run just came in. Woman probably going to die. Car drove onto the pavement into this lad and girl.”

In a further message regarding a dead baby found in Dec 2019, Bury said: “Oh my God, it is a one-year-old child.”

On a day off she sent further texts, saying to Elliott: “Undercover police are outside your address,” to which he replied: “F— the feds.”

At 10.59am on Jan 29 2023, Bury was on a sick day when her friend, a woman named Amy Sanderson, asked: “Any update on Nicky?” to which she replied: “I will get in s— if they see me checking,” Ms McCoubrey told the court.

Ms McCoubrey added: “At 11.01am, she accessed the Samsung device and searched again and a further message was sent regarding Nicola Bulley.

“At 6.33pm, Ms Sanderson sent a message saying ‘Any update?’ and Bury replied: ‘I have not checked. I cannot keep checking. I will get into trouble.’”

Ms McCoubrey told the court: “It is difficult to assess the harm as we do not know what the outcome was from accessing that information. She was spreading gossip or sensitive information. There was no policing purposes for this defendant to access the logs on these occasions.”

Bury was also ordered to complete 30 days of rehabilitation activity and pay £154 in costs and surcharge.

Deputy Senior District Judge Tan Ikram said: “These are not corrupt messages. There is no money involved. There is no suggestion this is a criminal fraternity.

“She clearly knew what she was doing was wrong, but the harm is damage to the reputation of police and confidence in policing. It was immature gossiping throughout. She was doing work without any insight into the job. It was tittle tattle nonsense much of it.”

Det Ch Insp Pete Reil, from the force’s anti-corruption unit, said: “Molly Bury’s behaviour fell way below what the constabulary expects and what the public would expect of a serving police officer.

“I want to make it clear that the overwhelming majority of police officers in Lancashire are law abiding, respectful and go to work to make a difference in the communities in which they serve.

“Where there is any evidence of wrongdoing by an officer or staff member, our [anti-corruption unit] will identify it, investigate it and work with the Crown Prosecution Service to take the appropriate action.”

[bookscoffee75]

Mes meilleures lectures 2024 :

Romans / Novels :

Le grand magasin des rêves, Lee Mi Ye ❤

The girl with a louding voice, Abi Daré

Tress de la mer émeraude, Brandon Sanderson

Celle qui devint le Soleil, Shelley Parker-Chan ❤

Blackwater - La crue (T.1), Michael McDowell

La fabuleuse laverie de Marigold, Yun JungEun

Un psaume pour les recyclés sauvages, Becky Chambers

Une prière pour les cimes timides, Becky Chambers ❤

Sea of tranquility, Emily St John Mandel

Mangas

Pino, l'I.A émotionnelle, Takashi Murakami ❤

Monsieur Méchant va détruire la terre (après ses congés), Yuu Morikawa

Le cri du Kujima, Akira Konno

Le fantastique voyage de Nicola au pays des démons, Asaya Miyanaga

Ramen Akaneko, Angyaman ❤

La concierge du grand magasin, Tsuchika Nishimura ❤

Hirayasumi - T.5 & 6, Keigo Shinzo

Bâillements de l'après-midi, Shin'ya Komatsu

My beautiful boy, Yuu Nagira

Bandes dessinées / Graphic novels

Minuit passé, Gaëlle Geniller ❤

L'étoile de Mo, Choi Yeonju

Racines, Lou Lubie

La dernière nuit d'Anne Bonny, Alvi Ramirez & Claire Richard

In Limbo, Deb JJ Lee

Monsieur Désire, Hubert & Virginie Augustin ❤

Himawari House, Harmony Becker

Everything is okay, Debbie Tung

La fille dans l'écran, Lou Lubie & Manon Desveaux

[mlleclaudine]

Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames

Doves Type was thrown into the water a century ago, following a dispute between its creators.

by Holly Black - Artnet, May 5, 2024

Doves Type recovered by Robert Green, 2014. Photo Matthew Williams Ellis

The depths of the river Thames in London hold many unexpected stories, gleaned from the recovery of prehistoric tools, Roman pottery, medieval jewelry, and much more besides. Yet the tale of the lost (and since recovered) Doves typeface is surely one of the most peculiar.

A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump every piece of this carefully honed metal letterpress type into the river. It was an act of retribution against his business partner, Emery Walker, whom he believed was attempting to swindle him.

The pair had conceived this idiosyncratic Arts and Crafts typeface when they founded the Doves Press in the London’s Hammersmith neighborhood, in 1900. They worked with draftsman Percy Tiffin and master punch-cutter Edward Prince to faithfully recall the Renaissance clarity of 15th-century Venetian fonts, designed by the revolutionary master typographer Nicolas Jensen.

Doves Type recovered by Robert Green, 2014. Photo Matthew Williams Ellis

With its extra-wide capital letters, diamond shaped punctuation and unique off-kilter dots on the letter “i,” Doves Type became the press’s hallmark, surpassing fussier typographic attempts by their friend and sometime collaborator, William Morris.

The letterforms only existed as a unique 16pt edition, meaning that when Cobden-Sanderson decided to “bequeath” every single piece of molded lead to the Thames, he effectively destroyed any prospect of the typeface ever being printed again. That might well have been the case, were it not for several individuals and a particularly tenacious graphic designer.

Robert Green first became fascinated with Doves Type in the mid-2000s, scouring printed editions and online facsimiles, to try and faithfully redraw and digitize every line. In 2013, he released the first downloadable version on typespec, but remained dissatisfied. In October 2014, he decided to take to the river to see if he could find any of the original pieces.

Doves Type recovered and held here by Lukasz Orlinski at Emery Walker’s House. Photo: Lucinda MacPherson.

Using historical accounts and Cobden-Sanderson’s diaries, he pinpointed the exact spot where the printer had offloaded his wares, from a shadowy spot on Hammersmith bridge. “I’d only been down there 20 minutes and I found three pieces,” he said. “So, I got in touch with the Port of London Authority and they came down to search in a meticulous spiral.” The team of scuba divers used the rather low-tech tools of a bucket and a sieve to sift through the riverbed.

Green managed to recover a total of 151 sorts (the name for individual pieces of type) out of a possible 500,000. “It’s a tiny fraction, but when I was down by the river on my own, for one second it all felt very cosmic,” he said. “It was like Cobden-Sanderson had dropped the type from the bridge and straight into my hands. Time just collapsed.”

The finds have enabled him to further develop his digitized version and has also connected him with official mudlarks (people who search riverbanks for lost treasures, with special permits issued) who have uncovered even more of the type.

A mudlark by the Thames with Hammersmith Bridge in background. Photo: Lucinda MacPherson.

Jason Sandy, an architect, author and member of the Society of Thames Mudlarks, found 12 pieces, which he has donated to Emery Walker’s House at 7 Hammersmith Terrace. This private museum was once home to both business partners, and retains its stunning domestic Arts and Crafts interior.

Much like Green, Sandy was captivated by the Doves Type story, and mounted an exhibition at the house that displays hundreds of these salvaged pieces, including those discovered by Green, as well as mudlarks Lucasz Orlinski and Angus McArthur. The show was supplemented by a whole host of Sandy’s other finds, including jewelry and tools. An extant copy of the Doves English Bible is also on display.

The Doves Bible returns to Emery Walker’s House. Photo: Lucinda MacPherson.

“It is not that unusual to find pieces of type in the river,” Sandy said. “Particularly around Fleet Street, where newspaper typesetters would throw pieces in the water when they couldn’t be bothered to put them back in their cases. But this is a legendary story and we mudlarks love a good challenge.” The community is naturally secretive about exactly where and how things are found. For example, Orlinski has worked under the cover of night with a head torch, to search for treasures at his own mysterious spot on the riverbank.

For Sandy, the thrill comes from the discovery of both rare and everyday artifacts, which can lead to an entirely new line of inquiry: “The Thames is very democratic. It gives you a clear picture of what people have been wearing or using over thousands of years. And it’s not carefully curated by a museum. The river gives up these objects randomly, and you experience these amazing stories of ordinary Londoners. It creates a very tangible connection to the past. Every object leads you down a rabbit hole.”

“Mudlarking: Unearthing London’s Past” is at Emery Walker’s House, 7 Hammersmith Terrace, London, through May 30.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🗞️📖 Bookish News - December Edition

🦇 Extra, extra. Read all about it! 📖 Good afternoon, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry last month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed!

Adaptations: 📖 Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms 🗞️ Teen Titans: Beast Boy by Kami Garcia and Gabriel Piccolo 📖 Uglies by Scott Westerfeld 🗞️ Brianna Peppin's Briarcliff Prep 📖 Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben 🗞️ Geek Girl by Holly Smale 📖 Paddington (musical theater) 🗞️ The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 📖 My Lady Jane by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows 🗞️ Heartstopper Season 3 📖 A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts by Ying Chang Compestine 🗞️ My Life With the Walter Boys by Ali Novak 📖 Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me 🗞️ They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera 📖 Pretty Little Liars: Summer School 🗞️ Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries

Cover Reveals: 📖 New Adventure in Space Opera by Jonathan Strahan 🗞️ Cally Fiedorek's Atta Boy has its cover 📖 Brandon Sanderson's The Sunlit Man - March 2024 🗞️ It's Elementary by Elise Bryant 📖 The Wilds by Sarah Pearse - July 16 🗞️ Nicola Yoon's first adult novel, One of Our Kind - June 11 📖 Sanctuary by Valentina Cano Repetto - April 2024 🗞️ Pretty by KB Brookins 📖 Jewel Me Twice by Charish Reid - July 2024 🗞️ The Big Day by Aliya Ali-Afzal - June 6

Other News: 📖 Dhonielle Clayton is starting a new book packaging company, Electric Postcard Entertainment, focused on diverse reads 🗞️ Cassandra Clare's Kickstarter set a record for YA projects on the platform 📖 The winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards were announced 🗞️ Penguin Random House, John Green, Jodi Picoult, and other novelists are challenging Iowa's book banning law 📖 The Books Save Lives Act has been introduced by US Congress

[jammeke]

Mirjam's Reading List 2024

Dutch

Doggerland: Noodzakelijk Kwaad—Maria Adolfsson | 8/10

Doggerland: Stil Als Het Graf—Maria Adolfsson | 7,5/10

Het Xoanon—Jan van Aken | 7,5/10

De Winter Van De Heks—Katherine Arden | 7/10

De Stam Van De Holenbeer—J.M. Auel | 8,5/10

Mijn Ziel Keert Zich Stil Tot God—Dietrich Bonhoeffer | 7,5/10

De Verloren Brief—Cristina Caboni | 7/10

Het Huis Met De Spiegels—Cristina Caboni | 6/10

Moord Aan De Thames—Matthew Castello & Neil Richards | 6,5/10

In Vredesnaam—Daniëlle Hermans | 7,5/10

De Eeuwige Nacht—Lisette Kuijt | 7/10

De Brief Van Briarton Park—Sarah E. Ladd | 7/10

Raveleijn: Het Bloed Van De Laatste Draak—Paul van Loon | 7/5

Central Park—Guillaume Musso | 6/10

De Camino—Anya Niewierra | 7,5/10

De Moordclub (Op Donderdag)—Richard Osman | 7,5/10

Daar Waar De Rivierkreeften Zingen—Delia Owens | 8/10

Normale Mensen—Sally Rooney | 7/10

Staalhart—Brandon Sanderson | 7/10

De Laatste Verdwijning—Jo Spain | 7,5/10

Niet Meer Terug—Jo Spain | 7/10

Sterren In De Schemering—Sarah Sundin | 8/10

De Boekhandel Van Het Verzet—Sarah Sundin | 8/10

Fourth Wing: In Steen Gebrand—Rebecca Yarros | 7/10

Marina—Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 8/10

English

The Book Of Doors—Gareth Brown / 7/10

The Silence Factory—Bridget Collins | 8,5/10

The Spellshop—Sarah Beth Durst | 6,5/10

The Wind In The Willows—Kenneth Grahame | 8/10

Practical Magic—Alice Hoffman | 8,5/10

Hex Appeal—Kate Johnson | 8/10

Truly, Devious—Maureen Johnson | 7/10

The Vanishing Stair—Maureen Johnson | 7,5/10

A Botanist's Guide To Parties and Poisons—Kate Khavari | 7/10

Swordcrossed—Freya Marske | 7,5/10

The Elusive Pimpernel—Emmuska Orczy | 8/10

Murtagh—Christopher Paolini | 7,5/10

The Half Life Of Valery K—Natasha Pulley | 7,5/10

Divine Rivals—Rebecca Ross | 8,5/10

The Nebula Secret—Trudi Trueit | 7,5/10

The Falcon's Feather—Trudi Trueit | 7/10

An Expert In Murder—Nicola Upson | 7,5/10

Two For Sorrow—Nicola Upson | 8,5/10

Dear Little Corpses—Nicola Upson | 8,5/10

London Rain—Nicola Upson | 8/10

Shot With Crimson—Nicola Upson | 8/10

The Lost Bookshop—Evie Woods | 7/10

[smithlibrary]

Crossover Artist An author who writes for YA and adult

The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

Why Fathers Cry at Night by Kwame Alexander (BIO)

Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (Fiction)

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (Fiction)

The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer (Fiction)

Zero-sum by Joyce Carol Oates (Fiction)

Red at the bone by Jacqueline Woodson (Fiction)

City of Orange by David Yoon (Fiction)

Along Came a Spider by James Patterson (Mystery)

Dial A for Aunties by Jessie Q. Sutanto (Mystery)

Hearts on Thin Ice by Katie Kennedy (Romance)

Frigid by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Romance)

No Judgments by Meg Cabot (Romance)

The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest (Romance)

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (Romance)

Twice a Quinceañera by Yamile Saied Méndez (Romance)

Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter (Romance)

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston (Romance)

A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston (Romance)

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston (Romance)

Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell (Romance)

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon (Romance)

A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair(Romance)

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling (Romance)

Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld (SFF)

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (SFF)

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake (SFF)

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi (SFF)

Immortal longings by Chloe Gong (SFF)

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (SFF)

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (SFF)

Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco (SFF)

Rooms by Lauren Oliver (SFF)

When Among Crows by Veronica Roth (SFF)

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (SFF)

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (SFF)

A Wilderness of Stars by Shea Ernshaw (Thriller)

Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow (Thriller)

Nowhere like home : a novel by Sara Shepard (Thriller)

Till Death Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn (Thriller)

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins (Thriller)

One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon (Thriller)

[news-wtf]

The depths of the river Thames in London hold many unexpected stories, gleaned from the recovery of prehistoric tools, Roman pottery, medieval jewelry, and much more besides. Yet the tale of the lost (and since recovered) Doves typeface is surely one of the most peculiar.

A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump every piece of this carefully honed metal letterpress type into the river. It was an act of retribution against his business partner, Emery Walker, whom he believed was attempting to swindle him.

The pair had conceived this idiosyncratic Arts and Crafts typeface when they founded the Doves Press in the London’s Hammersmith neighborhood, in 1900. They worked with draftsman Percy Tiffin and master punch-cutter Edward Prince to faithfully recall the Renaissance clarity of 15th-century Venetian fonts, designed by the revolutionary master typographer Nicolas Jensen.

With its extra-wide capital letters, diamond shaped punctuation and unique off-kilter dots on the letter “i,” Doves Type became the press’s hallmark, surpassing fussier typographic attempts by their friend and sometime collaborator, William Morris.

The letterforms only existed as a unique 16pt edition, meaning that when Cobden-Sanderson decided to “bequeath” every single piece of molded lead to the Thames, he effectively destroyed any prospect of the typeface ever being printed again. That might well have been the case, were it not for several individuals and a particularly tenacious graphic designer.

[hadnews-romania]

Nicolas Cage, actorul de Oscar, împlinește 60 de ani. Legătura starului cu un regizor faimos VIDEO-Unul dintre cei mai mari actori de la Hollywood împlinește astăzi 60 de ani. Nicolas Cage a avut apariții în filme considerate drept capodopere, cum ar fi interpretarea personajului Ben Sanderson în „Leaving Las Vegas/ Părăsind...

[astonishinglysane]

Movies I’ve Watched - 2025

76/?: Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - watched 4/10/25

Given what I knew about the plot of this movie, I was expecting this to be as difficult to watch as Schindler’s List. Thankfully, it was not. It helps that the characters completely accept the situation for what it is and don’t struggle against it. Nicolas Cage’s Oscar for this is well-deserved; he is a complete mess yet with just enough humor and intelligence showing through to explain why Sera wants to spend time with him. (And there are enough hints to her trauma to explain why she finds Sanderson a refreshing change of pace.) Elisabeth Shue steals the movie. There is so much happening on her face in every close up. As sick as it all is, there is something sublime about these two damaged souls finding each other, even though it is too late.

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

[lilmissbacon]

My ROTG head cannons just because

1) Jack = Nightlight

Unlike most who prefer to think of them as separate people, I prefer for Jack and Nightlight to be one in the same. The books are definitely not the same universe as the movie but it's awesome to think that Jack could be this ultra powerful alien from a thousand years ago.

How Jack can be Night when he was clearly human? Nightlight is physically 14 in the books while Jack is physically 17 in film. I like to think that after he became human, he stayed that way for 3 full years with his adoptive human family before he became Jack Frost. His family took him in when he appeared on their doorstep and being the colonial times, they didn't really question him.

2) Jack's Gender

On the subject of Nightlight: A Nightlight is a person made from star magic, what are the chances they'd be born with a gender? There are hairs involved in the process of creating them but how much would that really effect it. I headcannon Nightlight was born without a gender and eventually – avoiding his fate as a star and living longer than the average Nightlight – his identity developed until he realized he was male.

I.E. he technically trans.

3) Spirits aren't dead

A lot of people associate the word spirit with ghost but I think within the universe of RotG/GoC, they're completely different. Jack is the only spirit who died prier to becoming a spirit, no one else died. He was brought back to life by MiM. Spirits are living people that live within a sort of inter-dimension bubble. Kinda like Aang in Atla when he first enters the spirit world.

I believe they are alive but their bodies are frozen in time. If they get severely hurt, they don't scar. Their body returns to normal. They can be killed but are more durable (Jack falling from 100ft onto a dumpster and not even being bruised) or be killed by magical means (Pitch killing Sandy with a dark arrow.) They do need sleep and food/water just not nearly as much as a normal person.

4) The Wind

People assume that the wind is alive because of Jack's line "hey wind, take me home," and it may be alive in the books (I still haven't gotten to the second book) but I think the wind isn't actually alive in the movie-verse. It's angsty but I think that Jack pretended the wind was alive in order to not feel feel so alone after 300 years of isolation.

I feel it adds another layer to his character as well as expresses just what that kind of isolation can do to someone.

5) Bunny's age

In the books, Bunny blames himself for his race's extinction because he invented this magical chocolate that led to Pitch attacking them or something along those lines.

But it never feels like Bunny has a personal vendetta against Pitch in film, nor that he has any REAL hate towards him until he steals from Tooth.

So, in movie-verse, I headcannon that Bunny was just a young child/toddler when his species was wiped out and doesn't really remember the attack. It would explain why he never had a real grudge toward Pitch because he wouldn't see the point in holding one over a people he doesn't even know or remember.

6) Jack's sexuality

Much like how I think Jack was born without a sex, what are the chances that a magical being made from star magic would have a desire for a specific gender. Not to mention the somewhat outlandish part of his personality is very similar to a friend of mine.

I'm calling it, he's a pansexual.

7) Guardian Fam

This is shared among the fandom with seeing the guardians as one big family for Jack. With me specifically it's:

North = Father

Bunny = Annoying brother

Tooth = Mother/older sister

Sandy = Awesome uncle

8) Seasonal Spirits

I still haven't read past the first GoC book so I don't know if seasonal spirits are addressed in it, but I headcannon Jack as the only winter spirit.

Like, the reason why there needed to be seasonal spirits to begin with is because earth was actually in a constant state of winter. There are 4 spirits per season (-winter) and each spirit brings one aspect of the season. Like one summer spirit brings heat while another makes the ocean waves crash. One spring spirit pollinates plants while another wakes the animals from hibernation. Kinda like Tinkerbell fairies.

And that can be why Jack is so powerful (excluding my Nightlight headcannon.) He controls all aspects of winter and therefore makes him more powerful.

9) Tooth's Magic

It's never really explained in the movie just how the world works if adults don't believe in these legends when they actually exist.

So I like to think that it could be Tooth's doing. She's the guardian of memories after all, maybe she can manipulate the memories of the adults to the extent that she makes them think they put cash under their child's pillow or hid eggs on Easter.

And as for the foreign coins the baby teeth leave; I think after they're under the pillow, they transform into whatever amount of cash the parents told their kid there would be.

I may add on to this post later on if I can think of anything else bc my mind is mush but for now, I'll leave it at that.

[oofkatisanerd]

Kinda want a fic of Jack Frost and North's son having a very obvious crush on each other.

Bonus points if there's extreme fluff, flustered Jack, and the guardians staging an intervention