#Ray Daley

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OC Valentine's Challenge 2024 Day Two - Second Chance Romance

Ellie Weston got to know Ray Daley in secondary school, and they soon became fast friends, though it wasn't until two years after leaving that Ray finally gathered up the courage to ask her out. They dated for several months, but despite being in love problems started setting in, with Ellie insecurities about herself as a person and Ray's insecurities about himself as a boyfriend (given that he hadn't had much experience with relationships) playing big parts, and they broke up weeks before their one-year anniversity, and though they promised to remain friends they soon drifted apart, with Ellie leaving London to find work.

Yet even years later they still remember each other well - Ellie, in fact, has never really loved anyone else, and Ray still thinks of her as the one that got away - and after she returned to London in the nineties she ended up running into him again. The friendship was rekindled, though Ellie was convinced he'd moved on from her romantically - given how often he flirts with people and the fact he has an on-again, off-again relationship going on - but this turns out not to be the case. Ray, after a few months of her being in his life again, realises that the feelings are still there for both of them and - if Ellie's willing to give him another chance, he's determined that this time, this time, it'll work out.

And while some of Ellie's insecurities are still there...she's willing to try again with the man she never stopped loving.

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34 ORCHARD ISSUE 9 IS HERE!

The twenty-one artists in 34 Orchard Issue 9 examine all aspects of waiting: its ups and downs, its held-breath nature, its power. A dead girl languishes instead of going towards the light and a predator banks on his next meal. One mother is driven to pursue a reunion with her daughter, another’s moment for revenge finally arrives, and generations of sons resist—yet compulsively anticipate—the…

[mokolat]

As I promise... Don't thanks me : it's all @salvador-daley fault ♥

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is Surprisingly Good

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is surprisingly good. I say surprisingly because I missed the D&D boat. That ship set sail before I could get to the dock. It is safe to say I am not a huge fan. Mainly because I do not understand it. *Another admission of mine is that I do not understand “larping” either or other active RPG activities.* My son assured me that having an intricate knowledge…

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EVIL Says Talk to the Hand. "Talk to Me" reviewed! (Lionsgate / Blu-ray)

“Talk to Me” on Blu-ray/DVD/Digital! The two-year anniversary of the death is a solemn time for Mia to mourn the hard loss of her beloved mother who took her own life, or at least that is what her father tells her.  Feeling uneasy by her father’s account that circulates doubt uncontrollably, Mia pries her way into her best friend Jade’s family for comfort and becomes equally amiably with Jade’s…

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official lfw s/s '25 schedule

12 sept | harris reed, hu bing selects: consistence

13 sept | paul costelloe, di petsa, noon by noor, pam hogg, buerlangma, bora aksu, s.s. daley, completedworks, dreaming eli, yuhan wang, phoebe english, mark fast, chet lo, fashion east, chopova lowena, derrick, natasha zinko

14 sept | lueder, feben, patrick mcdowell, the winter house, kent&curwen, ray chu, ahluwalia, standing ground, masha popova, aaron esh, richard quinn, nensi dojaka, harri

15 sept | karloline vitto, jw anderson, roksanda, tove, yaku, emilia wickstead, mithridate, 16arlington, simone rocha, sinead gorey, erdem, knwls, tolu coker

16 sept | johanna parv, edeline lee, pauline dujancourt, marques'almeida, huishan zhang, jenn lee, on x fka twigs: the body is art, labrum london, burberry, sinead o'dwyer, apujan, mylberlin, toga, paolo caranza, charlie constantinou

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Happy Fossil Friday!

Who: Anomalocaris canadensis

name meaning: "Odd shrimp" "from Canada"

pronunciation: Ah-nom-ah-low-care-iss can-ah-den-sis

What: A Dinocarid, radiodont arthropod with two long grasping appendages and large compound eyes. A ray of wing-like projections along the trunk and fish-like tail.

When: Cambrian Period (Anomalocaris sp. ranged 516 to 505 Ma)

Where: Burgess Shales British Columbia, Canada. From the Stephen/Burgess Shale Formation.

Fun fact!: A. canadensis is the type species for the Anomalocaris genus within Anomalocaridae and bonus fun fact: Since Anomalocaris are soft bodied organisms, they do not preserve well (usually) in the fossil record, with the exceptional cases of place like the Burgess Shale in BC. For many years, palaeontologists believed that Anomalocaris was actually three separate organisms, due to the poor preservation of the "softer" portions of the body, making it seem like the frontal appendages, mouth parts, and trunk of the animal were from different creatures. Exceptionally preserved specimens like the Left image above, show Anomalocaris in full form.

(def: the "type species" is the species upon which a genus's description is based and for which the genus is named and associated with).

Why are they cool?: Apart from the charismatic (in my personal opinion "adorable") visage of this tough little arthropod, they could use their long, segmented frontal appendages to curl and grasp prey, pulling it under to the mouth to be eaten, one of the first predatory creatures to emerge during the Cambrian Explosion.

Here is a link to a video showing Anomalocaris canadensis in its natural habitat from the wonderful Burgess Shale website, for those interested, check out their other videos on Burgess Shale/Cambrian fauna.

Image Credits: (Left: Fig. 1 - Daley, Allison C., and Gregory D. Edgecombe. “Morphology of Anomalocaris Canadensis from the Burgess Shale.” Journal of Paleontology 88, no. 1 (2014): 68–91. https://doi.org/10.1666/13-067. Right: M. Cross)

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The unoriginal and pandering Rachel by u/ClementineCoda

The unoriginal and pandering Rachel I See Me In You by Dr Michelle Daley is a best-selling colorful and engaging book that educates and inspires children about seeing themselves in the image of African American inventors, leaders in science, politics, business, and more, who contributed to making the world better! With illuminating text paired with colorful illustrations, this book highlights inventors such as Dr. Joseph N. Jackon, Osbourne Dorsey, Lydia Newman, Lloyd Ray, politician President Barack Obama, mathematician Benjamin Banneker, businessman Earl Graves, and many more! ​​ post link: https://ift.tt/7tw3ijY author: ClementineCoda submitted: May 10, 2024 at 04:44PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

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Sophia Lillis, Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Chris Pine, and Jeremy Latcham attend a Special LA Screening and Reception of Paramount Pictures’ “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” at the Ray Kurtzman Theater on March 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

[kristipetersenschoonover]

Some Sad News...

We at 34 Orchard have just been informed that Ray Daley—author of the story “You Have Summoned a Demon,” which will appear in our Spring 2024 issue, releasing tomorrow—has passed away. We first met Ray when we published his piece “All Clued Out” in our Autumn 2021 issue (Issue 4). Aside from its technical excellence, the story’s subtext deals with the universal anxiety that sometimes, yes, the…

[mokolat]

I need you to do the Barbie mugshot meme with Klaus and Dave. I neeeeeeeed it. Please please pretty please! 🥺🤲

Comming soon~

[stopandimagineloveforever]

Tom, Lance and Robbie at the White House and at the Smithsonian where a portrait of Lance now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. 💯

March 11, 2023

[cantsayidont]

July, October, and December 1983. The success of the Brian Daley Han Solo trilogy led to a trilogy of novels about the adventures of Lando Calrissian prior to the events of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, written by L. Neil Smith.

The first two novels, LANDO CALRISSIAN AND THE MINDHARP OF SHARU and LANDO CALRISSIAN AND THE FLAMEWIND OF OSEON, each follow basically the same formula: Lando is arrested on trumped-up charges and strong-armed into a dangerous quest, which proves much weirder than advertised (involving some surreal interludes) and turns out rather differently than anyone expects. In the course of these adventures, Lando makes a very dangerous enemy called Rokur Gepta, a strange being who is, or claims to be, a Sorcerer of Tund, a practitioner of Ancient Magics that Lando, naturally enough, assumes are entirely hogwash. In the third and final book, Lando comes to the aid of a race of manta-ray-like beings called oswaft, who live in deep space and can move at will through hyperspace — an early version of the purrgil space-whales of REBELS, albeit unequivocally sentient — and who are about to be wiped out by a military blockade.

Unlike in the movie SOLO, Smith's young Lando considers himself a gambler and con artiste, not a smuggler or soldier of fortune, making his living at sabacc (a game Smith invented for these books) and only very rarely carrying a weapon big enough to spoil the line of his cummerbund. After winning the Millennium Falcon just prior to the beginning of the first book, he's actually keen to unload the ship because he doesn't know how to fly, preferring to travel by luxury liner. Lando similarly acquires a droid who becomes his sidekick: Vuffi Raa, a mechanical starfish with his brain in his central body and five detachable tentacles that can alternatively serve as arm, leg, or "face." (This description apparently defeated cover artist William Schmidt; the droid on the cover of the first book does have tentacles, but doesn't otherwise resemble how Smith describes Vuffi.)

Smith, who died in 2021, was a Libertarian gun nut, but editorial pushback keeps that to a low boil in these novels, which makes them by far the most readable of Smith's books for anyone who's not a Libertarian crank. There's still a wry and cynical anti-authoritarian streak, however, which is perfectly appropriate for Lando Calrissian.

Smith's take on Lando is really the best part of these books. You get a clear sense of how being a professional gambler shapes Lando's outlook, and while he's not exactly heroic, you can see a nascent set of principles taking shape. Unlike Han Solo (who isn't mentioned in these novels), Lando is self-possessed but not cocky, and he's much less inclined than Han is to solve problems with violence.

The actual plots are rather strange (especially MINDHARP, whose storyline hinges on some very uncomfortable attitudes about indigenous peoples, which are eventually upended in a way that's even more uneasy), and include some departures from STAR WARS lore that are occasionally distracting. The latter were not Smith's fault (he said later that he'd been forbidden to even mention previously established characters or settings, and had to fight to be allowed to include the Millennium Falcon), but I'm not sure who should be blamed for the books' peculiar shortage of female characters. It's entirely possible that Lucasfilm and/or Ballantine were reluctant to even imply any kind of romantic subplot for Lando — antiblackness at work — but there are precious few women at all, and I think only one of them has dialogue in more than one scene.

While the Han Solo books were in many respects foundational to what became known as the "Star Wars Expanded Universe," the Lando Calrissian novels were often overlooked and treated disdainfully in later SWEU sources (for many years, Wookieepedia didn't even have synopses of them!), although there are a few references to these books in SOLO. Nonetheless, they're quite interesting and are notably better-written than most SW tie-ins. For all their plot oddities, they also remain the most thoughtful treatment of Lando, a character who was relentlessly marginalized and mistreated in the Bantam novels and most of the post-1986 comics.

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Sophia Lillis, Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Chris Pine, and Jeremy Latcham attend a Special LA Screening and Reception of Paramount Pictures’ “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” at the Ray Kurtzman Theater on March 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California

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Golden boy Tom Daley confirmed for fifth and final Olympics

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Golden boy Tom Daley confirmed for fifth and final Olympics

Tom Daley will compete at a record fifth Olympics in Paris after he was confirmed in Team GB’s diving team.

The out gay diver finally won gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and took time away from the sport.

But late last year Tom made a big comeback and at Paris he’ll compete in the 10m synchronised platform event with Noah Williams (below).

The pair won silver at the World Championships in February following Tom’s return last December.

The two British athletes also won gold at a World Cup event in Berlin in March.

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Tom Daley’s son wants to see him dive

Tom Daley has said a large part of his return to competitive diving was for one reason. He said his six-year-old son Robert Ray wants to see his dad dive at the Olympics.

In Tokyo, Tom won his first gold and also has three bronze medals in his sport. He was just 14 at his first Olympics in 2008.

If Tom wins another medal, he’ll join a small group of five-time Olympic medalists, Outsports reported.

That group includes out gay diving champion Greg Louganis, who has four Olympic golds and one silver.

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More out Olympians:

Tom Daley calls out anti-gay countries at Commonwealth Games

Kiwi rower Robbie Manson qualifies for Paris Olympics

Aussie climber Campbell Harrison qualifies for Olympics, kisses boyfriend

Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black welcome their second child

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