#Samuel Valdes

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Tacarcuna Wood Quail (Odontophorus dialeucos) © Samuel Valdes

It hatches from black, brown, dark, difficult, fat, mature, overall, rare, rollicking, small, typical, upper, and white eggs.

squawkoverflow - the ultimate bird collecting game          🥚 hatch    ❤️ collect     🤝 connect

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: New Queer Holiday Romances (2023 Edition)

For the 2022 edition, click here. Finding My Elf by David Valdes (m/m YA) It’s a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer (f/f) Mistletoe & Mishigas by M.A. Wardell (m/m) The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels (f/f) Secret Heir for Christmas by LaQuette (m/m)

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🎁 Queer Holiday Book Recs 🎁

✨ Celebrate the season with these queer holiday book recommendations! Thank you to everyone who submitted a suggestion.

❓ What are you hoping to find under the tree this year?

🎀 How to Excavate a Heart - Jake Maia Arlow 🎁 Make My Wish Come True - Alyson Derrick and Rachael Lippincott 🎀 Santa Pageant - Lillian Barry 🎁 Season of Love - Helena Greer 🎀 I'll Be Home for Christmas - Mason Deaver 🎁 This Winter - Alice Oseman 🎀 Make You Mine This Christmas - Lizzie Huxley-Jones 🎁 I'll Be Gone for Christmas - Georgia K. Boone 🎀 A Merry Little Meet Cute - Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone

🎁 Finding My Elf - David Valdes 🎀 Let Your Hearts Be Light - Fae Quin 🎁 Fearless - Shira Glassman 🎀 Snowed in With Summer - Tiana Warner 🎁 In the Event of Love - Courtney Kae 🎀 Let Your Heart Be Light - J.R. Lawrie 🎁 The Holiday Trap - Roan Parrish 🎀 Set the Record Straight - Hannah Bonam-Young 🎁 Christmas In Mistletoe - Clare Lydon

🎁 Mistletoe & Mishigas - MA Wardell 🎀 Merry & Sprite - Dani Lakely 🎁 The Geek Who Saved Christmas - Annabeth Albert 🎀 The Christmas Swap - Talia Samuels 🎁 You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince - Timothy Janovsky 🎀 Make Her Wish Come True - A.L. Brooks 🎁 Make the Season Bright - Ashley Herring Blake 🎀 The Merriest Misters - Timothy Janovsky 🎁 Most Wonderful - Georgia Clark

🎁 Kiss Her Once for Me - Alison Cochrun 🎀 Meet Me in Los Feliz - Kelly Reynolds 🎁 Whiteout - Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon 🎀 Under the Mistletoe with You by Lizzie Huxley-Jones 🎁 The Night Before Kissmas - Sara Raasch 🎀 Written in the Stars - Alexandria Bellefleur 🎁 The Mistletoe Motive - Chloe Liese 🎀 Just Like Christmas - Annabel den Dekker 🎁 I'll Get Back to You - Becca Grischow

[tyrner2]

Read between the lines,

Im practically magic,

Crystal clear sound,

Professionally engineered,

All I see is red when i look in the mirror,

My studio is the balcony,

I fell off it for real,

Straight into the moon roof,

Off the cusp of an eclipse,

My bible is with Lil Wayne,

Bob Marley, and Lil Kim.

I lost an angel already,

I lost my baker by the dozen,

These bitches come in droves,

Thats why i still keep my necklace froze,

Zone no parking here,

Christine try nah kill me,

Im back in my Pilot,

My Honda, my Element.

My kick push,

My tre flip,

My trasher magazine world tour,

I said Tyrner is going to become famous,

He just had to become homeless like Dom first.

I switched my phone number like clothing,

Baby hit me back up,

I miss your ass for real,

I cannot wait to show you how i do this,

No steal, no metal, no bars can hold me,

Im artificially instigating, gatekeeping the kingdom.

None shall pass if youre phony and fake,

Only real G's know my sound,

In cambridge, right off the bay.

Pouring tea into the harbor,

Another revolution is here.

Happy Thanksgiving, Tupac Amaru,

sincerely Mr. Shakur and Mr. Valdés.

December is here, defend the gold arches,

Download that McDonald's app,

Save your hard earned dollars.

Donate your clothes to the army,

Salvation for those who do.

The keys to hope are broken,

Theres no help there.

Believe me, harry the beast?

More like teddy the bear.

Fuck this, im going to houston,

At least there im well loved.

Thats where i started this journey,

Sorry samuel, it was all a lie, bruh bruh.

Thank you King Charles.

Sincerely your jester.

Thank you Mike Jones,

Im back, workin that magic.

[anthonybialy]

Halting Drives with the Buffalo Bills

Don’t let the Buffalo Bills coach you into thinking they got close.  Nothing else the staff tried Sunday worked, and their efforts at public relations should lead to the same result.  Turning an uninspired potential blowout into an aggravating loss as time expired does not count as progress.  The team can convince fans they’re capable of fixing myriad issues after proving they know how clocks work.

The visitors would’ve won with only about eight more Texans taunting penalties.  I remember the Bills scoring like Houston did.  Strive to appreciate what seems to be disappearing.  A Metropolitan fan's ceaseless amusement with a punter named Tom Townsend only offers so much consolation.  I’d watch a Whit Stillman football movie, as the ending would be infinitely more satisfying than what the Bills directed.

I finished the Stefon Diggs sauce.  It’s time to move on.  Expecting the breakup to keep affecting behavior would’ve meant letting past trauma harm the present.

Diggs gained 82 yards on six receptions, which is most notable in its unremarkable adequacy.  Robert Woods arguably did more damage to his former team with his punt return that helped make a winning field goal feasible.  The Bills didn’t shut down their erstwhile BFF any more than he set a Guinness World Record for catches.  He didn’t have to be the sole source of gains, which is a troubling realization for Houston in a win.  They won’t be the first team to learn about who needs to be the attention’s center.  Leading the Texans in receiving yards for the game with a mere four may lead to future resentment.  But Diggs is surely renowned for valuing team success, no? 

Relying on injury to incorporate the obvious still didn’t work.  It shouldn’t have taken Khalil Shakir’s absence to incorporate Curtis Samuel.  And it still didn’t.  The only thing worse than Samuel catching one pass is that he gained zero yards.  By my calculations, that means he will never ever gain ground.  

Samuel is a Bill, but the way.  He has been so irrelevant that you may have forgotten about his offseason signing.  Was he cut?  The Mandela effect makes it possible to think he didn’t make the opening day roster.  His unbelievably light usage encourages false memories.

Buffalo should’ve traded for Davante Adams at halftime.  His price is only increasing.  Brandon Beane is playing Blackmail and losing.  This season is going too absurdly for Monty Python.  The troupe would stop the offensive coordinating sketch for implausibility.

Replacing Diggs with Marquez Valdes-Scantling may not have constituted an upgrade.  Josh Allen spent too long playing like a second-year quarterback while the second-year quarterback played like Josh Allen.  Naturally, Buffalo fans will continue to defend him.  But making his case isn’t a test for how far blind loyalty can be stretched: the franchise is seemingly daring their savior to win on his own.  Allen can miss on 21 of his 30 throws and still deserve to have the case made for his rightful frustration.

Allen will pump fake 10 yards downfield for as long as defenders buy it.  The jazzman’s improvisations are necessary with such glaring lack of planning by his label.  Buffalo’s offense is either intentionally or unwittingly based on their quarterback playing heroically.  I don’t care how much Allen makes: his offensive linemen should sign over their game checks.

I tackle my problems like the Bills do ball carriers.  Please accept a penalty request in lieu of a stop.  Rasul Douglas can bicker with Cole Bishop about who’s less helpful.  The argument’s loser is Buffalo.

Management can pretend the wide receiver committee leads to contributions from all.  But the group project inspires deadbeats to rely on the work of others.  Grades plunge for all as a result.  Take a notable first-possession drop which set the tone.  An elite receiver would’ve made an amazing catch.  The Bills went with Mack Hollins.

It’s too early in a career to be trying to rectify past mistakes.  An impressive touchdown is the exception for a player who after five career games is already establishing a reputation for at best playing erratically.  Keon Coleman gets less hilarious by the game.  The joke of a pick isn’t funny, either.

I hope you enjoyed Coleman’s catch, because he didn’t have another.  His only contribution of the afternoon should’ve been taken as a bonus and not a sign to keep going.  Throwing to him from potential safety territory in an attempt to take the lead in the last minutes was a kamikaze mission.  His glaring end zone drop during the preseason was excused away based on the game’s meaninglessness.  But it turns out his unwillingness to reach revealed a personality tendency.

  Receivers catch like Sean McDermott coaches. Every other awful drive competes for second place for Buffalo’s incomprehensible Dadaist assault on the sport.  Coaching makes a difference.  That only sounds positive if your team employs a qualified one.  By contrast, Buffalo is chained to an anvil who doesn’t know how to handle a tie with handful of seconds left.  McDermott supervised the slapstick like they were playing baseball.  And even that has timers now.

An aggravating finale was merely the culmination.  The only thing worse than officials calling Dalton Kincaid’s obvious and amazing catch an incompletion is McDermott not challenging it.  A timid leader unsurprisingly creates baffling results like a late-game plan.  If he was trying to lose a game somehow made competitive after a mortifying early effort, McDermott wouldn’t have done anything differently.  We know he didn’t throw the game because it’d be unadvisable to make it that obvious.

Gaining lessons from a loss is a not an excuse to keep coming up short, especially for those who don’t bother.  Allen claimed the letdown against the Ravens blessedly came early.  But the Bills only established the limits of gaining from bad experiences.

The Sabres on turf are losing their balance.  Buffalo fans can’t even presently count on one half-decent team distracting from the other.  The first two games of the NHL season showed the continuation of an alarming consistency over the drought.  Even Lindy Ruff yelling hasn’t motivated the hockey works, which means they’re a hopeless case.  Meanwhile, the football division looked okay aside from personnel, coaching, and playing.

Every Bills loss prompts concerns that Allen’s career is getting squandered.  With the thorough lack of help, the next fear is if they’ll decline enough to alienate their Obi-Wan.  If the rest of the squad keeps trending downward, Allen’s going to consider asking about joining one that provides him with a legitimate top receiver as long as it’s not Diggs.

[insurgentepress]

Acumulan lista de jugadores lesionados en Bills de Buffalo

Se siguen acumulando las lesiones en los @BuffaloBills con Curtis Samuel y Marquez Valdes-Scantling, el safety Damar Hamlin y al quarterback suplente Mitchell Trubisky tocados.

Agencias/Ciudad de México.- Los Bills de Buffalo enfrentan la perspectiva de llegar cojeando a la temporada regular con un creciente número de jugadores lesionados, que ahora incluyen a Curtis Samuel y Marquez Valdes-Scantling, el safety Damar Hamlin y al quarterback suplente Mitchell Trubisky. El coach Sean McDermott mencionó a los cuatro como jugadores que serán evaluados semana a semana.…

[agendaculturaldelima]

#ProyeccionDeVida

📣 Kino Cat / Cine Tulipán, presenta:

🎬 “VÉRTIGO. DE ENTRE LOS MUERTOs”

🔎 Género: Intriga / Drama Psicológico / Thriller / Película de Culto

⌛️ Duración: 120 minutos

✍️ Guion: Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor y Maxwell Anderson

📕 Novela: Pierre Boileau y Thomas Narcejac

🎼 Música: Bernard Herrmann

📷 Fotografía: Robert Burks

💥 Argumento: Scottie Fergusson (James Stewart) es un detective de la policía de San Francisco que padece de vértigo. Cuando un compañero cae al vacío desde una cornisa mientras persiguen a un delincuente, Scottie decide retirarse. Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore), un viejo amigo del colegio, lo contrata para un caso aparentemente muy simple: que vigile a su esposa Madeleine (Kim Novak), una bella mujer que está obsesionada con su pasado.

👥 Reparto: Kim Novak (Madeleine Elster, Judy Barton), James Stewart (John Ferguson), Barbara Bel Geddes (Midge Wood), Jack Ano, Tom Helmore (Gavin Elster), Ellen Corby (Administradora de Hotel McKittrick), Raymond Bailey (Médico de Scottie), Henry Jones (Juez de Instrucción), Lee Patrick (Dueño del Coche perdido por Madeleine), Konstantin Shayne (Pop Leibel) y Joanne Genthon (Carlotta Valdes)

📢 Dirección: Alfred Hitchcock

© Productoras: Paramount Pictures & Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

🌎 País: Estados Unidos

📅 Año: 1958

📽 Proyección:

📆 Martes 30 de Julio

🕘 9:30pm. 

🐈‍ El Gato Tulipán (Bajada de Baños 350 – Barranco)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre

[abookishidentity]

Books read in May 2024

-Dead Men’s Boots by Mike Carey started May 4, 2024 and finished May 8, 2024 -4/5 stars. I already talked about this book in a separate post. I hope to read more of Mike Carey's books.

-Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen started May 8, 2024 and finished May 10, 2024 -4/5 stars. It's refreshing to read a vampire book and the vampires aren't ridiculously horny or used that way. Vampires just want to live their lives. They don't even drink from humans in this book which is nice. Main character just wants to be in a band. Distant family shows up and interferes with that. I think it's rather interesting that I got that the grandpa who showed up with his grandson was her brother before the main character did.

-The Sleepless by Victor Manibo started May 10, 2024 and finished May 15, 2024 - 5/5 stars. What happens when people don't need to sleep? Capitalism takes that and messes with it. Oh? People don't need to sleep then they can work more jobs. Oh? People who are sleepless can't form new memories? Why not build technology around that and sell it to them for lots and lots of money? Main character ends up in jail at the end and the corporations aren't taken down. It feels very realistic but at least there's some kind of hope as the two characters he worked with send him their location. Main character and author where queer men of color and sometimes you need to read that.

-Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot started May 15, 2024 and finished May 19, 2024- 4/5 stars. 3 factions constantly at war. Woman trying to help others who were like her. Spaceship adventures are always good. Reading about queer women and one of them is a librarian is good too. The chapters sometimes alternate and I was right that it was describing the life of a character before she met the main character.

-Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes started May 20, 2024 and finished May 23, 2024 - 5/5 stars. I loved this book. Captain Eva Innocente's life is such so interesting. Didn't care for the bot fighting but that didn't last too long. We get more of her backstory in this book which is interesting. I love the physic and intelligent cats in their ship. I love the abilities the locals have on the planet they were on. I say this book is about 30 or so pages too long but I guess they had to set up things for the third book somehow.

-Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes started May 24, 2024 and finished May 27, 2024 - 4/5 stars. A lot of robots in this book. I don't really care for robots or robots fighting in general. It was tolerable because the robots just reminded me of Transformers. It's amazing that Captain Eva Innocente and company defeated the evil with a robot that looked like a giant cat.

-Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree started May 27, 2024 and finished May 29, 2024- 4/5 stars. After reading 3 science fiction books that dealt with spaceship adventures it was nice to read something different. This was a very cozy read. The descriptions of the pastries sounded very good. I liked that there was a budding relationship between Viv and Tandri. I think I might check out the other book as well.

-Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway started May 29, 2024- haven't read much of this book yet. It has a very interesting premise and I'm hoping it lives up to the book jacket summary.

Book I DNF'd

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany- It had an interesting premise. I can appreciate that it was written in the 70s and it had a bisexual main character. There were interesting things going on in this weird ass town but I simply could not read further. I felt like I was wasting my time. Also the fact that the main character and his lover were doing stuff with a 15 year old was disturbing to no end. Main character had no qualms about it. He didn't seem to have any kind of qualms about who he hang out with. One of the most interesting things about him was that he lost time. Whole days went by and he thought it was merely hours. That was interesting but not enough to keep me reading. This book was over 500 pages.

[marigoldsuites]

this rp is super cute!! i was curious what fc you could see as a drummer in a band?? i’m thinking male, preferably 5sos-inspired?? :)

Thank you!!! Lemme think... I know Maxence Danet-Fauvel would kill this role. Also, Samuel Larsen? Luka Sabbat, Nat or Alex Wolff, Shiloh Fernandez, Carlos Valdes, Peter Gadiot, Kiowa Gordon, Ben Barnes, Landon Liboiron, Tyler Posey, Avan Jogia, Chance Perdomo, Charlie Heaton (works because he is actually a drummer, so ARMS), Riz Ahmed, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin and Ryan Potter. Asked a pal to give me some non-binary suggestions as well! Here you go: "ariela barer, liv hewson, olly alexander, ian alexander, blu del barrio, elliot page (nonbinary trans man), nico tortorella, dua saleh, quintessa swindell, shamir, chella man, vico ortiz" (Megan, March 2023).

[ravenguard-staff]

Can someone ask questions about my OC's?

I can't keep everything about them in my head!!!

List of OC's for questions:

Samuel J. Stravski (Sam/owlet, 14-15, female, she/they, aroace)(⚡🐉)

Clarissa Valdes (Clarissa/Cass, 15, female, she/her, lesbian)(🌊🦊)

Hideus Valdes (Hid/Kid/lil Sombra, 9, male, he/him, ?)(🌑🐱)

Lambert Crow (Lambert/Bert, 14, male, he/him, straight)(😁🔥)

Caroline Rose (Carol/horror green/Greenei, 15, female, she/her, straight)(🌸🌾)

Rain Bow (Rain, 13, female, she/her, ace/demi-romantic)(🌧️���)

Nathan Grimm (Nath, 721, male, he/him/???, bi)(⛪⚔️)

List can replenish

Symbols for common questions:

❤️ - like

💔 - hate

🎨 - hobby

🎂 - birthday date

()🤝() - how the characters met, or whether they know each other

✨ - magic core (the element on which the abilities/magic of the character are tied)

🧠✨ - explanation of the character's abilities

List can replenish

Symbols for non-character-specific questions:

🌍 - random fact about the world of characters

🐾 - a quick analysis of a random creature from the world of characters (name, not a detailed description of appearance and abilities)

📳 - random chat between characters or a quote from one of them

Symbols for the language you want me to answer in (only these can be used):

🇬🇧 - English

🇺🇦 - Ukrainian

🇷🇺 - Russian

P.S. Questions can be asked in English, Ukrainian and/or Russian

P.P.S. There is a high probability that the answers in English will not be accurate and have a lot of various errors, since I use Google translator

[bookclub4m]

15 Space Opera Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. This is our retrospective book list for Episode 010 - Space Opera.

The Moons of Palmares by Zainab Amadahy

The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

Nova by Samuel R. Delany

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna

Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes

The Black Ship by Gerry William

Red Dust by Yoss

[rockefcller]

TASK 036 : GOVERNORS OF THE UNITED STATES

in the united states, a governor serves as the chief executive officer and commander-in-chief in each of the fifty states, functioning as both head of state and head of government therein. as such, governors are responsible for implementing state laws and overseeing the operation of the state executive branch. as state leaders, governors advance and pursue new and revised policies and programs using a variety of tools, among them executive orders, executive budgets, and legislative proposals and vetoes. governors carry out their management and leadership responsibilities and objectives with the support and assistance of department and agency heads, many of whom they are empowered to appoint. a majority of governors have the authority to appoint state court judges as well, in most cases from a list of names submitted by a nominations committee.

the NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES is a geographical region of the united states. its divisions are new england ( connecticut, maine, massachusetts, new hampshire, rhode island, and vermont ) and the mid-atlantic ( new jersey, new york, and pennsylvania ). although it lacks a unified cultural identity, the northeastern region is the nation's most economically developed, densely populated, and culturally diverse region. of the nation's four census regions, the northeast has the second-largest percentage of residents living in an urban setting ( with 85 percent ) and is home to the nation's largest metropolitan area ( new york city ).

NEW ENGLAND. CONNECTICUT : laura wilmer ( cate blanchett ), republican, since 2011 MAINE : caitlin westcott ( ellen pompeo ), republican, since 2019 MASSACHUSETTS : felicity benson ( rashida jones ), democrat, since 2015 NEW HAMPSHIRE : christi goode ( reese witherspoon ), democrat, since 2017 RHODE ISLAND : adela sebti ( emmanuelle chriqui ), democrat, since 2015 VERMONT : derick han ( john cho ), democrat, since 2017 MID-ATLANTIC STATES. NEW JERSEY : shaun russell ( laurence fishburne ), democrat, since 2018 NEW YORK : isabelle andrews ( zoe saldana ), democrat, since 2021 PENNSYLVANIA : violet beck ( rooney mara ), republican, since 2015

the MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES is one of four census regions of the united states census bureau, occupying the north central part of the united states. its divisions are east north central ( illinois, indiana, michigan, ohio, and wisconsin ) and west north central ( iowa, kansas, minnesota, missouri, nebraska, north dakota, and south dakota) ). chicago is the most populous city in the american midwest and the third most populous in the entire country. chicago and its suburbs, called chicagoland, form the region’s largest metropolitan area with 10 million people.

EAST NORTH CENTRAL STATES. ILLINOIS : tracey marsh ( sally hawkins ), republican, since 2019 INDIANA : garth butler ( justin chambers ), republican, since 2017 MICHIGAN : donna randall ( viola davis ), democrat, since 2019 OHIO : philip tirrell ( donald glover ), democrat, since 2019 WISCONSIN : percy hewitt ( john mulaney ), democrat, since 2019

WEST NORTH CENTRAL STATES. IOWA : kelly grant ( rachel weisz ), democrat, since 2017 KANSAS : dale garner ( clancy brown ), republican, since 2019 MINNESOTA : sadie lawrence ( winona ryder ), democrat, since 2019 MISSOURI : andrea miller ( michele dockery ), republican, since 2018 NEBRASKA : silas nelson ( sam elliott ), republican, since 2015 NORTH DAKOTA : samuel fulton ( daveed diggs ), democrat, since 2016 SOUTH DAKOTA : alicia atkins ( aja naomi king ), democrat, since 2019

the SOUTHERN UNITED STATES is is a geographic and cultural region of the united states. its divisions are the south atlantic ( delaware, florida, georgia, maryland, north carolina, south carolina, virginia, and west virginia ), east south central ( alabama, kentucky, mississippi, and tennessee ), and west south central ( arkansas, louisiana, oklahoma, and texas ). the south does not precisely coincide with the geographic south of the united states but is commonly defined as including the states that fought for the confederate states of america in the american civil war. the deep south lies entirely within the southeastern corner. the region is known for its culture and history, having developed its own customs, musical styles, and cuisines, which have distinguished it in some ways from the rest of the united states. the southern ethnic heritage is diverse and includes strong european ( mostly english, scotch-irish, scottish, irish, and french ), african, and some native american components.

SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES. DELAWARE : cornelius bancroft ( michael shannon ), republican, since 2017 FLORIDA : angela valdes ( gina torres ), democrat, since 2019 GEORGIA : gabrielle shaw ( octavia spencer ), democrat, since 2019 MARYLAND : damien park ( daniel dae kim ), democrat, since 2015 NORTH CAROLINA : artie barnes ( sam richardson ), democrat, since 2017 SOUTH CAROLINA : shannon todd ( leslie mann ), republican, since 2017 VIRGINIA : rebekah milton ( julianne moore ), republican, since 2018 WEST VIRGINIA : lori taylor ( helen mccrory ), republican, since 2017

EAST SOUTH CENTRAL STATES. ALABAMA : maynard gardner ( richard jenkins ), republican, since 2011 KENTUCKY : wilson beaumont ( kevin costner ), republican, since 2019 MISSISSIPPI : julianne hargrave ( amy adams ), republican, since 2012 TENNESSEE : shane montgomery ( andrew lincoln ), republican, since 2019

WEST SOUTH CENTRAL STATES. ARKANSAS : jason wickham ( eddie redmayne ), republican, since 2015 LOUISIANA : christine robson ( antonia thomas ), republican, since 2016 OKLAHOMA : michele abrams ( lea thompson ), republican, since 2019 TEXAS : lorraine crawford ( kelly reilly ), republican, since 2015

the WESTERN UNITED STATES is the region comprising the westernmost states of the united states. its divisions are the mountain states ( arizona, colorado, idaho, montana, nevada, new mexico, utah, and wyoming ) and the pacific states ( alaska, california, hawaii, oregon, and washington ). as american settlement in the united states expanded westward, the meaning of the term “the west” changed. before about 1800, the crest of the appalachian mountains was seen as the western frontier. the frontier moved westward and eventually the lands west of the mississippi river were considered “the west.” the west contains several major biomes, including arid and semi-arid plateaus and plains, particularly in the american southwest; forested mountains, including two major ranges, the american sierra nevada and rocky mountains; the long coastal shoreline of the american pacific coast; and the rainforests of the pacific northwest.

MOUNTAIN STATES. ARIZONA : daniel rivera ( alfonso herrera ), democrat, since 2019 COLORADO : wyatt harvey ( forest whitaker ), democrat, since 2015 IDAHO : malcolm jackson ( michael fassbender ), republican, since 2019 MONTANA : omar faraj ( marwan kenzari ), democrat, since 2021 NEVADA : noelle bloomfield ( maya rudolph ), democrat, since 2019 NEW MEXICO : oscar méndez ( diego luna ), democrat, since 2019 UTAH : william daniels ( seth meyers ), republican, since 2021 WYOMING : colleen leighton ( felicity jones ), republican, since 2019

PACIFIC STATES. ALASKA : veronica filippova ( mila kunis ), republican, since 2018 CALIFORNIA : maria reyes ( salma hayek ), democrat, since 2019 HAWAII : makaio kekoa ( keanu reeves ), democrat, since 2014 OREGON : isadora tyler ( susan sarandon ), democrat, since 2015 WASHINGTON : felix kessler ( jeff goldblum ), democrat, since 2013

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🎁 Queer Holiday Book Recs 🎁

✨ Celebrate the season with these queer holiday book recommendations! Thank you to everyone who submitted suggestions!

[ You can find the visual post here. ]

❓ What are you hoping to find under the tree this year?

🎀 How to Excavate a Heart - Jake Maia Arlow 🎁 Make My Wish Come True - Alyson Derrick and Rachael Lippincott 🎀 Santa Pageant - Lillian Barry 🎁 Season of Love - Helena Greer 🎀 I'll Be Home for Christmas - Mason Deaver 🎁 This Winter - Alice Oseman 🎀 Make You Mine This Christmas - Lizzie Huxley-Jones 🎁 I'll Be Gone for Christmas - Georgia K. Boone 🎀 A Merry Little Meet Cute - Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone

🎁 Finding My Elf - David Valdes 🎀 Let Your Hearts Be Light - Fae Quin 🎁 Fearless - Shira Glassman 🎀 Snowed in With Summer - Tiana Warner 🎁 In the Event of Love - Courtney Kae 🎀 Let Your Heart Be Light - J.R. Lawrie 🎁 The Holiday Trap - Roan Parrish 🎀 Set the Record Straight - Hannah Bonam-Young 🎁 Christmas In Mistletoe - Clare Lydon

🎁 Mistletoe & Mishigas - MA Wardell 🎀 Merry & Sprite - Dani Lakely 🎁 The Geek Who Saved Christmas - Annabeth Albert 🎀 The Christmas Swap - Talia Samuels 🎁 You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince - Timothy Janovsky 🎀 Make Her Wish Come True - A.L. Brooks 🎁 Make the Season Bright - Ashley Herring Blake 🎀 The Merriest Misters - Timothy Janovsky 🎁 Most Wonderful - Georgia Clark

🎁 Kiss Her Once for Me - Alison Cochrun 🎀 Meet Me in Los Feliz - Kelly Reynolds 🎁 Whiteout - Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon 🎀 Under the Mistletoe with You by Lizzie Huxley-Jones 🎁 The Night Before Kissmas - Sara Raasch 🎀 Written in the Stars - Alexandria Bellefleur 🎁 The Mistletoe Motive - Chloe Liese 🎀 Just Like Christmas - Annabel den Dekker 🎁 I'll Get Back to You - Becca Grischow

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Xavi, Puyol, Pinto, Abi, Laporta and Eto'o at Victor Valdes's wedding 💍🍾🎉

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hello! could you please help me with finding a faceclaim for a twenty two year old severus snape?? moc preferred!!

POC yes?

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