#Will return to Aeon at the end of December.... my girl

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Okay, Holiday layout because I wanted a Christmas Hank icon :)

[thedistrictsleepsalonetonight]

Your mess is mine

Sue may only be a math major, but she knows this much about telling a story: it needs to have a beginning, middle, and an end.  

If she were to sit down and write one, here is where it would start — Emily laughs and she falls in love. It doesn’t matter the year, the month, or the minute; when Emily laughs, she falls in love. Sue’s a little slow when these things are concerned, love doesn’t come to her as quickly or as easily as it has historically come to Emily. I saw you in the coffee shop and I knew you were the one, she’s fond of telling Sue, usually during fights. It’s highly annoying that Emily thinks it’d work on her. Even more annoying is the fact that it does. 

Alright, does she have moments of intense déjà vu sometimes? Like when they’re lying in bed, after one of Austin’s house parties, and Sue curls up into Emily’s soft shoulders, plays with her pretty, pretty hands? Or when she catches Emily conked out in front of her laptop in a corner table at the café on her break and gently wakes her up? Sure. But isn’t that what love is? The same five gestures repeated in infinite ways, creating a well of infinite affection. So if walking the steps with Emily settles deep into her bones without flinching, as if they’ve done this before, she’s convinced that it’s because they’re well and truly perfect together. 

(Definitely not because — and this is something that has been occurring to her more and more lately — they were star-crossed lovers in a past life a century ago.) 

(That would be crazy.) 

(Right?) 

***** 

Falling in love aside, Emily can be really, infuriatingly, secretive about the worst of things. Sometimes it is charming, watching her having to pick her way through multiple explanations, create long-winded detours just to attempt to confuse Sue into getting exasperated enough to drop the subject altogether. But that’s at the very end, when it turns out that she was going to all this trouble to make sure Sue wasn’t going to find out she’d gotten her that one Hawaiian shirt Sue had off-handedly admired once, aeons ago. Or that she’s been holed up in their room all day because she’s been setting up lights in honor of it being exactly six months since they first hugged. Which is why she is more resigned that surprised when Lavinia sits down in front of her, leans in, and asks her what she’s doing for Emily’s birthday next week. 

Sue sneaks a look at Emily who is currently chatting with an old lady who usually comes in on the weekends. Her girlfriend happens to be one of those baristas who is beloved by the elderly, God only knows why. All the older ladies will hang back at the counter and tell her all about their grandkids’ schools and ballet recitals. In return, Emily will rant to them about college and apparently, Sue as well, which was something she discovered one day when she walked in and two old ladies gave her teasing yet approving smiles from their table. 

(And then took her aside to whisper — Showing a little skin wouldn’t do any harm and would keep your girl on her toes — which near about killed her)  

The entire situation is hilarious. Also the most adorable thing she has ever seen. 

“Why haven’t you guys discussed your birthdays yet?” 

“It’s just never,” Sue muses, “come up, I guess.” 

Austin rollerblades past, swivels to a stop and bends so he’s approximately level with their faces. “Are we talking about,” he says, lowering his voice to a comical whisper, “Emily’s birthday?” 

Lavinia pulls him down, so he’s sitting on the spare chair. “And Sue’s, apparently. Did you know her birthday falls, like, nine days after Emily’s?” 

Austin stares at her, wide-eyed. “That means it’s on the.... 19th? 

Sue nods. 

“The 19th of December? After Emily’s birthday, on the 10th of December?” 

“Y....es?” 

He swipes at his phone, taps a couple of buttons, and then looks up with a smug smile. “I knew I remembered something. Look.” 

Lavinia has to angle her whole body to see, but it registers for both of them at the same time. A certain poet and her muse, who also apparently shared the same birthday as her and Emily. 

“Huh,” Lavinia says. “Maybe there is something to Emily’s theory after all.” 

“You mean Emily’s theory that we’re the reincarnations of those two?” she asks, hearing her own voice get progressively more hysterical by the word. She clears her throat, takes a deep breath, adds it to the list of rapidly growing coincidences in her head that she’s never going to give a closer look to, because that would be crazy. 

“Really the only part of this I’m genuinely shocked by,” Lavinia says after a long pause, in which Sue is struggling to reason with the logical part of her brain, “is that Austin remembers Emily Dickinson’s birthday.” 

Austin smiles proudly, and the thought is so funny that it drives potential insanity out of her mind eventually. 

***** 

“Why didn’t you tell me your birthday’s tomorrow?” 

Emily startles from where she’s staring out the window of the car, and Sue has about a moment to regret blurting it out before they’re looking at each other. She’d spent the entire week setting up the entire thing for Emily and now it probably won’t even be a surprise, but she’s insanely curious. No better time for it, either way. She’d planned everything perfectly, from picking up Emily at the café in the classy car she’d borrowed from Austin, to making sure it wasn’t too late after dinner. And yet, here they were, surrounded by cars and honking people because traffic was a fickle bitch. 

“Is that why we’re taking this trip?” she asks, wide-eyed. 

Sue extends a hand towards her, ruffles up her hair, feeling fond. Trust her idiot girlfriend to not have figured it out yet. She moves her hand to Emily’s cheek, and feels Emily cover it with her own. Feels a soft kiss pressed against her palm. 

“What did you think it was, dumdum?” 

“Well, it is the three month anniversary of—” Sue’s alarm is probably showing on her face, so she backtracks quickly. “Kidding. Kidding. There’s nothing tomorrow.” 

Sue pinches at her cheek. “Except your birthday. Speaking of which—” 

“Eh,” Emily shakes her head, shuffles around on her seat awkwardly, “it’s.... uh, complicated.” 

“Is the complication that you happen to share a birthday with a poet from long ago?” she’s only half-joking.  

Emily laughs at that. “Caught on, did you? Did you also check—” 

“E-yup.” 

“That your birthday is also—” 

“E-yup,” she says. Then turns to look at Emily. “Wait. How do you know when my birthday is?” 

Emily opens her mouth, but before she can say anything Sue hurriedly cuts in. “And you’re not allowed to say you have your ways.” 

Years ago, when Sue was fourteen, one day her dad and her mom came home with the same vegetable. Same quantity. It was beans, and she could vividly remember all three of them staring down in mock dismay at the two separate huge bundles of beans that now took up most of the space on the table. Then they started comparing prices. Turns out her mother’s bundle had cost a couple cents lesser than her father’s. But it’s not the same , her mother had insisted, holding up both the bundles. See, yours weighs more. I think the grocer I bought it from took some off . 

To this day, she defines love as the way her mother’s hand fell over his, combined with the way her dad looked at her next — like a child who had just been told that the blanket fort he’d spent hours constructing, wasn’t going to be torn down. Like someone had just handed a piece of the world to him, and told him to make of it whatever he wanted.  

Sue recognizes it in the way Emily looks at her. Like she’s saying — Of course. Of course, you know me well enough to guess the next stupid thing that comes out of her mouth. 

(She’s not very good at love, but she hopes Emily can read the answer in her eyes just the same) 

“Birthdays are complicated,” Emily says, slowly. “I’ve had some very good ones and then some very bad ones.” First girlfriend who she asked out on her 20th birthday, and second girlfriend who she broke up with a week before her 23rd; Sue fills in the blanks as she talks. “So I guess I try not to tell people so I myself don’t expect anything out of it. Neutral birthdays are better than euphoric ones or sad ones, because at least they don’t haunt me forever.” 

“Baby,” she says, and then trails off. Sometimes she likes calling Emily endearments, or just say her name out loud, randomly, even if there’s no statement attached to it. The sentiment’s always the same, however. I’m glad you exist. I’m glad you found me. I like your name. I love you.  

(Emily’s fallen asleep by the time she’s driven to the top of the grassy knoll, by the time the clock hits midnight. Sue lets her sleep through it. There will be time to sit on top of the blanket and watch a sleepy Emily blow out the candles on a tiny cake that looks like a typewriter, to stare at the stars all night long while they listen to soft, slow songs on a pair of shared earphones. For now, Sue watches Emily sleep, head tilted against the glass and decides to hold off on telling her she loves her until the day after her birthday. It’s a perfectly neutral birthday. No use in spoiling it.) 

(Emily says it back though, in case anyone was wondering) 

***** 

Sometimes, when Sue sees Emily cooking for her, she loses her breath. 

(And sometimes, it’s not even due to the smoke from a burned dish) 

But there’s something peaceful about watching Emily cook, especially if she hasn’t yet cottoned onto the fact that Sue’s watching her. She’s one of those annoying people who always has their headphones on, so most of her cooking in the kitchen involves perfectly timing the beats with the swipes of her spatula. Sometimes she spins around in the middle of a pancake flip to see if she can catch it in midair. Juvenile shenanigans aside, what really gets Sue, even after almost a year of having watched Emily dance around in the kitchen is the care with which she handles food that they will eat. It’s so different to the kind of food she cooks when she’s just cooking for herself. Sue’s seen her slap on two days expired cheese on top of a tortilla and call it lunch. And yet. 

And yet. Sue will have the best of things. Lasagna that’s still steaming. A sandwich filled with the most delicious ingredients. Waffles topped with cream that Emily will get up early in the morning to get for her. Food enhanced with care, made better with love. 

Why don’t you make those nice things for yourself, she’s asked on multiple occasions, to which Emily’s always shrugged. It’s just me. I can have almost anything. 

(Emily deserves the best. Sue will make sure she has it) 

There are flowers on the table, an assortment of daffodils and lilies arranged on a vase. Right in between two shiny plates laid out with napkins folded carefully beside them. Sue slides into one of the chairs quietly, rests her elbows on the table and waits for Emily to finally turn around. 

There is a panicked scream when she does. Sue doesn’t want to be that girlfriend, but this is definitely going on the list of stories she’ll tell their future kids when they’ve grown. 

(Another day she would worry about how the term — Their kids — moves around in her chest comfortably like a sip of hot cocoa. Today, exactly one year to the day Emily told her she liked her, she shrugs it off) 

“You weren’t supposed to wake up for another half an hour at least.” 

Sue hums. “You did tire me out last night, that is true.” 

“Sue!” Emily says, scandalized, face rapidly turning red. “I — that’s highly — okay wait, first things first....” 

She walks over to the table, and bends to kiss Sue.  

“Happy anniversary.” 

Sue closes her eyes, kisses both her cheeks in response. “Happy anniversary, my love.” 

Emily grins back, then stands again. “Either way,” she says, as she ladles soup onto a bowl, and gathers multiple plates on a tray to subsequently bring to the table, “brunch! Courtesy of your beautiful girlfriend who finally managed to figure out how to make the perfect chicken pot pie without burning down the house, or worse, giving you salmonella.” 

Sue inspects what lies in front of her. “Babe, this looks amazing.” 

Emily looks proud, as she sits on the other chair. “And that’s not all, okay? This is just the start. Today evening I have gotten us both tickets to—” 

“Move in with me.” 

When Emily blinks, Sue startles. The words that had just come out of her mouth definitely weren’t well-thought-out, but now she was thinking about it and it seemed like all she ever wanted in life. To go to sleep with Emily, and wake her up in time for her morning classes, to be able to see her all the time, and not have to watch her go. 

“That wasn’t my gift, by the way,” she adds, speaking fast, thinking of the limited-edition original copies of a book she’d driven five hours to the next town to get. “But it’s what I want. Us. Living together. I love you. We should.... uh, live together so — uh, okay Emily make me stop talking please.” 

Emily shuts her up with a kiss. When they separate, she stays close to Sue, looking right into her eyes with that soft, soft expression.  

“Are you sure?” she asks. 

Sue takes in a deep breath. Nods. “Yeah.” 

Emily considers that for a moment. Then says with a teasing smile — “I thought this violated your relationship rules.” 

“What ae you—” 

“No kissing before the second date. No celebrating six-month anniversaries because that’s for dummies. No moving in before at least two years of dating—” 

“And if you remember correctly,” Sue cuts in, smoothly, “I kissed you two days before our first date. And serenaded you with a Taylor Swift song at the café on our six-month anniversary.” 

“You did do that,” Emily says, quietly. 

“And as long as we’re on the subject, I hate staying up past 11, or listening to sad girl music in the car, or watching that horrendous show about those two annoying men fake-dating,” Sue tells her, “but — it is my greatest honor that I get to do that for you. And with you. Emily, if you haven’t figured it out already, you’re kinda the exception to every single one of my rules.” 

Sue reads Emily’s answer in the kiss she receives next. 

***** 

The middle, the middle, everything boils down to the middle. It’s what Sue sometimes hears Emily muttering to herself in the middle of the night when she has an assignment due the next day. Sue will blink, look over to the desk where Emily is planted with her nightlight on, hands in her hair. Sometimes Sue will keep blinking slowly, taking in the sight of Emily typing until she falls asleep. Sometimes Emily will notice that she’s up, walk over to the bed, and hum snippets of songs until she’s drifting off again.  

And for all the beauty of the beginning, of first kisses and first dates and first times, there’s something to be said about the fifteenth time Emily plays her something on the ukulele, warning her beforehand that her voice might crack. Or the sixtieth burger she runs across the campus to hand over to Emily when she knows she’s got back-to-back classes scheduled. About the hundredth time she falls into bed, and scooches over, eyes closed, until Emily’s wriggling body is aligned against hers. There’s peace in knowing that a first time will inevitably lead to a second time, and then countless others.  

(There’s peace in knowing the middle lasts the longest)   

***** 

She knows she’s in trouble. Has known she’s in trouble the minute she came out of the store and discovered that there was a pileup on the highway. And then when Lavinia called her panicking because their house-warming slash house party was getting out of control because of a lack of beer and a general overabundance of Austin. And then when her phone died in the middle of her conversation with Emily.  

(So much trouble) 

She’s exhausted by the time she makes it back to her apartment (their apartment , she corrects herself, smiling at the thought) and makes her way up the stairs, hearing the volume of the music increase with every step. Opens the door and is assailed with extremes — the tiny sparkling mirror ball someone’s managed to hook up to the ceiling, the dancing crowd in their living room, and a very loud and weirdly on-point Austin making guitar noises on the karaoke microphone. 

“Lavinia!” Sue calls out in relief, when she catches sight of her. “Where’s Emily?” 

Lavinia excuses herself from a group of frat boys hanging onto her every word and walks over. “Sue! Emily!” 

“Yeah, I know! Tell me where she is!” 

Sue points towards the ceiling, and in the same smooth motion, grabs the crate of beer from her hands. 

Sue’s out of there before the first cry of “Beer” permeates the air. She climbs another two floors, and then the metallic ladder to find Emily sitting there, wrapped in her blanket, glaring up at her. 

“You promised,” she says, flatly. 

Sue drops onto her knees and takes Emily’s cold hands in hers. “I know.” 

“No, you,” Emily repeats, then pauses, looking like she’s struggling, “you promised you were gonna be here, okay? I agreed to the housewarming thing only because you told me there wouldn’t be many people and you’d stay with me the whole time—” 

“—baby....” 

“No, don’t baby me. Let me finish.” Emily waits until Sue nods. “And then you went off to the store.” 

“We ran out of beer,” Sue says, feeling sheepish. 

“I know — I know that, okay?” Emily says. “I know there’s a reason, and probably a valid one but I’m mad, okay? You promised me something and then bailed. That’s not cool.” 

Sue adjusts so she’s properly sitting down right in front of Emily. “I’m sorry,” she says, and means it. “It was inexcusable.” 

Emily sighs, and seems to relax a little. “Okay. Thank you for saying that.” 

Sue nods. “Some party, huh?” she says, after a while. 

Emily smiles a little, then. “Did you see Austin? He was performing the High School Musical songs when I left.” 

She laughs. “When I came in, I think he was doing the guitar riff to Bohemian Rhapsody.” 

“Hey,” Emily says, after they’re done giggling at that. “I never asked. What took you so long? I thought you just went to get beer.” 

“Uh,” Sue says, “I’d rather not tell you.” 

“What? Why not?” 

“Because I don’t wanna charm my way out of you being mad at me.” 

“Oh,” Emily draws the sound out, teasingly. “It can’t possibly be that charming.” 

If she wanted to play it this way, then okay. 

“I stopped at an animal shelter on the way home. There’s a young cat there I thought we could adopt. Consider her a housewarming present.” 

“Oh,” Emily says, then in an undertone. “Damn it.” 

“Charmed?” 

“Ugh, fuck, okay,” Emily admits, then pulls at their joined hands till Sue gets on top of her lap. “I hate you. I love you, but I hate you.” 

Sue kisses her in return, settles in more comfortably. 

“Tell me about her?” Emily asks, softly, in the quiet. 

“Well, she chased the light reflected off my watch round and round so it’s safe to say she’s not the brightest.” 

“I love her already,” Emily assures her. 

***** 

On her eve of her 25th birthday, Sue walks into her apartment and finds Emily, Lavinia and Austin panicking over how to fit the last half of her last name onto limited space on a handmade banner. She says hi to Juggers and Iguana, their two cats, then picks up their two-month-old puppy Rooney, all before one of the three already present humans in the room realizes she’s there. 

“Sue, I’m so sorry,” Emily says, walking over to her and looking at her with a slightly desperate look in her eyes. “We tried baking cake, but it’s half burnt, but we can’t decide what to get and all we have are balloons but then Austin’s going crazy trying to keep Juggers from bursting them, because guess what? The cat is the devil—” 

“—babe—” 

“—no, I tried to make it a good birthday, I really did!” 

She puts her hands on either side of Emily’s face, which forces her to quiet down. Then she looks over at the others.  

“Have you guys been here the entire time I was taking classes?” 

They nod. 

She feels a little overwhelmed. “Guys, I — thank you so much,” she says, then takes stock of the situation. “Can you order pizza? We’ll ring in my birthday with pizza tonight.” 

Lavinia side-hugs her on their way out to the couch, and then they’re alone in the kitchen. She kisses Emily on the forehead, then on both cheeks, trying to drive away the frown. 

“What?” 

“I just wanted you to have a good birthday,” Emily says, despondent. 

“You’re here, aren’t you?” Sue says. “And so are our friends, who sat and worked this hard for hours trying to make me happy. And we’ll have pizza! We like pizza.” 

“You’re just saying that.” 

“No, you idiot” Sue explains, fondly. “I mean it. We’ll have burned cake, and we’ll fight over the pizza, and even if the animals are outnumbered, we’ll probably lose to them. And then we’ll probably watch a movie, and somehow all fall asleep on the carpet because Austin always claims the whole couch. Either way, it’ll be a good birthday, because I’m happy. And you know why I’m happy?” 

Emily’s still pouting. 

“Emily, why am I happy?” 

“Because we’re together,” Emily completes, in a small voice, and then finally, finally smiles. 

(It’s the messiest birthday Sue has ever had. Also the best) 

***** 

Here’s the thing about endings: everyone who writes stories knows they don’t really exist.  

A famous author once said that they weren’t really the end of the story, just where you chose to stop it. Well, Sue agrees. Which is why this story in her head never ends. The imaginary typewriter in her head will keep typing long after, filling pages with anniversaries and birthdays and emergency dog adoptions. Maybe the next page talks about the day Sue breaks her arm, and Emily proposes to her with an onion ring she gets out of the hospital vending machine. Or the day Lavinia loses Rooney, walks around the entire block with Austin to find him and finally discovers he’s hanging out at the old café they used to work at. 

So. Yes. This is where she decides to leave it. Finish it. There will be more stories to write later.

The end. 

(Wink wink. Nudge nudge.) 

[gokinjeespot]

off the rack #1292

Monday, December 16, 2019

 I sure got a heavy cardio workout yesterday scraping off the ice from both vehicles after the rain on Saturday froze under a layer of snow overnight into Sunday morning. That kind of temperature change will give you whiplash. The frozen blowing snow covered half of our birdfeeders too so I had to clear those off for our feathered friends. It's despairing when the temperature drops during the day instead of getting warmer. Stupid Arctic Air Mass.

 The Red Mother #1 - Jeremy Haun (writer) Danny Luckert (art) Ed Dukeshire (letters). The first page with the disintegrating skull will give you an idea of what this beautifully drawn new story is about. Daisy and her boyfriend Luke are walking home from dinner when they are attacked in a scary black space behind an iron gate. Luke is hauled into the blackness and Daisy has her right eye plucked out but survives. By the end of this issue she's seeing scary things through a haze of red. I loved the art in this and look forward to meeting Mother.

  Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy #4 - Jody Houser (writer) Adriana Melo (pencils) Mark Morales & Wade von Grawbadger (inks) Hi-Fi (colours) Gabriela Downie (letters). The Floronic Man attacks the girls again. This time in a roadside dinosaur theme park run by a crazy old lady. Poison Ivy figures out how the bad guy is tracking them and Harley fixes that problem with a machete. This is one crazy story.

 Punisher Soviet #2 - Garth Ennis (writer) Jacen Burrows (pencils) Guillermo Ortego (inks) Nolan Woodard (colours) Rob Steen (letters). Frank has reluctantly taken on a teammate in his fight with a Russian mobster. This issue starts that guy's origin story.

 Something is Killing the Children #4 - James Tynion IV (writer) Werther Dell'Edera (art) Miquel Muerto (colours) AndWorld Design (letters). Erica goes shopping for monster killing tools and into the woods we go. Time to meet the monster.

 X-Force #3 - Benjamin Percy (writer) Joshua Cassara (art) Guru-eFX (colours) VC's Joe Caramagna (letters). The enemy is revealed and they are Xeno. Kind of reminds me of the Court of Owls from Batman. Wolverine and Kid Omega rescue Domino from their clutches while a new Charles Xavier is hatched with a rebuilt Cerebro to lead the war. I liked how Magneto made a sword for Charles from the broken Cerebro helmet.

 The Dollhouse Family #2 - M. R. Carey (writer) Peter Gross (layouts) Vince Locke (finishes) Cris Peter (colours) Todd Klein (letters). Maybe I'm wrong but I suspect that the M. in the writer credit stands for Mike. I loved Mike Carey's Vertigo books and this has a very familiar feel. I like how the house is a character too.

 The Immortal Hulk #28 - Al Ewing (writer) Tom Reilly & Matias Bergara (art) Chris O'Halloran (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). The villain gets the spotlight this issue as Roxxon C.E.O. Dario Agger tries to find a way to fight the Hulk. He goes to find an ally on Monster Isle and I laughed when I saw who it was.

 Valkyrie #6 - Al Ewing & Jason Aaron (writers) Pere Perez (art) Jesus Aburtov (colours) VC's Joe Sabino (letters). What a great read. This is an example of how two good writers can produce a highly enjoyable issue of a comic book. Add to that very nice art and you've got a "pick of the week". Part one of "Strange Aeons" starts a new story where Val needs to put together a team to save Death. Doctor Strange is her first recruit and Night Nurse, Cardiac, Doctor Faiza Hussain AKA Excalibur and Manikin make the journey to the valley of the shadow of death. Talk about D-list, but I trust that Al and Jason will make good use of these heroes.

 Detective Comics #1017 - Tom Taylor (writer) Fernando Blanco (art) John Kalisz (colours) Travis Lanham (letters). This is a great one issue story if you want to see why this comic book is on my "must read" list. Batman solves two crimes and I was happy to see Damian helping out. If Tom Taylor did a Robin book, I'd read that too.

 Fantastic Four #17 - Dan Slott (writer) Luciano Vecchio, Carlos Magno, Bob Quinn & Sean Izaakse (art) Erick Arciniega (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). I was wondering why this story was called "Point of Origin" and this issue explain why. We all know that the Fantastic Four were bombarded with cosmic rays when they took their maiden flight and that's what gave them their super powers. Little did we know it wasn't an accident. It's a subtle change and doesn't make a lot of difference in the grand scheme of things but it is kind of neat.

 Miles Morales: Spider-Man #13 - Saladin Ahmed (writer) Javier Garron (art pages 1-2, 16-20) Kevin Libranda (art pages 3-8) & Alitha Martinez (art pages 9-13) David Curiel & Protobunker (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). I usually get annoyed when an issue is drawn by a bunch of different artists but Javier, Kevin and Alitha all did a splendid job and the story flowed seamlessly. The awesome colouring job helped too. Say hello to Billie Mariana Morales. Miles is now a big brother.

 Superman #18 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) Ivan Reis (pencils) Joe Prado (inks) Alex Sinclair (colours) Dave Sharpe (letters). As big a Brian Bendis fan that I am, I stopped reading this title because I wasn't interested in what was happening in the book. Now I'm interested again. Superman drops a bomb that's going to explode into all kinds of repercussions. I liked how Wonder Woman, Batman and Lex Luthor reacted to the news even though they don't utter a word. That's great art right there. The cover will give you a hint to what Superman's announcement is.

 Fallen Angels #3 - Bryan Hill (writer) Szymon Kudranski (art) Frank D'Armata (colours) VC's Joe Sabino (letters). Cable, Psylocke and X-23's mission to save some children continues and one of the heroes is captured by the enemy. I hope their next story happens in the daytime because these issues have been very dark.

 Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child#1 - Frank Miller (writer) Rafael Grampa (art) Jordie Bellaire (colours) John Workman & Deron Bennett (letters). No returning Dark Knight since this story features Lara, Jonathan and Carrie, the kids of the Big Two. They battle old man Joker and old man Darkseid. I loved the art. The writing was annoyingly repetitive. That seems to be Franks writing style now using lots of verbs and choppy little captions. I don't like it. The thing about comic books is that the art and writing go hand in hand and I just couldn't stop reading the words part way and just look at the pretty pictures. Seeing Greta Thunberg on the last page just made me love Rafael even more.

 Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #14 - Tom Taylor (writer) Marguerite Sauvage (art flashback) Ken Lashley (art) Marguerite Sauvage & Rachelle Rosenberg (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). Crappydoodles! This is the last issue. I am sad. I enjoyed the entire 14-issue run. It was Juann Cabal's art that got me hooked but Tom's writing kept me reading. His stories were very Mister Rogers and I liked them a lot. He showed Peter committed to his sense of responsibility and ended this issue nicely. I'm going to miss this title.

 The Batman's Grave #3 - Warren Ellis (writer) Bryan Hitch (pencils) Kevin Nowlan (inks) Alex Sinclair (colours) Richard Starkings (letters). Batman is working on a case of murder disguised as a suicide. I like how this issue starts and ends with him working the case with Alfred in the Batcave that bookends 10 pages of wordless solo crime scene investigation and a fight with an intruder for a crucial clue.

 2099: Doom #1 - Chip Zdarsky (writer) Marco Castiello (art) Chris Sotomayor (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). This one-shot doesn't add much to the overall story but I like Chip's writing so I read it. Victor winds up in 2099 fighting his future self. The last page doesn't make a lot of sense so skipping this comic won't hurt much.

 2099: Spider-Man #1 - Nick Spencer (writer) Ze Carlos (art) Brian Reber & Andrew Crossley (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). I was as confused as the Miguel in this story when I got to the end. We get a sense of what's happening in 2099 that's bad for everyone but there's no connection to the main story as far as I can make out. These 2099 one-shots have been a waste of time, which doesn't bode well for Marvel's next big event. I'll read 2099 Omega to see if there's a point to this story and I'll read The Amazing Spider-Man #36 that ties into this event because that book is on my "must read" list, but Nick Spencer is skating on thin ice with me.

 Annihilation - Scourge: Beta Ray Bill #1 - Michael Moreci (writer) Alberto Alburquerque (art) Jay David Ramos (colours) VC's Joe Sabino (letters). This was a good single issue story. Beta Ray Bill goes up against the Sentry and saves our universe from the scourge of the Cancerverse. I liked that he's teamed up with Lockjaw.

 Annihilation - Scourge: Silver Surfer #1 - Dan Abnett (writer) Paul Davidson (art) Matt Milla (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). I was asked recently if the Silver Surfer was good or evil after the Silver Surfer Black story and I didn't know the answer until now. This tie-in one-shot takes place right after Silver Surfer Black as Norrin Radd breaches the barrier between the positive universe and the Negative Zone to investigate what's causing the mass exodus from Annihilus's realm. Here he finds the means of defeating the Void controlled Sentry and thereby save two universes. He also discovers the ability to merge with another being sort of like DC's Deadman.

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As the year winds down, streaming services appear to be taking a step back, licking their wounds from this strange pandemic production season, and looking to a hopefully brighter future. This is all to say that Hulu‘s list of new releases for December 2020 isn’t quite its most inspiring batch yet…and that’s OK.

Hulu’s biggest original title this month is undoubtedly The Hardy Boys. This adaptation of the classic boy detective novels is aimed at younger audiences and will premiere on Dec. 4. Then, near the end of the month, Hulu is bringing a new season of a show that is decidedly not for younger audiences. Season 9 of the very funny and very Canadian Letterkenny arrives on Dec. 26.

Hulu also has some recent movies of note coming in December including Amy Seimetz’s diabolical She Dies Tomorrow on Dec. 4 and children’s movie The Secret Garden on Dec. 6. The real appeal this month, however, is undoubtedly in the older library titles. All three installments of The Lord of the Rings trilogy arrive on Dec. 1, as do Eyes Wide Shut, 50 First Dates, and several Bond movies. With those alone, there are plenty of options for cinematic background noise through the holiday season.

Hulu New Releases – December 2020

December 1 

CMA Country Christmas: Special (ABC)     

Disney Holiday Singalong: Special (ABC) 

Lupin the 3rd Part 5:  Complete Season 1 (Dubbed & Subbed) (TMS) 

30 Days of Night (2007) 

50 First Dates (2004) 

About Last Night (1986) 

Angels & Demons (2009) 

Any Given Sunday (1999) 

Black Dynamite (2009) 

Body of Evidence (1993) 

Cake (2006) 

Charlotte’s Web (1973) 

Cliffhanger (1993) 

Con Air (1997) 

Diary Of A Mad Black Woman (2005) 

Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005) 

Dr. No (1962) 

Dragonball: Evolution (2009) 

Euphoria (2018) 

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) 

Goldeneye (1995) 

Goldfinger (1964) 

Hemingway’s Garden of Eden (2010) 

Here On Earth (1999) 

Hot Air (2018) 

Into the Blue (2005) 

Love Potion No. 9 (1992) 

Our Family Wedding (2009) 

Sands of Iwo Jima (1950) 

Shrink (2009) 

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) 

Southside With You (2016) 

Strategic Air Command (1955) 

Sunshine (2007) 

The 6th Day (2000) 

The Chumscrubber (2005) 

The Client (1994) 

The Color of Money (1986) 

The Da Vinci Code (2006) 

The Fifth Element (1997) 

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992) 

The Hulk (2003) 

The Hurt Locker (2008) 

The January Man (1989) 

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) 

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (2003) 

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 

The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor (2008) 

The November Man (2014) 

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) 

The Young Victoria (2009) 

True Confessions (1981) 

Two Weeks (2006) 

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) 

Why Did I Get Married? (2007) 

December 4 

The Hardy Boys: Complete Season 1 (Hulu Original) 

Brassic: Complete Season 2 (ITV) 

Deutschland 89: Complete Season 1 (Sundance) 

My Hero Academia: Complete Season 4 (Dubbed) (Funimation) 

She Dies Tomorrow (2020) 

December 5 

Black Ops (2020) 

God’s Own Country (2017) 

It Had To Be You (2015) 

Mr. Jones (2020) 

Waiting For The Barbarians (2020) 

December 6      

How To Fake A War (2019) 

The Secret Garden (2020) 

December 7      

Valley Girl (2020) 

December 8      

Nurses: Series Premiere (NBC)

The Fairy Princess and the Unicorn (2020) 

December 10    

Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Musical! (NBC) 

Out Stealing Horses (2019) 

December 11    

Madagascar: A Little Wild: Complete Season 2 (Hulu Original) 

Rent-A-Pal (2020) 

Spy Cat (2020) 

December 12      

Endless (2020) 

December 15      

Dirt Music (2019) 

Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) 

December 16      

Amy Winehouse: A Final Goodbye (2016) 

December 18      

The Hero (2017) 

December 21 

NOS4A2: Complete Season 2 (AMC) 

December 22 

You Cannot Kill David Arquette (2020) 

December 23 

Someone Marry Barry (2014) 

The Little Hours (2017) 

December 25 

Soldiers of Fortune (2012) 

December 26 

Letterkenny: Complete Season 9 (Hulu Original) 

December 27 

The Masked Singer: Season 5 Premiere (FOX)

American Animals (2018) 

December 28 

Hope Gap (2020) 

Our Idiot Brother (2011) 

December 31 

Bayou Caviar (2018) 

Supervized (2019)

Leaving Hulu – December 2020

December 8 

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again (2016) 

December 14 

Baby…Secret Of The Lost Legend (1985) 

December 16 

The Good Shepherd (2006) 

December 31 

30 Days of Night (2007) 

A Beautiful Mind (2001) 

A Nanny For Christmas (2010) 

A View to a Kill (1985) 

About Last Night (1986) 

Aeon Flux (2005) 

Alien Nation (1988) 

Anti-Trust (2001) 

Antwone Fisher (2002) 

Any Given Sunday (1999) 

Back to School (1986) 

Barbershop (2002) 

Black Dynamite (2009) 

Blood Ties (2014) 

Broadcast News (1987) 

Cliffhanger (1993) 

Crimson Tide (1995) 

Diamonds Are Forever (1971) 

Diary Of A Mad Black Woman (2005) 

Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005) 

Dr. No (1962) 

Drugstore Cowboy (1989) 

Flashback (1990) 

For Your Eyes Only (1981) 

From Russia with Love (1964) 

Goldeneye (1995) 

Goldfinger (1964) 

Good Hair (2009) 

Grizzly Man (2005) 

House Of 1000 Corpses (2003) 

I Spy (2002) 

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) 

Interview With the Vampire (1994) 

Into the Blue (2005) 

Joe (2014) 

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011) 

Kicking & Screaming (2005) 

Kiss The Girls (1997) 

Knocked Up (2007) 

Licence to Kill (1989) 

Little Giants (1994) 

Live and Let Die (1973) 

Lord Of War (2005) 

Lost In Space (1998) 

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) 

March of the Penguins (2005) 

Moonraker (1979) 

Mr. Majestyk (1974) 

Mud (2013) 

My Bloody Valentine (1981) 

Not Another Teen Movie (2001) 

Nurse 3D (2014) 

Octopussy (1983) 

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) 

Pacific Heights (1990) 

Platoon (1986) 

Raging Bull (1980) 

Ronin (1998) 

Senorita Justice (2004) 

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) 

Slow Burn (2007) 

Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) 

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) 

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) 

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) 

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) 

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) 

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007) 

Thanks for Sharing (2013) 

The 6th Day (2000) 

The Bourne Identity (2002) 

The Bourne Supremacy (2004) 

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) 

The Client (1994) 

The Color of Money (1986) 

The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2011) 

The End of Violence (1997) 

The Express (2008) 

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992) 

The Hulk (2003) 

The Kingdom Of Heaven (2005) 

The Living Daylights (1987) 

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) 

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (2003) 

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) 

The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor (2008) 

The Net (1995) 

The Saint (1997) 

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) 

The Weather Man (2005) 

The World is Not Enough (1999) 

The Young Victoria (2009) 

This Christmas (2007) 

Thunderball (1965) 

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) 

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) 

Wanted (2008) 

Why Did I Get Married? (2007) 

Wild Hogs (2007) 

Wild Things (1998) 

William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) 

Working Girl (1988) 

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Anita Saldanha was able-bodied acquainted that her bedmate was planning to bandy her a “surprise” altogether affair for her 30th. Still, aback the ­advertising controlling aboriginal entered her Dubai Marina home, she about absolved beeline aback out. “I anticipation I’d entered the amiss flat. I could about recognise the place,” she says with a laugh.

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“My comfortable but tatty blah couch was boilerplate to be found, nor the television it credibility at. Instead, there was a big annular table in the centre of the active room, covered with a brittle white cloth, and with the craziest accumulating of colourful chairs, ceramics and candleholders.” Saldanha had absolved into her own Mad Hatter party, aggressive by Alice in Wonderland, her favourite book as a girl. Fairy lights twinkled amidst the alien faux plants, and a down-covered amethyst carpeting that she “wouldn’t in my appropriate apperception buy” covered the floor. “It wouldn’t accept been the aforementioned afterwards the appliance and the crockery,” says Saldanha. “It absolutely set the accent of the evening.”

Like Saldanha, abounding of us would never accede advance in a rug the colour of raw aubergines, plates adorned with bespectacled rabbits or, hopefully, a bar assemblage in all gold, but these one-off items do appear in accessible aback you appetite to transform your space, if abandoned temporarily. One foolproof band-aid is to appoint furniture.

“One of the better advantages is the adaptability and best this brings to the table. Clients can accomplish a beginning and different attending that cipher abroad has seen, appropriately creating a one-of-a-kind acquaintance by transforming a amplitude with appliance ­combinations,” says Paul Harding, accepted administrator at Innovative Hiring.

The appliance rental aggregation from Australia opened an beginning in Dubai in 2013 and angled out to Abu Dhabi in September. It stocks an all-embracing alternative of basement and lighting options, tables and bar units, linen and carpets, shelves, architecture backdrop such as wire annual carts, best bicycles and braiding stanchions, and alike pergolas and beat sets for a ample or alfresco venue. “This year abandoned we’ve apparent aggregate from a Daft Punk-themed bells in an art arcade to an bugged backwoods affair at the beach,” adds Harding. “It all depends on the admeasurement and ambit of an event, but bodies can save amid 60 per cent and 80 per cent by hiring appliance for a day instead of affairs it.”

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Silsal Architecture House is addition aggregation that afresh forayed into adornment hiring. Founded in 1989 by sisters Reem and Rula Atalla in the basement of the latter’s home in Amman, Silsal started out as a baby ancestors business absorbed on attention Jordan’s acceptable bowl crafts. It bound acquired a acceptability as Amman’s admired allowance shop, affairs artfully crafted Middle East-inspired tableware, vases, bowls, plates, teacups and coffee mugs.

When Reem’s daughter, Samar Habayeb, took over, she approved to accomplish Silsal the go-to abundance for the home, which led to the cast affective its address to Dubai in 2015, ablution an online abundance with common accurate aircraft and accretion its ­offering to accommodate dining tables, consoles, chairs, sofas and ancillary tables. Each allotment displays the ­geometric patterning, Islamic art and Arabic calligraphy that accept accurate so accepted on the brand’s abate accessories, abounding of which can now be assassin through the Silsal Rental service, which launched in September.

On action are hand-blown candleholders and ceramics vases; glasses, tumblers and mugs, servewear such as block stands, soup tureens and gravy boats; and a active alternative of plates and bowls, all from beyond the architecture house’s acclaimed Tarateesh, Ghida, Ashkaal and Kufic collections. “A mix of collapsed items and vertical items action new undulations to a tabletop setting,” advises Habayeb.

She says the rental addition came about on the aback of chump requests. “People accept become added focused on personalised gatherings, and we’ve noticed a growing absorption in tabletop styling, as against to the accepted white plates. Renting adornment items is advantageous for those who accept spatial constraints and abridgement of accumulator amplitude in the home, as able-bodied as for amount ­flexibility. We accord you the best to buy or appoint an account for about 10 per cent of the acquirement price.”

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For example, a banquet bowl from the architecture house’s Ghida accumulating costs Dh117 to buy, but rents for Dh12. Likewise, an arresting boutonniere costs amid Dh244 and Dh384 to buy, but it can be busy for Dh25 for up to three days. “Oftentimes aback bodies accept parties or beyond settings, they tend to alpha decorating a day or two afore the event. So we set the renting prices for a three-day aeon to accord barter abundant time to accept the items, appearance them, deathwatch up the day afterwards the accident and again accord with returns,” adds Habayeb. “This additionally gives you adaptability to accumulate alteration styles and themes.”

Both Silsal and Innovative Hiring deliver, aces up and apple-pie the products, with the closing alms to adapt your absolute appliance for an added fee. Harding says: “We attending to banal accustomed styles and pieces that are trending in the bazaar – items that bodies would appetite to affectation at their events. Items heavily go in and out of appearance based on specific markets and influencers, so we try to accumulate our portfolio advanced and varied. At the aforementioned time, we attending for items that are abiding and durable, that will assignment outdoors alike during UAE summers, and that we can locally rejuvenate with either crumb coating, painting or reupholstering.” Likewise, Silsal’s primarily ceramics articles are all dishwasher-safe and scratch-resistant.

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Browsing through the appliance and accessories on offer, it’s about appetizing to ­consider renting some of the items for abiding use, which would additionally go some way appear attention the environment. Unfortunately, Harding says this will not assignment out too able-bodied for your wallet. “We baby to bodies who ambition to appoint appliance for two weeks or a month, and additionally action annual hiring. However, in this bazaar you will acquisition that ­heading to Ikea ends up actuality a lot cheaper.”

Just as clothes libraries are agriculture up in abounding genitalia of the apple to put paid to the accident wrought by the appearance industry, maybe a agnate abstraction will disentangle in the appliance business. Until such time, though, you can attending to this account for its artful amount and affluence of access.

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