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Henry & Jorge + their parents walking them down the aisle
#with love#with love amazon#lgbtedit#tvedit#henry x jorge#vincent rodriguez iii#mark indelicato#constance marie#benito martinez#amor owens#brent pope#beatriz diaz#jorge diaz sr#ben cruz#lea cruz#henry cruz#jorge diaz jr#mygraphics#with love show#gif
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The last episode of Cruel Summer season 2 comes out tonight so my theories are that either Jeff, Steve, or the sheriff killed Luke. The only evidence I have is that it seems like Jeff doesn’t like Luke much anymore.
#cruel summer#cruel summer season 2#megan landry#isabella larue#luke chambers#steve chambers#brent chambers#debbie landry#lily landry#jeff pope#sheriff myer#jack myer
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I’m now obsessing over pope and deer!gf.. like him being the only reason she is still alive cuz she’s so clumsy
ּ 𓂅⋆ 🦌。˚. . .♡
just him lookin at u like this everytime u pipe up n join the group conversation on rare occasion !! like he looks all surprised n his brows raise in encouragement for you to keep going because he’s certain whatever you have to say is a better contribution than whatever jj is in the midst of cooking up.
he’s developed these crazy fast reflexes from his hand shooting out to grab the back of your shirt and pull you back whenever he sees your feet scuttle too near to the edge of the pier, looking down at you with a calm smile after he pretty much saves you from taking an accidental dive.
he stays by your side at all times, truly — never running off or getting carried away and darting off in an unexpected direction because he knows he’s your sense of calm, a big hand always on your back, muttering “you’re good.” when you jump at a loud noise (usually, again — a sudden outburst from jj.)
he’ll let you read your book to him, or if you’re sleepy he’ll read it to you, curled up to his side in bed. you often needed winding down after a long and stressful day with the pogues because of how skittish you are, it can often make you anxious if not calmed down correctly before bed. sometimes he brings you out to sit quietly by the water at night, just chatting quietly with you and letting you ask him questions about the occurrences you didn’t understand that day (a lot happens, and john b talks all fast when he’s onto a plan it’s hard to keep up!)
sometimes you need calming down other ways. those signature doe eyes have him melting as you straddle him in his bed, the soft warm glow of the lamp illuminating the state of his bedroom at 1am. brent faiyaz plays softly out his desktop speakers but it doesn’t do much to mask the repeated quiet creaking of his bed as you grind down on his lap with his dick inside you. he’s sat up too, shirtless and glowing with his body pressed to yours and his splayed hands running up and down your back. “keep it coming, just… just take what you need pretty girl. i’m certain this’ll help you sleep.”
ּ 𓂅⋆ 🦌。˚. . .♡
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ᯓ★𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐁𝐎𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓ᯓ★
🍸Other Moodboards🍸
👗Charlie Bushnell x Actor of Glinda from wicked in Broadway👗
⚽️Dating Dominik Szoboszlai⚽️
📀Vinnie Hacker x Rockstar gf📀
🎸Dominic Fike x Rockstar gf🎸
🎥Tara Yummy x Actress GF🎥
⚽️Lamie Yamal⚽️
🦢Taylor Russell x Actress GF🦢
👗Alexa Demie x Model GF👗
🏃🏻♀️Dating Masai Russell🏃🏻♀️
🤗Dating Hamzah🤗
💫Landon Barker x Model GF💫
🎙Vinnie Hacker x Streamer GF🎙
📹Olivia Rodrigo x Youtuber gf📹
🐋 Dating Cam Cameron🐋
🎓Dating Steven Conklin🎓
🏄♂️Dating Conrad Fisher🏄♂️
🕊Dating Dove Cameron🕊
🥥 Dating Belly Conklin 🥥
🎀Dating Lana Del Rey🎀
🎸Dating Dominic Fike🎸
💸Rafe Cameron x Kook turned pogue gf💸
🐎Olivia Rodrigo x Olympic Horse Rider🐎
👑Pope Heyward x Princess! GF👑
✨️Katherine Pierce x Witch✨️
🐎Gigi Hadid x Olympic Horse Rider🐎
🎀Dating Gracie Abrams🎀
💓Dating Benoftheweek💓
💭Dating Milo Manheim💭
💋Rafe Cameron x Bad Bitch GF💋
🤭Rafe Cameron being down bad🤭
🥭Sarah Cameron x Pouge GF🥭
🍾Kie Carrera x Kook GF🍾
💫Billie Eilish x Model GF💫
🍃Dating Brent Faiyaz🍃
💥Olivia Rodrigo x Rockstar GF💥
🙊Dating Landon Barker🙊
🎧Hamzahthefantastic dating his podacast buddy🎤
🩸Dating Jennifer Check🩸
💫Dating Kehlani💫
🧸Dating Nailea Devora🧸
✨️Dating Maddy Perez✨️
💕What i think rafe and i's relationship would look like💕
❤️Felix Catton with a shy GF❤️
🕊Domestic life with Rafe Cameron🕊
🎸Rockstar! Harris Dickinson x Rockstar! GF🎸
✨️Rockstar! Hamzah x Model! GF✨️
🐎Kendall Jenner x Olympic horse rider🐎
👩🏻🎓Lewis Hamilton x University GF👩🏻🎓
📺 Dating Aubrey Plaza📺
🎀Sam Monroe with a popular gf🎀
🍃Sam Monroe with a GF whos the female version of him🍃
🎾Tashi Duncan having an affair with pro! Tennis player🎾
🙈Being Patrick Zweigs controversialy young gf🙈
🖤Sam Monroe x @rottencandyblood (MLM)🖤
✨️Salem potere (visual for a fic)✨️
💋Annika Graham (visual for a fic) 💋
🫂Annika Graham and Salem potere (visual for a fic)🫂
💭Moodboard for my fic "Thigh to thigh"💭
🧃Sturniolo Triplets🧃
💞Chris Sturniolo x Latina 💞
💓Matt Sturniolo x Latina💓
🎀🐱Matt Sturniolo x HK Girlfriend🐱🎀
🤫Secretly Dating Matt Sturniolo🤫
👀Teaser for my toxic!fem reader x matt sturniolo
🐕Matt Sturniolo x Golden Retriever GF🐕
🐈⬛Chris Sturniolo x Black Cat GF🐈⬛
🖤Matt Sturniolo x Black Cat GF🖤
🐈Matt Sturniolo x Blonde Cat GF🐈
📷Matt and his model!gf doing a prada shoot📷
🩸Vamp! Matt sturniolo (visual for a fic)🩸
🩸Vamp! Chris sturniolo (visual for a fic)🩸
🩸Vamp! Nick sturniolo (visual for a fic)🩸
🩸Salem potere x vamp! Triplets (visual for a fic)🩸
🍃Being Dealer Chris' Bunny🍃
🥝PJO🥝
🕳Daughters of Hades🕳
🎭Sons of Dionysus🎭
🎸Rockstar! Sons of Dionysus🎸
🍒Daughters of Dionysus🍒
🎤Rockstar! Daughters of Dionysus🎤
🗡Aphrodite warriors🗡
🍓Daughters of Demeter🍓
🐚Daughters of Thetis🐚
🌊Sons of Thetis🌊
🐍Luke Castellan🐍
💤Luke Castellan x Daughter of Hypnos💤
🥊Boxer! Luke Castellan🥊
🏍Biker! Luke Castellan🏍
🥎Monster High🥎
🏹Cupid🏹
⚡️Frankie Stein⚡️
🐺Clawdeen Wolf🐺
🩸Elissabat🩸
🦇Draculaura🦇
💎Cleo DeNile💎
❄️Abbey Bominable❄️
✨️Howleen Wolf✨️
🎬Clawdia Wolf🎬
😽Toralei😽
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What books have you been reading since your last update?
I don't remember what I shared with my last update, so apologies if I repeat anything, but these are some of the books I've read over the past couple months:
•An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) I'm actually still reading this new book by the legendary Doris Kearns Goodwin, so I still have a couple of chapters to go, but I can definitely recommend it. This is undoubtedly the most personal book that DKG has ever written, and it's a fascinating story.
•Charging a Tyrant: The Arraignment of Saddam Hussein by Greg Slavonic (BOOK | KINDLE)
•Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy by Sally Bedell Smith (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer (BOOK | KINDLE)
•The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuscinski
•Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall by Josiah Bunting III (BOOK | KINDLE)
•The Year of the Three Kaisers: Bismarck and the German Succession, 1887-88 by J. Alden Nichols
•God Is Ever New: Meditations on Life, Love, and Freedom by Pope Benedict XVI (BOOK | KINDLE)
•Paul VI: The Divided Pope by Yves Chiron (BOOK | KINDLE)
•Buffalo Bill and the Mormons by Brent M. Rogers (BOOK | KINDLE)
•The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union by Stephen Puleo (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Macho Man: The Untamed, Unbelievable Life of Randy Savage by Jon Finkel (BOOK | KINDLE)
•Business Is About to Pick Up!: 50 Years of Wrestling in 50 Unforgettable Calls by Jim Ross with Paul O'Brien (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Zanzibar Was a Country: Exile and Citizenship Between East Africa and the Gulf by Nathaniel Mathews (BOOK | KINDLE)
#Books#Reading List#Book Suggestions#My Reading List#Book Recommendations#Recommended Reading#What I've Been Reading#An Unfinished Love Story#Doris Kearns Goodwin#Simon & Schuster#An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s#Charging a Tyrant: The Arraignment of Saddam Hussein#Saddam Hussein#Life: My Story Through History#Pope Francis#Biographies#Papal Biographies#George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved a Monarchy#Sally Bedell Smith#King George Vi#Byron: A Life in Ten Letters#Andrew Stauffer#The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat#Haile Selassie#Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism#Jeffrey Toobin#Timothy McVeigh#Oklahoma City Bombing#The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall#General Marshall
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Those who are naturally, spiritually, and humanly poor are not the focus of special attention because they are an economic, social, or pastoral problem, but because the loving God, poor along the poor, reserved for them a privileged place in Christ's life and ministry. The "poor Church for the poor" of Pope Francis is a principle that defines in an evangelistic sense the choice of poverty and service to the poor, thus continuing the wonderful story of a loving Church that throughout the centuries has been a way to liberation, inclusion, and promotion for the poor, following Christ's idea of liberty and love. Christ indeed offers not only generous, practical, and constant solidarity, but he also actively affirms human dignity, pursues justice, and builds a civilization that is effectively "human".
Giuliano Vigini (in his Preface to The Church of Mercy: A Vision for the Church)
Jesus Breaking the Bread for the Five Thousand, by Brent Kastler
#Christianity#Catholicism#Jesus Christ#Ecclesia#eschatological sign#poverty#destitution#service#sarvodaya#daridranarayan#freedom#justice#human dignity#social justice#love#agape#charity#My Pope
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American Dad! Season 6 Episode 3: Home Adrone
Written by Erik Sommers
Storyboard by Patrick Kochakji, Chris Graham & Eric Fredrickson
Directed by Brent Woods
Animation timed by Hunilla Fodor, Juli Murphy, Jenni McCosker, Maureen Mlynarczyk, Tom Pope & Celeste Mari Williams
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Comics read this past week:
DC Comics:
Legends of the DC Universe (1998) #10-11
These issues were published across September 1998 to October 1998, according to the Grand Comics Database. Both issues were written by Kelley Puckett. Issue #10 was penciled by Terry Dodson and inked by Kevin Nowlan. And the layouts of issue #11 were drawn by Terry Dodson, which were finished by Kevin Nowlan. This was a Batgirl story, taking place when Barbara was 18 and just at the beginning of her superhero career.
In this version of events, its portrayed that Jim Gordon could tell that Batgirl was Barbara as soon as he learned of Batgirl’s existence. In the first issue we see Barbara out fighting as Batgirl interspersed with a flashback to the senseless death of her parents, then Jim’s conflicted emotions as he drops Barbara off at college. He is both proud of and made afraid by the “fire” in her and what it could bring, and this ultimately makes him awkward with Barbara, unable to properly talk to her. Bruce as Batman approaches Barbara to tell her to stop being Batgirl, citing both the danger to her and the feeling that he owes it to Jim, but she convinces Bruce to train her instead. It’s after Barbara has started working with Bruce that Batgirl’s existence comes to Jim’s attention, and he’s horrified, but there’s no implication of him ever confronting Batman over it, just him trying and failing to bring it up with Barbara. But this doesn’t have the same amount of tension as is implied in the references to conflict between Bruce and Dick when he was around this age in other stories I read this week.
In the second issue Barbara happens to be part of a hostage situation at a bank, because it’s Gotham, and Jim rushes in alone to try to handle it, afraid of Barbara trying to do so all by herself, since he knows she’s Batgirl. He gets shot and taken prisoner, which Barbara witnesses, leading to a flashback from her perspective of Jim taking her in after her parents’ deaths. Her first attempt to handle the situation as Batgirl doesn’t go well and she is also captured. But it’s, maybe counterintuitively, while they’re imprisoned together and Jim is seeing Barbara as Batgirl up close that his fear is overpowered by his pride in her and he accepts that she is actually capable of being Batgirl, and he frees her to that she can save the day. This change of heart is expressed not through dialogue or even that much internal narration, but largely through his expressions. At the end of the story the two of them are still not seriously talking about their feelings, his about her future and for her what seeing him seriously injured dredged up, but are interacting cordially again.
Batman: Turning Points (2001) #1-5
These issues were all published November 2000, according to the Grand Comics Database. Issue #1 was written by Greg Rucka and drawn by Steve Leiber. Issue #2 was written by Ed Brubaker and drawn by Joe Giella. Issue #3 was written by Ed Brubaker, penciled by Dick Giordano, and inked by Bob Smith. Issue #4 was written by Chuck Dixon and drawn by Brent Anderson. Issue #5 was written by Greg Rucka, penciled by Paul Pope, and inked by Claude St. Auben. This miniseries was about significant moments in the relationship between Batman and Jim Gordon.
Issue #1 took place early in Bruce’s career as Batman and working relationship with Jim. At the beginning of the issue Jim's wife leaves with his son, and then there's a hostage situation at a wedding caused by a man whose wife and child just died. Jim trusts Batman to handle it, and he does, despite his inexperience. Afterwards Bruce goes to Jim's cleared out apartment to try to talk to him as a friend, which Jim rejects. Jim tells Batman, “That’s why you’re here? Because you feel sorry for me? Who do you think you are, anyway? You come to my home and you say you’re sorry to me like you’re my friend? We’re not friends. Are you married? Do you have children? Did your wife or partner or whoever walk out on you?” And after Bruce’s silence, “So don’t tell me you’re sorry. Right now I’ve got more in common with with Corbett [the hostage-taker] than I do with you. So unless you know what it’s like to lose your family, I don’t want to hear it.”
I was really surprised to see Bruce attempting to be a genuine friend in his Batman identity. My perception of him has been of him being really emotionally closed off and formal.
Issue #2 is about Jim reacting to Bruce taking Dick on as his sidekick. It has the intense title "From Generation to Generation Like Cancer." It's also drawn with an old-fashioned art style, which the rest of the issues in this miniseries weren't, and it's handled like it too, with Mr. Freeze having a goofy costume and weapon. At first Jim thinks that Batman must be “insane" for taking on a teenage partner. He believes that Bruce is putting Dick to the path to getting killed. But Bruce argues that he’s “helping him not get killed,” refers to what he’s doing as “not training him so much as I’m guiding him,” and makes an argument that wasn’t convincing to me that Dick needed an outlet for his anger, so, “I’m just trying to stop a cycle we’ve both seen too many times.”
Jim is swayed by this, and is also convinced to release one of Mr. Freeze’s captured henchmen despite not understanding the reason why. Upon seeing Batman and Robin together Jim is amazed, views them as “In a whole different world,” and then thinks, “What was I thinking? Our rules don’t apply to him. They never have,” which was shocking to me. What follows is Batman and Robin having a “conversation in the dark” with the henchman, taking the opportunity to intimidate or even torture him for information about Mr. Freeze. That was also surprising to me, both for this story that's early in Dick's career as Robin and with this art style. The information leads them to a hideout at a warehouse for large props for an old children’s show, which I assume was meant to evoke the 60s Batman show specifically.
During the following fight Mr. Freeze briefly has Dick in a perilous position, and also several police officers are killed. Counterintuitively, Batman being afraid that Dick could die and the deaths of the police officers makes Jim feel more confident in this arrangement, because he approves of Bruce and Dick's relationship and he thinks that Dick could die even if he wasn't a sidekick. It seems that the most important factor, over the evidence of Dick's skills as a fighter, is that Jim thinks having a partner is good for Batman. He ends the issue with the question: "how can I deny him what everyone wants, if I am his friend? How can I deny him a family?" The idea that he could have a family that isn't a partner to him as a superhero isn't considered. Bruce had raised the possibility that Dick could become a criminal without the outlet of being a superhero earlier, and the now fatherless families due to Mr. Freeze killing several police officers is also evoked by Jim as an example of "handing our troubles down from generation to generation." He also considers his relationship with his niece Barbara, which is made even more significant since he lost his wife and son.
This all is a striking departure from the first issue of the book where Jim did not yet consider Batman a friend, still thought of him as a strange but skilled person and wasn't caught up with the persona of the Batman, and didn't think of him as a person enough to consider that he could have lost anyone important to him. Note that in the "Prey" storyline read last this past week, it's emphasized how well Jim understands Batman including understanding the extent of his grief.
Issue #3 took place after Jason's death in the "A Death in the Family" storyline, published in 1988, and after Barbara was disabled in Batman: The Killing Joke (1988). Bruce changes his tactics, going back to being quick-acting vigilante that saves people then disappears, and doesn’t answer the Bat-Signal or otherwise work on solving mysteries. Bruce expressed admiration for Jim that he “is still here, doing his job… persevering.” He considers Jim to be the “better man” because what the Joker said to him during The Killing Joke made him doubt himself. Bruce is also worried about what will happen if he’s the one to bring in the current serial killer operating in Gotham, because it’s through being brought down by the Batman that his enemies become costumed criminals that continuously terrorize the city. In the end Bruce and Jim are affirmed in their friendship and mutual support for one another. Also, Jim tells Batman, “I’m sorry, too… about your son,” referring to Robin’s death. Batman says, “He wasn’t my son… Not really,” to which Jim says, “The hell he wasn’t.” It’s surprising to me that Bruce trying to downplay that relationship and not acknowledge Jason as his son isn’t responded to more negatively.
Issue #4 took place during the 1993-1994 storyline "Knightfall," which I haven't read, in which Bane breaks Bruce's back and then in the aftermath Bruce adopts a more aggressive way of dealing with criminals. Throughout the story there is an emphasis on that Jim thought he understood Batman, and he struggles with whether he's misjudged him and if he's one of Gotham's "psychotics and misfits," thinking that if that's the case, "Then it's my job to stop him. To make up for covering for him all these years." Tim Drake appears as Robin briefly, responding to the Bat-Signal when Bruce won't. Jim questions him about if Batman is all right, but Tim defers by only saying that he's physically fine, which frustrates Jim. I was struck by that it doesn't occur to Jim to be concerned for Robin's safety with Batman, even though there's a scene where Jim is worried about Batman breaking into his office to hurt him. The story doesn't end with a resolution where Bruce changes or Jim is reassured.
Issue #5 called back to the story of issue #1, with the character that held up the church wedding coming back and prompting Bruce and Jim to reflect on their friendship since then. Jim emphasizes how both of their lives are “marked by tragedies,” and says, “You told me that everyone needs a friend. You’ve been mine. I hope to god that I’ve been yours.”
Batman: Ego (2000)
This 62-page graphic novel was published in August 2000, according to the Grand Comics Database. It was written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke.
At the beginning of this book, discussing the Joker’s latest crime, Bruce thinks, “What horrifies me most- is that I seem to be getting used to it. The pain. The death. Not numb, but used to it. Like each new atrocity is the echo of a pistol fired long ago- in the depths of a dry well.” This reminded me of some of the language used in the “Shaman” storyline across Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989) #1-5, which suggested that Bruce was fated to be Batman because of what he experienced as a child, that he’s marked and it’s visible in his eyes. The last two panels that that bit of narration was placed over were Batman’s narrowed eyes as he looks at the Joker’s crime scene, and then child-Bruce’s horrified, wide open ones as he sees the gunman shoot his parents.
This book depicted Batman as this other figure that lived within Bruce since he was a child, and as a being that could be in conflict with him. It reminded me of Bruce Wainright from Batman: Creature of the Night (2018), whose Batman was in essence an imaginary friend come to life, a guardian angel that took the form of Batman because of that Bruce’s fixation on the to-him fictional character. Though the idea of Bruce Wayne being mentally ill is invoked very early in Batman: Ego, with presentiment flashbacks to Dr. Hugo Strange saying Batman had “both schizophrenia and a split personality” and Gotham City’s mayor calling him a “total headcase” early on. (The Hugo Strange quote actually comes from the "Prey" story arc, read later this past week.)
What incites the conflict between Bruce and Batman is that Bruce wants to quit being Batman, then the sticking point in their argument becomes that Batman wants to be able to kill criminals. Batman threatens, “If you denounce me- if you try to jam me back into your subconscious, then I promise I will torment you until the day we die! I promise you’ll wake up screaming every night of your pitiful life!” Batman brings up Harvey Dent, the lawyer and friend of Bruce turned villain Two-Face, and says, “Harvey was in a position where his secret self could act freely. Harvey’s condition ensured he couldn’t be held accountable for anything Two-Face did.” He says, “although we share a host body, I suggest we admit that we are separate entities,” and proposes that Bruce go on being Bruce Wayne, but “step aside” when Batman is needed. Bruce believes he is necessary to ‘temper’ Batman’s wrath, but is also unwilling to kill Batman, and so ultimately they continue on as they were before.
Nightwing (1996) #133-137
These issues were published across June 2007 to October 2007, according to the DC Wiki. All were written by Marv Wolfman. Issues #133-134 were penciled by Jamal Igle and inked by Keith Champagne. And issues #135-137 were penciled by Joe Bosco and inked by Alex Da Silva Soare. This story, titled “321 Days,” did take place in the present day of the Nightwing book, but it was heavily based around, and flashed back to, events of the period of time that Dick moved out from Wayne Manor for several months when he was 16 going on 17.
In their argument, flashed back to in issue #134, Dick says, “When we started this you were open and encouraging. You were like my father… But these last few years… All you’ve been doing is trying to control me.” Bruce tells Dick, “If I found you today instead of then, I would never bring you into the fold,” which is what prompts Dick to move out. Struggling to make ends meet on his own, Dick meets Eddie, and his right-hand woman Lui. Eddie tells a group of young people, “You’re being put down like you’re still nine ‘cause as much as they say they love you- You getting older means they’re getting older.” He assures the group, “Unlike your parents, unlike other adults, I’m not afraid of being replaced.” In issue #135 we see that Dick formed a romantic and sexual relationship with Lui, and the Eddie began training Dick (much like Bruce would have) and told him things like, “Good. Really good. But I’ll make you better. Maybe, someday, even better than me.”
Still in issue #135, Dick grows uncomfortable with the worsening criminal activity Eddie is involving the gang in and considers calling Bruce, but changes his mind, saying, “What am I doing? I left to prove I’m grown up. I can’t just call daddy.” Lui proposes to Dick that he help the gang rob Bruce Wayne with his access to him, but Dick can’t accept that they were “using” him and that he was just a “passkey” to them, until he finds out that Lui and Eddie are sleeping together, which is devastating for him. At this point Dick goes back to Bruce and they take down the gang as Batman and Robin, after which their relationship is repaired. Bruce says he can’t treat Dick as an equal because, “I’m older. Smarter. I can still take you in a fight. But I will respect you… as an adult. […] Maybe it just took a while for me to see it.”
Dick is deeply distressed about Lui coming back into his life 10 years later. Though outwardly he acts cordially, his internal narration over the 4 pages of their conversation in issue #133 reads: “Don’t trust her. Don’t trust her. Don’t trust her. Don’t trust her. She looks the same, smells the same. Don’t let her in. She’ll crush you, just like before. Smells like Jasmine, always did. Don’t do it. I want to believe her. Believe in her. Trust her. Jasmine. I can’t trust her. Don’t trust her. Jasmine and sweat. The memory is still strong. Dick Grayson loved her. Robin busted her. I can’t trust her. I shouldn’t. Jasmine and sweat. She still smells the same.”
Dick’s former relationships with Barbara Gordon and Starfire are invoked several times throughout the story. Dick questions in issue #134, “Is she why I’ve never been able to commit? Why it’s easy for me to say ‘I love you…’ But not ‘I need you’? as images of Dick and Kory appear behind him, and then of Lui fighting Robin. In issue #136 he thinks, again with Barbara and Kory appearing behind him for part of the narration, “After her… Couldn’t let myself trust… Couldn’t let myself believe… Couldn’t let myself get close. To anyone. I’m so tired of that. I want… I want… Just don’t know if I’ll ever be able to have.” In issue #137, after Lui has been seriously injured in a fight and Dick rushed her to the hospital, he thinks, “Damn you all. Once bitten. Twice shy,” and Barbara and Kory’s reflections in the glass briefly overtake his own.
In issue #137 Dick gives the speech that the title of the story comes from, telling the new Vigilante something he’s never been able to tell the people he’s actually close to before. He describes that after Lui, “I spent most of the next year pretending nothing had happened.” He says that, “Day one was the day I learned the truth.” Then, “when things looked their worst… 321 days later everything changed again.” I haven’t actually read The New Teen Titans (1980) before, so I’m not sure exactly which event from that this is referring to. Barbara and Kory are again depicted behind Dick, and he says, “Only, I had never confronted what was wrong. So I screwed up what I had… And then, later on, I screwed up again.”
Also, Dick running away from Bruce and joining up with a criminal gang that targeted young people reminded me of a similar thing happening in Robin: Year One (2000), though that was a bit different in that it happened very early in Dick’s career as Robin.
Nightwing (1996) Annual #2
This issue was published in April 2007, according to the DC Wiki. It was written by Marc Andreyko, penciled by Joe Bennet, and inked by Jack Jadson. I read this because it's included in the same trade that collects the "321 Days" storyline, so I thought it might be relevant. This issue was about Dick and Barbara Gordon’s relationship over the years, leading up to their present day state in the aftermath of the Infinite Crisis event.
I liked how Bruce hung over their relationship in the story. Early on Barbara sternly tells Dick to get back in bed because he’s recovering from injuries, and he tells her that her “glare” was “like you channeled Batman there.” She tells him, “Maybe you bring that out in people,” to which he says, “Ouch. Now you sound like him.” In the flashback to their first date when they were still Batman and Robin he’s fretting out they skipped patrol. He dramatically says, “Bruce is gonna kill us.” She says, “Kill you, not me. I don’t live with him,” but also, “He’ll never know we skipped patrol.” But Dick thinks, “Yeah, he will. He knows everything.”
Dick tries to confess the extent of his feelings for her back then, saying, “I’m a big boy now,” and, “I love you, Babs- as a friend, as a partner- and I’d like to believe I could love you as a…” but he doesn’t learn until the present day that she heard him. Barbara explains, “You should be grateful I did that. You had so much going on. The Titans had reformed again. And you and Bruce… Remember how tense things were then? You were so angry, you were rejecting all things Batman.”
As part of Dick’s recovery, we see a scene of Barbara being encouraging and a scene of her speaking to him harshly to motivate him. After the harsh scene, Dick realizes that the spikes he pushed himself in order to not impale himself on were only “foam rubber,” and comments, “Bruce would’ve used real iron.” Barbara says, “You’d like that, wouldn’t you? But I’m not Bruce. And I’m not here to reinforce your guilty conscious.” Apparently, not risking seriously hurting him during training but still speaking harshly to him is a step up.
When a call from Bruce interrupts their conversation, Dick thinks, “It all leads back to him, doesn’t it?” Dick tells him that Barbara is acting “like a drill sergeant, but that’s what I needed.” Bruce very bluntly drops on Dick that he’s going on a long trip with Tim and wants Dick to come as well, that “I’d like my family with me.” Dick doesn’t even get a chance to respond before Bruce says, “I need a final decision by Friday,” and leaves. And then Barbara ends up leaving to ensure Dick goes with Bruce, telling him in a letter, “We both know you have to go with Bruce. Not because of him, but because of you.”
Of relevance to the “321 Days” story is that Barbara refers to that Dick lost his virginity to Starfire. He asks, “Who said I was a virgin,” and she responds, “Please. The whole ‘I-know-you-better-than-you-do’ thing?” Dick doesn’t correct her, just says, “Right.” (Though, to be fair, “321 Days” was published just a bit after this.)
Also, it was strange to follow up reading that story about Dick being affected by an early sexual manipulation, to the scene in this story where Dick sleeps with Barbara after he gets engaged to Kory, but doesn’t reveal that he’s engaged until the next morning, seriously hurting Barbara. That scene primarily highlights Barbara’s perspective; I don’t really understand what was meant for Dick to be thinking there.
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989) #11-15
These issues were published across September 1990 to January 1991 according to the Grand Comics Database. All were written by Doug Moench, penciled by Paul Gulacy, and inked by Terry Austin. This was the “Prey” storyline, featuring Dr. Hugo Strange as the primary villain.
This is immediately one of my favorite Batman stories that I’ve ever read; it worked really well for me. I read this simply because it was the next arc in Legends of the Dark Knight, but it paired well with Batman: Turning Points and Batman: Ego, considering the focus on Bruce’s mental state and relationship with Jim Gordon.
In the first issue Jim, Gotham’s mayor, and psychiatrist Hugo Strange appear on a live talk show together to discuss the Batman. Bruce justifies watching to Alfred by saying it’s “free analysis,” but as Strange talks he gets deeply distressed and self-harms by squeezing his glass so hard it shatters and cuts his hand, then continues watching as Alfred tends to his wound. Strange says that Batman is “extremely obsessed- and he craves individual power, indicating a paranoid mistrust of others.” Strange says that he’s, “Obsessed with the night, with darkness. Perhaps obsessed with vengeance,” and pinpoints that it all leads back to a singular trauma that happened during the night. And, regarding that he’s a “rogue who acts alone,” Strange says, “He does not wish to share his victories and accomplishments, yet he insists on remaining anonymous. You see-? He craves fame, wants to be a star, but not as himself- only as the fictional construct, ‘The Batman.’ And, referring to that he uses “the iconography of a hideous, filthy night-creature,” Strange believes that Batman’s motives aren’t “utilitarian” and instead “he exults in the dark power of this terrifying apparition.”
Bruce is comforted when Jim defends him, thinking, “Gordon knows. Gordon understands.” But when the mayor surprises Jim with the announcement that there’s going to be a new “vigilante task force” to take down the Batman, and Jim’s going to lead it, Bruce is distressed again. He thinks, “No. Not him. Not Gordon. Not the only one who understands.” Later, wondering if what Strange said about him being too obsessed and needing to work alone is true, Bruce thinks, “What would it take… for me to trust someone? And who could I trust?” Meanwhile, since Strange is going to consult on the task force, Jim is worried about him being able to figure out Batman’s secret identity. But later, when Strange requests the files on every mugging and murder from the last 5 years, he thinks, “At least he’s underestimated the extent of the Batman’s obsession- a lifetime obsession. He’s also underestimated the time necessary to prepare. In a mere five years, no man could become what the Batman is.” He agrees that Strange will be given the files, “but nothing of my suspicions.”
Strange, it turns out, is deeply disturbed and jealous of Batman. He imagines being like him would feel “omnipotent.” It’s a frustration that he can understand the Batman only psychologically, and he wants to know what it would feel like physically to be Batman. He also hates women, saying in issue #14, “You’re all alike! No man’s ever good enough for you,” as he hits the mayor’s daughter, who he had kidnapped after she spoke positively about Batman. He, in his delusional way, interpreted her support of him as her specifically being attracted to Batman, as opposed to him.
There’s a scene in issue #14 where Bruce is drugged, Alfred tries to help him, and then Bruce hits him before fleeing to the Batcave because he feels safe there. We see in issue #15 that Bruce stays there for several days, comfortable in the dark, and initially refuses to eat even though Alfred was bringing him food. This was the first moment I’ve read that’s made me sympathetic to Alfred’s position and appreciate his loyalty to Bruce. I don’t find him making fun of Bruce for being absurd endearing at all. And I believe his cold parenting holds some responsibility for how Bruce turned out. But this made me appreciate that Bruce is stronger than Alfred, and that Alfred continues to care for Bruce even though Bruce doesn’t always make it easy.
Also, referring back to Jim’s sentiment in Turning Points #2 that “our rules don’t apply to him,” which was about Batman taking on a teenage sidekick, it seems relevant that, prompting by the discussion of Batman’s role is a vigilante and his own inability to disobey the mayor, Jim thinks in the first issue, “in the end, if I’m not above the law… is he? And if he isn’t… Then what is he?”
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songs kitten!reader and pope would fuck/sloppy make out to
all mine - brent faiyez
if you think i’m pretty - artemais
lotus flower bomb - wale, miguel
so anxious - ginuwine
redbone- childish gambino
kiss it better - rihanna
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YA Books about 🇦🇹 Austria
List of Austria books for the YA World Challenge.
It's been quite a while since I did a country-themed list. This one has been sitting in the drafts for a while.
I have discovered that YA books in English featuring Austria consist of only 3 categories:
WW2 (sometimes WW1)
Empress Sisi (interchangeable with Marie Antoinette or Nannerl Mozart)
Eva Ibbotson
And that's it. Well, I'm kidding, but it almost seems like it. Here's the little list I came up with. Feel free to suggest any I missed - I mostly search through Goodreads to find these so the list is prone to mistakes and omissions!
YA
I Don't Live Here Anymore by Gabi Kreslehner 💚 The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu ⌛🦋 Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville ⌛ When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler ⌛ Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld ⌛🦋 A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson 💚 Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson 💚 The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson 💚 The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap ⌛ Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten 💚 Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ⌛🦋 Becoming Marie Antoinette: A Novel by Juliet Grey ⌛ European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (#2) by Theodora Goss ⌛🦋 Wanderlost by Jen Malone 🏖️ Coronets and Steel by Sherwood Smith 🏖️🦋 The Empress by Gigi Griffis ⌛ The Secret Diary of a Princess by Melanie Clegg ⌛ The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer ⌛ In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story by Carolyn Meyer ⌛ Apple's Song by Blake Ryan 🏖️
MG
Hedy and her Amazing Invention by Jan Wahl 🛩️ The Thing I'm Most Afraid Of by Kristin Levine 🏖️♿ The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr 🦋 Searching for Lottie by Susan Ross 🛩️ Moonlight on the Magic Flute by Mary Pope Osborne 🏖️⌛🦋 Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky ⌛ The Night Crossing by Karen Ackerman ⌛ Stolen Words by Amy Goldman Koss 🏖️ The Taste of Snow by Stephen V. Masse
Memoir
Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust GN 💚 How I Tried to Be a Good Person by Ulli Lust GN 💚 Fat by Regina Hofer 💚♿ Becoming Alice: A Memoir by Alice Rene 💚⌛
NA/Adult
The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki ⌛ The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton ⌛ Exile Music: A Novel by Jennifer Steil ⌛🌈 The English Girl by Margaret Leroy ⌛🏖️ The Secret Society of Salzburg by Renee Ryan ⌛ The Edelweiss Sisters by Kate Hewitt ⌛ The Light After the War by Anita Abriel ⌛ The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck ⌛ The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor ⌛ The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason ⌛ House of Gold by Natasha Solomons ⌛ Setting Free the Bears John Irving Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese ⌛ The Girl with the Golden Scissors by Julia Drosten ⌛ Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson ⌛
💚 Native Author 🛩️ Immigrant or diaspora 🏖️ non-native characters in or about the country (ex. vacation/adventure) ⌛ Historical 🦋 Fantasy or Paranormal 🌈 LGBTQ+ ♿ Disability rep
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thank you so so much for tagging me @wunderlichkind 💗 feel hugged 💕
put your liked songs on shuffle, and post the first ten that come up:
Guns and Roses by Bohnes
Hit it by American Authors
Terribly love by Birdy
Renegade by Aaryan Shah
A Drop in the Ocean by Ron Pope
Hold me closer by Cornelia Jakobs
Hey Lion by Sofi Tukker
Be Alright by Dean Lewis
Gonna be okay by Brent Morgan
VENT'ANNI by Maneskin
i'm tagging @bwehdal @waru-chan8 @tam-is-blogging and @acrazybayernfan (but feel free to ignore <33)
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Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.  Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Peter Appleton: Jim Carrey Elvin Glyde: Bob Balaban Mayor Ernie Cole: Jeffrey DeMunn Congressman Doyle: Hal Holbrook Adele Stanton: Laurie Holden Harry Trimble: Martin Landau Sheriff Cecil Coleman: Brent Briscoe Kevin Bannerman: Ron Rifkin Emmett Smith: Gerry Black Doc Stanton: David Ogden Stiers Stan Keller: James Whitmore Irene Terwilliger: Susan Willis Mabel: Catherine Dent Carl Leffert: Brian Howe Bob Leffert: Karl Bury Avery Wyatt: Chelcie Ross Sandra Sinclair: Amanda Detmer Leo Kubelsky: Allen Garfield Federal Agent Ellerby: Daniel von Bargen Jerry the Bartender: Mario Roccuzzo Newsreel Announcer (voice): Earl Boen Roland the Intrepid Explorer: Bruce Campbell The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid: Cliff Curtis Kindly Old Professor Meredith: Michael Sloane Studio Executive (voice): Garry Marshall Studio Executive (voice): Paul Mazursky Studio Executive (voice): Sydney Pollack Studio Executive (voice): Carl Reiner Studio Executive (voice): Rob Reiner Luke Trimble (voice): Matt Damon Film Crew: Supervising Sound Editor: Richard L. Anderson Casting: Deborah Aquila Producer: Frank Darabont Original Music Composer: Mark Isham Director of Photography: David Tattersall Costume Design: Karyn Wagner Makeup Department Head: Bill Corso Editor: Jim Page Production Design: Gregory Melton First Assistant Editor: Tracey Wadmore-Smith Screenplay: Michael Sloane Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mel Metcalfe Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Terry Porter Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Dean A. Zupancic First Assistant Editor: Vince Filippone Set Production Assistant: Jacob Cooney Boom Operator: Tom Hartig Set Decoration: Natalie Pope Script Supervisor: Lyn Matsuda Norton Still Photographer: Ralph Nelson Jr. Steadicam Operator: David Emmerichs Music Editor: Thomas A. Carlson Gaffer: H. Mark Vuille Script Supervisor: Susan Malerstein Production Sound Mixer: Mark Ulano Rigging Gaffer: Todd Sater Production Supervisor: Alison Harstedt Stunts: Katie Rowe Movie Reviews: GenerationofSwine: It’s time for the Majestic review…. …RED SCARE!!!! It makes a play at it in the very start of the film. It loudly proclaims that, HEY, WATCH THIS MOVIE, IT’S ABOUT FREE SPEECH AND THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST!!!!! And it does it as loud as it can… …and then it kind of forgets what the movie is about up until the last 15 minutes. However, the bulk of the movie does seem like the kind of film that would fit in the Hollywood Blacklist Era. The plot, the acting, the setting, all seems to be very much a 1950s feel good movie… …and then it veers off again and delivers on the 1st Amendment moral to end the film with a light heavy hand…if that makes sense. So, it feels disjointed, but in a way that oddly fits the premise to begin with. Almost as if it is trying to be a movie in a movie, which might have been the point. Watch it once, it will entertain you. Watch it more than once and you’ll be bored.
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#1950s#amnesia#anti-communism#blacklist#california#falsely accused#Hollywood#mistaken identity#Prosecution#Top Rated Movies#writer
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Vincent D’Onofrio, Alan Tudyk, Brent Spiner Among Additions to FAN EXPO Cleveland, April 12-14
Eight standout celebrities from genres as varied as sci-fi, action and children’s programming have been added to the guest roster at FAN EXPO Cleveland, April 12-14 at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland. Among the newly announced stars are Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”), Alan Tudyk (Star Wars, “Firefly”), Brent Spiner (“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Independence Day), the “Ahsoka” duo of Eman Esfandi and Diana Lee Inosanto, Ethan Suplee (“My Name is Earl,” American History X), Jeff Ward (“One Piece,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) and Butch Hartman (creator, “The Fairly OddParents,” “HobbyKids Adventures��).
The eight join a strong previously announced slate that includes The Lord of the Rings “four hobbits” Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan, Danny Trejo (Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn) and Charlie Cox (“Daredevil,” “Boardwalk Empire”), legendary director Sam Raimi, “Charmed” star Rose McGowan, “Harry Potter” standout Matthew Lewis and Jason Lee (“My Name is Earl,” The Incredibles).
In addition to starring as “Wilson Fisk” opposite Cox in the Netflix series “Daredevil,” Vincent D’Onofrio has a resume of more than 100 roles, most popularly as the lead detective “Bobby Goren” in the long-running NBC drama “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” His notable film credits include Full Metal Jacket, Dying Young, Men in Black, Mystic Pizza, Jurassic World and The Break Up.
Tudyk gained fans’ attention when he starred as wise-cracking "Hoban 'Wash' Washburne" in "Firefly" and Serenity, and later grabbed the “Star Wars” fandom with his portrayal of “K-2SO” in Rogue One. He also appeared in Wreck it Ralph and 42 and has lent his voice to characters in hits like “American Dad,” “Harley Quinn,” “Transformers: Earthspeak” and “Star vs. the Forces of Evil.”
For 15 years (seven on TV and four feature films), “TNG” fans were treated to the talented Spiner in the role of "Lt. Commander Data," an android with superhuman abilities. Spiner may not have all of those same powers, but FAN EXPO attendees will have the opportunity to meet this personable, quick-witted star of stage and screen. In addition to his regular role in the current Paramount+ series “Star Trek: Picard,” some of his other popular credits include Independence Day (and, 20 years later, the sequel, Resurgence), "Warehouse 13," "Fresh Hell" and "Threshold."
Esfandi co-starred opposite Rosario Dawson, David Tennant and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in this year’s Disney+ miniseries “Ahsoka,” part of the Star Wars universe. He has also been seen in King Richard with Will Smith and The Inspection with Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union.
Inosanto appears alongside Esfandi as “Morgan Elsbeth” in “Ahsoka”. She originated that role in an episode of “Mandalorian” in 2020 after appearing in dozens of movies and shows as a stunt person and a variety of other entertainment jobs.
Suplee has had nearly 100 film and TV roles, from comedies like the Kevin Smith productions Mallrats, Dogma and Clerks III, “My Name is Earl,” and “Boy Meets World” to dramas such as Remember the Titans and The Butterfly Effect.
Ward played “Deke Shaw” as a regular on “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” from 2017-2020, and most recently appeared in the first season of the Netflix adventure/comedy “One Piece.” Fans will also recognize him from his work in “Brand New Cherry Flavor” and the TV movie Manson’s Lost Girls, where he gave an appropriately creepy performance as the cult leader.
Hartman created some of the most memorable children’s series, including “Fairly Odd Parents,” “Danny Phantom,” “TUFF Puppy,” “Bunsen is a Beast” and “The Noog Network.” A public speaker, YouTuber motivator and teacher at Butch Hartman’s Art Academy, Hartman is passionate about inspiring young animators to believe in themselves and pursue their dreams.
Single-Day Tickets, Three-Day Passes, and Ultimate Fan Packages for FAN EXPO Cleveland are available now. Advance pricing is available until March 28. More guest news will be released in the following weeks, including line-up reveals for additional headline celebrities, comic creator guests, voice actors and cosplayers.
Cleveland is the sixth event on the 2024 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.
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I No Longer Rage at Fate
(Paraphrasing the great Alistair Moffat)
As My (mine alone) grasp of this reality becomes some kind of “wisdom,” I see no point.
It’s only life …
Transitioning, Transitioning, Transitioning …I was a teacher; or like a Marine, I will always be a teacher; but what hath this transition wrought three years into this journey? Fate? Destiny? Pre-ordination? Nope! I’ll pass, not happily; but wiser I think. You see I’m recreating my universe. Literally? Well, maybe, if you see and understand your world differently then it’s a new reality for you …right? To paraphrase the Apostle Paul, “when I was a child, I thought as a child, spoke as a child and acted as a child; but when I became a man (retiree) I put away childish things.” Seeing yourself free from the daily constraints of the American work model which forces these constraints of time, dogma and goals on us as it serves the purpose of said system, your mind can open. If you let it.
I’ve been writing a lot of poetry to explain the world according to Brent with a little success; but it’s my world view …mine alone. Nothing in life turned out the way I dreamed way back 1989. Nothing. That’s been a good and bad result; I was kind of an idiot in ‘89. It hasn’t been a total path of pain or anything like that, but there has been pain …and loss. Derp! Isn’t that what Buddha told us? There have been spectacular moments of joy as well, stuff I didn’t expect …at …all. The end result being you plan and work and save and devote time to your family and do the right things old books told you to do and it all ends up a crapshoot. Of course there were acolytes that told me, “it all turned out according to plan just not your plan.” So, there was a preordained destiny, plan laid out for me that I knew nothing about? No, no …I’ll just let that nugget of wisdom go …too cold in its application for me.
In my mind agog with time to contemplate why what is and isn’t, I concluded that it is unknowable and just …is? I guess? Examining numerous books that presented various alternative ways of interpreting realities (Celtic, Indigenous, Eastern, “disavowed” Western spiritual concepts, Pope Francis); I came to a remarkable awareness: there is an eternal and we …be …it! So many less commercial faiths saw this unity in nature clearly. Throw in a little developed philosophy and you realize that every physical thing that has ever existed still exists in us. I taste water that may have been tasted by DaVinci, I breathe air that may have refreshed Elizabeth I, I walk ground that countless others have walked. If this is undeniable, consider this: an organ transplant recipient often adopts behaviors of the organ donor, thus our very being is made up of countless previous beings to make us. Is it logical to assume that these beings influence us in some way? To use a popular saying that I detest …I’m just sayin!
“We come not from small things,”* is a sentiment that Alistair Moffat expressed in a series of books he’s written. The statement doesn’t stand alone, but with astute observation of life on his little Scottish farmstead. He sees all the lives and struggles of a myriad of people who walked the spot that he currently identifies as his property; but with humility acknowledges it’s just at this moment. Moffat observes through amateur archaeology and study of maps that show how hubris resulted in humans attempting to mold the land to suit their will. Silly, silly rabbits. It lasts but for the moment and the agents of change do their thing. We are the agents. Taking conscious and unconscious cues from antiquity and more recent generations. We are all in flux, it’s all new, it’s nothing new. Billions of stars and billions of people are in us lighting our way and as we embellish our realities and say, “look what I did!”
How has this “enlightened “ me? A lot of ways I suppose, I ask why a whole lot less. Time is a man made construct and I find, with varying degrees of success, that I feel more at ease with ancient rhythms than the countdown of days, weeks, months and years. I’m free, again with varying degrees of success, from the need to rage at fate. Things happen for incalculable reasons from infinite influences …how can I hope to understand them all. The reality according to Brent is a truth for as long as I last, then I will be a part of a new existence. The reality according to Brent will become the reality according to who? It’s ok, we’ve done this before.
*Moffat, Alistair; The Secret History of Here; Canongate Books LTD.; 2021
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July 2023 Read This Month
Rereads
The Highland Twins at the Chalet School/Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (Chalet School #16) (mg school wartime story)
The Mouse and the Motorcycle/Beverly Cleary (Ralph S. Mouse #1) (mg animal adventure)
Witch Week/Diana Wynne Jones (Chrestomanci #4 (chronological order)) (mg parallel worlds fantasy)
5 stars
People Love Dead Jews/Dara Horn (adult essay collection)
4.5 stars
Lavender Laughs in the Chalet School/Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (Chalet School #17) (mg school story)
Starlight/Erin Hunter (Warriors: The New Prophecy #4) (mg animal fantasy)
4 stars
Alien Ocean Animals/Rosie Colosi (first chapter books non-fiction)
Season of the Sandstorms/Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House: Merlin Missions #6) (first chapter books time travel fantasy)
3.5 stars
Jews Don't Count/David Baddiel (adult political non-fiction)
3.25 stars
Sorry, Bro/Taleen Voskuni (adult chicklit)
3 stars
Asterix and the Golden Sickle/René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (Asterix #2) (children's historical adventure comic)
Shopaholic Ties the Knot/Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic #3) (adult chicklit)
Short Stories: 1907-1908/L.M. Montgomery (short story collections; mainly adult romance)
Slaughterhouse-Five/Kurt Vonnegut (adult autofiction)
2 stars
Twilight/Erin Hunter (Warriors: The New Prophecy #5) (mg animal fantasy)
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# books read: 16
Most read age groups: MG and Adult
Most read genre: Fantasy
Average rating: 2.9 stars
#read this month#rtm#wrap-up#july#2023#2023 rtm#that's a drop in rating#but i feel for the most part i read good books#there were very few books i was disappointed in
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Interview With the Hilarious Brent Pope from Groundbreaking Romantic Series With Love
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