#celia somerset

[the-hydrangea-witch]

no one asked for this but i have a stupid amount of picrews of Celia and im forcing my -2 followers to look at Her because she is my Daughter

good luck with The Horrors girl im so sorry

[annabelle--cane]

hello, I would love to hear your magnus protocol theories if you have any?

every single one of the following theories are exactly as serious as each other, none of these are jokes at all:

the arg end page on the oiar site saying "all of that was 100% a totally fake training exercise so destroy any evidence you kept or be charged with treason" is such a massive lie <3

the oiar is the new seat of power for the alternate-universe-sorta-beholding. the magnus institute burned down and it simply didn't matter to the dread powers, they just jumped ship and let all their human servants die, which would tie-in to the pitch of protocol being more about systems whereas archives was about personal choices. a single person did manage to burn down the torment nexus institute but it simply didn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

lena kelley is alternate jonah magnus's current host

archives 'verse einsamernarr was the one who leaked those statements in 1999 mentioned in mag 68. the timelines don't quite line up, but several time stamps from the usenet forum look rather, shall I say, like they've been affected by exposure to a massive hole in reality that links to a different slightly out of sync universe.

the magnus institute was burned down by a cataclysmically angry mother who realized the extra curricular classes her kid went to was giving them "haunted by ghosts" disease.

gwendolyn bouchard is alternate jonah magnus's current host

hokay one of the arg documents pulled from a floppy disc found at an irl event had a spreadsheet in it written in german with what looks to me like dates and locations of statements (or maybe incident reports...?). I think this might have some clues about the protocol 'verse fear taxonomy, as the notes section of uncorrupted rows seem to have explanations for the events. most of them are "cats lol," but some labels ring bells for me, like "war people / warriors" (slaughter) and "avoid" (lonely), and some don't but are still spooky. "ink" comes up several times, "never again" and "unhappy child" once each. one that took place at a somerset theme park is noted with "mr b," so clearly bonzo himself is also an entity of fear.

lady mowbray is alternate jonah magnus's current host

she's also just a front for funneling money to the great bonzo

I really think that under no circumstances are we going to definitively know what happened to jon and martin from the archives 'verse, but we could definitely see what their alternate selves are up to in this timeline. I've got nothing to back this up but I'd like to see them being evil and doing evil laughs and enacting evil actions.

I shall be real, I have no idea what the deal will be with celia ripley, I just know that it's significant that she's called celia when her alternate self chose that name AND saw a fire ghost woman. here's how agnes montag--[I am shot]

bonzo is alternate jonah magnus's current host

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics South Africa roster

Archery

Wian Roux (Pretoria)

Athletics

Adrian Swart (Caledon)

Akani Simbine (Kempton Park)

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Benjamin Richardson (Pretoria)

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Fencing

Harry Saner (Johannesburg)

Field hockey

Andrew Hobson (Somerset West)

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Christopher Baxter (Johannesburg)

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Ayanda Malinga (Pretoria)

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Brandon Valjalo (Johannesburg)

Boipelo Awuah (Kimberley)

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Matt McGillivray (Jeffery's Bay)

Sarah Baum (Durban)

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Chad Le Clos (Durban)

Matt Sates (Pietermaritzburg)

Tatjana Smith (Johannesburg)

Kaylene Corbett (Bloemfontein)

Erin Gallagher (Durban)

Aimee Canny (Knysna)

Rebecca Meder (Cape Town)

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Jamie Riddle (Stellenbosch)

Vicky Van Der Merwe (Cape Town)

Wrestling

Nicolaas De Lange (Bloemfontein)

[claudia1829things]

"THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING" (1997) Review

"THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING" (1997) Review

The year 1963 saw the release of Tony Richardson's Academy Award winning adaptation of Henry Fielding's 1749 novel, "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling". Another thirty-four years passed before another adaptation of the novel appeared on the scene. It turned out to be the BBC's five-episode miniseries that aired in 1997.

"THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING" is a comic tale about the life and adventures of an English foundling, who is discovered in the household of a warm-hearted landowner in Somerset named Squire Allworthy. The latter adopts the child and Tom Jones grows up to be a lusty, yet kindly youth; who falls in love with one Sophia Western, the only child of Allworthy's neighbor, Squire Western. Tom is raised with the squire's nephew, a falsely pious and manipulative young man named Mr. Blifil. Because the latter is Allworthy's heir, Sophia's father wishes her to marry Mr. Blifil, so that the Allworthy and Western estates can be joined as one. Unfortunately for Squire Western and Mr. Blifil, Sophia is in love with Tom. And unfortunately for the two young lovers, Tom is discredited by Mr. Blifil and his allies before being cast away by Squire Allworthy. In defiance of Squire Western's wishes for her to marry Mr. Blifil, Sophia (accompanied by her maid, Honour) runs away from Somerset. Both Tom and Sophia encounter many adventures on the road to and in London, before they are finally reconciled.

Actually, there is a lot more to "THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING". But a detailed account of the plot would require a long essay and I am not in the mood. I have noticed that the 1997 miniseries has acquired a reputation for not only being a first-rate television production, but also being superior to the 1963 Oscar winning film. As a five-part miniseries, "THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING" was able to adhere more closely to Fielding's novel than the movie. But does this mean I believe that the miniseries is better than the movie? Hmmmm . . . I do not know if I can agree with that opinion.

I cannot deny that "THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING" is a well made television production. Director Metin Hüseyin did an excellent job of utilizing a first-rate production crew for the miniseries. Cinders Forshaw's photography was well done - especially in Somerset sequences featured in the miniseries' first half. Roger Cann's production designs captured mid-18th century England in great detail. And Rosalind Ebbutt's costumes designs were not only exquisite, but nearly looked like exact replicas of the fashions of the 1740s. The look and style of "THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING" seemed to recapture the chaos and color of mid-18th century England.

"THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING" could also boast some first-rate performances. The miniseries featured solid performances from the likes of Christopher Fulford and Richard Ridings as Mr. Blifil's allies, Mr. Square and Reverend Thwackum; Kathy Burke, who was very funny as Sophia's maid, Honour; Celia Imrie as Tom's London landlady, Mrs. Miller; Peter Capaldi as the lecherous Lord Fellamar; Tessa Peake-Jones as Squire Allworthy's sister Bridget and Benjamin Whitrow as the squire. The episode also featured solid turns from the likes of Kelly Reilly, Michelle Fairley, Camille Coduri, Matt Bardock, Roger Lloyd-Pack, and Sylvester McCoy. Max Beesley was solid as Tom Jones. He also had good chemistry with his leading lady, Samantha Morton, and did a good job in carrying the miniseries on his shoulders. However, I do feel that he lacked the charisma and magic of Albert Finney. And there were times in the miniseries' last two episodes, when he seemed in danger of losing steam.

But there were some performances that I found outstanding. Brian Blessed was deliciously lusty and coarse as Squire Western, Allworthy's neighbor and Sophia's father. I really enjoyed his scenes with Frances de la Tour, who was marvelous as Sophia's snobbish and controlling Aunt Western. Lindsay Duncan gave a subtle performance as the seductive Lady Bellaston. James D'Arcy was outstanding as Squire Allworthy's nephew, the sniveling and manipulative Mr. Blifil. Ron Cook gave the funniest performance in the miniseries, as Tom's loyal sidekick, Benjamin Partridge, who had earlier suffered a series of misfortunes over the young man's birth. Samantha Morton gave a superb performance as Tom's true love, Sophia Western. Morton seemed every inch the graceful and passionate Sophia, and at the same time, conveyed the strong similarities between the young woman and her volatile father. But the one performance I truly enjoyed was John Sessions' portrayal of author Henry Fielding. I thought it was very clever to use Sessions in that manner as the miniseries' narrator. And he was very entertaining.

The producers of the miniseries hired Simon Burke to adapt the novel for television. And I believe he did an excellent job. I cannot deny that the miniseries' running time allowed him to include scenes from the novel. Thanks to Burke's script and Hüseyin's direction, audiences were given more details on the accusations against Jenny Jones and Benjamin Partridge for conceiving Tom. Audiences also experienced Bridget Jones' relationship with her cold husband and the circumstances that led to the conception of Mr. Blifil. Judging from the style and pacing of the miniseries, it seems that Hüseyin was inspired by Tony Richardson's direction of the 1963 film. There were plenty of raunchy humor and nudity to keep a viewer occupied. More importantly, "THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING" proved to be a fascinating comic epic and commentary on class distinctions, gender inequality and social issues.

However, I still cannot agree with the prevailing view that the miniseries is better than the 1963 movie. Mind you, the latter is not perfect. But the miniseries lacked a cinematic style that gave the movie a certain kind of magic for me. And due to Hüseyin and Burke's insistence on being as faithful to the novel as possible, the miniseries' pacing threatened to drag in certain scenes. The scenes featuring Tom and Partridge's encounter with an ineffectual highwayman, their viewing of a puppet show, and a good deal from the London sequences were examples of the miniseries' slow pacing. I could not help feeling that "THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING" could have easily been reduced to four episodes and still remain effective.

I also had a few problems with other matters. One, I never understood why Lady Bellaston continued her campaign to get Sophia married to Lord Fellamar, after Squire Western prevented the peer from raping his daughter. Why did she continued to make life miserable for Tom after receiving his marriage proposal . . . the same proposal that she rejected with contempt? And what led Sophia to finally forgive Tom for the incident with Mrs. Waters at Upton and his marriage proposal to Lady Bellaston? After he was declared as Squire Allworthy's new heir, Sophia refused to forgive Tom for his affair with Lady Bellaston. But the next shot featured Tom and Squire Allworthy returning to Somerset . . . and being greeted by Sophia, along with hers and Tom's children. WHAT HAPPENED? What led Sophia to finally forgive Tom and marry him? Instead of explaining or hinting what happened, Burke's script ended on that vague and rather disappointing note.

But despite my problems with "THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING", I cannot deny that I found it very enjoyable. Director Metin Hüseyin and screenwriter Simon Burke did a first-rate job in bringing Henry Fielding's comic opus to life. They were ably assisted by an excellent production staff and fine performances from a cast led by Max Beesley and Samantha Morton.

[carcass-confessions]

first up in my list of super cool mega awesome important trans and gnc is Celia Katherine Somerset, the main character of a horror thing im vaguely working on, the current title is Tales From Beyond the Sunflower Fields but im considering changing it to Tales From Below the Bay for reasons,, anyways shes like. the sole researcher of some weird liminal supernatural world built on top of ours that deals with some time dilation shenanigans and whatnot (and i was totally inspired by bioshock infinite so her main tie to the supernatural is what she calls starshifter syndrome, which in very basic terms means that she will occasionally just blip into an adjacent but nearly identical reality seemingly at random and the one thing that is noticeably different across ALL realities is the precise positioning of the stars in the sky)

2. Gladys, AKA The Bleach Witch, AKA The Witch of the Laundromat, is like one of the first new characters Celia meets in TFBTSF, and theyre what celia calls a Strukture, which is like. ok so. in this world, if enough people die in a building or if a building has some other miscellaneous Anomalous Properties, a Strukture has the potential to be born. they have pretty much the same physical strength as your average human, maybe SLIGHTLY more, but they usually have something Off about them that shows they arent... human. Depending on the circumstances of the building, a Strukture may come out a lil more monstrous, but Gladys' only anomalous qualities are that anything they touch is bleached, so they wear a lot of white (particularly a white sweater is their signature look) to blend in better. love gladys, my friends keep going absolutely feral for them

3. Serra Mun. catboy witch baker with a cherry motif. nuff said. yall get me.

4. Nova Eliane Jones, sun witch, absolutely adore her, one of few (actually i have a lot) characters without any severe trauma that completely breaks a character down for the sake of an Arc. just a really fun character to make picrews of for me <3

its now 6 am somehow soooo ill finish "tomorrow" because i have a lot more characters than i thought,,,

Soooo I really have no idea fully how the tumblr ecosystem works and idk who would even benefit from hearing this, but

I'm still pretty new here (a lil under 2 months since i joined). Apparently, as ive discovered from a lot of posts on my dash, every awful change that's been made was with the intent of bringing in new people like myself.

I hate the layout on desktop. I can only tolerate the layout on mobile (although idk if it was changed at all because I haven't seen as much about it.

Besides a couple cool people I've met here, the (and I can't emphasize this enough) ONLY thing that's keeping me here is the naive hope that eventually whatever person or team that's in charge of keeping the site Running and providing Fun Updates finally realizes that everything that's been changed has totally removed the things that, in my experience, drew people to the platform at all in the first place, and change it back.

I've never used twitter, Instagram, tiktok, or reddit because the formatting and aggressive ecosystems (mostly follower counts and all that, and also generally being perceived so intensely) drove me away, but of course I finally make a tumblr and wouldn't you know it I joined right when the desktop format was made identical to twitter

side note whats uhhh,, whats up with the nsfw bots? i thought yall didnt like nsfw??? why are there nameless boobies following me in my notifications????

[endlessly-cursed]

-`𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒚: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒅𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔´-

The Fersen Sisters (Alexandra's daughters)

The first ones of the family, they had the red hair of their father Francis, but they were very much Alexandra's daughters. It was through her that Julia Primrose (Miriam Leone) inhereted Harrendale, being the second born. Her sister Rebecca (Charlotte Hope) was the most beautiful of them both, and was one of Queen Mary of Teck's favourites, and went on to marry into the peerage. She was a Squib, meanwhile Julia was very much a witch and a Ravenclaw like her mother

The Somerset Sisters (Vincent's daughters)

Out of the five children he had, Vincent had three beautiful daughters: Elizabeth Primrose, Gia Alexandra and Ruby. Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) was the oldest and one of the most beautiful and a true Somerset who soon gave up her role as the eldest sister and went to the US to become an Obliviator with MACUSA, where she met her future husband and had three sons. Gia (Vanessa Kirby) was more homely and carried on the duties, bearing proudly the family jewels until her brother Lawrence married. Ruby (Natasha O'Keeffee) was more aloof and rebellious, often smoking and not very ladylike. Elizabeth and Ruby were in Slytherin, meanwhile Gia was in Ravenclaw like her grandmother, whom all of them looked up to.

Medici Sisters (daughters of Lenore)

Lucrezia and Mary Primrose (Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen) were identical twins and two troublemakers, always giving Hogwarts professors a headache and a hard time telling who was Lucrezia and who was Mary. They were both Gryffindor but weren't allowed together in any class whatsoever to avoid cheating. Thankfully, their sister Alexandra (Kristen Stewart) was more calm and quiet, never pissing off anybody and just minding her business. She was a Hufflepuff.

The Yaxley Sisters (daughters of Gia)

Lysandra (Sai Bennett) was the firstborn and was accomplished and always aimed high, and eventually married into the Black family, the most prosperous match of the year. She was a Slytherin. Celia (Suki Waterhouse) was quiet and painfully shy, and wasn't considered very pretty for her contemporaries, and was allowed to make a marriage outside the peerage and S28, which pissed her brother Corban. She was a Huffepuff. Victoria (Elinor Crawley), named after her great-grandmother, was outspoken and quite the activist, always looking for a cause to fight for, opinionated and strong like her aunts. She was a Gryffindor. Nadia (Ester Expósito) was ahead of her time, extremely beautiful and was the heartbreaker of Hogwarts, cunning and intelligent, which sorted her in Slytherin. Brooklynne (Jessica Alexander) was the most beautiful of the sisters and was sorted in Ravenclaw, for she was incredibly smart and individualistic, and was soon hired in Wizengamot alongside her brother, who became estranged from his family. The two of them never acknowledged one another.

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Mum-of-five collapsed and died after eating Pret vegan wrap that had dairy in it

Mum-of-five collapsed and died after eating Pret vegan wrap that had dairy in it

Celia Marsh, pictured with husband Andy on their wedding day (Picture: PA) A husband has revealed the harrowing moment his wife collapsed in the street after eating a Pret a Manger wrap and suffering a fatal allergic reaction. Celia Marsh, 42, died after eating a super-veg rainbow flatbread on December 27, 2017. The wrap, purchased from a branch of the sandwich chain in Bath, Somerset, included…

[annavaught-posts]

I am currently editing a thing or two and getting in a total stew about language. In this case, what other people have written and whether I dare challenge.

And I think I do dare.

Language matters – what it connotes and the attitudes it betrays; words other and marginalise and encourage others to do the same. I found, when writing The Revelations of Celia Masters (this is my fourth book, currently on submission after a revise and resubmit) that I took apart some of Trump’s words and phrases – this book is about settlers in the Middle Plantation of Virginia during the English Civil War – such as ‘tame’, ‘infest’, ‘crazed animals’ and ‘natives’. One of the things many have observed and protested about is that language – Presidential and administration language – matters and Trump is roundly casual about the way in which it used, blaring and glaring; full of brutality.

‘We tamed a continent’ says a lot, doesn’t it? The verb ‘tamed’. It says something like, they were savages, but I am not: I am civilised. And the pronoun itself, we. The colonisers who did tremendous things and set the natives straight. The we. We are still that we and it’s still encumbent on us to tame them he would have you believe. It’s so erroneous I don’t even know where to get started. Trump also refers fairly constantly to ‘Western Values’ which has absolutely no meaning at all. It’s a shadow phrase which I doubt he could even articulate.

I spent a lot of time thinking about the important of language choice when I was preparing Celia Masters (as I am now as I edit others’ work); mulling over sources and academic works like David Hackett Fischer’s exemplary Albion’s Seed. I was thinking about how the Cavaliers, coming into asylum under Berkeley (which is the starting point of my book) held freedom in the highest esteem, but that within it was the freedom to oppress others – and I realise I have expressed that in very broad terms, so you’ll have to read the book! (His and mine!) I explored how, through noting contemporary sources, you could see that colonists clearly believed that their settling of America was God’s work and that He had intervened to make it possible. I promise to write more about this later – and you can see that Celia Masters becomes repelled by it because of what she sees, comes to understand about herself and her true past and what she creates…

Back to the editing.

I am, for example, struggling with some of the phrases white writers use to describe skin which is NOT white; this has to be handled so very carefully or not handled at all, some might say. What do you think of  ‘honey-coloured’ or ‘cocoa-coloured’? I’d say you delete it if you’re a white writer. Do you baulk at that? I am also…bothered by the phrase ‘traditional cultures’ in that I see it used by anthropologists and sociologists, but I see academics in the same and in other fields taking it apart. Am I on shaky ground? Quite possibly, but I want to have a discussion about it and with different sources. And I personally don’t think anyone should be using the phrase ‘third world’ because that IS diminishing, patronising and othering.  My older boys were mortified to learn that I had challenged its use in their secondary school. I am a person who is sometimes chided for being ‘too PC’ which makes me tremble with a sort of punchy anger. Overreaction?

When I was writing The Revelations of Celia Masters, I had to think very carefully about the language and concepts I handled because my protagonist is a mid 17th-century white girl tangling with cultures and worlds that ate deeply unfamiliar to her. She has seen only Somerset, the Dorset coast and the court of Charles I. I was really worried about how I was going to write about the use of slavery in the colony and also to write about the Algonquin Indians who are in my story and, like the slaves, integral to it. I sought advice from an excellent source and was led, amongst other things, to the article below; I also discussed how I might approach my exploration and found that what I needed to explore was Celia’s whiteness. I turned it on its head. ‘…write you‘ in the words of the article in this link. As you write, reflect on your own privilege and power. There are plenty of jarring narratives about black culture from white voices. Also, I was damned if I were going to reduce folklore to some hokey thing about fairies, when it’s fire and blood and richly syncretic. The article was useful for that, too. Read carefully, discus with various sources, don’t shoot from the hip, be prepared to be totally and utterly wrong (you might enjoy what the late Hans Rosling has to say about this in Factfulness) and remember that words have power.   

What do you think? About any of this?

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Because language matters I am currently editing a thing or two and getting in a total stew about language. In this case, what other people have written and whether I dare challenge.

[amagard]

Aerosuperbatics Wingwalkers by Celia Mulhearn Via Flickr: Fabulous display by the "Wingwalkers" this year at Weston Air Show, Weston-Super-Mare, in North Somerset. (Madness)

[the-hydrangea-witch]

im having a lore crisis

so the narrator of all of tales from under the bay is Phthisis V the God of Decay AKA Hope AKA Sylvia Graves. shes first introduced in a short story where her mother, Gloria Graves, basically sacrifices her to Phthisis III (the previous god of decay before her) which pisses It off blah blah blah

ANYWAYS who tf is Sylvia's father though,,,

i have TWO IDEAS

Vincent Victoria. The man is already an established manwhore and the timeline of events does allow him to have a kid (((and flee the scene))) before meeting Andie which leads to Celia, the main character, being born. this means the main character and the narrator are half-sisters which i think is neat :^) and also if Celia ever found out itd be crazy because imagine not only finding out that your mother killed your dad before you were born but that he had another child before you who is a literal god

Phthisis III, through some sort of immaculate conception, basically planned Its own eventual death but first had to make sure there would be someone to take Its place. Since Gloria lives in Dusty Grove Road, where supernatural shit happens constantly to the point where no one ever dares to question it, this wouldnt cause any plot holes really. It also implies through the rage Phthisis III had at Gloria throwing Sylvia into the furnace that It needed her to reach adulthood before ascending the Lead Throne as the new god of decay, probably so she could experience life to better understand the nature of death and decay. This explains why as Phthisis V/Hope, She's almost careless with her duties, preventing everything from decaying after the death of The Internet and eventually destroying most of the world through the Great Wind

tbh im almost leaning more towards Vincent Victoria being her father just because it makes Celia's whole thing about not being special in the grand scheme of the death of the multiverse even more,,, idk how to word it. like, yeah shes able to traverse the multiverse, shes effectively immortal (to an extent), and is related to a god of death and decay but is still less than a speck in history on earth, let alone the universe, let alone the multiverse.

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Pret a Manger and food supplier Planet Coconut face trial over the death of a woman https://ift.tt/2NsyMBZ Mother-of-five Celia Marsh, 42, fell ill during a post-Christmas meal with her family in the branch of Pret in Bath, Somerset and later died in hospital after eating the contaminated wrap.

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This Week’s Requests

If you want to type one of these characters, please submit a post. :)

Criminal Minds: Luke, Tara

Spider-Man Movie Trilogy series with Tobey Maguire

What Remains Of Edith Finch

Half Life: Gordon Freeman

Portal: Chell

The Ministry Of Time (Spanish series) (Julian, Alonso, Amelia, Irene, Salvador and Ernesto)

Mortified: Taylor

Se7en (1995): Somerset, Mills, John Doe.

M*A*S*H: BJ, Margaret, Potter, Winchester,Frank, Father Mulcahy, Klinger, Trapper John

Game of Thrones: Myranda (SP type)

Tangled: The Series

Over the Hedge

Peter Pan (2003 movie)          

The Solitude of Prime Numbers: Alice, Mattia Final Fantasy VII: Aerith, Sephiroth, Red XIII Final Fantasy X: Auron, Yuna, Lulu, Wakka, Rikku, Tidus, Kimahri, Seymour Skins 3: Grace Violet, Rich Hardbeck, Pandora Moon, JJ Jones, Matty Levan WITCH (Disney): Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, Hay Lin, Elyon, Caleb, Lord Cedric, Phobos, Orube  

Weeds: Nancy, Shane,silas, Doug, Celia, Andy...     

Code Geass: Lelouch

Call of Duty Zombies: Edward Richtofen

BTW, the Star Trek character (Janeway?) submission last week did not fully come in; only one line of text.

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Guest Post ~ Little Tea by Claire Fullerton... #books #CozyMystery #readers

Little Tea by Claire Fullerton

About Little Tea

Little Tea Southern Fiction Publisher: Firefly Southern Fiction (April 28, 2020) Paperback: 252 pages ISBN-10: 1645262596 ISBN-13: 978-1645262596 Digital ASIN: B0817J667Y

Southern Culture … Old Friendships … Family Tragedy

One phone call from Renny to come home and “see about” the capricious Ava and Celia Wakefield decides to overlook her distressful past in the name of friendship.

For three reflective days at Renny’s lake house in Heber Springs, Arkansas, the three childhood friends reunite and examine life, love, marriage, and the ties that bind, even though Celia’s personal story has yet to be healed. When the past arrives at the lake house door in the form of her old boyfriend, Celia must revisit the life she’d tried to outrun.

As her idyllic coming of age alongside her best friend, Little Tea, on her family’s ancestral grounds in bucolic Como, Mississippi unfolds, Celia realizes there is no better place to accept her own story than in this circle of friends who have remained beside her throughout the years. Theirs is a friendship that can talk any life sorrow into a comic tragedy, and now that the racial divide in the Deep South has evolved, Celia wonders if friendship can triumph over history.

About Claire Fullerton

Claire Fullerton hails from Memphis, TN. and now lives in Malibu, CA. with her husband and 3 German shepherds. She is the author of Mourning Dove, a coming of age, Southern family saga set in 1970's Memphis. Mourning Dove is a five-time award winner, including the Literary Classics Words on Wings for Book of the Year, and the Ippy Award silver medal in regional fiction ( Southeast.) Claire is also the author of Dancing to an Irish Reel, a Kindle Book Review and Readers' Favorite award winner that is set on the west coast of Ireland, where she once lived. Claire's first novel is a paranormal mystery set in two time periods titled, A Portal in Time, set in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. She is a contributor to the book, A Southern Season with her novella, Through an Autumn Window, set at a Memphis funeral ( because something always goes wrong at a Southern funeral.) Little Tea is Claire's 4th novel and is set in the Deep South. It is the story of the bonds of female friendship, healing the past, and outdated racial relations. Little Tea is the August selection of the Pulpwood Queens, a Faulkner Society finalist in the William Wisdom international competition, and on the short list of the Chanticleer Review's Somerset award. She is represented by Julie Gwinn of the Seymour Literary.

Author Links Website - https//www.clairefullerton.com Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/cffullerton

Purchase Link - Amazon

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Eine schwule Liebe im Jahr 1905

England, 1905. Ein verschlafenes Dorf in Somerset steht Kopf, als der attraktive Lord Vincent Fanbury auf Landbesuch kommt. Nicht nur die unverheirateten Frauen hoffen auf eine gute Partie mit ihm. Auch Leonard, ein gutsituierter Unternehmer, fühlt sich zu ihm hingezogen.

Obwohl die strikten Konventionen der edwardianischen Gesellschaft gegen sie sprechen, entwickelt sich zwischen ihnen eine leidenschaftliche Affäre. Zu spät merkt Leonard, dass Vincent ein Geheimnis vor ihm verbirgt, dass nicht nur ihre Beziehung, sondern, auch seinen Ruf zerstören könnte.

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Philadelphia “Live Stop” Program

December 5, 2017

The Hidden Implications of Trump’s America 

In Trump’s America, it is becoming increasingly more important to address policy issues that hinder the success of immigrants. As immigrants are and have always been a major part of America’s culture as well as its economy these hindrances must be addressed if we are to create a country where we can all flourish. In May 2016, Temple University Beasley School of Law students Karen Hoffmann and Katelyn Mays partnered with New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia (NSMP) to release a document “Live Stop: A Law with Unintended Consequences” that notes the injustices allowed and even encouraged by the Philadelphia Police Department’s (PPD) use of the Live Stop policy (Pennsylvania Vehicle Code §6309.2). Since 2002, this law has unfairly enabled the PPD to target undocumented individuals, by towing their cars and costing them an average of $500 to $1000 due to fines and towing expenses, which is essentially due to minor driving infractions. This is devastating for those who fall victim to the Live Stop program and it is crucial to take a stand against this injustice. Pennsylvania Vehicle Code §6309.2 outlines the police procedure for “Immobilization, towing, and storage of vehicle” for driving without a valid driver’s license and registration. The law originated in 1998, and was later expanded in 2002. While policy-makers initially intended the law to lower car insurance rates and remove unsafe drivers from the road for the good of others and themselves if they were uninsured. This objective has not materialized, and Philadelphia is nationally recognized as having some of the highest insurance rates in the United States. Thus, the law has not had its intended effect, and has even created a significant negative impact on Philadelphians.  The root of the problem lies within the specific wording of the code and the PPD’s misinterpretation of it. Pennsylvania Vehicle Code §6309.2 states: “the law enforcement officer shall immobilize the vehicle or combination or, in the interest of public safety, direct that the vehicle be towed and stored,” The PPD abuses this law through their misinterpretation of towing “in the interest of public safety,” which more accurately serves as an authorization to tow cars at their own discretion, in turn, targeting undocumented immigrants. Since 2002, almost 500,000 Philadelphians have suffered due to PPD’s abuse of power. Temple University’s document even shares specific situations in which the police department unfairly towed Philadelphians’ cars. These are their stories: “Celia was driving her son to school shortly before the holiday break in December 2015 when the police stopped her for a broken light. Even though the car was insured and validly registered in her husband’s name, her car was towed because she was unlicensed. Celia’s sister-in-law, a licensed driver, arrived within five minutes to see if she could drive the car home, however, the police ordered her sister to leave the scene. Celia needs a car to drive her children to school, to take her husband to needed physical therapy appointments, and to transport the clothing she sews for work.” “Estela, her husband, and her three children – all 10 years old and younger – were stopped by the police at Kensington and Somerset at 6:30 pm. Because it was December, it was very dark outside. The police put the family on the street and the car was towed. The whole family was left on the street in the dark in a neighborhood with a very high crime rate. The family lives several miles from where they were stopped and it is a mile and a half walk from the Frankford Terminal to their home.” This law is problematic for a variety of reasons. Firstly, although the Live Stop law enables police officers to tow cars “in the interest of public safety,” that is clearly not the case. These families were targeted and victimized by those who are meant to protect them. This can lead to unrest among civilians and the police department in addition to the unsafe situations Estela and her family, for example, are put in. Secondly, it places a significant financial burden and temporarily deters those who are victimized by the PPD from performing their daily tasks of driving to work, doctor’s appointments, school transportation and more. These consequences of minor driving infractions are clearly overly aggressive measures. Another danger of this law lies in the fact that it currently only pertains to the city of Philadelphia. In fact, it is one of few cities in the United States that condones such severe police measures. The danger in this lies within the risk that the law interpretation spreads to other counties, contributing to nationwide police power abuse and the targeting of our nation’s significant immigrant population. The PPD’s maltreatment of undocumented immigrants, even those who have insurance and registration, must be stopped. Philadelphia legally holds the power to change its use of the state law. However, it is up to the people to encourage policy-makers to initiate the reinterpretation of this law. Organizations such as the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia and POWER, a student-run organization at Villanova, are already working towards this goal. The New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia is “an interfaith, multicultural immigrant justice movement organizing communities to end injustices against immigrants, regardless of status.” They initiated a formal Live Stop program campaign in 2015, after Estela and her family’s account of the program at a local town hall meeting. Since then, the organization has been developing their campaign to stop the injustices. The organization outlines the following goals on their website: “1. Build a base that centers affected communities. We have done this through canvassing for over 2,300 petition signatures and dozens of testimonies. 2. Develop the leadership of the coordinating committee and all NSM members. We have done this through retreats, trainings, education and one on one support. 3. Engage and educate policy-makers. We have done this through 11 legislative visits out of which 8 produced concrete support from Council members. 4. Build solidarity. We have done this by bringing on POWER as an official partner, hosting the upcoming Convivio, broadening our message to address the root causes of the issues we are fighting, and canvassing across communities” (sanctuaryphiladelphia.org) As stated in their goals, NSMP also works closely with POWER, a national organization that has a chapter right here on Villanova’s campus. On campus, POWER is currently running a number of social justice campaigns including but not limited to increasing the minimum wage, green energy & jobs, ending cash bail, and discriminatory towing. Each campaign is headed by knowledgeable students about the issues and provides students with an easy gateway to getting involved to fix these issues. POWER encourages students to sign a petition, attend government hearings, and more. The organization also has plans to support those currently in the DACA program, which is quickly coming to an end. Villanova’s POWER chapter holds weekly meetings on Friday’s at 3pm in Corr Hall. It is up to the Philadelphians and us as students at Villanova to support changing this law that has detrimental effects on our broader community. Through engaging with policy makers and demonstrating the gravity of the issue, we can improve our police-civilian relations and city-wide treatment of immigrants.