#ch: Elif

[jacobsullivan]

closed starter | @cantfightmoonlight Jake + Elif Bad Moon Brewery after Capture the Flag.

"WE FUCKING WON!!!!"

[devrim-selvi]

The change in pace from the monotony of his job and the seclusion of his home in the woods was unexpectedly welcome. Even as he was showered in flour. It felt nostalgic. In more ways than one. Reminiscent of memories he had from childhood with the sounds and smells of Turkey. The experience etched a permanent grin on Devrim's face, small but ever-present. "Bana mı soruyorsun?" You're asking me? He asked in surprise. "Sen şefsin. Ben dişçiyim." You're the chef. I'm the dentist. A reminder he made with a chuckle before putting the food in the oven. He wasn't a great cook but had read the directions before they started. "Doğru kokuyor." It smells right. He encouraged. "Merak etme." Don't worry.

"Oh, emin misin?" Oh, you sure? She teased, flicking a little more flour his way, before she held up her own hands as if to wave the white flag. "Tamam, tamam, bu bir ateşkes." Okay, okay, it's a truce, She mused, dusting off her hands on her jeans as her own laughter slowly died down. A soft smile still toying at the corner of her lips as she realized how nice it was to be able to converse with someone entirely in her native tongue. "Şimdi tek yapmamız gereken onları fırına mı koymak?" Now all we have to do is put them in the oven? She guessed, scanning over the instructions Safiye had left her as if to double check that she had read it right. While, Saf was going to be the main baker at Tatlı, she still wanted to be able to hold their own. "Eğer iyi değillerse şimdiden özür dilerim. Ama çabalıyorum?" I apologize in advance if they're not good, but I'm trying?

[missn11]

WIP Wednesday

And boy do I have a big WIP dump for ya

First one is a sketch of Berlin Fugue coterie in their party outfits. Nicolaus belongs to me, Simone belongs to @devil-latte​, Elif belongs to @cthylla-rlyeh​ and Maddalena belongs to @qwib​

second is a sketch of an angsty Devilman/Violence Jack idea I’ve had in my head to draw for a while. The OT3 are not doing okay to say the least. :((((

I’ve finished writing chapter five of Love before its too late and it just needs editing but I thought I’d share a little teaser. XD

[riddles-n-games]

I Could Kiss You

Pairing: Avery and Jameson Summary: A rewrite from Ch. 77 in TIG after they land and before Jameson's realization that Avery's birthday is also Emily's death date. Length: Short Story Type: Rewrite

Tag List: @hathorneheiress, @whatsamongus, @xoxo-lenah, @charsoamerican, @thecircularlibrary, @elif-in-wonderland

A/N: Hey guys, I haven't posted in a while but I found this in drafts and forgot how quickly I managed to write this so here it is. A very random but had to be done fic from the first book because I'm feeling homesick for it. BTW, always feel free to shoot me a message if you want to be added to the tag list!

By the time the copter touched down, I felt like I was getting ready to burst out of my skin. I hopped out before the blades had fully stopped, adrenaline-fueled and giddy.

    Eight. One. One. Zero.

    Jameson bounded toward me. “We did it, Heiress.” He stopped right in front of me, lifting his hands, palm up. Drunk on the high of the helicopter, I did the same, and his fingers locked through mine. “Four middle names. Four numbers.”

    His tone was infectious and there it was again. The buzz, the excitement. A new clue, another puzzle piece to put into place. Four numbers, a finished set but what did they mean? That was a mystery which meant-Game on. I could literally hear his voice in my head.

    Kissing him had been a mistake. Holding his hands now was a mistake—but I didn’t care. 

    “Eight, one, one, zero,” I said. “That’s the order we discovered the numbers in—and the order of the clues in the will.” Westbrook, Davenport, Winchester, and Blackwood, in that order. “A combination, maybe?”

    “There are at least a dozen safes in the House,” Jameson mused. “But there are other possibilities. An address… coordinates… and there’s no guarantee that the clue isn’t scrambled. To solve it, we may have to reorder the numbers.”

    An address. Coordinates. A combination. I closed my eyes, just for a second, just long enough for my brain to put another possibility into words. “A date?” All four clues were numbers; they were also single digits. For a combination lock or coordinates, I would have expected some two-digit entries. But a date…

    “Yes! That’s what I was about to say. You’re-” He laughed, a wide smile on his face while he contemplated whatever it was that he was thinking. Suddenly, he leaned down, cupped my cheeks and kissed me. I froze but before I could even protest or do anything, he was already pulling away, looking horrified, perhaps realizing what he just did. 

    His eyes were wide, the pupils so big they took over the green of his irises and his jaw was slack with disbelief. His hand went to his mouth and he turned to the side, running his other hand through his hair before he turned back to me.

    “Um, I’m-I’m sorry. I… I have no idea why I just did that. Sorry Heiress.” I wasn’t fully registering the apology or his actions but I felt my hand subconsciously going to my lips and my fingers grazing my lower one. “You can slap me if you want. I give you permission to do so.” For a long moment, I was very zoned out before I finally blinked and shook my head, snapping out of the trance and dropping my hand to my side.

    To my surprise, Jameson was still babbling, muttering something about consent and how he respected that but this was very spontaneous. Who knew that getting flustered like this made his inner Xander come out? On the outside, I kept my poker face but mentally I was smirking and dying of laughter. Confident Jameson Hawthorne, embarrassed and turning red in the ears must have been once in a lifetime opportunity.

    “Avery, I-” I walked up to him firmly and took hold of his tie, pulling him down and shutting him up with a kiss of my own to put him out of his misery. He stilled for a moment but that didn’t stop him for long as I felt one of his hands going to the back of my head, sliding against the intricate braid holding my hair together. 

    I let myself savor it for ten full seconds more before I let him go in a fit of hard panting. He looked only slightly affected but he let out a steadying breath before arching a brow. A question. What was that? What did that mean? 

    I forgave him; I knew that much but things couldn’t be the same. He wouldn’t get the best of me but we could still be partners until this, whatever this was, ended. I stuck out an open hand. “Game on.” 

    His brows furrowed. He was considering something.

    “Game on, Hawthorne,” I repeated. The moment he looked up again, a crooked smile graced his lips and the spark in his eyes lit them up against the dark of the night. “Game on, Heiress.” He reached forward and finally clasped my hand with his in agreement, giving a hearty squeeze as we shook on it. For a moment more, we just smiled at each other, knowing we were back on the same page. For now.

    That’s when he tilted his head in the general direction of the House. “Come on, let’s go.”

    “Where are we going?” 

    “You’ll see!” He grabbed my hand and we were running to somewhere, I didn’t know where but I was laughing, barely avoiding tripping over my dress, and Oren was probably trying to catch up but it didn’t matter. As we ran, Jameson’s grip sure on my hand, I looked up at the midnight sky and wondered what awaited us next.

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 34, 2024

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Action sequence learning, habits, and automaticity in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Banca, P., Herrojo Ruiz, M., Gonzalez-Zalba, M. F., Biria, M., Marzuki, A. A., Piercy, T., … Robbins, T. W. (2024). eLife, 12, e87346.4.

The dynamic state of a prefrontal–hypothalamic–midbrain circuit commands behavioral transitions. Chen, C., Altafi, M., Corbu, M.-A., Trenk, A., van den Munkhof, H., Weineck, K., … Ponomarenko, A. (2024). Nature Neuroscience, 27(5), 952–963.

Transformation of Motion Pattern Selectivity from Retina to Superior Colliculus. DePiero, V. J., Deng, Z., Chen, C., Savier, E. L., Chen, H., Wei, W., & Cang, J. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(20), e1704232024.

Distributed representations of prediction error signals across the cortical hierarchy are synergistic. Gelens, F., Äijälä, J., Roberts, L., Komatsu, M., Uran, C., Jensen, M. A., … Canales-Johnson, A. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 3941.

Learning‐induced bidirectional enhancement of inhibitory synaptic metaplasticity. Kundu, S., Paul, B., Reuevni, I., Lamprecht, R., & Barkai, E. (2024). Journal of Physiology, 602(10), 2343–2358.

Retuning of hippocampal representations during sleep. Maboudi, K., Giri, B., Miyawaki, H., Kemere, C., & Diba, K. (2024). Nature, 629(8012), 630–638.

Encoding Manual Dexterity through Modulation of Intrinsic α Band Connectivity. Maddaluno, O., Della Penna, S., Pizzuti, A., Spezialetti, M., Corbetta, M., de Pasquale, F., & Betti, V. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(20), e1766232024.

Simultaneous, cortex-wide dynamics of up to 1 million neurons reveal unbounded scaling of dimensionality with neuron number. Manley, J., Lu, S., Barber, K., Demas, J., Kim, H., Meyer, D., … Vaziri, A. (2024). Neuron, 112(10), 1694-1709.e5.

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Biases in hand perception are driven by somatosensory computations, not a distorted hand model. Peviani, V. C., Miller, L. E., & Medendorp, W. P. (2024). Current Biology, 34(10), 2238-2246.e5.

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Theta and alpha oscillations in human hippocampus and medial parietal cortex support the formation of location‐based representations. Satish, A., Keller, V. G., Raza, S., Fitzpatrick, S., & Horner, A. J. (2024). Hippocampus, 34(6), 284–301.

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[craft2eu]

Experimentelle Gastronomie - Steinbeisser mit Elif Oskan & Selassie Atadika: Dornach (CH) am 30. und 31.08.2024 - Reservierung

Am 30. und 31. August 2024 feiert Steinbeisser mit den Spitzenköchinnen Elif Oskan und Selassie Atadika 100 Jahre biodynamische Landwirtschaft im Goetheanum in Dornach. Eigens für diesen Anlass kreieren Elif Oskan und Selassie Atadika ein rein pflanzliches Menü mit biodynamischen Erzeugnissen aus dem Garten des Goetheanums. Im Fokus steht zudem Biodiversität, die den Künstler*innen als…

[netmassimo]

Tre articoli in fase di peer-review in vista di una pubblicazione sulla rivista "eLife" riportano diversi aspetti di uno studio su quelle che sono state definite come sepolture intenzionali di individui appartenenti alla specie Homo naledi. Vari ricercatori che includono il dottor Lee Berger, che guidò il team che scoprì questi ominini, hanno esaminato la grotta chiamata Rising Star, a circa 50 km a nordovest di Johannesburg, in Sud Africa, in cui i loro fossili sono stati scoperti e quelle che sono state interpretate come incisioni di simboli che accompagnano le sepolture. Ciò significherebbe che gli Homo naledi seppellivano i loro morti tra 241.000 e 335.000 anni fa, 100.000 anni prima degli Homo sapiens.

[cthylla-rlyeh]

Elif Bulut

[roseandpiper]

ELIF + RHEA

For once, a buzz of excitement ran through her. Yes, she’d felt happier and lighter since moving into the new town, but started up her new job was what she had been looking forward to most. Being in the kitchen was where she loved to be--coming up with recipes, the sounds of a busy kitchen, seeing a finished plating, and getting feedback on her dishes... All of it were about the last of the memories she could look back on from her old life without feeling a dark cloud come over her. But that was the exact reason why she had moved: To start fresh. Nothing about the quiet town reminded her of her old life, and having no one know her made it even better. From the moment she walked into the the restaurant and shown around, Elif felt like she could finally let out the breath she’d been holding. 

"So unfortunately, you can’t start cooking in here yet. We’re going to be starting renovations tomorrow, and someone should be coming by soon to go over my plans for the place,” her new boss, Ronny, explained. Elif nodded her head, a little disappointed, but excited nonetheless to see how it’d turn out. “Of course you’re free to start coming up with dishes. Anything you need to buy, save the receipts so I can reimburse you. ’ve already told you the idea for the menu, but other than that you’re free to be creative--” The door opened just as the pair stepped out of the kitchen. “--Oh, and here is our renovator now. Here, let me make the introductions.”

Just as Ronny said that, their phone began to ring. They apologized and said they needed to take this before rushing off to the back office, leaving the chef and the renovator alone in the main room. 

Elif smiled warmly and stepped towards her. Recognition hit her as she did. “Rhea, right?” she questioned in greeting. “We’ve run into each other in town a few times. Mostly when you’re with Jack. I’m Elif, in case you forgot.” She wouldn’t have been offended if she had, it wasn’t as if their conversations had been all that memorable anyway. “I didn’t know you did renovations. That’s pretty amazing. How long have you been doing this?” 

[the1918]

i better go and re-read bespoke before you kill me with the upcoming ones:)

😃

Tbh Elif this is probably not a bad move, lol. Things with the plot are really coming to a head in Ch. 9...

[dramioneasks]

Fic Rec

Lemon Spell by ParadiseAvenger on A03

Series of One-Shots. 

Chp 1: The Unfortunate Ferret Incident

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.” ―Elif Shafak

Tags: touch-starvation, Draco multiple transfigurations, Hogwarts Era, lots of cuddles, Affectionate Draco, Ferret Draco, Cat Draco, Dog Draco

&

Ch 3: When Hermione hit a werewolf with her car, she thought it was the worst thing she could have done. However, it turned out to be the best.

[Tags: hurt/comfort, knotting, long tongue]

[jacobsullivan]

closed starter - @cantfightmoonlight Elif & Jamie at Jamie's house in Shadow Lake in the hours following the masquerade ball.

Half a mile from the hotel, Jamie realized he didn't have to walk home. In a blink he stood in his living room, still without a coat. Thankfully his phone had been in his pants pocket, but his keys and wallet were still in the suit coat he'd given to Briar.

Briar.

Her name alone brought on a wave of nausea that made Jamie question whether or not he'd even be able to eat the late night door dash he'd ordered to his house before leaving the ball.

Maybe a shower would help, he thought, but the moment his eyes fell on his bed he collapsed in it. No shirt, belt off, and trousers undone. His mind as much of a mess as his heart, serrated into a million jagged pieces, yet still somehow beating for a woman who spared him seconds in what could've been their last moments on earth.

Breaking every bone in his body would've been less painful; death would have been less painful.

Jamie breathed in deep, feeling every wound of heartache and betrayal as air filled his lungs.

Maybe he actually needed to go to rehab. Love a more addicting, destructive substance than any pill he'd ever popped.

Somewhere in the haze he remembered the destruction he'd enacted. A truth bomb he'd hoped to handle more delicately, but in the face of death there was no time for a sugar coated truth.

Daphne's phone rang once then went straight to voicemail. A heavy sigh began the message then Jamie rambled through an apology and an offer to explain, to help. As much as he could, at least. It was better if someone else in the coven took the lead, like Poppy or Royce, or anyone who wasn't on a fast tracked trajectory to burning down his whole life.

That phone call and collecting their food when it arrived was all Jamie had in him until Elif entered his bedroom. He'd left the door unlocked for her and laid rotting in his bed, eyes glazed over, staring at the ceiling like somewhere in the white paint he'd find solutions to the fucking disaster his life had become.

"Hey."

[moonshincs]

 ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ "Only if you're sure?" Selin asked before her eyes looked down at the paper and back up. She wasn't necessarily interested in the front page as such. More that she just wanted to keep up to date on the latest fashion and what was going on around town. The press could be ruthless, that was a fact, and everyone knew it. She'd occasionally glance over the gossip columns but would take it all with a pinch of salt.

"Don't worry, I've already decided whatever it is I probably don't need to know about it anyway. I won't look it up online." Selin adds, smiling more genuinely. "Well, whoever they are, they sound lucky to have a friend like you to look out for them like this."

Elif's eyes softened as Selin held the paper out to her with an apologetic smile. "Thank you and you don't have to give it back and I really am sorry that I took your paper. I'm just trying to protect my friends and I probably could have gone about it in a better way, but," She trained off, her gaze falling to the ground as she thought back to the own article that had been written about her family when she was only a kid- Bodrum Murder. Child found standing over parents bodies- and how different her life might have been if that article had never been published. "And I know I'm in no position to ask for any favors, but is there any chance you can hold off looking it up for like a week or something? They just don't deserve to have everyone else find out about their own family before they do, you know?"

[badgerw0rks]

LeetCode 3. Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

class Solution:    def lengthOfLongestSubstring(self, s: str) -> int:        if(len(s) < 2):            return len(s)        n = len(s)

       ret = 0        left = 0        right = 0

       for i in range(n):  ## get longest unique for every starting index            tmp = [0] * 128            left = i            right = i            ch = s[right]            while(tmp[ord(ch)] == 0 and right < n -1): ## move right to the end or if char is repetead                tmp[ord(ch)] += 1                right += 1                ch = s[right]            if tmp[ord(ch)] != 0:  ## if char is repeated move right left                right -= 1            size = 0            if left == right:                  size = 1            elif left == 0:                size = right + 1            else:                size = right - left  +1            if(ret < size ):                ret = size   ## save size if its larger than preious  

       return ret

[hersparklingqalb]

This is a story of Layla and Harun-ar-Rashid, the famous emperor. Upon hearing that a poet named Qays had fallen hopelessly in love with Layla and lost his mind for her, and was therefore named Majnun- the madman- the emperor became very curious about the woman who had caused such misery. "This Layla must be very special creature. A woman far superior to all other women. Perhaps she is an enchantress unequaled in beauty and charm." he thought. Excited, intrigued and curious, he played every trick in the book to find a way to see Layla with his own eyes. Finally, one day they brought Layla to the emperor's palace. When she took off her veil, the emperor was disillusioned. Not that Layla was ugly, crippled or old. But she wasn't extraordinarily attractive either. She was a human being with ordinary human needs and several defects, a simple woman, like countless others. The emperor did not hide his diaappointment. "Are You the one Majnun has been crazy about? Why, you look so ordinary. What is so special about you?" Layla broke into a smile. "Yes, I am Layla. But You are not Majnun," she answered. "You have to see me with the eyes of Majnun. Otherwise you could never solve this mystery called love." Is there a way to grasp what love means without becoming a lover first? Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all. - Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi (Alayhi Rahma) Source: - The Forty Rules Of Love By Elif Shafak #sabr #shukr #tawakkul #herblackveil #hersparklingqalb #islamicreminder #Islam #Allah #muslimah #love #halallove https://www.instagram.com/p/CH-4xlYhVep/?igshid=fbay54ce0z1g

[doulafeyza]

TÜİK verilerine göre 2019 yılında dünyaya gelen kız bebeklere en çok bu 5 isim verildi 😊; ~ZEYNEP ~ELİF ~DEFNE ~EYLÜL ~ASEL * 2020 hangi isimlerin yılı oldu acaba? 🤔 * Peki siz kız bebeğinize ne isim koydunuz? (Kocaeli İzmit) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH-MbEpjXVG/?igshid=1wp5uebrwng42