You can have your cup of tea, but we need some beefcake as well.
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“You deserved that.” 🔥
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Way Down
Word Count: 1,046
Writers Note: Inspired by standing in the Smokehouse aka Gun Range at Graceland
Warning: Mentions of Guns.
Pairing: POC OC x Elvis
Summary: It's boys' night with the Memphis Mafia... At least it was supposed to be
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Graceland June 1976
The Tennessee sun was beginning to set, and near Vernon's office was a crowd of beer-ridden rowdy roughens that Elvis called his friends. It was boys' night. It was what Elvis promised. No wives, no kids, and absolutely no cheating at aiming for the middle of the shooting chart. Coming from inside the house was Elaine. She and her brother were 15 now, but the guys still remembered the day the two were born. Jerry had noticed that her hair was nicely pressed, and she had on a little bit of makeup that Cecelia must have allowed. And Elvis must not have seen,
"Hey Memphis, where you going?"
"On a date." She smiled, her smile just as crooked and charming as her father's,
"Do we know him?" Joe, Red, Lamar. And Billy, all asked as Elaine shook her head and laughed,
"No, you've never met her." Elaine smiled as Jerry and the boys were shocked at her response. She was wearing daisy dukes and a tied-up shirt, but for Jerry, the only thing he could say was,
"At least she won't get pregnant..." They watched her sprint off towards a red 68 Mustang. The driver was a bit taller than Elaine. She had short blonde hair, blue eyes, and freckles and was wearing a denim outfit,
"Is the infamous Memphis mob..." Estella asked,
"Yes, it is," Elaine said, "SEE YOU LATER UNCLE, JOE, RED, LAMAR, BILLY!" she shouted as Jerry cleared his throat. Elaine ran back to him. And she kissed his cheek, "Uncle Jerry, I'll be back at 9pm,"
"If you're not back..."
"My behind is wine."
"That's my Memphis." He ruffled up her hair. As soon as she left, here came trouble in a leather jacket and a The Doors shirt, "Hello Fella," Jessie smiled. His smile was soft like his mother's, but he had a stubborn cowlick like his, father, really he nearly had his father's face on his,
"Ah, yes, JVP, how are you feeling?"
"Pretty groovy cousin Billy." Jessie smiled. He'd been getting into a bit of trouble lately. Between his so-called friends and parties he'd been sneaking out to, leaning against the smokehouse, Jessie tried to take a whiff of Red's beer as he moved it.
"Don't you have records to file, homework, a guitar to practice?"
"One, Carla is not in today, so automatically, the studio is boring. Two, it's summer..."
"Carla, as in your mother's Intern?" Lamar asked.
"Yeah, she's, uh, very pretty." Jessie blushed, "Taking her to Beale Street tonight, actually..." He looked at his watch, "S-ShIt!! I mean shoot, I fuc-"
"HEY LANGUAGE!" Joe shouted as Jessie ran off, the mob shaking their heads.
"Say, where's Elvis?"
"He's running a bit late from the studio," Cecelia said, stepping out in her bell bottoms and cropped tied shirt. She had a gun on her hips. She looked like Foxy Brown.
"Nope,"
"No, what... Lamar ..."
"No wives." Red joked,
"Well, this is my house. You're drinkin the beer I bought for you so."
"C... it's Boys night at the smokehouse..." Red said,
"Well, I'll stand in for Elvis,"
"Fine! But I bet you can't shoot that-"
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
"Shit..." Joe gasped,
"How... Why..." Jerry asked,
"Who are you?" Lamar blinked,
"My glammy taught me to shoot, with help from my mother," She sighed, "Though I feel a little rusty..."Cecelia sighed, "Bill, could'ja hand me that riffle, please." She asked as he handed it to her, "You might wanna move back. It's got a kick to it..." She mumbled, leaning over to focus. She made sure her stance was strong. She aimed her gun and pulled the trigger and-
PLOW!
A few hours later, the boys had a clever idea to throw her a challenge.
"See, y'all started without me," Elvis said as he took his sunglasses off,
"Cece's been shootin every gun we can find!" Red said as Elvis chuckled,
"Sounds right," Elvis smiled as she wrapped her arms around his fuller frame, "I guess I'll let you have your guys' night now." She smiled as Elvis kissed her forehead,
"What, no, Cece, You're practically one of the boys!" Joe whined as Elvis laughed,
"Stay, have a beer, talk shit with us!" Billy smiled,
"I don't know, you did save no Wives and..." Holding up her ring finger with the updated wedding ring, which had the diamond from his TCB ring.
"I'm a wife, so..."
"E, please make her stay!" Lamar said,
"Red, Jerry?" Elvis asked,
"Fine, she can stay, but can you fix a tire?" Elvis laughed at Red's question,
"Meet me in the garage, I'll fix your car." Cecelia winked,
"Who taught you to do that?" Jerry asked,
"My Glammy... Her brother was a mechanic." She shrugged,
As the night continued with the boys and Cecelia shooting and carrying on, they ended up in the garage talking, "Shit, Red! How the hell are you even alive!" She asked as Elvis and Jerry were looking at his spark plugs.
"Gee, I don't know."
"We see..." Jerry laughed,
"Tell us how bad. Is it!" Lamar asked,
"About as bad as chicken shit." She hiccuped a little. She may have drank some of Elvis's beer to taste it,
"Can you fix it?" Joe asked,
"Shooot does a rooster crow in the mornin!" Elvis handed her the needle nose pillars, and she changed them out,
"This is like if Dusty in Viva Las Vegas knew cars." Billy laughed,
"Dusty was beautiful, of course. She was Ann Marget." Cecelia said as Jerry laughed,
"Sounds a little jealous."
"Me, nah, why, if I was a man, I'd scoop her up." Cecelia smirked at Elvis, and the boys laughed, "She's a smokin' hot babe."
"I see where Elaine gets it from." Jerry chuckled,
"Hiya, everyone!" Elaine smiled, stopping by, "Hi, daddy." Elvis leaned down so she could kiss his cheek,
"Did you have a nice date?" He asked,
"I did," She giggled,
"Not too much touchin?"
"Daddy!" She laughed,
"Hey, I don't want you gettin no ideas, little biscuit." He laughed, "You go on up. And get ready for bed, okay." Elvis smiled as Elaine nodded,
"Night, everyone!"
"So... can I help?" Jessie said his face covered in lipstick kisses,
"And that's my que to leave." Cecelia chuckled.
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Commons Vote
On: Passenger Railway Services Bill (Public Ownership) Bill: Second Reading
Ayes: 351 (96.6% Lab, 2.3% Ind, 0.8% Green, 0.3% SDLP)
Noes: 84 (100.0% Con)
Absent: ~215
Day's business papers: 2024-7-29
Likely Referenced Bill: Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
Description: A Bill to make provision for passenger railway services to be provided by public sector companies instead of by means of franchises.
Originating house: Commons
Current house: Commons
Bill Stage: Committee of the whole House
Individual Votes:
Ayes
Labour (341 votes)
Abena Oppong-Asare
Abtisam Mohamed
Adam Jogee
Adam Thompson
Afzal Khan
Al Carns
Alan Campbell
Alan Gemmell
Alan Strickland
Alex Baker
Alex Ballinger
Alex Barros-Curtis
Alex Davies-Jones
Alex Mayer
Alex McIntyre
Alex Norris
Alex Sobel
Alice Macdonald
Alison Hume
Alison McGovern
Alison Taylor
Alistair Strathern
Allison Gardner
Amanda Hack
Amanda Martin
Andrew Cooper
Andrew Gwynne
Andrew Lewin
Andrew Pakes
Andrew Ranger
Andrew Western
Andy MacNae
Andy McDonald
Angela Eagle
Anna Dixon
Anna Gelderd
Anneliese Dodds
Anneliese Midgley
Baggy Shanker
Bambos Charalambous
Barry Gardiner
Bayo Alaba
Beccy Cooper
Becky Gittins
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Ben Coleman
Ben Goldsborough
Bill Esterson
Blair McDougall
Brian Leishman
Bridget Phillipson
Callum Anderson
Calvin Bailey
Carolyn Harris
Cat Eccles
Cat Smith
Catherine Atkinson
Catherine McKinnell
Catherine West
Charlotte Nichols
Chris Bloore
Chris Curtis
Chris Elmore
Chris Hinchliff
Chris Kane
Chris McDonald
Chris Murray
Chris Vince
Chris Webb
Christian Wakeford
Claire Hazelgrove
Claire Hughes
Clive Betts
Clive Lewis
Connor Naismith
Damien Egan
Dan Aldridge
Dan Jarvis
Dan Tomlinson
Daniel Francis
Danny Beales
Darren Jones
Darren Paffey
Dave Robertson
David Baines
David Burton-Sampson
David Pinto-Duschinsky
David Taylor
David Williams
Dawn Butler
Debbie Abrahams
Deirdre Costigan
Derek Twigg
Diana Johnson
Douglas Alexander
Douglas McAllister
Ed Miliband
Elaine Stewart
Emily Darlington
Emma Foody
Emma Hardy
Emma Lewell-Buck
Emma Reynolds
Euan Stainbank
Feryal Clark
Florence Eshalomi
Frank McNally
Fred Thomas
Gen Kitchen
Georgia Gould
Gerald Jones
Gill German
Gordon McKee
Graeme Downie
Graham Stringer
Grahame Morris
Gregor Poynton
Gurinder Josan
Hamish Falconer
Harpreet Uppal
Heidi Alexander
Helen Hayes
Helena Dollimore
Henry Tufnell
Hilary Benn
Ian Lavery
Ian Murray
Imogen Walker
Irene Campbell
Jack Abbott
Jacob Collier
Jade Botterill
Jake Richards
James Asser
James Murray
James Naish
Janet Daby
Jas Athwal
Jayne Kirkham
Jeevun Sandher
Jeff Smith
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
Jess Asato
Jessica Morden
Jessica Toale
Jim Dickson
Jim McMahon
Jo Platt
Jo Stevens
Jo White
Joani Reid
Jodie Gosling
Joe Morris
Joe Powell
Johanna Baxter
John Grady
John Healey
John Slinger
John Whitby
Jon Pearce
Jon Trickett
Jonathan Brash
Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Hinder
Josh Dean
Josh Fenton-Glynn
Josh MacAlister
Josh Newbury
Josh Simons
Julia Buckley
Juliet Campbell
Justin Madders
Kanishka Narayan
Kate Dearden
Kate Osamor
Kate Osborne
Katie White
Keir Mather
Kenneth Stevenson
Kerry McCarthy
Kevin Bonavia
Kevin McKenna
Kim Johnson
Kim Leadbeater
Kirith Entwistle
Kirsteen Sullivan
Kirsty McNeill
Laura Kyrke-Smith
Lauren Edwards
Lauren Sullivan
Laurence Turner
Lee Barron
Lee Pitcher
Leigh Ingham
Lewis Atkinson
Liam Byrne
Liam Conlon
Lilian Greenwood
Lillian Jones
Linsey Farnsworth
Lisa Nandy
Liz Kendall
Liz Twist
Lizzi Collinge
Lloyd Hatton
Lorraine Beavers
Louise Haigh
Louise Jones
Lucy Powell
Lucy Rigby
Luke Akehurst
Luke Charters
Luke Murphy
Luke Myer
Luke Pollard
Margaret Mullane
Maria Eagle
Mark Ferguson
Mark Hendrick
Mark Sewards
Mark Tami
Markus Campbell-Savours
Marsha De Cordova
Martin Rhodes
Mary Creagh
Mary Glindon
Matt Bishop
Matt Rodda
Matt Turmaine
Matt Western
Matthew Patrick
Matthew Pennycook
Maureen Burke
Maya Ellis
Meg Hillier
Melanie Onn
Melanie Ward
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Michael Payne
Michael Shanks
Michael Wheeler
Michelle Scrogham
Michelle Welsh
Mike Amesbury
Mike Kane
Mike Reader
Mike Tapp
Mohammad Yasin
Nadia Whittome
Natalie Fleet
Natasha Irons
Naushabah Khan
Neil Coyle
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Nia Griffith
Nicholas Dakin
Noah Law
Oliver Ryan
Olivia Bailey
Olivia Blake
Pam Cox
Pamela Nash
Pat McFadden
Patricia Ferguson
Paul Davies
Paul Foster
Paul Waugh
Paula Barker
Paulette Hamilton
Perran Moon
Peter Kyle
Peter Lamb
Peter Prinsley
Peter Swallow
Phil Brickell
Polly Billington
Preet Kaur Gill
Rachael Maskell
Rachel Blake
Rachel Hopkins
Richard Baker
Richard Quigley
Rosena Allin-Khan
Rosie Wrighting
Rupa Huq
Ruth Cadbury
Ruth Jones
Sadik Al-Hassan
Sally Jameson
Sam Carling
Sam Rushworth
Samantha Dixon
Samantha Niblett
Sarah Coombes
Sarah Edwards
Sarah Hall
Sarah Jones
Sarah Owen
Sarah Russell
Sarah Sackman
Scott Arthur
Sean Woodcock
Seema Malhotra
Shabana Mahmood
Sharon Hodgson
Shaun Davies
Simon Lightwood
Simon Opher
Siobhain McDonagh
Sojan Joseph
Sonia Kumar
Stella Creasy
Stephen Doughty
Stephen Timms
Steve Race
Steve Reed
Steve Witherden
Steve Yemm
Sureena Brackenridge
Tahir Ali
Taiwo Owatemi
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Tim Roca
Toby Perkins
Tom Collins
Tom Hayes
Tom Rutland
Tonia Antoniazzi
Tony Vaughan
Torcuil Crichton
Torsten Bell
Tracy Gilbert
Tristan Osborne
Tulip Siddiq
Uma Kumaran
Valerie Vaz
Warinder Juss
Will Stone
Yasmin Qureshi
Yuan Yang
Zubir Ahmed
Independent (8 votes)
Adnan Hussain
Apsana Begum
Ian Byrne
Imran Hussain
John McDonnell
Rebecca Long Bailey
Richard Burgon
Zarah Sultana
Green Party (3 votes)
Adrian Ramsay
Ellie Chowns
Siân Berry
Social Democratic & Labour Party (1 vote)
Colum Eastwood
Noes
Conservative (84 votes)
Alan Mak
Alberto Costa
Alec Shelbrooke
Alicia Kearns
Alison Griffiths
Andrew Bowie
Andrew Griffith
Andrew Rosindell
Andrew Snowden
Aphra Brandreth
Ashley Fox
Ben Obese-Jecty
Blake Stephenson
Bob Blackman
Bradley Thomas
Caroline Dinenage
Caroline Johnson
Charlie Dewhirst
Claire Coutinho
Danny Kruger
David Davis
David Mundell
David Reed
David Simmonds
Desmond Swayne
Edward Argar
Gagan Mohindra
Gareth Bacon
Gareth Davies
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
George Freeman
Graham Stuart
Greg Smith
Gregory Stafford
Harriet Cross
Harriett Baldwin
Helen Grant
Helen Whately
Jack Rankin
James Cleverly
Joe Robertson
John Cooper
John Glen
John Hayes
John Lamont
John Whittingdale
Julia Lopez
Julian Lewis
Katie Lam
Kemi Badenoch
Kieran Mullan
Kit Malthouse
Lewis Cocking
Lincoln Jopp
Louie French
Mark Francois
Mark Garnier
Martin Vickers
Matt Vickers
Mel Stride
Mims Davies
Neil Hudson
Neil Shastri-Hurst
Nick Timothy
Patrick Spencer
Paul Holmes
Peter Bedford
Peter Fortune
Rebecca Harris
Rebecca Paul
Rebecca Smith
Richard Holden
Robbie Moore
Robert Jenrick
Roger Gale
Saqib Bhatti
Sarah Bool
Shivani Raja
Steve Barclay
Stuart Anderson
Stuart Andrew
Tom Tugendhat
Victoria Atkins
Wendy Morton
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Check out the Red/Blue Ships List here X
Continuation of my attempt to create a tierlist for every color scheme, here is the Orange/Black tierlist, which also includes Orange/Purple and Orange/Blue pairings due to the amount of overlap I was seeing in the color schemes. I was a lot more lenient here than the Red/Blue one on what counts as I figured there would be less, though I ended up with a lot more than I thought.
I don't know all the pairings here personally and just tried to include all I could find - If I left any of your favorites out let me know and I can retroactively add them (This goes for the other lists too).
Ships featured (In order of appearance):
-Sunati\Austen from Always Human
-Aki Hayakawa\Angel Devil from Chainsaw Man
-Allison Argent \Lydia Martin from Teen Wolf
-Aang\Katara from Avatar the Last Airbender
-Wanderer (Scaramouche)\Tartaglia (Childe) from Genshin Impact
-Hermes\Charon from Hades (Supergiant)
-Zhongli\Tartaglia (Childe) from Genshin Impact
-Giyu Tomioka\Sabito from Demon Slayer
-Subaru Akehoshi\Hokuto Hidaka from Ensemble Stars
-Rue Kuroha\Ahiru Arima (Duck) from Princess Tutu
-Fakir\Ahiru Arima (Duck) from Princess Tutu
-Hubert von Vestra\Ferdinand von Aieger from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
-Felix Hugo Fraldarius\Annette Fantine Dominic from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
-Lorenz Hellman Gloucester\Leonie Pinelli from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
-Papika\Cocona Cocomine from Flip Flappers
-Philip J. Fry\Turanga Leela from Futurama
-Son Goku\Chi-Chi from Dragon Ball
-Kamisato Ayaka\Naganohara Yoimiya from Genshin Impact
-Sansa Stark\Margaery Tyrell from Game of Thrones
-Harrowhark Nonagesimus\Gideon Nav from The Locked Tomb Series
-Kyouko Hori\Izumi Miyamura from Horimiya
-Hercules\Megara from Disney's Hercules
-Benery\Gordon Freeman from Half Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware*
-Retsuko\Haida from Aggretsuko
-Vriska Serket\Tavros Nitram from Homestuck
-Rukia Kuchiki\Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach
-Jade Harley\Davesprite from Homestuck
-Jotaro Kujo\Noriaki Kakyoin from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
-James "Logan" Howlett (Wolverine)\Jean Elaine Grey (Phoenix) from X-Men
-Shoyo Hinata\Tobio Kageyama from Haikyu!!
-Katarina Claes\Mary Hunt from My Next Life as a Villainess
-Calvin "Freckle" Mcmurry\Ivy Pepper from Lackadaisy
-Honoka Kosaka\Umi Sonoda from Love Live!
-Thorin Oakenshield\Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit
-Heath Burns\Abbey Bominable from Monster High
-Zelda\Midna from The Legend of Zelda Franchise
-Twilight Sparkle\Sunset Shimmer from My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
-Rainbow Dash\Applejack from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
-Rarity\Applejack from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
-Mondo Owada\Kiyotaka Ishimaru from Danganronpa
-Sho Suzuki\Ritsu Kageyama from Mob Psycho 100
-Jack Skellington\Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas
-Umetarou Nozaki\Chiyo Sakura from Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun
-Nobara Kugisaki\Maki Zenin from Jujutsu Kaisen
-Nozomi Tojo\Rin Hoshizora from Love Live!
-Nami\Nico Robin from One Piece
-Yoo Sangah\Han Sooyoung from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
-Phineas Flynn\Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from Phineas and Ferb
-Puss in Boots\Kitty Softpaws from Puss in Boots
-Ray\Emma from The Promised Neverland
-Leon\Raihan from Pokemon
-Sonia\Nessa from Pokemon
-Professor Sada\Professor Turo from Pokemon
-Chloe Beale\Beca Mitchell from Pitch Perfect
-Popuko\Pipimi from Pop Team Epic
-Raeliana McMillan\Noah Volstaire Wynknight from Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion
-Alfredo Linguini\Colette Tatou from Ratatouille
-Kanaya Maryam\Rose Lalonde from Homestuck
-Kazuto Kirigaya (Kirito)\Asuna Yuuki from Sword Art Online
-Naruto Uzumaki\Sasuke Uchiha from Naruto
-Kyoko Mogami\Ren Tsuruga from Skip Beat!
-Akira Okudaira\Fumi Manjōme from Sweet Blue Flowers
-Daphne Blake\Velma Dinkley from Scooby Doo
-Clary Fray\Isabelle Lightwood from Shadowhunters
-Sun Wukong (The Monkey King)\Liu Er Mihou (Six-eared Macaque)
-Juri Arisugawa\Shiori Takatsuki from Revolutionary Girl Utena
-Osamu Dazai\Chūya Nakahara from Bungo Stray Dogs
-Jasper\Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe
-He Tian\Mo Guanshan from 19 Days
-Sonic the Hedgehog\Miles Prower (Tails) from the Sonic Franchise
-Hijirikawa Masato\Jinguji Ren from Uta no Prince-sama
-Nanami Haruka\Ichinose Tokiya from Uta no Prince-sama
-Nanami Haruka\Hijirikawa Masato from Uta no Prince-sama
-Ash Ketchum\Misty from Pokemon
-Akira Takizawa\Saki Morimi from Eden of the East
-Fox Mulder\Dana Scully from X-Files
-Futaba Sakura\Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5
-Angel\Gaige from Borderlands
-Judy Hopps\Nick Wilde from Zootopia
-Riko Kurahashi\Natsuo Maki from Love Lab
*As a rule I use official art or personal edits for these but since that was not possible for Benrey/Gordon Freeman I used a fanart found here: X by Giaru-Orihidero - They are very talented so please check them out!
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2023 Books in Review
a tiered ranking of all the books i read in 2023! originally i was going to write up my commentary on each one but then i was like hahaha.....no, so below the cut is just a list of the titles/authors in each tier instead.
changed my brain chemistry
The Idiot, Elif Batuman
Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang
The Borrowed, Chan Ho-kei (trans. Jeremy Tiang)
My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang (trans. Ken Liu)
The Membranes, Chi Ta-wei (trans. Ari Larissa Heinrich)
Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng
Severance, Ling Ma
He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan
Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)
Network Effect, Martha Wells
top-tier stuff
Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell)
Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt
The Door, Magda Szabo (trans. Len Rix)
The Lover, Marguerite Duras (trans. Barbara Bray)
Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
Strange Beasts of China, Yan Ge (trans. Jeremy Tiang)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu
Tell Me I’m Worthless, Alison Rumfitt
Bliss Montage, Ling Ma
How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante
The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri
good, well-written
Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu
Life Ceremony, Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)
Yellowface, R. F. Kuang
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
Assassin of Reality, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)
Witch King, Martha Wells
Tokyo Ueno Station, Miri Yu (trans. Morgan Giles)
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
Peaces, Helen Oyeyemi
Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
The Pachinko Parlor, Elisa Shua Dusapin (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins)
All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Fugitive Telemetry, and System Collapse (Murderbot #1-4, #6-7), Martha Wells
Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee
The Dry Heart, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye)
Gods of Want, K-Ming Chang
Paradais, Fernanda Melchor (trans. Sophie Hughes)
The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency, Chen Chen
The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon
Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
An Unauthorised Fan Treatise, Lauren James
Upstream, Mary Oliver
The Art of Death, Edwidge Danticat
Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison
alphabet, Inger Christensen (trans. Susanna Nied)
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
flawed, but enjoyable
The Wicker King, K. Ancrum
Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
Flux, Jinwoo Chong
Bang Bang Bodhisattva, Aubrey Wood
The Murder of Mr. Wickham, Claudia Gray
Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang
The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Likeness, Tana French
The Cabinet, Un-su Kim (trans. Sean Lin Halbert)
The Kingdom of Surfaces, Sally Wen Mao
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Franny Choi
good, well-written, but not my cup of tea
The Good House, Tananarive Due
The Transmigration of Bodies, Yuri Herrera (trans. Lisa Dillman)
Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (trans. Olena Bormashenko)
The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan
At Night All Blood Is Black, David Diop (trans. Anna Moschovakis)
Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Jenny McPhee)
The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo
The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier (trans. Harriet de Onís)
Against Silence, Frank Bidart
flawed, less enjoyable
Tenth of December, George Saunders
Counterweight, Djuna (trans. Anton Hur)
Authority, Jeff VanderMeer
Comfort Me with Apples, Catherynne M. Valente
Babel, R. F. Kuang
The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang
Carrie Soto Is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid
not ranking
These are nonfiction and they aren’t literature-related, so it just felt weird trying to rank them.
Visual Thinking, Temple Grandin
On Web Typography, Jason Santa Maria
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo (trans. Cathy Hirano)
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Ng's family said they stopped hearing back from her on October 19. They also received a cryptic call from the retreat's organizer informing them of her disappearance. The Guatemalan Navy began search-and-rescue efforts the same day, but suspended the search after 72 hours without any leads.
"We don't really know exactly what happened," Nancy's brother Jonathan Ng told NBC. "The witnesses that were able to see what happened have not been extremely communicative."
The rescuers have spent the past few weeks scouring the murky volcanic lake with boats, aircraft, and drones, but have found no sign of the missing woman. Chris Sharpe, the owner of Black Wolf Helicopters, said that many witnesses have not been forthcoming and have since returned to the United States. "For me, this is now becoming a criminal investigation," he told ABC.
Nancy went missing on Oct. 19 during a "Be the Change" yoga retreat organized by Los Angeles instructor Eduardo Rimada. She went off on a kayaking excursion in Lake Atitlan with around ten people, including a San Bernardino County public defender named Christina Blazek. Blazek was allegedly the last person who saw Nancy before she disappeared, and Ng's family has desperately sought answers from Blazek but was met with silence for weeks, before Blazek finally spoke out - through her attorney. And this was only after the private search-and-rescue firm hired by the family to continue efforts on the ground, released Blazek's name in a press release to encourage her to come forward.
G. Christopher Gardner, Blazek's attorney, said in an interview with KABC-TV of Los Angeles last Wednesday that his client had tried to warn Nancy of the lake's rough waters when they were out kayaking right before she disappeared.
"[Blazek] kept one leg in her kayak and one leg in [Nancy's] kayak and tried to get back to her...and got close to her," Gardner told KABC. "And then apparently, [Blazek] lost the kayak again and she turned around to go back to get the kayak again, and when she turned back around, Ms. Ng was gone."
"If it is like she says and it is an accident, I don't understand how she could choose to leave my family in the dark for almost four weeks, and not just say that from the start," Ng's sister Nicky told ABC 7 LA.
But Blazek's account has prompted new questions from the family and resurfaced ones they've had.
"Nancy's a good swimmer. I don't understand how this could have happened. Was she struggling for a long time? Did Christina hear her scream or yell for help?" Nicky said. "What was the scope? The circumstances? Did she just disappear? Was there a land nearby that she could have swam? I had no context or not enough context of what was going on. So those are the same questions we still have today."
Gardner claims that his client didn't come forward sooner because she needed time to herself after going through the "traumatic experience."
Nancy's disappearance, however, has been even more devastating for the family of six, Nicky said.
"When we think about the [possibility of] drowning, my dad, he takes it really hard because he taught Nancy how to swim," Nicky said. "I think they're taking it really hard, and at the same time, they're trying to be strong for me and my brothers."
Nicky added that the search for Nancy, who worked with special needs children, has been difficult for the students she was close with as well.
"We have had a lot of her clients' parents reach out to us and just say Nancy had a special connection with their child and that their child now doesn't understand why Nancy's not back," Nicky said.
The investigation is ongoing and the FBI continues to interview witnesses in the case.
Earlier this month, the owners of the kayak company used by Ng before she vanished said the group she was with 'immediately clammed up' after she disappeared. Lee and Elaine Beal, the proprietors of Kayak Guatemala, said that ten people went out on the excursion, but only eight returned - with Ng and another woman seen paddling further into the body of water.
Eventually the woman returned to shore alone, with no sign of Ng.
"No one in the group was interested in talking to anybody," Lee told Good Morning America. "It was almost like, immediately clamming up and like we are not going to say anything."
The group failed to pay the owners then all left the country 'within 12 hours' of the suspected accident, which struck Elaine Beal as odd.
"They didn't say a word to us. I just don't understand that part, leaving within 12 hours," she added.
The couple described how they were watching the group, with Ng and the female kayaker about 100 yards away. The women continued paddling until they were out of sight.
The next thing the couple saw was a distress signal, before the woman returned alone.
"I witnessed the survivor being ushered up the steps," Elaine added. "She was clearly distressed."
Guatemalan authorities had struggled to locate the woman who was last with Nancy, or the tour guide as they left the country.
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Elaine and Eddie can both get straight in the bin. How shitty do you have to for Cindy Beale to come out looking like the voice of reason.
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Dean Wicks, son EastEnders'ta Queen Vic merdivenlerinin dibinde cansız kaldı.BBC One dizisinin Pazartesi (20 Kasım 2023) bölümünde, Beale's Eels adlı işletmesinin açılışı sırasında tecavüzcülerin Walford topluluğuyla çatışmasına tanık olundu; bu olay onun Cindy (Michelle Collins) ve Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) ile tuhaf bir ortaklık anlaşması yapmasına neden oldu. ).Birisi yeni işyerinin önüne "tecavüzcü" yazan bir grafiti bıraktıktan sonra Dean (Matt Di Angelo'nun canlandırdığı) çok öfkelendi ve tecavüz kurbanı olan eski görümcesi Linda Carter'ı (Kellie Bright) suçladı. 2014.Dean, Linda'yı tecavüzcüsüyle yüzleşirken şok edici sahnelerde iftira nedeniyle dava etmekle tehdit etti, bu da Linda'nın annesi Elaine Peacock (Harriet Thorpe) ve nişanlısı George Knight'ın (Colin Salmon) endişelenmesine yol açtı.Arkadaşı ve polis dedektifi Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) ile konuştuktan sonra Linda, herkesin iyiliği için Dean'le ateşkes ilan etmeye karar verir, ancak Dean geri adım atmayı reddeder.Cindy ve Ian, Dean'in de Linda'yla olan kavgasından vazgeçmesini isterler, aksi takdirde işleri hiçbir şekilde başarıya ulaşamama tehlikesiyle karşı karşıya kalır.EastEnders'da öfkeli George Knight rolünde Colin Salmon. BBCDaha sonra Kraliçe Vic'de Linda, bir zamanlar kendisine tecavüz ettiği mutfakta kendisini bir kez daha Dean'le karşı karşıya buldu. Adamant'a ona asla tecavüz etmediğini söyleyen Dean, ona Mick'in artık orada olmadığını hatırlatır.Linda, Dean'i gitmeye ikna etmeye çalışırken, sahanlıktaki çatışmayı sona erdirmeye çalışan Cindy ve George tarafından kesintiye uğradılar.George, Dean'e gitmesini emretti ve ardından Linda'yı önce kendisiyle, sonra da George'la ilişkisi olmakla suçladı.Öfkeli George daha sonra Dean'e vurdu ve o da merdivenlerden aşağı düştü.George Dean'i mi öldürdü? Peki sonuçları ne olacak? Peki Linda, Cindy ve George şimdi ne yapacaklar?Devamını oku:EastEnders pazartesiden perşembeye saat 19.30'da BBC One'da ve sabah 6'dan itibaren BBC iPlayer'da yayınlanıyor.Özel EastEnders'ımızı ziyaret edin sayfa En son haberler, röportajlar ve spoiler için. Daha fazlasını izlemek istiyorsanız bölümümüze göz atın TV Rehberi ve Yayın Rehberi.Radio Times dergisini bugün deneyin ve yalnızca 10 £ karşılığında 10 sayı edinin; şimdi abone olun ve Doctor Who'nun 60. yıl dönümünü Radio Times'ın özel sayısıyla kutlayın. TV'deki en büyük yıldızlardan daha fazlası için listeleyin
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"She's meant to be dead."
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Dean Wicks, son EastEnders'ta Queen Vic merdivenlerinin dibinde cansız kaldı.BBC One dizisinin Pazartesi (20 Kasım 2023) bölümünde, Beale's Eels adlı işletmesinin açılışı sırasında tecavüzcülerin Walford topluluğuyla çatışmasına tanık olundu; bu olay onun Cindy (Michelle Collins) ve Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) ile tuhaf bir ortaklık anlaşması yapmasına neden oldu. ).Birisi yeni işyerinin önüne "tecavüzcü" yazan bir grafiti bıraktıktan sonra Dean (Matt Di Angelo'nun canlandırdığı) çok öfkelendi ve tecavüz kurbanı olan eski görümcesi Linda Carter'ı (Kellie Bright) suçladı. 2014.Dean, Linda'yı tecavüzcüsüyle yüzleşirken şok edici sahnelerde iftira nedeniyle dava etmekle tehdit etti, bu da Linda'nın annesi Elaine Peacock (Harriet Thorpe) ve nişanlısı George Knight'ın (Colin Salmon) endişelenmesine yol açtı.Arkadaşı ve polis dedektifi Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) ile konuştuktan sonra Linda, herkesin iyiliği için Dean'le ateşkes ilan etmeye karar verir, ancak Dean geri adım atmayı reddeder.Cindy ve Ian, Dean'in de Linda'yla olan kavgasından vazgeçmesini isterler, aksi takdirde işleri hiçbir şekilde başarıya ulaşamama tehlikesiyle karşı karşıya kalır.EastEnders'da öfkeli George Knight rolünde Colin Salmon. BBCDaha sonra Kraliçe Vic'de Linda, bir zamanlar kendisine tecavüz ettiği mutfakta kendisini bir kez daha Dean'le karşı karşıya buldu. Adamant'a ona asla tecavüz etmediğini söyleyen Dean, ona Mick'in artık orada olmadığını hatırlatır.Linda, Dean'i gitmeye ikna etmeye çalışırken, sahanlıktaki çatışmayı sona erdirmeye çalışan Cindy ve George tarafından kesintiye uğradılar.George, Dean'e gitmesini emretti ve ardından Linda'yı önce kendisiyle, sonra da George'la ilişkisi olmakla suçladı.Öfkeli George daha sonra Dean'e vurdu ve o da merdivenlerden aşağı düştü.George Dean'i mi öldürdü? Peki sonuçları ne olacak? Peki Linda, Cindy ve George şimdi ne yapacaklar?Devamını oku:EastEnders pazartesiden perşembeye saat 19.30'da BBC One'da ve sabah 6'dan itibaren BBC iPlayer'da yayınlanıyor.Özel EastEnders'ımızı ziyaret edin sayfa En son haberler, röportajlar ve spoiler için. Daha fazlasını izlemek istiyorsanız bölümümüze göz atın TV Rehberi ve Yayın Rehberi.Radio Times dergisini bugün deneyin ve yalnızca 10 £ karşılığında 10 sayı edinin; şimdi abone olun ve Doctor Who'nun 60. yıl dönümünü Radio Times'ın özel sayısıyla kutlayın. TV'deki en büyük yıldızlardan daha fazlası için listeleyin
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