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ㅤ۫ㅤ ˚ ۪˖𓏲﹒synopsis!! bokuto needs a tutor for his astronomy class, and what better person to do that than you? . ㅤ ˖ㅤㅤ۫ㅤ ˚౨ cw!! timeskip! b. kotaro x astronomy tutor! reader, sfw  ﹒ ◠ note!!   i thought of this and just had to write it down omg probably my fav i have so many more ideas for this once i finish part 2 of my atsumu series౨  wc!! 2.8k   ˚ ۪˖𓏲 mood!! series playlist

The campus library was supposed to be your sanctuary— a quiet haven where the soft rustle of pages and the hum of fluorescent lights allowed your thoughts to stretch as vast as the stars you studied.

But today, peace shattered the moment he arrived.

Bokuto Kotaro stormed in like a supernova, all bright energy and booming voice, waving his crumpled astronomy work like a flag of surrender.

“Hey, hey, hey! You’re the tutor, right?" he asked, his grin wide and unbothered by the dozen glares aimed his way.

You stared at him, momentarily speechless, wondering how anyone could radiate that much energy this early in the morning. It barely cracked eleven AM.

Under normal circumstances, you'd have never stepped five feet in the owl-headed boy's vicinity, but for the extra credit in your classes, you would.

Bokutos coach had come to you, requesting you tutor Boktuo on astronomy as you were the only one available and the only one who excelled in the university's astronomy course. In return, he promised hed twist a few strings to get you some extra credit, and after a few moments of debating you accepted, it couldn't have been that bad right?

Wrong.

"Bokuto-san, this is a library," You reminded him, subtly looking around at all the faces watching Bokuto's rather bright form.

Bokuto blinked at you, his grin faltering for only a second before bouncing back as if the concept of an 'indoor voice' simply didn’t exist in his world.

He leaned closer, lowering his voice ever so slightly, "Right, right, sorry!" he whispered, though it was still loud enough to earn a second wave of shushing from a nearby table.

"I just got so excited! I mean, how cool is this? Studying stars? Like, actual stars!" He punctuated his sentence with a dramatic gesture that sent his crumpled papers fluttering to the ground.

You sighed, already feeling the beginning of a headache, "Bokuto-san, I don’t think you understand—"

"No, no, I get it!" he cut in, crouching to scoop up his fallen notes.

"This is serious business, I’m totally ready to learn, you’re, like, my last hope before the coach makes me sit out for the rest of the season, "He looked up at you then, his golden eyes wide and genuine, and for a moment, you almost believed he meant it.

Almost.

"Then maybe start by sitting down... quietly," you said, gesturing to the chair across from you.

Bokuto saluted, far too enthusiastically for a library, and flopped into the seat with enough force to make the table rattle, causing you pinched the bridge of your nose.

This is going to be a long semester.

Bokuto leaned forward, practically vibrating with excitement, as he spread his crumpled papers across the table like some sort of battlefield strategist, "Okay, so I was looking at the syllabus— well, kinda— and I think I get it, stars are, like, really far away, right? But also super hot? Like... the sun, but not?"

You stared at him, trying to decipher if that was a question, a statement, or a Bokuto-ism you’d just have to get used to, "That’s... technically correct, Bokuto-san, but—"

"See? I’m not totally hopeless!" He beamed, leaning back with almost contagious confidence, "Coach was all, ‘You’ve gotta study harder,’ and I was like, ‘Don’t worry, I’ve totally got this!’ And then—"

"Bokuto-san," you cut in, resisting the urge to bang your head on the table, "Do you even have your textbook?"

His grin faltered, "...Doesn't a syllabus count?"

Did he really just ask that? Where even was his bag? Why would he sign up for astronomy if he didn't even know the difference between a textbook and a syllabus?

You sighed, long and deep, feeling your patience wear thinner by the second, "No, Bokuto-san, a syllabus does not count, we’re going to need to start at square one,"

Bokuto straightened in his chair, slapping his hands on the table with a determined glint in his eye, "Alright, teach me! I’m ready!"

You raised an eyebrow, glancing pointedly at the other students in the library who were now watching him like a particularly loud wildlife documentary.

"Quietly, Bokuto-san, this is still a library," you muttered, before pulling out your notebook.

He immediately dropped his voice to an exaggerated whisper, "Right, right! Quiet stars! Got it,"

You pressed your lips together, stifling a laugh despite yourself.

You took a deep breath and opened your notebook, flipping to the diagrams you’d drawn for the last exam, "Alright, Bokuto-san, let’s start simple, can you name the three main types of stars?"

Bokuto leaned over the table, squinting at your neatly labeled chart like it was written in another language, "Uh... big, medium, and small?"

You blinked, "That’s not even remotely close,"

He scratched his head, looking sheepish, "Okay, okay, give me a hint! Is one of them... shiny?"

You bit back a groan, tapping your pen against the table.

"They’re all shiny, that’s kind of their thing, let’s try this instead," You pointed to the diagram.

"The three types are massive stars, intermediate stars, and low-mass stars, think of it like volleyball players— each type has a different role and lifespan depending on how much ‘energy’ they have."

Bokuto’s eyes lit up, "Ohhh, like an ace versus a libero! Okay, okay, I get it now! So... low-mass stars would be like liberos? They don’t get the spotlight, but they last a long time?"

You blinked, surprised, "Actually... that’s a decent analogy, I think,"

"See? I’m a genius!" He declared, earning another round of glares from the surrounding tables. He shrank a little under the scrutiny but quickly recovered, leaning in closer, "Alright, hit me with another one!"

Bokuto had only taken astronomy because he thought it'd be an easy class, he saw stars all the time, in movies, and outside; even the lights in the gym looked like stars! So how hard could it have been?

What he wasn't prepared for was needing to name them off the top of his head, and he never even understood the whole constellation thing, they all looked the same! He just could never see it no matter how long he stared at the sky, and he was starting to believe it was some inside joke he wasn't apart of.

Encouraged by his enthusiasm, you turned the page to a diagram of the life cycle of a star.

"Okay. This is how a star evolves over time. It starts as a nebula—basically a giant cloud of gas and dust, and from there, depending on its mass, it can become a protostar, then a main-sequence star, and eventually..."

Bokuto’s hand shot up like he was in a classroom, "Ooh! Ooh! Does it explode?!"

You stared at him, caught off guard, "...Yes, some stars do end their lives in a supernova,"

“I knew it!" He grinned like he’d just won the lottery, "Stars are like aces! They go out with a bang!"

You couldn’t help the small laugh that escaped, "That’s... one way to put it, I guess,"

Bokuto was definitely a creative person you'd give him that much.

For the next hour, you worked through more diagrams and explanations, occasionally pausing to translate the material into volleyball metaphors when Bokuto started zoning out. To your surprise, he was actually listening— though his 'notes' consisted of doodles of stars with dramatic eyebrows and stick-figure volleyball players labeled 'supernova aces.'

Despite the silly drawings instead of words, the notes actually made sense, like he was keeping up and actually processing what you were saying, for the most part, it was as if he just needed the right way of studying, and that way was comparing things to volleyball— something you had no clue about.

When the session finally ended, Bokuto leaned back in his chair, stretching his arms behind his head with a satisfied sigh.

"Man, that wasn’t so bad!" Bokuto said, his grin as wide as ever, "I mean, I still don’t totally get why stars have lifecycles or whatever, but that thing about red giants being, like, the blockers of the universe? That stuck!"

You arched an eyebrow, packing up your notebook, "You do realize blockers don’t explode into planetary nebulae, right?"

He waved a hand dismissively, "Details, details, the point is, I’m totally gonna ace this next quiz, the coach is gonna be so impressed!"

You paused, glancing at his scribbled mess of notes, amidst the chaotic drawings and exaggerated labels, there was a strange kind of logic— one that only Bokuto seemed to understand, yet seemingly effective if he actually understood.

"Well, if this... masterpiece helps you remember the material, I guess that’s what matters," you said, sliding your bag over your shoulder.

"Exactly!" he declared, shooting up from his seat with enough force to make the table rattle, he held out his fist toward you, his grin practically glowing, "Thanks! You’re the best tutor ever!"

You blinked at his outstretched hand, momentarily caught off guard by the unexpected gesture. Hesitantly, you raised your fist and bumped it against his, feeling the warmth of his enthusiasm seep into you.

"Just don’t forget everything we covered the second you step out of this library, Bokuto-san," You replied, trying to sound stern but failing to hide the small smile tugging at your lips.

"No way! I’m locked in now," He said, tapping the side of his head, "It’s all up here, supernova aces, red blockers, all of it,"

You shook your head, suppressing a laugh, "I’ll see you tomorrow then, don’t forget your textbook,"

As you turned to leave, Bokuto called after you, his voice loud enough to earn another round of glares, you lost count at this point, "See ya, don’t miss me too much!"

Bokuto smiled widely, his papers in hand, he felt like he could really pass this class with your help, and he couldn't wait till tomorrow to show you that he in fact did not forget everything you've explained to him. He liked studying with you, you were patient, sort of, in your own way!

You rolled your eyes but couldn’t help the warmth spreading in your chest.

This is going to be a long semester.

But this time, the idea didn’t seem so bad.

You stepped into your dorm room with a small content sigh, replaying the memories of hours ago a small smile made its way onto your face, you were glad your roommate had been spending more time at her boyfriends apartment.

Boyfriend, the word itself grossed you out.

You could never imagine yourself having a boyfriend right now, you were just too focused on college and your major, You neither had the time nor the patience required to handle the responsibilities of a relationship.

Throwing your bag onto your desk you headed for your closet, wanting to change into something comfier before you began your late-night studying.

As you plopped onto your bed you felt your phone buzz, the screen illuminating your face as you read the notification.

unknown number: hey!!

you: hello?

unkown number: its me, bokuto!!

A smile appeared on your face as you bit your lip to try and suppress it.

you: how'd you get my number? and why are you texting so late bokuto-san?

bokuto-san: details details, anyway! do you have a window in your dorm??!111!!!111!11

you: yes bokuto-san, its mandatory...

bokuto-san: face time me !!!!

With a sigh you clicked on his contact and dialed his number, what could possibly be so important that he needed to call you so late? And why were you entertaining it?

Within an instant he picked up, the sight of bokuto filling the entire screen, a wide grin evident on his features.

"What did you need Bokuto-san?" You asked, propping the phone up on your nightstand while you sat on your bed.

"Your pajamas are cute! We should get matching ones!" He blurted out, you were wearing dark blue pajama pants that had stars littered on them.

The compliment made a blush rise to your cheeks, but you wouldn't let it distract you, "Bokuto-san," You said sternly.

"So serious all the time! Anyways, go to your window!" He said, and from what you could see in his background he seemed to be moving around.

With a sigh, you picked the phone up and walked to your window, "Now what?" You questioned, looking out to make sure he wasn't climbing it or something, you wouldn't put anything past this guy.

You heard him laugh, "Now open your window and tell me how to find this Orion guy!"

You smiled fondly, one of your favorite constellations was Orion, "Alright, Bokuto-san, but only for a little," You firmly said.

You opened your window and peeked your head out a bit, feeling the cold breeze hit your skin and sent a shiver down your spine.

"Cold, huh?" You heard Bokuto say, in a much calmer tone.

"Yeah," You stared up at the sky, looking for Orion's belt, "You ready Bokuto-san?"

Your gaze shifted back down to your phone, seeing Bokuto on his back in the grass, his eyes were looking past the phone and into the sky intently, the only thing illuminating his face was the moon and the subtle yellow light of an estrayed college sidewalk light.

"Yeah," He said focused, though his eyes beamed with excitement.

"Alright," You said, gently smiling as you redirected your focus onto the sky, "You’re gonna want to look for three stars in a straight line, they’re not super bright, but once you see them it's hard to unsee them," You explained as simple as you could, already finding Orion's belt once again.

Bokuto squinted, his brow furrowing as he scanned the dark expanse above."Uh… wait, wait! I think I got it!" He said enthusiastically, "Is it that one?" He pointed, seemingly forgetting you were on the phone.

"Bokuto-san, I'm not with you," You said with a soft giggle.

“Oh, right!" Bokuto laughed, the sound was sheepish but warm."Okay, okay, so, uh... describe it again? I think I’m close!"

You smiled, shaking your head,"Alright, focus on the three stars in a straight line, they’re pretty evenly spaced, and they’re just below a really bright star— Betelgeuse, can you see that one?"

“Betel-juice, yeah, I remember from earlier!" He said, his voice brimming with excitement. You heard the faint rustle of grass through the phone as he shifted around.

"Alright, I see the bright one, now... oh! I see them!"

"Really?" You asked, grinning, almost as excited as he was.

Almost.

"Yeah! Three stars, right? In a row? That’s it, isn’t it?" His voice was so loud and triumphant, it was hard not to laugh.

Bokuto couldn't believe what he was seeing, he actually saw a constellation, it wasn't just an inside joke between people in his class, it wasn't some myth, it was real! And you helped him see it, you're the reason he doesn't feel so left out anymore.

You laughed tenderly, "Yes, that’s it, congratulations, Bokuto-san, you’ve officially found Orion’s Belt."

"This is so cool!" He exclaimed, his voice practically vibrating with excitement.

"It really is," You say, happy he feels as excited as you were when you found your first constellation. "If you look north a little you'll see two brighter stars, those represent his shoulders, and if you look south of his belt you'll find his feet,"

After a few moments of silence, he spoke up, "Man, it’s way cooler when you actually know what you’re looking at, what’s next? Are there more belts? Like a whole star wardrobe?" He asked enthusiastically.

You couldn’t help but laugh again, shaking your head. "Not quite, but there’s plenty more to see, first, you might want to take a moment to just enjoy Orion,"

There was a pause, and when Bokuto spoke again, his voice was softer, almost a whisper. "This is actually kind of amazing,"

You looked down at your phone screen, and you noticed Bokutos eyes were glazed over in awe, adorning his cheeks was a pinkish tint.

"You're amazing," Bokuto said, turning his direction towards his phone screen, watching as a smile tugged at your lips. His tone was still the same soft voice, a contrast to his usual theatrical self.

He was telling the truth, Bokuto found you amazing, how you knew so much about the stars, something he wouldn't have even thought twice about before meeting you or before he signed up for the class. He was glad he did, he was glad he was failing the class because if he wasn't, he wouldn't be on the phone with you, lying in the grass and staring at the stars.

And just like that, he couldn't help but think that maybe, just maybe, the stars didn't seem so distant anymore.

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the poll is to catch attention, I was reached out to personally to come up with any way to create some sort of poll to catch your eye and get you to listen, so please take time to listen, donate, and share, hopefully all three.

Match my donation of 5 Euros, if you see this and have the means, and I'll sketch something for you!

Anything at all helps!

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I am Shorouq, a mother of three children: Qusai, 7 years old, Eileen, 5 years old, and Hisham, who is nearing his second birthday. I lived with my husband Samer in a beautiful home in northern Gaza, where our lives were filled with hope. Every corner of our home held precious memories, from our children’s laughter to the happy moments we shared as a family. But over a year ago, everything changed. The dream we built turned into an endless nightmare. We lost everything, and our journey of suffering and displacement began.

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On the night of October 10, 2023, after I had put my children to bed, the bombing grew closer. At exactly 1:30 AM, the threat came. We had to leave our home immediately. There was no time to think, no time to gather anything. We carried our children and fled into the dark, not knowing where to go, just trying to survive the relentless bombing. Our home, which was once our safe haven, was partially destroyed and became uninhabitable. Along with it, all the beautiful memories we made were gone. We left with no food, no extra clothes, and none of the basic necessities for our children.

We moved around for two weeks inside Gaza City, being displaced twice during that time, until we finally reached Rafah on October 20, 2023. There, a new chapter of our suffering began. We had no choice but to live in a small tent. As a mother, the hardest thing was seeing my children hungry and not being able to provide for them. No clean water 💧 , no food to sustain them, and the cold wrapping around their small bodies.

My son Qusai has had a heart condition since birth, requiring several surgeries. In these circumstances, we can’t access the medical 🏥 care he needs, not even basic medicine. Every time I see him in pain, my heart breaks. How can I, as a mother, not provide safety and treatment for my child?

My daughter Eileen, only five years old, has been deeply affected by the war. She was once a joyful and lively child, but now fear has taken over her small face. She no longer laughs like she used to, and she no longer dreams of the future. The war has stolen her childhood.

On October 5, 2023, we were threatened again and forced to flee from Rafah to Deir al-Balah. This was our fifth displacement. We stayed there for two months, but even Deir al-Balah wasn’t safe. Once again, we packed our few belongings and headed to the town of Zawaida.

My youngest son, Hisham, who hasn’t yet turned two, is suffering from malnutrition. I cannot describe the feeling of looking at my baby, knowing he is hungry and not being able to provide him with the proper food. Prices for basic needs have skyrocketed, with even diapers costing $100. We were also living in constant fear of the polio outbreak, which was declared by the World Health Organization . This added another layer of terror for us as a family, fearing for our children’s health, but thankfully, we managed to get them vaccinated just in time.

For the second year in a row, my children have not been able to attend school 🏫 . No education no clear future. As a mother, I feel helpless, unable to give them the hope they deserve.

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In addition to this, we need ongoing support to start a new life. We need your help to rent a home, continue my son Qusai’s medical treatment, and enroll my children in school so they can resume their education. My husband and I need the means to stand on our feet again, to rebuild our lives and give our children the future they deserve.

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[mindless-existence1]

Requests!

They/Them, in love with fictional characters, and have a love for drawing and writing.

Requests open currently!

Fandoms I have watched/read and am willing to write for!

Criminal Minds

DanDaDan

Bungo Stray Dogs- Currently watching Season 1

Spiderman- Any (but I love Miles the most)

Deadpool and Wolverine

Anything DC

Tmnt- Mainly Rottmnt

The Mentalist - haven't watched it in a while so it will mostly be for Jane since I remeber him the most!

My Hero Academia-I haven' read all the mangas or finished the show I'm in the middle of season five. But I've read a bunch of spoilers and a bunch of fanfics so I do have extra info but all my fanfics will be written with the cannon up untill mid season 5.

Assasination Classroom

Jujutsu Kaisen- I haven't read all the manga tho so if some stuff is inaccurate it's because the farthest I've gotten is to the end of the show

Twisters- The new movie

Transformers- no smut but I will do romantic and platonic transformer x reader stuff

Dont Hurt Me My Healer-no x reader

The Umbrella Academy

Knives out

Maze Runner

Sonic universe- mostly sonic, shadow, and knuckles

Lord of the Rings

The Hobbit

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What I will not write!

Incest including half siblings, adopted siblings, or characters heavily implied to have a sibling type relationship

Big age gaps- Pedophilia isn't cool guys (if the character is technically one age but look different I still count that as a weird age gap just fyi example: looks 10 but is actually 1,500)

Im not a fan of angst but I can do small angst stuff nothing crazy tho

R*pe or SA

I won't write about real people only fictional characters

No more than a threesome-(and I'd only write a threesome under special circumstances)

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What I will write!

Fluff

Smut

Platonic relationships

Romantic relationships

Reader insert

Not reader insert

Headcannons

Oneshots

LGBTQ+ Characters and ships

Domestic fluff

AUs

And for any ship you request and I'm willing to write for!

[dramioneasks]

Summer Fics (2023)

building up the pages (over the Atlantic) by prima_vera - T, one-shot - The letters Draco sends Hermione after they first meet on their holidays on the French Riviera and start their friendship/summer fling/romance.

crack on by echoofpromise - E, WIP - This season on Love Island ... Ten sexy singles enter the Spanish Villa in the hope of finding adventure, friendship, love, and a shot at winning the $50,000 prize money! But beware - with a summer this long and hot, there's bound to be drama.

fire in our hearts (burning brighter than the sun) by riddikulus_puff - T, one-shot - Before the arrival of their firstborn baby, Hermione Granger-Malfoy and Draco Granger-Malfoy decided to go on short trips around Europe, something that they had thought about for so long in their relationship. Finally, they were able to do the trips they had wished about. Explore the places that they had always dreamed of travelling to but had never had the chance to explore because of the business of their work lives. After spending the last few days exploring the streets of Italy and exploring Marina di Carrara with their main adventure being a night-time walk along the beach. The next and final destination of the trip was France, more specifically going to Brive-la-Gaillarde. A one-shot for the 2023 Hermione's Haven Bingo Fic Fest Inspired by the song 'Gotta Be You' by One Direction

Aperol Spritz (ENG) by GingerSnapeUA - T, one-shot - After breaking up with Ron, Hermione decides to go on vacation to Italy, but an unexpected meeting awaits her there.

Crash My Girls' Trip by GreenInk_RedLetters - T, 14 chapters - Hermione Granger should have known her first holiday in over five years would be more 'shite hits the fan' than 'sex on the beach.' A promise of a two-week bon voyage on a wizarding island was surely slipping away right before her eyes. She bloody should have known. When Ginny finally convinces Hermione to join her on a two-week island holiday, hilarity ensues as it turns out they're not the only ones vacationing on the magical island, Serena Aquae. And when their own lodging doesn't work out, who just so happens to have extra room in his suite...? Classic, vacation-vibe Dramione story with several classic tropes: same hotel suite, forced proximity, mild jealousy etc. Lots of humor, angst, but overall a lighthearted read.

Stuck in the Middle with You by lilacprestyge - E, 10 chapters - ‘’What the f - Granger?!’’ ‘’Malfoy!’’ She screeched as she hid her eyes from the sight of a very naked Draco Malfoy standing in the middle of her room. ‘’Get out of my room’’ they both said in unison. When Harry Potter finally puts a knee down for none other than the last Weasley, the Malfoy heir, a colleague of the war hero, is invited to the wedding in an all-inclusive magical resort in Dominican Republic. One administrative mishap later, and Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy are stuck together in the same room. For the whole week.

[weirdratwrites]

I like the idea of a creepy cozy setting.

You live alone ("alone") in the woods near a rocky beach. The mornings are so foggy you can't see past your porch, the days are overcast enough you'd think it was twilight, and the nights are as clear as glass. There's storms and high winds and all sorts of completely normal weather phenomena, but your normal is abnormal compared to those things.

You maintain your lifestyle throughout the day, and prep for Winter, and perform the tasks of your Job. What's your Job? Something. You can't really remember. The tasks don't really clear things up. You adjust antenna in the woods, and flip switches, and filter data that collects all day and night. Not that the data's particularly telling, either. 1's and 0's, random coordinates, and soundwaves.

It earns you money, at least. Money that you mainly use to pay for extra supplies through your services app, but money all the same.

And, like clockwork, those supplies come in at the start of each week. It's one of the few ways of telling time that matters at this point. You drift from shipment to shipment in a daze, breaks in your otherwise monotonous routine only lasting in your memory long enough for the next one to come.

Your supplies come in on a boat piloted by a man that you'd forget as easily as what you had for dinner last week, if he weren't your only physical contact with the outside world.

He wears overalls and knee-high waders and a boonie hat. None of it matches and all of it is well-worn. He's always smoking on something - cigarettes, usually, but he'll show up in a better mood with a cigar on his lip - and humming a toon that sounds just familiar enough to be nostalgic but not nearly enough for you to look it up and relieve the itching in the back of your brain that that nostalgia gives you.

Your supplies are simple fair, usually: freeze-dried mashed potatoes, rice, cans of vegetables, cans of soup, the occasional hunk of meat kept in a cooler that you'll need to run to the fridge as soon as possible, and then whatever additions you ordered. You started eating less when you got here, afraid of running out before the next shipment in those early days, and set aside the fair you found most unappetizing as a last resort. You've built up a good stockpile, now, however long you've been here (five years, the cans of butter beans tell you when you count them one night).

Your home - because that's what it is by now - has become lived in after being abandoned for however long. It's been repaired and furnished anew, and it's your safe haven in these lonely woods.

There's a plush sofa that you had to lug from the dock by yourself, and a new kitchen set, and a TV with a Blu-Ray player and shelves worth of content. A fire crackles in the woodstove year-round, combating a chill that's present regardless of the season, and rugs cover the otherwise frigid hardwood floors. The house is creaky, still, and you'll sometimes think you hear footsteps from the other side of the house, but it's always just you there (except for that one time, but that was more your fault for leaving a window open than Mama Raccoon's for raiding your cabinets).

You can't stay in your isolated slice of paradise, though. You only have this place because of your work, and you must continue to work to keep it.

It's usually boring, thankfully. You wait for a ping on your computer. Then you either walk out to adjust the heading of one of the 12 antenna sitting in the woods, walk to a substation to reset a breaker, or fiddle with your data until the computer is content with it. The walk to any of the antenna or the substation is far enough to be obnoxious, but not so obnoxious to be worth ordering some kind of transport.

On rare occasions, while you're out and about, something... exciting will happen, and that excitement will be enough for a lifetime, and you'll stay locked in your home for a few days.

There's always a sense of being watched out here. Sometimes, it's bad enough for your hairs to stand on end and your hindbrain to take over, taking cover behind closed doors until it goes away.

There's instances where you see Things out there, a shadow ducking behind a tree or some Thing standing in the distance, unmoving as you approach.

You've even heard Things, Things rushing you from behind before disappearing without trace once they get right behind you, or cackling Things in the distance that slowly surround you.

You've only ever met a Thing once, though.

She didn't follow you inside after trying to get into your blindspot all day, and you didn't invite her in either. Instead, she just stood there, on the other side of your screen door, head ducked like she was guarding her throat.

You messaged your superior from your computer in the basement, and you received a reply almost instantly. "Lock the doors, don't let it inside. Help is on the way."

Hard to argue with that, and she was still standing there when you went back up. She didn't even fight it when you closed the door in her face, nor when you locked the doors. She just stared, unblinkingly

"Help" turned out to be a dozen men on a boat decked out in the kind of combat gear you'd normally only see breaking up a riot. A quick check with you, and a number of scans and injections you still don't know the purpose of, and they were off.

You were told to stay in place and keep things locked down, and you did just that. They disappeared into the woods for a week, your usual duties out there apparently being handled by them, and left on the boat with as much fanfare as the usual delivery. A part of you forget to note the extra man leaving with them...

[bestworstcase]

To be fair I think it might be the fact that havens huntsman academy is still undergoing repairs, they have a shortage of competent huntsman at the moment so they might not be able to help as much, such an influx may overwhelm what few defenses they still have

setting aside the specific question of grimm management: the refugees represent almost the entire population of atlas and mantle. the evacuation was a huge success that got nearly everybody out. (if you watch what’s going on in the background of the last couple episodes of V8, evacuees continue to move through the portal after cinder makes her move, and their numbers gradually thin out until there’s nobody left right around the time she murders penny—at this point there’s still quite a bit of time to spare before she collapses the portals, and it takes even longer for atlas to crash into mantle. this is underscored by cinder saying “they used the staff to save thousands” later on: very few if any people were left behind.) the exact population we’re talking here is somewhat unclear, but with some allowances for the limitations of animation re: crowd size numbers in the 100k to 200k range are not mathematically implausible, especially taking into consideration mantle’s apparent end-to-end density. but let’s really lowball it and say, for the sake of illustration, there’s 25k refugees. that’s way too low based on what we’re shown in V7-8, but it’s what we’re going to work with to illustrate The Problem.

the problem is this:

POV you are a council member in either mistral or vacuo (pick your poison) and twenty-five thousand refugees have just been magically poofed into existence on your doorstep with zero warning. they brought nothing but the clothes on their backs. we will assume that you are not heartless; you do not want these people to die. you have no real choice but to help them.

it’s the dead of winter.

(ignore the grimm for now. pretend they don’t exist.)

if you picked mistral, you urgently need to house twenty-five thousand people before they freeze to death. if you’re in vacuo, you can probably squeak by for a while by setting up makeshift shelters and tents in the ruins outside of the city—but you do need a more permanent solution sooner than later, because it’s only a matter of time until the next sandstorm buries the ruins again.

(you can’t cram all twenty-five thousand people into a huntsman academy. beacon’s student body is canonically 160 students [if we assume from the semester plan that there is only one new class per year; i don’t think it would be unreasonable for the academies to intake new students multiple times throughout the year, once per quarter maybe, but that isn’t what’s shown.] even if we go by visual appearance instead of stated numbers, these schools can’t be much larger than a couple thousand students—especially not when you take into consideration that beacon, at least, has dedicated dormitories for exchange students.)

you also need to allocate food and water for these people.

if you picked mistral, water probably won’t be an issue. lake matsu is right there, and way too big to freeze no matter how cold it gets. (assuming matsu is freshwater, anyway.) but what about food? it’s the middle of winter. mistral is a) at approximately the same latitude as vale, and b) landlocked, which means it’s going to get way, WAY colder in the wintertime. […we will ignore for the moment that vale is on the equator and pretend the seasonal weather shown in V1-3 makes geographic sense.]

how much food does a person need to eat every day? let’s say about 1kg. (i am not pulling this number completely out of thin air: it’s on the low end of average daily rations for premodern armies. low end, because refugees are going to have lower caloric needs than an army on the move, but they’re not going to be that much more sedentary, not with the enormous amount of work that needs to be done very fast to keep them all. you know. alive.)

you need to come up with an extra 25,000kg of food—about 27.5 tons—PER. DAY., starting right now, without starving your own citizenry. global communications are down and whatever global supply chain existed before is shot, so you can’t just import what you need. you figure out a way to subsist off whatever you’ve got, or else what you’ve got is tens of thousands of people starving to death.

if you picked mistral? well lake matsu probably has fish. game is going to be lean in the winter, but it’s better than nothing. you’re also living on nice, temperate, arable land, so hopefully you have a decent stockpile of grains to tide everyone over until spring. oh, and you’ve got three cities with lovely, efficient trains running between them, and a decent number of airships at your disposal, so you can ease the burden on the capital by spreading the refugees out and juggling supplies between your cities. it’ll be tight, sure, but if you plan well and ration well you can probably pull it off.

but vacuo.

you live in a blazing-hot, desolate sandpit that had all the natural resources sucked out of it centuries ago. your water supply is an underground reservoir whose seepage was already carefully rationed before your water needs increased by almost fifty thousand liters per day. and food? your diet is cave beetles, bats, and whatever meat you can get from hunting mole crabs—animals just as dangerous as the grimm.

a necessary corollary here: rwby is not this kind of story, per se. the narrative is not going to run the numbers on the supply chain logistics and kill off tens of thousands of people from dehydration. there’s a lot of wiggle room baked in to the tone and genre. BUT, the CFVY novels devote a lot of page space to hammering how barren and inhospitable the vacuan desert is. “blistering heat, scarce food, and scarcer water” is a descriptive motif established early and repeated often. it seems like a safe bet that scarcity will become a significant pain point for the vacuo arc—so i do think we’re going to see a narrative thread or two in the vein of strict rationing and shortages running through the social tensions in vacuo. it’s not going to be this granular, but the novels do set this exact concern up pretty blatantly.

the point of laying out the numbers here is to illustrate the logistical scale of The Problem as a way of elaborating on why i think the narrative is going to treat bringing the refugees to vacuo as a mistake. because even if we ignore the grimm as a threat completely, dropping tens of thousands of refugees into a massive dust bowl where scarcity is already a major problem is A REALLY PROFOUNDLY BAD IDEA unless you genuinely have no better options—and the kids did have a better option. (they could’ve asked for a portal with two exits, even. sending the refugees to a kingdom that could, like, Probably Feed Them isn’t incompatible with getting the relics to vacuo!)

and, while i’ll grant that it’s possible this is simply a small plot hole opened by narrative expediency, i don’t… think that’s the case, for a few reasons:

1 - as noted, the CFVY novels really emphasize the point of scarcity. the narrative is like. Aware that this is a problem. the groundwork for it to Matter in the show proper is already there.

2 - the montage of people across the globe receiving ruby’s broadcast goes to mistral first—and it doesn’t just show us the cotta-arcs, it shows us the bustling transit hub we saw at the beginning of V6, with a whole crowd of ordinary civilians just going about their business. the only thing that’s changed since we last saw this place months ago is that it’s nighttime now and people are dressed for colder weather; if anything it looks livelier than before. so we get this solid visual message that mistral is doing okay.

3 - that happens in tandem with ruby mentioning beacon (status: in ruins, still overrun by grimm) but not haven (status: temporarily closed). the juxtaposition between what the narrative shows the audience and what ruby’s speech implies about her perception of the global situation sets up the more grievous oversight that happens with the evac plan.

4 - again, the CFVY novels specifically highlight this conflation of haven with mistral and vice versa several times.

5 - the kids themselves are plainly cognizant of the reality that bringing the refugees to vacuo isn’t a great option—but that awareness is restricted to worrying that shade’s huntsmen (in training) won’t be able to fend off the grimm after the kids “drop a kingdom’s worth of negativity on their doorstep.” and this is the piece that’s really tantalizing, because it ties the rest together!

i’ve made this point before, but: these kids have spent their whole lives doing nothing except fighting grimm. the ones who went to combat schools have been undergoing intensive, hyper-specialized training since they were at least twelve or thirteen years old, maybe younger. (pyrrha won the mistral regional tournaments four years in a row before she comes to beacon at the age of seventeen—so she’s got at least four and probably more years of training behind her, and we know she attended a combat school.) they are effectively high school graduates who happen to also belong to an elite monster-killing warrior class of which they are a) the cream of the crop and b) de facto leaders. which is to say, they don’t know how to do anything else. they are really good at slaying grimm and That’s It, and now—god help them—they’re trying to do politics because the huntsmen institution was the keystone of the entire post-war order and also a cult that collapsed like a jenga tower when its leader died and now Everything Is Falling Apart.

and that’s, like, The Point, narratively. these kids signed up to fight monsters and then the whole world imploded and through a comedy of horrors they ended up being the ones in charge and HOO BOY. they do not have a fucking clue what they’re doing, so they keep defaulting to what they CAN do, which is Be Very Good At Killing Grimm. ironwood’s tailspin in V8 forced them to broaden their horizons to Save People From Fascist Dictators Who Haven’t Slept In 72 Hours but they, notably, deal with that the same way they deal with the grimm: move the civilians out of danger and fight.

so they are, um, laughably ill-equipped to handle a city-wide evacuation because The Only Problem They Know How To Deal With Is Grimm, and they’re also so deeply immersed in huntsmen culture that they have kind of a habit of tackling All Other Problems from the angle of preventing negativity to mitigate the threat of the grimm. they, through no real fault of their own given the whole warrior eschaton cult situation, are really fucking myopic about this One Thing.

the narrative does not, however, share that myopia. indeed the narrative hints quite strongly that the grimm are not the all-encompassing sole universal danger that the huntsmen make them out to be: that town in V4 blithely dealt with a monster of a geist for weeks, no worse for wear; oscar shrugs off his experience of fending off grimm with NO DEFENSIVE AURA WHATSOEVER as something that doesn’t count as real fighting; blake and sun are in menagerie (a kingdom with no huntsmen and no combat schools) for months without a single notable grimm encounter; robyn is both a huntress and a political activist and, while mantle’s crumbling fortifications is one of her concerns, she’s a lot more focused on economic inequality, systemic injustices, and political corruption—her perspective is much wider in scope than the kids’ (because she’s an adult and an activist with much wider experience) and she treats the grimm as a relatively minor issue. the narrative has also devoted quite a bit of time to quietly, slowly building up a critique of the huntsmen system itself, which became extremely overt in V7-8 with the kids beginning to confront the reality that they are in way, way, way over their heads and also the rhodes sledgehammer.

so like, the kids naturally are thinking about the evacuation like this:

1 - there is an urgent need to get everybody out of atlas and mantle.

2 - the refugees are going to be terrified, angry, and upset.

3 - wherever they go, that place is going to end up swarming with grimm.

4 - we need to send them somewhere with as many warriors as possible!

5 - vacuo is the only kingdom with a huntsmen academy still in operation.

6 - vacuo is the only option!

but the NARRATIVE is thinking about the evacuation like this:

1 - here’s a book about theodore heading off a popular insurgency because the beacon survivors are a political liability for him and a not-insignificant number of his own students willingly sided with the insurgents!

2 - have we mentioned in this chapter how hot, barren, inhospitable, harsh, dry, and dangerous vacuo is? no? haha here is another sardonic joke about how vacuo is great if you love dying of dehydration.

3 - what about the inescapable and unpredictable danger of sinkholes and sandstorms that wipe whole settlements off the map, have we reminded you about that lately? here’s a ruin that gets literally dug out and completely buried like three times in the space of as many days. haha

4 - oh yeah and the popular insurgent movement? they’re reactionary, viciously xenophobic, fascists. and the good guys are a bunch of outsiders who get bullied for being refugees and this handful of slightly less xenophobic vacuans.

5 - sandstorms are a constant, deadly threat that knock out local comms, dramatically reshape the landscape, blind anyone unfortunate enough to get caught in one, and bury people alive. haha guess what the refugees land in the middle of!

6 - the grimm are here too, of course. winter can solo them now, though, so it’s fine. hashtag don’t worry about it.

before the dawn literally ends with the coffee kids being like. THANK GODS. EVERYTHING IS BACK TO NORMAL. IM SO GLAD WE CAN JUST CHILL AND KILL GRIMM AGAIN :) like the insurrection is explicitly worse than anything the grimm could dish out to the point that the characters at multiple points are like “man i wish i could go back to fighting grimm” and then actively team up with the grimm against the insurgents because they make the (accurate) tactical calculation that mopping up the grimm afterwards will be not just possible but comparatively easy.

so. while the kids, for sure, don’t consider mistral as an option because their biggest concern is handling that inevitable initial wave of grimm, they’re dropping tens of thousands—potentially even a hundred or two hundred thousand—refugees into a setting that ancillary texts have taken GREAT PAINS to establish is an inhospitable, hostile wasteland with barely enough water or food to sustain its own population, stacked sky-high with sociopolitical problems that are explicitly, textually bigger and badder and way harder to deal with than the grimm.

and only a few episodes prior the narrative made a point of reminding the audience that mistral is, like, completely fine. haven academy isn’t even closed for repairs, it’s closed to sort out staffing issues caused by the dead headmaster.

there’s also the open question of whether there actually IS a true shortage of huntsmen in the kingdom? (as opposed to a shortage of Huntsmen In Ozpin’s Immediate Sphere Of Influence.)

in 5.1, lionheart delays by claiming he needs to “convince the council” that he needs huntsmen more than they do, and qrow doesn’t question that (he’s just like, ok fuck the council then, we’ll do it by ourselves). lionheart is bullshitting, but it’s clearly passable bullshit—meaning most huntsmen in mistral really do answer to the council. then, in 5.3, ozpin says they need to enlist the aid of more huntsmen, and when the kids raise concerns about the council, qrow interjects that the council “doesn’t own every huntsman in mistral.” that’s who he’s looking for. the three dozen or so huntsmen and huntresses on his list are, specifically, personal contacts of his with no formal allegiance to the mistrali council.

lionheart remarks that a lot of haven faculty died in the aftershocks of beacon falling (which might be true, although no doubt some of them were just assassinated), and salem took out all of qrow’s contacts (read: intelligence network, the man is ozpin’s spy).

we… don’t actually get a solid indication either way if this amounts to a majority of the huntsmen in the city of mistral. it’s probably all or at least most of the huntsmen salem could link directly to ozpin, but: a) the council has what sounds like a fairly large body of huntsmen who don’t answer to ozpin even indirectly, b) mistral is the largest kingdom by a wide margin (three whole cities!) and even in taking into consideration that there’s probably a grand total of, like, two thousand huntsmen in the world it beggars belief that only about forty of them would be active in the capital city of the biggest kingdom, and c) nobody else in mistral seems to notice or care that these few dozen huntsmen bit the dust, which suggests that this spate of casualties did not rise far enough above average to cause widespread alarm in the way that the sudden mysterious deaths of nearly the Entire Warrior Class months after a horrifying terrorist attack would, uh, rattle the general public. so either the mistral council is pulling off some top level There Is No War In Ba Sing Se shenanigans or salem took a relatively judicious approach to her assassinations. given she obviously wanted to be in and out of haven with no one the wiser, the latter seems a lot more likely: she took advantage of the upheaval caused by the attack on beacon to discreetly eliminate ozpin’s allies and all the load-bearing nodes in his mistrali intelligence network while The Rest Of Mistral, presumably including all the huntsmen who aren’t, um, cultists, weathered the storm and then settled back into business as usual.

lionheart says the kingdom is in complete shambles but he is, like, pretty clearly lying on account of how very much not in shambles anything is, like within a few weeks of the kids arriving in haven there’s a documentary about the fall of beacon premiering in argus and there are zero grimm incidents in the capital while the kids are there, the citizenry is shown emphatically to have arrived at Life Goes On. and then V7 takes us to atlas, where mantle is Actually In Shambles, for comparison purposes. like if V5 is a genuine representation of mistral being a mess vs what it’s usually like in mistral, then the worst mistral has to offer is dramatically better than mantle’s “oh are the grimm rampaging through my neighborhood again? it must be tuesday” dysfunctional police state normal. the average mantelian would look at mistral “in shambles” and be like oh my gods the autonomous military drones that killed a bunch of people in vale aren’t patrolling on every street and there’s no gaping holes in the grimm wall and you people are complaining about the price of NOODLES? (shiro wan’s 16,000Ⱡ tab at the ramen place haunts me) (for my sanity i have to assume that in a hypothetical FX trade lien is weak against the dollar but like, how weak. if it’s akin to JPY that’s a tab in the neighborhood of like 125$ being treated like a really serious amount of money. if it’s more of a CNY situation this dude racked up like 2.4k USD worth of debt buying noodles on credit. mistral economy broke)

so yeah i think the narrative is lining up here to wallop our heroes with the ol’ baseball bat of unintended consequences

[4311osij]

(I wrote this poem: WARNING graffic content)

My last meal.

I think I've spent a great deal thinking of my last meal.

There's so many foods,

Melanzane,

An italian classic

It made me feel at home

Mac and cheese with the crust on the top.

Grabbing my fork I would thrive at the trust of its being.

Reminiscing of italy,

This little restaurant by the sea with thinly sliced octopus legs.

Not calamari,

Thin as paper. Lighter than a feather. Painted with olive oil.

And a little salt and pepper.

Putting up a show, eager to try. Eager to buy.

Or to finally try hot wings again on the superbowl.

Nachos and crab rolls.

And those tiny taco bell burritos.

With the cheese all about to leak.

Or some really large platters of meat.

Sushi, with my brother

Telling him about all the southerners.

All you could eat sushi. Only rule is, finish the plates and you wont get charged.

each round filled with 4 new sushi rolls.

Scallion pancakes

And steak lo mein with extra broccoli

Tempura rolls

and seasoned sticky white rice.

You eat so much it’s like you’re stomach is going to explode

It’s nauseating and a little humiliating but amazing.

Have you ever taken really salty fries, like the ones from five guys and drunk them into a double whipped vanilla milkshake.

How it tastes highly salty and way too sweet

Bobby's burger palace. Right outside the smith haven mall.

Buffalo burgers with potato chips crunched in the middle.

In and out animal style fries.

What will it taste like?

What does it feel like?

My friends are probably thinking…

But, you don't eat meat? Would it be a cheat?

You don't eat eggs and avoid breads.

And You never eat dairy?

They’d think this is scary.

But it's my last meal! And I don't care if I steal!

Because at the end of the day.

When i die, you will still hear the cry

When it's slaughterhouse time.

I wasn’t always this way.

I too ate lamb on Easter,

enjoyed dark gravy smothered on a turkey leg.

With stuffing and my aunt's infamous jelly.

I would eat the christmas pie

And frown at the sky as i felt my stomach rip in half from all the food.

I too, ate mcdonalds chicken nuggets.

Or those sonic hot dogs.

I too loved it all.

But I was far too young and extremely dumb. When I clicked on my first video.

I watched the cows fly, and be torn apart by the hands of a guy.

Did you know dairy cows after giving birth are immediately separated from their young?

Grieved over the realization of losing their child, they scream.

Yes, I heard it. Little 12 year old me, hear a mothers scream for her child.

And it doesn't stop.

They never stop.

It's only until their voice box has been destroyed and they are deemed “grounded”

Meaning unwilling to move.

That they are dragged by one foot,

Usually from a tractor or claw machine.

And dumped into slaughterhouse pens.

Pens were thousands of hands drag these cows to die, upside down.

Drowning in their blood, covered in mud.

And puss and sweat, and steroids.

Yes, your delicious milk and cheese.

It churns and yearns in a bucket after excretion. In a bucket filled to the brim with blood and puss.

There's so much of it due to mass production that not even the filters can clean it properly.

That's why dairy companies massively inject their products with dyes and chemicals to look more appealing to the eye.

Don't believe me? Watch it for yourself.

Cause I sure can forget it.

and of course this is America so it NEVER stops there.

No god forbid it stops there.

We need our double deep fried burgers and lard filled chicken tenders.

We need every single egg, as we ignore as the animals beg.

We even eat their young

Veal. What was the gain? What was the steal?

And yes little 12 year old me grew up, and started to throw up, every single meat i ever ingested.

For this was not fair! When did the food industry become such a scare?

When did cows stop being cows and become “meat”, “#9828674”

When did the babies become “veal tenders 2 for one sale!”

When did all of you close your eyes and pretend you actually care when in reality you still go to the same Mcdonalds every day, eat the same fried chicken every wednesday.

I'm going off track!

Im sorry

For I too will not care, when the day comes.

It will be my last meal.

I will eat the young, and I will slaughter the cows, I will steal all the eggs, and never make amends.

I will scarf down the lamb and ham, until I barf.

I will cut into my streak and reminisce as I, a 12 year old girl, watched a man deep dive his hand into a anus of a dairy cow.

To rape and impregnate her.

To continue the cycle

Don't believe it?

I assure you, I could not make this up even if I wanted to.

I would gaze at the stage, the conveyor belt would ring the chickens round and round.

As tiny blades sliced at their necks and watched as no one double checked.

If only they double checked.

These chickens most of the time do not die right away.

They live,

And have to stay alive again even as smaller blades cut into their veins and shaped their meat into dinosaur legs.

But it is my last meal!

And i could give a great deal.

Over how much I hate the food industry.

but even when I die.

You will always hear the cry

When it is slaughterhouse time.

I spent my entire life letting the mass production go to waste.

When I die, I will eat so much that it will no longer be for nothing.

Because who doesn't love a good burger and fries.

Who doesn't love needing to cry from having a lard induced heart attack.

This is america.

Bigger is better.

And we wait in these lines for our double deckers mounted sky high.

And we fantasize our fatty surprise.

Philly cheesesteaks.

Doubled loaded pizzas.

Lamb chops.

Steroid induced thanksgiving turkey.

Provolone,

And extra sweet Mascarpone,

Bacon egg and cheese.

And fudge filled ice cream.

Trust me when I say I will eat it ALL.

You know why?

For even when I die, no one will even try.

To stop the violence when it is slaughterhouse time.

[deodap1]

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Gift Basket Stacks: Stack baskets filled with beautifully wrapped gifts for a festive and organized display.

Basket Light Fixtures: Hang baskets with string lights inside to create a warm, glowing effect.

Position these baskets in entryways, next to sofas, reading nooks, coffee tables, or near fireplaces for an extra dose of holiday charm.

Home Decor Ideas for Every Room

Rattan Trays for Holiday Elegance

Rattan trays are another must-have home decor piece that can elevate your Christmas decorations. Here are some creative ways to style them:

Mini Holiday Crate: Add greenery and tiny ornaments to create a festive display.

Hot Cocoa Station: Use a tray to set up a cozy hot cocoa bar with mugs, marshmallows, and candy canes.

Snow Globe Accents: Arrange mini snow globes for a magical winter scene.

Gingerbread House Display: Decorate your tray with tiny gingerbread houses and faux snow for nostalgic charm.

Place rattan trays on coffee tables, kitchen islands, or dining tables for a stylish holiday look.

Warm Dining Decor with Placemats and Coasters

Handcrafted placemats and coasters are essential for creating a welcoming dining experience. These home decor items add texture and warmth to your holiday meals.

Layered Placemat Designs: Combine fabrics like burlap and lace for a unique look.

Personalized Coasters: Paint festive designs on coasters to add a custom touch.

Rustic Accents: Add dried flowers or herbs to your placemats for a seasonal vibe.

These simple yet creative ideas can make your dining space feel warm and festive.

Layered Holiday Decor for a Cozy Vibe

Layering is the secret to creating a warm and inviting holiday look. Pair home decor baskets with rattan trays and woven placemats to achieve a cohesive design. For instance, fill a basket with pinecones and place it on a rattan tray, then layer with a festive placemat to create an eye-catching centerpiece. Or stack small baskets on placemats and fill them with ornaments or candles for a layered display that’s both stylish and festive.

Create a Cozy Holiday Home with Rushnkur

This Christmas, make your home a haven of warmth and charm with natural, handcrafted home decor baskets and artisanal accents from Rushnkur. These versatile pieces not only enhance your holiday decorations but also add a touch of elegance to your space. Explore Rushnkur’s collection today to find unique home decor items that will elevate your holiday celebrations and leave your guests in awe.

Celebrate the season with beautifully styled decor that turns your home into a festive retreat!

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Tanzania Safari – The Three Must-See Spots to Visit in Tanzania!

Step into the untamed wild, where the African wilderness reveals its majestic beauty. Our journey begins across Tanzania’s vast plains, where nature’s most captivating spectacles come to life. This adventure will take you on a Safari in Tanzania, exploring three must-see destinations that promise to captivate any traveler’s heart. Discover Serengeti’s grandeur, Lake Manyara’s secrets, and Tarangire’s gentle giants—a safari trilogy offering unforgettable experiences.

Serengeti National Park: A Safari Wonderland

Serengeti National Park is the ultimate safari destination, where the African wilderness thrives in its full glory.

Diverse Wildlife: The Serengeti is home to the Big Five—lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo, and rhinos—and an abundance of other wildlife. These majestic creatures roam freely across the vast plains, providing thrilling encounters for visitors.

Game Drives: Embark on exhilarating game drives with expert guides. Capture the wild in action as you explore this extraordinary landscape.

Hot Air Balloon Safaris: Elevate your adventure with a dawn hot air balloon ride, offering a serene and breathtaking view of the Serengeti from above.

The Great Migration

Migrate with the Masses: Plan your visit between July and September to witness the Great Wildebeest Migration. Millions of wildebeest and zebras cross the Serengeti, creating a spectacle like no other.

Witness Predatory Drama: Observe as predators like lions and crocodiles seize opportunities during this epic migration.

Lake Manyara National Park: A Wildlife Oasis

Lake Manyara National Park is a hidden gem known for its unique wildlife experiences.

Tree-Climbing Lions: Famous for its tree-climbing lions, Lake Manyara offers a rare chance to see these magnificent creatures lounging in trees.

Flamingo Flocks: The lake’s shores are a haven for flamingos and other waterbirds, creating stunning pink hues against the blue waters.

Planning Your Visit

Best Time: Visit during the dry season (June to October) for optimal wildlife sightings.

Canoe Safaris: Explore the park’s aquatic wonders on a canoe safari, gliding past hippos and soaking in the lake’s serene beauty.

Tarangire National Park: A Wildlife Paradise

Tarangire National Park is an elephant sanctuary and a birdwatcher’s dream.

Majestic Herds: Tarangire is renowned for its large elephant herds. Witness these gentle giants up close as they roam the park.

Varied Wildlife: Beyond elephants, Tarangire is home to giraffes, zebras, and various antelope species, offering a rich safari experience.

Birdwatcher’s Haven

Birdwatcher’s Paradise: With over 500 bird species, Tarangire is a haven for birdwatchers. Keep your binoculars handy to spot the vibrant avian species.

Tanzania’s Safari Trio – Where Nature Unfolds Its Masterpiece

Tanzania’s safari landscape is a rich tapestry of diverse ecosystems, each offering unique and captivating experiences. Whether exploring the legendary Serengeti, the wildlife oasis of Lake Manyara, or the elephant paradise of Tarangire, your Tanzanian Safari Tour promises unforgettable moments.

However, protecting these natural treasures is vital. Partner with Sumbi Extra Miles Safari and join the journey toward responsible travel. Together, we can preserve Tanzania’s wild wonders for future generations. Start your adventure today, and let your journey leave a lasting legacy. The wild is calling—how will you answer?

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Romance Reimagined: Discover the World's Most Enchanting Getaways for Two

Nothing says love quite like a romantic getaway. As Valentine’s Day approaches, I handpicked a selection of swoon-worthy destinations tailored just for two — along with some incredible hotel bathtubs for an extra splash of magic. Reach out soon; I’ll help plan the gift of a lifetime.

MINIMOON MAGIC: DREAMY DESTINATIONS TAILORED FOR TWO

CITY RENDEZVOUS: THE MARK

At The Mark, all of New York City is at your fingertips to whisk away you and your loved one. This hotel features 150 guest rooms and suites, including several terrace suites. Ask me about the 10,000-square-foot, five-bedroom Penthouse with private rooftop access.

BEACH OASIS: AMANYARA

A secluded beachside resort, Amanyara is situated on the northwest coast of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos, and couples feel the relaxing ambiance from the moment of arrival. Thirty-six timber-shingled guest pavilions and 20 villas are tucked along the coast and tranquil ponds.

WINE RETREAT: FOUR SEASONS RESORT AND RESIDENCES NAPA VALLEY

You and your partner will raise a glass to one another as you soak in magnificent views from this Four Seasons’ Napa retreat. Discover innovative cuisine at Michelin-starred Auro, holistic spa rituals at Spa Talisa and Four Seasons’ thoughtfully personalized, signature service.

MOUNTAIN HIDEOUT: THE LITTLE NELL

Aspen, Colorado, is the crossroads of wild mountain and vibrant city — a haven for romantic gondola rides, incredible spa experiences and candlelit dinners. Experience The Little Nell’s award-winning wine list with a private tasting or dinner, and meet one of many sommeliers on staff.

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SUMPTUOUS SOAKS: INCREDIBLE HOTEL BATHTUBS

If you’ve ever dreamt of sipping a glass of champagne while taking a roomy bubble bath with your partner, I know just the place to give your Valentine’s getaway a splash. A beautiful bathroom view elevates the romantic experience even further, whether it’s a city skyline twinkling in the distance or the gentle crash of ocean waves. Some of my favorite trip-worthy tubs include those found at The Silo Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa; Qualia on Hamilton Island, Australia; Hotel de Crillon, a Rosewood Hotel, in Paris, France; Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California; and Coqui Coqui in Mérida, Mexico.

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SPOTLIGHT ON: THE CITY OF LOVE Paris, France

STAY:Le Bristol Rosewood Crillon La Fantaisie George V Plaza Athenee Cour des Vosges Cheval Blanc Le Grand Mazarin JK Place Paris

SIP+ SAVOR:Chez L’Ami Louis Septime Chateaubriand Paul Bert Clamato Baratin Au Passage Chez Janou Allard

SHOP:Avenue des Champs-Élysées Avenue Montaigne Saint-Germain-des-Prés Galeries Lafayette Maison Labiche Buly 1803 Merci Haussmann Samaritaine Le Marais Neighborhood

SEE + DO:Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris Musée Rodin Musée du Louvre Pompidou Jardin des Tuileries Seine River yacht cruise La Cuisine Paris pastry-making experience Palace of Versailles (1-hour transfer)

MICHAEL SHANE STEPHENS Curated Global Travel An affiliate of Protravel michael@curatedglobaltravel.com 310.691.7461 curatedglobaltravel.com

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Eternal Romance: Discovering Parakkat, the Epitome of Private Pool Villa Resorts in Munnar!

There's just one destination to choose for your honeymoon: the magnificent Parakkat Nature Resort. This luxury resort in Munnar provides romantic getaways and the ideal fusion of natural beauty and opulent lodging. One of those amazing places in Kerala, Munnar is difficult to portray in a single picture. Everything and everything here is going to delight us. The breathtaking hill station is well located in the South Western Ghats of India. With their expansive tea plantations, picturesque towns, winding lanes, trekking, and resort amenities, Munnar's top ten resorts provide a unique experience. You'll have an unparalleled tropical vacation in addition to an eco-adventure.

Visitors come here for unforgettable weekends, romantic retreats, business retreats, once-in-a-lifetime experiences, and to mend family relationships. to choose the ideal family resorts in Munnar during the appropriate season. Get away from the oppressive heat and hectic lifestyle and visit a place with breathtaking scenery and a temperate environment that will make you happy. The Parakat Resort is the most frequently suggested five-star resort in Munnar due to its exquisite blend of western-styled architecture cottages and castles on the hills to meet your comfortable stays.

The best luxury resort in Kerala is located above the snow-covered hills in what is known as Kashmir, South India, amidst the true colors of natural nature. Holding your breath to soak in the breathtaking view, the vantage point from the Parakat is a visual feast. While keeping your focus on the present moment, raise your gaze to the cloud-filled sky. You'll be craving a cup of coffee nonstop.

With its lavish lodgings, Parakkat Nature Resort elevates the notion of luxury to unprecedented levels. Every room is a haven of elegance and luxury, complete with contemporary conveniences and expansive vistas that envelop you in a romantic realm. Enjoy a gourmet adventure that will delight your senses at the fine dining establishments of Parakkat Nature Resort. The resort features a multi-cuisine restaurant with delicious cuisines from around the world to suit every taste. Every dining experience is made extra special by the flawless service and beautiful ambiance.

In the center of Munnar, Parakkat Nature Resort is a shining example of luxury, providing honeymooners looking for a unique experience that combines extravagance with the abundance of nature. As you organize your getaway to this sanctuary, get ready to go on an extraordinary adventure that will leave a lasting impression of romance and peace on your hearts. Make reservations for a stay at Parakkat Nature Resort, where opulence and Munnar's breathtaking beauty combine to provide a genuinely unique experience.

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5 Of The Best Ski Destinations In Europe | Travel Via Private Jet Charter

If you’re a skiing enthusiast with a taste for luxury, you’re in for a treat. In this exhilarating journey through the snow-covered wonders of Europe, we’ll explore five of the best ski destinations that will not only ignite your passion for the slopes but also elevate your travel experience to new heights – quite literally! As we embark on this adventure, keep in mind that we’re not talking about your typical ski trip; we’re diving into the world of elite travel via private jet charter. So, fasten your seatbelts, because we’re about to take off on a snow-filled, high-flying escapade like no other. 

Whether you’re a seasoned skier or just looking to experience the magic of the mountains, these European ski destinations are sure to leave you breathless, both from the breathtaking scenery and the luxurious journey to get there. Get ready to discover a whole new level of skiing as we unveil the hidden gems of the Alps, Pyrenees, and beyond. It’s time to ski like a VIP in the heart of Europe’s snowy playgrounds.

Courchevel, France: 

Courchevel, nestled in the French Alps, is renowned for its opulence and exceptional skiing conditions. As part of the extensive Les Trois Vallées ski area, it offers an array of slopes suitable for all skill levels. What sets Courchevel apart is its luxurious amenities, including high-end chalets, Michelin-starred restaurants, and designer boutiques. Traveling here via private jet charter ensures a seamless and stylish journey, setting the tone for your upscale mountain retreat.

St. Moritz, Switzerland: 

St. Moritz, situated in the heart of the Swiss Alps, exudes elegance and sophistication. It’s a destination favored by the elite for its chic atmosphere, world-class ski resorts, and high-end shopping options. The ski slopes around St. Moritz offer a mix of challenging runs and more relaxed terrain, making it ideal for both experienced and novice skiers. Arriving via private jet charter not only saves time but also adds an extra layer of luxury to your St. Moritz experience.

Kitzbühel, Austria: 

Kitzbühel, a picturesque Austrian town, boasts a rich skiing heritage. It’s perhaps best known for the Hahnenkamm downhill race, one of the most challenging in the skiing world. Beyond the adrenaline-pumping slopes, Kitzbühel’s medieval town center exudes charm and history. Traveling here via private jet charter grants you the freedom to tailor your itinerary and enjoy seamless transfers to this Austrian gem.

Zermatt, Switzerland: 

Zermatt is a Swiss jewel set against the backdrop of the iconic Matterhorn mountain. What sets Zermatt apart is its commitment to preserving the environment, making it a car-free village. The skiing here is exceptional, with a variety of terrain suitable for all levels. Private jet charter to Zermatt ensures a comfortable and stress-free journey, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in the stunning alpine scenery.

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France: 

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc is a mecca for advanced skiers and snowboarders. Situated in the French Alps, it offers challenging terrain and breathtaking views of Mont Blanc, Western Europe’s highest peak. Beyond skiing, Chamonix is a haven for mountaineers and outdoor enthusiasts. Opting for a private jet charter to Chamonix guarantees a flexible travel experience, so you can make the most of your adventure in this alpine paradise.

Europe offers an array of exceptional ski destinations, each with its own unique charm and attractions. Whether you’re drawn to the upscale ambiance of Courchevel, the elegance of St. Moritz, the rich skiing tradition of Kitzbühel, the environmental consciousness of Zermatt, or the rugged beauty of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, there’s a perfect alpine retreat for every discerning traveler.

Traveling to these destinations via private jet charter adds an extra layer of luxury and convenience to your ski experience. It not only saves time but also ensures a seamless journey, allowing you to focus on the thrill of the slopes and the beauty of the surrounding landscapes.

No matter which European ski destination you choose and how you get there, one thing is certain: you’re in for an unforgettable winter adventure in some of the world’s most breathtaking mountain settings. Whether you’re a seasoned skier or a novice, Europe’s ski resorts have something to offer everyone, making them a top choice for winter getaways. So, prepare to hit the slopes, savor gourmet cuisine, and relish in the splendor of the European Alps on your next ski trip via private jet charter.

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Discover the Best Fitness Club in NSW

Canterbury: Where Health and Wellness Converge

Introduction:

When it comes to achieving your fitness goals, finding the right fitness club is paramount. Canterbury, located in the heart of New South Wales (NSW), stands as a beacon of health and wellness, offering an unparalleled fitness experience. As you embark on your journey to a healthier lifestyle, let's delve into why Canterbury has earned its reputation as the best fitness club in NSW.

A Legacy of Excellence:

With a rich history dating back to its establishment, Canterbury has evolved into a top-notch fitness destination. The club's commitment to excellence is reflected in its state-of-the-art facilities, experienced trainers, and a diverse range of fitness programs. Whether you're a seasoned fitness enthusiast or just starting your fitness journey, Canterbury caters to all levels of fitness with unparalleled dedication.

Cutting-Edge Facilities

One of the standout features of Canterbury as the best fitness club in NSW is its world-class facilities. From spacious and well-equipped fitness centres to modern group exercise studios, every aspect of Canterbury has been meticulously designed to provide a comfortable and motivating environment. The club boasts an array of cardio and strength training equipment, ensuring that your workout sessions are both effective and enjoyable.

Expert Guidance:

At Canterbury, you're not just a member; you're part of a supportive community. The club is staffed by a team of highly trained and certified fitness professionals who are passionate about helping you reach your goals. Whether you're looking to shed those extra pounds, build muscle, or enhance your overall well-being, the trainers at Canterbury will tailor personalised workout plans to suit your individual needs.

Diverse Fitness Programs:

Variety is the spice of life, and it's a philosophy that Canterbury wholeheartedly embraces. From invigorating group fitness classes, including yoga, Pilates, Zumba, and high-intensity interval training (HIIT), to specialised programs like personal training and aqua aerobics, there's something for everyone. This diversity not only keeps your workouts exciting but also ensures that you're able to find a fitness routine that resonates with your preferences.

Community and Camaraderie:

Canterbury is more than just a fitness club; it's a community. Engaging in group classes and training sessions not only boosts your physical well-being but also connects you with like-minded individuals who share your fitness aspirations. The sense of camaraderie and mutual support within the Canterbury community is truly unparalleled, fostering an environment where everyone can thrive together.

Conclusion:

In the bustling landscape of fitness clubs in NSW, Canterbury shines as the best choice for those seeking an exceptional fitness experience. With its legacy of excellence, cutting-edge facilities, expert guidance, diverse programs, and strong sense of community, Canterbury is more than just a gym; it's a haven for health and wellness enthusiasts. Embark on your fitness journey at Canterbury, and unlock the door to a healthier, happier, and more vibrant you. About us:Canterbury League Club, situated in Belmore, is one of Sydney’s premier hospitality destinations with five star amenities including three restaurants, a cafe, multiple bars and entertainment lounges and a 24/7 health club. Situated only 100 metres from Belmore Station and with a large undercover car park Canterbury is not just one of the finest venues in Sydney, it’s also one of the easiest and most convenient to access. Set behind a stunning landscaped water feature, the impressive foyer features a breath-taking indoor rainforest complemented by natural finishes which provide a relaxing and welcoming environment. Location - 26 Bridge Rd, Belmore NSW                 2192 Australia Contact - 02 9704 7777 E-mail - info@canterbury.com.au For your convenience, Canterbury League Club is open 24 hours 7 days a week.