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Openly LGBTQIA+ Celebrities

These are celebrities who have recently come out as LGBTQIA+ or whom I’ve recently learned about or whom I hadn’t mentioned in previous posts of this type (that is, on my old blog). Needless to say, this list is highly arbitrary and incomplete.

Hig Roberts (athlete)

Olivier Rousteing (fashion designer)

Ronen Rubinstein (actor)

Chris Salvatore (actor, musician)

Taylor Schilling (actress)

Hugh Sheridan (actor)

Andrés Simón (model)

JoJo Siwa (YouTuber)

Brian Michael Smith (actor)

Caitlin Stasey (actress)

Continuing the tradition from my old blog (which has been unceremoniously deleted by tumblr without much of an explanation why) I’m doing daily posts during June to celebrate LGBTQIA+ pride by showcasing openly LGBTQIA+ celebrities and various content about or created by LGBTQIA+ people such as music videos, characters on TV shows, movie trailers, ...

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Ch 25 - Dragons VS Dragons

Part 26

Fire OF A Stark

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Maxon Hill (Baratheon) is a new added on OC.  Since we only know a few of Robert's bastards I decided to make my own enjoy.

Months Later

Clutching my stomach I groaned laying back in the bed In our room in Casterly Rock. My white hair falling in a mess over my shoulders. We had gotten to the rock a few weeks after we had learned I was pregnant with Jaime’s child. Someone knocked on the door before they peaked their head inside. “My Lady Lannister?”

“Come in, Ser Hill.” I waved my hand motioning for the bastard to enter the room. Jaime had hired the former blacksmith boy as my personal knight for protection.

He was only sixteen so a year younger than me now in my life. My husband was always busy trying to learn the ropes of being the lord of a castle even though for his entire life almost he was sworn to only ever be a knight of the Kingsguard. Jaime would only send him up if he had news for me or to have him check on the baby. “I have news today my lady and he wishes to know what the Maester said.”

“Please Maxon, call me Lynesse. It’s just easier for the both of us.” I corrected the now appointed knight seeing that Jaime and I trusted his word. He had actually helped in making a place for Joanna to sleep in one of the towers of the rock that had an open area underneath it.

Maxon nodded his head simply making his dark brown curls fall in front of his eyes. “Of course, Lady Lynesse.”

“Well I think it will be easier if we just go see him together instead of you running back and forth through the castle. So help me up please.” I groaned sitting up as much as I could manage.

Maxon quickly moved forward trying to fight me until I sent him a stern look. "My lord won't like that you are trying to move too much…uh nevermind." He wrapped his arms around my waist while I grabbed his forearm while I grabbed my cloak I shrugged it over my shoulders following him outside our chambers.

Moving through the hallways of Casterly Rock I could hear the waves crashing against it. I wasn't wearing my crown but my white hair was visible to everyone in these walls. A few staff passed us in the hallway before I pushed open a door seeing Jaime leaning over a large table that looked to be a battlefield. Closing the door behind me he lifted his gaze up from the table. "Lynesse, you should be in bed."

"I can't be bed ridden for long, Jaime. Maxon informed me that you have news about something so I thought I'd come to you." I explained walking around the table I took his left hand in mine meeting his green gaze on me.

He squeezed my hands in his wearing a loose white tunic and red trousers. I was wearing one of his red tunics with some trousers not bothering with dresses unless we were ever asked back at Kings Landing or somewhere else important. "My sister sent a letter demanding we help her take on the Dragon queen from across the sea. Somehow she discovered the truth about you and will send the Hound on us if we don't help her."

"We have control of the Lannister army. The only reason she needs us or really you is because she doesn't have the amount of Kingsguard to aid her." Leaning my hands on the table I could figure out what was really happening to us. Cersei was still jealous and even though she knew we were together until one of us died then she would have to take other measures. "I'm going with you. If she wants to fight against a dragon then I would ride Joanna and challenge her."

Jaime raised his hand concern written all over his face about me being anywhere near such danger like a battlefield. “Lynesse it is too reckless with you being pregnant to go riding into battle on dragon back. I want you to stay here with Maxon.”

“Jaime, I will not stay here and be a bump on a log. Yes I am pregnant but that doesn’t mean I can’t ride alongside you. Plus you know you can’t stop me once I call for Joanna!” I declare turning my hands into fists at my sides holding my head up high.

He sighed heavily looking in the direction of Maxon who was standing by the door. “Saddle Joanna for my wife. And ready the army for the ships to leave tonight. We head for Kings Landing.” He left the room leaving us alone in the room staring at each other.

“I want you to promise me something, little dragon. If it gets too risky you get our baby out of here. Promise me.” He begged me resting a hand on my cheek and his golden hand on my waist.

Nodding my head slowly I put my hand over his left knowing he was completely worried about me. He still hasn’t said I love you yet and neither have I but we were terrified that something may happen to the other. “I promise, Jaime. But it won’t come to that.” The trip back to the city was even harder since I got a lot sicker yet we had the army waiting in an open field waiting for whatever army this supposed dragon queen had with her.

Resting a hand over Joanna’s nose I watched my husband ride up on the white commander horse wearing dark golden armor. He had given me a set of gray armor but my growing belly didn’t make it easy to wear. My hair was loose with some of it braided back. I didn’t know war strategy even when Robb was still alive. “You know your signal is right. Remember to stick to what I told you.”

“Wait up on the hills out of sight unless we get signs of another dragon - ugh here we go girl.” I told him grunting as I climbed on Joanna’s back leaning against her head trying to catch my breath. “Jaime, come back to me…to us.”

He nodded, kicking the white horse in the belly. “Take care of her, Joanna.”

Kicking her in her side with my legs she launched herself up into the clouds turning around on her back then hiding us behind one of the tall hills still with a good view of the army. Squinting my eyes tightly I could see some form of people on horseback charging at the army. But they seemed crazier than the one we had knowing that we were in trouble. Resting a hand to my stomach I knew Jaime could handle them until a familiar shriek came from the skies making me curse under my breath. “Seven hells. There really is another Dragon.”

Joanna made a noise seeing the same creature I do. Shifting my gaze down to the ground I had Joanna shoot up into the sky seconds before the other Targaryen girl set them on fire. Flying through the clouds I saw our army had brought the giant crossbows. Men were screaming before I lifted my head up seeing the girl riding her dragon burning a section of wagons turning everything into a bloodbath underneath us. She nearly hit Jaime until I had my dragon bolt in her direction shouting in Valyrian. “Draycrays!”

The dragon girl swung her dragon out of the way avoiding my attack. She flew up higher seeing me and Joanna before she blew fire at us. Gripping her scales my dragon does a flip in a barrel roll just as I felt pain hit me in my back with the baby. Clutching my stomach I kicked her accidentally where she set fire to some of the lion soldiers. “Joanna no…Joanna…agh!” I gripped her tugging her in the opposite direction, getting her to land a few feet away seeing most of the stuff on fire.

“Lynesse, is it really you?” Wiping my head around I recognized the voice screaming and dragon shrieking fading off.

Joanna hissed low under her breath while I couldn’t believe to see the familiar dwarf near us. “Tyrion?”

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Starting Salaries

£150,000 starting salaries as firms fight for staff

A professional recruitment firm says it is placing graduate lawyers on starting salaries as high as £150,000 amid a shortage of workers.

Alan Bannatyne, chief financial officer at Robert Walters, told the BBC people in many UK industries were quitting for better-paid jobs amid soaring demand.

"15% is the minimum pay rise we're seeing, but some are increasing their salaries by up to 50%," he said.

"Unless something significant happens, 2022 should be even better for staff."

Robert Walters, which focuses on placing professionals in roles, said firms were in a "fierce competition for talent" and it was "incredibly hard to find the right people".

As a result, Mr Bannatyne said salary inflation was the highest he had seen in 20 years, although there had been "winners and losers" from Covid and not everyone was in a position to pay well many business listings.

"Bricks-and-mortar retailers and airlines have really struggled so will probably not be paying bonuses or giving pay rises," he told the BBC.

"So they become a hunting ground for other high growth businesses, such as online retailers, anything to do with technology and digital, and manufacturers of household goods."

Robert Walters, which has offices in Asia, Europe, and the US, said it had seen its best December ever, with net fee income up 39% globally.

·Sainsbury's raises pay to £10 an hour

·Starter salaries rise at the fastest rate in 24 years

· Job vacancies surge past one million in a new record

Demand in the final three months of the year was strongest in the Asia Pacific, it said, but the trend of staff shortages was apparent worldwide, including in the UK.

'Huge' bonus pool

Skills shortages have been particularly pronounced in sectors such as law, where vacancies for London-based associates rose some 131% year-on-year between January and November last year, according to research from recruiter BCL Legal and data firm Vacancysoft.

Newly qualified lawyers at the best-known firms are now reportedly earning as much as £147,000 before bonuses.

City banks have also boosted starter salaries to retain talent and Robert Walters predicts the bonus pool this year will be "huge".

Wages have also been increasing in lower-paid jobs. Last week, Sainsbury's became the latest supermarket to pay shop workers at least £10 an hour, following similar moves from Morrisons, Lidl, and Aldi.

UK job vacancies have hit record levels since the economy reopened as employers scramble to meet demand.

At the same time, many workers have revaluated their careers during the lockdown and changed jobs or left the workforce, in what some have labeled the "great resignation".

It has helped to drive up salaries across the UK, with growth in average pay including bonuses standing at 4.9% year-on-year between August and October business listings.

More on this story

·Sainsbury's raises pay to £10 an hour

·Starter salaries rise at the fastest rate in 24 years

·Job vacancies surge past one million in a new record

Sainsbury's is set to become the latest UK supermarket to pay shop workers at least £10 an hour.

It will increase its basic rate from £9.50 to £10 an hour for staff across its supermarkets and Argos stores from 6 March.

Sainsbury's boss Simon Roberts said the pay boost reflected the progress it was making against its savings plan.

It follows the likes of Morrisons, Lidl, and Aldi who announced similar moves last year.

Sainsbury's will also increase its minimum hourly rate from £9.75 to £10.50 for workers in outer London and from £10.10 to £11.05 in inner London.

By comparison, the UK's minimum wage for workers over 23 - the National Living Wage - is set to rise from its current level of £8.91 an hour to £9.50 from April.

Meanwhile, the real living wage, paid voluntarily by almost 9,000 employers throughout the country, has gone up from £9.50 to £9.90 an hour free business listings.

·How much is the minimum wage?

·Lidl to become UK's highest-paying supermarket

·Where are all the job vacancies?

The higher rates paid by Sainsbury's will apply to about 150,000 employees across the company - including shop workers and lorry drivers.

The supermarket chain said it was investing £100m in total in improving pay and rewards for its frontline staff.

"We are making this significant investment to show our colleagues how much we value the brilliant job they do for our customers every day," Mr Roberts said.

It will also bump up pay for drivers amid an ongoing recruitment struggle which has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit.

Minimum wage increases from 1 April:

·National Living Wage for over-23s: From £8.91 to £9.50 an hour

·National Minimum Wage for those aged 21-22: From £8.36 to £9.18

·National Minimum Wage for 18 to 20-year-olds: From £6.56 to £6.83

·National Minimum Wage for under-18s: From £4.62 to £4.81

·The Apprentice Rate: From £4.30 to £4.81

Groceries delivery drivers will now get £11.50 per hour, while Argos Fast Track Delivery drivers will receive £11 per hour based on a base rate of £10 per hour plus an extra £1, up from 75p.

"While demand for online deliveries remains high, this enhanced pay will help the retailer recruit and retain the best talent," Sainsbury's said.

Staff will also receive a 10% discount on their shopping from Sainsbury's, Argos, and Habitat, which will be increased to 15% each payday for five days after.

Despite the increase, the higher rate will still fall shy of the £10.10 per hour Aldi and Lidl have offered to pay staff from February and March respectively.

Lidl has set out new rates where more experienced workers will earn up to £11.40 an hour, while Aldi will pay £11.55 an hour to employees working within the M25.

The latest available data suggests that Tesco currently pays £9.55 an hour, while Waitrose and the Co-op pay £9.50 and Asda pays £9.18.

More on this story

·Lidl to become UK's highest-paying supermarket

·Where are all the job vacancies?

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Top 100 Songs of 2018

Happy New Year!

Another year and yes, another 100 songs. However, it does not appear to be a distinguishable year by any means. Or does it mean, that I’m just older and less impressionable. There are cool new features, including Chloe X Halle, Amber Mark, and Ravyn Lenae. 

However, the year appears to be a hold over from last year. More Khalid, H.E.R., Daniel Caesar, Gallant, and Tom Misch.

Childish Gambino is a star. Janelle Monae seems to cross over a little more/

Pop appears to have languished for me, there is some Demi, some Mark Foster, and Troye Sivan.

I get more play from NAO and Alina Baraz

But 2018 just didn’t seem to land big with me, musically.

Or maybe, I’m just down with all the throwback, Maxwell, Tamia, and Toni.

Here is to 2019. I guess.

RANK ARTIST-TITLE-INITIAL SCROBBLE DATE-VIDEO

1 JANELLE MONAE – I Like That (Jun 5/2018)

2 KHALID/NORMANI – Love Lies (Mar 21/2018)

3 AUGUST GREENE/BRANDY/COMMON/ROBERT GLASPER/KARRIEM HIGGINGS

Optimistic (Apr 21/2018)

4 DRAKE – GOD’S PLAN (Mar 1/2018)

5 KENDRICK LAMAR/SZA – All the Stars (Feb 3/2018)

6 FOSTER THE PEOPLE – Sit Next to Me (Feb 3/2018)

7 ALINA BARAZ – I Don’t Even Know Why Though (Jul 2/2017)

8 CRAIG DAVID/GOLDLINK – Live In the Moment (Jan 27/2018)

9 GALLANT – Doesn’t Matter (May 15/2018)

10 LEON BRIDGES – Bad Bad News (May 4/2018)

11 DANIEL CAESAR/H.E.R. – Best Part (Jan 21/2018)

12 DEMI LOVATO – Sorry Not Sorry (Feb 27/2018)

13 JOHN MAYER – New Light (May 20/2018)

14 SHAKKA/ALUNAGEORGE (Apr 11/2018)

15 TAMIA – LEAVE IT SMOKIN (Jul 28/2018)

16 TANK – WHEN WE (Jul 27/2018)

17 THE WEEKND – Secrets (Jan 21/2018)

18 H.E.R. – Focus (Nov 11/2018)

19 TOM MISCH/GOLDLINK – Lost In Paris (Jun 23/2018)

20 TROYE SIVAN – My My My! (Jan 27/2018)

21 ONE ACEN/WSTRN – Vice Versa (Mar 21/2018) 

22 CHILDISH GAMBINO – Summertime Magic (Jul 28/2018)

23 KELLY CLARKSON – Love So Soft (Jan 6/2018)

24 TINASHE/FUTURE – Faded Love (Apr 8/2018)

25 WRETCH32 – 6 Words (Apr 28/2018)

26 JANET JACKSON/DADDY YANKEE – Made for Now (Aug 7/2018)

27 BONOBO/INNOV GNAWA – Bambro Koyo Ganda (Jan 6/2018) 

28 BRYSON TILLER – Something Tells Me (Jan 9/2018)

29 CHILDISH GAMBINO – This Is America (May 15/2018)

30 JHENE AIKO/RAE SREMMURD/SWAE LEE – Sativa (Apr 7/2018)

31 KATE BUSH – Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) – (Jul 28/2018)

32 MGMT – Hand It Over (Jan 6/2018)

33 CHLOE X HALLE/JOEY BADA$$ - Happy Without Me (Aug 25/2018)

34 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE – Hunger (Jul 27/2018)

35 JANELLE MONAE – Make Me Feel (Feb 24/2018)

36 KARA MARNI – Curve (Apr 14/2018)

37 MARTIN SOLVEIG/ALMA – All Stars (Oct 7/2018)

38 MIST/JESSIE WARE – Wish Me Well (May 25/2018)

39 ROSI GOLAN – Don’t You Dare (Jul 17/2018)

40 ST VINCENT – Los Ageless (Jan 6/2018)

41 BEACH HOUSE – Lemon Glow (Feb 21/2018)

42 NAO – Nostalgia (Jan 21/2018)

43 SNAKEHIPS/ELHAE/DRAM/H.E.R. – Right Now (Feb 10/2018)

44 MIGUEL – VOTE (Sep 17/2018)

45 TOM MISCH/DE LA SOUL – It Runs Through Me (Apr 3/2018)

46 CHILDISH GAMBINO - FEELS LIKE SUMMER (Sep 17/2018)

47 DRAKE – IN MY FEELINGS (Jul 28/2018)

48 THE INTERNET – Come Over (Jul 28/2018)

49 TONI BRAXTON – Long As I Live (Sep 1/2018)

50 WIZ KHALIFA/TY DOLLA $IGN – Something New (Jan 6/2018)

51 LILY ALLEN/GIGGS – Trigger Bang (March 21/2018)

52 ZEDD/MAREN MORRIS/GREY – The Middle (Jul 8/2018)

53 CALVIN HARRIS/SAM SMITH – Promises (Oct 8/2018)

54 JAMIE ISAAC – Doing Better (Aug 19/2018)

55 MAHALIA/LITTLE SIMZ – Proud of Me (Apr 1/2018)

56 EMPIRE OF THE SUN – On Our Way Home (Jan 6/2018)

57 KENDRICK LAMAR/ZACARI – Love (Jan 6/2018)

58 SAM SMITH – Too Good at Goodbyes (Jan 6/2018)

59 DAN AUERBACH – Stand By My Girl (Jan 21/2018)

60 DUKE DUMONT/GORGON CITY/NAATIONS – Real Life [Solardo Remix]

(Jan 9/2018) - https://youtu.be/rmwArYsGzdY

61 LIL UZI VERT – The Way Life Goes (Jan 9/2018)

62 MAXWELL – We Never Saw It Coming (Sep 15/2018)

63 MNEK – Tongue (Oct 7/2018)

64 TINASHE/OFFSET – No Drama (Apr 14/2018)

65 CHILDISH GAMBINO – Sober (Sep 25/2018)

66 MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO – Tender Love (Jan 28/2018)

67 SAMPHAA – Incomplete Kisses (Oct 5/2018)

68 BEACH HOUSE – Dark Spring (Jul 28/2018)

69 EMPIRE OF THE SUN – Way to Go (Sep 15/2018)

70 GOLDLINK/MIGUEL – Got Friends (Aug 19/2018)

71 MIGUEL/TRAVIS SCOTT – SKYWALKER (Nov 19/2017)

72 CHROMEO/THE DREAM – Bedroom Calling Part 2 (Feb 2/2018)

73 AMBER MARK/DRAM – Put You On (Oct 6/2018)

74 NOLAN SOTILLO – No Promises (Mar 1/2018)

75 KYLIE MNOGUE – Dancing (Jan 21/2018)

76 N.E.R.D./RIHANNA – Lemon (Jan 6/2018)

77 BRUNO MARS/CARDI B – Finesse Remix (Jan 11/2018)

78 H.E.R. – Facts (Oct 16/2017)

79 SZA – Weekend (Dec 5/2017)

80 THEY. – What You Want (Apr 21/2018)

81 TORO Y MOI – Freelance (Nov 1/2018)

82 RAYE/MABEL/STEFFLON DON – Cigarette (Apr 21/2018)

83 THE WEEKND/KENDRICK LAMAR – Pray for Me (Feb 10/2018)

84 TEYANA TAYLOR – Gonna Love Me (Aug 3/2018)

85 CARDI B/CHANCE THE RAPPER – Best Life (Apr 21/2018)

86 CHILDISH GAMBINO – Terrified (Jan 28/2018)

87 CIARA – Level Up (Jul 27/2018)

88 KALI UCHIS/TYLER THE CREATOR/BOOTSY COLLING – After the Storm 

(Jan 21/2018) - https://youtu.be/9f5zD7ZSNpQ

89 LADY GAGA – Hair Body Face (Oct 5/2018)

90 XAMVOLO – LOSE LOVE (Apr 26/2018)

91 NGAIIRE – Fall Into My Arms (Jul 17/2018)

92 RADIANT CHILDREN – Go Left (Oct 5/2018)

93 ANDERSON.PAAK/KENDRICK LAMAR – Tints (Nov 1/2018)

94 CALVIN HARRIS/DUA LUPA – One Kiss (Jul 27/2018)

95 DVSN – Mood (Feb 10/2018)

96 JANELLE MONAE/PHARRELL WILLIAMS – I Got the Juice (Nov 3/2018)

97 LEDISI -Alright (Oct 27, 2018)

98 LSD/SIA/DIPLO/LABRINTH – Thunderclouds (9/1/2018)

99 MGMT – Little Dark Age (May 4/2018)

100 Ravyn Lenae – STICKY (Apr 11/2018)

I am a dork and I live this way daily! (I didn’t forget).

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When Robert Aske was first stopped by the Lincolnshire rebels and commanded to swear, Aske replied ‘that he was [once] sworn to the King's [higness] and issue, and that he [would] not be sworn again to any other intent’. Upon learning the content of the pilgrims’ oath, however, he responded, ‘in this [oath] is there no [treason], but standing with his first [oath]’.

Some of the pilgrims did of course want to re-legitimize Mary, as the Pontefract Articles make clear. It should be emphasized, however, that this was not part of their oaths. We should also keep in mind that this was after the execution of Anne Boleyn for treason and the re-introduction of Mary into the king’s favour. Furthermore, these clauses of the Pontefract Articles were mainly a reaction against the 1536 Act of Succession (to which the pilgrims had not been sworn) rather than the 1534 Act of Succession (to which they had been sworn). This is evident by their bizarre concern that the king not bequeath the throne to Cromwell.

Oaths and the English Reformation, Jonathan Grey

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Hig Roberts

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 15 March 1991

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Olympic alpine skier 

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The smile of pride and freedom

source: Hig Roberts’ instagram account

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Hig Roberts

a two-time U.S. national champion, becomes the first elite men’s Alpine skier to publicly come out as gay, hoping to encourage others to be themselves.

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Finally getting to finish this episode while also finishing laundry for the week when i should be sleeping before work.

I love Andy's family grilling robert. He would've lived spending time with them i feel.

Still not a fan of the michelle obsession with maya. It irks me for some reason.

Miller and his family stuff breaks my heart but its so great prue is bringing them together. Kids are funny like that.

Maya is so nice to lend jack her office.

Im glad maya and carina and inara and jack are in such good places that a simple hig between friends is okay.

Andy being so nervous for robert and her family to interact is very telling. If you arent comfortable with them interacting maybe you should rethink the relationship.

I love carina and Ben's friendship and interactions. It makes me remeber when he was still a surgical intern/resident and she was doing her study.

Carina feeling like noone likes her is sad.

I love that maya discusses her problems with andy. It shows such growth.