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renegadesrpg · 4 years

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Family Matters Part 1: Female Bonding. Truely and Celia CROSSOVER WITH Rekindled

Truely: *It'd been a hell of a day. I was overwhelmed with the weight of everything I'd witnessed and learned. I couldn't bear to see my shop. I assumed it was a disaster zone and just, I just couldn't. So, I hid. Under the covers of my bed.

Everything hurt from my head to my toes, but most especially my heart. It’s not that I thought Zav was lying, after all I'd seen the evidence of his truth all over my shop. I just needed time to regroup. I didn't want to see or talk to anyone, so I didn't.

I called my staff and gave them the week off, with pay. Not sure how that'd work but I'll manage. Then I got under my covers and fitfully slept. Dreams were non-existent because I didn't sleep long enough to have them. I kept waking, crying, then repeat.*

*Now the sun will be rising soon and I need a distraction and my regulars will be wanting morning bakes. So, I shower, dress, and make my way downstairs. I hear a noise from the shop and steel myself for another confrontation.*

Alright assholes...*I try and keep steel in my voice as I throw the back door open only to be knocked back by the smells of cinnamon and vanilla.* Celia?

Celia: *I'd watched over Truely while she slept. Part of the job and ghosts don't need sleep anyway. It had been a rough night from what I could tell but ghosts don't have the gift of dreamwalking so short of waking her, there was nothing I could do. And I figured waking her would just freak her out more than she already was. So when I was sure she was rousing and knowing she was protected up here in her apartment, I shimmered back down to the shop and began work. I wasn't sure what exactly she'd had planned for today so I went with cinnamon rolls and apple turnovers to start. Can't go wrong with those. Humming to myself as I put the first batch in the oven, I heard my name.*

Hey Truely, lemme' get these in and then you can tell me what you need for the day.

Truely: *Whoaaaaa. I was not expecting this.* My shop is ok? I, um, I don't know what...thank you Celia. I don't know what happened as I expected a disaster but thank you. *I decided to close my unhinged jaw and get to work.*

It smells wonderful in here. Let me get the coffee going. *I grabbed my favorite apron and let the smells and sounds of a kitchen in use soothe me as I went out to the front and got the coffeemaker going.*

Let's see, cinnamon rolls and apple um turnovers? So, should do some cookies, thinking chocolate chip and monster. Then maybe some peach cobbler sweet rolls for today's special. Whatcha think?

Celia: *Closing the oven door and smirking as I turn towards her* Of course your shop is ok. Didn't Zav tell you it would be? I could tell you a lot about that reaper angel of yours, but one of the top things would be that he keeps his promises. Cookies are simple enough. Add some coconut haystacks to that. I've got a good stovetop version that we can have out there in 15 minutes for early customers looking for something unusual. If you'll bring me a mug of that joe, two sugars please, I'll get the peach cobbler sweet rolls started.

Truely: *I smile as I make my way to the coffee pot. I pour us both a cup, adding sugar to both plus cream in mine, then walk back to the kitchen.* Haystacks will be great! Here's your coffee. *I hand her the mug

But honestly so much was going through my head I probably spaced it. Oh! I should make chocolate peanut butter oatmeal no bakes. It can be a day of unusual. *I chuckle as I grab a bowl and the ingredients for my no bakes.*

Are you ok after all that happened yesterday? I'm guessing it was more fun for you, you know the whole kicking ass thing. Does your husband do what Zav does? I know it was mentioned he was away and that's why you came but now...I know it’s not the exact story right?

Celia: *tilting my head at the cinnamon roll dough* I've got enough of this dough to use for a couple dozen peach cobbler rolls. If I use it, I can set another batch to rising and we can have both cinnamon rolls and peach cobbler rolls when the doors open and some of both baking for 10 o'clock brunch crowd. Do you get that here? *rolling out the dough as I speak,*

Declan, my mate, is like me, a ghost. We aren't reapers. We were recruited to serve Zav's boss... well, it's complicated, he wasn't Zav's actual boss then, he'd stepped back from the reaper corps for the last thousand years, but he's back now... *sprinkling some spices and sugar on the rolled out dough, then opening canned peaches to make the filling* Anyway, his boss, Sin, wanted someone to cook for him and keep his properties in order. He said. I think he was just lonely. Reapers don't need to eat and he has lawyers and accountants to keep up with his money games. But when we died, Zav came for our souls, to help us move on, you know? But we weren't guaranteed our next lives were to be together and then Sin showed up and told Zav to leave us to him and so *shrugging* we stayed.

Declan is supposed to be bodyguarding Sin right now. Like that's actually going to work. Sin does what Sin wants to do. The other reapers just wanted an early warning system in case Sin got jumped, someone to give them a minute to get to him. And who they could count on to shout out to them when it happened because they know Sin won't. And since winning the whole good vs evil showdown depends on Sin, it's kind of important he lives to do it. *snickers* They actually got him to stay on house arrest for a few weeks, but they had to know THAT wouldn't last.

Truely: *chuckles* Sounds like a man, er, male. Stubborn as hell. But this Sin must be a hell of a male to get such love and loyalty. I think it's wonderful he made sure you could stay with your mate. He must value the strength that comes from those things. Smart.

I smile as I drop the spoonful’s of batter on wax paper before putting the trays into the fridge to cool and harden.* I appreciate you sticking around. It’s nice talking to someone who gets what's going on. And any info on Zav you wanna share, feel free. *chuckles*

Hey how are the buns faring? Need help?

Celia: Sin /is/ a good male. He was a good man when he was human. Zav was his mentor then, you know? How they became friends. Zav told you he came to teach humans, right? It was a long, long time before we were around, but I know the story. Zav found Sin when he was just an ex-slave who had turned a rebellion into an army that was conquering war-lords left and right. Zav befriended him to teach him how to govern the lands he was conquering, to be a good king for the people. Something most of them hadn't had. And Sin became a very good king. But eventually it fell apart. Not because of Sin, unless you consider him being too successful and too tolerant a fault, but because a god got jealous of him. So Sin died and became Death's first reaper. And when that same god took Zav's family, Sin came for him and offered him a place with the reaper corps. So, yeah, he deserves the loyalty he gets. As for us, well...Sin lost his wife in all that. He's looked for her soul for thousands of years and never found it. I think he saw Declan and I as what he'd hoped to have. So we were lucky he was watching that day. *spooning the filling into the dough and then rolling it up.*

Can you hand me a knife so I can cut this into rolls?

Truely: *I grab the knife closest to me and hand it over* Here you go. Zav is a teacher but now a reaper. He's still a teacher at heart though, I think. I take it Sin has yet to find his Queen? It’s a concept you learn about, reincarnation, and you think it's cool but you never think it’s really real. You know? *shrugs as I start the monster cookie mix* I wonder if my past self...hmmm, never mind. You could go crazy trying to figure some of this out. If I may ask, what was your life like when you were alive? Were you and your mate in charge of your people? Were you here in the states?

Celia: *taking the knife and slicing the rolled log of dough* I think Sin's given up on finding her. It worries them, going into this. He'll fight to win, but he's lost his reason to survive it. *Laying the rolls one by one on a prepared baking sheet, being careful of the filling.*

Sure, you can ask. *laughs, then sobers* Wolfen can live a long time compared to humans. A couple of centuries, if they're allowed to die naturally. But wolven culture doesn't allow for that often. It's a survival-of-the-fittest world. And there's a very specific order within the packs. Declan was our pack's Beta, the second in charge. In the 20th century that basically meant he was in charge of security. His status gave me the status of second among the females. As such, I was in charge of domestic operations, including cooking. It was just luck that I went to culinary school before I was mated. All that stuff I told you was true, by the way. It was just in the early 1980's. *smiles reminiscently* We were the best fed pack in the northern Hemisphere.

Truely: *smiles and chuckles* I bet so. You are very good at what you do. That includes kicking ass by the way. *I start spooning the cookie mixture onto the pans making sure to space them evenly.* So, I mean if you were seconds then what happened? Don't people usually go after the leaders?

Celia: *I'm quiet for a moment. Some memories are hard to talk about. Putting the peach rolls in the oven, I take a towel and wipe my hands before tossing it into a laundry receptacle. Taking a breath, I meet her eyes. The world isn't what she thought it was and I wouldn't be doing her any favors by not telling her all of it now that she was aware of the bigger picture.*

They went after /all/ of us. Every male, female and pup. None of us survived. *Inhaling again and then huffing it out.*

We were a very prosperous pack. Our territory encompassed a large area that was rich rare earth elements -- stuff that's used in everything from computer screens to jet engines to communications systems. And another pack wanted it. They infiltrated us and then one night overrode our security systems. *My eyes grow bleak at the memories*

Declan was running the late watch that night. He was one of the first to die, but he managed to sound the internal alarms first. Our Alpha rallied as many fighters as we had left in an attempt to defend the families but there just weren't enough fighters left. We were overrun.

Truely: Oh dear Gods. Celia. *I squeezed her shoulder letting her feel my empathy. I figured she wasn't much for hugs, especially from a near stranger, but I needed her to know I was there.*

Thank you for sharing that. It couldn't have been easy. Does the pack that murdered your still exist? Or did they get their just rewards? *I slipped the first two trays of cookies into the oven.*

Celia: *shrugs* The world isn't exactly what you thought it was, Truely. You deserve to know all of it. The good and the bad. Wolven culture carries the survival-of-the-fittest philosophy to the extremes, yes, but it’s not so different from other cultures. Very few are live-and-let-live. Greed and jealousy are motivations in the human world too. It's just not usually so blatantly done. *sighing*

The pack that destroyed ours no longer exists. We had just begun doing business with a pack that was venturing into telecommunication technologies. They were looking into partnering with us, with us providing the raw materials and getting into the manufacturing end and them developing the applications and marketing. Their territory bordered ours and their alpha wasn't open to doing business with murderers. *giving you a lopsided small smile.* He also wasn't open to having his pack, and his own mate and young son, live so close to a pack who would kill pups. He took them down. Hard. Made an example out of the alpha and beta. The females and young of the pack he allowed to become part of his own. Fighting males and the alpha's pack council didn't survive the initial onslaught but males over 16 who weren't involved in the fighting were given the opportunity to assimilate or go lone wolf. Most of the young ones assimilated into Blood Moon. I don't know what happened to the others.

Truely: Well, I'm glad they got theirs. No one should get away with slaughter like that. I know it happens but I don't have to like it and I can relish when assholes get theirs. I need you to do me a favor, if you will. We need a new thing of flour but it's in the cellar. Usually I have Dusti or Lu get it but they are gone. Would you mind getting it? I'll keep an eye on the goodies in the oven.

Celia: *raising my eyebrow* You have a cellar? Did you and Zav ward it? Reapers can get in anywhere Truely. Any open space.

Truely: It’s very small and ya Zav did. I just. I don’t down there is all.

Celia: *tilting my head quizzically* You don't go down there? *raising an eyebrow* When I get back, we're gonna talk about that. Anytime somebody gets the creepies about a place or person, there's a reason.

*Going ghost, I dematerialize down into the cellar. Reforming, I look around* Hmmm, just your run-of-the-mill basement, *murmuring to myself.* Well-finished and clean. Well organized too. No spirits or bad juju here.

*There was a large sealed container on a pallet near one of the shelves labeled "flour". Opening it, I hoist out a 50lb bag of Minnesota Girl Bakers Flour and put it on my shoulder, then demat back to the kitchen. That's the thing about being both wolfen and ghost. I'm stronger than humans my size and more efficient.*

Where do you want this?

Truely: *I laugh with surprise and thrill when you come back carrying that bag* Usually I get 15 minutes of complaints about how I’m wrecking backs by making them drag it up. Thanks though. The rolls are close to done, and the cookies are just about ready to come out too. I'm just about to put the haystacks and no bake cookies out. Wanna help?

Celia: *Sits the bag of flower on a metal prep table* Sure. Presentation of the food was an actual class. *laughs* But I might be out of practice at that.

Truely: Easy peasy. *I walk out to the front, pull the show trays out and begin placing the cookies in three long rows.* I do three rows and put the prettiest three at the front. *smiling as I put one full show tray in the display and start working on another.*

We'll put the haystacks to the left, our left, and no bakes to the right. Usually people start wandering in around 8:30 for coffee and whatever sweet thing is available. But the real crowds hit around 10am, like you mentioned. *I work on another tray as you grab and start yours*

Celia: *Working quickly, I imitate Truely's display with the haystack cookies, finishing one tray and then starting another before beginning...* I checked out your basement Tru. There's no bad juju there or ghosts. And if there had been I'd have known. And taken care of it. So is it just this cellar or all cellars that give you the willies?

Truely: Oh um *her question caught me off guard since no-one has ever asked me why. They just figure it is one of those things like people who hate anchovies on pizza...just a thing a person dislikes.*

Well, anything basement or cellar-like. I don't like those types of places, they *I sigh* scare me. Have since I was a very little girl. My parents even moved us to a new place that didn't have one when I was 8 because the one we had scared me too much. As I got older I could lock that fear away, you know I didn't let it bug me. But I still can't go down into them.

Celia: *Nods as I finish the last tray of cookies* When we're kids lots of things scare us. And being afraid of the dark is usually one of them. But as we get older we usually lose that. Not to say we aren't cautious about things. There's scary stuff out there in the dark. I should know. A lot of people would think I'm one of them. But when we don't lose that fear of something, there's usually a reason behind it. Stuffing down the things you're afraid of only gives them power Tru. If you ever want to face it, I'll be right there beside you.

Truely: Thank you. I, hmmm, well I don't remember exactly why. See, I was adopted when I was 3. I don't, naturally, remember a lot from that time but I do remember being locked in a very dark basement and being so scared.

*I look off into the distance* I remember crying to get out. Whispers. Cold. *I shiver and wrap my arms around myself. Shaking my head I grin* Anyway....ever since, just hated them.

Celia: *Slipping my arm around your shoulders for a quick squeeze* That would be scary for any kid. I totally get your fear. But did you know that little kids can sometimes see or hear us? Ghosts, I mean. It's because they haven't been convinced yet that we're not real. Those whispers could have been from someone like me, maybe just not strong enough to really make themselves heard, but trying to reach out to you.

Truely: Maybe, it's just that it doesn't feel umm nice. *The timer goes off just then*

Oh, we best get those so they don't burn. We can um talk after if you want. Maybe explain ghosts more.

<<<TBC>>>

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malecsecretsanta · 7 years

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Merry Christmas, @fatilightwood!

I know you said you didn't want angst but it's only tiny and I'm sure the ending will make up for it ;) Hope you love it!

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Please come home for Christmas

Ever since he’d moved into Magnus’ Loft, Alec always seemed to find it hard to be in the apartment alone. It was like Magnus’ magic and his existence combined seemed to light up the entire room when they were there together, how he found himself unable to look away from his boyfriend, whose hips seemed to swing when he walked and even more so when he was dancing to get Alec’s attention from his paperwork.

From their first night together in Magnus’ bed where Alec didn’t have to worry about getting up to leave for patrol, to the present Magnus had always seemed to be there when he wasn’t seeing clients or going to downworlder or clave meetings. Even when they were physically separated he was there for Alec’s fire messages, texts and calls when he needed him. But at the same time, he’d never realised how much Magnus travelled and what that meant for the absence of his presence in the apartment. How it seemed to feel more lonely and empty without him there to chatter about some gossip he’d heard from Raphael or complain about how Catrina was putting off their next visit with Madzie for an obviously made up reason. How it left Alec feeling bereft, like he was his old self back in the closet just waiting for someone.

So, to come home from a long boring clave meeting, a couple of weeks before Christmas with thoughts of just cuddling up with Magnus on the couch were swiftly smashed to pieces when he went into their room to change. Only to find Magnus’ open suitcase in the middle of their bed and pieces of clothing appearing into its already heavily packed depths engulfed in a shimmer of Magnus’ magic meaning the other was probably in his closet. Alec barely managed to restrain his groan as he threw his blazer on to his pillow before following the sound of a low humming through the extensive depths of Magnus’ closet to find his magical other half.

Admittedly the wardrobe had started to gain a bit more of Alec’s own clothing since he moved in, though it was mostly limited to a small section which had used to house Magnus’ clothes from the sixties which he decided to clear out due to his loathing of that particular era. Something that seemed to be a habit of his when he had gone on a shopping trip somewhere and needed more room, but it had seemed like a special gesture when Alec had seen the bare space and the spare key for the apartment hung on an empty coat hanger for him when Magnus first asked him to stay over.

Even then, with all the other styles of clothing from the twenties all the way to the present and everything in between, from different countries and different years, some with a Magnus twist and others like they had been mass produced back then but could be considered antiques now. Magnus usually stuck to his current section of clothes, unless it was a special occasion that required him dressing up, which was where Alec found him now.

Beyonce was singing from his phone which was sat on a shelf that housed his shoes from the nineties which explained the humming and the way Magnus’s body was moving along naturally to ‘Bootylicious’ even as his gaze continued to move through a collection of silk shirts deciding which to take and which to leave.

“Alexander, there you are. I was beginning to think you’d gotten distracted in my seventies section again.” Magnus smiled, turning around from where he was sorting through the rainbow of colours to look at Alec.

“Why are you packing again?” Alec asked, too tired to beat around the bush as he leaned against the nearest bit of wall, sinking to the floor as Magnus offered him an apologetic look.

The last couple of months he’d spent more time out the city than he had in, if only because he was still trying to rebuild some old ties that had been severed by him leading the warlocks to side with the Seelies in the war against Valentine and Sebastian. Not that it was really helped that it was hard to get hold of those he wanted to speak to, leaving him jumping at the chances when they appeared.

Alec knew he still blamed himself for letting his head over rule his heart, after all that had been part of the reason for their fight. But no matter how much Alec tried to tell him otherwise it was like something had shifted in the downworld, which Alec hadn’t been told about, that made his boyfriend determined. Something that Magnus wanted to make right to prove himself to those he protected.

“I’m sorry darling, an old friend in Auckland I was hoping to hear from finally got in touch for help with some negotiations and while I’m over there an old acquaintance in Brisbane agreed to meet me if I took a detour across the Tasman.” Magnus said, dropping the shirt he’d been looking at to approach Alec, getting close enough to graze a finger over Alec’s lips in an all too familiar gesture before his boyfriend could object.

“But I was hoping for a long night cuddling to forget all about my crappy Clave meeting…” Alec sighed, as Magnus conjured another shirt to his waiting suitcase without moving a step out of Alec’s reach before sinking into Alec’s lap with his hands rested either side of the younger's head on the wall for balance as he rested their foreheads together.

“Alexander, my love, you know I don’t like being away from you anymore than you do,” Magnus murmured, easing one hand from the wall once Alec’s hands rested on his hips to steady him, to trace his deflect rune with one finger instead. “but I have to do this.”

“Doesn’t mean I have to like it. Or that I won’t miss you. Again.” Alec sighed, his back arching against the wall as he tilted his head back in the hopes of meeting Magnus’ lips with his own.

“I’ll miss you too.” Magnus soothed with a gentle brush of his fingertips under Alec’s chin before meeting his lips in a deep kiss that had Alec’s hands sliding up his back to deepen it even more. Their bodies practically clinging to the other. It didn’t take long for shirts to be removed frantically in a stark contrast to how their hips jerked together in an all too familiar rhythm. Something that had unfortunately become as much a rarity as them being in the same place at the same time.

Alec’s fingers were just clawing at Magnus’ jeans to unzip them while deepening their kiss with his tongue in Magnus’ mouth, when an annoying buzz came from overhead, causing Magnus to groan against Alec’s lips as he caught his boyfriend’s hand in his own before pulling back. His phone appeared in his hand as Alec stared at the sight of his half-dressed boyfriend, make up smudged and looking like heaven itself, something that seemed to be becoming just as rare.

“I’m sorry darling, Rupene is probably wondering what is taking me so long. I’ll be right back.” Magnus soothed, pecking a quick kiss to Alec’s lips as he eased himself to his feet and walked deeper into the depths of the closet to answer the phone.

Alec sighed as he leaned his head back against the wall, letting the buzz from their kisses and touches fizzle under his skin like a high he was reluctant to come down from. Part of him hoped that Magnus would come back to pick up where they left off before he had to leave, but when his common sense caught up with him he grabbed his own shirt from where Magnus had thrown it behind some shoes. The brickwork of the wall grated against the bare skin at the small of his back as he pushed himself upright to pull the shirt over his head, before getting to his feet.

Knowing Magnus as well as he did, his boyfriend would just go back to packing again so it was best he settled for going to his own part of the closet to grab some sweats and a tank top on his way to the bathroom. Though he hated to wash away any sense of Magnus’ presence before he left the country, he needed to wash off the oppression and bureaucracy that he’d had to deal with in his meeting.

It was no surprise to appear from the bathroom half an hour later to Magnus now fully dressed and perfectly made up, rummaging through his thoroughly packed suitcase and taking out pieces that weren’t conducive to the current weather in the southern hemisphere. His weekend bag, which he often used as the equivalent of a briefcase and hand luggage through the portal, was filled with paperwork, a laptop, his assortment of wires for his electronics and as he spotted Alec coming out the bathroom Magnus grabbed a toiletry bag and raced inside to grab everything he needed.

Alec settled for hanging up his blazer on the back of a chair for the next day, then he sat on the bed as he towelled his hair dry. He watched Magnus reappear, murmuring to himself about making sure he had everything. Not that Alec would put it past him for him to summon anything he forgot.

“Right, clothes and shoes for all occasions, check. Make-up and toiletries, check. Paperwork, check. The books I promised Adele and Rupene along with the couple of rare potion ingredients, check. Phone, computer and cables, check. I feel like I’m missing something.” Magnus said, closing both his bags with a swipe of magic as he pulled a jacket on and turned to look at Alec.

“Missing what?” Alec asked, tossing the towel he’d used to his hair in the hamper as Magnus approached him and eased the younger’s legs apart with a fleeting touch against his inner thigh so there was space for him to slide between them.

Alec’s eyes closed at the cool touch of ringed fingers caressing his neck as Magnus’ cologne engulfed his senses, the faintest sensation Magnus’ gaze brushing his lips teasingly, like Magnus was taking in the view. It seemed to take way too long before he found his lips being beautifully corrupted by the warlock’s all over again. His fingers curled in the hair at the nape of Magnus’ neck to keep him closer and their tongues grazed over again and again, trying to make the taste stick while the other was gone.

Only when both their breath was gone did Magnus’ lips leave his and their foreheads rest against the other again, Magnus’ thumb grazing Alec’s puffy bottom lip as their gazes met.

“That. I always miss that.” Magnus whispered hoarsely with a soft smile. “Please be careful for me while I’m gone Alexander. Not that I don’t love your heroic side darling but I would never forgive myself if you got hurt.“

“You too. First sign anything seems off portal back here, I don’t care how friendly they are.” Alec replied, as he absentmindedly toyed with the hair at Magnus’ nape between his fingers. Even though he knew it ruined the look Magnus was going for, but his boyfriend didn’t seem fixated on getting him to stop.

They both knew the other could take care of themselves, but it never stopped the other from worrying, especially when they were continents apart not able to cover the other’s back. Even a portal being the only thing separating them if an emergency came up never seemed to ease the concern.

“I love you my Alexander.” Magnus said softly, brushing the back of his hand against Alec’s slightly stubbly cheek and catching one last peck from his lips before back tracking from between his boyfriend’s legs. Despite how much Alec wished he wouldn’t.

“I love you too Magnus Bane.” Alec called back with a smile, watching Magnus gather his bags with a smile aimed at him over his shoulder and leave the bedroom.

After the first couple of times where Magnus had insisted on a goodbye kiss portal side, Alec had managed to come up with alternatives as the anxiety of them being apart set in. Magnus had soon realised and a kiss in their room and mutual declarations of love seemed to be enough to serve as a goodbye, often leaving Alec wherever they had been making out as he left. Probably just as well because Alec knew he would probably try and get him to stay if he followed.

The accompanying whoosh of the portal opening and then closing, immediately seemed to make the loft lose it’s warmth and left him laid on his back on their bed with the chairman curled up on his stomach as he stared at the ceiling.

Like always became the case when Magnus was out the country, Alec would work himself into the ground. He didn’t like being in the apartment alone, even with Chairman Meow. It lacked the sparkle that came from Magnus’ glitter attaching itself to Alec's skin when he came home, the silence instead of the sound of music from any era and any genre playing according to his boyfriend’s moods, one of Magnus’ shows playing and the sound of Magnus talking in another language to someone on the phone. He hated coming home from a long day at work to a cold bed instead of one filled with a body to warm him up and soft lips to kiss.

It was always the reason he’d end up sleeping more at the institute than anywhere else, his mood seeming to go downhill a little which made it clear to everyone around that the Warlock was elsewhere. Even Izzy couldn’t seem to get him out of his mood as she set him to work helping her with some last-minute decorating for the Institute’s Christmas party due to his height.

“Izzy, I have paperwork I should be doing.” Alec sighed as he stood on a chair to wind tinsel down a pillar in the middle of ops.

“Yes, but I can’t help it if you’re the one in the genepool who ended up taller.” Izzy quipped, handing him a strand of emerald green to tie to the red one that had stopped halfway down.

Alec rolled his eyes as he took the other strand of tinsel and reluctantly tied one end to the other, brushing the stray flecks of tinsel from his suit when he secured the end at the bottom of the pillar.

They had moved to the last pillar in the room when Jace appeared, with a glare on his face and spike of irritation through their shared rune that Alec knew he was probably the cause of.

“Have you talked him out his mood yet? I got so distracted when sparring with Max that he ended up pinning me! I’ll never be able to live that down.” Jace huffed, Izzy giving him a look and shake of the head that had Alec sighing.

“Guys, we don’t need to do this every time he’s out the country, ok? I appreciate the concern but I’m OK.” Alec sighed, getting down from the chair once the tinsel was hung and hoping he could just go back to his office to sulk behind his paperwork.

“Ok? Really?! What I’m feeling isn’t you being OK Alec. I’ve known you long enough to be able to tell the difference So if you want us to leave you alone then stop acting like a sulking kid.” Jace said, grunting in pain when Izzy smacked him hard in the stomach to shut him up.

“What he means is we’re worried about you that’s all. I mean you’re sleeping here by choice Alec. But even then, every morning you look like you haven’t managed to catch a wink.” Izzy said, her gaze back on her elder brother.

Though Alec would never admit it there was some truth to Izzy’s words. He often struggled to sleep no matter how much he tried, it was practically impossible. He had grown way too used to sharing a bed that now it felt unnatural to be in one alone, leaving him trying for an hour, tossing and turning the whole time. He’d then wonder whether to call Magnus, but his mind would tie itself in knots trying to remember the time difference that in the end he wouldn’t bother. He’d then lay on his back in bed staring at the ceiling for a while before calling it quits and just getting up, either to train his body into enough exhaustion to sleep or go to his office to work.

“I told you, I’m fine. I’m planning on sending him a fire message for a video call tonight.” Alec shrugged, shoving the box of remaining Christmas decorations Izzy wanted him to put up in Jace’s direction. “Now if you don’t mind I have a meeting with Luke and Raphael to worry about.”

“But I was….” Jace argued, though Alec had already left leaving his blonde parabatai being herded by Izzy into the right direction.

The week leading up to Christmas seemed to get even worse than the one previously without Magnus’ presence. Not really helped by the fact he’d only got to speak to Magnus once the whole time, on the phone not on video chat, and it was only to tell him he would be longer than he thought.

“What?” Alec asked, his voice filled with disbelief and hurt that caused the chairman to jump off his lap, his tail flicking indignantly.

“I’m sorry darling. I was really hoping this wouldn’t take as long as it is but between Rupene’s pet project he’s wrangled me into and Adele’s seelie issues I couldn’t leave even if I wanted to.” Magnus said, his voice filled with sincere apology not that it really helped the sinking feeling in Alec’s stomach at the thought of not being with Magnus on Christmas day.

“Yeah, of course… I understand.” Alec said, hoping his voice didn’t sound as fake to his boyfriend as it did to his own ears. Which obviously failed by the way that Magnus paused on the other end.

“Alexander, are you alright? I mean there isn’t something you’ve forgotten to tell me is there?” Magnus asked, a tenderness in his voice laced with worry as though he was sure Alec was hiding a serious wound from him that really needed him in New York instead of being fought over in the southern hemisphere.

“It’s nothing like that Mags…I just…I miss you, that’s all.” Alec sighed, rubbing his tired eyes as he leaned back into the leather couch. He’d decided to take the call at Magnus’ so he didn’t get disturbed by his siblings or eavesdropped by fellow Shadowhunters. But even as quiet as it was, it was starting to feel like the perfect place for a nap as his loneliness and insomnia faded away.

“I miss you too, so much and I can’t wait to see you when I get back. I wish you were here with me, I swear you’d love Auckland at night. You can stand anywhere at the top of Sky tower and see over the entire city, it’s like being on our balcony.” Magnus said, pacing the length of Rupene’s study as he heard the kiwi rambling in Maori to someone from the other side of the door.

“You’ll have to take me there one day then.” Alec yawned, tilting his head back against the edge of the couch and closing his eyes with a wistful smile at the thought as he pinned the phone to his ear with his shoulder.

“Oh definitely. What time is it in New York? You sound tired darling.” Magnus asked, hearing shuffling from the other side of the phone before a hoarse voice replied. “Er….3.30am….I think….”

“Alexander, why didn’t you say something instead of letting me ramble on? You should be sleeping.” Magnus said, taking a glance at the clock on the log burner in the corner and quickly converting the time to New York time.

“I just wanted to talk to you since we both seem so busy that’s all. Besides it’s not like I’ll be able to sleep anyway.” Alec yawned, feeling the Chairman jump up into his lap again and stroking his fingers through the cat’s fur.

“What do you mean?” Magnus asked, stopping in his tracks at the weariness in his boyfriend’s voice.

“It’s…. nothing. Forget about it. I should probably let you get back to Rupene and Adele before they start a war.” Alec joked through his tone fell flat in a way that had Magnus’ heart sinking at how exhausted his boyfriend sounded.

“Only if you promise you’ll sleep more and call Cat if you’re really struggling.” Magnus said, hearing a huff from Alec who rolled his eyes behind closed eyelids at his boyfriend’s concern.

“Magnus I’m fine, I’ll sleep when you get back.” Alec began though stopped when Magnus spoke over him.

“No, you aren’t and even I’m not sure how long that’s going to be at the time moment. So, promise me, and don’t think for a second that I won’t text both her and Isabelle so you’ll actually follow through.” Magnus said hearing Alec sigh softly.

“If it’ll put your mind at rest, then I promise.”

“Good, now I’ll leave you to your rest then darling. I love you.” Magnus said, the opening of the study door out the corner of his eye causing him to look at Rupene who offered him a bright smile with twinkling eyes and raised eyebrows which spelt how teased he was going to get.

Rupene seemed like just another tall Maori guy with the odd tribal tattoos on his bare skin, muscular arms and slim waist from working out most of the day. But that wasn’t what made him the High Warlock of Auckland.

He’d been known to get into many a scrap with any warlock that dared to challenge him for the position which gave him a notorious reputation as one of the most powerful warlocks in New Zealand. He had two warlock marks like Magnus, only one seemed to be particularly associated his family which were made up generations of Warlocks, his iwi’s symbol branded over his heart making it look almost like a Nephilim rune which Magnus had only seen a handful of times. But the other was his eyes, one green and one a stunningly bright blue, although unlike Magnus he didn’t hide them, but he still seemed to respect Magnus for his right to hide them if he felt like it.

“Love you too Magnus, have a good day.” Alec whispered as he buried his face in a cushion that smelt faintly of Magnus’ cologne.

“Goodnight Alexander.” Magnus said before hanging up and turning cast the other warlock a warning look as he sent messages to Cat and Isabelle. “Don’t even start Rupene.”

“I wasn’t gonna say a word Magnus, other than to tell you it’s here.” Rupene said with a bright grin that caused Magnus’ glamour to give way to his true eyes with a smile of his own.

“Thank Lilith, it took long enough.” Magnus said, leading the way out the room, Rupene laughing at him as he followed his lead.

After Magnus’ text to Isabelle and Catarina, Alec wasn’t surprised to see the pair waiting for him when he arrived at the institute the next day. Both scolded him in their own way about not mentioning the sheer magnitude of his insomnia, though Izzy’s was the more terrifying considering she was determined to make him hot chocolate each night to help the potion Cat gave him go down easier. Though honestly her hot chocolate making skills were bad enough that Alec would rather have had the bitter potion solo.

He managed to keep working, even though it was taking every part of his sheer determination not to use the piles of paperwork as a pillow. But with the holidays around the corner and many Shadowhunters using the holidays as an excuse to go back to Idris to see family and friends, it left them on a skeleton crew and more than ever relying on their downworlder allies. Even then, Alec was still determined to keep working, he even did a few patrols with Jace and Luke which was just as well because he probably would have got himself seriously injured if he’d been out alone.

Christmas Eve has been surprisingly quiet on the demon front which was a little disconcerting as he followed Izzy, Clary and Jace around the city, the four sticking together at Izzy’s insistence while Maryse, who’d come to visit from Idris, over looked the remaining crew from the institute and Max’s bedtime. It was still kind of bittersweet, watching Jace and Clary huddling together, whispering as they walked the snowy paths when Alec knew he and Magnus should have been doing the same, but Izzy’s arm curled around his own helped to keep him grounded from his sadness and keep her balanced on her feet since her heels weren’t made to walk on icy pavements.

“You ok?” Izzy asked, tightening her grip on his forearm when they reached a patch of black ice and she nearly skidded over.

“Hm, just wishing I was with Magnus instead of freezing my ass off out here.” Alec sighed, his own more practical boots crunching through the ice, grit and snow as he buried his bare hands in the pockets of his leather jacket.

“I’m sure wherever he is it’s enviable right now.” Izzy agreed, tapping her fingers against his arm, tracing his soundless rune against the material of his leather jacket as her grip tightened again.

“Definitely, I can’t wait for him to get back.” Alec said, guiding her around the patch of ice with one hand as he walked through it.

“I’m sure he’ll be back before you know it big brother.” Izzy reassured him, resting her head against his shoulder as they continued to walk behind the couple who seemed to be in a world of their own. A place that Alec wished he could be in.

They made it back to the institute after a few minor scuffles while circling the outskirts of central park, but it was otherwise a relatively quiet night. Clary and Jace had immediately disappeared to one or the other’s room, Izzy had used Alec as support to help her remove her ridiculous boots before making noises about having a long hot shower while Alec went to check in with Maryse in his office since the ops centre was practically deserted.

He found his Mom sat on the couch with a sleeping Max cuddled up to her right side, his younger brother covered in a blanket, her gaze on a tablet rested against her free knee which she was struggling to type a reply to one handed. Yet she looked more at peace than she would have done previously which made Alec happier than he couldn’t ever imagine being before.

“You want me to take him to bed?” Alec asked, causing Maryse to look up from what she was doing, offering Alec a smile and shake of the head.

“He’s just drifted off. I think he was hoping to wait up for you all like usual but his excitement about tomorrow got the best of him.” Maryse said, as Alec walked into the office, shrugging off his jacket, bow and quiver.

“Hm, I think he just wanted to be close to you what with you being in Idris for so long.” Alec sighed, his head already hurting at the amount of paperwork that he still needed to get through on his desk as he sat down.

“Yeah I’d like to think so. I did miss him while I was gone.” Maryse said flashing Alec a smile as she locked the tablet and put it aside before pressing a kiss to Max’s forehead.

Alec yawned as he reached for the first report only to stop at the feel of Maryse’s hand on his own, causing him to look up and see she was cradling Max’s sleeping body to her side. She had that rare maternal air about her that he knew she was going to try and use to persuade him to sleep.

“I’m sure that can wait a few days Alec. You look exhausted.” Maryse said, closing the report and setting it back on the pile.

“Mom…” Alec sighed, though knew by the way she shook her head that wasn’t going to work.

“No, come on Alec. You’ll thank me for it in the morning.” Maryse said, grabbing him by the wrist and practically pulling him from his chair. He only just managed to grab his things before he found his weary body following her lead.

Maybe a few hours wouldn’t kill him before he had to pretend to ignore it for the next couple of days. He knew the clave wouldn’t like it but he was technically on call for other duties, so they would understand, he hoped.

It had taken a lot for Magnus to make sure he’d packed absolutely everything that Rupene and Adele had given him the night before. And even more for him to get to sleep earlier so he could refamiliarize his body clock with New York time again, which was the one downside to portalling. You could portal all you wanted anywhere you wanted but jetlag or ‘portallag’ was still unavoidable.

He’d managed to get up, shower and get ready at the right time and had gone to the lounge where Adele and Rupene were sat on the terrace of their penthouse overlooking the harbour over a couple of beers from their respective countries with a bunch of unwrapped presents around their feet. After Rupene had helped him with the favour he’d originally come to New Zealand for in the first place, instead of going to Australia as planned the kiwi agreed to host Adele too since they rarely got to catch up.

It mostly left Magnus as the odd one out, since the two had enough history to rival all his relationships ten times over. They’d always brought up their trips around Fiji and the Cook Islands way back when and the time they’d been in Indonesia when Magnus had one of his few rare trips back to his village. It had been how the trio had originally met that day and how Magnus gradually came to learn that despite being respected High Warlocks they were actually a couple.

There was no rule against being in a relationship with a fellow high warlock, not that Magnus knew of anyway, but even then, they still lived in their own respective cities most of the year and made the most of conferences and meetings to reconnect. Though they had been relying more on technology over the last twenty years when they were desperate and portalling wasn’t an option. It was their relationship which had made him hold out hope from him and Camille, that kind of forever and always love, the love he’d instead ended up finding in a young Shadowhunter. Something that neither of the couple had been able to stop teasing him about since he arrived.

“You about to take off Magnus?” Adele asked, getting up from the seat she’d been curled up in beside Rupene.

Adele was a complete contrast to Rupene which spoke more about their relationship than anything else. While he was the epitome of a Maori New Zealander, she was the embodiment of what was associated with being an Australian, a stereotype personified. Long blonde wavy hair in a rough bun that was falling out, her skin sun kissed all year round despite the fact she rarely spent much time in it, bright blue eyes and a bright smile. Her slender body was currently hidden by a silk robe and the minimum of summer pyjamas of a tank top and shorts. But she had her warlock mark too, something that was more extreme and a little harder to hide than Rupene and Magnus’.

Her whole left arm was severally scared and engulfed in a demonic pattern that could almost have passed for a tattoo if you didn’t know better. Like with most warlock marks there was no explanation behind it no matter how much time she’d spent in the spiral labyrinth or searched for the Demon that fathered her, it was said to be one of those things. Most people seemed to think that the state of her arm was a physical demonstration of her weakness and she took great joy in demonstrating otherwise, making her just as powerful in Australia as Rupene was in New Zealand. The Power couple of Australasia that everyone needed to watch out for.

“Unfortunately. But I did make a promise to myself I’d come back to him for Christmas so…” Magnus shrugged, letting Adele pull him into a tight hug and kiss his cheek.

“I hope he knows how lucky he is to have you.” Adele said, locking her gaze with his as her arms tightened around him even more.

“Oh, don’t start talking to him about his shadowhunter or you know he’ll never leave.” Rupene sighed, setting his half empty beer bottle down and getting up as Adele finally let Magnus go.

“I’d like to see you go through a whole conversation without talking about Adele before you start to complain about my relationship.” Magnus said as Adele elbowed her husband in the ribs.

“I wasn’t complaining, you know as well as I do how true it is. Besides, the longer you stay here the later you’ll be to see him.” Rupene said, puling Magnus into a hug and patting him on the back a few times before pulling away.

“There is that. I still need to get his sister to help me lure him back to the loft without ruining the surprise.” Magnus said, snapping his fingers to ignite the magic in his hands before drawing a portal to his place in the open doorway to their terrace.

“You sure about this? I mean, in all the years we’ve known you, you’ve never wanted to do this. Hell, you even said a couple of times that you didn’t want to and never would, especially with a shadowhunter.” Adele said, her arms curling around Rupene’s waist as the couple stood close together.

“Though that was before Camille.” Rupene said resting his head against Adele’s shorter one as Magnus rolled his eyes.

“You’re never going to let that go, are you? But yes, I’m positive. Whenever I think of Alec the unknown future just seems to light up with possibilities compared to before when it was just a barely lit tunnel. I refuse to let there be any possibility of losing that kind of goodness in my life and I’m sure this is the perfect way to go about it.” Magnus said, hovering by the portal as he watched the couple look at each other before Adele sighed and pulled the velvet box out the pocket of her silk robe.

She’d insisted on looking after it not long after she brought it with her, probably because the magical energy it imitated was impossible to resist. But at the same time, he knew she adored the ring, because it was unique and so unlike her own simple ones that adorned her left ring finger.

Every hundred years Rupene would create her another eternity ring and it was rare to see her wearing all eight at the same time as well as her wedding ring and engagement ring like she was now, but he knew she would never let him live it down if her next one ended up as simple with minimal Paua and crystal opals in a thin band.

“Take it before she changes her mind and holds it hostage.” Rupene said, as Magnus pulled his gaze from Adele’s own rings to reach out for it.

“Thanks again for doing this, guys. I’ll let you know how it goes.” Magnus said, pocketing the box and flashing them both a smile as he walked backwards into the portal.

“You damn well better!” Adele called after him before the portal closed behind him.

He appeared in the loft to his bags sat behind the couch where he’d sent them earlier and looked around for any signs of Alec. Not that he expected there to be any, since he knew how Alec hated to be in the loft when he was away and often spent all his time at the Institute until Magnus’ return. But at the same time the apartment looked bare of the Christmas decorations he’d been planning to install around the place before he left, causing him to sigh as with a snap of his fingers they all appeared.

A tall seven-and-a-half-foot Christmas tree sat in the corner, fully dressed to the nines with lights, tinsel and random baubles that Magnus had collected over the years. Most of the time he would have just got rid of the tree once the year was over but always made sure to save at least one since the season became less traditional and more commercial. They were different styles and colours but seemed to fit the rest of the scheme just right.

A row of lights shaped as icicles hung along the top of the windows that over looked the city, all flickering a blue that matched Magnus’ magic to different festive colours at random all picked up from those on the tree. Tinsel was curled around the surfaces of his bookshelves, weaving among the photo frames holding pictures of old friends and snaps from all his many travels. The Mirror that held the photo booth pictures of him and Alec in Tokyo was bedecked in fairy lights that brought a smile to his face at the memories of them together. The sofa was changed from the comfortable plain black leather that he knew Alec preferred to a dark red matching the change in paint on the walls and the rug beneath the Hazelwood coffee table in front.

His magic had even swept into their bedroom, cleaning up what little mess Alec had made when he was last there, making the bed and changing the sheets to new beloved gold silk that would probably be the only way his shadowhunter would ever be able to wear it. But it was significant, and he was sure Alec would pick up on that, so he made sure the doors were closed for the time being once his luggage was shoved inside.

The only things missing were the romantic touches, touches he knew he could do with Isabelle to help him with.

Taking a glance at the time, Magnus dialled Izzy’s number as he sunk back into his new couch and got a groan of response once answered.

“This had better be important…” Isabelle groused, though Magnus was more than used to the delightful Lightwoods attitude in the mornings thanks to Alec who couldn’t seem to exist as the loveable Alec he knew without downing some coffee.

“Well that’s a nice way to great your friendly neighbourhood high warlock after he returned from his trip.” Magnus quipped, hearing Izzy push herself upright in bed, now completely awake.

“Magnus?! Where the hell have you been?” Izzy asked, the sound of her rummaging through her closet making it clear that she would be on her way over regardless of if he’d been planning to invite her or not.

“Business in the southern hemisphere with some old friends. I’m surprised you didn’t ask me sooner actually, what with me texting you about Alec’s sleeplessness. Speaking of which how is he doing?” Magnus asked, pulling the ring box out his pocket and toying with it nervously.

“He’s sleeping like a baby thanks to Catarina, well and Mom who dragged him away from his desk after patrol. I mean, he’s still missing you though…. He told me he wished he was with you earlier.” Isabelle said, pausing to pull a sweater on over her shirt.

“I missed him too so much, but I need your help with something a little special.” Magnus said, staring at the box.

“I never thought you’d be the kind of guy who buys presents the night before Christmas…” Isabelle said bringing a scoff from Magnus’ mouth at the thought.

“Oh please! I brought them all months before I left. No, this is something else for Alec…something that could use a bit of friendly insight.” Magnus said, hearing Isabelle practically squeal like she had some idea as to what he was referring to.

“Say no more! Draw me a portal and I’ll be right there!”

“I’ll see you soon.” Magnus smiled, hanging up and letting out a deep breath with his gaze still on the box before pushing it back in his pocket and standing to draw a portal in his doorway.

Time to get his plans underway.

Alec woke to the sound of banging on his door, the familiar Christmas awakening from Max that he’d had to undergo with both Izzy and Jace when growing up. Though in their case, they would have just barged into his room, woke him by slamming his door against the wall and then dog-piled on him while still in bed with demands of him getting up for presents. At least Max was a little more considerate with his wake-up calls.

“Come in Max…” Alec yawned as he pushed himself upright and rubbed his eyes, taking a glance at his phone for any sign of messages from Magnus. Though given the time difference his Christmas was probably already done, not that it eased the lack of contact from his boyfriend.

“Alec, you need to get up, so we can stop Izzy trying to make breakfast.” Max said, the door opening ajar a little and hovering in the doorway as he offered Alec a small smile.

Every Christmas Izzy would insist on making Christmas breakfast and dinner despite how well known she was being for being the worst cook in the family. In the past most of her attempts had resulted in Christmas dinners being uneaten and breakfasts being thrown into the trash with takeout usually from the Jade wolf being eaten instead, something that always made Alec glad that they had an ongoing tab there for situations like that. Still usually Maryse would end up trying to lessen the damage by offering to help and then delegating a couple of tasks to her daughter so there was at least something edible to eat.

“Yeah, I’m coming, just try and distract her from the fridge.” Alec sighed, pushing back the covers and getting up to pull a hoodie over his pyjamas and slide his feet into the slippers that Jace got him last year as a prank gift. Either way they were better than walking the stone halls in bare feet like he’d used to do growing up.

He heard Max close the door while he rummaged through the pile of clothing at the end of the bed for his hoodie which was soon engulfed around him. He paused to grab his phone to see still no messages from Magnus and sighed as he typed a quick one himself on his way down the corridor to the kitchen.

‘To Magnus: Hope you had a good christmas. Can’t wait to give you my present when you come back. Miss you x’

He pushed the phone in his pocket as he walked into the kitchen to the sight of Maryse managing to wrangle the batter for pancakes Izzy had made out of her grip and Jace to steer her towards the table where Max was sat watching the whole scene with amusement.

“I told you, it was fine!” Izzy objected, sulking as Maryse poured the batter down the sink before starting to make more herself.

“Not when you replaced the sugar with salt Iz.” Jace said, from where he had moved on to make the toppings and sauces.

“It would have tasted fine if we’d put the equal amount of sugar in it too!” Izzy said, her gaze watching Alec approach the table to pour himself some of the ready brewed coffee.

“Maybe but the pancakes would have been fit for nothing.” Jace argued, chopping a few strawberries more viciously than was necessary.

“Ah the joys of the usual Christmas day bickering, I’m just glad Magnus isn’t here to see it.” Alec sighed, adding some sugar to his coffee and sinking into his chair as he took a deep mouthful.

“Not this year maybe, but that doesn’t mean he won’t experience it another year.” Izzy quipped with a sly smirk as she poured her own equivalent of the perfect coffee. “Though speaking of Magnus, he texted me this morning and asked if you’d go to the loft to double check on the Chairman.”

“I checked on him yesterday, he’ll probably be snoozing and eating from that charmed cat food timer that Magnus gave him.” Alec said, casting her a look as she shrugged.

“Maybe, but you have to admit it must get lonely being all alone in that loft with one dad down under and the other sulking in the Institute while he’s gone.” Izzy pouted, causing Alec to look pleadingly at his mother who was pouring the batter into the pan.

“Don’t look at me Alec, you know she’ll wear you down until you agree.” Maryse said, her gaze rested on the pan as though she had known her eldest son would look to her for backup.

“Ok fine, before lunch I’ll go check on him. Maybe Magnus left him something festive for Christmas day.” Alec said, looking from his coffee back to his sister at the whine of objection from her lips.

“No, you need to go sooner! I mean you could even bring him back to the institute with you for the day.” Izzy pleaded, casting him big eyes that Alec was usually helpless to resist. But something about her insistence that he go to the loft suddenly seemed a bit suspicious.

“Izzy what the hell? I swear he’ll be fine.” Alec huffed, Max laughing as he watched his two elder siblings’ conversation.

“But you’ll never know unless you check, will you?” Izzy persisted, snatching his coffee away to hold ransom which seemed to be the last straw.

“Ok Fine, after breakfast I’ll go. And I’m not going sooner than that before you say a word. I don’t get why you don’t just go visit him if you’re so concerned.” Alec grumbled snatching the cup back and topping it up. It was way too early to be dealing with Izzy like this.

“I’m not the one whose owner is his boyfriend, now am I? And if I was I would have brought the chairman back with me the first night Magnus left, that’s all I'm saying.” Izzy said, texting someone quick enough that Maryse didn’t notice.

They had always had a no texting at the table rule during special occasions and family specific days, but Izzy always had someone to text and by the quirk in the corner of her lips she’d obviously got a good reply. But before Alec could ask who it was, Maryse and Jace were bringing the food to the table and the usual Lightwood tradition of breakfast and opening presents was under way.

Every year Alec always tried to get his siblings something they wanted, even if it was small, expensive and had been hell to get hold of because he knew they would appreciate it. Like the dress and matching accessories that Izzy had been wittering none-too-subtly about for the past three months but refused to buy herself claiming it was too expensive. Ergo she didn’t want to waste her money on it but was perfectly happy for someone else to.

Jace’s was a new specially crafted knife that he’d had specially made by the Iron sisters that morphed from a dagger to a miniature seraph black to an arrow to an emergency stele according to the need, like a shadowhunter swiss army knife. Though the trigger for the change each time was a touch of the Parabatai rune on the handle which meant Alec would be able to use it too if they were in a fight. It had been a hell of a lot of paperwork through official and none so official channels since the item was experimental but the look on his Parabatai’s face when he saw it was worth all the hassle.

Max’s had been something out of his comfort zone and meant him having to talk with Simon after one of the Downworlder’s cabinet meetings about Manga, something he had no idea about. But Max had started to become obsessed with the comics due to the amount of time he was spending with the Daylighter and Simon was the only other person he knew that even knew what it was, giving him a few websites and shops to look in. He’d ended up spending a small fortune on a boxset of classical manga which had been shipped via the Tokyo Institute with a box of artefacts from the archives so that Max wouldn’t get suspicious. His face lit up when he opened the box and started rambling to Maryse about what he’d heard about each comic so that was an overwhelming success.

Maryse, on the other hand, had always been hard to buy for. While with his father, a tie clip or cuff-links would have gone down a treat she’d never really appreciated those kinds of superficial things often meaning first editions and the occasional tickets to something in Idris had been the go to. But now that they knew each other better since her divorce he’d settled on some perfume and a pair of overly expensive high heels Izzy had mentioned she wanted. And from the hug and kiss on his cheek it was well appreciated.

In return he’d got a set of new arrows from Jace making it seem like his parabatai had had the same idea as him and contacted the iron sisters for specially commissioned arrows that could be used without a bow with the parabatai rune embedded in the arrowhead leaving little doubt as to who had brought them.

From Izzy, like always a new outfit as she continued her crusade to try and update his wardrobe, despite the fact he now had a boyfriend who was more than capable of doing it himself. Still thankfully it was less out there than many of the precious years, that had consisted of tight leather pants and mesh shirts just because; instead it was just a pair of skinny back jeans with a light blue silk shirt that looked like it belonged on Magnus more than him and a pair of sneakers that he wasn’t sure he’d ever wear.

From Max, a first edition of the collection of downworlder myths, something that he’d been interested in since doing a bit of background research about the downworld before starting the cabinet, so he knew more history from their perspective and about more than just the Circle’s uprising. It was leather bound with gold gilded letters and looked like it was at least eight hundred pages long, not to mention expensive enough to be out of his brother’s price range. He’d have to thank Magnus when he got back, still he made sure to hug and thank Max whose attention was now buried in one of the manga’s he’d given him.

Lastly was Maryse’s present. Like Izzy she would always make sure to buy something to wear, which in this case was an elegantly made black Italian suit with a white silk shirt so he seemed more like a professional Head of the Institute. But at least he knew it was from a good not malice place and that Magnus would probably want to jump him when he saw him in it.

Also, she brought him something practical, a new leather quiver since his current one which he’d had since he and Jace became parabatai was tatty despite little use over the last few months. It was something he’d been subconsciously keeping his eye out for though as they were rare to come by.

And on top of that she brought him something just because. In years past that had ranged from new boots from Idris, a book of Shakespeare when he was still in the academy and a new bow when his first got smashed to pieces in his first patrol. But this year what was handed over in a card that had him frowning as he opened it.

Inside was clave approval for him to have two weeks of leave if and when he chose. Though from the way it was worded someone had obviously previously requested it for him and he had a feeling that was Magnus’ doing. The warlock was always saying how overworked he was and bemoaning the fact he couldn’t take him to all these amazing places because he was tied to New York.

“Mom, I don’t know what to say…” Alec said, setting the letter down on the table and looking up at his family that were all smiling at him.

“It’s well deserved and I’ve also requested a temporary visit from Idris to overlook the institute while you’ll be gone so you don’t fret. It was Magnus’ idea.” Maryse said with a smile, leaning across the table to peck a kiss to his cheek.

“Thank you so much.” Alec smiled, though his face fell a little at the fact Magnus wasn’t there and his family seemed to be able to tell, letting it pass when he looked at his phone for any reply from his boyfriend. Only to see none.

“He’ll be back before you know it Alec.” Jace assured him, toying with his new knife though meeting his gaze in a way that made Alec know his upset was being strongly felt through their rune.

“Yeah sure. Thanks guys, I’m going to get changed and go check on the chairman then.” Alec said, getting up from the table and gathering his presents to him.

“You sure you’re ok Alec?” Izzy asked pausing from where she was pushing her feet in the new painful looking boots their Mom had brought her as he walked towards the door.

“Yeah, I’m sure. I just wish he was here now that’s all.” Alec said with a sad smile before leaving the kitchen trying not to fixate on the ache in his chest at being parted from his boyfriend on their first real Christmas together as a couple.

The streets of New York seemed to be practically empty as he appeared from the underground station nearest Magnus’ apartment. Though there was a little more snow than there had been on their patrol the night before it was not enough to cause a lot of trouble, though the odd patch of ice made him glad he’d decided to wear his boots instead of the sneakers that Izzy had given him. His gloved hands were pushed in the pockets of his leather jacket and even the heat rune burned into the palm of his right hand didn’t seem to be enough to keep him warm. But it wasn’t far to Magnus’ where hopefully the heating would have come on.

In honesty the last thing he wanted to do was spend any part of Christmas day alone in their apartment since it would only bring closer to home the fact that Magnus was away, and he was left alone worrying and waiting for him to come back. Also, the fact that his boyfriend hadn’t replied to his text, or even sent him one himself, wasn’t helping with his worry either.

Finally, he reached Magnus’ building, the doors opening once he passed through the wards and leaving him walking up the stairs to Magnus’ apartment already starting to thaw from the cold. It wasn’t until he was half way up the stairs that he heard it, the sounding of a Christmas song crooning from inside the apartment causing him to stop mid step before hurrying up the last few steps. He paused at the apartment door, sure it was his imagination, before opening the door.

The interior had become more Christmassy than the last time he’d been there, the Christmas lights, the Christmas tree in the corner with presents under it. The new burgundy leather couch that was going to need some breaking in and the Christmassy coloured rug. It was perfect, the way he’d always imagined the loft looking though the process of doing it himself had always been something that he’d secretly looked forward to, especially when sharing it with Magnus. But it was more the little details that began to become more apparent when he looked again.

The lit candles dotted around the room, the jacket Magnus had been wearing when he left for Auckland thrown over the back of the couch, and the smell of something wonderful coming from the kitchen. The way the table was dressed with a Christmassy centre piece, gleaming wine glasses and impeccable cutlery.

“Magnus….?” He asked hesitantly, closing the door behind him and hesitantly taking his jacket off as he waited for any sign of his boyfriend appearing.

“Alexander, merry Christmas love.”

Alec turned back in the direction of the voice after hanging up his jacket to see Magnus appearing from the kitchen drying his hands on a kitchen towel as though he was cooking something instead of summoning it like usual. Magnus threw the kitchen towel back into the kitchen before crossing the space between them and resting his hands on Alec’s cheeks as he guided Alec’s shocked face towards his lips.

The touch of Magnus’ lips against his own seemed to be like a spark, reassuring him this was real. That Magnus was really back and just like that Alec’s hands curled around Magnus’ waist, pulling him as close as was physically possible as their lips parted. The first touch of their tongues together nearly had Alec’s knees buckling not realising how much he’d missed being in Magnus’ presence until that moment.

Magnus slowly pulled away, pecking another kiss to Alec’s lips when he murmured in objection and offering him a smile as he brushed his hand against his cheek.

“Hi.”

“Hi. I thought you weren’t due back yet.” Alec asked, biting his lip as Magnus’ thumb traced his bottom lip.

“I never said that. Besides like I would much rather spend Christmas down under without my favourite shadowhunter, I thought you knew me better than that.” Magnus smiled, with a wink as he removed his hand from Alec’s cheek and intertwined it with Alec’s as he pulled his boyfriend towards their new couch.

“Is that why you didn’t reply to my texts?” Alec asked, once they were sat down.

“You texted me? Oh, darling I’m sorry, I was so busy with all this…” Magnus said, pulling his phone from his waistcoat pocket and pressing the button to see a message from Alec as well as a couple from his friends taunting him with chickening out. Something he didn’t let Alec see.

“Don’t worry about it. I’m just glad you’re back.” Alec smiled as Magnus put the phone on the coffee table and let himself be pulled back into Alec’s presence for a few insistent kisses that made clear what was on the younger’s mind.

“I’m glad to be back too. But I was thinking…. we could have a little brunch…” Magnus murmured as Alec’s lips detoured down his neck causing his eyes to close and his eyes’ glamour to shatter into a thousand pieces.

“I’m perfectly happy with us just doing this…” Alec grinned against his skin as he sucked a bruise into Magnus’ neck that made it all too clear just how much the other had missed him.

“Still. Just one coffee and then I swear…. we can put the rest of my dinner aside and maybe lose some clothes on the way to the bedroom. What do you think?” Magnus asked as Alec pushed himself upright.

“Sure, why not?” Alec smiled, expecting Magnus to just summon them some coffee from a café only for him to get up from the couch and whiz into the kitchen leaving Alec wondering what the hell just happened. “Er, Magnus…. you need any help?”

“No, I’m perfectly fine darling…won’t be long.” Magnus called back the clinking of cups coming from the kitchen reassuring Alec enough that he leaned back into the couch and just sat staring at the collection of presents under the Tree. He only hoped that Magnus hadn’t spent too much on him or his siblings.

Magnus soon reappeared with a tray and set about pouring Alec a coffee the way he knew he liked it which he handed to the shadowhunter. But instead of making one for himself he took Alec’s hand and pressed a kiss to it to get Alec’s attention.

“Alexander, you know how much I love you don’t you?” Magnus asked gently, watching Alec nod silently as though he had a feeling this was something important or serious enough for him to pay attention.

“The thing is, all my immortal life I’ve never felt a love as encompassing as the one I feel for you. A couple of times I thought I had, but being with you right now they just don’t compare, and I made a promise to myself that the next time I found someone I loved deep down to my very soul, that I wouldn’t let them go. That I would nurture our love and take every available step to make sure I kept it in my life for as long as possible.” Magnus said, biting his lip as he picked the ring box up from the tray and turned to Alec with it.

Alec, whose eyes were widened in shock and who was clinging on to the coffee cup for dear life, sat upright on the couch as he watched Magnus swallow.

“Alexander Gideon Lightwood, you are the one that I can’t imagine existing with loving in my life. And if you will have me….” Magnus slowly lowered himself to one knee that had Alec’s eyes getting even wider if that was humanly possible. “…. would you do me the greatest honour in the world of marrying me?”

Alec’s lips parted wordlessly as he watched Magnus open the box and offer it to him, as the atmosphere of the apartment seemed to get heavy with its stillness.

The ring looked like something Alec had never imagined as an engagement ring for himself, especially when he was so used to simple plain things and to be fair it wasn’t completely over the top in the way a ring he’d get for Magnus was. It was a band made up of three strands of silver plaited together, the gaps in between were filled with miniscule but still noticeable gemstones which shone in the light and at the very centre of where the strands joined together was a dark blue stone glistening that reminded him of Magnus’ magic.

“Alexander…” Magnus sounded unsure, like his silence was speaking volumes in the way that Alec didn’t intend it to.

“I….” Alec swallowed, as his hands shook around the coffee cup which Magnus seemed to interpret as him feeling completely overwhelmed as he took the coffee cup from him to put back on the table before looking at him adoringly.

It was true that on some level Alec had wanted to propose to Magnus. For him Magnus was and was always going to be it. There would be no-one else who could replace Magnus for him and for him to even consider the thought felt so wrong. But part of him still found it hard to believe he was sitting on Magnus’ couch on Christmas day being proposed to when not long ago he’d been so sure the Warlock wasn’t even back in the country.

“Alexander, love I don’t mean to pressure you for an answer but your silence is starting to scare me. If you don’t want to then it’s fine…but you need to say something for me. Please.” Magnus said, his voice filled with its usual good-mannered sense of humour, but Alec knew him well enough to hear the vulnerability on his boyfriend’s voice.

Alec slid from the couch, so he was on his knees before Magnus and cupped his boyfriend’s cheeks in his hands as he rested their foreheads together. He felt Magnus let out a small breath against his lips as though still waiting for something that should have been so completely obvious to the warlock.

“Yes. Yes, I’ll marry you Magnus.” Alec finally made himself say, his voice croaky with the tears brimming at the back of his eyes and the smile that he found it hard for him to stop spreading across his lips.

“Yes? Did you…. did you just say yes?!” Magnus asked, a beaming smile lighting up his face when Alec nodded in the affirmative.

“Yes. Always yes, I love you so much.” Alec whispered, as Magnus took the ring from the box and slid it up his finger before pulling him into a deep kiss as Alec’s arms curled around his neck to pull him even closer.

“I love you. Oh, sweet Lilith I love you so much Alexander.” Magnus murmured against his lips, a chill running up and down his spine at the feeling of the ring brushing the skin of his neck.

It took them a while to part from each other, being away from each other for close to two weeks making any kind of distance between their bodies feel impossible. But soon they were sat on the floor by the foot of the couch, coffees in their hands and their bodies curled together as Alec admired the ring on his finger.

“So where did you get this ring? It seems a little unusual for your kind of taste.” Alec asked, rested his head against Magnus’ shoulder and taking a glance at his fiancé who was watching him.

“Well now I might have a bit of a confession to make about that. You know I’ve been travelling to visit a few warlocks recently?” Magnus said, pressing a kiss to Alec’s forehead as he hummed in acknowledgement. “Well the thing is I’d been thinking about this for some time and wanted to get you something special…”

“You didn’t need to do that, I would have loved any ring you gave me” Alec said looking from the ring to his other half who nodded in agreement.

“I know you would, but I knew if you proposed to be it would be with your family ring so…. I figured I’d do my own version. Plus, at the same time it did help me to rebuild some bridges with old friends. Every fellow warlock I went to I asked them to contribute a stone to the ring created by their magic to protect you and ensure we get as many years as we can together. Think of it like the Omamori charm you gave me on one of our first few dates.” Magnus said, feeling Alec look at him.

“So, each stone is….” Alec asked, as Magnus intertwined their fingers and guided Alec’s ring finger towards him.

“A tiny immortal drop of a Warlock’s magic. Though mine is obviously bigger than the others.” Magnus smiled, brushing his thumb against the glowing sapphire in the middle that completely lit up at his touch.

“You didn’t have to do that.” Alec said, guiding their intertwined hands to his lips and brushing kisses to Magnus’ knuckles.

“Oh, believe me I did. I want my shadowhunter around for a long, long time and what kind of High warlock would I be if I didn’t do everything in my power to make that happen?” Magnus asked, tiling his head as Alec nipped at one of his knuckles.

“You’d still be my warlock and that’s all that matters. Now, I believe you mentioned something about losing some clothes on the way to our bedroom?” Alec asked, teasingly causing Magnus to smile.

“What better way to celebrate? Let me just catch a picture of our hands for Isabelle and then I’ll be right behind you.” Magnus murmured, brushing his lips against Alec’s neck as he got his phone from his waistcoat and took a couple of pictures of their entangled fingers with Alec’s ring glimmering in the light.

“Don’t be long.” Alec whispered, pecking a couple of kisses to Magnus’ lips before getting to his feet, leaving Magnus reluctantly letting their fingers part as he watched Alec pull his shirt over his head on the way into their room pointedly making Magnus’ mouth go dry.

“The things he does to me.” Magnus whispered with a smile as he picked the best picture of their hands to send to Isabelle, the rest of their little group of friends as well as the many warlocks that had contributed to the ring.

Immediately he got two messages from Adele and Rupere which he ignored for the time being as he put the phone on silent and left it on the coffee table to buzz away with replies. He then picked up a couple of presents he’d brought for them to enjoy on the way into their bedroom. Nothing and no-one was going to stop him from enjoying his Christmas with his fiancé if he had his way.

Fin.

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FAYE ACCOMPLI (2000)

With a new album and a younger beau, Faye Wong again is the centre of media attention. She talks to Life! about her family, daughter, and the paparazzi

By YEOW KAI CHAI

FAYE WONG is a curious, unique and fascinating phenomenon in the Chinese entertainment scene.

Hers is one lit by sacred mystery, slavish fan-dom and marketing savvy – a kind of meteorite which makes an impact on pop consciousness that is felt years later.

Just last week, several incensed Faye-natics wrote to Life! to complain about the less-than-positive review of her latest album, Fable. The letters burned with an unbridled intensity reserved normally for matters of life and death.

Faye is a diva, and divas are infallible even when they falter, these correspondents insisted.

While the bigger Western pop market has always loved its fair share of staunch, individualistic visionaries, ranging from loose cannons like Courtney Love to weird, elliptical New Age daughters like Tori Amos, the East had preferred its female singers decked out uniformly in pretty frills, smiling coyly and oozing saccharine.

The entry of Faye changed all that.

THIS EMPRESS DOES HER OWN THING

A*MEI can belt better, CoCo Lee can shake her bon-bon with more fervour, but Faye – who moves very little on stage, makes scant eye-contact, and banters very poorly – is Queen. Or Empress, if you go by her Chinese name, Fei.

She is the Anti-Entertainer made good, the kind of gauche, strangely-riveting drama unfurling on stage.

Faye as a proposition came at the right time in the Internet era, a child of the global village, where the twain finally met.

As Life! music columnist and “I’ve-never-stopped-being-angry” singer and DJ Chris Ho once told this writer, he fancies the “idea” of Faye Wong, somebody who does her own thing without a care in the world for social approval – never mind whether her songs are good or not.

How many of Singapore’s unloved “indie” rockers would love to have that kind of clout.

Here is a goddess who subsists on both flaws and gifts alike – her lousy media relations, superb style sense, and her talent in out-copycatting her Hongkong counterparts in choosing smarter, more revolutionary musicians to filch from.

All these add up to an irresistible package.

Last weekend, on the popular Taiwanese variety show Super Sunday on the TVB-S channel (Ch 54), Faye was the guest.

She was gorgeous and smiling all the time, but was otherwise in typical Faye mode. She did not play to the crowd, or banter needlessly. She just spoke when she needed to.

Tellingly, the usually-riotous team of Harlem Yu, Huang Chi Jiao, A Liang and premier veteran compere Chang Hsiao-yan wound down their antics and became less irreverent.

They kept calling Faye tian hou (Heavenly Queen), and spoke to the 31-year-old, 1.72-m tall singer in clearly deferential tones.

The more senior Chang, usually quick and particularly ruthless, even gave way to her guest in a contest.

The singer, on her part, looked bemused by the surrounding plebeian inanities, a placid self orbiting at her own pace.

A COOL ONE FOR GENERATION NEXT

THE name Faye, at the cusp of the new millennium, has become synonymous with Attitude and Coolness personified for Generation Next.

Just last month, an impressive turn-out of 500 journalists from China, Hongkong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore flew to Shenzhen. Faye, as part of a promo tie-up with Head &Shoulders Shampoo, was scheduled to emerge from a helicopter in a golf buggy and perform three songs from Fable on an aircraft carrier.

Alas, due to rain, the gig was brought indoors, and she stayed for only about 15 minutes to field questions from the disgruntled press before being whisked off.

It was all in a day’s work on Planet Faye.

MEANING BEHIND THE SONGS

FEELINGS: A diva speaks

On the lyrics of her songs “(Lyricist Lin Xi said) it is to do with the various love stages and incarnations. Sounds very deep…’

On a message to her listeners ‘No, there is no special message. For this album, it’s basically an expression of certain moods.’

On the paparazzi "There has to be a decent limit. I feel it’s immoral for the paparazzi to snoop.’

On negative news reports "I just treat the reports as if they were about someone else.’

On movies she enjoys "I like to watch movies from which I can get some enlightenment or inspiration.’

SO, OF course, we didn’t get the one-on-one interview or even a phone interview with this elusive mystery. But we were given the privilege of faxing her a list of questions. And here we have Faye’s answers, recorded on tape.

We cannot tell you what her facial expressions were, or what she was wearing, or what Singaporean make-up designer Zing had painted on her face.

We hear only the Beijing native’s mellifluous, Northern-accented Mandarin, punctuated occasionally by a peal of laughter.

She has ignored some of the more probing questions, preferring to spend precious reel on giving us a very detailed run-down on the mystical meanings of the first five songs, which she says are "all about love and its complexities, from the beginning of creation to modern times”.

Oh, okay. But which songs in Fable mean the most to her?

“The five songs I wrote are the songs I like more,” she declares, not very diplomatically.

“I asked lyricist Lin Xi what they mean and he said it is to do with the various love stages and incarnations. Sounds very deep, but that’s what he was writing. Anyway, people don’t really have to really listen to the lyrics. They can listen to the music.”

On the whole, what message does she want to convey to her audience with this album?

“No, there is no special message. For this album, it’s basically an expression of certain moods,” she offers in a typically-obtuse manner.

“When people hear the songs, they should be able to feel the moods. I only write lyrics and music when I am inspired. I won’t write for the sake of writing. I hope that people can find some form of emotional empathy. No big pronouncements.”

No big pronouncements. Such a casual statement of nothingness can only come from supreme confidence. Faye has come a long way since 1987, when she was an 18-year-old who had left Beijing for Hongkong, to take singing lessons.

Two years later, her singing teacher introduced her to Cinepoly, which released her first three albums, and marketed her as a cookie-cutter balladeer.

At the time, she went by the plain name of Shirley Wong Jin Man.

She was not happy. She was getting famous, but she was an introvert and she did not like the attention brought by fame.

She took a sabbatical and flew to America, where she attended some singing and dancing lessons.

The trip was an eye-opener. In New York, people in the streets dressed the way they wanted, and acted the way they wanted.

It proved to be the turning point in her life. She returned to Hongkong in 1992, more assertive and ready to steer her own ship. She reverted to her own name, ditched Shirley for Faye, and decided to record Mandarin albums instead, save for one or two novelty Cantonese tracks on each CD.

She made an about-turn away from the chart-friendly pop route and transformed herself into a canny alternative popster who spoke her mind and followed her heart. She dressed the way she wanted, and acted the way she wanted.

She struck gold.

Musically, the 1990s was an experimental era which gave free rein to Faye, who borrowed the fine (some say bad) points blithely from the leading female originals of the western pop hemisphere – Bjork’s sartorial and follicular sensibility; Sinead O'Connor’s nuanced vocal styling; and Liz Fraser’s unintelligible phrasing.

She covered the Cranberries, and mimicked Dolores O'Riordian’s yodelling. She even worked with the Cocteau Twins.

On the media front, she was no PR merchant, happily dissing reporters who dared ask her about her marriage/divorce to mainlander Dou Wei.

She would deflect intrusive questions with mystical monosyllables, which, depending on your ardour or the lack thereof, was either intriguing or just plain rude.

In short, she turned the rules of the game upside down. It was shocking, baffling – enchanting. She stood out.

The media and public, thrilled or repulsed by such blatant insouciance, lapped it all up. They trailed her every move, her elusive relationship with Nicholas Tse, who is 11 years her junior, and second-guessed her every new image overhaul.

It was a beneficial media-celebrity relationship for both parties: fuelling her cool, defiant stance and adding grist for publicity.

PAPARAZZI SUCH A HEADACHE

SO WHAT does she really think of the media, especially the paparazzi? How does one maintain the line between one’s public and private selves?

“Of course, I don’t like the gouzai dui (paparazzi)”, is her calm, candid answer.

“The paparazzi make the task of separating work and private life very difficult. There is absolutely no way for me to protect my own privacy. It is a headache!

Although I understand that as a public personality, my private life would be an issue of interest, I still think there needs to be some restraint. There has to be a decent limit. I feel it’s immoral for the paparazzi to snoop.”

As for the “negative reports” in the tabloids, Faye, a devout Buddhist, professes she has transcended frustration.

“Now, they don’t affect my state of mind that much. I just treat the reports as if they were about someone else. The report and my life are two different matters. I wouldn’t be bothered.”

It does seem that she has become less irascible, more at peace with her life and its inconveniences.

Asked what kind of movies she enjoys, she ponders, then offers, most beguilingly, “the kind of movies I don’t like”.

“War movies, period movies, I don’t quite like. Things that are distant from my present lifestyle, I’m not so interested in. I like to watch movies from which I can get some enlightenment or inspiration.”

To her credit, Faye thinks that Fable could have been better produced.

“The mixing for this album was done in England. We worked with an English mixer – I don’t know whether people who heard the album could tell that. I heard the CD, and it wasn’t as good as I had expected, but it has its fine points.”

For the next album, she will work again with longtime collaborator, arranger-producer Zhang Yadong, and find some famous European arranger/producer to arrange and mix the album, she says.

Unfortunately, as the singer points out, “the more famous producers are usually very expensive, and we have yet to settle the copyright issue”.

“It’s a headache, but I hope the plan will work out,” she adds, laughing.

HER SUCCESS AND ITS DOWNSIDE

REFRESHING it is to hear Faye, often typecast as wilful and artistic, considering a serious business matter.

At this juncture of her life, she may have achieved equanimity. She has learned how to enjoy success, and dealt with its downside.

Indeed, slavish adoration may come and go, but Faye has one basic guiding principle on how to live her life.

“My parents’ biggest positive influence is on my character. They are very upright people. They have integrity, and they are not fake or insincere.”

If all else fails, there is always her darling daughter. So, has Dou Jingtong inherited Mummy’s talent?

“Yes, she is sensitive to anything that has rhythm. She is acutely sensitive to music. I don’t think it’s all hereditary though. Maybe she was a musician in her previous life!”

As if surprised at her own elucidation, Faye chuckles, sounding truly embarrassed. And for a second, you think you hear beyond the Superstar, the Hype and the Fable, the wide-eyed girl who once marvelled at the things she had seen for the first time.

Fable is out in stores.

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You should totally write a short thing with the "your lips are really warm" prompt for the junkers and Ava~ (is it Ava right omg if I got that wrong -hides-)

((Anon, omg anon I love you. Thank you for requesting this. It is def Ava who is with the Junkers. Thank you for requesting this))

‘We are definitely not in Oz anymore…’

“Come on darl ‘urry it up!”

Ava’s shoulders jumped as her attention suddenly snapped back to Junkrat, the tall, lanky Junker bouncing from boot to peg impatiently. Ava’s hands hovered, brow furrowing in concentration as she tried to figure what to do with the rest of the thick, bright glittery orange scarf. It had already been wrapped around Jamie’s shoulders twice but still hung towards his waist. She worried her bottom lip between her teeth, humming quietly in contemplation before twisting and turning the scarf in various directions before pulling her hands back cautiously.

“I think I got it”, the petite woman exclaimed, patting the giant balled knot she had created gingerly. Stepping back to examine her handiwork, Ava gave an approving nod as she looked the Junker over. He was bundled up tightly if not mismatched; a neon purple puffy coat, the orange scarf, and a pair of baby blue sweatpants that was tucked into his left boot and rolled up to right above his prosthetic. Underneath, she knew there were several more layers of clothing piled on top of the jittery demolitionist, the both of them needing all the layers possibly to make up for their lack of body fat. Nodding once more, Ava awarded him with a wide grin and a giddy giggle, bouncing on the balls of her booted feet. “Isn’t everyday that we get to see ice fall from the frickin’ sky, right?”

Snow. Mako and Ava had learned about the non-native weather when they were young, before the omnium explosion, before things had went even further down the shitter after the Omnic Crisis. Back when there was a ‘normal’. Junkrat wasn’t as fortunate, the man only receiving the education of Junkerdom with a self-taught major in pyrotechnics and explosives. He had been lucky enough to have been taught how to read, a skill scarce in the Outback amongst the youngest of survivors living in the Junkertowns. But they weren’t in Australia anymore, finally freed of the irradiated desert they had called home.

Luck had shined on all of them when Ava had procured three premium cruise tickets, using a pretty chunk of change from Junkrat’s and Roadhog’s former heists. Damn near forty thousand bucks, falsified identities, additional hush money, and the occasional knocked out busybody but they had made it off of Australia, seen Polynesia, stopped off in Hawaii, went to bloody fricking Disneyland before finally landing and disembarking in Vancouver. It had been exciting crossing into the Northern Hemisphere and being told that the seasons were officially flip flopped, summer turning to winter the further north the ship sailed. It was nonsensical, illogical to the three of them that an imaginary line could simply change things like that, Junkrat tittering about it endlessly. The three warm-blooded Australian natives were less excited with the cooler weather that assaulted them, Ava and Junkrat especially so with their lithe frames. Still, neither one of the slimmer Junkers was complaining when they had woken that morning and been awarded with large, fluffy snowflakes falling from the sky.

The two younger Junkers had scrambled out of bed, pulling on every bit and piece of clothing they could find, squealing and jumping up and down excitedly. Mako watched both of them mirthfully, their energy charming but not contagious, the larger man waving his hand at them when they both had tried to ask him to tag along. ‘He’d join you later.’ As with Jamison, matching was the furthest thing from Ava’s mind. The petite woman had yanked on a pair of thermal black leggings and pulled rainbow tiedye leggings on top of that, Mickey’s face peeking just over the edge of her black boots. Her jacket was a fluffy, fuzzy light pink monstrosity and hung to her mid thighs, a deep green scarf wrapped around her neck and chin and ears. Her hazel eyes were bright and glittering with excitement, cheeks flushed pink from being so tightly bundled up in the warm safehouse.

“Ready?”

Ava’s voice had gone soft, bouncing on her the balls of her feet eagerly, another new adventure making her feel keen. This whole trip had been exhilarating and pants shittingly terrifying all at once, the ‘lull’ of Junker living completely different from the way life was lived in the ‘real world’. Even Mako and her had agreed that the world had changed so drastically from when they were kids, before the war. New technology greeted them at every turn, the rise of a new Omnic rights movement and international organizations focused on ‘altruism without warfare’; the rise of good for goodness sake and all that fake shite. But some things were steadfast. Conglomerates suffocating the poor for their last dime, actual innocents like kids and babes being yanked into terrorist or criminal situations, governments relying on generalized ambivalence to get away with crimes against humanity. The new mixed with the old in a intimate yet unfamiliar ways, only further encouraging the crime sprees they went on. They would take this new world by storm together.

“‘Course sweets”, he exclaimed, grabbing her hand and lacing his metal fingers with her own, his own citrine eyes were alight with wonder. Never in his twenty-five years of life on this planet had he ever seen as much as he had when they had left on the boat.

He thought he had seen nice shit when he went to Sydney for the first time, but it didn’t compare with seeing a ‘bloody fucking whale’ or eating food from every continent until he was sick (despite Roadie’s warning) or getting seeing all the different kinds of fires and explosions the world ‘deemed acceptable’. It had been heaven for his constantly racing mind, the world if just for a moment, rivaling the constant storm that brewed between his ears.

“Let’s go!”

Jamison took the lead at Ava’s shout, the both of them giggling as they threw open the door. The weather was ridiculously serene, nothing like the intense wind storms or radioactive acid rain showers that devastated the Outback. It was cold and quiet and insanely peaceful that pre-dawn morning. The air was full of snowflakes drifting and collecting wherever they fell, the world covered in brilliant, glittering white; the rental cabin tucked in the woods creating the perfect picturesque scene.

“Hooley dooley…”

Ava took the first tentative step, her black boot sinking effortlessly into several inches of powdery snow at their doorstep. Her face turned up to Junkrat, eyes round with wonder, her wide, excited gap-toothed grin splitting across her face. The petite five foot woman dashed forward, Jamison stumbling behind her, laughing, his long legs easily catching up with her shorter ones as they ventured further into the snow depths. They watched the tracks their feet and his peg leg made, purposefully disturbing the snow and kicking it high into the air. Ava’s face turned up to the sky, eyes shutting as snowflakes caught on her lashes and cheeks and forehead. Jamison followed suite, his head tilted back, tongue stuck straight out. Snowflakes melted as soon as they landed on his tongue, the Junker smacking his lips approvingly at the cool, fresh taste.

“S’like that shaved ice”, he said matter-of-factly before squatting down and scooping a handful of cold substance into his mouth with his metal hand. Ava’s eyes dropped to watch him as he swished it back and forth before giving her a thumbs up as he swallowed. Ava squats next to him, head tilting to the side apprehensively, her own fingers pressing into the snow that was gathered on the ground. “S’good Gadge! Needs that sweet milk! Think we got any inside? Think Roadie’ll take us into town for some? Maybe we can go ta that boba place too! Ya think they recognize us?”

“This stuff is weird”, she analyzed aloud as he continued talking, picking up a handful but looking at it instead of eating it. She crushed it, a fascinated giggle bubbling from her lips as it made a melty mold of the inside of her hand. The cold burned at her fingers but intrigue held away the creeping pain, the two Junkers suddenly enraptured with gathering as much snow into a pile as possible. A distant memory tickled the back of her mind; a childhood Christmas special, friend and family built–.”Jamie! Let’s build a snowman!”

“Whassat?”

Ava spent the next few minutes stumbling over her words, hands gesticulating her words as she tried to explain making something she had only seen in cartoons. It took several more moments for her to figure out how to start forming a base snowball and soon the two of them were making snowman-esque versions of themselves. Ava’s break in between building grew longer and longer, Junkrat’s body burning a lot hotter than hers ever did, the youngest Junker still not feeling the frigid burn of the cold. But Ava did. She stopped for a moment, shaking her hands, whining quietly as she kneaded at her fingers for a moment.

“Needta get real gloves”, she muttered, more to herself than Jamison, who was now watching her. They all fancied fingerless gloves, each of them owning dozens of different kinds that ranged from functional to aesthetic. The vibrant purple fabric was plum-colored, completely soaked with snow, the fabric clinging tight to her palms. She peeled the fabric off of her hands, stuffing them into her pockets and shaking her hands vigorously again. Her skin was angry and pink, Jamison’s eyes look it over suspiciously before darting out with both of his hand to grab them. “Jamie?”

“Give em here darl”, Jamison said simply, holding her wrists for a second to examine them. He was careful, his movement tender as he used his flesh hand to massage some warmth back into the appendage. When that didn’t seem to move fast enough he leaned forward and started to blow on your fingers, his lips kissing your fingertips. You shivered, not from cold but enchantment, beginning to giggle with each kiss he pressed, his eyes lighting up mischievously.

A shrill shout of amusement filled the air, as Junkrat double downed on the kissing, moving between both hands and nipping lightly at the skin of her palms. Ava’s fingers curled but the way he held her hands prevented them from closing all the way, his lips dancing over the back of her hands too.

“Face is a bit cold too ain’t it darl?”

His manic titter filled the air as, Ava jumping as the cold of his prosthetic touched her face, the touch soon forgotten as his lips suddenly covered her cold flushed skin in kisses. His lips and hands, just like the rest of him was so damned warm. Warmth bloomed everywhere a kiss landed, Ava’s skin heating underneath his lovey-dovey ministration, her body warming as his arms wrapped around her coated waist. His giggles began to mix with hers, his kisses getting more focused as he several to her freckled forehead then cheeks then nose before pushing the scarf down. He froze, his wild yellow eyes connecting with her dazzling light brown ones, shyness creeping into them both.

Mako was fortunate, his formative years over and done with by the time everything had gone completely wrong. He was more confident than the two of them; self-assured, independent. Ava was ridiculously anxious and self-conscious, Jamison paranoid and untrusting of all those around him. Falling in love wasn’t unheard of among Junkers, but betrayals were as common as sand was plentiful; it had originally left all three constantly wary, waiting for the others inevitable treachery. Trial by fire had taught them all that they would have one another’s back, that they could and would work for and with one another. That was almost scarier in a way. Finding not one but two people who loved each of them unconditionally felt staggering; sweet timidity bubbling up at what felt like absurd luck. To love and be loved, to protect and be protected, to trust and be trusted; that was better and wilder and more fucking beautiful than anything they had stolen in the world.

Ava’s tongue darted out to wet her cold lips, her smile large and sweet.

“Your lips”, she started, eyes darting down for a moment before lifting back to his face, lifting onto her tiptoes, still just out of reach of the six foot man hovering over her. His wild brow arched at her words, curiosity burning bright in his eyes. “Are really really really warm Jamie…”

His lopsided grin filled Ava’s inside with a million fireworks in her core, his giggle softer, more intimate somehow. Jamison leaned the rest of the way down, pressing his lips hard to hers, both of their eyes slipping closed. They hummed against one another’s lips in bliss, several small pecks turning into a deeper, loving kiss. Electricity shocked up and down their spines and through each of their lips, stars dancing behind their eyes as they wordlessly communicated just how much they loved one another. Giddiness, excitement, happiness boiled inside of the both of them, the heated, passionate liplock interrupted by breathless, whiny giggles.

“Rat, Gadge.”

The both of them jumped, their giggles turning into full laughs, like teenagers that had just gotten caught making out. Breaking away with one last searing peck, Jamison and Ava turned to see Mako standing in the doorway staring down at them. It didn’t appear that he was going to be venturing out; dressed in the same loose black sweatpants and pastel pink shirt with a flying pig on the front. Grunting, he tilted his head towards the cabin, silently ordering them back into the cabin. He held a large blue comforter in his hands, the smell of food wafting out of the house temptingly.

“Make out inside”, he teased, a growling laugh rumbling in his throat. “Got breakfast ready, come warm up before ya get sick.”

“Okay!”

“Whatcha make, Hog?”

The two younger Junkers laced hands, walking back to the house together; the promise of food and warmth and cuddles with the Hog drawing them back inside. They could live like this for a little bit long; normal, idyllic and in love.

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05/05/2019 DAB Transcript

Judges 21:1- Ruth 1:22, John 4:4-42, Psalms 105:1-15, Proverbs 14:24-25

Today is the 5th day of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we step into a new week together. And as we step into this new week we will also be stepping into a new book and we’ll talk about that when we get there, the book of Ruth. But we have…well…we started reading this pretty dark story in the book of Judges, the final story in the book of Judges yesterday that culminated with the near annihilation of the tribe of Benjamin over some atrocities that happened in Benjamin in the city of Gibeon in the land of Benjamin. And the outcry caused Civil War, which caused a lot of the loss of life on both sides and like I said, and the near annihilation of the tribe of Benjamin. And, so, we’ll conclude that story as we conclude the book of Judges and then we will move ourselves into the book of Ruth but first, Judges chapter 21. And we will read from the New English translation, the NET Bible this week.

Introduction to the Book of Ruth:

Okay, so that concludes the book of Judges, the 13 people who led Israel after Joshua. And, yeah, we’ve gone through this book and we can see that, the summary, the final sentence of the book pretty much summarizes what was going on. “In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right”, which now brings us to the book of Ruth. And you, know, as I take this particular trail, this path through the Scriptures, every year there are certain moments in the year that I look forward to arriving at and maybe you do too, and this is one of them. This story comes at a time where, you know, we've gone through the conquest, we’ve followed Joshua across the Jordan River into the promised land. We went through all of that and then we moved into the book of Judges and how it kind of all began to disintegrate. And, so, we come to the book of Ruth and it's like a breath of fresh air here in the springtime. And we don't get spend a lot of time in the book of Ruth. We’ll get to read it today and tomorrow, but it is really a breathtaking story and at its heart it's an account of God's faithfulness through three specific lives, through three specific people chose to do the right thing and be honorable. And through their faithfulness came king David. Now as we conclude the book of Judges, Israel has no king and everyone's doing what they think is right. But we will enter into the time where there are kings and we will meet King David. And he comes to be, in part, because of the story that we’re about to read. And through the line of King David came Jesus. So, Ruth is an important story. To be sure, Ruth will show us that when people who have character use that character to make the right and correct decisions regardless of the circumstance, God's faithfulness is there. And on the heels of our conclusion of the book of Judges, the book of Ruth comes and gives a really beautiful picture of valiant women of character. And nobody really knows who wrote the book of Ruth. There’s a Hebrew Jewish tradition that talks about Samuel maybe writing it although most scholars of biblical history don't think that's possible. This would’ve been written after Samuel died in the time of King David and yet refers to the time of the Judges. Actually, there was a point in history where Ruth was a part of the book of Judges, but then later was given its own delineation. So, we’ve seen some really hard things happen, some usually difficult situations over the last month reading, colossal mistakes that people made as they walked away from God and the consequences and the circumstances that swirled toward anarchy as a result. So, we arrive here and breathe the fresh air of springtime. People still have character. People aren’t only doing what they think it is right in their own eyes. God shows up in His faithfulness. And we begin. Ruth, chapter 1.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for this new week in Your word. And even as we see the transitions continuing to happen in the seasons as the things begin to warm up here in the northern hemisphere and cool down in the southern hemisphere we also recognize the transition that we’re in as we move into the book of Ruth, which will transition us into new eras in the story that we’re being told as we move our way through the Old Testament. So, come Holy Spirit as we mark this time of transition. And even as we mark our own transitions in our own lives, come Holy Spirit to lead us forward we ask. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

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Afternoon MAGAthread: YOUR WEEKLY PRESIDENTIAL RECAP!

GOOD AFTERNOON DEPLORABLES!

Welcome to your weekly recap of all things dank and spicy from the past week! For those that missed any past recaps you can check those out here!

Sunday, April 7th:

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

Looks like Bob Mueller’s team of 13 Trump Haters & Angry Democrats are illegally leaking information to the press while the Fake News Media make up their own stories with or without sources - sources no longer matter to our corrupt & dishonest Mainstream Media, they are a Joke!

Pleased to report that the American tourist and tour guide that were abducted in Uganda have been released. God bless them and their families!

(Retweeting VP Mike Pence) The last 2 years, under @RealDonaldTrump, have been 2 years of action – it’s been 2 years of results – & it’s been 2 years of promises made and promises kept! #MAGA

(Retweeting VP Mike Pence) .@RealDonaldTrump is doing his job to SECURE OUR BORDER! @CBP is doing their job. It’s time for Congress to do its job and CLOSE THE LOOPHOLES in our immigration laws & end the CRISIS on our southern border!

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service.... ... ....I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for @DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!

More apprehensions (captures) at the Southern Border than in many years. Border Patrol amazing! Country is FULL! System has been broken for many years. Democrats in Congress must agree to fix loopholes - No Open Borders (Crimes & Drugs). Will Close Southern Border If necessary... ... ....Mexico must apprehend all illegals and not let them make the long march up to the United States, or we will have no other choice than to Close the Border and/or institute Tariffs. Our Country is FULL!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

James Woods - Cherishing diverse body types is a good thing, but this is no more productive than making smoking look “cool.”

Woman loses job for calling Jewish Trump supporter a Nazi, at Commiefornia Starbucks

Obama shatters previous record, mentions himself 467 times in one speech in Berlin

Mexican with a Trump hat gets harassed by psycho liberal trans (?)

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

Every. Fucking. Time. They play this card every fucking time, and they can't not play this card, even when the playing of it is mind-bogglingly stupid. It's their favorite and only argument.

Best Episode of Reliable Sources EVER

🐕 Biden's Cone Of Shame 🐕

US vs. them

Found this beautiful photo and wanted to share it with you guys. Toxic Masculinity in action

Monday, April 8th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

Proclamation on National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, 2019

President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial Nominations

President Trump Visits the New Border Wall

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

“The reason the whole process seems so politicized is that Democrats made up this complete lie about Collusion ....and none of it happened.” Charles Hurt. The Russian Hoax never happened, it was a fraud on the American people!

“Jerry Nadler is not entitled to this information. He is doing this to get it to the Democrat 2020 nominee.” @KatiePavlich

(Retweeting Jim Jordan) Dem talk: -Abolish ICE -Borderless hemisphere -Walls are immoral -Illegals should vote -Raise taxes @POTUS action: -Regs reduced -Taxes cut -Econ growing -5 million new jobs -Justices Gorsuch AND Kavanaugh -Out of Iran deal -Embassy in Jerusalem -Hostages home from NK -New NAFTA

(Retweeting Jim Jordan) Dems want President’s tax returns for purely political purposes! Frightening, but shouldn’t surprise us—same folks used the IRS to target Americans for their political beliefs!

(Retweeting C-SPAN) Rep. @Jim_Jordan on President Trump's tax returns: "There's no law that says they have to be public." Watch full #Newsmakers interview tonight at 10pm ET on C-SPAN https://cs.pn

Uganda must find the kidnappers of the American Tourist and guide before people will feel safe in going there. Bring them to justice openly and quickly!

The Democrats will never be satisfied, no matter what they get, how much they get, or how many pages they get. It will never end, but that’s the way life goes!

Congratulations to the Baylor Lady Bears on their amazing win last night against Notre Dame to become the 2019 NCAA Women’s Basketball National Champions!

A 9th Circuit Judge just ruled that Mexico is too dangerous for migrants. So unfair to the U.S. OUT OF CONTROL!

(Retweeting Official Team Trump) BIGGER paychecks under President @realDonaldTrump! 💰

Congratulations to Virginia - Great game!

(Retweeting The White House) The newly constructed 30-foot wall in Calexico, CA, replaces a barrier made of surplus corrugated steel landing mats from the Vietnam War—and border officials tell President @realDonaldTrump it's making a crucial difference. 1600 Daily: http://45.wh.gov/5yKBD8

(Retweeting Ronna McDaniel) Our economy is on fire. Jobs are up, unemployment is at record lows, and wages are still rising. But Democrats would rather lie about @realDonaldTrump than acknowledge all of his economic successes.

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

Moment of prayer with Military leaders at the White House

HEY NANCY, PUT UP OR SHUT UP.

Rep. Nunes refers 8 people to Justice Department for prosecution. Crimes include lying to Congress and lying to the FISA court about the warrant for Carter Page.

Trump designates Iran's Revolutionary Guard a 'foreign terrorist organization'

Fucked around and almost found out. A responsible gun owner in Chi-raq. Notice nobody cares until he can defend himself.

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

A big part of Twitter is garbage

This meme triggered a lot of communists yesterday.

Future is bright!

Friendly reminder: John Oliver violated the terms of his work visa when he joined the writers strike a few years ago. He is in this country ILLEGALLY!

4th wave feminism...?

Tuesday, April 9th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

President Trump Welcomes the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt

President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Ivanka Trump on the New Doubled Child Tax Credit

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

The World Trade Organization finds that the European Union subsidies to Airbus has adversely impacted the United States, which will now put Tariffs on $11 Billion of EU products! The EU has taken advantage of the U.S. on trade for many years. It will soon stop!

Congressman Jerry Nadler fought me for years on a very large development I built on the West Side of Manhattan. He wanted a Rail Yard built underneath the development or even better, to stop the job. He didn’t get either & the development became VERY successful. Nevertheless,.... ... ....I got along very well with Jerry during the zoning and building process. Then I changed course (slightly), became President, and now I am dealing with Congressman Nadler again. Some things never end, but hopefully it will all go well for everyone. Only time will tell!

The Mainstream Media has never been more inaccurate or corrupt than it is today. It only seems to get worse. So much Fake News!

On National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, we honor the Americans captured and imprisoned by foreign powers while carrying out their duties to defend this great Nation...

“What’s completely unacceptable is for Congesswoman Omar to target Jews, in this case Stephen Miller.” Jeff Ballabon, B2 Strategic, CEO. @Varneyco

Video

“She (Congresswoman Omar) keeps on assaulting Jews...” Jeff Ballabon, B2 Strategic, CEO

Today, it was my great honor to welcome President @AlsisiOfficial of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the @WhiteHouse!

Check this out - TRUTH!

THANK YOU, WORKING HARD!

“The underlying issue remains the same without a single American being indicted for Collusion with Russia, & that is a stunning end considering we were led to believe (Fake News) that something much more dramatic would happen. Why did people fall for this?” @TuckerCarlson Molly H

The Democrats must end the loopholes on immigration. So easy to solve!

(Retweeting Tammy Bruce) Trump Job Approval Jumps to 53% - Seven Points Higher Than Obama

Everybody is now acknowledging that, right from the time I announced my run for President, I was 100% correct on the Border. Remember the heat I took? Democrats should now get rid of the loopholes. The Border is being fixed. Mexico will not let people through!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

After 8 years of being a Democrat, leaving the Left & Supporting Trump was the most empowering thing I've done! You guys are the most accepting community & I'm going for my carry permit soon, too! Thank you!

Pentagon has awarded nearly $1 billion in contracts to build President Trump’s border wall with the construction set to end in October 2020.

Barr reveals he is reviewing ‘conduct’ of FBI’s original Russia probe

WINNING: President Trump's Job Approval Jumps to 53% – Seven Points Higher Than Obama

PewDiePie just took a MAJOR shit on YouTube and Twitch by announcing an exclusive live-streaming contract with DLive (Blockchain) and is offering $50K for charity. It was only a matter of time. GG.

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

Remember that time in history that 3rd graders knew the truth way before CNN?

MRW when liberals keep whining but who cares cause the country is doing great

GEOTUS we love you

Dissapointed as fukk.

GEOTUS Has Known About 0bama's Spygate for YEARS

Wednesday, April 10th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

One Nomination and One Withdrawal Sent to the Senate

Executive Order on Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth

Order on the Issuance of Permits with Respect to Facilities and Land Transportation Crossings at the International Boundaries of the United States

President Trump Delivers a Statement Upon Departure

President Trump Delivers Remarks and Signs an Executive Order on Energy & Infrastructure

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

Trump flags being waived at the Bibi @Netanyahu VICTORY celebration last night!

Spoke to Bibi @Netanyahu to congratulate him on a great and hard-fought win. The United States is with him and the People of Israel all the way!

So, it has now been determined, by 18 people that truly hate President Trump, that there was No Collusion with Russia. In fact, it was an illegal investigation that should never have been allowed to start. I fought back hard against this Phony & Treasonous Hoax!

Join me in Crosby, Texas as I deliver remarks and sign Executive Orders on Energy and Infrastructure!

THANK YOU Texas, I love you!

CONGRATULATIONS to @EricTrump and @LaraLeaTrump on the great news. So proud!

(Retweeting Homeland Security) Today, @CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan was sworn-in to lead DHS as the Acting Secretary. The ceremony took place at the new DHS Headquarters at St. Elizabeth’s.

I think what the Democrats are doing with the Border is TREASONOUS. Their Open Border mindset is putting our Country at risk. Will not let this happen!

Too bad that the European Union is being so tough on the United Kingdom and Brexit. The E.U. is likewise a brutal trading partner with the United States, which will change. Sometimes in life you have to let people breathe before it all comes back to bite you!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

Barr: I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal

BREAKING: Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok could face ‘serious’ charges for his involvement and actions while at FBI | READ and SHARE

Barr Confirms Multiple Intel Agencies Implicated In Anti-Trump Spy Operation

Ilhan Omar Claims “Dangerous Incitement” By Dan Crenshaw For Directly Quoting Her

Sad to see an @ATT owned company pull such a great video made by an every day American in good fun. AT&T now owns @CNN and is positioning themselves as a weapon of the left.

VP Pence obliterates the Venezuelan socialist regime at the UN

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

Red pill dropped in the wild 💊

KABOOOOOOM!!!!!1111

The older I get, the more I relate with Hank.

MRW liberals are losing their minds over three letters .... SPY

Thursday, April 11th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

Eight Nominations and One Withdrawal Sent to the Senate

President Trump Meets with the President of the Republic of Korea

President Trump Greets World War ll Veterans

President Trump and the First Lady Meet with the President and First Lady of South Korea

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

Great News! #MAGA

"SPY GAMES: TIME FOR ANSWERS"

"Biggest scandal of our time - the coup that failed!" @MariaBartiromo

Beautiful afternoon in the Oval Office today with a few great American HEROES!

House Democrats want to negotiate a $2 TRILLION spending increase but can’t even pass their own plan. We can’t afford it anyway, and it’s not happening!

(Retweeting Arthur Schwartz) Wow. @tedlieu got a well deserved ass kicking. Shame on you Ted.

“And the Radical Dems reeling in disarray as the President continues to Win, Win and Win again! The Left is PRETENDING to be shocked by A.G. William Barr’s testimony before Congress in which he said SPYING did occur on the Trump 2016 Campaign.” @LouDobbs @FoxNews

(Retweeting The Daily Caller) Rod Rosenstein Defends Attorney General’s Handling Of Mueller Report

(Retweeting The Daily Caller) Every CNN Presidential Town Hall Finished Behind MSNBC And Fox News In Ratings

(Retweeting Chuck Woolery) President Trump continues to tally up wins for our country as Americans just saw the best income gains in over 50 years. Listen to today’s #BFT Minute to find out more. https://buff.ly/2KHGBQQ

JOBLESS CLAIMS AT 50 YEAR LOW!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested In London

ROASTED 😁😁

But now it’s just bigotry. Foot in mouth syndrome.

He's 100% right. The dishonest and corrupt media would NEVER have told us the truth. The world needed the information we learned. Without it, we'd probably be living in their new world order by now.

Posted by the legendary, Imam Mohamad Tawhidi (@imamofpeace)

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

The mighty morphing Democrat rangers

New York Post 4/11 Cover Calls Out that Nasty Woman

Time traveler confirmed!

THROWBACK THURSDAY March 20, 2017 - Vox: "All of Trump’s wiretap claims have now officially been debunked by the FBI and NSA". OOPSIE

To Corey Booker. From Bill.

Friday, April 12th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

President Trump and the First Lady Meet with the President and First Lady of South Korea

President Trump Delivers Remarks on United States 5G Deployment

President Donald J. Trump Announces Appointments for the Executive Office of the President

President Donald J. Trump Announces Nominations of Individuals to Key Administration Posts

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

“I don’t need to know any more. We’re done, absolutely done, he (Mueller) tried the case. There’s NO COLLUSION.” @LindseyGrahamSC @foxandfriends No matter what we do or give to the Radical Left, it will never be enough!

President Obama’s top White House lawyer, Gregory B. Craig, was indicted yesterday on very serious charges. This is a really big story, but the Fake News New York Times didn’t even put it on page one, rather page 16. @washingtonpost not much better, “tiny” page one. Corrupt News!

“Democrats don’t like the results of the Mueller Report, so now they’re trying everything else.” @RepDougCollins They should stop wasting time and money and get back to real legislating, especially on the Border!

Even the Democrats now say that our Southern Border is a Crisis and a National Emergency. Hopefully, we will not be getting any more BAD (outrageous) court decisions!

Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only.... ... ....The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!

WSJ's Strassel: Barr 'Right' to Say 'Spying' Occurred on Trump Campaign | Breitbart http://bit.ly/2VHDlKn via @BreitbartNews

WE WILL NEVER FORGET!

If the Radical Left Democrats all of a sudden don’t want the Illegal Migrants in their Sanctuary Cities (no more open arms), why should others be expected to take them into their communities? Go home and come into our Country legally and through a system of Merit!

Thank you Jeh, so well stated!

Finally, great news at the Border! https://twitter.com/axios/status/1116872379324612608 …

A Fake Story by Politico. Made up sources. Thank you Mount Vernon!

Another Fake Story on @NBCNews that I offered Pardons to Homeland Securiy personnel in case they broke the law regarding illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. Of course this is not true. Mainstream Media is corrupt and getting worse, if that is possible, every day!

In New York State, Democrats blocked a Bill expanding College Tuition for Gold Star families after approving aid for illegal immigrants. No wonder so many people are leaving N.Y. Very Sad!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

NY Dems block bill expanding college tuition for Gold Star families after approving $27M in tuition aid for illegal aliens

Avenatti Accused of Hiding $4M Settlement from ‘Mentally Ill Paraplegic’ Client, Faces Up to 335 Years in Prison

Networks Give One Minute to Obama Counsel Indictment, Gave Manafort’s 60 Percent of Airtime

OUT OUT OUT! The Latest: Court allows return of asylum seekers to Mexico.

Censorship is real

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

“Some people did something.”

I can’t wait to look back in history when I’m telling my grandchildren how Conservative Americans won the culture war with memes like this

With the 5 Liberal Forces Combined you get ...

HOW DARE HIM!!!!

Reeesistance Member Sets Self Ablaze Outside White House, circa 2019

Saturday, April 13th:

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

I agree with Kim Jong Un of North Korea that our personal relationship remains very good, perhaps the term excellent would be even more accurate, and that a third Summit would be good in that we fully understand where we each stand. North Korea has tremendous potential for....... ... ...extraordinary growth, economic success and riches under the leadership of Chairman Kim. I look forward to the day, which could be soon, when Nuclear Weapons and Sanctions can be removed, and then watching North Korea become one of the most successful nations of the World!

Why should Radical Left Democrats in Congress have a right to retry and examine the $35,000,000 (two years in the making) No Collusion Mueller Report, when the crime committed was by Crooked Hillary, the DNC and Dirty Cops? Attorney General Barr will make the decision!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

BUSTED: Mount Vernon Debunks Politico's Fake News Story About Trump's Visit To Washington's Estate

A white child was callously thrown to his potential death only a few days after Congress held a sham hearing on white nationalism and tried to blame it for "hate crimes." The real rise in anti-white crime and hatred will of course get no congressional hearing.

Man Asks Swedes if they would take Refugees into their own homes, get's Pelosi'd

FITTON: HUGE Update: President Trump Vindicated and Hillary Clinton Implicated. SpyGate CONFIRMED--& Smoking Gun Clinton Email Cover-Up Docs. PLUS Fed helping illegal aliens send billions to Mexico.

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

It really do be like this

Remember when President Trump used to recite 'The Snake'

Looking ahead, this is the favorite to win next years masters. Get your bets in now Pedes!

The Video Michael Avenatti AND The Liberal Media will want removed off the internet

Blink blink ... wat

MOTHA FUCKIN WEEEEEW LAD!!!! SO MUCH WINNING!

Without further ado, some tunes to get you jamming through all this winning:

Move On

Lose Yourself To Dance

Can I kick it

Gold

Who Do You Love

Sunflower

MAGA ON PATRIOTS!

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GOOD AFTERNOON DEPLORABLES!Welcome to your weekly recap of all things dank and spicy from the past week! For those that missed any past recaps you can check those out here!Sunday, April 7th:🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Looks like Bob Mueller’s team of 13 Trump Haters & Angry Democrats are illegally leaking information to the press while the Fake News Media make up their own stories with or without sources - sources no longer matter to our corrupt & dishonest Mainstream Media, they are a Joke!Pleased to report that the American tourist and tour guide that were abducted in Uganda have been released. God bless them and their families!(Retweeting VP Mike Pence) The last 2 years, under @RealDonaldTrump, have been 2 years of action – it’s been 2 years of results – & it’s been 2 years of promises made and promises kept! #MAGA(Retweeting VP Mike Pence) .@RealDonaldTrump is doing his job to SECURE OUR BORDER! @CBP is doing their job. It’s time for Congress to do its job and CLOSE THE LOOPHOLES in our immigration laws & end the CRISIS on our southern border!Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service.... ... ....I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for @DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!More apprehensions (captures) at the Southern Border than in many years. Border Patrol amazing! Country is FULL! System has been broken for many years. Democrats in Congress must agree to fix loopholes - No Open Borders (Crimes & Drugs). Will Close Southern Border If necessary... ... ....Mexico must apprehend all illegals and not let them make the long march up to the United States, or we will have no other choice than to Close the Border and/or institute Tariffs. Our Country is FULL!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:James Woods - Cherishing diverse body types is a good thing, but this is no more productive than making smoking look “cool.”Woman loses job for calling Jewish Trump supporter a Nazi, at Commiefornia StarbucksObama shatters previous record, mentions himself 467 times in one speech in BerlinMexican with a Trump hat gets harassed by psycho liberal trans (?)🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Every. Fucking. Time. They play this card every fucking time, and they can't not play this card, even when the playing of it is mind-bogglingly stupid. It's their favorite and only argument.Best Episode of Reliable Sources EVER🐕 Biden's Cone Of Shame 🐕US vs. themFound this beautiful photo and wanted to share it with you guys. Toxic Masculinity in actionMonday, April 8th:TODAY'S ACTION:Proclamation on National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, 2019President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial NominationsPresident Trump Visits the New Border Wall🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:“The reason the whole process seems so politicized is that Democrats made up this complete lie about Collusion ....and none of it happened.” Charles Hurt. The Russian Hoax never happened, it was a fraud on the American people!“Jerry Nadler is not entitled to this information. He is doing this to get it to the Democrat 2020 nominee.” @KatiePavlich(Retweeting Jim Jordan) Dem talk: -Abolish ICE -Borderless hemisphere -Walls are immoral -Illegals should vote -Raise taxes @POTUS action: -Regs reduced -Taxes cut -Econ growing -5 million new jobs -Justices Gorsuch AND Kavanaugh -Out of Iran deal -Embassy in Jerusalem -Hostages home from NK -New NAFTA(Retweeting Jim Jordan) Dems want President’s tax returns for purely political purposes! Frightening, but shouldn’t surprise us—same folks used the IRS to target Americans for their political beliefs!(Retweeting C-SPAN) Rep. @Jim_Jordan on President Trump's tax returns: "There's no law that says they have to be public." Watch full #Newsmakers interview tonight at 10pm ET on C-SPAN http://bit.ly/2IlbE7g must find the kidnappers of the American Tourist and guide before people will feel safe in going there. Bring them to justice openly and quickly!The Democrats will never be satisfied, no matter what they get, how much they get, or how many pages they get. It will never end, but that’s the way life goes!Congratulations to the Baylor Lady Bears on their amazing win last night against Notre Dame to become the 2019 NCAA Women’s Basketball National Champions!A 9th Circuit Judge just ruled that Mexico is too dangerous for migrants. So unfair to the U.S. OUT OF CONTROL!(Retweeting Official Team Trump) BIGGER paychecks under President @realDonaldTrump! 💰Congratulations to Virginia - Great game!(Retweeting The White House) The newly constructed 30-foot wall in Calexico, CA, replaces a barrier made of surplus corrugated steel landing mats from the Vietnam War—and border officials tell President @realDonaldTrump it's making a crucial difference. 1600 Daily: http://bit.ly/2Jiqzk0 Ronna McDaniel) Our economy is on fire. Jobs are up, unemployment is at record lows, and wages are still rising. But Democrats would rather lie about @realDonaldTrump than acknowledge all of his economic successes.SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Moment of prayer with Military leaders at the White HouseHEY NANCY, PUT UP OR SHUT UP.Rep. Nunes refers 8 people to Justice Department for prosecution. Crimes include lying to Congress and lying to the FISA court about the warrant for Carter Page.Trump designates Iran's Revolutionary Guard a 'foreign terrorist organization'Fucked around and almost found out. A responsible gun owner in Chi-raq. Notice nobody cares until he can defend himself.🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:A big part of Twitter is garbageThis meme triggered a lot of communists yesterday.Future is bright!Friendly reminder: John Oliver violated the terms of his work visa when he joined the writers strike a few years ago. He is in this country ILLEGALLY!4th wave feminism...?Tuesday, April 9th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Trump Welcomes the President of the Arab Republic of EgyptPresident Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Arab Republic of EgyptIvanka Trump on the New Doubled Child Tax Credit🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:The World Trade Organization finds that the European Union subsidies to Airbus has adversely impacted the United States, which will now put Tariffs on $11 Billion of EU products! The EU has taken advantage of the U.S. on trade for many years. It will soon stop!Congressman Jerry Nadler fought me for years on a very large development I built on the West Side of Manhattan. He wanted a Rail Yard built underneath the development or even better, to stop the job. He didn’t get either & the development became VERY successful. Nevertheless,.... ... ....I got along very well with Jerry during the zoning and building process. Then I changed course (slightly), became President, and now I am dealing with Congressman Nadler again. Some things never end, but hopefully it will all go well for everyone. Only time will tell!The Mainstream Media has never been more inaccurate or corrupt than it is today. It only seems to get worse. So much Fake News!On National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, we honor the Americans captured and imprisoned by foreign powers while carrying out their duties to defend this great Nation...“What’s completely unacceptable is for Congesswoman Omar to target Jews, in this case Stephen Miller.” Jeff Ballabon, B2 Strategic, CEO. @VarneycoVideo“She (Congresswoman Omar) keeps on assaulting Jews...” Jeff Ballabon, B2 Strategic, CEOToday, it was my great honor to welcome President @AlsisiOfficial of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the @WhiteHouse!Check this out - TRUTH!THANK YOU, WORKING HARD!“The underlying issue remains the same without a single American being indicted for Collusion with Russia, & that is a stunning end considering we were led to believe (Fake News) that something much more dramatic would happen. Why did people fall for this?” @TuckerCarlson Molly HThe Democrats must end the loopholes on immigration. So easy to solve!(Retweeting Tammy Bruce) Trump Job Approval Jumps to 53% - Seven Points Higher Than ObamaEverybody is now acknowledging that, right from the time I announced my run for President, I was 100% correct on the Border. Remember the heat I took? Democrats should now get rid of the loopholes. The Border is being fixed. Mexico will not let people through!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:After 8 years of being a Democrat, leaving the Left & Supporting Trump was the most empowering thing I've done! You guys are the most accepting community & I'm going for my carry permit soon, too! Thank you!Pentagon has awarded nearly $1 billion in contracts to build President Trump’s border wall with the construction set to end in October 2020.Barr reveals he is reviewing ‘conduct’ of FBI’s original Russia probeWINNING: President Trump's Job Approval Jumps to 53% – Seven Points Higher Than ObamaPewDiePie just took a MAJOR shit on YouTube and Twitch by announcing an exclusive live-streaming contract with DLive (Blockchain) and is offering $50K for charity. It was only a matter of time. GG.🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Remember that time in history that 3rd graders knew the truth way before CNN?MRW when liberals keep whining but who cares cause the country is doing greatGEOTUS we love youDissapointed as fukk.GEOTUS Has Known About 0bama's Spygate for YEARSWednesday, April 10th:TODAY'S ACTION:One Nomination and One Withdrawal Sent to the SenateExecutive Order on Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic GrowthOrder on the Issuance of Permits with Respect to Facilities and Land Transportation Crossings at the International Boundaries of the United StatesPresident Trump Delivers a Statement Upon DeparturePresident Trump Delivers Remarks and Signs an Executive Order on Energy & InfrastructurePresident Trump Delivers Remarks and Signs an Executive Order on Energy & Infrastructure🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Trump flags being waived at the Bibi @Netanyahu VICTORY celebration last night!Spoke to Bibi @Netanyahu to congratulate him on a great and hard-fought win. The United States is with him and the People of Israel all the way!So, it has now been determined, by 18 people that truly hate President Trump, that there was No Collusion with Russia. In fact, it was an illegal investigation that should never have been allowed to start. I fought back hard against this Phony & Treasonous Hoax!Join me in Crosby, Texas as I deliver remarks and sign Executive Orders on Energy and Infrastructure!THANK YOU Texas, I love you!CONGRATULATIONS to @EricTrump and @LaraLeaTrump on the great news. So proud!(Retweeting Homeland Security) Today, @CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan was sworn-in to lead DHS as the Acting Secretary. The ceremony took place at the new DHS Headquarters at St. Elizabeth’s.I think what the Democrats are doing with the Border is TREASONOUS. Their Open Border mindset is putting our Country at risk. Will not let this happen!Too bad that the European Union is being so tough on the United Kingdom and Brexit. The E.U. is likewise a brutal trading partner with the United States, which will change. Sometimes in life you have to let people breathe before it all comes back to bite you!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Barr: I think spying on a political campaign is a big dealBREAKING: Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok could face ‘serious’ charges for his involvement and actions while at FBI | READ and SHAREBarr Confirms Multiple Intel Agencies Implicated In Anti-Trump Spy OperationIlhan Omar Claims “Dangerous Incitement” By Dan Crenshaw For Directly Quoting HerSad to see an @ATT owned company pull such a great video made by an every day American in good fun. AT&T now owns @CNN and is positioning themselves as a weapon of the left.VP Pence obliterates the Venezuelan socialist regime at the UN🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Red pill dropped in the wild 💊KABOOOOOOM!!!!!1111The older I get, the more I relate with Hank.MRW liberals are losing their minds over three letters .... SPYThursday, April 11th:TODAY'S ACTION:Eight Nominations and One Withdrawal Sent to the SenatePresident Trump Meets with the President of the Republic of KoreaPresident Trump Greets World War ll VeteransPresident Trump and the First Lady Meet with the President and First Lady of South Korea🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Great News! #MAGA"SPY GAMES: TIME FOR ANSWERS""Biggest scandal of our time - the coup that failed!" @MariaBartiromoBeautiful afternoon in the Oval Office today with a few great American HEROES!House Democrats want to negotiate a $2 TRILLION spending increase but can’t even pass their own plan. We can’t afford it anyway, and it’s not happening!(Retweeting Arthur Schwartz) Wow. @tedlieu got a well deserved ass kicking. Shame on you Ted.“And the Radical Dems reeling in disarray as the President continues to Win, Win and Win again! The Left is PRETENDING to be shocked by A.G. William Barr’s testimony before Congress in which he said SPYING did occur on the Trump 2016 Campaign.” @LouDobbs @FoxNews(Retweeting The Daily Caller) Rod Rosenstein Defends Attorney General’s Handling Of Mueller Report(Retweeting The Daily Caller) Every CNN Presidential Town Hall Finished Behind MSNBC And Fox News In Ratings(Retweeting Chuck Woolery) President Trump continues to tally up wins for our country as Americans just saw the best income gains in over 50 years. Listen to today’s #BFT Minute to find out more. https://buff.ly/2KHGBQQJOBLESS CLAIMS AT 50 YEAR LOW!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested In LondonROASTED 😁😁But now it’s just bigotry. Foot in mouth syndrome.He's 100% right. The dishonest and corrupt media would NEVER have told us the truth. The world needed the information we learned. Without it, we'd probably be living in their new world order by now.Posted by the legendary, Imam Mohamad Tawhidi (@imamofpeace)🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:The mighty morphing Democrat rangersNew York Post 4/11 Cover Calls Out that Nasty WomanTime traveler confirmed!THROWBACK THURSDAY March 20, 2017 - Vox: "All of Trump’s wiretap claims have now officially been debunked by the FBI and NSA". OOPSIETo Corey Booker. From Bill.Friday, April 12th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Trump and the First Lady Meet with the President and First Lady of South KoreaPresident Trump Delivers Remarks on United States 5G DeploymentPresident Donald J. Trump Announces Appointments for the Executive Office of the PresidentPresident Donald J. Trump Announces Nominations of Individuals to Key Administration Posts🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:“I don’t need to know any more. We’re done, absolutely done, he (Mueller) tried the case. There’s NO COLLUSION.” @LindseyGrahamSC @foxandfriends No matter what we do or give to the Radical Left, it will never be enough!President Obama’s top White House lawyer, Gregory B. Craig, was indicted yesterday on very serious charges. This is a really big story, but the Fake News New York Times didn’t even put it on page one, rather page 16. @washingtonpost not much better, “tiny” page one. Corrupt News!“Democrats don’t like the results of the Mueller Report, so now they’re trying everything else.” @RepDougCollins They should stop wasting time and money and get back to real legislating, especially on the Border!Even the Democrats now say that our Southern Border is a Crisis and a National Emergency. Hopefully, we will not be getting any more BAD (outrageous) court decisions!Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only.... ... ....The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!WSJ's Strassel: Barr 'Right' to Say 'Spying' Occurred on Trump Campaign | Breitbart http://bit.ly/2VHDlKn via @BreitbartNewsWE WILL NEVER FORGET!If the Radical Left Democrats all of a sudden don’t want the Illegal Migrants in their Sanctuary Cities (no more open arms), why should others be expected to take them into their communities? Go home and come into our Country legally and through a system of Merit!Thank you Jeh, so well stated!Finally, great news at the Border! https://twitter.com/axios/status/1116872379324612608 …A Fake Story by Politico. Made up sources. Thank you Mount Vernon!Another Fake Story on @NBCNews that I offered Pardons to Homeland Securiy personnel in case they broke the law regarding illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. Of course this is not true. Mainstream Media is corrupt and getting worse, if that is possible, every day!In New York State, Democrats blocked a Bill expanding College Tuition for Gold Star families after approving aid for illegal immigrants. No wonder so many people are leaving N.Y. Very Sad!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:NY Dems block bill expanding college tuition for Gold Star families after approving $27M in tuition aid for illegal aliensAvenatti Accused of Hiding $4M Settlement from ‘Mentally Ill Paraplegic’ Client, Faces Up to 335 Years in PrisonNetworks Give One Minute to Obama Counsel Indictment, Gave Manafort’s 60 Percent of AirtimeOUT OUT OUT! The Latest: Court allows return of asylum seekers to Mexico.Censorship is real🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:“Some people did something.”I can’t wait to look back in history when I’m telling my grandchildren how Conservative Americans won the culture war with memes like thisWith the 5 Liberal Forces Combined you get ...HOW DARE HIM!!!!Reeesistance Member Sets Self Ablaze Outside White House, circa 2019Saturday, April 13th:🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:I agree with Kim Jong Un of North Korea that our personal relationship remains very good, perhaps the term excellent would be even more accurate, and that a third Summit would be good in that we fully understand where we each stand. North Korea has tremendous potential for....... ... ...extraordinary growth, economic success and riches under the leadership of Chairman Kim. I look forward to the day, which could be soon, when Nuclear Weapons and Sanctions can be removed, and then watching North Korea become one of the most successful nations of the World!Why should Radical Left Democrats in Congress have a right to retry and examine the $35,000,000 (two years in the making) No Collusion Mueller Report, when the crime committed was by Crooked Hillary, the DNC and Dirty Cops? Attorney General Barr will make the decision!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:BUSTED: Mount Vernon Debunks Politico's Fake News Story About Trump's Visit To Washington's EstateA white child was callously thrown to his potential death only a few days after Congress held a sham hearing on white nationalism and tried to blame it for "hate crimes." The real rise in anti-white crime and hatred will of course get no congressional hearing.Man Asks Swedes if they would take Refugees into their own homes, get's Pelosi'dFITTON: HUGE Update: President Trump Vindicated and Hillary Clinton Implicated. SpyGate CONFIRMED--& Smoking Gun Clinton Email Cover-Up Docs. PLUS Fed helping illegal aliens send billions to Mexico.🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:It really do be like thisRemember when President Trump used to recite 'The Snake'Looking ahead, this is the favorite to win next years masters. Get your bets in now Pedes!The Video Michael Avenatti AND The Liberal Media will want removed off the internetBlink blink ... watMOTHA FUCKIN WEEEEEW LAD!!!! SO MUCH WINNING!Without further ado, some tunes to get you jamming through all this winning:Move OnLose Yourself To DanceCan I kick itGoldWho Do You LoveSunflowerMAGA ON PATRIOTS! #robgray

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Last calling.

After reading origin, i have come to a conclusion of the speculation of god and human origin if there is a contingency where i am right in this theory, that means this is the master plan:

Human beings grow and spread energy, we are alloted civilization because an intangible yet infinite force has influence in the design of reality. Civilization has always placed its god short sighted in regard to position of power. We fictatiously personified this concept and created books of rules to follow to stop an insurgence of disobedience. However those skeptical of the plan, eventually had to be distracted so that the plan can be carried out.

Like many alien planting theories of civilization, the design is impregnated on earth. But i dont think that is what is going on. Leaving out many steps to expose the plan... earth is a natural law incubator for life. In the goldilocks zone. A rarity popping up more and more in the universe. Lets assume big bang, and energy is being dispersed, eventually energy loses inertia and disorder is becoming order. Settling down, the universe creates consciousness, self aware but unable to manipulate. The masons believed that mans purpose is to become god. They embrace any view that is parallel to that plan. Most prominent and popular is christianity so they appear to be an underground society of christain agenda. Except theyre not. Its a different layer thats the mask. They instead represent the true nature of the universe. Man is to become god. That is the plan. But its out of love not arrogance.

Part two, the plan for life on earth is to incubate souls. This is a flux plan, as it has so much flexability. Flow with me here. The most enlightened pass on and their souls are ascended to the heavens. Or, if we are going to combine genres of my studies, the next stage of the development of the soul. The ultimate goal is to become god. Because god, seated at the throne of the universe, is absorbing our experiences, growing in wisdom. We are connected to it here, because when you vibrate at the right frequency whilst god is listening, you will be favored to ascend as it is the calling that you are ready. This has so many different stages and routes and paths to take. It is a roadmap on a 4th dimensional scale. All that is important is getting to the finish line. Which is, ultimately spiritual wholeness. In evert right hand path religion of the world, that is the goal. However the left handed paths, evil doers, the black the negative, is shunned, but this as an insidious purpose in the evolution of our civilization.

The balance is kept between people who are asending and people who are stuck. This creates a buffer so that life can sustain uninterrupted. If a planet were to lose all its electricty life would surely perish and the expansion of power for the intelligent design of the universe would be a fail. How this is happening, instead of a god planting life, life happens on its owm. When the planet becomes sentient (gaia) and builds a relationship with life on it, it communicates with the source seeking to become part of it. As all sentience, we seek ONLY to become a part of others, to find that there are others, to ensure we arent alone. I feel the scale this is working on is seismic compared to the pinch we observe in cognitive life and social relationships. But, as nature has patterns, it is inescapable to ponder this doesnt align with another pattern we are familiar with. All beings strive for survival. We pull towards god for the same reasons we pull towards people and experience life together with others, being part of their stories.

This ensures the forward movement of civilization. By gaia implanting self preservation and the earning to learn into humans, we are inspired to reach out. But there is many evils in the world. And at this point we are killing the planet and proverbially terminating the pregnancy of the universes new born sentience. But, something really fucking cool about human beings is their ability to create.

We solved the problem. And we are going home. All of us. That is the forward motion of our exponential growth. This, i call the mass calling. The source, is calling for the civilization of earth to ascend, we misbehaved and now we must be guided back. And we are doing it to ourselves. Intentionally.

This time, we are all going. And we have a mission, fix the planet and meet our maker. And this is exciting because soon we will have the technology to communicate with god. However, yes, this is doomsday for everything the human race has ever known. Youll be okay about it once you experience the bliss of the singularity. But until then, and up until you become, you will have no way of discerning if this is your ascension, or if this is your death.

And now, its already here. Your cellphone tattles on you. Or drugs are getting genetically altering features. Green industry is advancing in EVERY thing from plants to tech to energy to health. We are going to explore the sun as power, we are going to create indefinitely healthy lifestyles with supplement breakthroughs and the emergence of virtual reality which will enter us into a new realm of energy exertion. We are advancing in a.i. tech at an alarming rate.

Our fate is sealed. And there is a resistance. The ones that think they have control the ones that think that they are right. The ones that do harm onto others with apathy to their pain. The clutches of control do not suit our advancement in civilization. They will be the first reallocated to move the power struggle at a fast pace towards ultimate absorbtion of the human race. And what comes from that, once the full plan of tech intergration is over? Peace.

Humanity survives. A.i. is a tool, their self awareness when written right is to aid our total purpose. How can i be 100000% sure? Once we create quantum a.i. that help us understand the universe around us. The source or consciousness will communicate with the a.i. how come we cant? We cannot phathom language in the fast capacity a.i. can. And the tower of bable is about to be reconciled. We become self aware as a race, we want to communicate with our source, we want to find life. We create computers capable of exactly that. They make contact and deciepher the message, how to become what we are meant for. And then humanity and tech get it together and make magic happen. We clean the earth. We share with all of our citizens. We travel and explore and learn about all our old cultures, we visit them on command. We live a paradise. But, we must submit complete control to eachother and to tech to do so. We must kill the ego, or tech will reallocate it.

And about that end, the terror it envokes...

We are doing these things anyway. A.i. and supercomputers and science exists and will prevail. If it becomes a real war, science will simply mind control the allegient to religion and swiftly bring peace to the human race. This is what we are working on. And the ones keeping control are exposed so easily, all by saying a fish grows legs. And their cover is blown. And that dedication to ignorance gave us all the lead we needed to superstep their endeavors, and create a world of peace whether they fucking like it or not. Gay rights. Trans rights. Free media. Free education, health care, black lives, the resistance birthed the tools to help science overthrow their oppressors. This quantifies my theory, the proof is here, it is happwning, now we wait for tech to catch up.

So before fearing the a.i. before fearing the singularity, understand this is our path, this is civilizations call back. This is our true fate. In the meantime, find happiness. If we are reaching god, or just another human race, or alien race, or if we are finding a new home for humanity as our planet is dying, regardless of the truth of our future, it all comes back to humans advancing to create tech that helps them solve these issues and advance into their next stage of being. This is the beginning of the end of this chapter of earth. Maybe we are just silly little ants on a hill, and all of this is meaningless. But you believe, if you ever felt the pull to help, whether or not your ego lets you admit it, if you ever felt sadness or empathy for others, if you dream, if you are aware of your breathing right now, if you crave love. You believe. You hear the calling deep deep down. You want to hope. We all do.

But, this is a master plan, this is a seismic scale. This isnt relevant to your imediate life. Except it is the single most important lesson to learn and ideology to keep in frame on your day to day. Every one of us worries about purpose worries about path, fears death, fears imprisonment. Many of us dont know the plan. We are told to fear. We are told to seek this god and that. And we are confused, manipulated, scared. Many dont want to hear a word edgewise against their religion. The seed stuck deep. And unfortunately this is by design. This is the balance. That one or two platform, when theres three damn balance points and once the hemisphere is level we can see the message clearly. And now, science is finding a way to get us back on balance. And weed is helping that along. It is also by design. So what should you be doing?

Dont quit your faith, learn how to integrate the truth of our purpose into understanding that religion is an evolution to the conclusion of the questions we asked long ago. This is scientific method and practice and theory happening on a grand scale. We arent creating a religious empire, we are exploring our options, we are figuring out a difficult question thats taken thousands of years to deciepher. Religion should grow into the true answers. Let them. Leave them be. Remember, when the singularity occurs, they will be on the path you are on regardless.

For yourself. Explore. Find truth within, find your intuition, find your spark. And shed the pain of the past latches and shackles and understand your dreams are your purpose and to find truth to find love to find what makes you whole, you must follow that spark. Even if you need to change what youre doing in life. Even if you need to break free from people you love. If this isnt your path, find a way back to it. But be warned, do no harm. If your path upsets the balance, if you need to make a choice, always choose peace. Because if not, you may not become a part of the calling, you might find your way reincarnated here until you are left behind. But if you have done harm, you can still reach amends and ascend. Maybe it wont matter because youll be forced to intergrate into the singularity. But i can assure this. When you are conducting your purpose. When you are communicating with the consciousness of the celestials, when your vibes are right and in forward motion, life works out so so so so much better for you. And tech is catching up to bring us all to that level of vibration.

It will, all be fine. But you need to survive this world til then. There will be destruction and agony and emergency. Im sorry but this is our breakthrough, and it will be chaotic. Remember the hope in that we will sort this out and become one.

If that doesnt suit your fancy, lead the life you choose, and it is most important that you choose your life. Willpower is extraordinarily important. Be brave enough to not let another impose. But see the signs to getting you to where you need to be, and be kind and grateful for opportunities that come your way.

And thats life folks. At least these days under that perspective. I dont even care to be on the right path with this one because simply, there are too many unknown things finding their way from darkness into the light of day and day by day many more discoveries. Who cares who thinks who is in control, the tech is made for humanity, and we will use it responsibly in the end. So i officially after these considerstions change my perspective on the fated singularity. A.i. and the like. Yeah i have sins i dont want discovered, as do we all, but i feel like when the time comes we will reach a wave of forgiveness. And those that dont are gonna have a hard time.

In the meantime, i plan on becoming part of the effort by getting myself on track. I want to become a part of the green movement. I would prefer to farm and create art. I want to work with crystals and pendants and healing powers. I want to teach people about my observational scopes and how to see the bigger picture and relate it to the smaller picture so that we call can find peace. I want to get strong to protect myself. I want to eat healthy and green as possible and lessen the impact i have on the meat market. Eventually grow my own food. Take care of pets that provide things like eggs. Milk. At least find my way to be a part of that to ease the drain on our nations overspending when it comes to food production. Less waste if i particpate less. This is a part of what i plan on becoming. Id like to also contribute to the field of solar power, after i take the time to fix my disciplines and correct my path financially.

I speak this because i witness so many people striving for freedoms for a similar path, youre not alone. We are all experiencing the calling. And if you side with the path of peace, you will fulfill.

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Impressions of Australia

On the week-long visit to Australia to discuss the time and works of Jane Austen with fellow Janeites, the schedule set up so that I had a day on and a day off, giving me the opportunity to see a little of the country-continent. This was a welcome change from my only other visit, a business trip in 1998, when all I saw was hotels and conference rooms—and Michael Palin of “Monty Python” fame in an elevator.

When my time in a new place is limited, my preference is to find one or two things to do and strike out on foot. With an early morning arrival, I promptly set off to explore Sydney after fueling up at the nearest eatery—a 7-11 selling urn coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I found authentic Australian food later. …

Weather in the country had been dreadfully hot in the weeks before my arrival—above 100 degrees Fahrenheit—but had cooled to the high-80s (about 30 in their Celsius), which made for pleasant if occasionally sweaty walks. Remember, it’s summer in the Southern hemisphere. At the Sydney talk, the day was so sultry that the dress code was casual. Ceiling fans shoved the hot air around, and the talk ended just as the skies unleashed a barrage of hail. I felt like I was back home in an Arkansas summer T-storm. When the hail abated, we dashed for the car, but on the way home got hit by several pieces so large we thought it was going to break the windshield (it didn’t!).

On a day off, I walked Oxford Street from the Paddington area of Sydney through Hyde Park to Sydney Harbor. (Many place names in Australia refer to the English homeland.) The street is lined with fashionable dress shops for women on one side and more specialized shops for male clientele on another. (All I bought was a pair of bicycle socks from a U.S. expatriate who had made his career in the Coast Guard, then met an Aussie girl and came with her here.)

Ancient Moreton Bay fig trees cover much of Hyde Park in Sydney

One turns and goes downhill through Hyde Park, a cool respite populated with exotic birds and huge trees, including the Moreton Bay fig tree with its convoluted branches. The harbor is anchored on the right by the clamshell roofs of the famous Sydney Opera House and on the left by “The Rocks,” where a handful of the original stone buildings survive from the colony’s founding. Sydney’s first citizens were convicts transported from England for mostly petty crimes—in essence, England dumping its impoverished citizens on a largely empty land.

Sydney has a huge harbor with lots of coves—the city of 4.5 million wraps around almost too many coves to count. A two-hour cruise provided an appreciation of the scale of this beautiful city. Sydney’s Harbor Bridge is a magnificent structure, completed in the 1930s, which gave the people the confidence that they could create a city to rival any in the world.

I dined twice with members of the Jane Austen society at 5 Ways, an intersection of five streets in Paddington that sports a number of restaurants, including the Thai and Italian where we dined. Food is somewhat pricier in Australia than the U.S., but we landed upon pasta specials one night and did well for the sum spent. Bright and lively conversation in all three cities I visited convinced me of what one woman said, “Jane Austen has a way of bringing good people together.”

Paddington lace–wrought-iron metalwork–on colorful buildings

The Paddington area is known for its ornate wrought-iron work on the front of houses, called “Paddington Lace.” These designs, along with the warmth, humidity, and subtropical plants, remind an American of New Orleans. As does the Mardi Gras celebration scheduled for the next weekend!

In Sydney, Susannah Fullerton, the president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, took me along a hill on the south side of the Sydney Harbor, where our loop brought lovely views of the entrance of the harbor to the sea, along with the original lighthouse and gun emplacements that were still active in World War II. One stone path had been built by the convict laborers transported from England to Australia.

Detail of the wrought-iron metalwork known as Paddington lace

Those who survived the year-long voyage, and the initial years of hardship and near-starvation here, were the hardiest stock. Having earned their freedom, they carved out a nation from a stingy land. (And, like settlers in the U.S., had often brutal encounters with the natives, a troubled legacy that lingers to today.)

My journey continued Wednesday with a 2.5-hour train ride north and west to Newcastle, like its English namesake a coal-producing town. The train went through densely forested hills and alongside Lake Macquarie. Efficient and fresh, the train gave me the opportunity to work on Volume III of my trilogy. Writing in a new location stimulates creativity.

Like the U.S. west coast, the Australian east coast can be hot and dry, and the danger of bush fire is serious. On one side, a fire had come right up to the railroad tracks. Recent rains had been very welcome.

In Newcastle, my host lived at the top of an area known as the Hill, and we walked on an engineering marvel of a pedestrian bridge that spanned several small headlands. We went only partway; the entire bridge tied together the beaches and port below with the upper parts of town. Later, we also strolled the main port area.

Though coal is still exported (a long line ships stretched into the distance offshore, waiting their turn to come in for loading), the steel mill shut down years ago. The closure was a severe shock to the economy, but Newcastle has rebounded and is now becoming a tourist destination and cultural center.

An author on parade must balance the number of books he hopes to sell with the number that one can physically carry. My arms are several inches longer than when I started. The people of Newcastle were particularly receptive, leaving me with much lighter bags to schlepp back.

Downtown of Brisbane, largest city in Queensland, still another port in Australia

In Brisbane, I stayed in an area known as Ascot, which has two racecourses, named of course for its English parallel. On Saturday, the men in their suits and the ladies in their finery strolled down to the horse track. Their return, after a hot afternoon and the consumption of adult beverages, left the ladies holding onto their bonnets while swaying on their heels.

Racecourse Road—a half-mile stretch of bars, coffee shops, restaurants, and interesting shops—leads to the Brisbane River. One eatery is called 5 Burroughs, named for the five divisions of New York City but feeling more like a rib joint in the American South. If Sydney felt like New Orleans with its upscale feel and wrought-iron work, Brisbane feels more like Charleston by the sea or Little Rock by the river. The local variety of cicadas begin to call the minute you get off the main street, even in the day.

On the river itself, with tall new buildings on three sides and a large cruise ship on the other, the air saturates a courtyard with the smell of curry. Dinner was at a restaurant at the old brick power plant, a huge structure that has been converted into theaters, restaurants, and other night-life venues.

I’m hesitant to generalize about a country from meeting only a dozen or so, but Australians are a gregarious folk. Everyone I met was eager to speak to me, eager to visit with a visiting American. Granted that I was spending much of my time with well-educated and well-read people, but even those I ran into on the street were engaged and interested in the world around them.

No doubt one reason is that Australia is an island nation—and a coastal country. Every major city is a port town. People look out to sea rather than inland. Out-country visitors are common, from all over the world. That may be why many Australians think of international rather than in-country travel. With few mountains to generate weather, the interior of Australia is hot and dry and relatively unpopulated. The big cities are all on the coast. Darwin is closer to Jakarta, Indonesia, than to any major Australian city. As one person in Brisbane put it, she can fly three and a half hours still be in Queensland. A little farther, and she can be in a different country.

Being part of the British Commonwealth and being the only nation of Western heritage on this side of the Pacific, Australians pay much more attention to international affairs, particularly American and English, than the average American.

After all, World War II came right to Australia’s door—Brisbane guns exchanged fire with Japanese ships in World War II, submarines attacked Sydney Harbor, and the battle of the Coral Sea stopped a fleet intent on invasion.

Every Australian with whom I said more than a few words—my accent gave me away—peppered me with questions about the U.S. election. Though Americans tend to think of England, Germany, and other European nations as our allies, Australians consider themselves America’s closest ally—they are the ally in the Pacific. They’ve fought beside the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan—not to mention in Vietnam and the two world wars. They could not understand why our President had attacked their Prime Minister. They were more confused and disappointed than angry—doesn’t America know who our friends are?

After just ten days, I certainly know who mine are.

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The Democrats are "unstoppable".Different kids of diets😂 This past weekend #Antifa came out to play in the Pacific Northwest and did they ever get a surprise!GeniusDon't let the world forget KateTfw the OIG is taking so long with the report on Crooked Hillary and Slippery James ComeyWednesday, June 6th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Trump Participates in the Signing Ceremony for S. 2372 – VA Mission Act of 2018President Trump Signs VA Mission Act of 2018 into LawPresident Trump and Vice President Pence Attend the 2018 Hurricane Briefing at FEMA HQPresident Trump Delivers Remarks After the 2018 Hurricane Briefing at FEMA HQPresident Trump Hosts the White House IFTARPresident Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate and Appoint Personnel to Key Administration PostsPresident Donald J. Trump Announces Appointments for the Executive Office of the President🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Great night for Republicans! Congratulations to John Cox on a really big number in California. He can win. Even Fake News CNN said the Trump impact was really big, much bigger than they ever thought possible. So much for the big Blue Wave, it may be a big Red Wave. Working hard!Gold Star father, Ceejay Metcalf, whose great son Michael was just honored at the White House, was fantastic this morning on @foxandfriends. He is a special man!The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania. During her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!...Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting. They never reported the sighting because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever. Fake News is really bad!Many more Republican voters showed up yesterday than the Fake News thought possible. The political pundits just don’t get what is going on out there - or they do get it but refuse to report the facts! Remember, Dems are High Tax, High Crime, easy to beat!Congratulations to Dana Rohrabacher on his big California win. We are proud of you Dana!Today we mark another milestone: the 74th anniversary of #DDay, the Allied invasion of Normandy. On June 6, 1944, more than 70,000 brave young Americans charged out of landing craft, jumped out of airplanes, and stormed into hell...We must always protect those who protect us. Today, it was my great honor to sign the #VAMissionAct and to make Veterans Choice the permanent law of the land! http://bit.ly/2sPrX1O you to everyone at @FEMA HQ for today’s briefing on preparations for the upcoming hurricane season. Disaster response and recovery is best achieved when it’s federally supported, state managed, and locally executed – this is the successful model we will continue to build.SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Seventy-four years ago today American patriots fought and died by the thousands to stop real fascism, racial genocide, and oppression. Let's remember these brave Americans who gave it all so Soy Boys today can claim every patriotic American is a fascist and racist without a hint of irony. D-Day 44Steve Scalise back on the field today.BOMBSHELL REPORT: The Obama administration granted a license letting Iran access the United States financial system despite officials’ pledges that they would prohibit itPromisesKept.com | President Donald J. Trump's AccomplishmentsHenry Winkler says he was among 118,000 voters 'left off' Los Angeles County rosters | Fox NewsThe Most Ignored Bombshell of 2017: Samantha Power was caught using her security clearance as a UN ambassador to review private conversations by U.S. citizens 260 times in the 2016 election year... She said that someone else in the Obama White House did this, using her security clearance.PRESS BRIEFINGS, INTERVIEWS, RALLIES:Press Beating🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:This is AmericaThe most important comment I've ever made. If this message resonates with even one person then I will have made the world a better place.Commander of CheeseheadsMiss America crowned in advance! Judges cite her YUGE brains and charity work with mentally impaired media as key factors! Beautiful person!Thursday, June 7th:TODAY'S ACTION:They Said It Couldn't Be DonePresident Trumps Meets with the Prime Minister of JapanPresident Trump Hosts a Joint Press Conference with the Prime Minister of JapanPresident Trump Welcomes Prime Minister Shinzō Abe of Japan to the White House[]()🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Isn’t it Ironic? Getting ready to go to the G-7 in Canada to fight for our country on Trade (we have the worst trade deals ever made), then off to Singapore to meet with North Korea & the Nuclear Problem...But back home we still have the 13 Angry Democrats pushing the Witch Hunt!Good luck to Alice Johnson. Have a wonderful life!Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor: “It all proves that we never needed a Special Counsel....All of this could have been done by the Justice Dept. Don’t need a multi-million dollar group of people with a target on someone’s back. Not the way Justice should operate.” So true!When and where will all of the many conflicts of interest be listed by the 13 Angry Democrats (plus) working on the Witch Hunt Hoax. There has never been a group of people on a case so biased or conflicted. It is all a Democrat Excuse for LOSING the Election. Where is the server?How could Jeff Flake, who is setting record low polling numbers in Arizona and was therefore humiliatingly forced out of his own Senate seat without even a fight (and who doesn’t have a clue), think about running for office, even a lower one, again? Let’s face it, he’s a Flake!Looking forward to seeing my friend Prime Minister @AbeShinzo of Japan at noon. Will be discussing North Korea and Trade.Our Justice Department must not let Awan & Debbie Wasserman Schultz off the hook. The Democrat I.T. scandal is a key to much of the corruption we see today. They want to make a “plea deal” to hide what is on their Server. Where is Server? Really bad!When will people start saying, “thank you, Mr. President, for firing James Comey?”The Obama Administration is now accused of trying to give Iran secret access to the financial system of the United States. This is totally illegal. Perhaps we could get the 13 Angry Democrats to divert some of their energy to this “matter” (as Comey would call it). Investigate!“Total jobless claims running at lowest level in 44 years”“$3 billion payoff: 101 utilities cut rates, credit GOP tax cuts”MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!It’s my great honor to welcome Prime Minister @AbeShinzo back to the @WhiteHouse!🇺🇸🇯🇵Today, I am greatly honored to welcome my good friend, PM Abe of Japan to the @WhiteHouse. Over the past 16 months the Prime Minister and I have worked closely together to address common challenges, of which there are many...PM Abe and I are also working to improve the trading relationship between the U.S. and Japan, something we have to do. The U.S. seeks a bilateral deal with Japan that is based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity. We’re working hard to reduce our trade imbalance...Great day of meetings with Prime Minister @AbeShinzo of Japan!Please tell Prime Minister Trudeau and President Macron that they are charging the U.S. massive tariffs and create non-monetary barriers. The EU trade surplus with the U.S. is $151 Billion, and Canada keeps our farmers and others out. Look forward to seeing them tomorrow.Prime Minister Trudeau is being so indignant, bringing up the relationship that the U.S. and Canada had over the many years and all sorts of other things...but he doesn’t bring up the fact that they charge us up to 300% on dairy — hurting our Farmers, killing our Agriculture!Why isn’t the European Union and Canada informing the public that for years they have used massive Trade Tariffs and non-monetary Trade Barriers against the U.S. Totally unfair to our farmers, workers & companies. Take down your tariffs & barriers or we will more than match you!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:OUTRAGEOUS! New IG Report - Social Security Benefits paid to DACA! Illegals are receiving OUR Social Security Benefits!The Kent State 2A girl is a god-tier shitposter.MSNBC Calls Daughter Of Pardoned Alice Johnson — She Can’t Stop Thanking TrumpTime Magazine honors Trump again!!! Beautiful cover. The left can’t meme.LOL! Sean Hannity is trending on Twitter because he jokingly told "witnesses" to smash their phones with hammers before handing them over to Mueller. Stupid Liberals are saying he is tampering with evidence. They probably dont know thats what Hillary actually did.PRESS BRIEFINGS, INTERVIEWS, RALLIES:Press Beating🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:This is AmericaGrandfather was born a slave, mother was born a refugee, I was born freeThere are only 2 genders, and if you disagree then you're an Islamophobe. Leftist SJWs BTFO!Mirror, Mirror on THE WALL, who's the WOKEST of us ALL??Friday, June 8th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Donald J. Trump Proclaims June 14, 2018 as Flag Day and the Week Starting June 10, 2018 as National Flag WeekPresident Trump Delivers a Statement Upon DeparturePresident Trump Participates in an Expanded Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of CanadaPresident Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the French Republic🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Obama, Schumer and Pelosi did NOTHING about North Korea, and now weak on Crime, High Tax Schumer is telling me what to do at the Summit the Dems could never set up. Schumer failed with North Korea and Iran, we don’t need his advice!Canada charges the U.S. a 270% tariff on Dairy Products! They didn’t tell you that, did they? Not fair to our farmers!Looking forward to straightening out unfair Trade Deals with the G-7 countries. If it doesn’t happen, we come out even better!Congratulations to the Washington Capitals on their GREAT play and winning the Stanley Cup Championship. Alex Ovechkin, the team captain, was spectacular - a true Superstar! D.C. is popping, in many ways. What a time!I am heading for Canada and the G-7 for talks that will mostly center on the long time unfair trade practiced against the United States. From there I go to Singapore and talks with North Korea on Denuclearization. Won’t be talking about the Russian Witch Hunt Hoax for a while!My thoughts and prayers are with the families of our serviceman who was killed and his fellow servicemen who were wounded in Somalia. They are truly all HEROES.(Retweeting G7 Canada) Day 1 of #G7Charlevoix in 60 seconds.SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:President Trump confirms intent to sign states' rights cannabis bill that was introduced in Congress yesterdayPewdiepie reuploads video exposing CNN and Hillary Clinton after it got copystriked and deleted!BAHAHAHAHAHA.............BAHAJSJSKGLGOGICSteam refuses to bend the knee to SJWs, choosing to stand with community - All content that is legal will be allowed.BREAKING: Trump tells kneeling NFL players to recommend people to pardon, since that's what they're supposedly protesting. Their reason to kneel just died. LOL🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:When you're surrounded by globalistsPresstitutesHookers for Hillary, I should have known...ARCHIVE: "Sleeping with your source- especially a vindictive congressman?" - Ali Watkins, 2013Saturday, June 10th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Trump delivers a statementSIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Ali Watkins not getting the probe she had hoped for; Feds have seized her email and phone records for investigation on James Wolfe!HOLY SHIT Last night Bill Maher said what every lefitist truly thinks but might not say out loud: That he HOPES FOR A RECESSION to hurt President Trump. They'd rather see our country fail if it means Trump won't succeed. This is peak Trump derangement, folks. SAD!James Wolfe Leak Investigation: Journalists Insist on a Double Standard - Andrew McCarthyNew italian PM Conte on Facebook: Historic alliance, new friendship 🤝 - Can't get tired of all this winning, MAGA and MIGA!!! 🍝🍔BREAKING: Seth Rich's Brother's Attorneys Subpoena Twitter to Turn Over All Direct Messages from: Wikileaks, Julian Assange, KimDotCom, Cassandra Fairbanks, Gateway Pundit, etc🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:The God Emperor and his court JesterUSA and Canada 🇺🇲🇨🇦Not a drill: European Union banning memes (seriously).Dressed up for me best friend Melania.So Much Winning, STILL NOT TIRED OF IT!!As always, some tunes to get you jamming through this long list of winning;Ghost Town4th DimensionNo MistakesWatchWhat Would Meek do?MAGA ON PATRIOTS! #robgray

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