#jasper selma

[ginevrastilinski-ocs]

Any possible Headcanon’s/vibes from the crossovers? 🥺

(We'll both have to send these crossovers asks again bc I'm working on the Gilmore Girls masterlist and not have any would be a crime tbh)

They mainly live on vibes ngl but I'll try!

Kipp and Faith Hudson duets sibilings yes pls and thank you Also, I know that canonically Faith wears so many times Finn's Titans jacket, so don't tell me Kipp wouldn't be like "Here! Take mine!" everytime she doesn't already have their brother's.

Okay but, Nyneve and Althea as girlfriends yes absolutely Nyneve takes her in as her maid, they become each other's most trusted person ever, lot of devotion. The "Hey, I have magic" "Cool, I'm raising dragons" dynamic is just so hilarious, and also, Runaway Sweethearts once Nyneve decides to go out looking for other "babies" lol

Jasper and Raymond are literally no ideas, just soft & angsty vibes (Jasper is like, very fucked up but the eventual hurt/comfort and the "you're just a couple of years older than me but you're basically my parent and we are family for sure" dynamic is just everything)

Elphie and Elliott are totally a wild card honestly. They could be platonic besties, they could be the sweetest boyfriend and girlfriend (not my fault, it's the Tom&Zendaya vibes, I can't help it) but who knows? Not me.

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[hitchell-mope]

If they had a proper crossover.

Now I know that one of the Treehouse of Horrors had the Simpsons visit the restaurant. But this is what I think should happen if they did a proper crossover like Simpsorama. Also. Heads up. I’m not a fan of Marge or Lisa so watch out for that.

Linda would probably be one Homer’s new best friend and the Darling of Moe’s tavern. And then have to be physically carried to the car in the morning.

Marge would probably make a lifelong enemy of Bob when she tries to offer up suggestions on how to make the restaurant more family friendly.

Tina meets her match in Bart when she offers to babysit. The experience would either make her stronger or break her completely.

Lisa wouldn’t be able to stop herself from criticising Gene’s music and/or eating habits to the point that Louise threatens her life.

Louise Belcher and Maggie Simpson. Partners in crime. Enough said.

Ned would drive Jimmy Pesto to tears with his unrelenting niceness and religiousness. However. Rod and Todd would get on with Jimmy Junior and the twins oddly well.

Zeke would try and get Nelson (and possibly the other three) to change their ways. To varying levels of success. Ie. Not much.

Frond and Skinner would share horror stories about their students.

Calvin and Burns would have a competition to see who was more evil.

Felix would get into debt with Fat Tony and try to sell Calvin’s kidneys on eBay as Slightly Calcified Faberge Eggs. And wouldn’t be seen again for the rest of the episode.

Waylon and Ron would bond over having bosses who don’t appreciate them.

Patty and Selma would find someone they hate more than Homer in Gayle.

Rudy and Milhouse would bond over their asthma.

Somebody (not Louise) unleashes Milly on the Lovejoy’s. The church is never the same again. Some would say for the better. More would say for the worse.

Gloria and Al get kicked out of the Retirement Castle. Much to Linda’s joy and Bob’s horror. Abraham and Jasper will miss them very much.

Clancy and Bosco end up in physical brawl over how to handle a case

Barney, Lenny, Carl and Teddy also get into a fight. But it’s over who’s a better friend.

LaBonz and Hoover disagree over teaching methods.

Ralph gets lost at Wonder Wharf and is rescued by Mickey.

Big Bob gets into a fight with Apu over business practices. Apu wins. Mostly because of the octuplets and Manjula. But Big Bob gave as good as he got.

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THE BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE VOICE CAST OF SLEEPING BEAUTY

@themousefromfantasyland @princesssarisa @angelixgutz @the-blue-fairie @thealmightyemprex @amalthea9

A Bela Adormecida

Transcription:

Princess Aurora/Princesa Aurora: Maria Alice Barreto​

(Singing): Maria Norma

Prince Phillip/​Príncipe Felipe: Roberto de Cleto

(Singing): Osny Silva

Maleficent/Malévola: Heloísa Helena

Flora: Joyce de Oliveira

Fauna: Nádia Maria

Merryweather/Primavera: Nancy Wanderley

King Stefan/​Rei Estevão: Maurício Sherman

Queen Leah/​Rainha Leah: Nancy Wanderley

King Hubert/Rei Humberto: Hamilton Ferreira

Maleficent's Goon/​Lacaio da Malévola: Hamilton Ferreira

Narrator/ Narrador: Aloysio de Oliveira

Songs:

Song Title

Singer(s)

Once Upon a Dream - Main Title

Associação de Canto Coral

Hail to Princess Aurora ​Saudação à Princesa Aurora

Associação de Canto Coral

​I Wonder Quiser Saber

Maria Norma

Once Upon a Dream ​Era Uma Vez Um Sonho

Maria Norma ​Osny Silva

Skumps Brinde dos Reis

Maurício Sherman ​Hamilton Ferreira

Sleeping Beauty ​A Canção de a Bela Adormecida

Associação de Canto Coral

Once Upon a Dream - Finale

​Associação de Canto Coral

Technical Credits :

Occupation

Person's Name

Director Direção de Dublagem

Luiz Delfino

Translation ​Tradução

Orlando Figueiredo

Musical Director ​Direção Musical

Aloysio de Oliveira

Lyricist Tradução dos Canções

Aloysio de Oliveira

Chorus Côro

Associação de Canto Coral

Supervisor Supervisão

Luiz Delfino ​Jack Cutting

Dubbing Studio Estudio de Dublagem

Atlântica Cinematográfica, ​Rio de Janeiro

Trivia:

Dubbing premiered in São Paulo on June 29th, 1960

On the 1989 VHS release, the opening titles are in English. The title "A Bela Adormecida" is presented as a subtitle. As a result, the Brazilian voice actors and technical crew are not credited on this release.

This dubbing was used in Portugal until 2008 when a European Portuguese dub was created. As a result, the Brazilian dub was included on the 2003 DVD release.

Release dates : Brazil - June 29, 1960 (São Paulo) Brazil - July 9, 1960 (Pernambuco) Brazil - December 22, 1960 (Rio de Janeiro) Brazil - May 26, 1961 (Minas Gerais) Brazil - May 27, 1961 (Rio Grande do Sul) Brazil - June 22, 1961 (Rio Grande do Norte) Brazil - July 8, 1961 (Espírito Santo) Brazil - December 25, 1961 (Amazonas) Brazil - January 18, 1962 (Paraná) Brazil - December 30, 1962 (Santa Catarina)

All Brazilian credits (VHS, DVD, BLU-RAY and TV's) countain many mistakes :

Maria Norma Moraes Illner, the singing voice of Aurora is credited under the name of Norma Maria.

Joyce de Oliveira's and Nancy Wanderley's roles as Flora and Merryweather are switched.

Maurício Sherman is wrongly credited as Prince Phillip's speaking voice. In the 50s & 60s, he was pairing with Hamilton Ferreira on a humor show, and they got chosen as King Stefan and King Hubert in 1959, and later as Jasper and Horace in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961). He confirmed before his death in 2019 that he was King Stefan.

Selma Lopes is wrongly credited as the Queen. She confirmed later she didn't dub that role; her first Disney role was the Blue Fairy and Pinocchio's singing voice in Pinocchio in 1966.

Many great Radio and TV Stars of the time auditionned for the role of Princess Aurora : Nega Aparecida, Dulce Martins, Daisy Lucidi ...

It was Maria Alice Barreto's first dubbing performance for Disney. She was the secretary of Fernando Lobo, friend of Aloysio de Oliveira, who was conducting the Musical direction and translation. She was invited to audition, and came early : she watched the other actresses trying out for the role, memorizing the lines, and when her turn came, she already knew it well, and got the role eventually.

A mixing mistake was made in "Once Upon A Dream" in the 1989 VHS : the vocalizations of Aurora (PART 1 : between the speaking lines "Your Highness" and "I'm not supposed to speak to strangers" / PART 2 : when she's dancing with the owl between the two parts of the song) were actually of Mary Costa's for PART 1 and Maria Milde's, the German voice, for PART 2. In the 1996 VHS, this mistake was partially fixed : Maria Norma's vocalizations was restored for PART 2; but PART 1 are this time those of Maria Milde's. Reasons for this are still unknown, though it's possible Maria Norma Moraes might have not dubbed originally the 1st vocalizations.

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JASPER SELMA X PEETA MELLARK manip gifs for @ginevrastilinski-ocs one year gift exchange!

Had to make these for the boys!

[cauldronoflove]

book asks! 2, 11 (cause you did make a poll about it), and 19 (be a hater pls)

2. top 5 books of all time?

- shirley jackson's the haunting of hill house

- jasper fforde's the eyre affair

- mary oliver's white pine

and then i feel like the rest of the spots would either rotate out titles from my favorite authors (willa cather, arthur miller, thomas king, etc) or are tentatively being filled by books i've read comparatively very recently and don't feel like i can give a book of all-time distinction to just yet (kate bornstein's gender outlaw, manda scott's dreaming the bull, erika swyler's the book of speculation, anne gardiner perkins' yale needs women)

11. what non-fiction books do you like if any?

ik i just answered this in the previous ask which is why i will now just be lobbing nonfic book recs into the ether bc the results of that poll are making me so sad!!! variety is the spice of life and hyperspecific nonfic is very dear to me

- liza mundy's code girls

- keith o'brien's fly girls

- mariana gosnell's zero 3 bravo

- leslie haynesworth & david toomey's amelia earhart's daughers

- michael azerrad's our band could be your life

- thomas & dorothy hoobler's the monsters: mary shelley & the curse of frankenstein

- vito russo's the celluloid closet

- selma blair's mean baby

19. most disliked popular books?

i love being a hater <3

i have a list of author's that are no-gos either bc i think their writing is ass or i refuse on principle to give them my precious time on earth (and sometimes both--colleen, klune, here's looking at y'all kids) but of books in particular nothing comes to mind as fast as riley sager's final girls, every time i see a new riley sager book it makes me feel genuinely hateful. also i'm sorry but i've never enjoyed a word that has come from gillian flynn it's all so fucking boring

[thesimpsonsultimateshowdown]

This Nearly Crashed My Browser: Finding All 120+ Competitors

the current list

The Simpsons is known for it's utterly mind-boggling amount of episodes and characters, with its wiki having more than 5K entries in the character section. My job was to sift to through and pick out as many relevant characters as possible, while making some exclusions and exceptions. Here's how it went down:

The wiki's home page has a character tab with a dropdown with five category; Simpson Family, Krusty, At the SNPP, At Springfield Elementary, and Kids

Clicking on each tab will bring you to a page with all characters relevant to the category

-The Krusty tab is literally just Krusty, so I just found Channel 4 myself

In Simpson Family, I grabbed the core family, Snowball & SLH, Abe & Mona, Patty, Selma, and Ling

In Channel 4, I grabbed Krusty, Kent, Bumblebee Man, Sideshow Bob & Mel, Mr. Teeny, Itchy & Scratchy, and later I decided to expand it to celebrities, adding, Marvin Monroe, Troy McClure, Rainer Wolfcastle, Drederick Tatum, and just decided to stick Kang & Kodos here

In SNPP, I grabbed Mr. Burns, Smithers, Lenny & Carl, Blinky the Fish, Charlie, and the people's champion, "Just Stamp the Ticket" Man

In Springfield Elementary, I grabbed Skinner, Edna, Otto, Hoover, Largo, Willie, Chalmers, Krupt, and Doris

And in Kids, I grabbed Uter, Richard & Lewis, Database, Baby Gerald, Milhouse, Nelson, Wendell, Martin, Ralph, Rod & Todd, Sherri & Terri, Janey, and the Spuckler & Nahasapeemapetilon kids

I didn't find the bullies, Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney in Kids, so I made a throwaway category, "Townies". After these three and over the course of tracking other characters, I grabbed Barney, Sam & Larry, Hans Moleman, Snake, Bleeding Gums, Julio & Grady, Jebediah Springfield, Disco Stu, Squeaky Voiced Teen, Cletus & Brandine, and the City of Shelbyville.

Next, I decided to look for Senior characters, which eventually evolved into the aptly named "Olds" category. This was pretty broad, but here I grabbed Ned & Maude Flanders, Kirk & Luann Van Houten, Marge's Mother, Jasper, Mrs. Muntz, Old Jewish Man (which is his title, apparently), Ruth Powers, Mrs. Glick, Crazy Cat Lady, Sarah Wiggum, Agnes, Manjula, and Matt Groening.

Researching this category, characters such as Apu and Fat Tony came to mind, but were excluded since they do stuff. So then I made the final category, "Career", characters who are most defined by their career. This was the largest category, with me grabbing Apu, Reverend & Helen Lovejoy, Lionel Hutz, Moe, Dr Hibbert & Nick, Fat Tony, Legs & Louie, Johnny Tightlips, Frankie the Squealer, Judge Constance, The Salty Sea Captain & The Rich Texan, Mayor Quimby, Cookie Kwan, Blue-Haired Lawyer, Lindsey Naegle, Roger Meyers Jr, Gil, Comic Book Guy, Chief Wiggum, Officers Eddie & Lou, Herman, Italian Chef (not calling him f-ing Luigi Risotto), and Duffman.

Finally, the characters I forgot or couldn't originally fit, being Herbert, Allison, Rabbi Krustofsky, Artie Ziff, Shauna Chalmers, Kumiko Albertson, and Raphael the Wisecrack.

Exclusions and the Vaguest of Vague Rules

While constructing the list, at the start I avoided adding Allison, Herbert, and the Rabbi. In my mind, these were one-time guest stars, like Hank Scorpio and Frank Grimes, but I decided to include them as Allison became a Janey-like figure, Herbert got a follow-up episode in Season 3, and the Rabbi appeared on occasion with speaking roles. Characters I will never add would either be real-people, with the exception of Matt Groening, one-off guest stars, and set-dressing characters that don't impact main characters, such as Martin's parents, the other workers at the nuclear plant, and Sideshow Bob's wife and child.

Of course, I can bend the rules. If you think of a character that could be included, tell me in anyway you can and I'll decide on it or create a public poll. Why, just typing this up I thought of Flanders' parents, the Vegas wives, and Princess Kashmir, who could all be argued for or against!

Thanks for reading, and look forward to deciding polls and soon enough, a bracket! Asks always open!

[the-witching-ash]

✖️✖️✖️

Nyneve Pendragon & Ariana Pendragon

Nyneve Pendragon & Althea (ship?)

Jasper Selma & Raymond Abraham (let Raymond adopt him with Finnick & Annie)

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11. Vestavia Hills

12. Phenix City

13. Prattville

14. Gadsden

15. Alabaster

16. Opelika

17. Northport

18. Enterprise

19. Daphne

20. Homewood

21. Athens

22. Bessemer

23. Trussville

24. Pelham

25. Fairhope

26. Albertville

27. Mountain Brook

28. Oxford

29. Anniston

30. Foley

31. Helena

32. Prichard

33. Cullman

34. Tillmans Corner CDP

35. Selma

36. Troy

37. Hueytown

38. Calera

39. Millbrook

40. Muscle Shoals

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47. Gulf Shores

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53. Ozark

54. Jacksonville

55. Irondale

56. Moody

57. Pell City

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Poll of Springfield

So, late at night, a few nights ago, I was wondering how the bellwether town of Springfield (the #Simpsons Springfield) would vote in the upcoming Presidential election. Political junkie that I am, I had to get up from bed and go over to my computer and figure it out.

Though I did my best to ask every member of the Springfield Community how they were going to vote, some refused to answer and no doubt I missed a few too. If you have any suggestions or you think anyone would vote differently, or if you can think of more fun quotes from residents of Springfield about this election, please post below!

Note: I even asked residents not of voting age, or who lost the right to vote due to previous felony convictions, and included their answers below, but not in the final poll tally.

Topline results:

Hillary Clinton 44%

Donald J. Trump 35%

Gary Johnson 6%

Other 4%

Undecided/Refused 11%

Homer J. Simpson

Though he wanted to vote for Trump, Marge said she’d never sleep with him again if he did, so that’s how he became a Democrat. Of course, it’s a pretty good bet he’ll punch the wrong button at the polling station as is his custom, so if he goes in wanting Hillary, we’ll count his vote for TRUMP!

Marge Simpson

HILLARY

Bart Simpson

“Deez-nuts” Note: not of voting age and won’t be counted in poll results.

Lisa Simpson

“Well, at first I wanted Bernie Sanders. He was so dreamy! Then, when he lost I thought I’d vote for the first female President, Dr. Jill Stein! She would ride in on a magical pony and free all the animals from circuses and make everyone vegan. Then I realized I’m supporting Hillary Clinton.” Note: not of voting age and won’t be counted in poll results.

"Grandpa" Abe Simpson

“I’m voting for Cal Coolidge! I like him because he’s quiet.”

Patty Bouvier

HILLARY “Of course I’m voting for the woman!”

Selma Bouvier

HILLARY.

Montgomery Burns

TRUMP “Well, he wasn’t my first choice, but at least the young orange-haired young man isn’t a communist!”

Waylon Smithers

TRUMP Gays for Trump!

Moe Szyslak

TRUMP “I know how this works, see. I get in for Trump now and he lets me name a drink after him and charge twice as much. That’s why I like him, an honest politician.”

Barney Gumble

Passed out, no answer

Kent Brockman

HILLARY But I need to be discreet about it, being a card-carrying member of the media elite. That and I don’t want Trump’s goons to beat me up.

Mayor Quimby

HILLARY I’ve been with Hillary from da start! Bill and I used to hang out…”

Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson

Will cancel one another’s votes, Lenny is leaning Trump and Carl is leaning Hillary

Krusty The Clown

Member of the Springfield Republican Central Committee, JOHNSON, “Oy, this is the choice I have? I’d never vote for her, and what’s he doing with the anti-Semitic retweets and hey, I’m supposed to be the clown here.”

Doctor Hibbert

Member of the Springfield Republican Central Committee, TRUMP “Well I liked Dr. Ben Carson, but I suppose Trump will do.”

Ned Flanders

Undecided “Oh lord, how did we wind up with such diddly awful candidates? I think I’ll just write in Ronald Reagan.”

Kang and Kodos

“TRUMP! We want Trump to be subjugator of the masses!” Note: not of voting age and won’t be counted in poll results,

Comic Book Guy

JOHNSTON “Well I liked Bernie of course, but now I like Gary Johnson. Polar opposite? Methinks not.”

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

HILLARY “Oh my goodness, even though I am Hindu not Muslim I do not think that Mr. Trump knows the difference. He is a very bad man.”

Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon

HILLARY

Seymour Skinner

HILLARY “mother says it’s Hillary. And anyway I think Trump wants to get rid of the Department of Education.

Chief Wiggum

TRUMP “I like a man who stands for law and order.”

Jasper “Bill Clinton”

Captain McAllister

HILLARY “Har, Hillary I guess, she looks mighty good to me after three months at sea...”

Otto Mann

JOHNSON “I was feeling the Bern, but I’m a one-issue man, and I like the guy who wants to legalize weed and give it out to everyone! Oh wait, he doesn’t want the government to give it out? Maybe I’ll go Hillary then!”

Bumblebee Man

HILLARY “Si yo soy ciudano Americano. HILLARY HILLARY HILLARY. Por favor dios HILLARY!”

Snake (Jailbird)

“Oh, election time?” (cannot vote due to priory felony conviction)

Old Gil Gunderson

TRUMP “I just signed up for his Trump University, I know this is my ticket! This is the right program for me to finally launch my success! Finally Ol' Gil is gonna make it!”

Sideshow Bob (Robert Terwilliger)

TRUMP “I appreciate the complex intricacies of his simple mind” (not counted, convicted felon)

Fat Tony’s cousin who looks just like him

TRUMP “My other cousin did business with him in Atlantic City.”

Ranier Wolfcastle

Member of Springfield Republican Central Committee, TRUMP “Of course I vote for Trump! He veel be strong leader and make us great again!”

Superintendent Chalmers

HILLARY

Agnes Skinner

HILLARY “It’s about time they let Hillary tell Bill what to do”

Bloodsucking Vampire

(From Springfield Republican Party Headquarters) TRUMP “He vas my choice all along!” (not counted, vampires can't vote)

Groundskeeper Willie

Unknown “Ain’t nobody gonna get outta me who Willie’s voting fer!”

Cletus

TRUMP “Gosh he’s gonna make ‘Merica great agin! And he’s one of them millionairres I seen on TV”

Brandine (Cletus’s wife)

TRUMP “I seen him on TV!”

Hans Moleman

Undecided “I think a giant meteor. Whoever I vote for loses anyway.”

Sideshow Mel

Gave a whistle when asked

Professor Frink

HILLARY “She’s a woman of bzonga SCIENCE and of course with the climate change and the stem cell research, HILLARY!”

Squeaky Voice Teen

HILLARY “Well it’s my first election, so of course I liked Bernie but now I guess I like Hillary?”

Judge Constance Harm

TRUMP

Judge Snyder

HILLARY

Lou and Eddie

Will cancel one another’s votes, Lou is leaning Trump and Eddie is leaning Hillary

Reverend Lovejoy

Undecided “Oh lord, please give us other choices.”

Helen Lovejoy

HILLARY “I just can’t vote for that potty-mouthed Trump.”

Kirk and Luann Van Houten.

HILLARY

Blue Haired Lawyer

Member of Springfield Republican Central Committee, TRUMP

Rich Texan

TRUMP “I liked them Bush boys better, but Trump’s a hellavalot better than Hillary!”

Bernice Hibbert

HILLARY

Disco Stu

HILLARY “I was with Bernie all the way man, but I guess I’m with her now.”

Luigi

Trump no lika the immigrants! Luigi izza immigrant too! He no wanta pizza on every corner?

Duffman

TRUMP “TRUMP will make America Great, oh yeah!!!”

Doris Freedman (lunchlady)

HILLARY “I like her school lunch program.”

Frankie The Squealer

TRUMP “The bosses cousin did bidness wid him. It was that casino project down in Atlantic City, the one that guy disappeared at, the one on the Boardwalk, ya know? but you didn’t hear it from me.”

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Sneak Attack by Stacey Lynn is now live!

𝑨 𝒔𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏...

I might have made it as an NFL quarterback, but I was still me—still living in my hometown north of Nashville and tackling being a single dad. The media assumed I wore a halo beneath my helmet, but they didn't know my tragic past. I was no angel.

Because the only woman I ever truly loved was the girl who stole my heart when it was committed to another, and I never recovered from the mess we created.

Seven years is a long time to wait for a second chance. I tried to move on and live without her. Now, Eden's returned home to haunt me all over again, making me feel all the things I can't deny when she's near.

She might have her running shoes strapped on tight, but I'm desperate for her to stay this time. In order to do that, I need to find a way for us to put the past where it truly belongs, buried six feet deep with the person whose death still stands between us.

I didn't become one of the best in the league by playing it safe. Eden's always been mine, and it's time she finally learns it, too.

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Stacey Lynn likes her coffee with a dash of sugar, her heroes with a side of bossy, and her wine a deep shade of red.

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Born in Texas and raised in the Midwest, she now makes her home in North Carolina and loves all things Southern. Together with her ultimate tall, dark, and handsome hero, she has four children. Her life is a chaotic mess that fights with her Type-A, list-making, neurotically organized preferences and she wouldn't have it any other way.

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My Review

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Get ready to Swoon harder than you’ve ever swooned before. This is a book that makes you feel from the moment you start reading until the very end, a book you can’t wait to get into and a book that once you’re in, you’re trapped, you’ll never want to get out. Full of forgiveness, grief, life, death, angst, heat, heart, emotions, passion and swoon. I LOVED reading this small town, second chance romance story!

It’s been seven, hard years since Eden has been in Marysville Tennessee, seven years, since she had sworn never to return. But when Marley Bickerstaff, an elderly neighbor/ grandma asks her to return home so she can see her one last time, she honors her request and returns to take care of her until she passes. But Marley has another reason to want Eden to return and that is for Cole.

Cole Buchanan is the small town hero who is now a NFL Quarterback for the Nashville Steel Football team. He has a five year old son named Jasper that helped him turn his life around after a tragedy that left him and Eden broken. But Jasper’s mother Selma has her own agenda as well and Eden isn’t in it. But Cole is the boy that Eden loved and the boy who was never hers to love, never hers to have, but they hadn’t cared until that fateful night. Is that magnetic force there still between them? Will love and forgiveness guide them back to each other? You will definitely want to read this to get all the yummy details.

Filled with page after page of heart pumping drama and an emotional journey that left this reader mesmerized by the the pure beauty of this masterpiece.

Stacey Lynn has just given me the best feeling in the world. You know the one… that little zip of excitement when you find a new author, and they’ve got the magical “thing” that makes you want to devour their back list… It’s epic right? Believe me you will not want to put this woman’s stuff down. Blending smart, sexy romance with heart racing, fist pumping, emotionally heartwarming and heartbreaking, wide grin on your face great read. I can’t wait to read more in this series!!

I voluntarily requested an early copy and this is my honest review.

[ginevrastilinski-ocs]

New Hunger Games OC!

Can't believe I forgot to introduce to you guys my new HG baby!

Jasper Selma!

District 5 - winner of the 72nd Hunger Games at 15 (18 during Catching Fire)

Reaped with his sister. He was ready to sacrifice himself to save her, but she betrayed him and chased him with others tributes

Shuts down all his games after that

Very traumatized after the games but he saw how Capitol/everyone else treated Annie so he just hides his mental breakdowns and his non-verbal moments

Probably has one of the highest kill count in the Arena

Basically the adopted child of Annie and Finnick lol

Peeta ship

[thedailyhawthornegossip]

Is it me or does Selma seem to have a thing for Jasper???

Who doesn’t have a thing for that precious little bloody werewolf boy, huh? I mean, for all we know, Selma cheated the system to make sure that boy won the Pumpkin King, or can we just call it Pupkin King now because that’s just too darn adorable! Anyways, my favorite sexy and bloody murderer can get herself a man in Jasper, and I would totally be into it! Let’s just talk about how cute and adorable their kiddies would be too? Porcelain skin, perfect hair? What’s not to love. Selma, all you gotta do is put on that charm and I’m sure you could snag yourself up a new man. And if not, give me a call Jasper.

-T

[princessmo]

walking through liberal the simpsons

HOMO simpson?? baby faggie? jasper queerdly?????? patty and selma BOOBvier?!? KENT COCKMAN???? PROFESSOR TWINK!?!?!?

[pacific-coast-hockey]

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Jasper Weatherby's grandpa worked with Martin Luther King Jr., his grandmother marched in Selma, now he hears his calling

Jasper Weatherby remembers the conversation.

His brother, Kevin, was about to make a cross-country drive from their father Dicken's home in Vermont to their mother Lucinda's home in Ashland, Ore., for the first time.

Before hitting the road, Dicken sat Kevin down to have an important talk.

He told Kevin to be extremely careful on his drive and instructed him, if he gets pulled over by an officer, to make sure his hands are in full view at all times. He gave him a general idea of which towns to stop in, and said to be careful even when filling up with gas.

It caught Jasper's attention, because he had driven across the country numerous times during his hockey-playing career. He had completed that Oregon-to-Vermont journey himself. But nobody told him these things.

"The only thing my dad ever said to me was 'don't speed,'" said Jasper, a junior center on UND's hockey team.

Jasper knew why things were different, though.

He's white. Kevin is Black.

Although brothers have grown up together since the Weatherbys adopted Kevin 16 years ago, Jasper is keenly aware of prejudices and racial inequities that exist in America, and why things can be different for them.

"Kevin is the friendliest guy you'll ever meet," Jasper said. "He's the nicest guy I know. When I was young, I was oblivious to a lot of stuff, because I never understood why anyone would treat us any different.

"Our dad is such a good dad and cares so much that he thinks about those things. But it's messed up that he has to say that. That hit home for me. I thought, 'How am I going to help this? Am I going to do something more?'"

Since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody in May, Weatherby's normally quiet Instagram feed has been filled with posts and stories supporting racial justice and the Black Lives Matter movement.

He participated in a Black Lives Matter march in Grand Forks. He visited Floyd's memorial in Minneapolis to pay his respects. He protested back home in Ashland, Ore. He has tweeted support for the movement and has led discussions among his UND teammates.

Few college hockey players have been as outspoken as Weatherby this summer. And if you know his life story, his family's history, you understand that Weatherby has been raised for this moment, shaped by civil rights fighters that line his family tree.

Weatherby's grandfather, Ralph Temple, fled the Nazis as a 7-year-old Jewish boy growing up in London. In America, he became a civil rights lawyer, who fought Jim Crow in the courtroom, became a member of the NAACP Board of Directors, worked underneath Thurgood Marshall at the Legal Defense Fund and alongside Martin Luther King Jr., on a couple of cases.

Weatherby's grandmother, Ann Macrory, was a pioneering civil rights lawyer, who participated in the famous Selma to Montgomery march, stood in the National Mall watching King give his 'I Have a Dream' speech and fought for things such as housing equality and immigrant rights.

His mother, Lucinda, grew up in Washington, D.C., protested apartheid at the South African embassy and successfully lobbied her high school to divest from any companies that had South African ties.

And there's his brother, Kevin, who the family adopted at age 8 from Costa Rica. Through DNA and ancestry research, they determined that Kevin is the descendant of an enslaved African from Nigeria, who was taken to Jamaica.

They've all had significant influences on Jasper, who hopes to use his platform as an NHL draft pick of the San Jose Sharks and a key player on UND's No. 1-ranked team to shine a light on race issues and make any advances possible.

"My grandma always said, 'It's never the wrong time to do the right thing,'" Jasper said.

Fleeing the Nazis

Jasper's grandfather, Ralph Temple, was dodging bombs at age 7.

Growing up in London in 1940, nightly Nazi bombings became so common that his family slept in an air raid shelter for six weeks. Sometimes, the bombings occurred during the daytime, too.

"I remember my mother, with me in her arms, running with many others in the streets amid the din of explosions, to the tunneled public shelter in Beaumont Street Park," Ralph wrote in his memoirs . "After the raid, it was strange to see houses sliced open and their insides exposed, the profiles of the different floors, the furniture, scattered clothing and belongings, piles of rubble."

Ralph's mother agonized about whether to flee to America, where she and Ralph could get in because of a family connection. Doing so meant they would have to leave behind Ralph's father, because he was being called into the Royal British Army.

They did, though, and settled in Miami. They weren't reunited with Ralph's father for 10 years.

"It was a terrifying experience to have to flee," Ralph's son, Johnny, said. "He carried with him a deep, deep rage at the Nazis. I think any injustice would remind him of what he, a Jewish person, had to experience fleeing while bombs were falling. My dad could lose his temper, a frightening rage, and it always had the flavor of being bombed by the Nazis."

After graduating from Harvard law school, Ralph went to work underneath one of the most impactful lawyers in American history, Thurgood Marshall, at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Marshall had just successfully argued the Brown v. Board of Education decision, which ruled segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

In 1964, Ralph spent two weeks in St. Augustine, Fla., working on cases to uphold the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He worked with Martin Luther King Jr., who had been arrested in St. Augustine months earlier, on a case.

Ralph continued his civil rights work with the American Civil Liberties Union. He worked extensively on behalf of protesters' rights and on ending racially discriminatory practices.

"My dad was deeply patriotic to the United States," Johnny said. "To him, the United States had saved his life and saved his family and saved other Jewish people. He bought into this notion of freedom and justice for all. He bought it hook, line and sinker. That was part of the reason he was so outraged by the treatment of African Americans. He did a lot of work with racial justice, because injustices against Black people reminded my dad of the Nazis."

In 1980, Ralph met Ann Macrory, who already had four children, including Jasper's mother, Lucinda. They met through their civil rights work, where Ann also had a deep background.

Marching in Selma and beyond

Ann, Jasper's grandmother, was attending law school at Georgetown in Washington, D.C., during the heart of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, and soon became deeply involved.

On Aug. 28, 1963, she stood in the National Mall watching Martin Luther King Jr., give his famed 'I Have a Dream' speech during the March on Washington.

Less than a year after graduating with a law degree in 1964, she watched on TV as Alabama State Troopers brutally beat protesters, led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. That event became known as Bloody Sunday.

Compelled to act, Ann, age 25, drove to Selma. There, she joined protesters in their five-day march to Montgomery and the steps of the state capitol in support of voting rights. Ann recalled walking alongside a Black woman, helping hold her baby, as they marched through Dallas and Lowdnes Counties. At times, racist locals yelled at them.

Ann also fought for civil rights in the courtroom. She helped launch the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and served as co-director for 20 years, fighting for immigrant rights, housing equality and judicial selection committees.

"My mom was my hero growing up," Lucinda said. "I was so proud of the work she did. She stuck up for people who didn't have as much as we did. . . for all the disadvantaged. That was inspiring."

Protesting apartheid

Lucinda, Jasper's mother, was immersed in civil rights from the beginning.

Although the family grew up in a wealthier Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Lucinda's mother, Ann, and father, Patrick, sent her and three siblings across town to attend a nearly all-Black school for kindergarten.

"My parents wanted us to get the experience of being the ones who were different," Lucinda said.

Every Christmas, their family would invite a financially struggling family over to join them. Whenever they went on vacation, they'd bring an inner-city family, who had never left the boundaries of D.C., along with them.

There was protesting, too.

Ann once took Lucinda to the South African embassy to protest apartheid.

Soon after, Lucinda lobbied her high school's administrators to divest from any companies that dealt with the South African government during apartheid. School administrators agreed.

Jasper's childhood

Jasper was born in January 1998 in Oregon, where his parents, Lucinda and Dicken, had settled. By that time, Ralph and Ann were married and living in Oregon, too.

So, Jasper grew up surrounded by civil rights fighters, who heavily influenced his life. Lucinda and Dicken raised Jasper to educate himself, read the news, be aware of issues and to build bridges with others.

Jasper was always engaged. At just 5 years old, he would challenge Ralph in debates. Ralph, the powerful and dynamic ACLU litigator who took on the Jim Crow South, would not let Jasper off the hook. In his thunderous, bellowing voice, he would argue back.

"You would think a kid would shrink and be terrified," Lucinda said. "But he wouldn't."

They would go back and forth. After a while, Lucinda would hear a pause as Jasper thought.

"Then," Lucinda said, "you'd hear Jasper say, 'Good point, grandpa.'

"It was the cutest thing."

Ralph's civil rights work continued in Oregon.

"He would go after any signs of injustice or racism," Jasper said. "If he read something in the paper, he'd go out and protect minority families, homeless people, anyone he thought the law was failing. I was really young and didn't really grasp what he was doing all the time, but it's one of those things you look back and wow, he was a powerful man who was doing the right thing."

The family made several trips to Costa Rica as Jasper was growing up. They did not stay at the common tourist destinations on the Pacific Ocean side. They stayed in a shack without electricity on the Caribbean Sea side, near a reservation where the indigenous Bribri people lived.

Jasper always fit in with the local children.

"He would run around and want to hang out with them all day long," Lucinda said. "It was an experience for him being in the non-majority. He was the only White kid. He fit right in. He would be hugging them and swimming with them and playing with them."

One of the children in the pack of friends was Kevin, whose mother was Bribri. Kevin grew up on Telamanca reservation in Costa Rica before moving to Cocles.

Jasper gets a brother

Kevin was staying with his aunt, a friend of Ann's, at the time. Through that connection, Lucinda and Dicken learned that Kevin had been bouncing around between homes in Costa Rica and was looking for a permanent home.

They went through a lengthy process that took over a year to adopt Kevin.

"I was super excited," Kevin said about the idea of moving to the United States with the Weatherby family. "I feel like most of what I saw (about America) was on television. I was thinking about big cities. So, I was surprised when I went straight to a farm. I envisioned more of a city. But I grew up in Costa Rica in jungles and beaches, so a farm isn't too distantly far from that. It was a really beautiful area."

Kevin only spoke Spanish at the time. He had four months to learn English in order to start third grade.

There was a big adjustment to American life, too.

"There were a lot of social aspects I wasn't used to," Kevin said. "I wasn't used to being tucked in (before bed). That's not really how Latin culture is. I remember thinking hot tubs and saunas were so weird. 'You guys do this for fun?' Come winter, I figured it out. I had never seen snow before. It was a big adjustment."

Kevin, who is two years older than Jasper, is extremely outgoing, very curious, can hold a conversation with anyone -- something that has served him well while working jobs as a barista and bartender. He's currently pursuing a degree, potentially in a medical field like physical therapy.

Kevin's talents span many different areas. He speaks English, Spanish and French. He plays guitar and writes his own songs. He can play piano. He has acted in plays. He's an outstanding dancer. He's into poetry. He paints and draws. He lifts weights and excelled in sports growing up, especially soccer.

"I always joke that I stuck with hockey because he was better than me at everything else," Jasper said.

George Floyd sparks a movement

In addition to growing up with a diverse group of friends, Jasper also was exposed to activism as a child.

He joined family members at environmental and prison reform protests growing up. As he got older, he became more and more aware of the role his grandparents played in the Civil Rights Movement.

"I remember thinking that was so long ago," Weatherby said. "Then, I started thinking about how it's not that long ago. Then, it was like, 'Oh my God, this stuff is still happening.'"

Weatherby was driving from Oregon back to Grand Forks in early June as the country erupted in protest over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. When he arrived in Grand Forks, only a few teammates were in town, including his roommates, Jacob Bernard-Docker and Mark Senden.

They discussed the Black Lives Matter movement together. They watched Ava DuVernay's documentary, 13th, which explores the history of racial inequality in the American prison system.

When a Black Lives Matter march was organized in Grand Forks, Weatherby, Bernard-Docker and senior Peter Thome attended it together.

UND players have been discussing ideas on how to keep the movement going during the upcoming hockey season, one in which the Fighting Hawks will likely start as the No. 1-ranked team in the nation.

"We've had some healthy conversations," said Weatherby, the 6-foot-3, 212-pound center who had 10 goals and 18 points last season. "What more can we do? It's time for a change to happen. We're in a great spot with our platform.

"I think people thought that the impact of slavery and segregation ended when the Civil Rights Act was passed, but I think that's so not true. What you're seeing with mass incarceration, people being moved into projects, going to bad schools and being set up for failure is very real and it's still happening. I think with hockey, I'm in an interesting place where maybe I can use this platform to address a group of people who might not be as exposed to it."

For the time being, he continues to offer his thoughts on social media. Weatherby's Twitter bio reads, "Black Lives Matter." His Instagram page has just one collection, labeled "BLM."

A message on Instagram

Johnny Temple, Ralph's son, lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and is the founder of Akashic Books, a publishing company. Among the company's specialties is publishing books from African-American authors and other Black authors from the African diaspora.

One of those books is "We Matter: Athletes and Activism," which was written by former NBA player Etan Thomas. Johnny interviewed Thomas, one of the first athletes to speak out against the War in Iraq, about his book. Johnny said he's struck by athletes who are willing to put their careers on the line to speak out.

"I've been impressed by how compelled (Jasper) is to speak about injustices when he sees them," Johnny Temple said. "That's something my father had. Jasper seems to not just be someone who wants to do the right thing, but feels emotionally compelled to speak up when he sees something that isn't right."

It was late one morning this summer when a personal message landed in Weatherby's Instagram inbox.

It was from a UND student, who had noticed Weatherby's activity on social media.

"I don't know if you'll ever get this and I don't know why I'm sending this," the message started, "but I had an urge to say thank you. As a black student that attended UND, I've never felt comfortable on this campus so seeing you use your voice for the movement honestly makes a difference."

It was validation for what Weatherby has been doing.

Ralph and Ann have both passed away. Ralph died in 2011. Ann died in January.

But their legacies, carried from London to Washington, from St. Augustine to Selma, from Ashland to Vermont, are living on through Jasper in another moment of racial reckoning.

[danjaley]

8 favourite characters

thanks for the tag @nocturnalazure​ !

Share ten different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media, in no particular order, then tag/send to ten people (anon or not).

Feel free to join in, I have cold, tagging people is stressing me out more than usual.

Filifjonka (Moomin series, Tove Jansson). While there are a lot of characters in this series I share attitudes with, I especially identify with this one. The Filifjonka is tidy, cares about family while not being very gregarious by nature, is frequently nervous to the point of totally panicked, but always manages to regain her ground. Then again she’s unexpectedly brave and rebellious or freaks everyone out by saying overly dramatic things (”When will our execution take place?”) In the end she learns to play the mouth-organ, to become a little more like Mumrik, whom I also admire.

Thursday Next (The Eyre Affair (and sequels) Jasper Fforde): Okay, maybe it’s not the character alone, but this is the most brilliant work of (meta) fiction I ever read. I appreciate that Thursday, as the protagonist of a fantasy novel, is over thirty, and I like her matter-of-fact way to deal with the most surreal of situations. As the first person narrator she doesn’t get kitschy or sentimental about her own feelings, and never loses her sense of humour. The whole book manages to be the most hilarious of Jabberwocky and deeply touching at the same time.

Andrej Bolkonsky (War and Peace, Leo Tolstoi): Even at dying he was better than other people! I also relate to the feeling when you’d love to speak to someone on eye-level, but everyone around you is more interested in meaningless small-talk. He did an interesting thing in my head. At the beginning of the novel I imagined him a light blonde, but the more he realized there was no place for him in this world, the darker-haired he grew. Also: That feeling when you’re heartbroken about a book, but nobody understands how you could read War and Peace in the first place. In 2018 I felt that as an expert on the Napoleonic times I ought to tackle it. My mother had bought our copy in order to disapprove of it. I read past her bookmark from 1982. Actually I was surprised how many characters’ storylines, outside the Rostov-Bolkonsky connection, just ran into nowhere. This wouldn’t have happened with Victor Hugo!

Gösta Berling (Gösta Berling, Selma Lagerlöff): Most things he does end in disaster, but in such an incredibly aesthetic way, it’s a delight to read. Also no amount of tragedy stops him from being the coolest historical guy in Sweden.

Desirée Clary / Bernadotte (Desirée, Annemarie Selinko): Again, this is generally one of my favourite books. It follows the (somewhat fictionalized) biography of the first Bernadotte Queen of Sweden and her entanglements with Napoleon Bonaparte. In the course of the novel she goes from a silly teenager to a world-wise adult to a slightly patronizing middle-aged lady, while always staying true to herself. The transition is almost imperceptible. She also speaks the author’s charming Austrian German :)

Leslie May (Rivers of London series, Ben Aaronovitch): My role-model on how to maintain dignity and self-respect in the event of ones face falling off. (This mainly refers to volume 1-3. In volume 4 she changes sides and rarely appears any more. I quit reading it when I realized the series wasn’t working towards a conclusion.)

Walter Blythe (Anne of Green Gables series, Lucy Maud Montgomery): I am rather a fan of the later volumes of Anne actually. Not to say anything about his story being truly heartbreaking, he’s a great example of how to build up a tragic hero while still letting him be a kid. In general I’m deeply fascinated with how the World Wars impacted serial literature for young girls. If I had stayed with history of literature, I would have done research about this.

Alm-Öhi (Heidi, Johann Spiry): Admittedly, as a child I identified more with Heidi herself, but I was always in awe of her grandfather. He reminded me a little bit of my own grandfather. He’s self-reliant and can do anything that needs to be done in their little world. He cares about his family while not being a gregarious person at all. When I was five years old myself, I thought he had lost his son a lifetime ago - but in fact it was less than five years. When I grew older and became a historian I also started noticing his occasional references to his past as a soldier.