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[wipbigbang]

WIP BIG BANG SIGN-UPS ARE LIVE!

The 2024 round of WIP Big Bang is now open for sign-ups! Any fandom is welcome, as long as the fic is 500 completed so far and will be at least 7,500 words upon its finishing. Signing up is easy: just fill out the form linked below after you read the FAQ and take a look at the schedule.

[niveditaabaidya]

Russia Claims To Have Deactivated 10th Drone Over Crimea. #crimea #nato ...

[steviesays]

Oop replacement body was exposed so what now 🦭

[reimenaashelyee]

Comics layouts based on different styles of historical art:

Ancient Egyptian wall paintings, ancient Greek pottery (Kersch style), & medieval European illumination (Alexander Comic - alexanderromance.com)

Early modern Ottoman illumination (The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya)

More to come @_@ Also these are all from my webcomics, you can read them for free!!!

[pjstafford]

The X-Files: Perihelion (A Book Review)

The X-Files: Perihelion is a book scheduled for release in July 2024. It is written by Claudia Gray with Chris Carter's approval. It is published by Hyperion Avenue. I want to thank the author and publisher for an advanced digital copy of the book for review.

In writing this review, my assumption is that the readers will be fans of the X-Files who have watched through season 11. The book picks up fairly shortly after season 11 ends. THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW! I usually try to write spoiler-free reviews but felt that, in this case, I could not review the book fully without some spoilers. I think it is important to note upfront that the book does set itself up for future books - as a new series of books.

Will fans like this book? It depends on what the potential readers' engagement and perspective is on the series. In that case, it makes sense for me to disclose that information about myself. I engage with some X-Files content daily. I am a fan of the revival seasons. I hated the cliffhanger in season 10 but loved the majority of season 11 including the ending (although I understand why some fans did not).

The book opens with Scully pregnant, Skinner in a coma, and Mulder and Scully suspended from the FBI pending an investigation. The two agents are living together to co-parent, but their relationship status is undefined and there is some new distance emotionally due to the trauma they suffered at the end of season 11. Scully has returned to medicine and Mulder is considering his next career move. What I enjoyed about this feature of the book is that the closing of the X-Files did not seem to be a disaster for either agent. What I would change about the finale of season 11 is that too much time was spent with Kersch on shutting down the X-Files. To both agents' surprise, they are called back to duty on a temporary "let's see how it goes" basis to work on one case.

The case is that pregnant women are being murdered. The unexplained paranormal aspect is that strange electrical surges are happening at the scene of each murder. This was an excellent way to get the agents reinvested in The X-Files. It hits them in their feels and the reader is drawn in as well. This case is actually wrapped up long before the book's end. In the meantime, the agents have been assigned a second case and the first case is really a clue to the second case. I won't give away too many spoilers here except to say that the second case sets up future books. It takes existing mythology and twists it with a new substitute syndicate and new characters helping the agents. I found this portion of the book to be mostly very well written. I enjoyed it up until the point where I realized it was setting up for an ongoing series. This is the area where I think readers will have to decide where they are with their engagement with The X-Files. If you are a fan who really just wants the agents to continue to solve cases and protect the world from ongoing global conspiracies and you love the thought of seeing them solve cases together, you will enjoy the book and likely the series immensely. I was there at one point. In fact, at the end of season 10, I wrote my own longer fan fic which was based on what I envisioned a new series could look like. I simply am not there any longer. I would like to see this amazing story of these agents have the outstanding ending (whether happy or not) that they deserve as iconic characters. I would like to see an ending comparable to their journey instead of beginning another journey with a whole new mythology arc. This is not to criticize the writer or fans who want more stories, but, in the end, I was disappointed by this approach.

As to the answers to the burning questions left from season 11. What I really enjoyed is that Scully and Mulder find themselves coming together while processing their grief for William/ Jackson who they both believe is dead and was never Mulder's son. They did this very much in character. Scully is also looking for answers as to why she is pregnant at an advanced age and to the health of the child still in her womb. However, there are still no answers. Scully gets a hint William is alive. Mulder gets a possible scenario of how he could still be the father, but in the end, the fact of biological or not matters less than the parental love of a child which gives them the right to grief. There is no hint the current baby is anything but healthy and yet there is a plotline related to Scully's alien DNA that doesn't rule out the child might have powers. Yet the hope that the two agents could raise a child together, which is what I liked about the season 11 ending, continues. The timespan covered in the book is not long so Scully is still pregnant at the end of the book.

There are two additional minor criticisms I have about the book which I am including here at the end for feedback on future books in the series.

I liked the way the book ended. It is the way I think most fans would want it to end. However, it was only at the end, with so many of the plot mysteries left unresolved, that I realized the book was intended to be a fuller series. It felt sudden and abrupt. What I think was needed is more of a summary of what was resolved and more of a "launch" into the next book.

Because so much of the mythology of The X-Files revival was about a virus and the new mythology includes an alien DNA mythology, I was initially concerned because no mention of the COVID virus and lockdown was discussed. Then, of course, I realized that Scully was pregnant in 2018. However, there are pop culture references to more modern times. Of course, Mulder would be a fan of Strange New Worlds - which came out in 2022. If that seems a little picky on my part, it is just that the COVID lockdown was a pretty big deal and the plotline of the novel is about a global virus. I encourage the author to clearly set the year in which the novels take place going forward and, if the series will extend past 2020, then some careful thought will have to go into how to handle this. The X-Files has always been set in the real world. It will be a challenge for the author to think about how to address the lockdown from a non-alien virus while writing books about the global contagion of an alien virus.

Thank you again for the opportunity to review.

[picklejarred]

oh kersch is webber from greys!!! crazy!!!

[rebe90]

Stoß mol uff mein Schatz ich riech die Erdbeerche so gern, ich kännt mich nur vun dir und deune Erdbeerche ernähr'n 😆

(Version für alle Veganer)

Stoß mol uff mein Schatz ich riech die Kersche so gern, ich kennt mich nur von dir und Kerscheplotzer ernähr'n... 🤭

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[kerschfarmers1]

Understanding Motorcycle and Recreational Vehicle Rental Insurance in Denver, CO

When you’re cruising the scenic routes of Denver, CO on a motorcycle or planning a memorable road trip in a rented RV, having the right insurance can make a world of difference. Kersch Farmers Agency specializes in providing tailored coverage options for motorcycle and recreational vehicle (RV) rental insurance to help you ride or drive with peace of mind.

Read more: https://kerschfarmersagency.blogspot.com/2024/10/understanding-motorcycle-insurance-and.html 

[personal-reporter]

Storie delle Olimpiadi: Johnny Weissmuller, il nuotatore olimpico che divenne Tarzan

Un uomo che divenne due volte leggenda, tra lo sport e il mondo del cinema… Figlio di Petrus Weissmüller e Ersebert Kersch, János Weißmüller nacque  il 2 giugno 1904 a Freidort, parte dell’Impero austro-ungarico che oggi si trova in Romania con  il nome di Timisoara. A pochi mesi dalla nascita del piccolo János la famiglia emigrò negli Stati Uniti partendo dal porto di Rotterdam e nei registri…

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Le 2 juin 1904, Janos (Johann puis Johnny) Peter Weissmuller est né de parents allemands à Freidorf, en Roumanie, à l'époque faisant partie de l'empire austro-hongrois. Il a été baptisé catholique trois jours plus tard le 5 juin. Le 26 janvier 1905, Janos âgé de sept mois arrive à Ellis Island sur le S.S. Rotterdam, après un voyage de douze jours depuis la Hollande. Peter Weissmuller, un mineur, et sa femme Elizabeth née Kersch avaient respectivement 27 et 24 ans et n'avaient que dix dollars avec leur bébé. Ils ont voyagé en train jusqu'à Windber, en Pennsylvanie pour rester avec des membres de leur famille. Son frère Peter y est né en septembre.

[spiritualdirections]

Civil Rights on the Left and Right

I found it interesting that in two Supreme Court civil rights cases today, the left and the right both wrap themselves in the mantle of the 1960s movement to end Jim Crow laws. 

In the college admissions case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the conservative majority got to take the side of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his “I Have a Dream” speech, which proposed that race should not be a dividing factor in public life. 

Here’s how National Review frames the decision:

‘The colorblindness principle is a keystone of the American Constitution, as the Court’s opinion, and the historic concurring opinion of Justice Clarence Thomas, demonstrate at length. That principle found its roots in the Declaration of Independence and the abolitionist movement, triumphed in the Emancipation Proclamation and the Reconstruction amendments, and overcame legalized segregation with Brown v. Board of Education and the civil-rights movement. “The Constitution, as well as the Declaration of Independence, and the sentiments of the founders of the Republic, give us a platform broad enough, and strong enough, to support the most comprehensive plans for the freedom and elevation of all the people of this country, without regard to color, class, or clime,” Frederick Douglass declared in criticizing the infamous Dred Scott decision. As Justice Harlan famously wrote in dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld racial segregation: “Our constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law.” Or, as Justice Scalia put it pithily in his Adarand Contractors v. Peña concurrence, “in the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.”’

Harvard’s position is characterized as being pro-segregation. First, ouch. Second, legally speaking, it’s a pretty easy task to frame the decision this way, since it does follow directly in the line of cases, starting with Brown v. Board, that were against segregation. Harvard ended up on the other side.

 In the other major civil rights case, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, an evangelical website designer was protected from being compelled by the state of Colorado to design websites for same-sex weddings. The conservative majority treated this case as a First Amendment case--desigining a website is an act of creative expression, and the government cannot compel expression. Justice Sonia Sotomayor saw it as a civil rights case:

‘Around the country, there has been a backlash to the movement for liberty and equality for gender and sexual minorities...New forms of inclusion have been met with reactionary exclusion. This is heartbreaking. Sadly, it is also familiar. When the civil rights and women’s rights movements sought equality in public life, some public establishments refused. Some even claimed, based on sincere religious beliefs, constitutional rights to discriminate. The brave Justices who once sat on this Court decisively rejected those claims.”

According to the evidence above, both the left and the right are in favor of equality and are opposed to Jim Crow laws. But that agreement doesn’t seem to be the basis for further political agreement, or even interparty dialogue. Which means that at least one side does not hold these civil rights principles as strongly as its rhetoric makes it seem, since otherwise they would have a shared basis on which to work together, and they clearly don’t.

As Ken Kersch demonstrated in Constructing Civil Liberties, much of the 20th century discourse around civil rights was used as a smokescreen by Progressives to shrink the power of the states and the mediating institutions of civil society--especially religion--and to expand the size and the scope of the federal government. (Much of his book involves archival research in which Progressives said that in so many words--they did not care about racial or religious minorities, they just wanted to use the courts to remove obstacles to the Progressive ideal, which meant weakening the states, religious communities, the family, and private associations.) 

I suspect that something like what Kersch discovered is the real fight going on in these two cases. The website designer case is really a disagreement about whether the state can control the media when it wants. The Harvard case is really about how to shape and form the next generation of leaders. In both cases, the real goal is about who exercises control over ideas, and the language of civil rights was just the way to dress up these particular disagreements.

[thexfilesseason4]

Deputy director kersch is the same actor as richard webber in greys anatomy which I never realized in the original run but in the reboot it's so jarring!!! What is he doing here he is supposed to be performing surgery and acting as a fraught and turbulent quasi-father figure to meredith and occasionally providing comic relief by not understanding the kids these days!!

[niveditaabaidya]

Crimea Bridge Attacked Killing Two People. #crimea #kersch #bridge #ukra...

[steviesays]

YES SKINNER CALL IN DEEP THROAT NUMBER 3

[arun-pratap-singh]

Filipina Harvard grad's mobile app seeks to lessen cost of OFW remittances

Composite photo of Rebecca Kersch and a logo of TANG app (Released/tang_app/Instagram) A Filipina Harvard graduate launched a digital payment app dedicated to helping overseas Filipinos send money back home. Rebecca Kersch, a Harvard Kennedy School alumna, formally launched the TANGapp, a mobile remittance app, in the Philippines on February 13. TANGapp, which is short for “transaction-and-go”…

[a4jsk]

I am proud to announce I have officially accepted the honor of presenting at ISTE Live 23‼️🥳🎊🎉 Can’t wait to present with the one and only Kammas Kersch on Esports and Careers! Look our Philadelphia‼️ #esportsEDU #EdTech #istelive23 #ISTELive https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm-oOXPOWiQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=