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WING 100 - 100m Sailing Yacht,

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Royal Huisman

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Rosie's 27th birthday

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Preview: Transformers 6-Movie 4K UHD Steelbook Collection

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Be Witched

THE WITCHING HOUR Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham, Tuesday 3rd October 2023 A regular fixture of my theatrical year is the annual scary play at Birmingham’s Blue Orange.  This is their third consecutive production in this vein, and with the quality of the previous two so high, it has a lot to prove. The opening scene has hooded figures, olde worlde language, and a small coffin: the funeral of…

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what's up ! non-exhaustive list of stories featuring weird plants :

The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham

The Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark

In the Tall Grass, Stephen King and Joe Hill

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', William Hope Hodgson

The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood

The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

The Nature of Balance, Tim Lebbon

'Bloom', John Langan

The Ruins, Scott Smith

The Wise Friend, Ramsey Campbell

'The Green Man of Freetown', The Envious Nothing : A Collection of Literary Ruins, Curtis M. Lawson

The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley

The Ash-Tree, M.R. James

Canavan's Backyard, J.P. Brennan

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney

The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher

'Reaching for Ruins', Crow Shine, Alan Baxter

'Vortex of Horror', Gaylord Sabatini

Hothouse, Brian W. Aldiss

Vaster than Empires and More Slow, Ursula K. Le Guin

Odd Attachment, Ian M. Banks

Deathworld #1, Harry Harrison

The Bridge, John Skipp and Craig Spector

'The Garden of Paris', Eric Williams

Apartment Building E, Malachi King

The Seed from the Sepulchre, Clark Ashton Smith

Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Nursery, Lewis Mallory

The Other Side of the Mountain, Michel Bernanos

The Vegetarian, Han Kang

Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima

The Root Witch, Debra Castaneda

Semiosis, Sue Burke

The Wolf in Winter, Charlie Parker #12, John Connolly

Perennials, Bryce Gibson

Relic, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Gwen, in Green, Hugh Zachary

The Voice in the Night, William Hope Hodgson

Ordinary Horror, David Searcy

The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper

The Book of Koli, Rampart Trilogy #1, M.R. Carey

Seeders, A.J. Colucci

Concrete Jungle, Brett McBean

The Plant, Stephen King

Anthologies/collections :

The Roots of Evil: Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants, edited by Michel Parry

Chlorophobia: An Eco-Horror Anthology, edited by A.R. Ward

Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants, edited by Carlos Cassaba

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness, Richard Gavin

Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic, edited by Daisy Butcher

Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain, edited by John Miller

'But fungi aren't plants' :

The Fungus, Harry Adam Knight

Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay

The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi, Brian Lumley

'The Black Mould', The Age of Decayed Futurity, Mark Samuels

What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher

The House Without a Summer, DeAnna Knippling

Mungwort, James Noll

Fungi, edited by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Trouble with Lichen, John Wyndham

Notes :

all links lead to the goodreads page of the book, mostly because i like to look at book cover art ;

list features authors/books that i love (T. Kingfisher, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ursula K. Le Guin, the collections from the British Library Tales of the Weird, etc.), but also a few that i don't like and some that i have not yet read ;

if upon seeing that list the first novel you check out is by Stephen King's you have not understood the assignment ;

not all of those are strictly horror stories, some are 100% science fiction (Brian W. Aldiss' Hothouse for instance).

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Pack your bags, Famers! Our annual winter trip is taking place in Ireland! On February 17th, all celebrities will be arriving at the Adare Manor to kick off our trip! Named the #1 resort in Europe in 2023, Adare Manor sits on 840 acres of pristine parkland.

"It’s prestige without pretense and magic without nonsense. Above all, it is the sense of belonging. You are known. You are family. You are home."

UNDER THE CUT, YOU’LL FIND THE LIST OF ROOMMATES!

Unless we got a message from you telling us you wanted to be with a specific person or were not in the ships list - you were included in the generator. If you do not see your FCs name on this list, please message us POLITELY and let us know - sometimes a name gets missed getting put into the generator. We’re human and it happens! At the same time, if your FC is on there twice by any chance then please let us know. Again, mistakes happen. As we accept new applications and people come into the group before AND during the event, this list will be updated. Same will go for if people get unfollowed or ask to leave the group. We posted the pairings in advance so that you may reach out to your roommate and get new interactions going! Even if a mun is on hiatus, be sure to reach out to them so that you can see if you can head-canon some interactions or plan for something when they are off hiatus. All trips are to encourage new interactions and unlikely connections!

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There was no point in women putting their faith in men, argued [Rebecca] West, not even socialist men, because there was a conflict of interest between women and men, and men would simply 'protect their own' in the face of any threats from women. The unapologetic declaration of war, the unabashed insistence on it as a necessary and just war is a characteristic which marked Rebecca West then and now. The withdrawal of male approval - a weapon used effectively against women for a long time - appears to have made no impression on West who continued to mock male values and to expose the false nature of male 'protection'. That she did this so openly, unashamedly, and in the spirit of moral responsibility may have enraged many men but inspired many women.

Every aspect of man, and man-governed systems, was grist to her mill and week after week she wrote her stinging and sparkling articles: ‘Every man likes to think of himself as a kind of Whiteley's - a universal provider,’ wrote Rebecca West in 1912 in the Manchester Daily Despatch (26 November). 'The patriarchal system is the ideal for which he longs. He likes to dream of himself sitting on the verandah after dinner, with his wife beside him and the children in the garden, while his unmarried sisters play duets in the drawing room and his maiden aunts hand around the coffee. This maintenance of helpless, penniless, subservient womanhood is the nearest he can get in England to the spiritual delights of the harem.'

In the interest of making this dream come true she explains, man has thought of a multitude of reasons for paying woman less - even when she does the same work - for how else is she to be enticed into giving up her own life in order to serve a man, if not by financial necessity? But because many women want to lead their own lives, and because they can see that no pay and low pay makes marriage compulsory, they have started demanding better pay and the option of earning their living in occupations other than marriage. This is a perfectly reasonable and just demand, states West, but one to which men are likely to react with irrationality and rage - thereby unwittingly revealing the extent of the esteem in which they hold women and the unmasked nature of male chivalry and protection! When ‘womanhood declares,’ says West, ‘that she is no longer helpless, dislikes being penniless, and refuses to be subservient, the men become indignant and inarticulate,’ and find themselves caught in a contradictory position.

They have two areas they wish to protect - in their own self interest - the home and the workplace, and when 'only by the fear of starvation are women coerced into having husbands,' then starving women into marriage means among other things, paying them low wages. Unfortunately, however, men also want to maintain their monopoly on employment and they have to confront the unpalatable fact that lower paid women are often more attractive to employers than higher paid men, with the result that ensuring wives may necessitate the risk of losing jobs. Hence their irrational, inarticulate protest, states West, for men want both wives and jobs.

Equal pay for equal work was just a matter of plain common sense to Rebecca West: women's needs are no less than men's, and women's freedom to choose paid work or marriage - or both, as men had been doing for many a year - was no less precious. And if men were only sensible about this she argued, they might begin to see that they had something to gain as well, for once the compulsory element was removed from marriage, once women were permitted the same job opportunities as men, women would be more likely to choose a companion than accept an employer; ‘if there is to be any romance in marriage,' she wrote, 'woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange' (ibid.).

The male capacity for logic, however, appears to be severely limited for neither then nor now have men shown themselves to be convinced by the reasonableness of the case, and they give every sign of ending the century in the way that they began it - by paying woman less. Despite the passing of legislation such as Equal Pay Acts most sources (including the United Nations' statistics on the position of women) indicate that the gap between women's pay and men's pay is growing greater every year. Men still control the world's resources (more then 99 per cent of them according to United Nations' statistics) and therefore can still exercise control over women: seventy years has seen no significant change in the distribution of wealth between the sexes.

-Dale Spender, There’s Always Been a Women’s Movement This Century

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top portrayals:

LIZZY

[12] Lily James

[9] Keira Knightley, Jennifer Lawrence

[5] Imogen Poots

[4] Maisie Williams

[3] Sarah Bolger, Jenna Louise Coleman, Romola Garai, Bella Heathcote, Amber Heard, Saoirse Ronan, Emily VanCamp, Alicia Vikander

[2] Rose Byrne, Nina Dobrev, Taissa Farmiga, Sarah Gadon, Karen Gillan, Eva Green, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Anna Kendrick, Katie McGrath, Leighton Meester, Sophie Turner

[5] Matthew Goode, Jared Padalecki

[4] Jude Law, Aaron Paul

[3] Nathaniel Buzolic, Bradley Cooper, Hugh Dancy, John Krasinski, Landon Liborion, Miles Teller

[2] Jonas Armstrong, Justin Bartha, Douglas Booth, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Sam Claflin, Charlie Cox, Chace Crawford, Charlie Day, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr., Martin Freeman, Ryan Gosling, Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnum, Jake Johnson, Harry Lloyd, James McAvoy, Mads Mikkelsen, Julian Morris, Colin Morgan, David Morrisey, Dylan O’Brien, Evan Peters, Michael Pitt, Eddie Redmayne, Andrew Scott, Bill Skarsgard, Ben Whishaw

KATE THE GREAT

[ 3 ] Astrid Berges-Frisby, Bella Heathcote [ 2 ] Sarah Gadon, Felicity Jones

KATE AA

[ 8 ] Michael Fassbender [ 8 ] Keira Knightley [ 7 ] Tom Hardy

[ 6 ] Emilia Clarke, Phoebe Tonkin [ 6 ] Jensen Ackles, Richard Armitage, Henry Cavill

[ 5 ] Emily Blunt, Nina Dobrev [ 5 ] Nathaniel Buzolic, Sam Claflin, Luke Evans, Chris Hemsworth

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[ 3 ] Candace Accola, Natalie Dormer, Jessica Brown Findaly, Claire Holt, Scarlett Johanson, Freya Mavor, Katie McGrath, Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, Emma Watson [ 3 ] Robert Carlyle, Nikolai Coster-Waldau, Jaime Dornan, Theo James, Joseph Morgan, Julian Morris, Evan Peters, Aidan Turner

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[ 7 ] Natalie Dormer [ 6 ] Romola Garai [ 5 ] Emma Stone [ 4 ] Crystal Reed, Holland Roden [ 3 ] Karen Gillan, Rosamund Pike, Emilie de Ravin, Eleanor Tommilson, Charity Wakefield

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JENN

2: Cava Delevingne, Zoey Deutch, Phoebe Tonkin, Lea Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Suki Waterhouse, Emma Watson

3: Tom Hiddleston 2: Daane Dehann, Chris Hemsworth, Luke Mitchell

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Mind Games: Hell Bent

I just finished Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo. I have thoughts...

Here there be spoilers!

Welcome back to Lethe! In Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo brings readers back to the black magic powering Yale’s Ancient Eight secret societies. Alex Stern is setting up a heist into hell to break free the soul of her lost mentor Daniel “Darlington” Arlington. 

Any good heist requires strategy: you have to stay several steps ahead of your mark. But if there’s one thing these demons love, it’s strategy. Puzzles, riddles, and tricks are their obsession. But as the Ninth House prepares for the descent, they realize that the denizens of hell aren’t the only ones who can play mind games.

Wealth, whiteness, and heteronormativity form the foundation over a nexus of power in Alex’s Yale. To be a Yalie is to hold both sword and shield: you can do harm to others and you need not worry about the consequences. While the current Letheans are in a life-or-death battle for Darlington’s soul and striving to prevent the misuse of magic, alum Anselm casually describes his time in the Ninth House as “an extracurricular. It’s silly to think of it as anything else. Dangerous even.” Like one can casually dabble in black magic and then slide back into ‘reality’ without any thought to the cost. 

But just because they don’t place any value in their power doesn’t mean they want anyone else to have it. The new head of Lethe, the misogynistic Professor Walsh-Whiteley, is offended by the notion that Alex and Dawes can successfully run Lethe without the patriarchal oversight of gentleman Darlington. “I expect you to know your own limitations,” he pronounces, while simultaneously disregarding how both Alex and Dawes have risen to superhuman challenges in their brief tenure.

Such casual exclusion is commonplace outside of fantasy novels. Outsiders to these subcultures of class and privilege are expected to learn the rules and play by them. But these rules were designed to concentrate power, and to deliberately exclude anyone who falls outside the ‘norm.’ (Read: poor people, BIPOC, and queer people.) So Hell Bent shows us that, as outsiders to these oppressive systems, we have a choice: do we play the game to get ahead?

For Alex Stern, the answer is an unequivocal yes. As a poor, biracial--likely queer--woman, she’s used to being underestimated and discarded as worthless by the wealthy, white cisheteronormative elite. Consequently, she has no reservations about pretending to cater to bigots if she can use them to get ahead. “You didn’t offer to help me until you knew I had something you wanted.” She snaps at one. “You were using me and I was happy to whore for you for the right price. So let’s not pretend there was something noble in the transaction.”

Alex sees playing into the expectations of her oppressors as a necessary strategy to win a larger game. But this invites the question: is it ever a power move for minorities to allow ourselves to be exploited?

Occulus Pamela Dawes certainly doesn’t think so. Appalled that Alex wants the two of them to bite their tongues and take Walsh-Whiteley’s casual abuse, Dawes insists that “Playing dumb doesn’t just hurt us, it hurts every woman he comes into contact with.” While in this instance accepting misogynistic treatment might lead to gaining Walsh-Whiteley’s protection and good will to aid in the rescue effort, in the long run there will be consequences. Those consequences might not be felt by Alex and Dawes directly. But they will be felt by any other future woman Dante, Virgil, or Occulus unfortunate enough to have to suffer under Walsh-Whiteley. Someday, it might mean that no woman ever gets tapped for the job either because they know they are unwelcome or because Walsh-Whiteley uses his mistaken conviction in women’s inferiority to keep them out. So Dawes believes that any immediate benefits aren’t worth the price.

Centurian Abel Turner faces a similar struggle. Turner is much older than most of the other Letheans. He’s not a Yalie, just a cop who accepted the fee to serve this particular role as Lethe’s connection to law enforcement. He comes to Alex & Co. as an established career detective. But that career didn’t come without cost, because Turner is not just a cop--he’s also a black man.

Turner had a vision for why he wanted to become a police officer. “He’d done a lot of talking about changing the system from the inside, about being a force for good, and he’d meant it all. He loved his family, loved his people. He could be their sword and their protector. He needed to believe he could.” It’s a completely understandable impulse. As a queer woman and a lawyer, I was often told that I could do more good for myself and people like me if I worked within the system to change the law. This is the fallacy of putting out the fire from inside the house. It’s great in theory. But the reality turns out to be quite different. As Turner finds out: “when he’d been in uniform. Then it was all us-versus-them, a sense of dread every time he passed the invisible line between work and his own neighborhood.” When you start forcing yourself into a system that is designed to hold you down, you begin to realize that you won’t be the one changing its shape. Instead, it will change yours. Turner reflects that “he’d always been the outlier, the good boy, the hall monitor. ‘The overseer,’ his brother had said to him once. ‘Say what you want, but you like that badge and gun.’”

The terrible mind game you start to play with yourself in a situation like that is the soothing of your conscience by assuring yourself that this feeling of self-betrayal is temporary. Turner rationalizes that “It’s the long game...survive this bad job to get to...where he could actually see what needed to be done, where he would have the power to do it.” Turner insists that he’s strong enough to stop, that he “would play until they got tired of playing. That was the deal he made with himself.” But then where do you draw the line? You grit your teeth against the blows of bigotry that are thrown in your direction. You look the other way when you see them thrown at someone else. You flinch when you’re the one told to inflict them...but you don’t stop. 

If you’re lucky, you’ll hit a breaking point. Like when Turner realized that one of the arcane tools being used by the Letheans was an old map once used to track--and return--runaway slaves. Horrified to be standing before it and using it instead of grinding it to dust, Turner cries “This is what your magic is for, isn’t it? This is what it does. Props up the people in power, lets the people with everything take a little more.” This is the moment of reckoning. Even when we choose to play the games designed by the privileged, only they ever get to win. Or, if we ever score some points, we’ll find that by the end we’ve given so much of ourselves away--compromised so much of what we stood for--that the victory doesn’t save us.

I’m sorry, Alex, but you’re wrong. We don’t win by allowing ourselves to be exploited. We don’t win by playing the game. All we can do is keep pushing back, keep refusing to accept the pre-written rules. We may not change the game, but better to lose loudly and proudly than to lose ourselves along the way.

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Melbourne Stars vs. Brisbane Heat Big Bash League (BBL) Dream 11 Team Prediction

Big Bash League (BBL) action is here! Cricket fans, gear up as two power-packed teams, Melbourne Stars and Brisbane Heat, clash in an exciting match. This blog dives deep into the Dream 11 team prediction for this thrilling encounter. Whether you’re a seasoned fantasy player or a beginner, this guide will help you make informed choices. Let’s get started! Match Details - Match: Melbourne Stars vs. Brisbane Heat - League: Big Bash League (BBL) 2024-25 - Date: December 18, 2024 - Time: 8:15 AM GMT (7:15 PM local time) - Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Melbourne

Melbourne Stars vs. Brisbane Heat Big Bash League (BBL) Dream 11 Team Prediction Pitch Report The iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is known for its balanced pitch. Here’s what to expect: - Batting: The surface provides true bounce, helping batters play their shots freely. - Bowling: Seamers get some movement early on, while spinners enjoy grip as the match progresses. - Average Score: 160-170 in T20s. Key Stats at MCG: Matches PlayedBatting First WonBatting Second WonAverage First Innings Score603426162 Weather Forecast Melbourne’s weather on the match day looks promising: - Temperature: 20°C - Humidity: 60% - Rain Chances: 10% - Wind Speed: 15 km/h Ideal conditions for a full game without interruptions! Head-to-Head Record Let’s look at how Melbourne Stars and Brisbane Heat have performed against each other in the past: TeamsMatches PlayedStars WonHeat WonMelbourne Stars1587Brisbane Heat1578 This shows how evenly matched these teams are, making the prediction even more exciting! Players to Watch Out For Melbourne Stars: - Glenn Maxwell (Captain): Known for his explosive batting and handy off-spin. - Marcus Stoinis: A reliable all-rounder with a knack for finishing games. - Adam Zampa: A world-class leg-spinner who thrives in T20s. Brisbane Heat: - Usman Khawaja (Captain): A consistent performer with the bat. - Michael Neser: A lethal pacer and handy lower-order batsman. - Marnus Labuschagne: A solid anchor who can adapt to any situation. Probable Playing XI Melbourne Stars: - Joe Clarke (WK) - Nick Larkin - Glenn Maxwell (C) - Marcus Stoinis - Hilton Cartwright - Beau Webster - Clint Hinchliffe - Nathan Coulter-Nile - Adam Zampa - Luke Wood - Billy Stanlake Brisbane Heat: - Usman Khawaja (C) - Josh Brown - Marnus Labuschagne - Sam Hain - Jimmy Peirson (WK) - Michael Neser - Ross Whiteley - Mark Steketee - Matthew Kuhnemann - Spencer Johnson - Xavier Bartlett Dream 11 Team Prediction Wicketkeeper: - Joe Clarke (Stars): A dependable opener with consistent performances in BBL. Batters: - Glenn Maxwell (Stars): Captain material for your Dream 11 team. - Usman Khawaja (Heat): A must-have player for stability. - Josh Brown (Heat): Known for his aggressive starts. - Nick Larkin (Stars): Adds depth to the batting lineup. All-rounders: - Marcus Stoinis (Stars): The ultimate T20 all-rounder. - Michael Neser (Heat): Contributes with both bat and ball. Bowlers: - Adam Zampa (Stars): A match-winner with his leg-spin. - Mark Steketee (Heat): Reliable with the new ball and at the death. - Nathan Coulter-Nile (Stars): Brings experience to the Stars’ attack. - Matthew Kuhnemann (Heat): Effective on slower tracks. Suggested Captain and Vice-Captain Picks: - Captain: Glenn Maxwell - Vice-Captain: Marcus Stoinis Dream 11 Team Breakdown (Credits-Based) Player CategoryPlayer NameCreditsWicketkeeperJoe Clarke9BattersGlenn Maxwell10.5Usman Khawaja9.5Josh Brown8.5Nick Larkin8All-roundersMarcus Stoinis10.5Michael Neser9BowlersAdam Zampa9Mark Steketee8.5Nathan Coulter-Nile8.5Matthew Kuhnemann8 Expert Prediction Based on form and team balance, Melbourne Stars seem slightly ahead. However, Brisbane Heat’s fiery batting lineup can turn the tables on any day. A score above 170 will be competitive on the MCG pitch. Match Winner Prediction: - Melbourne Stars (55% chance) Tips for Fantasy Players - Monitor the Toss: Teams chasing often have an advantage at the MCG. - Pick All-Rounders: They maximize points through both batting and bowling. - Track Form: Recent performances in the BBL can guide your picks. - Avoid Injured Players: Stay updated with team news before finalizing your squad. Final Thoughts Creating a winning Dream 11 team for Melbourne Stars vs. Brisbane Heat requires careful analysis of player form, pitch conditions, and team strategies. This guide covers all bases to give you the edge in your fantasy leagues. So, build your team wisely and enjoy the cricketing action! Stay tuned to LotusCricket.in for more match predictions and expert tips. Read the full article