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[whatsongdoyouwannadieto]

26/01/2025

2025/45. Kublai Khan TX-Exhibition of Prowess

[idiot-mushroom]

I would love the Casey lore but I also don't want spoilers, so I'm going to ask a bunch of stuff again!

What are Casey, April, Irma, and Sunita's fashion sense like? Music taste? Favorite food? Favorite type of books/shows/movies? Least favorite food texture? Any specific neirodivergency or mental illnesses? What are they most insecure about? Do they all fight along side the turtles or aid them with their adventures?

Please tell me everything you can about Keno!!!

Do any of the humans get mutated at any point? Why does Donnie create retro mutagen?

Is spike mutant or yokai? Will he eventually be an ally to the turtles? Do have a design for him? Do they acquire other allies? Do you have any character designs we can have a sneak peek too?

Is Bishop and his hole thing in this au? Are the triceraton? Will there be professor Honeycutt/Fugitoid?

Do the O'Neil's have any other foster kids? Do they have an apartment or a house? What the layout of their place like? Which half of them makes April 1/4 Kraang?

In the new lair layout there isn't Splinters room, does he not live with them anymore? Or is it a more separate room?

I swear everytime I do this I feel like a crazy reporter or paparazzi running up to you just asking frantic questions I'm so sorry. Also sorry if these are repeated questions.

Sunita:

has autism swag

kidcore fashion sense (bright colors, chunky jewelry, ect)

they’re mostly insecure abt how she seems to not be able to fit in with human kids as well as with people in the hidden city

she likes hard rock (which contrasts with her personality and everything abt her (i think it’d be funny))

she doesn’t like the texture of celery bc of the fiver strands that make it hard to eat (for her)

she likes learning abt plants :))

her favorite food is mango pudding

she only aids them later on as ‘the man in the chair’

Casey:

he has add swag

the grunge fashion is strong with this one

he likes indie rock and rap

he’s insecure abt his past with his dad and mom, and the fact he doesn’t know much abt his own heritage from his father’s side.

he likes the percy jackson books

he does aid them in adventures as back up and muscle

April:

her brain is on default setting

casual fashion for a casual girl

she likes anything under ‘sad girl starter pack’

she rlly enjoys marvel and star wars

she aids them in adventures as a second opinion and back up

she’s rlly insecure abt her parents not paying attention to her as much with so many other kids in the household

Keno:

country bumpkin 2 da max

half Italian, half Korean

likes making pizza and pasta all day

oldest out of the entire group (in his early 20’s)

has a farm (passed down from his family)

neighbors with Casey’s old house (a mile down from the old jones’s house is keno’s house/farm)

they meet keno during the farmhouse arc

he is very friendly and acts as an older brother

I don’t think that any of them get mutated in the series but j might change my mind idk

Spike (Slash) is my au is a leatherback sea turtle that gets mutated!! She doesn’t ally them, but isn’t a bad guy either, she’s more of a morally grey vigilant.

i have no new official designs rn but after this latest arc i’ll defo post Slash’s design

Bishop will be in this au (still trying to find out his character tho) and yes mr honeycutt is in this au but he’s a robot assistant to irma 👍

these are the rest of the o’neil’s foster kids!! they live in a nice, two story house in the city.

april gets her 1/4 krang from her dad’s side (ik girls going through it)

splinter does live with them in the new lair, he’s just dubs his room as ‘the meditation room��� bc he’s an extra bitch like dat

thank you for the asks btw, don’t feel bad or worry abt it, i’m happy to talk abt my au!!

[paulthomaskubrick]

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[tfc2211]

The Rarest Rockabilly Album In The World Ever! (2020)

Play ▶ The Rarest Rockabilly Album In The World Ever! CD1

Al Epp & The Pharaohs – Breaking My Heart Walter Brown - Alley Cat Glenn Honeycutt – Rock All Night Max Alexander, Hank Harral – Little Rome Jimmy Patton – Yah I'm Movin' Jimmie John – Solid Rock F. Dee Johnson - Be My Baby Don Woody – Barking Up The Wrong Tree The Chavis Brothers – So Tired Don Feger – Date On The Corner Carl Mann – Gonna Rock N Roll Tonight Jimmy Lloyd – You're Gone Baby Mike Waggoner – Coming Up Joey Castle – That Ain't Nothin' But Right Jay B. Lloyd – I'll Be Alright Riley Crabtree – She Loves Me Better Tommy Lam – Speed Limit Marvin Rainwater – Hot And Cold Al Urban – Won't You Tell Me Her Name Dinky Harris And The Spades – She Left My Cryin' Kenny Owens – I Got The Bug Jimmy Patton – Oakies In The Pokie Charles Senns – Gee Whiz Liz Don Willis – Boppin' High School Baby Glenn Bond – When My Baby Passes By

[peachyy-sims]

                            28 pelican cove / 5:03 p.m.

“my dearest melocotón pequeño,

as I look down upon your face, my soul fills with so many emotions. our hearts were once one, dancing to each other’s rhythms. your pale skin reminds me of the pictures of myself when I was a newborn. you're perfect, and you’ll always be perfect. I will always love you. I will always fight for you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me, although your father is a close second. te amo mi amor.

welcome to the world maxine jupiter faust-honeycutt…”

[xmanicpanicx]

Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)

Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz

Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling 

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton 

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald

Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

The White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden

Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles

The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle

Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova

The Women of WWII (Fiction)

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky

Night Witches by Mirren Hogan

Night Witch by S.J. McCormack

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein

Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

All-Girl Teams (Fiction)

The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley

Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones

Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti

Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

Feminist Retellings

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Doomed by Laura Pohl

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs

Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Women and Girls in Comedy 

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot

Bossypants by Tina Fey

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields

Trans Women

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Nemesis series by April Daniels

American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

George by Alex Gino

The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña

Wandering Son by Takako Shimura

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Feminist Poetry

Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

Feminist Philosophy and Facts

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen

The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey

#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)

Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)

You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness

The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis

Pulp by Robin Talley

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

American Girls by Alison Umminger

Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Sula by Toni Morrison

Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis

The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel 

Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough 

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

The Prettiest by Brigit Young

Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder

The Roommate by Rosie Danan

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan

Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin

Please feel free to reblog with more!

[passivenovember]

Live Through This.

Harringrove April, Day Twenty One : Fire.

--

He makes the kid promise. Swear--on his mother’s distant grave and his favorite pleated skirt and the sickest, most expensive pair of Doc Martens imaginable--not to use the things Billy teaches him unless it’s an emergency. 

Unless the well has run dry.

“You never throw the first punch,” Billy reiterates, tapping Joey’s knuckles against his own as if to show him. Prove it. 

The sun beats down, painting the world in shades of orange and red. The hard, chiseled lines of the cement remind Billy of a boxing ring. Power and violence, good men burning up from the inside out. 

Incendiary.

“What if the kid says something about me?” Joey wonders.

Billy wipes at the sweat across his brow, artfully stamping out the flame before it grows. “Doesn’t matter what they say about you. Point is--”

“What if they say something about Dawn? Or my dad? What if they say something about you or uncle Steve, or. You and uncle Steve--”

“Joe--”

“You talk about my family, I can’t just let it slide--”

“Did I stutter.” Billy snarls. He pulls at the tape wrapped about his knuckles with his teeth, blinking sweaty curls out of his eyes. “Did I miss a single fucking syllable--”

“No.”

“Didn’t think so.” Billy spits on the ground, planting his feet. “Another combination, let’s go.”

They’ve been at it for hours. Bare knuckle boxing in the backyard, like a couple of sailors in the late August heat. Joey lied and said he was coming over to help Dawn with her algebra, as if she would ever need help with school, just so Max wouldn’t drive him herself, and.

Use Billy’s own weight against him, just like he taught her.

“But what if they say something really bad.” Joey isn’t focused. Isn’t prepared when Billy blocks his next hit, isn’t ready for the jab that gets him just below the ribs. 

They aren’t actually hitting, just. 

Practicing. 

Billy frowns, gesturing the floor. “Fix your stance.”

Joey does. “What if they--” 

“Kid, listen. It doesn’t matter what they say about you now, or tomorrow, or twenty years down the line when you’re far away from here living on a pull out couch in So-Ho. They’ll always have something to say.”

Billy tosses a water bottle, yellow with heat, into the air. Joey catches it and immediately lets it fumble to the floor. 

Unfocused, his brain supplies. 

Week.

Billy douses that fire in ivory love. 

If he was home in California, at the docks with Grandpa Milton, something so clumsy would’ve earned him fifteen extra pushups and a run to the pier and back. 

But. 

There’s nothing to prove, here. No wars to keep in mind, nothing to prepare for, just a boy trying to make sense of his world. Take care of the tree line so it doesn’t go up in smoke when summer hits.

They drink in silence. Scada’s humming their tune somewhere high above the edge of the Earth, making the moment feel heavy. Saturated. 

Incendiary. 

Billy knows a forest fire when he sees one. Smells the burning, smoking embers of something weaving a hole in Joey’s chest, right above a yellowing bruise that made him grow up.

Billy nudges him. “School treating you alright?”

“I dunno what you--”

“Somebody say something? Call you something?”

Joey smiles, but. It doesn’t land, or. Lands crooked.

Billy nods. “There’s a lot of shit in my life that I’m not. Stuff, things, that don’t need to be dug up from where I buried them.” He lights a cigarette, just to keep his hands from shaking. “But that’s something I can stand on, at the end of the day.” 

“What?”

“I never called people names.” Billy says simply. “And don’t get me wrong, I did. A lot of fucked up, brutal, animalistic shit, but I never.” Billy takes a sudden, harsh pull from his cigarette. “Got called shit all my life. Never wanted to cross that line myself.”

It doesn’t mean anything. 

Shouldn’t mean anything, not in comparison to the other things Billy did. He other bridges left unburned, but. 

Joey. Turns to him. Looks him in the eye. “Were you a bully?” He asks.

Man to man.

Billy stares back. Thinks back, to. That night. And all the nights before that one, where he kept seeing smoke signals rising above the trees. Little fires everywhere, burning down beaten paths and growing, culminating, into.

“You look just like your dad, anyone ever tell you that?” 

Joey doesn’t say anything for a minute, and then. 

He’s standing. 

“Joey--”

“He told me about that, you know.” 

Billy’s heart stops beating, the mask finally falling away when his Nephew turns and all those memories. Tender moments wrapped in Captain BJ Honeycutt and Uncle Bills, two nick-names that fit together like cracked pieces of cement.

Shatter again. Crumbling to dust before Billy’s eyes. 

He never wanted to talk about this. 

After stumbling up to Lucas, the first Christmas after Starcourt. Drunk and a little bit high and feeling. So. So fucking grateful that Max was smiling at him, for once, he. 

Never wanted Joey to see him like this.

Hard. Stony, smoking a cigarette with tape around his knuckles, morphing into every person who ever looked at Max’s family and thought. They were better. 

Worth something. 

Joey shakes his head. “You aren’t like those people, Unc.”

Billy opens his mouth. To argue. 

I’m exactly like that. I am that. I never changed, the wound isn’t healed. This isn’t about me. I’m a bad man, kid, I burn buildings bridges people down for fun and you gotta stay away from me. Take the village and run--

Joey readjusts the tape around his knuckles. “Another combination.” He says, holding out a hand. 

Billy resists the urge to slap it away. Fall to pieces. “Kid--”

“Let’s go.” 

And Joey sounds so old. 

Mature.

That Billy has no choice but to follow, leaving the past to burn against crumbling pavement. 

[unscapedgoat]

I'VE ALWAYS HAD TO EXPLAIN AWAY THE "FIGURE OUT HOW" THING I've always explained it as Honeycutt forgetting certain things at certain times. Yknow, physical brain, probably rotting, brain damage. But what's the show's excuse 😭😭

And to destroy one fragment, I do remember that Honeycutt hinted that they only get one chance at destroying the HOD, and not a single piece must be left behind since the triceratons might find one piece and replicate the technology... which,, the claim is extremely weak when the HOD is destroyable with "combination of fusion and dark matter" because I don't think the writers are aware but fusion and dark matter are found abundantly in space......

And yeah definitely about the rushing to end Space Arc thing, why are they... doing that so urgently. I get that it's 6 months, half a year, therefore half a season, since back then (regardless of canon timeline) one season is often regarded as one year. I wouldn't mind if they only did 14 episodes for the space arc if they bothered to keep Honeycutt alive for the rest, like 2003 spoilers here:

2003 Honeycutt didn't get a lot of screentime before sacrificing himself in season 3, like he got. 10 episodes max? But they still managed to bring him back in quite an interesting way, and so Honeycutt's screentime did NOT feel underrepresented at all (okay maybe just a little bit he could've appeared more near the end of season 2)

But anyways, in short they could've revived him and kept continuing his character arc outside of the space arc. Hell, he's always been associated with the Utroms, PLEASE JUST MAKE HIM WORK WITH THE UTROMS? He does that for Mirage and 2003, hell you could even argue for IDW too. He deserves a quiet life after the whole Fugitoid nonsense, and idk why 2012 is the exception to NOT give him that.

I have a question and I'm not sure if it was really touched upon in the series, or if I'm nitpicking a cartoon with cartoon problems, but if the black hole generator can only be destroyed with a 'combination of fusion and dark matter', couldn't honeycutt leave it on the ship (powered by dark matter) and fly it into the sun (fusion)? (assuming the ship can be set on its own course without somebody operating it)

was this ever brought up??¿¿ is it a writing problem? am i forgetting something? did they not have enough fuel or time left to do this? did the writers need to quickly conclude the space arc in some way and so decided this was the best case scenario? discuss w me plox

[msjadebellamy]

Headcanon List

Basics

Full Name: Jade Vivian Honeycutt

--Stage Name: Jade Bellamy

Birthday: May 1st

Age: 30

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Religion: Lutheran

–Religious Level (1-10): 3. Believes in Heaven/Hell/God with only the vaguest questioning. Does not attend church unless in a time of crisis.

Birthplace: Sedona, Arizona (most childhood spent in a trailer park after death of father)

Current Residence: Los Angeles, California

Height: 5′ 6″

--Height w/ heels: 5′ 10″

Hair Color: Golden blond

Eye Color: Light blue

Sexuality: Bisexual

Love/Romantic Preference: Biromantic

Relationship Status: Single

Languages Known: English, High-school level French (reads/writes better than speaks or listens)

Details

Car: (a new one each year for her birthday) 2020 Jaguar F-Type in cobalt blue

Phone: iPhone 11 Pro Max, Gold

Music Genres: Early 2000s pop (Maroon 5 era), indie pop (Marina and the Diamonds vibes i.e. Bubblegum Bitch)

Wardrobe: mini skirts, low-cut tops, black cigarette pants, slip dresses, backless dresses, sandal heels, lace lingerie, just generalized hoe-wear I don’t know what you want.

Estimated Net Worth: $20 million

Ransom Value: One sugar daddy.

Bloodlines + Connections

Jason Honeycutt || Father || Deceased

Lauren Honeycutt || Mother || Psychiatric Hospital

Dr. Aaron Romano || Mother’s Doctor Momentary Trauma

Adrien Laurent || Past Acting Coach First Consent

Tomas De Visser || Pillsbury Dick Bullying victim

Tammy Van Daan || The Tolerable Dutch Cherub Pseudo Brother

Eloise Bardot || Alliance of Convenience 

Matthew Byrne || Continuous One Night Stand

Levels

Drinking (1-10): 5. She’s not a big drinker, just for the fact that she feels if she gets drunk she won’t have control.

Swearing: 9.

Smoking status: 0. Disgusting. Strong no.

Drugs: 0. Strong no.

Cooking proficiency: 8. A better cook than a baker, but good! Specializes in the healthier side of food, though.

Intelligence: 8. Believe it or not!

Emotional/Social Intelligence: 8. Can pick up romantic/sexual cues easily. Emotions are understood thoroughly, even if empathy only relates to experiences she’s been a part of.

Creativity: 6. Slightly above average.

Temper: 7. Is always a bitch, but would she cut you? Probably not.

Filmography (incomplete)

The Girl Next Door (2008)

Easy Virtue [Larita Whittaker] (2008)

Obsessed [Lisa Sheridan] (2009)

Get Him to the Greek (written by Miguel Cardosa) [Jackie Q] (2010)

Silver Linings Playbook [Tiffany] (2012)

Norah (written by Eve Austero/Directed by Julian Santiago) [Carla Hastings] (2019)

Nocturnal Animals [Tripp Hilton & Rae Marcus] (2020)

[colivermasterlist]

Archive of Slash Stories - Part 1

by iTwalkers

MASTER LIST

Words: 171, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of The Archives

Fandoms: Alles was zählt, El Cor de la Ciutat, Animal Kingdom (TV), Call Me By Your Name (2017), As the World Turns, Degrassi, Degrassi the Next Generation, Degrassi: Next Class, EastEnders (TV), Eyewitness (US TV), Glee, Hit the Floor (TV), How to Get Away with Murder, In the Flesh (TV), Man in an Orange Shirt (TV), Merlí (TV), One Life to Live, Please Like Me (TV), Queer as Folk (US), Roswell New Mexico (TV 2019), Sense8 (TV), Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments (Movies), The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare, Shameless (US), SKAM (Norway), SKAM (France), SKAM (Italy), Spartacus Series (TV), Spartacus: Vengeance, Spartacus: War of the Damned, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, The Halcyon (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: too many character

Relationships: Deniz Öztürk/Roman Wild, Deran Cody/Adrian Dolan, Noah Mayer/Luke Snyder, Oliver/Elio Perlman, Miles Hollingsworth III/Tristan Milligan, Zane Park/Riley Stavros, Marco Del Rossi/Dylan Michalchuk, Christian Clarke/Syed Masood, Max Carbo/Iago Vilches, Philip Shea/Lukas Waldenbeck, Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel, Jude Kinkade/Zero | Gideon, Oliver Hampton/Connor Walsh, Simon Monroe/Kieren Walker, Michael Berryman/Thomas March, Bruno Bergeron/Pol Rubio, Oliver Fish/Kyle Lewis, Geoffrey/Josh (Please Like Me), Arnold/Josh (Please Like Me), Brian Kinney/Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk), Ben Bruckner/Michael Novotny, Ted Schmidt/Blake Wyzecki, Drew Boyd/Emmett Honeycutt, Michael Guerin/Alex Manes, Hernando Fuentes/Lito Rodriguez, Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Ian Gallagher/Mickey Milkovich, Even Bech Næsheim/Isak Valtersen, Eliott Demaury/Lucas Lallemant, Niccolò Fares/Martino Rametta, Agron/Nasir, Barca/Pietros, Toby Hamilton/Adil Joshi

Additional Tags: My collection list

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[ao3feed-cmbyn]

Archive of Slash Stories - Part 1

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Emlh2g

by iTwalkers

MASTER LIST

Words: 171, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of The Archives

Fandoms: Alles was zählt, El Cor de la Ciutat, Animal Kingdom (TV), Call Me By Your Name (2017), As the World Turns, Degrassi, Degrassi the Next Generation, Degrassi: Next Class, EastEnders (TV), Eyewitness (US TV), Glee, Hit the Floor (TV), How to Get Away with Murder, In the Flesh (TV), Man in an Orange Shirt (TV), Merlí (TV), One Life to Live, Please Like Me (TV), Queer as Folk (US), Roswell New Mexico (TV 2019), Sense8 (TV), Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments (Movies), The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare, Shameless (US), SKAM (Norway), SKAM (France), SKAM (Italy), Spartacus Series (TV), Spartacus: Vengeance, Spartacus: War of the Damned, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, The Halcyon (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: too many character

Relationships: Deniz Öztürk/Roman Wild, Deran Cody/Adrian Dolan, Noah Mayer/Luke Snyder, Oliver/Elio Perlman, Miles Hollingsworth III/Tristan Milligan, Zane Park/Riley Stavros, Marco Del Rossi/Dylan Michalchuk, Christian Clarke/Syed Masood, Max Carbo/Iago Vilches, Philip Shea/Lukas Waldenbeck, Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel, Jude Kinkade/Zero | Gideon, Oliver Hampton/Connor Walsh, Simon Monroe/Kieren Walker, Michael Berryman/Thomas March, Bruno Bergeron/Pol Rubio, Oliver Fish/Kyle Lewis, Geoffrey/Josh (Please Like Me), Arnold/Josh (Please Like Me), Brian Kinney/Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk), Ben Bruckner/Michael Novotny, Ted Schmidt/Blake Wyzecki, Drew Boyd/Emmett Honeycutt, Michael Guerin/Alex Manes, Hernando Fuentes/Lito Rodriguez, Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Ian Gallagher/Mickey Milkovich, Even Bech Næsheim/Isak Valtersen, Eliott Demaury/Lucas Lallemant, Niccolò Fares/Martino Rametta, Agron/Nasir, Barca/Pietros, Toby Hamilton/Adil Joshi

Additional Tags: My collection list

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Emlh2g

[paulthomaskubrick]

BIRKIN BAG // COMMERCIAL from Ryan Njenga on Vimeo.

’BIRKIN BAG’

Creative Director: STEPHAUN EMANUEL | @thedamndatdiva Director and Producer: RYAN NJENGA | @ryannjenga Producer: CHARLES WHITMILL | @charles.presents Director of Photography & Colorist: JOEY MORENO | @im.the.joey Gaffer & Key Grip: ESTELLE HANSEN | @lpscienceratlp 1st Assistant Camera: MAX MOYNIHAN | @maxmoynihan Art Director: VY NGUYEN | @suburbancinema Hair and Makeup: KIARA CALTAN | @kool_livin

TALENT: Thair Honeycutt | @cuttinsomehoney Adrian Bermudez | @adrianbernn Star Allio | @stardeela

[ao3feed-gallavich]

Archive of Slash Stories - Part 1

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Emlh2g

by iTwalkers

MASTER LIST

Words: 171, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of The Archives

Fandoms: Alles was zählt, El Cor de la Ciutat, Animal Kingdom (TV), Call Me By Your Name (2017), As the World Turns, Degrassi, Degrassi the Next Generation, Degrassi: Next Class, EastEnders (TV), Eyewitness (US TV), Glee, Hit the Floor (TV), How to Get Away with Murder, In the Flesh (TV), Man in an Orange Shirt (TV), Merlí (TV), One Life to Live, Please Like Me (TV), Queer as Folk (US), Roswell New Mexico (TV 2019), Sense8 (TV), Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments (Movies), The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare, Shameless (US), SKAM (Norway), SKAM (France), SKAM (Italy), Spartacus Series (TV), Spartacus: Vengeance, Spartacus: War of the Damned, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, The Halcyon (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: too many character

Relationships: Deniz Öztürk/Roman Wild, Deran Cody/Adrian Dolan, Noah Mayer/Luke Snyder, Oliver/Elio Perlman, Miles Hollingsworth III/Tristan Milligan, Zane Park/Riley Stavros, Marco Del Rossi/Dylan Michalchuk, Christian Clarke/Syed Masood, Max Carbo/Iago Vilches, Philip Shea/Lukas Waldenbeck, Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel, Jude Kinkade/Zero | Gideon, Oliver Hampton/Connor Walsh, Simon Monroe/Kieren Walker, Michael Berryman/Thomas March, Bruno Bergeron/Pol Rubio, Oliver Fish/Kyle Lewis, Geoffrey/Josh (Please Like Me), Arnold/Josh (Please Like Me), Brian Kinney/Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk), Ben Bruckner/Michael Novotny, Ted Schmidt/Blake Wyzecki, Drew Boyd/Emmett Honeycutt, Michael Guerin/Alex Manes, Hernando Fuentes/Lito Rodriguez, Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Ian Gallagher/Mickey Milkovich, Even Bech Næsheim/Isak Valtersen, Eliott Demaury/Lucas Lallemant, Niccolò Fares/Martino Rametta, Agron/Nasir, Barca/Pietros, Toby Hamilton/Adil Joshi

Additional Tags: My collection list

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[pinkplumbbies]

I’m Paisley Honeycutt, and this is my story. 

The Honey Legacy Challenge

Generation One : Clover 

Your parents always wanted what was best for you, them being a normal “cookie cutter” of a family. Your silbing(s) and you joined the business career, deciding to let your parents rule your lives, but you were different, and you always knew that. You began to crave showing your true self, and you’d be damned if your children ended up as unhappy as you were. 

Super Parent Aspiration - Gloomy, Perfectionist, Ambitious 

reach at least level 5 of the business career, then quit

reach max position of entertainer career (either branch)

marry another entertainer 

have at least 2 kids

reach level 10 with any instrument (or mic)

p.s I am time-skipping a little bit, as I have had to play in game to get to this point. Paisley is already level two in business. 

[sciencespies]

SLS core stage ready for Green Run test firing

https://sciencespies.com/space/sls-core-stage-ready-for-green-run-test-firing/

SLS core stage ready for Green Run test firing

WASHINGTON — NASA officials expressed confidence that a key test of the Space Launch System scheduled for Jan. 16 will go well, keeping open the chances that the vehicle will make its long-delayed debut before the end of the year.

NASA has scheduled a full-duration static-fire test of the SLS core stage at the Stennis Space Center for Jan. 16. Ignition is planned for 5 p.m. Eastern, with the engines firing for 485 seconds.

The test will be the culmination of the Green Run test campaign for the SLS core stage, which started almost exactly a year ago when the stage was installed on a test stand at Stennis. That series of tests included, most recently, a “wet dress rehearsal” Dec. 20 where the tank was loaded with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants and went through a practice countdown.

That test, agency officials said at a Jan. 12 briefing, went well, with no signs of leaks or other major issues. “As a result of all the wet dress rehearsal testing, we really gained a lot of confidence in the hardware and in our ground support systems,” said Julie Bassler, SLS stages manager at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

That test was not perfect, though. The countdown stopped a few minutes before the scheduled end because of a timing problem with a valve. John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing, the prime contractor for the vehicle, said a liquid hydrogen fill-and-drain valve closed 0.2 seconds later than expected, halting the test. The issue was that helium used in the pneumatically actuated valve was colder than expected.

Shannon said they decided to adjust the timing to account for any such lags in the future. “We don’t have to be quite that precise and cut it quite that close, so we expanded the timer out so we’ve got sufficient margin,” he said.

The Dec. 20 test was the second attempt at the wet dress rehearsal. A test Dec. 7 stopped while still in its early phases because liquid oxygen flowing into the stage was warmer than expected. NASA attributed that problem to issues with ground systems, and not the SLS itself.

After that earlier test, NASA managers warned there was “very little margin” left in the schedule for a November 2021 launch of the SLS on the Artemis 1 mission, a point they reiterated at the briefing. If the hotfire test goes as planned on Jan. 16, the stage is scheduled to ship to the Kennedy Space Center in February to be integrated with its solid rocket boosters and upper stage, as well as the Orion spacecraft that will be launched on that uncrewed mission.

“Our team is locked in and focused on delivering the rocket for a 2021 launch. We’re continuing to look for opportunities to do things concurrently and improve our schedule,” John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at NASA, said.

Anticipating a successful test, workers at KSC have started stacking segments of the solid rocket boosters, a process that traditionally required the boosters to launch within 12 months. “It’s an opportunity for us to do some risk mitigation” regarding the stacking process, he said. He added they are collecting data about the boosters “to give us the best opportunity to do some sort of a life extension on the booster stacking in the event that we need that.”

Those plans, though, depend on getting through the Green Run successfully. “The reason we test is to learn, and from my perspective and the team’s perspective, we don’t want to do anything that puts the vehicle at risk,” Honeycutt said.

A successful test need not las the full 485 seconds. The key elements of the test are in the first few minutes, said Jeff Zotti, Aerojet Rocketdyne program director for the RS-25 engines that power the core stage. The four engines will ignite one at a time at intervals of 120 milliseconds and then power up to 109% of rated thrust. The engines will remain at that level for 90 seconds, then throttle back to 95% to simulate passing through maximum dynamic pressure, or Max Q, during ascent. After about a minute the engines will throttle back up to 109%.

“If we had an early shutdown for whatever reason, we get all of the engineering data that we need to have high confidence in the vehicle at about 250 seconds,” Shannon said, which includes both the engine throttling as well as some gimbaling of the nozzles. “But we’re going to go ahead and put it through the entire flight profile as long as everything is looking OK.”

#Space

[marjaystuff]

Elise Cooper Interviews Julia London

You Lucky Dog and A Princess By Christmas by Julia London are two novels people might want to read.  During this depressing year, these two books will make readers’ smile.

You Lucky Dog delves into the bond between dogs and humans. The hero and heroine are an unlikely pair and would never have found each other if their dogs hadn't been mixed up in a dog-walking situation and wanted to be together. It is reminiscent of the beginning of 101 Dalmatians, when the two main characters are brought together by two dogs who fall for each other and bring their people on doggie dates until they fall in love as well.

The story begins with a dog switch. Two Bassett Hounds, happy-go-lucky Hazel, who belongs to Max, and depressed Baxter, who belongs to Carly, find themselves with the wrong owner. Through a series of unfortunate events, their dog walker is put in jail for selling weed, and the dogs get mixed up with the wrong owner because they look so much alike. Carly ends up figuring out that her dog is the wrong one and goes to find Max to swap the dogs. Baxter is smitten with Hazel, and Carly realizes she may have found the key to her puppy’s happiness. For his sake, she starts to spend more time with Hazel and Max, until she begins to understand the appeal of falling for your polar opposite.

One of the heart-warming parts of the book is a character with autism.  Max’s brother, Jamie, who is on the autism spectrum is currently dependent upon their father’s care. Max is a professor, and he uses dogs to study how brains work through people with autism. Because Max's dad needs a break from being a full-time caregiver to Jamie, Max decides to take Jamie on a trip to a dog show so that his dad can go on a much-needed fishing trip. The problem with this, however, is that he doesn't have anyone who can take care of Hazel. He asks Carly who agrees. What happens next is pure chaos, and hilarity ensues with the two mischievous pets.

The other book, A Princess By Christmas, shows London’s diversity.  This story is more of a mystery intermingled with romance. Hollis Honeycutt has lived a life of mourning for three years.  She has turned her dear deceased husband’s newspaper into the sauciest source of fashion and gossip. But still feels lost after her sister became the princess of another country, and her best friend moved to the countryside.

Hollis gets a reprieve on loneliness after her sister and best friend have returned to London as part of a delegation that will be working on peace talks between fictional countries Alucia and Wesloria. But danger lurks because there are rumors of a coup that will kill the Weslorian king.  Because of her newspaper, Hollis hears of these rumors and decides to work with Marek Brendan who is part of the Weslorian trade council. Sparks fly between Marek and Hollis and they grow closer.  He even confides in her his devasting secret and the fact that he is hard of hearing.

As with all her books, London has great banter between the characters. It will make readers laugh.  Also, when the three women get together the dialogue is very compelling and fun.

Whether a romance mystery or a romantic comedy, London is able to write entertaining plots and captivating characters.

Elise Cooper: In A Princess By Christmas how did you get the idea for a peace treaty?

Julia London:  I borrowed a little from the Israeli-Arab conflict because they had disputes over land. Queen Victoria, as many US Presidents, tried to bring all the factions together.

EC:  How would you describe Hollis?

JL:  She was a fixture in the first two books.  As a widow, she is trying to make her own way.  In this book she comes into her own. She had lost her mother, husband, and figuratively her sister and best friend who moved. Now, she is trying to figure out her place in the world. She can be stubborn, lonely, uncertain, and wants to be in love again.

EC:  How would you describe Marek?

JL:  Taciturn, a loner, a survivor.  He is also kind and lonely with poor social skills.  

EC:  How would you describe the relationship between Marek and Hollis?

JL:  As a heroine she must move forward.  She made the decision she liked Marek and decided to go for it.  

EC:  How does Christmas play into the story?

JL:  I wanted to have it as a holiday setting with all the traditions.  There is some symbolism because that time of year can be both sad and joyful, which is how Marek and Hollis felt.  

EC:  What about the Gazette?

JL:  I put in the columns at the beginning of each chapter in italics.  It was done to move the plot along.  Hollis wanted to get away from the gossip but could not.  As with some periodicals today, the public wants what it wants.

EC:  In both these books you have handicapped characters?

JL:  In the princess book I made Marek hard of hearing and in the dog book I had an autistic character, Jamie. I wanted to give them personality traits beyond the average character.  I think it added more of a dimension to the stories. I based Jamie somewhat on my young granddaughter who has autism.  It does change the way the family looks at their life.  Someone always has to be around.  I used my own experience, but also did some research on adult autism.  

EC:  Why Bassett Hounds in You Lucky Dog?

JL:  I had many dogs in my life including this breed.  As I was writing this book, my brother got a Bassett Hound puppy.  I forgot how much I love them.  

EC:  How would you describe their personality?

JL:  Goofy, adorable, stubborn and funny.  My brother’s other dog will chase rabbits, but the Bassett Hound will do the barking and will never leave the porch.  As a child my dog did something similar where it would only chase to a point.  

EC:  Now for the humans:  How would you describe Carly?

JL:  Ambitious, goal-oriented, driven, and an over-achiever.

EC:  How about Matt?

JL:  Laid-back, a thinker, very smart, and loyal.

EC:  What about your next books?

JL:  I am starting a new series around a matchmaker who helps the elite during the Victorian era find their special someone.  It will start out with Marek’s sister, Princess Justine eight years after this book.

My next romantic comedy has not been started but will come out 2022.

THANK YOU!!