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I Swear To You - J. Oleksiak

This is my entry for the summer fic exchange 2k21, run by the wonderful @antoineroussel.

I received @romanseggy as a giftee, so I really hope you enjoy this Kim!

There was so much musical influence here – everything from Love Someone by Lukas Graham, to At Last by Etta James, to Say You Will by Parachute – and I had a lot of fun with it! All photos in the header banner are not mine; found across tumblr and pinterest. Thank you to @tippedbykreider for all your encouragement and for reading over the start of this story! 💖

Word count: 5.5k

Warnings: fluff, so much fluff, some bad language

Summary: I don't think I breathed as he walked you down the aisle. You were in your dress, I was such a mess when you saw me and smiled. This is the wedding and love story of Jamie Oleksiak and Alyssa Morgan.

For Jamie, Alyssa had agreed to have the big white wedding, instead of an intimate gathering. For Jamie, she had woken up at 5am to have her hair and make-up done, with her friends and female relatives around her. For Jamie, she had strapped herself into a corset to achieve the smoothness her voluptuous curves required to fit seamlessly into her wedding dress. For Jamie, she had slept without him by her side for the first time in years, to appease his bad luck nerves.

For Jamie, she would do anything.

For Alyssa, Jamie had spent all of his limited free time writing wedding invitations, taking care of all of the postage. For Alyssa, Jamie had spent countless hours on road trips creating a playlist for their reception, putting all of her favourite songs on there as a surprise. For Alyssa, Jamie had shared a room with his snoring father for the first (and last) time, only 10 rooms apart in the hotel that doubled as their wedding reception venue, but a distance that felt like an ocean.

For Alyssa, he would do anything.

Today was the day, the day that their lives would intertwine forever, and Alyssa couldn’t be more ready for it. After nearly a year of planning and stressing and visualising, she was finally able to marry the man of her dreams, with both of their families and all of their friends around them to share in their joy.

It had been strange, sharing a room last night with her older sister Violet rather than Jamie. She knew it was tradition to sleep separately, that they shouldn’t see each other on the day of the wedding, but it was harder than she thought it would be. It wasn’t the same waking up to see her sister’s matching long brown hair on the pillow, rather than the blonde curls she’d gotten used to over the past few years. But after today, she would never have to wake up with someone else in her bed again. Just him.

That thought alone put a smile on her face.

Click.

“Okay that was a cute one – what are you thinking about?” the photographer mused, lowering the camera.

Alyssa’s cheeks heated in a blush, making her bridesmaids laugh.

“Jamie,” they chorused in sing song, teasing evident in the voices.

The unfortunate nature of a large Midwestern family – a lot of people always up in your business. Luckily for her, Jamie had fitted in seamlessly. Luckily for her, the family adored him as much as she did. It just happened that her sister, her three cousins, and her childhood best friend were her biggest teases as well as her biggest supporters.

“Oh hush now, that’s enough. If she wasn’t smiling, then we’d have a problem,”

Alyssa grinned at the half-scolding tone in her mom’s voice, tilting her cheek up for a kiss as she came up beside her. The perks of being a momma’s girl. And Trisha Morgan was not a woman to be messed with. Her cousins just stuck their tongues out at her, making Alyssa laugh. Yes, today was going to be a good day.

The photographer’s camera continued to shutter and click as the make-up artist completed Alyssa’s make-up look, as she and all her bridesmaids got ready in the hotel room where she’d stayed last night. Her sister would stay in here again tonight, while Alyssa and Jamie moved to the wedding suite after their reception finished in the reception venue downstairs, but getting ready together like this was exactly what Alyssa had hoped for. All the people she loved, all in one place, minus a few people of course.

Jamie and his male relatives, along with his groomsmen, were getting ready at the other end of the hallway, with Alyssa’s dad and brother and Violet’s husband getting ready next door. Jamie’s mom and sisters were getting ready in the room next to that, and it made Alyssa smile to think of everyone being together just for them. All that love, because of their love.

Love and tears, naturally. One person in particular was Alyssa’s mom, who had been crying happy tears on and off all morning, starting from the moment that Violet had let her through the door.

“Let me just run and get another can of hairspray from my car, I’ll be right back,” her hair stylist said quickly.

Alyssa shrugged and smiled. Her make-up had already been finished – it was only her hair that needed doing now, before she put on her dress and had photos taken before they left for the church. They still had plenty of time.

“Oof, this corset might not have been a good idea,” she said, huffing out a laugh as she tried to get comfortable in her chair.

“Hey, you wanted everything sucked in and smooth,” Violet mused, holding her hands up in surrender.

The curse of the curves.

“At least my posture will be great,” Alyssa laughed.

“A mother can only dream,” Alyssa’s mom said dryly, eyeing the way the Violet was slumped in her own chair.

Violet just grinned before leaving the two of them alone in their corner.

“I did warn you against the corset,” her mom pointed out.

“Yeah, yeah, I know. But I want to look good in the photos. I know Jamie will want to send something for the Stars to post, and I want to look my best,”

It had taken her a long time – most of her 26 years, in fact – to learn how to love her body. The body that had gotten her teased through most of her school years. The body that never seemed to want to do what she needed it to. The body that she’d had to figure out how to make work for her. Sure, she exercised. Sure, she ate fairly healthily. But she was also realistic – all the cauliflower rice in the world wasn’t going to make up for the fact that she genuinely enjoyed pasta. Everything in moderation was how it worked, right? Alyssa loved her body, loved her larger curves, and so did Jamie.

But some days…it was difficult. Especially considering the figures of the other Stars’ wives. There were always going to be cruel people in the world, judging and try to shame her. No, today was not one of those days. Today, she knew she was going to feel amazing. Today, she was going to become Mrs Alyssa Oleksiak – and she’d be damned if she was going to let anyone (including herself) ruin that.

“You know, I was worried when you first said you wanted to lose weight for your wedding. You’re beautiful just the way you are, and Jamie loves every single one of your curves. I just…you don’t need to change a single thing about yourself, sweetheart,”

Alyssa felt a lump rise in her throat, and she desperately blinked back the threatening tears. “You always know exactly where to strike, mom,” she laughed, a little wetly.

“Oh Lyss, I didn’t mean anything bad by it, I swear! You’re my beautiful baby girl and I always want you to be happy,”

“I am happy mom. So happy. I just want everything to be perfect, you know?” Alyssa nodded, smiling.

Her mom laughed, squeezing Alyssa’s hand. “I remember that feeling, all those years ago marrying your dad. Whatever the day holds, it will be perfect for you and Jamie,”

That was all Alyssa could hope for.

The rest of the morning flew by, meaning all too soon it was time to get into her dress. All too soon, in less than an hour, she would be leaving for the church on her dad’s arm, to get married. Married to Jamie.

Wow.

“Are you ready sweetheart?” her mom asked, resting a hand on her forearm.

Alyssa took a deep breath, glancing around the room, eyes trailing over the happy faces of her sister, her cousins, her best friend, her mom, before she smiled.

“I’m ready,”

They first met on a Friday. There was nothing special about that Friday in particular, just the stars aligning to bring Alyssa Morgan and Jamie Oleksiak to the same flower store at the same time on that same Friday.

It wasn’t uncommon for Alyssa to buy herself flowers. Why shouldn’t she? Just because she was single, it didn’t mean she didn’t deserve them.

And it wasn’t because she’d had a bad day, or because she wanted to cheer herself up in general. Alyssa just always felt like life was brighter with fresh flowers in a room. It was something that she’d grown up with in Milwaukee, fresh flowers in her parent’s house – even her grandpa still bought her grandma a bouquet every week just to make her smile. There was just something about the happiness they brought. Whenever Alyssa saw the fresh flowers she bought herself every two weeks, they reminded her that everything was okay. That she was doing okay. That no matter what, this pop of colourful brightness and happiness would remind her that the small things were just as important as the bigger picture.

Life could be difficult. Very difficult. And the world was so often cruel and grey, despite the Texan sunshine. So if she wanted to buy herself some flowers every couple of weeks, so what? There was nothing wrong with doing something nice for herself. We all need a little treat every now and again.

Through her years of buying flowers, she’d somehow managed to learn quite a lot about their meanings. Sure, some/most people might not care, but with how often she bought them, it just added something extra to know that whenever she combined a certain set of flowers, that she was projecting that energy out into her life.

It made her happy, at least.

This Friday, she had decided on a beautiful bunch of gerberas, for happiness and positivity. Surely, putting that energy out into the world could only bring back benefits, right?

Alyssa was just waiting for the shop clerk to check if they had any yellow gerberas in the back of the store – ideally she would be able to get yellow ones as well as the orange ones she’d found – when the door opened for another customer.

Hot damn.

In walked the most beautiful man she’d ever seen. Extremely tall, broad shoulders, beautiful blonde curls? A face like it was carved by angels? Damn. If a guy like that ever looked her way, she’d melt on the spot. She bit her bottom lip as she noticed her looked a little stressed, glancing over the premade bouquets with a frown on his lips. Maybe she could help?

It’s not like offering her advice would hurt. It’s not like he’d look her way otherwise.

“Do you need any help there?” she called out.

The man jumped, cheeks blushing a little as he looked at her, seeming to freeze briefly before he smiled at her sheepishly, making her giggle.

“I, uh, kind of? Just trying to find some flowers for my friend’s wife. She just got a job she interviewed for, and I want to say congratulations and good luck, you know?”

Oh how sweet!

Then the man grimaced, running a hand over his curls. “You probably didn’t want to know that. Sorry,”

Alyssa shook her head, cutting him off. “I think that’s really sweet of you, she’ll love them,”

“Yeah?” he asked, smiling.

Alyssa couldn’t help but smile widely back, and his face shifted into something that looked a little stunned. What?

“Are you okay?” she asked hesitantly.

“Oh, yeah, uh, I’m fine. Which flowers do you think?” he stammered.

Alyssa giggled again. He really was so cute. “Hmm, I think this one would do the trick - a mix of peonies, freesias and yellow roses. Peonies for happiness and good luck, freesias for friendship and thoughtfulness, and yellow roses for friendship and joy,” she said, pointing to the bouquet in question.

“Wow. You really know your stuff. That sounds perfect,” he said, a smile still on his lips.

“I’m sure she’ll like them, whatever you choose,” Alyssa shrugged.

“Oh I’m definitely choosing those, you have good taste,” the man replied smoothly.

Now it was Alyssa’s turn to blush.

“I’m Jamie, by the way,”

He held out his hand for her to shake, which she happily did. Holy shit.

“I’m Alyssa,” she said, smiling.

As the wedding car pulled up outside the church, Alyssa felt her heartbeat start to race. The parking lot was packed with cars, and she had no doubt that more were parked elsewhere. They were here. They were all finally here and ready and waiting.

Her mom helped her out of the car, her sister holding her bouquet until she was standing properly, earning a kiss to the cheek. There was a reason she’d chosen Violet as her maid of honour.

“Look at you,”

“Dad, you’ve already seen my full ensemble,” Alyssa mused, “and we’ve even had photos done back at the hotel!”

“Can’t blame a father for his feelings, now I’ve seen you standing outside the church. Beautiful,” her dad shrugged.

Alyssa knew her dad would get sentimental today, being his final child to get married, so she had prepared herself for him to be emotional. Sort of. Could a girl ever be ready for her dad to cry? He was a simple Milwaukee man, told life like it was, a typical let-me-fix-that-for-you-sweetheart kind of dad – but he’d never shied away from showing them how much he loved them. Robert Morgan was the best dad she could ever have hoped for, and the fact that he gave his blessing to Jamie without hesitating meant the world to her.

“My baby girl, all grown up and getting married,” her dad said softly.

It was when he sniffed that Alyssa felt tears stinging her eyes, and her mom quickly smacked him lightly on the shoulder.

“Don’t you dare make her cry, Robert! If she cries then I’ll cry, and then all the bridesmaids will cry, and then the wedding will be delayed while all the make-up gets fixed,” her mom scolded.

Alyssa felt herself smile, albeit a bit wobbly, when her sister, her cousins and her bridemaids laughed and nodded, all of them knowing that her mom was right. It would be a cascading waterfall of mascara if they weren’t careful.

“Can’t help it when our Lyss looks so beautiful, Trish,” her dad shrugged, smiling sheepishly.

“Hold your crying in for the vows, dad,” Violet teased.

Her dad cleared his throat with a harrumph, making Alyssa giggle at the lingering wetness in his voice. There was no way he wasn’t going to cry, but if he could hold off for at least a little longer then she would be forever grateful.

As if reading their minds, the preacher walked out of the church doors, beckoning them forward with a smile.

“Welcome Alyssa and loved ones! It’s so good to see you again,”

“Likewise,” she said, “Are we all okay to start?”

“Everyone’s here and ready whenever you are,” the preacher nodded with a smile.

Alyssa let out a shaky breath, smiling back at him.

“Can I have a few moments to calm my nerves?” she asked quietly.

“Of course, there’s no rush,”

As the preacher walked back over to the church doors to give her some privacy, Alyssa swallowed heavily. This was real. This was really happening. Jamie was waiting on the other side of those doors, at the end of the aisle, to marry her. She wasn’t dreaming.

“Everything okay sweetheart?”

Her mom’s voice broke her out of her thoughts,

“Yeah, I think so,” she nodded.

“Don’t go overthinking things now. I know what you’re like,” her mom warned.

“Oh don’t fuss Trish, let her have a moment,” her dad mused, “This is a big step and it’s natural to feel nervous. I know I was when I married you,”

“And lucky for you, I still married you anyway,” her mom shot back.

The teasing fond smile on her mom’s lips was what lowered her nerves. For her parents to still have this much lightness and love after all these years, the exact things she hoped for herself, gave her all the confidence she needed. Walking down the aisle, seeing Jamie’s face smile at her when he saw her in her dress for the first time…that was all she needed and wanted right now.

“There’s our girl,” her mom murmured happily, seeing the change in her expression.

“Are you ready, sweetheart?” her dad asked, holding out his arm.

Alyssa smiled and slipped her hand into the crook of his elbow.

“I’m ready,”

“Baby, what are you doing up?”

Alyssa looked over her shoulder at the sound of her boyfriend’s murmur.

“I woke up early and couldn’t sleep,” she shrugged, “figured I’d get some coffee going,”

“Mm, coffee,”

“Ah yes, your third love, after hockey and me,” she teased.

Jamie just grinned, ducking down to press a kiss to her lips.

“Hop on up, I’ll make a fresh pot,” he said sweetly.

Alyssa laughed but boosted herself up onto the kitchen counter as he suggested, letting him fuss with their temperamental coffee machine. He kept glancing over at her, running his eyes up and down her pyjama-clad body, making her cheeks heat up in a blush. She was only wearing a giant shirt of his with a pair of sleep shorts, her hair messy and down and her face bare of makeup with pillow creases in her skin…but he was looking at her like he wanted to devour her.

Not that she was complaining. He could devour her any time he wanted. But still, it was unexpected.

“Here you go, a fresh mug of coffee,” Jamie said, breaking her out of her thoughts.

Black with two sugars, just how she liked it. Alyssa inhaled the coffee aroma and sighed happily. Perfect.

“Thanks baby,” she smiled.

Jamie smiled back, leaning forward to kiss her softly, made much easier now they were the same height. But then he broke away abruptly.

“Okay, I can’t wait any more. There’s something I need to do,”

Alyssa startled at the firmness in Jamie’s voice, lips parting in confusion as he walked quickly back to the bedroom. She heard him rattling about for a few seconds, before he came striding back out, one of his hands clenched into a fist. What the hell?

“Jamie, what’s wrong?” she frowned, putting her coffee down to the side.

“Nothing. Nothing’s wrong at all. Everything is wonderful and just waking up this morning to see you so at peace in our home makes me realise that I can’t wait on asking you,”

Oh shit.

“Asking me what?” she said quietly, eyes wide.

Was he really?

No, he couldn’t be.

Was he?

“I wake up every morning and I pinch myself, knowing that you choose to be with me above anyone else. The moment I saw your pretty face in that flower shop, I rambled like a fool because my head was in a spin. When you helped me out of the kindness of you heart when you could’ve left me to flounder, it told me instantly how sweet your heart is. And the moment you smiled so wide and genuine at me, I was gone. It’s been three years of complete and utter happiness, and I can’t imagine a life without you in it. I don’t want to imagine a life without you. I love you, Alyssa Morgan, so much. Will you marry me?”

Jamie then sunk down on one knee, Alyssa’s hand flying up to her mouth as he opened his clenched fist to reveal the most beautiful diamond princess cut ring. It was the most stunning thing she’d ever seen…and Jamie wanted her to wear it? He wanted to marry her?

“Just like that?” she choked.

Jamie huffed a laugh and smiled, making her heart beat even faster.

“Just like that. I don’t want to wait anymore. I want to call you my wife, I want to be your husband. Marry me?” he repeated.

Alyssa’s breath hitched in her throat, but she found herself nodding.

“Yes, yes of course I will,” she whispered.

Jamie’s eyes pricked with tears as he slid the ring onto her finger, and by the time he stood up from one knee to kiss her, they were both crying.

“Thank fuck,” Jamie murmured between kisses.

Alyssa laughed wetly, resting her forehead against his with a wobbly smile.

“I can’t believe this. You proposed. You actually proposed!” she giggled.

Jamie laughed, a little like he couldn’t believe it himself, before he kissed her again, one two three times.

“I asked your parents for their blessing in the summer,” he admitted.

Oh wow. That was…wow. He really did that? For her?

“Hey, don’t look so surprised,” Jamie mused, reading her expression easily, “I know how much tradition means to your family. It does to mine too. I wanted to do things right,”

“You did do them right. So right,” she sighed happily.

Glancing down at the ring, Alyssa couldn’t stop the silly smile spreading across her face. Not that she wanted to. This giddy feeling coursed through her veins and made her feel unstoppable, like she could do anything and Jamie would be right there by her side.

Which he now would be, she guessed.

“I love you so much,” she murmured.

“I love you too,” Jamie said in reply, before kissing her again.

Alyssa slid her arms around his neck, Jamie wasting no time in pulling her to the edge of the counter to press their bodies together. Fuck. Oh fuck she could have this for the rest of her life too, couldn’t she?

“We don’t have to tell anyone for a few hours, right?” she mumbled against his lips.

“Oh they can all wait,” Jamie said lowly.

“Race you,” Alyssa grinned.

Jamie looked a bit stunned as she hopped off the counter, but grinned as she ran towards their bedroom, happily giving chase.

Alyssa held tightly onto her father’s arm as her mom slipped into the church, signalling to the organist that they were ready. The preacher walked in next, following by all her bridesmaids, until it was time for Alyssa to walk too.

“Ready sweetheart? It’s not too late to run, I can get the car,” her dad mused.

Alyssa giggled, shaking her head. “I’m ready, dad,”

He pressed a kiss to her temple, before nodding at the preacher. The guests all stood up as they were gestured to, and Alyssa took a deep breath.

It was time.

Slowly but surely they walked down the aisle, Alyssa’s taking in all the beautiful flowers to keep herself calm. Baby’s breath for festivity, white carnations for pure love, lavender for devotion. She took a chance to look properly at Jamie, and her breath hitched in her chest. He was standing at the end of the aisle, looking more handsome than you had ever seen him, in his black tux and grey waistcoat and dark purple tie. His smile grew as his gaze caught with Alyssa’s, and she didn’t miss the tear that escape his eye, laughing softly as he quickly wiped it away.

Soon enough, her dad was placing her hands in Jamie’s, and clapped Jamie on the shoulder before he joined her mom.

“We are gathered here today…”

Alyssa lost herself looking up into Jamie’s eyes, his wide smile matching hers. This was real. This was really happening. They were getting married.

“…if anyone has any objections to the marriage, please state them now.”

Jamie just winked at her, Alyssa’s heart beating a little faster at the silence that surrounded them. No-one was going to oppose their marriage. Why would they?

Still…

A few moments later, when not a word had been said, Jamie let out a dramatic relieved sigh, breaking the tension and making everybody laugh, including Alyssa. That was her man right there, knowing exactly how to make the best of every situation. He squeezed her hands in comfort, Alyssa smiling widely at the feel of his ring on his left hands, her own ring a welcome weight.

The preacher laughed, bringing Alyssa’s attention back to him.

“Jamie and Alyssa, having witnessed your vows for marriage before God and all your family and friends assembled here, by the authority invested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife. Jamie, you may now kiss your bride!”

Jamie wasted no time in cupping her face with a hand, drawing her forward into a soft slow kiss, Alyssa smiling into the embrace and clutching at his shirt at the cheers, whistles and applause that filled the room.

While they had initially discussed getting a wedding planner, her mom wouldn’t have any of it. She reasoned that now she’d taken early retirement, she had all the time in the world and all the best intentions for both of them – her mom had helped organise the weddings of two of her cousins as well as her sister’s, so why not do Alyssa’s too?

Alyssa hadn’t seen any reason to argue, neither had Jamie. And her mom had proven herself right – so far everything had been booked and organised to perfection, blending Alyssa’s and Jamie’s tastes perfectly. Now, with only a few things left to decide on and everything else running so smoothly, Alyssa knew she’d made the right choice. Perks of being a momma’s girl.

Today they were deciding on the last few points on the wedding checklist – Jamie, Alyssa, Alyssa’s mom, Jamie’s mom, and Penny, the only members of all their families that were free that afternoon.

“That sounds nice, right? Baby’s breath for festivity, white carnations for pure love, lavender for devotion?” Alyssa said, looking up at her fiancé.

“I always defer to you with flowers baby, you know that,” Jamie laughed, holding his hands up surrender.

“Jamie…” she whined, making the women around her laugh.

“They sound good to me. Fresh, pretty, and light to look at, and the lavender will fit in well with the dark purple in the colour scheme,” her mom Trisha nodded, winking at Jamie.

“See? That,” Jamie grinned.

Alyssa rolled her eyes playfully but noted down their choices on the flowers form – they already knew the amount they needed after all, it really was just the choices.

“So all that’s left is ordering those flowers, deciding on appetisers, choosing the dress and making the table decorations?”

Alyssa nodded to Penny, glancing over her checklist one last time.

“Yeah, that’s pretty much it I think. I mean, the dress shopping is going to be a nightmare with my body but…”

“Really? It’s that much of an issue?” Jamie interrupted, frowning.

“Baby, I love you, but sometimes you are so clueless about plus size women,” Alyssa mused.

The women in the room snickered, making Jamie blush.

“I just don’t understand why you shouldn’t get all the same options any other size woman. It’s not fair,”

Alyssa’s heart softened a little, but she still shook her head.

“I know it’s not fair, but that doesn’t change the facts that many shops still don’t cater for women my size and above. Some even only have samples of size 6 and size 8. There are some specifically plus size places, sure, and some bigger stores have a couple of plus size dresses, but they aren’t always flattering. And there’s also the judgement from those tiny little sales girls and bleurgh,”

Jamie glanced over to Trisha, who grimaced and nodded, knowing Alyssa’s shopping disappointments well.

“Things are much better now than they were even 5 years ago, and there are so many stores that we can at least enquire into,” Penny pointed out.

“And there is a dress out there for you. The dress. It doesn’t matter if we have to travel to New York or California or wherever to find it,” Jamie’s mom added.

“Wedding dress shopping is a wonderful experience, sweetheart, and we’ll be here for you every step of the way,” Trisha insisted.

“Really? All three of you?” she asked, eyes wide.

“All four,” Jamie nodded.

“No,”

Jamie frowned at the chorus of voices, pouting until Alyssa laughed.

“You don’t want to see me for 24 hours before the wedding because of tradition? I don’t want you to see the dress before I’m walking down the aisle,” she shrugged.

“Damn,”

“Think of the surprise, J,” Penny grinned, “I’ll make sure dad has a handkerchief ready for your tears of joy,”

Jamie blushed but smiled, nodding. “Alright, fair enough,”

Alyssa laughed, but nudged him with her shoulder, earning a nudge back.

“Now that that intense conversation is over, let’s talk appetisers,” she mused.

The group went through a whole list of ideas, trying to appeal to everyone’s tastes and diets. Including more cheese than they could possibly eat, and the inclusion of lots of local beers and ales to appease the Wisconsin attendees.

“It’s going to be insane enough, combining our full extended families, without all this extra stuff to remember,” Jamie grinned.

She grinned back up at him. “As long as it doesn’t end up as messy as when you came up for the family reunion at Lake Geneva, then I think we’ll be fine,”

While her immediate family was based in Milwaukee, the rest were scattered around the rest of Wisconsin – sometimes, meeting up at her grandpa’s big old lake house at Lake Geneva was just the easiest way for them all to get together.

Jamie burst out laughing at the memories, leaving his mom and Penny frowning in confusion. Alyssa’s mom giggled before taking pity on her future in-laws.

“Between three of my nephews shotgunning beers until they puked, to the savage cornhole tournament when my ma was ruthless, to my brothers arguing like they always do over the best local breweries, I’m surprised Jamie didn’t run for the hills,” Trisha mused.

Jamie’s mom’s lips parted in surprise but Penny just grinned, making Alyssa smile. Penny was Alyssa’s favourite for a reason. The reception was going to be an interesting one, that was for sure.

“I wasn’t going to run then, Trisha, and I’m not running now. Alyssa has been it for me, for a long time,” he said simply.

Alyssa huffed out a breath, a little shakier than she thought it would be, before she found herself smiling as Jamie sent a wink her way. The fact that he could say such a strong statement so confidently, so sure of himself, settled the nerves she didn’t know she had.

“You two are so sweet, I don’t know whether to coo or gag,” Penny teased.

“For that, you’re on table decoration folding duty,” Jamie shot back.

Penny pouted, but Alyssa just laughed along with their mothers. If this was what the future was going to be like, she couldn’t wait.

“Please welcome to the dancefloor, for their first dance, Mr and Mrs Oleksiak!”

Alyssa’s breath hitched in her throat, a wide smile on her lips. That wasn’t going to get old any time soon. Mrs Alyssa Oleksiak. Wow.

Jamie just grinned at her, lifting one hand to his lips to press a kiss to her knuckles before holding it out to the side, placing his other hand on her waist. Alyssa just rested her free hand on his chest, unable to look at anything other than him as the opening beats started playing. It had been difficult choosing the music for their first dance. There were so many incredible options and they both had such a diverse taste in what they liked to listen to, but as soon as they heard this song, they knew it was the one.

I don't think I breathed, As he walked you down the aisle, You were in your dress, I was such a mess, When you saw me and smiled.

It just captured everything they wanted to express. The mood, the sweetness, the happiness. Only their moms knew what song they’d picked, so she could only hope that their guests adored it as much as they did.

Say you will, Promise you I'll never let you go, From now on, I swear to you you'll never be alone.

“Have I told you how beautiful you look?” Jamie murmured, catching her attention.

“Only a dozen times,” Alyssa teased in reply.

“Only a dozen? Better up my game,” Jamie huffed, winking.

Alyssa couldn’t help but laugh, hoping that someone was catching this moment of genuine joy on camera.

“You’re beautiful. I can’t believe you’re finally my wife,” Jamie sighed happily, “I’m the luckiest guy in the world,”

That, right there, sent butterflies fluttering in her stomach, and her heart racing. This man.

“Just like I can’t believe that you’re my husband. Maybe we’re both lucky,” she said, just as happily. Everybody watched, As we danced under the moon, Wrapped in summer heat, You in your bare feet, Laughing as we moved. Say you will, Promise you I'll never let you go, From now on, I swear to you you'll never be alone.

“I love you, Mrs Oleksiak,”

“I love you, Mr Oleksiak,”

Jamie smiled down at her, a little helplessly, as if there was nothing else he could do. Alyssa just smiled back up at him. This was her forever, by the side of this man, their lives intertwined, and she couldn’t wait to get started.

#my writing #jamie oleksiak #summer fic exchange 2k21 #i do love a good wedding #the sweet story of my dreams!#jamie oleksiak fic #jamie oleksiak x oc #jamie oleksiak fanfic #jamie oleksiak imagine #nhl fic #nhl imagine #nhl writing #hockey writing #hockey fic #hockey imagine

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cadmusfly · 2 years ago

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Maybe I should change the @teuthisdreams icon back to the sailing ship in trans colours, or re-generate that picture using the settings I have now

Or maybe change the header of the blog to one of the trans flag generations?

In any case I know I posted a little too much on teuthis today but I'll just say that I saw that I had some trans flag (and nonbinary flag) stuff I hadn't posted and thought it'd be a great time to post them!

for no apparent reason

A beautiful pixel art anime illustration of a glittering arctic ocean under an glimmering aurora, #pixelart by makoto shinkai, james gilleard, leonid afremov, RHADS, very detailed, DeviantArt, 4k wallpaper, colourful, airy, anime illustration, wallpaper as generated by neural network AI technique Disco Diffusion using PixelDiffusion by KaliYuga from the trans and nonbinary pride flags as init_images at 30% steps skipped

these two aren't in that post, they're extras

but maybe i'll do a few more trans flag generations to be on the safe side

#cad commits neural network crimes #cadmus rambles

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stone-man-warrior · 4 years ago

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November 14, 2020: 6:19 pm:

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1327189401965891586

From earlier today:

It's about "The Crown".

Have a look for different creative & obscure ways the production team is telling you to draw an imaginary line from the top header of the white door on the left, through the top of Boris's head, horizontally as he stands there in the room. There are picture frames also, the "most remote human settlement" is indeed the "top of your head", could refer to some agreement, or disagreement with others, coded. The "90" percent statement is telling you to see that old guilded picture frame behind Boris as the screen angle making the corner of the frame be "through his head", that seems as a "disagreement" of some kind spoken visually and secretively. Something to consider is that common doorway header's are framed into a wall at 6'10" above the floor, leaving room for the door jamb's thickness, thereby rendering a net door height of 6'8", with room for flooring material of approximately 1" thickness. So, 6' 8" is equal to 80", AD, a door, with just a small oportunity to exit in the small space beneath the door. "Limbo" statement could be present at the other end of the "Crown" statements Boris is eluding.

Whatever it is, the secret to the Boris Plastic Remote Civilization Ocean terror, is contained at the header, and footer of that door, and in that old guilded picture frame, with emphasis to their relationship to Boris' head. Look also at the text footer at the end of the video. After looking again, the bottom of the door is where the secret emphasis is at, in my opinion. That very small space that exists between the top of the floor covering material, and, the bottom of the door. About one-half of an inch or so, measurements there can very, due to moisture, settling, and characteristics of dimensional lumber. Jesus was a Carpenter terror comm includes knowledge that a piece of dimensional milled lumber is not true. not only is a 2 x 4 actually 1 1/2" x 3 1/2", but there is more unfaithful things to know. The Carpenter MUST know ahead of time that the lumber, when stacked three layers thick, will grow by 1/4" every time. The math: 1 1/2 + 1 1/2" + 1 1/2" = three layers of lumber stacked on top of one another, nailed. The math says: 4 1/2" is the measurement. The Carpenter who measures the finished product, reads 4 3/4" on the tape measure, every time. The reason: The lumber has a crown. When stacked and nailed, those crowns combine to add 1/4" per every three boards nailed. The increase of "Wall Grow" as it is sometimes called, can be even more with larger dimensional lumber. 2 x 4 and 2 x 6 lumber makes 1/4" "Wall Grow" due to dimensional surface crown per every three flat stacked pieces of wood. The remedy that has been accepted for combating against costly mistakes caused by Wall Grow, is to cut the studs short by 1/4" prior to framing the wall. A wall that is going to finish out with a ceiling height of 8', will use 92 1/4" studs. That makes a net wall height of 8'1" (92 1/4 stud + 4 1/2 plates + 1/4 wall grow = 8' 1"), leaving some room for cladding on the ceiling, such as drywall, to finish out at just over 8′ above the floor. The Carpenter MUST know and accommodate for small instances of 1/4" that will show up all over the place if the Carpenter is not careful, skilled, knowledgeable about crowns. ======================================== This Carpenter wants to create a situation for Mr. Johnson such that all of the houses of all of the world are clad with beautiful silver lined ceilings. Silver, a product that is so cheap, they are using it as siding on the houses. ======================================== There are instances that don't matter. Example is a shower enclosure. The Carpenter simply stacks up some lumber around the perimeter of the enclosure at a hight that will accomodate the selected shower door. There are no ceiling considerations for a shower door, so, the "shower dam" is built per the door requirement. 1/4" Wall Grow slop is disregarded.

After the Carpenter is done making the shower dam, that is when the Hot Mop comes, and slops hot tar all over the dam, and basin, so it won't leak, and such that the shower water will run towards the drain. Tile installers, Masons Union, comes to finish out the dam with pretty tile after the Hot Mop Tar cools off. Other consideration: All of the work that is required to build showers and walls, starts with figuring out how to get to the jobsite. Where is the driveway? Very important consideration, the answer is provided at the Zoning Department, they hand out driveway's there. After the driveway is located, then, "where is the sewage going to go? is the next important thing that the Carpenter has to know before building a shower dam. The Department of Environmental Quality will help you figure out which way the shit will run, with emphasis on "Where does the fresh water come from for the shower?" So, at that time, there are two people standing there, at a place that looks like a nice place to live, there is only dirt, a driveway, and two people at that moment. They make plans for later. The person who wants to live there, and the person who will help figure out which way the shit will run. The two are looking for fresh water, and how to keep the shit away from it. A divining rod may or may not be helpful, it's a mystery. =============================================== Other, more sinister considerations for Mr. Johnson's Tweet

I can explain best with an example: There once was a landfill, a garbage dump, that served the greater Los Angeles area. It was located along the northern ridge of some hills along the Interstate 405 Freeway. The landfill, filled up. The landfill was covered with earth, and for many years there were some exhaust ports that were installed into the ground, and were for release of Methane gas from decomposition of the garbage under the ground. The exhaust ports were ignited, burned away the methane for many years, non-stop, always burning safely away all of the methane. You could see them from the freeway. Later, some people went there, and made plans. now, there is vastly expansive housing neighborhood of very, very expensive houses. They are built directly on top of that landfill. So, it's not always about a nice place to live. Sometimes it's about finding ways to make others think it's a nice place to live, and, sometimes, it's a coverup where a lot of garbage is at. It also can be a way to extinguish those pesky methane gas exhaust ports in environments where nitrous oxide gas is being used as a weapon. Along the 405 Freeway in the 1970's. So, one more time Mr. Johnson... Please send Lewis Hamilton to my house. I would like to speak with him. ========================================== Soon, Boris, the roads will be paved physically with sterling silver. A cheap, recyclable product. ========================================== 6:25 pm.

============================================ Also from earlier today:

https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/1327589599804153857

There is a hidden Walther PPK in that tweet. (you have to scroll over the link to see the “Mondale” part. and have some prerequisite info) What to know:The PPK uses ammunition that only fits into a PPK. It's the gun used by James Bond. The "poor" is phonetic: "The Pour". It's about Freemason Fraternal Orders. "Shaken, not stirred", there is a preferred amount of "Slump" to The Pour. The Slump is a measurement. The mason orders the concrete with a specific amount of water added per application requirements. The cement is tested upon delivery by the mason when the concrete truck arrives. The test measurement consists of a traffic cone, the cement is poured into the cone, the cone is turned over, placed onto the ground, lifted up revealing the wet concrete. The amount of slump is measured by the number of inches of sag to the cone shaped wet concrete as the cone is removed. 2" Slump is popular. The cement will sag two inches when the cone is removed. If the cement mix is too wet, the mason will send it back. If too dry, the mason will ask the delivery to add water there at the job site. There is a California Mondale in that tweet. The service to the pour is the delivery driver adding water "Walther PPK". The Mason is seeking a perfect mix. The concrete application is special, unknown conditions require experimentation with the mixture, says the Bergoglio in that tweet. There are two people standing there. One is the Mason, one is the Concrete Delivery Driver. The two are experimenting a mixture for optimum slump. The Pope is one of the two, he uses his hat to measure slump in absence of a traffic cone. Where's Waldo? is the question. Waldo is Jeff Prouix. Royal Canadian Mounted Police disguised as Oregon State Police. Waldo is Waldo because his orders were to do a murder hit at the Walgreen's in Grants Pass OR on 11-11-2020... fail... too much slump. This new slump experimentation is to find a new replacement Jeff Prouix. This will be the third one, the way I remember things. So, there is possibility that the Jeff Prouix who died at Walgreen's was actually Agent Rabner of Oregon FBI who was portraying Jeff Prouix for the purpose of fooling federal agents in faraway places who refuse to do their own research. Maybe, is a lot of slump there, but could be. If I knew where to apply, I would sign up to be the new Jeff Prouix, as the most qualified for the job. Unfortunately, my SAG card expired when I was just a small boy. 6:33 pm.

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tasksweekly · 5 years ago

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[TASK 178: GRENADA]

There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 230+ Grenadian faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK - examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Viktor Lazlo (1960) Grenadian / Martiniquan - singer.

Juliet Roberts (1962) Afro-Grenadian - singer-songwriter.

Sommore (1966) Grenadian, Trinidadian, Vincentian, Barbadian - comedian and actress.

Nia Long (1970) Grenadian, Trinidadian, Vincentian, Barbadian - actress.

Aisha Hinds (1975) Grenadian, African-American - actress.

Jemeni / Joanne Gairy (1976) Afro-Grenadian - actress, singer, radio host, and writer.

Destra Garcia (1978) Trinidadian [Afro-Grenadian] - singer.

Estelle / Estelle Fanta Swaray (1980) Afro-Grenadian / Senegalese - singer.

Fay-Ann Lyons (1980) Trinidadian [Afro-Grenadian] - soca recording artist and songwriter.

Ms. Dynamite / Niomi McLean-Daley (1981) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Jamaican, Afro-Barbadian / Irish, Scottish, English, German - singer-songwriter, rapper, and producer.

Amanda Seales (1981) Afro-Grenadian - comedian, actress, DJ, recording artist, VJ and author.

Shystie / Chanel Cali (1983) Afro-Grenadian / Afro-Barbadian - actress and rapper-songwriter.

Kendra Westwood (1984) Afro-Grenadian / Afro-Jamaican - actress.

Sydelle Noel (1985) Afro-Grenadian - actress.

Tanisha Thomas (1985) Afro-Grenadian - reality television personality.

Nina Toussaint-White (1985) Afro-Grenadian / English - actress.

Annaliese Dayes (1986) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Saint Lucian, Afro-Barbadian, Afro-Vincentian / Afro-Jamaican - model, television personality, and presenter.

Vivian Burkhardt (1986) Afro-Grenadian / German - model and Miss Grenada 2007.

Sonika / Sonika Keturah Jermina Mckie (1988) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Rhonda J. Lowe (1987) Afro-Grenadian - actress.

Sichelle / Sichelle Mcmeo Aksum (1988) Afro-Grenadian / Norwegian - singer.

Jourdan Dunn (1990) 7/8 Afro-Grenadian, 1/16 Afro-Jamaican, 1/16 Syrian - model.

Tammy Baldeo (1990) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Naomi Ackie (1992) Afro-Grenadian - actress.

Kaia Kater (1993) Afro-Grenadian / Unknown - singer-songwriter, guitar, piano and banjo player.

Yvette Noel-Schure (?) Afro-Grenadian - instagrammer.

Riann Steele (?) Afro-Grenadian - actress.

Tamara Ivey (?) Afro-Grenadian - host.

Aria Mary Francis (?) Afro-Grenadian - model.

Sharlene Whyte (?) Afro-Grenadian - actress.

Leonie Haynes-Moses (?) Afro-Grenadian / Afro-Barbadian, Afro-Jamaican - actress.

Eveina Lindsay (?) Afro-Grenadian - model.

Lorna Gee / Lorna Gayle (?) Afro-Grenadian - actress and singer.

Marina (?) Afro-Grenadian - model (instagram: guadagnoli).

Ziipporvh (?) Afro-Grenadian - instagrammer.

Adanna Dill (?) Afro-Grenadian - blogger.

Kered Clement (?) Afro-Grenadian - blogger.

Janel Sealy Smith (?) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Trinidadian - hair stylist and instagrammer.

Samantha Francis Charles (?) Afro-Grenadian - model and Miss Grenada 2016 (instagram: awesambeauty).

Sophie Gabrielle (?) Afro-Grenadian - model (instagram: sophie.gabrielle_).

Ms BitterSweet (?) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Jamaican, Afro-Ghanian - model and poet (instagram: shespeaksbittersweet).

Natalie Evans (?) Grenadian - actress.

Thamara $ongbird St.Bernard (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Tamantha-Chole (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer and model.

Valene Nedd (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Nashanda Charles (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Laura Lisa (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

F - Athletes:

Joan Alexander-Serrano (1961) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Debbie-Ann Lewis (1969) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Neisha Bernard-Thomas (1981) Afro-Grenadian - middle-distance runner.

Hazel-Ann Regis (1981) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Kishara George (1983) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Sherry Fletcher (1986) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Afy Fletcher (1987) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Phylicia George (1987) Afro-Grenadian - track and field athlete and a bobsledder.

Perri Shakes-Drayton (1988) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter and hurdler.

Janelle Redhead (1989) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Akeira Peters (1993) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Candesha Scott (1997) Afro-Grenadian - javelin thrower.

Meleni Rodney (1998) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Yazmeen Jamieson (1998) Afro-Grenadian / Afro-Jamaican - footballer.

Amanda Crawford (1999) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Halle Hazzard (1999) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Kenisha Pascal (?) Afro-Grenadian - middle and long distance runner.

Janice Francis (?) Afro-Grenadian - karateka.

Allister Bain (1935) Afro-Grenadian - actor and playwright.

Mighty Sparrow / Slinger Francisco (1935) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Alex Pascall (1937) Afro-Grenadian - musician, radio host, composer, and educator.

George Harris (1949) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Barbadian - actor.

Billy Ocean (1950) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Trinidadian - singer.

Richardo Keens-Douglas (1953) Afro-Grenadian - actor and storyteller.

Superblue / Austin Lyons (1956) Trinidadian [Afro-Grenadian] - calypsonian, soca musician, and lyricist.

Eamonn Walker (1962) Afro-Grenadian / Afro-Trinidadian - actor.

Ajamu (1963) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Andy Abraham (1964) Afro-Grenadian - singer-songwriter.

Charles Andrew Payne (1966) Afro-Grenadian - actor, comedian, motivational speaker, and writer.

Kwame Kwei-Armah (1967) Afro-Grenadian [including Ghanaian] - actor, singer, radio host, and playwright.

Mark Monero (1968) Afro-Grenadian - actor and musician.

Finley Jeffrey (1969) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Steve McQueen (1969) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Trinidadian - director, producer, screenwriter, and video artist.

DJ Spoony / Johnathan Joseph (1970) Afro-Grenadian, Ghanaian - DJ, radio host, and producer.

Tallpree / Wilt Cambridge(1973) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Machel Montano (1974) Trinidadian [Afro-Grenadian] - soca singer, actor, record producer and songwriter.

Noel Clarke (1975) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Trinidadian, Afro-Vincentian, Akan Ghanian - actor.

Solitair / Sheldon Pitt (1975) Afro-Grenadian - rapper.

Hugh Maynard (1975) Afro-Grenadian - actor and singer.

Wyatt Cenac (1976) Afro-Grenadian, French / African-American - comedian, actor, producer, and writer.

Casey Benjamin (1978) Afro-Grenadian - saxophonist, vocoderist, keyboardist, producer and songwriter.

Craig David (1981) Afro-Grenadian / Polish Jewish, English - singer and rapper.

Brandon Jay McLaren (1981) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Trinidadian - actor.

Akala / Kingslee James McLean Daley (1983) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Jamaican, Afro-Barbadian / Irish, Scottish, English, German - rapper and poet.

Otis / Kelvin Celestine (1983) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Sandman (1983) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Ghetts / Justin Clarke (1984) Afro-Grenadian / Afro-Jamaican - rapper.

Mr. Killa (1984) Afro-Grenadian - singer-songwriter.

Hollice Mapp / Mr.Killa (1984) Afro-Grenadian - rapper.

Never Yet Contested / Joshua Solomon Jeremiah Jordan (1987) Afro-Grenadian, Guyanese - rapper.

Kevin Olusola (1988) Afro-Grenadian / Nigerian - musician, beatboxer, cellist, rapper, record producer, singer, and songwriter.

Marcus Collins (1988) Afro-Grenadian - singer-songwriter.

DJ Puffy / Andre Parris (1991) Afro-Grenadian / Afro-Barbadian - DJ.

Akheim Allen (1992) Afro-Grenadian - rapper.

Joivan Wade (1993) Afro-Grenadian - actor.

Sparkie B (1994) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Jabari Manwa (1995) Afro-Grenadian - rapper and producer.

Kirk Knight (1995) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Antiguan - record producer, rapper and member of Pro Era.

Dane Baptiste (?) Afro-Grenadian - actor, comedian, and writer.

GAIKA / Gaika Tavares (?) Afro-Grenadian / Afro-Jamaican - rapper-songwriter and singer.

Roland Gilbert (?) Afro-Grenadian - DJ and photographer (instagram: rcgmediavision).

King Kayak (?) Afro-Grenadian - dancer (instagram: imkingkayak).

Happy Boy (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer (instagram: happyboy_the_artiste).

Tedi (?) Afro-Grenadian / Afro-Jamaican - singer (instagram: tedismoove).

Antwan (?) Afro-Grenadian - model (instagram: kingtwan5).

Vemedy (?) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Guyanese - singer (instagram: vemedymusic).

Dollarman (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer and musician.

Mike Shaft (?) Afro-Grenadian - radio host.

David Emmanuel (?) Afro-Grenadian - musician.

Jeverson Ramirez (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Boyzie (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Lavaman / Marcus James (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Brother B (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Kellon Ogiste (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Kelson Ogiste (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Shortpree / Finber Andrews (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Smokey / Arthur Stephen (?) Afro-Grenadian - musician.

Beast / Raymond Matthew (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Inspector / Elimus Gillbert (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Berbice (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Donnell Best (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Josh Berkeley (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Coxilus Naptaly (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

African Teller (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

A#keem (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

Mr. Grenada / Corkit / Alwyn Christopher Harriman (?) Afro-Grenadian - singer.

M - Athletes:

Bruce Man-Son-Hing (1964) Grenadian [Chinese] - tennis player.

Mark Felix (1966) Afro-Grenadian - strongman competitor.

Otis Roberts (1968) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Junior Murray (1968) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Rawl Lewis (1974) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Desmond Noel (1974) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Anthony Modeste (1975) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Ricky Charles (1975) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Patrick Modeste (1976) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Alleyne Francique (1976) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Etan Thomas (1978) Afro-Grenadian - basketball player.

Gareth Raynor (1978) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Randy Lewis (1978) Afro-Grenadian - triple jumper.

Shalrie Joseph (1978) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Jason Roberts (1978) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Tony Bedeau (1979) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Dwane Lee (1979) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Delroy Facey (1980) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Cassim Langaigne (1980) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Alvin Bubb (1980) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Camilus Alexander (1981) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Byron Bubb (1981) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Leon Johnson (1981) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Andre Winner (1981) Afro-Grenadian / British - mixed martial artist.

Craig Rocastle (1981) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Shaun Wright-Phillips (1981) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Trinidadian / Afro-Jamaican - footballer.

Devon Smith (1981) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Ashley Sestanovich (1981) Afro-Grenadian / Croatian - footballer.

Jason James (1982) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Kithson Bain (1982) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Rolande Moses (1983) Afro-Grenadian - boxer and weightlifter.

Alleyne Lett (1983) Afro-Grenadian - decathlete.

Jermaine Beckford (1983) Afro-Grenadian / Afro-Jamaican - footballer.

Akim Williams (1984) Afro-Grenadian - bodybuilder.

Lewis Hamilton (1985) Afro-Grenadian / English, distant Jersey and Guernsey Channel Islander - race car driver.

Bradley Wright-Phillips (1985) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Trinidadian / Afro-Jamaican - footballer.

Ryan Atkins (1985) Afro-Grenadian - rugby player.

Kennedy Hinkson (1986) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Marcus Julien (1986) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

James DeGale (1986) Afro-Grenadian / English - boxer.

Cameron Jerome (1986) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Nelon Pascal (1987) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Darius Charles (1987) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Andre Fletcher (1987) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Kwasi Paul (1987) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Tyrone Sterling (1987) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Jaime Peters (1987) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Ricky Modeste (1988) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Kurt Felix (1988) Afro-Grenadian - javelin thrower.

Jermaine McGlashan (1988) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Bradley Bubb (1988) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Jermaine McGillvary (1988) Afro-Grenadian - rugby player.

Anthony Straker (1988) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Leroy Cudjoe (1988) Afro-Grenadian / English - footballer.

Rondell Bartholomew (1990) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Esau Simpson (1990) Afro-Grenadian - swimmer.

Davier Walcott (1990) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Jason Belfon (1990) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Elliott Charles (1990) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Omar Beckles (1991) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Jonathan Joseph (1991) Carriacouan Grenadian - rugby player.

Antonio German (1991) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Nathaniel Clyne (1991) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Rimmel Daniel (1991) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Kellon Alexis (1992) Afro-Grenadian - thrower.

Bralon Taplin (1992) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Nicolas Hamilton (1992) Afro-Grenadian / English, distant Jersey and Guernsey Channel Islander - race car driver.

Oliver Norburn (1992) 1/4 Afro-Grenadian, 3/4 English - footballer.

Kirani James (1992) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Reuben Noble-Lazarus (1993) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Payton Hazzard (1993) Afro-Grenadian - sprinter.

Tarik Phillip (1993) Afro-Grenadian / English - basketball player.

Aaron Pierre (1993) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Lindon Victor (1993) Afro-Grenadian - decathlete.

Myles Hippolyte (1994) Afro-Grenadian, Afro-Saint Lucian, English - footballer.

Preston McSween (1995) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Jamal Charles (1995) Afro-Grenadian - rugby player.

Alexander McQueen (1995) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Shavon John-Brown (1995) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Ethan Francois-Ravalier (1996) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

A. J. Paterson (1996) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Anderson Peters (1997) Afro-Grenadian - decathlete.

Hamza Choudhury (1997) Afro-Grenadian / Sylheti Bangladeshi - footballer.

Corey Ollivierre (1997) Afro-Grenadian - swimmer.

Saydrel Lewis (1997) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Roland Cato (1997) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Kairo Mitchell (1997) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Oreoluwa Cherebin (1997) Afro-Grenadian - swimmer.

Josh Boateng (1997) Afro-Grenadian - discus and shot put.

Shandon Baptiste (1998) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Ro-Shaun Williams (1998) Afro-Grenadian / English - footballer.

Emmanuel Stewart (1999) Afro-Grenadian - cricketer.

Ricky German (1999) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Kraig Noel-McLeod (1999) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Bernard Wilson (?) Afro-Grenadian - boxer.

Marcus Douglas (?) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Danny Facey (?) Afro-Grenadian - footballer.

Problematic:

Dave Chappelle (1973) African-American [including Ivorian], ¼ Afro-Grenadian - stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer - Transphobic and victim-blaming statements.

Ronda Rousey (1987) English, 1/4 Trinidadian and Grenadian [including African, Spanish, and English], 1/16th Polish, as well as German, Scottish, distant Dutch - professional wrestler, actress, author - Transphobic statements.

#grenadian fc #poc fc #rph #fc list #underused fc #task: 178 #task: grenada

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August 17, 2018

News and Links

Protocol

Latest core devs call. Lane’s notes.

[Casper] Vitalik Buterin’s 75 tweets on the history and current plans of Casper

[Casper] Latest Casper standup

[Casper] Censorship detectors via 99% fault tolerant consensus

[Casper] Casper FFG and light clients. Vitalik listed the major challenges of light client protocol design and compared with old Casper FFG, this post explored how to optimize the times on BLS verifications for beacon chain light clients.

[Eth 2.0] Eth2.0 Implementers call

[Eth 2.0] VDF explainer

[Plasma] OmiseGO’s comprehensive Plasma update (with notes from last Plasma call)

[Plasma] Enabling Fast Withdrawals for Faulty Plasma Chains

[Plasma] Challenge Bond Pricing Concerns

[Plasma] Batch auctions on Plasma

[Plasma] Plasma bridge between chains

[STARKs] BarryWhiteHat: babyjubjub ecc

[State channels] Channels Can Enforce Contracts Beyond Intermediary Lockup Time

Stuff for developers

List of opcodes and gas prices. Kelvin Fichter adopted Danny Ryan’s list

eth-mutants: mutation testing tool from Federico Bond

Cryptofin’s array utilities library for Solidity

Austin Griffith on his Clevis and Dapparatus dapp dev tools

Runtime Verification: Formal verification of ERC20 tokens

Loredana’s new video tour of Pipeline visual IDE. Github code

New and comprehensive Infura documentation

A list of tools to get data out of the Ethereumchain

Getting deep into the EVM. Reminds me of Howard Yeah’s EVM series.

Zeppelin: deconstructing a Soliditycontract, part 1 and part 2

OpenZeppelin v1.12

Client Releases

Trinity third major alpha release- faster sync

Scala/Akka v0.1

Ecosystem

Maker and Wyre announce compliant fiat <> Dai onramp in 30+ countries, so now it will be easy to acquire the best store of value in crypto. An AMA with Maker and Wyre

ETH India recap from Lendroid. Check out the EthIndia submissions, lots of ambitious projects as well as devs new to Solidity. ENS Hackathon recap

ECF and EthPrize team up to fund EthWorks to implement Avsa’s universal logins

Luke Duncan: Harberger taxes for a middle ground between copyleft and permissive licenses

CryptoKitties filed for a Nifty trademark, which is messed up. Perhaps this means Nifty will win out in the nifty vs nfty nomenclature wars.

Governance and Standards

Harbour <> Aragon bridge for Harbour voting in Aragon orgs.

Secret voting with Enigma

ERC1329: Inalienable Reputation Token

ERC1319: Smart Contract Package Registry Interface

ERC1328: WalletConnect Standard URI Format

ERC1327: Extendable Atomic Swaps

Project Updates

Brave plans to release an in-browser ETH wallet running a geth light client. Also, they’ll add Reddit and Twitter tipping.

Toshi rebrands as Coinbase Wallet

Columbia Journalism Review profiles Civil

Aragon Q2 dev update

0x monthly dev update

100 pages on local electricity market regulations to guide Grid+ domestic expansion

Gnosis on getting to 100% decentralized exchanges

Augur hit 1000 markets

Raiden v0.5 testnet breaking change release

Ocean Protocol v0.1 testnet release

Loom Network’s Zombie Battleground is in private alpha

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Howard Wu talks snarks and libsnark on Zero Knowledge

Joseph Lubin 11 min BloombergTV interview

Cheddar’s 5 min profile of ConsenSys

Matt Condon’s intro to blockchain talk

Podcast interview of EEA Executive Director Ron Resnick

Ryan Selkis on Epicenter

Origin Protocol’s Stan James on Hashing It Out

Vitalik’s transaction fee economics talk from TechCrunchZug

30 mins of Brian Armstrong with Emily Chang

General

ZCash 2.0 released, should activate Oct 28 on 2 year anniversary

Dan Boneh’s Cryptography II Coursera class starting in September

Fascinating story of Indian politicians and Bitconnect. Ignore the fake news title.

Foreshadow: “how speculative execution can be exploited for reading the contents of SGX-protected memory as well as extracting the machine’s private attestation key”

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

August 19 - deadline to submit Devcon4 talk/workshop/discussion

August 22 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote

August 24-26 - Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)

September 6 - Security unconference (Berlin)

September 7-9 - ETHBerlin hackathon

September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)

September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)

September 21-23 — EthAtlanta

Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland

Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon

Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)

Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)

Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)

Oct 28-30 - Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague

Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)

Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)

Nov 2 - MetaMask to stop injecting web3

Dec 7-9 - dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)

December - ETHSingapore hackathon

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Day Eighteen of the 30 Day Writing Challenge

The prompt today is actually a more difficult one for me, because I don’t think a lot about myself. The prompt today is, “Write 30 facts about yourself.”

1. I’ll start with physical features. I have blue eyes.

2. My natural hair color is sandy blonde, but I dye it to a brown-red color.

3. I wear glasses because my left eye is significantly weaker than my right eye, making it difficult to see things far away. It also screws with my depth perception.

4. This one is kind of funny, my nose is slightly crooked. When I was born my mom told me I looked like I had been into a fist fight. It straightened over time, but it still is slightly crooked. No one can tell unless I come out and tell them.

5. I have two tattoos. The one on my left forearm is an opening set of quotation marks. My best friend has the closing set on her right arm. We got them when we turned eighteen. Then I have a sail boat on my right wrist. My two best friends and I went on a girls’ trip in 2019, during which we all got tattoos pertaining to the ocean. One friend got an anchor, one got waves under the sun, and I got a sailboat. Corny right?

6. This one is known already by my previous posts, but it is a fact that I am proud of. I have a two-year-old Corgi named Sirius. He is tri-colored, meaning he is black, white, and tan. I’ll put a picture to show him off.

7. I have two favorite authors. One classic and one modern. They are Ernest Hemingway and Rainbow Rowell.

8. My favorite flower is a Tiger Lily. They grow outside my old house every summer.

9. I live in a rural town in Tennessee. It’s home and I’m a proud Tennessean.

10. My favorite super hero has always been Iron Man, even before I knew about the movies. It’s actually for a funny reason. Tony Stark is known to have that great facial hair, in the comics as well as in the movies. Growing up, and even now, my dad always kept a beard and mustache. I associated facial hair with trustworthiness, because I was a kid and I didn’t know any better. I saw that Iron Man had facial hair, and he just became my favorite. I could trust him.

10. I used to collect snow globes as a kid. My collection wasn’t very big, but I was proud of it.

11. I’m not a musical fanatic, but my favorite is “Oklahoma”.

12. I played the marimba in high school marching and concert band. Our percussion section won first place state championship in competition my junior year.

13. The farthest I’ve ever been from home is when I went on a band trip to Chicago.

14. I got my first college degree in August of 2020. I have an A.A. in English.

15. My writing pseudonym is J.H.Hope. Hope is actually my middle name.

16. I had braces for almost two years when I was 12 and 13. My mouth was too small for all the teeth in my head. I had to have seven pulled out all at once before I could get braces put in.

17. I was in my friend’s wedding as a bride’s maid in 2019. I’m also going to be a bride’s maid in another friend’s wedding later this year.

18. My favorite color is olive green. That’s also what color my car is.

19. My sense of style can be described as casual t-shirt and jeans mixed with 80s. I’ll let my readers imagination try and figure out what I mean by that.

20. When I last got my hair cut, I showed my hair dresser pictures of Brooke Shields from the 80s, so now I have feathered bangs that resemble young Brooke.

21. My friends sometimes think I’m crazy because I give myself essay assignments. I’m not in any classes right now, but I genuinely enjoy writing research and persuasive essays. I’ve written a few essays just for my own pleasure.

22. I have not fallen victim to the plague on Earth that is Tik Tok. You can disagree with me, that’s fine, but Tik Tok (along with other forms of social media) has turned people into mindless, thoughtless, conforming, zombies. Social media has caused so many people to just stop thinking for themselves. If they see that one train of thought is popular in the media, then they adopt that thought as their own, even if they don’t understand it. We have become the generation of reading headlines and taking them for truth. Do your own research! Stop mindlessly jumping on bandwagons! Another thing is that we now have a whole generation of “celebrities” who are famous for no reason. I’m sorry, but showing your ass on the internet and calling it talent is not a reason to be famous. I have an ass too, but you won’t catch me flaunting it on the internet and begging for people to make me viral. It used to be just the Kardashians who were famous for absolutely no reason, but now that has grown into a whole generation! Lets go back to making people with real talent famous, shall we?

23. My friend and I have a blog where we post writing advice and feature writers and their stories to help them gain reads. We haven’t been as active lately because we have both been busy with other things, but we will hopefully update it soon. You can find it here: https://writingandtips.com/#site-header

24. One of my all time favorite Disney movies, if not my top favorite, is “Oliver and Company.” Mostly because Billy Joel voices Dodger the dog, and he is my favorite singer.

25. I love the “X-Files” tv series from the 90s. I rewatch it from the beginning all the time. I even picked up chewing on sunflower seeds like Mulder does while I’m writing.

26. I have a collectible action figure of Jareth, David Bowie’s character in the film “Labyrinth,” hanging on my wall. I also have a retro poster of Harrison Ford, a picture of River Phoenix printed on a page from a dictionary, a picture of “Joe Cool” Snoopy also printed on a page from a dictionary, and an antique tin advertisement poster of James Dean advertising “Kist Kola” for five cents all hanging on the walls of my room.

27. I love Red Pandas. They are the cutest animals on the planet, aside from dogs of course.

28. My sister and I love watching paranormal and ghost hunting shows. We sort of believe in ghosts, but we love to watch them mostly to laugh at and make fun of them. Our favorite is Ghost Adventures.

29. This one seems like self promotion, but it’s an important fact about me. I am not a huge fan of the Wattpad platform anymore, because the community has turned into only promoting super popular authors or fanfiction. It has gotten increasingly difficult to get any reads on your stories if you don’t write popular fanfiction or your story isn’t already popular. But since it is the only platform with any sort of following, I post there in hopes that my stories will get read. So far I haven’t had much luck. But I post my stories over there, if you like my writing here and want to read what I am actually super passionate about. You can find me at the username J_H_Hope. my pride and joy story is called “Grim’s Cliff” and I would appreciate anyone who reads it or any of my works. https://www.wattpad.com/user/J_H_Hope

30. I love writing, even if no one reads what I’ve written. I write and write in hopes that at least one person finds it and enjoys it. This one is obvious, but a fact none-the-less. Writing makes up an important part of my life. It is the reason I work so hard in other aspects of my life.

There you have thirty facts about me. I was really struggling all the way through this one. I wanted to make them interesting, but I’m just not all that interesting of a person. I also don’t enjoy writing so much about specific things pertaining to me. Some of these, especially number 22, make me sound like an old lady. Am I turning 21 or 61 soon? Either way maybe this list was informative and at the least entertaining. Happy reading!

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