#patrick greaves

[leonardcohenofficial]

tagged by @herbaklava @timrothencrantz and @wutheringdyke to post my top nine new-to-me watches of the year—thank you all! in no particular order (l-r, top row to bottom row):

skinamarink (kyle edward ball, 2023) great freedom (sebastian meise, 2021) earth mama (savanah leaf, 2023) nineteen eighty-four (michael radford, 1984) enys men (mark jenkin, 2022) marina abramović & ulay: no predicted end (kasper bech dyg, 2022) paris 5:59: théo & hugo (olivier ducastel and jacques martineau, 2016) nationtime (william greaves, 1972) giants and toys (yasuzo masumura, 1958)

while i hit my continual goal of half of the films by women and nonbinary filmmakers, i still definitely need to keep up with deliberately seeking out films by directors of color! tell me your faves if you’ve seen any of these; do we think i can hit 150 titles in 2024? 👀🎬🍿🎥

i'll tag @sightofsea / @lesbiancolumbo / @nelson-riddle-me-this / @draftdodgerag / @edwardalbee / @majorbaby / @radioprune / @glennmillerorchestra / @deadpanwalking and anyone else who'd like to do this!

my full watchlist is included under the cut, favorites of the year are bolded in red:

The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia (Jonni Phillips, 2019)

Nothing Bad Can Happen (Katrin Gebbe, 2013)

Dive (Lucía Puenzo, 2022)

The Menu (Mark Mylod, 2022)

The Wonder (Sebastián Lelio, 2022)

The Whale (Darren Aronofsky, 2022)

Shapeless (Samantha Aldana, 2021)

Skinamarink (Kyle Edward Ball, 2023)

Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, 2022)

Actual People (Kit Zauhar, 2021)

Honeycomb (Avalon Fast 2022)

Warrendale (Allan King, 1967)

Women Talking (Sarah Polley, 2022)

This Place Rules (Andrew Callaghan, 2022)

Nationtime (William Greaves, 1972)

Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970)

Incident in a Ghostland (Pascal Laugier, 2018)

Keane (Lodge Kerrigan, 2004)

I Start Counting (David Greene, 1970)

Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino, 2022)

Tár (Todd Field, 2022)

The Most Dangerous Game (Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel, 1932)

These Three (William Wyler, 1936)

Dead End (William Wyler, 1937)

The Sport Parade (Dudley Murphy, 1932)

We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun, 2021)

Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1995)

Smile (Parker Finn, 2022)

Holiday (Isabella Eklöf, 2018)

When Women Kill (Lee Grant, 1983)

Softie (Samuel Theis, 2021)

My Old School (Jono McLeod, 2022)

Beyond The Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller, 2015)

Infinity Pool (Brandon Cronenberg, 2023)

Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, 2021)

The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022)

Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 2007)

Enys Men (Mark Jenkin, 2022)

Bully (Larry Clark, 2001)

My King (Maïwenn, 2015)

Festen (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)

Marina Abramovic & Ulay: No Predicted End (Kasper Bech Dyg, 2022)

Elles (Małgośka Szumowska, 2011)

Poison Ivy (Katt Shea, 1992)

ear for eye (debbie tucker green, 2021)

Spring Blossom (Suzanne Lindon, 2020)

God's Creatures (Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer, 2023)

I Blame Society (Gillian Wallace Horvat, 2020)

Bama Rush (Rachel Fleit, 2023)

Is This Fate? (Helga Reidemeister, 1979)

Paris 5:59: Théo & Hugo (Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, 2016)

Madeline's Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)

The Strays (Nathaniel Martello-White, 2023)

Here Is Always Somewhere Else (René Daalder, 2007)

The Weather Underground (Sam Green and Bill Siegel, 2002)

American Revolution 2 (Mike Gray, 1969)

Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King, 2021)

Underground (Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson, and Haskell Wexler, 1976)

Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022)

Baby Ruby (Bess Wohl, 2022)

Welcome to Me (Shira Piven, 2014)

Clock (Alexis Jacknow, 2023)

Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan, 2023)

Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley, 2022)

Soft & Quiet (Beth de Araújo, 2022)

Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean, 1999)

The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean, 2016)

Violent Playground (Basil Dearden, 1958)

Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)

A Banquet (Ruth Paxton, 2021)

Jagged Mind (Kelley Kali, 2023)

The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, 1974)

Good Boy (Viljar Bøe, 2023)

Sanctuary (Zachary Wigon, 2022)

Little Girl (Sébastien Lifshitz, 2020)

Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes, 1964)

Massacre at Central High (Rene Daalder, 1976)

Summer of Soul (Amir "Questlove" Thompson, 2021)

Bad Things (Stewart Thorndike, 2023)

Still (Takashi Doscher , 2018)

Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008)

The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988)

The Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring (Erin Lee Carr, 2023)

Giants and Toys (Yasuzo Masumura, 1958)

Spoonful of Sugar (Mercedes Bryce Morgan, 2022)

Double Lover (François Ozon , 2017)

Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (Halina Reijn, 2022)

Don't Call Me Son (Anna Muylaert, 2016)

Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise, 2021)

Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)

The Mind of Mr. Soames (Alan Cooke, 1970)

The Bloody Child (Nina Menkes, 1996)

Bunker (Jenny Perlin, 2021)

Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve, 2009)

Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America (Brian Knappenberger, 2023)

The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell, 2004)

Giant Little Ones (Keith Behrman, 2018)

The Killing of a Sacred Deer(Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)

Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford, 1984)

Saltburn (Emerald Fennell, 2023)

Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, 2023)

May December (Todd Haynes, 2023)

Free Chol Soo Lee (Julie Ha and Eugene Yi, 2022)

Girl (Lukas Dhont, 2018)

Queen of Hearts (May el-Toukhy, 2019)

Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1984)

System Crasher (Nora Fingscheidt, 2019)

Burden (Richard Dewey and Timothy Marrinan, 2016)

As Above, So Below (Larry Clark, 1973)

The Captive (Chantal Akerman, 2000)

Run Rabbit Run (Daina Reid, 2023)

Subject  (Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall, 2022)

Earth Mama (Savanah Leaf, 2023)

Woodshock (Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy, 2017)

Swept Away (Lina Wertmüller, 1974)

Meadowland (Reed Morano, 2015)

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Nina Menkes, 2022)

La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)

Zola (Janicza Bravo, 2021)

The Starling Girl (Laurel Parmet, 2023)

Night Comes On (Jordana Spiro, 2018)

Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1940)

[alexkablob]

The key to writing trans fiction for me is to always have both versions of the trans emotions and alternate them like patrick flipping the LIFE DEATH LIFE DEATH light [girl who is rereading/catching up on the sisters of dorley (alyson greaves, 2021-ongoing) voice]

[waveringiridescence]

❝ … get to know me meme ! … ❞ ─

TAG NINE PEOPLE YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER !

「 … tagged by… 」 ─ @nvrcmplt & @deathsprofit ❤︎ (it's not all the same questions, but they were a few repeats, so I'm wrapping them up)

「 … tagging … 」 ─ @intcritus, @everdaring, @despairforme & my dear followers, you can steal it ! Tag me if you want me to know you a little better.

「 … Alias/Name … 」 ─ writerinafoxhole, aka fox.

「 … birthday … 」 ─ 17th May.

「 … zodiac sign … 」 ─ taurus.

「 … height … 」 ─ 168 cm.

「 … hobbies … 」 ─ writing, photography, video games, learning languages and procrastinating.

「 … favorite colors … 」 ─ sea green and the colour of the Pacific Ocean.

「 … favorite flavors … 」 ─ spicy, cheese, salty stuff, chocolate, creamy Earl Grey and matcha.

「 … favorite genres … 」 ─ tough one, but I'm slowly sliding back in my action/adventure phase, crime fiction is also a big thing and if they are in the steampunk or urban fantasy subgenre, I'm in.

「 … favorite book … 」 ─ hard pick, but I'm going to say Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne. Captain Nemo stand here.

「 … favorite music … 」 ─ l'm mister eclectic, I'm into alternative rock, sea shanties, movie soundtracks and musicals if you look at my vinyl collection, but my playlist goes from the The Pokemon Theme to The Show Must Go On, via Sacré Bordel (French Rap), so really it barely scratches the surface.

「 … favorite movies … 」 ─ another hard pick, but Amadeus would be my classic movie pick, The Lord of the Rings my trilogy pick, The Last Crusade my if I was stuck on an island movie, Beauty & The Beast the classic Disney movies I would save, but Mulan and Atlantis The Lost Empire are my favourite. My top three movies last year are Nimona, Asteroid City and Past Lives. I can go on...

「 … favorite series … 」 ─ as in ? Tv Show ? Our Flag Means Death, Chernobyl, Band of Brothers and Pushing Daisies. Manga ? One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist & Gintama. Anime ? Cowboy Bebop & Psycho Pass. Books ? The Aubrey-Maturin by Patrick O-Brian...

「 … last song … 」 ─ China Reggaeton (feat. 黃秋生) by Namewee.

「 … last series … 」 ─ Death In Paradise.

「 … last movie … 」 ─ Poor Things.

「 … recent reads … 」 ─ Terra Incognita by Vladimir Nabokov.

「 … currently reading … 」 ─ Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers and Kenobi by John Jackson Miller.

「 … currently watching … 」 ─ a YouTube video, usually it's a TV show I know playing in the background while I RP.

「 … currently working on … 」 ─ too many things, I am all over the place and I need to focus instead of procrastinating. Aiming to set a few objectives, the two big one are: taking care of myself and get back into working on my book.

「 … inspiration … 」 ─ art, people watching and stories, old rpg characters and songs.

「 … story behind url … 」 ─ oof it is a hard one, if I remember correctly, when I moved blog, I wanted something a little more poetic for Greaves. I think both words sounded pretty, I liked the definition and their union made me think of a katana with wave patterns or the light in Greaves eyes... And that is it.

「 … fun fact about me … 」 ─ I have a Mickey Mouse watch from my last trip to Disneyland Paris which I think was in 2009 or 2010 and I love it so much, I always wear it when I go out. I picked it because it looked like the Robert Langdon's Mickey Mouse watch in Angels & Demons movie.

[indiejones]

INDIES TOP 436 FOOTBALLERS OF ALL TIME !

1.      .Lionel Messi

2.      .Alfredo di Stefano

3.      .Diego Maradona

4.      .Zinedine Zidane

5.      .Robert Lewandowski

6.      .Gerd Muller

7.      .Pele

8.      .Michel Platini

9.      .John Charles

10.  .Ronaldo Nazario (Brazil)

11.  .George Weah

12.  .Andrea Pirlo

13.  .Kaka

14.  .Andres Iniesta

15.  .Robbie Keane

16.  .Xavi Hernandez

17.  .Roberto Carlos

18.  .Cafu

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48.  .Johan Cryuff

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69.  .Ferenc Deak

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72.  .Xabi Alonso

73.  .Alexis Sanchez

74.  .Jose Altafini

75.  .Paolo Maldini

76.  .Florian Albert

77.  .Ferenc Szusza

78.  .Roland Nilsson

79.  .Steven Gerrard

80.  .Clarence Seedorf

81.  .Diego Simeone

82.  .Ruslan Rotan

83.  .Joachim Streich

84.  .Enzo Fransescoli

85.  .Julio Cesar Romero

86.  .Giacinto Facchetti

87.  .Trevor Thompson

88.  .Gabriel Batistuta

89.  .Marco Van Basten

90.  .Ronaldinho

91.  .Patrik Berger

92.  .Sandor Kocsis

93.  .Karim Benzema

94.  .Luis Suarez (Spain)

95.  .Ivan Hurtado

96.  .Eric Cantona

97.  .Shinji Okazaki

98.  .Uwe Seeler

99.  .Paul Gascoigne

100.                      .Sammy Hughes

101.                      .Frank Lampard

102.                      .Stevan Jovetic

103.                      .Romelu Lukaku

104.                      .Jock Dodds

105.                      .George Best

106.                      .Paul Breitner

107.                      .Hwang Sun-Hong

108.                      .Makoto Hasebe

109.                      .Didier Deschamps

110.                      .Deon McCaulay

111.                      .Garrincha

112.                      .Roberto Baggio

113.                      .Kenny Dalglish

114.                      .Sandro Mazzola

115.                      .Nikos Anastopoulos

116.                      .Alisson Becker

117.                      .Alan Hansen

118.                      .Edin Dzeko

119.                      .Jan Koller

120.                      .Husain Ali

121.                      .Hossam Hassan

122.                      .Rafael Aranzadi

123.                      .Gunnar Nordahl

124.                      .Ian Rush

125.                      .Frederick Roberts

126.                      .Rui Costa

127.                      .Faas Wilkes

128.                      .Lakhdar Belloumi

129.                      .Duncan Edwards

130.                      .Andreas Brehme

131.                      .Ruud van Nistelrooy

132.                      .Hussein Saeed

133.                      .Raul

134.                      .Roberto Ayala

135.                      .Manuel Neuer

136.                      .Bobby Charlton

137.                      .Carlos Alberto

138.                      .Romario

139.                      .Elias Figueroa

140.                      .Peter Schmeichel

141.                      .David Healy

142.                      .David Beckham

143.                      .Marta

144.                      .Stuart Pearce

145.                      .Nandor Hidegkuti

146.                      .Ferenc Bene

147.                      .Miroslav Klose

148.                      .Ali Al-Biski

149.                      .Luis Tejada

150.                      .Didier Drogba

151.                      .Sergio Ramos

152.                      .Dani Alves

153.                      .Shunmugham Subramani

154.                      .Ali Ashfaq

155.                      .Jurgen Klinsmann

156.                      .Roger Milla

157.                      .Hans Krankl

158.                      .Andriy Shevchenko

159.                      .Jose Nasazzi

160.                      .Enzo Fransescoli

161.                      .Ricardo Zamora

162.                      .Dave Halliday

163.                      .Bojan Jokic

164.                      .Arthur Rowley

165.                      .Phil Younghusband

166.                      .Michael Laudrup

167.                      .Claudio Gentile

168.                      .Emmanuel Okwi

169.                      .Gianluigi Buffon

170.                      .Steve Bloomer

171.                      .Ronald Koeman

172.                      .Robbie James

173.                      .Marek Jankulovski

174.                      .Petr Cech

175.                      .Georginio Wijnaldum

176.                      .Boy Martin

177.                      .Asamoah Gyan

178.                      .Zbigniew Boniek

179.                      .Michael Owen

180.                      .Arda Turan

181.                      .Marcelinho Paraiba

182.                      .Kazuyoshi Miura

183.                      .Sepp Maier

184.                      .Antonin Panenka

185.                      .Luis Suarez (Uruguay)

186.                      .Tommy Dickson

187.                      .Eusebio

188.                      .Kunishige Kamamoto

189.                      .Fritz Walter

190.                      .Rivelino

191.                      .Rene Houseman

192.                      .Tostao

193.                      .Roy Krishna

194.                      .Lukas Podolski

195.                      .Tulio Maravilha

196.                      .Emilio Butragueno

197.                      .Klaus Fischer

198.                      .Carlos Valderrama

199.                      .Jim Baxter

200.                      .Raymond Kopa

201.                      .Hristo Stoichkov

202.                      .Edgar Davids

203.                      .Samuel Eto’o

204.                      .Sol Campbell

205.                      .Dunga

206.                      .Jan Vertonghen

207.                      .Hans-Jurgen Dorner

208.                      .Gianni Rivera

209.                      .Glenn Ferguson

210.                      .Jozsef Takacs

211.                      .Claudio Caniggia

212.                      .Omar Sivori

213.                      .Cristiano Ronaldo

214.                      .Domagoj Vida

215.                      .Lothar Matthaus

216.                      .Jose Manuel Rey

217.                      .Alessandro del Piero

218.                      .Gerson

219.                      .Teofilo Cubillas

220.                      .Joe Bambrick

221.                      .Lajos Tichy

222.                      .Paulo Futre

223.                      .Denis Law

224.                      .Antoine Griezmaan

225.                      .Ashley Cole

226.                      .Josef Bican

227.                      .Zlatan Ibrahimovich

228.                      .Tommy Lawton

229.                      .Claudio Suarez

230.                      .Godfrey Chitalu

231.                      .Olivier Giroud

232.                      .Franco Baresi

233.                      .Gheorghe Hagi

234.                      .Juan Alberto Schiaffino

235.                      .Matthias Sammer

236.                      .Allan Simonsen

237.                      .Jalal Hosseini

238.                      .Teerasil Dangda

239.                      .Des Dickson

240.                      .Karel Poborsky

241.                      .Keylor Navas

242.                      .Cody Gakpo

243.                      .Kasun Jayasuriya

244.                      .Davor Suker

245.                      .Richarlison

246.                      .Roland Juhasz

247.                      .Karim Bagheri

248.                      .Ahmed Jamil

249.                      .Saad Al-Mukhaini

250.                      .Nawaf Al-Khaldi

251.                      .Raymond Braine

252.                      .Careca

253.                      .Sven Rydell

254.                      .Johan Neeskens

255.                      .Neville Southall

256.                      .Luigi Riva

257.                      .Cha Bum-kun

258.                      .Youri Djorkaeff

259.                      .Vivian Woodward

260.                      .Phil Younghusband

261.                      .Lillian Thuram

262.                      .Kylian Mbappe

263.                      .Isidro Langara

264.                      .Jon Dahl Tomasson

265.                      .Matthias Sindelar

266.                      .Sergio Busquets

267.                      .Luis Figo

268.                      .Amancio

269.                      .Josef Masopust

270.                      .Robert Smyth McColl

271.                      .Hugo Sanchez

272.                      .Bryan Robson

273.                      .Abdallah Deeb

274.                      .Pierre Emerick Aubameyang

275.                      .Jean-Pierre Papin

276.                      .Rudi Voller

277.                      .Stanley Matthews

278.                      .Djalma Santos

279.                      .Tom Finney

280.                      .Kolbeinn Sigporsson

281.                      .Aron Winter

282.                      .Hugo Lloris

283.                      .Glenn Hoddle

284.                      .Gyorgy Sarosi

285.                      .Ladislav Kubala

286.                      .Luis Oliveira

287.                      .John Barnes

288.                      .Martin Peters

289.                      .Tomas Rosicky

290.                      .Franz Binder

291.                      .Jorginho

292.                      .Jozy Altidore

293.                      .Imants Bleidelis

294.                      .Abe Lenstra

295.                      .Pavel Nedved

296.                      .Hassan Maatouk

297.                      .Francesco Totti

298.                      .Ibrahim Afellay

299.                      .Pat Jennings

300.                      .Just Fontaine

301.                      .Amadeo Carrizo

302.                      .Gabor Kiraly

303.                      .Sergio Aguero

304.                      .Lester More

305.                      .Francisco Gento

306.                      .Herve Revelli

307.                      .Landon Donovan

308.                      .Franck Ribery

309.                      .Zoltan Gera

310.                      .Preben Elkjaer

311.                      .Danny Blind

312.                      .Michalis Konstantinou

313.                      .Laurent Blanc

314.                      .Henrick Mkhitaryan

315.                      .Maynor Figueroa

316.                      .Hani Al-Dhabit

317.                      .Harry Kewell

318.                      .Jimmy Jones

319.                      .Bebeto

320.                      .Jairzinho

321.                      .Jimmy McGrory

322.                      .Gyula Zsengeller

323.                      .Hughie Gallacher

324.                      .Jimmy Kelly

325.                      .Poul Nielsen

326.                      .Frank Rijkaard

327.                      .Giuseppe Meazza

328.                      .Enner Valencia

329.                      .Leonidas da Silva

330.                      .Gordon Banks

331.                      .Gary Linekar

332.                      .Adriano

333.                      .Noureddine Naybet

334.                      .Hristo Bonev

335.                      .Joseph Mermans

336.                      .Hector Ramos

337.                      .Mansour Muftah

338.                      .Stan Mortensen

339.                      .Clint Dempsey

340.                      .Alan Shearer

341.                      .Rivaldo

342.                      .Aleksandar Mitrovic

343.                      .Nasr Eddin Abbas

344.                      .Philipp Lahm

345.                      .Maris Verpakovskis

346.                      .Vava

347.                      .Willem van Hanegem

348.                      .Piapong Pue-on

349.                      .Gonzalo Jara

350.                      .Hakan Sukur

351.                      .Ahmed Ibrahim Khalaf

352.                      .Valentin Ivanov

353.                      .Kevin Keegan

354.                      .Abdulrahim Jumaa

355.                      .Steve McManaman

356.                      .Iker Casillas

357.                      .Robinho

358.                      .Emilio Butragueno

359.                      .Xherdan Shaqiri

360.                      .Peter Pekarik

361.                      .Daniel Passarella

362.                      .Wayne Rooney

363.                      .Gunter Netzer

364.                      .Casemiro

365.                      .Moises Caicedo

366.                      .Zito

367.                      .Emmanuel Petit

368.                      .David Ginola

369.                      .Edinson Cavani

370.                      .Jorge Campos

371.                      .Dixie Dean

372.                      .Luka Modric

373.                      .Oscar Soneje

374.                      .Bilal Mohammed

375.                      .Christian Vieri

376.                      .Roberto Dinamite

377.                      .Cesar Rodriguez Alvarez

378.                      .Ali Daei

379.                      .Raheem Sterling

380.                      .Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi

381.                      .Mokhtar Dahari

382.                      .Ronnie Rooke

383.                      .Tico-Tico

384.                      .Ubaldo Fillol

385.                      .Shota Arveladze

386.                      .Jose Torres

387.                      .Shinji Kagawa

388.                      .Rafael Marquez

389.                      .Frantisek Planicka

390.                      .Patrik Schick

391.                      .Bastian Schweinsteiger

392.                      .Geoff Hurst

393.                      .Harry Kane

394.                      .Oliver Bierhoff

395.                      .Rogerio Ceni

396.                      .Dominique Rocheteau

397.                      .Gaetano Scirea

398.                      .Khamis Al-Dosari

399.                      .Giampiero Boniperti

400.                      .Javier Zanetti

401.                      .Javier Hernandez

402.                      .Gareth Bale

403.                      .Benni McCarthy

404.                      .Rolando Fonseca

405.                      .Abdul Kadir Omur

406.                      .Ali Al-Nono

407.                      .Roger Piantoni

408.                      .Peter Shilton

409.                      .Nigel Codrington

410.                      .Le Cong Vinh

411.                      .Marcelo Moreno

412.                      .Yasuhito Endo

413.                      .Jimmy Johnstone

414.                      .Bernard Lacombe

415.                      .Alan Ball

416.                      .Blaise Matuidi

417.                      .Paul Pogba

418.                      .Frenkie de Jong

419.                      .Jaba Kankava

420.                      .Fyodor Kudryashov

421.                      .Emmanuel Sanon

422.                      .Amer Shafi

423.                      .Ulf Kirsten

424.                      .Laszio Fazekas

425.                      .John Aldridge

426.                      .Jose Andrade

427.                      .Ahmed Musa

428.                      .Kristen Viikmae

429.                      .Heinz Hermann

430.                      .Dino Zoff

431.                      .Tommy Hutchison

432.                      .Geremi

433.                      .Ali Mabkhout

434.                      .Ganbaataryn Togsbayar

435.                      .Imre Schlosser

436.                      .Erwin Helmchen

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The Nick Carraway: The narrator is deeply attached to one person and excuses or vilifies the actions of others depending on their relationship with that person (Daisy's in an abusive relationship and Gatsby literally has friends with cufflinks made from human teeth, Nick).

The Moonee: The narrator is a child dealing with issues that they are way too young to understand. Where the audience recognizes the horrible implications of everything going on, the main character does not. Used to devastating effect in Emma Donahue's Room and The Florida Project.

The Fiver: The narrator is an alien, animal, or someone else who doesn't really understand human society and culture, and the narrative plays into the dramatic irony where the reader does. OSP, naturally, has a great video on the animals as narrators side of this.

The Osbourne Cox: The narrator is convinced that they are way more important than they are, possibly the other characters' annoyance. The reader can tell that they are less important than they think.

The Patrick Bateman: The narrator's morality is way off-base from the average person's.

The Silas Greaves: The narrator is deliberately playing the story up for increased impact.

I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw, a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

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2023-24 Transaction Register

March 13 Buffalo signs Gustav Nyquist F NSH and waives Jack McBain F ARZ.

March 11 Quebec acquires Linus Ullmark G BOS, David Rittich G LAK and the New York 1st 2024 in exchange for Bowen Byram D BUF, Jake Neighbours F STL and Hunter Brzustewicz D CAL.

March 11 Winged Wheel acquire the New York 2nd 2024 in exchange for Jake Guentzel W CAR.

March 3 Seattle signs Michael Kesselring D ARZ and waives Benjamin Gaudreau G SJ.

March 1 Seattle signs Tanner Molendyk D NSH and releases Oliver Wahlstrom F NYI.

March 1 Seattle acquires Carson Rehkopf F SEA, Matthew Knies F TOR, Matthew Wood F NSH, Daniil But F ARZ and Cutter Gauthier F ANA from New York in exchange for Travis Konecny F PHI, Mike Matheson D MTL and Simon Nemec D NJ.

February 28 Seattle signs Corson Ceulemans D CBJ and waives Ryan Chesley D WSH.

February 28 New York signs Brandon Bussi G BOS and waives Jonathan Drouin C COL.

February 25 Seattle signs Oscar Fisker Molgaard F SEA and waives Michael Carcone F ARZ.

February 24 Buffalo acquires Samuel Ersson G PHI and Filip Forsberg F NSH from Seattle in exchange for Daniil Tarasov G CBJ and Edouard Sale F SEA.

February 24 Winged Wheel sign Juraj Pekarcik F STL and waive Adam Ruzicka F F/A.

February 10 Seattle signs David Goyette C SEA Eetu Makiniemi G CAR.

February 10 Seattle signs Ryan Greene C CHC and waives Drew Helleson D ANA.

February 10 New York signs Nick Lardis F CHC and waives Nikita Zadorov D VAN.

February 10 Seattle acquires 4 New York waivers in exchange for Philip Broberg D EDM and Nikita Zadorov D VAN.

February 1 New York signs Clay Stevenson G WSH and waives Braden Schneider D NYR.

January 21 New York signs David Rittich G LAK and waives Carl Lindbom G VEG.

January 14 New York signs Blake Coleman F CAL and waives Jordan Dumais F CBJ.

January 10 Seattle signs Philip Tomasino F NSH and waives Raphael Lavoie F EDM.

January 7 New York signs Jonathan Drouin F COL and waives Philip Tomasino F NSH.

January 7 New York signs Jonathan Quick G NYR and waives Josh Doan F ARZ.

January 7 Seattle acquires Michael Hrabal G ARZ, Cayden Primeau G MTL, Jacob Fowler G MTL, and Erik Portillo G LAK from New York in exchange for Pyotr Kochetkov G CAR and Arturs Silovs G VAN.

January 3 Buffalo signs Theo Lindstein D STL and waives Conor Timmins D TOR.

January 3 New York signs Vinny Trocheck F NYR and waives Zac Jones D NYR.

January 3 Buffalo signs Maxim Strbak D BUF and waives Ondrej Palat F NJ.

January 3 Buffalo signs Felix Unger- Sorum F CAR and waives Ryan Hartman F MIN.

December 13 Squid sign Michael Carcone F ARZ and releases Conor Garland F VAN.

December 9 Squid sign Jet Greaves G CBJ and waives Alekski Heimosalmi D CAR.

December 8 New York signs Carson Rehkopf C SEA and waives Gracyn Sawcyhn F FLA.

December 8 Squid sign Tye Kartye F SEA and waives Ville Koivunen F CAR.

December 8 Squid sign Martin Jones G TOR and waives Zach Dean C STL.

December 1 Winged Wheel acquire Alex Lyon G DET, Joonas Korpisalo G OTT, Anton Forsberg G OTT and Levi Merilainen G OTT from the Seattle Squid in exchange for the Wheel 2nd rd pick 2024.

December 1 Seattle signs Alex Lyon G DET and waives Ty Nelson D SEA.

November 28 Winged Wheel acquire Patrick Kane RW DET from New York in exchange for Cutter Gauthier RW PHI.

November 26 Seattle signs Samuel Ersson G PHI and waives Semyon Voyzavoi G SEA.

November 22 Seattle signs Chris Driedger G SEA and waives Arber Xhekaj D MTL.

November 18 New York signs Isaac Poulter G NJ and waives Matvei Petrov W EDM.

November 16 Squid sign Charlie Strammel F MIN and waives Carson Soucy D VAN

November 16 Squid sign Dmitri Simashev D ARZ and waives David Goyette C SEA.

November 15 Winged Wheel sign Yegor Sidorov W ANA and releases Trey Fix-Wolansky F CBJ.

November 15 Winged Wheel sign Kasper Halttunen F SJ and releases Alex Kerfoot F ARZ.

November 15 Winged Wheel sign Maxence Guenette D OTT and releases Jakub Skarek G NYI.

November 15 Winged Wheel sign Arttu Karki D VEG and releases Martin Jones G TOR.

November 9 Squid sign Mathieu Joseph F OTT and release Jack Studnicka C VAN.

November 8 Winged Wheel signs Jaroslav Halak G CAR and waives Kevin Labanc F SJ.

November 5 Squid sign Dmitry Voronkov F CBJ and releases Alexander Romanov D NYI.

October 28 New York signs Frank Vatrano F ANA and waives Nick Lardis F CHC.

October 28 Squid sign Jonas Johansson G TB and waives Adam Beckman F MIN.

October 25 Squid sign Tommy Novak F NSH and release Erik Kallgren G NJ.

October 25 New York signs Joshua Roy RW MTL and waives Vincent Trocheck F NYR.

October 25 Squid sign Kaeden Korczak D VEG and waive Nolan Foote F NJ.

October 25 Squid sign Tristan Luneau D ANA and waive Klim Kostin F DET.

October 25 Squid sign Jackson LaCombe D ANA and waives Zach Whitecloud D VEG.

October 23 Quebec acquires Ross Colton F COL and Ivan Prosvetov G COL from the Squid in exchange for one 2023-24 Quebec waiver.

August 24 Quebec acquires Robert Thomas C STL from New York in exchange for Logan Cooley C ARZ.

August 14 Winged Wheel acquires Daniel Sprong F DET from Seattle in exchange for the Wheel 6th 2023 (#27).

August 13 Winged Wheel acquire Alex Debrincat F DET and Alex Tuch F BUF from New York in exchange for the Winged Wheel 2023 1st (pick 2), Winged Wheel 3rd 2023 (pick 12), and Winged Wheel 5th 2023 (pick 22).

August 9 Seattle acquires Adam Boqvist D CBJ, Nils Lundkvist D DAL, New York rd 5 2023 (pick 25) and New York Rd 7 2023 (pick 35) from New York in exchange for the Seattle 5th 2023 (pick 21), Seattle 7th 2023 (pick 31).

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Alice Phoebe Lou in A Place of My Own | The Mahogany Session EP

Something Holy

Galaxies

Fynbos

Paper Castles

[the-meow-arts]

May I request a platonic x reader where the reader is (Twisted Wonderland) Idia and Ortho’s sister and she’s the middle child?

Hehehehe, this seem familiar from that Cyberpunk!Yuu thing from @twistedoverbloat and the Shroud siblings thing from someone with spongebob and patrick icon, but I'll make them a cute one out if this with some Angst in it

I say between Idia and Ortho, y'all's are closely one year apart, making some people wonder how busy yalls parents must be having you three to have close of an age difference

Growing up you three are thick as thives and only friends together at home, playing games , having snacks, naps, and even occasionally you guys have that time to venture together

Till the incedent, as you guys to have that adventure together as Idia is the eldest and heir of the Shroud family and not to mention a child protege, the three didn't know the danger lurking around S.T.Y.X. until it's too late

They lost Ortho as they try to run from this bolt like creature, what's more that their sister nearly fully lost their ability to see

To say the guilt that Idia have is alot to the point that in his greaving mind as a child he built a new Ortho

Not to mention the trama that will later revealed in chapter 6, but let's not mention of the incident that made him who he is as I theories that the reason why he's bit of a shut in

When learning about his sister blindness he made something to help her "see" again

He made some glasses

When the sister did woke up the shock of loosing Ortho is alot to take in

And result they both are shut in to a degree that different for the two

They both try make things normal, even with Idia short span a madness of guilt

Yuu accept the fact later on and keep on having that little brother hold dear as they all went to NRC together

Unlike Idia they keep on showing up to class and hand around with Ortho with Idia on the tablet to keep on track

The two brothers are protective over their sister due to the fact that they are the only female in the school of boys

To the point where Idia watch things with the cameras he secretly put up to follow his sister incase something happens and if she needs some help

And his protectiveness slowly came out when he sees her talking to some people ( Adeuces since they are first years ) and seem to get along with them

As he witness with the growing braincell crew that his sister is opening up emotionally

While he just there, as the two other siblings try to come with them, but he is too stubborn and doesn't want to interaction with normies

In his words

They still try to get him out of his room to touch grass, feel the sun, breath fresh air once in awhile and get him out of his room

Okay ow time for time skip cuz I'm lazy

To say the chapter 6 is a supprise for the sister as they too got captured and being held at SPYX because she is Idia sibling

What's more after defeating the titans and get over from his overbolt

( as Idia overbolting is a huge supprise for her to say the least )

After the event the two are recovering as siblings and relationship

And Idia is trying not to be a shut in but stick being introvert as he hates being with people

But he's now working on with his anxiety

[modernistestates]

My latest walking guide is out!
A nice loop around Blackheath, taking in lots of Span houses, of course, but also some ‘I wish I could live in there’ individual houses by Peter Moro, Patrick Gwynne and Walter Greaves. Shop here.

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Books I Want To Read In 2021

Rereads:

A Song of Ice and Fire Series - George RR Martin

How To Train Your Dragon Series - Cressida Cowell

The Land of Elyon Series - Patrick Carman

The Floods Series - Colin Thompson

The Land of Stories Series - Chris Colfer

Danika Duology - Ranulfo Concon

In My Father’s House - Bodie Thoene

And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Trading Up - Candace Bushnell

Upside Down Inside Out - Monica McInerney

Milk And Honey - Rupi Kaur

The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur

Home Body - Rupi Kaur

New Reads:

The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski

Inheritance Cycle Series - Christopher Paolini

Kit O’Malley Series - Lindy Cameron

Vampire Diaries: Stefan’s Diaries Series - L.J. Smith

Six of Crows Duology - Leigh Bardugo

Song of the Lioness Series - Tamora Pierce

Protector of the Small Series - Tamora Pierce

Skyward Series - Brandon Sanderson

American Royals Series - Katherine McGee

The Land of Roar Series - Jenny McLachlan

Fallen Series - Lauren Kate

The Wizards of Once Series - Cressida Cowell

Molly Moon Series - Georgia Byng

Anne of Green Gables Series - L.M. Montgomery

Maximum Ride Series - James Patterson

The Mistmantle Chronicles Series - M. I. McAllister

Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants Series - Ann Brashares

Beca Cooper Series - Tamora Pierce

The Sea of Trolls Series - Nancy Farmer

Warcraft Archives Series - Richard A. Knaak, Christie Golden, Chris Metzen and Jeff Grubb

One of Us Are Next - Karen M. McManus

Two Can Keep A Secret - Karen M. McManus

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Precious You - Helen Monks Takhar

Confessions of A Forty Something - Alexandra Potter

The Other People - C.J. Tudor

Fifty Fifty - Steve Cavanagh

The Prisoner’s Wife - Maggie Brookes

The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris

How To Be Second Best - Jessica Dettmann

The Phone Box At The Edge of The World - Laura Imai Messina

The Wind and The Willows - Kenneth Grahame

The Wrath and The Dawn - Renée Ahdieh

The Priority of The Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

The Volunteer - Jack Fairweather

Room - Emma Donoghue

When the Floods Came - Clare Morall

Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Arrangement - Robyn Harding

The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village - Joanna Nell

Only Mostly Devastated - Sophie Gonzales

The Strays - Emily Bitto

The Silent Treatment - Abbie Greaves

Maggie’s Going Nowhere - Rose Hartley

The Last Story of Mina Lee - Nancy Jooyoun Kim

Internment - Samira Ahmed

The Record Keeper - Agnes Gomillion

Stranger Than Fanfiction - Chris Colfer

The Deep - Rivers Solomon

Wilder Girls - Rory Power

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Billionaire’s Cinderella Contract - Michelle Smart

Teacher - Gabbie Stroud

Emma and I - Sheila Hocken

To Sleep In A Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini

The Last Lions of Africa - Anthony Ham

Once A Liar - A.F Brady

A Promised Land - Barack Obama

Rebecca - Dephne Du Maurier

Go The Distance (A Twisted Tale) - Jen Calonita

[blackjacketmuses]

hc; sparda 4

DEVIL ARMS

Sparda is in possession of 10 Devil Arms, as well as a pair of guns forged by Machiavelli himself, Luce and Ombra (demons have an odd sense of time compared to humans, so they have/had all sorts of weapons without regard for if humans do at the time). After his imprisonment, his Arms were also locked away and imprisoned, and the guns were eventually given to Trish right before Mallet Island; she still has them.

His Devil Arms are as follows:

Paimon

Powerful demon; former lieutenant in Sparda’s army, allowed himself to become a Devil Arm to support his liege after Sparda lost his power in sealing Temen-ni-Gru.

Weapon form: A very large, wicked glaive with a blade on the bottom end, has sonic powers when swung or spun, can also affect time.

Demon form: A monstrous equine with beige fur and claws instead of hooves, a long neck, no mane, and a lion’s tail.

Human/Disguise form: A very handsome European man in his thirties, blond, vaguely androgynous, always wears a suit. Pretended to be one of Sparda’s “business associates”, Mr. Patrick. Serious and a bit sarcastic, a bit of a flirt when he likes to be, very teasing.

Stolas

Powerful demon; former lieutenant in Sparda’s army, allowed himself to become a Devil Arm to support his liege after Sparda lost his power in sealing Temen-ni-Gru. Nevan’s brother.

Weapon form: A large black halberd with an extra-big bladed head that can be wielded as a closer-ranged weapon, has lightning based abilities like his sister.

Demon form: Large, black, obviously demonic owl-bird-thing with hot-coal-red eyes and a toothy beak. Has a crown of leaves and thorns.

Human/Disguise form: Small normal sized black owl or a thin, bespectacled, red-haired, Irish-leaning human in his thirties. Tended to keep to the owl form, much to his chagrin and amusement --- became little Dante’s favorite stuffed “toy”, Howly, because of this. Cheerful and friendly and playful. 

Camio

Powerful demon; former lieutenant in Sparda’s army, allowed himself to become a Devil Arm to support his liege after Sparda lost his power in sealing Temen-ni-Gru.

Weapon form: A cutlass-type, curved blade with a red tassel, connected to the fire element.

Demon form: A huge, three eyed, monstrous crow with razor sharp feathers and humanoid, clawed arms with the wings attached.

Human/Disguise form: A normal sized crow, or a thin, dark-haired Latino man in his twenties with black eyes. A warrior type, but dramatic and a bit of a theater-kid type. Tended to keep to crow form around the family.

Agares

Powerful demon; former lieutenant in Sparda’s army, allowed himself to become a Devil Arm to support his liege after Sparda lost his power in sealing Temen-ni-Gru.

Weapon form: Wickedly spiked gauntlets and greaves and a ornamental breastplate, comes with poison elemental abilities.

Demon form: Huge green-grey demonic crocodile beast with six legs and a second set of jaws inside his mouth.

Human/Disguise form: A pale, older gentleman that looks like he should be someone’s butler. Wise and a bit of an Alfred type, older than Sparda and mildly fussy towards him, acts like an old uncle at times. One of Sparda’s “business associates”, Mr. Augustine.

Vepar

Powerful demon; former lieutenant in Sparda’s army, allowed herself to become a Devil Arm to support her liege after Sparda lost his power in sealing Temen-ni-Gru.

Weapon form: A spiked and wicked chain whip that almost looks like seaweed, water based abilities, whip can stiffen into a polearm.

Demon form: A monstrous mermaid beast with a shark’s tail and wild tentacled hair, grey skin, and a shark’s teeth filled mouth.

Human/Disguise form: A young woman in her twenties with a penchant for gauzy sundresses, with long dark hair that looks almost sea-green in a certain light. Teasing and friendly and free-spirited like any good water nymph would be; held a candle for Sparda for years, was jealous of Eva for a long time but eventually got on well with her. Was also one of Sparda’s “business associates”, Miss Vera.

Dantalion

Powerful demon; once an enemy of Sparda, he was defeated long ago and submitted to becoming a Devil Arm.

Weapon form: A large mace with a head that resembles his demonic form, large enough to swing two-handed, has earth powers and the head can be swung like a flail.

Demon form: A twisted goliath with many, many faces and arms atop two reptilian legs, speaks in the voice of a multitude.

Human/Disguise form: A very average, unassuming, brown haired man in his thirties, almost forgettable in appearance. Very blunt and plain spoken, good-natured, though, and very chill. One of Sparda’s “business associates,” Mr. Daniel.

Leraje

Powerful demon; once an enemy of Sparda, he was defeated long ago and submitted to becoming a Devil Arm.

Weapon form: An elegant crimson longbow that almost looks like bird’s wings, fires arrows made of pure energy, can shoot multiple at one and do other tricks.

Demon form: A two headed vulpine beast with crimson fur and the legs of a bird of prey.

Human/Disguise form: A handsome blond man in his twenties, tends to dress in green, has a British accent. Very joking and teasing, very much a classical Robin Hood or Zorro type, loves pranks. One of Sparda’s “business associates”, Mr. Leslie.

Grendel

Powerful demon; once an enemy of Sparda, he was defeated long ago and submitted to becoming a Devil Arm. Beowulf’s brother.

Weapon form: A huge sledgehammer whose head can be altered in size, has ice powers.

Demon form: A huge, fleshy, blue demon, vaguely man shaped but with a head/face that looks more like some kind of underwater creature, with no ears and nose and big fishy eyes and a needle-tooth filled mouth.

Human/Disguise form: A Scandinavian looking man, big and burly and slightly irritable, missing an arm thanks to Sparda. Grumpy and snippy and very bad at being human, so doesn’t get out much.

Sitri

Powerful demon; once an enemy of Sparda, she was defeated long ago and submitted to becoming a Devil Arm.

Weapon form: A rapier that also forms armor up to the shoulder, has wind based abilities, can allow flash stepping.

Demon form: A huge feline beast with avian features and wings, with patterns on its fur that move and swirl confusingly.

Human/Disguise form: A woman in her thirties, very beautiful, short blond hair with dark streaks, very businesslike, or a marmalade tabby cat. Businesslike and neat and very, very much like a cat in personality; appears occasionally as a “business associate”, Miss Simone, but mainly likes to be in cat form, because little Vergil would spoil her.

Orthrus

Powerful demon; once an enemy of Sparda, he was defeated long ago and submitted to becoming a Devil Arm. Alpha from which the Cerberus tribe descends.

Weapon form: A weapon able to shift between a pair of katar, a pair of hook swords, and a ranseur --- the katar are light-based, the hook-swords are dark-based, and the ranseur is spatial magic.

Demon form: A huge, three headed dog, bigger than any Cerberus.

Human/Disguise form: A big dog, a huge wolf-dog type with grey-white fur. Remained always in dog form, practically the family pet.

[fuckyeahdialectics]

Speech by David Lammy, Labour MP

I am here, because you were there.

We are here, because you were there.

My ancestors were British subjects. But they were not British subjects because they came to Britain. They were British subjects because Britain came to them, took them across the Atlantic, colonised them, sold them into slavery, profited from their labour and made them British subjects. That is why I am here. That is why the Windrush generation are here.

I quote Martin Luther King, who himself quoted St Augustine, when he said that an unjust law is no law at all. So I say to the Minister: warm words mean nothing. Guarantee these rights and enshrine them in law.

And 230 years after the Abolitionist movement wore their medallions, I stand here as a Caribbean, Black, British citizen and I ask the Minister on behalf of thousands of Windrush citizens:

Am I Not a Man and a Brother?

My speech from the debate on the Windrush petition today:

I am proud to stand here on behalf of the 178,000 people who signed this petition.

I am proud to stand here on behalf of the 492 British citizens who arrived on HMT Empire Windrush from Jamaica 70 years ago.

I am proud to stand here on behalf of the 172,000 British citizens who arrived on these shores between the passage of the 1948 Nationality Act and the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, including my own father who arrived from Guyana in 1956.

But it is a very dark episode in our nation’s history that this petition was even required.

It is a very dark day indeed that we are here in Parliament having to stand up for the rights for people who have always given so much to this country and expected so little in return. 

We need to remember our history. In Britain when we talk about slavery we tend to just talk about its abolition.

The Windrush story does not begin in 1948. The Windrush story begins in the 17th century, when British slave traders stole 12 millions Africans from their homes, took them to the Caribbean, sold them into slavery to work on plantations.

The wealth of this country was built on the backs of the Windrush generation’s ancestors.

We are here, because you were there.

My ancestors were British subjects. But they were not British subjects because they came to Britain. They were British subjects because Britain came to them, took them across the Atlantic, colonised them, sold them into slavery, profited from their labour and made them British subjects. That is why I am here. That is why the Windrush generation are here.

There is no British history without the history of the Empire.

As Stuart Hall put it: “I am the sugar at the bottom of the English cup of tea.”

And then 70 years ago as Britain lay in ruins after the Second World War the call went out to the colonies from the Mother Country. Britain asked the Windrush generation to come and rebuild the country. Work in our National Health Service. Work on the buses and the trains and as cleaners and security guards. So once again, labour was used.

They faced down the No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish signs. They did the jobs nobody else would do. They got spat on in the street. Assaulted by the Teddy Boys, the skinheads, the National Front. Spat at in the street. Lived 5 to a room in Rachmanite squalor. They were called and they served but my God did they suffer for the privilege of coming to Britain.

And yet my God they triumphed too. Sir Trevor McDonald. Frank Bruno. Sir Lenny Henry. Jessica-Ennis Hill. National treasures.

Knights of the realm. Heavyweight champions of the world and Olympic champions wrapped in the British flag. Sons and daughters of the Windrush generation, as British as they come.

And after all of this the Government wants to send us back across the ocean. They want to make life “hostile” for the Windrush children. They strip them of their rights, they deny them healthcare, they kick them out of jobs, they make them homeless, they stop their benefits.

And they are imprisoned in their own country. Centuries after their ancestors were shackled and taken across the ocean in slave ships, pensioners are imprisoned in their own country.

It is a disgrace. And it happened here because we don’t remember our history.

Last week the Prime Minister at Prime Minister’s Questions the Prime Minister said: “We owe it to them and the British people”.

The Home Secretary said that the Windrush generation should be considered British. That they should be able to get their British citizenship if they so choose.

This is the point the Government simply still do not understand. The Windrush generation ARE the British people. They ARE British citizens. They came here as citizens. That is the precise reason why this is such an injustice. Their British citizenship is, and has always been, theirs by right. It is not something that the Government is now choosing to grant them.

Can I remind the Government of Chapter 56 of the 1948 British Nationality Act.

Every person who under this Act is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies shall by virtue of that citizenship have the status of a British subject.

The Bill uses the term British nationality by virtue of citizenship.

I read this Bill again last week when reading over the case notes of my constituents caught up in the Windrush crisis.

Patrick Henry. A British citizen. Arrived in Britain in 1959. A teaching assistant who told me “I feel like a prisoner who has committed no crime” because he is being denied citizenship.

Clive Smith. A British citizen. Arrived here in 1964, showed the Home Office his school reports and still threatened with deportation.

Rosario Wilson. A British citizen. No right to be here because St Lucia became independent in 1979.

Wilberforce Sullivan. A British citizen. Paid taxes for 40 years. He was told in 2011 he was no longer able to work.

Dennis Laidley. A British citizen. Tax records going back to the 1960s. Denied a passport and unable to visit his sick mother.

Jeffrey Greaves. A British citizen. Arrived here in 1964. Threatened with deportation by the Home Office.

Cecile Laurencin. A British citizen. 44 years of National Insurance contribution letters, payslips and bank account details. Application for naturalisation rejected.

Huthley Sealey. A British citizen. Unable to claim benefits or access healthcare.

Mark Balfourth. A British citizen. Arrived here in 1962 aged 7. Refused access to benefits.

The Windrush generation have waited for too long for the rights that are theirs. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over. There comes a time when the burden of living like a criminal in your own country becomes too heavy to bear any longer. That is what we have seen in the last few weeks – an outpouring of pain and grief built up over many years.

And yet Government Ministers have tried to conflate this issue with illegal immigration.

On Thursday the Home Secretary said “I am personally committed to tackling illegal migration”, “making it difficult for illegal migrants to live here and removing people who are here illegally”.

Indeed, during her statement last Thursday the Home Secretary said “illegal” 23 times but did not even once say the word “citizen”.

This is not about illegal immigration. This is about British citizens. And frankly it is deeply offensive to conflate the Windrush generation with illegal immigrants to try to distract from the Windrush crisis.

This is about a hostile environment policy that blurs the lines between illegal immigrants and people who are here legally and even British citizens. This is about a hostile environment not just for illegal immigrants that but for anybody who looks like they could be an immigrant.

This is about a hostile environment that has turned employers, doctors, landlords and social workers into border guards.

The hostile environment is not about illegal immigration.

Increasing Leave to Remain fees by 238% in 4 years is not about illegal immigration.

The Home Office making profits of 800% on standard applicants is not about illegal immigration.

The Home Office sending back documents unrecorded in second class post so passports, birth certificates and education certificates get lost is not about illegal immigration.

Charging teenagers £2,033 for limited leave to remain every 30 months is not about illegal immigration.

Charging someone £10,521 in limited leave to remain fees before they can even apply for indefinite leave to remain is not about illegal immigration.

Banning refugees and asylum seekers from working and preventing them from accessing public funds is not about illegal immigration.

Sending 9 immigration enforcement staff to arrest my constituent because the Home Office lost his documents is not about illegal immigration.

Locking my constituent up in Yarl’s Wood so she missed her Midwifery exams is not about illegal immigration.

Denying legal aid to migrants who are here legally is not about illegal immigration.

Changing the terms of young asylum seekers’ “immigration bail” so they cannot study is not about illegal immigration.

Sending immigration enforcement staff to a church in my constituency serving soup to refugees is not about illegal immigration.

The Home Secretary and the Prime Minister have promised compensation. They have promised that no enforcement action will be taken. They have promised that the “burden of proof” will be lowered when the taskforce is assessing Windrush cases.

The Windrush citizens don’t trust the Home Office and I don’t blame them. After so much injustice they need justice.

I quote Martin Luther King, who himself quoted St Augustine, when he said that an unjust law is no law at all. So I say to the Minister: warm words mean nothing. Guarantee these rights and enshrine them in law.

And 230 years after the Abolitionist movement wore their medallions, I stand here as a Caribbean, Black, British citizen and I ask the Minister on behalf of thousands of Windrush citizens:

Am I Not a Man and a Brother?

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Evil Season 2: Does Leland Fake His Exorcism or Is Satan Behind Him?

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This Evil review contains spoilers.

Evil Season 2 Episode 11

Leland (Michael Emerson) does all the voices, from the venerated holy relics of The Exorcist to Laraine Newman’s Shirley Temple in Saturday Night Live’s takeoff on it. He tosses priests across rooms with one hand tied to a bedpost. He sweats, swears and pukes vile, living, inky blackness from the bowels of hell. He looks lost and defeated, beaten, and busted. But when it’s all over, Leland gives a knowing wink to a suspicious David Acosta (Mike Colter), and bitches about the new kids on the block and those awful fashions. Satanism is not a flavor of the week, at least not this week.

The Catholic Church splurges on its rival’s T-shirts only to find they are knockoffs for the latest installment of Evil. This is by design. They were told to find bad stitching in the very fabric of the manufacturer. “I Is for IRS” is a taxing episode on many levels. Not only is the paranormal team tasked with auditing a newly incorporated satanic church, the episode is filled with major and minor level body horrors. Ooze, pus, gaping abdominal wounds, and other ghastly fluids have a guest starring role on the proceedings, and they certainly get the horror juices flowing.

The opening sequence is a marvelous bit of silent film. With only a musical accompaniment, we see the seemingly drugged out path Sheryl (Christine Lahti) is gliding. She, Leland (Michael Emerson) and Edward (Tim Matheson) have some kind of secret arrangement and, in the afterglow of the shifting settings, it looks like quite a complex caper. We don’t know what Sheryl is getting out of this. But she is giving her very blood for the cause. The unhealthy looking light brown fluid which is replacing it is a mystery substance, as frightening as any monster-of-the-week the series has provided, and its effects are no less mystifying. On the surface, it looks like she needs these infusions as much as a hole in the head, but that comes later.

After what appears to be the most horrific, personal assault which can be perpetrated on a person, Sheryl comes out of it energized, happy and ready to binge Flight of the Conchords. In an interview with Den of Geek, Lahti said the elixir acts like a body spa, filled with vitamin B and other rejuvenating substances. But you can also say the same thing about blood and vampires. By the end of the opening sequence alone, it appears Sheryl may be giving far more than blood. But just when you think there’s a whole new Sheryl in Sheryl, out pops Leland.

Leland Townshend is an enigma, wrapped in a white sacramental taco, and dipped in blood. He’s not the devil, he may or may not be possessed, and he may be as much of a danger to himself as to others. Even David questions his doubts about the self-professed demon worshipper who has been mocking church authority while looking for a crucifix. Leland actually is accumulating quite an assortment of rosaries. He’s been gifted with beads of personal conviction by almost every member of the clergy he meets. With the exception of Sister Andrea, who doesn’t appear during the episode, he is never scrutinized, no matter how much he begs for it.

The investigation at the heart of the series is intriguing more for the hypocrisies it exposes than the suspension of belief at the center of any faith. Ben’s (Aasif Mandvi) forensic tech expertise is really the end of the New Ministry of Satan. The differences between Left Hand Path and Right Hand Path magic mean nothing to an ambidextrous atheist with fleet fingers and faster WiFi. Ben notes each exemption the Catholic Church enjoys which they would deny the Father Below, while David appreciates the many advantages to altar boy replacement. The CEO of the New Ministry of Satan misinterprets the soon-to-be-ordained priest’s commentary as an objectifying dismissal, while David infers the concept of sexual abuse lawsuits with a second glance.

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Evil Season 2: Is the Evil Gene Part of Kristen’s DNA?

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Kristen is far more vocal in her comparisons between the two churches, but proves herself to be much less discriminating. “Priests do well, that’s what I heard,” she says early in the episode when discussing David’s prospects for sexual union after his ordination. Kristen is on a wild ride which leads to a rude awakening in an unexpected twist towards absolution. But is it absolute? Does it have to be? Just when you think Kristen’s husband Andy (Patrick Brammall) will be free of the tendrils of evil and psychological warfare, they pull him back in in a kumbaya moment. This is fine while Kristen is off her meds, but it will leave the skull-burning Djinn with too much time on his hands. It appears that whatever connection Kristen has had historically with Leland is now as solid as an umbilical cord.

Kristen’s response to Leland’s exorcism opens many possibilities and begs questions. There is an ambiguity to some of the actions, but others are too easily interpreted. She is mouthing Leland’s baptism, she hallucinates giving birth to a demonic fetus, blames her therapist in a paranoid outburst, and then appears to find some kind of solace. It even looks like it could be a spiritual epiphany. Over the course of the series, we know she receives some kind of preferential, if not special, treatment from RSM Fertility. The facility is run by religious fanatics, but harvesting very, very bad eggs indeed.

The New Ministry of Satan also turns out to be bad eggs. No, they are not evil in the sense of theological usurpation or any specific threat to civilized or ecclesiastical society. They bend but don’t actually break the rules of religious organizations: Must focus on worship, not be about making money, be legal, and not involved in politics. The leader’s name, Graham Lucien, sounds like the pseudonym of the co-founder of The Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves, who actually does see the political possibilities of diabolical worship.

But they break the sacred rules of geometric satanic grammar. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law” and “Love is the law, love under will” are mathematically phrased, and contemporary vernacular cuts that even if the backwards phrasing of satanic prayer is easier with modern tech. The juxtaposition of the two in the temple scene doesn’t seem unintentional. It appears to be foreshadowing through commentary.

Written by Dewayne Darian Jones and directed by Nelson McCormick, “I Is for IRS,” is a chilling, creepy and conspiratorially satisfying offering. It leaves much more open ends than closure, which includes the wounds inflicted. Whether Leland is faking or not, Evil is keeping it real by questioning reality.

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In Dragon Age: The Masked Empire, which is a book and not a game, there’s a scene where the four-person party’s Warrior is about to have a solo combat segment, so they pause to rearrange their equips. The Melee Rogue gives him her Stamina +5 rings. “But remember to pause and give em back IMMEDIATELY AFTER Mike, I’m still like 4 levels below the rest of you.”

There’s another scene where they loot better armor like

Rogue: Hm this isn’t great but I’m taking a speed hit from what I’ve got now...

Warrior: It’s ugly, though

Rogue: Yeah it’s SUPER ugly

Buffs and debuffs also exist, and one of the villain mages keeps debuffing the warrior. This is a plot point and is described in the book. Why are you doing this to me, Patrick Weekes. I’m changing my dwarf story to add a scene where someone crafts a set of ☼Masterwork Steel Greaves☼ and the whole fortress just kinda senses it. The Dwarf Fortress announcements screen exists in-universe now.

Party composition is warrior, mage, ranged rogue, melee rogue. Optimized! And there’s also a four-person villain party comprised of a warrior, melee rogue, offensive mage, and healing mage. This last is carefully specified to have taken the Spirit Healer specialization.

Most of these characters are actually implied to have selected in-game specs. Empress Celene’s got Bard, so Briala reluctantly went for Assassin to avoid redundancy, if you were wondering about those two. Celene’s the melee rogue, and Briala switches between ranged and melee depending on whether Celene’s around.

(Briala is indecisive and unsure of her identity outside of her relationship with Celene: these game mechanics are part of her characterization. It’s like how Magus from Chrono Trigger only has two combo techniques, and they’re both triples with Lucca.)

Gaspard took the fucking Templar spec like a dumbass. You have got no lyrium, you dumb dumbass. Why are you such a gotdamb dumbass.

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